Staff at a Sea Life centre are giving new meaning to the phrase ?trout pout? as they offer visitors a kiss from a fish.
The amorous fish, named Gary, has become popular with visitors to the Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary in Norfolk because of his constantly pouting lips.
Women working at the centre have developed the ritual of bending down to return a kiss through the glass each time they pass his tank.
Gary, a giant Gourami from Indonesia measuring nearly 28 inches long, never fails to return the gesture.
General manager Nigel Croasdale said: ?They don?t seem able to go past Gary?s tank without stopping for a quick smooch, and Gary seems to love it.?
Gary is one of several waifs and strays currently on display at the centre.
He was brought to the sanctuary by a member of the public who had kept him as a pet but became overwhelmed by his appetite ? he would guzzle a leftover Sunday dinner every weekend.
The freshwater species is a popular food fish in India but many people keep them as pets. Giant Gourami are one of the most common species requiring rehousing from home aquariums.
?They are often found in pet shops measuring just a few inches long, and people buy them without realising how big they grow, and how quickly,? said displays supervisor Kieran Copeland.
The sanctuary is supporting The Big Fish Campaign, launched by the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums, in an attempt to deter shops from selling the so-called ?tank busters?.
In the year 2000, the World Health Organization WHO reckoned that 171 million people all over the world were suffering from diabetes. Experts predict that by the year 2030, there will be approximately 366 million people affected by the disease. Diabetes belongs to a group of metabolic diseases leading to a high and life-threatening blood sugar. Most popularly, the defect is divided into two subcategories: diabetes type one and diabetes type two. Whereas type one is caused by a failure to produce the hormone insulin and often occurs at an early age, type two results from an insulin resistance developing with age. However, there is also an in-between type which has been coined diabetes type 1.5 and which is also known as LADA, i.e. Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adults.
LADA: How come?
The in-between type is described as a condition in which diabetes type one develops in an adult age. That is due to the fact that the destruction of insulin-producing beta cells can occur at different rates. If it happens fast, it leads to symptoms at an early age (type one), if it happens slowly, it leads to problems at a later age (LADA). In order to test an emerging diabetes type one, and to avoid a misdiagnosis of type two which also happens at an adult age, it is necessary to conduct antibody tests. People suffering from LADA can show a positive reaction to the antibodies test, people suffering from type two are unlikely to do so. Laboratories own ELISA kits for scientific research in order to get the results.
Avoiding a misdiagnosis
It is estimated that 20 percent of the people officially suffering from diabetes type two actually suffer from type 1.5. In order to optimize the treatment of these people, which does not in every case require an insulin therapy but might also be managed through changes in nutrition and lifestyle, antibody tests should be conducted more than once as it may track the progression of the disease. How far medical research has developed can be seen in the huge amounts of antibody test applications offered at www.antibodies-online.com/.
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New Orleans may see six to 12 inches of rain, and is gearing up to be one of the worse blows to hit the city since Katrina. Weather Channel meteorologist Jim Cantore reports.
By NBC News staff and wire reports
Tropical storm Isaac was on the verge of becoming a hurricane as it approached the Gulf Coast early Tuesday morning, forecasters warned.?
Its swirling winds and rain will be a major test of the region's new flood control systems seven years after Hurricane Katrina sent walls of water crashing inland.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said at 5 a.m. ET on Tuesday that Isaac was still a tropical storm but was likely to become a hurricane during the day as it gains strength over the Gulf of Mexico.
The center of the storm was located about 125 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and had top sustained winds of 70 mph, the Hurricane Center said.?
Isaac was expected to make landfall over southeastern Louisiana either late Tuesday or early Wednesday.
Follow Isaac's path with our storm tracker
It was moving to the northwest at 12 mph and?appeared to be taking direct aim at New Orleans, which would be a cruel blow for a city still struggling to recover from Katrina which swept across the city on Aug. 29, 2005, killing more than 1,800 people and causing billions of dollars of damage.?
NOAA via EPA
A satellite image shows Tropical Storm Isaac in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday.
Unprotected, low-lying areas outside New Orleans were evacuated Monday.
From weather.com: Live updates and analysis
"All preparations to protect life and property should be completed tonight," said Ed Rappaport of the National Hurricane Center in his?8 p.m. ET Monday update. He emphasized that water from rain and storm surge would be the biggest threat -- 6 to 18 inches of rain were expected.
Isaac is expected to be the first major test of a $14 billion makeover of the system that failed the city so disastrously in 2005. NBC's Lester Holt reports.
Isaac has killed at least 22 people and caused significant flooding and damage in Haiti and the Dominican Republic before skirting the southern tip of Florida on Sunday.
Storm surge fears The storm was forecast to strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane, the lowest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, with top winds of 90 miles per hour.
While that would be well below the intensity of Katrina, a powerful Category 3 storm, the vast size of Isaac's slow-moving system has forecasters predicting widespread flooding.?
"Even if it is a tropical storm at landfall, the large size of it will still generate significant storm surge," Hurricane Center Director Rick Knabb told reporters on Monday. "That is life-threatening potentially."?
Residents in coastal communities from Louisiana to Mississippi stocked up on food and water and tried to secure their homes, cars and boats.?
Chris Graythen / Getty Images
New Orleans' Bourbon street remains virtually empty on Monday ahead of Isaac's landfall.
In New Orleans, a bumper-to-bumper stream of vehicles left the city on a highway toward Baton Rouge in search of higher ground. Others prepared, or were forced, to ride the storm out.
South hopes for drought relief from Isaac
"Our flights were canceled so we're going to be here," said Karen Foley, a 23-year-old tourist who had planned to travel home to New Jersey with a friend. "We are just hoping the city doesn't get hit again. It doesn't deserve it," she said.
Alan Diaz / AP
Tropical Storm Isaac drenches multiple countries as it moves toward Louisiana.
Along Canal Street in New Orleans' historic French Quarter, crews were boarding up the windows of some stores and businesses.?
"I'm not all that concerned about the storm. It's still a Category 1," said Charles Neeley, a 69-year-old contractor overseeing workers covering the windows of a CVS drugstore.?"We usually ride out ones and twos, and get the hell out for threes and fours."
Nonetheless, Neeley said he'd taken care to stock up on food and water at home and fuel his generator.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.?
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HALO: One-of-a-kind research aircraft ready for takeoff Public release date: 27-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Cornlia Lossau cornelia.lossau@dfg.de 49-302-061-214-328 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Airborne laboratory presented to research community, new horizons for earth system science, DFG priority programme broadens university research capacities
This press release is available in German.
The airborne research platform "High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft" (HALO), co-funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), is ready for takeoff. The German Federal Minister of Research, Professor Annette Schavan, pre-sented the research platform to the science community in Oberpfaffenhofen on Monday, 20 August 2012. Since 2007, the DFG has provided approximately 15 million euros in funding to the project through its Priority Programme "Atmospheric and Earth System Research with the High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft". This funding enables German universities participating in the Priority Programme to use the research platform for a wide range of re-search purposes. HALO is expected to open new horizons in Earth systems science and to particularly enhance our understanding of climate processes.
A joint initiative of German research institutes for environmental and climate studies, HALO has also received funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Helmholtz Association, the Max Planck Society, the Leibniz Association, the Free State of Bavaria, the Helmholtz Centres in Jlich and Karlsruhe, the GFZ German Re-search Centre for Geosciences, and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). While the aircraft itself is operated by the DLR, individual missions are conducted under the aegis of the various participating universities and non-university research institutions, which undertake collaborative research with national and international partners.
HALO is a unique airborne research platform with a maximum altitude of 15.5 kilometres and a range of over 8,000 kilometres. The aircraft can remain airborne for over ten hours and is capable of reaching the remotest parts of the globe from the poles to the tropics. Initial test missions have already proven the aircraft's utility as a key research instrument in the fields of geophysics, geodesy, geology and general Earth observation. HALO will be used to study climate related phenomena such as atmospheric chemical processes, which are changing as a result of increases in the emission of pollutants on the ground and from aircraft. The meas-urement equipment on board the aircraft is able to identify and quantify atmospheric elements in the troposphere and lower stratosphere, including aerosols and greenhouse gases. Among other impacts, these are known to influence changes in the climate, extreme weather events, ozone depletion and the atmospheric energy budget. The data gained will be used in climate projections and atmospheric modelling. HALO will also enable researchers working on space missions to combine data from orbital research platforms with atmospheric data, and to test and validate remote sensing methods.
"In future, thanks to HALO's long range and large payload, we will be able to fly major mis-sions without the need to plan for costly and time-consuming stopovers. The aircraft's gener-ous maximum height will also allow us to conduct analyses of the tropical tropopause for the first time ever. This is expected to greatly enhance our understanding of both Earth system science and climate change," explained DFG Priority Programme Coordinator, Professor Joa-chim Curtius, from the Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences of Goethe Uni-versity in Frankfurt am Main.
The use of aircraft as research platforms fills the gap between terrestrial and orbital monitoring stations, enabling researchers to target and conduct measurements in specific atmospheric regions. HALO enhances this capacity with its high altitude performance, generous payload of 3 tonnes and state-of-the-art measurement instruments.
The concept for this type of airborne atmospheric research was developed by representatives of leading German research institutions in the year 2000. Five years later, the DLR commis-sioned the construction of the HALO aircraft, which is based on the Ultra-Long Range Busi-ness Jet G 550. Following a call for proposals in 2006, the DFG commenced funding for the preparation of future missions the following year. On its completion in 2009, HALO began operations in 2010, undertaking measurements in a series of research flights dubbed the "Techno Mission". In June 2012, the aircraft undertook its first flight for the project "Geo-physical Research of the Mediterranean using the HALO Research Aircraft" (GEOHALO). The project aims to improve our understanding of plate tectonics and the mechanisms under-lying earthquakes. GEOHALO is the first project in a geodetic and geophysical sequence of flights using HALO, effectively making it a pilot for subsequent projects, such as a planned mission over Antarctica.
Scientists hope to implement more than ten further projects in the period through to 2015, including the "Transport and Composition in the Upper Troposphere/Lowermost Stratosphere" (TACTS) mission, coordinated by the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main within the framework of the DFG Priority Programme. This mission will study the chemical composition of the tropopause, an atmospheric region where the air masses of the troposphere and stratosphere meet. These two atmospheric layers feature different chemical compositions and their transport processes impact on changes in the climate.
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Further Information
DFG Media Contact:
Marco Finetti, Head of DFG Press and Public Relations, Tel. +49 228 885-2230, Mar-co.Finetti@dfg.de
DFG Programme Contact:
Dr. Harald Leisch, Programme Director, Physics, Mathematics, Geosciences Division, Tel. +49 228 885-2862, Harald.Leisch@dfg.de
Further information on HALO is available from the DFG's German Project Information Sys-tem (GEPRIS):
http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/OCTOPUS/;?module=gepris&task=showDetail&context=projekt&id=28423678
For further information on the DFG's Priority Programmes, please see: www.dfg.de/spp/en
Information on HALO is also available on the DLR website: www.halo.dlr.de
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HALO: One-of-a-kind research aircraft ready for takeoff Public release date: 27-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Cornlia Lossau cornelia.lossau@dfg.de 49-302-061-214-328 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Airborne laboratory presented to research community, new horizons for earth system science, DFG priority programme broadens university research capacities
This press release is available in German.
The airborne research platform "High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft" (HALO), co-funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), is ready for takeoff. The German Federal Minister of Research, Professor Annette Schavan, pre-sented the research platform to the science community in Oberpfaffenhofen on Monday, 20 August 2012. Since 2007, the DFG has provided approximately 15 million euros in funding to the project through its Priority Programme "Atmospheric and Earth System Research with the High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft". This funding enables German universities participating in the Priority Programme to use the research platform for a wide range of re-search purposes. HALO is expected to open new horizons in Earth systems science and to particularly enhance our understanding of climate processes.
A joint initiative of German research institutes for environmental and climate studies, HALO has also received funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Helmholtz Association, the Max Planck Society, the Leibniz Association, the Free State of Bavaria, the Helmholtz Centres in Jlich and Karlsruhe, the GFZ German Re-search Centre for Geosciences, and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). While the aircraft itself is operated by the DLR, individual missions are conducted under the aegis of the various participating universities and non-university research institutions, which undertake collaborative research with national and international partners.
HALO is a unique airborne research platform with a maximum altitude of 15.5 kilometres and a range of over 8,000 kilometres. The aircraft can remain airborne for over ten hours and is capable of reaching the remotest parts of the globe from the poles to the tropics. Initial test missions have already proven the aircraft's utility as a key research instrument in the fields of geophysics, geodesy, geology and general Earth observation. HALO will be used to study climate related phenomena such as atmospheric chemical processes, which are changing as a result of increases in the emission of pollutants on the ground and from aircraft. The meas-urement equipment on board the aircraft is able to identify and quantify atmospheric elements in the troposphere and lower stratosphere, including aerosols and greenhouse gases. Among other impacts, these are known to influence changes in the climate, extreme weather events, ozone depletion and the atmospheric energy budget. The data gained will be used in climate projections and atmospheric modelling. HALO will also enable researchers working on space missions to combine data from orbital research platforms with atmospheric data, and to test and validate remote sensing methods.
"In future, thanks to HALO's long range and large payload, we will be able to fly major mis-sions without the need to plan for costly and time-consuming stopovers. The aircraft's gener-ous maximum height will also allow us to conduct analyses of the tropical tropopause for the first time ever. This is expected to greatly enhance our understanding of both Earth system science and climate change," explained DFG Priority Programme Coordinator, Professor Joa-chim Curtius, from the Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences of Goethe Uni-versity in Frankfurt am Main.
The use of aircraft as research platforms fills the gap between terrestrial and orbital monitoring stations, enabling researchers to target and conduct measurements in specific atmospheric regions. HALO enhances this capacity with its high altitude performance, generous payload of 3 tonnes and state-of-the-art measurement instruments.
The concept for this type of airborne atmospheric research was developed by representatives of leading German research institutions in the year 2000. Five years later, the DLR commis-sioned the construction of the HALO aircraft, which is based on the Ultra-Long Range Busi-ness Jet G 550. Following a call for proposals in 2006, the DFG commenced funding for the preparation of future missions the following year. On its completion in 2009, HALO began operations in 2010, undertaking measurements in a series of research flights dubbed the "Techno Mission". In June 2012, the aircraft undertook its first flight for the project "Geo-physical Research of the Mediterranean using the HALO Research Aircraft" (GEOHALO). The project aims to improve our understanding of plate tectonics and the mechanisms under-lying earthquakes. GEOHALO is the first project in a geodetic and geophysical sequence of flights using HALO, effectively making it a pilot for subsequent projects, such as a planned mission over Antarctica.
Scientists hope to implement more than ten further projects in the period through to 2015, including the "Transport and Composition in the Upper Troposphere/Lowermost Stratosphere" (TACTS) mission, coordinated by the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main within the framework of the DFG Priority Programme. This mission will study the chemical composition of the tropopause, an atmospheric region where the air masses of the troposphere and stratosphere meet. These two atmospheric layers feature different chemical compositions and their transport processes impact on changes in the climate.
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Further Information
DFG Media Contact:
Marco Finetti, Head of DFG Press and Public Relations, Tel. +49 228 885-2230, Mar-co.Finetti@dfg.de
DFG Programme Contact:
Dr. Harald Leisch, Programme Director, Physics, Mathematics, Geosciences Division, Tel. +49 228 885-2862, Harald.Leisch@dfg.de
Further information on HALO is available from the DFG's German Project Information Sys-tem (GEPRIS):
http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/OCTOPUS/;?module=gepris&task=showDetail&context=projekt&id=28423678
For further information on the DFG's Priority Programmes, please see: www.dfg.de/spp/en
Information on HALO is also available on the DLR website: www.halo.dlr.de
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