Will your gadgets freeze in your car in the winter?

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You almost always have your laptop, iPod, and smartphone with you, but don't always want to lug them around. Is it okay to leave them in your car if it's particularly cold outside? What about in the summer heat? You know extreme temperatures aren't good, but how hot is too hot and?how cold is too cold?

We've?talked about temperature limits?before, but more in the context of CPU temperature???leaving gadgets?in your car in the cold or heat is a completely different matter, since it affects the battery, screen, and other parts. In general, you want to avoid extreme temperatures as much as possible, so no, I wouldn't recommend leaving it in your car. Here's a bit more detail on what your laptop or smartphone can take.

How hot is too hot?
We all know heat is bad for your tech. Not only can it?fry the processor?of your laptop or gadget, but it can lower your battery's life and even make the hard drive expand. And, if you live in a humid area, you also have to worry about condensation building up on the inside.

Generally,?once it hits 90? or 95? Fahrenheit, you want to start shielding your laptop and smartphone from the heat. Remember that the inside of your car will get hotter than the outside, too, so even if it isn't quite 90??outside, you should keep it in your bag or leave it at home. And, if you absolutely must have it with you, do your best to keep it in the shade and out of direct sunlight.?Laptop stands?can also help a great deal.

How cold is too cold?
Cold is a slightly more interesting beast. In general, tech runs much better when it's cool than when it's hot, but when you start approaching extreme winter temperatures, the weather can be just as harmful as in the summer. If you leave your device in the cold for too long, its battery will die and its LCD screen will likely start having issues, and possibly die completely. Furthermore, if you leave it in the cold and then bring it into a warm room quickly, you can cause condensation to build up inside the device, which has the potential for more long-term damage.

PC World found that?different gadgets can withstand different temperatures of cold, but to be conservative, we recommend taking precautions once the ambient temperature reaches freezing, or 32? Fahrenheit. Lower than that, and you'll slowly start to see different errors or issues until your gadget powers down altogether. When you can, keep your laptop in a case or bag and your smartphone in your pocket, to help shield it from the winds of winter.

Lastly, if for some reason you?do?expose your gadget to extreme temperatures, don't try to use it right away. Instead, let it warm up or cool down to room temperature before you turn it on. This will help protect your gadget from more lasting damage from things like condensation. In general, just use common sense: if your computer feels particularly cold or hot to the touch before it's even on, you probably shouldn't leave it alone in that weather.

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Syrian economy to shrink 20 percent in 2012: IIF

BEIRUT (Reuters) - War-ravaged Syria's economy will shrink by a fifth in 2012 and all its foreign reserves could be spent by the end of next year, a global finance industry association said on Monday.

Since a revolt that has since descended into civil war started in March 2011, inflation has risen to 40 percent and the Syrian pound's official exchange rate against the dollar fallen by 51 percent, the Institute for International Finance said.

As well as financing the war, President Bashar al-Assad's government has spent billions of dollars of hard currency reserves on wages, fuel subsidies and propping up the pound, bankers in Damascus say.

The Washington-based IIF said the reserves could be depleted by the end of 2013.

Opposition activists estimate some 40,000 people have been killed in Syria as fighting between rebels and the army has raged in almost every city and has now reached the outskirts of the capital.

International measures to pressure Assad to step down have also affected the economy.

"The sanctions by the Arab League introduced in late 2011 and the September 2011 U.S. and EU. sanctions have meant more economic hardships for 2012 and 2013," said Garbis Iradian, deputy director of the IIF's Africa and Middle East department.

Syria has not yet released economic forecasts for 2012 but the finance ministry has said GDP growth will be positive.

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Syria's war has affected the countries around it, with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. Trading routes have also been cut.

Lebanon, its smaller neighbor that is rebuilding after its own 15-year civil war, has borne the brunt of the turmoil.

Lebanon's economy is due to grow by 0.6 percent this year, a significant drop from 1.8 percent in 2011 and 7 percent in 2010, the IIF said, after political bickering and sporadic sectarian clashes linked to Syria's conflict have scared off investors.

"The deepening conflict in Syria continues to pose a threat to Lebanon's political order and economic stability," Iradian said.

If Lebanese politicians were to reach a consensus on effective government, improve domestic security and implement fiscal and structural reforms then the 2013 GDP forecast could reach 3.5 percent at best, he said.

"If this doesn't happen, it would likely be 1 percent."

Foreign direct investment dropped from 10 percent of GDP before the Syrian crisis to hardly 2 percent of GDP, he said. But the banking sector has remained resilient and the Lebanese pound is stable.

Nassib Ghobril, chief economist at Byblos Bank, which hosted the launch of the report, said Lebanon could have mitigated the adverse impact of the Syria turmoil on the economy "if Lebanese politicians and government officials made a concerted effort to maintain political stability."

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Google to stop offering free Google Apps to small businesses

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Google will stop offering the free version of its Google Apps to small businesses with less than 10 employees.

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Google Inc. will stop offering the free version of its Google Apps to small businesses with less than 10 employees.

The move will not affect current customers using the service, according to the Wall Street Journal. Google Apps includes a "custom email address, Google Docs and Google Drive online storage as well as customer support for paying customers," according to the report.

Sundar Pichai, Google's senior vice president in charge of Google Apps, told the Wall Street Journal that the move was intended to improve customer service, which is only available to paying customers. Currently, companies with more than 10 users pay $50 a person each year for the service, according to the report.

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Pebble smartwatch hit with further delays, won't be stuffing a stocking near you

Pebble's finally coming soon! Just not in time to become one of the season's hottest stocking stuffers. As seems to be par for the course with Kickstarter projects, the blockbuster smartwatch is more than a bit behind schedule, but the team is hot on the case, keeping backers in the loop with regular update posts. The latest, which hit inboxes just this afternoon, confirms that the device will support iPhone SMS and iMessage notifications (phew!), assuming you have it linked up with an Apple device running iOS 6. We also got to take a peek at some hot-off-the-press Pebbles in their final finishes -- the black, gray, orange, red and white wearables posed for a point-and-shoot, so they don't pack the typical punch of a pro photo job. Still, they look mighty slick, and if the shot above is any indication, they might turn out to be quite the fingerprint magnets, too. We'll be keeping an eye on Kickstarter for an official shipment notification, but in the meantime, backers are invited to login to their Pebble accounts to make final color selections by next Friday. You can hit up that site at the source link below, then hop past the break for an iMessage demo.

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The 'skills gap' may be your fault, employers

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With the economic recovery stuck in low gear, Tammy Krings has something of a happy problem for her growing, Columbus,?Ohio-based global travel business, TS24.

Some 17 years after starting with out?three employees, Krings is wrapping up a barnburner year. The company booked so much new business in 2012, she's had to?hire 60 new employees ? up from a staff of?120 in January.

Faced with that kind of rapid growth, Krings says she ran smack into one of the biggest hurdles cited by many?employers today: the so-called ?skills gap.?

??My frustration is you keep hearing about these unemployment numbers, but we have a very, very difficult time finding qualified people,? she said.

Researchers and staffing consultants say Krings' frustration is widespread, the result of a host of powerful?forces jarring the labor market?? from the ongoing, rapid infusion of technology into the workplace to the decline of vocational training in the American education system and the ongoing, mass exodus of a generation of skilled baby boomers headed for retirement. ???

As a result, Krings learned what labor economists and staffing consultants say is the hard reality of finding skilled workers in a?rapidly changing workplace.?

If you can?t find?what you?re looking for, try harder. And if that doesn?t work, you may have to cough?up the money to train the best new hires you can find.

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?We?ve been able to find the types of people that we want as long we are willing to invest in them to bring them to the level of skill that we need,? said Krings.

But millions of small- and medium-sized employers, the businesses that create the bulk of new jobs, are apparently?unwilling or unable to spend the money to bring new hires up to speed.

?I don?t think companies are confident enough right now to make big investments (in training)," said?Melanie Holmes? who has tracked workplace issues in a 30-year career with Manpower, a global staffing company. ?They want to hire someone who can be productive tomorrow."

There?s no debate about the increased demand for higher-skilled workers in an economy that relies more heavily every year on advances in technology to raise the productivity of each worker. That?s why the jobs that employers said they had the hardest time filling in 2012 were skilled trades, engineers and IT Staff, according to a?Manpower survey.

?It used to be all you needed was a strong back and an alarm clock to get a really good, family-sustaining job in manufacturing,? said Holmes. ?Unfortunately for individuals ? and fortunately for companies ??technology has changed that. You need at least some post-secondary education.?

But a decades-long shift in emphasis on four-year, liberal arts college degrees has drained the supply of students entering job-based, vocational and technical schools. Employer- and union-sponsored training programs have also become artifacts of the last century, according to Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the University of Pennsylvania?s?Wharton?School who heads the school?s Center for Human Resources.?

?Apprenticeship programs have collapsed,? he said. ?We?ve got, by far, the least apprenticeship training per capita than any other industrialized country.?

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That has shifted the burden of skills training to employers ? a burden many say they?re unwilling or unable to take on. The current dearth of company-sponsored training programs is also, in part, a hangover from the mass layoffs and hiring freezes that accompanied the Great Recession. ??

?Training was one of the first things that we cut during the downturn because we weren?t hiring,? said Krings. ?If you?re not hiring, you don?t need to have anyone on board to train new hires.?

But with the economy now in its third year of a halting recovery, many companies continue to defer spending on training.

?It comes down to an excuse of budget limitations,? said?David Smith, a human resources consultant at Accenture.??The biggest issue probably is return on investment. It?s hard to measure the results. But it?s a poor excuse. People just get hung up so quickly on that point and they?re very, very short-sighted.?

Some companies simply don?t get it. Many of the ?skills gap? complaints are coming?from small companies that have limited or no human resources expertise, according to Capelli.

?If they don?t have anybody in house who understands recruiting and training and development, then there?s nobody to explain to management ?We?re looking in the wrong places? or? ?We can?t pay this much and expect to get the people we want.? ?

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One simple solution would be to raise wages. The laws of economics suggest that if something is in short supply, prices should rise until demand is satisfied. If a computer programmer can earn $50 an hour working for a software company, she has little incentive to accept a $25 an hour job programming a manufacturing robot.

But Krings says she just can?t afford to pay the salaries that the best applicants are asking.

?Our customers don?t want to pay the rate they were paying three years ago,? she said. ?We?re doing more for less today.?

Like Krings, most employers apparently?are unwilling or unable to pay higher wages to compete for better skills. Manpower?s survey found that only 11 percent had increased starting salaries in 2012 to help recruit talented workers. More than three times as many said they preferred to provide additional training to existing staff.

Some hiring managers just give up looking and defer new?hires, assuming they'll save money that will add to profits. But that strategy generates a?false sense of?economy because few employers account for just?how much those unfilled jobs are costing them, said Capelli.

?You can?t account for lost opportunities, or the work that?s not getting done, or the burnout of your employees --?who all want to get out of there now because they feel you're abusing them with overwork,? he said. ?You can?t account for any of that stuff, so it looks like you?re saving money.?

Though tight budgets and a weak economy may have crimped companies' spending on training and bigger paychecks, hiring managers bemoaning the "skills gap"?may be in for a rude shock if the?economy picks up speed?next year. With increased demand for talent, the ?skills gap? will only worsen as more companies have to draw from the same pool of workers, said Holmes.

?I think it?s going to worse before it gets better,? she said. ?If business does come back year next year, we?re not going to have enough people."

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Review: 3 weather phone apps help you on the go

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ? For me, climate change is a serious issue. No, I'm not referring to the debate over global warming. My concerns are much simpler. I'm constantly checking the weather for the hours and days ahead because deciding to hike on a rainy day or neglecting to dress warmly can put a damper on a vacation.

During recent travels, I tried several free weather apps for the iPhone and Android phones. (Versions for tablet computers also are available, but I didn't test those extensively.)

I didn't try to determine which is more accurate at predicting the weather. They are all generally good, but not error-free. Rather, I evaluated each based on features and ease of use.

The ones I tested operate similarly on iPhones and Android phones, though there are some differences in how information gets presented or accessed. Here's a look at three apps I recommend:

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The Weather Channel

When you open this app, the home screen presents you with current conditions, including temperature, humidity, wind, visibility, UV index (a gauge of the strength of ultraviolet radiation) and dew point (which I have yet to figure out a use for). You also get information on sunrise and sunset times.

Navigating the tabs, you get hourly forecasts for the next 24 hours on the iPhone and 15 on the Android. On both, you get daily forecasts for the next 10 days. The Android version doesn't include dates, so you're left to figure out whether Saturday means this Saturday or next weekend. Click on "36 Hour" for brief written summaries for today, tonight and tomorrow.

The map shows you the radar for your region, giving you an idea of how far away a storm might be. During my travels, I've used this feature to gauge how quickly heavy rain might pass. You can switch that to show cloud cover instead of radar, or show both. You can also add details such as rain or snow over the past 24 hours.

You can check weather anywhere in the U.S. by entering a city name or ZIP code. Or click on a target icon for the weather where you are, as determined by your phone. There's a location icon at the bottom of the Android version. On the iPhone, you're left to figure out that you need to click on the magnifying glass or the "i'' button for settings. Flick the screen left or right to check weather in other locations you have stored.

The app also offers video of weather forecasts and news, with those from your city or region coming up first. There are tools for seeing what people are saying about the weather on Twitter and for sharing your weather-related photos and video. The app offers a pollen report; the iPhone version has hurricane and maritime conditions, too. The Weather Channel says that information is coming to Android next year, along with longer hourly forecasts.

Conclusion: You get lots of information on current conditions and the most options of the three for viewing maps. Limiting hourly forecasts to 24 hours or less is stingy. On The Weather Channel's website, I get two days of hourly forecasts.

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AccuWeather

The home screen also offers temperature, humidity, wind, UV index and visibility conditions, plus sunrise and sunset. The Android version lists wind gusts, not just wind speeds. The iPhone version has information on dew point, while Android does not.

AccuWeather goes beyond The Weather Channel in offering 15 days of forecasts, not just 10, and offers dates on both the iPhone and Android. Its extended forecasts are also more detailed than the Weather Channel's. You can click on a day to get those details.

Comparable with The Weather Channel, AccuWeather offers just 24 hours of hourly forecasts on its app. By contrast, you get more than three days on its website, and even more with a paid subscription. AccuWeather has more details than The Weather Channel for each hour, though you're left to figure out where to flick and touch to get those details.

AccuWeather's map is adequate, but doesn't offer as many options as The Weather Channel's.

As for location, the Android version has a target icon on the home screen (it's buried in the other apps) to quickly pull up information on where you are. That button is not coming to the iPhone for another few months, so for now, the location is harder to change. Unlike the other apps I tried, AccuWeather doesn't offer suggestions as you start typing in the name of a city to switch locations. With big fingers on a small touch keyboard, I had to type "Sault Ste. Marie" in its entirety for the sister cities in Michigan and Ontario.

Like The Weather Channel, AccuWeather offers local, regional and national video. AccuWeather has special forecasts for certain types of activities ? such as golfing, bicycling and lawn mowing ? as well as risks for asthma, flu and migraines. However, you're just given a one-word assessment, such as "poor" or "excellent," with no clues as to why it might be a horrible day to run or ski.

Conclusion: The app could be better with its hourly forecasts. It also ought to be easier to change locations. The activities forecasts show promise, though I long for more details. AccuWeather promises some of these desired features in a few months. AccuWeather has typically been my first stop for weather information on a regular computer, but the app leaves me wanting for now ? unless I'm looking for extended forecasts.

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WeatherBug

This app's home screen crams a lot of useful information without clutter. That screen doesn't give you as much detail as the others on current conditions. Humidity, dew point and UV index are missing from the Android version, and neither version has information on visibility, sunset or sunrise. What you get instead is a graphical forecast for upcoming days ? today plus five days for Android and two for the iPhone.

Touch on the forecast section for additional days and details ? though you get only seven in all, the fewest of the three apps. Click on any day for written summaries of day and evening forecasts. Then click on that for hourly forecasts. Yes, that means nearly seven days of hourly forecasts, not the stingy 24 hours (or less) offered by the other two.

WeatherBug's radar map is OK, but not as versatile as The Weather Channel's.

WeatherBug doesn't have a target icon on the Android version to help you quickly get weather for where you are, but it's not really needed. On both the iPhone and Android, weather automatically updates to your current location when you have GPS enabled.

Switching locations or adding one by city or ZIP code is relatively easy, but only the iPhone version offers suggestions as you type. Once you enter a city, you can narrow your choice to a specific school, airport or other weather monitoring station. WeatherBug has placed more than 10,000 of these across the country. The others offer localized weather by analyzing available data from government and private sources. From my office in New York, I can get current conditions at a nearby school rather than a Central Park station 1.6 miles farther away.

Video is limited to national forecasts, but still images from several nearby locations let you see for yourself whether it's raining. A recent update to the WeatherBug app adds such specialty forecasts as golfing, pollen and dry skin. There aren't as many choices as AccuWeather's app, but you get more details for the ones that are available.

Conclusion: I find WeatherBug to be the easiest to use of the three, and I love the extended hourly forecasts. It's a good choice as long as you're not looking for a lot of video and a forecast beyond seven days.

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Anick Jesdanun, deputy technology editor for The Associated Press, can be reached at njesdanun(at)ap.org.

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FCC clarifies set-top box IP interface requirement and extends deadline to 2013

You may have not noticed, but your cable box at home has a Firewire port on it, designed to serve up content to other devices in your home. This almost useless port -- thanks DRM -- is a result of an FCC mandate that has been enforced for almost ten years. Due to the lack of use, the cable industry asked that the rules be updated to require an IP interface instead. That request was granted in the fall of 2010 and was supposed to go into effect this very month.

Evidently two years wasn't long enough to find an acceptable industry standard stack to deliver video over IP, so TiVo and the cable industry requested an extension. The FCC let it be known last week in a Memorandum Opinion and Order that a single standard wasn't actually required, as long as the IP interface on the cable box used an industry standard -- the Commission did bless the DLNA Premium Video Profile as a suitable example. We'll have to wait and see if any other standards are in the mix, but regardless, TiVo and the rest of the cable industry now have until June of 2014 before every one of their boxes has to be able to deliver HD content to 3rd party devices like TVs, Blu-ray players and tablets via IP. In this particular context, TiVo is being treated as a cable company box supplier, although we're not sure how this will apply to its retail devices. Only time will tell if this mandate will bear fruit, but with any luck, the second time will be a charm.

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Cinema, Inc?s?fourth?film in its?current series?is the?1958 French film Mon Uncle on Sunday?December 9, 2012?at 7 pm in the Rialto Theatre, 1620 Glenwood Ave (near Five Points), Raleigh, NC.??This?is?cinematic comedy at its very best.? Jacques Tati was a unique film director who made very few films, but his observations on the foibles of men and women?have been repeated in countless subsequent films all over the world.???Series tickets to our monthly?12-film?series are $20.? Further information on?our series which started?in September?may?be found at? www.cinema-inc.org.? In addition, we may be contacted at? 919-787-7611 or by email at? thecinemainc@gmail.com.

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A generation ago, when the Electronic Privacy Communication Act was passed,?"the cloud," a term for massive?server?storage of private?emails, documents and photos, didn't exist. Now some?lawmakers are looking to amend the 1986?law so that information stored in the cloud would require a warrant by the police who want that information from either the cloud?storage provider or the individual.

That amendment to the?Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 2012, the first major changes to 26-year-old law, is expected to be considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

Right now, law enforcement needs only a subpoena, issued by a prosecutor, to search cloud-based storage, whether it's for emails or documents that are shared for collaboration?on sites like Google. A bill by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, would instead require law enforcement to obtain a search warrant issued by a judge.

"The bill pending at the Senate Judiciary Committee to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act is long overdue," said Greg?Nojeim, senior counsel and director of the Center for Democracy & Technology's?Project on Freedom, Security & Technology, told NBC News.

"Requiring a warrant for email and other information stored in the cloud would provide privacy to consumers, certainty to law enforcement, and clarity to the companies that receive law enforcement demands."

The ACLU, too, is backing the change. "We believe the statute is very out of date," Christopher Calabrese, ACLU legislative counsel, told NBC News. "All email and all private communications should be covered by a warrant," and not just a subpoena.

Law enforcement groups are opposing the cloud-based?warrant requirement.?The battle comes as courts continue to?wrangle?over whether law enforcement should be allowed to track an?individuals'?cellphone information?without a warrant.?

"The crime scene of the 21st century is filled with electronic records and other digital evidence," wrote?representatives of various investigative, legal and police agencies via the National Sheriffs' Association?in a?letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

If anything, the agency representatives said in the letter, "laws, policies, protocols, and practices related to the process of law enforcement evidence retrieval from communications service?providers are out-of-date and increasingly insufficient moving forward."

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Crane bursts into flames, collapses on building in Australia

TODAY's Natalie Morales takes a look at video showing the biggest crane in Sydney, Australia, engulfed in flames then crashing down onto a nearby building. Thankfully, nobody was injured in the ordeal.

By Ian Johnston, NBC News

A 210-foot crane burst into flames and its arm then crashed onto a university building in Australia Tuesday as people fled.

Video footage showed flames engulfing the engine and cabin of the crane.

It was the second crane collapse involving multinational construction company Lend Lease. It currently is being sued by two dentists over the collapse of a crane on a 90-story luxury apartment building in New York City during superstorm Sandy.

The University of Technology Sydney said in a statement that the crane caught fire shortly before 10 a.m. local time (10 p.m. ET).

The university said no one was hurt with students and staff evacuating buildings in the affected areas. It added it was working with Lend Lease and the authorities ?to assess the safety of the site and surrounding area.?

Fire crews quickly withdrawn
Fire & Rescue NSW said in a statement that ?a crane driver and a second worker in the cabin evacuated soon after firefighters arrived as the fire spread from the engine to engulf the cabin.?

Fire crews were ?quickly withdrawn when the fire started to destabilize the crane?s structural integrity and its fly boom [the crane arm] collapsed,? the statement said.

About 200 people were evacuated from the area and a 0.6-mile exclusion zone was set up.

On Oct. 29, during superstorm Sandy, a crane operated by Lend Lease collapsed on the One57 building, which includes a number of expensive apartments and a number of businesses.

Earlier this month, Reuters reported that two dentists with offices near the building had filed a lawsuit against Lend Lease and other companies involved, saying they had been forced to close as the area was evacuated.

Police have evacuated the upper floors of buildings near a luxury high-rise on West 57th St. in New York City as damaged crane dangled precariously from what is slated to be Manhattan's tallest residential tower. NBC's Rehema Ellis reports.

Crane left dangling from partly built Manhattan tower

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, said Lend Lease was negligent because it failed to make sure the crane was properly secured before the storm.

"The crane collapse and the ensuing week-long evacuation was a direct result of defendants' failure to prepare, maintain, operate, and secure the crane to withstand the winds of the widely anticipated Hurricane Sandy," the lawsuit said.

There was no response to calls placed with Lend Lease offices in London, U.K., and New York Tuesday.

The British trade magazine Building?s website (requires registration) quoted a Lend Lease spokesperson as saying the crane collapses in Sydney and New York were ?completely unrelated.?

?No one has been injured as a result of the incident,? the spokesperson said, referring to the Sydney collapse. ?Lend Lease is working closely with emergency services and relevant authorities to manage the incident.?

Reuters contributed to this report.

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Car Companies Are Seeing the Light

The three top Automotive X Prize winning vehicles: the X-Tracer Team Switzerland E-Tracer, the Edison2 Very Light Car, and the Li-ion Motors Corp. Wave II. Each vehicle is capable of achieving 100 miles per gallon or the energy equivalent.

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When anonymous Ford executives told the Wall Street Journal this summer that the company would be switching out the steel body of its iconic F-150 pickup for an all-aluminum one beginning in 2014, many brand loyalists at the Ford Truck Enthusiasts forum were somewhat skeptical. Price was a concern, given that aluminum can cost as much as four times as much as steel. Others noted that aluminum is harder to repair, given that fewer body shops equipped to work with the metal: ?(I)t's not like you can just have a dent service repair it when you get a door ding or worse.? And then there was the toughness factor, with many complaining that aluminum just doesn?t evoke that same masculine/cowboy/fulfilled-by-manual-labor aesthetic: ?I like my old steel pickup, I like the feeling of having heavy protection rather then [sic] feeling like a soda can on wheels.?

Ford would later call the executives? prediction ?premature.? Still, it prompted the question: Why would America?s most popular pickup risk alienating its base? Because as the Ford execs noted, an aluminum body would shave 700 pounds off of the truck?s total weight?and the less weight the engine has to move, the less gas it will have to use. ?Weight reduction,? Ford?s global chief of product development told the Wall Street Journal, ?is going to be a big part of our strategy.?

It is possible that the gains in fuel economy will attract new customers, mitigating the loss of those loyalists who prefer the more traditional steel horse. And maybe Ford is seriously concerned with the health of Mother Earth. But it also didn?t have much of a choice.

In July 2011, the Obama administration reached an agreement with 13 major automakers?Ford included?along with the UAW and the EPA to dramatically increase vehicle fuel efficiency standards on all cars and light trucks sold in the United States: By 2025, every carmaker?s fleet would have to average 54.5 miles per gallon. It represented a near-doubling of the current standard of 29 miles per gallon?roughly the highway fuel efficiency of a Ford Taurus.

Environmental groups mostly celebrated the move?the Union of Concerned Scientists, for instance, deemed it ?a very positive development.? (Although, as financial writer Felix Salmon at Reuters has noted, the new standard will still leave us lagging behind just about every government fuel efficiency standard in the developed world.) Conservatives were, predictably, not enthused. When the terms were finalized a year later, a post-primary and pre-centrist Mitt Romney called the measures ?extreme,? arguing that they would ?limit the choices available to American families.? In an article titled ?Obama?s Sneaky, Deadly, Costly Car Tax,? conservative columnist and paid hysteric Michelle Malkin warned that the ?draconian environmental regulation ? will cost untold American lives.?

Perhaps a bit more amenable to regulations because of the bailout, automakers publicly offered their endorsement. But there was some market wariness about both the desire for such vehicles and the quick timeline for such a major move. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, an industry trade group, called the new standards ?ambitious,? ?aggressive,? and ?very, very challenging,? noting how slow the market pickup has been for hybrid cars, which in their decade or so of availability have failed to crack 2.5 percent of vehicle sales.

But it?s not like this call for greater fuel efficiency caught carmakers by surprise. The passage of the Energy Independence and Security Act in 2007 had already set a goal for the national fuel economy standard of 35 mpg by 2020?marking the first substantive change since Congress set the original standard of 27.5 mpg in 1975 (to be reached by 1985) in the wake of the oil crisis. Obama?s two subsequent goalpost relocations?first pushing Bush?s original plan up to 35.5 mpg by 2016 and then extending it with the 54.5-by-2025 plan?just demanded that carmakers act a bit more quickly.

So now the auto industry is forced to tackle something they were able to mostly ignore for a quarter of a century. And with Obama?s re-election, reality just renewed its lease. Where to start?

Some have opted for the direct route, tinkering and tweaking the engine. GM?s new Corvette, for instance, offers something called ?active fuel management,? in which the car cuts off half of the engine?s cylinders during what it calls ?light load? situations like highway coasting. Ford?s new Fusion model offers a similar fuel saving function?a ?start-stop? feature that shuts the engine down when the car is idling. All of the Big Three are even rolling out models that run clean diesel?a more efficient, low-sulfur version of the fuel?in 2013.

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Egypt's Mursi faces judicial revolt over new powers

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi faced a rebellion from judges who accused him on Saturday of expanding his powers at their expense, deepening a crisis that has triggered violence in the street and exposed the country's deep divisions.

The Judges' Club, a body representing judges across Egypt, called for a strike during a meeting interrupted with chants demanding the "downfall of the regime" - the rallying cry in the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak last year.

Mursi's political opponents and supporters, representing the divide between newly empowered Islamists and their critics, called for rival demonstrations on Tuesday over a decree that has triggered concern in the West.

Issued late on Thursday, it marks an effort by Mursi to consolidate his influence after he successfully sidelined Mubarak-era generals in August. The decree defends from judicial review decisions taken by Mursi until a new parliament is elected in a vote expected early next year.

It also shields the Islamist-dominated assembly writing Egypt's new constitution from a raft of legal challenges that have threatened the body with dissolution, and offers the same protection to the Islamist-controlled upper house of parliament.

Egypt's highest judicial authority, the Supreme Judicial Council, said the decree was an "unprecedented attack" on the independence of the judiciary. The Judges' Club, meeting in Cairo, called on Mursi to rescind it.

That demand was echoed by prominent opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei. "There is no room for dialogue when a dictator imposes the most oppressive, abhorrent measures and then says 'let us split the difference'," he said.

"I am waiting to see, I hope soon, a very strong statement of condemnation by the U.S., by Europe and by everybody who really cares about human dignity," he said in an interview with Reuters and the Associated Press.

More than 300 people were injured on Friday as protests against the decree turned violent. There were attacks on at least three offices belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement that propelled Mursi to power.

POLARISATION

Liberal, leftist and socialist parties called a big protest for Tuesday to force Mursi to row back on a move they say has exposed the autocratic impulses of a man once jailed by Mubarak.

In a sign of the polarization in the country, the Muslim Brotherhood called its own protests that day to support the president's decree.

Mursi also assigned himself new authority to sack the prosecutor general, who was appointed during the Mubarak era, and appoint a new one. The dismissed prosecutor general, Abdel Maguid Mahmoud, was given a hero's welcome at the Judges' Club.

In open defiance of Mursi, Ahmed al-Zind, head of the club, introduced Mahmoud by his old title.

The Mursi administration has defended the decree on the grounds that it aims to speed up a protracted transition from Mubarak's rule to a new system of democratic government.

Analysts say it reflects the Brotherhood's suspicion towards sections of a judiciary unreformed from Mubarak's days.

"It aims to sideline Mursi's enemies in the judiciary and ultimately to impose and head off any legal challenges to the constitution," said Elijah Zarwan, a fellow with The European Council on Foreign Relations.

"We are in a situation now where both sides are escalating and its getting harder and harder to see how either side can gracefully climb down."

ADVISOR TO MURSI QUITS

Following a day of violence in Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said and Suez, the smell of tear gas hung over the capital's Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the uprising that toppled Mubarak in 2011 and the stage for more protests on Friday.

Youths clashed sporadically with police near the square, where activists camped out for a second day on Saturday, setting up makeshift barricades to keep out traffic.

Al-Masry Al-Youm, one of Egypt's most widely read dailies, hailed Friday's protest as "The November 23 Intifada", invoking the Arabic word for uprising.

But the ultra-orthodox Salafi Islamist groups that have been pushing for tighter application of Islamic law in the new constitution have rallied behind Mursi's decree.

The Nour Party, one such group, stated its support for the Mursi decree. Al-Gama'a al-Islamiya, which carried arms against the state in the 1990s, said it would save the revolution from what it described as remnants of the Mubarak regime.

Samir Morkos, a Christian assistant to Mursi, had told the president he wanted to resign, said Yasser Ali, Mursi's spokesman. Speaking to the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, Morkos said: "I refuse to continue in the shadow of republican decisions that obstruct the democratic transition".

Mursi's decree has been criticized by Western states that earlier this week were full of praise for his role in mediating an end to the eight-day war between Israel and Palestinians.

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

The European Union urged Mursi to respect the democratic process.

(Additional reporting by Omar Fahmy, Marwa Awad, Edmund Blair and Shaimaa Fayed and Reuters TV; Editing by Jon Hemming)

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

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KENYA: Child killed in grenade attack on Kenyan church

A nine-year-old boy was killed and three other children wounded when a hand grenade was thrown into a Sunday school session in a church in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, police and medical staff said.

Kenya has suffered a series of grenade attacks since it sent troops across the border into Somalia last October in pursuit of Islamist al Shabaab militants who it blamed for kidnapping its security personnel and Western tourists.

The attack on the church came days after Kenyan troops launched a surprise offensive on the southern Somali port of Kismayu, the last stronghold of the al Shabaab, forcing the rebels to flee.

Police said attackers threw the grenade into the Sunday school service in St. Polycarp's church on Nairobi's Juja Road.

The grenade exploded, spraying the children with shrapnel and fatally injuring the boy.
"We suspect this blast might have been carried out by sympathisers of al Shabaab," said deputy police spokesman Charles Owino.

"These are the kicks of a dying horse since, of late, Kenyan police have arrested several suspects in connection with grenades," he added.

Masked assailants launched simultaneous gun and grenade raids on two churches in the northern town of Garissa in July, killing at least 17 people.

(REUTERS)

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Trial of Pope Benedict's former butler to start on Saturday

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict's former butler, Paolo Gabriele, goes on trial on Saturday in one of the most embarrassing episodes in recent Vatican history.

The trial of the 46-year-old man who served the pope his meals and helped him dress is due to start at 9:30 a.m. (4.30 p.m. EDT) in the Vatican's little-used tribunal, a small room with rich paneled wood and a papal emblem on its ceiling.

His arrest on May 23 caused an international furor after police found confidential documents in his apartment inside the Vatican, a dramatic twist that threw the global media spotlight on an institution battling to defend its reputation from allegations of graft.

A three-judge panel will decide the fate of Gabriele, whom the pope used to call "Paoletto" (little Paul) and who is now described in Vatican documents as "the defendant".

Gabriele stands accused of stealing the pontiff's personal papers and leaking them to the media in what he says was an attempt to clean up corruption at the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.

According to an indictment last August, Gabriele told investigators he had acted because he saw "evil and corruption everywhere in the Church" and wanted to help root it out "because the pope was not sufficiently informed".

The documents pointed to a power struggle at the Church's highest levels.

Gabriele, who said he saw himself as a whistle-blowing "agent of the Holy Spirit", is widely expected to be convicted on charges of aggravated theft because he has confessed.

The trial procedures will be based on a 19th century Italian penal code and could result in a prison sentence of up to four years for Gabriele and one year for Claudio Sciarpelletti, a computer expert charged with aiding and abetting him.

CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS

It is not clear how long the trial might last.

Gabriele, a father of three who lived a simple but comfortable life in the city-state, told investigators after his arrest in May that he believed a shock "could be a healthy thing to bring the Church back on the right track".

His arrest capped nearly five months of intrigue and suspense after a string of documents and private letters found their way into the Italian media.

The most notorious of the letters were written to the pope by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, currently the Vatican's ambassador to Washington, who was deputy governor of Vatican City at the time.

In one, Vigano complains that when he took office in 2009, he discovered corruption, nepotism and cronyism linked to the awarding of contracts to outside companies at inflated prices.

Vigano later wrote to the pope about a smear campaign against him by other Vatican officials who were upset that he had taken drastic steps to clean up the purchasing procedures.

Despite begging not to be moved away from the Vatican, Vigano was later transferred to Washington by Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.

Since the papal state has no prison, Gabriele would serve time in an Italian jail, though the pope is widely expected to pardon him.

(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

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Hard coating extends the life of new ultrahigh-density storage device

ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2012) ? Probe storage devices read and write data by making nanoscale marks on a surface through physical contact. The technology may one day extend the data density limits of conventional magnetic and optical storage, but current probes have limited lifespans due to mechanical wear.

A research team, led by Intel Corp., has now developed a long-lasting ultrahigh-density probe storage device by coating the tips of the probes with a thin metal film.

The team's device features an array of 5,000 ultrasharp probes that is integrated with on-chip electronic circuits. The probes write tiny bits of memory as small as a few nanometers by sending short electrical pulses to a ferroelectric film, a material that can be given a permanent electric polarization by applying an electric field. High-speed data access requires that the probes slide quickly and frequently across the film. To prevent tip wear, which can seriously degrade the write-read resolution of the device, the researchers deposited a thin metal film of hafnium diboride (HfB2) on the probe tips.

As the researchers describe in the American Institute of Physics' journal Applied Physics Letters, the metal film reduces wear and enables the probe tips to retain their write-read resolution at high speeds for distances exceeding 8 kilometers -- greatly increasing the device's lifetime. The data densities of the device exceed 1 Terabit per square inch. The work is an important step toward the commercialization of a probe-based storage technology with capacities that exceed those of hard disk and solid-state drives.

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