Buyer Beware

I've greatly enjoyed watching the petty controversies that erupted this week, controversies having to do with what can only loosely be described as buyer's remorse: indignant iPad owners, a mysteriously banished Amazon customer, and a host of people calling foul on Facebook's promoted posts. One of these is a legitimate and productive complaint, the others are nothing but a froth about the mouth.

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Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ Scores In the Twenty-First Century

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"[A] person who scored 100 a century ago would score 70 today; a person who tested as average a century ago would today be declared mentally retarded. This bizarre finding ? christened the 'Flynn effect' by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray in The Bell Curve ? has since snowballed so much supporting evidence that in 2007 Malcolm Gladwell declared in The New Yorker that 'the Flynn effect has moved from theory to fact.' But researchers still cannot agree on why scores are going up. Are we are simply getting better at taking tests? Are the tests themselves a poor measure of intelligence? Or do rising IQ scores really mean we are getting smarter? In spite of his new book's title, Flynn does not suggest a simple yes or no to this last question. It turns out that the greatest gains have taken place in subtests that measure abstract reasoning and pattern recognition, while subtests that depend more on previous knowledge show the lowest score increases. This imbalance may not reflect an increase in general intelligence, Flynn argues, but a shift in particular habits of mind. The question is not, why are we getting smarter, but the much less catchy, why are we getting better at abstract reasoning and little else?"

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Obama ad hits Romney on Wall Street, Medicare, education

NASHUA, N.H. - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign released a harsh new ad Saturday that accuses Republican rival Mitt Romney of looking to roll back regulations on Wall Street, turn Medicare into a voucher system, and slash education funding. The 30-second ad cast the incumbent in a defensive light -- someone fighting to hold onto cherished programs, not to propose new reforms.

Romney's campaign hit back, with spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg saying "we can't afford four more years like the last four" and predicting that voters would pick Romney's "positive agenda over President Obama's increasingly desperate attacks."

The Obama commercial, set to run in Florida, Iowa, Ohio, and Virginia, distills Obama's main argument for re-election: That the former Massachusetts governor will gut programs that help the middle class in favor of wealthy Americans and big banks.

"Mitt Romney's plan rolls back regulations on the banks that crashed our economy. Medicare, voucherized. Catastrophic cuts to education. Millionaires will get one of the largest tax cuts ever. While middle class families pay more. That's what Mitt Romney wants to bring here. Remember that when you go here."

Polls suggest that Romney has the edge among voters on which candidate would better revive the still-sputtering economy, while Obama leads on who would better defend middle-class interests. The president has spent months trying to paint his rival as an out-of-touch multi-millionaire, while Romney has portrayed his huge success as an investor as evidence he is the better candidate to spur growth.

In a sign of how important this battle is to Obama's political fortunes, the president also used his weekly address from the White House to underline those themes, charging that Republicans hope to "delay, defund, and dismantle" legislation imposing new rules on Wall Street in the aftermath of the 2007-2008 global financial meltdown.

"To make sure America never goes through a crisis like that again, we passed tough new Wall Street reform to end taxpayer-funded bailouts for good," he said.

"That's what Wall Street reform is all about ? looking out for working families and making sure that everyone is playing by the same rules," said Obama.

"Sadly, that hasn't been enough to stop Republicans in Congress from fighting these reforms.? Backed by an army of financial industry lobbyists, they've been waging an all-out battle to delay, defund and dismantle these new rules," he said. "I refuse to let that happen."

"We've come too far ? and sacrificed too much ? to go back to an era of top-down, on-your-own economics," he said, in a line that sounded ripped straight from his stump speech.

Obama has also strived recently to emphasize upbeat economic news (while never forgetting to highlight that he inherited a crisis from George W. Bush).

"Our businesses have added more than 5 million new jobs.? The unemployment rate has fallen to the lowest level since I took office.? Home values are rising again.? And our assembly lines are humming once more," he said in his weekly address.

"The president's campaign is once again trying to cover up for his lack of an agenda to help the middle class," said the Romney campaign's Henneberg. "Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are offering real change for a real recovery, with 12 million new jobs, rising incomes, and a stronger middle class."

Obama was holding a rally in New Hampshire, whose four electoral college votes are seen as up for grabs, as well as record a radio interview set to run in the Granite State on Tuesday. He was also to do radio interviews set to run in Miami, Fla. and Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Consumers boost growth despite business caution

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Economic growth picked up in the third quarter as a late burst in consumer spending offset the first cutbacks in investment in more than a year by cautious businesses.

Gross domestic product expanded at a 2 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said on Friday, accelerating from the second quarter's 1.3 percent pace.

Still, the stronger pace of expansion fell short of what is needed to make much of a dent in unemployment, and details of the report did not bode well for an acceleration in output in the fourth quarter, as a spurt in government spending was see as temporary.

A growth pace in excess of 2.5 percent is needed over several quarters to make substantial headway cutting the jobless rate. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a 1.9 percent growth pace in the third quarter.

The report offers little cheer for the White House ahead of the closely contested November 6 presidential election, in which President Barack Obama is trying to fend off Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

U.S. stock index futures pared losses after the data, while Treasuries briefly cut early price gains. The dollar trimmed losses against the yen, and cut gains against the euro.

Since climbing out of the 2007-09 recession, the economy has faced a series of headwinds from high gasoline prices to the debt turmoil in Europe and, lately, fears of U.S. government austerity.

It has struggled to exceed a 2 percent growth pace and remains about 4.5 million jobs short of where it stood when the downturn started.

Consumers, however, largely shrugged off the impending sharp cuts in government spending and higher taxes, which are due at the start of the year absent congressional action.

Indeed, they went on a bit of a shopping spree as the quarter wound down, buying a range of goods - including automobiles and Apple Inc's iPhone 5.

Consumer spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity, grew at a 2 percent rate after increasing 1.5 percent in the prior period.

SPENDING DESPITE INCOME SQUEEZE

High stock prices and firming house values have made households a bit more willing to take on new debt, supporting consumer spending.

The faster pace of spending was achieved despite a spike in inflation pressures as gasoline prices rose. A price index for personal spending rose at a 1.8 percent rate, accelerating from the second quarter's 0.7 percent pace.

But a core inflation measure that strips out food and energy costs slowed to a 1.3 percent rate after rising 1.7 percent in the prior quarter, suggesting the increase in overall price pressures will be temporary.

However, with about 23 million Americans either out of work or underemployed, the current pace of spending may not be sustained, especially if gasoline prices maintain their recent upward march and families get a higher tax bill in 2013.

Incomes were squeezed in the last quarter, causing households to save less to fund their purchases.

The amount of income available to households after accounting for inflation and taxes rose at a tepid 0.8 percent rate in the third quarter, slowing after a brisk 3.1 percent pace the prior period.

The saving rate slowed to 3.7 percent after increasing to 4 percent in the second quarter.

There was surprisingly good news on government spending, which snapped eight straight quarters of declines on a strong rebound in defense outlays. Government spending accounted for 0.7 percentage point of GDP growth. However, that might not be sustained given the austerity plans for next year.

Fears of the fiscal cliff fears hammered business spending, which dropped at a 1.3 percent pace in the third quarter, falling for the first time since the first three months of 2011.

The fiscal cliff refers to automatic tax hikes and government spending cuts, which will drain about $600 billion out of the economy next year absent congressional action.

Part of the drag in business investment, which had been a source of strength for the economy, came from equipment and software, where outlays were the weakest since the second quarter of 2009.

Spending on nonresidential structures contracted after five straight quarters of growth.

In contrast, home building surged at a 14.4 percent rate, thanks in large part to the Federal Reserve's ultra accommodative monetary policy stance, which has driven mortgage rates to record lows.

Inventories were a drag on growth because of a drought in the country's Midwest, which has decimated crops. Farm inventories cut 0.42 percentage point from GDP growth. Excluding inventories, the economy grew at a 2.1 percent pace.

Final sales to domestic purchasers, a measure of domestic demand, rose at a 2.3 percent pace, the fastest since the fourth quarter f 2010.

Slowing global demand, particularly weakness in Europe and China, caused U.S. exports to contract for the first time since the first quarter of 2009. That left a trade deficit that weighed on GDP growth.

(Reporting by Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Neil Stempleman)

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This Robot?s Offspring Will Clean Your Future Home

Bossa Nova Robotics has developed a robot it says is "the first step towards the creation of a 21st century personal robotics platform for everyday consumers." It's called Project mObi, and instead of wheels or even bipedal legs, it uses ...

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Bloomberg Terminal Sales - Business Insider

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Perhaps this is an indicator of how Wall Street is really doing.

Via Zerohedge, the New York Post's Keith J. Kelley reports that Bloomberg LP has grown its Bloomberg Terminal sales by only ~1,000 units in the first nine months of this year.?

In 2011, Bloomberg sold?13,672 terminal subscriptions, which was short of the sales goal of 15,000, the report said.

A Bloomberg Terminal is basically a computer that Wall Streeters use to obtain real-time market data, news and stock quotes among many other cool functions.?

There are about?315,000 Bloomberg Terminals installed worldwide. ?A subscription costs about $20,000 per year, the report said.

The other problem is 50 percent of Bloomberg employees' bonuses depend on terminal sales and non-terminal revenue growth.

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Solving stem cell mysteries

ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2012) ? The ability of embryonic stem cells to differentiate into different types of cells with different functions is regulated and maintained by a complex series of chemical interactions, which are not well understood. Learning more about this process could prove useful for stem cell-based therapies down the road. New research from a team led by Carnegie's Yixian Zheng zeroes in on the process by which stem cells maintain their proper undifferentiated state.

Their results are published in Cell October 26.

Embryonic stem cells go through a process called self-renewal, wherein they undergo multiple cycles of division while not differentiating into any other type of cells. This process is dependent on three protein networks, which guide both self-renewal and eventual differentiation. But the integration of these three networks has remained a mystery.

Using a combination of genetic, protein-oriented and physiological approaches involving mouse embryonic stem cells, the team -- which also included current and former Carnegie scientists Junling Jia, Xiaobin Zheng, Junqi Zhang, Anying Zhang, and Hao Jiang -- uncovered a mechanism that integrates all three networks involved in embryonic stem cell self-renewal and provide a critical missing link to understanding this process.

The key is a protein called Utf1. It serves three important roles. First, it balances between activating and deactivating the necessary genes to direct the cell toward differentiation. At the same time, it acts on messenger RNA that is the transcription product of the genes when they're activated by tagging it for degradation, rather than allowing it to continue to serve its cellular function. Lastly, it blocks a genetic feedback loop that normally inhibits cellular proliferation, allowing it to occur in the rapid nature characteristic of embryonic stem cells.

"We are slowly but surely growing to understand the physiology of embryonic stem cells," Zheng said. "It is crucial that we continue to carrying out basic research on how these cells function." Non-Carnegie co-authors on the paper include Gangquing Hu, Kairong Cui, Chengyu Liu and Keji Zhao of the National Institutes of Health; and John Yates III and Bingwen Lu of the Scripps Research Institute, the latter of whom is now at Pfizer.

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Chasowa died for many of us. Shame on DPP | Face of Malawi

on Oct 25, 2012 in Opinion | 1 comment

By George Kasakula

By the time I am writing this, police have not made any arrests after findings from a commission of inquiry on the death of Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa implicated some names closely linked with the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).

This is despite reports that police have formed task forces to bring to book those who are suspected to have ruthlessly cut short a promising life apparently for its political views and activism.

At times such as these, there are always attempts by those who may find themselves on the accused?s side in the matter to say the issue is about the Joyce Banda administration witch-hunting its opponents from DPP.

This would be missing the point and besides the issue.

The issue is that it is tragic that 20 years after we adopted multiparty system of government, people should still be dying for their political views.

I just find it incomprehensible and unacceptable in today?s world that some people, because of the mere fact that they belong to a ruling party, can sit down, plan and kill someone because they do not agree with his political views.

Come to think of it, who was Chasowa? He was a mere overexcited college student full of youthful optimism that he could change the world he was living in to suit himself. It is part of college life and growth.

At that stage, your mind is infused with ideas and ideologies on daily basis. You are at the stage when you are examining and defining yourself. You are hot-headed and believe what you believe. Politics is your playground and it is where you experiment with various ideas such as socialism, capitalism and marxism and you try to find a footing.

Did Chasowa deserve to die for this? The answer is hell no. If this were the case, then half of students in the university campuses across the world would be shot dead for their weird and sometimes foolish views.

As a nation, we said a resounding no to this when we brought down a strong MCP government in 1994 mainly because of its appalling human rights record and failure to respect the sanctity of life.

That some people today think because they belong to a ruling party, they can sit at a table and decide to kill someone should be totally rejected with the last ounce of blood and energy of every right-thinking Malawian.

Chasowa died for many of us who thought DPP had gone too far in treating this country as if it were a piece of their personal estate.

Chasowa could have been any of us. In fact, I do believe in my heart of hearts that if Bingu wa Mutharika were still alive today, some more Malawians could have also met Chasowa?s fate.

There is one way to close this matter for Chasowa?s family and all good Malawians who believe in rule of law: justice.

It is only then that we will let sleeping dogs lie.

This is just to teach a lesson to politicians and ruling party cadres that when they are told to commit atrocities against innocent Malawians, one day justice will catch up with them. Chasowa was a son, brother, cousin and boyfriend to someone.

He was also a Malawian. He did not deserve to be sent to his early grave in that cruel and brutal manner, all because of his political views.
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First Steps to Automating your Social Media ... - Zizinya Web Solutions

First Steps to Automating your Social Media Marketing

Posted by Amy Brown on Fri, Oct 26, 2012 @ 06:00 AM

At first glance, social media probably didn't seem like something that would take up much of your time. Twitter, for example, limits posts to just 140 characters, so how much time could tweeting really take??

The problem is that social media happens in real time, like a conversation. Individual items might not take much time, but they happen all the time. As much as multitasking is lauded, continuously going back to social media throughout the day can seriously hamper your overall productivity.?

The solution is to automate your social media marketing as much as possible. By taking care of your postings all at once, you free up the rest of your day to work on other things.?

To start automating your social media marketing, there are a few steps you should take:

• Develop a plan.?Step one in automating your social media is to decide, in advance, what you want to accomplish and how you can accomplish it. Of course, this is a good idea whether you are going to automate it or not; you want to have a marketing plan for your social media. But the immediacy of social media can make it tempting to do things on the fly. One big advantage of automation is that it ensures you do this advance planning.
• Determine which social media networks to use, and how to use them.?Each social media network has its own personality and its own function. You want to focus your efforts on the platforms where they will do the most good. If you just copy the exact same content to every social media site, you are not taking advantage of what makes each platform unique.
• Decide when to post.?You will be scheduling social media posts in advance, so you need to set them for the times when they will be most effective. That means you need to know when your followers are most likely to be online and engaging with your social media, which may require some testing and analysis of results.
• Choose the right automation tools.?There are a number of applications and services, such as HootSuite, which allow you to automate your social media marketing. Many are free, or at least offer basic functions for free with the option of adding more features through a paid account.?
• Maintain the ability to respond.?You do not want your social media efforts to look automatic. Social media is still about interacting with people, not robots. So make sure you only schedule posts when there is someone available to respond to any important questions or comments that come up, and set up notifications to let you know when someone does reply to an automatic post.

By following these steps to automation, you can save time on your social media marketing?while making it more effective in the process.

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Apple earnings lower than expected

Apple Inc. reported quarterly earnings today that were 24 per cent higher than a year earlier, but below analysts? estimates.

The iPhone maker earned net income of $8.2 billion US, or $8.67 per share, on revenue of $36 billion.

In the same quarter in 2011, it earned $6.6 billion, or $7.05 per share.

Analysts had expected earnings of $8.75 a share on revenue of $35.8 billion.

The company sold 14 million iPads, as customers put off buying old versions ahead of the release of the iPad mini in this quarter.

Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg had expected sales of 15.3 million iPads.

Apple, the world's largest company by market value, yesterday unveiled a new iPad Mini, aimed directly at competition from Amazon's Kindle Fire and Google's Nexus tablets. Shipments start next week.

Sales were also hurt by slowing growth in China. Apple's sales in China more than doubled in fiscal 2010 and in 2011. Growth in the July-September quarter was also slow in economically troubled Europe.

Apple says it expects to earn $11.75 a share in the current quarter on revenue of $52 billion.

Analysts had been calling for net income per share of $15.41 on $55 billion in revenue.

In after-hours trading, the iPhone maker?s stock fell more than $12, or about two per cent, to dip below $600 US for the first time since July 30, before recovering some of that to trade at about $603.

Apple sold 26.9 million iPhones in the quarter, at the high end of expectations.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/apple-set-post-4th-quarter-earnings-184833942--finance.html

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Outdoor Adaptive Sports Programs: Where To Find The Nation's ...

Like most of us, I didn't fully realize the extent of the daily hassles and challenges faced by those who use a wheelchair, prosthetic, or other mobility aid until it became somewhat personal. I'm fortunate to have two people in my life who've been an enormous source of both education and inspiration, and I'm writing this piece because of them. A little bit of background is in order:

When I moved to Vail in 1995 to attend culinary school, I became friends with Darol Kubacz, a young Forest Service employee. Darol had broken his back in a motorcycle accident about 18 months prior; at the time of his injury, he was in the Army, working in Special Ops. He was already an experienced outdoorsman who enjoyed scuba diving, climbing, and hiking. Despite the physical challenges and fairly recent onset of his paralysis, he made a huge impression on me with his positive, non-defeatist attitude.

Darol's job with the Forest Service entailed trail assessment for the handicapped, while in his personal life he'd already undertaken a number of adaptive sports, including the aforementioned activities he'd enjoyed prior to his injury. He'd also started alpine skiing (he broke his neck in a skiing accident in 2000, but fortunately sustained no additional physical or neurological damage).

Darol became my workout buddy, and he was the first friend I'd ever had who was in a chair. Through him, I learned a lot about what it means to live with a limitation. Mainly, he impressed upon me that, to a certain extent, it's possible for humans to overcome physical limitations. I'm surprised he doesn't have, "Where there's a will, there's a way," carved into his chest.

Today, Darol works as a part-time adaptive hiking guide in Phoenix (he and his clients use off-road arm bikes),and is working on launching an adaptive paragliding program. He's climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro ?twice, summiting once? entirely under his own power, to raise awareness for his foundation, Freedom for Life. Following his ski accident, he has, he says, "Learned to embrace a more intimate experience with nature, that's less about speed and adrenalin, and more about being in the moment." Hence his passion for off-road bikes.

I met my friend Tony 12 years, ago, when I was living in Berkeley and working as a farmers market vendor. A loyal customer, Tony is also a documentary filmmaker and graphic designer. He's quadriplegic, the result of a teenage diving accident. Tony has partial use of his arms, and until his accident, was a competitive surfer. Until a few years ago, however, he'd never been able to get back on a board due to some medical issues he was dealing with.

Today, at a freakishly youthful 48, Tony is an avid surfer and skier (that's him at Alpine Meadows, in the photo at the beginning of this story), thanks to several amazing adaptive sport programs. He says he's in the best shape of his life, and his jones for salt water and snow matches that of any able-bodied enthusiast.

Living in the outdoor adventure mecca of Boulder as I do, I'm also in an epicenter of outdoor adaptive recreation programs. With my locale and both of these inspiring and incredible guys in mind, I wanted to provide a round-up of top adaptive sport centers across the country.

Adaptive Adventures
Based in Boulder, this is Darol's preferred ski and summer program; he also co-produces a summer Moab Mania event for them. They offer alpine skiing, snowboarding, waterskiing, wake-boarding, kayaking, rafting, and cycling. Offers civilian, veterans, and kids programs.

Telluride Adaptive Sports Program
Darol and I both recommend this program (me, from living in Telluride and knowing some of the staff. TASP is very well-regarded, and offers summer and winter programs. This time of year there's alpine, nordic, and backcountry skiing and snowboarding, snow shoeing, ice-climbing, Helitrax skiing, and snowmobiling. In summer, there's horseback riding, hiking, biking, fishing, climbing, paddling, and camping.

Challenge Aspen
This prestigious adaptive ski and snowboard program based in Snowmass is for civilians with physical or cognitive disabilities. Challenge Aspen Military Opportunities (C.A.M.O.) is for injured military; a new camp this year has been developed to help adaptive skiers learn more about competitive Paralympic training programs and interface with Paralymic coaches.

High Fives Foundation
Tony is a huge fan of this Truckee, California-based non-profit founded by paralyzed former competitive skier Roy Tuscany. Dedicated to raising awareness and funding for "injured athletes that have suffered a life-altering injury while pursuing their dream in the winter action sports community." They also serve as a resource center for alternative therapies such as acupuncture, massage, and pilates, gyms, and adaptive sports and equipment.

WORLD T.E.A.M. Sports
Chartered in North Carolina and based in New York, Darol recommends this athletic organization that offers adaptive and able-bodied events in mountain biking, rafting, cycling, and more. They also offer teen challenges.

They Will Surf Again
Tony has hit the waves with this Los Angeles-based program offered by the non-profit, Life Rolls On (LRO). Founded by quadriplegic, former competitive surfer Jesse Billauer, LRO raises awareness and funds for spinal cord injury (SCI) research, and offers bi-coastal adaptive surfing, skate, and snowboarding programs.

AccesSurf Hawaii
Honolulu-based adaptive surfing and other recreational water sport programs.

Wheels 2 Water
Tony recommends this adaptive surf and scuba diving non-profit in his hometown of Huntington Beach, California.

Wheels Up Pilots
This research and instructional paragliding program in Santa Barbara is highly recommended by Darol, who is about to become one of the first two U.S.-certified adaptive paragliding pilots. Open to civilians and veterans.

Freedom for Life Off-road Arm Biking
For guided hikes in the Phoenix area, contact Darol Kubacz, darol@fflfoundation.org.

[Photo credits: adaptive skier, Tony Schmiesing; all others, Adaptive Adventures]

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NASA spacecraft sees huge burp at Saturn after large storm

ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2012) ? NASA's Cassini spacecraft has tracked the aftermath of a rare massive storm on Saturn. Data reveal record-setting disturbances in the planet's upper atmosphere long after the visible signs of the storm abated, in addition to an indication the storm was more forceful than scientists previously thought.

Data from Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer (CIRS) instrument revealed the storm's powerful discharge sent the temperature in Saturn's stratosphere soaring 150 degrees Fahrenheit (83 kelvins) above normal. At the same time, researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., detected a huge increase in the amount of ethylene gas, the origin of which is a mystery. Ethylene, an odorless, colorless gas, isn't typically observed on Saturn. On Earth, it is created by natural and human-made sources.

Goddard scientists describe the unprecedented belch of energy in a paper to be published in the Nov. 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.

"This temperature spike is so extreme it's almost unbelievable, especially in this part of Saturn's atmosphere, which typically is very stable," said Brigette Hesman, the study's lead author and a University of Maryland scientist who works at Goddard. "To get a temperature change of the same scale on Earth, you'd be going from the depths of winter in Fairbanks, Alaska, to the height of summer in the Mojave Desert."

First detected by Cassini in Saturn's northern hemisphere on Dec. 5, 2010, the storm grew so large that an equivalent storm on Earth would blanket most of North America from north to south and wrap around our planet many times. This type of giant disturbance on Saturn typically occurs every 30 Earth years, or once every Saturn year.

Not only was this the first storm of its kind to be studied by a spacecraft in orbit around the planet, but it was the first to be observed at thermal infrared wavelengths. Infrared data from CIRS allowed scientists to take the temperature of Saturn's atmosphere and to track phenomena that are invisible to the naked eye.

Temperature measurements by CIRS, first published in May 2011, revealed two unusual beacons of warmer-than-normal air shining brightly in the stratosphere. These indicated a massive release of energy into the atmosphere. After the visible signs of the storm started to fade, CIRS data revealed the two beacons had merged. The temperature of this combined air mass shot up to more than minus 64 degrees Fahrenheit (above 220 kelvins).

According to Hesman, the huge spike of ethylene generated at the same time peaked with 100 times more ethylene than scientists thought possible for Saturn. Goddard scientists confirmed the release of the gas using the Celeste spectrometer mounted on the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope on Kitt Peak in Arizona.

The team still is exploring the origin of the ethylene, but has ruled out a large reservoir deep in the atmosphere.

"We've really never been able to see ethylene on Saturn before, so this was a complete surprise," said Goddard's Michael Flasar, the CIRS team lead.

A complementary paper led by Cassini team associate Leigh Fletcher of Oxford University, England, describes how the two stratospheric beacons merged to become the largest and hottest stratospheric vortex ever detected in our solar system. Initially, it was larger than Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

Their paper in the journal Icarus, which combines CIRS data with additional infrared images from other Earth-based telescopes, including NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, also reports a powerful collar of clockwise winds -- encompassing a bizarre soup of gases -- around the vortex.

"These studies will give us new insight into some of the photochemical processes at work in the stratospheres of Saturn, other giants in our solar system, and beyond," said Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency. The mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Hesman's work was funded in part by NASA's Planetary Astronomy Program in Washington. The CIRS instrument and Celeste spectrometer were built at Goddard.

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Lemon Pluto all set for the Like Ladbrokes On Facebook Puppy 480 ...

Lemon Pluto all set for the Like Ladbrokes On Facebook Puppy 480

The six entries for the Grade OR Like Ladbrokes On Facebook Puppy 480 have raced at the identical level at one point of time or another, success or failure out of the attempt is a different matter. The 480 metres flat race will be hosted by Monmore on Thursday, 25^th October. The participants are eager for their share in the ?1,000 prize money.

The most promising entry for the challenge tonight is the year-old black and white dog, Lemon Pluto. The 6 to 4 shot for the race has graced the tracks five times after joining the racing profession in July, 2012.

He was successful in his career debut over 525 yards in a Grade A7 race.

After three trial sessions, one at Coventry and the other two at Sheffield, Scolari Me Daddy?s son won the Game Ball Puppy Trophy on 23^rd September, 2012 at Coventry over 485 metres.

He had drawn the fourth trap, and despite the slow pace at the initial stages of the race, the year-old led from the first position, and concluded the track distance in 30.22 seconds.

Winning by the margin of 1 ? lengths had Kilcuala Hondo setting as the runner-up.

The last three races of the J. Sharp trained were over 480 metres at Newcastle. He scored second in two out of the three outings, and won the remainder.

Lemon Pluto qualified as the runner-up in the williamhill.com Northern Puppy Derby ? Heat 2 on 6^th October, 2012 at Newcastle over 480 metres.

He missed the chance to bag the winner?s prize money by the margin of a length, while Killieford Deal, the winner, was through in 28.73 seconds.

11^th October saw the year-old out of, Lady Ecko, winning the williamhill.com Northern Puppy Derby ? 1^st Semi-Final. Taking flight from the fifth trap had him racing in the middle and remaining steadfast to the lead, making the transit in 28.66 seconds.

Tonight he will race in black and white jacket, and the sixth trap will give him the chance draw clear of the rest of the lot, and cover as much ground as possible on the wide end.

The views expressed in this article are the writer's own and in no way represent bettor.com?s official editorial policy.

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Source: http://blogs.bettor.com/Lemon-Pluto-all-set-for-the-Like-Ladbrokes-On-Facebook-Puppy-480-a197567

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Swimming with hormones: Researchers unravel ancient urges that drive the social decisions of fish

Swimming with hormones: Researchers unravel ancient urges that drive the social decisions of fish

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Researchers have discovered that a form of oxytocin?the hormone responsible for making humans fall in love?has a similar effect on fish, suggesting it is a key regulator of social behaviour that has evolved and endured since ancient times.

The findings, published in the latest edition of the journal Animal Behaviour, help answer an important evolutionary question: why do some species develop complex social behaviours while others spend much of their lives alone?

"We know how this hormone affects humans," explains Adam Reddon, lead researcher and a graduate student in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University. "It is related to love, monogamy, even risky behaviour, but much less is known about its effects on fish."

Specifically, researchers examined the cichlid fish Neolamprologus pulcher, a highly social species found in Lake Tanganyika in Africa.

These cichlids are unusual because they form permanent hierarchical social groups made up of a dominant breeding pair and many helpers that look after the young and defend their territory.

For the experiments, researchers injected the cichlids with either isotocin?a "fish version" of oxytocin?or a control saline solution.

When placed in a simulated territorial competition with a single perceived rival, the isotocin-treated fish were more aggressive towards large opponents, regardless of their own size.

When placed in a larger group situation, isotocin-treated fish became more submissive when faced with aggression from more dominant group members. Such signals are important in this species because they placate the dominant members of the group, say researchers.

"The hormone increases responsiveness to social information and may act as an important social glue," says Reddon. "It ensures the fish handle conflict well and remain a cohesive group because they will have shorter, less costly fights."

"We already knew that this class of neuropeptides are ancient and are found in nearly all vertebrate groups," says Sigal Balshine, a professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour. "What is especially exciting about these findings, is that they bolster the idea that function of these hormones, as modulators of social behaviour, has also been conserved."

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Asia Singapore: Marina Bay Sands Hotel Staycation

I am not a fan of staycation in Singapore; paying a small fortune to an expensive Singapore hotel when the home is sitting empty 20 minutes away is not for a stingy person like me. But?in spite?of this, we have done staycation in Singapore for a couple of times in the past few years. When choosing the staycation hotel, I prefer small, boutique, resort like facilities which make me feel like I am outside Singapore. So the giant and crowded Marina Bay Sands Hotel almost?in the middle of Singapore's business district would not be my first choice but again woman rules.

We have booked a Deluxe room with a Queen size bed on 41st floor of Tower 1 which is overlooking the city. I recommend this side because the sea-view is quite tiring since the sea to the south of Singapore is heavily littered by commercial ships. I have heard very good reviews about the rooms in Marina Bay Sands but I was still not expecting a room with this much space. There is a very large area between the floor-to-ceiling glass window and the bed which makes it feel like you are in a large living room instead of a hotel room. It is really hard to find a large hotel room in Singapore.

The bed is very large and comfortable. The TV has a lot of movies. The bed is located right next to the wall towards the entrance to create a large space towards the window. But the?orientation?is not perfect: it is not aligned with the couch and you cannot watch it at all from the study table. Still, the space created in the room with these?misalignment is great.?The service was also great. We actually started our stay with a problem: our key cards did not open the door and the staff tried several ways to make it work which took a lot of time until one guy from Facilities recognized that the batteries of the door reader was flat. Still, you can feel that they are doing their best to fix it asap and it shows that they are well trained.

Marina Bay Sands website regularly publishes best offers as low as 339 SGD (275 USD) per night on selected days (well this is a 5 star luxury hotel). It is still wise to check other hotel booking sites like?Agoda. For example, although the usual best price is around 500 SGD (400 USD) but there was a relatively cheap room price for Marina Bay Sands Hotel?for 420 SGD (340 USD) for the day we have booked.

Marina Bay Sands Hotel is busy. It is very busy. Its location, right next to Singapore Business District, makes it ideal for business?travelers with budget, which in my opinion made up 25-30% of the crowd during my stay (it was a weekday). But still, the majority was tourists for leisure. The main attraction of this hotel is the casino since it is a part of Singapore Marina Bay Sands Casino Complex (officially called Integrated Resort). And I think a significant number of them were here for gambling. Anyway, it is good for the business, these guys paid around $8 billion for this casino complex they need to have a huge profit to break even. But the crowd?makes Marina Bay Sands Hotel not a very good place for a staycation. Luckily, its second main attraction, the large Infinity Pool on the SkyPark saves the hotel as a relaxed holiday place. If you are a guess, you can access SkyPark and you can even bring 2 guests of yours in.

Sands SkyPark Infinity Pool, which is marketed as swimming on the top of the world, is really a?privileged?experience. You should both try it in the morning and in the evening. Since the hotel is crowded, so its infinity pool (and the sauna) so I strongly recommend you to go there when it is opened at 06 am. With almost all guests are sleeping, it is best experienced at this hour and the morning sunrise gives it a mystical atmosphere.

SkyPark on the 57th floor has a restaurant,?Sky on 57 which has an amazing view and a must try. You can simply take the lift up to the 57th floor from Tower 1, no access card is needed.

Overall, it is a great hotel with high standards. If your expectations are high, they will probably be satisfied. But it is crowded almost like a mass market hotel and its fantastic view towards the city constantly reminds you that you are still in Singapore. Great for a visitor to Singapore but for me as a resident here, one time staycation would be more than enough.

Source: http://asiasingapore.blogspot.com/2012/10/marina-bay-sands-hotel-staycation.html

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Stocks struggle after Alcoa results, outlook

By NBC News wire services

Stocks struggled Wednesday after Alcoa kicked off earnings season by warning of a slight slowdown in some markets, highlighting concerns about sluggish global growth, even as its quarterly results beat expectations.

Stronger demand for aluminum products from airplane and automobile producers helped Dow component Alcoa Inc's third-quarter profit beat analysts expectations, but it scaled back its global aluminum consumption outlook for 2012, citing the slowdown in China. Alcoa shares lost 0.7 percent to $9.07 in premarket trade.

Lackluster growth in China, the world's second-largest economy, is expected to rein in corporate earnings in the third quarter and dent profit forecasts as the Asian nation feels the pinch of the debt crisis in the euro zone, a key trading partner.

Earlier in the week, the World Bank cut its growth forecast for East Asia on concerns China's slowdown could last longer than expected.

"The slowing global growth story has always been an undercurrent that has been evident in the market place, but it was hard to take that fact and employ it inside of an investor trading strategy when you still had central banks flooding the world with cash and supporting asset prices," said Keith Bliss, senior vice president at Cuttone & Co in New York.

"So we are at an interesting inflection point in the market place where people could start focusing on the fundamentals and examine third-quarter earnings thoroughly" against a backdrop of slowing global growth and how that will impact the next few quarters' earnings and equity valuations, Bliss said.

Analysts forecast third-quarter earnings of Wall Street's S&P 500 companies would fall 2.3 percent from the year-ago quarter, according to Thomson Reuters data, which would be the first drop in U.S. quarterly earnings in three years.

According to data through Tuesday, 94 companies in the benchmark S&P index have issued negative outlooks, compared with 22 positive pre-announcements, for a ratio of 4.3, the weakest showing since the third quarter of 2001.

Going against general declines was Yum Brands Inc. The KFC parent company had raised its full-year outlook after sales in China held up, despite that nation's cooling economy.

Chevron Corp dipped after the second-largest U.S. oil company warned third-quarter profits would be "substantially lower" than in the previous quarter as a hurricane and maintenance curbed its oil and gas output and a fire hit its refining arm.

U.S. engine maker Cummins Inc lowered its 2012 forecast for a second time this year, citing delays in customer spending due to a weakening global economy, and said it would cut up to 1500 jobs.

Earnings from warehouse chain Costco Wholesale Corp were a bright spot; the company reported a 27 percent jump in fourth quarter profit, on higher sales and membership fees.

Coming on the heels of a 2013 profit forecast that was cut last month, FedEx Corp said it plans to slash costs at its underperforming express air freight and services divisions, with profit improvements of $1.7 billion planned at those operations over the next four years.

True Religion Apparel Inc surged after the denim maker said it was evaluating strategic alternatives which could include a possible sale of the company, after receiving indications of interest from third parties.

European shares were lower for a third straight session, hurt by expectations of weak corporate results that may weigh on equity markets into next month.

Asian shares fell, with Japanese stocks sliding 2 percent to a two-month low, on concerns that the corporate results season will reveal weaker earnings in the face of flagging global economic growth.

Reuters contributed to this report.

Source: http://marketday.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/10/14341127-stock-struggle-after-alcoa-results-outlook?lite

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Business travel growth sluggish, report says

Unemployment, economic turmoil in Europe and slower growth in China and the Far East are expected to curb business travel growth in U.S., according to a new report by the Global Business Travel Association.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/49350236#49350236

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Daily Kos: The Next Big Thing (why "all tech, all the time" fails us)

My first real exposure to the world of hi-tech occurred in 2005 when I spent time working with the founders of a start-up that specialized in the rendering of real-time 3-D environments. Their technology was so dazzling that experienced observers thought they were being tricked or deceived during our demonstrations. To their credit the mostly very young programmers and algorithm writers were very idealistic. Most of them came from a ?gaming? background, but had little respect for their previous work product. They were determined to limit application of their software to ?virtuous? endeavors, which included the creation of 3-D learning environments.

On one occasion we met with representatives of a Northern California school district, which was experiencing a significant drop off in student enrollment. For every student lost the district lost thousands of dollars of government funding, which amounted to millions of lost dollars annually. Many of those students were being home-schooled and the district thought that by creating a rich, online, learning environment they might be able to recapture these disenchanted students and simultaneously reclaim their government funding. Our technology was a perfect fit for the mission, and we brain-stormed ideas for creating what amounted to a sophisticated, interactive, online school. One presumption I held, was that no matter how realistic and functional that online experience might be, it would pale in comparison to actually attending school and interacting with teachers and fellow students. Our virtual school was, at best, a compromised version of reality, whereas ?real school? was, well, real. The young scientists disagreed. They in fact expressed a preference for the virtual learning environment. And that?s when I got it about techno-types. Reality isn?t their thing. Physical interaction isn?t their thing. Sociability isn?t their thing. The ability to isolate and avoid real-world settings actually appeals to them. The social realm, in many ways, is a distraction and a burden to them.

I bring this up because of a recent article in the New York Times (Drop Out, Dive In, Start Up) about PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, and his Thiel Fellowship Program. In a nutshell, Mr. Thiel ?bankrolls people under the age of 20 who want to find the next big thing.? The next big thing being (for the most part) some sort of technological gadget, which can, I assume, eventually be pitched to ?some venture capitalist (like himself), and after that to Wall Street types who will then organize a highly lucrative and fee producing IPO - America?s 21st century version of a wet dream. There is, however, a catch. The young entrepreneurs must forgo college (during the term of the Fellowship), which seems to be as much of the point as creating the products themselves. College, for this collection of techno-achievers, is basically dismissed as a waste of time. Indeed, a parent of one of the Fellows stated ?I can?t think of a worse environment than school?.I detest American so-called education.? It?s always easy for elites (intellectual and financial) to disdain generally useful institutions like schools and government which are rendered non-essential to them by virtue of their unusual and elevated status. Why worry about public schools or universities when your little genius can always be home-schooled or attain a private school scholarship? Why invest in police and public parks when you live in a gated community or guarded high-rise, and belong to a country club? ?

For a while now, I?ve been harboring a contrarian attitude towards our focus on all-tech all the time. Technology as the solution to everything represents, in my mind, a simplistic, money-driven, and over-valued world view in the same way that placing computers in every classroom creates the illusion of genuine progress and learnedness. Our society lacks something, but that something is not a deficiency in technology. That?s why I?m not so sure that what America really needs is the cultivation of a cadre of cosseted, socially isolated, narrowly focused techno-geeks rendering ?solutions? for a better America. If Mr. Thiel was truly a ?free thinker? (as described by the Times) he might recognize that there are pressing needs in America that might be better served by awarding $100,000 grants to free-thinking people under the age of 20 with the desire to ponder and shape policies and ideas that might create a more socially just, economically balanced, happiness-generating, and internationally attuned society. The gadgets of Silicon Valley don?t do that. They do produce riches, increasingly for a relative few (I suggest reading the following article at DEMOS.com), and they do produce mass marketable products of dubious necessity and social effect. But too frequently they are solutions to little, if not nothing, that really matters.

This point of view was crystallized for me during the war in Iraq. On a daily basis I would read newspaper accounts of the war to my elderly mother-in-law Gogo whose eyesight was then beginning to fail. And those accounts, in 2006, were relentlessly morbid ? mass killings, IED attacks, Mosque bombings, troop ambushes, atrocities. On and on it went, countless, and never-ending. Then one day, sometime in the middle of this protracted and unnecessary carnage, I came across an article about some sort of technological gizmo, the type of thing that Mr. Thiel might even have financed, that would enable American forces to detect from high and afar their enemies on the ground. For some reason, that article and its gleefully techno-oriented theme ticked me off. The one thing that America possessed in Iraq in spades was an almost imponderable degree of technological superiority - a reflection, no doubt, of our country?s greatness, as defined by people like Mr. Thiel.

Yet there we were the ?exceptional? nation of genius engaged in a borrowed trillion dollar war of choice foisted upon us by an unstudied President who barely comprehended the distinction between Iraqi Sunnis and Shias. How did that happen? How imperfect were the lynchpin institutions of our society - business, media, government, - that we found ourselves bogged down in a politically engineered war hatched by a morally compromised government, and supported by an aloof and distant citizenry ever so content to allow an ?all volunteer? Army to do their fighting? It wasn?t technology, inherently void of principle, perspective, and values that we lacked, but wisdom. Wisdom of the sort perhaps attained by attending college, immersing oneself in that social realm, and studying the ?soft? qualitative disciplines of history, art, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology. In other words, the very setting and the very studies that Mr. Thiel and his ?Fellows? find so unappealing.

What is our national purpose? We have extensive and new math standards. We are determined to compete with engineers from all over the world in the creation of alluring products. We are laden with gadgets, yet we are bereft. Unschooled in the very world and reality alluded to by that same parent who further stated ?turn your kids loose on the world, introduce them to the rigors of reality most important of which is earning your own way.? ?Iraq was literally teeming with engineers and technologists from ?corporations like Bechtel and Halliburton, all of them very adept at earning their way in the world. A world they disrespected, misunderstood, and had little problem destroying. But hey, that?s just a free-thinking thought.

Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/08/1141710/-The-Next-Big-Thing-why-all-tech-all-the-time-fails-us

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HIV helps explain rise of anal cancer in US males

Monday, October 8, 2012

The increase in anal cancer incidence in the U.S. between 1980 and 2005 was greatly influenced by HIV infections in males, but not females, according to a study published October 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Anal cancer in the U.S. is rare, with an estimated 6,230 cases in 2012, but incidence has been steadily increasing in the general population since 1940. HIV infection is significantly associated with an increase in anal cancer risk, and anal cancer is the fourth most common cancer found in HIV-infected people. However, it has been unclear the degree to which anal cancer cases occurring among people with HIV has affected anal cancer incidence in the general population.

In order to determine the impact of HIV on anal cancer incidence in the U.S., Meredith S. Shiels, Ph.D., M.H.S., of the National Cancer Institute and colleagues looked at data from the HIV/AIDS Cancer Match Study?specifically the number of people with anal cancer with and without HIV between 1980 and 2005 in 17 U.S. states and metropolitan areas.

The researchers found that of the 20,533 anal cancer cases between 1980 and 2005, an estimated 1,665 individuals were infected with HIV. In 2001-2005, the most recent time period examined, 1.2% of women with anal cancer and 28.4% of men with anal cancer were HIV-positive. During 1980-2005, HIV infection did not have an impact on the increasing anal cancer incidence rates among women, but HIV had a strong impact on the increasing anal cancer incidence rates among men. "A large proportion of U.S. males with anal cancer in recent years were HIV-infected," the authors write, adding that, "Measures that would effectively prevent anal cancer in HIV-infected males could markedly reduce anal cancer rates at the population level."

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T-Mobile announces Galaxy S3 is its best selling device of all time

This may come as no surprise to many of us, but T-Mobile mentioned on Twitter a couple days ago that the Samsung Galaxy S III (S3) is the carrier's all-time best-selling device. There's no doubt that the Galaxy S3 (and Galaxy S2 before it) have been monumental hits for Samsung, but T-Mobile also puts a lot of their marketing weight behind these flagships. Considering that it doesn't offer that fruit phone and often misses out on other devices because of exclusivity deals with other carriers, the success of the Galaxy S3 for T-Mobile may be more important as a single device than it is to any other carrier in the US.

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Shortage of listings pushes house prices up | Stuff.co.nz

Wellington house prices increased 1.9 per cent in the past month, according to the Real Estate Institute's housing price index, with listings becoming increasingly scarce.

However, REINZ figures out yesterday also showed that the gain for the past year is just 1.8 per cent, reflecting the earlier weak state of the market. The housing price index for the region remains 2.8 per cent below the peak.

REINZ chief executive Helen O'Sullivan said an increasing shortage of listings was becoming apparent across the region.

"Uncertainty in the public service sector [is] making owners cautious about listing their properties," she said. "Buyer interest is still evident and [sales] clearance rates are solid."

The housing price index nationally increased 0.6 per cent in September to a new record high, showing a gain of 5 per cent in the past 12 months. The index adjusts for some of the variations in the mix of properties sold, which can move the monthly median house price up and down more sharply.

The less reliable median price figures showed Wellington region prices up $20,000 or 5.3 per cent to $400,000 in September, compared with the same month last year.

"The trend in [Wellington] median price is solidly improving, though the trend in sales volumes continues to move more or less sideways," REINZ said.

REINZ said Hutt Valley, Upper Hutt and Western Wellington house prices had noticeably increased on September last year.

Wellington region sales volumes in September were up 11 per cent from a year ago to 573, though down on August this year when almost 600 homes were sold.

It took an average of 35 days to sell a home in the region, compared with 39 days in August.

Nationally, the median house price was up 6 per cent in the past 12 months to $371,000.

TD Securities head of research Annette Beacher said house price inflation had been climbing since July 2011. Concerns were rising about the rapid pace of price rises in Auckland, resulting from people leaving Christchurch and years of next to no new homes being built, she said.

The average days to sell fell from 46 in February to 33, "traditionally associated with double-digit house price inflation".

New Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler would need to tell financial markets and policymakers how he would react, if at all, "to this surge in asset-price inflation", Beacher said.

The next review of the official cash rate is on October 25, though the central bank is expected to leave the cash rate at 2.5 per cent for some time. TD Securities expected the first move up in rates in March, while most expected a move later in April or June.

Meanwhile, extremely low levels of Auckland and Christchurch houses for sale were behind a fall in national house sales in September, says ASB senior economist Jane Turner.

REINZ said the number of national house sales fell 6.8 per cent to 5653 from August, although sales remain 8 per cent above the same time last year.

?We believe the dip in turnover in September is due to lack of supply rather than easing demand.?

Turner doubts there would be a meaningful rise in housing supply, outside of the Christchurch rebuild, given limited capacity within the construction sector.

Compared with the number of households in New Zealand, the monthly level of sales remained about 23 per cent below the average seen in the past 20 years, according to Deutsche Bank.

REINZ's O'Sullivan said the total number of new national listings had grown from August to September, but not enough to meet market demand.

?This means properties have turned over faster and prices have increased,? said O'Sullivan.

- ? Fairfax NZ News

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Skydiver eyes record-breaking jump over NM

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) ? Experienced skydiver and extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner hopes to take the leap of his life on Tuesday, attempting the highest, fastest free fall in history.

If he survives, the man dubbed "Fearless Felix" could be the first skydiver to break the sound barrier. If he doesn't, a tragic fall could be live-streamed on the Internet for the world to see.

Rigged with cameras, the 43-year-old former military parachutist from Austria is scheduled to jump from a balloon-hoisted capsule 23 miles near Roswell on Tuesday morning. He wants to break the record set in 1960 by Joe Kittinger, who jumped from an open gondola at an altitude of 19.5 miles. Kittinger's speed of 614 mph was just shy of breaking the sound barrier at that height.

Baumgartner, who has been preparing for the jump for five years, has made two practice runs from the Roswell area, from 15 miles high in March and 18 miles in July.

And while he and his team of experts recognize the worst-case scenarios ? including "boiling" blood and exploding lungs ? they have confidence in their built-in solutions. Those solutions are something NASA is watching closely. The space agency is interested in the potential for escape systems on future rocket ships.

Baumgartner's top medical man is Dr. Jonathan Clark, a former NASA flight surgeon whose wife, astronaut Laurel Clark, died in the space shuttle Columbia accident in 2003. Clark is dedicated to improving astronauts' chances of survival in a high-altitude disaster.

The No. 1 fear is a breach of Baumgartner's suit, which could cause potentially lethal bubbles to form in his bodily fluids, a condition known as boiling blood. There are also risks he could spin out of control, causing other problems.

This death-defying venture is being sponsored by energy drink maker, Red Bull, which has funded other extreme athletic events. The project's team of experts has a plan for almost every contingency. The spacesuit and capsule were tested in the early skydiving practice runs. The company won't say how much the project, called Stratos for stratosphere, is costing.

But whether Baumgartner can make what he vows will be his final jump depends on the weather. A cold front that brought winds to the area this weekend prompted the team to move the planned Monday jump to Tuesday. Even the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, 200 miles to the north, was forced to cancel its opening mass ascension of more than 500 balloons on Saturday morning because of the high winds. Those balloons took off Sunday, but winds in the 9 mph range and above remain in the forecast for Roswell all week, and the jump can only be made if winds on the ground are less than 2 mph.

Still, Baumgartner's team remained optimistic about getting the mission off the ground.

"From what we are looking at so far, we are on schedule (for Tuesday)," meteorologist Don Day said at a media briefing Sunday.

Weather permitting, Baumgartner will be lifted into the stratosphere around 7 a.m. MDT by a helium balloon that will stretch 55 stories high. Once he reaches his target altitude, he will open the hatch of his capsule and make a gentle, bunny-style jump. Any contact with the capsule on his exit could break open the pressurized suit that will protect him from temperatures as low as minus 70 and a lack of oxygen. He hopes to reach a speed of 690 mph to break the sound barrier.

Baumgartner, who has made more than 2,500 jumps from planes, helicopters, landmarks and skyscrapers over the past 25 years, promises this jump will be his last.

He says he plans to settle down with his girlfriend and fly helicopters on mountain rescue and firefighting missions in the U.S. and Austria.

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Online:

Red Bull Stratos: http://www.redbullstratos.com

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force: http://tinyurl.com/2dsnn6

Associated Press

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