5:25 PM
The number of states with 30% or more of adults being obese has tripled from 3 to 9 since 2007, with 75 million Americans now considered obese. Obese people require almost $1,500 more in medical expenses each year, so obesity is costing Americans as much as $150 billion a year due to diabetes, heart disease and cancer:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-03/obesity-rate-is-30-or-more-in-nine-states-triple-2007-s-total-cdc-says.html
Biologists have been concerned that the plumes of dispersant and oil in the Gulf's deep waters disappeared so suddenly--they cannot find oil at the surface or underwater either. One Berkeley Labs scientist appears to have found the reason--oil-eating bacteria in the Gulf reacted quickly to consume the oil. He feels that the oil-eating bacteria were able to react so quickly because they have been primed by natural oil seeps along the sea floor:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19264-deep-oil-in-gulf-appears-to-have-vanished.html
The largest-ever measured Gulf dead zone spans from Galveston to Mississippi River, 7,722-square miles of hypoxic water. This area of low-oxygen water threatens marine life--fish and shellfish often can swim away from these areas but immobile organisms such as clams die without access to oxygen:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7137925.html
BP brought the well under control yesterday, forcing the oil back down into the reservoir miles under the seabed and now they will cement over the runaway well to make sure that no further leakage will occur:
http://news.discovery.com/earth/gulf-well-cement-bp.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
Utah researchers developed a robot that can efficiently climb and move like human rock climbers or apes swinging through trees. Most climbing robots intended for maintenance or inspection in environments such as the exteriors of buildings, bridges or dams, storage tanks, nuclear facilities or reconnaissance within buildings:
http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=080310-1
Clearwire revealed that they going to begin testing LTE and they say that their large amount of spectrum in the 2.5 - 2.6 GHz band will support real-world download speeds of 20 to 70 Mbps. They point out that will be much faster than the 5-12 Mbps estimated speeds that Verizon and AT&T are hoping to get:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/press-releases/clearwire-announces-new-4g-lte-technology-trials-expected-yield-unmatched-wireless-sp
Interesting article that points out that most European carriers use the same frequency bands and cell standards while US carriers use an assortment of radio frequencies and standards. Even if every provider used LTE, they could actually require the support of *12* frequency bands and technology challenges that have never been encountered before. With LTE possibly being used in 7 or more frequency bands and backwards compatibility needed for existing GSM and CDMA bands, servicing the US market is far harder than in the rest of the world:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/clearwire-lte-switch-wont-bring-wireless-harmony/2010-08-04?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0vknF5BP3
Two Victorville women face up to 9 months in jail for a fight that led to a brawl during a *Kindergarten graduation ceremony*. They had to lock down the school until police sorted things out!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/04/ap/strange/main6742301.shtml
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-03/obesity-rate-is-30-or-more-in-nine-states-triple-2007-s-total-cdc-says.html
Biologists have been concerned that the plumes of dispersant and oil in the Gulf's deep waters disappeared so suddenly--they cannot find oil at the surface or underwater either. One Berkeley Labs scientist appears to have found the reason--oil-eating bacteria in the Gulf reacted quickly to consume the oil. He feels that the oil-eating bacteria were able to react so quickly because they have been primed by natural oil seeps along the sea floor:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19264-deep-oil-in-gulf-appears-to-have-vanished.html
The largest-ever measured Gulf dead zone spans from Galveston to Mississippi River, 7,722-square miles of hypoxic water. This area of low-oxygen water threatens marine life--fish and shellfish often can swim away from these areas but immobile organisms such as clams die without access to oxygen:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7137925.html
BP brought the well under control yesterday, forcing the oil back down into the reservoir miles under the seabed and now they will cement over the runaway well to make sure that no further leakage will occur:
http://news.discovery.com/earth/gulf-well-cement-bp.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
Utah researchers developed a robot that can efficiently climb and move like human rock climbers or apes swinging through trees. Most climbing robots intended for maintenance or inspection in environments such as the exteriors of buildings, bridges or dams, storage tanks, nuclear facilities or reconnaissance within buildings:
http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=080310-1
Clearwire revealed that they going to begin testing LTE and they say that their large amount of spectrum in the 2.5 - 2.6 GHz band will support real-world download speeds of 20 to 70 Mbps. They point out that will be much faster than the 5-12 Mbps estimated speeds that Verizon and AT&T are hoping to get:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/press-releases/clearwire-announces-new-4g-lte-technology-trials-expected-yield-unmatched-wireless-sp
Interesting article that points out that most European carriers use the same frequency bands and cell standards while US carriers use an assortment of radio frequencies and standards. Even if every provider used LTE, they could actually require the support of *12* frequency bands and technology challenges that have never been encountered before. With LTE possibly being used in 7 or more frequency bands and backwards compatibility needed for existing GSM and CDMA bands, servicing the US market is far harder than in the rest of the world:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/clearwire-lte-switch-wont-bring-wireless-harmony/2010-08-04?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0vknF5BP3
Two Victorville women face up to 9 months in jail for a fight that led to a brawl during a *Kindergarten graduation ceremony*. They had to lock down the school until police sorted things out!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/04/ap/strange/main6742301.shtml