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Held under the patronage of H. E. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Qatar International Businesswomen Forum has rapidly gained a unique status as a major annual event in Qatar and the region in terms of volume and level of attendance, the relevance of the agenda's topics and debates, the quality and expertise of panelists and speakers.

This year's QIBWF will engage scores of informed opinion leaders in Qatar and beyond, about the prevailing economic scene in the region against a turbulent economic backdrop. The forum is also expected to attract wide participation from senior officials, business leaders, financiers, economists, specialists, as well as representatives of civil society, NGOs, and women leaders in business and other professions and activities.

Jabra Ghandour, Managing Director at IBQ said: "It is very inspiring to see the Qatar International Businesswomen Forum gaining success year on year. It is certainly a key calendar event on the agendas of many cross-industry executives who look forward to attending and discussing a range of important topics with peers and leaders. At IBQ, Continuous networking and dialogue with all community organizations across Qatar are basic principles we firmly believe in. We're very happy to be part of this important gathering"

Mrs. Aisha Alfardan, Vice Chairperson of the Qatar Businesswomen Association said: "The QIBWF in its third consecutive season will cast the light on the perspective on the "post-revolutions" of the Arab economy. The event will also explore the challenges facing Arab businesswomen during this sensitive and uncertain transitional period.

Mr. Raed Chehaib, Chief Operating Officer of Interactive Business Network explained that the third Forum will be the largest ever, as the number of delegates is expected to exceed 800, with important delegations coming from all the GCC countries as well as many Arab countries, as well as the America's Western Europe and Russia and Australia. He also characterized the forum as perhaps the most important in terms of the distinguished group of speakers taking part, including officials and policy makers, business leaders of both genders, representatives of international and regional women's organizations and NGOs, and many others.

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Shooting of Pakistan girl activist sparks outrage

ISLAMABAD (AP) ? Schools shut their doors in protest and Pakistanis across the country held vigils Wednesday to pray for a 14-year-old girl who was shot by a Taliban gunman after daring to advocate education for girls and criticize the militant group.

The shooting of Malala Yousufzai on Tuesday in the town of Mingora in the volatile Swat Valley horrified Pakistanis across the religious, political and ethnic spectrum. Many in the country hoped the attack and the outrage it has sparked will be a turning point in Pakistan's long-running battle against the Taliban, which still enjoys considerable public support for fighting U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan.

Top U.S. officials condemned the attack and offered to help the girl.

A Taliban gunman walked up to a bus taking children home from school and shot Malala in the head and neck. Another girl on the bus was also wounded. Pictures of the vehicle showed bloodstained seats where the girls were sitting.

Malala appeared to be out of immediate danger after doctors operated on her early Wednesday to remove a bullet lodged in her neck. But she remained in intensive care at a hospital in the northwestern city of Peshawar, and Pakistan's Interior Minister said the next 48 hours would be crucial.

Small rallies and prayer sessions were held for her in Mingora, the eastern city of Lahore, the southern port city of Karachi and the capital of Islamabad. In newspapers, on TV and in social media forums, Pakistanis voiced their disgust with the attack, and expressed their admiration for a girl who spoke out against the Taliban when few dared.

Even the country's top military officer ? a man who rarely makes public statements ? condemned the shooting and visited the Peshawar hospital to check on the teenager.

"In attacking Malala, the terrorist have failed to grasp that she is not only an individual, but an icon of courage and hope who vindicates the great sacrifices that the people of Swat and the nation gave, for wresting the valley from the scourge of terrorism," Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said in a statement.

In Washington, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said US officials "strongly condemn" the shooting and called it "barbaric" and "cowardly."

He said U.S. has offered any assistance to Malala, mentioning possible air ambulance transport to a facility suitable for her treatment if it becomes necessary.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton praised the young Pakistani girl.

"She was attacked and shot by extremists who don't want girls to have an education and don't want girls to speak for themselves, and don't want girls to become leaders," she said.

At the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attack on Malala, calling it a "heinous and cowardly act," U.N. spokesman Nartin Nesirky said.

Malala is admired across Pakistan for exposing the Taliban's atrocities and advocating girls' education in the face of religious extremism.

At the age of 11, she began writing a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC about life under the Taliban in the Swat Valley. After the military ousted the militants in 2009, she began publicly speaking out about the need for girls' education, something the Taliban strongly opposes.

The group claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack, vowed to target her again.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said authorities have identified her attackers and know how they got into the valley, but no arrests have been made.

The news that surgeons were able to remove a bullet lodged in Malala's neck was greeted with relief by many. But even with such an outpouring of grief and outrage in Pakistan over the young girl's shooting, it was unclear whether it would indeed trigger a shift in public opinion against the Taliban.

Many in Pakistan view the group as waging a noble fight against U.S. troops that invaded another Muslim country, Afghanistan, and they argue that the Taliban problem within Pakistan will fade once American forces leave. They argue that Taliban attacks against targets in Pakistan aim to punish the government in Islamabad for its alliance with Washington.

"Pakistan society is polarized on who is doing terrorism," said Hasan-Askari Rizvi, a political analyst in Lahore. He said that divide has been evident even in the public condemnations of the attack, with some people speaking out strongly against the Taliban while others have criticized the government for failing to protect Malala.

Omar R. Quraishi, the editorial pages editor at Pakistan's English-language Express Tribune newspaper, questioned whether the public outrage had reached such a critical mass that it would indeed mark a turning point.

He said Kayani's strong statement in support of the girl may be an attempt to gauge whether there is enough public outrage to support a sharp response from the army against the Taliban. The general, said Quraishi, doesn't want to be in a position where people are asking: "Why are you fighting America's wars?"

The Pakistani military has been waging a deadly fight in the tribal regions against militants at a cost of about 4,000 soldiers killed. But critics, especially in the U.S., accuse the army of going after militants that attack the Pakistani state while cultivating others that it feels will be useful someday in Afghanistan.

Still, there is a precedent in Pakistan of Taliban excesses provoking public outrage, which the military has then capitalized on to move against the militants.

In 2009, after a video surfaced of militants publicly whipping a woman, purportedly in the Swat Valley, triggered a wave of public revulsion, the army felt empowered enough to launch a major offensive against the Taliban in the area. Government forces flushed the militants out of the scenic valley, but failed to capture or kill the movement's senior leaders.

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Santana reported from Islamabad. Associated Press writer Sherin Zada in Mingora, Munir Ahmed in Islamabad and Adil Jawad in Karachi contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/shooting-pakistan-girl-activist-sparks-outrage-105617338.html

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The Power of Mobile, the Beauty of Never Missing a Lead | Mobile ...

In the beginning of 2012, there were nearly 100 million Smartphone users in the US. With so many individuals walking around with the Internet in their pocket, reaching potential clients via mobile technology has never been easier, or more important.

Real Estate professionals can tap into the power of mobile technology with 4112me, a revolutionary lead generation service that is changing the way realtors connect and communicate with potential clients by giving both parties choices.

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Man guilty of killing Texas pastor at church

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) ? An already convicted felon was found guilty Monday in the suffocation death of a pastor during a robbery at a church in North Texas.

The jury in Fort Worth deliberated for little more than an hour before finding Steven Lawayne Nelson, 25, guilty of capital murder in the killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at Arlington's NorthPointe Baptist Church in March 2011. Nelson also severely beat the church secretary before stealing her car and other items.

Nelson faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole. The trial's punishment phase was to start after lunch.

Nelson showed no reaction as the guilty verdict was read.

He has been forced to remain seated throughout the six-day trial when jurors are in the courtroom so they can't see that he is restrained with handcuffs and leg shackles, court officials say. Nelson has also been charged with striking a jailer and is a suspect in the hanging death of another inmate. Those are expected to be brought up during the punishment phase.

During closing arguments Monday morning, prosecutor Page Simpson said Nelson forced Dobson and his secretary, Judy Elliott, to tie each other up. Simpson called Nelson a "predator" who committed a terrible crime because he wanted to steal a car and the victims' credit cards.

Last week, Nelson denied killing the minister. He told the court that two friends went inside and committed the crime while he stayed outside. He said he only entered the church to steal a laptop.

But prosecutors said Nelson's story didn't make sense. Witnesses earlier testified that Nelson bought expensive items using Elliott's credit card, sold a laptop to someone and had been driving Elliott's car.

"Why does he get everything if he did nothing?" Simpson asked jurors.

Defense attorneys said the church secretary told a doctor that two men assaulted her. They asked jurors to consider a lesser offense of aggravated robbery.

During deliberations, jurors asked to see a white belt Nelson was wearing when he was arrested. Some studs from the belt were found at the church, according to officers' testimony.

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Video: Mars rover distracted by mysterious shiny object

>>> now 18 years old.

>>> nasa's curiosity rover has been distracted from its scooping mission on mars by a mysterious shiny object. curiosity found the bright object sitting on the ground, and even though officials suspect it is a piece of the rover itself, they are not doing any more scooping until they figure out what exactly it is.

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First contracted SpaceX resupply mission launches with NASA cargo to space station

ScienceDaily (Oct. 8, 2012) ? A Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket carrying its Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 8:35 p.m. EDT Sunday, beginning NASA's first contracted cargo delivery flight, designated SpaceX CRS-1, to the International Space Station. Under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract, SpaceX will fly at least 12 cargo missions to the space station through 2016. The contract is worth $1.6 billion.

The Dragon spacecraft will be grappled at 7:22 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 10, by Expedition 33 crew members Sunita Williams of NASA and Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, who will use the station's robotic arm to install the Dragon. The capsule is scheduled to spend 18 days attached to the station. It then will return for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California.

"Just over one year after the retirement of the space shuttle, we have returned space station cargo resupply missions to U.S. soil and are bringing the jobs associated with this work back to America," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. "The SpaceX launch tonight marks the official start of commercial resupply missions by American companies operating out of U.S. spaceports like the one right here in Florida."

Dragon is delivering a total of 882 pounds of supplies to the orbiting laboratory, including 260 pounds of crew supplies, 390 pounds of scientific research, 225 pounds of hardware and several pounds of other supplies. Dragon will return a total of 1,673 pounds of supplies, including 163 pounds of crew supplies, 866 pounds of scientific research, 518 pounds of vehicle hardware and other hardware.

Dragon's capability to return cargo from the station is critical for supporting scientific research in the orbiting laboratory's unique microgravity environment, which enables important benefits for humanity and vastly increases understanding of how humans can safely work, live and thrive in space for long periods. The ability to return frozen samples is a first for this flight and will be tremendously beneficial to the station's research community. Not since the space shuttle have NASA and its international partners been able to return considerable amounts of research and samples for analysis.

Materials being launched on Dragon will support experiments in plant cell biology, human biotechnology and various materials technology demonstrations, among others. One experiment, called Micro 6, will examine the effects of microgravity on the opportunistic yeast Candida albicans, which is present on all humans. Another experiment, called Resist Tubule, will evaluate how microgravity affects the growth of cell walls in a plant called Arabidopsis. About 50 percent of the energy expended by terrestrial-bound plants is dedicated to structural support to overcome gravity. Understanding how the genes that control this energy expenditure operate in microgravity could have implications for future genetically modified plants and food supply. Both Micro 6 and Resist Tubule will return with the Dragon at the end of its mission.

SpaceX is one of two companies that built and tested new cargo spacecraft under NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. SpaceX completed its final demonstration test in May when it flew to the station and performed a series of checkout maneuvers, ultimately being grappled by the station crew and installed on the complex.

Orbital Sciences is the other company participating in COTS. Orbital's Antares launch vehicle is currently on the launch pad at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The launch vehicle and pad will undergo a series of fueling tests that will take about three weeks. After tests are completed, a hot fire test will be conducted. Finally, a test flight of the Antares rocket with a simulated Cygnus spacecraft will be flown in late 2012. A demonstration flight of Cygnus to the station is planned in early 2013.

NASA initiatives like COTS and the agency's Commercial Crew Program are helping develop a robust U.S. commercial space transportation industry with the goal of achieving safe, reliable and cost-effective transportation to and from the space station and low Earth orbit. In addition to cargo flights, NASA's commercial space partners are making progress toward a launch of astronauts from U.S. soil in the next 5 years.

While NASA works with U.S. industry partners to develop and advance these commercial spaceflight capabilities, the agency also is developing the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS), a crew capsule and heavy-lift rocket to provide an entirely new capability for human exploration. Designed to be flexible for launching spacecraft for crew and cargo missions, SLS and Orion will expand human presence beyond low Earth orbit and enable new missions of exploration in the solar system.

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Sprint lets you make your name your phone number for $3 a month

What if, instead of handing over some hard to remember combination of 10 digits when it came time to exchange numbers you could just give someone your name? Sprint is actually willing to let you enjoy the luxury of having your own vanity phone number, so long as you're willing to fork over $3 a month for the privilege. This isn't the sort of service enjoyed by businesses, though -- no one will be dialing 1-800-Joe-Schmoe. Instead the carrier is offering "StarStar" numbers from a company called Zoove. So now, friends will just punch a couple of asterisks into their handset followed by your name, Twitter handle or anything else you might desire to get in touch with you. Of course, in the age of smartphones, we're pretty sure memorizing phone numbers isn't a skill anyone actually uses anymore. So might be that your $3 a month and clever new number will never be recognized by anyone.

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Calif. gasoline prices hit all-time high - twice

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? California motorists faced another day of record-breaking gasoline prices Sunday, though relief appeared to be on the way.

In its latest update early Sunday, AAA reported that statewide average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is $4.655. Saturday's average of $4.6140 was the highest since June 19, 2008, when it was $4.6096.

The four-penny-per-gallon jump Sunday was less than Saturday's increase, which was 12 cents.

Sunday's price, like Saturday's, was the highest in the nation, with the Golden State leapfrogging Hawaii as the state with the most expensive fuel due to a temporary reduction in supply. Californians are paying 24 cents per gallon more than motorists in Hawaii, according to the AAA report.

In some locations, fuming motorists paid $5 or more per gallon while station owners had to shut down pumps in others.

"I seriously thought it was a mistake on the sign when we pulled in," said Nancy Garcia, 34, while filling her Honda Accord at a Chevron station in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park. She paid $4.65 a gallon for regular grade and said she couldn't afford to fill her tank all the way.

AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge report said the national average both Saturday and Sunday was about $3.81 a gallon, the highest ever for this time of year. However, gas prices in many other states have started decreasing, which is typical for October.

The dramatic surge came after a power outage Monday at a Southern California refinery that reduced supply in an already fragile and volatile market, analysts said, but the refinery came back online Friday and prices were expected to stabilize in the coming days.

Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com, predicted the average price could peak as high as $4.85.

"There is some relief in sight but probably not for a couple of days. Early next week is when we may see some more significant declines ... but at retail prices, prices may climb for the next two to three days before they start to come down," he said.

When supplies drop, wholesale prices rise. Then distributors and station owners have to pay more to fill up their station's tanks. They then raise their prices based on how much they paid for their current inventory, how much they think they will have to pay for their next shipment, and, how much their competitors are charging.

A web of refinery and transmission problems is to blame, analysts said. The situation is compounded by a California pollution law that requires a special blend of cleaner-burning gasoline from April to October, said Denton Cinquegrana, executive editor of the Oil Price Information Service, which helps AAA compile its price survey.

"We use the phrase 'the perfect storm,' and you know what, this current one makes those other perfect storms look like a drizzle. I don't want to scare anyone, but this is a big problem," Cinquegrana said. "Run-outs are happening left and right."

Among the recent disruptions, an Aug. 6 fire at a Chevron Corp. refinery in Richmond that left one of the region's largest refineries producing at a reduced capacity, and a Chevron pipeline that moves crude oil to Northern California also was shut down.

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Contributing to this report were AP writers Sandy Shore in Denver, Gillian Flaccus in Los Angeles, John Marshall in San Francisco and Gosia Wozniacka in Fresno.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/calif-gasoline-prices-hit-time-high-twice-110620716--finance.html

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I Had The Best Cell On Death Row: A Member Of The West Memphis Three On Life In The Shadow Of Execution [West Memphis Three]

In 1994, Damien Echols and two of his friends, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, were wrongfully convicted in what prosecutors called a satanic ritual murder of three 8-year-old boys. Echols, the leader of the group, was sentenced to death; Baldwin and Misskelley received life sentences. The trio became known as the West Memphis Three, and their cause was taken up by the likes of Johnny Depp and Eddie Vedder. In August 2011, they were released under a legally awkward plea deal. Echols wrote a book about his experience, Life After Death, which is available on Amazon and which we've excerpted here. Check back in here at 3 p.m. EDT for a live Q&A with Echols. More »

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It's Time to Connect With the Mobile Customer | Social Media Today

The Rise of The Smartphone

Smartphones are now the preferred mobile device representing over 50% of all phones in the US and the UK.

Mobile is changing the way customers:

• Mobile devices accounted for 13% of search spend in June 2012, yet took a 20% share of clicks - source: Marin
• Search the internet - mobile will account for 25 percent of all paid search clicks by the end of 2012 source: Marin
• A recent report from AT&T, Local Insights Report, found that 30% of all search comes from mobile. Not only that but 54% subsequently click to call the business.
• Shop:
• According to Nielsen 79% of smartphone & tablet owners use their devices to shop online - source: Nielsen
• Mobile (tablet + smartphone) shopping now accounts for over 15% of online shopping source: IBM
• 97% Of iPad Moms Shopped From Their Tablet Last Month - source: TechCrunch
• Social Media:
  • Facebook users spent more time accessing the social network on smartphones than on computers in March - source: Comscore
  • Social media drives and influences purchase behaviour - source: Dialog
• Email:

• Businesses Not Harnessing Mobile

  Despite the rise of smartphones only 26% of small businesses have got a mobile optimised website and it is not only small businesses that are at fault - 20% of FTSE as of Feb 2012 had a mobile site.

  Now you may ask yourself does it really matter? A study by Google?gives some answers:

  • 74% of people say they?re more likely to return to a mobile friendly site
  • 61% of users said they would click away if site doesn't provide information quickly
  • 52% of users said a bad mobile experience made them less likely to engage with a company

  3 Ways To Gain More Customers

  Mobile is like gravity you can debate how it works, but you will feel its affects regardless of the answer. Quite simply being having a good mobile (tablet & smartphones) strategy and plan is a necessity. So here are 3 simple ways (actions) you can focus on to improve how you get more customers from mobile:

  1. Develop a Mobile Strategy

     Simply getting a mobile site is not enough. Focus on how your customers are using mobile, what they are searching on and how you can then use this to best present information, click to call, opportunities to buy and/or capture customer details - e.g. if you are a local restaurant then presenting opening times, click to call and menu prices would be a priority. Also using paid search would clearly for your services would benefit your business. Audit your site: ask yourself - Is my site easy to navigate currently?, also test to see how easy it is to find essential information in a timely fashion?

  2. Simplify and prioritise

     Customer behaviours on mobile are different than on PC. That long landing page you built will seem to long too small and reduce traction. Simplify for mobile - reduce the text and ensure pages are responsive. You need to understand how your customers use different devices. For instance if you are a fashion retailer, a customer might want to find your address on a smartphone but browse your collection on a tablet.

  3. Think Across Your Digital Touchpoints

     Your overall marketing communications need to reflect the change to mobile: landing pages, downloads, website pages and of course email. 40% of mobile users will close or delete an email not optimised for their mobile. Emails need to have clear CTA's at the top of the email, less images used (check how they render) and get your message across quickly - less is more.

Source: http://socialmediatoday.com/tribalcafe/865996/3-ways-get-wmore-mobile-customers

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Optimism increases in wine industry as premium sales rise ? North ...

NAPA ? Wine industry professionals are more optimistic about profitability as sales bounce back in a number and despite looming issues with grape supply, according to a survey of executives presented at a major symposium in Napa last week.

Of 138 respondents to a July survey conducted by the U.C. Davis Graduate School of Management for the 21st annual Wine Industry Symposium, 74 percent saw themselves as more profitable, compared with 53 percent in last year?s survey.

?Premiumization is back,? said keynote speaker Jay Wright, chief operating officer of Constellation Brands, to the audience of a few hundred industry professionals at the symposium on Sept. 25. ?The recession is behind us.?

Danny Brager, vice president and group client director for Nielsen?s beverage alcohol practice, said while wine sales in the past 12 months are up 6 percent by value and 4 percent by volume in stores, according to the company?s data, consumers are worried about home prices, stock market fluctuations, more jobs, fuel costs, global instability and inflation.

?Higher price points are out-performing lower price points,? Mr. Brager said. ?That is better than it was two to three years ago.?

Yet, almost all the wine sales growth in the U.S. last year was concentrated in the top three producers ? E&J Gallo, The Wine Group and Constellation Brands ? whose sales grew 8 percent and total three times the volume of the next five largest, which grew at 3.5 percent, and 10 times the eight largest following, which grew at 1.3 percent, according to David Freed, a vineyard investor and symposium co-founder 21 years ago.

Wine sales in?casual and fine dining establishments have been growing 1 percent to 3 percent a year since dropping dramatically in 2009.

?On-premise wine sales are growing again,? he said.

Pressure to offer promotional prices is trending downward in all but the fiercely competitive $9- to $12-a-bottle price category, according to Mr. Brager.

?Retailers are fighting for trips, to bring more in consumers and have them spend more per trip,? Mr. Brager said. ?Wine is highly desired in retail.?

Of the top 12 selling categories in grocery stores, wine is No. 9 and is the fastest growing, he said.

Direct-to-consumer sales are also becoming a large factor in wine sales, Mr. Brager noted. Direct sales of wine have reached $1.4 billion a year, according to ShipCompliant, an alcoholic beverage shipping compliance service provider that powers many fulfillment software systems used by wineries in the North Coast and elsewhere.

?That is one-fifth of all wine sold in grocery stores,? Mr. Brager noted.

Source: http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/62088/optimism-picks-up-in-wine-industry/

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MidAmerican to buy 2 Calif. wind farms

MidAmerican Energy has agreed to buy two wind projects under construction about 120 miles north of Los Angeles from the wind developer Terra-Gen Power.

Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

The two projects, totaling 300 megawatts of peak electric capacity, will be part of the larger Alta Wind Energy Center located in Tehachapi, Calif., much of which is already in operation.

MidAmerican, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said Sunday it will sell the electricity to Southern California Edison under long-term power purchase agreements.

In typical conditions, the projects will produce enough electricity to meet the demand of about 80,000 homes.

MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. serves electric customers in Iowa, Illinois, South Dakota and Nebraska and it also controls a subsidiary called MidAmerican Renewables that operates wind, solar, geothermal and hydro-electric plants and sells that power to other utilities. Terra-Gen Power is a private company based in New York City.

Wind developers are scrambling to get wind projects underway this year in order to qualify for a federal wind subsidy that is slated to expire at the end of the year. President Barack Obama wants Congress to extend the subsidy but his Republican challenger Mitt Romney and some members of Congress want to allow it to lapse.

Wind power has struggled to compete in recent years because low natural gas prices have lowered wholesale electric power prices, reducing the amount of revenue a wind turbine can generate. Without the federal subsidy, construction of wind projects is expected to slow dramatically, at least until power prices begin to rise.

The wind subsidy, known as the production tax credit, is worth $22 for every megawatt-hour of electricity generated by a wind farm during its first 10 years of operation. For MidAmerican's new wind farms, that would amount to about $19 million per year, or $190 million in total.

Associated Press

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REPORT: Lindsay Lohan In Altercation With ... - Business Insider

More Lindsay Lohan legal drama...

From WNBC:

Lindsay Lohan was assaulted in her Manhattan hotel room early Sunday morning by a man she met at a night club, police sources said.

According to law enforcement officials, Lohan told police she got into an argument with a 25-year-old man she brought to her room after meeting him at 1 Oak in Chelsea.

The details of the legal situation remain unclear, though what's notable is that the 25-year old is reportedly a Congressional aide.

Here's WNBC's take...

Police have identified the man as Christian LaBella of California. He was?charged with third-degree assault and harassment. In police paperwork, LaBella listed his employer's work phone as the Washington?offices of Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill.

The Daily News, however, reports...

Cops say Lohan took Christian LaBella?s cellphone so she could delete pictures of her partying ? and he got physical with her trying to get it back.

After Lohan called the cops, LaBella was initially charged with misdemeanor assault for Sunday?s blowup at the W Hotel Union Square.

But law enforcement sources said the assault rap will be dropped ? and LaBella, 25, and Lohan, 26, will both be hit with low-level harassment violations.

Read the full Daily News report here >

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/report-lindsay-lohan-in-altercation-with-congressional-aide-2012-9

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