'East Coast Rapist' Aaron Thomas Pleads Guilty To Virginia Attack And Abduction

LEESBURG, Va. -- A Connecticut man who police believe is responsible for a series of sexual assaults along the East Coast pleaded guilty Thursday to a 2001 rape and abduction in Virginia, marking the first conviction in the attacks spanning more than a decade.

Aaron Thomas of New Haven faces two potential life sentences after he entered the guilty pleas in Loudoun County Circuit Court to one count of rape and one of abduction with intent to defile.

Thomas had been scheduled to enter a guilty plea earlier this month in Prince William County for raping two teenage trick-or-treaters on Halloween 2009, but the deal fell through after Thomas told a judge he didn't know what he was doing.

Thursday's hearing faced road bumps of its own, when a teary, shackled Thomas cried out "I don't know what's going on here and I don't know what I'm doing" in response to a judge's question about the plea. But he ultimately accepted responsibility, pleading guilty in a barely audible voice. A third, lesser count was dropped as part of the plea deal.

Thomas underwent a mental health evaluation after being transferred to Virginia to face charges. A court-appointed evaluator concluded he was faking symptoms of insanity.

Part of the evidence against Thomas included a letter of apology he wrote shortly after his arrest last year to the woman he raped in Leesburg, threatening her with a screwdriver.

In the letter, written after he was interviewed by detectives, Thomas wrote "I did not want to hurt you I just have a bad emotional sex problem that I could not control (sic)." He concluded, "Sorry 4 hurting you emtionaley (sic) because I have problems with my self."

Thursday's guilty plea was the first conviction in any of the cases linked to the man police dubbed the East Coast Rapist. He is scheduled for a second plea hearing Friday in Prince William County.

Loudoun County Commonwealth's Attorney Jim Plowman said he was glad that the guilty plea would spare the victim from having to testify at a trial. She will be able to testify at Thomas' sentencing about the effect the crime has had on her life.

Plowman declined to say Thursday whether he will seek a life sentence.

Thomas was arrested in Connecticut in March 2011 after a multi-state law enforcement effort to catch a man believed responsible for rapes and other attacks on 17 women since 1997 in Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

The cases were linked by DNA and other evidence.

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Arctic sea ice larger than US melted this year

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 file photo, a man walks past destroyed homes on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, New York. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in the Qatari capital of Doha to discuss ways slowing climate change, including by cutting emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists say are warming the planet, melting ice caps, raising sea levels, and changing rainfall patterns with impacts on floods and droughts (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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DOHA, Qatar (AP) ? An area of Arctic sea ice bigger than the United States melted this year, according the U.N. weather agency, which said the dramatic decline illustrates that climate change is happening "before our eyes."

In a report released at U.N. climate talks in the Qatari capital of Doha, the World Meteorological Organization said the Arctic ice melt was one of a myriad of extreme and record-breaking weather events to hit the planet in 2012. Droughts devastated nearly two-thirds of the United States as well western Russia and southern Europe. Floods swamped west Africa and heat waves left much of the Northern Hemisphere sweltering.

But it was the ice melt that seemed to dominate the annual climate report, with the U.N. concluding ice cover had reached "a new record low" in the area around the North Pole and that the loss from March to September was a staggering 11.83 million square kilometers (4.57 million square miles) ? an area bigger than the United States.

"The alarming rate of its melt this year highlighted the far-reaching changes taking place on Earth's oceans and biosphere," WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said. "Climate change is taking place before our eyes and will continue to do so as a result of the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which have risen constantly and again reached new records."

The dire climate news ? following on the heels of a report Tuesday that found melting permafrost could significantly amplify global warming ? comes as delegates from nearly 200 countries struggled for a third day to lay the groundwork for a deal that would cut emissions in an attempt to ensure that temperatures don't rise more than 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) over what they were in preindustrial times. Temperatures have already risen about 0.8 degrees C (1.4 degrees F), according to the latest report by the IPCC.

Discord between rich and poor countries on who should do what has kept the two-decade-old U.N. talks from delivering on that goal, and global emissions are still going up.

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, urged delegates to heed the science and quickly take action.

"When I had the privilege in 2007 of accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, in my speech I asked the rhetorical question, 'Will those responsible for decisions in the field of climate change at the global level listen to the voice of science and knowledge, which is now loud and clear,' " he said. "I am not sure our voice is louder today but it is certainly clearer on the basis of the new knowledge."

Delegates in Doha are bickering over money from rich countries to help poorer ones adapt to and combat the impacts of climate change, and whether developed countries will sign onto an extension of a legally binding emissions pact, the Kyoto Protocol, that would run until 2020.

A pact that once incorporated all industrialized countries except the United States would now include only the European Union, Australia and several smaller countries which together account for less than 15 percent of global emissions. And the United States is refusing to offer any bolder commitments to cut its emissions beyond a non-binding pledge to reduce emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

"For developed country parties like the United States and the European Union, the pledges and commitments ... put forward on the table are far below what is required by the science," Su Wei, a member of the Chinese delegation, told reporters. "And far below what is required by their historical responsibility."

Developing countries have said they are willing to take steps to control emissions, but that they must be given space to build their economies. Although China is the largest carbon polluter and India is rapidly catching up, both countries lag far behind the industrial countries in emissions per person and still have huge populations mired in poverty. They don't see emissions peaking anytime soon.

"We are still in the process of industrialization. We are also confronted with the enormous task of poverty eradication," said Wei, acknowledging that the country's emissions won't peak by 2020.

"In order to eradicate poverty, to try to improve the living standards, certainly we need to develop our economy," he said. "So the emissions will need to grow for a period of time."

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Obama shields U.S. airlines from EU carbon fees

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed a bill on Tuesday shielding U.S. airlines from paying for each ton of carbon their planes emit flying into and out of Europe, despite a recent move by Europe to suspend its proposed measure for one year.

The carbon fee bill was the first piece of legislation debated on the House floor after Congress returned from recess on November 13, and had been cleared by the Senate in September in a rare unanimous vote.

It directs the U.S. transportation secretary to shield U.S. airlines from Europe's carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS) if he or she deems it necessary.

Lawyers have said the bill is unusual because it would prevent U.S. companies from complying with the laws of another country.

"The Obama administration is firmly committed to reducing harmful carbon pollution from civil aviation both domestically and internationally, but, as we have said on many occasions, the application of the EU ETS to non-EU air carriers is the wrong way to achieve that objective," Clark Stevens, a White House spokesman, said.

He added that the administration is focused on making progress toward a global solution to reduce emissions under the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the U.N. body that deals with aviation issues.

The U.S. airline industry's main lobbying group, Airlines for America, praised Obama and said it, too, favored working through the ICAO to solve the problem. The group estimated that complying with the EU law would have cost U.S. airlines $3.1 billion between now and 2020.

"It never made a bit of sense for European governments to tax our citizens for flying over our own airspace ? and with the passage of this law we've got the tools we need to prevent it from happening and protect American jobs," said Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill, a co-author of the bill.

The House passed the bill despite a November 12 announcement that the European Union would "stop the clock" on enforcing its law for one year.

The European Commission said it would delay the application of its law to give ICAO enough time to craft a global framework to address emissions before the next assembly of all 190 members next autumn.

McCaskill and co-sponsor Republican Senator John Thune said in a statement that their bill had pressured the EU into delaying the enforcement of their cap-and-trade scheme for aviation.

The EU had also been under pressure from China, one of the world's fastest growing markets for aircraft, which had threatened to cancel orders of European Airbus aircraft if the EU did not back down from applying its ETS on all airlines.

One EU official took to the social networking site Twitter to suggest that United States was not making good on suggestions for "greener" policies.

Obama made reference to climate change as one of a trio of issues facing the country in his victory speech after being re-elected on November 6.

"So far the reelected President Obama climate policies look EXACTLY as in first term. Wonder when we'll see the announced change?" Connie Hedegaard, EU Climate Change Commissioner, said in a tweet.

Green groups criticized Obama for signing the anti-ETS law as one of his first post-election acts but said the administration has the opportunity to back a global solution under ICAO.

"The White House now must endorse a global, market-based measure to rein in carbon pollution from aviation," said World Wildlife Fund's Keya Chatterjee.

(Reporting by Valerie Volcovici; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz)

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Fast forward to the past: NASA technologists test 'game-changing' data-processing technology

ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2012) ? It's a digital world. Or is it? NASA technologist Jonathan Pellish isn't convinced. In fact, he believes a computing technology of yesteryear could potentially revolutionize everything from autonomous rendezvous and docking to remotely correcting wavefront errors on large, deployable space telescope mirrors like those to fly on the James Webb Space Telescope.

"It's fast forward to the past," Pellish said, referring to an emerging processing technology developed by a Cambridge, Mass.-based company, Analog Devices Lyric Labs.

So convinced is he of its potential, Pellish is meeting with scientists and engineers to explain the technology's capabilities and is using fiscal year 2013 NASA Center Innovation Fund resources to build printed circuit boards that researchers can use to test the technology's performance for a range of scientific applications. Pellish works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. He also has carried out preliminary radiation-effects studies to see how the technology's architecture holds up under the extreme environment encountered in space.

"I wouldn't do it unless I really believed in it," Pellish added. "This is one of the few things I've seen that is really different than what others are trying to do. I think this technology could fundamentally change the way we carry out onboard processing."

Analog-Based Microchip

The new technology is an analog-based microchip developed with significant support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Instead of relying on tiny switches or transistors that turn on and off, producing streams of ones and zeroes that computing systems then translate into something meaningful to users, the company's new microchip is more like a dimmer switch. It can accept inputs and calculate outputs that are between zero and one, directly representing probabilities, or levels of certainty.

"The technology is fundamentally different from standard digital-signal processing, recognizing values between zero and one to accomplish what would otherwise be cost prohibitive or impossible with traditional digital circuits," Pellish said.

The processor's enhanced performance is due to the way the technology works, he explained. While digital systems use processors that step through calculations one at a time, in a serial fashion, the new processor uses electronic signals to represent probabilities rather than binary ones and zeros. It then effectively runs the calculations in parallel. Where it might take 500 transistors for a digital computer to calculate a probability, the new technology would take just a few. In other words, the microchip can perform a calculation more efficiently, with fewer circuits and less power than a digital processor -- attributes important for space- and power-constrained spacecraft instruments, Pellish said.

Although "there has been an overwhelming amount of positive support for the technology within Goddard" since Pellish began introducing colleagues to its capabilities, he is the first to concede that the technology isn't appropriate for all space applications.

Fast Fourier Transform

Because of its efficiency and inherent design, however, it's especially ideal for computing fast Fourier transforms (FFTs), and more particularly the discrete Fourier transform, a ubiquitously used mathematical algorithm in digital-signal processing. Among other things, Fourier transforms decompose signals into their constituent frequencies and are used to generate and filter cell-phone and Wi-Fi transmissions as well as compress audio, image and video files so that they take up less bandwidth.

Among other products, the company has developed an analog-based integrated circuit geared specifically for computing Fourier transforms. The team will use the technology, which the company donated, to assemble several custom circuit boards. "We'll take the hardware and see what it can do with our data and applications," Pellish explained.

One of the first applications the group plans to target with a version of the FFT integrated circuit is wavefront sensing and control, the computational technique for aligning multiple mirror segments, like those that are flying on the Webb telescope, so that they operate as a single mirror system.

In addition, Jeffrey Klenzing, who works with Goddard's Space Weather Laboratory, wants to evaluate the technology's use for on-board data processing, particularly for studies of the sun. "For a typical sounding rocket application, we send all data down and perform fast Fourier transforms on the ground. However, for satellite missions, this is not feasible given limited telemetry," Klenzing said. "A chip for performing rapid, reliable FFTs would be very useful for such heliophysics missions particularly with the push toward smaller, low-power satellites such as CubeSats and nanosats."

Pellish also believes autonomous rendezvous and docking and other applications requiring precise locational information would benefit from the analog-based technology. "We're trying to create a new market at NASA for analog processing. I believe it will give us a competitive edge. If we can push this, it could revolutionize how we do onboard data processing."

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NASA's TRMM satellite confirms 2010 landslides

ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2012) ? A NASA study using TRMM satellite data revealed that the year 2010 was a particularly bad year for landslides around the world.

A recent NASA study published in the October issue of the Journal of Hydrometeorology compared satellite rain data from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) to landslides in central eastern China, Central America and the Himalayan Arc, three regions with diverse climates and topography where rainfall-triggered landslides are frequent and destructive hazards to the local populations.

The work, led by Dalia Kirschbaum, a research physical scientist in the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is part of an ongoing effort to catalog worldwide rainfall-triggered landslides -- one of the world's lesser known but often catastrophic natural hazards. Locating them is a step in an effort to be able, one day, to predict and warn.

Currently, Kirschbaum explains, no consistent regional or global scale warning system exists for landslide disasters. To create one, scientists need to understand more than the individual factors that may contribute to local landslides -- the intensity and total amount of rainfall over hours to days, slope angle, soil type and saturation, among others.

"For other hazards like hurricanes, there's a clearly defined season," says Kirschbaum. "From satellite data and observations we know that hurricane season in the Atlantic spans from June 1 to Nov. 30. But we don't have that type of record for landslides around the world, and we want to know when and where to expect them in different regions."

Scientists also need a systematic way to assess landslide hazards for a region, and one way to do that, says Kirschbaum, is to look at the distribution and intensity of rain from satellite data and see how that correlates with where and how often landslides are being reported.

Creating Science by the Slice (of News)

The first step to developing landslide hazard assessments is to improve record keeping, Kirschbaum says. For the past several years, she has been developing the first global database for landslides triggered by rain, called the Global Landslide Catalog (GLC). Landslides are often too small to pick out of satellite imagery, so news stories are currently the best sources of information.

Daily, she and other research assistants examined media reports for possible landslides and dug out details such as where the landslide occurred, whether the landslide was triggered by a rain shower or a tropical cyclone, if there were fatalities, and if the type of landslide was characterized as a mudslide or a debris flow, among other characteristics. The GLC now has six complete years of data -- 2003, and 2007 through 2011 -- with new entries continually added. It contains more than 4,000 events that describe 20,600 reported fatalities among 60 different countries for 2007 through 2011.

However, Kirschbaum notes, landslide events are not uniformly reported around the world, with some not making the news unless they cause deaths or property damage. After compiling the 2010 record, Kirschbaum noted that 2010 appeared to be a particularly devastating year for landslides in parts of China, Central America and the Himalayan Arc. Kirschbaum compared the GLC with satellite-based rainfall information from TRMM and other satellites to see if the higher numbers of landslide reports corresponded with a higher amount of rainfall for those areas.

Fact-Checking the Stories with Impartial Witnesses

The TRMM Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) data includes rain data from 50 degrees north latitude to 50 degrees south latitude -- from southern Canada to the tip of South America--providing three-hourly and daily coverage of precipitation. Kirschbaum and her team relied on TMPA's 14-year record to provide a picture of global rainfall that could be related to landslides that occurred.

The big advantage of TMPA data, compared to ground data such as that from rain gauges, is that it measures rainfall in the same, consistent way over large regions. This provides a broader perspective that helps researchers like Kirschbaum and eventually forecasters equipped with satellite rainfall data to detect the kinds of rainfall signatures that are likely to produce destructive landslides.

Stating that extreme or prolonged rainfall can lead to landslides is not anything new, Kirschbaum says, but what is novel is that by examining the Global Landslide Catalog and TMPA precipitation record together, she can look at how reported landslide events compare with rainfall amounts. This in turn helps her find areas where landslides may be occurring but are not being reported.

Revealing the Long, Data-Drawn Truth

2010 was indeed an extraordinary year for landslides, says Kirschbaum, with three times as many reported events and twice as many reported fatal events as previous years within the Global Landslide Catalog.

Zhouqu County, China, was hit by the deadliest landslides in decades, according to state media, which buried some areas under as much as 23 feet (7 meters) of suffocating sludge. 1,765 people died. Property damages totaled an estimated $759 million. The TMPA rain data showed that the region's susceptible, steeply sloped geography was pummeled by extreme rainfall from a local cloudburst.

"This is really the first time that you can see how rainfall varies with respect to rainfall-triggered landslides because no other database has this type of globally consistent view," says Kirschbaum.

While most of the intense rainfall that triggers landslides is local in scale, global atmospheric circulation patterns can often affect these local conditions. As Kirschbaum explains: "What I think is unique about 2010 is there is a really strong El Ni?o going into a really strong La Ni?a, which consequently impacted rainfall patterns around the world."

Eventually, as the database of both landslides and rainfall data grows, Kirschbaum will be able to see more defined patterns in landslide occurrence month-by-month, and if those patterns are changing.

"I think in some ways we can compare the situation with landslides with that of earthquakes 50 years ago," says David Petley, professor and co-director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience at Durham University's Department of Geography. "Our understanding of earthquakes improved dramatically when a global seismic array was deployed that allowed us to map earthquakes in space and time, providing insight into plate tectonics and thus earthquake mechanisms. We have not been able to map landslides in the same way, which means that we lack that time and space understanding. Dalia's work is important because she is collating this data, which is providing new insights."

Until there's enough data about where and when landslides have occurred in the past, there will not be enough information to issue useful warnings about future events at the global scale. Kirschbaum plans to expand the Global Landslide Catalog in order to provide a more complete dataset to evaluate landslide forecasting models. Adequate warning, one day, could help vulnerable people escape roaring slurries of slumping earth, to recover, rebuild or relocate.

This work was funded by the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, which will improve upon current rainfall datasets, with real-time assessment of rainfall accumulations that lead to landslide triggering. The GPM Core satellite is set to launch in 2014 and will extend coverage of precipitation measurements using a constellation of satellites to deliver a global rain dataset every three hours.

For more information about the GPM mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/gpm

For more information about NASA's TRMM satellite, visit: http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov

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Inflow Communications Expands VoIP Business Phone System and ...

Inflow Communications has expanded its consultation, installation and follow-up support services with the acquisition of San Francisco VoIP phone system provider, Ketchum Integration.

Inflow?s expanded service offering builds on the core competencies of both companies. Ketchum Integration provides single and multi-site VoIP installation. Inflow Communications has been a provider of strategic consultative services and installation of ShoreTel VoIP business phone systems and HD video conferencing with Unified Communications integration since 1997. The new San Francisco location joins Inflow Communications? other offices in Oregon and Washington.

?Our new partnership with Ketchum is very exciting for us,? says Inflow Communications President Travis Dillard. ?With this expansion, we have improved our ability to service customers in and around San Francisco and ensure they receive the same level of support our customers in Portland and Seattle enjoy.?

Inflow Communications was recently awarded ShoreTel?s Outstanding Customer Achievement Award for 2012, and is a Top 30 ShoreTel partner based on customer satisfaction reporting. Inflow?s unique combination of consultation and post-installation service have set the company apart from competitors in the business phone system and video conferencing market.

The acquisition took effect November 1st.

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Festive Holiday Wedding Centerpiece Ideas

Entry #1869, November 26, 2012

Getting married this winter season is a great idea. The cold weather gives a romantic ambiance for couples who promised to love each other and start a new life together. It is definitely a season of love and sharing. One of the major concerns in wedding preparation is the table setting. Of course, your guests should find it pleasing and convenient to stay and eat.

Who wouldn?t love this festive decor at your wedding tables?

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To make your table setting impressive, you have to make sure that you have a beautiful plant centerpiece for each table. Plants can make it look so natural and attractive. It is one of the best ways to make your table look lively and eye-catching for your guests.

To provide you inspiration, here are some of the plant centerpiece ideas that you can have for your wedding:

Have a combination of green plants and gold utensils

When you landscape your table centerpiece with green plants like gold utensils, it will display an impressive and utmost elegance to your table setting. You don?t have to worry about the plants. It can be a combination of Hydrangeas, fluffy plumes of golden rod, lotus, or any other plants you have in your garden. Just be creative with landscaping.

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Repurpose wooden crates as plant container

If you want to have it unique and environment-friendly, try this beautiful table centerpiece idea. This wooden crate centerpiece is perfect for rectangular table. You can have plants like African Hemp, Cristatus, Agavaceae and some other succulent plants. You need not paint or do a major revamp with the crates. The more natural it looks ? the better.

Southwest inspired centerpiece

This is a stunning piece of art in your table centerpiece. This idea combines various plants with different colors that blend together to form a masterpiece. It?s like a beautiful work of art that will definitely enhance your table setting.

What about this southwestern inspired centerpiece idea?

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These are just a few holiday wedding plant centerpiece ideas that you can think about. It is best to consider the availability of plants and materials used in the ideas presented.

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Nintendo says more than 400,000 Wii Us sold in US

NEW YORK (AP) ? Nintendo has sold more than 400,000 of its new video game console, the Wii U, in its first week on sale in the U.S., the company said Monday.

The Wii U launched on Nov. 18 in the U.S. at a starting price of $300. Nintendo said the sales figure, based on internal estimates, is through Saturday, or seven days later.

The Wii U is the first major game console to launch in six years. It comes with a new touch-screen controller that promises to change how people play games by offering different people in the same room a different experience, depending on the controller used.

Six years ago, Nintendo Co. sold 475,000 of the original Wii in that console's first seven days in stores, according to data from the NPD Group. The original Wii remains available, and Nintendo said it sold more than 300,000 of them last week, along with roughly 250,000 handheld Nintendo 3DS units and about 275,000 of the Nintendo DS.

At this early stage, demand isn't the only factor dictating how many consoles are sold. Supply is, too. This means it's likely that more people wanted to buy the Wii U in the first week than those who were able to. The original Wii was in short supply more than a year after it went on sale.

As of Monday afternoon, the website of Best Buy Co. was sold out of the Wii U. Video game retailer GameStop Corp. said there was at least a three day wait for a deluxe Wii U, which costs $350, has more memory and comes with a game called "Nintendo Land." GameStop still had the basic, $300 version available.

Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter estimates that Nintendo will ship 1 million to 1.5 million Wii Us in the U.S. through the end of January.

Associated Press

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Home for the Holiday: Turkey, Antiques, BBQ, + Family Time

Having not been home since my cousin's wedding clear back on September 1st, I had been looking forward to Thanksgiving for weeks. Though my hometown's only a 1.5 hour drive from where I currently live, I don't always make it home as often as I like.? Adalae greeted me upon arrival and didn't leave my side for a good hour.? Isn't that a sweet face?!

I also came home to find that Christmas had exploded in my parents' house.? You see, my mom would put Mrs. Claus to shame.? This is just one of the trees that goes up every year.? And this is just a tree.? Don't even get me started on all the festive Christmas decor strewn about the house.? Io (under the tree) thinks all the decorations were put out especially for her...

I spent Thursday evening stuffing myself, laughing, and hanging out with my family, cousins, aunts, and uncles at Grandma's house.? We did it all again on Friday until the leftovers were all used up.? I am all turkey'ed out.?

Since yesterday was Small Business Saturday, my hometown held a Christmas Walk.? Shoppers browse/shop a bunch of different local businesses and at each location get to enter a drawing for a big cash giveaway.? My grandma, mom, one of my sisters, and I went.? (Oh, how I'd love for one of us to win the $500 or $250 or even $100.? I'm sure we could burn through it real fast at the book store or antique shop.)? In the meantime, I bargain hunted for fun jewelry.? The old community theatre (where I once performed in plays) has been turned into an antique shop.? I scored the treasures up above for super cheap.? The little leather-band watch was a whopping $3.? On the far right, I'm showing off the three rings I bought---two for $5, one for $3.? (In the middle is just the collection of rings that I like to wear on a daily basis... often one on each finger.)

I can't visit my hometown without grabbing a bite at my favorite BBQ joint!? After all that turkey, stuffing, and Thanksgiving cuisine... nothing sounded better than barbeque.? (Well, maybe Mexican.? Maybe.)? I met up with an old friend I hadn't seen in years and indulged in hot wings and curly fries.? Yum. Yum. Yum.? Afterward, I walked down the street to my favorite coffee shop for a cup of joe.? Then I visited my newlywed cousin's first house!? It's so cute and she's turning it into such a well-decorated home.? ...The girl's got taste. :)

Finally, I spent Saturday evening cozied up at my parents' place.? After pizza, my mom, two sisters, and I gathered around the kitchen table with our laptops to Facebook, browse Pinterest, and share funny animal memes.? Yes, that's some quality sister time up^there. ??

(I totally made them pose for these photos. Haha.)? It was a wonderful weekend home and I can't wait to come back for Christmas.

Sorry for the lack of blogging lately!? I've been crazy busy with a shifting schedule, new job, classwork, and an attempt at a social life.? ;)?

How were your Thanksgivings?!

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Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office east bank crime report, Nov. 25 ...

This information reflects initial calls for service reported by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office for the east bank of Jefferson Parish. Locations are approximate due to automated location methods and address inconsistencies, the Sheriff's Office says. Burglar alarm calls are excluded.
3600 block of Airline Drive - Nov. 24, 5:15 p.m., assault.
4600 block of Airline Drive - Nov. 24, 3:22 a.m., battery.
Airline Drive and Pasadena Avenue - Nov. 24, 6:08 p.m., vehicle wreck.
200 block of Aris Avenue - Nov. 24, 11:55 a.m., vehicle wreck.
100 block of Barry Avenue - Nov. 24, 9:39 p.m., disturbing the peace.
200 block of Bengal Road - Nov. 24, 1:27 p.m., suspicious person.
900 block of Beverly Garden Drive - Nov. 24, 7:00 p.m., suspicious person.
4800 block of Bissonet Drive - Nov. 24, 11:58 p.m., suspicious person.
3000 block of Blk Jodie Street - Nov. 24, 6:24 p.m., suspicious person.
600 block of Blk Lynnette Drive - Nov. 24, 6:46 p.m., suspicious person.
200 block of Blk Pine Street - Nov. 24, 2:59 p.m., suspicious person.
4400 block of Blk Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 24, 2:16 p.m., vehicle wreck.
4900 block of Blk Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 24, 12:43 p.m., suspicious person.
5800 block of Blk Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 24, 10:13 p.m., vehicle wreck.
3000 block of Blk Westbury Street - Nov. 24, 7:48 p.m., suspicious person.
4400 block of Camel Street - Nov. 24, 4:30 p.m., disturbing the peace.
800 block of Cathy Avenue - Nov. 24, 3:29 p.m., disturbing the peace.
2200 block of North Causeway Boulevard - Nov. 24, 9:59 p.m., drug law violation.
2200 block of North Causeway Boulevard - Nov. 24, 11:55 p.m., drug law violation.
North Causeway Boulevard and Galleria Drive - Nov. 24, 12:11 p.m., vehicle wreck.
North Causeway Boulevard and Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 24, 7:55 a.m., suspicious person.
North Causeway Boulevard and West Napoleon Avenue - Nov. 24, 3:02 p.m., vehicle wreck.
700 block of Central Avenue - Nov. 24, 12:50 a.m., disturbing the peace.
Clearview Parkway and South Interstate 10 Service Road West - Nov. 24, 10:43 a.m., vehicle wreck.
Clearview Parkway and Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 24, 1:59 a.m., suspicious person.
900 block of South Cumberland Street - Nov. 24, 8:41 p.m., assault.
3000 block of Downs Boulevard - Nov. 24, 2:41 p.m., suspicious person.
Earhart Exp and Dickory Avenue - Nov. 24, 11:03 a.m., vehicle wreck.
500 block of Elsie Lane - Nov. 24, 7:53 a.m., suspicious person.
4500 block of West Esplanade Avenue - Nov. 24, 3:24 a.m., suspicious person.
West Esplanade Avenue and Janice Avenue - Nov. 24, 7:32 p.m., vehicle wreck.
West Esplanade Avenue North and Severn Avenue - Nov. 24, 11:14 p.m., vehicle wreck.
4200 block of Hessmer Avenue - Nov. 24, 6:14 p.m., suspicious person.
4200 block of Hessmer Avenue - Nov. 24, 9:06 p.m., battery.
Homer Street and Orion Avenue - Nov. 24, 1:15 p.m., suspicious person.
700 block of Homestead Avenue - Nov. 24, 11:56 p.m., suspicious person.
Interstate 10 and Bonnabel Boulevard - Nov. 24, 8:58 p.m., vehicle wreck.
Interstate 10 and Clearview Parkway - Nov. 24, 1:49 a.m., vehicle wreck.
Interstate 10 and Clearview Parkway - Nov. 24, 6:54 p.m., vehicle wreck.
Interstate 10 and Cleary Avenue - Nov. 24, 12:09 a.m., suspicious person.
1200 block of Jefferson Highway - Nov. 24, 2:14 a.m., illegal discharge of weapon.
1800 block of Jefferson Highway - Nov. 24, 4:47 p.m., theft.
Jefferson Highway and Brown Street - Nov. 24, 7:22 p.m., suspicious person.
Lake Avenue and Hammond Highway - Nov. 24, 7:45 p.m., vehicle wreck.
200 block of North Laurel Street - Nov. 24, 2:00 p.m., disturbing the peace.
300 block of North Laurel Street - Nov. 24, 4:37 p.m., vehicle wreck.
2700 block of Longwood Drive - Nov. 24, 9:50 p.m., theft.
200 block of Marmande Avenue - Nov. 24, 8:56 p.m., battery.
West Metairie Avenue and North Woodlawn Avenue - Nov. 24, 8:20 p.m., suspicious person.
West Metairie Avenue and Transcontinental Drive - Nov. 24, 6:31 p.m., vehicle wreck.
West Napoleon Avenue and Cleary Avenue - Nov. 24, 5:42 p.m., vehicle wreck.
West Napoleon Avenue and North Woodlawn Avenue - Nov. 24, 11:43 p.m., suspicious person.
2100 block of Pasadena Avenue - Nov. 24, 5:18 p.m., suspicious person.
Russell Street and Little Farms Avenue - Nov. 24, 6:05 p.m., vehicle wreck.
1900 block of Shrewsbury Road - Nov. 24, 3:07 p.m., battery.
8000 block of Simon Street - Nov. 24, 1:59 p.m., suspicious person.
Stewart Place and Valerie Avenue - Nov. 24, 9:39 p.m., suspicious person.
4800 block of Street Martin Street - Nov. 24, 7:40 p.m., vehicle burglary.
600 block of Thirba Street - Nov. 24, 1:05 p.m., suspicious person.
1700 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 24, 8:17 a.m., theft.
3300 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 24, 6:39 p.m., theft.
4400 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 24, 2:18 p.m., theft.
4400 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 24, 2:53 p.m., theft.
4400 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 24, 11:45 p.m., vehicle wreck.
5800 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 24, 10:17 p.m., vehicle wreck.
6900 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 24, 7:05 a.m., disturbing the peace.
7000 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 24, 4:09 p.m., battery.
900 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard - Nov. 24, 9:59 p.m., suspicious person.
Veterans Memorial Boulevard and Bonnabel Boulevard - Nov. 24, 2:57 p.m., vehicle wreck.
Veterans Memorial Boulevard and Helios Avenue - Nov. 24, 6:28 p.m., vehicle wreck.
Veterans Memorial Boulevard and Independence Street - Nov. 24, 5:44 p.m., vehicle wreck.
Veterans Memorial Boulevard and Neyrey Drive - Nov. 24, 10:15 a.m., vehicle wreck.

Source: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/11/jefferson_parish_sheriffs_offi_1166.html

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Sandy dampens mood for many Black Friday shoppers

VALLEY STREAM, N.Y./BROOKLYN, New York (Reuters) - Malls across the United States teemed with shoppers looking for Black Friday bargains, but many in the New York area sat out the madness, too busy coping with the lingering effects of Superstorm Sandy.

The Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, New York, just a few miles from New York's JFK airport, is in a part of Long Island that was particularly devastated by the October 29 storm, which destroyed or severely damaged homes in many low-lying areas.

While still busy, shoppers and store workers alike said it was far from being the usual mob of years past.

"All the money people are spending on eating or on gas because they're displaced from their homes is money they won't spend on gifts," said Liliana Bignardelli, a 30 year-old perfume saleswoman working out of the Macy's at the mall.

She herself has been displaced since Sandy flooded the first floor of her home in Freeport, on Long Island, in one of the worst hit areas. She won't be able to go home until sometime in December. A colleague of hers said he had never seen a Black Friday this quiet.

A few doors down, at a Kohl's Corp store, Ed Gunn of West Hempstead, New York, said that last Black Friday, it took him forever to find a parking spot. This year, it was easy.

And he put the blame squarely on Sandy. His sister, who lives in Oceanside, also on Long Island, lost her home.

"They're not worrying about going shopping. They're trying to get their lives back together," he said.

A number of national retailers in recent weeks have said that Sandy has affected business. Expected economic losses from Sandy have been estimated at well north of $50 billion.

"It's clearly had an impact," Macy's Chief Executive Terry Lundgren told Reuters.

Other retailers reporting an impact from Sandy range from jeweler Zale Corp to upscale department store operator Saks Inc .

Despite the circumstances, some shoppers hurt by the storm turned out in search of deals given their stretched finances.

At the Kings Plaza Mall, near the parts of Brooklyn that were flooded the most dramatically, foot traffic was lighter at the mall on Black Friday than last year, although store workers said there had been crowds at Best Buy earlier looking for deals on televisions.

At Macy's, a mall worker named Raffie, was buying shoes for her son to attend a Sweet 16 party before she started her shift at a different store.

"We lost everything at our home in Staten Island," she said.

(Reporting by Phil Wahba in Valley Stream, N.Y., and Beth Pinsker Gladstone in Brooklyn, N.Y.; Editing by Ben Berkowitz and Tim Dobbyn)

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Currency Trading ? The Financial Giant! | ArticleBro.com

currency trading occurs in the largest financial market. It has been recorded that $2 trillion USD are traded daily. The trading of currencies is sometimes referred to as foreign exchange. All currencies have a value compared to other currencies of other countries all over the world. These currency values sometimes change. The reasons for this changing in the value can be that they are changed due to the flow of International business or because of economic and political news.

The trading of currencies is very risky. You need to have a plan for your trading with foreign currencies. If the companies of the United States start importing a large
number of merchandise manufactured in Europe then they will need to trade USDs in Euros to purchase the
products. If this is done in a large quantity in a short time, then it increases the claim for Euros and the
value of Euros rises. The reason for this is because US Dollars are being sold while the USA is buying Euros. Currencies are exchanged by retail investors, corporations, and financial institutes.

Currency is basically thought of as money. One country?s value differs from one country to another.
Currency can be thought of as a certain currency such as Euros, USD, British Pounds, etc. convert currenciesis the process of transforming one country?s currency into
another country?s currency. It is based on the rates of the exchange whether or not a person will receive
more or less value after the conversion. You can find out if you will obtain less or more money by looking
at the exchange rate of the country?s currency currently. When you travel to other countries you can bring
along your own money, but it is most likely that you will have to switch your money into the currency that
is used in the country that you are traveling to.

Currency is usually found in coins or notes. Coins are usually made of metal and are shaped in the shape
of a circle. Examples of coins are one penny, one pound, a penny, etc. Notes or currency in the form of
paper are used for high amount such as $100. Currency is very important for a country to survive. If the
currency is strong, then the economy is doing well and if it is weak, then the economy will thrive. This is
why a country should keep checks and balances to see where they are going wrong. If they take the right
measures, then the country will be able to do well and the currency will have credibility in the trade
market. So currency trading should be given importance to in every single country!

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Energy efficient windows ? Home Improvement: House Plans

November 20th, 2012 by admin Leave a reply ?

I must change the windows of my home. My old windows aren't bad looking. But although they go well with the house and I still like them, they are lacking the much needed energy efficiency. Heating and cooling my home takes five times longer than it is supposed to. I talked to the contractor that I always use, and after inspecting them, he told me that is time for windows upgrade. Because I really like the window design I have, I went in search for the similar window style only with a better energy efficiency index. I found something that looks promising at the Nitro Windows store my next door neighbor suggested. I?ll see soon enough how they will do.?

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Morehead State suspends Sean Woods for 1 game

Morehead State coach Sean Woods, a former Kentucky player, gestures to one of his players during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Kentucky in Lexington, Ky., Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. Kentucky won 81-70. (AP Photo/James Crisp)

Morehead State coach Sean Woods, a former Kentucky player, gestures to one of his players during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Kentucky in Lexington, Ky., Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. Kentucky won 81-70. (AP Photo/James Crisp)

Morehead State coach Sean Woods, left, gives pointers to Chad Posthumus during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Kentucky at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky., Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/James Crisp)

Morehead State suspended coach Sean Woods Friday for one game after he pushed an Eagles player during Wednesday's loss at No. 8 Kentucky.

Woods will sit out Monday night's home game against Norfolk State.

Morehead State athletic director Brian Hutchinson suspended Woods Friday after meeting with the coach.

"This will allow Coach Woods to consider his action and behavior, and allow him time to contemplate the appropriate way to conduct himself with his players and on the sideline," Hutchinson said in statement released by the university that

The first-year Eagles' coach pushed Morehead State's Devon Atkinson in the back as the senior point guard walked toward the bench after fouling out with 5:51 remaining.

Woods said in a statement that the situation "will not happen again."

"My behavior during Wednesday night's game was inappropriate and unacceptable," Woods said in the statement. "I am truly sorry."

The former Kentucky guard rarely stood still during the 81-70 loss to his alma mater, pacing the sidelines and getting in Eagles players' faces. Morehead State responded with a physical game in which the Eagles held the lead against Kentucky in both halves.

After the game, Woods defended his coaching style, saying he wanted his team to reflect his passion for the game.

"How did they look tonight? They look just like me, right?" Woods said. "They see me every day and that's how we're going to be every day. We're going to fight. ...

"Every day we step out in practice and in games, we have got to have a chip on our shoulders that we have something to prove."

But Woods crossed the line against Kentucky.

It was his second intense sideline encounter with a player this season. During a 67-45 loss at Maryland on Nov. 12, Woods was seen yelling in the face of Chad Posthumus while the junior center was sitting on the bench.

Eagles junior forward Drew Kelly said that Woods' behavior doesn't make the team uncomfortable.

"We can handle it and it makes us better," Kelly said after the Kentucky game.

Friday's statement was Woods' second apology this week.

On Monday he criticized some of the current Wildcats' attitude and for their limited knowledge of Kentucky basketball history. It bothered him that Wildcats freshman center Willie Cauley-Stein was unaware of Christian Laettner or "The Shot" that beat Kentucky in the 1992 NCAA East Regional final.

"They don't get it," said Woods, a point guard on that Kentucky team and whose jersey hangs from the Rupp Arena rafters.

"They play basketball, but they don't know what basketball really is. And they're very, very fortunate. We live in a microwave society now, and it's a shame that kids don't know the history."

Woods later apologized for those comments via Twitter.

Associated Press

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Apple asks court to include Galaxy S III with Jelly Bean, Galaxy Note II and four more devices in lawsuit

As usual, Apple though Friday night on a holiday weekend was the perfect time to push some more paper through in its ongoing patent lawsuit against Samsung. According to Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents, after Samsung asked to add the latest iPads, iPhones and iPod touches to its list of claims and the court approved the addition of the iPhone 5, Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 10.1, Apple is trying to put six more devices on the list. Listed in the motion are the Galaxy S III running Android Jelly Bean (but not Jelly Bean itself), Galaxy Note II, Galaxy Tab 8.9 WiFi, Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, Rugby Pro and Galaxy S III mini. As usual, the case will proceed, we'll wait to hear if these requests are approved by the court and in the meantime, iThings and Galaxys alike will continue to fly off the shelves. Given the season, for now it's time to be thankful we're not one of the lawyers spending their day working on this. That leaves us plenty of time for more interesting activities, like hand-to-hand combat against fellow shoppers for the right to purchase slightly discounted items.

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One of the first questions to ask is how many years of experience they have in SEO. You will want to find out what risks are involved in order to make the best decisions for your site.

Configure your server such that it differentiates capital and lowercase letters in URLs. Not checking this can end up in less traffic to your site.

Focus on mastering one SEO strategy at a time. There are not enough minutes in a day to get a hold of every technique. You need to focus your understanding on just a few areas and master them fully.

Many believe that keywords in their comment tags will create a more visible site. You should focus on the things you post on your site.

If you are looking to increase your site?s visibility, you need to make sure that you sign up for free local listing through Google and Yahoo. These services get your site noticed, which means more people will visit your site. Do not turn down free publicity.

Do not create pages full of links. Instead, incorporate the links into your page content, so there is a blending of both links and pertinent material for your readers. Link pages are boring to your readers and are not ranked highly by the search engines. You will appear to know what you are doing if all of your information is relevant.

When you optimize a web page using keywords, you should focus on a single phrase that will attract traffic. Stuffing a page with more than one keyword tends to lead to confusion. The better your content, the more interested your readers will be. Search engine optimization is important but a establishing a core group of readers will benefit your business in great ways.

Keywords will help you improve the visibility of your sites. Coordinate your keywords with your article topics. This makes it easier for search engines to index your work. It will be easier to draw new readers into your site. Place a keyword in the title, in the summary, and include it in the body about four to five times.

If you upgrade your website often, you will get more attention from search engine spiders. The better the content you provide, the more likely it is to be shared on other websites, providing you backlinks and increased traffic. After an article is shared, it starts to bring in higher levels of traffic.

If you are managing a business website, encourage the CEO or the owner of the business to become involved online. People like hearing from the big guy himself.

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If you utilize audio or video as part of your website?s content mix, consider including transcripts as part of the post. These transcripts will help search engines better place your website in relevant searches.

Though SEO does have layers of complexity that are best reserved for professionals, there is no reason to believe that beginners cannot also use this tool to their advantage. Instead of wasting time and money hiring someone else, learn a few simple tips to get your website to the top of the search engines? listings. It may be even easier than you imagined!

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Finding Your Way to a New Venue. | Weisberg Law P.C.

Lay et al. v. Bumpass, CA: 3:11-CV-1543 (M.D.P.A. 2012) is a case which examines the correct place to file a complaint for legal malpractice. This particular decision was based in part on the filing of the complaint in the Middle district of Pennsylvania based on diversity, meaning the plaintiffs were citizens making an allegation against a Defendant from a different state. The facts of the case are below.

Originally, Plaintiffs werePennsylvaniaresidents who alleged an injury based on the negligence of TSA. As a result, their claim was required to be filed under the Federal Tort claims act. The injury form negligence occurred inArkansas, and the Plaintiffs hired anArkansaslawyer to handle the case.

The Plaintiffs alleged that theArkansasattorney, representingPennsylvaniacitizens committed malpractice by failing to follow the standards of the act. Namely, the attorney failed to timely provide notice as required by the FTCA. Thus when Plaintiffs made their claim it was rejected by the TSA due to a violation of the statute of limitations. Plaintiff initiated this malpractice suit after the personal injury suit was rejected for being untimely. The defendant moved to dismiss the case for improper venue in the Middle district of Pennsylvania. The Plaintiff?s main argument that the suit should have been in the Middle district were that 1) the dismissal of their personal injury suit occurred in the Middle district, thus it is the place of injury and 2) all of their experts and evidence were located in the Middle district of Pennsylvania. The court dismissed both arguments. The main problem according to the court is that the FTCA sets out what should be used as venue in a personal injury case. Plaintiffs were alleging malpractice based on the personal injury case representation which is why the court went to the statute. According to the FTCA venue is proper where in the judicial district where the plaintiff resides or wherein the act or omission complained of occurred.

However, that governs the personal injury suit, not the legal malpractice. Thus the court had to go to tort law as opposed to federal law. The venue in discussion in this case was that of the legal malpractice case. There was not a challenge to the venue of the FTCA claim, since by statute that could have been prosecuted inPennsylvania. The Middle district adopted the same rule other courts used that venue is proper in the county where the negligence arose.

In this case, the Plaintiffs got in the door to Federal court based on diversity. Where jurisdiction of the Federal court is based on diversity, the court recognized that by statute the case may be brought in any district where the defendant resides; any district where a substantial part of the case took place; or any district in which any Defendant is subject to personal jurisdiction.

It was uncontested that Defendant did not reside inPennsylvaniathus, that rule was crossed out by the Court. Ditto for personal jurisdiction. Personal jurisdiction did not apply because the attorney fromArkansasdid not do any advertising inPennsylvania. Thus that left only the district where a substantial part of the events occurred.

The Court was then tasked with deciding what district that was for purposes of this case. To establish where the Plaintiffs were when the action occurs in a legal malpractice case involves analyzing the relationship between attorney and client. Based on precedent the court established that a telephone call to a client or a mailing does not establish venue. Neither does the fact that tortuous conduct occurs in one venue when the harm is felt in another. Thus both of those took out specific parts of Defendant?s conduct which caused harm to Plaintiffs. The court could not find acts of the Defendant which also gave rise to venue.

At this point, Plaintiffs were out of ammunition, because a finding of personal jurisdiction would have been a due process clause question which is an article for another day. Plaintiffs hired anArkansasbased attorney to prosecute their claim, thus the court found there was no intentional relationship withPennsylvania. Additionally, all aspects of representation occurred inArkansas, thus the court transferred the case accordingly.

The reason Plaintiffs seek to file in certain courts is based on remedies. While this case may seem to have been an open and shut instance of filing in the wrong venue, Plaintiffs attorney was attempting to utilize the strategic advantage Plaintiffs gain in his view. While it was unsuccessful, it is important to keep in mind the three ways a diversity suit may come under the auspices of a court which would seem not to have an interest. This is increasingly important given the inter-connectivity in the computer age.

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Matthew B. Weisberg, Esquire, Managing Partner of Prochniak Weisberg, P.C. (www.ppwlaw.com), focuses his practice almost exclusively on the representation of consumers who are victims of mortgage, real estate and auto purchase/financing fraud, as well as in foreclosure/debt collection defense and civil rights representation (employment discrimination and excessive police force). Five years ago having ?switched sides,? Mr. Weisberg formerly represented exclusively commercial and residential lenders in the prosecution of mortgage foreclosure and distressed debt collection litigation, lender liability and real estate speculator defense, and tort defense for financial injury defendants. Matthew welcomes all attorney inquiries and especially referrals: 610-690-0801 & mweisberg@ppwlaw.com.

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Magnesium oxide: From Earth to super-Earth

ScienceDaily (Nov. 22, 2012) ? The mantles of Earth and other rocky planets are rich in magnesium and oxygen. Due to its simplicity, the mineral magnesium oxide is a good model for studying the nature of planetary interiors. New work from a team led by Carnegie's Stewart McWilliams studied how magnesium oxide behaves under the extreme conditions deep within planets and found evidence that alters our understanding of planetary evolution. It is published November 22 by Science Express.

Magnesium oxide is particularly resistant to changes when under intense pressures and temperatures. Theoretical predictions claim that it has just three unique states with different structures and properties present under planetary conditions: solid under ambient conditions (such as on Earth's surface), liquid at high temperatures, and another structure of the solid at high pressure. The latter structure has never been observed in nature or in experiments.

McWilliams and his team observed magnesium oxide between pressures of about 3 million times normal atmospheric pressure (0.3 terapascals) to 14 million times atmospheric pressure (1.4 terapascals) and at temperatures reaching as high as 90,000 degrees Fahrenheit (50,000 Kelvin), conditions that range from those at the center of our Earth to those of large exo-planet super-Earths. Their observations indicate substantial changes in molecular bonding as the magnesium oxide responds to these various conditions, including a transformation to a new high-pressure solid phase.

In fact, when melting, there are signs that magnesium oxide changes from an electrically insulating material like quartz (meaning that electrons do not flow easily) to a metal similar to iron (meaning that electrons do flow easily through the material).

Drawing from these and other recent observations, the team concluded that while magnesium oxide is solid and non-conductive under conditions found on Earth in the present day, the early Earth's magma ocean might have been able to generate a magnetic field. Likewise, the metallic, liquid phase of magnesium oxide can exist today in the deep mantles of super-Earth planets, as can the newly observed solid phase.

"Our findings blur the line between traditional definitions of mantle and core material and provide a path for understanding how young or hot planets can generate and sustain magnetic fields," McWilliams said.

"This pioneering study takes advantage of new laser techniques to explore the nature of the materials that comprise the wide array of planets being discovered outside of our Solar System," said Russell Hemley, director of Carnegie's Geophysical Laboratory. "These methods allow investigations of the behavior of these materials at pressures and temperatures never before explored experimentally."

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