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Haze over Eastern China

Thick haze hovered over eastern China on October 20, 2012. The haze stretched from Beijing southward, covering much of the coastal plain bordering Bo Hai and the Yellow Sea. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA?s Aqua satellite acquired this natural-color image the same day.

In many places, the haze was thick enough to completely hide the land or water surface below. A wide band of haze extended eastward over Bo Hai. In the west, isolated mountain peaks poked above the haze, which clogged valleys between the peaks.

Airborne particles are often measured in microns (also micrometers): one-millionth of a meter. Particles with diameters of 2.5 microns or smaller are believed to pose the greatest health risks because they can lodge deeply in the lungs, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing measures particles down to a size of 2.5 microns, known as PM2.5, and reports the measurements though the BeijingAir Twitter feed. On October 20, the same day that MODIS took this picture, reported air quality ratings ranged from ?Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups? to ?Hazardous.?

In addition to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, another site, China Air Daily, provides satellite images, ground-based photos, PM2.5 readings, and other air quality readings for multiple cities in China. The ground-based photo of Beijing showed thick smog on October 20, consistent with the heavy haze in the MODIS image shown above. Developed in in response to a growing desire for more information on air quality, China Air Daily is a project of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society.

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2. AirNow. (2011, December 9) Air Quality Index. Accessed October 22, 2012.
3. U.S. Embassy in Beijing. (2012, October 22) BeijingAir. Accessed October 22, 2012.
4. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2012, July 19). Fine Particle Designations: Frequently Asked Questions. Accessed October 22, 2012.
5. Zhu, C. (2012, October 17) A visual guide to Chinese air pollution. The Atlantic. Accessed October 23, 2012.

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2. China Air Daily

NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Michon Scott.

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Richard Pybus quits as Bangladesh cricket coach

Englishman Richard Pybus has quit as coach of Bangladesh's cricket team over contract differences just five months into the job, officials said Wednesday.
Pybus, 48, told the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) of his decision on Tuesday night, just weeks before the team take on the West Indies in a home series starting in November.
"We have already appointed Shane Jurgensen, the national team's bowling coach, as the interim coach for the team," BCB spokesman Jalal Yunus told AFP.
Pybus, who had two spells with Pakistan, could not be contacted for comment. In an interview with ESPNcricinfo, he said the BCB wanted him to spend 320 days a year with the Bangladesh team, a commitment he was not ready to make because of family reasons. Yunus said differences over some terms in the agreement meant Pybus had coached the team since June without signing a formal contract.
Pybus turned to coaching in his mid-twenties after injury halted his playing ambitions. He coached in South Africa before taking over the Pakistan team between 1999 and 2001 and in 2003.
Australian Jurgensen now has a difficult task to prepare the side less than three weeks before the first Test against the West Indies on November 13.

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5 Lessons From Nick Hornby's Talk Last Night on Writing and Pop ...

Nick Hornby rose to fame for expertly explaining the man-boy world to legions. His memoir Fever Pitch chronicles his devotion to the Arsenal football (soccer) club. His novels High Fidelity, About a Boy and, more recently, Juliet, Naked talk of grown men still struggling with relationships.

But Hornby is also well-known as a screenwriter and essayist. He received an Oscar nomination for screenplay adaptation for the 2009 Carey Mulligan-Peter Sarsgaard drama An Education and he writes a column on reading (called, appropriately, "Stuff I've Been Reading") for The Believer magazine. Hornby's fourth collection of these essays, More Baths Less Talking, was released earlier this year.

On Monday night, he joined journalist and author Tom Bissell at the Writers Guild Theater to discuss writing, reading and pop culture as part of the Writer's Bloc series. As a tribute to Hornby's High Fidelity and its main character's obsession with lists, we offer the top five takeaways from that conversation.

5. It's OK not to finish a book.

"[We have a] feeling of duty with books," says Hornby. "We don't feel duty-bound to get all the way through a TV program. If we're not enjoying it, we turn over. Movies, we tend to give more of the benefit of the doubt because they're only 90 minutes or two hours. But books, there is this thing of, 'It's a book, I've got to finish it.' Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.

"So I'm on a one-man campaign to tell people if you don't like the book, stop reading it. It doesn't mean the book's bad -- it's not for you at this time in your life. The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading."

4. Novels help us decipher pop culture and history.

"If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction book written in 1964 because you're hearing how language was actually used and hearing what people's actual concerns were at the beginning of the 1960s," Hornby says. "Fiction will be used, if it's used at all [in the future], as an accurate record of what we were like."

3. Let kids read fun stuff.

"Dickens was rubbish in his time," Hornby says. "He wrote serialized actions ... but those books were given the kind of energy to get through the next few hundred years and now kids have to read them."

He adds that adults can appreciate the history and language in, say, Dickens' stories, but it's hard for today's children to relate to them. Instead, he says, get them interested in today's popular young adult fiction: "J.K. Rowling got it. Twilight got it. The Hunger Games got it. ... What you're doing is building an addiction to the written word. And if it isn't a gateway into bigger stuff, the big thing that no one tells you is that nothing bad will come to you if you don't read Jane Austen."

2. The world of a famous writer isn't so glamorous.

"Most of my working day, working months, working years are spent not being famous," Hornby says. "That's how I stay level-headed. You're famous if you Google yourself. It's a miserable, lonely life. ... It is completely random if people have any awareness [of who you are] at all. I really think anyone who just wants to a writer, being famous doesn't come into it at all. I would like to get something done" instead of spending time being famous.

He told a story of his young son being surprised when a fan came up to them on the street. You mean people had read his dad's books? How? He also says his TV repairman confused him with another balding, pale-skinned British guy named Nick -- Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park.

1. Music is art, but snobbery about music taste is wrongheaded.

"In Songbook I have a quote that 'All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,'" Hornby says. "And I really feel that [in music] there's a purity and a sensibility. And there's a feeling and a meaning. If you're going to make a movie, you have to show images and people. Books have a way of showing things, but you're still stunted. But when musicians get it right, it just sort of mainlines into that impotence to make art."

Yet similarly to his arguments about classical literature, Hornby says, "If a Martian came down and you played him 'Gangnam Style' and you said, 'This is my guilty pleasure,' and then you played a James Brown record and said, 'This is the good stuff,' the Martian I think would be confused. The Martian would not see enough of a difference between 'Gangham Style' and James Brown to see why one is a work of art and one is a guilty pleasure. How many pop singles have got bass guitars, drums and a chorus? ... [T]he snobbery that's attached to things that sound exactly the same."

Follow us on Twitter at @LAWeeklyArts and like us on Facebook. Follow Whitney Friedlander at @loislane79.

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BBC scandal raises questions for incoming NYT boss

FILE - In this April 12, 2007 file photo, British Broadcasting Corporation Director-General Mark Thompson pauses during a news conference calling for the release of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The child abuse scandal centered on the late BBC star Jimmy Savile has raised some uncomfortable for the corporation?s former boss, now only weeks away from taking his position as the chief executive of The New York Times. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)

FILE - In this April 12, 2007 file photo, British Broadcasting Corporation Director-General Mark Thompson pauses during a news conference calling for the release of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The child abuse scandal centered on the late BBC star Jimmy Savile has raised some uncomfortable for the corporation?s former boss, now only weeks away from taking his position as the chief executive of The New York Times. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)

LONDON (AP) ? The child abuse scandal that has enveloped one of Britain's most respected news organizations is now hitting one of America's, as the incoming president of The New York Times is on the defensive about his final days as head of the BBC.

Mark Thompson was in charge of the BBC in late 2011 when the broadcaster shelved what would have been a bombshell investigation alleging that the late Jimmy Savile, one of its biggest stars, was a serial sex offender.

The BBC scandal has horrified Britain with revelations that Savile, a popular children's television presenter, cajoled and coerced vulnerable teens into having sex with him in his car, in his camper van, and even in dingy dressing rooms on BBC premises. He is also alleged to have sexually assaulted disabled children at hospitals that he helped by raising charity funds.

Police say there could be more than 200 victims, leading one child protection charity to say that Savile could rank among Britain's most prolific child sex predators.

In a sign of how the scandal may spread, the BBC said Tuesday it was looking into claims of sexual abuse and harassment against nine other current and former employees and contributors.

As increasing numbers of BBC executives come under the microscope over what they knew about Savile ? and why the posthumous expose about his sexual crimes was blocked from being broadcast ? Thompson is being quizzed about his role as well.

Thompson, 55, was the BBC director-general from 2004 until last month.

In a letter to Conservative lawmaker Rob Wilson, Thompson laid out his defense, saying he never worked with Savile, never worked on any of the entertainer's programs and indeed never met the man. Referring to the increasing number of BBC employees who have come forward to say that Savile's interest in young girls was widely rumored, Thompson said he had never been aware of the whispers.

"If I had, I would have raised them with senior colleagues and contacted the police," said Thompson.

The controversy over Saville was compounded when it emerged that an investigation into his misdeeds by the BBC's own "Newsnight" program was shelved last year only weeks before the broadcaster aired a glowing holiday tribute show to Savile.

Now journalists and lawmakers are asking whether BBC bosses canned the "Newsnight" show to protect their star, a prodigious charity fundraiser who was widely eulogized following his death last year at age 84.

The corporation denies a cover-up, although "Newsnight" editor Peter Rippon recently stepped down as the BBC's internal investigation got under way. After weeks of standing by Rippon, the BBC has said his explanation about why the Savile show was not broadcast was incomplete and inaccurate.

With Thompson about to move from one of the most important jobs in the British media to one of most important jobs in American journalism, exactly what he knew ? and when he knew it ?could be critical to his future career.

In a statement last week, Thompson said he had "never heard any allegations or received any complaints" about Savile during his tenure.

But an Oct. 7 story by London's Sunday Times appeared to contradict him, reporting that a BBC journalist had tipped Thompson off about the Savile investigation.

The Sunday Times is published by News International, an arm of Rupert Murdoch's global News Corp. empire, and has no corporate ties to The New York Times.

Thompson acknowledged being warned about what was happening at "Newsnight" by a BBC journalist during a company cocktail party late last year, but he said the journalist never "set out what allegations 'Newsnight' were investigating or had been investigating."

Thompson said he followed the matter up with other executives who told him the "Newsnight" investigation was canceled for journalistic reasons ? suggesting that they believed there wasn't enough evidence for an expose on Savile.

"I had no reason to believe that anyone in the BBC was withholding controversial or incriminating material," Thompson wrote in his letter to Wilson, the lawmaker.

Wilson told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he has written to Thompson again seeking more answers.

"There are questions about how much the journalist told him about the 'Newsnight' investigation that need to be cleared up as quickly as possible," Wilson said, adding that Thompson said he is willing to answer questions before the U.K. parliamentary committee looking into the matter and the BBC's own inquiry.

Wilson said Thompson's fitness to serve as The New York Times chief depends on the outcome of the various inquiries.

But The New York Times has already waited months for a new permanent chief executive following the resignation of Janet Robinson last December. One analyst said the paper could ill afford to wait any longer.

"My feeling is if he (Thompson) has no 'problem' that could surface in the near future there would be no need for him to delay," said Edward Atorino, an analyst with The Benchmark Company. "If there is an issue he should withdraw."

The controversy drew the attention of The New York Times' public editor, Margaret Sullivan, who on Tuesday asked Times readers to evaluate the incoming chief's answers.

"How likely is it that he knew nothing?" she asked. "A director general of a giant media company is something like a newspaper's publisher. Would a publisher be very likely to know if an investigation of one of its own people on sexual abuse charges had been killed?"

In a carefully worded paragraph that followed, she raised the issue of Thompson's fitness to serve as The New York Times chief.

"His integrity and decision-making are bound to affect The Times and its journalism ? profoundly," she wrote. "It's worth considering now whether he is the right person for the job, given this turn of events."

Sullivan said while finding an answer was "not as easy as it sounds ... all these questions ought to be asked."

Sullivan's office said Wednesday she would not be elaborating on her post.

A call and an email to The New York Times seeking comment were not immediately returned Wednesday.

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Obama holds out prospect of post-election "grand bargain"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama says he's confident that if re-elected he will secure within six months a deficit-reduction deal with Republicans equivalent to the "grand bargain" he failed to achieve last year.

Obama made the bold prediction on Tuesday to the Des Moines Register in remarks that were originally off-the-record. After the newspaper complained in a blog, the White House relented and released a transcript of the interview on Wednesday.

Win or lose the November 6 election against Republican Mitt Romney, Obama faces a so-called "fiscal cliff" of automatic across-the-board spending cuts and tax increases set for the end of the year, before the swearing-in of a new Congress and the victor in the presidential race.

"It will probably be messy. It won't be pleasant," he said of the negotiations ahead. "But I am absolutely confident that we can get what is the equivalent of the grand bargain that essentially I've been offering to the Republicans for a very long time, which is $2.50 worth of cuts for every dollar in spending, and work to reduce the costs of our health care programs," Obama said.

He also said a broader long-term deal could "credibly meet" the target of $4 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years as proposed in December 2010 by a deficit reduction commission headed by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson.

"We're going to be in a position where I believe in the first six months we are going to solve that big piece of business," Obama said. The newspaper, the largest in the election battleground state of Iowa, is preparing to endorse a candidate in the presidential race.

Obama sought to counter criticism that he had failed to offer a clear picture of his second-term agenda. Despite that, his comments did not offer specifics on how the "fiscal cliff" could be avoided, especially given the climate of legislative gridlock and partisan rancor in Washington.

But Obama's time-frame for achieving a grand bargain conforms with the prevalent view on Capitol Hill that Congress and the White House will attempt some temporary fix on taxes and spending in order to work on something larger in the months after a newly elected Congress convenes.

Obama also said that in a second term, "We can start looking at a serious corporate tax reform agenda," something he said was of common interest to both Democrats and Republicans.

REPUBLICAN CRITICISM

Obama's comments on his fiscal plans - made public as he campaigned in Iowa at the start of a two-day blitz of swing states less than two weeks before most Americans vote - were quickly challenged by Republicans.

"The president talks about a 'balanced' approach to deficit reduction that includes spending cuts and reforms, but he has offered only tax hikes," said Kevin Smith, a spokesman for House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress.

"The credibility of anything the president says about 2013 is being demolished by the reality of his actions right now in 2012," he said.

Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, said Obama was merely trying to recycle ideas he previously submitted to Congress and which Republicans rejected.

Obama and Boehner failed to reach a "grand bargain" on the deficit last year when talks over raising the debt ceiling for federal borrowing reached an impasse. Only an 11th-hour deal in August 2011 prevented an historic government debt default.

Recriminations over who is to blame for the "fiscal cliff" that resulted have been a regular feature of the tight White House race, and whichever candidate wins the election will be faced with the fallout.

The spending cuts and tax hikes could take an estimated $600 billion out of the U.S. economy and push it into recession next year, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

(Additional reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Fred Barbash and Paul Simao)

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Is Your Drink Spiked? - Addiction Search

Learn from others and never let your beverage out of your sight. A close relative of mine has been a member of Alcoholics Anonymous for many years now and has had the opportunity numerous times to sponsor and help many people during their recovery. He seemed down when I talked to him not long ago and I asked him what was wrong.

He said one of the members he has been sponsoring for more than four years was only one month away from maintaining 5 years of sobriety. I immediately thought how sad, five years of abstinence is a long time and unfortunately this person must have relapsed.

I was shocked and deeply saddened when he continued with the conversation. While attending a family function one of the guests thought it would be funny to spike the person's soda that was left unattended. Without knowing their beverage had been tampered with, this person took a drink and was completely horrified when they realized what had just happened. Thinking they accidentally picked up the wrong drink, I can only imagine how upset they were with them self because AA members know how easily this can happen.

Unbelievably the person who had tampered with the soda immediately admitted to what he had done because he thought it would be funny, not realizing how serious and crushing this was going to be to the recovering alcoholic. Even though this person didn't intentionally drink alcohol, this compromised their abstinence and because they were so devastated, this led to another drink. This person didn't give up though, this amazing person returned to their AA meetings highly determined to move on.

I'm sure similar situations have happened to others recovering from alcohol or drug addiction. People who have never had a problem with drugs or alcohol don't understand addiction and definitely don't realize what abstinence means to a recovering alcoholic or drug addict. They also don't realize what it takes on a daily basis to remain clean and sober for most people either.

Staying clean and sober for any length of time isn't always easy and whether your path of recovery is Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, another program of recovery or you did it on your own, a year of sobriety is a tremendous achievement. A year of continuous sobriety in 12 Step recovery programs is a huge accomplishment. This is considered a sobriety anniversary or sobriety birthday and a token of some kind, is often given as a symbol of the individuals tremendous success.

WE ALL HAVE TO BE CAREFUL!!!!

In the world we live in today it doesn't matter if you're recovering from substance abuse and addiction or not, we all have to be careful and never leave our beverage out of our sight if we're out. Alcohol isn't the only substance used to spike a person's drink and the intent isn't just because someone is trying to get a reaction out of the victim because they think, 'its 'funny'. Many people have had their drinks spiked with prescription drugs and illegal street drugs with the intent of sexual assault or robbery.

Avoid Being A Victim

1. This doesn't just happen to women, men have also been victims.
2. This happens to people of all ages so don't just assume appearance or age has anything to do with being a victim.
3. This can happen on a blind date or with someone you don't know very well, it doesn't just take place at bars, nightclubs or parties.
4. No matter what kind of drink you have, never let it out of your sight. People have had their drinks spiked when using the restroom or while dancing.
5. Watch how much alcohol you consume, a victim is less likely to be careful after they have had a few drinks.
6. Just because a stranger is charming, well groomed and good looking doesn't mean they're not capable of spiking a person's drink with the intentions of drug assisted sexual assault.
7. Never accept drinks from strangers.
8. Never swap or share drinks with someone you don't know or completely trust.
9. Buy your own drinks.
10. Watch your drink being prepared by the bartender.
11. Avoid going out to bars, clubs or even parties alone.

Most of the time the drug used to spike a person's drink is impossible to detect because there's no change in taste, smell or appearance. Depending on a person's weight, their body shape, age, the substance that was used to spike a drink, how much was used and the level of alcohol a person may have already consumed makes a difference in the symptoms that can be experienced.

Symptoms Associated With Spiked Drinks

1. Feeling oddly dizzy, drowsy, light-headed, faint, nauseous, or vomiting
2. Feeling tipsy or drunk when you've not had any alcohol or only had a small amount to drink
3. Feeling hung over when you had little or no alcohol to drink
4. Loss of inhibitions
5. Speech becomes slurred
6. Vision problems
7. Feeling disorientated (confused)
8. Passing out
9. Memory loss
10. Seizures

Stay Safe: This doesn't mean that we have to become paranoid and stop going out and enjoying ourselves, it means we have to be careful, cautious and aware. Remember this happens to people in all age groups and we have to make sure our adolescents and teens are just as informed, careful and aware.

Source: http://www.addictionsearch.com/treatment_articles/article/is-your-drink-spiked_206.html

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Italian court convicts 7 for no quake warning

People listen to the verdict at L'Aquila court, Italy, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. An Italian court has convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter for failing to adequately warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people. The court in L'Aquila Monday evening handed down the convictions and six-year-prison sentences to the defendants, members of a national "Great Risks Commission." In Italy, convictions aren't definitive until after at least one level of appeals, so it is unlikely any of the defendants would face jail immediately. Scientists worldwide had decried the trial as ridiculous, contending that science has no way to predict quakes. (AP Photo/Raniero Pizzi)

People listen to the verdict at L'Aquila court, Italy, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. An Italian court has convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter for failing to adequately warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people. The court in L'Aquila Monday evening handed down the convictions and six-year-prison sentences to the defendants, members of a national "Great Risks Commission." In Italy, convictions aren't definitive until after at least one level of appeals, so it is unlikely any of the defendants would face jail immediately. Scientists worldwide had decried the trial as ridiculous, contending that science has no way to predict quakes. (AP Photo/Raniero Pizzi)

Defendants Claudio Eva, center, and Bernardo De Bernardinis, third from right, a former official of the national Civil Protection agency, listen to the verdict at L'Aquila court, Italy, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. An Italian court has convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter for failing to adequately warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people. The court in L'Aquila Monday evening handed down the convictions and six-year-prison sentences to the defendants, members of a national "Great Risks Commission." In Italy, convictions aren't definitive until after at least one level of appeals, so it is unlikely any of the defendants would face jail immediately. Scientists worldwide had decried the trial as ridiculous, contending that science has no way to predict quakes. (AP Photo/Raniero Pizzi)

Judge Marco Billi, right, reads the verdict at L'Aquila court, Italy, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. An Italian court has convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter for failing to adequately warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people. The court in L'Aquila Monday evening handed down the convictions and six-year-prison sentences to the defendants, members of a national "Great Risks Commission." In Italy, convictions aren't definitive until after at least one level of appeals, so it is unlikely any of the defendants would face jail immediately. Scientists worldwide had decried the trial as ridiculous, contending that science has no way to predict quakes. (AP Photo/Raniero Pizzi)

L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) ? Defying assertions that earthquakes cannot be predicted, an Italian court convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter Monday for failing to adequately warn residents before a temblor struck central Italy in 2009 and killed more than 300 people.

The court in L'Aquila also sentenced the defendants to six years each in prison. All are members of the national Great Risks Commission, and several are prominent scientists or geological and disaster experts.

Scientists had decried the trial as ridiculous, contending that science has no reliable way of predicting earthquakes. So news of the verdict shook the tightknit community of earthquake experts worldwide.

"It's a sad day for science," said seismologist Susan Hough, of the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena, Calif. "It's unsettling." That fellow seismic experts in Italy were singled out in the case "hits you in the gut," Hough added.

In Italy, convictions aren't definitive until after at least one level of appeals, so it is unlikely any of the defendants would face jail immediately.

Other Italian public officials and experts have been put on trial for earthquake-triggered damage, such as the case in southern Italy for the collapse of a school in a 2002 quake in which 27 children and a teacher were killed. But that case centered on allegations of shoddy construction of buildings in quake-prone areas.

State TV noted that this was the first time prosecutors had brought a case based on the failure to predict an earthquake.

Among those convicted Monday were some of Italy's most well-known and internationally respected seismologists and geological experts, including Enzo Boschi, former head of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.

"I am dejected, desperate," Boschi said after the verdict. "I thought I would have been acquitted. I still don't understand what I was convicted of."

The trial began in September 2011 in this Apennine town, whose devastated historic center is still largely deserted.

The defendants were accused in the indictment of giving "inexact, incomplete and contradictory information" about whether small tremors felt by L'Aquila residents in the weeks and months before the April 6, 2009, quake should have constituted grounds for a quake warning.

The 6.3-magnitude temblor killed 308 people in and around the medieval town and forced survivors to live in tent camps for months.

Many much smaller earth tremors had rattled the area in the months before the quake, causing frightened people to wonder if they should evacuate.

"I consider myself innocent before God and men," said another convicted defendant, Bernardo De Bernardinis, a former official of the national Civil Protection agency.

Prosecutors had sought convictions and four-year sentences during the trial. They argued in court that the L'Aquila disaster was tantamount to "monumental negligence," and cited the devastation wrought in the southern United States in 2005 when levees failed to protect the city of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

Relatives of some who perished in the 2009 quake said justice has been done. Ilaria Carosi, sister of one of the victims, told Italian state TV that public officials must be held responsible "for taking their job lightly."

The world's largest multi-disciplinary science society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, condemned the charges, verdict and sentencing as a complete misunderstanding about the science behind earthquake probabilities.

There are swarms of seismic activity regularly in Italy and most do not end up causing dangerous earthquakes, said AAAS geologist Brooks Hanson, deputy editor of the organization's Science magazine. He said that if seismologists had to warn of a quake with every swarm there would be too many false alarms and panic.

"With earthquakes we just don't know," Hanson said Monday. "We just don't know how a swarm will proceed."

Comments on Twitter about the verdict abounded with references to Galileo, the Italian scientist who was tried as a heretic in 1633 for his contention that the Earth revolved around the sun and not vice versa as Catholic church teaching then held. In 1992, then-Pope John Paul II declared that the church had erred in its ruling against the astronomer.

Defense lawyer Filippo Dinacci predicted that the L'Aquila court's verdict would have a chilling effect on officials tasked with protecting Italians in natural disasters. Public officials would be afraid to "do anything," Dinacci told reporters.

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Frances D'Emilio contributed from Rome. AP science writers Alicia Chang and Seth Borenstein contributed from the United States.

Associated Press

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Best Buy offering pre-orders for Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC 8X for $149.99 and $99.99 under contract

Nokia and HTC's upcoming Windows Phone 8 flagships are still on the standard release path: announcement, federal approval and now, pre-order. Keeping device availability tucked firmly under its hat, Best Buy is now offering Nokia's Lumia 920 and the HTC 8X for pre-sale, priced at $149.99 and $99.99, respectively. Early buyers have options, too: the Lumia 920 is kitted out in red, blue, yellow, black and white shells. Fashionistas with a flair for purple, however, will need to stick to HTC's hardware. Unfortunately, you don't get that much choice -- Bust Buy's pre-orders don't balk at the devices' AT&T exclusivity. The retailer doesn't say when devices are going to ship, but we imagine early adopters won't have to wait too long.

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Apple?s 5th Gen iPod Touch And 7th Gen iPod Nano Shipping Times Improve

Apple's new iPod touch and iPod nano, announced alongside the iPhone 5 at an event last month, saw their shipping times improve over the weekend, from an expected two week shipping timeframe to 5-7 business days. The new iPod were first given the open-ended retail window of "October" when initially announced, and then began rolling out to pre-order customers earlier this month.

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'I Love My Husband, But Not Passionately' | Psychology Today

?You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.? Mae West

The immediate question arising from Mae West?s comment is what choices should we make in order to live romantically "right". No doubt, many roads lead to Rome and many more to love. Should we prefer one over another? I will examine here such roads through the true stories of Ariel, Veronica, Pamela and Sheryl, four married women who took different roads to be with the one they love. All of them believe now that they took the right road.

?I divorced the father of my six children?: The story of Veronica

Veronica, an attractive and wise married woman with six children, divorced her well-established husband and married her lover, who himself was married with four children when they met. Neither of them had considered divorcing their spouses till they met each other. Their former relationships were fine, but there was no real passion in them. Now, ten years after the divorce, Veronica is very happy with her choice and says that she cannot imagine a better romantic relationship than the one she has now. Her current husband feels the same. Her ex-husband remarried as well and she sees her children quite often. She is immensely happy and is fulfilling the romantic dream of her life. Veronica belongs to the group of romantic people who cannot be in a loving relationship that lacks intense passion. For these people, a lack of passion is a lack of love.

?I am with both my husband and my lover?: The story of Pamela

Pamela is a conservative, married woman with three children. Throughout her 23 years of marriage, she never had an affair and never actually thought about having one until she met Saul at her work place. Saul, a charming married man with two children, had quite a few affairs before meeting Pamela. There was an immediate click between them and they fell intensely in love. After a while they considered divorcing their spouses, but Pamela told Saul that she loved him too much to separate him from his wife and children; they decided to continue their loving relationship while remaining married to their spouses. It is now 12 years since they met, and they continue to enjoy the most profound loving relationship of their lives. The relationship is confined to their secret world?they never go out together and cannot be with each other as much as they would like. This is a constant source of yearning for them.

?I have stayed with my husband despite my affairs?: The story of Sheryl

Sheryl is an attractive and an extremely talented woman in her late forties. She is married to a handsome, intelligent man in his early sixties. They both love and respect each other, though their mutual passion has never been very high. She had a few extramarital affairs; her husband had not. When he became aware of her affairs, he considered divorce and finally decided against it and began having affairs of his own. In addition to their mutual togetherness, each of them has a separate little world of their own. Some aspects of this world are sexual and others are emotional. They seem to derive more satisfaction from their marriage now than they did before.

?I chose an older and less passionate man?: The story of Ariel

Ariel, a married woman in her fifties, was faced at the age of 27 with a decision that demanded a romantic compromise: Whether to marry a young man who she loved passionately or to marry a divorced 50 year old who she respected and loved, but not passionately. She chose the older person as she thought that he would be better able to bring out the best in her and help her to realize her potential. When she looks back on her life, she has no regrets?time has only deepened her love for her husband. Ariel says that she has never believed in Romantic Ideology, as she has never liked illusions or fantasies. She places particular importance on her personal space and freedom. In all the places they have lived, she has had a separate bedroom and an office of her own. They have mostly lived apart, but they speak on the phone several times a day and when they meet on weekends, they take great pleasure in their time together. Despite Ariel?s enjoyment of her private space, she never uses it for sexual affairs; she explains this by saying, ?I am too puritan.? Moreover Ariel cares for her husband deeply and feels very committed to him. Ariel, like other more rational people, believes that love is so much more than intense passion, which often lessens in intensity as time goes by; for such people, love is something more profound that should last for a long time.

Comparing the different roads

The above four roads express possible options you have if you want to be with the one you love, despite the lack of passion in some area of your life. There is of course also the chance, which is not discussed here, of finding great profound love and passion right from start and maintaining it throughout the relationship.

The complex experience of profound romantic love involves two basic evaluative patterns referring to (a) attractiveness?that is, an attraction to external appearance, and (b) praiseworthiness?that is, positive appraisal of personal characteristics. Companionate love involves characteristics such as caring, respect, reciprocity, and admiration. Romantic love involves companionate love as well as the passionate aspect that relates mainly to sexual desire.

The ideal romantic love is one that is profound and involves a high degree of both praiseworthiness and attractiveness?both deep friendship and intense passion. In this ideal love, passionate desire is part and parcel of the profound attitude of romantic love. Let us arrange the stories of the four women in light of the road they took with regard to the passionate aspect of their love-life.

(a) Achieving the passionate aspect by replacing an unstimulating spouse with a passionate one (Veronica);

(b) Achieving the passionate aspect by adding a relationship with a passionate lover to the one with an unstimulating spouse (Pamela);

(c) Giving up the passionate aspect only within marriage, but achieving it occasionally outside marriage (Sheryl);

(d) Giving up the passionate aspect all together (Ariel).

Veronica and Pamela are in the best situation concerning the fulfillment of their passion, which is integrated into their romantic love. The difference between them is in their ability to fully implement this profound love. Veronica can do so and this brings her great happiness. Pamela cannot do so as she is married to another person. The secret nature of her relationship with her lover makes it impossible for them to pursue activities together in public, so their togetherness is limited both in time and in the mutual experiences that are open to them. Veronica took the greater risk and made the bigger sacrifice by refusing any type of romantic compromise; accordingly, she broke up her marriage. She gave up everything, but got everything?she is living with the passionate love of her life.

Pamela's circumstances are the most complex. She felt unable to take the full step she would have liked to take?to live with her lover?and decided to compromise by remaining in her marriage. She is ready to compromise on the nature of the marital framework she is in, but cannot compromise on not being with the love of her life. Pamela?s risk and sacrifice are less than those of Veronica but she also gets less. Like Veronica, the love of her life includes passion as well, but unlike Veronica she does not live with the man with whom she is so much in love.

Sheryl did not want to give up anything?neither her marriage and nor her passionate sexual desire. However, unlike Veronica and Pamela she could not integrate this passion into a profound romantic love, and so her passion is directed at different men: she loves (in a companionate manner) her husband and satisfies her passionate sexual desire with other people. Though she has become accommodated to her situation, she still yearns to be with a person she loves and desires.

Ariel?s road is the simplest: At the beginning of her relationship she gave up passionate love and has learned to love her husband in a companionate manner; at this stage of her life she feels satisfied with her marriage and life. At first she was uncomfortable about compromising on the passionate aspect in her relationship, but then accommodated herself to it and does not feel its absence in her everyday life.

Source: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-the-name-love/201210/i-love-my-husband-not-passionately

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Obama team promises more aggressive president in second debate

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Campaign advisers to President Barack Obama promised on Sunday he would be more aggressive and energetic on Tuesday in his second debate against Republican challenger Mitt Romney after a passive, heavily criticized performance in their first showdown.

Since that first debate in Denver on October 3, polls indicate Romney has erased Obama's lead heading into the November 6 election. Obama and Romney debate again on Tuesday at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. The third and final presidential debate will take place on October 22 in Florida.

"Obviously, the president was disappointed in his own performance. He didn't meet his expectations," Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs told the CNN program "State of the Union," referring to the first debate.

"He knew when he walked off that stage and he also knew as he's watched the tape of that debate that he's got to be more energetic. I think you'll see somebody who's very passionate about the choice that our country faces - and putting that choice in front of voters," Gibbs added.

The Romney team sounded unimpressed. "Well, the president can change his style. He can change his tactics. He can't change his record. And he can't change his policies. And that's what this election is about," Romney campaign adviser Ed Gillespie told CNN.

"I think the race is very close. I think the wind is at Governor Romney's back, and there's clearly momentum. You can see it on the trail, you can see it in the data," Gillespie said in a separate appearance on "Fox News Sunday."

In contrast to Obama's listless debate performance, Vice President Joe Biden was far more assertive in his debate on Thursday night with Romney's running mate Paul Ryan in Danville, Kentucky.

Another Obama campaign adviser, David Axelrod, told the "Fox News Sunday" program: "I think he's going to be aggressive in making the case for his view of where we should go as a country, a country that's built around a growing, thriving middle class, not this top-down theory that Governor Romney has."

"But the other thing he's going to certainly do - I mean, we saw Governor Romney sort of serially walk away from his own proposals - certainly the president is going to be willing to challenge him on it as we saw the vice president challenge Paul Ryan," Axelrod said.

(Reporting and editing by Vicki Allen and Will Dunham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-team-promises-more-aggressive-president-second-debate-143251046.html

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Pit-stop at Peaches' | Around Town | Know your city

Sandhya Ramachandran decides to pause between mouthfuls and gets talking to the three young promoters of Chennai?s new and popular vegetarian world-cuisine restaurant ? Peaches?.

Raghu Viswanathan, Venkatesh Kannan and Niranjan Tata never really thought they would start a restaurant together, ten years from the first day they met in college. Hours of coding and debugging later, in both college and the IT Company they worked in, the idea of starting something together was born.

It took them a while before they figured out what exactly they wanted to do. Niranjan reveals that they zeroed in on their choices of food, travel and entertainment. Venkatesh adds, ?Then each one of us picked a topic and researched on it?. Since the three of them were foodies, the result was evident.

Raghu tells us that ?the name Peaches was our first choice, but then, we wanted a few more choices and hunted for names again.? Funnily enough, they split responsibilities based on alphabets this time. One team of precise, well divided labour, alright!

So who is ?peaches?, we plead, alluding to their teaser ad campaign that got them a lot of media attention and public eyeballs. Raghu and Venkatesh answer us in detail, ?Peaches? is the embodiment of an ideal woman to us. The concept of an ideal woman varies from person to person. There are different visualizations. In the same way, we have Peaches?. Peaches? is what you want her to be. We wanted her to be someone that satisfied everybody?s need in terms of food.? Articulation indeed, just like their small but carefully planned menu.

So we get to what interests us the most ? the food. We wanted to know the ideal three-course menu that we could order for the boss just in case we happened to land up at Peaches?. Niranjan took this one and has suggested we ?start with the French onion soup. It is everyone?s favourite?. Aah! So the boss will begin the lunch in good spirits. He then says we must order their mushroom tortellini for starters, get some Phuket Paneer for the main course and indulge our boss in the time-tested gajar ka halwa and ice-cream to wrap up the meal. Safe and ever-reliable options, we agree.

We asked Raghu to pick out the meal at Peaches? for our Peaches ? meaning what we could order at a date ? and he lists out, ?Comfort food or what we call the ?sarakku dish?(tavern snacks) of crispy American corn to begin with.? Good for conversations, we add. Then he urges that you order a creamy mushroom lasagna saying ?you cannot go wrong with something that has cream, cheese and mushroom.? Ideal dish for the ideal date, we quip albeit a little cheesily. For dessert, he encourages the great hot chocolate fudge fundae. Hell, we?d order that even if we weren?t on a date!

Venkatesh however declares that the Somaras should be the ideal dessert choice. He indulges us in an interesting theory of immortality behind it. ?The somaras comes straight from heaven, as its name suggests. Every drink adds a day to your life. So the sure shot way of longevity is to drop by Peaches for a daily dose of somaras,? he finishes. They had their fill, and have lived to tell the tale today. Maybe it is not all clever advertisement, maybe there is an element of truth. Why don?t we check it out for ourselves?

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Daytrading, Stock Trading, Investing and Forex Trading ...

When you're a newb, securities trading can feel like a disconcerting prospect. With all of the stories and misunderstandings about the stockmarket, many of us are too frightened to even start. Even the outwardly easy step of finding a stockbroker can frighten green backers. There are numerous calls to make on the way, but do not let them scare you. This has 2 implications-you can sell stock that you think is over valued and buy stock that you suspect is under valued.

This brings us to the second major beliefs in fundamental research. As a worth financier, you may naturally be looking to choose stocks that trade below what you suspect is the natural price and then expect the share price to fix itself upwards. The 2 doubtful factors here on the precision of your inbuilt price guess and the time taken for the share price correction. So we see that it's possible to be a successful investor by utilizing a clever mixture of qualitative and quantitative research. * Learning the language connected with penny shares is extremely important. * Although the penny market is low cost compared with other stocks you can still make a respectable profit that will make a contribution for both you and your family so far as earnings to aid in paying for your debts or building toward your retirement. As the more well capable you are on the language then you may get even more successful. An advantage of the stockmarket dealing software is the incontrovertible fact that they're programmed to recognise the trends and advise you of which stocks are probably going to be good to make an investment in.

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Rihanna Flaunts Red-Hot Looks On Second 'Vogue' Cover | Music ...

Just days after revealing details behind her seventh studio album, Rihanna couldn?t help but offer her Twitter followers a peek at her second cover for the U.S. version of Vogue. While the approach and premise behind the November 2012 issue may not reveal anything new ? her red dress recalling the Little Mermaid locks of her first cover, ?I love to have fun?, etc. ? it will certainly help build up anticipation for Unapologetic, out November 19.

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