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fredag, april 29, 2011

Carlas mördande exmake får sänkt straff


Det var på kvällen den 28 november 2010 r som den 31-årige Carla Sadoo dödades av sin förra detta make, Musa Kara (kristen). Han sökte upp henne vid hennes hem och i ett trapphus på Öxnehaga i Jönköping högg han henne 27 gånger med en kniv. Carla avled på plats av sina skador.
I Jönköpings tingsrätt menade Musa Kara att anledningen till attacken var att Carla träffat en annan man, som Kara trodde var muslim, och Carla ville flytta till i Stockholm samt då ta med sig barnen. Han ansåg dock inte att hans avsikt hade varit att döda henne utan att skada.

Jönköpings tingsrätt dömde Musa Kara för mord till fängelse på livstid. Han skulle utge skadedstånd med 355 000 kronor till kvinnans anhöriga. Domen överklagades av hans försvarare som tillsammans med Musa Kara menade att det aldrig var hans mening att döda Carla.

Ändrad påföljd
                                                             Carla Sadoo och Musa Kara

Göta hovrätt beslutade idag att mildra tingsrättens dom. Istället för livstids fängelse ändras påföljden till 18 års fängelse. Rubriceringen mord kvarstår dock.

”Trots gärningens stora allvar – sett bland annat utifrån gärningens brutalitet och det förhållandet att den föregåtts av viss planering – är gärningen inte sådan att påföljden ska bestämmas till fängelse på livstid”, skriver hovrätten i domen. 18 års fängelse är det längsta tidsbestämda straff som det går att döma ut.

Hovrätten höjer skadeståndet till Carlas syskon som får 50 000 kronor vardera,

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Tornado destruction shocks even weather experts

Tornado destruction shocks even weather experts
Tornado destruction shocks even weather experts

More than 170 twisters were reported Wednesday alone and more than 600 for April so far, which a meteorologist says would make it the busiest tornado month in 60 years.
 
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Did you know...? Facts and figures about water and demographic drivers

The New Sweden - Fälls för grovt mutbrott – får två årslöner

Vd:n för Egnahemsbolaget fälls för grovt mutbrott i den första domen i Göteborgshärvan. Han döms till sex månaders fängelse. Samtidigt får han sparken från jobbet och två årslöner.

NASA has called off Friday's launch of space shuttle Endeavour because of a heater failure. NASA spokesman George Dillard says the next try will be Sunday at the earliest.

Strict Immigration Laws 'Save Denmark Billions'

PUTTING A PRICE ON FOREIGNERS


Denmark's strict immigration laws have saved the country 6.7 billion euros, a government report has claimed. Even though Denmark already has some of the toughest immigration laws in Europe, right-wing populist politicians are now trying to make them even more restrictive. /DER SPIEGEL

No Comparison

Earlier this week, Speaker John Boehner said Rep. Ryan’s plan to privatize Medicare “transforms Medicare into a plan that's very similar to the President's own health care bill.” This comparison is deeply flawed.

Here’s why:

No Guaranteed Coverage
The Congressional Republican plan privatizes Medicare, ending the program as we know it. Insurance companies would be under no obligation to offer insurance to seniors, so many older Americans could be left with no insurance at all.

The Affordable Care Act preserves Medicare and improves it by making prevention and prescription drugs more affordable, lowering its costs, and improving the quality of care. And health reform extends the life of the Medicare Trust Fund and helps ensure Medicare will continue to provide coverage to seniors in the decades to come.

Get Older, Pay More
The Republican plan repeals Medicare’s current policy where seniors are not charged more because of their age. Under the Republican plan, seniors could be forced to pay more for their health care every year, simply because they’ve grown older.

No Affordable Choices
The Republican Medicare plan makes health coverage less affordable for seniors. In the first year it goes into effect, a typical 65-year-old who becomes eligible for Medicare would pay an extra $6,400 for health care, more than doubling what he or she would pay if the plan were not adopted. And the Republican plan would replace extra coverage for low-income enrollees with a capped, insufficient medical savings account.

In sharp contrast, the Affordable Care Act lowers costs for people in Medicare by improving its performance and squeezing out waste, fraud and abuse. The law also provides free preventive care and cheaper prescription drugs for people in Medicare. As a result, we estimate that a typical senior could save $3,500 over the next decade as a result of the Affordable Care Act.

Less Transparency
The Affordable Care Act will help make the health care system more open, more transparent and easier to understand.

The Republican plan takes us in the opposite direction. Today, people in Medicare can quickly learn about their benefits. Under the Republican plan, they’d be left in the dark. The Republican plan would force seniors to purchase insurance on their own and critical consumer protections that would make the insurance marketplace easier to understand would be repealed.

Silver Lining
The facts are clear: the Affordable Care Act and the Republican plan to end Medicare as we know it are very different. It’s heartening to see Republicans aspire to produce a plan that resembles the historic reforms President Obama signed into law.

But if they want a proposal that is similar to the Affordable Care Act, they’ll have to head back to the drawing board.

SCA investerar i utökad kapacitet inom mjukpapper och sågade trävaror

SCA investerar i utökad kapacitet inom mjukpapper i Ryssland och Tyskland samt för sågade trävaror i Sverige. Investeringarna uppgår sammanlagt till cirka 2,6 miljarder SEK (cirka 290 MEUR). /SCA
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Europa League

I går


Porto strax före matchen i går


Benfica - Braga 2-1
Porto - Villarreal 5-1

Villarreal dominerade i första halvlek och spelade ett fint, tekniskt spel. Men säckade så småningom ihop alldeles. En något märkvärdig utveckling.
Resultaten pekar på Portugisiska Benfica-Porto i final; en riktig derbyhöjdare alltså som vi isf hoppas kunna TVC (ny förkortning som härmed introduceras och som betyder teve-se).

Portos brasilianareHulk,
bäst på plan i går
 (enligt mig)

                  Retur-semifinaler kommande torsdag

Libya Update: Fighting spills over into Tunisia

A Tale of Two Lakes: One Gives Early Warning Signal for Ecosystem Collapse
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First experimental evidence that radical ecosystem change can be detected in advance

A tale of two lakes: Paul is the smaller lake; Peter, the manipulated lake, is in background.

April 28, 2011

Researchers eavesdropping on complex signals from a remote Wisconsin lake have detected what they say is an unmistakable warning--a death knell--of the impending collapse of the lake's aquatic ecosystem.

An explosion of
 largemouth bass accelerated
 the manipulated lake's changes.


 The finding, reported today in the journal Science by a team of researchers led by Stephen Carpenter, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), is the first experimental evidence that radical change in an ecosystem can be detected in advance, possibly in time to prevent ecological catastrophe.


"For a long time, ecologists thought these changes couldn't be predicted," says Carpenter. "But we've now shown that they can be foreseen. The early warning is clear. It is a strong signal."



Automated high-frequency
sampling equipment monitored
 lake conditions every five minutes.
The implications of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported study are big, says Carpenter.

"This research shows that, with careful monitoring, we can foresee shifts in the structure of ecosystems despite their complexity," agrees Alan Tessier, program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology. "The results point the way for ecosystem management to become a predictive science."


The findings suggest that, with the right kind of monitoring, it may be possible to track the vital signs of any ecosystem and intervene in time to prevent what is often irreversible damage to the environment.
Largemouth bass were
sampled by electrofishing at
night and returned alive
to the lake.


"With more work, this could revolutionize ecosystem management," Carpenter says. "The concept has now been validated in a field experiment and the fact that it worked in this lake opens the door to testing it in rangelands, forests and marine ecosystems."


"Networks for long-term ecological observation, such as the [NSF] Long-Term Ecological Research network, increase the possibility of detecting early warnings through comparisons across sites and among regions," the scientists write in their paper.


Ecosystems often change in radical ways. Lakes, forests, rangelands, coral reefs and many other ecosystems are often transformed by overfishing, insect pests, chemical changes in the environment, overgrazing and shifting climate.
Tim Cline (left), Lee Zinn (right)
and others sampled minnows
 daily to track abundance of fishes.




For humans, ecosystem change can impact economies and livelihoods such as when forests succumb to an insect pest, rangelands to overgrazing, or fisheries to overexploitation.


A vivid example of a collapsed resource is the Atlantic cod fishery.


Once the most abundant and sought-after fish in the North Atlantic, cod stocks collapsed in the 1990s due to overfishing, causing widespread economic hardship in New England and Canada. Now, the ability to detect when an ecosystem is approaching the tipping point could help prevent such calamities.


In the new study, the Wisconsin researchers, collaborating with scientists at the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wis., focused their attention on Peter and Paul Lakes, two isolated and undeveloped lakes in northern Wisconsin.
The researchers' work
is described in the April 29,
2011 issue of the journal Science.




Peter is a six-acre lake whose biota were manipulated for the study and nearby Paul served as a control.


The group led by Carpenter experimentally manipulated Peter Lake over a three-year period by gradually adding predatory largemouth bass to the lake, which was previously dominated by small fish that consumed water fleas, a type of zooplankton.


The purpose, Carpenter notes, was to destabilize the lake's food web to the point where it would become an ecosystem dominated by large predators.


In the process, the researchers expected to see a relatively rapid cascading change in the lake's biological community, one that would affect all its plants and animals in significant ways.


"We start adding these big ferocious fish and almost immediately this instills fear in the other fish," Carpenter says.


"The small fish begin to sense there is trouble and they stop going into the open water and instead hang around the shore and structures, things like sunken logs. They become risk-averse."


The biological upshot, says Carpenter, is that the lake became "water flea heaven."


The system becomes one where the phytoplankton, the preferred food of the lake's water fleas, is highly variable.


"The phytoplankton get hammered and at some point the system snap into a new mode," says Carpenter.


Throughout the lake's three-year manipulation, all its chemical, biological and physical vital signs were continuously monitored to track even the smallest changes that would announce what ecologists call a "regime shift," where an ecosystem undergoes radical and rapid change from one type to another.


It was in these massive sets of data that Carpenter and his colleagues were able to detect the signals of the ecosystem's impending collapse.


Ecologists first discovered similar signals in computer simulations of spruce budworm outbreaks.


Every few decades the insect's populations explode, causing widespread deforestation in boreal forests in Canada. Computer models of a virtual outbreak, however, seemed to undergo odd blips just before the outbreak.


The problem was solved by William "Buz" Brock, a UW-Madison economist who for decades has worked on the mathematical connections of economics and ecology.


Brock utilized a branch of applied mathematics known as bifurcation theory to show that the odd behavior was in fact an early warning of catastrophic change.


In short, he devised a way to sense the transformation of an ecosystem by detecting subtle changes in the system's natural patterns of variability.


The upshot of the Peter Lake field experiment, says Carpenter, is a validated statistical early warning system for ecosystem collapse.


The catch, however, is that for the early warning system to work, intense and continuous monitoring of an ecosystem's chemistry, physical properties and biota are required.


Such an approach may not be practical for every threatened ecosystem, says Carpenter, but he also cites the price of doing nothing.


"These regime shifts tend to be hard to reverse. It is like a runaway train once it gets going and the costs--both ecological and economic--are high."


In addition to Carpenter and Brock, authors of the Science paper include Jonathan Cole of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Michael Pace, James Coloso and David Seekell of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; James Hodgson of St. Norbert College; and Ryan Batt, Tim Cline, James Kitchell, Laura Smith and Brian Weidel of UW-Madison.


-NSF-
___________________________________________________________________________

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2010, its budget is about $6.9 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 universities and institutions. Each year, NSF receives over 45,000 competitive requests for funding, and makes over 11,500 new funding awards. NSF also awards over $400 million in professional and service contracts yearly.

News from Australia

Det är bara nyttigt att läsa och höra nyheter från så många håll som möjligt.

torsdag, april 28, 2011

From Jerusalem

Mystery still surrounds Mona Lisa's identity

Storms wreak havoc in the US

På väg till jobbet

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NEJM


Question

What is the diagnosis?
Addison's disease - Alkaptonuria - Hematoma - Melanoma - Zidovudine exposure

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
Current Issue: April 28, 2011
http://www.nejm.org/

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