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REVIEW: The iPad Mini Is A Five Star Device - Business Insider

Remember the iPod mini? When Apple launched that in January 2004, at a time when a huge swathe of the fast-growing digital music player market was still up for grabs, people thought Apple was crazy. Only 4GB of storage ? less than in the original 5GB model launched in 2001? A $249 price tag ? only $50 less than the base level "iPod". Well, said the critics, Apple had finally messed up after a couple of years of getting it right. It was doomed.

Turned out it wasn't; the iPod mini became the best-selling iPod (until the iPod nano in September 2005).

Why point this out? Because much the same critique has been applied to the iPad mini, Apple's 7.85in device. It's just smaller (though nobody seems to be calling it "a big iPod Touch" ? perhaps that wore thin after the first few thousand times following the original iPad's launch). It's too pricey; there are others which are already in the market.

As I've said earlier, there are some key differences between the iPod market of 2004 and today's mini-tablet market. The key one is that in the 2004 market, all the rivals needed to make a profit on their hardware; they couldn't make it up from selling music. This time round, Amazon and Google in particular can sell the hardware at a loss in order to goose their market share, if not immediately their profits. So Apple has a fight on its hands in pricing, not just design.

But let's by dealing with the iPad mini as it is, on its own terms.

Build quality: seamless

Jonathan Ive doesn't like seams. He doesn't like any sort of break in the surface of objects, even manufactured ones. One of the notable things about the first iPod was that there was no obvious way to break it open, and the trend in all of Apple products ? including the computers ? is the same.

You'll do well to get a scalpel blade between the iPad mini's screen and its bezel. There's no flex in the body; it's really solid. I was using a black model; it isn't obviously metal until you touch it. As with its bigger sibling, the headphone jack is on the top ? unlike the iPhone 5, where it has migrated to the bottom.

Dimensions

This is worthy of mention because everyone has been focused on the Amazon Kindle Fire in comparison to the iPad mini (and of course Google Nexus 7). I compared an iPad mini beside a Kindle Fire, and was surprised to find that they're almost exactly the same size in both width and length, though the iPad mini is thinner.

Similarly, compare it with the Nexus 7. Here are the figures for the iPad mini: 199mm x 133mm; the Nexus 7, 198.5mm x 120mm. You get 1.3cm ? that's half an inch - width difference between the Nexus 7 and the iPad mini. This surprised me ? I thought that the iPad mini would be substantially wider. But it's not, and at that width you can slip it into an outside jacket pocket or a roomy coat pocket or, of course, a bag.

How though does the iPad mini manage to be so small if it has a 7.85in screen, while the others have just 7in screens? By having a much thinner border along the long edges. It's 20mm wide at the short edges, but just 5mm on the long ones. This isn't just a shrunk-down iPad, where the borders are 20mm and 17mm (short, long). Apple has made a definite effort to create something that can be slipped into generous pockets.

Weight

What will surprise you is the weight. The specs already show that the iPad mini is lighter than the Kindle Fire, 308g v 395g (and 340g for the Nexus 7); even if you add on a Smart Cover, it's still lighter than the uncovered Kindle Fire. It's thinner too. This is a device that will be ideal for holding in one hand for reading on train rides or other commuting; or you might even forget it's in that coat pocket.

What the iPod mini demonstrated, and what the MacBook Air demonstrated, and pretty much every breakthrough in mobility demonstrates, is that lighter is better ? and if you can do lighter and bigger, you're really onto a winner. (This is part of how the Samsung Galaxy S3 has done so well: big screen, light phone.)

The iPad mini (308g) feels like it isn't really there. Certainly you'll not get tired of holding it, which could happen with the iPad (652g).

Battery life

As with previous iPads, battery life is easily in the nine-hour-plus mark. Charging is via the new Lightning connector, and as with the iPhone, the iPad now recharges very quickly ? half an hour will easily add four or five times as much use. I didn't get a chance to try it out on a 4G/LTE network, so don't know how that affects battery life. (Mobile versions sold in the UK will initially be compatible with EE's 1800MHz network, and Three's next year.)

Screen

It's not a retina screen! It's only 1024x768, so that the resolution is 163ppi. This has been a big complaint (or snark, in some cases) that I've heard from people who haven't laid eyes on this device. If all you read is specifications, then the iPad mini screen is far worse than the Kindle Fire's or Nexus 7's, right?

Well, put them beside each other, and the story changes. Web page rendering on the Kindle Fire is, frankly, awful. It's blocky, and there's a yellowish cast which personally I dislike. The iPad mini is bright, and white, and the text rendering is good ? and there's no obvious pixellation. Kindle books look as good on the iPad mini as on the Kindle Fire. (The latter is optimised for reading those, but not for the web; Amazon would rather you bought books than surfed the web.) Icons on the iPad mini look sharp; on the Kindle Fire, not really.

Scrolling

With long lists, it's smooth and untroubled; this is something Apple has prioritised. Again, the comparison with Android, where scrolling has always been a bugbear, is stark; get a long article with lots of comments on a website, and you'll get a smooth scroll. That's not always the case on Android devices, where some will give jerky performance, no matter how many cores their processor has. Specs, eh? They can lead you astray.

Setup experience

If you have an iOS device already ? iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad ? then you can log into your iCloud account and all the apps and content you've already bought, plus all your settings including alarms can be transferred wirelessly. (If you've got multiple devices backed up, you get to choose which it's restored from. Alternatively, you can just use a wire and an iTunes backup.) Android tries, but doesn't quite get to the granular level that iCloud does, and that's a big difference in user-friendliness.

User accounts

There aren't any. This is the biggest failing in iOS at present. Now that Google has announced that Android will support a form of user accounts on tablets, and Windows Phone 8 offers "Kids Corner" (fenced-off apps you can let the kids use), and Windows RT tablets support multiple signins, iOS is starting to look like the odd one out. One tablet per person is great for Apple, but it's not so great for the squeezed middle. Single-user iPhones yes; multi-user iPads, yes please.

Keyboard

Of course, there isn't an inbuilt keyboard. But the question is, is the onscreen version too small to type on? No ? used in landscape or portrait, the keys are large enough even for my hands. Despite the smaller screen, touch targets aren't too small either. In short, you can still type quite accurately (and certainly more accurately than on an iPhone) and manipulate onscreen objects. I don't think that many app developers will be redoing their existing iPad 2 apps.

In fact, games developers are quite excited by the idea of the iPad mini, because they reckon it will mean more players using the device in landscape mode who will be able to span the bottom of the screen with their thumbs (personally, I could) ? something that was impossible with the iPad, which anyway gets too heavy.

Cameras

Available front and back ? here's an example shot with the camera on the back. There's no Panorama option with the rear camera, which is a strange omission.

Apps

Existing iPad apps work perfectly well. I tried the Brian Cox Wonders app, which includes videos. I criticised the Nexus 7 for the extent of letterboxing on its 16:9 screen, so will I do the same for the iPad mini?

Yup ? you get some pretty hefty letterboxing here too. Here's the thing, though: because the border around the long edges is so much thinner than at the edges, the overall effect is no worse than the Nexus 7; given that proportionally less of the space is lost to the border, you could argue it's a less compromised experience.

For comparison, here's the Nexus 7 letterboxing:

It might not be immediately obvious, but if you look closely then you can see that the physical border is much wider in the Nexus 7 than on the iPad mini.

iPhone apps' behaviour can be hit-and-miss: some fit the screen neatly when expanded to the "2x" size, others overlap the edges (I'm looking at you, Tube Deluxe), others just look blocky (hello, Amazon ? though there is a proper Amazon iPad app). There isn't the spare room that the larger iPad has around the edges when you expand the size of the iPhone app on the mini's screen. Then again, with the huge number of iPad apps available, this probably won't be a problem.

Price

Yes, let's talk about the price. As mentioned above, Apple isn't looking to race to the bottom on price, because its objective (make a profit on hardware) isn't aligned to that of Google and Amazon (sell hardware near cost, profit on content or from users' web browsing). That said, at ?269 ($329) for the 16GB model, you're getting an impressively light, small tablet which (if you buy the connectors, or have them) can take your camera pictures, or just take pictures itself. There's AirPlay, the wireless audio and video connection ? if you have an AppleTV (?99) ($99) then you can run iPlayer on the iPad and "throw" it over to the AppleTV and watch it on a big screen; no wires. And it's not hugely more expensive than the Nexus 7, though the Kindle Fire is much cheaper. If price is your only consideration, though, an iPad probably hasn't been on your shopping list anyway.

Conclusion

Those in favour: excellent build quality; very light, comparatively large screen, not significantly wider than competition (for putting in coat pockets), excellent text rendering, huge selection of apps, music, books and films, pain-free setup from iCloud backups for existing accounts; 3G/4G LTE option; fast-growing range of accessories.

Those against: price is higher than rivals ? at ?239 ($329), it's ?40 ($130) more than the 16GB Nexus 7; no expandable storage; letterboxing of films; no HDMI out (though AirPlay is a wireless equivalent).

Lining those pluses and minuses up against those for the Nexus 7 ? which garnered four stars ? there's no doubt that this is indeed a five-star device. The 20% difference in comparative price is more than made up by the difference in build quality and software selection.

Apple is going to sell a lot of these ? quite possibly more than the "large" iPad ? in this quarter. The only way Apple could improve on this product would be (as some people are already agitating) to give it a retina screen and somehow make it lighter. That might happen at some point. You can wait if you like; other people, in the meantime, will be buying this one.

This article originally appeared on guardian.co.uk

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/review-the-ipad-mini-is-a-five-star-device-2012-10

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Finding triggers of birth defects in an embryo heart

Public release date: 30-Oct-2012
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Technology creates 3-D map of stresses linked to malformed structures

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found a way to create three-dimensional maps of the stress that circulating blood places on the developing heart in an animal model a key to understanding triggers of heart defects.

The team has begun testing the technology to uncover how alcohol, drugs and other factors set off events that result in defects found in newborn humans.

Passing blood cells drag on the endothelial cells that line the growing heart, a phenomenon called shear stress, which has been linked to changes in gene expression that results in defects, most often in the valves. But precisely how they're connected is unclear.

"Alcohol exposure may affect shear stress by modulating the heart rate, but it may also involve vigor and/or timing of the contraction," said Andrew Rollins, associate professor of biomedical engineering and senior author of the new study. "Now that we have the tool, we can start to figure that out."

"We're analyzing early and late development of the heart and trying to make the connections that result in valve dysfunction," said Lindsy M. Peterson, a PhD student in Rollins' lab and lead author. Their work is published in the current online issue of the Optical Society of America's journal Biomedical Optics Express.

The pair teamed with research assistant professor Michael W. Jenkins; senior research associate Shi Gu; Lee Barwick, an undergraduate researcher now at Brigham Young University; and Michiko Watanabe, a professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

To look at the structure of the developing heart and blood flow, the researchers modified a technology called Doppler optical coherence tomography. Called OCT for short, they shine an infrared laser on the heart.

The reflections measured at various depths are used to create a three-dimensional image in much the same manner submariners use sonar to picture their surroundings in the deep sea. But the researchers add the dimension of time, creating movies of blood flow through the structures, needed to map shear stress.

They take their first images at two days, during a stage of heart development called cardiac looping. This is when the simple straight tube that's an embryo heart turns clockwise into a helix, forming the beginnings of two atria and two ventricles. They take more images at three days and again at eight days, when the septum, the wall between the left and right sides of the heart, has formed.

Working with Ganga Karunamuni, a pediatrics research associate at the school of medicine, the team is now pursuing a slate of experiments testing the quail heart model's response to alcohol exposure and will also test exposure to mental health drugs called selective serotonin receptor inhibitors. Alone or together, they can alter shear stress.

They are exposing the model to alcohol at a stage called gastrulation, when the embryo changes from two sheets of cells to a multi-layered organism.

This is a critical stage for induction of birth defects, Peterson said. In humans, it's an early stage when a woman may not know that she is pregnant.

Rollins said clinical applications are a long way off but the team has begun talking about possibilities.

"If it became feasible to screen a fetus for abnormal heart function," he said, "it might be possible to intervene with drugs, with gene therapy." Or, by using non-invasive pulses of infrared light to make the heart contract on demand another technology the team is developing with clinical colleagues in Pediatric Cardiology to prevent or treat defects before birth.

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Finding triggers of birth defects in an embryo heart

Public release date: 30-Oct-2012
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Contact: Kevin Mayhood
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Technology creates 3-D map of stresses linked to malformed structures

The team has begun testing the technology to uncover how alcohol, drugs and other factors set off events that result in defects found in newborn humans.

They are exposing the model to alcohol at a stage called gastrulation, when the embryo changes from two sheets of cells to a multi-layered organism.

This is a critical stage for induction of birth defects, Peterson said. In humans, it's an early stage when a woman may not know that she is pregnant.

Rollins said clinical applications are a long way off but the team has begun talking about possibilities.

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/cwru-fto103012.php

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Synthetic magnetism used to control light: Opens door to nanoscale applications that use light instead of electricity

ScienceDaily (Oct. 31, 2012) ? Stanford researchers in physics and engineering have demonstrated a device that produces a synthetic magnetism to exert virtual force on photons similar to the effect of magnets on electrons. The advance could yield a new class of nanoscale applications that use light instead of electricity.

Magnetically speaking, photons are the mavericks of the engineering world. Lacking electrical charge, they are free to run even in the most intense magnetic fields. But all that may soon change. In a paper published in Nature Photonics, an interdisciplinary team from Stanford University reports that it has created a device that tames the flow of photons with synthetic magnetism.

The process breaks a key law of physics known as the time-reversal symmetry of light and could yield an entirely new class of devices that use light instead of electricity for applications ranging from accelerators and microscopes to speedier on-chip communications.

"This is a fundamentally new way to manipulate light flow. It presents a richness of photon control not seen before," said Shanhui Fan, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford and senior author of the study.

A Departure

The ability to use magnetic fields to redirect electrons is a founding principle of electronics, but a corollary for photons had not previously existed. When an electron approaches a magnetic field, it meets resistance and opts to follow the path of least effort, travelling in circular motion around the field. Similarly, this new device sends photons in a circular motion around the synthetic magnetic field.

The Stanford solution capitalizes on recent research into photonic crystals -- materials that can confine and release photons. To fashion their device, the team members created a grid of tiny cavities etched in silicon, forming the photonic crystal. By precisely applying electric current to the grid they can control -- or "harmonically tune," as the researchers say -- the photonic crystal to synthesize magnetism and exert virtual force upon photons. The researchers refer to the synthetic magnetism as an effective magnetic field.

The researchers reported that they were able to alter the radius of a photon's trajectory by varying the electrical current applied to the photonic crystal and by manipulating the speed of the photons as they enter the system. This dual mechanism provides a great degree of precision control over the photons' path, allowing the researchers to steer the light wherever they like.

Broken Laws

In fashioning their device, the team has broken what is known in physics as the time-reversal symmetry of light. Breaking time-reversal symmetry in essence introduces a charge on the photons that reacts to the effective magnetic field the way an electron would to a real magnetic field.

For engineers, it means that a photon travelling forward will have different properties than when it is traveling backward, the researchers said, and this yields promising technical possibilities. "The breaking of time-reversal symmetry is crucial as it opens up novel ways to control light. We can, for instance, completely prevent light from traveling backward to eliminate reflection," said Fan.

The new device, therefore, solves at least one major drawback of current photonic systems that use fiber optic cables. Photons tend to reverse course in such systems, causing a form of reflective noise known as backscatter.

"Despite their smooth appearance, glass fibers are, photonically speaking, quite rough. This causes a certain amount of backscatter, which degrades performance," said Kejie Fang, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Physics at Stanford and the first author of the study.

In essence, once a photon enters the new device it cannot go back. This quality, the researchers believe, will be key to future applications of the technology as it eliminates disorders such as signal loss common to fiber optics and other light-control mechanisms.

"Our system is a clear direction toward demonstrating on-chip applications of a new type of light-based communication device that solves a number of existing challenges," said Zongfu Yu, a post-doctoral researcher in Shanhui Fan's lab and co-author of the paper. "We're excited to see where it leads."

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Nexus 10 Cheaper Than iPad; Has Sharper Screen, Fewer Apps

Up to now, Google has avoided competing directly with Apple's iPad. It's done so indirectly, through third-party products like the Motorola Xoom, and the many other generic-brand Android tablets. But when Google itself stepped up to bat, earlier this year, it released the Nexus 7, which is half the size and half the price of the iPad, and designed to compete with the Kindle Fire and Nook.

Perhaps Google's Android execs are feeling more confident this fall. Because right after Apple's new iPad came out, they've just released the aggressively-priced $399 Nexus 10 tablet, made in partnership with Samsung (the way Asus produced the last Nexus-branded tablet). It's got a number of hardware and feature advantages over the iPad ... but still suffers from the same big disadvantage all Android tablets have.

?The good news?

Just like with PCs versus Macs, Android devices tend to compete favorably spec-wise. And according to their respective tech specs (iPad, Nexus 10), the Nexus 10 is thinner and lighter than the new full-sized iPad, even though it has a larger screen (10.055 inches across diagonally compared to 9.7 inches).

The other big way that the Nexus 10 outperforms the iPad? That larger screen is sharper than even the Retina Display, at 300 versus 264 ppi (pixels per inch). Screens this sharp are becoming expected on modern tablets, while Apple continues to expand them into its laptop lineup as well.

Unlike the Nexus 7, the Nexus 10 features a rear-facing camera. Its front-facing camera (for video chats) is sharper than the iPad's, although megapixel ratings are rarely the best way to tell which camera is better and Apple's built-in cameras are world-class. Likewise, the Nexus 10 product page makes a point of its having 2 GB of RAM, while Apple's only says that the iPad features a "Dual-core A6X" processor.

?The bad news

The Nexus 10's biggest weakness? Its dearth of apps compared to the iPad's App Store selection. There are hundreds of thousands of apps in the Google Play store, but its game selection lags up to a year behind Apple's and there are far fewer tablet-specific apps. Even some major apps, like Amazon.com and Flickr, didn't work on the Nexus 7's Jelly Bean version of Android, although it's still possible to visit their sites in the browser.

Google's Nexus 10 product page goes on at length about how you can watch movies and TV shows through Google Play, plus read magazines and join Google+ Hangouts. On the subject of apps, though, it's conspicuously silent. Especially compared to Apple's iPad site, which has a whole section devoted to the App Store.

It does note that the Nexus 10 can run Google apps, like Chrome and Google Earth. And especially with the removal of the Google Maps app from Apple devices, Google apps on Android tend to be far ahead of where they are on iOS. They also tend to have more ads, though -- a "feature" being increasingly pushed on customers through tablets like Amazon's Kindle Fire, but absent from Apple's premium products.

Jared Spurbeck is an open-source software enthusiast, who uses an Android phone and an Ubuntu laptop PC. He has been writing about technology and electronics since 2008.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nexus-10-cheaper-ipad-sharper-screen-fewer-apps-223300633.html

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NY: No Non-Pecuniary Damages for Botched Criminal Defense ...

Dombrowski v. Bulson, 19 N.Y.3d 347, 948 N.Y.S.2d208 (Ct.of Appeals, 2012)?

NY: Underlying Criminal Defense; Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

FACTS: Plaintiff convicted in New York of attempted rape and endangering the welfare of a child. His motion to vacate the conviction on the grounds of "ineffective assistance of counsel" is denied without a hearing. Plaintiff brings a habeas corpus proceeding in federal court. The Magistrate Judge found that "the errors of defense counsel made it difficult for the jury to make a reliable assessment of the critical issue of the victim's credibility". ?The habeas petition was granted on condition that further prosecution be brought within 60 days. The State failed to do so. The indictment was dismissed.?

Plaintiff now brings malpractice action seeking, inter alia, ?non-pecuniary damages for his defense lawyer's ineffective assistance of counsel asserting he was incarcerated for over 5 years, was subject to post-release supervision which came to an end only after the federal habeas petition was granted.?

ISSUE: ?Are non-pecuniary damages available to a plaintiff in a legal malpractice action arising out of a botched criminal defense based on ineffective assistance of counsel??

RULING: ?No. ?

The Appellate Division decision, acknowledging that non-pecuniary damages are not available to the legal malpractice plaintiff in actions arising from underlying civil cases, held that they are available when the underling proceedings are criminal, reasoning that the underlying wrong was akin to false imprisonment or malicious prosecution where loss of liberty is compensable in those actions.?

The Court of Appeals, however, disagreed and reversed the Appellate Division, rejecting the appellate court's analogy to those civil actions which are intentional torts unlike the ?alleged misconduct of Plaintiff's criminal defense attorney, which was not intentional.?

It makes sense ?[wrote the Court] that the scope of recovery for deliberate torts is broader than for torts based on the failure to exercise skill or care.

The Court also emphasized the "negative" ?and "devastating consequences" the criminal justice system would suffer with a different rule in criminal cases than there would be in civil based malpractice actions, which would include a

...chilling effect on the willingness of the already strapped defense bar to represent indigent accused. ?Further, it would put attorneys in the position of having an incentive not to participate in post-conviction efforts to overturn wrongful convictions. ?

Source: http://www.legalmalpracticelawreview.com/2012/10/articles/jurisdictions/new-york/ny-no-nonpecuniary-damages-for-botched-criminal-defense/

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Video: Water breaches promenade at Manhattan?s Battery Park

>> park city , one of new york city 's most vulnerable flood zones. anne, how is it looking out there?

>> reporter: well, savannah, just take a look behind me. here is the water that matt was talking about. this is where the hudson river meets the new york harbor , and you can see there are swells. there are white caps out here, and the water, we can tell you, from where we are here on the promenade, it's about another foot and a half before it gets to us, but first down the water is actually starting to breach the promenade. this is why mayor bloomberg asked 375,000 people in new york city to leave their homes. they are all in what's called zone "a." these are low-lying areas of new york city . where we are, battery park city is one of those areas. some people decided to stay because they were asked to leave during hurricane irene . they didn't think it was that bad. but the mayor's biggest fear is that those people who stay, that they will get in trouble and then they will call for help and then they will endanger not only their lives but the first responders who come to help them. i can tell you looking around here in battery park city , looking at some of the skyscrapers here, what's really unusual is you see very few lights on, so that means that most of the people, at least in this area, have heeded the mayor's warning. the other unusual thing down here this morning is usually you see commuters coming out of the subway exits and people going into the subway entrances. all mass transit is shut down, and the subway entrance and exits are actually boarded up with sandbags fortifying to make sure nobody can get in there. again, take a look at new york harbor . high tide is supposed to hit here at 8:35. this is the first test for lower manhattan in what is expected to be 48 hours of some very significant weather. matt and savannah, back to you.

>> thinking back to our coverage of tropical storm irene , lower manhattan , aren't there below ground substations as well and don't they worry if sea water comes up and gets down there, that's when the power outages could begin?

>> reporter: absolutely. and you can see, the other thing we saw, matt, when i was driving in this morning, is you can see the -- they have put sandbags around those areas that they are concerned with, and the potential for power outages, i think that's what really scares people here in new york, even more than the flooding, pause so many people live in high rises and then you've got people stuck, so, yes, they are doing everything they can to fortify those substations.

>> all right. anne thompson downtown, lower manhattan , anne, thanks very much.

>> with irene we did see the water come over the promenade and not as serious a storm we expect sandy to be. we'll watch that

Source: http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/49595636/

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Video: High tide approaches NYC

>>> we want to go back to the southern tip of manhattan, meteorologist jim cantore , first stationed there yesterday, has been with us all the way through. and jim, i understand we just passed something of a rubicon, regarding the water height which i see now.

>> reporter: yeah, here it is brian, coming up over the sea wall , you can see it here, lapping up, obviously not normal. you can see the surge at seven feet, coupled with the in-coming tide, so we have a long way to go. and there is a potential for it to get much, much higher. we've seen all the way to jersey city , power flashes, i have to wonder if it is because of the water getting into the area, running into battery circle in lower manhattan . we have been saying all long there is the potential to have a higher surge than what we had in irene, given the fact that the subway system could flood higher than with irene, we think we'll be higher than that. brian. so with that said, the water will probably get this high. that is the kind of water rise we'll see by the time the high tide is over with in about an hour, we'll keep pulling back as the water goes and eventually head to higher ground . and hopefully, this won't get up as high as canal street , because that may be where we eventually wind up.

>> this is salt water , which doesn't mix well with the subway system underground or with underground substations.

>> reporter: no, and that means they will have to shut down the wer, so con-ed will probably shut that power down very, very soon. it is one thing if you get the water in there and there is live electricity, there is just a massive, massive amount of repair repairs and months' worth of repairs, but if they shut that down potentially, just getting the water out, pumping it out could take a couple of days. so the big difference there when you support the transportation of 8.5 million people a day. the hudson river , we have that coming over the sea wall , at the battery, just the worst of the storm getting under way here for new york city . we just had a 90 miles an hour wind gust at islip, so the wind coming here with the sea wall , the crossing of the sea wall with this surge. so the worst for new york city , in the next certainly two to three hours.

>> all right, jim cantore , southern

Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/49603288/

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Sandy May Test Readiness of National Grid - The Wrentham Times

The predicted arrival of Hurricane Sandy will be the first major test for the utility companies? new procedures that were borne out of the response to Tropical Storm Irene and an October snowstorm last year. Much of the state, and Wrentham in particular, spent days without power after both storms.

National Grid, the utility company which powers Wrentham, was soundly criticized. The legislation even took action and passed a new Consumer Protection Bill that put new requirements on utilities, as well as establishing fines for an inadequate response to a crisis.

A significant change is around communication. Now, utilities are required to provide a community liaison to interface with local officials. One of the biggest challenges facing towns was the exchange of information between emergency response crews and the utility companies. ?I think the avenue of communications has improved,? says Wrentham Fire Chief James McMorrow.

He points to tornado watches that occurred in the summer and National Grid did a better job of preparing its equipment ahead of time and communicating to the Chief its plan leading up to the potential crisis. ?They informed us when they?re gearing up and bring us more into the loop earlier.?

During the restoration of power after the storms, one of the frustrations local officials felt was the two way exchange of information with the utilities. The lack of coordination got so bad that both State Representative Dan Winslow and State Senator Richard Ross needed to make regular calls. ?That should not have been necessary,? says Ross.

National Grid says it has improved its damage assessment process and will have a better understanding of its employee assignments during a storm and the restoration period. National Grid also says it has expanded its contractor relationships to bring in additional resources faster.

McMorrow speaking in general terms, not directly about Hurriacane Sandy, says the town is in a better position to respond. ?We?re more prepared but we have a ways to go,? he said. ?We have identified our vulnerable areas and we?ve improved the levels of communications in town administration.?

Winslow has seen improvements but more could be done he believes. ??Things are better than they were and not as good as they could be,? he said.

He agrees the communication piece should be better but wants to see continued improvements ?around clearing trees from power lines and maintenance of the power infrastructure. ?It is better to avoid the problems in the first place,? he says.

Most everyone agrees that the changes are good in theory, but the test will be an actual emergency. Hurricane Sandy has the potential to be just that test.

Source: http://www.wrenthamtimes.com/wrentham/2012/10/sandy-may-test-readiness-of-national-grid.html

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Hurricane Sandy churned its destructive path toward the Northeast on Monday, flooding beach towns and tearing up beaches, piers and boardwalks ahead of its expected landfall in New Jersey.

Some 700,000 homes and businesses had already lost power, while schools, offices, roads and transit systems shut down across an area of 50 million people. Hundreds of thousands earlier sought shelter on higher ground.

"This is going to be a slow-moving process through a wide swath of the country and millions are going to be affected," President Barack Obama said Monday after being briefed on Sandy.

The storm's maximum sustained winds were 90 miles per hour and its center was 170 miles southeast of New York City, according to the National Hurricane Center's 2 p.m. ET update. Sandy's wind speed has increased 15 mph since 11 p.m. ET Sunday.

Landfall was moved up to early evening along southern New Jersey's coast after Sandy, which had been moving toward the coast at 18 mph, sped up to 28 mph.

The storm is bringing a storm surge as high as 11 feet to coastal towns and cities from Delaware through Connecticut.

With hurricane-force winds extending 175 miles from its center, Sandy is as broad as any hurricane to ever threaten the U.S.

Some have not heeded orders to evacuate.

"When we evacuated last time (for last year's Hurricane Irene), it actually was worse off where we evacuated to," Amy Chamblis told NBC News of her situation in lower Manhattan.

By early afternoon gusts over 70 mph were recorded across the region. In New York City, a crane atop a high-rise building under construction toppled over and was dangling over the side. Nearby offices and streets were evacuated as a precaution.

"It is going downhill fast with these winds," the Weather Channel?s Mike Seidel told MSNBC from Point Pleasant, N.J. "It?s only going to get worse."

Weather Channel coverage of Sandy

"It's the worst possible time," NBC News meteorologist Al Roker said of the fact Sandy was due to come ashore during a full moon, which could lead to record flooding. "We're not even at the highest of high tides and we've lost about 150 feet of beach."

"This will be worse than Irene" last year in terms of storm surge, he predicted.

"A lot of people are going to go out on Tuesday and Wednesday and not find the beach they are used to seeing," added Alan Blumberg, a beach erosion expert at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J.

"The duration of the storm, the offshore waves, and the storm surge itself ... are way, way over the top what we?ve seen in the past," he told the Weather Channel.

Although Sandy was still hours from landfall, flooding was already reported in many coastal areas. Among them:

Much of Fire Island, N.Y., was under 18 inches of water, NBCNewYork.com reported.
In Freeport, N.Y., a surge along a boating canal pushed docks onto lawns, matching the damage done last year Irene.
Floodwaters poured through an evacuated Atlantic City, N.J., NBCPhiladelphia.com reported, and a section of boardwalk was torn away.
Numerous roads in Virginia and North Carolina were flooded, NBC station WAVY-TV reported.

In addition, some 700,000 customers across the Northeast were without power, according to Reuters, 115,000 of them on Long Island.

Out at sea, two people were feared missing after they and 14 others abandoned a replica of the HMS Bounty that was adrift 90 miles southeast of Hatteras N.C. The vessel, used in the 1962 movie "Mutiny on the Bounty" with Marlon Brando, later sank in 18-foot seas.

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for hundreds of thousands of residents in low-lying areas. And states of emergency were declared across the region ahead of Sandy, which will collide with arctic air and a storm moving in from the west to create windy, wet conditions far inland.

"First will be the coastal impact, then winds knocking out power, then heavy rain where we may get flash flooding but in some cases we may not get river flooding for several days," Craig Fugate, administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told NBC. "We?re not expecting the winds inland to be that damaging to homes but we do think trees are going to get impacted and that will be the biggest problem, knocking down the power grid."

Stu Ostro, a Weather Channel meteorologist, warned Sandy would "occupy a place in the annals of weather history as one of the most extraordinary to have affected the United States."

Forecasters said the super-storm could bring close to a foot of rain in some regions, a potentially lethal storm surge across much of the coastline, and punishing winds that could cause widespread power outages that last for days.

Snow started falling early Monday in West Virginia, which could see up to 2 feet.

Video: FEMA chief: Inland damage is a real concern (on this page)

"The size of this alone, affecting a heavily populated area, is going to be history-making," said Jeff Masters, a hurricane specialist for Weather Underground.

U.S. stock exchanges will not be trading on Monday or Tuesday. In Washington, D.C., federal offices closed Monday, and federal courts in affected areas announced they would be shuttered.

Workers on Sunday night began shutting down New York City's subway, bus and commuter railroads. The city's Holland and Brooklyn-Battery tunnels were shut down at 2 p.m. ET Monday.

In New Jersey, bus, rail and light rail services were gradually shut down starting Sunday afternoon.

Sandy was disrupting travel across the region. Thousands of flights have been canceled so far, according to FlightAware.com. Rail traffic also was impacted, with Amtrak canceling all of its northeast corridor service in addition to some other lines.

BreakingNews.com's coverage of Sandy

In lower Manhattan, Costa Kalorides, 43, was on his way to work not far from the water's edge. After living a decade in Florida, he said, Sandy didn't dissuade him.

"This is nothing. There's been worse days," said Kalorides, who carried provisions of instant soup and soda in a plastic bag but wore no rain gear. "I don't believe in letting the weather dictate life."

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Although Sandy is not forecast to be as destructive as Hurricane Irene in August 2011, which left $4 billion in damage, it holds the potential to cause significant damage because it will be moving slowly.

Power outages, expected to affect millions of residents and businesses, could continue through the presidential election, NBC meteorologist Bill Karins warned. "After the storm hits, expect the cleanup and power outage restoration to continue right up through Election Day," Karins said.

Before it made its way north, Sandy was blamed for the deaths of 65 people in the Caribbean.

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NBC News staff, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49593609/ns/weather/

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Sunday, October 28, 2012

VHP to support Leh bandh

Jammu, October 28

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Sunday announced its support to a call for a shutdown of Leh Monday. The civil society of Buddhist-majority Ladakh has called for a strike to protest the "forcible conversion of Buddhists by the Muslims".

Twenty-six Buddhists of Zanskar tehsil in Kargil district allegedly converted to Islam last month.

VHP state president Rama Kant Dubey said: "Forcible conversions of these Buddhists in Zanskar area of Kargil were done at behest of the Muslim community, against the wishes of Buddhists. There is criminal silence of the administration against the people who compelled the Buddhists to embrace Islam. It shows the connivance of the administration."

Dubey questioned why no action was taken against officials despite a protest lodged by the VHP and the Buddhists of those areas.

According to Muslim community leaders, "a few Buddhist families in Zanskar in Kargil district converted to Islam of their own free will without any force or coercion last month".

This led to communal tension in Zanskar. Both communities clashed last week resulting in damage to property and injury to protestors. The administration had to impose a curfew Oct 24.

Source: http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a336958.html

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Early Behavioral Intervention Helps Lessen Autism Symptoms ...

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Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on October 27, 2012

Early Behavioral Intervention Helps Lessen Autism Symptoms In children with very mild cases of autism, certain learning techniques may result in brain changes that make them ?indistinguishable? from unaffected children of the same age ? essentially normalizing them, according to Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D., in the department of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The new study, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, used the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM). ESDM is a behavioral intervention program that involves intensive engagement with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

In this program, specially trained counselors work with children twice a day in two-hour sessions, five days a week.

In 2009, Dawson?s group conducted similar work that showed that children with autism who enrolled in this course at 18 months and participated for about two years had an average IQ score improvement of 17.6 points.?

The children also made significant gains in adapting typical developmental behaviors, such as brushing their teeth and engaging with family members during meals.

Dawson and her team wanted to know what was driving the change. Could alterations in the brains of the Denver Model toddlers be responsible?

It is already well-known that the brain is remarkably plastic during the first six years of life ? meaning it can be molded and shaped based on the growing child?s experiences.

For the study, the researchers enrolled a group of 48 toddlers aged 18 months to nearly 3 years old who had been diagnosed with ASD. Half were randomly assigned to receive the Denver intervention, while the other half were assigned to traditional community intervention programs including some special-education programs at schools.

After about two years, the researchers took electroencephalography (EEG) readings of the electrical activity of all the children?s brains while they were looking at pictures of human faces or toys, and compared the results to those of similarly aged children without autism.

Previous studies have shown that a child?s brain with autism is more highly activated when the child looks at an inanimate object like a toy, and less activated when looking at a human face.

In the current study, however, the Denver program children showed the opposite effect; their brains lit up more when looking at a woman?s face than when viewing a toy.

?We essentially reversed the pattern so kids with autism are now showing greater normal brain activity when they saw a woman?s face and less activity when looking at objects,? said Dawson.

?In fact, the brain activity patterns of kids with autism who received ESDM were no different than a typical four-year-old?s [pattern] when viewing a woman?s face. They were indistinguishable.?

Dawson notes that the intervention does not cure autism, but that these results suggest that some early drivers of ASD may be manipulated and even redirected toward more normal development.

?By providing intervention early on, we can mitigate the severity of autism symptoms and perhaps really alter the trajectory of the disease at both the level of behavior and the brain,? she said.

About 1,000 people have been trained in the technique so far, with 15 specifically trained to teach the Early Start Denver Model to others.

Dawson said the results are encouraging for not just newly diagnosed toddlers with autism but also those who have been living with the disorder for years.

?Although it?s optimal to start as early as possible,? she said, ?I don?t believe there is any point where the door is shut and the intervention is not helpful.?

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry?
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APA Reference
Pedersen, T. (2012). Early Behavioral Intervention Helps Lessen Autism Symptoms. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 27, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/10/27/early-behavioral-intervention-helps-lessen-autism-symptoms/46780.html

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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Did Frank Ocean QUIT The Music Industry? + President Obama ...

Posted by hollywould on Oct 27, 2012

Frank Ocean mysteriously posted a vague message leading some folks to believe he may be quitting music. Find out what he said inside and get the details on Sway?s interview with President Obama about music and its impact on politics. Frank Ocean posted a very vague message on his Tumblr saying, This post has led some to believe he may be leaving music?..or seeking attention. Earlier, he said that quitting is the new black?so maybe he is following a trend. It?s likely just another rant (maybe someone upset him) as he has also posted about how much fun he is having recording in Hawaii this week. Sigh?.. In politics??. Get More: Music News President Obama chatted with MTV?s Sway for a talk about politics and music. President Obama talks about Bob Marley raising his political awareness saying, ?I remember in college listening, and not agreeing with his whole philosophy necessarily, but raising my awareness of how people outside of our country were thinking about the struggle for jobs and dignity and freedom.? He added, We haven?t seen as much directly political music. You know, I think the most vibrant musical art form right now over the last 10, 15 years has been hip-hop. Some folks have kind of dabbled in political statements, but a lot of it has been more cultural than political. You?ve got folks like Springsteen who are still putting out very strong political statements, but I?d like to see a more explicit discussion of the issues that are out there right now, because music?s such a powerful mechanism.? BONUS: President Obama already cast his vote?..have you thought about early voting?

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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