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NASA satellites capture Hurricane Sandy's massive size

ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2012) ? NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image Sandy's massive circulation. Sandy covers 1.8 million square miles, from the Mid-Atlantic to the Ohio Valley, into Canada and New England.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image Sandy's massive circulation on Oct. 29 at 18:20 UTC (2:20 p.m. EDT). Sandy covered 1.8 million square miles, from the Mid-Atlantic to the Ohio Valley, into Canada and New England. Sandy made landfall hours after the MODIS image was taken.

Sandy Was Still a Hurricane After Landfall

On Oct. 29, 2012 at 11 p.m. EDT, the center of Hurricane Sandy was just 10 miles (15 km) southwest of Philadelphia, Penn., near 39.8 North and 75.4 West. Sandy was still a hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 75 mph (120 kph) and moving northwest at 18 mph (30 kph). Sandy's minimum central pressure had risen to 952 millibars. The hurricane-force-winds extended 90 miles (150 km) east of the center of circulation. Tropical-storm-force winds, however, went much further, as far as 485 miles (780 km).

NASA's GOES Project created a "full-disk view" of NOAA's GOES satellite data, that captured a global view of Hurricane Sandy's birth to landfall. The animation of NOAA's GOES-13 and GOES-15 satellite observations were combined from Oct. 21-30, 2012 and showed the birth of Tropical Storm Sandy in the Caribbean Sea, the intensification and movement of Sandy in the Atlantic Ocean along the U.S. East Coast, and Hurricane Sandy make landfall in N.J. on Oct. 29 and move inland to Penn.

Sandy's Inland Movement on Oct. 29

At 2 a.m. EDT, on Oct. 29, Sandy's center was located just south of Lancaster, Penn. At 5 a.m. EDT, Sandy continued moving to the west-northwest at 15 knots (24 kph) and was located just 15 miles (24 km) east of York, Penn., and 90 miles (145 km) west of Philadelphia. Sandy was centered near 40.5 North and 77.0 West. Sandy's minimum central pressure continues to rise and was 960 millibars.

Sandy's sustained winds were near 65 mph. Tropical-storm-force winds extend almost 1,000 miles. According to Weather Channel, the winds are going to continue being a problem from the northeast into the Ohio Valley today. The strongest winds are being experienced now in the Great Lakes Region.

Widespread Damages

Hurricane Sandy has caused significant damage in New York City and along the Mid-Atlantic coast. Flooding has been reported from Maine to Va. During the morning hours on Oct. 29 (Eastern Daylight Time), nearly eight million people were without power this morning up and down the East coast. The Appalachian Mtns. received some heavy snow from western Md. down to Tenn. and N.C. As much as 26 inches of snow had fallen in Garrett County, Md. by the morning of Oct. 30. According to Reuters news, flooding along the U.S. East Coast was extensive.

Watches and Warnings in Effect on Oct. 29

According to the NOAA's Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (NOAA/HPC), there are high-wind warnings in effect including gale force winds over the coastal waters of the Mid-Atlantic States, New York and New England. Storm warnings are in effect for portions of the Mid-Atlantic coastal waters. Flood and flash flood watches and warnings are in effect over portions of the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern states.

NOAA's HPC forecast on Oct. 29 calls for Sandy to move in a "west-northwest motion with reduced forward speed is expected today into western Penn. with a turn north into western New York tonight, Oct. 30. The cyclone will move into Canada on Wed., Oct. 31. Steady weakening is forecast during the next 48 hours."

NOAA/HPC warns that gale-force winds will continue over parts of the Mid-Atlantic through New England on Oct. 29 and storm surge and tides can still cause normally dry areas along or near the coast to be flooded, especially during high tide.

Rain and Snowfall Forecasts from NOAA

NOAA/HPC forecasts large rainfall totals for many areas in Sandy's reach. Far northeastern N.C. could expect 3 to 6 inches, while 4 to 8 inches more are possible over the Mid-Atlantic States on Oct. 30. Both areas can see isolated higher totals. Between 1 and 3 inches are possible with up to 5 inches in the southern tier of New York state and northeastward through New England.

Snowfall between 2 and 3 feet are expected in the W.Va. mountains with higher totals through Oct. 30. Snowfall of 1 to 2 feet in the southwestern Va. and Ky. Mountains are expected, and between 12 and 18 inches along the N.C. and Tenn. Border and in western Md.

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Price Waterhouse Cooper estimates that 70% of companies that suffer a critical data loss go out of business within 12 months. The following cloud based file storage services willl prevent this from happening to your business and contribute to the long term success of your business online.

These online file storage services will also ensure your business has access to all your important files from one central location that can be accessed from anywhere online. This is a much better option that having files all over the place on different desktops.

1. DropBox

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Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, two MIT students tired of emailing files to themselves, today, it is used? by more than 50 million users across the world who want 24/7 access to their files.

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Google Drive is another free Google service that lets you store all your files including documents, photos, videos and Google Docs online and access them anywhere. It is integrated into Google Docs making it ideal for you if you already use Gmail or Google Apps for business.

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3. SugarSync

SugarSync? provides access to all your folders and files from wherever you are. It doesn?t provide online file storage but also automatically syncs your folders and files to the Cloud and to all your devices, making sure important files are not overwritten or duplicated.

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With Bitcasa, you can store all your data, including entire external drives and never have to worry about storage again. Bitcasa offers additional safety and encrypts your data before storing it in cloud so you don?t have to worry about them getting into the wrong hands.

5. Amazon S3

Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.Amazon is best known for its low cost and its multiple data center locations. You can use S3 to run your websites, operate your own e-commerce business efficiently, store dynamic data, or use as DR storage for your entire business.

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iCloud does more than store your content ? it lets you access your music, photos, calendars, contacts, documents, and more, from whatever device you?re on. And it?s built into every new iOS device and every new Mac. It is also available for PC?s.

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Skydrive is a clud file storage service by Microsoft. It lets you store any file on your SkyDrive and it?s automatically available from your phone and computers?no syncing or cables needed. With SkyDrive storage, you?ll never be without the documents, notes, photos, and videos that matter to you.

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Box lets you store all of your content online, so you can access, manage and share it from anywhere. Integrate Box with Google Apps and Salesforce and access Box on mobile devices. Box also provides everything you need to collaborate on content online by inviting others to view, edit and more.

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Symform is a better way to back up all of your files to the cloud. Users pay with Bytes instead of Bucks, contributing excess local drive space to the network in exchange for cloud data backup. You can get unlimited cloud backup for FREE as long as you maintain a 2:1 ratio of local contribution to cloud space used.

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CLoud based file storage is an essential part of operating your business efficiently. It lets you boost business productivity by providing a more efficient way to manage your files and folders. You can take advantage of the free cloud based file storage services above to make sure your valuable business data is secure and easily accessible from anywhere. Paid versions are also available for the above services but the free version can be easily sufficient in many situations.

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Citi fires analyst, pays fine over Facebook leak

(AP) ? The young Citigroup analyst was researching Facebook before it went public. He dropped an email to two of his buddies at a popular technology blog, leaking them information about Citigroup's research that was supposed to be private.

When one friend asked if it was OK to publish the information, the analyst responded with an answer that showed he knew he was breaking the rules: "My boss," he wrote back, "would eat me alive."

Friday, Massachusetts' top securities regulator dragged the incident into the spotlight, slapping Citigroup with a consent order and charging the bank $2 million for failing to oversee its employee.

"This penalty," said Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, "should serve as a warning to the industry as a whole."

Citi fired the young research analyst about a month ago, after Galvin's office had started its investigation. The case was unusual compared to some other recent lawsuits and fines against major banks, because Citigroup acknowledged that the events in question did take place.

Citi was part of the team of banks that helped underwrite the deal that made Facebook a public company on May 18. Regulations forbade those banks from sharing any written research about Facebook until 40 days after the company went public. That's supposed to ensure that investors don't have access to insider information that would give them an unfair advantage, just because the investment bank where they are a client has done business with Facebook.

This is the first penalty that Galvin's office has issued over the Facebook public offering, but there could be more. A spokesman for Galvin, Brian McNiff, said the office had also served subpoenas to Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley over similar issues related to leaking information about Facebook. A subpoena is a request for information and doesn't necessarily mean that wrongdoing was committed.

Representatives for Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley declined to comment. The subpoena served to Morgan Stanley was first reported in May, but the subpoenas to Goldman and JPMorgan had not previously been confirmed.

Working on Facebook's public offering was supposed to be a coup for the banks that were chosen, but it's brought a long line of headaches, including lawsuits and regulatory inquiries.

But on May 2, the research analyst sent an email to two employees at the technology website TechCrunch.com, with what was supposed to be confidential information about Citigroup's research on Facebook.

"I am ramping up coverage on FB and thought you guys might like to see how the street is thinking about it (and our estimates)," the analyst wrote to the two TechCrunch writers. "...This, of course is confidential."

One of the TechCrunch writers wrote back: "There's no way I can publish this doc from an anonymous source, right?"

A minute later, the research analyst replied: "My boss would eat me alive."

The analyst and the TechCrunch writers were friends, according to Galvin's office. They all lived in the Bay Area and kept in touch via social media. The analyst and one of the TechCrunch writers had gone to Stanford together and graduated several years ago, according to Galvin's office. The consent order did not name any of them.

Citigroup fired the junior analyst in late September, after Galvin's office started looking into the matter.

The bank told Galvin's office that the junior analyst acted alone. It agreed to review its policies for overseeing analysts' communications, and to strengthen compliance training for the analysts.

"We are pleased to have this matter resolved," bank spokeswoman Sophia Stewart said. "We take our internal policies and procedures very seriously and have taken the appropriate actions."

Separately, Galvin's consent order also brought the downfall of the research analyst's boss, a well-known and influential senior tech analyst named Mark Mahaney.

The consent order didn't name him, but gave enough information to make him easily identifiable.

Mahaney isn't accused of being involved in the research analyst's misconduct. But Galvin's investigation found emails about another damaging incident that happened around the same time.

On April 30, Mahaney answered an email from a reporter for a French business magazine, Capital, about his financial predictions for YouTube. That was problematic because the opinions hadn't previously been published and weren't public information.

Later, when a Citigroup employee told Mahaney he'd need to get approval to talk to the Capital reporter, Mahaney said that he wouldn't respond to the reporter's questions.

Later, after the communications employee learned that Mahaney had already talked to the reporter, Mahaney wrote: "This could get me in trouble. Shoot."

Citigroup confirmed that Mahaney is no longer at the bank. A source familiar with the matter, who wasn't allowed to speak on the record about personnel matters, said Mahaney had been fired because he misled the bank about his communications with the French magazine.

On Friday afternoon, Citigroup sent a note to clients who had subscribed to Mahaney's research. "Mark Mahaney has left Citi," it said, without elaborating. As a result, Citi will discontinue its coverage of Expedia, WebMD and 12 other companies.

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If you or someone you love has suffered a brain injury caused by personal injury, you may be entitled to compensation. When you hire a?Columbus Brain Injury Lawyer, John Alton, you can expect a lawyer that has an impressive track record handling brain injury cases, with a relentless commitment to fight for justice.

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After a traumatic brain injury, the brain can?t properly function as it did before the injury. The nerves and neurons may not be able to deliver messages, leaving the speech, body movements, and mental processes not able to operate effectively. When this happens, it is referred to as a brain injury. There are two types of brain injury that can have permanent and devastating effects and can even lead to death: traumatic brain injury and acquired brain injury.

When there is an external blow to the head with some type of force, traumatic brain injury (TBI) can result. A few of the common causes of TBI are auto accidents; firearm accidents; premises liability accidents; and accidents incurred playing active sports such as rollerblading, hockey, and basketball. TBI may also result from incidents where the head is violently shaken or there is a blow to the skull. Shaken baby syndrome and high-speed auto accidents are two very common causes of TBI.

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Two weeks ago, Dr. Arif Nazir got a call from a colleague about a 79-year-old woman at an Indianapolis hospital. The cardiologist on the phone explained there was nothing more that could be done for this patient, who had advanced heart failure, chronic lung disease and diabetes.

After a brief conversation, Dr. Nazir agreed to admit her to a nursing home and try to keep her out of the hospital, respecting her recently signed ?do not resuscitate? order, or D.N.R.

It was a promise that was broken within several hours, much to Dr. Nazir?s dismay. The reasons highlight troublesome problems with long-term care that frequently frustrate caregivers and that are receiving fresh attention from medical providers and Medicare.

At the nursing home, staff members noticed several hours after her transfer that the patient?s oxygen levels were very low. This was to be expected given her condition, Dr. Nazir said, but no one picked up the phone to ask his advice.

Instead, a doctor on call who wasn?t familiar with the patient or her recent medical history gave the order to send her back to the hospital ? just where the patient, her son and her physician didn?t want her to go.

This might not have happened if the woman?s D.N.R. order had traveled with her when she was discharged from the hospital. But that didn?t happen, and staff members in the nursing home had no way of knowing what this patient?s wishes were (she was groggy and unable to say at that time) or whom they should contact to find out.

This is a distressingly common problem. D.N.R.?s signed in hospitals aren?t regularly transferred to skilled nursing facilities. So when crises arise (and this occurs often in frail, sick older patients) no one knows what to do, and shipping the patient off to the hospital becomes the default option.

That may seem like a sensible choice ? after all, hospitals are where really sick people go to get better ? but for nursing home patients it can have deleterious consequences.

Dr. Nazir, a geriatrician at Indiana University and a staff physician at several Indianapolis nursing homes, explained why, using the example of another patient in her late 80s with advanced Alzheimer?s disease who becomes excessively agitated and combative at night.

?When she goes to the hospital, she will be seen by a physician who doesn?t know her, usually for only a few minutes,? he said. ?Most likely, he?ll end up doing a lot of tests because histories are not readily available for these nursing home patients.?

Because the patient is old, with several other medical conditions, ?every test this physician does is going to come out with some kind of abnormality, and she?ll be admitted for further evaluation and observation.?

In the hospital environment, this older woman with cognitive impairment will feel disoriented and most likely afraid. ?There will be lots of strangers, lots of noise, perhaps little sleep, and she will be at very high risk of becoming even more agitated,? Dr. Nazir said. ?At that point, she?s going to get aggressive medications.?

In short order, this patient may become sedated, delirious and confined to bed. Upon discharge, an older person like this ?will come back to us very debilitated, really having lost a lot of quality of life? and often unable to regain it, Dr. Nazir said.

Few caregivers realize this is a likely chain of events. Rarely do nursing home doctors or nurses sit down and explain the risks of hospitalizing a frail older person who is profoundly physically and mentally compromised.

This is the set of problems that a new pilot program of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hopes to address. The program is to be introduced in Alabama, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New York and Pennsylvania later this year, and I?ll describe how it works in a future post.

What about you? Have you had experiences along the lines of those described by Dr. Nazir? Have you witnessed this all-too-frequent revolving door between nursing home and hospital and seen its adverse effects?

Source: http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/a-revolving-door-to-avoid/

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There are methods to help prevent heart disease other than leading a healthy life style. Heart disease is the leading cause of death yet it does not have to be a factor in your life. Here are five strategies to help protect the heart from heart disease.

1. Smoking or other tobacco products are one of the most significant risks for developing heart

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complications. No amount of smoking is safe for the heart. Medical studies have shown any form of tobacco products including smokeless tobacco and low tar or low nicotine cigarettes are also very risky as well as second hand smoke. Tobacco smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals that are dangerous and harmful to the heart and body.

The chemicals hurt the blood vessels, making them narrow resulting in heart attacks. Smoking also makes the heart work harder when the vessels narrow, which then increases the blood pressure and heart rate.

Carbon monoxide is in cigarette smoke. It replaces the oxygen in the blood stream resulting in the higher blood pressure. Women that smoke and use birth control pills are at greater risks for having a heart attack or stroke compared to the women who do not smoke that use birth control. The risks increase for the smokers taking the birth controls when they are over the age of 35.

2. Regular activity reduces the risks of fatal heart disease. Combining the activity with a healthy diet decreases the risks even more. Physical activity helps to keep in control of weight that also reduces the risks of heart disease by avoiding becoming obese. The physical activity also reduces the risks of other health issues such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes as well as reducing the stress levels. Health guidelines recommend that the amount of physical activity for adults is 30-60 minutes at least four times a week. Simple acts of walking are one of the best ways to include physical activity daily to help reduce the risks of heart disease.

3. Eating a healthy diet helps to reduce the risks of heart disease. Limiting the fats in the diet while adding fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and low dairy products protects the heart. Learning to eat a healthy diet is more about the types of foods consumed compared to the amounts of foods consumed. Omega-3 fatty acids help in the prevention of heart disease and lower the blood pressure. Some fish are natural sources of the Omega-3 that are great for the body and heart. It can be found in flaxseed oil, walnut oil, soybean oil, and canola oil. Reduce the alcohol consumption to lower the risks as well.

4. Maintain a healthy weight with a Body Mass Index or BMI within the limits of the healthy range. Any BMI rate over 25 is considered unhealthy and increases the chances of heart disease and other health related problems. When using the BMI chart, remember that fat weighs threes time more than fat so you will have a higher rate even when muscular.

Get regular health screenings for high blood pressure and cholesterol. They can cause severe damage to the heart and lead to heart disease. The blood pressure rate should not be over 120/80 millimetres of mercury and the cholesterol should be within the range of 130.

Prevention pays off when wanting to avoid heart disease. Learning to live a healthy life style is one of the best methods to use to combat heart disease.

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Kids' crafts are so intriguing because they tend to utilize a diverse amount of materials. Put a pile of scrap paper, cardboard tubes, plastic containers, egg cartons and rubber bands in front of ten different kids and you will undoubtedly get ten very different outcomes. They eagerly accept such humble materials as suitable mediums for their craft. The fact that most of these materials can be found in the recycling bin is a bonus, both environmentally and economically. Kate Lilley's book Eco-Friendly Crafting With Kids celebrates this fact to the fullest.

You may be familiar with Kate Lilley's work from her UK-based blog MiniEco. She is a major proponent of creating projects that parents and kids can do together with the least amount of environmental impact possible. As she states in her introduction, she has witnessed first-hand the old adage about kids always playing with the box an expensive toy comes in, rather than the toy itself. So she puts the box (and carton, cup and bottle) front and center, to great results.

The first thing I gratefully noticed is that every project in Eco-friendly Crafting With Kids is aimed at preschool kids. So many crafts seem to be tailored for kids whose motor skills and cognitive abilities are much more advanced than those in the toddler and young children category. It is refreshing to have an entire book dedicated to the age bracket where it is particularly challenging to keep kids engaged and occupied.

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The second thing I noticed was how gorgeous the book is itself. The photographs are top notch and the overall design is very pleasing to the eye. Backgrounds of lined and graph paper give a school-like feel, and the color choices behind each block of text are subtle yet effective. The fonts for each heading are on the quirky side without going overboard, and there is a handy list of suppliers and series of templates in the back.

The book is split into eight sections: Homemade Materials, Music, Nature, Recycling Bin, Paper and Card, Sewing and Threading, Science, and Boredom Busters. Quickly flipping to the Music section, I was greeted with a handsome cardboard box guitar that I know my daughter would love. The plans for a rainstick were simple yet ingenious, and the bottle xylophone looked pleasing both to the eye and the ear. The Science section was my next stop, and while the invisible ink project was old news, the method for coloring flowers was quite extraordinary. There was also a project called magic potion, which involved red cabbage, of all things, being used in a way I had never even considered possible.

Eco-friendly Crafting With Kids is a perfect book for any parent, caretaker or teacher who is looking for fun and meaningful activities to do with preschool-aged kids. The instructions are clear, the photos are crisp and the projects themselves are sure to be a hit.

Eco-friendly Crafting With Kids, by Kate Lilley, is published by Ryland, Peters & Small and is available at Amazon and, hopefully, your local book store.

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The deconstruction of mini iPad events

The deconstruction of smaller iPads

On October 23, 2012, Apple held a special event to introduce their new Mac and iPad lineups. Unlike the previous month's iPhone 5 and iPod event, it wasn't bifurcated into effectively two different keynotes, nor was almost any time at all spent on software. Instead, one after another, product after product, spec updates, redesigns, and entirely new hardware was shown off on the California Theater stage. It was an unprecedented display of force projection. It was Apple firing everything. It was Tim Cook clearing his skies.

Yet at the same time, the pre-event hype seemed decidedly muted, at least compared to the iPhone 5 event in September. Was that simply because the iPhone remains the densest attentional gravity well in Apple's lineup? That the consistency and accuracy of rumors have begun to suppress the expectation of surprise? Or that two events in close proximity, even from Apple, simply can't maintain the intensity threshold of events better spaced out across the year?

The state of Apple

Apple's CEO traditionally comes out first to welcome the crowd and set the stage for the event that follows. That's Tim Cook's role. He gives the mission statement and the mission brief, and his status updates are filled with something all too rare in consumer electronics -- actual numbers. Not numbers of products shipped or hoped to be sold, or users of ancillary services co-opted into new services, or percentages of undefined markets in specific regions. Cook's numbers are of actual things sold to and used by actual users. And, as usual, they were impressive.

The iPhone 5 has sold 5 million units to date. The iPad line has sold 100,000,000 tablets to date. There are now 200,000,000 devices running iOS 6. 700,000 App Store apps, over a third of which are iPad apps or have iPad optimized interfaces. And more.

Those numbers would be especially meaningful later in the vent.

iBooks 3 and iBooks Author

Buried among the numbers at yesterday's iPad and Mac event, Tim Cook announced a new version of iBooks with a few new features. From the beginning I'd heard the iPad mini was about removing weight and cost as barriers of entry to iPad sales, and about taking the ebook fight to Amazon and, as Ryan Block of GDGT aptly terms them, their Kindle line of consumer content appliances. Yet the event came and went without Apple matching the Kindle on pricing, or challenging Amazon on ebooks. Why?

Apple could equal or eclipse the Kindle catalog through sheer force of deal-making, something they traditionally excel at. But platform diversity is something in which Apple has historically shown almost no interest. Apple did make iTunes for Windows, but they haven't made any iTunes apps for any other non-Apple devices. And because, unlike music, commercial ebooks are still bound by DRM (digital rights management), they can't be opened by generic ereaders either. Whether you buy Kindle books or iBooks, you're still locked into that format, though the Kindle cage is much, much bigger.

More content, in more places, on more devices, among other reasons, simply trumps whatever technical, interactive, and visual advantages iBooks has on iOS. Ultimately, the ability login, be it on a $69 Kindle or high end smartphone or tablet, have access to your entire ebook library, synced and ready to go, even in base text, is compelling, and is something Apple simply can't and won't match .

Given that, my expectation that Apple would make a direct run at Amazon in the ebook space was unrealistic. Given that, a broader focus on education at yesterday's event, which would have almost certainly required a broader focus on books and textbooks, was also unrealistic. The ongoing lack of iBooks for Mac is disappointing, but a new version of iBooks and a new version of iBooks Author, keeps Apple's foot in the door, provides an amazing experience for those for whom that matters more than anything Amazon's Kindle offers, and the focus on languages maintains Apple's dominance in international markets.

Here's the longer version:

The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display

The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display wasn't a huge surprise. In addition to being widely rumored, it simply made the most sense for Apple to move Retina to the 13-inch. The iMacs are too big to cost effectively deploy Retina panels, and the MacBook Airs are too small to balance out battery life (for now).

Retina was given a very technical, very spec-heavy pitch. Apple had the word "nit" up on a slide. But Retina is something that needs to be explained. More pixels that are tinier pixels that ultimately make all pixels all but disappear needs to be explained. Star Trek terms makes Retina sound impressive, and since it's the main selling feature, it needs to sound impressive. So, specs.

The only troublesome aspect of the 13-inch was its lack of a discreet GPU, and since the 15-inch can max out its GPU, I just assumed Apple would add one to the 13-inch and do likewise. But not so. Apple stuck with Intel HD graphics. Maybe the slightly smaller panel size -- 2560x1600 versus 2880 by 1800 -- is enough to make the embedded graphics work. I'm not going to assume that, however. The 15-inch is already an edge case when you want to Expose multiple browser windows or drive large external displays. I also do a lot of Final Cut Pro X and Photoshop work, and the lack of quad-core, a 16GB option, and discreet graphics worries me for my particular use case. I do want to try it out, however.

Otherwise the 13-inch uses the same chassis design as the 15-inch that debuted at WWDC 2012, making it the lightest, thinnest MacBook Pro ever (a recurring theme for Apple if ever there was one).

The Mac mini

The Mac mini scored an update to the latest Intel Ivy Bridge processors and USB 3 and the rest of its internals. Despite Samsung and Google having totally ripped off the current Mac mini design for the ChromeBox, Apple didn't do anything to evolve the look.

So the Mac mini remains what it was, only better -- a good choice for multi-platform developers, home theaters, and those who want a small OS X server.

The iMac

Apple announces new, slimmer 21" and 27" iMacs with Fusion Drive options

The new iMac wasn't a huge surprise either, though the degree to which Apple sharpened the edges was surprising. 5 mm. You could cut someone with that. To achieve it, Apple jettisoned the optical drive, just like the MacBook Air and Retina MacBook pro before it. That's an aggressive choice for a desktop machine that really doesn't benefit as much from thinness and lightness the way portables do, but Apple is also the company that killed the floppy.

The iMac also got all new, Ivy Bridge powered internals as well, along with Apple's Fusion Drive which intelligently manages an SSD and HDD as a single logical unit, allowing for fast boots, launches, and read/writes but also voluminous storage. But unlike the Mac mini, its design was iterated as well. Did Apple have to move the built-in optical drive to a peripheral, move the SD card slot to the rear, and otherwise sacrifice the convenience of a segment of their user-base for what looks on the surface to be simply less surface?

Of course not, but this is what Apple does. Because of the way they build devices -- designing the way to design them, manufacturing the way to manufacture them -- they exist in the relative future. And now that competitors have begun copying the iMac to embarrassing degrees, the way they copied the MacBook Air and Mac mini, Apple is moving the design bar even further out.

Now, when you walk into a big box retailer, if by chance Apple products aren't isolated in their own oasis-within-a-store, no clone will be mistaken for an iMac. At least not for a couple years again.

(Personally I'm waiting on the updated ThunderBolt Displays with laminated screens, but those are likely several months out as all the 27-inch panels will first go to satisfying iMac demand.)

iBooks Author

If Tim Cook introducing iBooks wasn't interesting enough, he also introduced an updated iBooks Author as part of the iPad overview. Apple held a special education event earlier in the year to announce textbooks for the iPad. Apple released iBooks Author so rich-media text books could be more easily generated. Tim Cook claimed at yesterday's event that 80% of the U.S. school core curriculum was now covered by iBooks textbooks, and that they're deployed at more than 2500 schools in the U.S. (Sadly, they're still not deployed to iPhone or iPod touch.)

The new version of iBooks Author includes vertical templates, embedded fonts, rendered mathematical formulae, multitouch widgets, and am easier, better process for updating books. International textbook support, of course, can vary wildly.

Again, it isn't overly aggressive, but it's realistic.

The iPad 4

Like the new iMac, the new iPad itself wasn't a surprise. What was a surprise, at least to me, was that Apple actually came out and called the revised iPad 3 the "4th generation iPad". I figured they'd play it like the Verizon iPhone, and use the expanded LTE footprint and Lightning adapter to "fix the antenna" that was the chipset. That was the whole advantage to calling it "the new iPad", right? Dropping the version numbers smooths the way for new versions at odd time spans. But with the jump from an Apple A5X to an Apple A6X, Apple was upfront enough to not only give the new iPad a new generation, but announce it as such. (And they didn't even play the iPad 3S card...)

Apple has typically stuck to 1 year cycles for iOS devices, besides the iPhone 4S and Apple TV 3 which took approximately 16 months and 18 months respectively, and the iPod touch 5 which took 24 months. Now the iPad 4 took only 7 months. In a world of with the Kindle HDs, Surfaces RT and Pro, Nexus 7 and impending Nexus 10, Apple isn't afraid to move faster either.

But the reaction was more curious than the device itself. When Apple waits, they aren't innovative and they're losing. When Apple moves aggressively, they're "screwing" users. But Apple doesn't really care about either sentiment. Not really. They care about making better products, which is what the iPad 4 is. And no one who has an iPad 4 has to buy it. Those for whom the iPad 3 was a poor compromise between screen density and performance, or for those whose LTE bands it simply didn't support, it'll be something finally worth buying or upgrading to.

The iPad mini

iPad mini preview redux

The iPad mini ended up being almost exactly what I expected. The big surprise for me here was the lack of an 8GB SKU for under $300. Either that SKU never existed or it was dumped. My guess is it was dumped. It seems like the original thinking was Kindle Fire and Nexus 7 would do better than they did, and that price pressure simply never materialized.

At $250 the iPad mini would have all but killed the small tablet market. At $329 there's a $200-$300 umbrella underneath it where other at-cost or content-subsidized tablets and appliances can breathe and get a foot in the door. Granted an 8GB iPad mini would have been a poor user experience, but it would have shut that door. Hard. (And gotten a lot of people into stores who may have then gone 16GB for $350 anyway.)

Instead, Phil Schiller spent some time comparing the iPad mini to the Nexus 7 (though without naming the Nexus 7). That seemed like Apple explaining why they deserved $80 more for the iPad mini than Google charges for a similar capacity tablet. In other words, bigger screen, better apps. It was an odd segment, and arguably they didn't need to make that case, but they chose to.

As to the device itself, the only truly new device Apple unveiled yesterday, Jim Dalrymple of The Loop had, among other things, this to say:

The iPad mini can easily be held with one hand for reading. Menus and other onscreen items can be reached with that hand if they are close. Of course, you can?t expect to be able to navigate the mini?s screen with one hand, but you can touch and scroll.

John Gruber of Daring Fireball's quick take included:

Screen resolution-wise, it?s exactly what I expected for a 163 PPI display in 2012: noticeably nicer than the 133 PPI iPad 1/2, noticeably worse than the 266 PPI iPad 3/4. The iPad Mini display seems brighter and to have better contrast than the iPhone 3GS display, but unsurprisingly, rendered text looks exactly like it does on the 3GS.

It's basically got the iPod touch 5 casing and internals with a miniaturized (Apple says "concentrated") iPad-style 4:3 screen at 7.9- rather than 4-inches. The iPad mini to iPod mini analogy was as spot on as the name. It's not for those who want a cheaper iPad. It's for those who want a more portable iPad, and are willing to make some compromises to get it.

But in addition to all the other iTunes content, it runs iPad apps, which neither the iPhone nor iPod touch can do. Tim Cook pointed out there's over 250,000 of those now, which makes competing tablet apps little more than a rounding error.

And that's what will likely make all the difference in the world.



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Iowa man loses dog to Humane Society mistake | WQAD.com ...

Stella (photo from WHO.com)

Stella (photo from WHO.com)

Boone, Iowa (WHO) ? A?little dog is causing a big battle in Boone, after she was mistakenly adopted.

Last month, Stella wandered away from home.? Her owner, Marc Riker,? called the Boone County Humane Society and reported the dog missing.? That was the last he heard from the agency until he spotted someone else walking Stella.? Instead of looking for Stella,? the Humane Society sold her to another family.

?You would think that the humane society would, if you call and give them a report of a lost pet and they tell you if they have any animals come in that meet the description, small white dog, they?ll get in contact with you, that would mean if a small white dog comes in that they?ll get in contact with you,? Riker said.

Jane Elsberry with the Boone Area Humane Society admits the agency made a mistake.

?During the time that this incident happened we were in a flux between staff and some of the staff were no longer there and so it just got lost in the shuffle,? she explains

The new owner is refusing to give Stella back.? Riker says he is considering legal action.? But with six children, he says, he doesn?t know how he?ll be able to afford a lawyer.

(Thanks to our sister station WHO-TV for this report)

Source: http://wqad.com/2012/10/25/iowa-man-loses-dog-to-humane-society-mistake/

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IBD-TIPP Poll: Obama Vs. Romney, Oct. 24 - Business Insider

President Barack Obama gained?another point?in the?Investors Business Daily/TIPP tracking poll, and he now leads Republican nominee Mitt Romney by 3 points.

Obama now sits at?47.3 percent ( up 0.8 percent from yesterday), while Romney is at 44.3 percent ( down 0.2 percent), giving the president a full 3-point advantage.?

In other tracking poll news, there was stagnation in the morning Rasmussen poll, while Obama?gained in the daily Gallup tracking poll?this afternoon.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/ibd-tipp-poll-obama-vs-romney-oct-24-2012-10

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Apple versus Windows Phone: top 10 essential apps for your Nokia Lumia

Thinking of switching to Windows Phone, such as the soon-to-be here Nokia Lumia 920, but stuck with your Apple iPhone and wondering how to switch to Lumia? Here we look at the top 10 essential apps on Apple iOS and their Windows Phone counterparts. ?

It?s long been thought that just because the Windows Phone doesn?t have quite as many apps as you?ll find on Apple that you won?t be able to replace what you have on your iPhone on your brand spanking new Nokia Lumia.

Discover the?Top 100 Nokia Lumia with Windows Phone apps

That?s clearly not the case, as with over 100,000 apps and growing all the time, Windows Phone is catching up. So much so that it?s the fastest growing apps store out there today. Driving this change is Nokia itself, providing a host of exclusive and shared apps that truly bring your smartphone to life.

Nokia is constantly developing new apps, just look at Nokia City Lens and Nokia Transport that will be an integral part of the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820 launch, as well as signing up a host of exclusive apps and games.

Nokia pre-installs a host of great apps on its devices, such as Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive, which are clearly far more superior than their iPhone counterparts and that?s only the start of the journey. Here we take a look at the top 10 most common apps on Apple iPhone and highlight their Windows Phone counterparts so you can see that making a switch to Lumia is easier than you think. ?

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Apple iOS

Windows Phone

Download

Maps

Apple Maps

Nokia Maps

Built-in to Nokia Lumia

Facebook

Facebook

Facebook

Download

Twitter

Twitter

Twitter

Download

Cloud

iCloud

SkyDrive

Download

Music store

iTunes

Nokia Music

Built-in to Nokia Lumia

Movies

Flixster

Flixster

Download

Local Search

Siri

Nokia City Lens

Exclusive to Nokia Collection

Internet Radio

Tune-in Radio

Tune-in Radio

Download

Video calls

Skype

Skype

Download

E-Reader

iBooks

Nokia Reading

Exclusive to Nokia Collection

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Apple's iPad mini event video now available for replay

Apple's iPad mini event video now available for

Apple decided to broadcast its event live this time around (provided you had an appropriate Apple device), but those that missed it as it happened expectedly aren't out of luck. Apple has made the video of the event available for replay at your leisure, although you'll once again need to view it in either the new Events channel on your Apple TV or in Safari on OS X 10.6 or later (at the source link below). Of course, you can also catch up with the event courtesy of our liveblog for our own running commentary on the proceedings.

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Florida fungal meningitis cases rise to 19; newest case in Marion



An image through a microscope of the Exserohilum rostratum fungus involved in the current meningitis outbreak. It's a common mold found in soil and on plants. (AP Photo/CDC)

Published: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 2:14 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 2:14 p.m.

The Florida Department of Health on Tuesday confirmed a 19th case of fungal meningitis associated with contaminated steroid injections.

The latest case is a 66-year-old Marion County woman who received an injection six weeks ago from the Florida Pain Clinic in Ocala.

Officials have determined that the medicine she received was from one of the contaminated lots manufactured and distributed by the New England Compounding Center (NECC).

Almost 300 patients nationwide have contracted fungal meningitis attributed to tainted methylprednisolone acetate, which is a steroid used for epidural back injections. There have been 23 deaths, three of them in Marion County.

Dr. John Armstrong, the state?s secretary of health, said the average age of affected patients in Florida is 70. Nationwide, it?s 65.

In Florida, the average incubation period for the fungal meningitis is 14 days, with a range of seven to 81 days.

Nationally, the average is 22 days with a range of four to 89, Armstrong said during a Tuesday afternoon news conference.

He said the state has not spent additional dollars on this investigation; rather, the cost has been covered through the Department of Health?s regular budget.

Source: http://www.ocala.com/article/20121023/articles/121029916

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Tough tussle in final debate

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) ? President Barack Obama sharply challenged Mitt Romney on foreign policy in their final campaign debate Monday night, saying, "Every time you've offered an opinion you've been wrong." The Republican coolly responded, "Attacking me is not an agenda" for dealing with a dangerous world.

Romney took the offensive, too. When Obama said the U.S. and its allies have imposed crippling sanctions on Iran to halt nuclear weapons development, the Republican challenger responded that the U.S. should have done more. He declared repeatedly, "We're four years closer to a nuclear Iran."

Despite the debate's stated focus on foreign affairs, time after time the rivals turned the discussion back to the slowly recovering U.S. economy, which polls show is the No. 1 issue for most voters.

They found little agreement on that, but the president and his rival found accord on at least one international topic with domestic political overtones ? Israel's security ? as they sat at close quarters 15 days before the end of an impossibly close election campaign. Each stressed unequivocal support for Israel when asked how he would respond if the Jewish state were attacked by Iran.

"If Israel is attacked, we have their back," said Romney ? moments after Obama vowed, "I will stand with Israel if Israel is attacked."

Both also said they oppose direct U.S. military involvement in the efforts to topple Syrian President Bashir Assad.

The debate produced none of the finger-pointing and little of the interrupting that marked the presidential rivals' debate last week, when Obama needed a comeback after a listless performance in their first meeting on Oct. 3.

But there was no mistaking the urgency. The two men frequently sniped at one another even on issues where they agree, and reprised their campaign-long disagreements over the economy, energy, education and other domestic issues despite ground rules that stipulated the debate cover international affairs.

Obama and Romney are locked in a close race in national opinion polls. The final debate behind them, both men intend to embark on a final two-week whirlwind of campaigning. The president is slated to speak in six states during a two-day trip that begins Wednesday and includes a night aboard Air force One as it flies from Las Vegas to Tampa. Romney intends to visit two or three states a day.

Already four million ballots have been cast in early voting in more than two dozen states.

On the Middle East, Romney said that despite early hopes, the ouster of despotic regimes in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere over the past year has resulted in a "rising tide of chaos." He said the president has failed to come up with a coherent policy to grapple with change sweeping the Middle East, and he added ominously that an al-Qaida-like group has taken over northern Mali.

Anticipating one of Obama's most frequent campaign assertions, Romney said of the man seated nearby, "I congratulate him on taking out Osama bin Laden and taking on the leadership of al-Qaida. But we can't kill our way out of this. ... We must have a comprehensive strategy."

More than a half hour later, Obama returned to the subject, saying that Romney had once said it wasn't worth moving heaven and earth to catch one man, a reference to the mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attacks.

He said he had decided it was "worth heaven and earth."

Obama said he had ended the war in Iraq, was on a path to end the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan and has vowed to bring justice to the attackers of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi last month ? an assault that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.

He also jabbed at Romney's having said during the campaign that Russia is the United States' No. 1 geopolitical foe.

"Governor, when it comes to our foreign policy you seem to want the policies of the 1980s, just like you want to import the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies in the 1920s," Obama said.

Obama was snippy after Romney, criticizing the administration's Pentagon budget, said disapprovingly the U.S. Navy has fewer ships than at any time since the end of World War I.

"I think Governor Romney maybe hasn't spent enough time looking at how our military works. You mentioned the Navy, for example, that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them."

Romney offered unusual praise for Obama's war efforts in Afghanistan, declaring the 2010 surge of 33,000 U.S. troops a success and asserting that efforts to train Afghan security forces are on track to enable the U.S. and its allies to put the Afghans fully in charge of security by the end of 2014. He said that U.S. forces should complete their withdrawal on that schedule; previously he has criticized the setting of a specific withdrawal date.

The two men are locked in a close race in national opinion polls. The final debate behind them, they intend to embark on a final two-week whirlwind of campaigning. The president is slated to speak in six states during a two-day trip that begins Wednesday and includes a night aboard Air force One as it flies from Las Vegas to Tampa. Romney intends to visit two or three states a day.

Already four million ballots have been cast in early voting in more than two dozen states.

Barring a last-minute change in strategy by one campaign or the other, Obama appears on course to win states and the District of Columbia that account for 237 of the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. The same is true for Romney in states with 191 electoral votes.

The battlegrounds account for the remaining 110 electoral votes: Florida (29), North Carolina (15), Virginia (13), New Hampshire (4), Iowa (6), Colorado (9), Nevada (6), Ohio (18) and Wisconsin (10).

The televised debate brought no cessation to other campaigning.

Obama's campaign launched a television ad in Florida that said the president ended the war in Iraq and has a plan to do the same in Afghanistan, accusing Romney of opposing him on both. It was not clear how often the ad would air, given the fall's overall focus on the economy.

Vice President Joe Biden, campaigning in Canton, Ohio, emphasized differences between the two candidates on the war in Afghanistan.

"We will leave Afghanistan in 2014, period. They say it depends," he said. "Ladies and gentlemen, like everything with them, it depends. It depends on what day you find these guys."

Romney's running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, was in Colorado. "We are in the midst of deciding the kind of country we're going to be, the kind of people we're going to be, for a generation," he said.

Whatever the outcome of the final face-to-face confrontation, the debates have left an imprint on the race. Romney was widely judged the winner of the first debate over a listless president on Oct. 3, and he has risen in polls in the days since. Obama was much more energetic in the second.

Monday night marked the third time in less than a week that the president and his challenger shared a stage, following the feisty 90-minute town-hall-style meeting last Tuesday on Long Island and a white-tie charity dinner two night later where gracious compliments flowed and barbs dipped in humor flew.

At the Al Smith charity dinner, Obama previewed his all-purpose fallback to criticism on international affairs.

"Spoiler alert: We got bin Laden," he said, a reminder of the signature foreign policy triumph of his term, the death at the hand of U.S. special operations forces of the mastermind behind the terror attacks on the United States more than a decade ago.

The president and his challenger agreed long ago to devote one of their three debates to foreign policy, even though opinion polls show voters care most about economic concerns.

Growth has been slow and unemployment high across Obama's tenure in the White House. Romney, a wealthy former businessman, cites his experience as evidence he will put in place policies that can revive the economy.

In recent weeks, the former Massachusetts governor has stepped up his criticism of the president's handling of international matters, although his campaign hasn't spent any of its television advertising budget on commercials on the subject.

In a speech earlier this month, Romney accused the president of an absence of strong leadership in the Middle East, where popular revolutions have swept away autocratic regimes in Egypt and elsewhere in the past two years. He has also accused Obama of failing to support Israel strongly enough, of failing to make it clear that Iran will not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon and of backing cuts in the defense budget that would harm military readiness.

Yet Romney has stumbled several times in attempting to establish his own credentials.

He offended the British when he traveled to England this summer and made comments viewed as critical of their preparation for the Olympic Games.

Democrats pounced when he failed to mention the U.S. troops in Afghanistan or Iraq during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in late August, and officials in both parties were critical of his comments about the attack in Benghazi while the facts were unknown.

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Espo reported from Washington.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/final-debate-challenging-other-face-face-013603668--election.html

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Best NFL Films Shots of Week 7

Week?7 of the?NFL season was filled?with impactful plays and game-changing moments.? Here?s a look at some of the best shots from this weekend, courtesy of our cinematographers.?

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iPad Mini Bisa Gerogoti Penjualan PC

Jakarta - Apple iPad Mini diperkirakan segera datang. Kehadirannya kemungkinan bakal menggerogoti penjualan komputer PC.

"Dalam pandangan kami, iPad Mini membidik konsumen yang sensitif terhadap harga dan mereka yang gemar pada e-reader," kata Mark Moskowitz, analis industri di J.P Morgan.

"Terkait ketidakpastian ekonomi global, kami pikir user yang sensitif terhadap harga bisa lebih memilih iPad Mini ketimbang membeli PC," paparnya.

Seperti dilansir Cnet dan dikutip detikINET, Selasa (23/10/2012), iPad Mini kabarnya dijual cukup murah. Beberapa pihak menyebut versi termurah iPad Mini akan dibanderol hanya USD 249 saja.

Sebelumnya, analis lain memprediksi bahwa iPad Mini juga akan mempengaruhi penjualan iPad versi biasa. Memang denga harga lebih murah dan merek Apple yang masih diminati, iPad Mini berpotensi laris di pasaran.

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