Teen performer at inaugural events fatally shot

Cleopatra Pendelton cries as she talks with Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy before a news conference seeking help from the public in solving the murder of Pendelton's daughter Hadiya Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Chicago. Hadiya, 15, who had performed in President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities, was killed in a Chicago park as she talked with friends by a gunman who apparently was not even aiming at her. The city's 42nd slaying is part of Chicago's bloodiest January in more than a decade, following on the heels of 2012, which ended with more than 500 homicides for the first time since 2008. It also comes at a time when Obama, spurred by the Connecticut elementary school massacre in December, is actively pushing for tougher gun laws. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Cleopatra Pendelton cries as she talks with Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy before a news conference seeking help from the public in solving the murder of Pendelton's daughter Hadiya Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Chicago. Hadiya, 15, who had performed in President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities, was killed in a Chicago park as she talked with friends by a gunman who apparently was not even aiming at her. The city's 42nd slaying is part of Chicago's bloodiest January in more than a decade, following on the heels of 2012, which ended with more than 500 homicides for the first time since 2008. It also comes at a time when Obama, spurred by the Connecticut elementary school massacre in December, is actively pushing for tougher gun laws. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

This undated family photo provided by Damon Stewart shows 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton of Chicago. Pendleton was shot and killed Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in a Chicago park as she talked with friends by a gunman who apparently was not even aiming at her. Pendleton, who had performed in President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities, is the latest face on the ever-increasing homicide toll in the president's hometown. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Damon Stewart)

Cleopatra Pendelton, center with red scarf, is escorted under the shelter where Pendelton's daughter Hadiya was shot and killed, during a news conference seeking the public's assistance in finding the gunman Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Chicago. Hadiya, 15, who had performed in President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities, was killed in a Chicago park as she talked with friends by a gunman who apparently was not even aiming at her. The city's 42nd slaying is part of Chicago's bloodiest January in more than a decade, following on the heels of 2012, which ended with more than 500 homicides for the first time since 2008. It also comes at a time when Obama, spurred by the Connecticut elementary school massacre in December, is actively pushing for tougher gun laws. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Cleopatra Pendelton, left, is consoled by her sister Kimiko Pettis, during a news conference with Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy seeking help from the public in solving the murder of Pendelton's daughter Hadiya Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Chicago. Hadiya, 15, who had performed in President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities, was killed in a Chicago park as she talked with friends by a gunman who apparently was not even aiming at her. The city's 42nd slaying is part of Chicago's bloodiest January in more than a decade, following on the heels of 2012, which ended with more than 500 homicides for the first time since 2008. It also comes at a time when Obama, spurred by the Connecticut elementary school massacre in December, is actively pushing for tougher gun laws. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Nathaniel Pendelton, center, hugs his son Nathaniel Jr. and his wife Cleopatra during a news conference with Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy seeking help from the public in solving the murder of Pendelton's daughter Hadiya Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Chicago. Hadiya, 15, who had performed in President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities, was killed in a Chicago park as she talked with friends by a gunman who apparently was not even aiming at her. The city's 42nd slaying is part of Chicago's bloodiest January in more than a decade, following on the heels of 2012, which ended with more than 500 homicides for the first time since 2008. It also comes at a time when Obama, spurred by the Connecticut elementary school massacre in December, is actively pushing for tougher gun laws. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

CHICAGO (AP) ? A 15-year-old girl who had performed in President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities is the latest face on the ever-increasing homicide toll in the president's hometown, killed in a Chicago park as she talked with friends by a gunman who apparently was not even aiming at her.

Chicago police said Hadiya Pendleton was in a park about a mile from Obama's home in a South Side neighborhood Tuesday afternoon when a man opened fire on the group. Hadiya was shot in the back as she tried to escape.

The city's 42nd slaying is part of Chicago's bloodiest January in more than a decade, following on the heels of 2012, which ended with more than 500 homicides for the first time since 2008. It also comes at a time when Obama, spurred by the Connecticut elementary school massacre in December, is actively pushing for tougher gun laws.

Hadiya's father, Nathaniel Pendleton, spoke Wednesday at a Chicago police news conference, which was held in the same park where his daughter died.

"He took the light of my life," Pendleton said. He then spoke directly to the killer: "Look at yourself, just know that you took a bright person, an innocent person, a nonviolent person." Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy consoled him, the girl's mother and 10-year-old brother.

Hadiya was a bright kid who was killed just as she was "wondering about which lofty goal she wanted to achieve," her godfather, Damon Stewart, told The Associated Press. Hadiya had been a majorette with the King College Prep band.

"She was a very active kid, doing dance, cheerleading, who felt like she could accomplish just about anything, a very good student who had big dreams about what she wanted to be, a doctor, an attorney," said Stewart, a Chicago police officer and attorney. "She was constantly getting good grades."

Obama was asked about Hadiya's death in an interview with Telemundo, which led to a discussion about gun control. Also Wednesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday that the president and the first lady's "thoughts and prayers are with" the teen's family, adding: "And as the president has said, we will never be able to eradicate every act of evil in this country, but if we can save any one child's life, we have an obligation to try when it comes to the scourge of gun violence."

In Chicago, gangs routinely and often indiscriminately open fire. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and McCarthy are pushing for tougher local, state and national gun laws and longer prison sentences for offenders.

About three blocks from Hadiya's school, she and a group of 10-12 young people, including members of her volleyball team, had taken refuge under a canopy at a park to avoid the rain Tuesday afternoon. A man climbed a fence behind the park, ran at the group and started shooting, and then jumped back over the fence and into a white Nissan. The group scattered, but Hadiya was shot once in the back and a teenage boy was shot in the leg.

Police said Hadiya had no arrest record and there was no indication she was a member of a gang or was the gunman's target. In fact, McCarthy said there are no indications that anyone in the group was gang-affiliated. He said the police suspect that the gunman may be a member of a gang that considers the park its turf and that he mistook somebody in the group as someone from an encroaching rival gang.

McCarthy vowed to put a police officer at the park "24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year" if that is what it takes to show the gang that the park belongs to no one but the community.

Comments by both Stewart and the girl's father echo the message that city officials have long said: Gun violence is not confined to street corners in dangerous neighborhoods. Obama's neighborhood, Kenwood, is just north of the University of Chicago and the Museum of Science and Industry.

"Her parents had done everything right and she was doing everything right," he said. Stewart, who was 12 when his own brother was shot and killed, said his family and Pendleton's family were so close that his own children saw the 15-year-old as an older sister.

"The worst thing in the world was when yesterday I had to sit there and tell my children that their sister is gone," he said.

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AP reporter Nedra Pickler contributed to this report from Washington.

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Long-term review: 2012 Ferrari California - Week 5

Our long-term California?s final week at wheels towers has been a fittingly adventurous one. To give it the send-off that it deserves, we lined up two other stunning grand tourers for one last blast around magnificent dune-lined roads on the fringes of Dubai. Enter the new Aston Martin DB9 and the Maserati Gran Turismo Sport.

With a complement of two snorting V8s and a V12, our noisy cavalcade headed out of town and deep into the UAE desert. While I shall not delve into the finer points of the other cars for the fear of giving away too much about this upcoming story, the California proved every bit a stunning mile-muncher.

It shrugged off the 300km round trip and everything from the suspension to the gearbox is finely tuned for long-haul travels. Greeted with corners, the Cali does tend to lean a bit more than you?d expect, but never alarmingly so.

Although its awkwardly high stance would suggest otherwise, the Ferrari was clearly the quickest of all the cars congregated for our feature. The high ride height also meant it was less likely to scrape its belly while passing over speed bumps than the other two.

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When we tested the previous California on the track years ago, the brakes felt spongy. It?s a problem that?s been resolved with the new carbon ceramic discs on our tester: even after hours of hard workout, they remained resolutely fade free. The best thing, by far, though is the 4.3-litre V8 revving to over 8,000rpm ? it makes a glorious noise.

There are some minor problems, however. The back seats are not designed to accommodate humans, the boot space is appalling, it?s thirsty when driven hard, and the infotainment system is straight out of a Jeep and looks completely out of place in the Poltrona Frau-dressed cabin.

However, having spent nearly six weeks with the California, I can say it with utter conviction that it?s a car you can easily live with every day. It?s feisty when you want it to be, but settles down when you?re not in the mood. Most of all, it?s not the temperamental Italian exotic of automotive folklore ? it?s a thoroughly dependable GT.

I know there?s the question of the price. A well-specced car, similar to our long-termer is hardly a snip at over Dh800,000. Furthermore, there are some serious rivals in the class ? such as the aforementioned Aston, which is better looking, although the Fezza looks pretty good in darker shades (avoid the garish yellows and reds; they only look good on the Italia) ? but the California strikes a great balance between sportiness and comfort.

If you?re in the market for, say, something like an M6 or an SL 65, I implore you to raid the back of your designer sofa, find the extra dirhams, and give the California a serious look. You won?t be disappointed.

Average fuel economy: 20 litres-per-100km

Highs: Superb grand tourer, engine, easy to use around town

Lows: Tiny back seats, lack of boot space, some ergonomics issues

Everyone?s in on the brand-name sound systems in cars these days ? you?ve got Lexicon, Mark Levinson, Bang & Olufsen, Bowers & Wilkins, you name it. Well, Volkswagen went with Fender (available exclusively in the new Beetle, Jetta and our Passat), maybe because it ran out of options or maybe because the system is actually really good. But VW?s bit, the software hiding behind the 6.5in screen, messes up the presets of my radio stations.

If I?m on the last preset and I pause to listen and then realise it?s Bieber playing, I scroll to the next station only to find that the thing starts again from the back and selects the last preset again and then, yes, it?s too late and I?ve got the Bieber stuck in my head all day.

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Property taxes to rise across Philadelphia suburbs

The countywide dollar increases are modest - on average, about $33 per household in county taxes in Chester, and $20 in Delaware. However, some municipal increases will add more than $100 to annual bills.

And the towns raising their millages on top of the county increases include places in Delaware County where tax rates already are among the highest in the region - and the nation.

"Upper Darby is off the charts," said Ed Silbertstein, who owns a home there that the county estimates is worth $285,000. His annual tax bill is now $11,542; the majority of that goes to the schools, and some to the county, but the township?s 7 percent increase adds $237.

Mayor Thomas Micozzie said in his budget message that 95 percent of the increase is going to police and fire services, including $4.7 million in pension contributions.

Taxes in Marcus Hook are going up 13 percent, or about $100 per household. Statewide, about 35 percent of the boroughs have raised 2013 real estate levies, estimated Edward Knittel, senior director of education for the Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs.

Aside from the larger causes, the reasons can be as idiosyncratic as the towns themselves.

Take Riegelsville, in the northeast corner of Bucks County, where only 868 folks were counted in the 2010 census. It was spared any county tax increase, but the borough upped its rate 4.3 percent, from 11.75 mills to 12.25.

The 415 property owners in town, who pay $263 on average, will see about $10 to $15 added to their bills.

Primarily, that's to pay for the sudden loss of $200,000 to $300,000 that had been donated by a longtime benefactor to the ambulance service, Borough Council President Thomas A. Stinnett said.

But that's not the only reason. Some of the increase is targeted for repairs on the historically certified town hall.

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Philadelphia opera co.: New name, new vision

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? The Opera Company of Philadelphia is getting a name change that officials say is in better harmony with its move toward more innovative programming and greater diversity in its repertoire.

The company said Tuesday it will now be known simply as Opera Philadelphia. The new name and logo will appear on all of its brochures and ads.

The announcement was made in conjunction with the unveiling of the 2013-2014 season.

The company plans to continue bringing opera to new audiences with surprise "pop-up" concerts in famous Philadelphia locations. Past performances at a downtown Macy's and the Reading Terminal Market have received millions of views on YouTube.

Opera Philadelphia says it has five new operas in development and aims to present challenging contemporary works along with classics like "Carmen" and "La Boheme."

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Randy Travis to enter drunken-driving plea

FILE - This file photo provided by the Grayson County, Texas, Sheriff?s Office shows Country singer Randy Travis. A prosecutor says the country music star is expected to enter a guilty plea in a drunken-driving case in North Texas. (AP Photo/Grayson County Sheriff's Office)

FILE - This file photo provided by the Grayson County, Texas, Sheriff?s Office shows Country singer Randy Travis. A prosecutor says the country music star is expected to enter a guilty plea in a drunken-driving case in North Texas. (AP Photo/Grayson County Sheriff's Office)

FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2012 file photo, Randy Travis, far right exits the Grayson County jail with two unknown persons, in Sherman, Texas, after being arraigned on charges of driving while intoxicated and retaliation. A prosecutor says the country music star is expected to enter a guilty plea in the drunken-driving case. (AP Photo/The Herald Democrat, Chris Jennings, File) TV OUT; MAGS OUT; TV AND MAGAZINE CALL FOR RATES TERMS; MANDATORY CREDIT

SHERMAN, Texas (AP) ? Country music star Randy Travis is expected to enter a guilty plea this week in a drunken-driving case in North Texas, where he was arrested over the summer naked after crashing his Pontiac Trans Am.

Details of the plea agreement will be released following Travis' court appearance Thursday in Sherman, Grayson County District Attorney Joe Brown said Monday. He said the singer will plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge that is punishable by up to two years in jail and a $4,000 fine.

His defense attorney, John Nix, said a sentence of probation is expected and that Travis is "looking forward to putting this behind him and moving on."

Authorities have said a Trans Am registered to the 53-year-old singer veered off a roadway near Tioga, a town about 60 miles north of Dallas where the entertainer lives, and struck several barricades in a construction zone the night of Aug. 7. Investigators said Travis was found naked and combative at the scene, and his blood-alcohol level was more than 0.15. The legal limit for driving is 0.08.

He walked out of jail the next morning wearing scrubs, no shoes and a University of Texas baseball cap.

Travis also had faced a charge of retaliation for allegedly threatening officers, but that charge is no longer on file with the court.

Travis' lawyers have previously said the singer has a great deal of respect for law enforcement and has stopped drinking alcohol.

The August accident was among a string of recent run-ins with the law for Travis.

Police in suburban Dallas cited Travis following an Aug. 23 incident in a church parking lot in which he allegedly intervened in an argument involving a woman he knows and her estranged husband. Nobody was hurt. He pleaded not guilty to simple assault in that matter and has a jury trial scheduled for March.

Travis also was arrested last February in Denton County, northwest of Dallas, for public intoxication. That case is no longer on file with the county court and appears to have been dismissed.

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Primates too can move in unison

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Japanese researchers show for the first time that primates modify their body movements to be in tune with others, just like humans do. Humans unconsciously modify their movements to be in synchrony with their peers. For example, we adapt our pace to walk in step or clap in unison at the end of a concert. This phenomenon is thought to reflect bonding and facilitate human interaction. Researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute report today that pairs of macaque monkeys also spontaneously coordinate their movements to reach synchrony.

This research opens the door to much-needed neurophysiological studies of spontaneous synchronization in monkeys, which could shed light into human behavioral dysfunctions such as those observed in patients with autism spectrum disorders, echopraxia and echolalia ? where patients uncontrollably imitate others.

In the research, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, the team led by Naotaka Fujii developed an experimental set-up to test whether pairs of Japanese macaque monkeys synchronize a simple push-button movement.

Before the experiment, the monkeys were trained to push a button with one hand. In a first experiment the monkeys were paired and placed facing each other and the timing of their push-button movements was recorded. The same experiment was repeated but this time each monkey was shown videos of another monkey pushing a button at varying speeds. And in a last experiment the macaques were not allowed to either see or hear their video-partner.

The results show that the monkeys modified their movements ? increased or decreased the speed of their push-button movement - to be in synchrony with their partner, both when the partner was real and on video. The speed of the button pressing movement changed to be in harmonic or sub-harmonic synchrony with the partners' speed. However, different pairs of monkeys synchronized differently and reached different speeds, and the monkeys synchronized their movements the most when they could both see and hear their partner.

The researchers note that this behavior cannot have been learnt by the monkeys during the experiment, as previous research has shown that it is extremely difficult for monkeys to learn intentional synchronization.

They add: "The reasons why the monkeys showed behavioral synchronization are not clear. It may be a vital aspect of other socially adaptive behavior, important for survival in the wild."

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Yasuo Nagasaka, Zenas C. Chao, Naomi Hasegawa, Tomonori Notoya, and Naotaka Fujii "Spontaneous synchronization of arm motion between Japanese macaques." Scientific Reports, 2013 DOI: 10.1038/srep01151.

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Video: Post Show Thoughts: Paul Ryan Speaks Out

A Second Take on Meeting the Press: From an up-close look at Rachel Maddow's sneakers to an in-depth look at Jon Krakauer's latest book ? it's all fair game in our "Meet the Press: Take Two" web extra. Log on Sundays to see David Gregory's post-show conversations with leading newsmakers, authors and roundtable guests. Videos are available on-demand by 12 p.m. ET on Sundays.

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Europe gives 2bn euros to science

28 January 2013 Last updated at 09:18 ET By David Shukman Science editor, BBC News

Research projects investigating the "miracle material" graphene and the human brain have won unprecedented funding of up to 1bn euros each.

Under the European Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies programme, the backing is designed to give Europe an edge in key areas of research.

Graphene - a single-layer of carbon atoms - has extraordinary properties which give it immense potential.

Possible applications include flexible electronics and lighter aircraft.

The Human Brain Project will attempt to build a computer-based copy of a human brain to understand neurological disorders and the effects of drugs.

Both projects involve researchers in dozens of institutes across Europe and will receive the funding over a ten-year period. They include the scientists who first developed graphene at the University of Manchester, UK.

The two fields of novel materials and brain research are described as fulfilling the criteria for the funding by being "ambitious and risky" while promising large returns.

The backing is meant to answer the criticism that Europe lags behind more dynamic competitors such as the United States and China in economic growth and scientific research.

By focusing the funding on two key areas, the hope is that a "critical mass" can be achieved which will give Europe an edge in technologies vital to future economic development.

Patent race

Last month the BBC reported on the race to secure patents on graphene and how, despite the UK's early lead, China was now leading the field with the South Korean electronics giant Samsung holding nearly ten times more patents than Britain as a whole.

Graphene is far stronger than steel, more conductive than copper and more flexible than rubber so it could potentially open up entirely new avenues for manufacturing, consumer products and medical devices.

The material, so thin it effectively has just two dimensions, was first isolated by two Russian-born scientists, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, at the University of Manchester, work that earned them a Nobel Prize and knighthoods.

The European Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes, announcing the funding in Brussels today, said that it "rewards homegrown scientific breakthroughs".

"So, you've heard of Silicon Valley," she said.

"Where in Europe wants to be known as 'Graphene Valley'? That's the billion-euro question I am putting to you today."

The graphene funding will be spread across 126 academic and industrial research groups. It will be coordinated by Professor Jari Kinaret of Chalmers University of Technology at Gothenburg in Sweden who has stressed that it not attempt to match competitors in all areas.

"For example, we don't intend to compete with Korea on graphene screens," he said, a reference to Samsung's determined effort to lead the market in flexible electronic screens and e-paper. However graphene production - still not achieved on an affordable and industrial scale - is in the project's sights.

Profs Geim and Novoselov will play a leading role in guiding the collaborative effort.

Think big

Meanwhile the Human Brain Project will attempt to simulate the trillions of neural connections that make up a human brain in an effort to comprehend how the organ functions.

With an ageing European population, brain disorders, while becoming a more important feature of healthcare, remain poorly understood.

The Commission explains that the Human Brian Project will "collect the masses of clinical data available, mining for biological patterns, leading to new ways of diagnosing and classifying brain diseases."

The sheer volume of data involved in modelling the brain will itself lead to "radically new" IT with new computer technologies designed to manage the flow.

A further angle will be to explore how the brain manages such an intense workload with a relatively tiny power supply - "no more power than a light bulb". Understanding this could lead, it's hoped, to an entirely new way of powering energy-hungry supercomputer systems.

At a time of austerity across Europe and criticism of the European Commission's own budget, officials are emphasising the potential value of the funding for nurturing the kind of research that can produce an economic spin-off.

A key test will be how effectively the initial grants of 54m euros are handled. Beyond that, the precise level of future funding, which is meant to include contributions from industry, is still being negotiated.

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Once GOP stronghold, West veers into Dems' column

DENVER (AP) ? A political generation ago, the West signaled the nation's rightward swing, from the emergence of Ronald Reagan to the success of tax-limitation ballot measures in California and Colorado.

Now, however, the fabled expanse of deserts, jagged peaks, and emerald coastlines is trending in a different direction.

The West has become largely Democratic terrain.

Voters in Washington state in November legalized marijuana and upheld the legality of gay marriage. New Mexico was once a tightly contested state, but Republicans ceded it to Democrats in the presidential campaign.

There are, as always, exceptions.

Lightly populated Idaho and Wyoming remain strongly Republican, as does Utah. Democrats are struggling in Arizona, where the immigration debate has given Republicans a lock on statewide offices but may provide Democrats an opening by firming up their support among the state's growing Hispanic population.

Still, the overall trend is clear, according to analysts on all sides of the political spectrum.

"It's just a different world," said Bill Carrick, a Democratic strategist in Los Angeles who has worked widely in the region. "Nevada became the next California and now Arizona looks like it will become the next Nevada. ... It's just pushing the West further and further from Republicans."

The shift in a region already imbued with a libertarian spirit is the result of several factors. One is the growing number of people who are seeking a better quality of life by moving from more liberal states. Also, the expanding immigrant population is turned off by increasingly hard-line Republican immigration proposals.

"Look at the migration patterns," said Sig Rogich, a Republican consultant in Las Vegas who worked on Reagan's presidential campaigns. "You're seeing the aftermath of a new generation of young men and women whose parents moved westward."

Western states generally have weak political parties, part of the legacy of their political maturation during the progressive era at the start of the 20th century. Most local elections are nonpartisan affairs and voters often have the right to set policy unilaterally via ballot initiative. Western voters long have cherished nonpartisan independence, even when they voted a relatively straight party ticket.

"The West is the most American part of America," said Dave Kopel of the Independence Institute, a libertarian think tank in Denver. "It is a place where you have much more respect for individual choice and you have more ability to be who you want to be."

During the 1980s and 1990s, that libertarian streak fed a series of Republican victories as voters approved tax-limitation initiatives, protested federal environmental rules and kept statehouses firmly in the GOP's hands. But nowadays it means something else, Carrick said.

"The libertarian thing is no longer about property rights or gun rights," he said. "It's now about letting people live their lives as they choose."

Ironically, Republicans' success may have contributed to that shift.

The party managed to enshrine staunch anti-tax measures in several states' constitutions through ballot initiatives, making it very difficult to raise taxes in California, Colorado and Washington state.

As a result, Democrats can't easily raise revenue, but they also can't be attacked for doing so, said Ron Dotzauer, a Seattle-based Democratic strategist. "They can't be defined as the pro-tax group because they can't tax," he said.

There are prominent Republicans who demonstrate that the party can still win the region.

Brian Sandoval in Nevada and Susana Martinez in New Mexico are popular Republican governors, but their relatively moderate stances often put them at odds with the national party. Both, for example, just agreed to the Medicaid expansion under President Barack Obama's health care plan, something that is anathema to many conservative Republicans.

"People appreciate a leader who takes more pragmatic approaches," said Nicole McCleskey, a New Mexico-based GOP pollster who advises Martinez.

McCleskey argued that Democrats' success in the region is overstated and she noted that, outside of California, Republicans in 2012 only lost one Western congressional seat. As an example of how Republicans can succeed, she cited New Mexico, where the party picked up seats in the Legislature despite the Obama wave.

But McCleskey acknowledged that New Mexico Republicans were helped by the national GOP basically giving up on the presidential race in the state. GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney did not contest the state, minimizing the damage of a divisive presidential campaign.

"We were able to localize a lot of these races and build on the change that has taken place with a strong Republican governor," she said. "Republicans fought on state issues and the Democrats tried to fight on national issues."

Jill Hanauer is a Democratic strategist who engineered her party's takeover of the Colorado Legislature in 2004. She agrees with McCleskey that the West cannot be considered a Democratic lock.

"The reason Democrats or progressives are winning is that Republicans got fat and happy," said Hanauer, who is now president of Project New America, a political data and strategy company in Denver. "The worst thing that can happen for Democrats is to take it for granted."

In 2002, Ruy Teixeira, a Washington, D.C.-based Democratic strategist, co-wrote "The Emerging Democratic Majority," which predicted that demographic and social trends would turn parts of the country that were deep red, such as the interior Mountain West, into Democratic-leaning states. The book, published shortly after Republicans took back the U.S. Senate in the 2002 elections, was received skeptically.

Last year, Teixeira and other researchers published a new book on the Mountain West as America's new swing region. Now there was little pushback.

Teixeira said the West's shift has been dramatic because of the heavy migration to the region. Another factor is the ballot initiative process, which magnifies political trends by making it easier to enact dramatic policy changes such as marijuana legalization.

But he said in an interview that what's happened to the West is not very different from what's taking place across the country. Surveys for his book last year found it only slightly more libertarian on social issues and holding similar views toward government and taxation as other parts of the country. That, he said, is bad news for Republicans ? their problem is national, not regional.

"It's not like there's something in the water in state X that's making them harder for Republicans," Teixeira said. "It's just the same series of changes that are working themselves out in all states."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/once-gop-stronghold-west-veers-dems-column-155520480--election.html

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DealCurry.com : Kaizen And Bertelsmann Invest In Online Business ...

PE Firm ? Kaizen and German Media Company ? Bertelsmann has co ? invested R22 Cr in Authorgen Technologies which operates WizIQ.

WizIQ offers online education platform that offers SaaS based virtual classroom for teachers, trainers, colleges and universities and tutoring centers around the world.

The company will use these funds as growth capital and in up scaling the usage of the website.

Educomp acquired around 51% stake in Authorgen Technologies in Aug?07 and later increased it to around 83%.

Launched in 2007 by Harman Singh and Harbir Khurana, WizIQ.com is a web based platform for education service providers to teach live and online in an easy-to-use and free virtual classroom. Over 15,000 teachers and around 2 Mn learners currently use WizIQ?s e-learning services.

Learners and teachers can connect through WizIQ?s state-of-the-art virtual classroom equipped with live audio, video, whiteboard and text chat elements.

It allows the teachers to teach at their own terms and even facilitates payments for their teaching and tutoring services and it?s free to join.

WizIQ?s virtual classroom software works on desktop computers, iPad as well as Android tablets and can be customized for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew (right to left) and other languages like Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Polish, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish.

Bertelsmann is an international media company whose core divisions encompass television , book publishing magazine and services in some 50 countries. In 2011, the company?s business, with more than 100000 employees generated revenue of 15.3 Bn Euros.

Founded by Sandeep Aneja, Kaizen Management advises education-focused fund Kaizen Private Equity. The Fund aims to provide funding to education companies in their growth stage and will focus on operational improvements in its portfolio companies. The investment manager of the fund is Monterey Capital Management.

Kaizen recent investment includes ? Ace creative, Altus Learning (R25 Cr), and invested around R20Cr in Your Kids 'R' Our Kids Education.

In this space, Multistory Learning, from the family of The ilovereadin library raised $45,000 from undisclosed angel investors; IAN invested in Aurus Network; Next education was planning to raise funds for growth capital.

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Kodak Finance Agreement Approved By Bankruptcy Court

Things are starting to look up for Kodak as the company hopes that this is the year it emerges from bankruptcy.

The Bankruptcy Court has approved $844 million in financing for Kodak to help its emergence process. Part of the requirements for Kodak to receive this financing is the successful sale of the company's patents, which must yield a profit of at least $500 million. We learned that those patents would be sold for around $525 million. The company expects the sale of the patents to wrap up in February. In addition, Kodak must complete and execute their reorganization plan, settle their pension obligations in the U.K. and finalize the sales of the sections of their businesses.

If Kodak meets all of the court's requirements, they will be able to convert up to $644 million of their loans into exit financing to get them out of bankruptcy.

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Wyoming Senate Committee Approves Pro-Hunting Silencer Reform ...

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Charlotte, NC --(Ammoland.com)- ?The Wyoming Senate Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee voted 4 to 1 in favor of a pro-hunting reform authored by Senator Ogden Driskill (R-1).? Senate File 132?would repeal the state prohibition on hunting with sound suppressors (which are additionally regulated under federal law) while providing additional penalties for those who use them illegally.? This bill is now eligible for a vote in the full Senate.

A date for this?Senate floor?vote has not been scheduled at this time but please call and e-mail your state?Senator urging him or her to vote in favor of this meaningful hunting improvement legislation!??Your senator?s contact information can be found here.

An identical version of this?legislation?was introduced?earlier this month in the state House as House Bill 5.? However, the House Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources?Committee defeated it by?a vote that was neither announced nor made public.? Senator?Driskill?introduced SF 132?to accomplish what HB 5 was supposed to do before it was unfairly dismissed.

Noise complaints are being used more frequently as an excuse to close shooting ranges, informal shooting areas and hunting lands throughout the country.? Increased use of suppressors will help to eliminate many of these complaints and protect hunting and shooting areas well into the future.? Currently, more than half of the states across the country allow hunters to use suppressors.? Recently?Arizona,?Oklahoma?and Texas?adopted new rules allowing for use of suppressors when hunting game.??It?s time that hunters in Wyoming are able to enjoy the same opportunities available to sportsmen in more than half of the country. For more information on firearms and suppressors, click?here.

In order to acquire a suppressor, a purchaser must submit the appropriate paperwork to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives where long wait times for approval are unfortunately common (four to six months).? Also, purchasers must undergo a background check by the FBI, find a licensed dealer authorized to conduct the transaction and pay a one-time $200 tax for each device.? While suppressors do not eliminate the sound of a firearm, they do reduce the muzzle report in a manner similar to the way that a muffler reduces exhaust noise from a vehicle.? The benefits associated with suppressor use include increased accuracy due to reduced recoil and muzzle blast, protection from hearing damage and reduced noise pollution.

Thank you to those who contacted members of the Senate Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee, and to the?Senators?who voted to expand the rights of law-abiding sportsmen.? Your NRA-ILA will continue to update you once a date is scheduled for the Senate?s final action on SF 132.??In the meantime, please continue to call and encourage your state senator to support this meaningful hunting improvement legislation!

Your senator?s contact information can be found here.

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Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the ?lobbying? arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org

Source: http://www.ammoland.com/2013/01/wyoming-senate-committee-approves-pro-hunting-silencer-reform-bill/

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The SciArt Buzz: Science art on exhibit in Jan/Feb 2013

Lots of great science art exhibitions going on in the next few months. Get your sciart on, peeps!

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EXHIBITS: NORTHEAST REGION

The Islands of Beno?t Mandelbrot:
Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking
September 21, 2012 to January 27, 2013

The Bard Graduate Center Gallery
18 West 86th Street
New York, NY

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DINOTOPIA: Art, Science, and Imagination
September 22, 2012 to February 2, 2013

Lyman Allyn Art Museum
625 Williams Street
New London, Connecticut

DINOTOPIA: Art, Science, and Imagination showcases the original artwork of James Gurney, author and illustrator of the Dinotopia series. The exhibition brings together paintings from Gurney?s well-loved books along with sketches and maquettes from Gurney?s studio. Dinosaur specimens from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, featuring exciting artifacts such as a Deinonychus skull and a Tyrannosaurus tooth, will complement the paintings and illuminate the science behind Gurney?s art. Children, families, steampunk enthusiasts, and dinosaur fans of all ages will agree that this exhibition should not be missed!

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Southern Ontario Nature and Science Illustrators 2013 Exhibit
February 2-24, 2013

Richview Public Library Art Gallery, 2nd Floor
1106 Islington Avenue (at Summitcrest Drive)
Toronto, Ontario

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Drawn to Dinosaurs: Hadrosaurus foulkii
February 2 to June 9, 2013

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy
Philadelphia, PA

The Academy of Natural Sciences was the first in the world to create a mounted dinosaur skeleton for display, and to this day the Academy is known as ?the dinosaur museum.? Drawn to Dinosaurs: Hadrosaurus foulkii is an intimate exhibit that reveals the science and art of visualizing a living animal based on fragmentary fossils. The centerpiece is a full cast of the plant-eating duckbill dinosaur Hadrosaurus foulkii, discovered in 1858 in Haddonfield, N.J., by an Academy member and later reconstructed by the artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins based on Academy research.

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Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney
February 20 to March 13, 2013

New Hampshire Institute of Art
148 Concord Street
Manchester, NH

From the soothing, restorative environment of Waterfall City to the hidden wonders of Chandara, acclaimed author and illustrator James Gurney?s magical Dinotopian world comes to life in this enchanting exhibition that features 22 original paintings from the best-selling illustrated books Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time (1992), Dinotopia: The World Beneath (1995), and Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara (2007), and presents fascinating examples of the illustrator?s creative process, including reference materials, and a handmade scale-model.

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EXHIBITS: SOUTH

Work by Anne Runyon
February 1-24, 2013

The Nature Gallery, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
1 West Jones Street
Raleigh, NC

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LEVI FISHER AMES: ANIMALS WILD AND TAME
Through January 27, 2013

John Michael Kohler Arts Center
608 New York Avenue
Sheboygan, WI

Levi Fisher Ames (1843-1923) enthralled early 20th-century audiences with a travelling tent-show known as ?The Grand Museum of Art and Natural History, Whittled Out of Wood.? His vast carved menagerie included more than 600 individual creatures contained within wooden shadow boxes, all of which are now in the Arts Center collection. Animals Wild and Tame presents viewers with the largest number of Ames?s carvings simultaneously on view since those tent-show days.

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The Naturalist?s Notebook; New Paintings by Kevin Sloan
January 18 ? February 23, 2013

Ironton Studios and Gallery
3636 Chestnut Place
Denver, CO

In his self-described ?allegorical realism? style, Sloan portrays a variety of flora and fauna in theatrical tableaus. Occasionally referencing artists Martin Johnson Heade and Audubon, animals are seen interacting uneasily with items of contemporary life like clocks, power cords, books and antique china. These interactions create a quiet tension and sometimes humor as we witness these odd dramas before us.

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EXHIBITS: ABROAD

AFFECTING PERCEPTION: Art and Neuroscience
March 2-31, 2013

O3 Gallery
Oxford Castle Complex
Oxford, UK

Can brain damage spark creativity? What is the role of memory in art? Is it right to categorise art by the artists? condition? Affecting Perception showcases the work of a group of nine leading artists affected by neurological states, including stroke, agnosia, migraine and autism, and engages them in conversation about their art with eminent research scientists, including Simon Baron Cohen, Glyn Humpreys, Klaus Podoll, Charles Spence and Semir Zeki. An ambitious and rich exploration of the process of human creativity, hosted by AXNS Collective, funded by Wellcome Trust and the Wates Foundation and supported by Oxford University.

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Lindsay Lohan: DUMPED By Shawn Holley!

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Internet Marketing Rules Blog: How Direct Response Marketing Can ...

When it comes to internet marketing, you should know that it?s not quite so different than offline marketing. The only thing that is different is the medium. In fact, you shouldn?t really look at your business as an ?online business?? instead, you should look at internet marketing as just another marketing tool that you can use to grow your profits.

But I understand if you want to consider ?online marketing? as a business. There?s another platform that people are making money with and that is called ?mobile marketing?. It?s not as gigantic as the internet, but you can earn a sizable income simply with mobile marketing alone.

No matter how you look at it, promoting your website everywhere is essential. And when you do promote your website everywhere, you don?t want to do traditional marketing strategies such as brand advertising.

Instead, you should be focusing on something called ?direct response marketing?.

What is direct response marketing? It?s simply a way of promoting your products and services, and expecting to see results immediately. There?s no waiting for exposure, no wasted advertising, and no delay of results. Either the ad or campaign works now, or it simply won?t in the future.

Large companies love to spend millions of dollars all over the internet promoting their name in attempts to build brand recognition. But I guarantee you that there is a far better marketing strategy than doing this. If these big businesses could use direct response marketing, their income would skyrocket. And I know this because large companies are hiring marketing consultants all the time for their business!

So, if you want to turn your internet business around, you need to focus on direct response marketing techniques. It doesn?t matter what your internet business is? it doesn?t matter if you sell cupcakes, floor tiles, web hosting services, ebooks and information products, or even real estate. Direct response can work for you.

Never in your life should you be focusing on ?getting your name out there?. This can cause the rapid rate of business failure you?ve ever seen? almost faster than the speed of light. You will waste alot of money this way, and it?s just not a solid way to grow a business and build profits.

If you don?t know much about internet marketing, don?t hire a marketing agency. You can do the easy work yourself, and there?s all kinds of software and services that you can use to track your progress. I suggest you use these tools to track your productivity, and make sure that you?re getting the targeted traffic and income that you are looking for.

Direct response marketing takes the cake in my book. Traditional brand marketing and techniques such as cold calling are simply ineffective and wastes alot of time, energy, and money. So if you want to super-charge your profits ? stick with direct response marketing alone.

You will hear alot of people saying that brand advertising is the way to go, and that you should consider billboard advertising. Billboard advertising is fine when it?s done right, but most of the time it?s a mess. Stick to what works, and that is easier to do.

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PFT: Study finds CTE in living former players

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Former Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon does not agree with his old teammate Tim Brown about coach Bill Callahan sabotaging the team in their Super Bowl loss to the Buccaneers.

Gannon said on SiriusXM NFL Radio that he believes Callahan coached to win in Super Bowl XXXVII, when the Bucs beat the Raiders 48-21.

?In terms of Bill Callahan, let me just say this: He was a good football coach, he was a good man,? Gannon said. ?We all wanted to win.?

Gannon made clear that he likes and respects Brown, but he doesn?t accept Brown?s version of events, which is that Callahan ?hated the Raiders so much that he would sabotage the Super Bowl.?

So why did the Raiders only run the ball 11 times while throwing 44 passes in that game? Brown says Callahan changed the game plan at the last minute, leaving the Raiders ill-prepared. But Gannon says the pass-heavy play calling happened mostly because the Raiders fell behind early and trailed 20-3 by halftime.

?I think what happened was that we came out and tried to run the football early in that game, we didn?t have a lot of success,? Gannon said. ?We fell behind in the game and at that point we started throwing the ball too much.?

Considering that the Raiders gained only 19 yards on their 11 runs, that theory seems more plausible than Brown?s bizarre belief that Callahan would put in all the work necessary to lead his team to the Super Bowl and then purposely sabotage his team by changing the game plan at the last minute.

?I don?t know that the game plan really changed,? Gannon said.

Where Gannon did acknowledge the Raiders? coaches screwed up was in not changing up the terminology they used for calls at the line of scrimmage. Jon Gruden had coached the Raiders for the four previous seasons before coaching against them in the Super Bowl, and Gannon says Callahan hadn?t changed any of the terminology the Raiders used on offense. As a result, Gruden had taught the Bucs the Raiders? calls, and the Bucs knew what was coming when Gannon barked out his signals at the line of scrimmage.

?So much of our verbiage and terminology was a carryover from what Jon Gruden had installed in terms of our run checks, and so we were calling certain plays and guys like Warren Sapp and Derrick Brooks were calling out the runs,? Gannon said. ?So it kind of took us out of our no-huddle plan at the line of scrimmage.?

Failing to change the terminology so that the opposing coach wouldn?t know it was a huge gaffe by Callahan, and it?s completely reasonable to criticize him for that. But saying he made a stupid mistake in his preparation for the Super Bowl is a long way from saying he actually wanted to lose the Super Bowl.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/22/new-imaging-technique-spots-evidence-of-potential-brain-damage-in-living-football-players/related/

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Robots predicted to join family in home or - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

By Kim Leonard

Published: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 9:00?p.m.
Updated: Saturday, January 19, 2013

A robot called mObi senses when someone is nearby. It rolls gracefully on a single ball, navigating around people and furniture, and even talks a little.

This robot someday might be used in a home or public setting ? placed in a museum, for example, to glide over and provide information to a visitor admiring a painting, said Sarjoun Skaff, chief technology officer at Bossa Nova Robotics in the Strip District.

Like robotics companies worldwide, Bossa Nova is fine-tuning mObi for eventual consumer sales. Skaff believes robots could guide travelers through crowded airports, speaking their languages, or help shoppers find items in stores and provide product details.

Machines such as the 4-foot-tall mObi, sleek and nearly silent while in motion, have a future with families, Skaff says. But he acknowledges: ?We are still working on the home bit.?

Researchers predict that within 10 to 15 years, personal robots will become more commonplace, helping people keep their homes safe and perform household chores. Robot sales to consumers could quadruple to $6.5 billion by 2017, according to New York-based ABIresearch.

?We?re going to see a lot more activity around personal robots,? said Philip Solis, a research director with ABIresearch. ?A lot of the sensors you?d need in a robot are in smartphones right now.?

?Telepresence? robots that travel through rooms to check on things are a next step toward more intelligent machines. Romotive Inc.?s Romo is a simple version; the $150 remote-controlled robot with wheels carries an iPhone.

?The first consumer-valuable robotic services will show up before the end of this decade, from present-day vendors of washers and dryers,? predicts Frank Tobe, a researcher who publishes The Robot Report.

Smart appliances could provide ?hamper-to-hamper service ? dirty in, folded out,? Tobe said. He believes companies will offer practical home-use robots to help elderly or physically challenged people.

Single-purpose robots, such as Mass.-based iRobot Corp.?s vacuuming Roomba or Looj 330 gutter sweeper, which caused a stir at this month?s Consumer Electronics Show, ?brought the promise of C3PO and R2-D2 into the home,? said Maurice Leacock, a product manager with iRobot.

The company has sold more than 8 million cleaning robots.

The Looj, priced at $300, is ?exciting to people because it opens the imagination to what else can be done,? Leacock said.

iRobot tested a telepresence robot, built on its advanced Ava platform, at five hospitals. InTouch Health, a telemedicine company, worked with iRobot on the device, which moves through corridors on its own. These RP-VITA robots soon will be available for lease at about $6,000 a month.

In a home, ?we see a world in the future where there will be multiple robots to perform single tasks,? plus a central robot to communicate with them, Leacock said.

Willow Garage of Menlo Park, Calif., sells its PR2 robot, equipped with arms, to university researchers and technology companies such as Samsung at a base price of $280,000. The machine can fetch drinks, fold towels and perform other tasks.

?It?s a little bit of Wall-E,? spokesman Tim Smith said.

RE2 Inc. in Lawrenceville, which focuses on robotics for defense uses, donated an $850,000 Robotic Nursing Assistant that can lift a patient to the University of Texas at Arlington?s Research Institute. The institute is working on technology to help wounded veterans, older people and workers who lift heavy objects.

Such research is under way worldwide.

In Switzerland, the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich in March plans to introduce Roboy, a human-looking robot with soft skin.

Hector, a robot being built in Europe, is ?far ahead of anything we have ongoing here,? said Tobe, who advocates for public-private investment to advance robot research.

Some say the path ahead for robots remains unclear.

Henry Thorne recalls his short-lived venture with Cye, a robot he made in 1998 to transport items and vacuum a room. He priced it at $799 and sold 400, which was not enough to sustain a business.

Thorne later became a founder of 4Moms, a Strip District child products company that makes the mamaRoo, a moving robotic seat to soothe fussy infants.

?We sell 10,000 mamaRoos a month,? he said. ?My experience with personal robots is that they lack a raison d??tre, a reason to be.?

When Thorne looks at robots such as mObi, ?I ask, ?What?s it for??? He?ll consider the market again when someone provides a good answer.

Siddhartha Srinivasa, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University?s Robotics Institute, cites nagging questions on how to make advanced robots with a low enough cost, say $5,000, that are useful in a home. Robots perform well in orderly labs but might not in a messy household, Srinivasa said.

Many makers of consumer goods sell products with robotics technology, such as lawn mowers with sensors. Advanced robotics technology could become part of everyday appliances, Srinivasa said. A refrigerator could sense when the milk supply runs low and notify the homeowner by text message, for example.

Today?s consumer robots range from $50 toys to pricier humanoids that can close a garage door but mostly are for entertainment, said Dan Kara, president of robotics services company Electra Studios Inc. of Upton, Mass. The latter devices more commonly are found in Japan and Korea.

?People are paying $5,000 for something that doesn?t do that much,? Kara said. Robots for home use ?seems to be a market in search of itself.?

Kim Leonard is a staff writerfor Trib Total Media. She canbe reached at 412-380-5606or kleonard@tribweb.com.

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