Month: September 2011

Images of a crater on Mars that was a large lake where there was water

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Paris, 2 sep (EFE).-the European Space Agency (ESA) today released several photographs showing a crater in the Highlands of the South of Mars which was a large lake bed when water flowed on the surface of this planet.

The crater of Eberswalde, captured by the Mars Express probe, is 65 kilometres in diameter and formed more than 3,700 million years ago by an asteroid impact, explained ESA in a communiqué.

Although a part of the Eberswalde was covered later by another asteroid impact, which created a second crater, the remains of what at one time was “a large delta, crossed by many rivers arms” are preserved in the visible area.

Delta had over 115 square kilometers of surface and was fed by the aforementioned rivers.

When it dried up, much of these formations were hidden under a layer of sediment arremolinados by the wind.

Analyzed structures – originally identified by the Mars Global Surveyor of the American NASA spacecraft – “are unequivocal proof that long water flowed on the surface of Mars,” said ESA.

Next to the Eberswalde is another crater, the Holden, 140 km in diameter and when it was generated projected rocks that covered much of the first.

One and one are two of the four sites selected for the landing of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission that will take off at the end of this year. EFE

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Cayman attacking elderly woman who had to be amputated leg looking for in Florida

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Miami (USA.)(UU.), 2 sep (EFE).-agents and trappers of Florida (USA).(UU.) looking for a Cayman attacked last Wednesday in Collier County to the West of Miami, to a 90-year-old woman and caused him such injuries that doctors had to amputate a leg, local media reported today.

Margret Webb stood next to a canal in front of his home in a rural area to the South of Florida, when an alligator about 2.5 meters attacked her and dragged into the water after arrest leg.

A driver passing by the area saw what was happening, stopped his vehicle and tried to help women to free themselves from the reptile that was subject for a leg, said a spokesman of the Commission for the conservation of fisheries and Fauna.

Authorities said the man, Dwain Daniels, managed to get out of the water women and subsequently fired the reptile, although they could not specify if he injured.

Transferred to a hospital in the area, doctors had to amputate the women left at the height of the knee leg and heal the other, showing also wounds.

The woman is hospitalized in condition stable.

Alligators are especially active in this season of the year, when the water level is at its highest point, although the attacks of these reptiles are rare without mediate a provocation.

In 2010 occurred six not brought on attacks of alligators in Florida, according to the Commission. EFE

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Greenpeace criticizes plan by Cairn Energy for possible dumped in the Arctic

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London, 2 sep (EFE).-Greenpeace reported today that the emergency plan of the Scottish company Cairn Energy in the case of a spill of oil in the Arctic is inadequate, and warned that it would be almost impossible to clean up a spill in the region Arctic.

In a statement, the environmental group accuses company of irresponsibility after analyzing, together with international experts the contingency plan to discharges of oil in the Arctic associated with exploration of petroleum in Greenland.

The exprofesor of the University of Alaska Richard Steiner, a marine biologist recognized as international expert on oil spills, has carried out a review of the documents of Cairn for Greenpeace and has warned that the oil company “exaggerate greatly the potential effectiveness of any response to spills”.

“The Cairn plan makes many assumptions questionable in its analysis of risk and response to spills.” “Dramatically underestimates the magnitude and impact potential of an explosion of one of its four wells, and exaggerates the potential effectiveness of any response to a spill in an extreme manner,” says Steiner.

“Response to spills in ice – covered seas adds – is virtually impossible, and this plan fails to address adequately the magnitude of the logistical needs to deal with a spill off the coast of Greenland”.

The company, which began work on the coasts of Greenland approximately two years ago, currently drilled at least four exploration wells in the icy waters of the Davis Strait (Greenland), says Greenpeace.

Some of these wells reach depths of up to 1,500 metres, similar to the of the rugged well Macondo firm BP in the Gulf of Mexico, crashed last year. EFE

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UNAIDS calls on Mozambique stop using little effective medicine against AIDS

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Maputo, 2 sept (EFE).-La the UN Agency for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today urged Mozambique stop using its low effectiveness, nevirapine, a drug prescribed to the pregnant women to prevent transmission of HIV to the baby.

The director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibe, made that request after meeting in Maputo with the first Minister Mozambique, Aires Ali.

Sidibé stated that the use of nevirapine causes still many births of children infected with the virus that causes AIDS, when there are other options to avoid that a pregnant woman give birth to a baby infected.

“Mozambique is in a list of 30 countries in which 25 per cent of pregnant women infected babies after using nevirapine to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to son”, stated the head of UNAIDS to the journalists.

Due to the consumption of this drug, 40,000 children born each year living with HIV in Mozambique, which has one of the highest rates of HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa.

According to experts, nevirapine, like other antiretrovirals, causes mutations in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) which can cause the development of HIV drug resistance

For that reason, doctors usually do not recommend use of nevirapine in combination with other antiretroviral drugs.

According to the Ministry of health of Mozambique, 400 HIV infections occur every day in the country, despite the many awareness-raising campaigns launched by the Government and various organizations.

For this reason, the director of UNAIDS requested the first Mozambican Minister a greater effort to prevent the birth of children infected with the virus.

“The country – insisted Sidibé – must take action to stop new infections, so there is no more births conn contagion”. EFE

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Anxiety and the fear of general anesthesia are unfounded

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(www.neomundo.com.ar) people will go through a surgery might have unfounded fears, misconceptions and lot of anxiety about general anesthesia, concluded an investigation conducted with 460 patients.

“Our study clearly shows that many people don’t know how anesthesia and this situation generates many misconceptions.” “It is essential to take care of address this lack of information to reduce the anxiety of the patients,” said Mark Mitchell of the University of Salford (United Kingdom).

General anesthesia is one involving the entire body as the patient falls asleep and then does not remember anything of the operation. Throughout the procedure of health professionals control factors such as heart rate, breathing rate, and blood oxygen levels to ensure that the patient is well maintained.

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the researchers worked with 460 people who completed a questionnaire only 24 to 48 hours after having gone through surgery under anesthesia general.

85% Of the volunteers commented that he felt anxiety at the prospect of the use of general anesthesia. The main concern was the fear of not waking up, die while they were sleeping or waking up during surgery. Another source of anxiety was the fear of having to wait to enter the operating room. In turn, 41% of participants said that you didn’t like the idea of trust strangers.

On the other hand, the level of anxiety was much lower in people who had the support of a partner or friends, which interacted with the doctors and received an explanation of the procedure.

Mitchell said that it should pay more attention to the psychological aspects of the care of the patient that will pass through a general anesthesia. “Our research underlines the importance that patients receive timely well-designed information on anesthesia, with the objective of maintaining their anxiety at Bay,” said the specialist.

Mitchell explained that this information should include how the anesthesia is administered and how is controlled and monitored, to thus disperse any doubts or misconception about the procedure.

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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