Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Hurricane Sandy Damage: A Guide To The Aftermath

Hurricane Sandy caused destruction up the Eastern Seaboard from North Carolina to Maine, with much of the damage centered in New York and New Jersey. The Huffington Post has put together the following map of damage in those states.

This map is not complete and is an overview of major damage in the region. Outside of the New York metro region, wind damage, downed trees and flooding were reported throughout the Northeast, including in coastal Connecticut, Delaware, Washington, D.C., Maryland and northern Virginia.

Key

1. The marina in the port area of Elizabeth, N.J. was destroyed in the tidal surge in Monday's overnight hours, according to Union County, N.J. spokesman Sebastian D?Elia. He said the marina was ?pretty much gone? and that the boats were scattered, along with the surrounding neighborhood sustaining damage.

2. Flooding from the tidal surge impacted 20-30 homes in the Trembly Point neighborhood of Linden, N.J., according to Union County spokesman Sebastian D'Elia.

3. Union County, N.J. saw downed power lines and trees throughout the western end of the county, with many communities experiencing power outages. Inland waterways in the county, including the Rahway River, did not flood like they did with Hurricane Irene, according to county spokesman Sebastian D'Elia.

4. At least 80 homes were destroyed in a major fire late Monday evening in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens. New York City firefighters had trouble reaching the neighborhood due to storm damage, the New York Daily News reported.

5. A levee breach caused flooding in Moonachie, Carlstadt and Little Ferry, N.J., with up to five feet of water, according to CNN. Hundreds had to be rescued.

6. Hoboken, N.J. experienced wide spread flooding, including most streets and the PATH station, Hoboken Patch reported.

7. Twenty-four freight train cars were found on the New Jersey Turnpike in Carteret, N.J., News 12 New Jersey reported.

8. Major destruction occurred in Asbury Park, N.J., including flooding, damage to the boardwalk and the collapse of a car dealership, News 12 New Jersey reported.

9. Rt. 36 along the Jersey Shore was closed due to debris in the roadway.

10. The New York Aquarium in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn flooded.

11. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reported that fires occurred on City Island in the Bronx.

12. Trees were uprooted and fell on buildings in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.

13. Staten Island, N.Y. suffered a lot of damage, including downed trees in Tottenville, along with flooding and wind damage to houses on the South Shore.

14. A wall collapsed on a building on Quincy Street and Stuyvesant Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y.

15. A tree was down at Bond Street and Dean Street in Brooklyn, N.Y.

16. A tree was down at Clinton Street and Second Place in Brooklyn, N.Y.

17. A tree was down on W. 102nd Street between Central Park West and Manhattan Avenue in Manhattan.

18. CNN reported that the southern part of the boardwalk in Asbury Park, N.J. and in neighboring communities to the south was destroyed.

19. Jersey City, N.J. experienced street and building flooding, downed trees, power outages and a tree falling on a police car.

Numbers 20-25 were first reported by Jersey Shore Hurricane News on Facebook.

20. Sand piled up in the streets in Seaside Park, N.J., which also suffered flooding and building damage.

21. There was severe damage to the rides at Funtown Pier amusement park in Seaside Heights, N.J.

22. There was major damage in Belmar, N.J. including flooding, beach erosion and wind damage to buildings.

23. Casino Pier and the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, N.J. were damaged, with a rollar coaster being pushed into the Atlantic Ocean.

24. Much of Seaside Heights, N.J. was flooded from Hurricane Sandy.

25. Ortley Beach, N.J. was flooded due to Hurricane Sandy.

26. Flooding occurred in waterfront neighborhoods of Brooklyn, N.Y. due to the storm surge.

27. Flooding occurred in Highlands, N.J. from Hurricane Sandy, leading people to boat in the street, News 12 New Jersey reported.

28. Downed trees, utility poles, property damage and severe flooding occurred in Union Beach, N.J., News 12 New Jersey reported.

29. Toms River, N.J. suffered flooding and saw boats scattered across lawns.

30. Atlantic Highlands, N.J. was flooded during the storm.

31. Middlesex County, N.J. saw flooding and wind damage throughout the county. New Brunswick and Edison experienced flooding.

32. A man died when a tree fell on his house in Hawthorne, N.J., News 12 New Jersey reported.

33. Essex County, N.J. saw severe damage topple trees throughout the county, including those that fell on homes in Maplewood and South Orange. Power was out in several communities.

34. Ocean County, N.J. saw severe damage along the barrier islands and coast, along with inland wind damage.

35. The boardwalk in Sea Girt, N.J. was destroyed, News 12 New Jersey reports.

36. The marina and several waterfront buildings in Perth Amboy, N.J. were destroyed, News 12 New Jersey reported.

37. Trees fell on streets throughout Staten Island, N.Y.

38. Flooding from the Passaic River occurred in both Newark, N.J. and Harrison, N.J. Most of Newark, including a hospital, was without power.

39. Morris County, N.J. suffered from severe wind damage and power outages, Patch reported.

40 and 41. LaGuardia Airport and JFK Airport in Queens both were flooded in the storm. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a briefing that runways at both airports could have been damaged from the flooding.

42. Lower Manhattan was flooded from a 13.88 foot storm surge. The flooding entered the subway system and led to power outages for most of the borough below 39th Street.

Graphic by Timothy Wallace.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/hurricane-sandy-damage_n_2047194.html

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NJ nuclear plant declares rare alert over high waters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy slowed or shut a half-dozen U.S. nuclear power plants, while the nation's oldest facility declared a rare "alert" after the record storm surge pushed flood waters high enough to endanger a key cooling system.

Exelon Corp's 43-year-old Oyster Creek plant in New Jersey remains on "alert" status, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said early Tuesday. It is only the third time this year that the second-lowest of four emergency action levels was triggered.

"Oyster Creek is still in an alert but may be getting out of it as long as water levels continue to drop," NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan told Reuters.

The alert came after water levels at the plant rose more than 6.5 feet above normal, potentially affecting the "water intake structure" that pumps cooling water through the plant.

Those pumps are not essential to keep the reactor cool since the plant has been shut for planned refueling since October 22. Exelon however was concerned that if the water rose over 7 feet it could submerge the service water pump motor that is used to cool the water in the spent fuel pool, potentially forcing it to use emergency water supplies from the in-house fire suppression system to keep the rods from overheating.

Exelon also moved a portable pump to the intake structure as a precaution in case it was needed to pump cooling water.

The water levels reached a peak of 7.4 feet -- apparently above the threshold -- but the pump motors did not flood, Sheehan said. As of 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday the water level was down to 5.8 feet, with the next high tide at 11:45 a.m.

"They need the water level to stay below 6 feet for a while to exit the alert," Sheehan said, noting when the water level falls below 4.5 feet, the plant could exit the unusual event.

An unusual event is the lowest of the NRC's emergency action levels.

Exelon said in a statement that there was no danger to equipment and no threat to public health or safety.

"Right now there's no imminent threat of releases. There's no protective actions around the plant," Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate said on the Today Show.

"Some of these reporting requirements are due though to the severity of the storms. That they have to make these notifications based upon conditions, that does not mean that they are in an imminent threat at the plant," Fugate said.

The incident at Oyster Creek, which is about 60 miles east of Philadelphia on the New Jersey Coast, came as Sandy made landfall as the largest Atlantic storm ever, bringing up to 90 mile per hour (mph) winds and 13-foot storm surges in the biggest test of the industry's emergency preparedness since the Fukushima disaster in Japan a year and a half ago.

Despite the alert -- which is a serious but not catastrophic event that signals a "potential substantial degradation in the level of safety" -- the U.S. nuclear industry was broadly seen having passed the test. About a dozen alerts have been issued in the past four years, according to NRC press releases.

On Tuesday morning, the NRC said that Entergy Corp's Indian Point 3 automatically tripped offline at about 10:41 p.m. last night due to fluctuations in the power grid caused by the storm, while Public Service Enterprise Group Inc shut Unit 1 at Salem in New Jersey at 1:10 a.m. due to a loss of "condenser circulators" due to the storm surge and debris.

SPENT FUEL

The relatively small 636-megawatt (MW) Oyster Creek plant earlier experienced a "power disruption" at its switch yard, causing two backup diesel generators to kick in and maintain a stable source of power, Exelon said.

The NRC spokesman said the company could use water from a fire suppression system or a portable pump to cool the pool if necessary. The used uranium rods in the pool could cause the water to boil in about 25 hours without additional coolant; in an extreme scenario the rods could overheat, risking the eventual release of radiation.

The concerns over the status of the spent fuel pool at Oyster Creek was reminiscent of the fears that followed the Fukushima disaster last year, when helicopters and fire hoses were enlisted to ensure the pools remained filled with fresh, cool water. The nuclear industry has said that the spent fuel rods at Fukushima were never exposed to the air.

Nuclear plants must store the spent uranium fuel rods for at least five years in order to cool them sufficiently before they can be moved to dry cask storage containers.

Exelon spokesman David Tillman said Monday night the plant has "multiple and redundant" sources of cooling for the spent fuel pool.

The plant uses pumps to take in external water that circulates through a heat exchanger used to cool the internal water that surrounds the rods, keeping them from overheating.

Among other units, Constellation Energy Nuclear Group's 630-MW Nine Mile Point 1 nuclear power reactor in upstate New York did shut due to a problem putting power onto the grid, although it was not clear whether the trouble was related to the storm.

In addition, Sandy caused power reductions at both units at Exelon's Limerick nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and one unit at Dominion's Millstone plant in Connecticut.

(Editing by Ed Davies and Alden bentley)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-nuclear-plant-declares-alert-sandy-storm-surge-045428689.html

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Forstall, Browett leaving Apple next year

CNBC's Jon Fortt reports on significant management departures at Apple, including the head of iPhone software and the boss of the company's retail operation.

By Joy Jernigan, NBC News

Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iPhone Software at Apple, is out.

Stephen Lam / Reuters

Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iOS Software at Apple Inc., demonstrates turn-by-turn navigation in iOS6 using Siri on June 11 during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2012 in San Francisco.

Forstall was one?of the original architects of the Mac operating system and head of its smartphone software. He gave a demo of Siri's voice recognition software at a special Apple event last year and most recently?headed up?Apple's recent maps disaster, which prompted a public apology from CEO Tim Cook. Forstall will leave Apple next year but will?continue to serve as an adviser to Cook in the interim, the company announced on Monday.

Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet software and services,?will take on responsibility for Siri and Maps, placing all of online services in one group. Those two products, formerly overseen by Forstall, have received mixed reviews and customer complaints in recent months.?

?We are in one of the most prolific periods of innovation and new products in Apple?s history,? said Cook in a press release. ?The amazing products that we?ve introduced in September and October, iPhone 5, iOS 6, iPad mini, iPad, iMac, MacBook Pro, iPod touch, iPod nano and many of our applications, could only have been created at Apple and are the direct result of our relentless focus on tightly integrating world-class hardware, software and services.??

Despite Apple's recent iPad mini reveal, the company?reported quarterly earnings that missed Wall Street's?forecasts on Thursday and an outlook that fell shy of estimates.

Forstall's departure was among?executive management changes?announced by Apple.?John Browett, Apple's senior vice president of retail,?is also leaving after just?six months on the job.

Information from Reuters and the Associated Press was included in this report.

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Syria truce collapse shows limits of diplomacy

In this Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 photo, a doctor examines an x-ray while a Syrian elder sits on a hospital trolley suffering partial loss of memory after was shot in the head by a sniper in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).

In this Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 photo, a doctor examines an x-ray while a Syrian elder sits on a hospital trolley suffering partial loss of memory after was shot in the head by a sniper in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).

In this Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 photo, Syrian civilian sob as a relative lies on a hospital trolley after was wounded with a sniper shot to his back, in the Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).

In this Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 photo, Syrian residents cross a street as a pile of rubbish burns along the roadside in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).

In this Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 photo, a Syrian elder sits on a hospital trolley suffering partial loss of memory after was shot in the head by a sniper while walking on a street in Bustan Al-Pasha, Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).

In this Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 photo, Syrian residents walk on a street among the debris of buildings damaged by heavy shelling in the southeast of Aleppo City. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).

BEIRUT (AP) ? Syria's air force fired missiles and dropped barrel bombs on rebel strongholds while opposition fighters attacked regime positions Sunday, flouting a U.N.-backed cease-fire that was supposed to quiet fighting over a long holiday weekend but never took hold.

The failure to push through a truce so limited in its ambitions ? just four days ? has been a sobering reflection of the international community's inability to ease 19 months of bloodshed in Syria. It also suggests that the stalemated civil war will drag on, threatening to draw in Syria's neighbors in this highly combustible region such as Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.

"This conflict has now taken a dynamic of its own which should be worrying to everyone," said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Center think tank.

The U.N. tried to broker a halt to fighting over the four-day Eid al-Adha Muslim feast that began on Friday, one of the holiest times of the Islamic calendar. But the truce was violated almost immediately after it was supposed to take effect, the same fate other cease-fires in Syria have met.

Activists said at least 110 people were killed Sunday, a toll similar to previous daily casualty tolls. They include 16 who died in an airstrike on the village of al-Barra in northern Syria's mountainous Jabal al-Zawiya region.

The Observatory also reported a car bomb that exploded in a residential area in the Damascus neighborhood of Barzeh and wounded 15 people, but the target was not immediately clear.

Though Syria's death toll has topped 35,000, the bloodiest and most protracted crisis of the Arab Spring, the West has been wary of intervening. There is concern about sparking a wider conflagration because Syria borders Israel and is allied with Iran and the powerful Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

There are already increasing incidents of the civil war spilling across borders.

Many in Lebanon blame Syria and Hezbollah for the Oct. 19 car bomb that killed the country's intelligence chief. The assassination stirred up deadly sectarian tensions in Lebanon, where Sunnis and Shiites are deeply divided over the Syrian civil war, raising the specter of renewed sectarian fighting.

Lebanon's two largest political coalitions have lined up on opposite sides of Syria's civil war. Hezbollah and its partners who dominate the government have stood by Assad's regime, while the Sunni-led opposition backs the rebels seeking to topple the Syrian government. Assad and many in his inner circle are Alawites ? an offshoot of Shiite Islam and a minority in Syria ? while the rebels come mostly from the country's Sunni majority.

Iraqi Shiites also increasingly fear a spillover from Syria. Iraqi authorities on Sunday forced an Iranian cargo plane heading to Syria to land for inspection in Baghdad to ensure it was not carrying weapons, the second such forced landing this month. The move appeared aimed at easing U.S. concerns that Iraq has become a route for shipments of Iranian military supplies that could help Assad battle rebels.

In Jordan, concern over stability was underlined last month, when its U.S., British and French allies quickly dispatched their military experts to help Jordanian commandos devise plans to shield the population in case of a chemical attack from neighboring Syria.

Turkey's support for the Syrian rebel movement is another point of tension, and Turkey has reinforced its border and fired into Syria on several occasions recently in response to shells that have landed from Syria inside Turkish territory.

The U.S. administration says it remains opposed to military action in Syria and politicians have been preoccupied this year with the presidential election, now a few weeks away.

On Sunday, Syrian warplanes struck the eastern Damascus suburbs of Arbeen, Harasta and Zamalka to try to drive out rebels, according to activists in those areas and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which compiles information from activists in Syria.

In Douma, another Damascus suburb, rebels wrested three positions from regime forces, including an unfinished high-rise building that had been used by regime snipers, according to the Observatory and Mohammed Saeed, a local activist.

Fighting was also reported near Maaret al-Numan, a strategic town along the Aleppo-Damascus highway that rebels seized earlier this month. Opposition fighters including the al-Qaida-inspired Jabhat al-Nusra, have also besieged a nearby military base and repeatedly attacked government supply convoys heading there. The Observatory said the Syrian air force fired missiles and dropped barrel bombs ? makeshift weapons made of explosives stuffed into barrels ? on villages near the base.

The cease-fire was seen as a long shot from the outset. International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi failed to get firm commitments from all combatants, and no mechanism to monitor violations was put in place.

Jabhat al-Nusra rejected the truce outright. In a video posted this week, the leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahri, urged Muslims everywhere to support Syria's uprising.

"It's not just about the Syria military and the army defectors that form the backbone of the Free Syrian Army rebel group anymore," said Hassan Abdul-Azim, a Damascus-based opposition leader. He said there were so many foreign fighters and external actors now involved in the Syrian civil war that only an agreement among the various international and regional powers could put an end to the fighting.

"The truce was merely an attempt by Brahimi to try and temporarily ease the people's suffering in the lost time until the U.S. elections, in the hope that the international community can then get its act together and agree on a diplomatic solution for Syria," he told The Associated Press.

But with the unraveling of the cease-fire, it's unclear what the international community can do next.

Assad allies Russia and China have shielded his regime against harsher U.N. Security Council sanctions, while the rebels' foreign backers including neighboring Turkey have shied away from military intervention. Iran, which is embroiled in its own diplomatic standoff with the West over its suspect nuclear program, is also a staunch supporter of Assad's regime.

The U.S., meanwhile, is averse to sending strategic weapons to help the rebels break the battlefield stalemate, fearing they will fall into the hands of militant Islamists, who are increasingly active in rebel ranks.

"There has been a lack of desire to take the tough decisions," said Shaikh.

"In Washington, they've only been focused on the narrow political goal of their own elections, trying to convince a war-wary public inside the U.S. that we are actually disengaging from the conflicts of the Middle East," he said.

The truce was called as the two sides were battling over strategic targets in a largely deadlocked civil war. They include a military base near a main north-south highway, the main supply route to Aleppo, Syria's largest city, where regime forces and rebels have been fighting house-to-house. It appears each side feared the other could exploit a lull to improve its positions.

Brahimi has not said what would follow a cease-fire. Talks between Assad and the Syrian opposition on a peaceful transition are blocked, since the Syrian leader's opponents say they will not negotiate unless Assad resigns, something he has always refused to do.

In April, Brahimi's predecessor as Syria mediator, former U.N. chief Kofi Annan, tried to launch a more comprehensive plan ? an open-ended cease-fire to be enforced by hundreds of U.N. monitors, followed by talks on a political transition. Annan's plan failed to gain traction, and after an initial decrease in violence, his proposed cease-fire collapsed.

On Sunday, amateur videos posted online showed warplanes flying over the eastern suburbs of Damascus. One video showed two huge clouds of smoke rising from what was said to be Arbeen, and the sound of an airplane could be heard in the background. It was not clear if the video showed the aftermath of shelling or an airstrike.

Another video showed destruction inside the Sheikh Moussa mosque in Harasta. Windows and doors were blown out, glass and debris scattered across the mosque's floor. The narrator broke down as he was heard saying: "Where are the Muslims? Our mosques are being bombed and no one cares."

The videos appeared consistent with Associated Press reporting in the area.

The Syrian government has accused the rebels of violating the cease-fire from the start. The state-run news agency SANA said opposition fighters carried out attacks in a number of areas, including in Aleppo and the eastern town of Deir el-Zour.

___

Associated Press writer Karin Laub contributed reporting.

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Kyrgyz protesters demand closure of Chinese gold mine

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October 23, 2012

With resource nationalism rising in Kyrgyzstan, over 200 people joined a demonstration on October 22 in the Kemin district calling for Superb Pacific Limited's operations at its gold mine be shut down.

The demonstration took place outside the Chinese mining company's headquarters in Orlovka. Demonstrators claim that Superb illegally fired several Kyrgyz workers, and polluted the local environment, RFE/RL reports.

Kyrgyzstan has recently seen a wave of protests against international mining companies. The most serious was a demonstration led by the opposition Ata-Zhurt party calling for the nationalisation of the country's largest gold mine on October 3. Around 1,000 people joined the demonstration against Centerra Gold's operation of Kutamor, which ended in clashes with police when Ata-Zhurt leader Kamchibek Tashiyev and around 40 supporters attempted to break into the White House ? the presidential seat in Bishkek.

In September, around 100 residents of the Jalal-Abad region attacked a workers' camp belonging to Spektr, a construction company building a road to the Charaat gold mine, and seized the company's equipment. They claimed that heavy trucks serving the project had damaged local roads.

Source: http://www.bne.eu/story4136

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Russia suggests U.S. coordinating arms supplies to Syria rebels

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday accepted a U.S. statement that it has not supplied Stinger missiles to Syrian rebels, but suggested the United States is coordinating supplies of some other weapons to President Bashar al-Assad's foes.

The United States said on Wednesday it has not supplied Stinger missiles to Syrian rebel forces and appeared to question Russian assertions that the U.S.-made, surface-to-air missiles had made their way into the opposition's hands.

"Yes, the United States is not supplying man-portable air-defense systems to rebels in Syria," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement.

"At the same time, it is also well-known that Washington is aware of supplies of various types of arms to illegal armed groups operating in Syria," he said.

"Moreover, the United States, judging by admissions by American officials that have also been published in American media, is conducting coordination and providing logistical support for such supplies."

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on Wednesday that the United States had provided no lethal assistance to rebel forces whatsoever. On Thursday, she said the latest Russian suggestion was "ludicrous."

"We have made a choice only to provide non-lethal assistance. Other countries have made a different choice. We coordinate with all of those countries, particularly on this issue of ensuring that we are vetting well who we are working with, and making sure that we are not inadvertently supporting extremists," Nuland told a news briefing.

"But this notion that we are coordinating the military assistance of other countries is ludicrous."

Moscow and Washington are at loggerheads over the conflict in Syria, which activists say has killed more than 32,000 people since protests against Assad erupted in March 2011.

Russia sold the government in Syria $1 billion worth of weapons last year and has made clear it would oppose an arms embargo in the U.N. Security Council, contending that rebels would get weapons illegally anyway.

The West has criticized Russia for vetoing, along with China, three Security Council resolutions aimed at putting pressure on Assad to end a 19-month conflict. Moscow says it opposes foreign interference in Syria's affairs.

(Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; additional reporting by Andrew Quinn in Washington; Editing by Stephen Powell and Stacey Joyce)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russia-suggests-u-coordinating-arms-supplies-syria-rebels-163829194.html

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The Rise of Social Media as Publisher

The Mashable Media Summit, celebrates trends in technology and media, and explores the evolution of social media. Research shows that today more than 66% of adults are connected to at least one social media platform. As demand continues to rise for these platforms, they are evolving beyond content curation and becoming creators of content, as well. We now must ask: are social media companies becoming simply a new breed of traditional media companies?

[More from Mashable: Ann Coulter?s ?Retard? Tweet Perpetuates Ignorance, Unites Advocates]

At this year's Mashable Media Summit, Jessica Bennett, executive editor at Tumblr, and Dan Roth, executive editor at LinkedIn, will join Mashable's community manager Meghan Peters onstage, to discuss the rise of social media sites at publishers.

Held on Nov. 2 at the TimesCenter in New York City, the Mashable Media Summit is a one-day conference that will explore the latest innovations in the space and the future of journalism. Plus, you'll have the opportunity to network with high-level executives in many industries and mingle with Mashable staff. As in previous years, this event will sell out, so get your tickets now.

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Galaxy Note II Already Shipping to T-Mobile Stores

Samsung and T-Mobile have been recently teasing the near launch of Galaxy Note II in the United States, and it seems that the first batch of devices is already shipping to the carrier?s stores, Phandroid reports.

Samsung Galaxy Note II is expected to become available for purchase as soon as October 24, and T-Mobile appears set to have it on shelves right from the start.

No official announcement on the price tag of this device has been made as of now, but rumor has it that it might go for around $300 (?230) with the signing of a two-year contract agreement.

Provided that the rumors on this phone?s arrival pan out, we should be able to learn some more details on it soon, including a formal announcement on its availability and pricing, so stay tuned.

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Galaxy-Note-II-Already-Shipping-to-T-Mobile-Stores-301427.shtml

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The Science of Genius (preview)

Cover Image: November 2012 Scientific American MagazineSee Inside

Outstanding creativity in all domains may stem from shared attributes and a common process of discovery

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In Brief

  • Genius has been viewed two different ways: as achieved eminence and as exceptional intelligence. The former metric offers the more useful definition.
  • Genetics and life experiences both contribute to genius. Creative contributions can occur only after a domain has been mastered, but genetics can help a person improve faster and accomplish more with a given amount of expertise.
  • Genius can share certain potentially negative traits with the mentally ill, but when these traits are combined with specific positive attributes, the result is creativity rather than psychopathology.
  • A scientific genius has different expertise than an artistic genius, but all creative geniuses may depend on the same general process: blind variation and selective retention.

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Identifying genius is a dicey venture. Consider, for example, this ranking of ?The Top 10 Geniuses? I recently stumbled across on Listverse.com. From first to last place, here are the honorees: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Emanuel Swedenborg, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, John Stuart Mill, Blaise Pascal, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bobby Fischer, Galileo Galilei and Madame De Sta?l.

What about Albert Einstein instead of Swedenborg? Some of the living might also deserve this appellation?Stephen Hawking comes to mind. A female genius or two might make the cut, perhaps Marie Curie or Toni Morrison. And if a chess champion, Fischer, is deemed worthy, other geniuses outside the arts and sciences ought to deserve consideration?Napoleon Bonaparte as a military genius, Nelson Mandela as a political genius or Bill Gates as an entrepreneurial genius, to name a few candidates.


This article was originally published with the title The Science of Genius.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Taiwan cops: Nursing home resident set deadly fire

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ? Police in Taiwan said a nursing home resident confessed to an early morning fire that ripped through the facility Tuesday, killing 12 people and injuring 60, many of them too weak to get out of their beds to escape.

Police did not identify the suspect, but Taiwanese television stations reported that he set the 3 a.m. fire because he was unhappy about his own protracted illness. Citing police officers they did not name, the reports also said the man was found naked, hiding in a storage facility at the Hsinying hospital, after burning his own clothes.

The nursing home is on the second floor of the hospital in the southern city of Tainan. Hospital security video broadcast on TV showed nurses working frantically to save patients, wheeling their beds into nearby corridors and performing CPR on stricken victims outside the hospital.

Hospital official Tsai Ming-shih said the victims died of smoke inhalation, and most of them were bedridden and too frail to run for their lives.

Tsai said the fire was extinguished about 40 minutes after it broke out and that rescuers safely evacuated more than 100 patients. Police initially said 70 people were hurt, but later lowered the number to 60.

Prosecutor Tseng Chao-kai said police were questioning the suspect. The government-owned Central News Agency said the suspect confessed to setting the fire, but Tseng would not confirm that.

Nursing homes are a relatively new phenomenon in Taiwan, where Confucian values dictate that family members care for elderly relatives themselves, rather than consigning them to institutions for the aged.

Tuesday was Taiwan's government-recognized "Day for the Elderly," when officials hand out packets of money ? in some cases amounting to as much as Taiwan dollars 9,000 ($300) ? to citizens 80 years of age and older.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/taiwan-cops-nursing-home-resident-set-deadly-fire-091537271.html

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UK bomb suspects played currency market to raise funds: court

LONDON (Reuters) - Three Islamist militants accused of plotting attacks in Britain tried to raise funds for their bombing campaign by trading stolen charity money on the foreign exchange market, a court heard on Tuesday.

The three men from Birmingham in central England were arrested with several others on terrorism charges in September last year as part of a wider crackdown following the 2005 bomb attacks in London that killed 52 people.

The trio, on trial in London accused of being central figures in a suicide bomb plot, tried to raise money to finance a shop as a "cover" to recruit others to their cause, prosecutor Brian Altman told the jury.

He said the defendants had asked an associate, Rahin Ahmed, to set up a currency trading account using 14,500 pounds ($23,200) they had amassed posing as volunteer fundraisers for a Muslim charity.

British-born Ashik Ali, 27, Irfan Khalid, 27,and Irfan Naseer, 31, have all pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges.

The three appeared relaxed in the glass-fronted dock, occasionally flicking through ring-binders of the prosecutor's evidence and exchanging words quietly with each other.

Prosecutors said transcripts of covertly recorded conversations would form the bulk of their evidence.

"We're planning soon to open a shop ... obviously we're gonna need money innit," Naseer was quoted as saying in one recorded conversation, according to a written transcript provided by the prosecutor.

The court heard how the defendants started doubting Ahmed's trading abilities after it transpired he had lost more than 9,000 pounds, blaming "troubles in Europe".

Jurors at Woolwich Crown Court were told how the men had worried that the locations of militant camps in Asia might be revealed by four other men Naseer allegedly helped send to Pakistan for training.

"They'll arrest all the brothers' man, all their commando kit, all their weapons ... millions worth of weapons," the transcript quoted Naseer as telling another defendant.

The trial continues.

(Editing by Maria Golovnina)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-bomb-suspects-played-currency-market-raise-funds-154719357.html

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Tackles Cevisama business contract

Cevisama, together with UNEX (Habitat Business Association, Internationalisation and Contract) released in the next edition, from 5 to 8 February 2013 Feria Valencia; themeetings will contract. The objective of this action is to connect manufacturers to develop products for this channel with an international group of prescribers.

The organization of the fair has contacted leading architects and interior designers, promoters and hospitality related projects, at the residential and office, business in Latin America and Europe. They invited prescribers know first hand products presenting companies use both architectural and interior design projects.

Cevisama 2013 host to almost all Spanish manufacturers of ceramic and natural stone for architecture and key signatures of the major producing countries. In addition to the commercial, Cevisama, aims to disseminate the new applications of the materials exposed to the group of prescribers.

?The current economic climate forces overseas actions, intensify the search for markets and promoting the public prescriber Cevisama?, says Armando Ib??ez, President Cevisama, adding: ?Contract meetings that start in this edition, eventually get the position of the fair in the Latin American and European, opening the door for brands to international projects?.

High Expectations

Pottery Fair, natural stone and bathroom equipment, to date has occupation of 80% the intended surface for its next edition. Sector firms driven back good results in the last two editions, reflected in increase 17% International Buyers.

Cevisama sent the invitations to visitors, by special emphasis on large buying groups French, as this year?s guest country is France, given the importance of this market for Spanish exports.

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WHY IT MATTERS: An election of tipping points

FILE - In this March 22, 2012 file photo, a pumpjack is silhouetted against the setting sun in Oklahoma City. Americans depend on energy for everything from driving their cars to powering factories, homes and offices _ and of course our smart phones, laptops and tablets. How that energy is produced and where it comes from affect jobs, the economy and the environment. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

FILE - In this March 22, 2012 file photo, a pumpjack is silhouetted against the setting sun in Oklahoma City. Americans depend on energy for everything from driving their cars to powering factories, homes and offices _ and of course our smart phones, laptops and tablets. How that energy is produced and where it comes from affect jobs, the economy and the environment. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

(AP) ? Election Day could well determine how much you end up paying in taxes. It could move the bar for fighting future wars. On energy, it could shape the balance between drill-baby-drill (and mine-baby-mine) and some big pollution controls. If you care about Obamacare, this may be your last, best chance to save it or unravel it ? with your vote.

Long after the fuss fades over President Barack Obama's snoozy debate opener and Mitt Romney's weird flub or two, one of them will be hard at work trying to make good on his agenda. This will include pressing any opportunity to reshape the Supreme Court, which hovers over all other issues.

The winner's policies are almost certain to find you where you live, no matter how far you are from Washington in your mind or your place. The taxman cometh. So does the Social Security check for retirees ? and the shakier-by-the-decade promise of those checks for everyone else.

Obama's mandate for almost everyone to have health insurance ? along with all the coverage protections that flow from that ? constitutes the largest reshaping of social policy in generations, with the effects to be felt ever more as the law takes firmer hold in the next few years. If Romney wins and gets enough like-minded people in Congress, he would reset that and try something else.

Though farther from home, the outsourcing of production overseas goes to the heart of American communities large and small as factory jobs vanish, or in some cases come back. Seemingly esoteric subjects like the value of China's currency and the fine print of trade deals affect what you pay for goods and perhaps whether you or the neighbors have work. Less obviously, the debt crisis on a faraway continent affects credit in the U.S. What happens in Greece, Spain and beyond may put your home loan out of reach if the turmoil gets out of hand.

Romney and Obama have sharp differences on these subjects and more, though they don't always make them easy to see. Much of the final leg of the campaign is about reaching for the middle ground. So nothing too radical, please.

For Romney, that means suddenly talking about his interest in seeing Pell grants rise for low-income college students, not about the major changes in government programs that would be required for him even to get close to his deficit-cutting goals.

For Obama, it means preaching fiscal discipline and an aggressive stance on energy production, not focusing on the tax increases for higher-end insurance policies in his health care law or the mercury pollution controls that could shut dozens of coal-fired power plants across the country. Although Obama failed to persuade a Democratic Congress to pass limits he promised on carbon emissions and he shelved a plan to toughen health standards on lung-damaging smog, a second term could give a second wind to steps like these.

Both candidates talk about cutting unnecessary regulation, but Romney's view of what's unnecessary is far more expansive than the Democrat's. That's part of a larger, fundamental and familiar divide between the two parties on the proper responsibilities of government.

Voters, like candidates, can't predict what economic calamity will come out of the blue. But it's clear both from records and rhetoric that Obama believes in the power of government and the Treasury to stimulate growth, add jobs and even save industries in ways that Romney doesn't. On Nov. 6, voters choose governing principles as much as a list of positions.

That holds true on foreign policy, too. At the moment, Romney comes across as just a little more aggressive on the conflict in Syria than does Obama. On Afghanistan, he supports the president's plan to end U.S. combat in 2014, with the qualification that conditions at the time be suitable for withdrawal. Those apparently modest differences may come to nothing after the campaign, or they could prove substantive ? determining whether the U.S. truly extricates itself from one war and how willing it will be to fight another.

The choice in the election doesn't just matter on the issues the candidates want to talk about. It can matter just as much on the issues they avoid. This is where the Supreme Court comes in.

With four justices in their 70s, there's a strong chance the next president will have a chance to fill at least one seat on a court closely divided between conservatives and liberals. One new face on the bench could mean a major change in civil liberties, gay relationships, gun control, health care, the approach to terrorism, perhaps access to abortion, and more, for years to come.

All told, a lot of tipping points on Election Day. That's democracy for you.

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UCI agrees to strip Armstrong of his 7 Tour titles

Lance Armstrong speaks at the Livestrong Challenge Austin bike ride Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, in Austin, Texas. Lance Armstrong greeted about 4,300 cyclists at his Livestrong charity's fund-raising bike ride, then retreated into privacy as cycling officials get set to announce if they will appeal his lifetime ban and loss of seven Tour de France titles ordered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)

Lance Armstrong speaks at the Livestrong Challenge Austin bike ride Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, in Austin, Texas. Lance Armstrong greeted about 4,300 cyclists at his Livestrong charity's fund-raising bike ride, then retreated into privacy as cycling officials get set to announce if they will appeal his lifetime ban and loss of seven Tour de France titles ordered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)

(AP) ? Cycling's governing body agreed Monday to strip Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and ban him for life, following a report from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that accused him of leading a massive doping program on his teams.

UCI President Pat McQuaid announced that the federation accepted the USADA's report on Armstrong and would not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The decision clears the way for Tour de France organizers to officially remove Armstrong's name from the record books, erasing his consecutive victories from 1999-2005.

Tour director Christian Prudhomme has said the race would go along with whatever cycling's governing body decides and will have no official winners for those years.

USADA said Armstrong should be banned and stripped of his Tour titles for "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen" within his U.S. Postal Service and Discovery Channel teams.

The USADA report said Armstrong and his teams used steroids, the blood booster EPO and blood transfusions. The report included statements from 11 former teammates who testified against Armstrong.

Armstrong denies doping, saying he passed hundreds of drug tests. But he chose not to fight USADA in one of the agency's arbitration hearings, arguing the process was biased against him. Former Armstrong team director Johan Bruyneel is also facing doping charges, but he is challenging the USADA case in arbitration.

On Sunday, Armstrong greeted about 4,300 cyclists at his Livestrong charity's fundraiser bike ride in Texas, telling the crowd he's faced a "very difficult" few weeks.

"I've been better, but I've also been worse," Armstrong, a cancer survivor, told the crowd.

While drug use allegations have followed the 41-year-old Armstrong throughout much of his career, the USADA report has badly damaged his reputation. Longtime sponsors Nike, Trek Bicycles and Anheuser-Busch have dropped him, as have other companies, and Armstrong also stepped down last week as chairman of Livestrong, the cancer awareness charity he founded 15 years ago after surviving testicular cancer which spread to his lungs and brain.

Armstrong's astonishing return from life-threatening illness to the summit of cycling offered an inspirational story that transcended the sport. However, his downfall has ended "one of the most sordid chapters in sports history," USADA said in its 200-page report published two weeks ago.

Armstrong has consistently argued that the USADA system was rigged against him, calling the agency's effort a "witch hunt."

If Armstrong's Tour victories are not reassigned there would be a hole in the record books, marking a shift from how organizers treated similar cases in the past.

When Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 Tour victory for a doping violation, organizers awarded the title to Andy Schleck. In 2006, Oscar Pereiro was awarded the victory after the doping disqualification of American rider Floyd Landis.

USADA also thinks the Tour titles should not be given to other riders who finished on the podium, such was the level of doping during Armstrong's era.

The agency said 20 of the 21 riders on the podium in the Tour from 1999 through 2005 have been "directly tied to likely doping through admissions, sanctions, public investigations" or other means. It added that of the 45 riders on the podium between 1996 and 2010, 36 were by cyclists "similarly tainted by doping."

The world's most famous cyclist could still face further sports sanctions and legal challenges. Armstrong could lose his 2000 Olympic time-trial bronze medal and may be targeted with civil lawsuits from ex-sponsors or even the U.S. government.

In total, 26 people ? including 15 riders ? testified that Armstrong and his teams used and trafficked banned substances and routinely used blood transfusions. Among the witnesses were loyal sidekick George Hincapie and convicted dopers Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis.

USADA's case also implicated Italian sports doctor Michele Ferrari, depicted as the architect of doping programs, and longtime coach and team manager Bruyneel.

Ferrari ? who has been targeted in an Italian prosecutor's probe ? and another medical official, Dr. Luis Garcia del Moral, received lifetime bans.

Bruyneel, team doctor Pedro Celaya and trainer Jose "Pepe" Marti opted to take their cases to arbitration with USADA. The agency could call Armstrong as a witness at those hearings.

Bruyneel, a Belgian former Tour de France rider, lost his job last week as manager of the RadioShack-Nissan Trek team which Armstrong helped found to ride for in the 2010 season.

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CJ Hobgood and Julian Wilson prevail in opening round of Rip Curl ...

CJ Hobgood and Julian Wilson prevail in opening round of Rip Curl Pro Portugal

America?s CJ Hobgood and Australia?s Julian Wilson claimed top honours in their respective Round 1 heats at the Rip Curl Pro Portugal, the eighth of ten stops on the 2012 Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Championship Tour, which continued at Supertubos in Peniche, Portugal, on Saturday, October 13.

The 11th heat saw CJ Hobgood get the better of South Africa?s Travis Logie and his fellow countryperson Jordy Smith to secure his place in the third round, relegating both his rivals to the second round in the process.

Wilson clinched a convincing win over Portugal?s Tiago Pires and Australia?s Adrian Buchan in the 12th heat to jump straight into the third round, forcing both his rivals to take a trip to Round 2 to surf again for a place in the third round.

The crowd in attendance at Supertubos and audience via live webcast expected to get treated to a heavy dose of thrilling action as the three-to-five foot waves offered plenty of juice for the elite ASP surfers to put their skills on display.

While his brother was unable to taste success in his heat earlier in the day, CJ Hobgood had no intention of taking the long road to Round 3. Instead, he took the shortest way possible by getting his hands on the win in the 11th heat of Round 1 by defeating Logie and Smith with a heat-total of 13.73 points, which included a perfect 10-point ride, courtesy of a lengthy lefthander, and a 3.73-point wave.

Logie had to settle for second place after scoring a 5.00 off his first business-wave and later backing it up with a 7.83-poing ride. While the latter effort was nothing short of impressive, it just was not enough to put his American rival under pressure.

Smith suffered an uncharacteristic defeat in the opening round after finishing with a heat-total of 11.03 points, which included a 6.50 and 4.53-point ride.

The final heat of Round 1 saw the young Wilson get the better of the local favourite Pires and Buchan in the three-man battle for the Round 3 spot.

The Australian sensation got off to an excellent start, earning a 9.20 off his first business-wave, but quickly lost the lead to Pires, who utilised his local knowledge of the waves and skills to post a 9.77 on the score-board.

As the heat progressed, Wilson added another 6.33 points to his account, thus moving to a heat-total of 15.53 points, which placed him in the lead once again.

Pires failed to challenge his rival?s position again after managing to score only a 3.50 off his second business-wave, thus finishing with a heat-total of 13.27 points.

Buchan displayed a pretty ordinary form, scoring a mere 1.93 and 1.20 off his best-two waves to finish with a heat-total of 3.13 points.

Source: http://blogs.bettor.com/CJ-Hobgood-and-Julian-Wilson-prevail-in-opening-round-of-Rip-Curl-Pro-Portugal-a196654

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Monday, October 22, 2012

Remove stress and many health disorders with yoga practices ...

Chronic stress could be an entryway to completely different psychological disorders and health issues. Yoga is a good technique to get rid of anxiety and stress. Learn this text a lot of to grasp however it?s attainable.

Demands of your children are perpetually increasing, your bosses expect a lot of from you to hit the target quickly, and your partner is asking you ?what?s the program for today?. These are the common reasons to decision stress in our mind. If the issues are following you, it?s essential to seek out peace of mind and pleasure by active yoga. The series of yoga postures, respiration techniques and exercises are the popular suggests that of obtaining relaxation and managing stress.

Concept of yoga
Yoga is taken into account to be the complementary and an excellent different to practice. Yoga could be a practice that brings physical and mental disciplines altogether so as to urge peace of body, mind and spirit. In short, this is often a best mode of stress management. Yoga practices will modify your life and you?ll feel the good power in you hugely. This is often excellent thanks to keep out of life?s daily hassles and health issues. This is often therefore higher to urge the whole manner modification. All in all, yoga has several designs, forms and intensities. Specially, yoga could also be honest thanks to manage stress and anxiety.

Core elements of yoga
1. Poses: Yoga poses also are called postures. They are the series of movements designed to reinforce the strength and adaptability. There are some troublesome poses that performed by lying on the ground whereas some is performed by stretching at intervals your physical limits.
2. Respiration techniques: this is often a vital a part of yoga as a result of it involves the idea of respiration management. This signifies the important energy of the body. Dominant the respiration helps you management your body and calm your mind.

Health advantages of Yoga
There are potential health advantages of yoga that will amaze you:
1. Removes stress: With the quiet and precise movements of yoga, it attracts your mood from the ever-stressing, busy and chaotic day towards the balance and concentration of your body through completely different poses.
2. Maintains fitness: you?ll get improved fitness, flexibility, strength and power in you as you learn the fundamentals of active yoga. As you learn active yoga, this is often less modification to injury of your body in your routine activities.
3. Chronic health issues management: Yoga postures facilitate to scale back pulse rate and vital sign. Additionally, it enhances the immunity to kill forms of health issues like cancer, insomnia, depression, pain and anxiety. This helps to get rid of stress, sleep disorders and alter the mood.

Precautions of Yoga practices
Generally yoga is useful for the folks of all ages and skills. Notwithstanding the folks is overweight or rely on wheel chair, yoga is useful. However there?s some health conditions occur once some yoga poses could prove harmful. You have got to seek out an alternate to yoga. Visit your health care supplier before active yoga if you?re passing through some health issues as well as gestation, balance issues, uncontrolled high vital sign, eye conditions and a lot of.

Yoga teacher training India
For those that are unaccustomed yoga practices, a coaching workshop in Goa is organized every week for 2 hours. This workshop takes place each Saturday from 9 am to 11 am. If you are curious about learning yoga basics like Asanas (postures) and pranayamas (breathing techniques), you?ll be able to be a part of this drop-in yoga workshop. From basic breathing to relaxation techniques, they supply trainings to specialize in Sun Salutations and therefore the commonest postures. So go browsing to soulandyoga.com for a lot of details.

Resource Box: Go online at soulandyoga.com for finding yoga workshop schedules and yoga teacher training India.

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Debate to Lay Out Tonal Differences, Some Policy Ones (WSJ)

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

VIENNA: Del Potro beats Zemlja to win 12th title at Vienna | Tennis ...

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Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro returns the ball to Grega Zemlja of Slovenia during their final match at the Erste Bank Open tennis tournament in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012.

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? Top-seeded Juan Martin del Potro won his 12th career title Sunday, beating qualifier Grega Zemlja of Slovenia 7-5, 6-3 at the Erste Bank Open.

It's only the second indoor title for the Argentine, who was playing his first event since returning from a right wrist injury that sidelined him for more than a month.

"It's been a fantastic week," the eighth-ranked Del Potro said. "Coming back to the tour and being seeded No. 1 put me under pressure. I am so happy now. Winning a tournament means a lot. It's important to have a good end to the year."

Del Potro improved to 12-5 in finals and is a strong favorite to pick up one of the remaining berths at the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals.

"That was on my mind coming here," he said. "I am looking even better now ... but I still have two big tournaments and must do well in Basel and Paris."

A losing finalist last year, Del Potro survived a shaky start against the 70th-ranked Zemlja, who was the first player from Slovenia to reach a final after upsetting Janko Tipsarevic in the semifinals.

At 2-2 in the opening set, Del Potro lost serve for the first time in the tournament. But from 2-4 down, he won 11 of the next 15 games to close out the victory.

"It wasn't a good start, I was nervous because it was a final," Del Potro said. "In the second set, I broke him early and that gave me confidence to play the final like everyone expected me to do."

Zemlja's defeat left Finland's Jarkko Nieminen as the only qualifier to win an ATP tour event this season, after winning in Sydney.

"I am satisfied," Zemlja said. "My first semifinal, my first final, is was a great week. I am happy with my tennis, I know now that I can beat everybody."

Zemlja started well in the final but only converted one of his five break points to let Del Petro escape. He missed three chances with the Argentine serving at 4-4.

"In the first seven games, I was aggressive," Zemlja said. "I thought I was ahead of him regarding my game plan. It didn't work out in the closing stages of the first set and from then on he was the better player. Del Potro raised his level and his forehand is the best in the world."

Source: http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/10/21/4352157/del-potro-beats-zemlja-to-win.html

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Longevity Chia Porridge ? Raw Vegan Recipe ? Kristen's Raw

Longevity Chia Porridge ? A magnificent breakfast for radiant health and longevity.

This recipe has become a staple in my life for the past few weeks. I have been really turned onto Chia seeds and my body has been wanting more of them. From the most simple water and Chia seed porridge to something as wonderful as my longevity Chia porridge? It is all good.

This recipe, in particular, is near and dear to my heart. One of my biggest and main goals in life is to live to be a centenarian. And by filling my body with longevity supporting foods I will accomplish that goal.

Longevity Chia Porridge.

What you?ll need:

  • Chia seeds
  • Filtered water
  • Herbal tea
  • Goji berries
  • Longan berries
  • Coconut (shredded and dried)
  • Cacao nibs and powder (optional)

Chia porridge already set. (1/3 cup w 1 cup filtered water)

Next morning take the chia porridge from your refrigerator and put whatever portion you desire to eat in a bowl (put remaining chia porridge back in the refrigerator for the next time). It?s nice to let your bowl of chia porridge warm a bit to room temperature if you have the time. Plus, the warm herbal tea in the next step helps warm it.

Brew organic herbal tea (I make a delightful blend of many kinds including nettles, raspberry leaf, rose hips, Spring Dragon Longevity Tea, spearmint, lemon balm, and whatever else? Chaga mushroom too!)

Take a few splashes of your tea and add to your chia porridge.

Add 1 to 3 tablespoons of Heaven Mountain or Bija goji berries (They are the absolute best and the only brands I will buy.) link to Ron?s post or mention benefits?

Add 5 to 8 dried longan fruit pieces (available on Amazon) ? Write benefits and describe flavor.

Add 2-3T coconut (dried and shredded) ** I have Used on occasion Living Fuel?s CocoChia mixture (link) that I stir in ?. this includes the coconut plus some extra chia seeds as well as their xylitol sweetener.

1-2T raw cacao powder mixed with cacao nibs (I take a jar and I combine cacao nibs with cacao powder and shake it up. I like this combination and I use it in my smoothies, chia porridge, and other recipes.)

Sweetener, if desired but I don?t. I?m however appreciating More food lately without added sweetness. Plus, if you use the CocoChia from Living Fuel it adds a little xylitol sweetener.

Stir everything together. Let it set for 10 minutes or so if you have the patience. :) By allowing it to set for a few minutes the goji berries and the longan berries get a little chewy and make for the most delightful texture.

******* By the way??Have questions or comments? Use twitter or my Facebook fan page to chat. Links are on the right-hand side of my blog. ?>

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Congo rebels call for negotiations with Kinshasa

BUNGANA, eastern Congo (AP) ? The president of Congo's M23 rebel group, Bishop Jean-Marie Runiga, says fighting may resume soon in eastern Congo if the government refuses to negotiate with the armed group.

Runiga announced that the rebels' military branch has been renamed the Congolese Revolutionary Army (Arm?e R?volutionaire

Congolaise) and its leader, Colonel Makenga, promoted to general as a result of the growing number of troops under his command.

Runiga said the leaked UN group of experts report accusing Rwanda and Uganda of supporting the M23 is wrong. He deplored that the Kinshasa government is negotiating with the Rwandan government instead of the rebels.

The M23 is a rebel group created in May by ethnic Tutsis who deserted the Congolese army.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/congo-rebels-call-negotiations-kinshasa-150235039.html

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