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Study: Wastewater Drilling Likely Earthquake Culprit | Arkansas Business News | ArkansasBusiness.com
by Associated Press on Thursday, Jul. 3, 2014 1:48 pm
WASHINGTON — A new study explains how just four wells forcing massive amounts of drilling wastewater into the ground are probably shaking up Oklahoma and surrounding states including Arkansas.Those wells seem to have triggered more than 100 small-to-medium earthquakes in the past five years, according to a study published Thursday by the journal Science. Many of the quakes were much farther away from the wells than expected.Combined, those wells daily pour more than 5 million gallons of water a mile or two underground into rock formations, the study found. That buildup of fluid creates more pressure that “has to go somewhere,” said study lead author Cornell University seismologist Katie Keranen.
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Ending Hunger Will Require Compromise Jo Luck Commentary | Arkansas Business News | ArkansasBusiness.com
After more than two decades working alongside sustainable development experts at Heifer International, I am confident that world hunger can be eliminated with the appropriate approach and collaboration. I am frequently asked the question “When global food security or insecurity issues are addressed, who are the stakeholders?” My reply is anyone who eats.However, while the goal of food security seems straightforward, the path to achieve it is complex and involves often competing demands and belief systems. Take the issue of climate change.
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How to spot and avoid installing potentially unwanted programs | PCWorld
The only PUP no one lovesThey’re called PUPs—Potentially Unwanted Programs—and they sneak onto your system as accessories to the program you actually intend to install. They’re annoying, and they can result in slower performance, space-stealing browser toolbars, annoying pop-ups, and even loss of privacy.You don’t have to give up free software to avoid PUPs, but you do have to pay attention. Each PUP first appears as a trap in the desired program’s installation wizard.Ian Paul recently recommended a program called Unchecky that attempts to uncheck installation options for you, but I prefer just being careful. Here are some tricks and traps to look out for during software installations.
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Support scammers – at your service! – Graham Cluley
The Windows Service Center. Sounds reassuring, doesn’t it?Here’s a typical scenario.Someone claiming to be working on behalf of Microsoft rings you out of the blue to tell you that there was a problem with your PC, or even that your virus-infected PC is causing problems on the internet, and that your Microsoft licence is going to be suspended unless you give them access to your PC so that they can clear it up.
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Hotel Hippo website alarmingly insecure, customer data at risk – Graham Cluley
British security researcher Scott Helme tried to book himself a night away from it all recently via HotelHippo.com – only to find an array of security issues that could have left him, and thousands of other customers, dangerously exposed.
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Antarctic sea ice hits second all-time record in a week | Talking About the Weather
A graph of the latest all-time record of Southern Hemisphere sea ice area, expressed as an anomaly, courtesy of The Cryosphere Today.
Antarctic sea ice has hit its second all-time record maximum this week. The new record is 2.112 million square kilometers above normal. Until the weekend just past, the previous record had been 1.840 million square kilometers above normal, a mark hit on December 20, 2007, as I reported here, and also covered in my book.
Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, responded to e-mail questions and also spoke by telephone about the new record sea ice growth in the Southern Hemisphere, indicating that, somewhat counter-intuitively, the sea ice growth was specifically due to global warming.
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Robert Graboyes: How to Grow the Supply of Healthcare – YouTube
Published on Jul 1, 2014″For two or three generations, we’ve almost completely ignored the supply side” of health care, warns Robert Graboyes, an economist who specializes in health care issues. That’s especially a big problem now that Obamacare is coming online. The whole point of the program, after all, is to increase demand for medical services. Yet even President Obama and his supporters acknowledge the plan does next to nothing to generate more doctors and more medical innovations.Graboyes, a senior research analyst at George Mason’s Mercatus Center, sat down with Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie to outline immediate ways to grow the number of hospitals, doctors, and nurses to serve millions of newly insured patients.Even more important is the need to increase the pace of the transformative medical innovation that has always extended lifespans and raised the quality of life, says Graboyes. At the dawn of “molecular medicine,” in which drugs are targeted to specific individuals, the FDA’s backward-looking and hyper-expensive approval process is more destructive than ever. Medicare’s byzantine cost-codes freeze into place yesteryear’s solutions. At the state level, “certificate of need” laws make it tougher than ever to expand or build new health care facilities.We’ve got to “look for every obstruction to the supply and get rid of it,” says Graboyes.Produced by Todd Krainin. Cameras by Ford Fischer and Josh Swain.About 9 minutes.
Before Shooting in Iraq, a Warning on Blackwater – NYTimes.com
WASHINGTON — Just weeks before Blackwater guardsfatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor’s operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater’s top manager there issued a threat: “that he could kill” the government’s chief investigator and “no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq,” according to department reports.
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