Friday, October 26, 2012

1-Minute Strategies: October '12 ? Business Management Daily ...

??Take control of a panel interview. Making a great impression in a panel interview requires you to first figure out who you really need to impress, writes Laura Smith-Proulx, founder of An Expert R?sum?. ?While it may be comforting to direct your answers and gaze toward the interviewer who seems more open to your responses, you?re better off tackling the naysayer first. ? Winning over the person most likely to reject you shows that you have the ability to read the audience, as well as problem-solve on your feet.?

??Find a great networking event. Sites such as Meetup and Eventful are a great way to find events that can help you ex??pand your professional network, writes Ritika Trikha of Career??Bliss. Another favorite: LinkedIn Events. ?There are no rock climbing or music festival groups to sift through! Just look for your industry and then location. It?s an awesome way to turn your virtual connections into real-life ones.?

??Boost your creativity by seeking diversity. Stay open-minded about what you eat, where you hang out, the art you look at, the places you travel or the books you read, says Steven Smith, Texas A&M University. ?Diversity introduces all kinds of new stimuli. It opens you up to a number of new possibilities.?

??Tighten up security for your online accounts. The most important password you manage is the one to your email, warns Justin Cepelak, vice president of product management for SplashData. ?Why so important? Because you reset passwords using your email. ? A thief can do that as easily as you can. He creates a new password to your account, and boom: He has access to your account and you don?t anymore. Then he might delete the confirmation email and you wouldn?t even know your identity has been hijacked until it?s too late.? Try using a passwords manager, which creates a digital safe for you on your computer or phone. You just remember one single master password, and then you can access all of your other passwords organized by type and category.

??How winners are different. They look on the bright side of life, always show up and never stop learning. These and other differences help one-time winners to keep winning again and again, research suggests.

??A surprising way to get more pay. Jobs that come through employees? personal networks tend to pay more than jobs found through employment postings, research finds.

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New York police officer charged with plan to cook, eat women

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City police officer was charged on Thursday with conspiring to kidnap, torture, cook and eat women whose names he listed in his computer.

In a criminal complaint unsealed in Manhattan federal court, Gilberto Valle III, 28, of Forest Hills, Queens, was charged with conspiring to cross state lines to kidnap the women and with illegally accessing a federal database.

The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Investigators uncovered a file on Valle's computer containing the names and pictures of at least 100 women, and the addresses and physical descriptions of some of them, according to the complaint. It said he had undertaken surveillance of some of the women at their places of employment and their homes.

Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman, in denying Valle bail at a hearing on Thursday evening, said: "the allegations in the complaint are profoundly disturbing. I have never seen allegations similar to this in 16 years on the bench."

Valle's court-appointed attorney, Julia Gatto, had vigorously argued to the judge that her client, a 6-1/2 year NYPD veteran who appeared before the judge in a red T-shirt and jeans, was all talk and deserved to be released on bail.

"The best this complaint alleges is talk, just idle talk," Gatto said. "There is no actual crossing the line from fantasy to reality, your honor."

In an excerpt of a July online conversation with an unnamed co-conspirator, Valle is quoted in the complaint as saying:

"I can just show up at her home unannounced. It will not alert her, and I can knock her out, wait until dark and kidnap her right out of her home."

"I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus ... cook her over a low heat, keep her alive as long as possible," he said. The woman in question is identified only as "Victim 1."

ONLINE FANTASY GAME?

A Manhattan federal prosecutor, Hadassa Waxman, told the judge on Thursday that Valle was as "close as he could possibly come," short of "kidnapping a woman, drugging her, cooking her and actually eating her."

Federal prosecutors, in announcing the charges, said Valle had created a document called "Abducting and Cooking: A Blueprint." Valle also told an unnamed co-conspirator he would kidnap another woman for $5,000, they said.

"This case is all the more disturbing when you consider Valle's position as a New York City police officer and his sworn duty to serve and protect," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

Valle, who an official said had no prior criminal record, was not charged with carrying out any of his suspected plans.

A law enforcement official involved in the investigation characterized Valle's actions as an online "fantasy game."

"He was titillated by it," said the official, who is not authorized to discuss the case publicly. "It looks like he was having these fantasy conversations with people he's talking to in foreign countries."

Valle's attorney, Gatto, agreed. "This was a fantasy, a sexually deviant world where people talk about unreal things," she said.

Valle's estranged wife contacted the FBI after discovering pornography on his computer, according to the law enforcement official, who said the couple is separated. Valle was arrested Wednesday by the FBI. He is due back in court on November7.

A spokesman for the Police Department could not be reached for comment.

(Additional Reporting by Chris Francescani; Editing by Paul Thomasch, Vicki Allen and Todd Eastham)

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Lucy and Selam's species climbed trees: Australopithecus afarensis shoulder blades show partially arboreal lifestyle

ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2012) ? Australopithecus afarensis (the species of the well-known "Lucy" skeleton) was an upright walking species, but the question of whether it also spent much of its time in trees has been the subject of much debate, partly because a complete set of A. afarensis shoulder blades has never before been available for study.

For the first time, Midwestern University Professor David Green and Curator of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences, Zeresenay Alemseged, have thoroughly examined the two complete shoulder blades of the fossil "Selam," an exceptionally well-preserved skeleton of an A. afarensis child from Dikika, Ethiopia, discovered in 2000 by Dr. Alemseged. Further preparation and extensive analyses of these rare bones showed them to be quite apelike, suggesting that this species was adapted to climbing trees in addition to walking bipedally when on the ground. "The question as to whether Australopithecus afarensis was strictly bipedal or if they also climbed trees has been intensely debated for more than thirty years," said Dr. Green. "These remarkable fossils provide strong evidence that these individuals were still climbing at this stage in human evolution."

The new findings are published in the October 26 issue of the journal Science.

Dr. Alemseged, assisted by Kenyan lab technician Christopher Kiarie, spent 11 years carefully extracting the two shoulder blades from the rest of the skeleton, which was encased in a sandstone block. "Because shoulder blades are paper-thin, they rarely fossilize--and when they do, they are almost always fragmentary," said Dr. Alemseged. "So finding both shoulder blades completely intact and attached to a skeleton of a known and pivotal species was like hitting the jackpot. This study moves us a step closer toward answering the question 'When did our ancestors abandon climbing behavior?' It appears that this happened much later than many researchers have previously suggested."

Selam was a three-year-old A. afarensis girl who lived about 3.3 million years ago, and she represents the most complete skeleton of her kind to date. After freeing the shoulder blades from the surrounding rock, Green and Alemseged digitized them using a Microscribe, and then took detailed measurements to characterize their shape and function, comparing them to the rare shoulder fossils of other early human relatives: Homo ergaster ("Turkana Boy"), Homo floresiensis ("The Hobbit"), A. africanus, and two adult specimens of A. afarensis. They also made comparisons with an extensive modern sample of juvenile and adult chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, and human specimens.

The analysis of the shape and function of the bones revealed that A. afarensis shoulder blades are apelike, indicating a partially arboreal lifestyle. Drs. Green and Alemseged also found that, like living apes, the shoulder anatomy of juvenile and adult representatives of A. afarensis were quite similar. "Human scapulae change shape throughout ontogeny in a significantly different manner than closely related apes," said Dr. Green. "When we compared Selam's scapula with adult members of Australopithecus afarensis, it was clear that the pattern of growth was more consistent with that of apes than humans." At the same time, most researchers agree that many traits of the A. afarensis hip bone, lower limb, and foot are unequivocally humanlike and adapted for upright walking. "This new find confirms the pivotal place that Lucy and Selam's species occupies in human evolution," said Dr. Alemseged. "While bipedal like humans, A. afarensis was still a capable climber. Though not fully human, A. afarensis was clearly on its way."

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Why astronauts experience low blood pressure after returning to Earth from space

Why astronauts experience low blood pressure after returning to Earth from space [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 25-Oct-2012
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New research in the FASEB Journal suggests that a major cause of low blood pressure during standing is the compromised ability of arteries and veins to constrict normally and return blood back to the heart

Bethesda, MDWhen astronauts return to Earth, their altitude isn't the only thing that dropstheir blood pressure does too. This condition, known as orthostatic hypotension, occurs in up to half of those astronauts on short-term missions (two weeks or less) and in nearly all astronauts after long-term missions (four to six months). A new research report published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) solves the biological mystery of how this happens by showing that low gravity compromises the ability of arteries and veins to constrict normally, inhibiting the proper flow of blood. Prevention and treatment strategies developed for astronauts may also hold promise for elderly populations on Earth who experience orthostatic hypotension more than any other age group.

"The idea of space exploration has been tantalizing the imagination of humans since our early existence. As a scientist, I have had the opportunity to learn that there are many medical challenges associated with travel in a weightless environment, such as orthostatic hypotension, bone loss and the recently recognized visual impairment that occurs in astronauts," said Michael D. Delp, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, and the Center for Exercise Science at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. "Although I have come to realize that it is unlikely I will ever get to fulfill my childhood dream of flying in space, I take great satisfaction with helping in the discovery of how microgravity alters the human body and how we can minimize these effects, so humans can safely explore the bounds of our universe."

To make this discovery, Delp and colleagues examined arteries and veins from mice housed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida with blood vessels from groups of mice flown on three of the last five space shuttle missionsSTS-131, STS-133 and STS-135. Mice flown on the STS-131 and STS-135 missions were tested immediately after returning to Earth, whereas mice from STS-133 were tested one, five and seven days after landing. Not only did they find that these mice experienced the equivalent of orthostatic hypotension in humans, they also discovered that it takes as many as four days in normal gravity before the condition is reversed.

"There has been considerable interest in sending humans to the moon, asteroids, and Mars," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal, "but what we're finding is that extended space missions have their own inherent risks above and beyond the obvious. If we ever hope to visit distant worlds for extended periods of timeor colonize them permanentlywe've got to figure out how to mitigate the effects that low and no gravity has on the body. This report brings us an important step closer to doing just that."

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Dominguez II, Judy M. Muller-Delp, and Michael D. Delp. Effects of spaceflight and ground recovery on mesenteric artery and vein constrictor properties in mice. FASEB J doi:10.1096/fj.12-218503 ; http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2012/10/24/fj.12-218503.abstract



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Contact: Cody Mooneyhan
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301-634-7104
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

New research in the FASEB Journal suggests that a major cause of low blood pressure during standing is the compromised ability of arteries and veins to constrict normally and return blood back to the heart

Bethesda, MDWhen astronauts return to Earth, their altitude isn't the only thing that dropstheir blood pressure does too. This condition, known as orthostatic hypotension, occurs in up to half of those astronauts on short-term missions (two weeks or less) and in nearly all astronauts after long-term missions (four to six months). A new research report published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) solves the biological mystery of how this happens by showing that low gravity compromises the ability of arteries and veins to constrict normally, inhibiting the proper flow of blood. Prevention and treatment strategies developed for astronauts may also hold promise for elderly populations on Earth who experience orthostatic hypotension more than any other age group.

"The idea of space exploration has been tantalizing the imagination of humans since our early existence. As a scientist, I have had the opportunity to learn that there are many medical challenges associated with travel in a weightless environment, such as orthostatic hypotension, bone loss and the recently recognized visual impairment that occurs in astronauts," said Michael D. Delp, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, and the Center for Exercise Science at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. "Although I have come to realize that it is unlikely I will ever get to fulfill my childhood dream of flying in space, I take great satisfaction with helping in the discovery of how microgravity alters the human body and how we can minimize these effects, so humans can safely explore the bounds of our universe."

To make this discovery, Delp and colleagues examined arteries and veins from mice housed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida with blood vessels from groups of mice flown on three of the last five space shuttle missionsSTS-131, STS-133 and STS-135. Mice flown on the STS-131 and STS-135 missions were tested immediately after returning to Earth, whereas mice from STS-133 were tested one, five and seven days after landing. Not only did they find that these mice experienced the equivalent of orthostatic hypotension in humans, they also discovered that it takes as many as four days in normal gravity before the condition is reversed.

"There has been considerable interest in sending humans to the moon, asteroids, and Mars," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal, "but what we're finding is that extended space missions have their own inherent risks above and beyond the obvious. If we ever hope to visit distant worlds for extended periods of timeor colonize them permanentlywe've got to figure out how to mitigate the effects that low and no gravity has on the body. This report brings us an important step closer to doing just that."

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Receive monthly highlights from The FASEB Journal by e-mail. Sign up at http://www.faseb.org/fjupdate.aspx. The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) is published by the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). It is among the most cited biology journals worldwide according to the Institute for Scientific Information and has been recognized by the Special Libraries Association as one of the top 100 most influential biomedical journals of the past century. FASEB is composed of 26 societies with more than 100,000 members, making it the largest coalition of biomedical research associations in the United States. Celebrating 100 Years of Advancing the Life Sciences in 2012, FASEB is rededicating its efforts to advance health and well-being by promoting progress and education in biological and biomedical sciences through service to our member societies and collaborative advocacy.

Details: Bradley J. Behnke, John N. Stabley, Danielle J. McCullough, Robert T. Davis III, James M.

Dominguez II, Judy M. Muller-Delp, and Michael D. Delp. Effects of spaceflight and ground recovery on mesenteric artery and vein constrictor properties in mice. FASEB J doi:10.1096/fj.12-218503 ; http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2012/10/24/fj.12-218503.abstract



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Chinese Rare Earths Producer Suspends Output

This is simply inevitable. China has been producing rare earths at unsustainable and artificially low prices, which is why the rest of the world no longer needed to bother with mining and consuming their own finite resources.

Everyone needs to grasp that this is an inevitability - the prices of various products (mainly higher technology) will have to go up, and thus the global markets and product will rebalance themselves. The manipulation was already done in keeping the prices too low, not in making them go up. Your complaints are coming way too late in this game - you should have been complaining at least a decade ago when they flooded the market with cheap resources, not now that the bubble has burst.

Say a new hot dog stand opens up in town, and for the first month they sell hotdogs for 25 cents at a massive and unsustainable loss. Maybe that's long enough to run the other hot dog stands out of business, or at least make them realize it's just not worth bothering with. Then after the introductory price they go up to where the market belongs. Now at that point the other hot dog stands can re-open, with new owners or with their old owners - doesn't really matter. At the end of the day it's all the same end result - hotdogs cost what they're worth.

My question is this - was it wrong for the rest of us to enjoy hotdogs for only a quarter apiece while we were able to? My opinion is no, that's not wrong of us, nor is it wrong that the world enjoyed lower priced rare earths (and thus technology) because of China's willing sacrifice of their finite resources.

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Tip has Mobilicity's 21Mbps HSPA+ network going live next week with throttling after 6GB

Tip has Mobilicity's 21Mbps HSPA network going live next week with throttling after 6GB

Mobilicity's much-needed 21Mbps network upgrade may be almost at hand... with a catch. A leak to MobileSyrup reportedly has the HSPA+ network arriving sometime next week in tandem with an $80 Huawei E366 USB modem to exploit the new speeds. However, the Canadian carrier might just slap an asterisk on the end of that "unlimited" tag it's been using so far. Current customers may be relegated to a Basic Unlimited Data tier where any use past 6GB is potentially throttled; anyone needing full speed beyond that would have to either slap on a $20 Premium Data add-on or switch outright to a comprehensive $50 data plan, with both plans bumping the ceiling to 20GB. The two could remain better deals than for the major carriers, at least if you don't mind eschewing LTE. Nonetheless, any truth to the offerings might take away one more choice for truly unlimited data in the True North.

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Cleaning Tips And Tools For Your Garden ? O2B Healthy

Your garden is considered to be one of the most important parts of your home. You can use it for a lot purposes. This is the place where you can just chill and have a good time. Either you can grab your tablet and read articles or grab a cold beer and drink coffee just to pass time. It is a place in your home where you can entertain your family and friends that is the reason why it is best to keep it clean.

Maintaining The Height Of Grasses

The height of grasses in your garden is an aspect that needs to be considered. Of course, nobody would want to have a bushy garden. It is best to keep neat and clean. In doing this, all you need is a trusty lawn mower that is fit for the job. With the clean and neat environment you can freely do your outdoor dining plans in your beautiful garden.

The Right Tool

In choosing the right tool in cleaning and maintaining your garden, you need to consider the best thing that fits the job. A lot of cleaning products are available in the market and the market is practically flooding with cheap cleaning agents. Before buying your cleaning tool, make sure that is of best value. Always take into consideration that the tool must not be too cheap and not too expensive. It should be of the right price and that it could offer the service you need.

Further Grooming

To make your garden even better you can consider getting modern patio furniture that can add class and finesse to your beautiful garden. Other people have nice gardens but lack the necessary things to make it more beautiful. In maintaining a garden there should always be a room for improvement as well as new ideas such that beautiful and fantastic gardens will come into being.

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Could DNA Hacking Be Used to Wipe Out World Leaders?

In this month's issue of the Atlantic, there's an interesting theory put forth in a story about biowarfare. Drawing on advances in genome decoding, the previous revelations that any stray materials containing the president's DNA are frequently destroyed, and that Hilary Clinton has ordered the collection of DNA from other foreign leaders, the Atlantic posits the idea that the next evolution in biowarfare will be the development of personalized bioagents designed to attack specific strands of DNA. The strands of world leaders. More »


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Sony teases '4K, HFR' F-series pro camcorder for October 30th event

Sony teases '4K, HFR' F-series pro camcorder for October 30th event

Sony recently teased its high-end CineAlta brand and 'TheNewF,' implying a high-end PMW-F3-like camcorder could be coming at an October 30th event. It's now taken some of the suspense out of the announcement on Facebook, saying the upcoming camera will have 4k resolution, broadcast-level 50Mbps data rate, 4:2:2 color space and high frame-rates. That means it'll likely be a professional product on par with the last F-model, but we'll have to wait and see if it'll retain features like the PL lens mount and $16k price tag. We'll be there on the 30th for the full scoop, so stay tuned.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Futurity.org ? Environment may entice breast cancer to spread

"The most dangerous aspect of breast cancer is its ability to spread to distant sites, and most tumors are initially unable to do that," says Andrew Ewald, assistant professor of cell biology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. (Credit: Gertler Lab, Koch Institute/Peter Eimon/Flickr)

JOHNS HOPKINS (US) ? Breast cancer?s lethal spread is as dependent on a tumor?s protein-rich environment as on genetic changes inside tumor cells, new research suggests.

A molecular signal in the protein meshwork surrounding breast cancer tumors may provide the critical trigger that initiates the transportation of cancerous cells to distant parts of a patient?s body, the researchers say.

Their experiments also suggest that the environment surrounding a tumor can coax even healthy breast cells to invade surrounding tissue just as cancer cells do, while a healthy environment can cause most cancer cells to stay put. The results are reported in?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

?The most dangerous aspect of breast cancer is its ability to spread to distant sites, and most tumors are initially unable to do that,? says Andrew Ewald, co-senior author and assistant professor of cell biology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Learning more about what specifically triggers cancer?s spread?its metastasis?may point the way toward new strategies for preventing and treating it, Ewald adds.

It?s widely accepted that cancers acquire the ability to metastasize through the gradual accumulation of genetic changes; experiments have also shown that these changes occur in parallel with changes in the protein content and three-dimensional patterning of the protein meshwork that creates their immediate surroundings.

What has been unclear is whether those immediate surroundings play a role in initiating and encouraging cancer?s spread or whether they are more ?effect? than ?cause.?

New surroundings

To sort out the contributions of the genetic changes and the environment, Ewald?s team separated tumor cells from their natural surroundings, taking fragments of human breast tumors and embedding them in two different commercially available 3D gels.

The gels are tools used often to study tumor invasiveness. The first mimics a thin molecular boundary normally found around healthy breast tissue. The second is made entirely of a protein, collagen I, found in unusually high concentrations around breast tumors.

If cancer cells are driven to disperse solely because of accumulated mutations, the researchers expected to see tumor fragments behave similarly in the healthy and tumorous mimicked environments. What they saw instead, was a distinct difference.

As expected, 88 percent of tumor fragments sent cells crawling into the tumorous meshwork environment, simulating the first step in metastasis, known as dissemination (see video). But only 15 percent of tumor fragments sent cells crawling into the healthy environment (see video). That indicates that the environment around a tumor plays a more direct role in cancer spread than previously thought, Ewald says.

And if indeed tumor cells can be enticed outward by the protein environment, the researchers reasoned, that environment might even be powerful enough to coax cells away from healthy breast tissue.

To test that idea, they took fragments of both healthy and cancerous mouse mammary glands and placed them in collagen I gels, again mimicking a tumor?s environment. In that tumorous environment, nearly as many of the healthy fragments sent cells dispersing (see video) as did the tumorous fragments (see video).

There was one notable difference: Even in the collagen I gel, healthy tissue fragments ?self-corrected,? sending out cells only for a short period of time. There was no such correction in the cancerous fragments; cancer cells continued to exit them through the whole test period.

A dispersal-permissive environment is enough to provoke invasive behavior in all mammary tissue, healthy and cancerous, Ewald explains, and the difference between the two can be a single genetic change in cancer that allows the dispersal to continue unchecked.

Other authors of the report are at Johns Hopkins, the University of California, San Francisco, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The research was supported by the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins and by grants from the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Safeway Foundation Award for Breast Cancer Research.

Source: Johns Hopkins University

Source: http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/environment-may-entice-breast-cancer-to-spread/

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Wine Country Tours Can Be Rejuvenating

One of the most relaxing and popular styles of tours you can do when you are visiting California is the Napa Valley Wine tours. These tours are dyed-in-the-wool to taking you from corner to corner, the area as they spotlight on specific vineyards and styles of wine. Not only do you have the probability to stop and taste some of the different wines, but you will also find there are some tours that will take you to each wine producer to taste the best each has to put forward.

A wine country tour will be programmed so you do have to hang about in one place for a set time but you can stroll around the winery and do not have to go after the usher unless you want to. On the other hand, the most appealing thing about a wine country tour is the reality that you can learn so much more on a wine country tour than you could if you were traipsing on all sides of the country on your own! Any genuine wine guide can put in plain words the wine ingredients and the growing, fermenting, and aging processes involved in wine creation. Nevertheless, a wine guide's information can be exceptionally useful for pairing complementary foods and cuisines with matching wines for utmost sensory enjoyment.

If you are a wine fanatic, you will love this tour. All through your trip you will have the opportunity to taste wines from Kenwood, Rutherford, Glen Ellen, St. Helen, and Yountville. If you are engrossed in tasting the famous wines of California, Napa and Sonoma are only two hours north of San Francisco.

Wine country tours can be enormously tranquil and very interesting. It is for that reason best to book on one several days, if not weeks, sooner than you take your trip. Do not put out of your mind to take the wine home as a souvenir of the wine country tours too! The Wine Country has more to put forward than its taste of wine. Sumptuousness vacation and tour packages are offered for those who seek leisure and an experience of the rejuvenating local traditions.

The tours of the landscape start on in the morning and head towards the Sonoma Valley wine country once cross the Golden Gate Bridge, where you splurge the morning visiting wineries whose specialty is Pinot Noir. Though, as you can see in your mind's eye, these places are extremely popular and you need to do your investigation and reservation well in advance. There is an almost infinite number of ways for you to see, practice and enjoy a visit to California wine country. You can craft your trip as exclusive as you wish. It can also be made a romantic getaway to a quaint little bed and breakfast, to a joyous group tour of the wineries; there is something for one and all.

On the whole California wine country tours can be rejuvenating and relaxing when you opt for a guided wine country tour.

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Cultural Differences in Baby and Toddler Sleep | The Baby Sleep ...

Here at the Baby Sleep Site?, we take great pride in the fact that we?re an international business. We?ve worked with families from across the globe in an effort to get a better night?s sleep. Geography has never been a barrier for us; in fact, two of our sleep consultants are living internationally themselves! Melissa Kenzig splits her time between the U.S. and France, and Amy Bryant currently calls Germany home. And, both know a thing or two about cultural differences regarding baby and toddler sleep!

After years spent helping families from all over the world, one of the things we?ve learned is that cultural differences play a big role in sleep training. In this article, we?ll take a look at how different cultures view and handle co-sleeping, naps, bedtimes, maternity leave, and sleep training, to name a few. Why? Not to divide us parents, but to share with you that if you are not raising your baby like the ?norm? in your own country, chances are that it?s the ?norm? somewhere and you?re not alone!

Cultural Differences and Baby Sleep

Bedtime

Bedtime varies greatly from country to country, we?ve learned. Here in the U.S., it seems standard to put young children (especially babies) to bed early ? around 7:00 or 8:00 p.m., and sometimes even 6:00 p.m. ala Weissbluth. Many of our American clients also view bedtime as ?fixed? ? that is, it happens around the same time every night.

Contrast this with some of our European and Asian clients, who routinely put their babies and toddlers to bed quite ?late? ? around 10 or 11 p.m. Many of these clients have told us that late bedtimes are quite normal in their countries; parents want to spend time with the children after work, so bedtime gets pushed back to create more family time. Many times, this also means bedtime is a more fluid, less fixed time. The idea that bedtime has to (or should) happen at the same time each night isn?t nearly as prevalent in some countries as it is in the U.S.

Nicole?s Note:
?I have often wondered how my son would have fared in a European country with a late bedtime. But, one thing we?ve seen is that we are able to help most families within the parameters of their family structure and needs. As long as your baby is getting enough sleep, that is usually all that matters. Late bedtimes generally mean later wake-up time (with the right schedule!), so there is a balance.?

Co-Sleeping

In the Western world, co-sleeping isn?t exactly the norm. Here in the West, we tend to sleep our babies in cribs, in a separate nursery. Room-sharing is still popular in the first 6 months or so, but other forms of co-sleeping (like co-sleeping long-term, or bed-sharing) are still more on the rare side among Western moms.

In countries around the world, however, this isn?t the case. For example, in many countries, parents and children share the same bed for several years. This is the case in many Asian countries ? babies sleep with their parents until they?re toddlers, and at that point, they move to their own small bed near their parents? bed.

It?s also standard practice in some countries to sleep your baby in the same bed as an extended family member (like a grandmother, or an aunt.) This is particularly true for countries in which living with extended family under the same roof is the norm.

Nicole?s Note:
?One important difference when it comes to co-sleeping across the globe is the bed that the parents sleep in. It is important to bed share SAFELY! American beds are different (read: fluffy, soft, pillow-top, etc.) than others?. ?

Naps and Schedules

In the U.S. and some other Western countries, many parents work hard to get their babies on predictable, regular schedules. And there?s a lot to be said for establishing a routine ? it often helps regulate a baby?s naptime sleep (and even nighttime sleep!)

However, we?ve found that parents from other countries tend to have a more relaxed, on-the-go mentality when it comes to schedules. In these countries, it?s normal for baby?s sleep schedule to look different from one day to the next. And it?s fine for naps to happen on the go, while mom and dad are out running errands or spending time with friends.

Nicole?s Note:
?No doubt our busy, American lifestyle leads to us being more rigid about scheduling. How else can we make sure the baby is up on time for daycare or we?re at that Gymboree class on time with a happy, content baby? My sons seemed anti-on-the-go and one was afraid he?d miss anything to sleep while out and about, so I definitely don?t know how that would have worked for him! :) It is particularly challenging for our international clients when they have a son like mine, who needs to be home, in bed, to sleep.?

Help With Childcare

This is a big difference we?ve noticed in our work with families from all over the world. In many Western countries, parenting tends to be a fairly isolated affair. It?s a parent?s job to do the work of childrearing, and if the parents happen to need childcare help, they generally have to outsource it (to a daycare provider, for example.)

This is far from the case around the world. In many cultures, the extended family takes an active role in helping to raise children. Sometimes, family members all live together under one roof, meaning that grandma takes the night shift with the baby as often as mom does.

What?s more, in some countries, middle-class families are able to hire house help, like nannies or maids. This provides parents with extra help as well ? it isn?t always mom or dad who?s feeding and changing and cleaning up after and waking with the baby.

Maternity Leaves

This is such an interesting phenomenon, and it?s one that we?ve seen come up again and again when we work with international parents. Here in the West, maternity leaves are often woefully short (moms are lucky to get 12 weeks), and they?re often unpaid.

Contrast that with countries around the world that mandate lengthy, paid maternity leaves. In Croatia, Denmark, Serbia, and the U.K., for example, maternity leave is a full year long, and mom receives 90-100% of her normal working wage.

The implications of this are fairly obvious. It?s no wonder that many of us Western parents are quick to get our babies on a sleep schedule, and to start sleep training early ? we need our babies to nap well and to sleep through the night because we have to go back to work! Many of our international clients, however, don?t face this same pressure ? their maternity leaves tend to be longer, so (in general) they?re more relaxed about their babies? sleep habits, especially when their babies? are very young. Having said this, we do not believe At-Home Parents have it easy, either.

(Note: to see a side-by-side comparison of maternity leaves around the world, organized by country, take a look at this helpful Huffingtonpost.com article.)

Sleep Training

The different cultural perceptions of sleep training are fascinating to us here at the Baby Sleep Site?. In fact, if we were writing this for a different audience, we may even have to define the phrase ?sleep training?, since it?s unheard of in some countries around the world!

In the West, we?ve become fairly accustomed to the concept of sleep training. The idea that some parents take steps to train, or to teach, their babies to sleep is understood and accepted (even if not every Western parent would agree with some of the practices associated with sleep training, like cry it out methods.)

However, in other countries around the world, the idea of ?teaching? a baby to sleep is a foreign one. Many international parents report that in their home countries, allowing a baby to cry, even for a moment, is considered cruel and unnatural. Instead, it?s the expectation that babies will have night-wakings and the family?s ?village? will help, whether it means getting up with the baby at night or allow Mom to nap during the day.

Nicole?s Note:
?We are working with more and more international clients who want something different than their surrounding culture. They feel isolated and alone and we try to be there for them. It?s not easy to have a challenging sleeper, wherever you are!?

A General, Respectful Overview

This isn?t meant to be an authoritative account on cultural differences and baby sleep. Rather, we?ve tried to give you a general glimpse at how the perceptions and practices surrounding baby sleep vary from country to country.

And we?re not presenting these differences to judge parents from other cultures ? not at all! We believe that every baby and every situation is unique; we also believe that we have a lot to learn from each other. Educating yourself about sleep norms around the world is one more way you can help your own baby or toddler along the road to better sleep.

What are your thoughts on some of these differences? Be respectful, please! And to our international readers: anything to add? Chime in, and we?ll update the article with your feedback!

Expectations and practices regarding baby and toddler sleep may change from country to country, but sleep deprivation crosses all borders! If you?re an exhausted parent, please be sure to pick up your FREE copy of 5 (tear-free) Ways to Help Your Child Sleep Through the Night, our e-Book with tear-free tips to help your baby sleep better. For those persistent nighttime struggles, check out The 3-Step System to Help Your Baby Sleep (babies) or The 5-Step System to Better Toddler Sleep (toddlers). Using a unique approach and practical tools for success, our e-books help you and your baby sleep through the night and nap better. For those looking for a more customized solution for your unique situation with support along the way, please consider one-on-one baby and toddler sleep consultations, where you will receive a Personalized Family Sleep Plan? you can feel good about! Sometimes it?s not that you can?t make a plan. Sometimes you?re just too tired to.

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Barack Obama Says Sequestration 'Will Not Happen,' Hits Back on Military Spending Attacks

President Barack Obama used the final presidential debate Monday night to hit back aggressively against claims that his budget will gut the U.S. military, something the Republican Party has been using as a political cudgel against him all year.

At the same time, he raised questions about GOP nominee Mitt Romney?s own plans to increase military spending, saying ?the math doesn?t work.?

The president predicted that the deep defense spending cuts mandated by the ?sequestration? process, which would go into effect if Congress cannot reach a deficit-cutting deal in the coming months, ?will not happen.?

Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, has promised to increase military spending to 4 percent of the gross domestic product, including expanding the size of the Navy and Air Force. He said he can pay for that and ?get to a balanced budget within eight to 10 years? by ?reducing spending in a whole series of programs,? including, most notably, repealing the health insurance overhaul that Obama and Congressional Democrats pushed into law in 2010.

Obama barely let Romney finish explaining what other cuts he would make to offset the bump in military funding before cutting in.

?Gov. Romney?s called for $5 trillion of tax cuts that he says he?s going to pay for by closing deductions. Now, the math doesn?t work, but he continues to claim that,? Obama said. ?He then wants to spend another $2 trillion on military spending that our military is not asking for.?

Romney did not get a chance to rebut those claims during the debate, although he has said in the past that the numbers Obama quoted are not accurate.

In contrast, Obama said his focus was on military capabilities, and he made sure to recount the many conversations and consultations he has conducted with military brass on the subject as the sitting commander-in-chief.

?What I did was work with our joint chiefs of staff to think about, what are we going to need in the future to make sure that we are safe?? the president said.

When Romney began to reel off statistics on the shrinking size of the Navy ? at its smallest since 1917 ? and the Air Force ? smaller than at any time since its founding in 1947 ? Obama came back with one of the toughest zingers of the night, and perhaps of his campaign.

?Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military?s changed,? Obama said. ?We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.?

?The question is not a game of Battleship,? the president continued.

It?s the most combative the president has sounded on the issue ? maybe too combative for some swing voters, commentators said afterward. But it?s in keeping with the tone of the debate in which Republicans have attempted to pin the responsibility for sequestration squarely on the president, despite the fact that a majority of lawmakers ? including Romney?s running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, voted for it.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) took issue with the remark in a statement released after the debate by Romney?s campaign. Virginia, in addition to being a key presidential swing state, is home to the Navy?s Atlantic fleet.

?President Obama?s dismissive comments about the Navy tonight should be concerning for any voter who cares about the safety and security of Americans at home and abroad,? McDonnell said. ?His flippant comment about ?horses and bayonets? was an insult to every sailor who has put his or her life on the line for our country.?

Republicans were also ramping up their line of attack on sequestration even before the debate was over. Don Stewart, spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), issued a statement while the debate was still going on, noting that ?the Republican-led House has passed legislation to prevent the damaging defense cuts ? the President still doesn?t have a plan to prevent the sequester.?

And Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said in a statement that while Romney demonstrated in the debate that he would promote ?a strong defense,? Obama ?has stood in the way of preventing the automatic military cuts through sequestration.?

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), however, echoed Obama?s optimism on avoiding the sequester in an interview on CNBC after the debate.

?I can tell you, when the president?s re-elected, I expect ... for him to sit down, even during the lame-duck session, and come up with an approach that?ll avoid the sequester and really move us on a path to reducing the deficit while still pushing this recovery forward,? Durbin said.

Sequestration would cut about $500 billion from military budgets over the next decade. That?s on top of the $487 billion decrease in planned budgets that is already proposed over the same time period.

Romney, for his part, promised that he will ?not cut our military budget by a trillion dollars, which is a combination of the budget cuts the president has, as well as the sequestration cuts. That, in my view, is making our future less certain and less secure.?

Megan Scully and Niels Lesniewski contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.rollcall.com/news/barack_obama_says_sequestration_will_not_happen_hits_back_on_military-218402-1.html

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James Franco to Receive Special Cubovision Prize at Rome's CinemaXXI Sidebar

ROME ? The International Rome Film Festival announced the full lineup for its CinemaXXI sidebar Tuesday, highlighted by A Walk in the Park from ?No Wave? cult director Amos Poe, Michael Wahrmann?s Avanti Popolo, Peter Greenway?s Goltzius and the Pelican Company and Steekspel (Tricked) from Paul Verhoeven.

Newly installed artistic director Marco Mueller also announced that actor and director James Franco, who is connected to two films in the CinemaXXI lineup, will receive a special prize in Rome. And for the first time, organizers screened in public the short trailer that will precede the screenings of all the films in the festival?s official selection, feature an artistic old-style of a nude woman preparing to shoot an arrow.

VIDEO: James Franco's Duet With Smokey Robinson, 'Crime,' Gets a Sexy, Trippy Visual

CinemaXXI, the newest incarnation of the sidebar previously known as Extra, focuses on new trends in cinema. Mario Sesti, who directed Extra until last year, has stayed on as one of the programmers for CinemaXXI, making him one of the most high-profile holdovers from the pre-Mueller era at the seven-year-old festival.

With the collection of feature-length, short and medium films and documentaries announced, the only announcements yet to be made for the lineup of the Nov. 9-17 event are the two surprise productions that will screen in competition.

The five-person jury headed by Scottish artist and filmmaker Douglas Gordon will award three prizes: a Best Film honor and Jury Prize for feature-length productions, and a separate award for short- and medium-length films.

The lineup features an eclectic mix of productions, with several directed by multiple directors, including: opening film Centro Hist?rico (Historic Center), an homage to the Portuguese city of Guimar?es from Finland?s Aki Kaurism?ki, 103-year-old Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, and Cannes regulars Victor Erice and Pedro Costa; Mondo Invisivel (Invisible World) directed by a dozen directors including Wim Wenders, Marco Bechis and de Oliviera again; and Tar, directed by a dozen more directors working under the ?supervision? of Franco, who stars in the production along with Mila Kunis.

Franco, who also directed a one-minute short-short called Dreams that will screen in the sidebar, will be awarded the new Cubovision prize. His presence will add to the festival?s red-carpet star power, which has been criticized by the local media.

With the two CinemaXXI screenings, Franco is becoming a regular in Italy: he also starred in Harmony Korine?s crime comedy Spring Breakers and had a cameo role in Ariel Vromen?s thriller The Iceman, both of which were well received at the Venice Film Festival in September.

Other films worth keeping tabs on in the lineup include: Tanti Futuri Possibili Con Renato Nicolini (Many Possible Futures With Renato Nicolini) from Gianfranco Rosi; Gegenwart (Consequence) from Germany?s Thomas Heise (the film?stars F. Murray Abraham); Suspension of Disbelief from U.K. director Mike Figgis; and Jianshi Liu Baiyuan (Judge Archer) from Chinese director Xu Haofeng.

Poe?s A Walk in the Park, which calls itself ?a psychedelic journey back into the womb,? is the opening film of the main competition, in contrast to Centro Hist?rico, which is the CinemaXXI opening film and screening out of competition.

Most of the films in CinemaXXI will screen at the Maxxi Museum of contemporary art, a short walk from the festival?s headquarters at Auditorium Parco della Musica, though Mueller said a few will screen at Parco della Musica as well. All the feature-length films in the competition are world premieres.

The full-length films screening in CinemaXXI in competition are:

A WALK IN THE PARK from Amos Poe, United States

AVANTI POPOLO ?from Michael Wahrmann, Brazil, 2012

BLOODY DAUGHTER from St?phanie Argerich, France and Switzerland

GEGENWART (CONSEQUENCE) from Thomas Heise, Germany

GOLTZIUS AND THE PELICAN COMPANY ?from Peter Greenaway, The Netherlands

JIANSHI LIU BAIYUAN (JUDGE ARCHER) from Xu Haofeng, China

JUNGLE LOVE ?from Sherad Anthony Sanchez, Philippines

NICHNASTI PA?AM LAGAN (ONCE I ENTERED A GARDEN) from Avi Mograbi, France, Israel, and Switzerland

EL OJO DEL TIBURON (THE EYE OF THE SHARK) from Alejo Hoijman, Argentina

PANIHIDA from Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu, Germany and Moldavia?

PHOTO from Carlos Saboga, Portugal and France

PICAS (PIZZAS) from Laila Pakalnina, Latvia

SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF ?from Mike Figgis, Great Britain?

TANETS DELI (DELHI DANCE) from Ivan Vyrypaev, Russia

TAR ?from Edna Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Bruce Thierry Cheung, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis, Shruti Ganguly, Brooke Goldfinch, Omar Zuniga Hidalgo, Shripriya Mahesh, Pamela Romanowsky, Tine Thomasen, Virginia Urreiztieta; supervised by James Franco, United States??

TASHER DESH (THE LAND OF CARDS) from Kaushik Mukherjee, India

TUTTO PARLA DI TE from Alina Marazzi, Italy?

The full-length films screening in CinemaXXI out of competition are:

O BATUQUE DOS ASTROS from Julio Bressane, Brazil?

CENTRO HIST?RICO (HISTORIC CENTRE) from Aki Kaurism?ki, Pedro Costa, Victor Erice, and Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal

O FANTASMA DO NOVAIS from Margarida Gil, Portugal

MUNDO INVIS?VEL (INVISIBLE WORLD) from Atom Egoyan, Beto Brant, Cisco Vasques, Gian Vittorio Baldi, Guy Maddin, Jerzy Stuhr, La?s Bodanzky, Manoel De Oliveira, Marco Bechis, Maria de Medeiros, Theo Angelopoulos, Wim Wenders, Brazil

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California gasoline prices declining

Published: Oct. 23, 2012 at 7:56 AM

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Analysis from a U.S. motor group says retail gasoline prices in California are declining but are still more than the national average for regular unleaded.

Refinery and pipeline issues in California prompted some retail centers to shut pumps in mid-October. California Gov. Jerry Brown called for an early switch to a winter blend of gasoline to add more gasoline to the market.

Motorists in major metropolitan areas in California paid more than $4.70 per gallon of regular unleaded gasoline. Motor group AAA reports that a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in California, on average, cost $4.39 Tuesday, compared to a national average of $3.64. That's down about 3 cents compared to Monday's prices and 20 cents cheaper than last week.

The Los Angeles Times reports that prices are still at historic highs, however.

California lawmakers called on federal regulators to investigate gasoline prices. Most of the refinery issues in the state were expected to be short-lived, however.

Source: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2012/10/23/California-gasoline-prices-declining/UPI-43761350993390/

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Obama makes closing case to late-breaking voters

President Barack Obama waves as boards Air Force One, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, at West Palm Beach Airport, in West Palm Beach, Fla. enroute to Ohio for a campaign stop after his final debate Monday night against Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

President Barack Obama waves as boards Air Force One, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, at West Palm Beach Airport, in West Palm Beach, Fla. enroute to Ohio for a campaign stop after his final debate Monday night against Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

President Barack Obama holds a copy of his plan for jobs pamphlet while speaks to supporters, where he layed out his plan to move the country forward, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, during a campaign stop in Delray Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at Delray Beach Tennis Center, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 in Delray Beach, Fla., the day after the last presidential debate against Republican Presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. The president is making campaign stops in Florida and Ohio today. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

A silhouetted President Barack Obama gestures while speaking at a campaign event at Delray Beach Tennis Center, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 in Delray Beach, Fla., the day after the last presidential debate against Republican Presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. The president is making campaign stops in Florida and Ohio today. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama carries a baby as he prepares to leave a campaign stop in Delray Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, a day after the past presidential debate with Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

(AP) ? Battling to win late-breaking undecided voters, President Barack Obama is pressing a closing argument that balances economic optimism with second-term specifics, all while raising doubts about Republican Mitt Romney's trustworthiness.

The revamped strategy is an acknowledgement that Obama must do more than just criticize Romney for shifting his positions. With two weeks left until Election Day, the president still has to articulate what that narrow band of persuadable voters would get if they grant him four more years in office.

The president barreled out of Monday night's third and final debate with a 20-page booklet detailing an array of previously released positions, including spending more on education, boosting manufacturing jobs and raising taxes on the wealthy.

"That's how you build a strong, sustainable economy that has good middle-class jobs to offer," Obama said during a rally in Delray Beach, Fla., Tuesday. "Now it's up to you to choose the path we take from here."

The president also tweaked his criticism of Romney's newly moderate stances, particularly on the foreign policy issues that dominated the third debate. Obama's argument for the homestretch will be that such moves are a sign that voters can't trust the Republican nominee.

"The person who leads this country, you've got to have some confidence that he or she means what he or she says," Obama told Florida voters. "You can trust that I say what I mean and I mean what I say."

Obama advisers see the new approach as a way to capitalize on polls that show voters see the president as more trustworthy than Romney. A Washington Post/ABC News poll last week showed 55 percent of likely voters said Obama is "honest and trustworthy" compared to 47 percent who felt that way about Romney.

The GOP nominee has exuded confidence on the campaign trail following his strong performance in the first debate on Oct. 3. In recent days, he sharply criticized Obama for not providing enough specifics about what he would do in a second term.

Some Democrats have also echoed that critique, quietly griping that the lack of clarity was keeping Obama from closing the deal with undecided voters.

Obama advisers insisted that Tuesday's push was long-planned, not a reaction to such criticism. A new television ad incorporates more specifics about the president's second-term agenda and was taped days before the final debate.

The spot features Obama speaking to the camera and delivering what amounts to his final case for re-election, both highlighting accomplishments from his first term and promising stronger results in a second.

"We're not there yet. But we've made real progress and the last thing we should do is turn back now," Obama says in the ad. "It's an honor to be your president. And I'm asking for your vote."

At 60-seconds long, the ad represented a significant financial commitment in nine competitive states: Ohio, Florida, Virginia, New Hampshire, Iowa, North Carolina, Colorado, Nevada and Wisconsin.

Polls show Romney gained nationally after his strong performance in the first debate. Obama advisers insist they maintain an edge in key battleground states, including Ohio, where every Republican has needed to win in order to claim the presidency.

"We are tied, or ahead, in every battleground state, and we're not leaving anywhere where we're tied or ahead," said Jim Messina, the president's campaign manager.

With millions of Americans already casting early votes, Messina said the campaign was focusing on getting out "sporadic voters" and broadening the universe of people who will vote for the president. That includes what he predicted would be record turnout from minority voters.

In 2008, Obama rode early voting advantages to victory despite losing in votes cast on Election Day in Colorado, Florida, Iowa and North Carolina.

Obama advisers say the president will spend nearly every day between now and the Nov. 6 election campaigning in battleground states, though he has some time scheduled in Washington to attend to governing duties.

Underscoring the election's dwindling days, Obama will start a 48-hour, six-state blitz on Wednesday morning.

With both the Obama and Romney campaigns predicting victory, the president's chief strategist, David Axelrod, offered some assurance that at least the end was near.

"We'll know who is bluffing and who isn't in two weeks," he said.

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Associated Press writer Ken Thomas in Delray Beach, Fla., contributed to this report.

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