Outbreak Specialists Track Down Recent Coronavirus

Health officials are trying to figure out if the virus is moving from person to person

By Helen Branswell

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Maria Zambon was having d?j? vu. Earlier this fall, she found out about a new coronavirus that had come seemingly from nowhere to kill a Saudi man in Jeddah in June and seriously sicken another.? The survivor had been flown from Qatar to a London hospital. His lungs were overwhelmed with infection, his kidneys failing. Virologists at Erasmus Medical Center (EMC), in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, were already working on an isolate from the Saudi man to decode the virus's genetic sequence. They named the virus HCoV-EMC, short for human coronavirus and the institution's initials.

The situation reminded Zambon, director of reference microbiology for Britain's Health Protection Agency, of the SARS outbreak of 2003, which spread from China to as far as Toronto and killed 916 people. Fortunately, the recent coronavirus appears to be emerging more slowly than SARS did (also a coronavirus). To date, only six cases have been reported?four in Saudi Arabia and two in Qatar. Two of the infections have been fatal. The gnawing concern, however, is that the virus will start spreading from person to person, fanning out more broadly to infect people around the globe.

A recently discovered cluster of illnesses in Saudi Arabia has raised concerns that the virus may be able to move from person to person. Four men who lived in the same household in Riyadh became sick with similar symptoms within a short period of time. Two of the men tested positive for the virus. The two others?one of whom died?are currently classified as probable cases. Their infection status may remain ambiguous. With the source of the infection unknown and the incubation period unclear, authorities may never get a definitive answer about whether these family members were all infected from a common source, or whether one of them got sick and infected the others, says Anthony Mounts, the World Health Organization's technical expert for the outbreak.? "It sure raises your concern. But it's not definitive." If the virus spread from person to person in that Riyadh household, it has apparently since sputtered and died out.

Still, the discovery of additional cases, some in a cluster, has prompted WHO to cast a wider net in its search for other cases. The Geneva-based global health agency had initially warned countries to be on the lookout for cases of severe and unexplained respiratory illness in people who had visited or were residents of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Now it is convinced that whatever the source of the virus is, it is probably not unique to those countries. By getting health authorities around the world to look harder for possible cases, it hopes to answer another question that people like Mounts and Zambon have been asking themselves: Is this virus actually new, or has it just newly come into view? If it is the former, then worries about what the virus might do will remain high.? But if it has been infecting people for years but was only spotted because two severe cases brought it to light, then the virus may seem like less of a threat.

"There's always a question of 'Well, actually, has it been around forever and a day and we just missed it because we haven't tested?'" Zambon notes. It is commonly accepted that medical science has not identified all the bugs that make people sick. In fact, before the SARS outbreak, only two viruses in the coronavirus family were known to infect people. In the years after SARS became the third, the human coronaviruses NL63 and HKU1 were added to that list.

Finding the answer means testing more patients with similar symptoms to see if they too are infected with the EMC virus. Some countries?Britain among them?have been testing sick pilgrims returning from this year's Hajj, the world's largest annual pilgrimage that brings roughly three million Muslims to? Mecca every year. So far there have been no reports of additional cases among the returning Hajjis. And as time passes, concerns about the pilgrimage as a disease-amplification opportunity are starting to wane. "The government of Saudi Arabia does quite extensive surveillance during the Hajj and was particularly vigilant during this season. They have reassured us that nothing unusual happened," Mounts says.

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Saving Money with Ex-Government Vehicles

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When looking to buy a new car, there are many options that are available to you. Buying privately or from a used car dealership can offer you a wide selection, but often, you can get a much better deal if you look in the right alternative place. Buying from the government and getting ex-fleet vehicles is a great option for getting a new car that will not cost you a lot for the quality that you get. This article considers why getting an ex-government vehicle is a good option for you.

The Benefits of a Government Vehicle

There are several benefits to buying an ex-government vehicle, and whist the mileage may be high, you will be able to recognise a good deal in the offerings. Here are two simple reasons why an ex-government vehicle may be perfect for you:

1. Low attrition ?Government cars are official vehicles and are thus treated with respect. Buying a government vehicle means that you will know you are buying a car that has been driven responsibly and treated with respect. The interior, exterior and engine will always be very highly maintained on a government vehicle, because the image and reliability are far more important than the cost that is involved with the maintenance.

2. Service history ?Government vehicles will also have an excellent service history that can tell you a lot about the vehicle. For policy and safety reasons, those looking after the government cars keep detailed records about the elements of the car that have been changed. This record of auto repairs and services will greatly benefit you in getting a good deal, because you?ll be able to recognise exactly how long the vehicle is likely to last without its elements being replaced.

Buying an Ex-Government Vehicle

It is obviously not that easy to get your hands on an ex-government vehicle if you do not know where to look. In the right place, however, you will have a choice of numerous cars that will have all of the benefits of an ex-government vehicle. At a government auction, you will be able to get the best out of your investment if you know what to look for. Here are a couple of things to consider:

• Accident history ?Whilst government vehicles will be well maintained, it is very important to consider the accident history when you buy any second-hand vehicle. Checking the accident history will alert you if there has been some serious accidents, and it can also help you to determine if you are getting a good deal for your bid price.

• Setting a value ?At any auction, it is vitally important that you set yourself targets to buy a vehicle of a certain standard for a certain price. You can make wonderful savings at an auction if you choose the right times to bid and to hold back. Buying at a government vehicle auction can offer you great value if you research and invest at the right time.

Quality at Low Cost

Investing in a government vehicle at an auction can offer you quality at low cost. The high mileage of these vehicles is offset by the maintenance history and the care that is taken to preserve the vehicles. For a first car or a reliable second car, a government auction can be the perfect place to shop. Remember to factor in running costs and car insurance when working out your budget.

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Chrome gets Passbook support on iOS, bug fixes on Android

Google's unleashed new versions of Chrome for iOS and Android (both x86 and ARM-specific flavors) that each pack miscellaneous stability updates, but the iDevice-bound release has been graced with a few new features. With the newly-minted build, users will be able to save boarding passes and tickets with Passbook, open PDFs in other apps and have the option to automatically detect text encoding. To get your mitts on the fresh downloads, hit the neighboring source links.

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NBC News' Ayman Mohyeldin on Egypt unrest

Protesters are back in Tahrir Square. They fear the interim military government is trying to retain its grip on power ahead of parliamentary elections planned to begin next week. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.

NBC News's Ayman Mohyeldin discussed the current unrest in Egypt from Cairo on Wednesday with contributors on the ground.

Watch the entire conversation below:

NBC News Mideast Correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin discusses recent clashes between Egyptian activists and police with citizen journalists Yasmin Ellayat and Sherief Gaber.

In an escalation of the tug-of-war between Egypt's president and the powerful judiciary, judges in the country's top courts went on strike Wednesday to protest Mohammed Morsi's seizure of near absolute powers, while Islamists rushed to complete a new constitution, the issue at the heart of the dispute.

The moves came a day after at least 200,000 protesters filled Cairo's central Tahrir Square to denounce the decrees Morsi issued last week, which place him above oversight of any kind, including by the courts.

Threatening to turn the dispute into violent street clashes, Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood and the more radical Islamist Salafi Al-Nour party, called for a counter-demonstration this weekend in Tahrir Square, where Morsi's opponents have been holding a sit-in for over a week.

Morsi says the decrees are necessary to protect the "revolution" that helped drive Hosni Mubarak from office last year as well as the nation's transition to democratic rule. The constitutional declaration also provides the 100-member panel drafting a new constitution with immunity from the courts.

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Egyptian protesters clash with security forces near Tahrir square, in Cairo, Egypt, on Nov. 28. Egyptian state television says the country's highest appeal court has decided to suspend its work nationwide to protest the president's decrees giving himself nearly absolute powers.

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Google Siapkan Chromebook Layar Sentuh

KOMPAS.com - Google dikabarkan akan merilis komputer jinjing Chromebook dengan teknologi layar sentuh sebelum akhir 2012. Bahkan, Google ingin membuat Chromebook di bawah merek dagang sendiri.

Menurut laporan China Times, Google telah memesan 20 juta unit komponen komputer dari produsen Compal asal Taiwan. Jumlah pesanan itu memang tak terlalu besar, tapi itu sebanding dengan penjualan Chromebook yang saat ini belum mendapat sambutan baik di pasaran.

Penjualan Chromebook yang sangat kecil, membuat NPD, lembaga riset yang mengukur penjualan produk elektronik, tidak memasukkan data penjualan Chromebook dalam laporan keuangan triwulannya.

Dengan dukungan teknologi layar sentuh, nampaknya Google akan memodifikasi sistem operasi Chrome yang berjalan pada Chromebook. Sebelumnya, komputer Chromebook diproduksi oleh pabrikan Samsung dan Acer.

Teknologi layar sentuh pada komputer pribadi (PC) akan menjadi tren di masa depan. Microsoft, Intel, dan para produsen komputer telah menunjukan keseriusannya menggarap komputer layar sentuh untuk membangkitkan industri PC yang belakangan menurun, dihadang oleh industri mobile, yaitu smartphone dan tablet.

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An Education in Classlessness | Economics reference cell ...

Economics : Of all the people in the city of New York who should be reluctant to charge someone else with elitism, the city's richest man has to be on the top of the list. But irony has never been one of the mayor's strong suits, so there he was?the other day?with a verbal assault on Bill Perkins for, of all things, having the temerity of being a vocal critic of charters, despite having gone to the "tony" Collegiate School for his own high school education.

Here's the NY Post's (natch) account: "The Post's Dave Seifman forward some pretty choice quotes from Mayor Bloomberg going off on state Sen. Bill Perkins, a major opponent of charter schools, on his weekly WOR radio show this morning. Bloomberg jabs at the pol for attending "elite private schools" and says he's been "violently" against choice for parents."

Now's not the right time to interject a tired pot and kettle analogy, but it does take a certain amount of chutzpah to attack Perkins when the mayor probably hadn't set foot inside a public school-his kids went elsewhere obviously-until he was elected mayor. And the same goes for Chancellor Klein who, along with Bloomberg, brought absolutely zero knowledge of public education to the job?when he was elevated to his supreme commander post. And this from a man who spends all of his weekends in Bermuda!

But what's even more egregious in our view is the mayor's failure to see with any clarity what?the charter phenomenon says about his own educational effort-a point that we have already made before. Here's the Post again: "Bill Perkins is a guy who went to elite private schools, and he represents a district where most people can?t afford elite private schools, and charter schools are their opportunity to get their kids a great education," said Bloomberg. "I think the numbers are something - there?s 10,000 places this year - more places for charter schools, and there?s something like 50 or 60,000 applicants for the 10,000 places."

Now, after eight years of so-called reform-along with reams of flack touting miraculous advance-we have stampedes in poor neighborhoods to flee the public school system as fast as possible. The Post's Seifman continues to spotlight the mayor's views in a follow up story: "Bloomberg argued that charter schools promote competition, which is one reason public schools in the city are improving. "Competition is great for everybody, and it's one of those things we want to encourage, and Perkins has been violently against it, while the educators and the public and the parents want more of [it]," the mayor said."

If the Harlem clamor for choice is any indication, this kind of a competition can best be described in sports language as a blowout-and as an indictment of the failure of the overall?Bloomberg effort. Diane Ravitch's hearing testimony sheds light on the true nature of this far from healthy competition: "Some charters are as idealistic as the original vision, but many others now see themselves as competition for public schools. They want to take over public school space and replace public schools. They revel in stories about beating public schools, not helping them."

But as far as Bloomberg's observation that the charter competition is in some way aiding public school improvement, where's the evidence of that? Which brings us back to the point that we made last week: "So there is obviously a perception of failure at the grass roots level. Whether this is a reality or not-and studies indicate that the charter exploits are exaggerated in the aggregate-doesn't matter. And the clamoring for, "choice," is an indictment of the current system that the media did so much to tout when it was all about mayoral control."

So what's missing from all of this trumped up outrage, is a concomitant genuine outrage at the three card monte game that the Bloombergistas have played-with Rupert and Morticia acting as the audience shills-with a gullible public. It is time to bring in the forensic accountants, and Perkins and his state senate crew should hold follow up hearings on testing fraud, unmerited teacher and administrator bonuses, and a profligate expansion of an educational bureaucracy that has failed to deliver real success even with an 80% increase in its allocation.

But that might not even be necessary if what they think is going to happen next spring actually does-new school tests that expose the naked emperor's false positives. As the NY Post reports: "Criticized for having steadily dumbed down standardized tests -- and trumpeted phantom gains -- the state Education Department says students in grades 3 to 8 taking required math and English exams starting tomorrow won't pass as easily this year. "Students are going to have to know more and do more to demonstrate proficiency on the exams," said John King, senior deputy state education commissioner."

And it will be more difficult to teach to the test: "A rising number of pupils have passed in recent years as cut scores dipped so low that some kids could randomly guess enough right answers to squeak by, experts found. State Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and Education Commissioner David Steiner "are committed to ending the annual debate about whether our state tests have become harder or easier," King told The Post. "Doing that will require us to ensure that our tests become both less predictable and more comprehensive in terms of the number of items they test."

But, once the test fraud is exposed will it finally become clear that, as far as NYC's master of the house is concerned, "there's not much there?" Here's the Post's observation: "The sliding standards weren't revealed when Mayor Bloomberg touted dramatic spikes in state scores as a triumph of his stewardship. But the lid was blown off when federal officials found reading and math scores for New York students had remained flat on a national benchmark exam since 2007, while their scores on the state tests skyrocketed over the same period."

Education Secretary Arne Duncan, cited in Sol Stern's upcoming City Journal article, makes this telling point: ?We have to stop lying to children,? education secretary Arne Duncan said recently at a meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA).?We have to look them in the eye and tell them the truth at every stage of their educational trajectory.?

If Mike Bloomberg really wants to advance the interests of NYC school kids, he can begin by laying off the glass house?ad hominen attacks on Bill Perkins; and he can follow Duncan's advice by starting to?tell the truth-to those with an actual stake in public education-about how all of his extra funding and top down control of the educational bureaucracy has yielded a truly lackluster result. Don't expect this anytime soon, because mea culpas are conspicuously absent in the Bloomberg personality profile.

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Adopting Mobile Cloud Accounting Technology into the Financial ...

find a cloud-based accounting and finance system that allows you to work on the go

How technology has affected the financial department in organisations?
Theres no doubt that new cloud technology has had an incredible impact on todays workplaces, particularly those who work in, or are involved with the financial aspects of an organisation. Over the last few decades, new and different technology has been injected into the workplace at an ever increasing rate. One of these is the use of the mobile device.

Smart phones, netbooks, iPads and other such tablets detach us from our desks and give us the freedom to roam with our work. Imagine using a cloud-based accounting and finance system. This would allow you to review budgets or produce financial reports from the garden, a taxi, or even on holiday. Having access to your financial data and information, whenever is suitable for you and wherever you are, cant be a bad thing for business.

Managing the accounting and finance function on the go
Most businesses have adopted mobile technology in some way or another, as its hard to ignore the lure of the high mobility and other strengths that come with cloud computing, particularly for accounting and finance professions. Smart phones started this revolution, and they are now an important device for the hard working professional. But now, the tablet device has enhanced our mobile experience even more. Theres more mobility offered than we get with laptops, and the screen is bigger than you get with smart phones, making it all the more easier to view and analyse your financial budgets, reports, expenditure, etc

Tablets enhance user experience
How many times have you been in a finance or board meeting and someone has requested some information that you can only provide once youre back at your desk? Well, with a tablet or any mobile device its right at your fingertips. It can be discussed straightaway, a decision taken and communicated to the business without you leaving your meeting.

With easy access to email, calendar and contacts built in to most devices, the most simple business functions are now easy to get up and running in a few easy steps. Add on many of the freely available apps and you have a fully functioning business tool.

Where next?
All mobile devices are tools that should ultimately enable, not disable business. So if you find a cloud-based accounting and finance system that allows you to work on the go, and allow other people access to the information they need without needing your help, then the way organisations are run can change for the better.

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Bread wheat's large and complex genome is revealed

ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2012) ? Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is one of the "big three" globally important crops, accounting for 20% of the calories consumed by people. Fully 35% of the world's 7 billion people depend on this staple crop for survival. Now an international team of scientists, including a group from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), has completed the first comprehensive analysis of its full genome.

The study reveals the evolution of bread wheat from ancestral strains through to its current domesticated form. Due to the complexity of the plant's genome the analysis proved a technically challenging. But the potential payoff is large: developing new strategies for breeding and improving wheat crops.

A complex technical challenge

To put the huge size of the bread wheat genome into context, its constituent number of paired DNA bases, or nucleotides, totals 17,000,000,000 base-pairs (17 Gb). This is about five times the amount of DNA in the human genome. However, as much as 80% of the bread wheat genome consists of repetitive sequences. Because of the way genomes are usually sequenced -- by stitching together hundreds of millions or billions of tiny fractions of a full genome -- the bread wheat genome's size makes it very hard to determine which part of the genome any particular sequence readout has come from, and whether it is a unique or repeat sequence.

The bread wheat genome is classified as a hexaploid genome. This means that it has six copies of each of its seven chromosomes; the complete set numbering 42 chromosomes. In contrast, the human genome is diploid, with 23 pairs of chromosomes and a total of 46 chromosomes.

The CSHL lab of Professor W. Richard McCombie, Ph.D., was part of an highly collaborative international effort, involving several institutions in the United States and Great Britain as well as one in Germany, tasked with overcoming the technical challenge that sequencing this large, complex genome presented.

To meet the challenge they used "next-generation" sequencing techniques, in which the DNA is broken up randomly into numerous small segments and assembled into longer sequence reads by identifying the overlapping ends. The sequence "reads" generated for bread wheat were then compared to those from the known sequences of a diverse range of grasses, including rice and barley.

"We wanted to know whether we could use next-gen' sequencing on large complex genomes in what was almost a worst-case scenario for challenging the technology," said McCombie about his approach, "and we wanted to do it using an agriculturally important crop."

Sequencing the diploid ancestors of wheat, some of which was done in the McCombie lab, enabled the team to computationally dissect out which sequences were gene copies and which were repeats. This data was then used to further the understanding of the hexaploid ancestral genome and the temporal relationship between it and the diploid ancestor.

Ancient origins, evolution, and the future of bread wheat agriculture

Originally formed during the spread of agriculture among settled societies, bread wheat came about from the hybridization between cultivated wheat (T. dicoccoides) and goat grass (Aegilops tauschii) about 8,000 years ago. One aim of the sequencing project was to learn from the genome's current features how bread wheat has evolved since its domestication.

In this effort the investigators identified 94,000 to 96,000 genes. They also noted an abundance of gene fragments -- ancestral genes that had been chopped up during the cross-breeding process used by farmers over the centuries.

In addition they were able to assemble a catalog of 132,000 SNPs (single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or "snips") -- positions along the full genome where a single unit, or "letter," of DNA varied from the sequence of closely related plants.

This, and related research, reveals that the bread wheat genome has undergone rapid and significant changes, including loss of gene family members during the time it was being domesticated. This is when bread wheat moved from having two sets of chromosomes to multiples of that number -- ultimately, the 6 sets seen today. This chromosomal multiplication is deemed desirable, as selecting for them is a way to overcome the sterility that occurs when breeding hybrid crops.

The investigators also found many expanded gene families within the bread wheat genome. The majority of these are associated with crop productivity and include ones involved in defense, nutritional content, energy harvesting, metabolism, and growth.

Current breeding practices and knowledge have been exploited to the point that yield increases have slowed. The sequencing and analysis in this study provides a framework with which this crop can now be improved.

"While we and our collaborators continue to work to enhance the resolution of our knowledge of the wheat genome, these results should have an significant impact on breeding efforts and further research studies of the wheat genomes and its those of its wild relatives," said McCombie, summing up the project's technical and biological impact.

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Great invasions in sports-entertainment history

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Finding a Crowdsourced Cure For Brain Cancer

This is incredibly misguided, and that is the most charitable way of putting it.

There is no way in hell you're going to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff with such a volume of random input

Oh really? So from your own point of view, there is no way in hell such a thing as Slashdot can work, all those random comments from idiots who can't even RTFA! Not mentioning such a ludicrous idea as an open encyclopedia where every other ignorant can edit an article.

Yes, a lot of suggestions are going to come from homeopathy and spiritual healers. And you know, then, maybe these people will learn more in the process than if they were being outlawed and chased by lawyers.

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Health and Fitness through Drug Therapy Centers North Carolina

North Carolina, just like quite a few other states while in the US has seen an exponential increase in cases of drug trafficking inside the last decade. This is a significant concern for quite a few drug addiction remedy centers within the Carolina state. The continuous influx of migrants into this region, the big rural region, mountainous terrain, an worldwide airport and the ever raising amount of interlinking highways are just but a representation of some of the components that have contributed to the scenarios of drug trafficking right here. The many most illicit and addictive drugs could be gotten here. North Carolina drug remedy clinics have also witnessed an upsurge within the amount of people seeking counseling and physiotherapy help pertaining to drug abuse. The state has in the past enacted several laws to handle this menace nonetheless it appears elements are usually not just working out. Let us search at some of the normally used addictive drugs here;

Cocaine

Not merely is cocaine commonly used here in North Carolina but the state also acts as a shipment links to several other destinations including Pennsylvania and Virginia. This drug is again smuggled using many avenues with vans, automobiles and campers becoming the most prevalent. The postal corporation here has also been brought towards the light as obtaining facilitated numerous instances of drug trafficking and smuggling. Cocaine is generally sold in crack type that is easy to smoke. Street gangs command the business. Some of the effects which have been reported as a result of the use of this drug incorporate violence, thefts, crimes as well as an increase in the range of street gangs.

Heroine

While the use of heroine is cutting down in the past few years according to most drug treatment centers North Carolina companies, its prevalence can't just be overlooked in any respect. The use of heroine has in truth been noticed while in the inner cities. Even with the increase in purity, decrease rates and availability, the use of heroine has been escalating steadily here in North Carolina. Private and commercial automobiles are the most typically used carriers for this product. Once more, cocaine trafficking is also managed by unique street gangs.

Methamphetamine

As outlined by drug use statistics during the US, the use of this drug in North Carolina is to the rise in different components of the state. Smuggling of this drug is mostly overseen by cartels. The major sources of the drug in the US include things like Chicago, Texas, Colorado, California, and Florida. Despite the fact that several legislations have been passed to curb the rising use of this drug, really tiny good results continues to be recognized.

Club medication

While in the final couple of years, the use of Club drugs is to the increase right here in North Carolina. Some of the drugs which might be commonly trafficked through rave parties and evening outs involve MDMA, LSD, PCP and Ketamine. Some colleges and Universities have also reported some moderate provide of this drug. These drugs are again being brought into North Carolina through the use of Postal providers.

So that you can curb the use of these medication and offer counseling support to drug consumers, many teams happen to be setup to cater for drug therapy in North Carolina. Lack of enough legal enforcement approaches has however impaired the achievement of any successes this far.

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CDC: HIV spread high in young gay males

NEW YORK (AP) ? Health officials say 1 in 5 new HIV infections occur in a tiny segment of the population ? young men who are gay or bisexual.

The government on Tuesday released new numbers that spotlight how the spread of the AIDS virus is heavily concentrated in young males who have sex with other males. Only about a quarter of new infections in the 13-to-24 age group are from injecting drugs or heterosexual sex.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said blacks represented more than half of new infections in youths. The estimates are based on 2010 figures.

Overall, new U.S. HIV infections have held steady at around 50,000 annually. About 12,000 are in teens and young adults, and most youth with HIV haven't been tested.

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CDC report: http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns

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Appealing Apps for Educators: How SonicPics amplifies a student?s voice

Since 1999, Carolyn Skibba has served as the technology coordinator at Burley School, a public elementary school in Chicago?s Lakeview community. At Burley, she has taught technology classes for grades K-8, developed technology curricula and integration strategies, led professional development for the school and district, and implemented a 1:1 laptop program. She currently supports the school?s iPad initiative in grades 1-6 and presents frequently on iPad curricular integration and program implementation. Before joining Burley, she was a third grade teacher, an Upward Bound instructor, and received her master?s degree in Technology in Education from Harvard University. She is an Apple Distinguished Educator and a recipient of the 2012 Chicago Public Schools ?Ones to Watch? award. Learn more about Carolyn and Burley?s iPad program at?ipadsatburley.blogspot.com, or by following Carolyn on Twitter, @skibtech.

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Educators often describe the iPad as transformative ? a claim I believe to be true. But in order to realize that claim, we need to look for ways to use apps to make new and powerful things possible in the classroom. Now in our third year of an elementary school iPad implementation, my colleagues and I have found that the best apps are those that are versatile, creative, easy to use, and promote sharing. It is those apps that have the capacity to transform instruction and assessment and meaningfully amplify the student voice.

SonicPics is a perfect example of such an app, and it?s one that should be in every elementary iPad classroom. The power of SonicPics is in its simplicity: essentially, it is an app where you can narrate a collection of photos. However, within that simple concept lie multiple transformative strategies for student content creation, assessment of student learning, and differentiation. SonicPics is one of those apps that just works, and once you use it with your students, it will become an app that you turn to again and again.

What it does

SonicPics enables users to generate simple narrated slideshows of photos, screenshots, or other images. In SonicPics, you select photos from your camera roll and then flip through them in sequence while explaining, describing, or otherwise narrating. That?s it. The finished product is a video file. Because the transitions are generated through an intuitive swiping motion, there is no tricky timing to manage for students, and no additional effort is required to synchronize the voice with the images. When a student is ready to talk about the next image, he or she flips to it. This is a process that can be managed independently by students in Kindergarten or even younger. What SonicPics does is beautifully simple and effective, and it unlocks a world of possibilities in the elementary classroom.

Classroom use

SonicPics is one of our go-to apps any time we need to hear from our students about their thinking and learning. This has been especially transformative in three key areas: 1) creating and sharing student work, 2) assessing student skill, knowledge, and understanding, and 3) differentiation.

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1) Creating and sharing student work

SonicPics is one of the simplest multimedia creation tools available, which makes it infinitely usable for content creation by students of all ages and abilities. Students are able to talk and swipe as they move through a set of photographs, drawings, screenshots of text, original artwork, maps, or graphs ? any of the infinite collection of visuals that can appear on the iPad screen or be captured with the camera. The completed video file can easily be exported and shared, giving students a creative and authentic way to publish their thinking for others.

Here are just a small sample of the many ways in which students can use SonicPics to share their knowledge and ideas. As you read these examples, add the words ?to teach others? or ?for a global audience? to each one, and you will begin to sense how this app could make a real difference in the type of work students can create.

• Create book reviews or book trailers using a combination of photos of the book itself and student drawings of characters, settings or scenes
• Create ?wonder videos? with drawings and verbal questioning about topics of curiosity inspired by non-fiction reading
• Publish audiobooks of original student writing with illustrations
• Record and share student poetry, with original student artwork and recitation
• Create illustrated audio-visual vocabulary guides
• Draw and record math challenges for other classmates to solve
• Use images and narration to explain and describe mathematical concepts
• Create mini-documentaries about science or social studies topics
• Create how-to videos or multimedia ?expert books? to share student knowledge
• Generate narrated photo-essays about community issues to share as public service announcements
• Design narrated virtual tours of locations around the community or the world
• Create a classroom news podcast to document and share learning from the day or week

2) Assessing student skill, knowledge, and understanding

Traditional assessments tend to be product-based and can?t fully capture the thinking, wondering, discovery, and analysis that goes on within a student?s mind. When you can hear a student talk about his or her learning, you gain a much richer picture of individual progress, knowledge, and instructional needs. While one on one conversations and conferences are a critical practice, it?s not possible to speak to each student individually about each learning experience. With SonicPics, each student can record his or her thinking process and share it with the teacher, creating an invaluable record of student thinking and reflection over time and documenting student growth in a meaningful way.

Here are some examples of assessment practices with SonicPics:

• Capture beginning, middle, and end photos from a picture book and retell the story
• Capture fluency snapshots of self-selected text, where students photograph a passage and then record their reading in SonicPics
• Flip through images of new vocabulary, explaining and utilizing words correctly
• Take photos of other work or projects, explaining and describing choices made during the creation process
• Draw and speak about visualizing, connections, or questioning during reading
• Draw and speak about new facts and information obtained during a non-fiction read-aloud, independent reading, or research
• Select comparable or contrasting images and narrate an explanation
• Sequence and narrate photos from a book, an historical time period, a scientific process, etc.
• Narrate photos of a science experiment to retell the process and highlight key questions or discoveries
• Take photos of a mathematical problem solving process and narrate each step, thereby revealing strategies used and any misconceptions held
• Analyze and explain relationships between images connected to themes in science and social studies

3) Differentiation

Not all students express themselves best in writing. While this is most obvious in the early childhood or special education classroom, we know that students of all ages benefit from varied, multimodal opportunities to express their knowledge and ideas. Because of the built-in camera, anything that can be seen, created, or experienced can be saved as images. Once you pull up those images in SonicPics, whatever a student can express, explain, or ask about those images can be saved and shared. This is a transformative opportunity for any teacher who wants their students to have choice and variety in how they express themselves ? or for any teacher who wants peek ?under the hood? and really understand the complexity of student thought.

Tech tips

SonicPics provides you with various options for collecting and sharing finished student videos. There is direct upload to YouTube, which may be an option for some teachers. A more controlled option is Send to Computer, in which SonicPics displays an IP address (a sequence of numbers) that you can type into the address bar of any browser, essentially giving you a direct, temporary wifi link between the iPad and a computer for quick access to SonicPics videos. SonicPics will also allow you to email videos, but that option is best for short projects. Finally, Save to Library will put the finished video into the iPad Photo Library for additional editing or embellishment in iMovie, use in other apps, or upload to other sharing sites.

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Afghan students denounce Israel over Gaza fighting

Afghan students of Nangarhar University chant slogans during a protest against Israel's recent offensive in Gaza, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan students of Nangarhar University chant slogans during a protest against Israel's recent offensive in Gaza, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan students of Nangarhar University chant slogans against Israel's recent offensive in Gaza, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan students of Nangarhar University chant slogans against Israel's recent offensive in Gaza, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan students of Nangarhar University burn a Christian cross and the flags of the U.S. and Israel, during a protest against Israel's recent offensive in Gaza, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan students of Nangarhar University chant slogans against Israel's recent offensive in Gaza, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? Several thousand university students demonstrated in eastern Afghanistan on Monday to denounce Israel's recent offensive in the Gaza Strip, burning Israeli and U.S. flags as well as a Christian cross.

The students ? some shouting "Death to Israel!" and "Death to America!" ? marched outside their university in Jalalabad, close to the border with Pakistan, and blocked a highway leading into the city center.

A truce was struck last week between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers, bringing an end to an eight-day Israeli offensive against militants who had fired rockets into Israel from the Palestinian territory. The agreement is fragile, but so far the truce has stopped fighting in the Gaza Strip.

At the demonstration, which was peaceful, Nangarhar University student Abdul Gayr said participants also denounced Pakistan for its recent artillery shelling into Afghanistan. They also opposed a death sentence given to an Afghan National Army solider who was convicted earlier this year of killing five French soldiers.

The protesters, Gayr said, think capital punishment is unfair in the case so long as international forces are not punished when their military operations result in the death of Afghan civilians.

Separately, a bomb strapped to a bicycle exploded Monday, wounding 26 civilians in Khost, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) south of the capital, Kabul.

Provincial spokesman Baryalai Wakman said the morning blast occurred in a marketplace full of shoppers. Five people were seriously injured, according to hospital officials.

In southern Afghanistan, NATO said a service member with the international military coalition was killed in a roadside bombing on Monday. No other details were released.

So far this year, 381 U.S. and other international troops have died in Afghanistan.

Associated Press

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Homo (Sans) Sapiens: Is Dumb and Dumber Our Evolutionary Destiny?

James R. Flynn?s observation that IQ scores experienced dramatic gains from generation to generation throughout the 20th century has been cited so often, even in popular media, that it is becoming a cocktail party talking point. Next stop a New Yorker cartoon. (An article about Flynn and the Flynn effect has already been published in The New Yorker.)

A recent report in Trends in Genetics (part 1 and part 2) takes a bleaker view of our cognitive future?one that foresees the trend line proceeding inexorably downward. Gerald Crabtree, a biologist at Stanford University, has put forward a provocative hypothesis that our cushy modern existence?absent the ceaseless pressures of natural selection experienced during the Paleolithic?makes us susceptible to the slow creep of random genetic mutations in the the 2000 to 3000 genes needed to ensure that our intellectual and emotional makeup remains intact. The implications of this argument are that we as a species of the genus Homo are over many generations slowly losing our sapiens.

The press justifiably had a field day with this one:

Why did Petraeus do it? Maybe humans are evolving to be dumber.

We?re getting, like, dumber

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The really clever part of Crabtree?s argument rests on the contention that a Stone Age Fred Flintstone may have been more of a dynamo in some ways than a 20th century Albert Einstein?our pre-historic forebears performed? the evolutionary heavy lifting that led to the swollen heads that we still avail ourselves of, at least until the inevitable decline predicted by Crabtree sets in.

Expansion of the human frontal cortex and endocranial volume, to which we likely owe our capacity for abstract thought, predominately occurred between 50 000 and 500,000 years ago in our prehistoric African ancestors, well before written language and before we had the modern voice-box to produce sophisticated verbal language, but after the first tools. Thus, the selective pressures that gave us our mental characteristics operated among nonverbal hunter-gatherers living in dispersed bands or villages, nothing like our present-day high-density, supportive societies.

In line with Crabtree?s take, the transition to survival through wiles?in place of speed and physical strength?required adaptations that appeared to rival or outpace the most lofty contemporary intellectual achievements like writing a symphony or cogitating on higher math. One small error in gauging the aerodynamics and gyroscopic stabilization of a spear and one of our would-be ancestors became a canape for a saber-tooth tiger.

Many kinds of modern refined intellectual activity (by which our children are judged) may not necessarily require more innovation, synthesis, or creativity than more ancient forms: inventing the bow-and-arrow, which seems to have occurred only once about 40,000 years ago, was probably as complex an intellectual task as inventing language. Selection could easily have operated on common (but computationally complex) tasks such as building a shelter, and then computationally simple tasks, such as playing chess, became possible as a collateral effect.

Flintstone vs. Einstein smarts are contrasted most starkly by looking at the case of artificial intelligence. AI has achieved major strides in emulating certain aspects of intellect: playing chess or Jeopardy and finding patterns in large collections of data, a field dubbed ?deep learning.? But the remaining and still immense challenges AI confronts lie elsewhere, as Crabtree, points out:

AI promised household robots that would wash dishes, mow the lawn, and bring us freshly cooked croissants and coffee in the morning. Needless to say we do not have these robots now and none of the readers of this piece will probably ever see them, despite the immense financial impetus to build them.

The things at which AI excels?playing chess, Jeopardy or keeping an airplane on course?are, in fact, a cognitive piece of cake compared to washing dishes and putting them away in the right place. I remember roboticist Rodney Brooks demonstrating this during a talk at MIT in which he simply put his hand in his pocket and pulled out some change, an extraordinarily tough task for the current generation of R2-D2s.

Without the rigors of strong selection in our extended urban conglomerates?no more necessity of getting it right the first time on that spear throw?the slow but relentless decline of those 2,000 to 5,000 cognition-related genes has already begun?as this argument goes. Crabtree begins the first part of? his essay by asserting that the average citizen from Athens circa 1,000 B.C.?or anyone from Africa, India, Asia or the Americas millenia back?would be among the ?brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions, with a good memory, a broad range of ideas, and a clear-sighted view of important issues??personal qualities supplemented by an astonishing emotional aplomb. This hyper-fit type would have prevailed even before the rise of civilization:

A hunter?gatherer who did not correctly conceive a solution to providing food or shelter probably died, along with his/her progeny, whereas a modern Wall Street executive that made a similar conceptual mistake would receive a substantial bonus and be a more attractive mate. Clearly, extreme selection is a thing of the past.

Maybe this explains our fascination with post-apocalyptic Mad Max-style fantasies?? But where?s the proof for Crabtree?s musings and what about contradictory evidence?? Crabtree proposes a test of his hypothesis and he also dismisses the Flynn effect that suggests that we have been getting progressively smarter generation after generation. Better IQ scores, Crabtree posits, are not a result of natural selection, but rather may have resulted from getting rid of lead and other heavy metals from gasoline and paint, from elimination of hypothyroidism by putting iodine in salt and from learning how to take tests better. Notwithstanding the Flynn effect, our slow genetic decline continues apace.

And what does the author of the Flynn effect? think about the Crabtree effect?

Crabtree suggests?that our genetic IQ is in?decline and proposes a direct genetic test of his hypothesis. We should await the results without ?sharing his pessimism. ? As he says, the environment that pressures us to perform intellectually is competition with other people, which could be argued to be at its maximum today. He ?fears? it is not enough and that is not a solid foundation foundation for his speculations. ?A much more direct test of trends is reproductive patterns. ?Only recently have the better educated been out-reproduced by the less educated. ?One can imagine events that would reverse this, so it is premature to panic.

Meanwhile, noted British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar questions the premises of any postulated slow slide toward imbecility:

Crabtree?s argument is built on the assumption that the selection pressure for big brains (aka IQ) was solving instrumental problems (how to survive in the world by building better weapons, better tools, etc). In fact, the selection for larger brains across all mammals and birds (and specifically primates) is the complexities of the social world, and this remains at least as complex as it ever was ? in fact, the social world may have even become more complex than it ever was due to a combination of higher population density and urbanization. The ability to build clever tools or novel hunting techniques appears to be a by-product of the [neural] software needed to handle a complex world (they both use the same logic and cognitive processes). So we haven?t in fact lost the selection process that kept the pressure on.

The question, as often happens in evolutionary biology, is how to distinguish assertions like Crabtree?s from a Rudyard Kipling ?just so? story. Crabtree has thought of a test that would sequence whole genomes of carefully selected individuals?ones whose genes could be traced back through an involved analysis to ancestors who lived at different times during the past 5,000 years when the transition from hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture was taking place. The test would look for an increase in mutations for those individuals with genes linked to ancestors who lived more recently along the 5000-year continuum, a confirmation of the gradual decline in intellectual ability.

Finding these people might require more than posting notices on Twitter and Facebook and Crabtree?s? proposal is probably not going to get pegged high on the NIH?s funding priorities for the 2014 federal fiscal year. But the Stanford professor still does not despair. He ends this entropic projection of our evolutionary future on an optimistic and self-deprecatory note. Science, he says, may yet find a way to counteract this trend. ?One does not need to imagine a day when we could no longer comprehend the problem, or counteract the slow decay in the genes underlying our intellectual fitness, or have visions of the world population docilely watching reruns on televisions they can no longer build.?

We may still have a few hundred years before we lose the modifier denoting ?intelligent? in Homo sapiens and science may yet find a way to save us ?by socially and morally acceptable means. In the meantime [Crabtree volunteers], I?m going to have another beer and watch my favorite rerun of Miami CSI (if I can figure out how to work the remote control).?

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By Molly Cartwright, Realtor, Cooper Jacobs Real Estate, Molly@CooperJacobs.com, 206-841-6800, on November 25th, 2012

Green Lake Pathway of Lights Returns this Saturday, December 8 2012
Green Lake Community Center and Seattle Parks and Rec are continuing the tradition!? Join our Green Lake community this Saturday December 8th from 5:00 to 8:00pm for the Green Lake Pathway of Lights.? Rain or shine this event won?t disappoint!? Admission is free and you?re encouraged to bring a luminaria or candle.? Local musicians will perform at four sites around the lake:

• The Green Lake Community Center on the east side
• The Green Lake Small Craft Center (the Aqua Theater) on the south side
• The Bathhouse Theater (Seattle Public Theatre) on the north side
• The Arch on the east of side of the community center/pool.

Warm drinks and treats will be available at those locations, as will donation bins for nonperishable food items for Northwest Harvest.

* Musicians and volunteers wanted *

?Representing home buyers and sellers in Seattle?s most popular neighborhoods?

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Help Wanted Keefe Real Estate Resort Rentals

Keefe Resort Rentals, the leading vacation rentals company in Southeastern Wisconsin, is seeking a reservations/sales/marketing assistant. The position is full-time and offers benefits.? Keefe Resort Rentals is located in our corporate business center in Lake Geneva, WI.

The ideal candidate will have the following qualities:

• Effective communicator
• Comfortable with CRM programs & computers in general
• Organized & Driven
• Familiarity with the Southeastern Wisconsin Lakes Area

Our vacation home accommodations are located throughout the Geneva Lake Wisconsin area including lake homes on Lake Geneva, Lake Beulah, Delavan Lake, Lauderdale Lakes, Powers Lake and Whitewater Lake. Resort communities include vacation home rentals in Geneva National, Abbey Springs, Delavan Lake Resort, and others.

If you know someone that would be a perfect fit for this position at Keefe Real Estate, please feel free to email or share on Facebook and Twitter!

Just one of many great vacation rental properties we manage throughout Southeastern Wisconsin.

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Outrage in Michigan ? Monroe County set to kill pet dogs for ...

Ernest Dempsey ? Killing Ace wasn?t the end of it; Michigan is doing it again as Monroe County is all set to put to death an entire family of boxer dogs because one of them bit a girl who allegedly trespassed the owner?s property while he was away. While the one, a female dog named Brooklyn, did bite the teenage girl, the other three living as part of the family have been arrested and kept imprisoned for 7 months under the label ?dangerous? without any reason and are now close to be killed by the animal control.

The story of the four boxers has been posted on the dogs? Facebook page and owner Timothy Iocoangeli, 48, has been struggling all around to save his dogs from open victimization at the hands of animal control and the courts ? all of whom have refused to give the dogs a chance at fair trial in light of evidence and then decide about them.

As he describes in the facebook post, when Timothy Iocoangeli was way on April 24 this year, Brooklyn bit a teenage girl accompanied by a another teenager, both friends of Iocoangeli?s son; according to Iocoangeli, one of these visitors opened the gate to the house while visiting his son but without caring for the presence of dogs in the house. The girl was bitten bad by Brooklyn because, as Iocoangeli explains this female dog had five of her 2-month-old puppies in her care at the house.

The animal control responded by seizing all dogs without bothering which or any of them were dangerous, including the puppy. To facilitate this injustice, media at once called the incident as attack by a? pack of vicious dogs? even though no assessment was done by anyone of the dogs. Interestingly, the channel reporter tells that the girl was reportedly ?inside the house? when she was attacked. Why would a teenage girl go inside the house without being accompanied by the owner or his son? Nobody has been bothered with this question while it remains at the core of the entire case.

In declaring Iocoangeli?s boxers dangerous, the animal control and judges at the hearings entirely ignored the city?s own law which states that a dog cannot be considered dangerous if it attacks in protecting its property against strangers. In other words, biting a trespasser does not prove a dog dangerous. And even if one dog is prove dangerous ? which will surely be not easy to prove objectively because of the defense reason ? why do other dogs have to be killed in absence of any evidence of any biting or mauling?

As the owner tells, an officer at the animal control offered her release of the dogs if he could pay $3000 within a week. But when he excused for not being able to afford it, the dogs were kept in the pound and the owner or his family was not allowed to visit them. Imprisoned for no crime, kept isolated from family, these dogs have been so recklessly victimized by the city that the ideal of justice has been strangled well before putting the dogs down. And if that was not enough, Timothy Iocoangeli was given a choice by the prosecution to either give up on all dogs or else go to jail. Iocoangeli says he turned himself in instead of letting his dogs be euthanized by his agreement. While he was released on bail, he still faces jail time for up to 4 years on charges of keeping ?dangerous animals? in the house while his dogs can be put to death any time by the animal control.

One act of carelessness by visiting teenagers has literally destroyed the happy life of a man who even washed cars to raise money for saving his beloved family pets. Monroe County animal control and city authorities chose to victimize innocent animals and a man who refused to accept their twisting of their own rules for a show of efficiency and mock justice. Can such an outrage be acceptable in country which is leading the world in matters of rights and justice? Is it not an open act of judicial murder? Allowing such abuse of authority can no doubt lead to future victimization of civilians in the name of management and control.

To raise a voice against the euthanasia possibly planned for some time the coming week, contact the Monroe County Animal Control at their website or 911 S Raisinville Rd, Monroe, MI 48161 (phone 734-240-3125). To contact the mayor?s office, call?Mayor?s office at 734-384-9144 (http://www.ci.monroe.mi.us/mayor_1.cfm).

Source: http://greenheritagenews.com/outrage-in-michigan-monroe-county-set-to-kill-pet-dogs-for-protecting-owners-house/

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NEW2AN 2013 : The 13th International Conference on Next - WikiCFP

CALL FOR PAPERS

About the Conference

Next-generation mobile networks will evolve out of existing wired and wireless networks of different nature by means of convergence, fusion and mutual penetration; next-generation multimedia services in turn pose new requirements and challenges on treatment of traffic within communication systems ? a certain degree of multilayer co-operation has to be achieved. This forms a framework on harmonization of results obtained separately in different areas of network research like network performance evaluation, architecture and protocol design, and low layer network design. The conference goal is in the identification, investigation and integration of new algorithms, approaches, architectures, methods and mechanisms to enable proper and efficient operation of a next-generation IP-based wireless network. Therefore, wireless networks and their interaction with wired networks shall be widely examined and addressed throughout the conference.

The history of NEW2AN dates back to 1993, today it is an established conference featured by proceedings published by Springer LNCS (confirmed) and distinguished keynote speakers.

The NEW2AN 2013 will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia - the meeting point of East and West. Through its stunning architecture and wonderful art galleries and museums, among a number of other attractions, the wealth of history of East and West can be seen and felt in this beautiful city.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

o Femtocells
o End-to-end Quality of Service Support
o Traffic Characterization and Modeling
o New Teletraffic and Network Traffic Challenges and Paradigms
o Performance Evaluation
o Resource Management and Admission Control
o Cross-layer Interactions
o P2P and P2P Overlays
o Delay Tolerant networking
o Routing and Addressing
o Overlay Networks
o Home Networks
o Transport Protocols
o Network Planning
o Network Economics and Game Theoretic Modeling
o Network Security in Wired and Wireless
o Network Management Applications
o Services and Applications
o Mobile Service Level Agreements and Specification
o Mesh and Ad-hoc Networks
o MANETs and VANETs
o Wireless Multimedia
o Wireless Sensor Networks
o Handover Techniques
o Broadcast and Satellite Communications
o Trust and Reputation
o SPAM and SPIT Prevention
o Convergence of Broadcast and Communications Technologies
o Solutions for Consumer Communications
o Digital TV and Radio Broadcasting

Paper submission

The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking and data communications. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Papers must be submitted electronically in the conference site. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures. Please adhere to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. Selected best papers will appear in a journal special issue.

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Clashes in Cairo after Egypt's president seizes new powers

CAIRO (Reuters) - Angry youths hurled rocks at security forces and burned a police truck as thousands gathered in central Cairo to protest at Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi's decision to grab sweeping new powers.

Police fired tear gas near Tahrir Square, heart of the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak at the height of the Arab Spring. Thousands demanded that Mursi should quit and accused him of launching a "coup".

There were also violent protests in Alexandria, Port Said and Suez.

Mursi on Thursday issued a decree that puts his decisions beyond any legal challenge until a new parliament is elected. Opponents immediately accused him of turning into a new Mubarak and hijacking the Egyptian revolution.

"This is the point of no return for Mursi. He has dug himself deeper in a hole and won't know how to get out of it," said Ahmed Saleh, an activist who said many would stay in Tahrir square until Mursi withdrew the decree.

"The people want to bring down the regime," shouted protesters in Tahrir, echoing a chant used in the uprising that forced Mubarak to step down.

The United States, the European Union and the United Nations expressed concern at Mursi's move.

Mursi's rivals condemned him as an autocratic pharaoh who wanted to impose his Islamist vision on Egypt.

The president's aides said the decree was intended to speed up a protracted transition to democracy that has been hindered by legal obstacles

"I am for all Egyptians," Mursi said on a stage outside the presidential palace, adding that he was working for social and economic stability and remained committed to the revolution.

JUDGES MEET

Egyptian judges will meet on Saturday to respond to Mursi's move, which put him above the judicial oversight. The judges could threaten to go on strike, which would bring the judiciary to a halt.

Some non-Islamist political parties called for a million-strong march on Tuesday to demand that Mursi rescinds his decree.

But Islamist parties, including the Building and Development Party, accused Mursi's opponents of undermining the democratic process that brought him to office.

"Those calling for the downfall of President Mohamed Mursi have rejected democracy because President Mursi has been democratically elected by popular will," the party said in a statement. Mursi's decree would "save the revolution from the remnants of Mubarak's regime", it said.

Buoyed by accolades from around the world for mediating a truce between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip, Mursi on Thursday ordered that an Islamist-dominated assembly writing the new constitution could not be dissolved by legal challenges.

Mursi, an Islamist whose roots are in the Muslim Brotherhood, also gave himself wide powers that allowed him to sack the unpopular public prosecutor and opened the door for a retrial for Mubarak and his aides.

TURBULENCE AND TURMOIL

The president's decree has consolidated his power but looks set to polarize Egypt further, threatening more turmoil in a nation at the heart of the Arab Spring.

In Alexandria, north of Cairo, protesters ransacked an office of the Brotherhood's political party, burning books and chairs in the street. Supporters of Mursi and opponents clashed elsewhere in the city, leaving 12 injured.

A party building was attacked by stone-throwing protesters in Port Said, and demonstrators in Suez threw petrol bombs that burned banners outside the party building.

Although Washington has praised Egypt for its part in bringing Israelis and Palestinians to a ceasefire on Wednesday, it expressed reservations about Mursi's latest move.

"The decisions and declarations announced on November 22 raise concerns for many Egyptians and for the international community," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement.

The European Union urged Mursi to respect the democratic process, while the United Nations expressed fears about human rights.

"The decree is basically a coup on state institutions and the rule of law that is likely to undermine the revolution and the transition to democracy," said Mervat Ahmed, an independent activist in Tahrir protesting against the decree.

Leading liberal Mohamed ElBaradei, who joined other politicians on Thursday night to demand the decree was withdrawn, wrote on his Twitter account that Mursi had "usurped all state powers and appointed himself Egypt's new pharaoh".

Almost two years after Mubarak was toppled and about five months since Mursi took office, Egypt has no permanent constitution, which must be in place before new parliamentary elections are held.

An assembly drawing up the constitution has yet to complete its work. Many liberals, Christians and others have walked out accusing the Islamists who dominate it of ignoring their voices over the extent that Islam should be enshrined in the new state.

(Additional reporting by Tom Miles in Geneva and Sebastian Moffett in Brussels; Editing by Giles Elgood)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/clashes-cairo-mursi-seizes-powers-053441160.html

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