Nexus 4 priced at ?390 by purported Carphone Warehouse in-store display placard

Oh, Carphone Warehouse -- it just can't seem to keep what it knows about the LG / Google Nexus 4 under lock and key. Just days after briefly listing the phone on its website, purported in-store displays for the yet unannounced device have leaked out to Android Authority. While essentially of the details are the same as what we saw last (1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 SoC, 8MP cam, 12-hour talk time rating, etc.), the listing reveals that the "sim-free" phone itself will sell for £390 (about $504) -- previously we'd only seen the per-month pricing at £31, which is also found here. There's no mention of that October 30th sale date this time, and it would seem unlikely now given that Google's had to indefinitely postpone its NYC-based Android event for the 29th due to hurricane Sandy. For now, you can get more details from the source link below.

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Why preschool hasn't saved the world - Society for Linguistic ...

Learning and ?character?

About six weeks ago the radio program This American Life did a back-to-school program largely centered on the book How Children Succeed by journalist Paul Tough (2012). Host Ira Glass was excited about Tough?s central message: soft skills such as impulse control and what Tough calls ?character? are important to success in school and in life, perhaps more important than the cognitive skills we usually think of as the goals of education. Glass also spoke to Dr. Nadine Burke Harris about the negative effect of major stress, such as poverty or child abuse, on cognitive development, and with economist James Heckman about the benefits to individual children and to society of early childhood interventions. Glass came away optimistic: interventions such as preschool and mentoring can help children succeed.

My reaction was a sarcastic one. ?Great,? I said to myself, ?all we need is for every child in the country to live in a stable middle-class household, free from stress and disruption.? Even if I thought it was possible to create such a society, I doubt that it could be done cheaply or in short order.

I think what frustrated me is that this ?new understanding? that so excites Paul Tough, Ira Glass, and Glass?s colleagues at Planet Money, who recently revealed ?Why preschool can save the world?, is that it is not new to me. Anthropologists, sociologists, education researchers, psychologists and others have been linking experiences in early childhood with educational and socio-economic success later in life for as long as I have been in the field. Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron produced La Reproduction in 1970, and the English translation, Reproduction in Education, Society, and Culture appeared in 1977. Shirley Brice Heath?s ?Roadville and Trackton? work, which shows how middle class student?s early experiences with reading prepare them for school in ways that working class children lack, appeared in Language in Society in 1982 and has been republished several times since. Betty Hart and Todd Risley, whose 1995 book revealed huge differences in the linguistic input middle class and working class children are exposed to before school, were promoting preschool for disadvantaged children in the late 1960s. The Carolina Abecedarian Project, reviewed on Planet Money, began in 1972 and published its findings during the 1990s. The Perry Preschool project described on This American Life began in 1967 and publications based on its longitudinal data were published in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s, and new analyses continue to be published. Even James Heckman?s economic work on the topic started to appear nearly twenty years ago with his critique of The Bell Curve. And yet, this understanding does not appear to have had a large effect on how education is actually organized and carried out.

Recently Planet Money?s Alex Blumberg appeared on This American Life with a counter-example to my frustrated observation. The state of Oklahoma now does fund preschool in every school district that wants it. The This American Life program on which Blumberg appeared was not a return to the theme of school or preschool, though. It was an episode called ?Getting away with it?. Blumberg talks with state legislators Ron Peters (a Republican) and Joe Eddins (a Democrat) and retired oil executive Bob Harbison about how they essentially tricked the conservative state into funding preschool.

Peters, who describes his conservative political bent as ?Rush Limbaugh incarnate?, had introduced a bill in the state house to cooperate with a privately funded non-profit organization to advertise the value of preschool education. He was surprised to find his bill, which spent no government money and did not expand public education, denounced by fellow Republicans as ?a nanny-state bill?. But for businessman turned education advocate Bob Harbison, universal preschool seemed like a good idea, even for anti-government conservatives. Studies show that one dollar spent on preschool can save as much as ten dollars in government spending by keeping successful students out of jail and off welfare. So when Harbison and Eddins drafted the bill that led to universal preschool, they included that change in opaque language appended to a bill to reduce spending on kindergartens. The bill was passed and public education in Oklahoma was expanded to offer preschool to all four-year-old children, but this was accomplished despite the will of most voters. Asked what advice he would offer to those in other states who want to expand preschool education, Eddins suggests, ?They don?t have a prayer. They don?t have a prayer because it?s expensive, and state legislatures are run by people [who] want to cut programs, not add programs.?

James Heckman suggests that the logic of testing has led schools to focus on cognitive skills and to ignore inter-personal skills or ?character?. He?s not wrong; there is pressure to audit educational outcomes, and math and reading skills are much easier to quantify than self-discipline and socialization.

Audit culture is not the only roadblock, though. The neo-liberal response that labelled Oklahoma Republican Ron Peters a socialist, as much as anything else, seems to keep academic findings on preschool, community literacy, mentoring programs and like from finding wider purchase. Against the assumption that ?human well-being can best be achieved by the maximization of entrepreneurial freedoms? (Rytteri and Puhakka 2012, quoted by Dick 2012), suggestions that community intervention through state-funded public education can contribute to individual well-being and social improvement seem like socialist heresy.

This post veers dangerously toward being yet another lament on linguists? (and other scholars?) failure to educate the broader public, or the public?s ignorance of anthropological knowledge, and that is not where I wanted it to go. Instead, let me try to contribute to public understanding by summarizing one of the key texts in my education on this topic. In the remainder of this post I?ll try to summarize Shirley Brice Heath?s ?What no bedtime story means? (1982).

What no bedtime story means

Based on field work in a suburban middle-class community (which Heath calls Maintown), an Appalachian mill town (Roadville) and a rural black community (Trackton), Heath describes different approaches to literacy in different socio-economic and cultural settings.

In Maintown, parents talk with and read to their children. Books and images or characters from books decorate children?s rooms. From the time they start to talk, children and their caregivers talk about books, and parents relate real-world experiences to the stories or characters in books. Parents also model various school-like practices such as asking questions and expecting the child to answer.

In various ways, Maintown children are taught not only how to read but how to be students and how to learn from literacy events. Middle class parents tend to think of this behavior as ordinary and unremarkable, and teachers, who often come from middle class backgrounds themselves, expect children to start school with the kinds of pre-literacy skills these experiences teach?though the expectation is often unconscious.

Experiences of literacy in Roadville are somewhat different from those in Maintown, however. In Roadville, as in Maintown, babies are brought home to rooms decorated with books and images from children?s stories. Roadville parents and other caregivers read to children, but such experiences tend to focus on words and letters more so than in Maintown. Roadville caregivers sometimes ?interpret? story books for children, retelling the plot in simplified form and asking the children to recall specific elements from the story. According to Heath, ?Adults in Roadville believe that instilling in children the proper use of words and understanding of the meaning of the written word are important.?

Roadville children learn the technology of literacy ? how to hold and handle books, how letters make words, etc. ? but they are not encouraged to connect the content of reading to their own lives and experiences.

Roadville children tend to do well in the first three years of elementary school. They know the alphabet and are willing to sit still and to listen to their teachers. But in later grades, when students are called on to work more independently, or to expand their interpretations beyond what is presented in readings or lessons, they begin to fall behind. ?As the importance and frequency of questions and reading habits with which they are familiar decline in the higher grades, they have no way of keeping up or of seeking help in learning what it is they do not even know they don?t know.?

Unlike Maintown or Roadville, there are no reading materials especially for children in Trackton. There are no rituals marking bedtime, and thus no bedtime reading or stories. Sometimes older siblings will read to young children or try to ?play school? with them. Adults generally look on such behavior as children?s activities and do not encourage the younger children to pay attention when they become bored and try to squirm away.

Trackton children can tell stories about their own lives, patterned on adult?s narrative practices. They are skilled in describing events and calling on their audiences to join in creating an imagined world. But Trackton children have little exposure to ?Once upon a time? type stories or to adult-led questions about the content of books or stories.

When they arrive in school, Trackton children have little experience with the kinds of questions that teachers ask. They are unable to identify characters or items from (often highly stylized) images in books. They also lack experience with the technology of reading such as books.

Schools generally expect that all children have Maintown-style communication skills. As a result, Trackton students have trouble adjusting to classroom practice in early grades. Although Roadville students do all right with reading early on, by fourth grade they are unable to relate the facts found in books to their own knowledge or experiences and start to falter. The problems that Roadville and Trackton children experience in school are not only a product of their different patterns of socialization around literacy, but of schools? expectations that children come to school with Maintown experiences and skills.

Source: http://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2012/10/28/why-preschool-hasnt-saved-the-world/

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Family Volley: There Will Never Be a Mouse in This House ...

Our kids are always asking for a pet. There are two things they want. A dog, and a pet mouse. Although we have told them that one day we can get a dog, I have made it very very VERY clear that we will not EVER be getting a mouse. Call me unreasonable or even a bad mom, but unless pigs fly, there will never be an exception to this rule. No mice.?

I can't even hear the word mouse without thinking about the first and only time we have had a mouse in our house. At least the only time I have known about it. :)

I was nine months pregnant with our second child, and found myself getting up three of four times every night to go to the bathroom and get something to drink. I had lost all my mobility, I couldn't bend, sit, walk, or even move without major effort. One night I headed to the kitchen for a drink. I wanted lemon lime gatorade. I opened the fridge door and sensed movement out of the corner of my eye. I looked over just in time to see a mouse scurry into a cupboard by the sink. I wish I had my reaction on film. I would have won American's Funniest Home Videos for sure. Nine months preggo and somehow, I managed to leap across the kitchen and throw my body up on top of the kitchen table like an olympic athlete. I sat on the table for the next hour, trying to holler at my husband without waking our son up. He never heard me. I finally had the guts to get down and run-waddle back to the bedroom.?

We had a mouse trap set up the next day and within 48 hours had the mouse caught. ?My mom was kind enough to take it to the trash. I was not about to touch the thing.?

Rodents and pests in our house creep me out. When I was a kid I always wanted my dad or mom to kill the spiders or get the bugs. Now with kids, I have had to toughen up. When my husband is home, he comes to the rescue, but when he is gone and a child hollers that there is a spider, I am the one who has to come to the rescue. Although I am trying to train our son to take my place.

When it comes to taking care of creepy crawlies, it is hard to know where to go for pest control help, or even what bugs we are fighting against.?

PestWorld.org has all the information you need to identify pests, prevent infestation and choose a pest control professional in your area.?

With the weather changing, pests start to head indoors. If you are like us, you are thinking about the need to hire a pest control company to spray for spiders before winter.?

There are a few things you should know/do before you hire a pest control professional.

• The exterminator?should be licensed and a member of a local, state, or national pest management association.

• Read and fully understand the nature of the pest, extent of the infestation, and what needs to be done to solve your problem before signing a contract.

• Make sure that the company has liability insurance to cover any damages during treatment. This could include damage to your home or furnishings.

• Understand the specifics of a guarantee, if any is given. You need to be informed of what the guarantee covers, how long it will last and what you have to do to keep it in force.

If you are looking for a pest control?help, PestWorld.org?is your perfect resource. You can even enter your area code and quickly find a professional in your area. Want more information on Rodents?? What about Stink Bugs?or?Bed Bugs?

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Are you afraid of spiders or bugs?

PestWorld.org?is your go-to resource for everything you need to know about bugs, rodents and other household pests. You can identify your infestation, find helpful prevention tips, pest photography and videos, educational articles on a variety of pest topics, and more.

In the fall, pests often enter our homes seeking shelter from colder weather, so it?s important to take steps to pest-proof your home. Pest issues are better handled by licensed pest professionals. They have the knowledge, training and tools to properly identify a pest species and recommend ways to safely remedy an infestation before it becomes a serious problem.

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of the National Pest Management Association. The opinions and text are all mine.

Source: http://familyvolley.blogspot.com/2012/10/there-will-never-be-mouse-in-this-house_28.html

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Strengthening fragile forests of carbon nanotubes for new MEMS applications

ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2012) ? Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are incredibly tiny devices, often built on the scale of millionths of a meter. Conventional MEMS structures tend to be made out of silicon-based materials familiar to the micro-electronics industry, but this ignores a suite of useful materials such as other semiconductors, ceramics, and metals. By using a variety of materials not commonly associated with MEMS technology, a team from Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah has created stronger microstructures that can form precise, tall and narrow 3-D shapes -- characteristics that were never before possible in MEMS.

The researchers will present their latest findings at the AVS 59th International Symposium and Exhibition, held Oct. 28 -- Nov. 2, in Tampa, Fla.

To break the MEMS materials barrier, the researchers devised a new production process called carbon nanotube templated microfabrication (CNT-M). It uses patterned, vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays called forests as a 3-D microfabrication scaffold. With this scaffold, the researchers can create precise, tall and fine-featured microstructures. But the forests are extremely fragile. To make them hardier the team replaced the air spaces between the carbon nanotubes with a filler material by atomistic deposition.

The team has used their new CNT-M framework to fabricate metal components from tungsten, molybdenum and nickel. These metals provide desirable properties for MEMS applications and components, including high electrical and thermal conductivity, high melting temperatures, resistance to corrosion, low thermal expansion and hardness.

The BYU team's advances open the door for manipulating matter in novel ways that optimize efficiency, performance and cost across a range of fields, including medicine, imaging, computing, materials synthesis, chemical synthesis, and printing. Most biological and biomedical processes occur at the nanoscale. Developing models and templates at this scale enables scientists to interact with, control and leverage the unusual physical, chemical, mechanical, and optical properties of materials in naturally tiny systems.

Already, the BYU researchers have successfully used their new technique to make chemical detection devices that can validate chemical reactions during pharmaceutical production. Team member Robert C. Davis, PhD , imagines that one day CNT-M might even play a role in devising new longer-lasting batteries.

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How Shuttle Atlantis Will Roll (and Rise) into NASA Display

The last of NASA's space shuttles to move into a museum will roll over to its Florida retirement home in one week's time.

Next Friday (Nov. 2), space shuttle Atlantis will leave the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), where it launched to space 33 times, to land at the KSC Visitor Complex located just down the road. It won't be the longest trip the shuttle has made, or even the most memorable, but as the last trip of its kind, it will be making history.

"It's only a priceless artifact driving 9.8 miles and weighing about 154,000 pounds," Tim Macy, the director of project development and construction for Delaware North Parks & Resorts, which operates the visitor complex for NASA, said on Thursday (Oct. 25). "We've been planning for this a long, long time."

That planning, which will result in about 350 people being needed on the day of the move, has included scouting the roundabout route that space shuttle Atlantis will follow, building a full scale mockup of the rig that will hoist the orbiter almost 40 feet into the air and then tilt it 40 degrees to one side, and scheduling stops where both space program workers and several thousand ticketed public spectators will get a chance to see the orbiter along the way.

The move will come just three days after Atlantis' sister shuttle, Endeavour, will open on display at the California Science Center on Oct. 30. Atlantis' delivery will be much more straight forward than Endeavour's 12-mile, three day roll through the streets of Los Angeles earlier this month.

"We do not have any topographical regions going up and down," Macy said. "We have one small exit ramp to go up and we don't have to clear anything. We do not have the security concerns that they had driving through downtown streets." [Photos: A Rare Last Look Inside Shuttle Atlantis]

From VAB to visitor complex

Atlantis' final journey will begin at about 6 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT) on Nov. 2 when it backs out of its current parking spot inside Kennedy Space Center's 52-story tall Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB).

This last launch, although not to space, still carries some weather constraints, which will need to be cleared before Atlantis hits the road for the visitor complex.

"Because it is such a long window, once we commit at 7 a.m. in the morning, and are going south... we are go for the day," Macy explained during a call with reporters. "So we're working closely with the 45th Air Wing and the same meteorologists who worked on the launches who will help us with the criteria."

"If it's not squally or intense rain, then we're in pretty good shape to move," he said.

Assuming good weather, Atlantis will leave the VAB riding atop a 76-wheel vehicle that was designed specifically for moving the space shuttles between facilities. It previously carried the orbiters between their processing hangars and the VAB as the shuttles moved closer to lifting off.

"The orbiter rides on what we call the OTS ? the Orbiter Transporter System ? which is the 'Ferrari' of the OTS family. It moves at the breakneck speed of about 2 miles per hour, so we have to cover the 9.8 miles in that time," Macy said.

The trip might be shorter if Atlantis could make a beeline for the visitor center, but the most direct route has a rather large guard house in the way. The next most direct path is also blocked by a different security shack. [The Legacy of Space Shuttle Atlantis (Video)]

Not that there aren't benefits to being on government land.

"We're going to take it down a route that most of it, I'd say 70 percent of it, will be behind the fences as it were, in terms of it won't be on public grounds but it will be on the KSC property," said Macy. "The good news is that it is on KSC property, the roads are wide and the property is an industrial kind of area, so it is really set for this kind of movement."

The clearest, and therefore chosen, route will first take Atlantis away from its destination before looping around to avoid any structures along the way. As a bonus, it will take the orbiter past KSC's headquarters building, where a morning ceremony for space program workers is planned. It will also deliver Atlantis to a still under construction light industrial park called Exploration Park, where the bused-in public will get a chance to walk around the shuttle.

Even the roundabout route however, wasn't without some obstacles. Along the 9.8 miles Atlantis will travel, 120 light poles, 23 traffic signals, 66 traffic signs and a power line needed to be temporarily removed.

"We have some logistics we're handling, but actually it's really manageable," Macy said. "There are a couple of tight turns right as we get into Exploration Park and we have had to trim back some scrub pines [trees] but that's about it."

Macy bases his confidence in the route on a trial run with the transporter, with poles standing in for Atlantis' 78-foot (24 meter) wingspan.

"We have run the route, actually taken the OTS along the whole route except for the last mile or so, so we are comfortable that it works and there are no real issues," Macy said. "We took it around the route with 80-foot poles ? 40 feet on each side ? so we're pretty comfortable with it."

Should all go as Macy and his team have planned, Atlantis will pull up to the visitor complex by 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT), where a celebratory fireworks display will await its arrival. But even though its journey is over, the work to display Atlantis will be just beginning.

Next move: up

Arriving at its $100 million new home, Atlantis, still atop of the OTS, will roll right inside.

"It's more like a carport right now. It's like a garage without the door," Macy described. "As soon as we get it in, we start filling in behind it. We work that simultaneously with getting Atlantis ready to be lifted in place."

That's right, Atlantis' next motion will be up. The six-story display facility was designed to showcase the shuttle as only the astronauts have had a chance to see it.

"If you were in the International Space Station and looked out the window, what would the orbiter look like when it was about 150 yards away from you?" Macy said, citing the original idea that helped shape Atlantis' display plan. "The [payload bay] doors are still open, the [high-gain, S-band] antenna is out, and in this case, we'll have the Canadarm [robotic arm] out as well."

To achieve the intended appearance, Atlantis needs to be lifted 36 feet (11 meters) into the air and then tilted 43.21 degrees.

"When the guests come to see the orbiter, their feet will be basically at the same height as the open payload bay doors," Macy explained. "So they'll be able to look into the open bay on the orbiter. And then further, they'll go down a ramp and be able to walk around the orbiter and see the tiles up close."

"Except for the structure that holds it up, there will be no impedance to seeing the orbiter from top to bottom," said Macy. [NASA's Space Shuttles Explained (Infographic)]

While the work to erect the fourth wall to seal Atlantis in the building will take until mid-December to complete, the shuttle's lift will get underway by Nov. 11 and take a few days to accomplish.

First, Atlantis' landing gear will be lowered and the OTS will be driven out. After about a week on its wheels, steel support beams and jacks will be used to hoist the shuttle about 12 feet high (3.7 m) so its gear can be stowed again and a loose shrink wrap of sorts can be applied to protect the orbiter from dust.

Then, larger jacks will be used to raise Atlantis the rest of the way, before one side is slowly lowered to achieve the desired angle.

To make sure that setup would work, Macy and his team practiced first with a 155,000-pound (70,300 kg) stand-in.

"We have actually built a full-scale mockup of how we are going to lift the orbiter and put it in place," he said. "It took us about five weeks to set it up and get it going. But we lifted it the full 36 feet in the air and turned the payload mock-up 43.21 degrees. So, we are happy with how that works."

Once resting on its pedestals, Atlantis will remain shrink wrapped until March or April of next year, as work to finish its display building is completed. Then it will be carefully exposed and set up for display.

"Opening the payload bay doors from an engineering point of view, is just about as complicated as raising [Atlantis] up," said Macy, adding the process involves roof-mounted dollies and cables but is difficult to describe.

Ultimately, some 60 other related exhibits will be moved in to surround Atlantis, so when the building opens to the public in July 2013 there will be something for everyone. Among the displays will be a full size Hubble Space Telescope model, space shuttle landing simulators and an interactive wall where mission details can be retrieved at the touch of a finger.

But before any of that can happen, Atlantis first needs to complete its final journey, set for next Friday.

"I think there'll be a huge sigh of relief," Macy said. "When it gets in Friday night and lands where it is supposed to and we turn the key [to the OTS] off. I think that is going to be a huge emotional kind of 'phew' moment."

See shuttles.collectspace.com for continuing coverage of the delivery and display of NASA's retired space shuttles.

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Doctor Patient Affairs: When Love is Medical Malpractice - GLOBAL ...

Having a relationship with a patient is a difficult issue for medical professionals. In many cases, the patient will consent or even seek out a relationship with the medical professional. However, the American Medical Association frowns upon such relationships, as the professional relationship will often include large quantities of private information and potential vulnerability to the doctor. As such, whether the patient can truly consent to the relationship is arguable in some situations. Terminating the professional relationship before entering into a personal relationship may satisfy state ethical rules.

Whether the relationship constitutes a breach of professional ethics is one matter; whether it constitutes malpractice is another. Medical boards will address the ethical considerations, while courts address the legal considerations. In the case of a relationship, reminds our medical malpractice attorney in Syracuse, the doctor?s actions must be related to the treatment to be considered a breach of a duty.

Malpractice and Relationships

Medical legal trouble occurs when a medical professional is negligent in his or her duties. As with any negligence case, the plaintiff must prove duty, breach, causation, and injury. Medical professionals have a duty to provide services in accordance with the standards set forth in the medical community. A breach of that duty occurs where an act or omission fails to live up to those standards, causing an injury. Each element will be contested in most trials for this type of malpractice; in a medical malpractice suit stemming from a failed personal relationship, the elements of duty and breach will be the most heavily contested.

Personal relationships can often involve both personal and professional elements. In a personal relationship, one partner can give the other advice regarding treatment for minor ailments without involving another medical professional. By merely speaking with one another, the doctor arguably may be providing mental health counseling. By providing medical services, the doctor may be assuming a duty of care. Such was the argument that the defendant?s attorney made in front of an appellate panel in the New York case.

In some cases, such arguments will be tenuous. In the New York case, the patient was being treated for panic attacks, depression, and an unspecified gastrointestinal issue. Arguments that the doctor was providing mental health services hold more merit when mental health is a component of the treatment regimen. The conduct must be related to the treatment to constitute medical malpractice. A jury could view the situation as being related, as being unrelated, or as being partially related to the treatment.

If the jury finds that the doctor was even partially negligent, comparative negligence statutes permit plaintiffs to recover for at least some of the damages. Patients concerned about being manipulated, harassed, or otherwise mistreated while in a relationship with their doctor should consider contacting an attorney experienced in the physician litigation field.

A former TV journalist, Ann Bailey submits this research for the benefit of New York patients who feel they may have been victims of medical errors.? The medical malpractice attorney in Syracuse, Bottar Leone PLLC, represents all manner of consultation, litigation and settlement for victims of suspected abuse of this nature in the State of New York.

Source: http://globalgoodgroup.com/blog/2012/10/26/doctor-patient-affairs-when-love-is-medical-malpractice/

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Happy Birthday, Katy Perry! Her Best and Worst Looks

In honor of her 28th birthday on Oct. 25, we're looking back at the pop star's bold style -- both good and bad!

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Living power cables discovered

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Multicellular bacteria transmit electrons across relatively enormous distances

A multinational research team has discovered filamentous bacteria that function as living power cables in order to transmit electrons thousands of cell lengths away.

The Desulfobulbus bacterial cells, which are only a few thousandths of a millimeter long each, are so tiny that they are invisible to the naked eye. And yet, under the right circumstances, they form a multicellular filament that can transmit electrons across a distance as large as 1 centimeter as part of the filament's respiration and ingestion processes.

The discovery by scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark and USC will be published in Nature on October 24.

"To move electrons over these enormous distances in an entirely biological system would have been thought impossible," said Moh El-Naggar, assistant professor of physics at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and co-author of the Nature paper.

Aarhus scientists had discovered a seemingly inexplicable electric current on the sea floor years ago. The new experiments revealed that these currents are mediated by a hitherto unknown type of long, multicellular bacteria that act as living power cables

"Until we found the cables we imagined something cooperative where electrons were transported through external networks between different bacteria. It was indeed a surprise to realize, that it was all going on inside a single organism," said Lars Peter Nielsen of the Aarhus Department of Bioscience, and a corresponding author of the Nature paper.

The team studied bacteria living in marine sediments that power themselves by oxidizing hydrogen sulfide. Cells at the bottom live in a zone that is poor in oxygen but rich in hydrogen sulfide, and those at the top live in an area rich in oxygen but poor in hydrogen sulfide.

The solution? They form long chains that transport individual electrons from the bottom to the top, completing the chemical reaction and generating life-sustaining energy.

"You have feeder cells on one end and breather cells on the other, allowing the whole living cable to survive," El-Naggar said.

Aarhus and USC researchers collaborated to use physical techniques to evaluate the long-distance electron transfer in the filamentous bacteria. El-Naggar and his colleagues had previously used scanning-probe microscopy and nanofabrication methods to describe how bacteria use nanoscale structures called "bacterial nanowires" to transmit electrons many body lengths away from cells.

"I'm a physicist, so when I look at remarkable phenomena like this, I like to put it into a quantifiable process," El-Naggar said.

El-Naggar, who was just chosen as one of the Popular Science Brilliant 10 young scientists for his work in biological physics, said physicists are increasingly being tapped to tackle tough biological questions.

"This world is so fertile right now," he said. "It's just exploding."

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This research was funded by European Research Council, the Danish National Research Foundation, the Danish Foundation for Independent Research and the German Max Planck Society.

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Multicellular bacteria transmit electrons across relatively enormous distances

A multinational research team has discovered filamentous bacteria that function as living power cables in order to transmit electrons thousands of cell lengths away.

The Desulfobulbus bacterial cells, which are only a few thousandths of a millimeter long each, are so tiny that they are invisible to the naked eye. And yet, under the right circumstances, they form a multicellular filament that can transmit electrons across a distance as large as 1 centimeter as part of the filament's respiration and ingestion processes.

The discovery by scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark and USC will be published in Nature on October 24.

"To move electrons over these enormous distances in an entirely biological system would have been thought impossible," said Moh El-Naggar, assistant professor of physics at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and co-author of the Nature paper.

Aarhus scientists had discovered a seemingly inexplicable electric current on the sea floor years ago. The new experiments revealed that these currents are mediated by a hitherto unknown type of long, multicellular bacteria that act as living power cables

"Until we found the cables we imagined something cooperative where electrons were transported through external networks between different bacteria. It was indeed a surprise to realize, that it was all going on inside a single organism," said Lars Peter Nielsen of the Aarhus Department of Bioscience, and a corresponding author of the Nature paper.

The team studied bacteria living in marine sediments that power themselves by oxidizing hydrogen sulfide. Cells at the bottom live in a zone that is poor in oxygen but rich in hydrogen sulfide, and those at the top live in an area rich in oxygen but poor in hydrogen sulfide.

The solution? They form long chains that transport individual electrons from the bottom to the top, completing the chemical reaction and generating life-sustaining energy.

"You have feeder cells on one end and breather cells on the other, allowing the whole living cable to survive," El-Naggar said.

Aarhus and USC researchers collaborated to use physical techniques to evaluate the long-distance electron transfer in the filamentous bacteria. El-Naggar and his colleagues had previously used scanning-probe microscopy and nanofabrication methods to describe how bacteria use nanoscale structures called "bacterial nanowires" to transmit electrons many body lengths away from cells.

"I'm a physicist, so when I look at remarkable phenomena like this, I like to put it into a quantifiable process," El-Naggar said.

El-Naggar, who was just chosen as one of the Popular Science Brilliant 10 young scientists for his work in biological physics, said physicists are increasingly being tapped to tackle tough biological questions.

"This world is so fertile right now," he said. "It's just exploding."

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Dissident artist Ai Weiwei goes 'Gangnam Style'

By Le Li, NBC News

Updated at 12:42 p.m. ET: BEIJING ? Released this past summer, Korean pop star Psy's "Gangnam Style" quickly became a global phenomenon. Within months, the infectious song has been watched over 530 million times and recently earned the distinction of being the most ?liked? video in YouTube history according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

It seems that everyone has tried to get in on the Gangnam rage, including Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt, our very own TODAY team, and just this week, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.?

Ai Weiwei, China?s dissident artist who was detained last year for nearly three months, on Wednesday became the latest to jump on the Gangnam bandwagon, uploading his own version of ?Gangnam Style? on YouTube. The video, which shows Ai dancing in handcuffs, is entitled "Grass Mud Horse Style." ?

"Grass Mud Horse," a homonym of a Chinese phrase that suggests a very lewd act with one?s mother, is popular among anti-censorship activists in China.

PSY, the South Korean pop singer whose "Gangnam Style" viral video sensation made him an international star, returns to his home country, where crowds are going wild. NBC's Ian Williams reports.

Ai told journalists that the idea to cover the dance craze came from one of the many donors who helped him out last year when Ai was ordered to pay back taxes that the government claimed that he owed. Donations to help pay Ai?s government fine flooded in online and supporters even visited his studio home in Beijing to toss money over the wall to him.

YouTube is banned in China and the video has not appeared on Chinese video sites.

The artist's tongue-in-cheek and at times hilarious -- at one point Ai can be seen swinging a pair of handcuffs around his head -- anti-censorship send-up may have been received with silence by Chinese state press, but it has been picked up by the New York Times,?the Washington Post?and?NPR.

Grass Mud Horse
The Grass Mud Horse, which has its origins in a 2009 collection of hoax entries in a popular Chinese web-based encyclopedia called Baidu Baike, became a popular and irreverent way to poke fun at the heavy-handed censorship of China?s ruling Communist Party.

Special coverage of China: Behind the Wall on NBCNews.com

The fabled Grass Mud Horse soon found itself the inspiration of a slew of cute online animations, stories and web board chatter.? Stuffed animal versions of the alpaca-like animal were soon available online for sale and can still be seen periodically in shops and cafes across China.

Government censors though were left in the uncomfortable position of having to decide whether to let this pun-based challenge to their power go unchecked or to be seen?censoring a fuzzy cartoon character.

Complete Asia-Pacific coverage on NBCNews.com

In addition to Grass Mud Horse, the term ?River Crab? also became a popular way for internet users in China to challenge censors as it is a homonym for ?harmonious.? The principle of a ?Harmonious Society??has been a signature principle of current Chinese President, Hu Jintao?s ideology.

In China, then, when content runs afoul of censors, users often say it has been ?harmonized.? The term river crab became another way to jokingly get around online censorship in China.

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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider: The final Obama Romney debate

With about 15 minutes left in the final Obama-Romney debate, Republicans decided to rush their surrogates into the "Spin Alley" reaction area at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. A few minutes later, Democrats followed to get their message out, as both sides declared victory.

The reaction was predictable, as each party slammed the other candidate and trumpeted how their man had connected with the American people and drawn the support of undecided voters.

There seemed to be little news in the debate, though there was an interesting tactical decision right off the bat by Mitt Romney, whose team obviously decided not to have a repeat showdown on what happened with the attacks in Libya that killed four Americans back in September.

Moderator Bob Schieffer gave Romney the chance right out of the gate to slam the President on Libya, but Romney went on without zeroing in for the kill.

The President meanwhile came out of the gate fast, again hectoring and interrupting Romney at times. While Romney initially engaged Mr. Obama, it almost seemed like the GOP challenger then decided to ignore the attack dog routine and stick with his message.

The lack of fireworks left a feeling of disinterest in the media filing center at Lynn University, as reporters confessed later to checking the score of the baseball and football games; there was a lot more idle chatter among journalists during the 90 minutes compared to past debates as well.

It also was a reminder that despite a lot of talk, sometimes the foreign policy differences of these candidates isn't too wide.

"I think, ultimately, they both have very similar foreign policy goals," said Marcheta Wright, a professor of international studies at Lynn, who said she wasn't surprised by all the talk that was not centered on foreign affairs.

"It took them 20 minutes" to turn the discussion to domestic issues, Wright observed. "It wasn't a surprise."

At times, the moderator struggled to keep the discussion about foreign affairs.

"Let me get back to foreign policy," Schieffer said at one point, even though he probably realized he was fighting a losing battle with the two candidates.

The bottom line on this debate probably again depends on which side you support; if you are a Democrat, you think the President showed his leadership skills and experience and made the case that he is well versed in foreign affairs, while the Governor is not.

If you are a Romney backer, you would argue that this type of debate had a built-in home field advantage for the President, and that the GOP nominee more than held his own, and called out the Obama Administration on a number of fronts.

It seemed like the "debate muddle" where both sides say they won, and they might be able to find polling results to back that up.

Even if the President was judged to have won on points, Republicans said it would not slow Romney's momentum, which started in the first debate.

Now, it is a two week run to Election Day.

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Muhyiddin: Asean, Japan need to shape more suitable relationship

Muhyiddin says all these developments will ultimately have an impact on the status quo. ? File pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 ? Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today emphasised the need for Asean nations and Japan to shape their future relationship into one more suited to the realities of the 21st century.

He said that if in the past, Japan was Asean?s principal partner in economic matters, today the regional economic engagement had expanded to include China, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand.

?This, too, may change as there is a proposal to reformulate this network of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) under an arrangement to be known as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).

?All these developments will ultimately have an impact on the status quo. As much as we are happy with the current state of affairs between the two sides, it is time for us to look for new ways to strengthen and deepen these relations,? he said in his keynote address at the 38th Asean-Japan Business Meeting, here.

Malaysia-Japan Economic Association (MAJECA) chairman Tan Sri Azman Hashim and Japan?s Ambassador to Malaysia Shigeru Nakamura were also present at the event.

Muhyiddin suggested that to strengthen Asean-Japan relations, four areas had to be explored.

Firstly, he said, there was a need to promote Japanese investments in high value-added sectors such as green technologies, environmental technologies, bio-technologies and information communication technologies in the Asean countries.

Secondly, measures needed to be taken to double trade and investment volume and conclude the signing of the Asean-Japan investment and Asean-Japan services agreements, he said.

Thirdly, he said, it was necessary to improve Asean-Japan connectivity. Fourthly, there was a need to create greater awareness of Asean among Japanese small and medium enterprises (SMEs), he said.

On the Asean Economic Community (AEC), Muhyiddin said Asean should not delay implementation of its plan to form an economic community by 2015.

He said the progress of this project was being monitored at the leaders? level.

?In this context, let me reiterate the strong commitment of the Malaysian government to do what is necessary to form the AEC. Our success rate in the implementation of the AEC blueprint measures over 90 per cent,? he said.

Meanwhile, Nakamura read out a congratulatory message from Japan?s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda who said Japan was determined to further deepen ?kizuna? (friendship) and would continue to expand political and security cooperation to maintain regional peace and stability.

Strengthening the region?s economic integration would benefit global economies, Noda said.

?Enhancement of Asean connectivity is an issue that Japan will actively work on together with the private sector.

?We want to continue to achieve growth together with Asean,? he added. ?? Bernama

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Five Reasons Substance Abuse Counseling Can Prevent Relapse

Substance abuse counseling can be instrumental in overcoming a substance abuse problem. Counseling can aid in the many aspects of self-recognition, honesty and commitment to change that is required for long term recovery. Substance abuse counseling helps the patient to recognize the thought patterns and behaviors that lead to addiction and can also support the patient to prevent relapse.

Identifying Triggers Through Substance Abuse Counseling
One of the most important functions of substance abuse counseling is to help the patient recognize the underlying issues that cause his substance abuse, as well as the many methods of self-pity and self-deception that keep him tied to the abusive behaviors.
Counseling can also be valuable in helping the patient to recognize the ?triggers? that can lead to relapse. These triggers can be very subtle and varied. A trigger can be something as benign as a song on the radio or the smell of someone lighting cigarette. A trigger can also be a return to a place where abuse occurred or a situation associated with substance abuse.

Helping to Identify Underlying Mental Health Problems
Because addiction often occurs in tandem with underlying mental health problems, substance abuse counseling can help to identify these issues so that they can be properly treated. Effective mental health treatment can significantly increase the odds of success for full recovery and minimize the risks of relapse.

Helping To Recognize Codependent Behaviors
Family substance abuse counseling can also help the patient to recognize how other people part in encouraging his substance abuse. This behavior is called ?codependence,? and can include actions such as giving the patient money or housing, making excuses for his actions and helping the patient even when it is to their own detriment. Substance abuse counseling can help to break this cycle of codependence and abuse, so that the patient can remain on the road to recovery without danger of relapse.

Helping To Heal Family Wounds
Another way that counseling helps to prevent relapse is to repair family ties that are often strained because of the substance abuse. Family members may have become distrustful, apathetic, frightened, ashamed and depressed by the abusers actions. Substance abuse counseling can assist the patient in repairing family bonds and ties with friends that can be critical in staying substance-free.

Helping You To Stick To Your Recovery Plan
Counseling also has value in helping patients to stick to their designated recovery plans. They can help the patient to remove mental and emotional obstacles to their success and help them to clarify the actions they need to take to remain substance-free.

If you or someone you love is suffering from substance abuse or mental illness and is in need of substance abuse counseling, please call us today at 1-877-380-9777.? Our counselors can help you deal with physical, emotional and psychological consequences of addiction and mental illness.? Substance abuse treatment is effective, safe and has helped many men reclaim their lives. Destination Hope is a full service drug, alcohol and dual diagnosis treatment facility in Florida for men suffering from substance abuse and mental health issues.

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The Eve Appeal | communityreporter.co.uk

The Eve Appeal was set up to help save women?s lives ? and it is the only national charity dedicated to raising funds for world-class research into and awareness of all five gynaecological cancers.
The research is complicated and challenging, but our vision is simple:
?A future in which fewer women develop and more women survive the five gynaecological cancers.?
The Challenge We Face Gynaecological cancers kill women and destroy families 50 women in the UK will be diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer today?. and 20 will die Globally there are around one million new cases a year - just 200,000 fewer than the number diagnosed with breast cancer Of these new cases, over 850,000 women die In the UK 18,000 women are diagnosed annually and some 7,500 die
The Solution
We fund research which aims to improve the prevention, detection, treatment and care of all five gynaecological cancers. The majority of our funding is allocated to the pioneering, world-class research group at the Department of Women's Cancer at University College London (UCL). 5-year Research Strategy ? The research team at UCL have produced a 5-year strategy to advance research into the five gynaecological cancers (2012-17) PROMISE 2016 ? (Predicting Risk of Ovarian Malignancy Improved Screening and Early (D)etection)
o One of our most important current projects is PROMISE 2016 ? this is a ?4m project jointly funded by The Eve Appeal and Cancer Research UK and involves scientists at 5 pre-eminent academic centres: University College London, the University of Manchester, the University of Cambridge, Harvard and the University of Southern California
o The PROMISE 2016 project seeks to improve outcomes by;
a) Identifying at-risk populations and developing a model for predicting a woman?s risk of developing ovarian cancer b) Developing a model for earlier diagnosis of ovarian cancer Uganda Women?s Health Initiative (UWHI) - The Uganda Women?s Health Initiative is a collaborative organisation focusing on improving women?s health in Uganda. Since 2005, the UWHI has performed incredibly important work in Uganda, to save the lives of newborn babies, women during childbirth and women threatened by cancer, as well as providing essential training, equipment and hospital buildings. One of our major successes has been our cervical screening programme. In the UK,
cancer of the cervix is largely prevented, thanks to free cervical screening and vaccinations, and it?s now an increasingly rare disease for women in the UK. In Uganda, it?s a different story: cervical cancer is the biggest cancer killer of women in the country, with over 2,400 women dying from the disease, and over 3,500 diagnosed with it each year.
The Difference We Make
To date, The Eve Appeal has contributed ?4.7million to the research programme. However its contributions have been disproportionately important because they have pump-primed new projects, supported highly innovative work and covered gaps in funding allowing projects to maintain momentum. The national and international standing of the projects to which it has contributed is testament to the effectiveness of The Eve Appeal?s support.
It is a matter of when we will see a break-through, not if ?
Gynaecological Cancers ? UK numbers
Type of cancer
Number of new cases
Number of deaths
(UK incidence 2008)
(UK mortality 2008)
Cervical
2,938
957
Ovarian
6,537
4,373
Endometrial
7,703
1,741
Vaginal
258
77
Vulval
1,157
400
Totals
18,593
7,548
Numbers per day
51
21
Raising Funds Each year The Eve Appeal launches two major fundraising campaigns:
o Make Time for Tea takes place in March each year to coincide with Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. 2013 will be the 8th year of the campaign which has been spearheaded each year by Lorraine Kelly. The campaign asks people to host a tea party during March to raise funds for and awareness of ovarian cancer. www.eveappeal.org.uk/maketimefortea
o In September 2012, to coincide with Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month, The Eve Appeal will launch a campaign to raise funds for and awareness of the five gynaecological cancers Throughout the year a sporting challenge/events calendar is available to supporters wishing to fundraise while embarking on a personal challenge Portfolio of fundraising events for supporters to attend Countrywide network of volunteers Legacies ? encouraging supporters to remember The Eve Appeal in their Wills Corporates ? to engage with companies to become charity of the year partners
Raising Awareness Through partnerships with the Department of Health, Cervical Cancer Awareness and Symptoms Initiative, UCL Health Behaviour Research Centre and the National Forum of Gynaecological Oncology Nurses, The Eve Appeal has been instrumental in producing Key Messages for Women on the three main gynaecological cancers ? ovarian, womb and cervical Produced information leaflets and materials on individual cancers Media awareness campaigns Database of case studies who are prepared to share their stories with the media Access to UCL researchers/experts for comment and interview
?Women and their families deal with these diseases with such strength. These are terrible tales edged with heroism. It is difficult to quantify the loss of a mother, wife or daughter. As a doctor I cannot give false hope; but through your support and our research we can all have real hope.?
Professor Usha Menon, Head of Gynaecology Cancer Research Centre, UCL
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GreenWave Reality ships WiFi-aware light bulbs that flick on through motion and smartphones

We've seen connected light bulbs before, some more sophisticated than others, but they're rarely as straightforward as GreenWave Reality's just-shipping Connected Lighting Solution. Eco-friendly LED bulbs in the lineup include support for WiFi and are immediately controllable from a smartphone or tablet as soon as they're receiving power. Basics controls like group presets and timed lighting are just the start; if you're not worried about leaving anyone in the dark, the bulbs can respond to motion sensors and only illuminate the rooms that need attention. And while the intelligence isn't new in itself, GreenWave would argue that sheer accessibility gives it an edge, with electric utilities in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden skipping the retail middleman by selling directly. Don't despair if you live in the US: the linked-up lighting is cleared for eventual use by Americans who'd like to save both energy and a trip to the light switch.

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Caterpillar sees weak economy as it cuts outlook

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 20, 2012, file photo a caterpillar machine is used at the Clinton Landfill in Clinton, Ill. Caterpillar cut its profit and revenue guidance on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, saying the world?s economic conditions ?are weaker than we had previously expected.? Caterpillar Inc. is the world?s largest construction and mining equipment maker, so its results are watched closely as a sign of where the broader economy is headed. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 20, 2012, file photo a caterpillar machine is used at the Clinton Landfill in Clinton, Ill. Caterpillar cut its profit and revenue guidance on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, saying the world?s economic conditions ?are weaker than we had previously expected.? Caterpillar Inc. is the world?s largest construction and mining equipment maker, so its results are watched closely as a sign of where the broader economy is headed. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 20, 2012, file photo, shows Caterpillar logos on earth moving tractors and equipment in Clinton, Ill. Caterpillar cut its profit and revenue guidance on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, saying the world?s economic conditions ?are weaker than we had previously expected.? Caterpillar Inc. is the world?s largest construction and mining equipment maker, so its results are watched closely as a sign of where the broader economy is headed. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ? Caterpillar says the world's economy is weaker than it thought, and it doesn't expect growth to pick up until the second half of next year.

The company on Monday cut its 2012 revenue and profit guidance, and took a very cautious view toward its performance in 2013.

Caterpillar makes the yellow-painted excavators, heavy tractors, and other construction equipment often seen on road-building projects. It's the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, and also makes engines. Its results are watched closely for signs of where the broader economy is headed.

Where it's headed right now is for some weak growth, based on what Caterpillar was saying on Monday.

It predicted worldwide economic growth of 2.7 percent for next year, up from the 2.5 percent growth it expects for 2012. It expects the cheap lending offered in most countries to continue next year, although "growth has been slow to respond," the company said.

"As a result, we are not expecting improvement in overall economic growth until the second half of 2013," the company said.

Caterpillar sells to dealers, who turn around and sell to end users like construction and mining companies. Those dealers are trying to cut inventory, so they're ordering less equipment than customers are buying.

In response, Caterpillar said it has reduced production, resulting in temporary shutdowns and layoffs. Lower production will continue until dealer demand lines up with end user demand, Caterpillar said.

The layoffs will generally be short-term, such as a factory shutting down for a week, the company's chief financial officer, Ed Rapp, said in an interview.

"We haven't seen the broad-based economic growth that we really anticipated in 2012," he said.

As a result, Caterpillar cut its 2012 outlook for the second time this year. Revenue is expected to grow 9.7 percent to $66 billion, after rising 41 percent in 2011. Profit is now forecast at $9 to $9.25 per share, down from a previous forecast of $9.60 per share.

Analysts surveyed by FactSet had expected revenue of $67.2 billion, with profit of $9.41 per share.

The company said growth was below expectations in the U.S. and China, and with much of Europe in recession.

The U.S., China and most developing economics should see modest improvement next year, Caterpillar said. But it sees "continuing difficulty" and only marginal growth in Europe.

"We're not expecting rapid growth, and we're not predicting a global recession," Chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman said.

On Friday, General Electric Co. CEO Jeffrey Immelt said he's expecting economic conditions next year to be similar to this year. Most regions should show some improvement, but Europe's "going to be a grind," he said. Investors should get another view of the global economy from a major manufacturer when 3M Co. reports earnings on Tuesday.

Caterpillar expects 2013 revenue to be about the same as this year, plus or minus 5 percent.

The company said sales of mining gear will fall next year. Lower prices for metals and coal, along with higher operating costs, have hurt profit margins at many mining companies, Caterpillar said. Sales of construction gear are expected to increase, and it expects improving activity in the U.S. It expects engine sales to be flat.

Profit in the third quarter rose 49 percent to almost $1.7 billion, or $2.54 per share. That compares with profit of $1.14 billion, or $1.71 per share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 4.6 percent to $16.45 billion.

The results included a gain of $273 million, or 27 cents per share, from selling a majority interest in a logistics business. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had been expecting a profit of $2.21 per share, on revenue of $16.64 billion.

Shares of Peoria, Ill.-based Caterpillar Inc. rose $1.22 to close at $85.08 Monday.

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