Pa. pavilion collapses; 10-12 have minor injuries

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Fidel Castro alive and well: Chavez aide

HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro is alive and well, according to Elias Jaua, a former Venezuelan vice president who says he met with Castro over the weekend.

Squelching rumors that Castro was at death's door, Jaua, a key aide to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on Sunday showed reporters pictures of the Saturday meeting and said Castro, 86, was in good health and lucid.

Jaua, who is running for governor in Venezuela's contested state of Miranda, said Castro accompanied him to Havana's famed Hotel National early on Saturday evening after their meeting. He then chatted briefly with the hotel's general manager, Antonio Martinez Rodriguez, before departing.

Castro's long absence from the public eye has fueled blogger and Twitter rumors for weeks that he was dead or near dying.

"Yes, he was here yesterday, the same old Fidel with his beard and pink cheeks. He was fine," Martinez told Reuters on Sunday.

Castro was reportedly in a modified Mercedes gray van and did not leave the vehicle.

Apart from the comments by Jaua and Martinez, and the pictures shown to the media, there was no independent confirmation that anyone had actually seen the former leader.

After resigning the presidency in 2008, Fidel Castro regularly wrote columns for the state press, but has not published one since June 19, and his last few were widely viewed as so oddball that they raised questions about his mental state.

Only his Twitter account has been active but all the tweets are simply links in the press. Twitter accounts in the name of politicians and other people in the public eye are often run largely by their aides.

His last known public appearance was in March when he met briefly with Pope Benedict during his visit to the Communist island. Although he appeared mentally sharp, he had trouble walking and was badly stooped.

Chavez, a close friend and ally, has said on several occasions that Castro is well, and last week son Alex Castro said his father was exercising and doing fine.

A letter from Castro congratulating a Havana medical institute on its 50th anniversary was splashed across the front pages of Cuban newspapers on Thursday in his first appearance in print in four months.

The letter and an accompanying story, which took up the entire first page of the Communist Party newspaper Granma, appeared to be an attempt to dampen rumors about his health.

However, the letter, published with Castro's signature and dated October 17, did little to end speculation over his health, many questioning its authenticity.

(Editing by Tom Brown; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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Honest Movie Trailers: Paranormal Activity by Screen Junkies ...

?What happens when you sleep? makes a really boring movie.?

Screen Junkies, a group of guys who share their honest advice about what movies and television show to see and not to see, have created a new honest movie trailer for the 2007 supernatural horror film Paranormal Activity that puts their humorous opinion of the movie (and more) into a fake film trailer. We have previously written about the Screen Junkies and their collection of honest movie trailers.

It?s Halloween. Which means time for another Paranormal Activity sequel. In honor of spooky, moving furniture and actors who seem like they won a contest, we?re looking way back to the one that started it all. No. Not The Blair Witch Project. The other one.

Whatever. I still prefer these to Saw sequels.

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Astronomers uncover a surprising trend in galaxy evolution

ScienceDaily (Oct. 19, 2012) ? A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern of change that extends back 8 billion years, or more than half the age of the universe.

"Astronomers thought disk galaxies in the nearby universe had settled into their present form by about 8 billion years ago, with little additional development since," said Susan Kassin, an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the study's lead researcher. "The trend we've observed instead shows the opposite, that galaxies were steadily changing over this time period."

Today, star-forming galaxies take the form of orderly disk-shaped systems, such as the Andromeda Galaxy or the Milky Way, where rotation dominates over other internal motions. The most distant blue galaxies in the study tend to be very different, exhibiting disorganized motions in multiple directions. There is a steady shift toward greater organization to the present time as the disorganized motions dissipate and rotation speeds increase. These galaxies are gradually settling into well-behaved disks.

Blue galaxies -- their color indicates stars are forming within them -- show less disorganized motions and ever-faster rotation speeds the closer they are observed to the present. This trend holds true for galaxies of all masses, but the most massive systems always show the highest level of organization.

Researchers say the distant blue galaxies they studied are gradually transforming into rotating disk galaxies like our own Milky Way.

"Previous studies removed galaxies that did not look like the well-ordered rotating disks now common in the universe today," said co-author Benjamin Weiner, an astronomer at the University of Arizona in Tucson. "By neglecting them, these studies examined only those rare galaxies in the distant universe that are well-behaved and concluded that galaxies didn't change."

Rather than limit their sample to certain galaxy types, the researchers instead looked at all galaxies with emission lines bright enough to be used for determining internal motions. Emission lines are the discrete wavelengths of radiation characteristically emitted by the gas within a galaxy. They are revealed when a galaxy's light is separated into its component colors. These emission lines also carry information about the galaxy's internal motions and distance.

The team studied a sample of 544 blue galaxies from the Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe 2 (DEEP2) Redshift Survey, a project that employs Hubble and the twin 10-meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Located between 2 billion and 8 billion light-years away, the galaxies have stellar masses ranging from about 0.3 percent to 100 percent of the mass of our home galaxy.

A paper describing these findings will be published Oct. 20 in The Astrophysical Journal.

The Milky Way galaxy must have gone through the same rough-and-tumble evolution as the galaxies in the DEEP2 sample, and gradually settled into its present state as the sun and solar system were being formed.

In the past 8 billion years, the number of mergers between galaxies large and small has decreased sharply. So has the overall rate of star formation and disruptions of supernova explosions associated with star formation. Scientists speculate these factors may play a role in creating the evolutionary trend they observe.

Now that astronomers see this pattern, they can adjust computer simulations of galaxy evolution until these models are able to replicate the observed trend. This will guide scientists to the physical processes most responsible for it.

The DEEP2 survey is led by Lick Observatory at the University of California at Santa Cruz in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. in Washington.

For more information about NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/hubble

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  1. Susan A. Kassin, Benjamin J. Weiner, S. M. Faber, Jonathan P. Gardner, C. N. A. Willmer, Alison L. Coil, Michael C. Cooper, Julien Devriendt, Aaron A. Dutton, Puragra Guhathakurta, David C. Koo, A. J. Metevier, Kai G. Noeske, Joel R. Primack. The Epoch of Disk Settling: z ? 1 to Now. The Astrophysical Journal, 2012; 758 (2): 106 DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/758/2/106

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PSC begins full-scale review of retail energy markets - The Buzz ...

The state Public Service Commission on Thursday voted to begin a full-scale review of the retail energy markets, something that consumer groups have been asking in the wake of reports that consumers may be paying for for going with alternative suppliers? to their utility.

The Times Union and other media outlets reported that data from National Grid showed that over a 24-month period, customers who picked an alternative supplier paid more thank those who chose to stay with National Grid.

Few consumers probably know that they actually have a choice when it comes to their electric and natural gas supply. In such cases where a customer decides to go with another supplier, National Grid still ?delivers? the gas or electricity. It is the supplier though who sells you the actual commodity.

One of the most popular choices is a fixed-rate supply, which National Grid doesn?t offer. Or a choice for green energy instead of fossil fuel energy.

But because of cheap natural gas prices, such choices are likely more expensive than the supply prices that National Grid charges. That is what likely led to the higher costs from the 24-month period.

Consumer groups don?t want retail choice to go away, but they want the PSC to give consumers more information to evaluate the prices in bills, something that is difficult to do today.

The PSC has two pilot programs now into comparison shopping and the investigation will look to see if more rules are needed to provide consumers with more tools to do that.

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Tropical collapse in Early Triassic caused by lethal heat: Extreme temperatures blamed for 'Dead Zone'

ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2012) ? Scientists have discovered why the 'broken world' following the worst extinction of all time lasted so long -- it was simply too hot to survive.

The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred around 250 million years ago in the pre-dinosaur era, wiped out nearly all the world's species. Typically, a mass extinction is followed by a 'dead zone' during which new species are not seen for tens of thousands of years. In this case, the dead zone, during the Early Triassic period which followed, lasted for a perplexingly long period: five million years.

A study jointly led by the University of Leeds and China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), in collaboration with the University of Erlangen-Nurnburg (Germany), shows the cause of this lengthy devastation was a temperature rise to lethal levels in the tropics: around 50-60?C on land, and 40?C at the sea-surface.

Lead author Yadong Sun, who is based in Leeds while completing a joint PhD in geology, says: "Global warming has long been linked to the end-Permian mass extinction, but this study is the first to show extreme temperatures kept life from re-starting in Equatorial latitudes for millions of years."

It is also the first study to show water temperatures close to the ocean's surface can reach 40?C -- a near-lethal value at which marine life dies and photosynthesis stops. Until now, climate modellers have assumed sea-surface temperatures cannot surpass 30?C. The findings may help us understand future climate change patterns.

The dead zone would have been a strange world -- very wet in the tropics but with almost nothing growing. No forests grew, only shrubs and ferns. No fish or marine reptiles were to be found in the tropics, only shellfish, and virtually no land animals existed because their high metabolic rate made it impossible to deal with the extreme temperatures. Only the polar regions provided a refuge from the baking heat.

Before the end-Permian mass extinction, Earth had teemed with plants and animals including primitive reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of sea creatures including coral and sea lillies.

This broken world scenario was caused by a breakdown in global carbon cycling. In normal circumstances, plants help regulate temperature by absorbing Co2 and burying it as dead plant matter. Without plants, levels of Co2 can rise unchecked, which causes temperatures to increase.

The study, published Oct. 19 in the journal Science, is the most detailed temperature record of this study period (252-247 million years ago) to date.

Sun and his colleagues collected data from 15,000 ancient conodonts (tiny teeth of extinct eel-like fishes) extracted from two tonnes of rocks from South China. Conodonts form a skeleton using oxygen. The isotopes of oxygen in skeletons are temperature controlled, so by studying the ratio of oxygen isotopes in the conodonts he was able to detect temperature levels hundreds of millions of years ago.

Professor Paul Wignall from the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, one of the study's co-authors, said: "Nobody has ever dared say that past climates attained these levels of heat. Hopefully future global warming won't get anywhere near temperatures of 250 million years ago, but if it does we have shown that it may take millions of years to recover."

The study is the latest collaboration in a 20-year research partnership between the University of Leeds and China University of Geosciences in Wuhan. It was funded by the Chinese Science Foundation.

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Privately, Browns G.M. Tom Heckert reportedly thinks he?ll be leaving Cleveland.? Publicly, he?s making a pitch to stay.

?We all want to be here to see this thing through,? Heckert told Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. ?It?s untapped just how good this team can be, and we?re on our way.? [CEO] Joe [Banner] is super-smart and I think he?ll see that.?

Seemingly, Heckert has an inside track with Banner, given that they spent nine years together in Philly.? And Heckert is more than willing to tap into that relationship.

?I was with Joe for all five NFC Championship Games [with the Eagles],? Heckert said.? ?If we didn?t win the Super Bowl, we were upset.? We think this can work.? Now whether it happens, it remains to be seen.?

But here?s the thing.? Banner doesn?t seem like the kind of guy who will welcome or appreciate an on-the-record effort by a guy to keep his job.? Instead, the points that Heckert made should be made to Banner directly, at the appropriate time.

Also, it was an open secret in league circles that Banner?s Eagles were trying to nudge Heckert, who rose to the position of G.M. in Philly, out of the nest.? After trying to get him hired by the Falcons, the Eagles eventually placed him with the Browns, in a lateral move.

Still, Heckert is doing what he can to make the case to stay.? ?I want to be here and I want to finish this thing,? said Heckert, who disputed the report that he has been calling around for other job opportunities since August.? ?I love our team. [Coach] Pat [Shurmur] will say the same thing.? This may or may not be the most talented team around, but it?s probably the best team I?ve been around.? We have a nice mixture of veterans and young guys.? We have solid character guys that are also talented.?

For now, it remains unknown what Banner and the Browns and new owner Jimmy Haslam (pictured with Heckert) will do.? Terry Pluto of the Cleveland Plain Dealer joined PFT Live on Wednesday to discuss the possibilities and to address other issues relating to the Browns.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/17/ahmad-bradshaws-foot-is-bothering-him-again/related/

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