Month: September 2011

The Arctic Ocean make this summer a new record of thawing

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Berlin, 9 sep (EFE).-the layer of ice covering the Arctic Ocean has registered this summer a new and disturbing record of thawing until reduced to an area of 4.24 million kilometers square.

A spokesman for the Institute of environmental physics, University of Bremen announced today that this has surpassed brand of 2007, year in which the ice surface had recorded elevations lower with 4,267 million kilometers square.

“The surface ice in summer has reduced since 1972 by 50 percent”, said Georg Heygster, scientific cited Institute of the Hanseatic City, which attributed the thawing to the effects of climate change.

Also warned that “living beings that occupy the ecosystem under the ice sheet and which are the starting point of the food chain also for us, humans, have increasingly less living space”.

Heygster explained that the ice of the Arctic Ocean surface oscillates normally between 15 million square kilometres in March and 5 million in September.

After explaining that the new record this summer thawing outnumber a 0.6 per cent in 2007, commented that the reduction of the ice surface could increase even more before the end of this month.

German scientist also confirmed this summer opened as a result of thawing of the Arctic Northeast maritime route off the northern coast of Russia as the Northwest bordering Canada, phenomenon that had already occurred in 2008.

Finally, pointed out that the retreat of the ice surface of the Arctic already cannot be explained by natural variability that occurs from year to year, but by climate change, and warned that the central ice cap lost also thick. EFE

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Argentine youth resorts to school to learn about sex, study says

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Buenos Aires, 8 sep (EFE).-the school is one of the main spaces that make use of Argentine teenagers when looking for information on sexuality, according to a study conducted by Unicef and the Fundación Huésped disclosed today.

Family and friends are also positioned as the main sources of information for young people to obtain data on sexual and reproductive health, followed by doctors, media and Internet, argues the report.

According to work, access and consumption of media and the information technologies in adolescents “is widespread”, but “the parents and the school are more reliable, accessible and understandable to resolve their queries” on sexuality

“Responses from the kids show clearly that the school is a privileged place to open spaces for dialogue with adolescents on topics as sensitive as sexuality,” said Unicef representative Argentina, Andrés Franco, during the presentation of the study in Buenos Aires

The specialist assessed the implementation of the law on sex education in schools in the country to allow “level knowledge” in the subject and “work in prevention”.

“The biggest challenge is linked to sexual and reproductive health promotion campaigns conducted through the media to achieve confidence and clarity needed to address adolescents”, felt the President of the Fundación Huésped and extitular of the society international of AIDS, Pedro Cahn.

The study, based on more than a thousand interviews with young people aged between 14 and 19 years in different parts of the country, also revealed that 97 percent of respondents know some method of contraception and 74 per cent said it obtained information on STDs in the College.

Including AIDS is the best known, he said the study, he also noted that 80 percent of respondents did not make any medical consultation on contraception or sexually transmitted infections in the past year. EFE

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Be in the nature returns vitality

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(www.neomundo.com.ar) nature is a source of pleasure in many ways, to the point that people that take advantage of green and the landscapes are more vital than those who choose cement city.

To those conclusions came a study carried out by the University of Rochester (United States) and published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology Journal. “Nature is a fuel for the soul.” “When we are tired generally look for a rate of coffee, but our research suggests that a better way to energize us is to connect with nature”, said Richard Ryan, one of the authors.

The Green Y SUS benefit

recently conducted several investigations found that spending time in nature generates vitality, but the new study concluded that this increase in energy is independent of physical activity and the pleasant contact with other people, two activities that are generally associated with outdoor.

To check it, the authors conducted five experiments with a total of 537 students. In an experiment young people walked in the hallways of a building or a road full of trees, whereas another study noted photos of buildings or landscapes.

In another experiment the volunteers they figured in various situations, in contact with nature or away from them, and a fifth research young wrote in a newspaper as they felt at every moment of the day, by clarifying what places were and how they were doing.

In all cases, the participants said that they felt more energy when they were in the nature or when imagined it. Ryan said that 20 minutes a day on the Green were sufficient to ensure that young people improve their vitality, and stressed that this positive effect had more to do with the contact with nature than with air-free.

“People with more vitality not only have more energy to do what they want, they also recover better from any physical illness.” “One of the pathways to health could be spend more time in natural places,” he concluded Ryan.

More information on Science and health in WWW.NEOMUNDO.COM.AR

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Virginia Court rejects appeals against U.S. health reform bill

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Washington, 8 sep (EFE).-A federal court of appeals in Virginia today rejected two petitions against the law of the United States health system reform.UU., but not commented on the validity of the legislation

The Court of appeals for the fourth Federal District ruled that the State of Virginia has no right to question the mandate of the Act, that requires all persons in United States to acquire a certain doctor.

The Court also noted that Liberty University, a conservative institution which had submitted another complaint, can not question the mandate contained in that act before the entry into force.

The United States health system reform was the biggest victory of President Barack Obama in 2009 and seeks to extend health insurance coverage to the entire population. There are currently nearly 50 million people who have no such protection.

Opinion is almost a month after the 11 Federal District Court of appeals invalidated the mandate in a lawsuit initiated by 26 States, and more than two months after the Sixth District Court of appeals ruling that the law is constitutional.

With his Republican opposition and conservative groups then managed to Obama to remove some crucial aspects of the initiative – the most comprehensive reform of the system of health care in half a century – and after that Congress approve a reform, conservatives initiated lawsuits in courts to cancel.

The main argument for conservatives is that the Federal Government has no constitutional authority to force individuals to purchase health insurance, and the States to compel residents to acquire it.

The process in the courts will continue in the coming months and is likely the dispute to the Supreme Court of justice the year next.

The flaw in Richmond today annulled the ruling of a federal judge had declared unconstitutional the law on health care, reform and is the second opinion by a Federal Appeals Court that gives a blow to the conservatives.

But, in that the Court is not today ruled on the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of the mandate which obliges acquire sure doctor, the judges left the legislation exposed to other challenges initiated way different.

Judgment, moreover, only affects the States covered by the Fourth Circuit: Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

The obligation to acquire health insurance will take effect in 2014. The law provides that individuals who do not buy will be fined. EFE

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Ecuador and Peru reinforce cooperation in fight against the foot and on the border

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Quito, 8 sep (EFE).-the Governments of Ecuador and Peru will strengthen cooperation in the fight against the foot and mouth disease, which affects cattle, in the common border area reported today the Executive Director of the Agency of the Ecuadorian agricultural health (Agrocalidad), María Isabel Jiménez.

Both Governments undertook to make progress in the implementation of a plan of bilateral action against the bovine disease, which was assessed at a meeting between health authorities of both parties made this week in the Ecuadorian city of Machala, drew Jiménez Efe.

In this event, added the Director, also attended by representatives of the Pan American Center for foot and mouth (Panaftosa), the Pan American Health Organization and the Office in Quito of the United Nations Organization and Agriculture (FAO).

Jimenez stressed the collaboration of the national service for agricultural health (Senasa) of Peru, whose director, Oscar Dominguez, reported that his country is very close to eradicate this disease in its territory.

He also explained that the commitments include the elaboration of studies cadastre of real estate assets where there are herds of cattle in the border area of the two countries, as well as continue with vaccination programmes and improve procedures for immunization.

Jiménez highlighted the plans of education and training to farmers in border and other joint actions to isolate the virus in the event that appear cases of the disease.

He also said that Panaftosa and Ecuador of the FAO Office committed to finding funding to strengthen and accelerate the plan of action in Ecuador.

The Ecuadorian authority pointed out that next December shall be another meeting to evaluate the progress of the actions agreed between the two parties.

On the other hand, Jiménez pointed out that in the case of Ecuador, pace move forward joint strategies with Peru in the common border will also be itself in the area bordering with Colombia.

In the coming weeks, said meetings with the Colombian health authorities should be made, in order to strengthen actions joint against the foot-and-on the border.

Ecuador also runs a national programme against the disease, a disease endemic in this country, he said Jimenez.

The foot and mouth disease is an infectious disease that causes damage to livestock, which represents a serious problem in some countries of Latin America. EFE

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips