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Automated Electronic Defibrillator

KNOXVILLE – The University of Tennessee Police Department has added Automated Electronic Defibrillators (AEDs) to patrol cars. The devices were placed in vehicles this morning.

UTPD officers are the first responders to emergencies on campus, including medical emergencies.

“The number of people on campus daily, in addition to special events, demonstrates the need for the UT Police to be able to respond quickly to incidents of medical distress,” Interim Chief Debbie Perry said. “We are committed to being able to provide a prompt and professional response.”

Police Captain Keith Lambert said the survival rate for a person in cardiac arrest is increased by an AED. Also, he said according to the American Heart Association, more than 250,000 people die in the United States from cardiac arrest each year and the survival rate decreases by 7 to 10 percent for each minute that passes without a defibrillator.

All UTPD officers receive Red Cross certification for CPR and AED use.

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C O N T A C T :

Keith Lambert (865-974-6631, [email protected])

Bridget Hardy (865-974-2225, [email protected])

Australian gold miner Lihir Gold Ltd. is on the block after it received a US$8.45-billion hostile bid from Newcrest Mining Ltd. According to Scotia Capital analyst David Christie, Newmont Mining Corp. should now look to acquire Lihir.

In a note to clients, Mr. Christie wrote that Lihir could immediately increase Newmont's production by 9%, and drop equity cash costs by 2%. That would bring Newmont's cash costs below US$500 an ounce.

"In our view, the Lihir mine would be a good fit for Newmont's Australia-Asia operating group, and [Lihir's] Bonikro mine and vast exploration ground would fit well into Newmont's African operating unit," he wrote.

Newmont needs to consider acquisitions because it has a negative growth profile. Mr. Christie wrote that production is expected to decline by 8.7% in 2015 compared to 2010. However, the company is also in a good position for M&A activity with US$5.8-billion in available liquidity, he noted.

Mr. Christie initiated coverage on Newmont with a "sector perform" rating and a one-year target price of US$67.00 a share. He wrote that Newmont trades at a price-to-net-asset-value multiple of 1.98 times, which is well ahead of its large-cap gold peers at 1.49 times. However, Newmont is cheaper than its rivals on other metrics.

Peter Koven

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 5-3 in Conkright v. Frommert that a district court has an obligation to defer to an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plan administrator’s reasonable interpretation of the terms of the plan if the plan administrator arrived at the interpretation outside the context of an administrative claim for benefits. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that a district court is under no obligation to defer to an ERISA plan administrator’s interpretation and that a district court has “allowable discretion” to adopt any “reasonable” interpretation of the terms of the plan. In reversing the opinion below, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote:
We held in Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch that an ERISA plan administrator with discretionary authority to interpret a plan is entitled to deference in exercising that discretion. The question here is whether a single honest mistake in plan interpretation justifies stripping the administrator of that deference for subsequent related interpretations of the plan. We hold that it does not.Justice Stephen Breyer filed a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice Sonia Sotomayor took no part in the consideration of the case.The case was brought by former Xerox employees who left the company in the 1980s and were later rehired. The employees challenged the method used to calculate their retirement benefits. The district court deferred to the method used by the plan administrator, but the Second Circuit reversed.

AMSTERDAM     Operations at the important European air hub of Schiphol in Holland were getting back to normal Wednesday.

The instances of long lines and mass confusion in the past few days here have eased as concerns regarding the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud diminish and flights pick up.

Officials for Eurocontrol, the body that regulates air travel in Europe, is reporting air traffic is now at 75% of regular levels.

That has still left some travelers out in the cold.  Flights to places like London, Glasgow, Munich and Stockholm, scheduled to leave from Amsterdam, are showing as cancelled or delayed on the “departures board” here.

Air travelers coming from other airports with connections to still “questionable” final destinations were told they would have to end their trip in Amsterdam and wait before trying to move onwards.

A Fox News team traveling from Dubai was on one of the first planes to operate out of an airport hit by the recent closures. The Dutch-based KLM plane flew from Amsterdam to the Mideast overnight Monday.    The crew then “turned around” and flew back to Amsterdam early Wednesday.

The flight attendants seemed to take the disruption in their stride, telling us their “down days” happened to coincide with the flight bans and so they were ready to get back to work.

As for the passengers on board on board the flight, with many travelers having to wait days before they’re accommodated, they were happy to be flying as well.

Mesmo com seu lançamento previsto pra ocorrer apenas em 2013, o futuro design da futura BMW Serie 3 já desperta a curiosidade. Dessa forma, para tentar matar um pouco dessa ansiedade, veja as primeiras projeções do modelo divulgados pela publicação MotorAuthority.

A projeção trás um visual realmente muito parecido com o protótipo flagrado do modelo, onde reparamos varias semelhanças com o CS Concept e do novo BMW Serie 7. O futuro BMW Serie 3 será maximizado ao máximo, aplicando a sua tecnologia EfficientDynamics, que consiste em aplicar uma reduzida resistência aerodinâmica, motores menores e a alta aplicação da tecnologia eletrônica.

Além disso, a BMW estuda todas as possibilidades e soluções para reduzir o custo de produção de seu sedã, e consequentemente reduzir seu preço de venda. Apesar disso, a companhia alemã pretende construir um veiculo mais confortável, potente e econômico que o atual.

Projeção BMW Serie 2013

Fonte: MotorAuthority

Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist.

As I noted in my last post, EDF and the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families coalition believe TSCA needs to ensure that basic safety data are developed and made available for all chemicals in commerce. Such information is:

• a core element of the public’s right-to-know;
• embodied in the “no data, no market” concept already in place under the EU’s REACH; and
• most importantly, critical for identifying BOTH:
  •  chemicals of concern we have not yet identified, due to data gaps; and
  • chemicals presenting little or no concern, which may serve as safer alternatives to chemicals of concern but we need to be able to identify with greater confidence.

The chemical industry’s opposition to comprehensive data requirements is an inherent contradiction: It is often the first to claim “regrettable substitution” when a chemical is restricted, asking: “How do we know the substitute is any better?” The answer is we often won’t – UNLESS we take a comprehensive approach to data development

So what types of data, and how much, should comprise a minimum safety data set? And when should it be submitted?

WHAT types of chemical information are needed

Minimum data sets (MDS) need to contain a number of types of safety-relevant information, which Congress should specify as elements EPA must include in developing the specifics of the MDS:

• Identifying information on the chemical, its name and identifying CAS number, its physical and chemical properties, impurities.
• Manufacturing and processing information on what companies produce, import and make and process the chemical, in which quantities and at which locations.
• Exposure-relevant information including the physical form and concentration of the chemical at sites of manufacture, processing and use, the number of workers potentially exposed,
• Monitoring data that indicate the presence of the chemical in people, other organisms, food, drinking water and environmental media.
• Use information on the function of the chemical, its commercial and consumer uses, its presence in article to which children may be exposed.
• Post-use information on the disposal or other post-use management of the chemical or products containing it, and any by-products of such management.
• Hazard information on the environmental and biological fate and transport of the chemical, acute and chronic health effects and ecotoxicity, potential for synergistic effects in combination with other chemicals.

HOW MUCH chemical information is needed

MDSs need not be one size fits all:

• EPA should have authority to require more information for some types of chemicals than others, based on criteria indicating higher exposure (e.g., use in consumer products, higher production volume) or higher hazard (e.g., evidence indicating likelihood of particular types of toxicity, persistence and/or bioaccumulation potential).
• Our proposal is that EPA be required to consider a broad range of potential impacts in making safety determinations, and to require submission of information sufficient for EPA to determine whether a chemical has these properties of concern. This is not the same as a long list of endpoints for which testing would always be required.
• We also propose EPA have authority to “tier” testing requirements. This could be done to reflect the different exposure or hazard potentials described in the first bullet above. For some chemicals, it could also be used to initially apply screening tests, to be followed by more detailed tests should the screening tests raise red flags.
• We further propose that EPA could develop and tailor MDSs for categories of chemicals that have similar properties, hazards, use profiles or exposure potential. 
• Finally, EPA should also have authority to require MDSs for mixtures of chemicals as well as individual chemicals. In some cases, data on the mixture will be more useful in determining safety than data on the individual components.

WHEN chemical information should be provided

Because chemical information serves so many purposes (as I noted in my earlier post on this topic), its development and submission should be expedited as much as possible. And because such information changes over time, it needs to be updated with sufficient frequency to ensure users have current and timely information.

Of course, EPA will need some time to develop a rule that specifies the details of MDSs, the methods to be used to develop the data, etc. And a reasonable period of time then needs to be provided for companies to develop and submit the data. Finally, chemicals that are prioritized will be subject to safety determinations sooner, so their MDSs will be needed to be developed and submitted sooner than those for other chemicals.

We propose, therefore:

• Companies should be required to submit information they already possess about a chemical’s identity, properties, production, use, hazards and exposure potential within one year of enactment.
• Companies should update such information at a minimum every three years, and immediately whenever significant new information becomes available or significant changes in a chemical’s production or use occur.
• EPA should develop and publish the MDS requirements within one year of enactment.
• MDSs for all new chemicals should be submitted at the time companies submit notices of intent to manufacture them. (A transition for new chemicals may be needed during the period between enactment of legislation and EPA’s issuance of the details of the MDS).
• MDSs for all existing chemicals should be submitted within either:
  • five years of enactment, or
  • for priority chemicals, 18 months after they are so identified,

whichever comes first.

• If significant time has passed between initial submission of the MDS for a chemical and when it comes up for its safety determination, companies should have an opportunity and mandate to update their MDSs, so that the most current information is available to EPA.

Zinio is a magazine store and reader for the iPad. In fact, for now, it’s the magazine store for the iPad, stocking all the biggest titles of which you can purchase one-off issues or even 12 month subscriptions.

Just like Apple with its iBookstore, Zinio has established relationships with an impressive array of publications. As such, you can expect to find enhanced editions of magazines Cosmopolitan, T3, Rolling Stone and Hello among many others. However, unlike Apple’s iBookstore or iBooks app, Zinio certainly doesn’t live up to the hype.

For starters, each page takes around a second to load. Take a moment and imagine that…imagine reading a magazine and waiting an entire second every time you decide to turn a page. Need to quickly flick back and take a glance at that article from a few pages ago? Prepare to wait.

Plus, there’s no in-app purchasing, meaning that you have to leave the app, load Safari, sign in to Zinio’s website and then make a purchase using your credit card. You can’t even use PayPal. In fact, because Zinio’s iPad site login wasn’t working for me, I ended up opening my MacBook Pro and handling the entire purchase on there.

There’s no option, that I could find, for deleting a magazine. I checked the app, the Settings app and even my account settings on Zinio’s site. This means I’m stuck with a couple of freebies: Car & Driver and a rapidly aging edition of Macworld magazine. (There’s also a free copy of National Geographic but I don’t mind keeping that as it fools me into thinking I’m cultured.)

The magazines themselves are just that, magazines. This isn’t Captain Picard’s enhanced edition of Cosmopolitan, just a run of the mill scanned magazine. And while pinch-to-zoom works, zooming in close reveals the low quality of these fuzzy digital magazines.

Any websites that are mentioned will typically have an ugly blue outline to indicate that you can open the site by tapping the text. Aside from that, you’ll be lucky to find the occasional clunky video embedded in an otherwise static page. Welcome to the future, those are your ‘enhancements’.

What worries me here is that Zinio has all the big names wrapped up, as such it might take a while for things to change. In the meantime, I feel embarrassed to use Zinio’s app, to think that this is the future of magazines on my $499 iPad — shoddy ‘enhanced’ PDFs.

Related GigaOM Pro Research: Evolution of the e-Book Market

Who doesn’t love women in uniform? We know we do, and since not all girls in official garb are what you’d call hot, we went ahead and filled in the ranks with some luscious wannabes to even things out. Some of these girls may not be the real deal, but they do their part to keep this age-old fantasy alive and well when there aren’t enough real girls in uniform to go around.

When 59 year old Bill Jordan went to get his iPad from the local Apple store, he paid a little more than the agreed price of $499. As the story goes, when the Denver resident left Apple store with his prized gadget, he had his fingers wrapped around the device so he doesn’t drop it. Little did he know that somebody more enthusiastic than him has been stalking him. As soon as the thief got a chance, he got into a physical struggle with Bill Jordan to snatch his iPad.

As crazy as it sounds, the thief tried so hard that in addition to the iPad, he was able to tore some flesh off the pinky. The finger had to be amputated to prevent further damage. The police, however, has caught the event on a surveillance camera and is trying to catch the culprit. Here is a picture of Bill Jordan after the incident:

The funniest part of the story is that Bill Jordan didn’t even know what an iPad is; rather, his company told him to get one as a business gift to a co-worker. Denver Crime Stoppers are offering a reward of $2000 to anybody who can lead to the capture of this iPad culprit. Am I the only one who thinks this iPad craze is going a bit too far? Below is the video from one of the surveillance cameras showing the incident:

[Image Credit: Mashable]

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by Fatma Yilmaz Elmas, Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Elections in Northern Cyprus, turning into a quasi-race between supporters of the negotiation process and those who are against either the process itself or the course of process, resulted at the first round on April, 18. Dervis Eroglu won the presidential elections with just over 50% of the total vote whereas Mehmet Ali Talat was defeated by taking 42.84% of the vote in contrast to his previous victory in 2005 with an average 55%.

The issue putting its mark on the choice of the electorate and related to the following process is about in what way the negotiations will proceed. It seems that there will be no deviation from the existing will to continue the negotiations, according to Eroglu’s several speeches, previous party program and election declaration for presidency. This view was clear enough in victory speech of Eroglu after the declaration of ultimate results. In his speech, Eroglu expressed that he will not be the one who leave the negotiation table and noted that the negotiations will continue in cooperation with Turkey. However, Eroglu’s attitude is so obvious that the negotiation process will be conducted with a different perspective. Eroglu’s style seems to differ from that of Talat in terms of both way of conducting negotiations and parameters on which negotiations are based. Complaining about an opaque negotiation process during Talat era, Eroglu envisages some steps to make negotiations more transparent and open. The primary one is to form a structure similar to “National Council” in Southern Cyprus. Accordingly, it will incorporate also the government in the process and it will therefore give way to teamwork during the negotiation process instead of one-man domination.

In contrast to Talat’s vision based on bi-communal and bi-zonal federation, the basic parameter of a possible solution for Eroglu is a new partnership based on the equal political status of founding states. From this viewpoint, the foreseen federation could only be attained by evolutionary term stating with a confederational structure founded by two independent and sovereign states on the island. Therefore, it is expectable that the divergent view of Eroglu from that of Talat could force Greek leader Christofias further.

Nevertheless, the main issue on Cyprus negotiations is how the Greek side will make use of the change in Turkish presidency rather than divergent attitudes of Talat and Eroglu in respect of solution parameters. The Greek propaganda, trying to show Eroglu as if he is against any solution and to direct and convince both national and international public opinion in this way, has paid well. The news about the elections in foreign press that Eroglu is unwilling for a solution, despite his counter-speeches, shows that the Greek propaganda has been relatively successful. It will not be wrong to wait for the Greek side to try its best to strengthen this perception more in the international arena. Any future deadlocks in negotiation process could be a good tool to utilize for the Greek side in order to change its uncompromising image sticking on it after Annan Plan referenda. At this point, importance of the external dynamics comes on the scene. Without any pressure on Christofias coming from the international public opinion in favor of a possible solution, it seems so difficult to make any progress in negotiations. The process have been damaged anyhow even in Talat-Christofias period because of the inconsistencies of both rhetoric and action. Apart from the accusations of parties against one another, incompatible judicial steps of both sides about the guarantorship also harmed the process primarily. Revitalization of the process once again in real term mostly depends on the European Union which is, to a great extent, the main responsible actor for the imbalance especially in negotiation process. Needless to say, the Greek side has the EU membership card in its hand on behalf of the whole island. What more, it is about to manage to convince the international public opinion about Eroglu’s uncompromising stance on a possible solution. In such situation, it is hard to expect from the Greeks to take constructive steps without any forcible reason.

There is also another dimension on this issue, which is internal dynamics. Eroglu’s commitment to stay on the negotiation table is not enough alone to set the course of ongoing negotiations. In addition to the contribution of external dynamics, it is essential to add internal dynamics to this process. The necessity of synchronous and multi-dimensional policies including social, political, economic and judicial initiatives has been the neglected part of a possible solution for a long time. As the possible solution is only locked onto the negotiation process, the necessary reforms in order to eliminate the socio-economic asymmetry in the island in favor of the Turkish side is the most important part of such neglected point. During the presidential elections, any approaches about the internal dynamics either were not mentioned or were so weak. CTP’s (Republican Turkish Party) belief on internal dynamics of the solution and its emphasis on the need for reform in several state regulations could not be realized. Except the several sentences in CTP party program during April 2009 elections, the concept of internal dynamics has mainly remained out of the issue. However, internal dynamics is not only an element which will strengthen the hand of Turkish side on negotiation table against the Greek side, it is also a crucial concept for making projections about future as “B Plan” for Northern Cyprus in case of a possibility of cessation of the ongoing negotiations.

Important to note that, a possible deadlock in negotiation process since it turns into a race to stay just at the table seems not logical till the end. Thus, what should be done in long-term is to make strategic planning from the best to the worst case scenarios in regard to negotiations. However, this situation should not be interpreted that the negotiations have to be conducted in an insincere way. This is just an effort to transform the process, which has proceeded as a derivative just of the external dynamics for long years, into a viable solution

Fatma Yilmaz-Elmas (Mrs.)
USAK Centre for EU Studies
http://www.turkishweekly.net

(Note: The ideal measurement would use profit instead of revenue and payroll instead of employee headcount. But those are tougher numbers to find for obvious reasons.)

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Absolutely nothing?

Well, that depends on what you are looking for.

If you are a desperate fan base whose team hasn’t gone to a bowl game in two years, you might be inclined to look for glimmers of hope in the spring game.

Mr. "I threw an interception once every eight times I put the ball in the air" had a good spring, oh boy!

“Did you see how well [insert name] performed? We are going to be better this year for sure!”

If this is your attitude going in to the spring game, then yes, it is worth absolutely nothing.

How much can you really learn from the first team offense playing against the second team defense? Not much.

But when you are desperate, you will use anything to make you feel better.

If you aren’t following me, here is the take away: any Michigan fans making predictions about next year based on the spring game are full of it.

Rose Bowl actions speak louder than Spring Game actions (especially against your own crappy 2nd string defense).

Similarly, as Ohio State fans, we shouldn’t expect too much out of the Spring Game. Will it be entertaining? yes. Will I be watching? yes. Will it be great to see the scarlet and gray in the Shoe on a Saturday afternoon? absolutely.

But here’s the thing, Ohio State is going to be a great team next year regardless of what happens in the spring game. If Pryor throws 5 touchdowns, great. If he throws 5 interceptions? meh.

The point is, being overly negative or overly positive about the upcoming season based on the spring game is pointless.

The first team offensive line will be split up, the first team defensive line will be split up, Pryor’s favorite targets that he has been developing chemistry with all spring may not be on the same team as him.

So, as Ohio State fans, let’s enjoy the Spring Game for what it is (an exhibition) and not get all worked up over what it’s not (a preview of the upcoming season).

Like I said, Ohio State is going to be a great team next year, regardless of what happens on Saturday, because they were a great team last year and practically everyone is coming back.

Isn’t it nice knowing that? After all, relying on performances against the second team in an exhibition game is a pretty pathetic reason to be optimistic for the upcoming season, and just one more reason why we can all sit back and laugh at Michigan.

I am not saying we shouldn’t be excited about Saturday, after all, it is going to be awesome, but don’t expect to take much away from it.

Here is a nice rundown of what to look for on Saturday from Vico at OurHonorDefend.

Let’s enjoy the individual performances  and a chance to see some hitting, let’s enjoy seeing the scarlet and gray on the field once again, hell, let’s even get optimistic if it is warranted, but let’s not get too carried away.

One of the main features some people is multi-touch. This topic in regards to the X10 has been debated over and over. Official word was this device did not have the capability of supporting multi-touch ever. A video has just surfaced that could prove this wrong.

Towards the end of the video, Google Maps is opened and it’s zoomed in, pinch style. There has been a rumor that an update will be pushed out at some point that adds MT to the X10. Maybe this is a demo of that update? Who knows, only time will tell?

Click here to view the embedded video.

Rebecca Zacks wrote:

One of the things I’ve always enjoyed about technology journalism is how cozy a niche it is. There just aren’t than many folks who can geek out with the lab dwellers, put the hard questions to the executives, and get it all down on the page, on a deadline–so it often feels like if you cover this beat for long enough you’ll wind up working with everybody else who does at one time or another. And I’m very happy to report that the time has come for us at Xconomy to get to work with Sylvia Pagán Westphal.

Sylvia is an accomplished life sciences journalist who has been a staffer at the Wall Street Journal, New Scientist Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times, and a freelancer for The Boston Globe, CNN.com, The New York Times, and Smithsonian Magazine. She’s got a surplus of academic cred as well: she got her Ph.D. in genetics from Harvard Medical School, studied journalism at the Boston University Center for Science and Medical Journalism, and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. (See Sylvia’s bio for more on her background, including an important disclosure.)

After all those years of reporting on and studying biotech, pharma, and medicine, Sylvia has some strong opinions about how those industries work—and how they could work better. We’re thrilled that she’s agreed to share those ideas as Xconomy’s new life sciences columnist, starting today with a thought-provoking piece on the web of self-interests that both threaten life sciences and hold the sector together. Sylvia’s column will be called The Pulse. I encourage you to check out her inaugural piece, and to watch this space for new installments ever other week or so. Knowing Sylvia, it’s sure to be a fun ride.

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Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei: A frog with no lungs, a frog that changes its skin and eye colour and the world’s longest insect are among new species discovered in the three years since the Heart of Borneo conservation plan was drawn up by the three governments with jurisdiction over the world’s third largest island.

New WWF report Borneo’s New World: Newly Discovered Species in the Heart of Borneo details 123 new species discovered since the February 2007 agreement by Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia to conserve 220,000 km2 of irreplaceable tropical rainforest, designated the Heart of Borneo (HoB).

"As the past three years of independent scientific discovery have proven, new forms of life are constantly being discovered in the Heart of Borneo,”" said Adam Tomasek, leader of WWF’s HoB Initiative.

Explorers have been visiting the island of Borneo for centuries, but vast tracts of its interior are yet to be biologically explored, he said.

"If this stretch of irreplaceable rainforest can be conserved for our children, the promise of more discoveries must be a tantalising one for the next generation of researchers to contemplate," he added.

The HoB, an "island within an island" is home to ten species of primate, more than 350 birds, 150 reptiles and amphibians and a staggering 10,000 plants that are found nowhere else in the world, the report says.

The rate of discovery since the foundation of the HoB is more than three new species per month, providing ample justification for the decision to protect the region.

Speaking at the launch of the report during a meeting of the three Heart of Borneo governments, Brunei Darussalam’s Minister of Industry & Primary Resources, the Honourable Pehin Dato Yahya, paid tribute to the dedicated scientists who spent countless hours in challenging conditions to uncover the staggering bio-diversity.

"These amazing new findings highlight the importance of our efforts to implement the HoB Declaration’s bold vision," he said of the region which also contains the pygmy elephant, orangutan, rhinoceros, and clouded leopard.

With so many new species discovered every month, WWF has made the region a global priority through its Heart of Borneo Initiative. WWF offices in Malaysia and Indonesia support tri-government efforts to conserve and sustainably manage the HoB.

Under the 2007 agreement, the three governments have committed to enhance protected area and trans-boundary management, develop eco-tourism and support sustainable resource management.

"Three years on, the Heart of Borneo Declaration is proving to be an irreplaceable foundation for conservation and sustainable development by establishing a framework for action to protect Borneo’s globally outstanding biodiversity, eco-system services and livelihoods," WWF’s Tomasek said.

"The discovery of these new species in the Heart of Borneo underlines the incredible diversity of this remarkable area and emphasizes the importance of the commitments already made by Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia to protect it," he added.

The discoveries also highlight the need to increase financial and technical support to ensure their continued survival, he said.

Newly discovered species in the Heart of Borneo

Download the report here (PDF, 3.5mb)

More information

Adam Tomasek, Leader, Heart of Borneo Initiative, WWF Tel: +62 21 5761070 Ext. 228, E-mail: [email protected]

Christopher Greenwood, International Communications Manager, Heart of Borneo Initiative, WWF Tel: + 60 128281214 E-mail: [email protected]

Jonathon Larkin, WWF Australia Press Office, 0410 221 410, 02 8202 1216

Notes to editors:

Electronic version of the WWF report is available here

Images of the new species can be downloaded here.

Researchers who have indicated a willingness to be interviewed on their discoveries are listed below.

Prof. Dr. Menno Schilthuizen – discoverer of a number of slug species and someone very familiar with the Borneo region, National Museum of Natural History ‘Naturalis’, P.O. Box 9517; 2300 RA Leiden; the Netherlands, tel. (+31-0)-71-5687769; mobile: (+31-0)-6-22030313; home: (+31-0)-318-300380, E-mail: [email protected] Webpage

Also, Dr Gernot Vogel – snake discovery. Society for Southeast Asian Herpetology, Im Sand 3, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany, Email: [email protected], Webpage

Os óleos vegetais são mais importantes para a nossa saúde do que pensamos e devem ser usados de maneira adequada. De girassol, algodão, linhaça, de milho, de canola, de soja, de dendê, de côco e o delicioso azeite de oliva são excelentes fontes dos denominados ácidos graxos mono e poliinsaturados.

Gordura	Óleo de Soja	Óleo de Milho	Azeite
Saturadas (g)	15	13	13
Polinsaturadas (g)	55	44	08
Monoinsaturas (g)	22	29	79
*Valores por 100 ml do produto

O que são essas gorduras?

Saturadas – são normalmente sólidas em temperatura ambiente, típicas de produtos de origem animal, são mais estáveis o que torna sua ligação com o oxigênio difícil. Estão relacionadas com o aumento do nível de colesterol sangüíneo.

Insaturadas (mono e poli) são líquidas em temperatura ambiente, estando envolvidas com a diminuição dos níveis de colesterol total do sangue, atuando principalmente na redução do colesterol ruim, o LDL.

Substituir a ingestão de gorduras saturadas, que estão presentes em maior quantidades em alimentos de origem animal,  pelas gorduras insaturadas está também relacionada ao efeito protetor contra o surgimento de doenças coronarianas. Os ácidos linoleico e alfalinolênicos, indispensáveis, são os dois únicos que nosso organismo não consegue produzir.   Esses ácidos graxos,  são essenciais para a renovação das membranas celulares, especialmente as do sistema nervoso e tem um papel preservativo nas doenças cardiovaculares e um efeito redutor no colesterol em certos indivíduos.

Para Tempero – óleo de soja – Rico em ácido alfalinolênico, ele não suporta muito bem a cozedura. É recomendado para o tempero, sozinho ou misturado com azeite. Atenção: ele cria ranço mais depressa do que os outros óleos; por isso, é melhor comprá-lo em pequenas quantidades e conserva-lo em garrafa bem fechada.

Cozedura suave –  azeite –  O azeite pode ser utilizado cru ou para cozinhar alimentos. Seu teor em vitamina E e o seu sabor forte o tornam um ingrediente privilegiado dos molhos. Suporta a cozedura a todas as temperaturas.

Cozedura a altas temperaturas –  óleo de amendoim –  Rico em ácidos graxos monoinsaturados, ele resiste especialmente bem às altas temperaturas, sendo ideal para as cozeduras fortes e frituras. Para os molhos, é preferível usar os óleos mais ricos em vitamina E e em ácidos indispensáveis.

Para entender os tipos de óleos, é necessário ficar atento aos rótulos:

– Óleo virgem – é obtido após a pressão a frio, sem sofrer refinação. a primeira “pressão a frio” é um método de extração que produz um óleo colorido, espessoe   perfumado, ao contrário do refinado que é inodoro e sem sabor. Essa é a técnica utilizada especialmente para o azeite.

– Óleo extra virgem – é uma classificação reservada aos óleos virgens com acidez inferior a 1%.

– Óleo de … – aplica-se aos óleos de uma única variedade ou de um único fruto, tendo sofrido o processo de refinação. Sem a refinação os óleos de sementes são geralmente escuros, turvos, desagradáveis ao paladar e mais sensíveis ao calor. Assim é necessário refinar o óleo para retirar impurezas. Nesse processo, a vitamina E perde parte de suas propriedades. No final, o refino produz um óleo inodoro, incolor e sem sabor.

– Óleo vegetal – trata-se de óleo constituído por uma mistura de óleos alimentares (como o óleo combinado).

Outras dicas importantes:

– Que tipo de garrafa escolher – Privilegie os óleos embalados em garrafas de cor opacas ou de metal. A exposição à luz e ao calor não é favorável à estabilidade das vitaminas e dos ácidos graxos insaturados, pois a sua estrutura quimica é frágil.
– Tempo de conservação – uma vez aberta a garrafa pode ser conservada durante meses. Mas não se esqueça de fecha-la bem após cada utilização para evitar oxidação pelo contato com o ar.  A data inscrita na embalagem não é a data-limite de consumo, mas uma data-limite de utilização ótima. O óleo com data vencida não provoca nenhuma doença, mas pode se tornar um pouco rançoso.

– Conservação – o óleo deve ficar ao abrigo da luz direta e fontes de calor. Deve ser conservado, de preferência, em local frio. Mas não no refrigerador, pois ficará coalhado.

E a marca?

Algumas marcas fraudam o consumidor. Um teste feito pela ProTeste, as marcas que receberam as melhores classificações foram: Carbonell (o melhor no teste), Beira Alta (melhor custo/beneficio), La Española, Pic-Nic, Andorinha e Gallo. As marcas  Arisco, Faisão, Minha Quinta, Torre de Belém e Otoyan foram consideradas “batizadas” (revelaram adição de óleo de bagaço de oliva ou outros óleos vegetais) e, assim, eliminados do teste.

Fonte: Revista Vida e Saúde

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