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Lindsay Lohan smiles during a progress report on her probation for theft charges at Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday, March 29, 2012. A judge ended Lindsay Lohan's supervised probation on Thursday, giving the actress her freedom after nearly two years of constant court hearings and threats of jail. Lohan thanked Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner for her patience and let out a sigh of relief as she exited the courtroom after the brief hearing. (AP Photo/Joe Klamar, Pool)
Lindsay Lohan smiles during a progress report on her probation for theft charges at Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday, March 29, 2012. A judge ended Lindsay Lohan's supervised probation on Thursday, giving the actress her freedom after nearly two years of constant court hearings and threats of jail. Lohan thanked Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner for her patience and let out a sigh of relief as she exited the courtroom after the brief hearing. (AP Photo/Joe Klamar, Pool)
Lindsay Lohan arrives for a progress report on her probation for theft charges at Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday, March 29, 2012. Lohan will update a judge on her progress on strict probation requirements that have had her doing cleanup duty at the county morgue and attending regular psychotherapy sessions since late last year. Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner has said she will end Lohan's probation on a 2007 drunken driving case on Thursday if she completes the requirements. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Lindsay Lohan smiles in court during a progress report on her probation for theft charges at Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday, March 29, 2012. Lohan will update a judge on her progress on strict probation requirements that have had her doing cleanup duty at the county morgue and attending regular psychotherapy sessions since late last year. Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner has said she will end Lohan's probation on a 2007 drunken driving case on Thursday if she completes the requirements. (AP Photo/Joe Klamar, Pool)
Lindsay Lohan leaves after a progress report on her probation for heft charges at Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday, March 29, 2012. A judge ended Lindsay Lohan's supervised probation on Thursday, giving the actress her freedom after nearly two years of constant court hearings and threats of jail. Lohan thanked Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner for her patience and let out a sigh of relief as she exited the courtroom after the brief hearing. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Lindsay Lohan, right, embraces her attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley after a progress report on her probation for theft charges at Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday, March 29, 2012. A judge ended Lindsay Lohan's supervised probation on Thursday, giving the actress her freedom after nearly two years of constant court hearings and threats of jail. Lohan thanked Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner for her patience and let out a sigh of relief as she exited the courtroom after the brief hearing. (AP Photo/Joe Klamar, Pool)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Lindsay Lohan's days as a criminal defendant could be over ? if she can behave herself.
A judge on Thursday ended the long-running probation of the problem-prone actress in a 2007 drunken driving case after a string of violations, jail sentences and rehab stints.
The 25-year-old actress will remain on informal probation for taking a necklace without permission last year, but will no longer have a probation officer or face travel restrictions and weekly shifts cleaning up at the morgue.
Lohan, wearing a powder blue suit and black blouse, let out a sigh of relief as she left Judge Stephanie Sautner's courtroom, possibly for the last time.
"I just want to say thank you for being fair," Lohan told the judge. "It's really opened a lot of doors for me."
The judge said she wasn't going to lecture the actress, but gave her some parting advice.
"You need to live your life in a more mature way, stop the nightclubbing and focus on your work," Sautner said.
She reminded Lohan that she will remain on informal probation until May 2014 in the necklace case and could face up to 245 days in jail if she gets into trouble again.
Still, the end of probation left Lohan looking relieved. She hugged her attorney, Shawn Holley, before leaving the courtroom, and was beaming by the time she walked past the rows of cameras waiting for her outside the courthouse near Los Angeles International Airport.
Sautner's regimen of morgue duty, therapy and monthly court dates helped Lohan weather the drunken driving case. The judge opened the hearing by calling the case "endless."
Lohan is now free to focus on her career for the first time since May 2010, when she missed a court appearance and was later jailed for failing to complete the terms of her sentence.
The "Mean Girls" star has struggled with the case and her career since the two drunken driving arrests in 2007.
She had small appearances in films and did some modeling but came nowhere near her heyday as the star of Disney films and movies aimed at teens and young adults.
Her career is already showing signs of a comeback. She is due to guest star on an upcoming episode of "Glee," recently hosted a highly rated but criticized episode of "Saturday Night Live," and is set to star as Elizabeth Taylor in a television movie.
"Lindsay is already talking about her next few projects," her spokesman Steve Honig wrote in a statement after the hearing. "She is ready to start the next chapter in her life and get back to work and doing what she loves to do ? making movies."
Lohan's tortured four-and-a-half-year effort to complete probation is not unprecedented. Actress Michelle Rodriguez took more than five years to resolve her drunken driving case, which featured many of the same elements as the Lohan saga ? missed deadlines and jail sentences.
Other celebrities resolved their DUI cases much faster. Fellow female celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie and Khloe Kardashian were all sentenced to jail and faced multiple court hearings because they didn't properly comply with orders from a judge, but their cases have long since ended.
Lohan might still have to return to a courthouse to resolve civil issues.
Two weeks ago, a nightclub manager in Hollywood accused her of grazing him with her Porsche. The actress denied the accusation and no charges have been filed. But the matter could end up in a civil court, where Lohan is already being sued by two other people for auto-related incidents.
Three men who were in a car that Lohan commandeered and used during a chase along Pacific Coast Highway are suing her and the case is scheduled for trial later this year. The incident led to her second drunken driving arrest in 2007.
Lohan is also being sued by a woman who claims she was struck by the star's car while walking in West Hollywood, and by a former Betty Ford worker who was involved in an altercation with the actress during her three-month stay at the facility in late 2010.
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Anthony McCartney can be reached at http://twitter.com/mccartneyAP
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court is signaling it could throw out some other key parts of President Barack Obama's health care law if it first finds the individual insurance requirement unconstitutional.
On the third and last day of arguments, the justices appeared to accept the administration's argument that at least two important insurance reforms are so closely tied to the insurance requirement that they could not survive without it.
Less clear was whether the court would conclude the entire law, with its hundreds of unrelated provisions, also would have to be cast aside.
The justices also are spending part of Wednesday considering a challenge by 26 states to the expansion of the Medicaid program for low-income Americans, an important feature toward the overall goal of extending health insurance to an additional 30 million people.
The first of the day's two sessions was unusual in that it assumed an answer to the central question in the historic health care case: that the requirement that Americans carry health insurance or pay a penalty will be struck down.
In their questions, liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer took issue with Paul Clement, the lawyer for 26 states seeking to have the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act tossed out in its entirety.
"What's wrong with leaving this in the hands of those who should be fixing this?" asked Sotomayor, referring to Congress.
Chief Justice John Roberts also spoke about parts of the law that "have nothing to do with any of the things we are" talking about.
For example, Ginsburg observed that the act deals with issues such as black lung disease.
"Why make Congress redo those?" she asked. "There are many things" that have "nothing to do with affordable health care."
But Clement said the court would be leaving "a hollow shell" if it decided to excise the several key provisions. "The rest of the law cannot stand," he contended.
Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy also asked hard questions of Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler that indicated they are at least considering Clement's arguments. Kneedler said that the only other provisions the court should kill in the event the mandate is stricken are revisions that require insurers to cover people regardless of existing medical problems and limit how much companies can charge in premiums based on a person's age or health.
Justice Antonin Scalia suggested many members of Congress might not have voted for the bill without the central provisions, and he said the court should not go through each and every page to sort out what stays and what goes.
"What happened to the Eighth Amendment?" Scalia asked, referring to the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. "You really expect us to go through 2,700 pages?"
As the arguments resumed Wednesday morning, a smaller group of demonstrators than on previous days gathered outside.
Supporters of the law held a morning news conference where speakers talked about the importance of Medicaid. And, marching on the sidewalk outside the court, supporters repeated chants they've used the past two days including "Ho, ho, hey, hey, Obamacare is here to stay." Most of their group departed not long after arguments began inside.
Opponents of the law, including Susan Clark of Santa Monica, Calif., also stood outside the court. Clark, who was wearing a three-cornered colonial-style hat, carried a sign that read "Obamacare a disaster in every way!"
"Freedom, yes. Obamacare, no," other opponents chanted.
The first two days of fast-paced and extended arguments have shown that the conservative justices have serious questions about Congress' authority to require virtually every American to carry insurance or pay a penalty.
The outcome of the case will affect nearly all Americans and the ruling, expected in June, also could play a role in the presidential election campaign. Obama and congressional Democrats pushed for the law's passage two years ago, while Republicans, including all the GOP presidential candidates, are strongly opposed.
But the topic the justices took up Wednesday only comes into play if they first find that the insurance mandate violates the Constitution.
The states and the small business group opposing the law say the insurance requirement is central to the whole undertaking and should take the rest of the law down with it.
The federal appeals court in Atlanta that struck down the insurance requirement said the rest of the law can remain in place, a position that will be argued by a private lawyer appointed by the justices, H. Bartow Farr III.
On Tuesday, the conservative justices sharply and repeatedly questioned the validity of the insurance mandate.
If the government can force people to buy health insurance, justices wanted to know, can it require people to buy burial insurance? Cellphones? Broccoli?
Audio for Tuesday's court argument can be found at: http://apne.ws/Hft6z3.
The court focused on whether the mandate for Americans to have insurance "is a step beyond what our cases allow," in the words of Justice Kennedy.
"Purchase insurance in this case, something else in the next case," Chief Justice Roberts said.
But Kennedy, who is often the swing vote on cases that divide the justices along ideological lines, also said he recognized the magnitude of the nation's health care problems and seemed to suggest they would require a comprehensive solution.
And Roberts also spoke about the uniqueness of health care, which almost everyone uses at some point.
"Everybody is in this market, so that makes it very different than the market for cars or the other hypotheticals that you came up with, and all they're regulating is how you pay for it," Roberts said, paraphrasing the government's argument.
Kennedy and Roberts emerged as the apparent pivotal votes in the court's decision.
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Associated Press writers Jesse J. Holland and Jessica Gresko contributed to this report.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure is feeling a pinch on donations following a controversy over its funding for Planned Parenthood, a leading provider of birth-control and abortion services.
A few of the group's flagship "Race for the Cure" fundraising events have failed to meet targets, a Komen spokeswoman said on Friday. Separately, at least five of the group's leaders have stepped down in recent weeks.
Komen, the world's biggest breast cancer charity, provoked uproar over its decision to cut - and later restore - funding for Planned Parenthood, a leading provider of birth control, abortion and other women's health services. Komen supports Planned Parenthood's efforts to provide access to breast-cancer screening.
The initial move to cut Planned Parenthood's funding became public in late January, and was viewed by some Komen supporters as a capitulation to political pressure from anti-abortion groups. Within a few days, the charity reversed course.
Komen said it had had problems meeting targets in about half of the five fundraising events it has staged since the blowup.
One in Lafayette, Louisiana, raised less than $400,000, below its $500,000 goal, and another, to be held in Fort Worth, Texas, is also struggling.
Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said the lower numbers appeared to stem from the controversy over Planned Parenthood.
"We're seeing challenges for races in some of our markets," Aun said. "People are concerned and they've decided not to help Komen. That's unfortunate because it affects women whose lives we're trying to help save."
FIVE MORE OFFICIALS STEP DOWN
Komen has said that in 2011 it screened 700,000 uninsured women for breast cancer, and it spends 83 cents of every donation dollar on research or community services.
Five Komen executives or directors have recently announced they are leaving the organization, although a group insider cited personal reasons for most of the resignations.
Nancy Macgregor, who has been with Komen since 1990, is leaving her role as vice president of global networks in June. Joanna Newcomb, director of affiliate strategy and planning, and Katrina McGhee, executive vice president and chief marketing officer, are also stepping down.
Aun said the chairman of Komen's board, LaSalle Leffall would resign his position to focus on a new role as provost at Howard University, though he will remain on the board. His replacement will be Robert Taylor, a Dallas attorney who had retired as Komen's founding board member in 2010.
Of the group's local leadership, Chris McDonald, head of the Komen affiliate in Oregon and Southwest Washington, announced on February 25 that she would resign. She said the controversy over Planned Parenthood affected her decision, but it was not the primary cause, according to a statement on the group's website.
Dara Richardson-Heron, the head of Komen's affiliate for greater New York City, announced on the group's website she was stepping down as "a personal decision."
The recent exodus follows the resignation of Karen Handel, a senior executive charged with spearheading the decision to cut funding for Planned Parenthood.
Some of Komen's members have also called for the resignation of founder Nancy Brinker, who created the organization in honor of her sister, who died from breast cancer.
Komen's board said it had "complete confidence" in the group's leadership.
"This isn't about Komen. This is about women," Aun said about the charity's work. "If people understand what's at stake, they'll come back and be supportive."
(Editing by Michele Gershberg and David Brunnstrom)
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Several oil and gas companies are betting natural resources exist along Montana's Rocky Mountain Front. They're leasing land and drilling exploratory wells.
Before places like Choteau turn into towns like Williston, North Dakota, officials want landowners to be prepared.
?We have been approached,? says Mitch Kellogg who farms wheat and barley west of Brady. Soon, his fields may be producing oil as well. ?They say they want to lease land and then they?re going to drill,? he adds.
They need to lease first, and Kellogg hasn't signed the paperwork yet. He still has a few questions and he's not alone. Around 100 people packed a meeting in Conrad Thursday eager to learn more about oil production. ?Some of the water issues concern me as much as anything,? admits Kellogg.
Some mineral and landowners haven't given much thought to what happens when drilling starts: How much water is needed for hydraulic fracturing? Where does it come from? And where does it go? ?Those are real important concerns that everybody should have,? Kellogg says.
Most importantly, how do mineral owners insure they're getting a good lease? ?You want to read that lease over two or three times before you even consider what?s in there,? advises Herb Vasseur, the president of the Montana Land and Mineral Owners Association.
He says there is no rush to sign a lease. ?As time will go on, they?ll prove more production and your minerals will be worth more.?
The old standard for a royalty percentage is 12%, but Vasseur thinks owners should ask for more. Pointing out that, ?The state of Montana school trust lands get 16.66% as a minimum royalty. I think every body should be entitled to that as a minimum.?
Most leases include a sign-up fee where oil companies pay a price per acre to use the land. Vasseur says prices can top $1,000 an acre in eastern Montana and give owners a guaranteed amount of money. ?It?s a contract saying we?re going to pay you X amount of dollars for the privilege of holding this contract with you until we do some production,? he says.
?There?d be a little income off of leasing the land for the minerals, hopefully they drill a well,? Kellogg says.
According to Kellogg, the Texas-based company Lonesome Dove Resources is interested in ?fracking? about 7,000 feet below the surface of his property. In the past, he's had companies drill shallower wells with limited returns.
The Montana Farmers Union sponsored Thursday?s event. This is the eighth oil and gas workshop the organization has hosted, and organizers say the turnout is always high.
FRIDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) ? Overweight and obese breast cancer patients are at increased risk for recurrence of the disease, a new study finds.
The findings ? which held true even though chemotherapy doses were adjusted for weight ? provide further evidence that lifestyle factors can influence cancer patient outcomes, according to Dr. Jennifer Ligibel, a medical oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.
She and her colleagues analyzed data collected from 1,909 breast cancer patients. Of those women, about 1 percent were underweight, 33 percent were normal weight, 33 percent were overweight and 33 percent were obese.
The researchers examined the link between body-mass index (a measure of body fat based on weight and height) and relapse-free survival and overall survival. The findings are slated for presentation Friday at the European Breast Cancer Conference in Vienna.
?Several other studies have shown that being overweight or obese at the time that a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer is linked to a higher risk of recurrence. However, questions have been raised in the past whether obese women were receiving relatively lower doses of chemotherapy due to their weight. Our study mandated that each patient received a chemotherapy dose adjusted to her weight, so these results suggest that treatment factors are not responsible for the differences in recurrence rates seen in heavier women,? Ligibel said in a conference news release.
?We found that BMI was related to both relapse-free survival and overall survival; for example, the 10-year relapse-free survival of a patient who was overweight was 70 percent; compared with 65 percent for one who was obese,? she noted.
Ligibel concluded: ?Obesity is a modifiable factor, and although there is not yet enough evidence to say with certainty that losing weight or exercising more regularly will decrease the risk of breast cancer recurrence, there are consistent links between lifestyle factors such as diet, weight and physical activity patterns and breast cancer prognosis. If future studies show that making changes in lifestyle behaviors for women with early breast cancer will improve survival rates, then lifestyle interventions may one day become a standard part of breast cancer care.?
According to conference chair David Cameron, a professor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, these are important findings for women with breast cancer but ?we need to recognize that the reason overweight women have poorer outcomes is not clear,? he said in the news release.
?There are a lot of health reasons why overweight women should try and get back to a normal weight, but this is not always easy, and as the authors acknowledge, we don?t yet know that losing weight after a breast cancer diagnosis will make a difference,? he noted.
Because this study was presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
More information
The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more about breast cancer.
? Robert Preidt
SOURCE: European Breast Cancer Conference, news release, March 23, 2012
Forgive this broken-record-sounding statement, but: Phillip Phillips put on the best performance of any American Idol male last night.
The Dave Matthews wannabe nailed a version of Billy Joel's "Moving Out," sticking to his typical guitar use but adding almost a bit of anger to the cover. He definitely brought an edge to this slowed-down version of a classic.
All the judges have Phillip props to sticking to who he is as a singer. Watch him do so here:
The 1983 laserdisc classic Dragon's Lair is coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade. That much we knew. What has us excited is that it'll come with a new control scheme, one that relies not on well-timed button mashing, but well-timed body flailing. That's right, whenever it does make its way to virtual shelves, the updated playable cartoon will sport Kinect support. Now, instead of making sure you press the button (yes, the one and only button) or flick the joystick in the right direction, you can mime sword swipes and swing from imaginary ropes. We can hardly wait. One more screen shot after the break.
How do you know if you are in an unhealthy relationship?? Here is one guideline:? If God is not present in your relationship then you should take a step back and ask why.? Love is spiritual by nature; scripture tells us that God is love (I John 4:7-8), love comes from God.? Jesus tells us in Matthew 22:37-38 that we are to ?love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first commandment.?? Our love is to be all about God.? On the other hand lust has nothing to do with being spiritual.? In fact, it is quite the opposite of love.? Lust is selfish, thinks only about itself and what it needs.? When God is even mentioned those that are in ?lust? push spiritual things aside.? So to know if you are in love or not, you need to ask yourself some questions:? Is God present when you are together?? Do you find yourself growing closer to God or further apart from God when you are together?? Are you suffering spiritually?? I have found that most couples do not even talk about spiritual things together, study God?s word together or pray together.?? What about you?? In my observations, if both people are fully in love with God first and find wholeness with God first, if they seek God first, they usually have a stronger relationship or marriage.? So the first step of being truly in love is to be truly in love with God first.? That is the first step towards having a healthy relationship.? Work on your relationship with God first, fall in love with the true creator of love!? If you want to have a great marriage someday, spend time with God.
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Recently, I received a phone call from a couple whose marriage was coming apart.? At one time, one of them had a good relationship with God; the other was not even close.? Their attraction towards each other was proclaimed to be true love, although it more likely had to do more with lust because God, the true source of love, was not present.? Lust cannot sustain a marriage. In order to make marriage work, both parties have to be plugged into the true source of love ? God.? If not, then I believe there will an unraveling of the marriage.
After multiple sightings of the star out and about in NYC since she first emerged at a Jay-Z's post-Carnegie Hall party, the singer got all dolled up to hang out with first lady Michelle Obama in Manhattan on Monday night.
The first lady of hip-hop and the actual first lady gathered at the Greenwich Hotel for a fundraising event for President Obama. Along with raising some dough, Beyoncé also raised eyebrows, thanks to her slamming post-baby body. Decked out in a body-hugging navy dress by Victoria Beckham, B rocked sky-high heels, dazzling bling (including a diamond-encrusted eagle) and her hair pulled back in a simple ponytail. So what was Beyoncé doing right in terms of styling herself as a new mom?
"When you think of all the things women dislike about themselves, the majority don't like their upper arms and also have skirt-length issues, so she's addressed both of these. It's an interesting choice because it's snug, not tight," celebrity stylist Robert Verdi told MTV News about B's post-baby style. "There's a distinction. It's body-flattering, for sure.
"It's also a very tasteful length: 2 inches above the knee. It's also a very conservative color, and it's very covered, but it still remains very sexy," he continued about the look. "You don't see all the bumps that women have post-pregnancy. ... Again, the distinction is it's body-conscious without revealing every lump and bump. Tight ain't right, but this ain't tight. This is body-skimming."
With Beyoncé heading back into the spotlight more and more, including a set of shows planned for Memorial Day weekend, does Verdi think Queen B will reassess her stage style now that she's a mom?
"I don't think we've seen the last of Beyoncé's crotch," he joked about Beyoncé's love for leotards. "She's really young, and ... her equity is in her sex appeal, so you can't dismiss that. She's not going to cover up. I think you've seen a similar evolution with Madonna, where fashion is sexy but is more intellectual. It's not as in-your-face. I think you're going to see the same thing with her. You evolve, but I don't think you stop being an attractive woman because you've had a child."
What do you think of B's post-baby style? Let us know in the comments!
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Geological Society of America Cordilleran section meets in the heart of MexicoPublic release date: 19-Mar-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Christa Stratton cstratton@geosociety.org Geological Society of America
The Southern Cordillera and beyond
Boulder, Colorado, USA - Geology doesn't stop at borders. Mexico, the U.S., and Canada share the same tectonic plate and face similar environmental and resource problems. In an effort to promote active communication among geologists from the three countries, the Center of Geoscience and the Institute of Geology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico; UNAM) are hosting the 108th meeting of GSA's Cordilleran Section in Quertaro, central Mexico, on 29-31 March 2012.
Mexico is a key region for understanding the geologic evolution of North America as well as an important tectonic element that interacted with South America and the Caribbean. Quertaro lies at the crossroads of three main geologic provinces and classic fossils sites are only 25-30 miles to the north. Historic Quertaro is a safe and modern industrial city built around a beautiful colonial center about 140 miles northwest of Mexico City.
Selected Highlights of the Scientific Program
The scientific program is composed of oral and poster presentations organized into 17 themed sessions, a symposium, and an array of general discipline of research. Go to www.geosociety.org/Sections/cord/2012mtg/techprog.htm to learn more.
Thursday, 29 March
Environmental Geochemistry I. Mario Villalobos, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mexico (UNAM), and colleagues Laura E. Beramendi-Orosco, Francisco Romero, Priyadarsi Roy, and Ofelia Morton, presiding. The topics considered in this session are broad and include hazardous waste management; soil, water and air pollution; environmental health risk assessment; remediation and reclamation of contaminated sites; and past climatic changes.
Abstracts: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/session_30213.htm, 8:30 a.m. to 12:55 p.m. (session 4).
Paper 4-5: Tracing of Pollution Sources in Urban Dust and Soils from Hermosillo City (Northwestern Mexico) Using Pb Isotopes. Rafael Del Ro Salas of Estacin Regional del Noroeste, UNAM, and nine colleagues: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/abstract_201797.htm.
What Fossil Ages and Distributions Tell Us about the History of the Ancient Gulf of California. Judith Smith, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, and colleagues Ana Luisa Carreo and Javier Helenes, presiding. This session aims to take a fresh look at data based on coral, echinoid, mollusk, microfossil, other invertebrate and vertebrate specimens, not published lists, in order to discover new insights on the age of the earliest seawater.
Abstracts: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/session_30102.htm, 2:30 to 4:50 p.m. (session 15).
Paper 15-1: Keynote: Neogene Micropaleontology and Evolution of the Northern Gulf of California. Javier Helenes, Centro de Investigacin Cientfica y de Educacin Superior de Ensenada and A. Luisa Carreo, UNAM: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/abstract_201564.htm.
Friday, 30 March
Ground Deformation Related to Anthropogenic Activities: Achievements in the Development of Geoscience Information System for Improved Management of Natural Resources. Dora Carreon-Freyre, UNAM, and colleagues Mariano Cerca, Devin Galloway, and Penlope Lpez-Quiroz, presiding. Deformation of the near surface and deep geological sequences can be associated with natural and anthropogenic phenomena. The intensive exploitation of subsurface natural resources and the urbanization of areas nearby steep slopes cause mechanical instabilities that are shown in the surface as land subsidence, ground fracturing and landslides.
Abstracts: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/session_30107.htm, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. (session 33).
Paper 33-1: Engineering Geology Approach to the Effects of Land Subsidence in Mexico City. Mariano Cerca, UNAM Campus Juriquilla, and eight colleagues: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/abstract_201868.htm.
Saturday, 31 March
Ore Deposits and Ore Genesis in the American Cordillera. Antoni Camprubi, UNAM, presiding. The American Cordillera or "backbone" constitutes one of the largest and most productive regions in the world. Despite the stunning genetic type variety and economic value or potential of ore deposits in the region, the long and complex geological history of the western Americas is yet to be unraveled.
Abstracts: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/session_30094.htm, 8:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. (session 34).
Paper 34-3: Graben Type Calderas of the Sierra Madre Occidental: Potential Sites for Hydrothermal Ore Deposits. Gerardo J. Aguirre-Daz, UNAM Campus Juriquilla, and five colleagues: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/abstract_201534.htm.
Field Guild 25, The Southern Cordillera and Beyond, prepared in conjunction with the 2012 GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting, features eight field trips that showcase three aspects of the geology of the southern end of the North America Cordillera: Mid-Tertiary and Quaternary volcanology, environmental geology, and Mesozoic tectonics. Edited by Jos Jorge Aranda-Gmez, Gustavo Tolson, and Roberto S. Molina-Garza: http://rock.geosociety.org/Bookstore/default.asp?oID=0&catID=18&pID=FLD025.
Find complete meeting information at www.geosociety.org/Sections/cord/2012mtg/index.htm.
Find local contact information at www.geosociety.org/Sections/cord/2012mtg/contact.htm.
MEDIA REGISTRATION
Eligibility for media registration is as follows:
Working press representing bona fide, recognized news media with a press card, letter or business card from the publication.
Freelance science writers, presenting a current membership card from NASW, ISWA, regional affiliates of NASW, ISWA, CSWA, ACS, ABSW, EUSJA, or evidence of work pertaining to science published in 2011 or 2012.
PIOs of scientific societies, educational institutions, and government agencies.
Present media credentials to William Cox onsite at the GSA registration desk to obtain a badge for media access. Complimentary meeting registration covers attendance at all technical sessions and access to the exhibit hall. Journalists and PIOs must pay regular fees for paid luncheons and any short courses or field trips in which they participate. Representatives of the business side of news media, publishing houses, and for-profit corporations must register at the main registration desk and pay the appropriate fees.
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For additional information and assistance, contact Christa Stratton, GSA Director of Communications, at the address above.
The Geological Society of America, founded in 1888, is a scientific society with more than 25,000 members from academia, government, and industry in more than 100 countries. Through its meetings, publications, and programs, GSA enhances the professional growth of its members and promotes the geosciences in the service of humankind. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, GSA encourages cooperative research among earth, life, planetary, and social scientists, fosters public dialogue on geoscience issues, and supports all levels of earth science education.
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Geological Society of America Cordilleran section meets in the heart of MexicoPublic release date: 19-Mar-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Christa Stratton cstratton@geosociety.org Geological Society of America
The Southern Cordillera and beyond
Boulder, Colorado, USA - Geology doesn't stop at borders. Mexico, the U.S., and Canada share the same tectonic plate and face similar environmental and resource problems. In an effort to promote active communication among geologists from the three countries, the Center of Geoscience and the Institute of Geology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico; UNAM) are hosting the 108th meeting of GSA's Cordilleran Section in Quertaro, central Mexico, on 29-31 March 2012.
Mexico is a key region for understanding the geologic evolution of North America as well as an important tectonic element that interacted with South America and the Caribbean. Quertaro lies at the crossroads of three main geologic provinces and classic fossils sites are only 25-30 miles to the north. Historic Quertaro is a safe and modern industrial city built around a beautiful colonial center about 140 miles northwest of Mexico City.
Selected Highlights of the Scientific Program
The scientific program is composed of oral and poster presentations organized into 17 themed sessions, a symposium, and an array of general discipline of research. Go to www.geosociety.org/Sections/cord/2012mtg/techprog.htm to learn more.
Thursday, 29 March
Environmental Geochemistry I. Mario Villalobos, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mexico (UNAM), and colleagues Laura E. Beramendi-Orosco, Francisco Romero, Priyadarsi Roy, and Ofelia Morton, presiding. The topics considered in this session are broad and include hazardous waste management; soil, water and air pollution; environmental health risk assessment; remediation and reclamation of contaminated sites; and past climatic changes.
Abstracts: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/session_30213.htm, 8:30 a.m. to 12:55 p.m. (session 4).
Paper 4-5: Tracing of Pollution Sources in Urban Dust and Soils from Hermosillo City (Northwestern Mexico) Using Pb Isotopes. Rafael Del Ro Salas of Estacin Regional del Noroeste, UNAM, and nine colleagues: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/abstract_201797.htm.
What Fossil Ages and Distributions Tell Us about the History of the Ancient Gulf of California. Judith Smith, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, and colleagues Ana Luisa Carreo and Javier Helenes, presiding. This session aims to take a fresh look at data based on coral, echinoid, mollusk, microfossil, other invertebrate and vertebrate specimens, not published lists, in order to discover new insights on the age of the earliest seawater.
Abstracts: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/session_30102.htm, 2:30 to 4:50 p.m. (session 15).
Paper 15-1: Keynote: Neogene Micropaleontology and Evolution of the Northern Gulf of California. Javier Helenes, Centro de Investigacin Cientfica y de Educacin Superior de Ensenada and A. Luisa Carreo, UNAM: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/abstract_201564.htm.
Friday, 30 March
Ground Deformation Related to Anthropogenic Activities: Achievements in the Development of Geoscience Information System for Improved Management of Natural Resources. Dora Carreon-Freyre, UNAM, and colleagues Mariano Cerca, Devin Galloway, and Penlope Lpez-Quiroz, presiding. Deformation of the near surface and deep geological sequences can be associated with natural and anthropogenic phenomena. The intensive exploitation of subsurface natural resources and the urbanization of areas nearby steep slopes cause mechanical instabilities that are shown in the surface as land subsidence, ground fracturing and landslides.
Abstracts: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/session_30107.htm, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. (session 33).
Paper 33-1: Engineering Geology Approach to the Effects of Land Subsidence in Mexico City. Mariano Cerca, UNAM Campus Juriquilla, and eight colleagues: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/abstract_201868.htm.
Saturday, 31 March
Ore Deposits and Ore Genesis in the American Cordillera. Antoni Camprubi, UNAM, presiding. The American Cordillera or "backbone" constitutes one of the largest and most productive regions in the world. Despite the stunning genetic type variety and economic value or potential of ore deposits in the region, the long and complex geological history of the western Americas is yet to be unraveled.
Abstracts: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/session_30094.htm, 8:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. (session 34).
Paper 34-3: Graben Type Calderas of the Sierra Madre Occidental: Potential Sites for Hydrothermal Ore Deposits. Gerardo J. Aguirre-Daz, UNAM Campus Juriquilla, and five colleagues: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012CD/finalprogram/abstract_201534.htm.
Field Guild 25, The Southern Cordillera and Beyond, prepared in conjunction with the 2012 GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting, features eight field trips that showcase three aspects of the geology of the southern end of the North America Cordillera: Mid-Tertiary and Quaternary volcanology, environmental geology, and Mesozoic tectonics. Edited by Jos Jorge Aranda-Gmez, Gustavo Tolson, and Roberto S. Molina-Garza: http://rock.geosociety.org/Bookstore/default.asp?oID=0&catID=18&pID=FLD025.
Find complete meeting information at www.geosociety.org/Sections/cord/2012mtg/index.htm.
Find local contact information at www.geosociety.org/Sections/cord/2012mtg/contact.htm.
MEDIA REGISTRATION
Eligibility for media registration is as follows:
Working press representing bona fide, recognized news media with a press card, letter or business card from the publication.
Freelance science writers, presenting a current membership card from NASW, ISWA, regional affiliates of NASW, ISWA, CSWA, ACS, ABSW, EUSJA, or evidence of work pertaining to science published in 2011 or 2012.
PIOs of scientific societies, educational institutions, and government agencies.
Present media credentials to William Cox onsite at the GSA registration desk to obtain a badge for media access. Complimentary meeting registration covers attendance at all technical sessions and access to the exhibit hall. Journalists and PIOs must pay regular fees for paid luncheons and any short courses or field trips in which they participate. Representatives of the business side of news media, publishing houses, and for-profit corporations must register at the main registration desk and pay the appropriate fees.
###
For additional information and assistance, contact Christa Stratton, GSA Director of Communications, at the address above.
The Geological Society of America, founded in 1888, is a scientific society with more than 25,000 members from academia, government, and industry in more than 100 countries. Through its meetings, publications, and programs, GSA enhances the professional growth of its members and promotes the geosciences in the service of humankind. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, GSA encourages cooperative research among earth, life, planetary, and social scientists, fosters public dialogue on geoscience issues, and supports all levels of earth science education.
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