2 killed, 1 wounded at VFW lodge shooting

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Updated at 4:15 p.m. ET: Two people were fatally shot and one was wounded Sunday morning at a Veterans of Foreign Wars lodge where motorcyclists had?gathered?for a charity ride to raise money for injured bikers, WESH.com reported.

The shooting occurred around 10:40 a.m. at the VFW Post 5405 in Winter Springs, Fla., about 15 miles northeast of Orlando. Police say the investigation remains in the early stages and that they believe they have the shooter in custody.

Riders were finishing breakfast, about to embark on the charity ride, when armed men came in and started shooting, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

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According to the Sentinel, police evacuated those in the building to a nearby senior center. They also detained several people and confiscated many weapons.

Lt. Doug Seely, a Winter Springs police spokesman, told the newspaper?all three victims appeared to be motorcycle-club members.?

"We have a lot of crime scene?" Seely said, according to the Sentinel. "We have a lot of people detained and a lot of weapons detained, and we're ascertaining what matches what."

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The Highs And Lows Of Makakilo | Hawaii Real Estate - A complete ...

View from Pueonani Street home.

Peaking at approximately 1,000 feet above sea level, Puu Makakilo was once the site of a school for kahuna kilokilo, Hawaiian astronomers. The hill provided a vantage point for viewing the heavens in order to chart the seasons, identify the best times to plant crops, and plan religious ceremonies.

Today, the hill provides residents with views that from some sites extend from Diamond Head to Barber?s Point. Below is the City of Kapolei. Prices of homes, as in other hillside developments, tend to reflect the elevation. Currently, prices for new homes and resales range from under $200,000 for townhomes to $2,700,000 for a luxury home in Kumulani at the top of the hill.

The earliest large scale residential development was undertaken in the 1960s by Finance Factors on land leased from Campbell Estate. Kapolei Realty President and Principal Broker Cori Meyers was a sales agent with Finance Realty prior to opening her own brokerage in 1995. ?Development of single family homes and townhomes started at the bottom of the hill and then began to climb?over the years we?ve sold in every subdivision here,? Meyers said. ?The views and cool breezes we get year round attract people to Makakilo, as well as the fact that you get more house for your money than in most parts of Oahu. Today, we are seeing more professional people moving into the neighborhoods as the job base continues to expand in Kapolei. Military buyers have always been a strong component of the market and the percentage of offshore buyers has increased. The opening of the Disney hotel at Ko Olina has had an impact by creating new exposure worldwide for the area.

?Inventory in Makakilo is low and well priced homes are going fast, often with backup offers. We recently listed a two bedroom townhome in Palehua Vil las for $192,500 and just placed it in escrow with an offer from a first time home buyer. It was probably the best priced home that was not one of the short sales that are prevalent in the Ewa area. Until we get the short sales out of the way, we probably won?t see much escalation in prices.?

Adding to the available inventory is a new phase of D.R. Hor-ton, Schuler?s Kahiwelo subdivision. Located close to the bottom of Makakilo hill, the development will consist of 472 single family homes when built out; 239 homes in Phase 2 priced from $566,000 to $676,000 are still available. Thirteen homes will be released this weekend. According to Mary Flood, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, the company has been building homes in Makakilo since 1993. With 10 subdivisions, D.R. Horton, Schuler has added more than 1,000 new homes to the neigh-borhood. ?I believe the success of our projects is due to emphasis on designing for the target market?in the case of Makakilo, that would be primarily owner-occupant families. We expect this phase of Kahi-welo to sell out quickly since it answers a demand for new homes in lower Makakilo with its convenient freeway access and proximity to Kapolei?s town center,? Flood said.

With completion of sales of 251 single family homes and townhomes at its Wai Kaloi at Makakilo in 2010, Castle & Cooke began releasing vacant fee simple lots in the development. A local hui recently acquired three of the lots and has built custom homes on two on Pueonani Street. The five bedroom, three bath homes feature upscale interior finishes and expansive valley views. Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties Real-tor Melinda Pinter has placed one in escrow and is now offering the other for $898,000.

Kumulani, West Oahu?s only ridgeline gated community, was originally part of Finance Factors? Palehua subdivision launched in the mid 1970s. When Vernon K. T. Chock took over land sales in 2000 as exclusive agent, there were 91 lots remaining. By 2003 Chock had sold out the subdivision, which now consists of 114 single family homesites, most with sweeping ocean and coastal views. ?Selling Kumulani was primarily a matter of increasing awareness of the development?people just didn?t know it was there. We discovered that there was a strong market for view lots where people could build their own custom homes,? Chock said.

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US military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000

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Biodegradable Electronics Could End Toxic Trash

A future in which a discarded cell phone dissolves into a landfill, rather than living on for thousands of years as garbage, may not be that far off. Melissa Block talks with John A. Rogers, a 2009 MacArthur Fellow and professor of engineering at University of Illinois, about his research into "transient electronics."

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College Capitalizes on Technology

The Technological Evolution of the College Curriculum

Posted Sep 25 2012 by Day2Day Printing in?Design

College classes are now in sessions. Check out some these innovative classes that are paving the way for future tech entrepreneurs. Some of these classes weren?t even around twenty years ago.?School is back in session. College students across the nation are back to hitting the books, though perhaps not so literally anymore. As our culture has become increasingly computer-based over the last several decades, so too have college courses. Not only are college students using computers for their learning, but also computers have become their learning. Colleges and universities big and small are incorporating computer-related courses into their curriculum. Whether they cover the basics of computing or how technology can be used for entertainment and entrepreneurship, classes that were nonexistent 20 years ago are now flooding college campuses. Given the depth of this field, which often translates into ample job opportunities, it?s no wonder that more college students are trading English and biology for social media and video games. Below is a small sampling of the courses you can now find among the curriculum offered at many colleges and universities:

College Courses of the Future

1. The Beauty and Joy of Computing
   (University of California, Berkeley). The name says it all. In this class, college students study both the history of computing and how it impacts society. They also receive hands-on programming learning.

2. Technology Entrepreneurship (Carnegie Mellon University).
   For many, digital technology is all about the Benjamins, and for good reason. Many tech-based businesses have become wild successes, which is why colleges now offer courses teaching students how to identify entrepreneurial opportunities and capitalize on them.

3. Social Media & Virtual Communities (Emory University Goizueta Business School).
   What business doesn?t have a Facebook page or Twitter account nowadays? This course educates college students on how to effectively utilize social media branding within their business marketing strategies.

4. Level Design & Development for Video Games (University of Southern California).
   As this class demonstrates, college really can be all fun and games. Students learn both how to create a compelling storyline for this virtual platform and how to construct the mechanics for it.

5. Making Digital Holograms (University of New South Wales).
   Remember how crazy everyone went when Tupac made an appearance at last spring?s Coachella festival? Well, now you too can bring deceased celebrities back to life by taking this course, which instructs students on how to create 3D images.

Are you taking any college courses that were not existant 20 years ago? 10 years ago? If so please comment and share your experiences.

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Believe it or not, the world is bigger than Facebook and Twitter! Most people who implement social media marketing tactics only focus on the few popular sites, neglecting the rest. Some businesses have failed to recognize the full potential offered by marketing on these social media sites. Read this article to learn more about the basics of social media marketing.

When posting videos to YouTube make sure there is a link to click on that takes the viewer to your site. Set the link up where it describes your video, and also have a Twitter and Facebook button near your videos on your channel. Getting YouTube users to follow you on Facebook or Twitter is particularly interesting because they are more likely to share your videos.

Remember that results are not instant when using social media marketing. It takes some time in order to come up with a solid strategy for social media marketing. You will need to keep working on getting more people to add you on Facebook or follow you on Twitter before you can think about launching any serious social media campaigns. Make sure you mention your social media presence in your other marketing campaigns.

Twitter is a very useful tool for business promotion. Putting in the time to understand Twitter can bring you thousands of new viewers. Invest the time needed to master everything Twitter, including keywords and hashtags.

Utilize social media marketing to advertise your business. Not only is it relatively inexpensive, it is targeted towards specific keywords that users post in their profiles. Facebook and Myspace provide targeted advertising opportunities and can focus your money on the audience that will be the most profitable for your business.

Buttons are a godsend when it comes to keeping up with social media. Attach a subscription button to your RSS feed on your site. This can help blog readers get to your social media. Then people who already know you can continue to follow you online.

Many businesses use social media marketing and you should think about launching your own campaign if you do not want to be left behind. You will surely lose the potential for lucrative sales is you do not add social networking to at least some portion of your marketing plan. Whether your focus is solely marketing or you are trying to set up a business from the ground up, use what you have learned here for a solid foundation in social media marketing.

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New York City hospitals cracking down on junk food

NEW YORK (AP) ? People nervously waiting around in New York City hospitals for loved ones to come out of surgery can't smoke. In a few months from now, they can't have a supersized fast-food soda. And soon, they won't even be able to get a candy bar out of the vending machine or a piece of fried chicken from the cafeteria.

In one of his latest health campaigns, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is aiming to banish sugary and fatty foods from both public and private hospitals.

In recent years, the city's 15 public hospitals have cut calories in patients' meals and restricted the sale of sugary drinks and unhealthy snacks at vending machines. But now the city is tackling hospital cafeteria food, too. And the Healthy Hospital Food Initiative is expanding its reach: In the past year, 16 private hospitals have signed on.

Earlier this month, the city moved to ban the sale of big sodas and other sugary drinks at fast-food restaurants and theaters, beginning in March. Critics say the hospital initiative is yet another sign that Bloomberg is running a "nanny state," even though the guidelines are voluntary and other cities ? including Boston ? have undertaken similar efforts.

Hospitals say it would be hypocritical of them to serve unhealthy food to patients who are often suffering from obesity and other health problems.

"If there's any place that should not allow smoking or try to make you eat healthy, you would think it'd be the hospitals," Bloomberg said Monday. "We're doing what we should do and you'll see, I think, most of the private hospitals go along with it."

The cafeteria crackdown will ban deep fryers, make leafy green salads a mandatory option and allow only healthy snacks to be stocked near the cafeteria entrance and at cash registers. At least half of all sandwiches and salads must be made or served with whole grains. Half-size sandwich portions must be available for sale.

"People sometimes right now don't have healthy options," said Christine Curtis, the city Health Department's director of nutrition strategy. "So you are there at 2 in the morning and maybe your only choice is soda and chips."

Marcelle Scott brought her own chips and soda into the lobby of Manhattan's privately operated St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital ? there was no vending machine in sight ? as she waited for her daughter to give birth Monday. It wasn't the first time the unemployed security guard from the Bronx got the "munchies" for junk food to keep calm while awaiting the outcome of a loved one's medical procedure.

"I like my Snickers and my Mars Bars ? especially if I'm nervous for somebody who's inside," she said.

Most hospitals have already overhauled their vending machines by allowing only two types of 12-ounce high-calorie beverages at each vending machine ? and they must be featured on the lowest rack. Hospital vending machines have also swapped out most baked goods for snacks like granola bars and nuts.

At privately run Montefiore Medical Center, which operates several hospitals in the Bronx, changes have been under way for a couple of years.

"We took ice cream out of the cafeterias and began serving more whole grains," said Dr. Andrew Racine, chief medical officer. "We changed white rice to brown rice."

Herbert Padilla, a retired Manhattan hairdresser, was sitting a few feet from a giant coke machine Monday in an outpatient waiting area at St. Luke's-Roosevelt, where he was undergoing treatment for a nerve disorder. He said that in general, he supports efforts to keep people from overdosing on junk food, but "we shouldn't be forced into this by a hospital."

"The mayor is going too far with this. It's ridiculous," he said. "We're being told what to eat and what to drink. We're not living in a free country anymore."

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Finding Future Happiness | American Mothers S. A. | a mySA.com blog

Organize your life around your purpose and your goals. ?When you?ve articulated where you want to be, the path to that end becomes clearer. ?Author Tsh Oxenreider inspired me with these questions in her book Organized Simplicity.

1. ?What are a few strengths of each member of our family?

2. ?Collectively, we are at our best when we are?

3. ?If we had a completely free day together as a family, how would we spend it?

4. ?What are practical ways we can serve each other?

5. ?What are practical ways we can serve others outside our family?

6. ?Name three things we think we could do better as a family?

7. ?What would people say today about our family as a whole?

8. ?What would we like people to say about our family as a whole in thirty years?

9. ?If our home could be filled with one emotion, what would that emotion be?

10. ?Name three adjectives we would like people to use to describe our home environment?

11. ?If we could name one principle from which we want our family to operate, what would it be?

12. ?What are the top four priorities we want our family to value?

13. ?What is the main purpose of our home?

14. ?What is the secondary purpose of our home?

15. ?What is the individual purpose in life of each member of our family?

16. ?What is one way we are unique as a family?

17. ?Describe the status of our family in 10 years

a. financially

b. intellectually

c. emotionally

d. relationally with each other

e. communally in our environment

f. physically

g. spiritually

18. Where ar you as a family in 10 years? ?What does your home look like?

19. ?What is the purpose of life?

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Egyptian graffiti: Protesters defend iconic murals

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A man redraws the graffiti along Mohamed Mahmoud street, a day after the walls were believed to be painted by government workers to cover former graffiti, in downtown Cairo on Wednesday.

By The Associated Press

Under cover of darkness, a few municipality workers quietly began to paint over an icon of Egypt's revolution: a giant, elaborate public mural on the street that saw some of the most violent clashes between protesters and police over the past two years.

The mural, stretching three blocks along a wall off Cairo's Tahrir Square, has been a sort of open-air museum of the history of the revolution and its goals ? with "martyr" portraits of slain protesters, graffiti, jokes, freedom slogans and pharaonic, Muslim, Christian and nationalist images to show Egypt's mixed heritage and a history of struggle.

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Word of the whitewash quickly got out. A number of progressive, young revolutionaries showed up to defend the murals. In the dead of night, they began to film the workers as they painted under the guard of police, hoping to embarrass them. They talked with the painters about what the murals meant.

The scene on Mohammed Mahmoud Street in the early hours Wednesday was a small but telling counterpoint to last week's angry protests at the U.S. Embassy, led by ultraconservative Islamists protesting an anti-Islam film. Those protests took place only a few blocks away on another street off Tahrir.

Together, the scenes point to the competition over the identity of the new Egypt, over what the country stands for now and what can be expressed.

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The mix of largely secular activists who launched the revolt against longtime leader Hosni Mubarak last year say the "revolution" is still continuing, until the country breaks with its authoritarian past and brings freedom and economic justice.

The Islamists, who rode to power after Mubarak's ouster, have their own vision for Egypt, which they say should adhere to an "Islamic identity" as they define it and preserve traditions.

'Erasing history'
The government says it has launched a campaign to beautify Tahrir Square, the center of anti-Mubarak protests. But activists saw it as a government attempt to blot out the calls for continued revolution and to assert that a new and stable system is now in place, under elected Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

"They are erasing history," Gamal Abdel-Nasser, the father of a 19-year old killed during the early days of anti-Mubarak protests, said as he stood at the mural street. "This is not my government. It doesn't represent me."

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Protests ignited by a controversial film that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad spread throughout Muslim world.

And for some, repainting the wall just underlined the feeling that the Islamists have snatched the prizes of the revolution.

"This is not about the wall. It is about everything happening in Egypt," said Nazly Hussein, one of the first to arrive at the scene to protest the paint job with a camera, live streaming the workers as they covered murals. "It is about territory they took away from us."

The anti-film protests, she said, showed how under Morsi's three-month-old rule progressives were still having to fight for basic issues like freedom of expression. She pointed to government crackdowns on strikes and the recent sentencing of a Coptic Christian to six years in prison for insulting the Prophet Muhammad and Morsi. Still unaddressed are bigger goals of the revolution.

"This is about lowering our ceiling. Our real battle is about freedom. Now we are fighting about the right to insult the president or not," she said. "All those on the wall died for bread, freedom and social justice," she said, referring to the martyr portraits.

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After the intervention by activists, the municipal workers stopped the whitewashing at daybreak with only half the mural painted over. Graffiti artists moved in to start putting new images on the now white walls. By late Wednesday night, the municipal workers hadn't returned to finish their job, amid a media uproar over the mural erasure.

The first drawing to go up was a portrait of a young man sticking his green tongue as a taunt. "Do it again! Erase, you cowardly regime," was written beneath it.

'A worse dictatorship'?
Graffiti artist Ahmed Nadi painted a new caricature of Morsi, smiling smugly, with the words, "Happy now, Morsi?"

Ali Saleh, a 53-year old security guard at a nearby school, said the murals must stay as a reminder to authorities of the mistakes they committed.

"If we give up the graffiti, this would be the first nail in the coffin," he said. "We are in for a worse dictatorship than Mubarak's."

The sense of progressives that the wall is their territory is deepened by its location. Mohammed Mahmoud Street saw dozens killed late last year and early this year as security forces repeatedly tried to crush youth protesting against police brutality and the military rule that followed Mubarak's fall. Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists refused to join the protests.

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Several of the activists accused the government and other Islamists of focusing on anger over the film to distract from the lack of real change since Egypt's first free election over the summer brought Morsi to power.

"Is this what will take Egypt forward now? Erasing the graffiti?" a school student in his teens shouted as the artists began to refill the wall with images.

"So long as we can't talk freely in this country, we still need walls to paint and songs to write," said Amr, an 18-year old commerce university student, refusing to give his last name because of security officers who remained nearby.?"We are trying to be free. They don't want us to go down this road. They don't want a thinking people."

'Can't have a revolution every day'
Many Egyptians, however, say they just want stability after more than 20 months of turmoil. Some residents of the Mohammed Mahmoud area were happy to see the murals go, ending a reminder of the battles on their doorstep.

"This is ugly," said Nour Nagati, referring to the graffiti of a man with his tongue out. "Paint me a flower, paint me a tree. This is a symbol of stability. But this provocation will only perpetuate provocation."

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Another resident in the area, who says he lived in Germany for 20 years and is an agricultural engineer, objected to the new graffiti artists over the words "cowardly regime" they had just scrawled on the wall.

"Why should I wake up and find this profanity scribbled on the walls. I am Egyptian. This is not my culture. This is only for the Westerners," said the man, who wore the small beard of a conservative Muslim. He refused to give his name.

But the lines are not black and white in Egypt: Age can be as much a factor as ideology. A younger man in his 30s with the even longer beard of an ultraconservative Islamist interjected and defended the murals.

"Why the distinction between West and East when it comes to freedom of expression? There is no doubt that whoever represses and breaks up protests is a coward."

The engineer looked at him in surprise, thrown by the idea of an ultraconservative defending graffiti.

"You're mixing everything up!" he cried.

Abdel-Karim Abu Bakr, a passer-by, said the time for using the walls for protest was over.

"We had a revolution, we changed the regime. Let's calm down ... We can't have a revolution every day."

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Mich. lovebirds rescued after elaborate proposal

Nathan Bluestein, 27, of Northville and May Gorial, 32, of Madison Heights, pose for a photo at her home in Madison Heights Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. They are a recently engaged couple as of last Saturday, Sept. 1 aboard a canoe that they paddled out on. After an evolved proposal by Nathan that included a French love poem (She teaches French.) and a love letter, they are holding in a portrait, were both in a bottle declaring his love for her. He painstakingly made it look like they were old, tattered papers within a bottle randomly floating in the lake. It was after the question was popped they explain that they were then pushed by the wind and waves to North Island. Luckily for them they had one cell phone between them and made calls to family and to the local deputies who eventually rescued them. They now are forever connected with the thought if they can get through this the rest is easy. Their wedding is set for April 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Regina H. Boone)

Nathan Bluestein, 27, of Northville and May Gorial, 32, of Madison Heights, pose for a photo at her home in Madison Heights Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. They are a recently engaged couple as of last Saturday, Sept. 1 aboard a canoe that they paddled out on. After an evolved proposal by Nathan that included a French love poem (She teaches French.) and a love letter, they are holding in a portrait, were both in a bottle declaring his love for her. He painstakingly made it look like they were old, tattered papers within a bottle randomly floating in the lake. It was after the question was popped they explain that they were then pushed by the wind and waves to North Island. Luckily for them they had one cell phone between them and made calls to family and to the local deputies who eventually rescued them. They now are forever connected with the thought if they can get through this the rest is easy. Their wedding is set for April 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Regina H. Boone)

Nathan Bluestein, 27, of Northville and May Gorial, 32, of Madison Heights, are photographed in her Madison Heights home Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. They are a recently engaged couple as of last Saturday, Sept. 1 aboard a canoe that they paddled out on. After an evolved proposal by Nathan that included a French love poem (She teaches French.), left, and a love letter in a bottle that he declares his love for her and where he painstakingly made it look like they were old, tattered papers within a bottle randomly floating in the lake. It was after the question was popped they explain that they were then pushed by the wind and waves to North Island. Luckily for them they had one cell phone between them and made calls to family and to the local deputies who eventually rescued them. They now are forever connected with the thought if they can get through this the rest is easy. Their wedding is set for April 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Regina H. Boone)

CASEVILLE, Mich. (AP) ? Two Michigan sheriff's deputies can expect wedding invitations in their future for rescuing a couple who became stranded on an island during a meticulously planned, elaborate marriage proposal that apparently accounted for everything but bad weather.

Nathan Bluestein, of Northville, and May Gorial, of Madison Heights, set out by canoe Saturday in Wild Fowl Bay near Caseville, about 110 miles north of Detroit, the Huron County sheriff's department said. Gorial, 32, accepted the proposal, but strong wind and waves kept them from returning to shore.

Bluestein, 27, told the Detroit Free Press (http://on.freep.com/Tm0QoT ) that he had been planning the proposal for months. He tucked a message in a bottle inside a lunch bag that he brought on the trip.

"I made sure that she never could touch the lunch bag," he said "I had it around my arm the whole time."

Inside the bottle was a sheet of paper, soaked in tea and burned around the edges, with a poem written in French. Gorial, a French teacher at Bishop Foley Catholic High School in Madison Heights, began reading and translating the poem before finding a proposal written in English on another piece of paper.

"The way I look at it ... she's my best friend and the love of my life," Bluestein said.

The two talked and snapped pictures, and didn't realize they were too far from land. They ended up on North Island and the sheriff's department sent the two deputies by boat from Caseville. Bluestein and Gorial don't have a wedding date set, but the deputies will definitely be invited to the event.

"If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't have seen the wedding day," Gorial said.

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Amazon announces new devices, including HD Kindle Fire

Amazon's new lineup of devices includes a Kindle Fire tablet with HD and other new features as well as a back-lit e-reader called the Kindle Paperwhite.

By Molly Driscoll,?Staff Writer / September 7, 2012

Cool feature: the Amazon Kindle Fire HD includes X-Ray for movies, which allows users to tap on an actor in a film and be taken to his or her IMDb page to see other credits.

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Jeff Bezos, the Amazon CEO, ?introduced the new devices during a press conference in Santa Monica, Calif. yesterday. In addition to the Kindle Paperwhite, a black-and-white device that lets you read in the dark and which Bezos described as ?thinner than a magazine and lighter than a paperback,? the company is adding a Kindle Fire HD device, which will come in models that are 7 inches and 8.9 inches, respectively.

The 7-inch model will be 16GB and the 8.9-inch version will be available as a 16GB model, both of which will be with Wi-Fi, or one with 32GB, which will come with 4G LTE connectivity.

The Kindle Paperwhite is available in both Wi-Fi and 3G options. The Wi-Fi version will come in at $119 and the 3G model will cost $179. The 7-inch Kindle Fire HD will be $199, while the 16GB model of the 8.9 inch version will be $299 and the 32GB will be $499.

The Kindle Fire originally released by the company will now be $159 and have double the RAM and an upgraded processor that is expected to give speeds that are 20 percent faster.

The Kindle Fire HD will include new features such as the X-Ray option for movies, which allows users to tap on an actor in a film and be taken to his or her IMDb page to see other credits. X-Ray for textbooks is also available, in which a reader can select a word and be taken to its Wikipedia entry, videos on YouTube related to it, and other Internet instances of the word.

The Kindle Touch device will now be $69 but also contain advertisements.

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Repeated exposure to traumatic images may be harmful to health

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Repeated exposure to violent images from the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the Iraq War led to an increase in physical and psychological ailments in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults, according to a new UC Irvine study.

The study sheds light on the lingering effects of "collective traumas" such as natural disasters, mass shootings and terrorist attacks. A steady diet of graphic media images may have long-lasting mental and physical health consequences, says study author Roxane Cohen Silver, UCI professor of psychology & social behavior, medicine and public health.

"I would not advocate restricting nor censoring war images for the psychological well-being of the public," Silver said. "Instead, I think it's important for people to be aware that there is no psychological benefit to repeated exposure to graphic images of horror."

People who watched more than four hours a day of 9/11 and Iraq War-related television coverage (in the weeks after the attacks and at the start of the war) reported both acute and post-traumatic stress symptoms over time. Those who watched more than four hours a day of 9/11-related coverage in the weeks after the attacks reported physician-diagnosed physical health ailments two to three years later.

Seeing two particular kinds of images in the early days of the Iraq War was associated with post-traumatic stress symptoms over time: soldiers engaged in battle and dead U.S. and Allied soldiers.

The study included assessments of participants' mental and physical health before the 9/11 attacks and information about their media exposure and acute stress responses immediately after the attacks and after the initiation of the Iraq War. Researchers conducted follow up assessments in the three years after 9/11.

The acute stress period refers to the first few weeks after the event and post-traumatic stress is any time after one month. Researchers started to measure stress nine to 14 days after 9/11 and within a few days after the start of the Iraq War.

Almost 12 percent of the 1,322 participants reported high levels of acute stress related to 9/11 and about 7 percent reported high levels of acute stress related to the Iraq War. After taking pre-9/11 mental health, demographic characteristics, and lifetime trauma exposure into account, people who watched four or more hours of 9/11-or Iraq War-related television were more likely to experience symptoms of acute stress.

"The results suggest that exposure to graphic media images may be an important mechanism through which the impact of collective trauma is dispersed widely," Silver says. "Our findings are both relevant and timely as vivid images reach larger audiences than ever before through YouTube, social media and smartphones."

Funded by the National Science Foundation, the study appears in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science, the flag-ship journal of the Association for Psychological Science. It was co-authored by Alison Holman, assistant professor of nursing at UCI, Judith Pizarro Andersen of the University of Toronto, Mississauga, Michael Poulin of the University at Buffalo, Daniel McIntosh of the University of Denver and Virginia Gil-Rivas of the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

"When we consider that graphic images of individuals being overcome by the 2011 tsunami in Japan were shown repeatedly, that a vigorous debate occurred last year regarding the release of the gruesome death photos of Osama bin Laden, and that vivid and disturbing images of 9/11 will likely appear on our television screens marking the anniversary of the attacks, we believe that our paper has something important to say regarding the impact of repeated exposure to graphic traumatic images," Silver said.

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Watching quantum mechanics in action: Researchers create world record laser pulse

ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2012) ? A University of Central Florida research team has created the world's shortest laser pulse and in the process may have given scientists a new tool to watch quantum mechanics in action -- something that has been hidden from view until now.

UCF Professor Zenghu Chang from the Department of Physics and the College of Optics and Photonics, led the effort that generated a 67-attosecond pulse of extreme ultraviolet light. The results of his research are published online under Early Posting in the journal Optics Letters.

An attosecond is an incomprehensible quintillionith of a second. In other words it would take 15 million billion pulses of the size Chang's team achieved to equal one second. The accomplishment is even more remarkable because the team did it without the use of specialized equipment including a mile-long particle accelerator or a Superdome-sized synchrotron.

"Dr. Chang's success in making ever-shorter light pulses helps open a new door to a previously hidden world, where we can watch electrons move in atoms and molecules, and follow chemical reactions as they take place," said Michael Johnson, the dean of the UCF College of Sciences and a physicist. "It is astounding to imagine that we may now be able to watch quantum mechanics in process."

Quantum mechanics is the study of physics at the microscopic level, specifically looking at energy and matter on this miniscule scale.

There is much excitement about the accomplishment and the promise Chang's work holds for helping scientists understand how the world's smallest building blocks actually work. The technique could lead scientists to understand how energy can be harnessed to transport data, deliver targeted cancer therapies or diagnose disease. The finding marks the first significant breakthrough in the laser pulse field in four years.

In 2001, attosecond pulses were demonstrated for the first time. Since then scientists around the world have been trying to make ever-shorter pulse durations because of the door they could open to understanding the subatomic world. The previous record of an 80-attosecond pulse was set in 2008 at the Max Planck Institute in Garching, Germany. This is the first time an American-led team has set the record.

"The quest for generating shorter and shorter pulses of light has been ongoing since the invention of the laser more than five decades ago," said Bahaa Saleh, dean of CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics. "Dr. Chang's recent advance brings UCF to the forefront of this Olympic race and opens up new frontiers for seeing and recording ultrafast dynamic atomic phenomena."

Chang's team was able to accomplish the work at the Florida Atto Science &Technology (FAST) lab in UCF's Physical Sciences building.

Using the unprecedented power of laser light enables Chang and his peers to conduct their high-level research in much smaller spaces. Chang's group created a technique called Double Optical Grating that allows extreme ultraviolet light to be cut off in a manner that concentrates the maximum amount of energy in the shortest possible pulse of light. With the affinity for acronyms shared by many ultrafast laser physicists, Chang named the technique DOG. In addition to creating the light pulse, he created an even faster camera to measure it, which is the Phase Retrieval by Omega Oscillation Filtering (PROOF).

The Department of Defense's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative and the National Science Foundation helped fund the research.

Others who contributed to the team's discovery include: Kun Zhao, Qi Zhang, Michael Chini, Yi Wu, and Xiaowei Wang, all at UCF. UCF Stands For Opportunity --The University of Central Florida is a metropolitan research university that ranks as the second largest in the nation with more than 59,000 students. UCF's first classes were offered in 1968. The university offers impressive academic and research environments that power the region's economic development. UCF's culture of opportunity is driven by our diversity, Orlando environment, history of entrepreneurship and our youth, relevance and energy.

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The iPhone 5 Is Coming on September 12 [Apple]

If you're holding out on buying an iPhone until the new one is out, mark down Apple's just-announced September 12 event on your calendar: that could be the day the phone is revealed. Posted by The Loop, the invite says the event will begin at 10 AM PDT at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. More »

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Home Flipping vs Real Estate Investing The Distinctions Between ...

Which is superior: home flipping or real estate investing?

To get to an answer, it helps to explain each word and put them in perspective.

Home flipping is the process of buying a house then selling it for a profit within the quickest time possible. An investor is aiming to make a good sum of profit within a very short period of time, thus the word flipping.He/she does not hold onto it for the purposes of income. As a matter of fact, the shorter they hold the house, the better it is.

Real estate investing is all about buying and holding real estate then either keeping the house for a while and selling or keeping it for rental income.

The real estate investor might buy the property with the purpose of selling it at some time, but may hold onto the house for many years.

Which is right for you?

The most major difference is a house flipper wants quick cash profits but the real estate investor wants income and appreciation.

House flippers target houses that they can buy at a cheaper rate than the normal market rate. In doing it this way, the house flipper locks in fast profits.

Frequently, the real estate is purchased at a cost significantly less compared to its market price (in the range from 40-80% below the prevailing market prices).

Totally gutting an old beat up house is a popular way that most house flippers get started. The house flip pro purchase the house, quickly renovates it and then sells it under a month or so.

Renovating is much cheaper as one can precisely estimate the cost of materials and labor required to do it. It can be possible to get industry experts in the specific refurbishments considered necessary and therefore the house will have a very good look in the end.

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In buy and hold real estate investing, the scheme is more long term and for investors looking for a steady income. A major advantage is if the market is poor he can hold on and receive income and not worry about resale.

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In Denton County, planes won't spray during high school football

by JIM DOUGLAS

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Posted on August 31, 2012 at 6:16 PM

Updated yesterday at 6:36 PM

DENTON ??High school football fans say the threat of West Nile virus will not keep them from stadiums.?

And in Denton County, neither will aerial spraying. ?

Several cities opted in for spraying Friday and Saturday nights. Flower Mound hosts Keller Central.

Flower Mound is in the target area, but pilots will avoid the stadium until after the game. ?

County health officials emphasize the chemical is harmless to humans. Denton County has experienced 145 confirmed cases of West Nile, including two deaths.

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AUBURN, Ind. ? A military museum in northeastern Indiana will remain open under an agreement to end a bank's foreclosure lawsuit.

The deal announced Thursday by the Dean V. Kruse Foundation calls for it to sell the unused building on which it owes $2.9 million to Farmers State Bank of LaGrange. The foundation built it to house the memorabilia of auto racing icon Andy Granatelli who changed his mind about using the Auburn location.

The Star of Auburn and The Journal Gazette report that a DeKalb County judge had ordered the sale of the Kruse Foundation museums site, which includes the National Military History Center.

The Granatelli building will be auctioned off Sunday and some military museum items will be sold in November to help pay off the loan.

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Celebs and pols: When the star alliance misfires

NEW YORK (AP) ? In the aftermath of Clint Eastwood's perplexing and ridiculed "invisible Obama" monologue at the Republican National Convention, conservative blogger Moe Lane summed up what many on both sides of the political divide are thinking.

"The term 'surfing on the edge of the catastrophe curve' comes to mind," Lane wrote at RedState, concluding the bit that had the 82-year-old Hollywood icon talking to an empty chair did work but, "I would not recommend that the GOP make it a habit."

Celebrities have courted politicians, and vice versa, since the dawn of Hollywood, but what happens when the alliance backfires, when the two worlds are suddenly speaking different languages?

The crowd Thursday night at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, just ahead of Romney's "speech of a lifetime," greeted the Eastwood Moment with hearty laughter and applause, a welcome break of levity on the last day of a tightly choreographed convention.

But behind the scenes, Romney's campaign staff didn't find it so humorous. Asked about it immediately after the convention concluded, a half-dozen staffers said little. The campaign quickly went into damage control.

Unlike every other convention speaker, the teleprompter in the hall wasn't used during Eastwood's speech, which had him lampooning President Barack Obama as if he were there. The routine from the Oscar-winning director of "Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby" lasted twice as long as scheduled, cutting into the hour of prime time coverage for Republicans.

It also sucked up Friday morning coverage of Romney's speech that had him accepting the Republican nomination for president.

On "CBS This Morning," Ann Romney cast about for words. Asked whether his contribution was a distraction or a mistake, she responded: "He's a unique guy and he did a unique thing last night." But the wife of the new nominee was quick to add that "we're grateful for everyone's support and especially grateful for what a great night it was last night."

Grateful, too, like plenty of politicians, for any financial support that comes along with celebrity pals, though Eastwood's bucks may not be in the mix.

Eastwood endorsed Romney on Aug. 3, in Sun Valley, Idaho, where he attended a fundraiser, so any money he would have contributed personally or through his company hasn't turned up yet in financial records filed with the Federal Election Commission. After the fundraiser, Eastwood let the campaign know he was interested in participating in the convention, a Romney aide said.

In this world of oversharing, when the like-minded or contrary are only a tweet away, social media blew up over Eastwood's confusing convention appearance, along with political-pundit quarterbacking on both ends of the spectrum.

"It ... was odd. Not consistently terrible as some argued," observed National Review's Jim Geraghty. "I have no doubt some folks loved it. It may very well have actually moved some votes. But boy, did it get weird at times."

What of the visible president? Was he watching, and taking notes on how to manage his crowded stable of actors and artists among friends and supporters?

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama had no observations on Eastwood's appearance. Nor did he watch the Republican convention, the spokesman said, but his official feed on Twitter ? (hashtag)BarackObama ? most certainly did.

"This seat's taken," the account tweeted late Thursday as Twitter exploded with mockers ? and some supporters.

Discomfort or mere awkwardness aside, it's rare for a celebrity endorsement to backfire in a big way, said Steve Ross, a professor of history at the University of Southern California who has studied the impact of star endorsements in political campaigns.

While some stars, such as Jane Fonda, have proven toxic (she went to North Vietnam during the war in 1972), Eastwood carries enough gravitas and respect that he will get more people to pay attention to Mitt Romney, Ross said.

Eastwood is no Jane Fonda.

In 1986, a Missouri Senate candidate was pilloried for the simple acceptance of $2,000 from the actress. The candidate, the now-dead Harriet Woods, was branded "Hanoi Harriet," linking her to Fonda's "Hanoi Jane" moniker, and she lost the election, Ross said.

Nor is Eastwood a regular contributor of political punditry or skewering standup routines.

"This isn't Jeff Foxworthy. This isn't some comedian," Ross said. Eastwood is "Mr. Law and Order. I can't think of a bigger national spokesperson they could get."

Yet freewheeling celebrities do bring their risks:

? Though far from a catastrophe, during a stop at an Obama fundraiser in March, Robert De Niro found himself at the center of a White House apology over a joke about candidates' wives.

"'Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?' De Niro asked the crowd, according to a White House pool report.

Gingrich howled. The White House apologized, and so did the actor.

? George Clooney, the Hollywood darling of the Obama administration, got arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington that same month, managing to suck up plenty of limelight after traveling to the troubled region himself and testifying before the Senate.

? In 2008, Scarlett Johansson got a little too close for Obama's comfort. She claimed publicly that she had his ear in regular personal email exchanges after she endorsed him. Not so, the embarrassed candidate had to explain. There had been one email, forwarded by an aide.

? It was an "Oprahpalooza" during primary season in 2007. The talk show queen endorsed Obama and stumped in Iowa before thousands, detracting hugely from Hillary Rodham Clinton's two surrogates, mom Dorothy Rodham and daughter, Chelsea, both appearing publicly for the first time. The reluctant Chelsea Clinton's emergence would otherwise have been big news.

Linking celebrities to candidates was a process that started in the late '20s, when movie stars were sent on the road to stump with politicians, Ross said. The idea was to draw in more people ? many of whom would leave after seeing the star but others who would stay and listen to the candidate's message.

Capitalizing on celebrity culture to capture new votes, especially among the undecided, was the value, he said.

"This has been the key idea whether it was 1928 or 2012 with Clint Eastwood," Ross said.

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AP Entertainment Writer Anthony McCartney in Los Angeles, AP writer Kasie Hunt in Tampa, Fla., Ben Feller and Sam Hananel in Washington, and news researcher Monika Mathur in New York contributed to this report.

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