Thursday, June 28, 2012

Landslides, floods kill 106 in southern Bangladesh

A Bangladeshi woman, left, whose relative died in a landslide is consoled by another on the outskirts of Chittagong, Bangladesh, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Rescuers said landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 30 people in southern Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Anrup Titu)

A Bangladeshi woman, left, whose relative died in a landslide is consoled by another on the outskirts of Chittagong, Bangladesh, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Rescuers said landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 30 people in southern Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Anrup Titu)

Bangladeshi rescuers search for survivors and bodies following landslides on the outskirts of Chittagong, Bangladesh, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Rescuers said the slides caused by heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 30 people in southern Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Anrup Titu)

Bangladeshi rescuers search for survivors and bodies following landslides on the outskirts of Chittagong, Bangladesh, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Rescuers said the slides caused by heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 30 people in southern Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Anrup Titu)

(AP) ? Searchers pulled out 15 bodies buried under mud, rocks and debris on Thursday, raising this week's death toll to 106 from landslides and floods caused by heavy monsoon rains in southern Bangladesh.

Officials said the landslides occurred mainly in remote villages with poor roads, making rescue work more difficult.

At least 41 died in Cox's Bazar, 41 in neighboring Bandarban and another 24 in Chittagong, mostly in a series of landslides, the Disaster Management Ministry said. It said soldiers joined the search for the missing in all three areas and found 15 more bodies buried in debris Thursday.

About 500 houses were washed away. Officials said more people may be missing, but they didn't know how many.

Three days of torrential rain in the region of small hills and forests dislodged huge chunks of earth, which buried flimsy huts where families were sleeping late Tuesday and early Wednesday. Many of the dead were women and children, officials said.

In Bandarban, 11-year-old Rafiqul Islam was the only member of his family to survive because he was away when mud buried his hut. His parents and three siblings died.

"I could survive because I was visiting a relative," the boy told The Associated Press. "The rain had kept me from returning home."

Monsoon floods are common in Bangladesh, a delta nation of 160 million people. Many homeless people live at the foot of the hills or close to them, despite warnings from authorities.

Volunteers using loudspeakers warned people about the danger of landslides during the rains, said Jaynul Bari, a government administrator in Cox's Bazar. The floods inundated dozens of villages and were disrupting communications in the region.

Flood waters covered many roads and washed away a railway bridge, snapping road and rail links between Dhaka and the three districts. An airport in Chittagong was closed after floodwaters swamped its runway, but reopened Wednesday after the rains stopped, officials said.

The government said relief workers were distributing rice and water to hundreds of displaced people.

Associated Press

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Friday, June 22, 2012

Putin says economic reform his top priority

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N2K Presidential Race: Immigration as a 'Cancer' on the GOP

Addressing the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials on Thursday, Mitt Romney gets another crack at immigration policy. And, as he showed on Tuesday in quickly rejecting reports that he?d discarded Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida from his running-mate ruminations, Romney knows he needs Hispanic voters.

But that doesn?t mean he can get them, and there?s a worthwhile line to draw to another policy solution evading Washington. Compare the Cassandra-like admonitions from the run-their-last-races wise men and women in both parties about the national debt -- former Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles compared it to a ?cancer? -- to the alarmed counsel from the run-their-last-races Republican mandarins about immigration.

The rhetoric and counsel are strikingly similar: endure the short-term political discomfort for the sake of the fruit borne in what budget analysts term ?the out years.? Mitt Romney?s campaign is in fits to message his immigration stance properly. After denouncing the Dream Act during the primaries, he?s now been wedged by President Obama into a trap of the most dangerous kind: evolve or forsake a significant swath of the electorate. Evolving, of course, has gotten Romney in trouble before.

Much of this pain could have been avoided if congressional Republicans had swallowed George W. Bush?s immigration proposals, or gone along with Senate Democrats? push last year on the Dream Act. But they didn?t, Romney was baited to the right in the primaries -- indeed, helped dispatch Texas Gov. Rick Perry by painting him as soft on immigration?-- and now they face days like today. Trying to drive a legitimate and widely accepted narrative about Obama?s woes on the economy, the campaign was again tripped up by immigration questions.

But, as with Congress and fiscal matters, he?ll have to choose between feeling good in the short term, or staying salubrious in the out years.

-- Jim O?Sullivan
@JOSullivanNatJo

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[Washington Post, 6/20/12] Romney addressed the ABC News report regarding who he is vetting for VP: ?The story was entirely false.? But the?Post's Erik Wemple writes that Romney?s non-denial smells a lot like a confirmation.

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[National Journal, 6/20/12] The Romney campaign held a conference call that on Wednesday that quickly turned sour after aides refused to answer reporters? questions about immigration. The call was chronicled on Twitter as it happened, giving the Obama camp an opening to compile the less than flattering 140-character accounts into a press release.?

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[Washington Post, 6/19/12] The infamous photo of Romney and his partners celebrating the launch of Bain & Co. by flashing money at the camera is a snapshot from the start of a time in Romney's life that has since defined him as a candidate and a man.?

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Humongous asteroid to hurtle past Earth Thursday (+video)

Some?1,650 feet wide,?asteroid 2012 LZ1 is expected to pass within 14 lunar distances of our planet, close enough to be caught on camera.?

By Mike Wall,?SPACE.com / June 14, 2012

A look at where near-Earth asteroid 2012 LZ1 will appear in the sky on Thursday evening.

Slooh Space Camera

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An asteroid the size of a city block is set to fly by Earth Thursday (June 14), and you may be able to watch it happen live.

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The?near-Earth asteroid?2012 LZ1, which astronomers think is about 1,650 feet (500 meters) wide, will come within 14 lunar distances of Earth Thursday evening. While there's no danger of an impact on this pass, the huge space rock may come close enough to be caught on camera.

That's what the team running the Slooh Space Camera thinks, anyway. The online skywatching service will train a telescope on the Canary Islands on 2012 LZ1 and stream the footage live, beginning at 8:00 p.m. EDT Thursday (0000 GMT Friday) ? the time of closest approach.

You can watch the?asteroid?flyby on Slooh's website, found here:?http://events.slooh.com/

2012 LZ1 just popped onto astronomers' radar this week. It was discovered on the night of June 10-11 by Rob McNaught and his colleagues, who were peering through the Uppsala Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia.

Researchers estimate that the space rock is between 1,000 and 2,300 feet wide (300-700 m). On Thursday evening, it will come within about 3.35 million miles (5.4 million kilometers) of our planet, or roughly 14 times the distance between Earth and the moon.

Because of its size and proximity to Earth, 2012 LZ1 qualifies as a potentially hazardous asteroid. Near-Earth asteroids generally have to be at least 500 feet (150 m) wide and come within 4.65 million miles (7.5 million km) of our planet to be classified as potentially hazardous.

2012 LZ1 is roughly the same size as?asteroid 2005 YU55, which made a much-anticipated flyby of Earth last November. But 2005 YU55 gave our planet a much closer shave, coming within 202,000 miles (325,000 km) of us on the evening of Nov. 8. A space rock as big as 2005 YU55 hadn't come so close to Earth since 1976, researchers said.

Astronomers have identified nearly 9,000 near-Earth asteroids, but they think many more are out there, waiting to be discovered.

Follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter?@michaeldwall?or SPACE.com?@Spacedotcom. We're also onFacebook?and?Google+.

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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Canacol Energy Ltd. announces heavy oil exploration drilling program in Colombia

Canacol Energy Ltd. (TSX:CNE) (BVC:CNEC) announce the start of its heavy oil exploration drilling program on its Portofino and Cedrela Exploration and Production ("E&P") contracts located in the Caguan - Putumayo Basin in Colombia. The Corporation has a 100% working interest and is operator of the Cedrela, Sangretoro, and Tamarin contracts, which represent approximately 773,070 net acres, and a 40% working interest in the Portofino contract, which represents approximately 103,472 net acres. The Corporation has executed a contract with Estrella International Energy Services Ltd for the Estrella 552 rig, which is currently being mobilized to Colombia from Peru. Canacol plans to drill six stratigraphic wells which include four wells on the Portofino contract and two wells on the Cedrela contract in a back to back drilling campaign that will commence in late July 2012 and end in early 2013.

Charle Gamba, President and CEO of the Corporation, commented "These stratigraphic wells will target six of the more than fifty prospects and leads we have defined on the blocks using approximately 900 km of newly acquired 2D seismic, the first seismic ever shot on these blocks. These wells, which can be drilled inexpensively compared to conventional exploration wells, have the potential to yield useful information concerning the presence and type of oil, as well as basic reservoir thickness and quality information. The Corporation anticipates that should hydrocarbons be discovered in any of the stratigraphic wells, it may be able to book reserves and contingent resources, as have other companies using stratigraphic well results in Colombia. Since the discovery of the Capella heavy oil field by Canacol and its partner in 2008, the Corporation has leveraged its proprietary knowledge of the geology and potential of the area to acquire 883,931 net acres in this highly prospective and underexplored play fairway. Canacol will be the first company to execute a major exploration drilling program in this frontier basin in Colombia."

Achote 1 Stratigraphic Well - Portofino E&P Contract (40% working interest)

The Achote 1 stratigraphic well is planned to be drilled to a depth of approximately 3,800 feet measured depth ("ft md") and will target potential heavy oil bearing reservoirs in the Mirador sandstones, the main producing sandstones in the Corporation's Capella heavy oil field. The Corporation has a 40% working interest in the Portofino contract, which is located approximately 25 kilometers to the southwest of the Capella field. The Achote 1 stratigraphic well is anticipated to commence drilling in late July 2012.

The Corporation anticipates that the well will take approximately 4 weeks to drill, core, and log. The information that the Corporation anticipates to collect include cores through the prospective reservoir intervals and a full suite of conventional openhole wireline logs. This data will yield information concerning the thickness, porosity, permeability, and fluid content of any prospective oil-bearing reservoir intervals that may be encountered within the well. Given the small diameter of the wellbore, the Corporation will be unable to flow test any of the prospective reservoirs.

Guarango 1 Stratigraphic Well - Cedrela E&P Contract (100% working interest)

The Guarango 1 stratigraphic well is planned to be drilled to a depth of approximately 2,500 feet measured depth ("ft md") and will also target potential heavy oil bearing reservoirs in the Mirador sandstones, the main producing sandstones in the Corporation's Capella heavy oil field. The Corporation has a 100% working interest and is operator of the Cedrela contract. The Cedrela contract is located approximately 50 kilometers to the southwest of the Capella field.
The Corporation anticipates spudding the Guarango 1 stratigraphic well after the drilling of the Achote 1 stratigraphic well has been completed. The Corporation anticipates that the Guarango 1 stratigraphic well will take approximately 4 weeks to drill, core, and log. The same information that the Corporation plans to collect in the Achote 1 stratigraphic well will also be collected in the Guarango 1 stratigraphic well.

After the above two wells have been drilled, the Corporation plans to drill three additional stratigraphic wells on the Portofino contract, and one additional stratigraphic well on the Cedrela contract. The drilling program is anticipated to continue into early 2013.

Canacol's focus remains threefold for the remainder of 2012: (1) achieve 14,000-16,000 bopd net revenue production from activities at the Rancho Hermoso field, (2) execute and monetize the Corporation's large exploration portfolio, which targets heavy oil in the Caguan-Putumayo basin, shale oil in the Middle Magdalena basin, and light oil in the Llanos basin, and (3) maintain Canacol's substantial financial flexibility from cash, cash flow, and the Corporation's recently announced $200mm credit facility. As at March 31, 2012, the Corporation had US$ 68.1 million in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, and US$ 43.7 million of working capital surplus. In the event of exploration success, Canacol may choose to utilize its credit facility to accelerate appraisal and development drilling.

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Opt for healthy ways for weight loss | putnexusarticles.net

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Today, making people aware of good health is of utmost importance, as people are ignoring the significance of maintaining sound health. In the stressful life, people hardly concentrate on the health related issues, which grow and create future concerns for them. As the world is moving towards globalization, the changes are also reflected in an individual?s life style. Due to advancement and changes in lifestyle, people have also changed their eating life style; they are following unhealthy habits of eating junk or fast food. However, fast food is not advisable, if you wish to maintain good health. Intake of junk food makes a way for the useless substance to enter into the body. If you consume processed and junk food in excess, you tend to gain weight, and weight is the real cause of various diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer etc. To bake the excess fat, people try out various weight loss program. These programs are said to be the best and safe means for weight loss.

The health and fitness centers are making people aware about importance of exercise and healthy food diet, and also guide them to lose weight. The best way to burn the excess fat is by consulting an experienced dietician who will help you to design a balanced diet as per your needs. This fitness program is gaining importance and proving beneficial to the majority of overweighed individuals. If an individual is not able to follow a strict diet, he can opt for a flexible diet plan along with a morning walk for about one hour; it will surely help in weight loss and can reduce stress.

The significance of the regular exercise cannot be eradicated, as it regulates the proper flow of blood in the body and regulates the flow of oxygen in the body. Regular exercise accompanied with the balanced diet will definitely ensure effective results. The fitness training centers having experienced professionals and well qualified skill trainers are the best individuals to guide you for attaining proper health. Weight loss is not an easy task and requires intense workout. Many are also opting for weight loss surgery, and Brazilian butt lift surgery is one of them.

Participating in the various fitness competitions will force one to work hard and attain the perfect figure. The need to win the competition makes the persons work harder to lose weight. Heavy weight often makes one introvert and generates the feeling of awkwardness. To get rid of the stress and be healthy, inculcate the benefits of fruit diet. Fruit diet is the best method to make a way for natural vitamins into the body rather than using supplements of vitamins.

With all the pros and cons for maintaining sound health, it is utmost important for an individual to work hard and attain good physique. Getting the membership of fitness centers and following good fitness programs will help you immensely in losing weight. Maintaining a balanced diet and following the best nutrition plan will help to burn excess fat, and will also make you feel great.

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