Sunday, September 30, 2012

Syrian refugees in 4 countries talk of pain, fear

A woman loses her children, her husband and both legs. A penniless family is forced to flee from Syria back to Iraq. Camps are overflowing with people and with bitterness, and refugees are living in limbo without passports.

As war rages in Syria, the stream of refugees into other countries shows no sign of stopping. More than 100,000 people fled Syria in August alone ? about 40 percent of all who had left since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began last March. And the United Nations refugee agency said Thursday that the number of people escaping Syria could reach 700,000 by the end of the year.

Here, AP reporters tell the stories of refugees and their families from four countries.

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TRIPOLI, Lebanon ? Hasna Um Abdou lost her children, her husband and both legs to a mortar.

Now the veiled 38-year-old woman lies in a hospital bed in this northern Lebanese city, with the Quran, the Muslim holy book, on her table. She talks slowly, with pauses, and is visibly trying to hold back the tears. Abdul-Aziz, 3, and Talin, 13 months, were her only children.

"Every time I remember, I feel the pain," she says.

Um Abdou is one of thousands of Syrians who have been wounded in the uprising against Assad and its aftermath. Hundreds of the wounded have been taken for treatment in neighboring countries, mostly to Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. More than 74,000 Syrians have taken refuge in Lebanon, itself a small country of just 4 million people that is struggling with instability.

Um Abdou and her family fled their village in Homs province in March amid intense shelling, to a second village and then a third. Two days later, it seemed quiet, and they decided to return home. The family rode back on March 31 on a motorcycle, with Um Abdou's daughter asleep in her arms and her son sitting in front of his father.

Then her world fell apart.

Um Abdou keeps hearing the sound not of the mortar, but of the terror.

"I cannot forget the noise of the hearts beating quickly as people gathered around us," she says.

Her daughter died immediately from a shrapnel wound in the head. Her son bled profusely and died minutes later, even as she looked at him. She did not want her husband to know the children were dead, so she said nothing and started to pray.

But her husband was severely injured too -- the shrapnel had blown out his intestines. And Um Abdou looked down to find her own legs hanging slightly from her body.

"The moment I saw myself, I knew that my legs were going to be amputated," she says.

She and her husband were rushed to makeshift hospitals in the Syrian border towns of Qusair and Jousi. With the help of Syrian rebels, she was carried on a stretcher all the way across the border to Lebanon, amid 12 hours of shelling and shooting. Her husband died en route.

Um Abdou's children are now buried in a plot of land in Syria owned by the state. Her husband was buried in the cemetery in Jousi because it was too dangerous to take him back to his hometown.

"Even the dead have no right to be buried," she says.

Um Abdou has undergone four operations in Lebanon, including the two amputations. Her parents and sisters are looking after her, and she displays the green, red, white and black flag of the Syrian revolution in her room.

She knows the pain will be unbearable the day she goes back to Syria and visits the place where her family is buried. In the meantime, she has written a poem in the hospital.

"I lost my children and husband, but my soul is still strong," it reads. "I will keep saying until my last breath, long live freedom."

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BAGHDAD ? The gang of masked gunmen broke into the small apartment near Damascus where Waleed Mohammed Abdul-Wahid and his family had lived for nearly three years. "Are you Sunni or Shiite?" they shouted, as his three children began to cry.

"We are Sunnis!" answered his wife, Wasan Malouki Khalaf.

"Do you know any Shiites who are cooperating with the Syrian government?" the gunmen demanded.

"We do not know any such people," she said. "We are from Baghdad."

The gunmen left. The brief but terrifying invasion sealed the decision Abdul-Wahid had been mulling for weeks: to leave behind an increasingly violent life in Syria and return to Iraq.

More than 2.2 million people fled Iraq during the war and sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and almost half of them ended up in neighboring Syria. Now Syria is plagued with the same sectarian conflict, and many of the same people are on the run a second time. At least 22,000 Iraqi refugees are thought to have left Syria to return to Iraq, despite the dangers they thought they had left behind.

Abdul-Wahid had worked as a deliveryman back in Baghdad, bringing cylinders of cooking gas to both Shiite and Sunni neighborhoods. Militants kidnapped him outside his Sunni-dominated neighborhood of Azimiyah in 2009 and tortured him for four days. His arms still show the burn scars.

The family packed up and fled to Syria, where they built a new life in a mostly Shiite suburb. The children settled down in school, and the United Nations gave them food and an income. Abdul-Wahid, 49, found a job in construction and started taking medication for the severe depression he had suffered after the kidnapping.

Then the uprising against Assad began, and violence returned to Abdul-Wahid's life. Mortars bombarded their neighborhood, and snipers shot at people in the streets. The last straw was the gunmen storming their home in late July, and asking his daughter if she was Sunni or Shiite.

"She did not reply, because she does not know the meaning of such a question," Abdul-Wahid says.

The bus fare from Damascus to Baghdad cost about $110 for each person. Abdul-Wahid had to ask his brother for money, he says, his eyes filling up with tears of sadness and shame. His family is living in a room in his brother's house.

"I have lost everything now," he says. "I am jobless and penniless...I am even afraid of going outside my brother's house. Now, I have to start from zero."

He plans to go back to Syria when ? or if ? the violence ebbs. Wasan, his wife, says the shortages of electricity and water in Iraq are unbearable, as is the lack of good medical care, security and jobs.

But Abdul-Wahid is doubtful the violence will end any time soon, or Assad will be ousted from power.

"I think that the armed struggle in Syria will continue for a long time," he says. "He is clinging to power...I think that he will survive."

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ZAATARI, Jordan ? At this Syrian refugee camp opened in the desert just two months ago, anger sizzles in the scorching sun.

It is anger at being crowded with about 32,000 other people onto a parched, treeless strip of land, where the day is too hot and the night is too cold. But it is also a murderous anger among the Sunni Muslims here against the Shiites back home, whom they blame for the war. Many Sunnis oppose Assad's ruling regime, which is Alawite, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

"When I return, I will kill any Shiite I see with my dagger. I will chop him to pieces," shouts Basel Baradan, a bitter 18-year-old farmer who fled the southern town of Daraa with his family in July. He is weeping.

Jordan now hosts an estimated 200,000 Syrians, including those not registered with the U.N. -- the largest number of refugees taken in by any neighboring country. After months of delay, Jordan finally opened its first official refugee camp in July at Zaatari, near the border with Syria.

Already, about 30,000 refugees live at the camp, and they keep coming. This poor desert nation says it can no longer afford to welcome Syrian refugees into its towns and houses.

So they live apart at Zaatari, and they grow angrier. Late Monday, dozens of furious refugees hurled stones and injured about 26 Jordanian policemen, demanding better camp conditions or their return home.

Baradan's father Ghassan, 50, also a farmer, says that with the ubiquitous dust, snakes, scorpions and swings in temperature, living at Zaatari is a "worse struggle than Assad's missiles falling on our heads back home." He too is angry, and blames Shiites under Assad for killing Sunnis.

Baradan lived most of his life exchanging visits and sharing meals with Shiite neighbors. But he grew increasingly resentful in recent years because he thought the Shiites were getting more food and money, and were supported by Iran, a Shiite Muslim nation.

"Sunni Muslims have no respect in Syria and we fled here to find ourselves confined to this dirty prison," he sighs, puffing on his cigarette under a once-white tent, yellowed from the desert sun and heat.

The thirst for revenge that is palpable at the Zaatari camp does not bode well for Syria's future.

Baradan's tent is marked with the Arabic scribbling "Get out, Assad." Outside, a group of young Syrians lines up to fill buckets with drinking water. One of them, Mohammad Sweidan, 17, wears a green T-shirt with an Arabic emblem that reads: "Proud Sunni."

"Shiites and Alawites are not Muslims," he says. "They should be killed because they are infidels, who are killing the Sunnis, the true believers and followers of Islam."

Under Baradan's tent, his 46-year-old wife says she worries about ending up stateless, like Palestinian refugees displaced in wars with Israel. She cries as she cooks lunch on a small gas stove.

"I never thought we would become refugees like them," says the woman, who calls herself Um Basel after her eldest son, in keeping with conservative Muslim tradition. Her husband interrupts. "Even the Israelis do not treat the Palestinians the way Assad is treating Sunnis in Syria."

In a corner, Basel too is crying as he gazes at video on his cellphone of his 9-month-old nephew, Rabee, left behind in Daraa with his family.

"What is keeping me going is this video," he says, tearfully. "I can't wait to see Rabee again. I miss him dearly."

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CAIRO, Egypt ? Syrian refugee Mohammad B.'s passport expired a few weeks ago, making official what he has long known: He no longer has a country.

The 26-year-old had nowhere to renew his passport. The Syrian embassy in Cairo was closed after protests. The embassies in Libya and Tunisia had switched loyalty to the opposition and could no longer issue passports. And the embassy in Algeria simply told him to go back to Syria.

That was not an option.

In Syria, Mohammad had been studying to become an English teacher. He fled in May 2011 after he was shot in Daraa, the birthplace of the uprising. The bullet pierced his upper lip, broke his teeth, ripped through his cheekbone and exited near his temple. The deep, jagged wound identified him as an anti-government protester, which in Syria marked him for death.

At first all the protesters wanted was a new mayor and better amenities. Mohammad was hopeful.

"I didn't want to leave my country, I wanted it to get better," says the soft spoken young man with a ponytail and a right eye that droops slightly from his wound. He uses only his first name because he fears for the safety of his parents, both government employees in Daraa.

On April 25, the military clamped off the main road into Daraa. Then, he says, security forces started firing into the crowd of about 50 people with large machine guns.

A bullet sliced Mohammad's lip. He waved his hands for help, and a car came to his aid. A cellphone video he was shooting at the time, seen by The Associated Press, records the sound of a hail of bullets popping off the metal.

"It was very painful," Mohammad recalls. "I thought: Today is my last day....And the driver thought I was dead."

When he got home, his family fled to hide with relatives in the countryside. He stayed in bed for a week, unable to eat. Then he made the most difficult decision of his life: He had to leave Syria immediately.

He had never left Syria before. He chose Egypt because he would not need a visa, and knew a friend there.

Egypt does not share a border with Syria, and only about 1,700 Syrian refugees have registered there, according to the United Nations' refugee agency. However, the agency estimates the real number is closer to 95,000.

Mohammad's family gave him about $1,000 in cash, all they could spare. He put on dark sunglasses, wrapped a headdress over his face and prayed all the way to the airport. The bus passed a gauntlet of 25 checkpoints.

At the airport, he was detained for questioning but slipped interrogators a $300 bribe. He headed for his plane, sure he would be back.

Instead he is still in Cairo, with no money. He lives in a rundown apartment where eight people share three rooms.

With the help of a German-based aid group, Mohammad has had four operations for his face. His doctor says he will need more.

In February, one of Mohammad's five brothers made his way to Egypt, via Jordan. Bashar, 21, suffers from psychological problems after being shut in the house for a year watching the violence on TV. His presence both helps and hurts Mohammad.

"I feel like I have a family, but on the other hand, it made my life more difficult," Mohammad said. "He doesn't work."

Mohammad cannot legally work or study either. But he is teaching Arabic and translating for journalists. He also is considering starting a Web-based service to collect videos, photos and other documentation of the rebellion from citizens back home.

He talks with his family in Syria most days by phone or Skype. They never discuss politics. Since he left, security forces have gone to his house twice looking for him.

"I am worried all the time about my family and friends," he says. "When I check on them, I just want to know they are still there."

Above all, Mohammad longs to go home, study and have a good career. None of that is possible while he is stranded in Egypt with an expired passport.

"I just want to stop this bloodbath," he says. "I don't know how."

Mroue reported from Tripoli, Lebanon; Yacoub and Jakes from Baghdad, Iraq; Marjorie Olster from Cairo, Egypt; and Jamal Halaby from Zaatari, Jordan.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-refugees-4-countries-talk-pain-fear-163621449.html

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FotoFocus: 2 events feature Enquirer photos | Cincinnati.com ...

The Enquirer photography staff has searched through its archives to put on two shows that are part of FOTOFOCUS.

?The Good River: What Divides and Connects Us? exhibits 26 photos, showing the Ohio River in all of its forms ? from its beauty to its rage. The earliest photo dates back to 1904. Oct. 1-Nov. 3 at the Eva G. Farris Gallery at Thomas More College. A lecture featuring Enquirer columnist and resident Ohio River historian Cliff Radel is Saturday, Oct. 5, 4-5 p.m., with a special gallery opening reception following, 5-8 p.m. Enquirer photojournalists lecture Oct. 24, 3:30-5 p.m. Free and open to the public.

?Freedom of the Press: I am a Witness,? at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, features 63 images showing the emotion, beauty, and history of the region by past and present Enquirer photographers. Witnesses to some of the most tragic and the most sublime moments, photojournalists share some of their most memorable images, highlighting the power of the First Amendment. Several photos shown have never before been published. Oct. 1-Jan. 2 at the Freedom Center. Opening reception Oct. 12, 6-9 p.m.

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Best Bets: Bad day for Liam Neeson in 'Taken 2'

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, NBC News

This week, two long-awaited movies -- "Taken 2" and "Frankenweenie" -- hit the cinema. Plus, "Princess Bride" gets a 25th anniversary Blu-ray, and an all African-American cast stars in a remake of "Steel Magnolias."

TUESDAY: 'Princess Bride'
"Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." "Anybody want a peanut?" The wonderfully quotable "Princess Bride" turns 25 this month, and a 25th anniversary Blu-ray offers a fun batch of extras, including an all-new featurette called "True Love: The Princess Bride Phenomenon." Other goodies include interviews with the cast and crew, a video diary from star Cary Elwes and commentaries by director Rob Reiner and screenwriter William Goldman (who also wrote the novel upon which the film is based). Have fun storming the castle! (On sale Oct. 2.)

FRIDAY: 'Taken 2' and 'Frankenweenie'
In 2008's "Taken," Liam Neeson turned into a killing machine after his daughter was kidnapped. So how to reboot that scenario for "Taken 2"? This time around, it's his ex-wife who's taken by the same evil group from the first film. What are the odds? Also opening this week is the full-length version of "Frankenweenie," famous as the short film that got Tim Burton fired from Disney in the 1980s. Now that Burton's a big-name director, the studio gave him big money and resources to turn the idea into a big-screen, full-length 3-D release. The plot hasn't changed over the decade: Kid scientist Victor Frankenstein brings his dog Sparky back from the dead, and to no one's shock but his, that wasn't a great idea. (Both movies open Oct. 5.)

SUNDAY: 'Steel Magnolias'

The original "Steel Magnolias" came out way back in 1989, but if you've ever seen an armadillo groom's cake at a wedding, you know its influence still lingers. Now Lifetime has remade the classic Southern tearjerker with an all African-American cast. The new film features Condola Rashad (Phylicia and Ahmad's daughter) in the Julia Roberts' role of Shelby, with Queen Latifah in the Sally Field role as Shelby's mother. Also starring are Phylicia Rashad herself, Alfre Woodard and Jill Scott. (Oct. 7, 9 p.m., Lifetime.)

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology ...

ISSN:0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)
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Scope & Topics

The AIRCC?s International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology (IJCSIT) is devoted to fields of Computer Science and Information Systems. The IJCSIT is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published in electronic form as well as print form. The mission of this journal is to publish original contributions in its field in order to propagate knowledge amongst its readers and to be a reference publication.

IJCSIT publishes original research papers and review papers, as well as auxiliary material such as: research papers, case studies, technical reports etc.

Topics of interest

* Algorithms and Bioinformatics
* Computer Architecture and Real time Systems
* Database and Data Mining
* Dependable, reliable and autonomic computing
* Distributed and parallel systems & algorithms
* DSP/Image Processing/Pattern Recognition/Multimedia
* Embedded system and software
* Game and software engineering
* Geographical Information Systems/ Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GIS/GNSS)
* Grid and scalable computing
* Intelligent Information & Database Systems
* IT policy and business management
* Mobile and ubiquitous computing
* Modeling and Simulation
* Multimedia systems and services
* Networking and communications
* Parallel and Distributed Systems
* Security and Information Assurance
* Soft Computing (AI, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, etc.)
* Software Engineering
* Web and internet computing

Paper submission:

Authors are invited to submit papers for this journal through e-mail ijcsit@airccse.org. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Journal.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline : 15 October, 2012

Acceptance notification : 15 November, 2012

Final manuscript due : 20 November, 2012

Publication date : determined by the Editor-in-Chief

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Writer behind Suri's Burn Book blog publishes book

NEW YORK (AP) ? Suri Cruise would never wear denim, is on the Dukan Diet and considers Jay-Z and Beyonce's daughter, Blue Ivy, a rival.

Not the real Suri Cruise, daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, but the one written about in a snarky blog ? and now book ? "Suri's Burn Book: Well-Dressed Commentary From Hollywood's Little Sweetheart" (Running Press).

Behind this fictional Suri, who is more Blair Waldorf of TV's "Gossip Girl" than 6-year-old Suri, is Allie Hagan.

About 18 months ago, Hagan thought she had an idea for a fun hobby: writing a humor blog from Suri's perspective.

"Every once in a while on my personal Twitter account I'd make little jokes about what Shiloh Jolie-Pitt was wearing or what Suri was up to, and a friend suggested I start a Tumblr account with that kind of humor about celebrity families," the 25-year-old Hagan, who lives in Washington, D.C., said in a recent interview.

"I knew that if I wrote it from my own perspective, it would come across as unnecessarily mean, possibly creepy. So I tried to think of a different angle."

Typical posts have a fictional Suri commenting on the outfits of other celebrity children or seeming utterly embarrassed by her parents.

One topic Hagan ditched the cynicism over was the recent split of Suri's parents. Her Web site had the highest traffic ever on the day Holmes announced she had filed for divorce from Cruise.

"I felt a lot of pressure because even though I think a lot of people saw it as a humorous kind of huge pop culture event ... I still see (Suri) as a girl whose parents were splitting up and I didn't want to make fun of that," she said.

The resulting post, written as Suri, led with, "Please respect my privacy during this difficult time. (Just mine though ? everyone else is fair game.)"

In the past year, Hagan juggled daily blog posts with more timeless musings for her book of the same name.

She recently quit her day job as an education policy consultant and is now a full-time writer. She says with so much attention placed on Hollywood kids, the possibilities about what to write seem endless.

Hagan hopes Britain's Kate Middleton and actress Diane Kruger will become mothers.

She said the fictional Suri longs to be royalty and "will be distraught" if the Duchess of Cambridge has children.

And Hagan is a fan of Kruger and her longtime boyfriend (and former Holmes' co-star and love interest) Joshua Jackson.

"I think they are so fashionable and there's also that ... Katie Holmes' old-loves connection. I just think it would be fun to write about and I think they're just so cool."

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Thai sailors go "Gangnam Style" on YouTube video

BANGKOK (AP) ? The "Gangnam Style" craze has reached Thailand's navy, which is among the latest to mimic the globally popular dance video.

In a video posted to YouTube, a few dozen smiling sailors from the Third Naval Area Command perform the rodeo-style dance and other hip-shaking moves at their base on the popular tourist island of Phuket.

Lt. Cmdr. Patiroop Khemtis said Friday officers took three days to film and edit the video, instructing participants to mimic the moves in the original video by South Korean singer PSY. It was shown at the base's annual party Wednesday and posted to YouTube the next day.

The video shows white-uniformed sailors in sunglasses galloping through their offices and officers in scuba gear shimmying up the beach.

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Patrick, Skyline, LPX, UFPI and Housing Composite Gain Nicely ...

CNNMoney reports Spain?s government released a budget documenting budget cuts, giving investors some hope and inspiration as U.S. stocks ended a five-day losing streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average moved up +72.46 points, +0.54 percent, to close at 13,485.97, while the Nasdaq gained +1.39 percent to 3,136.60. The S&P advanced +0.96 percent to close at 1,447.15. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite gained +3.37 percent to end the day at 1108.6. Housing stocks we track finished mostly up, or even. Patrick Industries spiked the most of tracked stocks, gaining +6.85%, +0.96, to close at 14.98. Sun Communities, Inc. edged down the most of the two stocks we follow that dropped, falling -0.58%, -0.26, to close at 44.40. Affiliated Managers Group 123.14 +1.57 (+1.29%). Cavco Industries 46.03 +0.64 (+1.41%). Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other housing suppliers parent company Berkshire Hathaway 132,408 -82.00 (-0.06%). Champion, Liberty Homes, Deer Valley and Palm Harbor all remained unchanged. Drew Industries 30.34 +0.34 (+1.13%). Equity LifeStyle Properties 68.74 +0.16 (+0.23%). Louisiana Pacific Corp. 13.04 +0.44 (+3.49%). Nobility Homes remained unchanged at 6.00 for the fifth consecutive day. Skyline Corp. 5.14 +0.29 (+5.98%). Third Avenue Value Fund (9-26) remained unchanged at 48.49. United Forest Products, Inc. 41.78 +1.26 (+3.11%). UMH 11.92 +0.09 (+1.14%).

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As debate looms, Romney looks to Pennsylvania

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at American Legion Post 176 in Springfield, Va., Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at American Legion Post 176 in Springfield, Va., Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Following his campaign speech at Farm Bureau Live in Virginia Beach, President Barack Obama leans in to listen to a supporter along the rope-line Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, afternoon. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot,Stephen M. Katz ) MAGS OUT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures during a campaign event at American Legion Post 176, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, in Springfield, Va. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at Farm Bureau Live, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, in Virginia Beach, Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds a baby after making a campaign stop at American Legion Post 176, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, in Springfield, Va. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

(AP) ? His path to victory narrowing, Mitt Romney is looking to Pennsylvania to help slow President Barack Obama's momentum ahead of a high-stakes meeting on the debate stage next week.

The Republican presidential nominee was to campaign Friday in the Philadelphia area, first courting donors at a high-dollar fundraiser and then meeting voters at a midday rally.

Fresh off a promise to spend more time in the swing states that matter most, Romney will pass much of the day in a state that has not supported a Republican presidential candidate in nearly a quarter-century. His campaign is not running any television ads in Pennsylvania, and aides privately concede that Obama has a significant advantage just 40 days before Election Day.

They suggest that Romney's visit ? his first to the state in more than two months ? is largely designed to raise the money needed to narrow Obama's edge in more competitive states. After raising $5 million at a Washington event Thursday, Romney is expected to generate more than $1 million in Philadelphia and an additional $7 million at a Boston fundraiser later Friday.

"We're going to have to make the right choice on Nov. 6, and you're going to make that happen," Romney told cheering donors in Washington.

Obama will also focus on raising cash Friday as he keeps his campaign close to Washington, where he has three fundraising events scheduled.

He is set to deliver remarks at a finance event at the Capital Hilton in Washington, where tickets start at $250 but go as high as $10,000 per couple. Obama will attend a smaller fundraiser at a private residence before returning to the Capitol Hilton for a third event.

On Thursday, Romney and Obama campaigned a few hundred miles apart in Virginia.

The president pledged to create many more jobs and "make the middle class secure again," while Romney focused on threats beyond American shores, accusing Obama of backing dangerous cuts in defense spending.

The Republican's message, including questions about the president's response to recent violence in Libya, comes as he tries to move beyond his long-held economic focus to help score political points and reverse a slide in the polls.

"The idea of cutting our military is unthinkable and devastating. And when I become president we will not," Romney declared at an American Legion hall in Springfield, Va.

He is expected to push a similar message on Friday in suburban Philadelphia during a rally at Valley Forge Military Academy and College.

While Romney aides are not optimistic about their chances in Pennsylvania, Republicans are not giving up on the state.

"We have an aggressive operation and ground game in place," campaign spokesman Rick Gorka said.

The state GOP is set to begin running a television ad Friday assailing Obama's economic leadership. Pennsylvania's unemployment rate, at 8.1 percent, is slightly less than the national average.

Obama and Romney are scheduled to face off Wednesday in Denver for the first of three presidential debates, which may represent the challenger's best remaining opportunity to change the trajectory of his campaign. Romney has struggled through a series of perceived missteps in weeks amid signs that confidence in the nation's economy is on the rise.

The Obama campaign released a political memo on Friday saying it expects Romney "to be a prepared, disciplined and aggressive debater."

However, it said that while the president would be laying out his vision for the coming years, Romney has "signaled that he will come to indict the president for the fact that the economy has not fully recovered from the collapse of 2008."

The Obama memo and an accompanying web video also aim to debunk claims by Romney that the president has mischaracterized the Republican's positions on the auto industry bailout, abortion and raising taxes on wage earners to cover tax cuts for multimillionaires.

Obama was expected to meet with advisers Friday to prepare for next week's debate. The president was departing Sunday for Nevada, where he planned to hold debate practice sessions near Las Vegas.

Romney has been focused on fundraising and debate preparation for several weeks, raising some questions from within the GOP about his strategy. Earlier in the week, Romney said the time had come in the campaign when he would start spending less time with donors and more time with voters in swing states.

Following his stop in Pennsylvania, Romney heads to Boston for an evening fundraiser and a weekend focused on more debate preparation.

In an election centered largely on the economy, each side got some new ammunition on Thursday. The Commerce Department lowered its earlier estimate of tepid growth for the April-June quarter, while the Labor Department said the economy added 386,000 more jobs from April 2011 through March 2012 than previously believed.

Romney compared the American economy to that of Russia as he ignored signs of growth and pounced on the Commerce Department's downward revision.

"By the way, Russia's GDP growth is at 4 percent. And we're at 1.3. This is unacceptable," he said. "The president does not understand how to get this economy to work for the American people."

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Associated Press writers Jim Kuhnhenn and Ken Thomas contributed to this report.

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Today I am writing a unique post for you, as I am participating in a special project going on at Brandon Vogt?s blog (brandonvogt.com). Vogt, a popular blogger and author, is hosting an on-line event for September?s ?Support a Catholic Speaker Month.?? To honor this celebration, Vogt launched a campaign to list the top 100 Catholic speakers. ??The purpose was not a popularity contest, but to promote Catholic speakers who are important to the life of the Church, introduce new and unfamiliar speakers and connect them with bloggers.

Now that it is finalized, bloggers from around the country have selected a speaker to highlight on their blog.? Be sure to check out the complete list here to see all the speakers and blogs that highlight their profiles! ??I have the honor of writing to you about my all-time favorite speaker and friend, Fr. Michael Gaitley, Marians of the Immaculate Conception (MIC) .

Have you ever met someone who by just being in his or her presence makes you a better person?? A speaker who although is addressing a crowd of thousands, speaks directly to your heart?? Whose words penetrate your soul like a spiritual injection?? Their writing and speaking transforms your life and draws you more intimately into union with our Creator?? I am blessed to know one, Fr. Gaitley, and thank God for he is a gift to the Church.

Fr. Gaitley is a young, on-fire priest with the Marians of the Immaculate Conception.? Those of you who are regulars on our blog or conference attendees, can attest to Fr. Gaitley?s powerful words and speaking abilities.? Fairly unknown a few short years ago, Fr. Gaitley has become a frequent face on EWTN.? While trekking the country, he speaks about Divine Mercy, the merciful outlook as articulated by Pope John Paul II, Consoling the Heart of Jesus, Spirituality, and Consecration to Jesus through Mary.? At the 2010 Columbus Conference, he shared about his father?s conversion which he attributes to Divine Mercy; in February of 2011, he spoke to us about The Little Way of St. Therese and Consoling the Heart of Jesus; in August 2011 he lead a two-day retreat on his first book, Consoling the Heart of Jesus A Do-It-Yourself Retreat Inspired by the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

Since then he has authored two more books, 33 Days to Morning Glory and his latest book, The ?One Thing? is Three: How the Most Holy Trinity Explains Everything, planned for release November 15, 2012.

In April, Fr. Gaitley launched an amazing new program called Hearts Afire Parish Based Programs for the New Evangelization (HAPP).? Designed for small groups within a parish setting, this new study has caught fire in the United States and is getting rave reviews.? The studies use the three books accompanied by DVD presentations by Fr. Gaitley, and a retreat companion book. For more information, visit www.allheartsafire.com and my previous posts: http://www.columbuscatholicwomen.com/whats-happening/, http://www.columbuscatholicwomen.com/all-in-the-family/

I am very excited to post that Fr. Gaitley will be returning to the Columbus area to give his HAPP retreat at St. John Neumann parish in Sunbury on October 20, 2012.? This is an event you don?t want to miss!? For information and registration, visit http://www.saintjohnsunbury.org/Gaitley.

Hope to see you there!

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The Politics of Women's Health ? The Perimenopause Blog

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This post was originally published at my menopause column at Healthline.com April 16, 2012. In light of the political season I thought I would reprint it.

Unless you live under a rock, or like Viggo Mortensen, you don?t own a television or surf the web (it?s true, I heard him say it), then you are probably keenly aware of the current debate over Obamacare, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ?women?s health, ?and women?s reproductive rights.

It?s a raging debate, and frankly, it also insults the hell out of me.? But then, when it comes to politicians and their political, politician games, I get insulted quite often.? Mainly because I get sick and tired of politicians presuming to speak for me.? As if I am not able to speak for myself.

I am one of those much talked about (and apparently very powerful) registered Independents ? the swing voters. I like to think of us folks in the middle as the real silent majority.? We?re the ones that are usually not ideological in our politics.? We generally don?t show up to political rallies, or Tea Parties, or Occupy Wall Street protests. It?s not that we don?t care.? It?s just that we prefer to speak with our vote.? And when we do it?s usually pretty loud and clear.? Just ask Martha Coakley, she?ll tell you.

As a woman, I?m also in a voting demographic that is a hot commodity this political season.? You may recall all of the brouhaha with Sandra Fluke and free birth control for Georgetown law students recently; Rick Santorum?s supremely ignorant comments about birth control; and no doubt, you remember Rush Limbaugh?s misogynistic rant about Sandra Fluke, so I won?t even go there.

Now, the Obama administration and Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, have both decided that it?s going to be women like me, and you perhaps, who determine the outcome of the 2012 presidential election.? It?s game on ? on both sides of the aisle. This is where I start to get testy.? That?s because I don?t believe any politician has my best interests in mind.? I?m an Independent voter, remember?

Yes, I know it has been politics and politicians who have passed laws which have directly benefited women, and I do appreciate that. What I don?t appreciate is being used as a political pawn.? But even more than that, I deeply resent the assumption that I?m too stupid to see through the political posturing, the slogans, and the ideological warfare intended as nothing more than to influence how I might think about certain issues, and who I will vote for as a result.

Are we just silly women who can be politically persuaded and led about by our ovaries and our uterus? Do they honestly believe that all it takes for me to vote for a specific candidate is to inflame my feminist passions by suggesting there is a ?war on women?? Seriously?? That?s what you think of me Mr. Politician?

Newsflash gentlemen:? Like you, I read.? Like you, I reason, and contrary to what you might think, I am not an uneducated dunderhead who believes every piece of political propaganda set before me. Yes, I care about women?s rights.? Yes, I care about women?s health, and yes, I care about women?s reproductive rights. ?But unlike some of you, I don?t think with what is positioned between my legs.

So please, enough with this pseudo war on women.? I?m not feeling it.? At least, not in the way you probably wish that I would.? If you really want to inflame my passions, recite Lord Alfred Tennyson to me while you?re dressed as a Gladiator, ala Russell Crowe.? That will get me every time.

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Best constraint on mass of photons, using observations of super-massive black holes

ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) ? A global team of scientists, including a University of Mississippi physicist, has determined the best constraint on the mass of photons so far, using observations of super-massive black holes.

The research findings appear in the September issue of Physical Review Letters. "Black hole bombs and photon mass bounds" is co-authored by Emanuele Berti, UM assistant professor of physics and astronomy, along with fellow researchers Paolo Pani, Vitor Cardoso, Leonardo Gualtieri and Akihiro Ishibashi.

This paper details how the scientists, who work in Portugal, Italy, Japan and the U.S., found a way to use astrophysical observations to test a fundamental aspect of the Standard Model -- namely, that photons have no mass -- better than anyone before.

"The test works like this: if photons had a mass, they would trigger an instability that would spin down all black holes in the universe," Berti said. "But astronomers tell us that the gigantic, super-massive black holes at galactic centers are spinning, so this instability cannot be too strong.

"The mass of the photon, if it has a mass at all, must be extremely tiny."

"Ultralight photons with nonzero mass would produce a 'black hole bomb': a strong instability that would extract energy from the black hole very quickly," said Pani, the paper's lead author. "The very existence of such particles is constrained by the observation of spinning black holes. With this technique, we have succeeded in constraining the mass of the photon to unprecedented levels: the mass must be one hundred billion of billions times smaller than the present constraint on the neutrino mass, which is about two electron-volts."

The results of this study can be used to investigate the existence of new particles, such as those possibly contributing to the dark matter that is the subject of a search using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. CERN is the site where the breakthrough discovery of the Higgs boson was reported earlier this year.

"That discovery filled one of the most important gaps in our understanding of the standard model of particle physics, because it explains how particles get their mass," Gualtieri said. "However, not all particles have mass. Physics makes progress by testing every nook and cranny of our commonly accepted theories. So, if we believe that a particle has no mass, we'd better test this idea with precise experiments.

"Observations of super-massive black holes may provide new insights which are not accessible in laboratory experiments. This would certainly be exciting. Perhaps these new frontiers in astrophysics will give us a clearer understanding of the microscopic universe."

"Paolo, Vitor, Leonardo and I are all part of an IRSES Network on 'Numerical Relativity and High-Energy Physics' funded by the European Union," Berti said. "Paolo presented a talk on this work at the first meeting of our network that was held in Aveiro, Portugal in July. This network will be used in the next four years to strengthen our collaboration even further."

Pani, who received the Fubini Prize from the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics for the best Ph.D. thesis nationwide in 2011, is a post-doctoral researcher at Instituto Superior T?cnico in Lisbon, Portugal, supported by a European Marie Curie Fellowship.

"Paolo started working with us when he visited Ole Miss in 2007," Berti said. "We have been working together on this particular project since January 2012, and we have co-authored nine papers so far."

A post-doctorate researcher at UM before returning to his native Portugal, Cardoso is a professor at Instituto Superior Tecnico, where his group is supported by a prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant. Cardoso and Berti have published 37 papers together over the past decade.

"Gualtieri and I were both Ph.D. students under the supervision of Valeria Ferrari in Rome, Italy," Berti said. "We have also been collaborating for more than a decade. Leonardo is now a research professor ('ricercatore') in Rome."

Ishibashi works at the KEK Theory Center and at the Department of Physics of Kinki University in Japan, where physicists at the center are studying in great depth phenomena similar to the one described in the PRL paper.

This study was funded, in part, by National Science Foundation Grant No. PHY-0900735 and by CAREER Grant No. PHY-1055103.

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  2. Paolo Pani, Vitor Cardoso, Leonardo Gualtieri, Emanuele Berti, Akihiro Ishibashi. Perturbations of slowly rotating black holes: massive vector fields in the Kerr metric. Physical Review D, 2012; (submitted) [link]

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Syrian rebels bomb army command in Damascus

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian rebel bomb attack reduced the army headquarters in Damascus to a smouldering wreck on Wednesday as world leaders, unable to break the diplomatic deadlock in the conflict, met at the United Nations.

The rebels said the assault on President Bashar al-Assad's power base in the center of the capital killed dozens of people.

The army said four guards were killed and 14 wounded in what it said were suicide attacks. No senior officers were hurt in the blasts, which shook the whole city just before the start of the working day, it said.

It was the biggest attack in Damascus since July 18 when a bombing killed several senior security officials, including Assad's brother-in-law, the defense minister and a general.

Since then Assad's forces have pushed back rebels to the outskirts of the capital but have lost control of several border crossings, struggled to win back the northern city of Aleppo and mounted air strikes to crush opposition in rebel territory.

State television showed CCTV footage of a white minibus pulling up by the side of the road and exploding in a ball of flames. It showed another blast 10 minutes later, apparently inside the complex.

The explosions struck as world leaders met at the United Nations, where deadlock over Syria has blocked a united global response to a conflict which activists say has killed 30,000 people, forced a quarter of a million refugees to flee the country and left 2.5 million people in need of help.

The uprising, which erupted in March last year as mainly peaceful protests for reform, has become an armed insurgency pitting mainly Sunni Muslim rebels against Assad, from the Alawite faith which is close to Shi'ite Islam.

Shi'ite Iran supports Assad while regional Sunni powers have backed the rebels.

One Sunni leader, the Emir of Qatar, told the United Nations that Arab countries should intervene "to stop the bloodshed", but few Arab states are likely to back his call.

In Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin rebutted calls for an intervention. Any attempt to unilaterally use force or interfere with events in the Middle East would be counter-productive, he said.

The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the violence through a network of activists in the country, said 240 people were killed in Syria on Tuesday. Most were civilians but the death toll included 54 members of Assad's security forces.

Activists said security forces killed more than 40 people in a town outside Damascus on Thursday, calling it a massacre.

Video published by activists showed rows of bloodied corpses wrapped in blankets in the town of Dhiyabia. The victims appeared to be male, from 20-year-olds to elderly men.

The Syrian Observatory said it could confirm 40 dead.

"A massacre in the Dhiyabia area," says the voice of an activist in the video. "God damn you Bashar. The bodies are in the dozens. Look, Muslims, look what this dictator is doing."

FLAMES ENGULF MILITARY BUILDING

Internet footage of Wednesday's fire at the General Staff Command Building showed flames engulfing its upper floors.

"The attack in Damascus once again proves that, with sufficient planning and co-ordination, the opposition appears to retain the ability to strike at the heart of regime," said David Hartwell, Middle East analyst at IHS Jane's.

"This is despite the fact that the FSA has appeared in recent weeks to be under pressure as a result of the fighting in Aleppo and other parts of the country."

The main gate of the military complex was blackened from fire while windows of the building were blown out. Glass shards littered streets and a deep crater was gouged in the road.

Residents reported that gunfire rattled out around the district for at least two hours after the explosions.

"All our colleagues in the military leadership, the army staff command and the Defense Ministry are unhurt," Information Minister Omran Zoabi told Syrian Television.

"It's a terrorist act, close to an important site, that's true. But as usual they failed to achieve their goal," he said.

Activist Samir al-Shami said the main explosions were caused by a suicide car bomb and second car loaded with explosives on the perimeter of the complex.

"Then the fighters went inside and clashed with security inside, while some of the men started to torch the building," he said.

That tallied with accounts from residents who heard gunfire and smaller blasts after the first explosions.

"The explosions were very loud. They shook the whole city and the windows of our house were shuddering," one resident reached by telephone said.

A correspondent for Iran's English-language Press TV was shot dead by a rebel sniper and its Damascus bureau chief was wounded while they covered Wednesday's explosions, Press TV said.

Pro-Assad gunmen also killed at least 16 people in Damascus, the British-based Observatory said. It said three of those killed in the poor district of Barzeh, which is sympathetic to opposition fighters, were children and six were women.

NO FUTURE

At the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York, French President Francois Hollande sought to shake up international inertia over the crisis by calling for U.N. protection of rebel-held areas.

"The Syrian regime ...has no future among us," Hollande said in a speech on Tuesday. "Without any delay, I call upon the United Nations to provide immediately to the Syrian people all the support it asks of us and to protect liberated zones."

Protection for "liberated" areas would require no-fly zones enforced by foreign aircraft, which could stop deadly air raids by Assad's forces on populated areas. But there is little chance of securing a Security Council mandate for such action given the opposition of veto-wielding members Russia and China.

The United States, European allies, Turkey and Gulf Arab states have sided with the Syrian opposition while Iran, Russia and China have backed Assad, whose family and minority Alawite sect have dominated Syria for 42 years.

Western powers have stopped short of supplying military aid to the rebels to an extent that could turn the tide of the conflict, in part out of fear of arming Islamist militants who have joined the anti-Assad revolt.

(Additional reporting by Dominic Evans and Erika Solomon in Beirut, Rania El gamal and Sami Aboudi in Dubai; Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

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PFT: Ref nightmare NFL feared has happened

PFT: Even before Monday night?s Packers-Seahawks game, the officiating lockout had reached a tipping point. Casual, Super-Bowl-only fans were buzzing about the brouhaha, and the NFL?s ?remain calm . . . all is well . . . ALL IS WELL!? mantra was regarded as laughable. But the NFL had been lucky. No game had been decided by a bad call in a decisive moment. So much for that.

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Is Mitt Romney's Ohio bus tour a waste of his time?

Yes, no Republican has won without Ohio, but it is doable, and polls show the state is looking increasingly out of reach for Mitt Romney, who might be better off spending his time in Florida.

By Liz Marlantes,?Correspondent / September 25, 2012

Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan waves to supporters from a bus, Monday, Sept. 24, at the Veterans Memorial Civic & Convention Center in Lima, Ohio.

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We ask this as Mr. Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, embark on a three-day bus tour in the Buckeye State (actually, it?s a three-day tour for Mr. Ryan; Mr. Romney is joining the tour a day late).

Yes, Ohio has long been seen as critical for Romney. At this point, anyone and everyone who follows politics can probably recite the mantra: ?No Republican has won the White House without winning Ohio."?And it?s true that pulling out of Ohio would likely be interpeted as a sign of bigger troubles for the Romney campaign.

But at some point in every election, it becomes clear that certain states regarded as "tossups" are probably lost causes for one candidate or the other. And for some time now, Ohio has not looked good for Romney. President Obama has held a lead in the Buckeye State for many months, and recent polls show that lead is growing. A new Washington Post poll out Tuesday has Obama up in Ohio by eight points ? prompting The Post?s political blog "The Fix" to move the state from ?tossup? to ?lean Obama.?

The reasons behind Ohio?s more Obama-friendly environment range from the auto bailout (which remains popular in a state where one out of eight workers is employed in auto-related jobs) to the fact that Ohio?s economy is actually in better shape than the nation?s as a whole. Romney has also failed miserably at telegraphing the kind of cultural populism that has traditionally boosted Republican candidates among Ohio?s white, working class voters.

All of which makes us wonder if we've reached a point where Romney should just cut his losses and move on? Forget about Ohio, and focus like a laser on the remaining states that polls show he can ? and, in fact, absolutely must ? win. By which we mostly mean: Florida.

You see, Romney can still win without Ohio. It wouldn?t be easy, but it?s technically doable (he would have to win Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire - all states where current polls show Romney behind, but none of which look quite as bad for him as Ohio). But take Florida out of the equation for Romney, and the math becomes nearly impossible. (Without Florida, Romney has to win all the states listed above, plus Wisconsin, which is looking more and more uphill for him, plus, of course, Ohio ? which brings us back to where we started.)

Right now, polls show Romney is also behind in Florida, but not by much ? Tuesday's Washington Post poll shows Obama with a four-point lead. And unlike Ohio, where Obama has been strong pretty much throughout the campaign, Florida has actually had Romney in the lead at different times. It?s not hard to envision him regaining an edge there again.

Bottom line: with just over 40 days to go before Election Day, the Romney campaign needs to think hard about how ? and where ??they?re spending every hour and every dollar. Evidence suggests that these three days in Ohio might be better spent elsewhere.?

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