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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:

ABC's "This Week" ? 2012 GOP presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul; Gov. Terry Branstad, R-Iowa.

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NBC's "Meet the Press" ? 2012 GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum; Matt Strawn, Iowa GOP chairman.

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CBS' "Face the Nation" ? Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

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CNN's "State of the Union" ? Ron Paul; Branstad; Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.

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"Fox News Sunday" ? 2012 GOP presidential candidates Rick Perry, Ron Paul and Bachmann.

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Will There Be a Shortage of Small Business Tech Workers in 2012?

Does your small business rely on high-tech workers to compete? You?re not alone. Increasingly, being up to speed on technology is crucial to business success, which means you need a savvy tech team in-house. But hiring those tech workers might be getting harder?and the risks of making a bad hire might have greater ramifications?in 2012.

While national unemployment rates hover near 9 percent, CIO.com reports that as of November, the unemployment rate in the technology industry was just 2.7 percent. Also as of November, the number of job openings rose by 12 percent year-over-year, according to tech hiring site Dice.com. In particular, big cities like New York, Silicon Valley and DC are seeing shortages of qualified tech employees.

For 2012, it?s only going to get worse. CIO says a December survey by Dice.com found that 65 percent of IT hiring managers expect to hire in the first half of 2012, with more than one-fourth planning to increase their IT staff by over 20 percent. Those companies are looking for experienced workers, with the biggest demand being for workers with 6 to 10 years of tech experience and those who are skilled in mobile apps, cloud computing, virtualization, project management, business analytics and Java.

What does it mean to you? First, if you?re looking to hire tech employees, you?re going to face an increasingly competitive marketplace, which will make the ongoing challenge of matching big companies? perks and pay even tougher. Second, even if you?re not hiring, you?ve got reason to worry, as the demand for experienced techies means your key people could get poached.

To keep them happy, you?ll need to offer competitive pay (or better), challenging work and the chance for career growth.

If your key tech workers get lured away, it could put your business at risk in more ways than one. A separate survey from CareerBuilder?s site Sologig.com, reported in TechRepublic, found that a majority of companies had experienced hiring an IT person who wasn?t a good fit.

More than one-third said such bad hires cost them $50,000 or more. ?Rushing to hire was the top reason for bad choices, which resulted in everything from lost time and productivity to harmful effects on morale and even client relationships.

Will you be hiring tech workers in 2012? Or are you just hoping to keep the ones you?ve got? Either way, you?d better start strategizing to ensure you don?t end up short on talent and long on headaches.

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Eleven?must-see science videos?from 2011

What happens when you let two bots have a conversation? Cornell researchers Igor Labutov, Jason Yosinski and Hod Lipson find out. Follow the links at the bottom of this post for more about "AI vs. AI."

By Alan Boyle

Laughing babies, talking dogs and Rebecca Black may be Internet sensations, but if you want to add something more substantive?to your viral video diet, turn your dial to dueling chatbots, dancing Ph.D. theses and other highlights from the past year's surfeit of science videos.

Talking bots can be just as surprising and silly as talking dogs. Take "AI vs. AI," for example. Cornell researchers Igor Labutov, Jason Losinski and Hod Lipson took two Cleverbot artificial-intelligence programs, hooked them up to each other, and typed in "Hi" as an ice-breaker. Hilarity ensues.

"We just assembled the pieces, the audio and the avatars, and let the program run," Lipson, an associate professor at the Cornell Creative Machines Lab, told me today.

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The funniest line in the video comes when one AI program tells the other that they're chatting together as robots. The other bot replies, "I am not a robot, I am a unicorn." Where did that come from?

"The conversations are based on millions of conversations that it had before," Lipson said. "Probably this term is something it had encountered in some conversation with a human." The best guess is that someone made a reference to the unicorn from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," and somehow that stuck in the Cleverbot's electronic brain.

The takeaway is that artificially intelligent chatbots can become as?petulant and irrational as the?humans who made them. This Cleverbot conversation provides further evidence of that. ("I'm talking about you ... how you are a creep," one clone-bot tells another.)

Here are?10 other clever and creepy science videos from 2011 to while away the minutes with. I've added links to more information about each of them at the bottom of this item:

Science educator James Drake put together 600 pictures from the International Space Station to create this video view of an orbital night flight. It's been viewed more than 6 million times on YouTube since September. Follow the links at the bottom for more night-flight videos.

One of the year's most trafficked videos is "A Day Made of Glass," which depicts Corning's vision for a glassy future. It's been viewed more than 16 million times on YouTube since February. Follow the links at the bottom of this story for more about the future of glass.

An octopus rises from the deep at the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in California ... and walks over land on its legs. It turns out this behavior is not all that uncommon. The video is among Txchnologist's top 10 science videos. Follow the links at the bottom for more about walking octopi and the Txchnologist list..

Speaking of octopi, here's a soft robot that crawls along a surface like an octopus out of water. Follow the links at the bottom to see more videos from Chemical & Engineering News.

Soft robots may look cute, but this hard-charging AlphaDog Proto looks downright creepy. It's being developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA and the U.S. Marine Corps. The first version of the complete robot will be ready in 2012. Follow the links at the bottom to learn more about AlphaDog.

Minute Physics focuses on the faster-than-light neutrino research in its latest video. Follow the links listed below for more from Minute Physics.

Quantum levitation sounds like a science-fiction phenomenon, but the Superconductivity Group at the University of Tel Aviv shows that it really, really works. Watch this report from TODAY.com's Dara Brown, and follow the links at the bottom of this post to learn more.

In one of a series of math-themed videos, Vi Hart takes potshots at pi and talks up tau instead. And she proves she can make a cherry pie. Follow the links at the bottom for more about Hart and Tau Day.

Update for 8:35 p.m. ET: For 10 more must-see, humorous science videos, check out this?Tree of Life blog posting by UC-Davis biologist Jonathan A. Eisen. He says his No. 1 pick, ?the "Bad Project" Lady Gaga parody, is "simply awesome" ? and I simply agree.

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GRAPEVINE, Texas | Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:40am EST

GRAPEVINE, Texas (Reuters) - Dressed in a Santa suit, Aziz Yazdanapah showed up at his estranged wife's home near Dallas during a Christmas celebration with her sister's family, and killed everyone before turning the gun on himself, police believe.

The seven bodies were discovered strewn in the living room area of the Grapevine apartment, amid opened presents and near a Christmas tree.

Police identified the dead on Tuesday as two families connected through a pair of sisters.

Suspected shooter Aziz Yazdanpanah, 58, had been estranged from his wife and two teenage children when they moved out of the family's upscale home in nearby Colleyville earlier this year.

His wife, Fatemeh Rahmati, 56, who was a licensed manicurist at a local salon, as well as their daughter, Nona Yazdanpanah, 19, and their son, Ali Yazdanpanah, 14, were also killed.

In the other family, who were visiting Rahmati's apartment on Christmas morning, were her sister, Zohreh Rahmaty, 58, Hossein Zarei, 59, and daughter Sahra Zarei, 22.

"Aziz is the one that was dressed in the Santa suit, and whom we believe ... to be the shooter at this time," Grapevine Police Lieutenant Todd Dearing told Reuters late on Tuesday.

"It was a family incident, they were all related by marriage or blood," he added.

The dead were found by police answering a voiceless 911 emergency call, authorities said.

Evidence released by police on Tuesday narrowed the time of the shooting down to an 18-minute window between 11:16 a.m. when one of the victims sent an "innocuous" text message and 11:34 when the 911 call was received, Dearing said.

The text message "said something along the lines of 'I'm here, Aziz is here dressed as Santa, trying to be the Dad of the Year,'" Dearing said.

It was not immediately clear who sent or received the message.

'QUIET BUT VERY NICE'

Dearing said investigators do not yet know whether Yazdanpanah arrived at the apartment with the intention of killing his family and in-laws.

"We can't possibly know his full intent," Dearing told Reuters. "We don't know whether he was invited or not invited. It could be that Fatemeh told him he could stop by and drop off presents."

Yazdanpanah's family, Iranian immigrants who had settled in the Dallas-Fort Worth area decades ago, had been fighting foreclosure and had declared bankruptcy on their home, a 3,000-square foot house built in 1990 and recently valued near $350,000, according to public records.

Neighbors said that while bankruptcy and foreclosure proceedings moved through the courts, Yazdanpanah had continued to live in the home on Sycamore Court in Colleyville, which borders Grapevine, known for its upscale suburban lifestyle and situated just a few miles away from the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

He was a friendly man who loved his children, neighbors said.

"They were very good neighbors," said Fred Ditmars, who lived across the street from the family for more than four years. "Quiet but very nice."

Ditmars said Yazdanpanah would watch his house when he and his family were away.

The killings rocked the quiet, festive Dallas suburb dubbed the "Christmas Capital of Texas" and known more for its tourism, Christmas season events, festivals and vineyards than for violence. It was the worst outburst of gun violence in the history of the town, which hadn't seen a homicide since June 2010.

Two pistols were recovered from the home, said Sergeant Robert Eberling of the Grapevine police department, who called it a "gruesome crime scene."

No one was found alive by police arriving at the home, he said.

A memorial organized by Nona Yazdanpanah's best friend is scheduled to take place at Parr Park in Grapevine on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.

(Additional reporting by Karen Brooks and Tim Gaynor; Editing by Jerry Norton)

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Google Plus can reach 400 million users in 2012, already has 62 million says unofficial statistician

Google may have finally found a solution to the social networking problem that has eluded them for years ? Google Plus is populated by 62 million users and will hit 400 million by the end of 2012, according to self-proclaimed ?unofficial statistician? Paul Allen (no, not that Paul Allen).

The last official figure we got was 40 million users, but that was way back in October. Allen?s estimates put the growth rate of Google Plus at 625,000 new users per day. At this rate, Google Plus will hit the 100 million users mark before the end of February and 200 million in August.

By end of the 2012 that number grows to 293 million. But Paul Allen bets the number of newcomers per day will increase, so Google Plus will actually have 400 million users by the end of next year.

Now, Allen may have a tendency to overestimate the number of users ? for example, he reported 50 million users at the end of September, then in October Google came out with an official number of 40 million.

Still, if Google manages to attract even just 200 million users to its social network in less than two years, it will be an amazing feat. It took Facebook about 4 years to hit that mark in April 2009 (though they?ve grown to 800 million since then).

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European stocks edge up, euro stuck before Italy auction (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? European stocks crept higher on Tuesday, catching the tailwind of a pre-holiday U.S. rally, while the euro was hamstrung by the prospect of a large Italian debt auction later in the week.

Oil prices were buoyed by positive U.S. jobs and housing data late last week as well as the prospect of sanctions against Syria choking off production there.

At 1130 GMT, the FTSEurofirst 300 (.FTEU3) index of top European shares was up 0.2 percent at 992 points. Stock markets in Britain, Hong Kong and Australia remained closed.

Asian shares eased as investors squared positions before U.S. markets reopen after a long weekend, leaving the MSCI world equity index (.MIWD00000PUS) fractionally higher on the day.

U.S. stock futures pointed to a steady start on Wall Street.

"With U.S. and European players in holiday mood, there is no incentive except for year-end position adjustments," said Hirokazu Yuihama, senior strategist at Daiwa Capital Markets.

"But concerns about euro zone debt will resurface ... with the focus on refinancing needs facing Italy and Spain, and whether sovereign yields of these countries would shoot above levels considered unsustainable," he said.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) slipped 0.3 percent and has shed 17 percent so far this year. It has underperformed the pan-European index, which is down 12 percent. Japan's Nikkei stock average (.N225) closed down 0.5 percent and has also lost 17 percent this year.

The euro traded at $1.3075, little changed on the day. A fall below $1.2945, a level touched earlier in the month, would take the single currency to its weakest since January.

German government bond futures were up 33 ticks due to investors seeking safe harbour ahead of Thursday's Italian debt auction to raise up to 8.5 billion euros via three- and 10-year bonds.

"I think there could be some downside risks for the euro. (Thursday's auction) will be more of a test of the market, given that the bonds auctioned are longer maturities," said Sverre Holbek, currency strategist at Danske in Copenhagen.

"A further rise in Italian yields should almost certainly be euro negative, and thin liquidity may exacerbate the move."

Italian 10-year borrowing costs rose 8 basis points on the day to 7.10 percent, a level viewed as unsustainable in the long-run for a country facing a national debt of around 120 percent of GDP. It faces around 150 billion euros of debt refinancing in February-April alone.

HOPES FOR U.S.

After upbeat U.S. reports last week, investors will be looking for more positive signs when the S&P Case-Shiller house price index for October and consumer confidence data for December are released later on Tuesday.

U.S. holiday season retail sales were expected to rise 3.8 percent to a record $469.1 billion, the National Retail Federation said, slower than last year's growth but stronger than its pre-season forecast.

Brisk sales would reinforce signs the U.S. economy is recovering, following data showing the number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits hit a 3-1/2-year low in the week before Christmas while new U.S. single-family home sales rose to a seven-month high.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) broke through its 200-day moving average on Friday after a four-day rally lifted the index into positive territory for the year.

U.S. crude oil futures and gold have been among the top performing assets in 2011, with year-to-date rises of about 9 percent and 12 percent respectively.

Brent crude rose slightly to trade above $108, supported by supply disruptions in Syria and Iranian naval exercises in a key shipping lane, while improved U.S. home sales data and year-end short-covering also supported prices.

Arab League peace monitors arrived in the Syrian city of Homs on Tuesday for a first look after tanks were seen leaving the hotbed of anti-government unrest where hundreds have been killed during nine months of military crackdowns on protesters.

Syrian Oil Minister Sufian Alao said on Saturday that his country's oil production had fallen by about 30 to 35 percent as a result of sanctions imposed on Syria over its nine-month crackdown on anti-government protests.

"Syria could be a support factor for the time being, but we will not see a big climb or rocket high prices because of that," Ken Hasegawa, a derivatives manager with brokerage Newedge in Tokyo, said.

Gold hovered around $1,600 an ounce, as investors stayed on the sidelines in the final week of the year.

(Editing by Patrick Graham)

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Florida-Based Foreclosure Document Sweatshop Targeted Again In Another Nevada Lawsuit; Homeowners Seek Class Action Status

In Las Vegas, Nevada, CBS News reports:

• A lawyer in Las Vegas has filed a civil lawsuit seeking class-action status on behalf of homeowners he says have been hurt by the filing of fraudulent foreclosure documents during an alleged "robo-siging" scheme.
• Matthew Callister said he wants a state judge to stop tainted home sales and evictions and order Lender Processing Services Inc. and several bank and mortgage companies to modify loans and pay monetary damages to affected homeowners. "This is to say, 'Stop. Let us try to modify the loan appropriately,'" Callister said. "Then we'll seek damages."

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• The Las Vegas Sun first reported that the lawsuit alleging deceptive trade practices had been filed Tuesday in Clark County District Court on behalf of five homeowners. A hearing was not immediately scheduled.
• Callister told The Associated Press that he had at least 20 more plaintiffs to add to the case. The civil lawsuit came days after Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto filed a civil lawsuit in Las Vegas accusing Lender Processing Services of orchestrating a massive robo-signing scheme to file fraudulent documents before the local housing market collapsed in 2008.

For more, see Lawyer seeks class status for robo-signing lawsuit.

Source: http://homeequitytheft.blogspot.com/2011/12/florida-based-foreclosure-document.html

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Shell Oil Messes Off Two Coasts

Shell's 100-mile-long oil slick off the Nigerian coast, 21 December 2011. Envisat ASAR image analyzed by SkyTruth from data courtesy of the European Space Agency.Shell has admitted to spilling up to 40,000 barrels (1.4 million gallons) of crude oil into the ocean about 75 miles (120 km) off Nigeria on Wednesday. The spill occurred while it was transferring oil from a floating oil platform to a tanker.

Satellite pictures captured by independent monitors Skytruth (more here) show a 356-square-mile (923-square-km) slick approaching the oil-battered coast of the Niger Delta. All production from the Bonga field?normally about 200,000 barrels (7.2 million gallons) a day?has been suspended in the wake of the spill.

The Guardian reports on skepticism of Shell's estimates, based on its poor record in the region:

[A] leading Nigerian human rights group said Shell's figures about the quantity of oil spilled or the clean-up could not be relied on. "Shell says 40,000 barrels were spilled and production was shut but we do not trust them because past incidents show that the company consistently under-reports the amounts and impacts of its carelessness," said Nnimmo Bassey, head of Environmental Rights Action, based in Lagos. The spill, one of the worst off the coast of Nigeria in 10 years, is particularly embarrassing for Shell, coming only four months after a major UN study said it could take Shell and other oil companies 30 years and $1bn to clean spills in Ogoniland, one small part of the oil-rich delta. The company also admitted responsibility in August for two major spills in the Bodo region of the delta that took place in 2008, but has yet to pay compensation.

Shell also admitted to a spill in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday of some 13,400 barrels of drilling mud mixed with synthetic oil from the Deepwater Nautilus?a sister rig to the Deepwater Horizon.

The spill occurred at the Appomattox discovery, just 26 miles southeast of last year's disastrous spill. Shell plans five new exploratory wells at Appomattox, hoping to recover more than 250 million barrels of oil... though the Houston Chronicle reports it could be weeks before the company can resume drilling in the hotly-disputed site:

The Appomattox project is at the heart of a high-stakes dispute between environmentalists and the federal government over offshore drilling... In separate cases that have since been consolidated, conservationists are arguing that the government acted prematurely in green-lighting the plan without first finishing an environmental study of the Gulf... The cases present a major test of the federal government's power to swiftly review and approve deep-water exploration?plans.

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Source: http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/12/huge-shell-oil-spill-nigeria

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Disappearing Fan Page Tab Can Increase ?Likes? for Facebook Real Estate Marketing, Reports Ryan Hartman of Retechulous, LLC

(EMAILWIRE.COM, December 24, 2011 ) Harrisburg, PA -- One of the cornerstones for attracting likes to the Facebook page is to offer people high quality and interesting content. Although this may seem like an advanced real estate marketing strategy, Ryan Hartman of Retechulous, LLC seems to have formulated a fairly creative way to build up a fan base quickly and with very little hassle.

?We refer to it as the disappearing Facebook tab. In other words, when a prospect visits an agents? landing page on Facebook, they will immediately encounter an extensive list of video content that quickly fades from view. Only by clicking ?like? will people be able to fully access all the information. In essence, you are trading in a ?like? in exchange for some very useful tips,? replies Hartman.

Since becoming a fan is a much smaller ?commitment? than opting into an email database, Hartman believes this provides a very soft approach to generating more leads for the real estate marketing plan. Then over time, and agent can build relationships with their audience by posting new content on the page?s wall or perhaps sending a personalized message.

Additionally, the video content that Hartman provides should also help to produce a handful of follow up questions from serious buyers or sellers. Very few agents are offering their clients loads of free video tutorials, which will help to build immediate ?expert? status.

In order to start taking advantage of this unique approach immediately, Hartman has recorded two short tutorials on how to setup the tab on your own. Go to Real Estate Marketing 411 right now to get started.

About Retechulous, LLC:

Retechulous, LLC is focused on training agents, brokers, and other real estate professionals throughout the U.S. and Canada on how to effectively market their businesses online for maximum profits. The company is managed from two ?secret headquarters? deep within undisclosed locations of Central PA. For more information visit RealEstateMarketing411.com.

Source: http://emailwire.com/release/77704-Disappearing-Fan-Page-Tab-Can-Increase-Likes-for-Facebook-Real-Estate-Marketing-Reports-Ryan-Hartman-of-Retechulous-LLC.html

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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider: Republicans Give In

Whether you say that House GOP leaders "caved in" to Democrats or simply gave in to growing pressure within Republican ranks, it was a rough few days for Speaker John Boehner in his party's bid to forge a year-long extension of a payroll tax cut.

"It may not have been politically the smartest thing in the world," Boehner told reporters in announcing the deal with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for a two month extension, "but let me tell you what, I think our members waged a good fight."

A quick scan of news web sites though showed that the headlines were not so forgiving for Boehner.

"Payroll tax deadlock ends as House caves," said the Associated Press.

"Boehner caves in on tax cut deal," said ABC News.

Democrats were more than happy to pile on.

"It was about time the GOP put the needs of the middle class ahead of Tea Party politics and agreed to the payroll tax cut," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schulz (R-FL).

What did Republicans get in this deal? They got Democrats to agree to appoint negotiators to work out a one year extension of the payroll tax cut in coming weeks - before the next deadline of February 29.

On the Republican side, there was a lot of grumbling from the rank and file.

"I cannot support this concession," said Rep. Allen West (R-FL).

"It seems the politics of demagoguery have won over policy and principle with the concession to enact tax policy on two-month basis," West added.

"It is disappointing that since the Senate failed to do their job, we will now have to have this debate again in two months," said Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN).

The plan is to approve the deal by "unanimous consent" - a term that's well understood in the halls of Congress, but not so well outside of Capitol Hill.

Basically it means that any lawmaker could object to the bill's passage - and if that happens, then Speaker Boehner would call the House back in to session to take a vote next week.

That would cost an estimated $4-5 million.

There was talk that someone would object to the deal; I asked one Republican if he would do that.

"No, that would just cost the taxpayers more money," he said before adding in the final verbal punch.

"They are getting screwed already," he added.

For a third straight year, the Congress is in session just a few days before the holiday break for lawmakers.

Merry Christmas.

Source: http://www.wsbradio.com/weblogs/jamie-dupree/2011/dec/22/republicans-give/

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U.N. urges Libya to sell off uranium cache (Reuters)

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) ? U.N. experts are urging Libya to get rid of a large cache of "yellowcake" uranium because the warehouse where it is being kept is neither safe nor secure enough for long-term storage, the U.N. envoy to Libya said on Thursday.

Inspectors from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) completed an inspection of the Tajura nuclear facility in Tripoli and a warehouse in Sabha that stores yellowcake, a concentrated uranium powder, on December 9, U.N. special envoy to Libya Ian Martin told the Security Council.

"In an initial debriefing the IAEA conveyed its overall conclusion that none of the previously reported nuclear materials in either facility had gone missing," Martin told the 15-nation council via video-link from Tripoli.

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had a clandestine nuclear weapons program, which he abandoned in December 2003. IAEA and U.S. experts verified at the time that the program was fully dismantled.

While there appears to be no immediate health or radiation risk posed by the uranium, Martin said, the IAEA is encouraging Libya to sell and transfer the 6,400 barrels of yellowcake out of the country because the barrels are deteriorating and the site is not secure enough.

"The present safety and security measures at the facility are not deemed sufficient longer-term," Martin said. "There appears, however, to be no risk of proliferation given the weight and state of the barrels."

Yellowcake uranium, which is not highly radioactive, cannot be used for nuclear weapons unless processed and purified.

MISSING WEAPONS

Martin also confirmed a U.S. finding from last month that Libya's missing stocks of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles - "man portable air defense systems" or MANPADS - appear to be still in the country.

"While the focus of international concern continues to be the potential proliferation of MANPADs, as yet there seems to be little evidence of such weapons systems appearing in neighboring countries," he said.

"Visits at weapon storage sites and brigades throughout Libya suggest that most looted arms may be held by revolutionary brigades or local militias within a limited distance from the looted sites, thereby rendering it primarily a national Libyan arms control and disarmament concern," Martin said.

He added that the U.N. Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) had agreed with Libya's Defense Ministry to set up a task force on MANPADS to "facilitate a country-wide mapping of weapons and storage sites and to coordinate the identification, collection and disabling efforts."

The U.N. mission is also working to register MANPADS held by revolutionary brigades, Martin said.

Separately, the United States is working with Libya's Defense Ministry to create an inventory and destroy superfluous conventional weapons around in Libya, he said.

In the chaotic fighting to end Gaddafi's rule, local militias trying to overthrow him raided arms depots and took the weapons for themselves.

The militias are largely loyal to the Western-backed government now in power, but there are questions over how securely they are storing the weapons.

Security experts have said that MANPADS could be acquired by militants or smugglers and taken across Libya's porous southern borders into neighboring Algeria, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.

Martin also said that the Netherlands-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was making progress in accounting for chemical weapons and materials found at two previously undeclared sites in Libya.

He said that Libya's government submitted to the OPCW in late November a detailed declaration of the materials, which were transferred to the officially declared storage site. The OPCW plans to return in mid-January to work with the government on safe storage for the materials.

(Reporting By Louis Charbonneau; Editing by Eric Walsh)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111222/wl_nm/us_libya_un

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Protest against power plant in S.China escalates: papers (Reuters)

HONG KONG (Reuters) ? Protests in a small town in China appear to have escalated with residents smashing cars and hurling bricks even though officials sought to calm tempers by suspending a plan to build a power plant, Hong Kong newspapers reported on Thursday.

Angry crowds smashed and overturned police cars and riot police fired teargas in Haimen town in Shantou city on Wednesday, the second day of the unrest, newspapers reported.

The unrest escalated as a 10-day standoff between villagers and officials over a land dispute in the same province was resolved, and as China's domestic security chief told officials to focus on stability before the ruling Communist Party's leadership transition next year.

Residents of Haimen, furious with plans to build a coal-fired power plant, took to the streets on Tuesday, surrounding a government building and blocking an expressway.

Officials agreed to suspend the project by late Tuesday, but residents refused to back down, demanding the plan be scrapped.

Government officials, including those from the security arm, have been vague and appeared to play down the unrest. A Shantou official told Reuters by telephone on Wednesday that there had been injuries but no deaths.

On Thursday, an official at the Chaoyang Public Security Bureau denied any deaths or injuries although he said there was a "gathering" on Wednesday.

Haimen is under the jurisdiction of Chaoyang district in the booming southern province of Guangdong.

According to the Mingpao newspaper, more than 1,000 residents gathered at a toll gate to confront hundreds of riot police.

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Witnesses said police fired four rounds of teargas and beat up protesters, who do not want another power plant when existing power facilities there were already polluting air and seawater and had greatly reduced their catch at sea, Mingpao reported.

At least three protesters were hit and arrested.

Mingpao also quoted Zheng Guifang, 45, who was hit and injured by police when she said she was trying to find her daughter among the crowd of protesters.

"I found my daughter but there were too many people and she could not come out," said Zheng from her hospital bed.

People in China are increasingly unwilling to accept the relentless speed of urbanisation and industrialization and the impact on the environment and health.

"Look at how many villagers have died of cancer these past few years," a furious mother was quoted as saying by the South China Morning Post. "Do you know how many Haimen people are lying in hospital beds?"

Protests are also often held over corruption, wages and land seizures, that officials justify in the name of development.

Residents of Wukan village, also in Guangdong, agreed to end a 10-day standoff with authorities over a land dispute on Wednesday.

Chinese experts put the number of "mass incidents," as such protests are known, at about 90,000 a year in recent years.

On Thursday, China's main official newspapers published an account of a speech by Zhou Yongkang, chief of domestic security, who urged law-and-order cadres to ensure "a harmonious and stable social setting" ahead of the Communist Party's 18th Congress late next year.

At that congress, President Hu Jintao and his cohort will give way to a new generation of central leaders: a sensitive transition for the one-party government.

(Reporting by Sisi Tang, Alison Leung and Tan Ee Lyn, Chris Buckley in BEIJING; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Robert Birsel)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111222/wl_nm/us_china_protest_power

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How the brain cell works: A dive into its inner network

ScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2011) ? University of Miami (UM) biology professor Akira Chiba is leading a multidisciplinary team to develop the first systematic survey of protein interactions within brain cells. The team is aiming to reconstruct genome-wide in situ protein-protein interaction networks (isPIN) within the neurons of a multicellular organism. Preliminary data were presented at the American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting, December 3 through 7, 2011, in Denver, Colorado.

"This work brings us closer to understanding the mechanics of molecules that keep us functioning," says Chiba, principal investigator of this project. "Knowing how our cells work will improve medicine. Most importantly, we will gain a better understanding of what life is at the molecular level."

Neurons are the cells that are mainly responsible for signaling in the brain. Like all other cells, each neuron produces millions of individual proteins that associate with one another and form a complex communication network. Until recently, observing these protein-protein interactions had not been possible due to technical difficulties. Individual proteins are small and typically less than 10 nm (nanometer) in diameter. Yet, this nano-scale distance was considered to be off-limits even with super-resolution microscopy.

Now, Chiba and his collaborators have developed a novel methodology to examine interaction of individual proteins in the fruit fly -- the model organism of choice for this project. The researchers are creating genetically engineered insects that are capable of expressing over 500 fluorescently-tagged assorted proteins, two at a time. The fluorescent tags make it possible to visualize the exact spot where a given pair of proteins associates with each other.

The team utilizes a custom- built 3D FLIM (fluorescent lifetime imaging microscopy) system to quantify this association event within the cells of a live animal. FLIM shows the location and time of such protein interaction, providing the data that allow creation of a point-by-point map of protein-protein interactions.

The pilot phase of this multidisciplinary project is being funded by the National Institutes of Health. It employs advanced genetics, molecular imaging technology and high-performance computation, among other fields. "Collaborating fluorescent chemistry, laser optics and artificial intelligence, my team is working in the 'jungle' of the molecules of life within the living cells," Chiba says. "This is a new kind of ecology played out at the scale of nanometers -- creating a sense of deja vu 80 years after the birth of modern ecology."

At present, the researchers still need to extrapolate from data obtained in test tubes. In the future, they will begin to visualize directly how the individual proteins interact with one another in their 'native environment,' which are the cells in our body.

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County's proposed gas/oil regulations making way through pipeline

For a little light reading over the holidays, head to the El Paso County website and dig into the 36-pages of regulations and procedures that are being proposed to govern gas and oil drilling in unincorporated parts of the county.

Or let county project manager and planner Craig Dossey sum up what he believes are the highlights:

? Requirements for comprehensive groundwater monitoring
? A prohibition on surface pits to collect water used in drilling
? And plenty of opportunity for public input along the way.

?It?s definitely appropriate for us to allow for public comment because there are a lot of unknowns, and that creates a lot of impacts, especially when there are larger-scale facilities,? said Dossey, who was instrumental in drafting the regulations.

El Paso County has never had rules and procedures specifically relating to the oversight of gas and oil drilling, although the activity was included in general regulations tied to mineral resource extraction. But in 1990, Dossey said, an amendment to a state statue took oil and gas drilling out of the equation.

?This is the first time El Paso County has gone down the road of regulating oil and gas since the code was revised in 1990 to expressly remove oil and gas from the definition of mineral resource extraction,? he said.

Driving the push to get regulations on the books as soon as possible is a move by Ultra Resources of Houston to begin exploratory drilling in both unincorporated El Paso County and the city of Colorado Springs, which is looking into its drafting its own rules.

In late September, El Paso County commissioners imposed a four-month moratorium on issuing new exploratory drilling permits so county officials could have time to write local land-use regulations. But they revised it a few weeks later and gave Ultra Resources approval to do exploratory drilling on three sites that sit on Colorado State Land Board property. The county is now waiting for Ultra Resources to resubmit its plans with some minor revisions.

Ultra Resources also received an extension on a permit for a fourth site that was held by another company until earlier this year. That site is ready for drilling at any time, Dossey said.

Ultra Resources spokeswoman Kelly Whitley said the company plans to start drilling the first part of 2012 at all approved sites in the county, but she didn?t have a more definite time frame.

Because the new regulations haven?t been adopted, Ultra Resources? most immediate projects fall under the county?s general development review process, Dossey said. But the county wanted to move forward with industry-specific regulations because of burgeoning interest in the area as a potential hot spot for oil and gas, spurred by a successful 2009 oil strike in Weld County in the same shale and limestone formation that lies beneath a swath of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska.

Dossey said the regulations were drafted after consultation with a number of county and state agencies, including the county attorney?s office, El Paso Public Health, the Colorado Department of Transportation, and state wildlife officials.

He said the regulations surrounding groundwater monitoring would be more comprehensive and longer-lasting than the state?s.

?Ours requires annual testing for the first six years, and every five years thereafter until 10 years after the life of the well,? Dossey said. ?You don?t see that anywhere else in the state.?

He also said the prohibition of surface pits to collect water used in drilling would make the industry use another system that is growing in popularity. There would be a waiver for companies that want to use a surface pit, he said, but commissioners would have to approve it after a public hearing.

The regulations also would require thorough assessments of the impact on wildlife; roads, bridges and traffic; and drainage.

Dossey noted that under the proposed regulations, ?minor? oil and gas facilities, such as single vertical wells used in exploratory drilling, can be approved by the county development services director without a requirement for a public hearing. However, he said, the director still has an option to call for a public hearing on a minor project, if warranted.
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The El Paso Board of County Commissioners will hold a work session on the proposed oil and gas land use regulations at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Pikes Peak Regional Development Center, 2880 International Circle. The meeting is open to the public.
At 9 a.m. Jan. 4, the county Development Services Department will present its recommendation during a public hearing at a special meeting of the county Planning Commission at the same location.
At 9 a.m. Jan. 19, county commissioners will take up the proposed regulations, along with comments and revisions, at its regular meeting at the Pikes Peak Regional Development Center.
Click here to see a draft copy of the regulations (scroll down to "current information" on the righthand side of the Development Services Department Home Page).

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Source: http://www.gazette.com/articles/county-130708-regulations-oil.html

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