Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Scientists look at climate change, the superstorm

This NOAA satellite image taken Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, shows superstorm Sandy slowly moving westward while weakening across southern Pennsylvania. The National Weather Service said a foot and more of snow was reported in lower elevations of West Virginia, where most towns and roads are. High elevations in the mountains were getting more than two feet and a blizzard warning for more than a dozen counties was in effect until Wednesday afternoon. (AP Photo/NOAA)

This NOAA satellite image taken Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, shows superstorm Sandy slowly moving westward while weakening across southern Pennsylvania. The National Weather Service said a foot and more of snow was reported in lower elevations of West Virginia, where most towns and roads are. High elevations in the mountains were getting more than two feet and a blizzard warning for more than a dozen counties was in effect until Wednesday afternoon. (AP Photo/NOAA)

(AP) ? Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York.

Just eight months earlier, the Princeton University professor reported that what used to be once-in-a-century devastating floods in New York City would soon happen every three to 20 years. He blamed global warming for pushing up sea levels and changing hurricane patterns.

New York "is now highly vulnerable to extreme hurricane-surge flooding," he wrote.

For more than a dozen years, Oppenheimer and other climate scientists have been warning about the risk for big storms and serious flooding in New York. A 2000 federal report about global warming's effect on the United States warned specifically of that possibility.

Still, they say it's unfair to blame climate change for Sandy and the destruction it left behind. They cautioned that they cannot yet conclusively link a single storm to global warming, and any connection is not as clear and simple as environmental activists might contend.

"The ingredients of this storm seem a little bit cooked by climate change, but the overall storm is difficult to attribute to global warming," Canada's University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver said.

Some individual parts of Sandy and its wrath seem to be influenced by climate change, several climate scientists said.

First, there's sea level rise. Water levels around New York are a nearly a foot higher than they were 100 years ago, said Penn State University climate scientist Michael Mann.

Add to that the temperature of the Atlantic Ocean, which is about 2 degrees warmer on average than a century ago, said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University. Warm water fuels hurricanes.

And Sandy zipped north along a warmer-than-normal Gulf Stream that travels from the Caribbean to Ireland, said Jeff Masters, meteorology director for the private service Weather Underground.

Meteorologists are also noticing more hurricanes late in the season and even after the season. A 2008 study said the Atlantic hurricane season seems to be starting earlier and lasting longer but found no explicit link to global warming. Normally there are 11 named Atlantic storms. The past two years have seen 19 and 18 named storms. This year, with one month to go, there are 19.

After years of disagreement, climate scientists and hurricane experts have concluded that as the climate warms, there will be fewer total hurricanes. But those storms that do develop will be stronger and wetter.

Sandy took an unprecedented sharp left turn into New Jersey. Usually storms keep heading north and turn east harmlessly out to sea. But a strong ridge of high pressure centered over Greenland blocked Sandy from going north or east, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University, an expert in how a warming Arctic affects extreme weather patterns, said recent warming in the Arctic may have played a role in enlarging or prolonging that high pressure area. But she cautioned it's not clear whether the warming really had that influence on Sandy.

While components of Sandy seem connected to global warming, "mostly it's natural, I'd say it's 80, 90 percent natural," said Gerald North, a climate professor at Texas A&M University. "These things do happen, like the drought. It's a natural thing."

On Tuesday, both New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said they couldn't help but notice that extreme events like Sandy are causing them more and more trouble.

"What is clear is that the storms that we've experienced in the last year or so, around this country and around the world, are much more severe than before," Bloomberg said. "Whether that's global warming or what, I don't know. But we'll have to address those issues."

Cuomo called the changes "a new reality."

"Anyone who says that there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns I think is denying reality," Cuomo said. "I told the president the other day: 'We have a 100-year flood every two years now.'"

For his published research, Oppenheimer looked at New York City's record flood of 1821. Sandy flooded even higher. This week's damage was augmented by the past century's sea level rise, which was higher than the world average because of unusual coastal geography and ocean currents. Oppenheimer walked from his Manhattan home to the river Monday evening to watch the storm.

"We sort of knew it could happen, but you know that's different from actually standing there and watching it happen," Oppenheimer said from a cell phone. "You don't really imagine what this looks like until you see it."

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Associated Press writers Jennifer Peltz and Malcolm Ritter in New York and Michael Gormley in Albany contributed to this report.

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Seth Borenstein can be followed at http://twitter.com/borenbears .

Associated Press

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Broward County High School Sports | Sun Sentinel Blogs | Week 10 ...

The American Heritage football team traveled to Louisiana this week and earned a 31-7 win over West Monroe High. This week, the Stallions are on the move in at least one national ranking.

Heritage Delray's win impressed pollsters at ESPN, who moved the Stallions up to the No. 17 spot in the network's Week 10 Power Rankings. A week ago, Heritage was ranked No. 22.

University School, which had its game canceled because of Sanday, pretty much saw its status unchanged.

Here's a look at how Florida is represented in this week's national polls:

MaxPreps Xcellent 25
Bradenton Manatee remains in the top spot for another week, while University School remains No. 11 for another week.

ESPN 25 Power Rankings
Manatee remains at No. 1, while American Heritage-Delray rises five spots to No. 17. University School remains No. 21.

PrepNation.com National Prep Poll
Manatee still holds the top spot at No. 1, while University hangs on to its status at the No. 8 team.

USA Today Super 25
Of all the national rankings, USA Today still isn't sold on South Florida football. The state's lone teams in this ranking include Manatee at No. 1 and Orlando Dr. Phillips at No. 21.

Rivals 100
Bradenton Manatee remains No. 1, and the highest-ranked South Florida team is University School, which is hanging on to the No. 9 spot. Also ranked are Miami Central (No. 26), Booker T. Washington (No. 27), American Heritage Delray (No. 29, up from No. 35), Jacksonville First Coast (No. 50), Gainesville (No. 61), Tallahassee Lincoln (62), Cocoa (68), Tampa Plant (81) and Dr. Phillips (93).

Source: http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports/highschool/broward/blog/2012/10/week_10_national_football_poll_1.html

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A day in the life of a mom/rancher/Farm to School educator | Farm to ...

Guest post by??Debbie Lyons-Blythe on behalf of Beef Checkoff
Read more about Debbie?s life on the ranch on her blog, KansasCattleRanch.blogspot.com?

I?m just like any other mom. I get up early in the morning, make sure my kids are moving and head to the kitchen for a cup of coffee. I dress for work, get the kids out the door for school and put on my shoes and jacket to meet the day. This is where my day differs from millions of other moms.

Debbie Lyons-Blythe

I am a cattle rancher. It is my responsibility to feed and care for more than 500 head of cattle every day. In October, I feed 300 weaned calves every morning and night, checking them to make sure none are sick or injured. If they do need extra attention, I work with my veterinarian to determine what is the best way to make them healthy again. Our 250 mama cows are still in the pastures eating grass, but they need weekly visits to make sure they are healthy and that they have fresh water and grass to eat.

Some mornings, when it is cold and windy (as it often is in Kansas), I?d rather snuggle back into a blanket and wait for warmer days to go to work. In the winter, when the snow falls, I am constantly cold and I have a hard time putting on enough layers! I often feel like the kid from the movie A Christmas Story who falls and can?t get back up! But despite the difficulties, I love cattle ranching?I couldn?t dream of doing anything else.

Today, less than 2 percent of the American population is directly involved in growing the world?s food. I am proud to be in that group. I truly love cows; I love working on the land; and I love running a family ranch where my husband, kids and I work side by side to care for our cattle. There are few businesses these days that the children are able to be a part of from an early age; and fewer still that the children want to follow in their parents footsteps to take over one day in the future. Ranching is about sustainability?both ecologically, as well as economically.

So why do I take time to talk with consumers about what I do on our ranch? With the vast majority of the population living one, two or more generations from the farm or ranch, they either have a romanticized idea of ranching, or a misrepresentation of what large scale farming and ranching is. I work every day to correct that.

My family lives near a small town in central Kansas. Each year my kids and I sponsor a Farm to Fork Day at our local school, where we bring a cow and calf for the students to pet?often for the first time, and examples of everyday products that have a beef by-product in it. Students are amazed to learn of the products that depend on cattle for ingredients?jelly beans have gelatin, chewing gum is glycerin based, asphalt contains a binding agent from beef fat, and even tires have stearic acid which makes rubber hold its shape.

In addition, in a small school, a large percentage of students participate in school sports. I enjoy explaining the role of protein in a well balanced diet and showing those young athletes how zinc and iron, as well as B-vitamins that come from beef help build lean muscle. Lastly, I love to see what the students know about what a cow eats and I show them the Cow Chow game online. Often their teacher is able to offer computer time during class for the students to play Cow Chow!

Why do I take time out of my day to teach these kids about ranching? Because I am committed to young people (I have five of my own), and committed to enriching education. By showing them what I do on the ranch and how that directly impacts their life, I hope they will be more aware of the food they put in their bodies and how it fuels their lives. Because their perceptions are my reality! I love ranching, and I enjoy sharing that with kids.

Resources I use for youth:

Source: http://www.farmtoschoolmonth.org/2012/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-momrancherfarm-to-school-educator/

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The windows internet safety virus is however an additional rogue anti-spyware that has surfaced online. The thing you should know is that this malware will try to trick you into believing that your pc has serious safety issues to ensure that you buy the program. If you see any of the signs and symptoms beneath you require to eliminate the windows internet security virus as rapidly as feasible.

If you see the following you are contaminated with this malware.

1. A pop up box appears on your display saying that internet security, windows internet security or a variation on this name is scanning your computer.

two. Your Pc all of a sudden slows to a halt and you see an anti-virus or anti-malware software program declaring your computer is contaminated and you are sure you by no means installed this software.

3. There?s an icon in your taskbar for anti-malware or anti-virus software program that you never installed and it retains warning you about bacterial infections or viruses on your pc.

This malware will get on your pc via your internet browser, that may have a security issue, or by visiting destructive web sites. Right here is what you should do to remove the windows internet security virus rapidly.

Stage one: Download s system and registry scanner. If the internet security virus doesn?t allow you to download anything (some variations will block entry to recognized antivirus and anti-malware websites) you can so something about it.

If this occurs you are able to bypass this malware two techniques.

a) You need to either obtain a method scanner on another Computer and use a USB stick to duplicate the set up files to your Computer or use the stage below.

b) Start your Pc in safe method, which will stop this malware running and then obtain a method scanner. Once you hear the beep for the begin-up for your Pc, maintain tapping the F8 important on your keyboard till you see a menu. If you use the 2nd technique make sure you select safe mode with networking from the menu display.

Stage 2: Close all open programs and windows if you are in regular method and set up and run the system scanner. If this malware stops it from putting in or warns you that it is contaminated you?ll need to start your computer in safe method and set up it.

To go into secure mode restart your Pc and after the memory count but previous to windows starts push the F8 key and choose secure mode with networking from the onscreen menu that appears.

Stage three: Run a total system scan. This will scan both the registry and windows for file and method mistakes caused by this malware and repair them and help you to eliminate the windows web security virus quickly and automatically.

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Syrian warplanes bombard rebels with 60 airstrikes

BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian warplanes launched 60 airstrikes against rebel targets around the country on Monday, the most intense air raids across the country since the uprising began 19 months ago, according to anti-regime activists. The suburbs of the capital Damascus were particularly hard hit.

Activists said at least 500 people were killed over the four-day period ending Monday when a U.N.-backed truce was supposed to be in effect. They said the death toll for Monday so far has reached 80.

A government official said a car bomb killed 10 people on the outskirts of Damascus and TV footage showed firemen fighting the blaze amid wide destruction after parts of balconies fell on cars parked on a residential street. As smoke billowed, a woman was seen running away with children from the area of the blast and electricity cables dangled from poles. Activists said the air raids were launched both before and after the car bomb and were still under way.

Another car bomb exploded in a Damascus neighborhood where rebels are active, and state-run news agency said there were many casualties.

Monday was supposed to be the fourth and final day of a U.N.-backed cease-fire to coincide with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, one of the holiest periods on the Muslim calendar. But the truce was violated almost as soon as it was supposed to take effect on Friday and violence continued unabated over the holiday weekend.

The army warned late Sunday night that it will strike "remnants of terrorists with an iron fist" after they "repeatedly violated the cease-fire." The regime of President Bashar Assad often refers to those waging the uprising as "terrorists."

Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said airstrikes on Monday were by far higher than on any other day since the conflict began in March last year.

"Today has seen the most intense air raids across Syria since the start of the uprising," he said, estimating there were more than 60 airstrikes nationwide by early afternoon Monday.

He said the Syrian military was trying to compensate for recent losses on the ground with airstrikes.

Muhieddine Lathkani, a London-based member of the Syrian National Council opposition group, said the air attacks were a result of the regime's "total despair" and reflect the military's inability to recapture areas it lost to the rebels.

Mohammed Saeed, an activist based in the Damascus suburb of Douma, said members of the rebel Free Syrian Army were shooting at the planes but failing to bring them down.

A Syrian official said the car bomb in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana also wounded 41 people and heavily damaged shops and apartments in the area heavily inhabited by Christians and members of the Druse minority sect.

The Observatory also reported clashes and shelling in other parts of the country including the northwestern province of Idlib that borders Turkey, where it said warplanes carried out 11 air raids on several villages. Amateur videos showed warplanes in the skies, then giant mushroom clouds of smoke after the missiles hit.

On Friday, at least 15 people were killed in a Damascus car bomb, state media said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed deep disappointment at the collapse of the cease-fire and urged more unity from the international community. Speaking in South Korea, he said the U.N. is trying to ease Syria's humanitarian woes and find a political solution to the crisis.

He called for an immediate halt to the fighting and said other countries and the United Nations need to do more to help.

"I am deeply disappointed that the parties failed to respect the call to suspend fighting. This crisis cannot be solved with more weapons and bloodshed," he said. "I remain committed to doing all I can to make this happen. As long as the international community remains at odds, the needs, attacks and suffering will only grow."

U.N. International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told reporters in Moscow that the failure of the cease-fire will not discourage him and his supporters.

"So we will continue to work as hard as we possibly can, in cooperation with everybody inside of Syria and outside of Syria to bring the level of violence, put an end to it," he said.

In Turkey, state-run Anadolu news agency said the Turkish forces fired artillery in response to a stray shell fired from Syria that landed across the northern border. The shell landed some 300 meters (yards) away from the Turkish border village of Besaslan. No one was injured, but a power line was destroyed.

With the unraveling of the cease-fire, it's unclear what the international community can do next. The holiday truce marked the first attempt in six months to reduce the bloodshed in Syria, where activists say more than 35,000 people have been killed in 19 months.

In Turkey, about 150 members of the Syrian opposition met Monday to plan for a post-Assad future, discussing the immediate challenges of managing parts of the northern Idlib province, sections of the city of Aleppo, the country's largest, and other areas that are held by rebels. Long-term planning will focus on constitutional and legal reform, laws on elections and political parties and how to build a modern national army.

Delegates to the three-day meeting at a hotel on the outskirts of Istanbul included members of Syrian rebel groups as well as the country's Kurdish minority. Abdelbaset Sieda, president of the Syrian National Council, said the Syrian regime, which he described as a "criminal group," was losing its grip on power and that the opposition must be prepared to rebuild the devastated country.

"The transitional phase has started now," Sieda said. "That's what we're witnessing clearly today in many of our cities and villages."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-warplanes-bombard-rebels-60-airstrikes-152001075.html

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Egypt church moves closer to picking new pope

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Coptic Orthodox church moved a step closer to picking a new pope on Monday when the shortlist was whittled down to three in a process the Christian minority hopes will deliver a leader to guide them safely through the upheaval of the Arab Spring.

The previous incumbent, Pope Shenouda III, led the church for four decades until his death in March at the age of 88. His successor will assume the post in a fast-changing Egypt where long oppressed Islamists are now in power - a major shift that is a source of alarm for the minority Christian community.

A shortlist of five candidates was reduced to three by an election on Monday in which 2,256 voted out of 2,417 people picked by the church to have the right to vote.

Which of the three emerges as the 118th pope will be decided on November 4 when a blindfolded child picks one of the remaining candidates.

The three who will go forward to the draw are: Bishop Rafael, a 54-year old who qualified as a doctor before entering the priesthood; Bishop Tawdros, a 60-year old who qualified as a pharmacist before entering the priesthood and Father Rafael Afamena, a 70-year old monk who studied law before entering the priesthood.

Picked by the church, the voters in Monday's election included leading members of the church, public figures and a handful of representatives of the Ethiopian Church, which has historic links to the church in Egypt.

"We are all so worried about the situation in Egypt now and the rise of Islamists to power, but the church has always been harassed," said Magdy Helmi, a 53-year old voting as a representative of a provincial branch of the Coptic Church. "The church became an expert in surviving bad times," he added.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the mainstream Islamist movement that propelled President Mohamed Mursi to power, has sworn to guard the rights of Christians in the overwhelmingly majority Sunni Muslim country of 83 million people.

Monday's voting took place at a cathedral complex in Cairo's Abbasiya district. Bearded priests in black robes queued up to post their ballot papers into transparent boxes. The result was expected late on Monday.

"I hope that whoever wins will have the patience and wisdom of Pope Shenouda as times are tough on both Christians and Muslims - on all Egyptians," said Sameh Nazeh, a 39-year old Copt who was waiting for his wife - one of the voters - to cast her ballot.

(Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Jon Hemming)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-church-moves-closer-picking-pope-131511935.html

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Deutsche Bank earnings slip 3 percent to $974M

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Are Universities Preparing Us For Work or Life? | Peace is Our True ...

This is a poem I felt inspired to write in response to the Humanities and Arts cuts at La Trobe University. I studied Peace Studies at this university and it was one of the most significant years of my life. I found out recently the Lecturer, an expert on Gandhi, retired and was not replaced. I asked this lecturer once had any lecturers as intellectual colleagues asked him about Gandhi, he said no-one. I asked this to see if there was intellectual curiosity or a sense of seeking answers for the times we are in. This area had many politics lecturers in it. It seemed they saw him as a historical figure without relevance in the modern era. I just marvelled at his response.

I would like to place a few quotes before you for reflection. These are a couple of quotes from Einstein in reference to one of the worlds greatest humanitarians, he was quoted:

?I believe that Gandhi?s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.?

On of his most famous quotes was:

?Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as [Gandhi] ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.?

And one last one from Gandhi which helps me to remember my true strength.

?Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always.?

I consider this subject the most important subject of our times and the one we all must learn if we are to find true happiness.

The arts in all its forms is right brain thinking/feeling at it is the place where we truly connect to our humanity.? It is part of the brain that opens to solutions.? If we start placing money values on producing products and services and see no value in the arts, we will lose one of the most powerful avenues for crafting our civilisation.?

When I made a decision to study Peace I knew clearly I was not going for the money, I was following my heart and higher calling. I have never regreted the life I?ve lived, it has been the happiest choice and one that I have no regret about. I could be languishing at a desk feeling unfullfilled and that my life was wasted. How many feel like that??

Many find at the end of their lives it was never money that made them happy, it was the humanity others showed them. That is the true wealth of nations. Universities in truth are a public good they were never for users pay philosophy. Government funded ?public goods? (e.g. utilities, schools, hospitals) were to ensure that they were not for profit but for people. The lack of funding for universities to retain their independence in my view was a signficiant error and was not in the public interest.

I share this poem with love for all. I ask what type of education will we choose?

Will we choose education to create more workers aspiring to profit?

or

Will we utilise higher education to create a greater civilisation aspiring to prophets (wisdom)?

The choice is yours.

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Is La Trobe World Ready?

Is La Trobe World Ready,
Or ready for the real world?

Is humanity losing?
Or are we losing our humanity?

Do we understand the diversity of unity?
Or the Ouroboros of unity in diversity?

Do we manage by agenda?
Or do we learn to rebalance gender?
For balanced decision making includes the feminine and masculine,
For one sees models and structures in the academic landscape,
The other re-models and restructures the emotional landscapes
to adapt to change.

Is the logo a brand image?
Or a wedge tailed eagle with a long tale?
For the Bunjil is the creator of all living and natural things,
Giving guidance to those in need whenever there is a fearsome time,
A time of doubt,
Uncertainty about how to get off the roundabout,
Questioning which way to go,
For the wind of change is blowing in a new direction.
Is it the wind power of a renewable future?
Or the power of business-as-usual dictating the terms of reference?
For the fearsome time is upon us,
As Standards are Poor in the new economic measures,
Economic indicators plummet without credit,
As Gross Domestic Product (GDP) does not produce
Gross National Happiness (GNH),
Corruption is the new global deal that oils the wheels of industry,
As wars of aggression foster desert storms and Russian roulette,
And Chinese checkers becomes the new game where many see only black or white.

2012 is the Chinese New Year of the Water Dragon
It is foreseen as a year of unpredictable events,
A critical year raising the consciousness of humanity,
That no longer exists in schools of thought,
For awareness cannot be bought by degrees,
It can only be sought in reflection and ease,
Expanding concentric waves of a new spiritual era.
The economic paradigm is a Prisoners Dilemma,
That sees a game in theory,
Yet humanity is the end game when seen,
The dilemma is whether to betray the truth or remain silent?
For the highest truth is to Know Thyself and ?to thine own self be true?,
As the ruse is the silence of the lambs in collusion
keeping the game going at a bearish rate,
Yet the end game is approaching.

The economic paradigm imprisons freedom of speech in truth,
For one is paid to work not participate in an Agora of shared interests,
Yet a true democracy represents the people inspiring collaboration,
An economic oligarchy represents special interests demanding yields,
Yet industrial averages are diminishing returns in the longer term,
As diminishing top soil is the fool?s gold that yields deserts and droughts,
For Climate change is real without doubt,
A silent seal yields inclement weather,
Raising tempers and temperatures worldwide,
As triple bottom line tipping points catalyse the domino effect
subject to gravity,
To realise chaos is not subject to control.

So my friends ?

A Brave New World or a braver world looking in the pond
of deeper reflection?
For what we see in this World is a reflection of ourselves,
Please remember the Philosophers Stone is not the statue of liberty unmoved by change,
It is the liberty to change what appears set in stone,
For poetry is the philosophy of Art,
Accessing truth from a kaleidoscope of perspectives and infinite possibilities,
It is the water that naturally flows around stone,
For Art is not idle musings or amusing to be idle,
It is the mustard seed of great wisdom and higher knowledge,
Inspiring the kernel of new ideas,
That can move mountains.

For anyone can remove Art as a Degree,
But you can never silence degrees of freedom,
For artists were never contained by fortune or fame,
They are the torch bearers carrying the eternal flame,
Shining the light of truth on the future we will create,
Chiselling the words on all university walls,

?it is never too late to change
change is inevitable
Be the change you wish to see
The truth will always set you free?.

Source: http://wpas.worldpeacefull.com/2012/10/are-universities-preparing-us-for-work-or-life/

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Gaston College to hold small business seminars | Denver Weekly ...

LINCOLNTON ? The Small Business Center at Gaston College will hold two seminars in November to help local people start or strengthen their businesses.

? Marketing II ? Targeting for Results: This seminar will help business owners identify marketing tools relative to business needs, including demographic, location and advertising selection. 6:30-9 p.m. Oct. 29. At the Lincoln Campus, Room LC 125.

? Marking III ? Great Expectations: This seminar will help business owners understand creating a realistic marketing plan to match the company?s resources. 6:30-9 p.m. Nov. 5. At the Lincoln Campus, Room LC 125.

? Tax issues: A local accountant will discuss financial statement formulation and terminology, self-employment and payroll taxes, tax theory and forms and aspects of interacting with your finance and accounting professional. 6:30-9 p.m. Nov. 12. At the Lincoln Campus, Room LC 125. q

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Out to Crunch: U.S. Energy Department Unleashes Its Titan Supercomputer

When fully operational, Titan will use a combination of computer and graphics processors to surpass the world's fastest supercomputers


supercomputer,energy,nuclearTITANIC: When fully brought up to speed Titan will be capable of more than 20 quadrillion calculations per second, or 20 petaflops. One of Titan's roles will be to help Oak Ridge researchers visualize reactor core simulations. Image: Courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In 2005 engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DoE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveiled Jaguar, a system that would later be upgraded into a world-beating supercomputer. By 2011 it had grown to a room-size system that used seven megawatts of energy, ran nearly 225,000 processor cores and had a peak performance of 2.3 petaflops, or 2.3 quadrillion calculations per second. Topping Jaguar, albeit necessary to deliver ever more complex modeling of sophisticated energy challenges, would not be easy.
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Simply adding more CPUs, or central processing units, to scale Jaguar to 20 petaflops would require enough energy to power 60,000 homes. To best their own record, the Oak Ridge engineers instead turned to video games?or more precisely, to the graphics processors used in Microsoft Xboxes, Nintendo Wiis and other video game systems.
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As of Monday Jaguar becomes Titan, a supercomputer that leverages both CPU and GPU (graphics processing unit) accelerators to deliver 10 times the performance of Jaguar with more than five times the power efficiency.
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The key to Titan's speed and efficiency is a design that uses more than 18,500 NVIDIA GPUs, along with nearly 300,000 CPU cores, which typically form the foundation of high-performance computers. The GPUs account for about 90 percent of the system's computational performance and enable Titan to remain roughly the same size as Jaguar.
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When fully brought up to speed, Titan (a Cray XK7 system) promises to be the world's most powerful open-science supercomputer, even more powerful than the DoE's Sequoia, a 16.3-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q system crowned the world's fastest supercomputer in June. Sequoia differs from Jaguar/Titan, which placed sixth on the list, in that Sequoia is used exclusively by the DoE's National Nuclear Security Administration to monitor U.S. nukes. Titan will be used by a variety of researchers for a variety of projects.
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Titan will initially support a handful of key projects at Oak Ridge, including Denovo, simulation software that models the behavior of neutrons in a nuclear power reactor. Oak Ridge's engineers designed Denovo for Jaguar as a way to help extend the lives of the U.S.'s aging nuclear power plants, which provide about a fifth of the country's electricity. Running Denovo, Titan will take 13 hours to model the complete state of a reactor core at a specified point in time, a job that took Jaguar 60 hours to perform.
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"The ability to burn nuclear fuel uniformly is very much dependent on knowing and being able to predict the distribution of neutrons in the core," says Tom Evans, a computational scientist at Oak Ridge's Consortium for the Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL), which created Denovo. Titan will enable much more precise simulations.
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Titan calculations will also be used to provide nanoscale analysis of materials used to build electric motors and generators as well as model the burning of a variety of fuels in internal combustion engines. Still another application will simulate long-term global climate. A sizable amount of Titan's capacity in the coming year will be devoted to the DoE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment program (INCITE), which invites academia, government researchers and industry to apply for access to the supercomputer for their various projects.
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The performance comes at a price, however. Because Jaguar used only CPUs, its computer architecture was simpler, which in turn made it easier to write its software. "The algorithmic complexity to write that code for a machine like Titan is momentous," Evans says. "For us, first and foremost is getting the CPUs and GPUs to work together."
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Titan may be cutting edge, but Evans already has a hankering for more computational power. Ideally, Evans and his team want to do complete, high-fidelity 3-D simulations over a full reactor depletion cycle, which requires calculations at many reaction state points?not just a single point in time. Despite its horsepower, even Titan may not be able to achieve this. "We want to push the envelope, but the reality is that Titan's not going to get us there yet," Evans says. The computing resources required to do this are significant, and Evans points out that he and his team don't have Titan all to themselves. It looks like the engineers had better get cracking on Titan's successor.

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Monday, October 29, 2012

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Hurricane Sandy: 4 ways the huge 'Frankenstorm' is hammering America

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High winds blow sea foam onto Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, N.C., on Sunday, as wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy move into the area. Governors from North Carolina to Connecticut have declared states of emergency. Photo: AP Photo/Gerry Broome SEE ALL 9 PHOTOS

Hurricane Sandy is churning toward the most populous part of the U.S., and the National Weather Service wants the 60 million people in its path ? mostly on the East Coast ? to take the "extremely dangerous," potentially "historic storm" seriously. If you are reluctant to follow emergency instructions from local authorities, the NWS says, "think about your loved ones, think about the emergency responders who will be unable to reach you when you make the panicked phone call to be rescued, think about the rescue/recovery teams who will rescue you if you are injured or recover your remains if you do not survive." At least 65 deaths in the Caribbean have been blamed on Sandy, but even if no Americans die as a result of this "Frankenstorm," forecasters say it's shaping up to be the proverbial "big one." Here are four ways the massive storm is already roiling the U.S.:

1. Sandy has a third of the country in its sights
The Frankenstorm?is a freak meeting of a northern hurricane, two converging cold fronts, and a full moon, creating a rare, destructive post-tropical cyclone, or nor'easter. Hurricane Sandy is forecast to make landfall in Delaware or southern New Jersey late Monday or early Tuesday, but its wide reach ? hurricane-force winds spreading 175 miles out from the center, and tropical storm?force gales in a radius of 520 miles, likely sending strong winds to every state east of the Mississippi River ? is already being felt from North Carolina to New York. "Although Sandy is a hurricane, it's important not to focus too much on its official category or its precise path," says The Associated Press. Between storm surges of up to 11 feet sloshing into New York Harbor and other parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, a foot of rain and two feet of snow, and hurricane-force winds, there will be lots of messes to clean up after the storm has passed.

2. No trains, planes, or buses for at least a day
Thousands of travelers were stuck in cities from Washington to Boston, or prevented from flying there, as airlines canceled 8,000 flights through Tuesday, with more cancelations likely. Trains aren't an option, either, as Amtrak has suspended nearly all service along the Eastern seaboard. And locally, New York and New Jersey have stopped their commuter rails, cities from New York to Philadelphia to Washington have or will shut down their subways and bus systems. At least some mass transit will resume service in New York City about 12 hours after the storm passes, says MTA chairman Joseph Lhota, but commuters should expect two days of taxis or hoofing it. "I do think Monday and Tuesday are going to be difficult days."

3. Sandy will be expensive
Local businesses and national chain stores in parts of the Northeast will be closed on Monday, and the major U.S. stock and options markets will shut down for at least Monday and Tuesday ? this is the first weather-related full suspension of trading at the New York Stock Exchange since 1985, and the first unscheduled closure since September 2001. Estimates about how much Sandy will cost range from $2 billion to $100 billion. Hurricane Irene, in 2011, caused about $15 billion in damage.

4. Election 2012, scrambled
The freakish superstorm is injecting chaos into the carefully planned final week of the presidential race, with both Obama and Romney shifting or canceling campaign appearances in affected swing states like Virginia and New Hampshire. Romney is beefing up his schedule in Ohio and Wisconsin while Obama canceled a Florida appearance on Monday to instead monitor the storm from Washington. Anything Sandy-stricken governors and mayors need, "we will be there," Obama said Sunday. "And we are going to cut through red tape. We are not going to get bogged down with a lot of rules." So Sandy isn't all bad, says Mike Lupica at the New York Daily News. "This will be one of those moments that transcends the general lousiness of this campaign, that involves the real life of this country that the candidates talk endlessly about, and not the latest tracking poll from Ohio or Florida." For one moment before the election, when "President Obama and not Candidate Obama" visits after the storm, at least one of the two men running for office will ignore the self-important swing states and treat New York like the crucial hub it is, like something more than an ATM.

Sources: AP (2), BuzzFeed, Forbes, New York Daily News, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal (2), Weather Channel, Wunderground

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-The last 'Frankenstorm': Video of the 1938?nor'easter?that ravaged New England?

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Hurricane's death toll rises to 65 in Caribbean

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ? As Americans braced Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering.

Officials raised the storm-related death toll across the Caribbean to 65, with 51 of those coming in Haiti, which was pelted by three days of constant rains that ended only on Friday.

As the rains stopped and rivers began to recede, authorities were getting a fuller idea of how much damage Sandy brought on Haiti. Bridges collapsed. Banana crops were ruined. Homes were underwater. Officials said the death toll might still rise.

"This is a disaster of major proportions," Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe told The Associated Press, adding with a touch of hyperbole, "The whole south is under water."

The country's ramshackle housing and denuded hillsides are especially vulnerable to flooding. The bulk of the deaths were in the southern part of the country and the area around Port-au-Prince, the capital, which holds most of the 370,000 Haitians who are still living in flimsy shelters as a result of the devastating 2010 earthquake.

Santos Alexis, mayor of the southern city of Leogane, said Sunday that the rivers were receding and that people were beginning to dry their belongings in the sun.

"Things are back to being a little quiet," Alexis said by telephone. "We have seen the end."

Sandy also killed 11 in Cuba, where officials said it destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of houses. Deaths were also reported in Jamaica, the Bahamas and Puerto Rico. Authorities in the Dominican Republic said the storm destroyed several bridges and isolated at least 130 communities while damaging an estimated 3,500 homes.

Jamaica's emergency management office on Sunday was airlifting supplies to marooned communities in remote areas of four badly impacted parishes.

In the Bahamas, Wolf Seyfert, operations director at local airline Western Air, said the domestic terminal of Grand Bahamas' airport received "substantial damage" from Sandy's battering storm surge and would need to be rebuilt.

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Benghazi terrorist attack follows Obama on the campaign trail

The terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, continues to follow President Obama as he faces an extremely close reelection bid and?the expected onslaught of Hurricane Sandy.

By Brad Knickerbocker,?Staff writer / October 28, 2012

President Barack Obama speaks to supporters at a campaign event at Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport, in Cleveland Ohio.

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The terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last month continues to follow President Obama, interrupting his main jobs these days: Dealing with the expected onslaught of Hurricane Sandy as well as a hard-fought and extremely close reelection bid.

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He was asked about it again in weekend interviews, vowing to hold members of his administration accountable for any intelligence or military failures that might have led to the killing of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other embassy personnel on the anniversary of 9/11.

?What my attitude on this is is if we find out there was a big breakdown and somebody didn?t do their job, they?ll be held accountable,? Mr. ?Obama told MSNBC?s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski during a New Hampshire campaign stop Saturday. ?Ultimately as Commander-in-Chief I am responsible and I don?t shy away from that responsibility.?

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Meanwhile, the time it takes to conduct thorough investigations ? as yet incomplete ? has sparked much speculation and commentary, some of it informed but much of it strictly partisan.

?This is an appalling tale of, at the very least, gross incompetency and utter lack of transparency,? writes conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post Sunday. ?President Obama, a little more than a week before the election,?won?t tell?Americans what happened. Well, why should he ? the press doesn?t hound him, the liberal elite still rushes to his defense, and his White House attack dogs bark ?Politics!? whenever legitimate questions are asked.?

From the left, writer and broadcaster Earl Ofari Hutchinson writes on his Huffington Post blog:

?President Obama's critics jumped on [recently released emails regarding the Benghazi attack] supposedly as smoking gun proof that the White House engaged in a massive cover-up to keep the truth from the American people.?

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Loan Approval Rates Post Drop in July | 50 Plus Finance

In recent property news, home loan approvals have declined by their highest rate in five months in July because of inflated interest rates in other developed economies, dissuading home shoppers from the Australian market. The decline in loan approvals equates to 1% for July after the 1% increase for the month of June, according to the statistics bureau which reported the news from Sydney on September 9th. Bloomberg News had conducted a survey among 16 economists and the general consensus was that the rate for borrowers taking out home loans would remain unchanged for the month of July.?

The news has been taken as an indication of a weakening economy in the aftermath of a recent decrease in retail sales, the loss of 8,800 jobs and the realisation of the seventh consecutive monthly trade deficit. The data has also prompted speculation that Glenn Stevens, RBA?s Governor would be looking at dropping interest rates in November after the cuts in May and June left the national cash rate at 3.5%. Analysts have been speculating about whether 2012 would hold further rate cuts but the last three months have not seen any changes coming from the Reserve Bank of Australia with regard to the national cash rate.

The decrease in home loan approvals has also been taken as yet another sign of consumer conservatism and analysts warn that until consumer behaviour trends can do a turn around, the property market growth rate may continue to disappoint forecasters. The recent credit shock, which highlighted how much debt Aussies have accrued in credit card debt, coupled with the an increasing urgency to increase their savings coffers seems to have had its effect on the property market with consumers not being taken in by low interest rates, preferring to invest their energies into paying debts off and coping better with the rising cost of living which hit a high when the government launched its carbon taxes, sending household utility costs skyrocketing.

The sum total of mortgages dropped to $20.1-billion, a decline of 18 %, for the month, while lending to owners decreased by 1.4% compared to figures released for June. Investor home loans for resale and letting decreased by 2.7%, further highlighting investor conservatism and a slowdown on property developments. However, the market is still optimistic in this respect, with property investment loans on offer at http://www.bankwest.com.au/personal/home-loans/home-loans-overview#investing-in-property.

On a more positive note, the number of loan approvals granted to first time homebuyers increased from 18.5% in June to 19.2% in July. Even more impressive was the year on year increase of 16.5% to first time buyers and indicating that there is potential for growth from the younger generations.

The economic slow down has been attributed to the rising cost of imports and weaker housing markets even though the gross domestic product increased by 0.6% from the three months through to June when it saw a 1.4% improvement.

The country?s two biggest lenders, Westpac Banking Corp (WBC) and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) have announced that fixed mortgage rates have been reduced in an effort to lower borrowing costs for consumers and stimulate more activity in the housing sector. By contrast, an August report revealed that house prices had risen in the second quarter after five consecutive quarters of lowering prices. In addition, while analysts seem to concur that the downward spiral has come to its highly anticipated end, the last three to four months have only reflected what has been considered as flat line activity. It?s not all bad news though, as a spike could cause further market volatility and the flat lining could be giving home buyers more time to ease into the property market.


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Magnitude 7.7 quake strikes off Canadian coast

Erica Avegalio, center, and her brother Albert Avegalio, right, load up on water and food at the Times Supermarket after learning of a tsunami warning Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Honolulu. A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked an island off the west coast of Canada. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center originally said there was no threat to the islands, but a warning was issued later Saturday and remains in effect until 7 p.m. Sunday. A small craft advisory is in effect until Sunday morning. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

Erica Avegalio, center, and her brother Albert Avegalio, right, load up on water and food at the Times Supermarket after learning of a tsunami warning Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Honolulu. A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked an island off the west coast of Canada. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center originally said there was no threat to the islands, but a warning was issued later Saturday and remains in effect until 7 p.m. Sunday. A small craft advisory is in effect until Sunday morning. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

Mike Nakamoto of Honolulu prepare's his client's boat moored at the Ala Wai Harbor to take it to deep water after learning of a tsunami warning Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Honolulu. A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked an island off the west coast of Canada. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center originally said there was no threat to the islands, but a warning was issued later Saturday and remains in effect until 7 p.m. Sunday. A small craft advisory is in effect until Sunday morning.(AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

Tad Kanski of Newport Beach, Calif unties his family's sailboat moored at the Ala Wai Harbor after learning of a tsunami warning Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Honolulu. A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked an island off the west coast of Canada. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center originally said there was no threat to the islands, but a warning was issued later Saturday and remains in effect until 7 p.m. Sunday. A small craft advisory is in effect until Sunday morning.(AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

Lyndon Fong of Honolulu fills up his gas tank after learning of a tsunami waring Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Honolulu. A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked an island off the west coast of Canada. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center originally said there was no threat to the islands, but a warning was issued later Saturday and remains in effect until 7 p.m. Sunday. A small craft advisory is in effect until Sunday morning.(AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

(AP) ? A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the west coast of Canada, but there were no reports of major damage. Residents in parts of British Columbia were evacuated, but the province appeared to escape the biggest quake in Canada since 1949 largely unscathed.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the powerful temblor hit the Queen Charlotte Islands just after 8 p.m. local time Saturday at a depth of about 3 miles (5 kilometers) and was centered 96 miles (155 kilometers) south of Masset, British Columbia. It was felt across a wide area in British Columbia, both on its Pacific islands and on the mainland.

"It looks like the damage and the risk are at a very low level," said Shirley Bond, British Columbia's minister responsible for emergency management said. "We're certainly grateful."

The National Weather Service issued a tsunami warning for coastal areas of British Columbia, southern Alaska and Hawaii, but later canceled it for the first two and downgraded it to an advisory for Hawaii.

Gerard Fryer, a senior geologist with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, said the first waves hitting shore in Hawaii were smaller than expected.

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie said early Sunday that the Aloha State was lucky to avoid more severe surges after the powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Canada. Abercrombie said beaches and harbors are still closed statewide.

"We're very, very grateful that we can go home tonight counting our blessings," Abercrombie said.

The weather service also canceled a tsunami advisory for Oregon, leaving northern California as the only spot in North America still under a tsunami advisory.

Dennis Sinnott of the Canadian Institute of Ocean Science said a 69-centimeter (27 inch) wave was recorded off Langara Island on the northeast tip of Haida Gwaii, formerly called the Queen Charlotte Islands. The islands are home to about 5,000 people, many of them members of the Haida aboriginal group. Another 55 centimeter (21 inch) wave hit Winter Harbour on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island.

"It appears to be settling down," he said. "It does not mean we won't get another small wave coming through."

Canada's largest earthquake since 1700 was an 8.1 magnitude quake on August 22, 1949 off the coast of British Columbia, according to the Canadian government's Natural Resources website. It occurred on the Queen Charlotte Fault in what the department called Canada's equivalent of the San Andreas Fault ? the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates that runs underwater along the west coast of the Haida Gwaii.

In 1970 a 7.4 magnitude quake struck south of the Haida Gwaii.

The USGS said the temblor shook the waters around British Columbia and was followed by a 5.8 magnitude aftershock after several minutes. Several other aftershocks were reported.

The quake struck 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Sandspit, British Columbia, on the Haida Gwaii archipelago. People in coastal areas were advised to move to higher ground.

Urs Thomas, operator of the Golden Spruce hotel in Port Clements said there was no warning before everything began moving inside and outside the hotel. He said it lasted about three minutes.

"It was a pretty good shock," Thomas, 59, said. "I looked at my boat outside. It was rocking. Everything was moving. My truck was moving."

After the initial jolt, Thomas began to check the hotel.

"The fixtures and everything were still swinging," he said. "I had some picture frames coming down."

Lenore Lawrence, a resident of Queen Charlotte City on the Haida Gwaii, said the quake was "definitely scary," adding she wondered if "this could be the big one." She said the shaking lasted more than a minute. While several things fell off her mantle and broke, she said damage in her home was minimal.

Many on the B.C. mainland said the same.

"I was sitting at my desk on my computer and everything just started to move. It was maybe 20 seconds," said Joan Girbav, manager of Pacific Inn in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. "It's very scary. I've lived here all my life and I've never felt that."

Residents rushed out of their homes in Tofino, British Columbia on Vancouver Island when the tsunami sirens sounded, but they were allowed to return about two hours after the quake.

In Hawaii, the tsunami warning spurred residents to stock up on essentials at gas stations and grocery stores and sent tourists in beachside hotels to higher floors in their buildings. Bus service into Waikiki was cut off an hour before the first waves, and police in downtown Honolulu shut down a Halloween block party. In Kauai, three schools used as evacuation centers quickly filled to capacity.

Fryer said the largest wave in the first 45 minutes of the tsunami was measured in Maui at more than 5 feet (1.5 meters), about 2 feet (60 centimeters) higher than normal sea levels. No major damage was reported.

In Alaska, the wave or surge was recorded at 4 inches (10 centimeters), much smaller than forecast, said Jeremy Zidek, a spokesman for the Alaska Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. The quake was felt in Craig and other southeast Alaska communities, but Zidek said there were no immediate reports of damage.

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Associated Press writers Oskar Garcia in Honolulu, Hawaii, Mark Thiessen in Anchorage, Alaska, and Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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