Voodoo adds tent camping to festival experience

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? The Voodoo Music + Arts Experience is bringing a European music festival experience to New Orleans with overnight tent camping and more Euro-dance-based acts to its stage.

The lineup for the three-day festival, which starts Friday at New Orleans City Park, includes Skrillex, Justice and Kaskade, electronic DJ-producers who have performed at other U.S. festivals in recent years as U.S. radio continues to welcome dance music to its rotation, following Europe's longtime trend.

This will be the first year tent-camping will be available for concert-goers ? a popular stable at European music festivals.

"It's a long-standing tradition that works really well there, so we thought why not bring it here?" said Voodoo producer Stephen Rehage. As one of the first American festivals to offer tent-camping, Rehage said he's starting small, with about 300 tent sites. Restrooms and showers will be provided.

The 14th annual Voodoo will include nearly 100 acts in rock, metal, hip-hop, blues and electronica. Headliners include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Metallica and Jack White.

Rehage said he has moved the stage for the electronic DJs to a location that can accommodate more festival-goers because last year the fan base was spilling over into other stage areas.

Xavier de Rosnay of the French duo Justice, who performs Saturday, says he doesn't know what makes his music such a draw, and he's not sure he wants to.

"Sometimes not knowing is good because knowing could be a temptation for us to begin making music to please people instead of making music as we do now with complete freedom," de Rosnay said in a phone interview.

Nas, The Avett Brothers, Bootsy Collins, Gary Clark Jr., Silversun Pickups and Dave Stewart will also perform.

"This festival really is a musical gumbo," Rehage said. "Every year we just throw it all in the pot, mix it up and hope it tastes good."

Voodoo, which is held annually around Halloween, includes a sampling of local talent with Irma Thomas, Marcia Ball, the Lost Bayou Ramblers and Little Freddie King.

Max Bermis, frontman for the California-based punk rock band Say Anything, said he's looking forward to being part of such a unique lineup.

"Neil Young and Metallica are playing. It's not an endless parade of what's hip or what's popular. It seems to have some cool culture to it," said Bermis, whose band performs Friday.

Metallica was added to the lineup this month to fill the slot previously held by Green Day, which canceled its performance.

"We're hoping we can fill those very large shoes and do them proud," said Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.

Voodoo tickets start at $90 for one-day admission, $175 for three days, with packages for VIP, parking and camping.

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AP Writer Chevel Johnson in New Orleans contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/voodoo-adds-tent-camping-festival-experience-181446640.html

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Syria Agrees To Ceasefire During Eid Al-Adha Holiday, Peace Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi Says

BEIRUT (AP) ? The U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria said the government in Damascus and some rebel leaders have agreed to a temporary cease-fire during a four-day Muslim holiday that starts Friday.

The Syrian government, however, did not confirm Wednesday's announcement by Lakhdar Brahimi, saying only that it was still studying the envoy's proposal.

Brahimi told reporters in Cairo that President Bashar Assad's government has agreed to a truce for the Eid al-Adha holiday. Brahimi said Damascus will issue a statement on accepting the cease-fire later "today or tomorrow."

The announcement came as government forces intensified airstrikes on a rebel-held area near the besieged city of Aleppo. The fighting in Syria has killed more than 34,000 people since March last year, according to activists.

Brahimi did not elaborate on how the truce would be monitored. The envoy has met with Assad in Damascus on Sunday as part of his push for a cease-fire between rebels and government forces. He also held talks last week with opposition groups inside and outside Syria and earlier received "promises" but not a "commitment" from them to honor the cease-fire.

In Damascus, Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdessi stressed Wednesday that the cessation of military operations during Eid al-Adha is still "being studied" by the General Command of the Army and the Syrian armed forces, and that "the final position on this matter will be issued on Thursday."

Abdelbaset Sieda, the head of the Syrian National Council, the main opposition group in exile, told The Associated Press that he had little hope the truce would take hold. He said opposition fighters have told him they are willing to adhere to it, but will respond if attacked by regime forces.

"This regime, we don't trust it, because it is saying something and doing something else on the ground," Sieda said in a phone interview from Stockholm, Sweden.

Brahimi's proposal is far more modest than a six-point plan by his predecessor as Syrian envoy, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. A cease-fire was the centerpiece of Annan's proposal and was to lead to talks on a peaceful transition.

However, a truce never took hold and both sides violated their commitments, though Annan said at the time the regime was the main aggressor because it refused to withdraw troops and heavy weapons from population centers.

In Syria, regime warplanes struck the village of Mar Shureen near a strategic rebel-held town in the country's north Wednesday, killing five members of an extended family, activists said.

The village is located just outside the town of Maaret al-Numan, about a mile (1.5 kilometer) from a Syrian military camp that troops and rebels have been fighting over for several days.

Rami Abdul-Rahman, the director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told The AP that government aircraft hit the village in the morning hours. The dead include a father and his two sons, aged 10 and 24, as well as a two other relatives, a woman and a young man, Abdul-Rahman said. His group relies on reports from a network of activists on the ground.

Opposition fighters seized Maaret al-Numan, which lies along the main highway between Aleppo and Damascus, earlier this month, disrupting the ability of Assad's army to send supplies and reinforcements to the northwest where troops are bogged down in a stalemate with the rebels in Aleppo, Syria's largest city.

At least 10 people were killed and 13 were injured when an artillery shell landed near a bakery in Aleppo, Abdul-Rahman said.

Amateur video posted Tuesday showed stacks of pita bread on shelves, soaked in blood, and human remains scattered on the floor. Residents are also seen carrying injured people, some missing limbs, out of a shop that appears to be a bakery, loading them into civilian cars as a man shouts: "May God punish you, Bashar ... He is bombing the people at the bakery. "

Syria restricts access to foreign reporters and the authenticity of the video could not be independently confirmed.

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Associated Press writers Maggie Fick in Cairo, Karin Laub in Beirut and Albert Aji in Damascus contributed to this report.

Brahimi told reporters in Cairo that President Bashar Assad's government has agreed to a truce for the Eid al-Adha holiday. Brahimi said Damascus will issue a statement on accepting the cease-fire later "today or tomorrow."

The announcement came as government forces intensified airstrikes on a rebel-held area near the besieged city of Aleppo. The fighting in Syria has killed more than 34,000 people since March last year, according to activists.

Brahimi did not elaborate on how the truce would be monitored. The envoy has met with Assad in Damascus on Sunday as part of his push for a cease-fire between rebels and government forces. He also held talks last week with opposition groups inside and outside Syria and earlier received "promises" but not a "commitment" from them to honor the cease-fire.

In Damascus, Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdessi stressed Wednesday that the cessation of military operations during Eid al-Adha is still "being studied" by the General Command of the Army and the Syrian armed forces, and that "the final position on this matter will be issued on Thursday."

Abdelbaset Sieda, the head of the Syrian National Council, the main opposition group in exile, told The Associated Press that he had little hope the truce would take hold. He said opposition fighters have told him they are willing to adhere to it, but will respond if attacked by regime forces.

"This regime, we don't trust it, because it is saying something and doing something else on the ground," Sieda said in a phone interview from Stockholm, Sweden.

Brahimi's proposal is far more modest than a six-point plan by his predecessor as Syrian envoy, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. A cease-fire was the centerpiece of Annan's proposal and was to lead to talks on a peaceful transition.

However, a truce never took hold and both sides violated their commitments, though Annan said at the time the regime was the main aggressor because it refused to withdraw troops and heavy weapons from population centers.

In Syria, regime warplanes struck the village of Mar Shureen near a strategic rebel-held town in the country's north Wednesday, killing five members of an extended family, activists said.

The village is located just outside the town of Maaret al-Numan, about a mile (1.5 kilometer) from a Syrian military camp that troops and rebels have been fighting over for several days.

Rami Abdul-Rahman, the director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told The AP that government aircraft hit the village in the morning hours. The dead include a father and his two sons, aged 10 and 24, as well as a two other relatives, a woman and a young man, Abdul-Rahman said. His group relies on reports from a network of activists on the ground.

Opposition fighters seized Maaret al-Numan, which lies along the main highway between Aleppo and Damascus, earlier this month, disrupting the ability of Assad's army to send supplies and reinforcements to the northwest where troops are bogged down in a stalemate with the rebels in Aleppo, Syria's largest city.

At least 10 people were killed and 13 were injured when an artillery shell landed near a bakery in Aleppo, Abdul-Rahman said.

Amateur video posted Tuesday showed stacks of pita bread on shelves, soaked in blood, and human remains scattered on the floor. Residents are also seen carrying injured people, some missing limbs, out of a shop that appears to be a bakery, loading them into civilian cars as a man shouts: "May God punish you, Bashar ... He is bombing the people at the bakery. "

Syria restricts access to foreign reporters and the authenticity of the video could not be independently confirmed.

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Associated Press writers Maggie Fick in Cairo, Karin Laub in Beirut and Albert Aji in Damascus contributed to this report.

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Cloning-like method targets mitochondrial diseases

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A technique that puts one woman?s nuclear DNA into another woman?s donor egg cell may be feasible for correcting inherited diseases caused by faulty cellular power sources. The technique has already produced healthy baby rhesus monkeys, and now it raises the possibility of preventing mitochondrial diseases in thousands of people each year.

Mitochondria, energy-producing organelles inside cells, carry circles of DNA important for the power plants? function. Mutations of the mitochondrial DNA, which is passed to offspring directly by their mothers, can cause diseases that often affect energy-greedy organs such as the brain, heart, muscles, pancreas and kidneys with varying severity. An estimated 1,000 to 4,000 U.S. babies are born each year with mitochondrial diseases.

Swapping the nucleus, the cellular compartment where chromosomes are housed, from an egg with mutant mitochondria into one containing functional power plants could stop those diseases from happening in the first place. Offspring would inherit healthy mitochondria from the egg donor, while the rest of their genetic makeup would come from the mother and father.

Researchers led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a reproductive and developmental biologist at Oregon Health & Science University in Beaverton, previously demonstrated that the technique works with rhesus monkeys. Now the team has succeeded in transferring the nuclei of unfertilized human eggs into donor eggs and then fertilizing those eggs to create embryos that produce embryonic stem cells, the team reports online October 24 in Nature. Short of actually transplanting the embryos into women to grow into babies, stem cell production is the clearest sign that the embryos are normal.

Performing the transfer procedure in the United States for women who carry faulty mitochondria, and implanting resulting embryos in the womb, will require approval of the federal Food and Drug Administration, which oversees clinical trials involving gene therapy.

Although the experimental therapy requires transfer of a nucleus into an egg, as human cloning would, it does not raise the same ethical concerns as human cloning, says Josephine Johnston, a research scholar at the Hastings Center, an organization in Garrison, N.Y., that examines the ethics of biological research. ?To me it?s not human cloning,? Johnston says. ?It?s not the creation of an individual who is genetically identical to an existing person.?

Not everyone is comfortable with the technique because children would carry DNA from three parents ? a set of chromosomes each from the mother and father, and mitochondrial DNA from an egg donor. ?Any time reproduction is proposed to take place in a novel way, some people get nervous,? Johnston says. But if the technique is safe, she says, she sees no major ethical concerns barring it from reaching the clinic.

Rhesus macaques produced using the technique are now healthy 3-year-olds, Mitalipov and his colleagues report. ?They are as normal as they can get,? he says.

Human eggs proved trickier to work with than those from monkeys, the researchers found. About half of zygotes created by fertilizing eggs that had undergone the nuclear transfer were abnormal.

That result doesn?t surprise Mary Herbert, a reproductive biologist at Newcastle University in England. ?The unfertilized egg has the complex task of remaining poised in readiness to halve its DNA content upon sperm entry. Given the biological complexities associated with maintaining this state, we have always held the view that manipulation of the egg at this stage would be rather precarious,? she said in a statement on behalf of her research team.

Previously, Herbert and her colleagues had performed a similar technique using fertilized human eggs, extracting and transferring the ?pronuclei? ?the nuclei from the parents? egg and sperm before the two have fused ? into healthy donor eggs. Using fertilized eggs reduces the risk of abnormal fertilization, she says.

The Oregon researchers have tested that method in macaques without success, Mitalipov says. ?Embryos fail early and no pregnancies established,? he said of his groups? unpublished experiments. The failure may be due to drugs applied to the cells to make the technique work.

But transferring nuclei in unfertilized eggs shows promise, and Mitalipov hopes to win FDA approval for human clinical trials. ?The FDA has been slow to respond,? he says. ?Meanwhile, every year, thousands and thousands of children are born with mitochondrial diseases, so we?d like to hurry up.?

Cloning-related Mitochondrial Repair Procedure

Inherited diseases caused by faulty microscopic power plants, called mitochondria, may be prevented by extracting the chromosome-containing nucleus from a mother?s egg cell and then placing the nucleus in a donor egg that has healthy mitochondria. Here, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University in Beaverton demonstrate the procedure, which uses fine needles to collect and transplant the nucleus.
Credit: OHSU

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Boomer women flounder in recession's wake

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Despite a resume that includes three decades as a payroll processor, Patti Di Pino, 56, has been looking for work for three years since her divorce from her husband of 30 years,

By John W. Schoen, NBC News

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Meet Patti Di Pino, 56. She's single, she's unemployed and?she lives in an RV.?She's one of the many women voters being courted by President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney in the waning days of the presidential election campaign.

If she's being courted, she's wondering: Where?are the flowers and chocolates?

"I listened to the speeches by the candidates for president and I hear them talking about college kids, finding jobs for them and helping them with their student loans and such," Di Pino told NBC News in a recent interview. "I hear them talking about helping vets get jobs. Not once have I heard about helping baby boomers getting jobs."

A generation of women who flooded the paid labor force in the 1970s has spent the past four decades overcoming a host of obstacles to win its fair share of the American economic pie.

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But for many women now approaching what was to have been the end of their careers, the Great Recession has turned out to be the biggest obstacle of their lives.

Di Pino has been looking for steady work for three years since her divorce from her husband of 30 years. In 2009, her employer of 15 years, a construction company, closed its doors and laid her off.

Despite a resume that includes three decades in office administration, potential employers continue to pass her over because she has been out of the work force for so long, she says. Relying on a small savings account, she lives in an RV in Aurora, Colo., trolling the Internet for job leads and working odd jobs to pay the bills.

Di Pino is one of millions of boomer women?whose finances and economic well-being have been shredded by the Great Recession. Since 2007, some 3.5 million women over the age of 18 have fallen below the poverty level, bringing the total to nearly 18 million and raising the poverty rate for women from 12.5 percent to 14.6 percent.

Many left the work force in better economic times to raise families, expecting to return later in life to resume careers that have been upended by the recession. Now after long stretches of unemployment they face a bleak future with little retirement savings and meager Social Security benefits diminished by fewer years of payroll tax credits into the system.

Candidates offering to help older women voters have provided only vague promises, they say.?

Marc Piscotty / for NBC News

Patti Di Pino, 56, lives in an RV near Denver, working odd jobs to make ends meet.

Romney has promised "better access to higher education, and better retraining programs? but hasn?t said how he would provide them or who would be eligible.?Obama?cites gains of more than 5 million new jobs since he took office and his signature of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help women fight back against pay discrimination.

?For some of these workers, I don?t think there's much hope in the way of recovery,? said Sara Rix, a public policy analyst at AARP. ?Their jobs are gone and they don?t have the skills for emerging jobs. We haven?t been willing to invest what we need to invest in training.?

The future looked brighter when boomer women first entered the work force?in the 1970s, buoyed by the equal rights movement, and began to advance their careers in the economic boom of the 1980s. In doing so, they left behind the postwar American ideal, promoted heavily by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, that men were breadwinners and women were housewives.

?You go to college and find a nice man who will do well,? said Carroll Metzger, 65. ?That?s the culture I came from.?

One of the lucky few
Metzger considers herself one of the lucky ones. In 1976, divorced at 28, with two small kids, she experienced single motherhood at a relatively early age. It wasn?t easy. But it brought home the reality of raising a family while having to generate an income. After returning to school, she earned her registered nursing degree and, two years later, embarked on a lifelong nursing career.?

Her generation of women was determined to have both career and family ? by leaving work temporarily to raise their children and then picking up those careers when the children were grown. But it didn't always work out as planned.

?That was the great deception for women of our generation,? said Metzger. ?That I can leave the work force for a number of years to stay home and raise my kids and rely on the husband's income. What happened is that not every man does?well. And not all marriages work.?

Women are also more likely to outlive their husbands. Metzger, who eventually remarried, retired in 2009 from a paid nursing job to care for her ailing husband, who died in 2010. Today she?s rebuilding her life, shoring up her retirement investments and finding part-time work in nursing.

?I?ve been very fortunate that I ended up in this point in my life not having to work full time,? she said.

Many single boomer women aren?t as lucky. When they do find work, it will pay less, on average, than a similar job performed by a male colleague. That ?wage gap," which begins as early as graduation,?increases as women get older, according to a study on pay equity released in April by the American Association of University Women.

Some 50 years after President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 into law, the researchers found that a woman aged 20 to 24 can expect to bring home 94 cents for every dollar earned by a man her age. By 55, the pay gap for women widens to 75 cents for every dollar earned by men.

Incomes for single boomer women have lagged even further behind other households. Since 1970, median incomes for married couples with both spouses in the paid work force have risen steadily ? up more than 40 percent to nearly $86,000 (as of 2009). One-income couples and households headed by single men saw little improvement, with median incomes rising to less than $50,000. For single women, the median income, after rising slowly since 1970, barely hit $29,000 in 2009.

Adrienne Esposito, a 53-year-old widowed mother of three, never imagined she?d have to fend for herself 14 years ago when, after 20 years of marriage, her husband died. Her children were 8, 10 and 19.

?I really counted on things that I probably shouldn?t have,? she said. "I know what I was doing was better for the children. I knew it was a sacrifice, and I would have to do something to make up for what I lost by not working. In that case, I thought that with an education I would be able to re-enter the work force in a better position to advance myself.?

With her husband survivors? benefits, and $35,000 in student loans, Esposito completed a master?s degree in family therapy in 2007 and found a job with a social services agency for $33,000 a year. After three years, she was laid off when the agency was hit with funding cuts. Ten months later, she went to work for a Texas state agency for $27,000 a year. After nine months, that job ended?earlier this year.

Despite her recent training and work experience, Esposito believes her job prospects are narrowing. She said one recent interviewer explained, in stark terms, why.

?I was basically told, in the nicest way, that I?m too old for the job,? she said. ?Because they want someone who -- and this is how they put it? -- ?We need someone who can give presentations to the public.?? They did not want a 53-year-old doing that. It?s not a bonus being an older woman in the workplace.?

'What do you do about food?'
Age discrimination, often less overt, has left many boomer women with few alternatives beyond minimum wage work. Di Pino figures that if she took a full-time job at minimum wage, she'd still have to draw on her savings to make ends meet.?

?It?s going to net me $320 (a week), which means I might get $250 after Social Security, state and federal taxes, and unemployment,"?said Di Pino. "That?s $1,000 a month. (In the Denver area), even a one-bedroom apartment is $650 ? minimum. That leaves you $300 for gas, electric, Internet and gas in the truck. And food? What do you do for food??

Retirement savings? That's?something to dream about.

Years of lost paychecks while working at home raising children left many boomer women with a large hole in the retirement safety net their male counterparts generated through 401(k)?contributions?and payments into the Social Security system.?Boomer women also face late-in-life events like divorce and widowhood that ?can have devastating effects on (their) income and asset levels,? according to a?GAO report issued in July.

For those who have saved, or acquired savings in divorce settlements, the financial collapse of 2008 tore a large hole in many retirement accounts. For those in and out of work since, any remaining savings have been farther depleted to pay expenses.

?I haven?t put into Social Security, so I?m not entitled to benefits,? said Esposito. ?I have zero retirement savings.?

It?s no surprise that a recent AARP survey found older women much more worried about retirement than their male counterparts. They have reason to be concerned, said Rix.

?It?s going to be extremely difficult for people to catch up to where they were before the recession,? she said. ?They're going to have to make do on a lot less. And they?re going to find it very difficult to make up the savings?they've?exhausted.?

The outlook for boomer women depends heavily on whether the job market continues to improve. But even once employers begin hiring again, many of the economic obstacles older women face?likely will remain.

Few employers, for example, have shown a willingness to pay the cost of retraining older workers of either gender. With Congress under intense political pressure to cut federal spending, further government assistance will be a tough sell.

Still, the longer the job market remains bleak, the further boomer women's?meager savings will be depleted.

?I cannot believe that many policymakers are going to relish the sight of huge numbers of impoverished constituents sitting on the steps of their state houses,? said Rix.

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TSMC's 28-nanometer process pays off as it rakes in $1.68 billion profit in Q3

Everything is relative, so when a chip foundry like TSMC (which produces gear for the likes of NVIDIA) has a bad quarter, that means it only made a $1 billion in profit. Today's numbers reveal that the company has managed to rescue its halting fortunes after turning over $4.8 billion and making a tidy $1.68 billion in profit. The cause of this upswing was that orders for its coveted 28-nanometer process doubled in the period -- repaying some of the $8.5 billion spent developing it and keeping profits just a little over that of its closest rival, Qualcomm.

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1 Round Loaf ( Sourdough)

1/4 cup of thinly sliced green onions

1/4 cup of butter ( salted)- melted

1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder

2 teaspoons of poppy seeds

2 cups of cheddar jack shredded

What To Do

Preheat oven to 350

Cut the bread lengthwise and widthwise without cutting through the bottom crust. Insert cheese between the cuts.

Combine butter, onions, garlic powder, and poppy seeds in a small bowl and drizzle over the bread.

Wrap the bread in foil and bake for 15 minutes. Take off foil and bake for another 15

Enjoy!

Mouth ? Watering Party Bread Recipe

Recipe type: Snack

Serves: 6

• 1 Round Loaf ( Sourdough)
• 1/4 cup of thinly sliced green onions
• 1/4 cup of butter ( salted)- melted
• 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder
• 2 teaspoons of poppy seeds
• 2 cups of cheddar jack shredded

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Cut the bread lengthwise and widthwise without cutting through the bottom crust. Insert cheese between the cuts.
3. Combine butter, onions, garlic powder, and poppy seeds in a small bowl and drizzle over the bread.
4. Wrap the bread in foil and bake for 15 minutes. Take off foil and bake for another 15
5. Enjoy!

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Libyan militia takes former Gadhafi stronghold

BANI WALID, Libya (AP) ? Libya's government declared Wednesday that it had taken control of one of the last strongholds of deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi's loyalists, as its fighters in the heart of the city fired their guns into the air to celebrate victory after fierce battles that left dozens dead and thousands displaced.

The capture of Bani Walid, some 140 kilometers (90 miles) southeast of Tripoli, was a triumph for the government that replaced Gadhafi's regime. But the length of time it took the government to secure the town ? a full year ? underlined the difficulties faced by the new regime in imposing its authority over squabbling tribes and heavily armed militias.

The victory could even spark new violence. The government-backed militia that led the charge came from the city of Misrata, a longtime rival of Bani Walid, and reprisals could result.

The Libyan military's Chief of Staff Youssef al-Mankoush said military operations in the city were terminated but that some forces were still chasing a few pockets of Gadhafi loyalists. He was speaking in Tripoli.

In the center of Bani Walid, shops were closed and streets were deserted. A power station was destroyed, the main hospital was not functioning and a doctor was among the wounded. Fighters opened fire on street signs that bore language associated with Gadhafi's regime, such the name he gave to the country. A portrait of the slain dictator had its face punched out with bullet holes.

"Bani Walid is under full control," the official LANA news agency quoted the spokesman of the pro-government militia, Mohammed al-Kandouz, as saying late Tuesday.

But Mohammed al-Taib, a commander of a pro-government militia called Libya Shield, told The Associated Press that while his forces control the town center, there was still fighting going on elsewhere. Columns of smoke billowed near the airport where militiamen said they were meeting resistance.

Omar Boughdad, a commander from the Misrata militia, said his forces would remain in the town to keep Gadhafi loyalists out. "The loyalists have fled to the valleys, but we will clean up these places and we will not leave again," he said.

Bani Walid became a bastion of Gadhafi loyalists during and after the eight-month civil war that led to Gadhafi's killing and the fall of his regime last year.

It was occupied by anti-Gadhafi rebels who negotiated an entry after the leader's October death, but fighters loyal to the ousted regime rose up and pushed them out in January.

The Libyan government's new offensive came in the aftermath of the kidnapping, torturing and killing last month of an anti-Gadhafi fighter allegedly by residents of the town.

The country's newly elected General National Congress issued a decree to arrest the men accused of the killing. Efforts for a peaceful resolution through negotiations with the town's elders failed.

Government spokesman Nasser al-Manei said 50 people on the government side were killed and hundreds others wounded in the Bani Walid operation. Al-Manei, speaking in Tripoli, said about 100 of those wanted by the government were arrested, while 13 civilians held by the fighters in Bani Walid were freed.

The government had no figures for casualties among the defenders.

Mohammed al-Harari, minister of local administration, said that 10,300 families were displaced by the fighting. It was not clear how many individuals this figure comprised.

Interim President Mohammed El-Megarif expressed support for the offensive on Bani Walid in a speech aired on national TV. "This is not targeting a region, a tribe or unarmed civilians, but outlaws," he said. "This is to impose state legitimacy."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/libyan-militia-takes-former-gadhafi-stronghold-123231019.html

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NEW DSCC AD: Rick Berg Tried To Block Improved Fire Safety ...

ANNCR: Fire hazards. Most are preventable.

ANNCR: But when Rick Berg was in the legislature, he actually tried to block rules that would've forced property managers to improve fire safety.

On Screen: Congressman Rick Berg

On Screen: TRIED TO BLOCK FIRE SAFETY RULES

Citation: HB 1350, VOTE 04/04/05

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FACT: BERG SPENT MORE THAN A QUARTER CENTURY SUPPORTING THE INTERESTS OF THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY, INCLUDING VOTING AGAINST STRICTER FIRE SAFETY REGULATIONS

Berg Even Voted Against Stricter Fire Safety Rules While Goldmark Property Management Buildings Were Being Cited For Poor Fire Safety. In September 2012, The Hill reported, ?Buildings managed by Goldmark Property Management were cited in 2000 for missing smoke detector batteries, inoperable kitchen windows and inaccessible fire extinguishers, according to a report from the Fargo Forum. And Berg, during his time in the North Dakota state legislature, attempted to block legislation that would expand fire prevention rules and regulations.? [The Hill, 9/19/12]

Berg Spent 26 Years In The North Dakota Legislature Voting To Advance Goldmark Property Management?s Interests Over Those Of Consumers, Including Against "Mandatory Fire Sprinklers.? In September 2012, Politico reported, ?And during a 26-year career in the North Dakota Legislature, including holding several GOP leadership posts, Berg backed legislation that would buttress landlords? legal and financial positions, according to legislative records from that period ? During Berg?s tenure in the state Legislature, he sponsored or backed legislation that would have given landlords increased authority to evict unruly tenants; required tenants to pay immediate restitution to landlords for losing challenges to eviction notices; called for bigger security deposits by new tenants; opposed rent control and mandatory fire sprinklers; and voted for tax relief for property owners, including landlords. Berg also opposed a bill to set up an independent organization to settle tenant-landlord disputes.? [Politico, 9/20/12]

2005: Berg Voted Against Requiring Landlords To Provide Visual Smoke Detectors For Deaf Tenants. In April 2005, Berg voted against a bill requiring that ?The landlord of a residential dwelling unit shall provide an approved visual smoke detection system or other visual alarm system for fire if requested in writing by a tenant who is deaf.? The bill exempted landlords with only one building having four units or less. [HB 1350, Vote 4/4/05]

Salon: ?Judging By Berg?s Record In The State Legislature, It?s Not Hard To See Why [Goldmark] Invested In Him.? In September 2012, Salon reported, ?Judging by Berg?s record in the state Legislature, it?s not hard to see why they invested in him. According to legislative records, Berg introduced numerous bills as a member of the state House of Representatives and state Senate to give landlords more rights over their tenants in ways that could possibly benefit both Goldmark companies and thus Berg.? [Salon, 9/25/12]

ANNCR: Why?

On Screen: WHY?

ANNCR: Rick Berg made a fortune in the real estate and property business.

On Screen: Congressman Rick Berg

On Screen: MADE A FORTUNE IN REAL ESTATE

Citation: ROLL CALL, THE 50 RICHEST MEMBERS OF THE 112TH CONGRESS, 2012

FACT: RICK BERG IS WORTH NEARLY $24 MILLION, HAVING MADE HIS MONEY IN THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY

2012: Roll Call Said Berg Is The 15^th Wealthiest Member Of Congress, But His Net Worth Increased To Nearly $24 Million. In 2012, Roll Call ranked Berg the 15^th wealthiest Member of Congress, with a net worth of $23.78 Million. According to the report, ?Much of Berg's growing fortune is real estate. The first-term North Dakotan owns dozens of apartment units and commercial properties that contributed to a minimum net worth of $23.78 million in 2011. Berg's stake in multiple buildings held by Old Abe Capital LLP were together worth more than $8.9 million, according to his most recent filing. Berg also reported as assets multiple outstanding loans that he has made to individuals, businesses and his campaign.? [Roll Call, The 50 Richest Members of the 112th Congress (2012)]

FACT: BERG FOUNDED THE COMPANY THAT EVENTUALLY TURNED INTO GOLDMARK PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

Associated Press Voter Guide: ?Berg Was An Early Partner In Goldmark Property Management.? According to the Associated Press? Election Guide profile of Rick Berg, ?Berg was an early partner in Goldmark Property Management Inc., a Fargo real estate management and development company, which was founded in 1981. He is a senior vice president of one of the company's subsidiaries, Goldmark Schlossman Commercial Real Estate Services Inc., and specializes in commercial property development.? [Associated Press Election Guide, Rick Berg (Updated 7/11/12)]

Fargo Forum: ?Goldmark Property Management was originally incorporated by Berg and other partners 30 years ago as Midwest Management Company. Berg left in 1987 to pursue commercial real estate ventures. Midwest Management changed its name to Goldmark Property Management in 1994.? [Fargo Forum, 9/13/12]

1982: Berg Founded And Was Listed As A Director Of Company That Became Goldmark Property Management.??In 1982, Berg founded Midwest Management Company with Dale Lian, James Wieland and Ken Regan. In 1985, Midwest Management Company changed its name to MMC, Inc. In 1994, MMC, Inc. changed its name to Goldmark Property Management. [Articles of Incorporation Application,?5/17/82; Certificate Of Incorporation,?5/20/82; Articles of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation,?3/13/85; Articles of Amendment to the Articles Of Incorporation, 11/29/94]

ANNCR: And now records show that a company he was associated with was cited for numerous fire code violations.

On Screen: The Forum

On Screen: ?CODES HAD BEEN VIOLATED?

Citation: - THE HILL, 9/19/12. POLITICO, 9/19/12. THE FORUM, 1/29/02

ANNCR: More evidence we just can?t trust Rick Berg.

On Screen: Congressman Rick Berg

On Screen: NORTH DAKOTA CAN?T TRUST RICK BERG.

ANNCR: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.

On Screen: PAID FOR BY THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, WWW.DSCC.ORG. NOT AUTHORIZED BY ANY CANDIDATE OR CANDIDATE'S COMMITTEE.? THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF THIS ADVERTISING

FACT: GOLDMARK PROPERTY MANAGEMENT HAS A HISTORY OF VIOLATING FIRE CODES

Goldmark Buildings Were Cited For Multiple Fire Code Violations. In September 2012, The Hill reported, ?Heitkamp has also gone on the offense over the past week, launching an attack on what it's characterizing as Berg's time with Goldmark Property Management, a company with a history of violating fire codes.? Buildings managed by Goldmark Property Management were cited in 2000 for missing smoke detector batteries, inoperable kitchen windows and inaccessible fire extinguishers, according to a report from the Fargo Forum. And Berg, during his time in the North Dakota state legislature, attempted to block legislation that would expand fire prevention rules and regulations.? [The Hill, 9/19/12]

Politico: ?Republican Rep. Rick Berg, running for Senate in North Dakota, has close ties to a controversial property management company that has been the target of dozens of tenant complaints, been cited for alleged fire safety violations and received a less than stellar grade from the Better Business Bureau.? [Politico, 9/19/12]

Salon: ?The company, Goldmark Property Management, had earned a bad reputation in the state, along with tenant complaints, citations for alleged fire safety violations, and a?C- rating?from the Better business Bureau.? [Salon, 9/25/12]

Goldmark-Managed Building Completely Burned Down After A Candle Fire Started In A Basement Unit. In January 2002, a ?two-alarm fire, started by a candle in a basement apartment? completely burned down a Goldmark-owned building.? Goldmark president Barry Gish said that the building, over 100 years old, was a ?total loss.? According to the Fargo Forum, ?Most of the tenants? belongings were a total loss, too.??[Fargo Forum 1/29/02]

Fargo Forum: ?Codes had been violated.? [Fargo Forum 1/29/02]

Some Fire Extinguishers In The Building Had Not Been Serviced In The Previous Year. In January 2002, Fargo Fire Marshal Norm Scott said that in the apartment complex destroyed by a fire, ?fire extinguishers in some apartments had not been serviced in the previous year.? [Fargo Forum 1/29/02]

Building Did Not Have Fire Stops, Designed To ?Block Off A Structure?s Combustible Spaces.? In January 2002, city inspector Tom Penuel said that the building ?didn?t have fire stops ? constructive devices to block off a structure?s combustible spaces...??[Fargo Forum 1/29/02]

In 2000, The Same Apartment Complex Was Cited For Not Servicing Its Smoke Detectors. In January 2002, the Fargo Forum reported, ?In 2000, this same apartment complex was cited for not having smoke detectors serviced. By last year's inspection date, however, the detectors had been serviced.??[Fargo Forum 1/29/02]

Routine Inspection In 2000 Showed ?Several Violations? Including ?Missing Smoke Detector Batteries, Inoperable Kitchen Windows And Inaccessible Fire Extinguishers.? In January 2002, the Fargo Forum reported, ?Records on file with Fargo's Building Inspections Department show several violations during a rental housing inspection Aug. 15, 2000. ... Missing smoke detector batteries, inoperable kitchen windows and inaccessible fire extinguishers in stairwells were listed among the violations at the building. Department records also show all violations were fixed.??[Fargo Forum 1/29/02]

Unit In Goldmark-Managed Building in Fargo Caught On Fire, Killing A Tenant. In January 2012, the Fargo Forum reported that a unit in Fargo?s Ashbury Apartments caught on fire, leaving 31-year-old James Peyton dead. According to the Forum, the building?s manager ?directed questions to Goldmark Property Management, Inc., but no one was in the office? to take the call.?[Fargo Forum, 1/29/12]

Fargo Forum: ?Man dies in south Fargo apartment fire; smoke alarms in building reportedly didn't go off.? [Fargo Forum, 1/29/12]

Fargo Fire Department: ?Only A Limited Number Of Smoke Detectors Were In Place, Which May Have Contributed To Delayed Fire Discovery.? In a press release, the Fargo Fire Department stated that ?only a limited number of smoke detectors were in place, which may have contributed to delayed fire discovery.??[Fargo Forum, 1/29/12]

FACT: GOLDMARK PROPERTY MANAGEMENT WAS LISTED AS RICK BERG?S EMPLOYER AT LEAST TWICE WHEN MAKING FEDERAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND APPEARED ON HIS REAL-ESTATE LICENSE

Politico: ?A 1995 real-estate license issued to Berg identifies him as an employee of Goldmark Property Management.?[Politico, 9/20/12]

1992: Berg Signed Real Estate License Application Listing Midwest Management ?Firm Or Broker With Whom You Are Associated? Midwest Management, The Company That Later Became Goldmark Property Management & Was Issued License Stating Midwest Management Was Berg?s Employer. In May 1992, Rick Berg signed an application to transfer his real estate license from Regan Wieland Investment Company to ?Miwest Management ? MMC. INC.? (typo in original). The same day, Berg was issued a real estate license stating he was ?Employed by MMC, INC. ? MIDWEST MANAGEMENT.? [North Dakota Real Estate Commission, Application to Transfer Real Estate License,?5/14/92; Real Estate License,?5/14/92]

1994: Berg Signed Real Estate License Application That Listed His ?Firm Or Broker With Whom You Are Associated? As Goldmark Property Management.?In December of 1994, Berg submitted his real estate license application for the year of 1995 as a broker for Goldmark Property Management. Berg signed the legally binding document acknowledging that says: ?I certify that I have read this application and the above information is true and correct, and I have completed with all license requirements. I am also aware that any material or false statement made on this application is grounds for suspension or revocation of my license.? [North Dakota Real Estate Commission, Real Estate License Application,?12/28/94; Real Estate License,?1/10/95]

Fargo Forum: ?In 2000, when Berg gave $500 to Al Carlson?s U.S. Senate campaign, he listed Goldmark Property Management as his employer.? [Fargo Forum, 9/13/12]

??Goldmark Property Management? Was Listed As Berg?s Employer On A Federal Campaign Contribution Form In 2000, And ?Goldmark Properties? Was Listed On Another Contribution Form In 2007.?In 2000, Berg made a $500 campaign contribution to Al Carlson?s U.S. Senate campaign and ?Goldmark Property Management? was listed as his employer on an FEC disclosure form. Again, in November 2007, Berg donated $250 to Rudy Giuliani?s presidential campaign and ?Goldmark Properties? was listed as his employer on those FEC forms. [Federal Election Commission, Filed?1/8/01;?Federal Election Commission, Filed?1/31/08]

Source: http://www.dscc.org/news?type=press_release&press_release_KEY=2357

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Medical studies with striking results often prove false

If a medical study seems too good to be true, it probably is, according to a new analysis.

In a statistical analysis of nearly 230,000 trials compiled from a variety of disciplines, study results that claimed a "very large effect" rarely held up when other research teams tried to replicate them, researchers reported in Wednesday's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Assn.

"The effects largely go away; they become much smaller," said Dr. John Ioannidis, the Stanford University researcher who was the report's senior author. "It's likely that most interventions that are effective have modest effects."

Ioannidis and his colleagues came to this conclusion after examining 228,220 trials grouped into more than 85,000 "topics" ? collections of studies that paired a single medical intervention (such as taking a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug for postoperative pain) with a single outcome (such as experiencing 50% relief over six hours). In 16% of those topics, at least one study in the group claimed that the intervention made patients at least five times more likely to either benefit or suffer compared with control patients who did not receive the treatment.

In at least 90% of those cases, the team found, including data from subsequent trials reduced those odds.

The analysis revealed several reasons to question the significance of the very-large-effect studies, Ioannidis said.

Studies that reported striking results were more likely to be small, with fewer than 100 subjects who experienced fewer than 20 medical events. With such small sample sizes, Ioannidis said, large effects are more likely to be the result of chance.

"Trials need to be of a magnitude that can give useful information," he said.

What's more, the studies that claimed a very large effect tended to measure intermediate effects ? for example, whether patients who took a statin drug reduced their levels of bad cholesterol in their blood ? rather than incidence of disease or death itself, outcomes that are more meaningful in assessing medical treatments.

The analysis did not examine individual study characteristics, such as whether the experimental methods were flawed.

The report should remind patients, physicians and policymakers not to give too much credence to small, early studies that show huge treatment effects, Ioannidis said.

One such example: the cancer drug Avastin. Clinical trials suggested the drug might double the time breast cancer patients could live with their disease without getting worse. But follow-up studies found no improvements in progression-free survival, overall survival or patients' quality of life. As a result, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2011 withdrew its approval to use the drug to treat breast cancer, though it is still approved to treat several other types of cancer.

With early glowing reports, Ioannidis said, "one should be cautious and wait for a better trial."

Dr. Rita Redberg, a cardiologist at UC San Francisco who was not involved in the study, said devices and drugs frequently get accelerated approval on the basis of small studies that use intermediate end points.

"Perhaps we don't need to be in such a rush to approve them," she said.

The notion that dramatic results don't hold up under closer scrutiny isn't new. Ioannidis, a well-known critic of the methods used in medical research, has written for years about the ways studies published in peer-reviewed journals fall short. (He's perhaps best known for a 2005 essay in the journal PLoS Medicine titled, "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.")

But the scope of the JAMA analysis sets it apart from Ioannidis' earlier efforts, said Dr. Gordon Guyatt, a clinical epidemiologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, who was not involved in the work.

"They looked through a lot of stuff," he said.

Despite widespread recognition that big effects are likely to disappear upon further scrutiny, people still "get excited, and misguidedly so" when presented with home-run results, Guyatt said.

He emphasized that modest effects could benefit patients and were often "very important" on a cumulative basis.

eryn.brown@latimes.com

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BMW sees double-digit Chinese growth mid-term

Wednesday, 24 October, 2012

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The 3 Stages of a Successful New Product Launch

Are you thinking about launching a new product? In today?s episode host Tracey Lawton explains the 3 stages of a new product launch and the components of each.

For more information visit Tracey?s blog post 3 Stages of A Successful Product Launch

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Real Estate Investment Property Management - GMCGhana

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U.S. to study cancer risks near 6 nuclear plants

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced plans Tuesday to launch a pilot epidemiological study of cancer risks near six nuclear power plants, including San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in north San Diego County.

The commission is acting out of growing concern that using uranium to produce electricity may be dangerous even without accidents at nuclear plants. In addition, recent epidemiological studies in Germany and France suggest that the children living near nuclear reactors are twice as likely to develop leukemia.

The U.S. study will be conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, which will also help the commission determine whether to extend the study to all 65 U.S. nuclear power plants and certain nuclear fuel sites.

The pilot study will investigate cancer rates in each census tract within a 30-mile radius of the nuclear facilities, and assess cancers in children younger than 15 whose mothers lived near a nuclear facility during pregnancy. About 1 million people live within five miles of operating nuclear plants in the United States, and more than 45 million live within 30 miles, nuclear regulatory officials said.

The study will cost about $2 million and is to begin later this year, with the results available in 2014, commission spokesman Scott Burnell said. Before beginning, researchers will meet with communities near the plants to explain how the study will be conducted, Burnell said.

The academy chose sites that provide a broad representation of engineering designs and operating histories in states that have a variety of data retrieval systems in cancer registries.

The study area around the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, which has been out of commission since January because of equipment problems, encompasses 2.4 million people in more than 50 cities, including Laguna Beach, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Santa Ana, Tustin, Lake Elsinore, Temecula, Oceanside, Escondido, Solana Beach and Camp Pendleton.

The last time officials assessed cancer rates near nuclear power plants was in 1990. The National Cancer Institute studied cancer risks posed by the 104 licensed reactors the commission governed at that time. The study concluded that the health risks, if any, were too small to be measured.

The commission has been relying on the results of that study ever since to inform the public about cancer mortality rates near nuclear reactors.

"I'm very pleased about this pilot study," said Roger Johnson, a retired neuroscience professor and member of the nonprofit environmental group San Clemente Green, which has raised safety and health concerns about San Onofre.

"Most people are focused on accidents at nuclear power plants," Johnson said. "They don't realize that they store tons of radioactive material and emit low levels of radioactive waste into the atmosphere."

louis.sahagun@latimes.com

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Israel's premier vows to build in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israel's prime minister vowed Tuesday to continue building in a contested Jerusalem district, just days after European Union criticism of Jewish housing there.

Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking during a visit to Gilo after Israeli approval for the construction of 800 Jewish homes there sparked a sharp condemnation from EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton. She is set to visit Israel on Wednesday.

Israel captured Gilo in the 1967 Mideast war from Jordan. Then it annexed the area to Jerusalem in a move that has not been recognized internationally. The Gilo district is close to Bethlehem in the West Bank.

Netanyahu said Jerusalem is "Israel's eternal capital" during the visit to Gilo and said Israel has every right to build there.

"We have built in Jerusalem, we are building in Jerusalem and we will continue to build in Jerusalem, this is our policy, and I will continue to support building in Jerusalem," Netanyahu said.

During the visit, Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat thanked Netanyahu for the resources to allow development and growth. "We will continue to build tens of thousands of apartments throughout the city," he said.

The fate of Jerusalem is one of the most emotional issues in long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, because of key sites there that are sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Palestinians claim the eastern part of Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, along with the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel says east Jerusalem is an inseparable part of its capital, citing biblical and security reasons.

Palestinians are refusing to resume peace talks unless Israel stops building in areas they claim. Israel says all issues, including territorial disputes, must be resolved through negotiations and has frequently called for talks to be restarted.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israels-premier-vows-build-jerusalem-143836538.html

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Teachers union says New York City special-education overhaul ...

By Rachel Monahan, New York Daily News

A 2-year-old overhaul of city special-education programs has produced disappointing results, a new analysis shows.

City officials touted their 2010 effort to keep more kids in their local schools instead of sending them to specialty programs as a way to improve academic achievement for special-education kids.

But an analysis by the teachers union found that students enrolled in the first two years of the program received lower scores on state tests than students in traditional special ed classes.

School officials conducted a similar analysis last year that found virtually no difference between kids in the first year of the program and those who continued to be segregated in special classes, but officials nonetheless decided to expand the reforms to every school in the city.

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iPad Mini hands on: Shrunken iPad or huge iPod? (Both, actually)

12 hrs.

Wilson Rothman , NBC News

The thing that hits you when you pick up the iPad Mini?isn't how small it is, but how big it actually?seems. The reason? The much thinner bezel means a much better screen-to-body ratio.

The other thing that strikes you is how well the industrial design of the new iPod Touch lends itself to the iPad Mini. You will have a very hard time choosing between the two-tone black model and the two-tone White model, as you can see in the shots below, but either way, Apple is really on to something with the new, uh, two-tone design motif.

"Does it feel like a shrunken iPad?" my colleague Rosa asks. Yes ... and no. The first thing you feel is actually, "Wow, I am holding a huge phone!" If you've ever held a Samsung Galaxy Note, for instance, you get a sense of what I'm talking about. It's only after that first burst of huge-phoneness that you settle in and start treating it like an iPad, one that is, yes, miniaturized.

I gave the iPad Mini the all-important lie-on-your-side-and-read test. No,?I didn't get on the ground, but I held it in ?my standard reading position. While I think you could still get cozier on, say, a Kindle Paperwhite, this thing will be a lot less tiresome to hold one-handed. Just be careful, because the tighter bezel could mean accidental pageturns.

So, the Apple execs were ferocious about noting that the iPad Mini has the same screen resolution as the iPad 2. That doesn't quite make its screen resolution a "Retina" display (one where your eyes can't perceive the pixels). The iPad Mini has 163 pixels per inch, which is a step up from the 132 ppi of the iPad 2, but a far cry from the?264 ppi of the more expensive iPad. The bump up from the iPad 2, with a smaller screen,?does give everything a sharp look, though, like you're gazing at an iPad interface through some kind of lens.?

The Apple folks are also keen to point out that the surface area of the iPad Mini is about a quarter greater than the surface area of lower-priced Android tablets, such as the $199?Nexus 7 and the $249 Kindle Fire HD. Those both have greater pixel densities, and 16x9 aspect ratios that are?optimized for movie watching. I would say that if you're using this primarily for movie watching, then the Android models make sense, but as Apple demonstrated,?when you are looking at websites and e-books, you get more surface area at one glance.

Of course, the iPad Minis on display ? complete with adorable little matching?Smart Covers ? were all well behaved, running apps as?snappily as you'd expect with the A5 processor.

I think you'd still need to see it in a store to know if it's right for your needs, but Apple's clearly bringing a whole new media consumption option to the table with iPad Mini, though one that's not exactly going to replace your computer. Or your phone.

Wilson Rothman is the Technology & Science?editor at NBC News Digital. Catch up with him on Twitter at @wjrothman, and join our conversation on Facebook.

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New Surveillance Tech Analyzes Shopper ... - Business Insider

We've covered surveillance tech that identifies faces and people under the influence, even an iPhone app that helps block potential spies, government or otherwise.

Now there's surveillance that could change the future of retail.

Bioscholar.com?reports that "Mirela Popa and colleagues at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, are developing a software that can automatically categorise shoppers? behaviour using video footage from the fisheye cameras."

The CCTV cameras would be outfitted with a special algorithm in their software which logs and learns a shopper's behavior ? and a 'confused' shopper could become the target of floor personnel.

Popa told Bioscholar that more cameras at eye level, measuring customers' interactions with certain products.?

The military has been working on "Behavior Recognition Algorithms" for a while now.

Popa plans to deliver the findings of all the data she and her team gathers to the?International Conference on Image Processing in Florida this month. The Conference is sponsored by the?Institute for Electronics and Electronic Engineer's Signal Processing Society, which caters often to the needs of military and government agencies.

NOW SEE: This Russian Website Is Selling Illegal Access To Private American Servers

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Wells Fargo No. 1 SBA lender in Florida

Wells Fargo was the No. 1 SBA lender in Florida.

Wells Fargo & Co. approved a record $1.24 billion in U.S. Small Business Administration 7(a) loans from Oct. 1, 2011, to Sept. 30, 2012, making it No. 1 for the fourth consecutive year.

The San Francisco-based bank also came in as the No. 1 SBA lender in 15 states, including Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming.

Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) is the third-largest bank in Northeast Florida, with $5.5 billion in area deposits and a market share of 12 percent.

One of the SBA refinancing programs led to an uptick in Jacksonville smallbusiness lending.

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December 7 ? 9, 2012
Sponsored by the University of Bridgeport
Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, Communications Society and Education Society (Connecticut Section)

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

CISSE 2012 provides a virtual forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of the-art research on computers, information and systems sciences and engineering. CISSE 2012 is the eighth conference of the CISSE series of e-conferences. CISSE is the World?s first Engineering/Computing and Systems Research E-Conference. CISSE 2005 was the first high-caliber Research Conference in the world to be completely conducted online in real-time via the internet. In 2005, CISSE received 255 research paper submissions and the final program included 140 accepted papers, from more than 45 countries. Last year, CISSE 2011 received more than 300 submissions and the final program included 105 accepted papers, from more than 80 countries.

The virtual conference will be conducted through the Internet using web-conferencing tools, made available by the conference. Authors will be presenting their PowerPoint, audio or video presentations using web-conferencing tools without the need for travel. Conference sessions will be broadcast to all the conference participants, where session participants can interact with the presenter during the presentation and/or during the Q&A slot that follows the presentation. This international conference will be held entirely on-line. The accepted and presented papers will be made available and sent to the authors after the conference both on a DVD (including all papers, PowerPoint presentations and audio presentations) and as a book publication. Springer, the official publisher for CISSE, published the previous seven CISSE book proceedings.

Conference participants ? authors, presenters and attendees ? only need an internet connection and sound available on their computers in order to be able to contribute and participate in this international ground-breaking conference. The on-line structure of this high-quality event will allow academic professionals and industry participants to contribute their work and attend world-class technical presentations based on rigorously refereed submissions, live, without the need for investing significant travel funds or time out of the office.

The concept and format of CISSE is ground-breaking. The PowerPoint presentations, final paper manuscripts and time schedule for live presentations over the web had been available for weeks prior to the start of the conference for all registrants, so that the participants can choose the presentations they want to attend and think about questions that they might want to ask. The live audio presentations were also recorded and are part of the permanent CISSE on-line archive ? accessible to all registrants- which also includes all the papers, PowerPoint and audio presentations.

Potential non-author conference attendees who cannot make the on-line conference dates are encouraged to register, as the entire joint conferences will be archived for future viewing.

The CISSE conference audio room provides superb audio even over low speed internet connections, the ability to display PowerPoint presentations, and cross-platform compatibility (the conferencing software runs on Windows, Mac, and any other operating system that supports Java). In addition, the conferencing system allowed for an unlimited number of participants, which in turn granted us the opportunity to allow all CISSE participants to attend all presentations, as opposed to limiting the number of available seats for each session.

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format through the website of the conference at: http://www.cisseconference.org/2012

Accepted papers must be presented in the virtual conference by one of the authors. To submit your paper, please visit http://www.cisseconference.org/2012

CISSE 2012 is composed of the following four conferences:

International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering (SCSS 2012)

Topics: Grid Computing, Internet-based Computing Models, Resource Discovery, Programming Models and tools, e-Science and Virtual Instrumentation, Biometric Authentication, Computers for People of Special Needs, Human Computer Interaction, Information and Knowledge Engineering, Algorithms, Parallel and Distributed processing, Modeling and Simulation, Services and Applications, Embedded Systems and Applications, Databases, Programming Languages, Signal Processing Theory and Methods, Signal Processing for Communication, Signal Processing Architectures and Implementation, Information Processing, Geographical Information Systems, Object Based Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Real Time Systems, Multiprocessing, File Systems and I/O, Kernel and OS Structures.

International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 2012)

Topics: Optical Networks and Switching, Computer Networks, Network architectures and Equipment, Access Technologies, Telecommunication Technology, Coding and Modulation technique, Modeling and Simulation, Spread Spectrum and CDMA Systems, OFDM technology, Space-time Coding, Ultra Wideband Communications, Medium Access Control, Spread Spectrum, Wireless LAN: IEEE 802.11, HIPERLAN, Bluetooth, Cellular Wireless Networks, Cordless Systems and Wireless Local Loop, Mobile Network Layer, Mobile Transport Layer, Support for Mobility, Conventional Encryption and Message Confidentiality, Block Ciphers Design Principles, Block Ciphers Modes of Operation, Public-Key Cryptography and Message Authentication, Authentication Application, Stenography, Electronic Mail Security, Web Security, IP Security, Firewalls, Computer Forensics.

International Conference on Engineering Education, Instructional Technology, Assessment, and E-learning (EIAE 2012)

Topics: Instructional Design, Accreditation, Curriculum Design, Educational Tools, 2 -2 -2 Platforms, Teaching Capstone Design, Teaching Design at the Lower Levels, Design and Development of e-Learning tools, Assessment Methods in Engineering, Development and Implementation of E-learning tools, Ethics in Education, Economical and Social Impacts of E-learning.

International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation (IETA 2012)

Topics: Advanced and Distributed Control Systems, Intelligent Control Systems (NN, FL, GA, .etc), Expert Systems, Man Machine Interaction, Data Fusion, Factory Automation, Robotics, Motion Control, Machine Vision, MEMS Sensors and Actuators, Sensors Fusion, Power Electronics, High Frequency Converters, Motors and Drives, Power Converters, Power Devices and Components, Electric Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation, Process Automation, Factory Communication, Manufacturing Information System Advances in Manufacturing Systems, Industrial Applications of Multi Media, Intelligent Systems Instrumentation, Industrial Instrumentation, Modeling and Simulation, Signal Processing, Image and Data Processing, VR and Parallel systems.

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format through the website of the conference at http://conference.cisseconference.org/2012

Accepted papers must be presented in the virtual conference by one of the authors. To submit your paper, please visit http://www.cisseconference.org/2012

Paper submission Deadline: October 29th, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: November 14th, 2012
Final Manuscript and Registration: December 1st, 2012

Source: http://alanis.simmons.edu/blogs/jobs/2012/10/23/call-for-papers-computer-information-and-systems-sciences-and-engineering-conference-bridgeport-ct/

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