Off the Charts: Obama?s Jobs Number Still Beats Predecessor?s

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The pace of creation of Jobs in the private sector during the current administration is now greater than the pace in either of President George W. Bush?s terms in office. ...

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MAMMA MIA! LONDON TO CELEBRATE MOVE TO THE NOVELLO THEATRE WITH GALA PERFORMANCE

MAMMA MIA! LONDON TO CELEBRATE MOVE TO THE NOVELLO THEATRE WITH GALA PERFORMANCE

MAMMA MIA! London will be holding a special Gala performance in support of BBC Children in Need, at the show's new home, the Novello Theatre, on Wednesday 12 September 2012. The night will include special guest appearances by BBC Radio 2 presenters Vanessa Feltz, Anneka Rice and Penny Smith. Sir Terry Wogan will be there to mark this special night, along with a celebrity-packed audience to help celebrate MAMMA MIA!'s third London home.

MAMMA MIA! originally opened in London at the Prince Edward Theatre on 6 April 1999, before transferring to the Prince of Wales Theatre on 3 June 2004. Performances at the Prince of Wales Theatre will end on 1 September. The musical will re-open at the Novello Theatre on 6 September 2012.


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Intel (INTC) Gives Advantage to Microsoft (MSFT) with New Clover Trail Chip

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Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) shares are dipping slightly amid reports that its Clover Trail Atom chip will not support Linux on laptops and tablets.

Linux can run on Clover Trail because it is x86, but its unlikely that Intel will support it.

Tech Crunch reports that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows 8-based devices will be the only option left for the new chip. The blog also noted that this only puts the spotlight on how far behind Microsoft is in the mobile gadgetry race, with Intel giving its a mulligan in Clover Trail.

Shares of Intel are just about flat in late trading Friday.


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Wall Street scams get personal in Richard Gere's "Arbitrage"

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In the new film drama "Arbitrage," Richard Gere brings shady Wall Street dealings to the big screen as a hedge fund titan trying to cover up huge losses from a risky copper investment.

The scheming recalls real-life scandals and high-flying bankers who made headlines and brought populist scorn to Wall Street during the recent financial crisis. While the public may be hungry to watch the downfall of a greedy banker, Gere's character in the movie that opens in U.S. theaters on Friday isn't an all-around bad guy.

Fictional billionaire Robert Miller "is not an evil person," insists the 63-year-old star of "Pretty Woman" and "Chicago." But, Gere admits, the chief executive officer does "spend his life believing his own hubris" and, along the way, "makes very bad decisions."

Despite Miller's illegal misdeeds and immense wealth, audiences see a humanness they relate to, Gere said. "I've been delighted by how many people came up to me and said they felt bad because they identified with him so much and wanted him to get out of his problems," the actor told Reuters.

Writer and director Nicholas Jarecki, who grew up in the world of high finance as the son of two New York commodities traders, said the character of Miller sprung from the 2008 financial crisis.

"Guys were being so vilified at that moment," Jarecki said, and he wanted to explore how they made decisions within a system that tempts people with great rewards but bears immense risk. He describes "Arbitrage" as "the classic tragic tale of a good man gone wrong."

PICTURE-PERFECT LIFE

The charming and ever-confident Miller in "Arbitrage" basks in the spoils of his success - a fancy Manhattan home, beautiful wife (Susan Sarandon), loving children, young French mistress, and more money than a person needs.

The picture-perfect life is threatened after Miller loses $400 million of his client's money through an investment in a Russian copper mine. Used to always prevailing, he schemes to hide the losses with phony books and quickly sell his firm before the fraud comes to light.

Even worse, Miller is covering up another crime that leaves real blood on his hands, fearing it will threaten the sale of his company. To outwit a detective on his trail, he needs help from a young man at the opposite end of the economic ladder. Miller is so out-of-touch with his accomplice's world that he has to ask him, "What's an Applebee's?"

When he created the financial-genius side of Miller's character, Jarecki said he drew on tycoons Warren Buffett, Richard Branson, and legendary hedge fund managers John Paulson and James Simons. But the investor closest to Miller, Gere said, is Jamie Dimon, the once-unimpeachable JP Morgan Chase chief executive who recently disclosed a $5.8 billion trading loss at his firm.

Like Dimon, Miller is "someone who is known for always winning," until one big bet goes wrong.

PLOT RINGS TRUE FOR TRADERS

Jarecki said he aimed to make an entertaining thriller rather than send any message about Wall Street. But if there were any lesson to be learned, he had concluded "there is something in our blood that makes us go for (financial) bubbles," he said.

"I think that's what this character personifies, this belief that the sky is the limit, and that it can go on forever," Jarecki said. "I think it can't."

"Arbitrage" opens Friday in about 180 U.S. theaters. It also will be available through video-on-demand the same day, a strategy used last by distributors Lions Gate and Roadside Attractions that helped lift financial crimes movie "Margin Call."

Jarecki said his story resonated with a group of hedge fund managers who got an early look at the film in East Hampton, New York - a wealthy resort popular with the Wall Street crowd. One of the investors who had lost money on a copper trade told Jarecki: "Your film has been a re-enactment of my personal nightmare."

Others viewed it as a cautionary tale of what could go wrong. "As a group, they said 'This film made me uneasy from beginning to end,'" Jarecki said. "For me, that was incredibly fulfilling."

(Reporting By Lisa Richwine, editing by Jill Serjeant and Philip Barbara)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wall-street-scams-personal-richard-geres-arbitrage-110631317--sector.html

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Missile test sparks UFO reports in Southwest

People across the Southwest got an early-morning show in the sky Thursday, courtesy of a trio of unarmed missiles fired from New Mexico, one of which left a brilliant contrail that changed colors as it was illuminated by the rising sun.

The twisting cloudlike formation was visible in southern Colorado, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas just before sunrise, and led to hundreds of calls and emails to area TV stations.

Law enforcement agencies in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado received some reports of a crash, but those were quickly discounted. A sheriff's deputy in northern New Mexico who saw one of the missiles leaving behind a contrail as it lifted into the pre-dawn sky said he spotted what appeared to be an explosion and a part falling off the craft.

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"When I saw it, it surprised the heck out of me, and I thought, 'Wow, that's not something you see every day,'" said San Juan County deputy J.J. Roberts. "So I pulled over, pulled out my iPhone and started taking some pictures and video."

The "explosion" was a normal separation of the first and second stages of the unarmed Juno ballistic missile that was fired at 6:30 a.m. MT from Fort Wingate near Gallup, N.M., said Drew Hamilton, a spokesman for the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range. The expended first stage landed in a designated area of U.S. Forest Service land.

The Juno missile was then targeted by advanced versions of the Patriot missile fired from White Sands, about 350 miles (560 kilometers) away, as part of a test. Two of the missiles were fired and hit the incoming Juno missile, said Dan O'Boyle, a spokesman for the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, which was in charge of the Patriots used in the test.

The Patriot missiles kill incoming targets by direct strike and don't explode.

The rising sun backlit the Juno missile's contrail and provided a spectacular morning sight for early risers across the region.

"It's one of those things it does not happen every time ? the weather and light conditions have to be just right, and this was one of those times," Hamilton said. "We even had people calling from (Los Angeles) asking about it. They want to know about it. Apparently this thing really lit up the sky really well."

Roberts said he was driving between Aztec, N.M., and Farmington, N.M, before sunrise when he saw the missile heading into the sky.

"It was pretty obvious. The first thing that came to mind, it was some sort of a missile or a jet or something like that," Roberts said.

Calls began coming in to dispatchers, and two deputies on the other side of San Juan County were dispatched to look for a crash. But Roberts said he quickly waved them off.

"We had gotten reports that there was an explosion or a UFO or missile or whatever, and people thought it was real close so they were concerned there would be debris falling from the sky," Roberts said. "To me, it was obvious when I saw it, it was real high altitude. It wasn't something real close."

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49026286/ns/technology_and_science-space/

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In conversation with Chris Lawson | COSMOS magazine

Chris Lawson is the author of Canterbury Hollow, a short story recently published on COSMOS online. Well known for his science fiction short stories and medical non-fiction essays, Lawson?s work has received several awards. His short story Written in Blood received an Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story and Hieronymous Boche blitzed the Aurealis horror category. On top of this, Lawson received a Ditmar Award for his novella Countless Screaming Argonauts.

Awards aside, writing stories is only a fraction of the man-come-machine that is Chris Lawson; indeed his unworldly brainpower could be from one of his science fiction novels. Lawson, whose father worked on a crocodile farm in Papua New Guinea, is a medical practitioner, a teacher, a writer of both fiction and non-fiction and a family man.

In a bid to see how the extraterrestrial magic of Canterbury Hollow was born, COSMOS intern Caitlin Bishop caught up with Lawson to discuss the apocalypses of science fiction, how building characters is like painting a wall and the basic technology of fur, leather, spears, canoes, nets, and water bladders.

Caitlin Bishop: From life balloting to a religious brethren saviour, this story discusses quality of life and the value of nature, what aspect of Canterbury Hollow is most important to you and why?

Chris Lawson: It?s the trade-off between them, I suppose. Canterbury Hollow is about people trying to live meaningful lives when one of the great traditional meanings, leaving a mark on the future, has become somewhat pointless.

Canterbury Hollow mentions the "engine of colonisation and exploitation", what real life concepts influenced this aspect?

The human expansion out of Africa. Extraordinary species, humans. We managed to colonise every continent except Antarctica with very basic technology. Fur, leather, spears, canoes, nets, and water bladders were sufficient for us to thrive in every ecosystem from tundra to tropical deserts despite not being all that well adapted to many of these.

Easter Island was settled by canoeing across 2,600 km of open ocean around 900-1200 years ago. After a long period of stability the population collapsed to the point of near-extinction by the 18th century. Some historians think the collapse was caused by over-exploitation of the environment, others blame slave-raiders or whalers or exposure to smallpox.

Whichever way it was, I think the force of human psychology that spurs us to explore and expand is intimately related to, and possibly even the same as, the force that urges us to squeeze every last drop out of our environment.

You?ve said you have known you were going to write stories since the age of eight; did the art of writing come naturally to you?

Words have always been very kind to me, so building the basic blocks of language came naturally but there are other layers to writing a story that took me a long time to evolve. Even now I find that I have to develop a new approach for every story I write. It?s a very time-hungry process for me and not one I can recommend in good faith to other writers.

You write in both fiction and non-fiction, which genre do you find most challenging and why?

Writing fiction is harder work for me, but there?s a hidden trap to non-fiction that makes it more painstaking. All writing except technical writing is about story telling, and there?s a wonderful feeling to drawing a strong story out of real historical or scientific events. The problem is that the story can be so compelling that you might fail to notice that it?s wrong. It?s devastating to go back to check a reference only to find that you?ve remembered it incorrectly and it completely ruins the tale you think you had.

What do you think about the contention that contemporary science fiction has lost its faith in the future?

Ah! You?re trying to lure me into an internet controversy! Without discussing specific criticisms of contemporary SF, I think it?s completely ahistorical to think that the genre has lost faith in the future. Any story about human characters in the far future is premised on an unfounded optimism about our ability to survive and prosper while remaining human - people like Stephen Baxter and Vernor Vinge are writing stories like this.

Conversely, the so-called Golden Age of SF (roughly 1938 to the mid-1950s, arguably the genre?s most starry-eyed era), was littered with stories set in bleak or disturbing futures such as James Blish?s A Case of Conscience, Theodore Sturgeon?s More Than Human, and the savage, almost Swiftian world of Pohl and Kornbluth?sThe Space Merchants.

Science fiction has had a surfeit of apocalypses from the very start and it has optimists writing today.

You?re a medical GP, a teacher, a writer and a family man; does the different aspects in your life provide inspiration for creative writing?

My stories are triggered by specific ideas or mental images, mostly from reading scientific research papers or history. When it comes to fleshing out the people in the story who have to confront the repercussions of that idea, though, you have to turn to personal experience to build plausible characters.

I?ve been lucky to have worked in a career that requires me to speak to many people from diverse backgrounds about matters that are of the utmost importance to them and that they would tell very few people (and sometimes nobody else). I never use specific events from a patient?s life?even de-identified, distorted, and placed in a new context, I would feel like I was breaking confidence. But once you?ve talked to thousands of people about their most intimate and confronting problems, it?s not hard to generate any number of characters.

Having said that, a really good character is more than just a collection of emotional needs. Understanding a character?s motivations is the undercoat; you need a couple of layers of paint over the top: the quirks, affectations, misjudgments, self-defeating behaviours, and so on. Sometimes it takes a long time for the character to develop even after I know what drives them; usually something snaps into focus when I?m thinking about something else entirely.

Do you have any advice for aspiring authors? How do you transform an idea into a story?

Read a lot. Read widely, not just in your favourite genre. Read history. Write the sort of stories you like to read. Write a lot; throw most of it in the bin. Be patient. Don?t expect to make a living out of writing; count yourself lucky if you do.

Transforming idea into story: the process is always idiosyncratic and varies from writer to writer. My process is fairly experimental. I try out lots of different scenarios, ?what if she did this?, ?what if he did that instead?, ?what if he was poor but from a wealthy family?, and see what works in my head. But when I?m stuck I try to think about the sort of person who would be challenged by the idea I?m thinking about, and what situations would push them into conflict.

What writing projects are you working on at the moment and what do you hope to write next?

I have a vast mental library of uncompleted stories. Well, it seems vast to me, anyway. I tend to chip away at all the stories at once until one of them clicks into place and is ready to be written. So you can expect a time-travel-existential-crisis noirish mystery, a dinosaurs-vs-creationists survival adventure, a biological-informatics disaster story, a post-World War One cubism-is-reality story, another story in the same universe as Canterbury Hollow, or any one of a dozen others.

It all depends on which stories distill themselves in my head first.

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Caitlin Bishop is completing and internship at COSMOS Magazine.


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U.S. says Iran "demolishing" facility at Parchin site

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Microsoft SkyDrive

Apple's iCloud and Google Drive made big splashes at their recent launches, but Microsoft's cloud service, SkyDrive, has been quietly hosting people's documents, photos, and more for more than years. And all the while Microsoft has been honing the service, most recently redesigning it to give it a modern, tiled look and folding in the syncing capability that formerly was handled by a separate service, Windows Live Mesh. The company has also made SkyDrive a cornerstone of its next big operating system version, Windows 8. So how does Microsoft's cloud service stack up against the other tech titans'? Read on to find out.

Like iCloud, SkyDrive serves a lot of functions. If you just want access to documents or media files, it offers simple online storage accessible from the Web. If you want the same set of files replicated on multiple PCs it provides folder syncing. For users of Windows 8 and Windows Phone, it backs up settings. Because of this diversity of function, there are several different cross-sections from which you can view the service?by type of data, client, or function. The data types include documents, photos, video, music, or settings. The clients include computer, mobile, and Web, and the functions are things like syncing, viewing, playing, and simple storage. Let's take a look at the service from these various angles.

Your SkyDrive Account
Everyone gets a SkyDrive account--well, everyone who's created a Microsoft account, which includes everyone who's signed up for a Hotmail or Outlook.com account. All users get 7GB free storage space, and, if you're a longtime SkyDrive account holder (since before April 22, 2012), you get 25GB free. This compares with 5GB free for iCloud and Google Drive (though if you convert docs to Google format, storage is free), and 2GB for Dropbox. You can add 20GB to SkyDrive for $10 a year, and 100GB for $50. Here's how the pricing compares with the other services:

? SkyDrive iCloud Google Drive Amazon Cloud Drive
Free storage 7GB 5GB 5GB 5GB
Add ?20 GB $10 $40 N/A $10
Add 50 GB $25 $100 N/A $25
Add 100 GB $50 N/A $60 $50

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Device Syncing
Microsoft likes to refer to SkyDrive as a "device cloud" and with Windows 8 PCs and Windows Phones, the moniker makes sense. The service can sync settings and apps on those types of devices, while clients for iOS, Android, and Mac OS X give users of those devices access to the files stored in SkyDrive's online folders. Like iCloud for iPhones and iPads, SkyDrive lets Windows Phone users automatically upload photos taken with the phone's camera to SkyDrive's camera roll, so that the photos are quickly available for viewing online, in a SkyDrive folder on a PC, or in a Windows 8 PC's Photos app.

Google Drive and Android Play don't provide this functionality, which, once you've gotten accustomed to it, is pretty slick and convenient. And in the SkyDrive Web interface, you can view the photos as a slideshow, and even see a map of where they were taken along with EXIF camera info. A similar Web interface of this type is completely lacking in Apple's iCloud, though that may change with iOS 6.

Another service in the realm of device syncing is the ability to sign into your account and magically reproduce a previous machine you've set up?color and background themes, social accounts, user photo, browser favorites and history, and even apps. SkyDrive accomplishes this for both Windows 8 PCs and Windows Phones. In Windows 8, the service goes even further, by allowing third-party apps to take advantage of your cloud storage. Apps and sites can even use the service for single sign-on with your permission.

SkyDrive Clients
SkyDrive is built into Windows 8 and Windows Phone, as long as you've signed into a Microsoft account. But what if you use other technology platforms? SkyDrive includes apps for not only Windows 7 and 8, but for Mac OS X, iOS, and Android. For other mobile platforms such as Blackberry, a mobile Web interface is available, and for desktop access when you're not at your own computer, a full feature Web app is available. The last is particularly important, and one thing that's long disappointed me about Apple's iCloud: Why can't I access photos in my iCloud Photo Stream from a Web browser, if the stuff is actually in the "cloud?"

Another SkyDrive option for mobile users is the OneNote app. It's available for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, and on the Web. This lets you create notes that will be automatically synced to all your SkyDrive access points.

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Environment: Speaking the same language on noise exposure

[ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 14-Sep-2012
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Contact: Elena Gonzalez Verdesoto
jrc-press@ec.europa.eu
European Commission Joint Research Centre

Quantifying noise exposure will be significantly easier thanks to a new set of common noise assessment methods published today. Comparable data on noise exposure in Europe is a prerequisite to set up EU policies to reduce noise pollution, a growing health and economic concern all over Europe. The new methods known as Common Noise Assessment Methods in Europe (CNOSSOS-EU) were drawn up by the European Commission's in-house science service, the Joint Research Centre. They assess noise from road, rail and air traffic and from industry, and will provide consistent and comparable data on the noise levels to which people are exposed. Member States will have to start using the new methods for the next round of EU-wide strategic noise mapping in 2017.

Environment Commissioner Janez Poto?nik said: "Noise is a serious environmental risk to public health, especially in urban areas due to increased transport and inefficient urban planning. CNOSSOS-EU will help the European Commission harmonise the methods used to assess exposure to noise, making data comparable. I hope it will pave the way to more appropriate and efficient measures to address increasing noise exposure in Europe. This is one of the elements in a more systematic approach to tackling noise."

The European Commission will use the common set of noise assessment methods developed by the JRC as a basis for the common methodology to obtain comparable figures on traffic (road, railway, aircraft) and industrial noise by end 2013. A common framework for noise assessment methods will allow comparable and reliable information to be gathered on noise levels and the associated health implications to which EU citizens are exposed. It will also facilitate the preparation of detailed action plans to prevent and reduce exposure to harmful levels of noise.

The Environmental Noise Directive, introduced in 2002, requires Member States to determine the exposure to environmental noise through strategic noise mapping and elaborate action plans for noise reduction. The first EU-wide noise mapping exercise in 2007 found considerable differences in assessment methods, data collection and quality.

Noise assessment models, based on state of the art scientific and technical know-how, were developed by the JRC in collaboration with experts nominated by the EU Member States, the European Environmental Agency, the European Aviation Safety Agency, and the World Health Organisation Europe.

Background

Traffic-related noise may account for over 1 million healthy life years lost in Europe. Urbanisation and a steep increase in traffic are the main causes of escalating environmental noise exposure in Europe. The social costs of traffic, rail and road noise across the European Union were recently estimated at 40 billion per year, equivalent to 0.35% of the EU's GDP. According to the European Commission's 2011 White Paper on Transport, traffic noise-related external costs will be 20 billion higher per year by 2050 (compared to 2005) unless further action is taken.

Strategic noise maps are used by the EU national Competent Authorities to identify priorities for action planning and by the European Commission to provide global assessments of noise exposure across the EU. This information also serves to inform the general public about the levels of noise to which they are exposed, and about actions undertaken to reduce noise pollution to a level not harmful to public health and the environment. CNOSSOS-EU will help to produce good quality strategic noise maps by obtaining consistent and comparable figures on the noise levels to which people are exposed in Europe and to enable the reliable estimation of the associated burden of disease.

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For more information:

http://ihcp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/our_activities/public-health/env_noise/new-repor...

See also:

The EU Policy on Environmental Noise:

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/noise/home.htm

The CNOSSOS-EU project:

http://ihcp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/our_activities/public-health/env_noise



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[ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 14-Sep-2012
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Contact: Elena Gonzalez Verdesoto
jrc-press@ec.europa.eu
European Commission Joint Research Centre

Quantifying noise exposure will be significantly easier thanks to a new set of common noise assessment methods published today. Comparable data on noise exposure in Europe is a prerequisite to set up EU policies to reduce noise pollution, a growing health and economic concern all over Europe. The new methods known as Common Noise Assessment Methods in Europe (CNOSSOS-EU) were drawn up by the European Commission's in-house science service, the Joint Research Centre. They assess noise from road, rail and air traffic and from industry, and will provide consistent and comparable data on the noise levels to which people are exposed. Member States will have to start using the new methods for the next round of EU-wide strategic noise mapping in 2017.

Environment Commissioner Janez Poto?nik said: "Noise is a serious environmental risk to public health, especially in urban areas due to increased transport and inefficient urban planning. CNOSSOS-EU will help the European Commission harmonise the methods used to assess exposure to noise, making data comparable. I hope it will pave the way to more appropriate and efficient measures to address increasing noise exposure in Europe. This is one of the elements in a more systematic approach to tackling noise."

The European Commission will use the common set of noise assessment methods developed by the JRC as a basis for the common methodology to obtain comparable figures on traffic (road, railway, aircraft) and industrial noise by end 2013. A common framework for noise assessment methods will allow comparable and reliable information to be gathered on noise levels and the associated health implications to which EU citizens are exposed. It will also facilitate the preparation of detailed action plans to prevent and reduce exposure to harmful levels of noise.

The Environmental Noise Directive, introduced in 2002, requires Member States to determine the exposure to environmental noise through strategic noise mapping and elaborate action plans for noise reduction. The first EU-wide noise mapping exercise in 2007 found considerable differences in assessment methods, data collection and quality.

Noise assessment models, based on state of the art scientific and technical know-how, were developed by the JRC in collaboration with experts nominated by the EU Member States, the European Environmental Agency, the European Aviation Safety Agency, and the World Health Organisation Europe.

Background

Traffic-related noise may account for over 1 million healthy life years lost in Europe. Urbanisation and a steep increase in traffic are the main causes of escalating environmental noise exposure in Europe. The social costs of traffic, rail and road noise across the European Union were recently estimated at 40 billion per year, equivalent to 0.35% of the EU's GDP. According to the European Commission's 2011 White Paper on Transport, traffic noise-related external costs will be 20 billion higher per year by 2050 (compared to 2005) unless further action is taken.

Strategic noise maps are used by the EU national Competent Authorities to identify priorities for action planning and by the European Commission to provide global assessments of noise exposure across the EU. This information also serves to inform the general public about the levels of noise to which they are exposed, and about actions undertaken to reduce noise pollution to a level not harmful to public health and the environment. CNOSSOS-EU will help to produce good quality strategic noise maps by obtaining consistent and comparable figures on the noise levels to which people are exposed in Europe and to enable the reliable estimation of the associated burden of disease.

###

For more information:

http://ihcp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/our_activities/public-health/env_noise/new-repor...

See also:

The EU Policy on Environmental Noise:

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/noise/home.htm

The CNOSSOS-EU project:

http://ihcp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/our_activities/public-health/env_noise



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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/ecjr-est091412.php

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