The Sky Is the Limit for Wind Power

The amount of power to be reaped from tapping low- and high-altitude winds dwarfs global demand

By David Biello

WIND POWER: The world's winds contain more than enough energy to power human civilization. Image: ? David Biello

Wind turbines on land and offshore could readily provide more than four times the power that the world as a whole currently uses. Throw in kites or robot aircraft generating electricity from sky-high winds and the world could physically extract roughly 100 times more power than presently employed?and the climatic consequences remain minimal.

Two new computer-model analyses suggest there are few limits to the wind's potential. Although "there are physical limits to the amount of power that can be harvested from winds, these limits are well above total global energy demand," explains climate-modeler Kate Marvel of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who led the analysis published September 9 in Nature Climate Change. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) Current global demand is roughly 18 terawatts. (A terawatt is one trillion watts.)

Given the desire to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electric generation, a growing number of wind farms are cropping up from the U.S. to China?more than 239 gigawatts worth of wind turbines have been installed globally. But the ultimate limits of wind power's potential contribution remained unclear. One complication, for example, is that any effort to harvest wind power ends up having an impact on the wind itself, reducing its speed?as well as influencing both local weather and global climate.

Using a global meteorological and sunlight-chemistry computer model paired with power generation information from turbine manufacturers, environmental scientists Cristina Archer of the University of Delaware and Mark Jacobson?of Stanford University analyzed when wind turbines might reach a saturation point?the point at which the addition of more turbines would reduce the amount of power generated, rather than increase it. At 100 meters up?roughly the hub height of a modern large-scale wind turbine on land?that saturation point would allow more than 250 terawatts of power to be generated, according to the results published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on September 10. "We calculated how much electrical energy can be generated from the atmosphere," Archer explains, noting that four million turbines spread around the globe could easily and sustainably produce 7.5 terawatts of power, or nearly half of all power used today.

For their part, Marvel and her colleagues examined the geophysical limits of wind power, or how much energy can be extracted from global winds without major impacts. Surface winds below 395 meters, which ultimately dissipate anyway, could provide at least 400 terawatts of power, whereas those at higher altitudes could offer more than 1,800 terawatts based on atmospheric physics.

The researchers then used a computer model to simulate the global climate over a century to find out what impact such power extraction might have. If humans could figure out how to extract all that power, global temperatures could rise by as much as one degree Celsius and precipitation decreased by roughly 10 percent. Of course, that's more than 100 times more energy than presently consumed by the entirety of human civilization, suggesting that the actual impacts of wind power would be far smaller. "At the scale of civilization, the climate consequences of widely distributed wind turbines are negligible," says climate-modeler Ken Caldeira of Carnegie Institution's Department of Ecology at Stanford, a co-author with Marvel.

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Salton Sea eyed as culprit of big stink in Calif.

File - In a Dec. 27, 2010 file photo, a fallen tree supports numerous heron nests in the mud of Southern California's Salton Sea. As public officials sought a solid answer for what made Monday, Sept. 10, 2012 so pungent in Southern California, one answer proposed was a weather-aided waft of a fish die-off from the Salton Sea. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)

File - In a Dec. 27, 2010 file photo, a fallen tree supports numerous heron nests in the mud of Southern California's Salton Sea. As public officials sought a solid answer for what made Monday, Sept. 10, 2012 so pungent in Southern California, one answer proposed was a weather-aided waft of a fish die-off from the Salton Sea. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ? Noses across Southern California were hoping for a sweeter-smelling Tuesday as public officials sought a solid answer for what made Monday so pungent.

One answer appeared far more likely than any other: The weather-aided waft of a fish die-off from the Salton Sea.

But even as officials said several factors indicate the Salton Sea as the source of the sulfurous smell, air quality investigators stopped short of declaring with certainty that the saltwater lake 150 miles southeast of Los Angeles was the cause.

Barry Wallerstein, executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, said in a statement late Monday that "there is not yet any definitive evidence to pinpoint the Salton Sea or any other source yet."

One reason for doubt, the statement said, is that "it is highly unusual for odors to remain strong up to 150 miles from their source."

The smell was reported as far away as Palmdale and Lancaster, more than 150 miles north of the Salton Sea. The dying sea had a fish die-off within the past week and that, combined with strong storms in the area Sunday, could have churned up the water and unleashed bacteria from the sea floor that caused the stench, said Janis Dawson of the Salton Sea Authority.

The massive thunderstorm complex brought wind gusts up to 60 mph and widespread dust storms. Mark Moede, a National Weather Service meteorologist in San Diego, called it "huge, one of the largest that any of us have ever seen in probably 10 years."

A strengthening onshore breeze Tuesday may dissipate lingering odors closer to the coast, the South Coast air quality district said.

That would be a relief to residents from Riverside County to the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles, who lit up switchboards and social media to make a stink of the stink. The district was flooded with more than 200 complaints Monday from across much of its 10,000 square miles.

"The odor was extremely intense," Dawson said. "We actually thought that somebody had an accident, a broken sewage main."

Jack Crayon, an environmental scientist at California's Department of Fish and Game, said he recognized the smell as the typical odor when winds churn up the sea's waters and pull gases from the decomposition of fish or other organisms up to the surface.

He said the phenomenon typically occurs a few times a year in the area surrounding the lake, but it was unusual for the smell to spread so far.

Fish die-offs at the Salton Sea result from low oxygen levels in the water and receding shorelines. The shrinking lake, which is a major resting stop for migrating birds on the Pacific Flyway, has been plagued by increasing salinity. It was created in 1905 when floodwaters broke through a Colorado River irrigation canal and is fed by water that seeps down from nearby farms. It is about one-third saltier than the ocean and sits 200 feet below sea level.

Julie Hutchinson, battalion chief at California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in Riverside, said cloud cover lingering over the area has trapped the smell in the suburbs east of Los Angeles.

"It's just not able to evaporate up into the atmosphere," Hutchinson said. "The moisture and thick heavy air is keeping it in the lower ends of the valleys."

In San Fernando, comedian Jose Chavez said he was leaving the grocery store when he was overwhelmed by the odor.

"My first thought was that maybe one of the eggs I bought was rotted, and I got back home and the smell was still there, so then I started to think it was me so I changed my clothes," the 28-year-old said. "It was very pungent."

It also was strong enough to drive him to Twitter, where he quipped: "The Valley is starting to smell like rotten eggs. In an unrelated note, Febreeze sales are through the roof."

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Associated Press writer Amy Taxin contributed to this report.

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Teachers, school climate key to Latino immigrants' academic success

Public release date: 11-Sep-2012
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Teachers and schools that value diversity have a big impact on the academic experiences of Latino immigrant children living in predominantly White communities. That's the finding of a new study by researchers at the University of Kentucky. The study appears in a special section of the September/October 2012 issue of Child Development on children from immigrant families.

Children who had a teacher who valued diversity felt more positively about their ethnicity than children who had a teacher who felt uncomfortable with diversity, the study found.

"This is important because feeling positively about their ethnicity was associated with children valuing school more, enjoying school more, feeling like they belonged at school more, and getting better grades," according to Christia Spears Brown, associate professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky, who led the study.

Teachers who valued diversity also seemed to establish classroom norms that discouraged peers from teasing others because of their ethnicity. "Although schools can't change their ethnic composition to make immigrant children feel less of a minority, they can show that they support multiculturalism, they can help teachers see the value of diversity, and they can help their students feel positively about their ethnic group," Brown added.

The study looked at more than 200 third and fourth graders, primarily first- and second-generation immigrants from Mexico, in 19 U.S. elementary schools. They live in a community that is 81 percent European American and 14 percent African American, with a rapidly growing Latino population. Children were given questionnaires asking their attitudes about their ethnicity, their experiences with discrimination by peers and teachers, and their attitudes about school. The study also collected the students' grades. Teachers completed a questionnaire on their attitudes about diversity, and the school climate was examined for multiculturalism and ethnic composition.

"Regions with previously small immigrant populations are now seeing rapid demographic changes, meaning that newly arriving children are entering school systems that have been, until recently, almost entirely European American and African American," Brown noted. "These children face unique challenges to their educational success, challenges that can in part be overcome through supportive teachers and schools."

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Teachers and schools that value diversity have a big impact on the academic experiences of Latino immigrant children living in predominantly White communities. That's the finding of a new study by researchers at the University of Kentucky. The study appears in a special section of the September/October 2012 issue of Child Development on children from immigrant families.

Children who had a teacher who valued diversity felt more positively about their ethnicity than children who had a teacher who felt uncomfortable with diversity, the study found.

"This is important because feeling positively about their ethnicity was associated with children valuing school more, enjoying school more, feeling like they belonged at school more, and getting better grades," according to Christia Spears Brown, associate professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky, who led the study.

Teachers who valued diversity also seemed to establish classroom norms that discouraged peers from teasing others because of their ethnicity. "Although schools can't change their ethnic composition to make immigrant children feel less of a minority, they can show that they support multiculturalism, they can help teachers see the value of diversity, and they can help their students feel positively about their ethnic group," Brown added.

The study looked at more than 200 third and fourth graders, primarily first- and second-generation immigrants from Mexico, in 19 U.S. elementary schools. They live in a community that is 81 percent European American and 14 percent African American, with a rapidly growing Latino population. Children were given questionnaires asking their attitudes about their ethnicity, their experiences with discrimination by peers and teachers, and their attitudes about school. The study also collected the students' grades. Teachers completed a questionnaire on their attitudes about diversity, and the school climate was examined for multiculturalism and ethnic composition.

"Regions with previously small immigrant populations are now seeing rapid demographic changes, meaning that newly arriving children are entering school systems that have been, until recently, almost entirely European American and African American," Brown noted. "These children face unique challenges to their educational success, challenges that can in part be overcome through supportive teachers and schools."

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USC's Barkley, UCLA's Franklin take national leads

The Pac-12 had one of its best weekends in years, led by a Los Angeles-based duo that put themselves in the national lead in rushing yards and passing touchdowns.

UCLA senior Johnathan Franklin ran for 217 yards on 26 carries as the upstart Bruins stunned Nebraska 36-30 at the Rose Bowl. Franklin now has 431 yards rushing while averaging a gaudy 10.5 yards per carry through two games.

Southern California's Matt Barkley continued his push for the Heisman Trophy some 3,000 miles away. Barkley threw six TDs passes in stormy New Jersey as the Trojans held off Syracuse 42-29.

Barkley has 10 touchdown passes, three more than Akron's Dalton Williams and four more than anyone else.

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SEMINOLE SMACKDOWN: No. 5 Florida State demolished hapless FCS school Savannah State 55-0 in a game called with 8:59 left in the third quarter because of bad weather. The Seminoles now lead the nation in scoring defense among teams that have played more than one game with just 1.5 points allowed per contest.

Savannah State probably wouldn't have scored even if the weather had cleared up. The Tigers mustered just 28 yards of offense and three first downs.

TCU is the only team in the country with a clean sheet, having blanked Grambling State 56-0 in Saturday's opener.

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BUSY BROWNING: Louisiana-Monroe quarterback Kolton Browning held the ball in his hands for a staggering 83 plays. He ran 16 times for 69 yards but, more importantly, threw for 412 yards and three TDs as the Warhawks stunned Arkansas 34-31 in overtime to knock the Razorbacks out of the AP Top 25.

Browning completed 42 of 67 passes and threw just one interception.

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CATCH-22: Wake Forest's Michael Campanaro caught 13 passes for 164 yards to help the Demon Deacons beat North Carolina 28-27 in a thriller in Winston-Salem. Campanaro now has a national-best 22 receptions, but just one TD catch. He had 73 grabs a year ago, but only two of them were for touchdowns.

USC's receiving duo of Robert Woods and Marqise Lee have eight TD catches in 37 combined receptions.

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PERFECT KICKS: Louisiana-Lafayette kicker Brett Baer has hit all seven of his field goal tries in 2012, helping the Ragin' Cajuns get out to the only 2-0 start among Sun Belt teams. Iowa's Mike Meyer is second in the country with six field goals in seven tries, but the Hawkeyes have just one TD in two games after losing to Iowa State at home 9-6.

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NUMBERS GAME: Michigan's Denard Robinson had 426 total yards in a 31-25 win over Air Force. But his teammates combined for minus-4 yards of offense. ... Arizona linebacker Jake Fischer leads the nation with 19 solo tackles after helping the Wildcats beat Oklahoma State 59-38. ... Temple's Nate D. Smith forced a pair of fumbles in a 36-27 loss to Maryland. ... Through two weeks of the 2012 season there have been nine kickoffs brought back for scores. A rule change before this season pushed kickoffs up to the 35-yard line from the 30. ... West Virginia leads the nation in scoring offense after scoring 69 points in their opener on Sept. 1, while FBS newcomer Massachusetts has just six points in two games. ... Connecticut is allowing just 28.5 yards rushing a game, while Florida State's average of 63 yards passing allowed tops the nation among teams that have played twice.

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Zayn Malik 2012: One Direction heartthrob spotted on crutches at ...

One fifth of One Direction Zayn Malik was spotted walking with crutches at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday ( September 8, 2012). The 19-year-old former X Factor contestant was seen with a hurt leg as he flew back to his native Britain and joined by his bandmate Niall Horan on the trip. It was rumoured that the dark-haired pop star had his injury happened while he was celebrating his win with Justin Bieber at a party after One Direction picked up three gongs at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. Zayn Malik, who sported a T-shirt with the slogan Obey that he teamed with a red cap pulled down over his face, looked a little sheepish when he handed off his crutches and supported himself on an airport trolley. The One Direction hunk?s injury seemed to make his fans so worried that the teenage entertainer was then quick to use Twitter to calm the masses. ?Hey guys just to let you all know I'm all good, no need to worry aha, just wanna take a moment to thank you guys for being so amazing.? He wrote. ?Iv said it so many times but ill say it again, you really are the best fans in the world thank you for being so incredible. Love You all :) x?

Zayn Malik, star of British boy band One Direction, walked with a pair of crutches and a hurt leg at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday (September 8, 2012).

The day before, the singer was pictured hobbling out of an Los Angeles hospital on crutches sporting a bandaged foot.

It was rumoured that the incident might happen while Zayn Malik was partying at Justin Bieber?s house following the 2012 MTV VMAs.

Although Zayn Malik appeared with crutches, the singer did not seem too uncomfortable when he made his way to board the waiting plane.

The star sported a T-shirt with the slogan Obey and a red cap that he combined with jeans, looking a little sheepish as he hobbled through LAX on his way back to London.

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SEAL explains why bin Laden dangerous when killed

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette says SEALs raiding Osama bin Laden's Pakistan hideout last year shot him dead instead of capturing him because his arms were hidden and may have been holding weapons.

Appearing Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes," Bissonnette says one SEAL fired after seeing a man's head poking into a hallway. Bissonnette says he and another SEAL shot bin Laden again after finding him on his bedroom floor with a bullet in his skull, because bin Laden's hands were hidden.

That's more detail than was included in "No Easy Day," the newly released book Bissonnette wrote under the pseudonym Mark Owen.

Pentagon officials say bin Laden was only shot after fleeing into his bedroom, and have threatened legal action against Bissonnette for possible releases of classified information.

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Germany urges Iran to make "substantial" nuclear offers

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Germany's foreign minister on Sunday urged Iran to make "substantial offers" to restart nuclear talks with world powers and told Israel allowing the Islamic Republic to get the bomb was "not an option".

Guido Westerwelle's comments, made during a visit to Jerusalem, followed weeks of rhetoric in Israel over a possible go-it-alone strike against Iran's nuclear facilities and calls by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for world powers to set a "red line" for Tehran.

Westerwelle, whose country, together with France, Britain, Russia, China and the United States, has held three rounds of inconclusive talks with Iran this year, said there was still time for a diplomatic solution but warned Iran not to try to acquire nuclear weapons.

"Nuclear arms in the hands of the Iranian government is not an option and we will not accept this," he said as he met Netanyahu.

Germany and other countries want Iran to open up its nuclear facilities to international scrutiny and to provide proof that its civilian nuclear program does not have a military dimension.

"We share the concern in Israel about the nuclear program in Iran," Westerwelle told reporters in earlier talks with Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Sunday.

"But it is serious, and it's crucial, and this means that talks for the sake of talks is not what we are seeking," he added.

"And therefore we call on the government in Iran to come back to the table with substantial offers, which is very necessary and very crucial at this time."

At a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Cyprus on Friday, Germany, Britain and France called for new EU sanctions against Iran.

The ministers did not say what further measures the EU could take. The 27-nation bloc banned imports of Iranian oil and isolated its banking system in the last round of sanctions that came into full force in July.

The sanctions appear to have contributed to a collapse in the Iranian currency which plunged to an all-time low on Sunday. Central Bank Governor Mahmoud Bahmani said: "We are fighting with the world in an economic sense."

"The conditions we are in are war conditions," Bahmani added, according to the Iranian Students' News Agency.

The sanctions are aimed at forcing Iran to curb nuclear activities that the West believes are aimed at developing a nuclear weapons capability, an allegation Tehran denies.

Iran says its nuclear work is for peaceful energy purposes and that it will not bend to pressure from the West.

Israel, believed to be the only nuclear-armed state in the Middle East, views the possibility of Iran developing a nuclear bomb as a threat to its existence and has said it may use military means if diplomacy and sanctions fail.

Addressing his Cabinet on Sunday, Netanyahu hailed Canada's decision on Friday to cut diplomatic relations with Iran over its nuclear activities.

"I call on the entire international community, or at least on its responsible members, to follow in Canada's determined path and set Iran moral and practical red lines, lines that will stop its race to achieve nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said.

(Additional reporting by Allyn Fisher-Ilan; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

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Police search UK home of couple slain in France

LONDON (AP) ? French and British police searched the U.K. home of a British-Iraqi couple slain while vacationing in the French Alps, as it emerged Saturday that all four people killed in the attack took two gunshots to the head. Meanwhile, relatives arrived in France to help care for the couple's two surviving daughters, one of whom was badly wounded.

Questions remained about a potential motive for the killings as well as the identity of one victim, an elderly woman found dead in the couple's bullet-riddled BMW. Police have said they are probing reports of a financial dispute between the slain husband and his brother, but stress they are following all leads. The brother has denied any dispute.

The identity of the dead couple ? mechanical design engineer Saad al Hilli and his wife, Ikbal ? was based partly on the testimony of their 4-year-old daughter Zeena, who survived unhurt by hiding under her mother's skirt as some 25 automatic-handgun rounds were fired at the family car.

Her older sister, 7-year-old Zaina, was badly wounded in the attack and is in a medically-induced coma. Aside from the elderly woman shot dead dead in the car, French cyclist Sylvain Mollier, 45, whom authorities suspect was in the wrong place at the wrong time, was also killed in Wednesday's rampage.

French prosecutor Eric Maillaud, based in Annecy near the site of the killing, told a press conference there Saturday that each of the dead was shot twice in the head ? one more time than previously stated ? in addition to an undisclosed additional number of times elsewhere.

Autopsies on the bodies were completed late Friday, Maillaud said, adding that the bodies of the victims will be returned to their family "as soon as possible."

Maillaud remained tight-lipped throughout Saturday's news conference, saying he was "at the limits" of what he could publically disclose. But he confirmed that France has asked Italy and Switzerland to assist in the hunt for whoever is responsible for the shootings, which took place just a short drive from the borders of both countries.

French investigators arrived in Britain on Friday night, and police on Saturday snapped pictures of the al Hilli home in the village of Claygate, a London suburb in the county of Surrey. Some officers entered the house in protective suits, while other carried boxes with equipment and evidence bags into an investigation tent erected outside.

Authorities in Britain, too, revealed few details. The French police who had traveled to Surrey spoke only to praise cooperation with their U.K. counterparts in what they described as a long and complex investigation. Surrey's police force stressed that the probe is French-led and that the emphasis now is on the victims of the tragedy.

Asst. Chief Constable Rob Price of Surrey police confirmed that family liaison officers have been deployed in the U.K. and in France to help the victims, while Maillaud, the French prosecutor, said relatives of the dead have arrived in France to help care for the two young sisters. He did not identify the relatives or say how many were arriving.

Maillaud has said investigators are looking forward to speaking to 7-year-old Zaina, who was shot in the shoulder and beaten, but she remains in the medically induced coma. Authorities have questioned her 4-year-old sister Zeena, but Maillaud has said much of her account was filled with "kids' words."

Authorities have been reluctant to discuss what prompted the killings, but investigators are looking into a possible family dispute over money as a potential motive.

After learning about media reports that they may have been fighting over money, Saad al Hilli's brother Zaid came forward to British police Friday and denied any conflict in the family, French prosecutors said.

But Mae Faisal El-Wailly, a childhood friend of the brothers, made available a letter written to her by Saad last year that alluded to a possible inheritance dispute. She said the brothers' father had died recently, and she described the family as wealthy and well-traveled.

But El-Wailly added that she did not believe Zaid had anything to do with the killings.

"Zaid and I do not communicate any more as he is another control freak and tried a lot of underhanded things even when my father was alive," Saad wrote. The letter was dated Sept. 16, 2011.

"He tried to take control of father's assets and demanded control," the letter says. "(A)nyway it is a long story and now I have just had to wipe him out of my life. Sad but I need to concentrate now on my wife and two lovely girls ..."

Public records show Zaid resigned from Saad's small aeronautics design firm, Shtech Ltd., last year.

At the press conference Saturday, Maillaud said authorities will talk to the brother. "He will be interviewed just as all of the rest of the al-Hilli family, who are going to be identified in the coming days," Maillaud said.

Early reports have suggested that the elderly woman shot dead may have been the girls' grandmother, but authorities have not confirmed that.

Swedish authorities have confirmed that a passport discovered on the scene corresponds to a Swedish person living in Sweden. But as of yet no absolute connection has been made between the older woman in the car and the passport or between her and the rest of the victims, authorities said.

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Keller reported from Paris.

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Syria rebukes France for supporting rebels

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) ? Syria's foreign ministry spokesman has criticized France for pledging to aid Syrian rebels, saying that will undermine the mission of U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi.

Jihad Makdessi says France's declared intention to support the rebel Free Syrian Army demonstrates its "support for the militarization" of the conflict.

French officials acknowledge providing communications and other non-lethal equipment to Syrian rebels but say they won't provide weapons without international agreement.

Makdessi said Sunday Syria is "fully committed" to cooperating with Brahimi. The regime has in the past made similar pledges but failed to live up to those commitments.

Makdessi says those who "hinder, fund, harbor and arm rebels" should instead help Brahimi's mission to succeed.

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My Daily Read: Steven Barthelme - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Steven Barthelme is a professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His new collection of short stories, Hush Hush, will appear in October from Melville House.

Q: What?s the first thing you read in the morning?

A. First, I read email, MSN home page, and the MLA job list.? Recently I?ve been re-reading and re-reading proofs of the new short-story book, which is like looking at yourself in the mirror repeatedly?sometimes you look pretty, but mostly you worry.

Q: What newspapers and magazines do you subscribe to or read regularly? What do you read in print vs. online vs. mobile?

Online, the Houston Chronicle, The New York Times, and the Washington Post, the Chronicle mostly for sports, the Times for news, politics, and unclassifiable odds and ends, in a rationed way since they started charging for access, and the Post since the Times starting charging? (it annoyed me, and, anyway, futile resistance is a metaphysical allegiance, and an old habit).? In print I read USA Today and subscribe to The New Yorker, Newsweek, Time, Cook?s, Poets and Writers, AWP?s The Writers Chronicle, Men?s Health (it used to be funny), and off and on, literary magazines like The Yale Review.? I used to be addicted to magazines and still like them and regret their sinking beneath the waves as a cultural artifact. Here and there in my house there are piles and piles of recent magazines, boxes and boxes of old magazines.

Q: What is the best article you?ve read recently?

Best, I don?t know.? Louis Menand and Joan Acocella in The New Yorker.? Menand recently wrote an interesting thing about Joyce; Acocella a piece about the Brothers Grimm.? A blackjack article called ?The Man Who Broke Atlantic City? in The Atlantic.? A Clive James piece on Slate about Val?ry called ?How poets write great poems,? which a student directed me to.? And older things that I stumbled upon on on the Web?a piece called ?This is Your Brain on Metaphors? by Robert Sapolsky and another by Guy Deutscher called ?Does Your Language Shape How You Think?? in which Benjamin Lee Whorf (speak no evil of Benjamin Lee Whorf around me) is patronized unmercifully.?? That?s about, oh, 10 percent of it.? The other 90 percent is articles like ?How to Manage Chinch Bugs? and ?What Gisele B?ndchen?s Really Like.?? During the school year 50 percent is student work, some of which is astonishingly good.

Q: What books have you recently read?? How do they stand out?

Two good short story books by young writers.? The Agriculture Hall of Fame, by Andrew Malan Milward, a colleague of mine, a strong debut collection.? And Alicia Erian?s The Brutal Language of Love, a stunningly clear-eyed book which stands out for the way she gets the treachery of trying to live honestly into the stories. I re-read an old Malcolm Cowley memoir called Exile?s Return, one of those books one wishes was as good as it wants to be; it?s a caution to memoirists, for how tricky it is to write with yourself as part of the subject. I read James Wood?s How Fiction Works and Francine Prose?s Reading Like a Writer, both very good; they stand out for the grace of the prose and for general good sense.

Q: Has your reading of professional journals changed in the past 10 years?

Professional journals in the strict sense don?t exist in creative writing.? Once in a while I wander into scholarly journals in the broader discipline but it always feels like I?m underdressed at someone else?s country club.? That hasn?t changed.

Q: The book as object: Is it a pleasure, necessity, anachronism?

A. Most likely all three.? I published a book of essays called The Early Posthumous Work a couple of years ago and while sales were modest (to put it charitably) I was and am happy to have all those pieces?some first published in newspapers or Sunday supplements?between covers.? I?m dimly aware that this means only that they have a half life of 30 years instead of 30 hours, but like anyone facing extinction, I?m ecstatic to have the extra time.? Three of my books are available as ebooks. I?m glad of that, but the print versions, the objects, are more reassuring. Writing is such an anxious and ephemeral hobby that one wants something one can throw.

Is electronic publishing ?real? publishing?? Sure it is.? But the editorial judgments about what to include and what to exclude, are in some venues not as strongly enforced, economically.? You can see this as a victory for democracy, more is more, hang all the gatekeepers, or you can see it as a victory for noise.

I suspect eventually all publishing will be electronic, but people now living will be dead by then, likely replaced by those hairless heads in glass cylinders that you used to see in sci-fi movies.

Q: What has led you to the short story, rather than the novel, as a fiction writer?

A. I?ve written novels which publishers wisely chose not to publish.

Q: Along with fiction, you?ve published essays and a memoir, co-written with your brother. Do you find the different realms of writing very distant?

Not so much.? Perhaps because my real interest, trumping everything else, is in writing and reading sentences, I find all forms of writing that I?ve done, including advertising, very similar.? I was interested in Stephen Dobyns?s discussion of poems, in Best Words, Best Order, in terms of the sentence.? And I vividly recall my brother Pete, who was a hotshot advertising guy in Houston (and published three mystery novels), once critiquing an ad I had written for him, and what he was mostly noting, with a harsh eye but a generous heart, was bad writing that I had left in the ad that I never would have left in a short story; this taught me a great lesson.

Q: What is your next book project?

A novel.

Q: Do you read blogs? If so, what blogs do you like best?

I do read blogs, but randomly.? John Dufresne, who is a friend.? Normblog, Norman Geras.? Jurgen Fauth?s Fictionaut.? The Brevity blog.? But usually just whatever pops up on a Google search.

Q: Do you use Twitter?? If so, whom do you follow?

No Twitter, no Tumblr, not Orkut nor Badoo.? On Donder and Blitzen.

Q: What are the guilty pleasures in your media diet?

Oh.? Uh, see all of the above.

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Auto Bailout Success? For Union Workers, Maybe

President Obama?s auto bailout is being touted as a great success of his Administration. Speaking in Detroit at a Labor Day rally, Vice President Joe Biden used it to explain how Americans were better off. ?Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive,? Biden boasted.

In Charlotte, former President Bill Clinton cited the bailout as a manufacturing success story, and former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (D) sang its praises. But taxpayers lost $25 billion. Plants were closed, jobs were lost, and nearly three years later, the government still owns one-third of General Motors.

There is a story that President Obama and these others are not telling?the story of the 20,000 workers who lost nearly all of their pensions because the Obama Administration chose not to protect them.?Let Freedom Ring released a video?highlighting this story.

In 2008, candidate Obama said that pension protection was a ?top priority.? But Heritage?s James Sherk, who wrote about the bailout in June with George Mason University law professor Todd Zywicki, explained how union workers benefited from the bailout while the non-union employees at Delphi, an auto parts manufacturer and former GM subsidiary, weren?t as fortunate.

When Delphi filed for bankruptcy the maximum pension benefits were $54,000 a year for retirees aged 65 and above, with lower benefits for early retirees.?About half of Delphi?s union and non-union workers faced reductions in their pension benefits [if the plan was terminated and transferred to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp.

The termination would normally mean pension cuts for both Delphi?s union and non-union workers. However, the United Auto Workers? members got special treatment.?According to Heritage?s James Sherk:

New GM no longer had an obligation to supplement the Delphi?pensions. The bankruptcy filing eliminated its contractual obligation to do so. However, New GM?s management?while being overseen by the Obama Administration?nonetheless agreed to spend $1 billion to supplement the pensions of Delphi?s UAW retirees. The non-union employees were not so fortunate? GM did not supplement their pensions.

The left, led by President Obama, is touting this as one of the biggest successes of the Obama Administration, but where is the success? It was successful for the United Auto Workers and their special interests, but not many others. Especially not for Delphi?s nonunion retirees.

Source: http://blog.heritage.org/2012/09/07/auto-bailout-success-for-union-workers-maybe/

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Report: Ford Europe goes further with American vehicles

Just weeks before the Paris Motor Show, Ford Motor Co. has taken the wraps off of much of its new lineup for Europe in an effort to shore up its efforts for European dealers. The webcast press conference from Amsterdam ended with the official announcement that the Dearborn, Michigan-based car maker will officially make the Mustang available for Autobahn runs and cobble stone street drifting.

"We'll have more details on the Mustang coming to Europe later this year," CEO Alan Mulally said, as he stood before a crowd of more than 2,500 dealers, enthusiasts and reporters. Thousands more watched him and other key Ford executives tout the company's accelerated plans to introduce more global vehicles to Europe.

The Old Country has been problematic in recent years as its stagnant economy has cost automakers billions. Ford lost $404 million in Europe in the second quarter of 2012 and expects Europe to continue to drag down the company's global profitability in the near future. But instead of going on the defensive, Ford has launched its own path to prosperity, Mulally said. The company can't afford to try the same old formulas.

"Six years ago, we developed our One Ford plan," Mulally said, "Now, we're bringing that plan to Europe."

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The original One Ford plan included a product blitzkrieg in America based on many European designed vehicles such as the Ford Fiesta, Focus and Transit Connect. Now, to capitalize on many successful American products, it appears those are destined to Europe, this time as the Ford Kuga, Edge and Mondeo (built off of the Escape, Edge and Fusion platforms).

According to Ford's top European executive Stephen Odell, 41 percent of Europe's vehicles are currently built on global platforms. By 2016, 71 percent of Europe's vehicles will be globally built vehicles.

The plan makes sense and could help the Blue Oval take advantage of economies of scale to lower the overall cost of many vehicles. And as long as the market embraces the vehicles, Ford should be able to begin to show profits in Europe.

Ford is certainly placing some big bets on its crossovers and sport utilities, which Odell says sales are expected to grow in Europe.

The small EcoSport (above), first launched in South America, will now go to Europe as a second generation CUV. Later this year, Ford will introduce the midsize Ford Kuga, which is built on the new Escape platform. Ford also will bring the Edge to Europe, where this bigger midsize crossover may have a tougher time handling narrow European streets and much tighter parking spaces.

While less exciting, Ford showed off three versions of the new Transit work van (above), a version of which will be coming to America eventually, with gas and diesel variants, to replace the aging Econoline. The smaller Transit Connect is also overhauled.

Ford also debuted a redesigned Mondeo, which shares its looks and platform with the 2013 Ford Fusion. However, the Mondeo will include Ford's three-cylinder 1.0-liter EcoBoost engine and offer a wagon variant.

"This is as true of engines as it is of computers and smart phones," said Barb Samardzich, vice president of product development for Ford Europe, "and by equipping the all-new Mondeo in Europe with our acclaimed 1.0-liter EcoBoost engine we are delivering cutting-edge technology that delivers a very real and tangible customer benefit."

The extreme product makeover could help bolster sales for Ford in Europe, but more importantly, the commonality of vehicles across the globe could make the car maker more profitable. Great cars are good to have as long as the accountants use black pens instead of red ones.

Source: http://www.autoblog.com/2012/09/06/ford-europe-goes-further-with-american-vehicles/

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Women's Soccer Travels Across the City to Face Providence College Thursday

September 6, 2012

PROVIDENCE, RI - Fresh off a 2-0-0 opening weekend, during which it posted wins over St. John's (3-0) and New Hampshire (1-0), the Brown women's soccer team travels across the city to face local rival Providence in a 4:00 p.m. contest Thursday afternoon. The two teams met for the first time since 2005 last year and Brown came away with a 2-0 win at Stevenson Field on the strength of second-half goals scored by Sarah Hebert-Seropian '12 (Vaudreuil-Dorion, QUE) and Maddie Wiener '14 (Portland, OR) just 37 seconds apart. Goalies Amber Bledsoe '14 (Cincinnati, OH) and MC Barrett '14 (Ithaca, NY) combined to post five saves, as Brown improved to 20-4-0 all-time against the Friars.

Brown fans not making the trip to Providence can follow the action on live stats (free), while Mike Rubin '00 will call the game on the BrownBears.com Radio Network (free). Links are available on the women's soccer schedule on Brownbears.com or can be found below.

Brown vs. Providence
Series Record: Brown, 20-4-0 (First meeting 1983)
Last Brown Win: 2-0 (2011)
Last PC Win: 2-1 (2005)
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ABOUT BROWN: The Bears enter Thursday's game after posting a pair of shutouts in their first two games, 3-0 at St. John's and 1-0 against New Hampshire. A different player has scored each of the four goals, while junior Louisa Pitney (Washington, DC) also has an assist to lead the team with three points. Sophomore Chloe Cross (Seattle, WA) and senior Eliza Marshall (North Andover, MA) joined Pitney in scoring against the Red Storm, while junior Mika Siegelman (Piedmont, CA) tallied the lone goal against the Wildcats.

In addition to Pitney, four other players have notched one assist, including freshman Sarah Moody (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA), who earned her first career point with an assist on Marshall's goal against St. John's. Junior Kiersten Berg (Salt Lake City, UT), sophomore Kirsten Belinsky (Los Altos, CA), and junior Alison Mullin (Boulder, CO) have also picked up their first points of the season. Brown's junior goaltending duo of Amber Bledsoe (Cincinnati, OH) and MC Barrett (Ithaca, NY) has combined for 12 saves with Barrett recording 10. Several members of the Class of 2016 have already made their collegiate debuts. In addition to Moody, Charlotte Beach (New Haven, CT) has also played in both games, while Jillian DeSimone (Lincoln, RI), Michelle Jolson (Wyoming, OH), Erin Katz (Montgomery, AL), and Hogan Vivier (Cumberland, RI) have all appeared in one game.?

ABOUT PROVIDENCE: The Friars are 3-2-1 after winning their last two games, 4-0 over Lehigh on Friday, August 31, and 2-1 over Central Connecticut on Sunday, September 2. After falling to Boston College, 3-0, in its season opener, Providence claimed a 3-1 win over Army, before going 0-1-1 against Holy Cross (T, 1-1) and Quinnipiac (L, 1-0). Laura DiClemente currently leads the team with eight points (3g, 2a), while Catherine Zimmerman is second on the team with six points, all goals. Amanda Webster, Mary Vercollone, Lauren Elia, and Morgan Thomasian have also scored a goal this year, while three other players have notched at least one point. Jessica Goodreault has played the majority of time net for the Friars and has a 1.19 GAA with a .647 save percentage in five games. Megan Sweeney has appeared in two games and has a 0.86 GAA with a .800 save percentage.

Pictured: Diana Ohrt '13. Photo by DSPics.net.

Source: http://www.brownbears.com/sports/w-soccer/2012-13/releases/201209056lhuoj

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Simon Cowell Slams The Voice as "Unprofessional," Fuels Britney vs. Christina Feud

A few days prior to their season premieres, the rivalry between The Voice and The X Factor is growing seriously intense.

First, the NBC competition announced it would air a special Wednesday installment next week, a programming decision clearly aimed at hurting the opening edition of The X Factor Season 2, which kicks off September 12.

Simon Cowell's response? Citing a "gentleman's agreement" between programs, he blasted the move as "cynical, cold-hearted" and an "unprofessional way of doing business."

Going off to TMZ, Cowell said this is a "dirty" last second trick by NBC and added that one of his new judges will be especially angry over the counter-programming.

"Britney's not going to appreciate the fact that Christina - who has been a bit of a rival - isn't allowing Britney to have a night of her own."

Why does Simon think The Voice is going up against The X Factor's premier? Because it's scared, of course.

"The reason they've done this is they don't want people to see X Factor because they've heard how good the series is. They don't want their audience to see Britney Spears. They don't want their audience to see Demi Lovato."

Ummm... of course NBC doesn't want its audience to watch a Fox program. Not exactly breaking news there, Simon.

Which of these competitions will you tune in for next week?

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/09/simon-cowell-slams-the-voice-as-unprofessional-fuels-britney-vs/

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Video: Munich massacre remembered

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Why the Best Fitness Equipment Manufactures Continue to Excel ...

Every piece of fitness equipment you purchase must be of prime quality for two reasons: safety and cost-efficiency. Especially if you are planning to create a home gym, the equipment you chose must have all the safety locks and bolts to ensure that no one gets injured around it. And because the bigger pieces of equipment are costlier, every cent you spend on them must be worth it. This means that they should be used for a long period of time and if possible, their frames must have lifetime warranties. To ensure that your fitness equipment passes these two criteria buy only from the best fitness equipment manufacturers.

Below is a list of the top 3 best manufacturers of fitness equipment.

1. Johnson Health Tech

The Johnson Health Tech is a company that is known for their fashionable fitness equipment. They have been in the fitness industry since 1975 and are currently the 4th largest best fitness equipment manufacturers. Some of Johnson Health Tech?s brands include Matrix, Johnson, Horizon and Vision. All products manufactured by this company hold quality certifications from both the US and Japan.

2. Nautilus, Inc

Nautilus is a fitness equipment manufacturer that focuses on home gyms. Its products are mostly cardio and strength building like free weights, exercise bikes, treadmills, benches and elliptical machines. Some of the brand names it carries are Schwinn Fitness, Bowflex and Universal.

3. Precor

Precor is a known cardio equipment manufacturer for both home and business use. Each product produced by this company is backed by science, the study of motion and engineering.? Precor is one of the best fitness equipment manufacturers when it comes to the least use of hazardous substance during production. As such, it has been given numerous awards in recognition for its health and environment conscious designs.

Reasons for Excellence

The top three best fitness equipment manufacturers mentioned above are able to attract the interest of the majority of the buying populace because they are simple, cost-efficient, durable and safe. Simplicity of the equipment does not only pertain to its easy-to-read and understand functions; it also refers to the directness of the results. Unlike some other fly-by-night brands, these three companies do not promise instant results. They set expectations by telling you upfront that you will have to sweat and exert enough effort in order to burn some calories.

Cost efficiency is buying something that is durable and safe. If you buy from reputable manufacturers, you are confident that the level of durability and safety of each of the fitness devices you buy is in line with the guidelines set by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Knowing this fact saves you and the members of your household from being among the 25,000 Americans who end up in emergency rooms because the equipment they use gave way or the bolts and screws were accidentally removed by children.

These are the main factors for the continued excellence of the best fitness equipment manufacturers. But the choice of which product to patronize still depends on your needs, your home?s space availability and some other reasons that you may have for yourself so choose well.

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Astronauts fix the International Space Station using a toothbrush

ADEL, Iowa?Paul Ryan weighed in Wednesday on the Democrats? 2012 platform, which removed specific reference to ?God,? calling the omission ?rather peculiar.? ?It?s not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision, but I guess you have to ask the Obama administration why they...

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iPhone knocked off its perch as number one smartphone

DUBAI (Reuters) - Leaders of a Bahraini uprising last year, whose prison sentences were upheld by a court on Tuesday, were in "intelligence contact" with Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah, a public prosecution official said on Tuesday. "It is established clearly to us from this verdict that some of the accused had relations and strived to have relations and intelligence contacts with a foreign organization, which is Hezbollah, which works in the interests of Iran," Wael Boualai told a news conference, in comments carried by state media. ...

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Judy Blume Shares Her Breast Cancer Battle - GalleyCat

By Jason Boog on September 5, 2012 12:23 PM

Novelist?Judy Blume published a long post today about her recent battle with breast cancer.

?Medical diagnoses can leave you feeling alone and scared,? wrote Blume, telling her story to help other women through the tough experience. In an honest and heartfelt diary, the author of Are You There God? It?s Me, Margaret and Tiger Eyes told the story of her diagnosis and treatment. Here is an excerpt:

I have to thank Dr. S, the radiologist who?s been doing my mammograms for 20 years. If she hadn?t decided I should have a sonogram because of dense breast tissue we still wouldn?t know. This didn?t show up in a mammo or in physical exams, and I?m checked by doctors four times a year. Even the breast surgeon couldn?t feel this one. If you have dense breast tissue ask your radiologist about having a sonogram ? As I?ve told my friends who?ve also been treated for breast cancer, I?ve joined The Club ? not one I wanted to join or even thought I would ever be joining ? but here I am. I?m part of this Sisterhood of the Traveling Breast Cells (apologies to Ann Brashares). Medical diagnoses can leave you feeling alone and scared. When it comes to breast cancer you?re not alone, and scary though it is, there?s a network of amazing women to help you through it. (Via Carolyn Kellogg)

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AngelList Launches Docs To Help Startups Sign And Close Seed Rounds Online With Low Legal Fees

There's no doubt that AngelList has evolved into an incredibly powerful (and disruptive) platform in the investing world. The hybrid social network, communication and crowdsourcing platform allows startups to access investors, and has also become a resource for investors looking to boost dealflow and connect with other investors. But while the network has been able to connect investors with startups, there hasn't been a way to facilitate the actual transaction online. Today, AngelList is debuting Docs, which lets seed-stage startups close their round online. It consists of a standard term sheet, automatically generated closing documents, and tools to manage the process including electronic signatures, managing wire information, generating PDFs, and more. As CEO and co-founder Naval Ravikant tells me, when he and co-founder Babak Nivi started VentureHacks a few years ago, their goal was to educate companies on how to negotiate venture term sheets. AngelList eventually resulted from this, and actually helped startups make connections to investors. The next step is actually facilitating these deals. One challenge for startups, says Ravikant, is dealing with large legal fees.

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Easily Choosing An MBA Program | Reference and Education

The process of continuing education and receiving an advanced degree is actually quite common among workers and students around the world today. There are many people that attempt this process in order to advance their career and simply make sure that any future endeavors are completed in a more effective manner. People that are contemplating this effort should understand the basics of easily choosing an MBA program Boston when considered.

Receiving a Master degree in business administration is now one of the most common goals among graduate students. This highly coveted degree plan helps walk the learner through the entire business ownership and management process with a high level of focus and success. There are many schools that are known to offer this degree plan for anyone interested.

Residents of Boston are fortunate to have a wealth of opportunities available to them when considering this learning process. This often makes it difficult to make an ultimate choice when ensuring the right one is participated in. Making this choice easy is performed by focusing on numerous considerations.

The number of specific focuses the facility offers should be a primary focus in this effort. There are quite a few focuses that students are able to participate in that ensure that all facets of their learning process are as successful as possible. This ensures that any business function one is interested in is able to be fully understood.

Interested students should also focus on the accreditation of the facility in question. Accreditation of any facility is based upon the foundation of making sure that all educational efforts are carefully designed to be effective and successful. This ensures that any degree is valuable upon graduation.

The mba program Boston selection should include an assessment of financial aid packages. Most people that earn their advanced degree are unable to pay the tuition on their own. Using financial aid options helps ensure the education is received in an affordable manner.

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Red Cross chief in Syria as fighting rages

Red Cross chief Peter Maurer was in Syria on a mercy mission seeking greater protection for civilians on Tuesday, as a spate of bombings and clashes brought fresh bloodshed to the capital and second city Aleppo.

Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, met President Bashar al-Assad and expressed concern over the humanitarian situation in Syria, ICRC spokesman Hisham Hassan said.

During the 45-minute meeting he also urged respect for international humanitarian law and the need to boost assistance on the ground, Hassan said in a statement.

State television said that Assad told Maurer that he supports the work of the ICRC in Syria so long as it remains "impartial and independent."

"President Assad assured (Maurer) that he welcomed the humanitarian operations carried out by the committee on the ground in Syria, as long as it remains impartial and independent," it said.

Maurer arrived Monday evening in Damascus for his first visit to the war-torn country since taking over the post on July 1. Besides Assad, he has also met with Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad and was scheduled to hold talks with other Syrian officials.

The visit comes amid a surge in violence in the past weeks across Syria, where according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights more than 5,000 people were killed in the month of August alone.

Also in August, more than 100,000 people fled the war-torn country to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.

It was the highest monthly figure since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in March last year, a UNHCR spokeswoman said in Geneva.

The Britain-based Observatory, which relies on its information from a network of activists on the ground, said 153 people died countrywide on Monday -- 72 civilians, including 19 children and 14 women, 42 soldiers and 30 rebels.

Among those killed was an entire family -- including seven children -- when a government air raid hit their home in the heart of Aleppo, witnesses told an AFP correspondent in Syria's second city.

A fighter jet also struck in nearby Al-Bab, killing at least 18 people, with more unaccounted for beneath the rubble of flattened homes, the Observatory said. Doctors said nine people died.

An activist said that on Tuesday, several districts of the northern city were bombarded with artillery and mortar fire as was an area near Aleppo airport.

A senior commander in charge of the regime offensive on Aleppo told AFP that the army would recapture the city from the rebel forces "within 10 days."

Some 3,000 troops were involved in the fight against about 7,000 "terrorists," said the general, adding that 2,000 of the insurgents had been killed since the assault on Aleppo was launched at the start of August.

A local activist said rebel-held neighbourhoods in Aleppo are struggling with severe food shortages due to the government offensive.

"The regime prevents food from reaching the liberated areas (under rebel control). Residents are forced to smuggle products from neighbourhood to neighbourhood," said an activist in the opposition-held Sakhur district, giving his name only as Barra.

"When I buy something, I have to go to several grocery stores and supermarkets before finding what I want: eggs, yoghurt, rice, children's milk are almost nonexistent. Markets are almost empty," he told AFP via Skype.

"It is difficult to find gas canisters also ... it's a real siege, collective punishment," said the activist. "If the regime could deprive us of air, it would."

In the capital Damascus, fighting broke out in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk early Tuesday between members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and rebel fighters, the Observatory said.

It also reported fighting between rebels and the army in the capital's southern district of Tadamun, which is adjacent to the camp.

The Syrian Revolution General Council, a network of opposition activists, said that panicked residents were fleeing the Yarmuk camp in droves amid the fighting.

On Monday, a car bomb ripped through the mainly Christian- and Druze-inhabited Damascus suburb of Jaramana, killing at least five people, according to the Observatory.

In Madrid, the opposition Syrian National Council appealed to the international community for weapons and urgent military intervention to defend civilians from air strikes.

"We need a humanitarian intervention and we are asking for military intervention for the Syrian civilians," SNC chairman Abdel Basset Sayda said on Monday. "I have the duty of asking for weapons that will allow us to defend against the Syrian armour and weapons."

According to the Observatory, more than 26,000 people have been killed in Syria since the revolt began 17 months ago -- more than two-thirds of them civilians. The figures are impossible to verify.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/red-cross-chief-syria-fighting-rages-090507935.html

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