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Workshop on Complex Networks

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Researchers and practitioners from around the world to come together

MELBOURNE, FLA. -- The Florida Institute of Technology Department of Computer Sciences will host the 3rd Workshop on Complex Networks March 7-9, 2012, to be chaired by Ronaldo Menezes, associate professor, College of Engineering. The international workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from around the world working on areas related to complex networks.

Examples of complex networks include the Internet, a wiring diagram of a food web and the metabolic system of a bacterium. Researchers, interested in understanding complex networks, are now beginning to unravel their structure and dynamics. The field has seen an exponential increase in the number of publications and brings together researchers from biology, mathematics, physics, sociology and epidemiology. It is this interdisciplinary nature of complex networks that the workshop aims to address.

Internationally recognized speakers attending include two keynote speakers. Award-winning Albert-Lszl Barabsi, distinguished university professor, Northeastern University, and director of the Center for Complex Network Research, will speak on March 7. In November 2011 his work made the cover of Popular Science magazine. The story was titled: "This Man Could Rule the World: How Albert-Lszl Barabsi went from mapping systems to controlling them."

Sinan Aral, New York University Stern School of Business assistant professor and Facebook scholar-in-residence, will also speak on March 7.

"Our research in the College of Engineering is internationally recognized. The direct benefit of this is the ability of our faculty to attract world-class researchers such as Albert-Lszl Barabsi to give keynote talks at Florida Tech hosted workshops," said College of Engineering Dean Fredric Ham.

Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished papers or abstracts on their research in complex networks. Both theoretical and applied papers are of interest. Accepted papers of registered authors will be featured in the workshop post-proceedings to be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the series of Studies in Computational Intelligence.

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Workshop on Complex Networks

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Contact: Ronaldo Menezes
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321-674-7623
Florida Institute of Technology

Researchers and practitioners from around the world to come together

Sinan Aral, New York University Stern School of Business assistant professor and Facebook scholar-in-residence, will also speak on March 7.

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Newt Gingrich lands editorial endorsement of NH Union Leader 45 days before GOP primary (Star Tribune)

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Euro in danger, Europe races for debt solution (AP)

PARIS ? European leaders rushed Monday to stop a rampaging debt crisis that threatened to shatter their experiment in a common euro currency and devastate the world economy as a result.

In a measure of how rapidly the peril has grown, ideas unthinkable even three months ago were being seriously considered, including having sovereign nations cede control over their budgets to a central European authority.

World stock markets, glimpsing hope that Europe might finally be shocked into stronger action, had one of their best days in weeks. The Dow Jones industrial average in New York rose 300 points. In France, stocks rose 5 percent, a remarkable move.

More relevant to the crisis at hand, borrowing costs for European nations stabilized after rising alarmingly in recent weeks ? first in Greece, then in Italy and Spain, then in France and Germany, the two most stable economies in continental Europe.

The yields on benchmark bonds issued by Italy and Germany rose, but only by hundredths of a percentage point. The yield fell 0.1 percentage points on bonds of France, 0.14 points for those of Spain and 0.22 points for Belgium.

European finance ministers prepared for a summit beginning Tuesday in Brussels. Italy readied an auction of bonds designed to raise euro8 billion, or about $10.6 billion ? and steeled itself for the high interest rates it will have to pay.

In Washington, President Barack Obama huddled with European Union officials, and the White House insisted Europe alone was responsible for fixing its debt problems.

"This is something they need to solve and they have the capacity to solve, both financial capacity and political will," presidential spokesman Jay Carney said.

As the crisis played out across the Atlantic Ocean, a raft of ideas once considered taboo gained sudden prominence.

Among them was a fiscal union of the 17 countries that share the euro currency, a proposal that some analysts have said would be a great leap toward creating a United States of Europe.

While the details are not clear, such a union could give a central European authority the power to enforce rules on the budgets of individual countries. That would pose a practical problem ? how to make such a body democratically accountable.

More delicately, it would force the nations of Europe to swallow their national pride, cede some sovereignty and agree to strengthen ties with their neighbors rather than fleeing the euro union during the crisis.

"The common currency has the problem that the monetary policy is joint, but the fiscal policy is not," Germany's finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, said in a meeting with foreign reporters in Berlin. "Consequently, we are working now to expand the common currency through a common stability policy."

With a fiscal union in place, the European Central Bank might also find it more palatable to stage a massive intervention in the European bond market to drive down borrowing costs and keep the debt crisis under control.

A fiscal union, and enforced budget discipline, might ease the ECB's concerns about the concept known as moral hazard ? essentially, that bailing out free-spending countries would only encourage them to do it again.

Another option is for the six nations in the 27-member European Union that have top-notch AAA credit ratings to sell bonds together, known as eurobonds, to help the countries in the deepest trouble because of debt.

The six countries are Germany, France, Finland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Austria. But Germany, which has the largest economy in Europe, has resisted this plan because Germany pays the biggest share of European bailouts, and German borrowing costs would rise.

While Europe buzzed over the possible solutions, the euro appeared to be in increasing danger. Experts said the currency could fall apart within days without drastic action, with consequences rivaling those of the 2008 financial crisis.

"Everyone knows that if the eurozone crashes the consequences would be very dramatic and in the race after that there would no winners, just losers," said Finland's finance minister, Jutta Urpilainen.

For countries that decided to leave the euro group and return to their own sovereign currency, the conversion would be wrenching.

If Germany broke away, for example, its national currency could rise in value quickly because the German economy is stronger on its own than the European economy as a whole. But a stronger German mark would damage Germany's economy because Germany depends heavily on exports, and it would cost more for everyone else to buy German goods.

As for weaker countries that decided to leave, depositors would probably yank money out of their banks, fearing a plummeting currency. Savers would not want their euros replaced with, say, feeble Greek drachmas.

If countries tried to repay their old euro debts with their own currencies, they'd be considered in default and struggle to sell bonds in global financial markets. Corporations would face the same squeeze.

Overall, economists at UBS estimate, a weak country that left the eurozone would see its economy implode by 50 percent.

The United States would suffer, too, if worldwide credit froze up and European economies tumbled into recession. The European Union buys almost 20 percent of the goods the U.S. exports.

Wolfgang Munchau, a columnist for the influential Financial Times newspaper, wrote Monday that the common currency "has 10 days at most" to avoid collapse. He called for decisions on a fiscal union and the creation of a powerful common treasury.

Unlike the United States, which has centralized institutions in Washington for raising taxes and spending money, the euro nations have 17 independent treasuries with little oversight from Brussels, the headquarters of the EU.

That would change under the fiscal union proposal being aired ahead of another summit that begins Dec. 9 of finance ministers for the countries that use the euro. Ten nations in the EU do not use the euro currency, most notably Britain.

While not explicitly backing a fiscal union, Germany and France have promised to propose measures that will make the 17 euro countries operate under strict and enforceable rules, so that no country, however small, can wreak such damage again.

Already, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international group devoted to economic progress, was warning that the global economy was in for a rocky road in coming months.

In its six-month report Monday, it said the continued failure by EU leaders to stem the debt crisis "could massively escalate economic disruption" and end in "highly devastating outcomes."

The latest turmoil came last week, after Germany tried to auction $8 billion worth of its national bonds and could only persuade investors to buy $5.2 billion. It was a sign that even mighty Germany was not immune from the debt crisis.

Investors around the world will watch the Italian bond auction Tuesday. If it receives a similarly poor reception, more European countries would be in danger of being locked out of the international bond market.

Exactly how a fiscal union would take shape in Europe is an open question.

Schaeuble, the German financial minister, said the proposal would require passage only by the 17 countries that use the euro currency. The other 10 countries in the EU, such as Britain, Poland and Sweden, could adopt it if they wanted to.

But analysts said such a move would take a long time to come to fruition.

"We do seem to be moving slowly towards more of a fiscal union but at a pace that may result in all the components being put in place after a complete meltdown of the financial system," said Gary Jenkins, an economist with Evolution Securities.

Many think the ECB is the only institution capable of calming frayed market nerves. But Merkel, the German chancellor, has continually dismissed the prospect of a bigger role for the ECB.

"The ECB has the means to provide a credible measure to avoid further contagion in the sovereign bond markets," the OECD's Chief Economist Carlo Padoan said. "And if you ask me if that is the lender of last resort function, I would say yes."

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Pylas reported from London and Wiseman from Washington. Melissa Eddy, Juergen Baetz, Kirsten Grieshaber and David Rising in Berlin, and Matti Huuhtanen in Helsinki contributed to this story.

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Bahrain creates panel to study unrest report (AP)

MANAMA, Bahrain ? Bahrain's state media says the country's king has ordered the creation of a special commission to study recommendations from an independent investigation into political unrest.

The decision by King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa follows the release last week of a 500-page report that detailed abuses such as torture and excessive force in a crackdown on protests by Bahrain's majority Shiites for greater rights.

The report urges Bahrain's Sunni monarchy to take measures that include possible reforms in legal and security codes.

The official Bahrain News Agency said Sunday the new commission will evaluate the report and make its own suggestions before the end of February.

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Bernie Fine Scandal: Third Person Accuses Syracuse Assistant Basketball Coach Of Child Molestation

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A third accuser has come forward in the investigation of child molestation allegations against an assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University.

Zach Tomaselli, 23, of Lewiston, Maine, said Sunday that he told police that associate head coach Bernie Fine molested him in 2002 in a Pittsburgh hotel room. He said Fine touched him "multiple" times in that one incident.

The Post-Standard in Syracuse first reported his accusations earlier Sunday.

Tomaselli, who faces sexual assault charges in Maine involving a 14-year-old boy, said during a telephone interview with The Associated Press that he signed an affidavit accusing Fine following a meeting with Syracuse police last week in Albany.

Syracuse police declined comment. A phone call and email to the office of Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick were not immediately returned.

Tomaselli's father, meanwhile, maintains his son is lying.

Two former Syracuse ball boys were the first to accuse Fine, who has called the allegations "patently false."

Bobby Davis, now 39, told ESPN that Fine molested him beginning in 1984 and that the sexual contact continued until he was around 27. A ball boy for six years, Davis told ESPN that the abuse occurred at Fine's home, at Syracuse basketball facilities and on team road trips, including the 1987 Final Four.

Davis' stepbrother, Mike Lang, 45, who also was a ball boy, told ESPN that Fine began molesting him while he was in fifth or sixth grade.

Syracuse placed Fine on paid administrative leave when the accusations surfaced.

No one answered the door at the Fine home Sunday. His attorneys released a statement saying Fine would not comment beyond his initial statement.

"Any comment from him would only invite and perpetuate ancient and suspect claims," attorneys Donald Martin and Karl Sleight said. "Mr. Fine remains hopeful of a credible and expeditious review of the relevant issues by law enforcement authorities."

Pete Moore, director of athletic communications at the university, said head coach Jim Boeheim "is not commenting further on the subject at this time."

Tomaselli said the scandal at Penn State involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky prompted him to come forward. Sandusky is accused in a grand jury indictment of sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year period.

"It was the Sandusky stuff that came out that really made me think about it," Tomaselli said in the phone interview. "A lot of people were slamming ESPN and Bobby for saying anything. I wanted to come out. ... It made me sick to see all that support for Fine at that point. I was positive he was guilty."

Tomaselli told the Post-Standard that he didn't ask Syracuse police or federal authorities for help in getting the criminal charges dismissed against him in Maine.

Tomaselli was arrested in April on 11 warrants charging gross sexual assault, tampering with a victim, two counts of unlawful sexual contact, five counts of visual sexual aggression against a child and unlawful sexual touching and unlawful sexual contact, Lewiston police said Sunday. They did not say what led to the charges. He has pleaded not guilty.

Tomaselli told the Post-Standard he met Fine after he and his father, Fred, attended a Syracuse autograph session on campus in late 2001.

The newspaper reported that Fine later called Tomaselli's parents to arrange for Tomaselli to go to Pittsburgh with the athletic department staff on a chartered bus, spend the night in Fine's hotel room and attend the team's game on Jan. 22, 2002.

Tomaselli told the Post-Standard that he had dinner with the team, then returned to the hotel room where he accused Fine of putting porn on the TV and fondling him in bed.

Tomaselli attended the basketball game the next day, sitting several rows behind the bench, and rode the chartered bus back to Syracuse, the newspaper reported.

"The one time there was multiple incidents in that one night, but there was only one night that he ever sexually abused me," Tomaselli told the AP.

However, during a phone interview with the AP, Fred Tomaselli said: "I'm 100 percent sure that Bernie Fine was never in contact with Zach. He never went to Pittsburgh to a game, never been to that arena."

"I brought him to a couple of games in Syracuse. We always sat in the nosebleed section and left after the game. He never stayed for any overnighters and never even got within shouting distance of Bernie."

The Post-Standard also reported that Zach Tomaselli was invited by Fine to a party at his home after the Syracuse-Pitt game on Feb. 1, 2003 ? a game where Zach Tomaselli said Fine arranged seats for him and his father several rows behind the bench.

Tomaselli told the newspaper his father, who was unable to attend the party, allowed him to go to Fine's house and stay the night.

While there, Tomaselli told the AP, Fine asked him to get into bed and that Fine's wife, Laurie, was there when it happened.

"I told them (police) that Laurie was standing right there when Bernie asked me to sleep in a bed. Laurie knew all about it," he said during the phone interview.

On Sunday, ESPN played an audiotape, obtained and recorded by Davis, of an October 2002 telephone conversation between him and Laurie Fine.

Davis told ESPN he made the recording, which also has been given to Syracuse police, without her knowledge because he knew he needed proof for the police to believe his accusations. ESPN said it hired a voice recognition expert to verify the voice on the tape and the network said it was determined to be that of Laurie Fine.

Davis also acknowledged in an interview with ESPN that he and Laurie Fine had a sexual relationship when he was 18, and that he eventually told Bernie Fine about it.

"I thought he was going to kill me, but I had to tell him," Davis said. "It didn't faze him one bit."

During the call to the woman, Davis repeatedly asks her what she knew about the alleged molestation.

"Do you think I'm the only one that he's ever done that to?" Davis asked.

"No ... I think there might have been others but it was geared to ... there was something about you," the woman on the tape said.

On the tape, she also says she knew "everything that went on."

"Bernie has issues, maybe that he's not aware of, but he has issues. ... And you trusted somebody you shouldn't have trusted ... "

During the call, Davis tells her he asked her husband in the late 1990s for $5,000 to help pay off his student loans.

"When he gave you the money, what does he want for that?" she asked.

He tells her that Fine wanted to engage in sexual activity in several ways.

"... And I'd try to go away, and he'd put his arm on top of my chest. He goes, `If you want this money, you'll stay right here,'" Davis said.

"Right. Right," she said. "He just has a nasty attitude, because he didn't get his money, nor did he get what he wanted."

On Friday, federal authorities carried out a search at his Fine's suburban Syracuse home but declined to comment on what they were looking for.

New York State Police spokesman Jack Keller said troopers were called to assist the U.S. attorney's office at the search. At least six police vehicles were parked on the street during the search, which lasted around nine hours. Officers carted away three file cabinets and a computer for further examination.

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Associated Press writers Glenn Adams in Augusta, Maine and Amy Fiscus in Philadelphia contributed to this report.

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Etna Christmas Tree Farm Reopens After Tornado

An Etna Christmas tree farm reopens this weekend for the first time after an EF4 tornado ripped through the town.

It was a rainy day to pick out a Christmas tree Saturday, but this winter, one tree farm owner says his farm is lucky to be open at all.

For more than 20 years, families have been coming to Christmas Tree Lane in Etna to kick off their holiday season.

?It?s part of our Christmas tradition,? says Brandi Harwell of Ozark.

Jim Lane and his family have been working to repair their farm after an EF4 tornado ripped through the small town last May.

"We did have to re-stake our trees and position them to make them sellable again because we had a lot of them that got knocked over and they were kind of laying flat," says owner Jim Lane.

The farm lost hundreds of trees in the tornado, but you can still choose from more than 2,500. Lane says it was important to reopen and keep some families traditions alive.

"We do it every year,? says Lindy Holman, ?We do it actually the day after Thanksgiving and we just come over here and enjoy some family time. "

If you come out to Christmas Tree Lane, be sure to bring your camera. Throughout the farm are several opportunities to take pictures and create Christmas memories.

You'll also find special discounts on the Charlie Brown Trees, which are trees that aren?t growing properly.

"I thought one year; people would want these,? says Lane, ?If I just gave them away, people would want them. "

Some are marked down, others are free.

If you come out on a rainy day, you can stay dry inside Christmas Tree Lane?s cozy shed.

?We stayed inside and drank some hot cocoa, took some pictures, played some games,? says Harwell.

You can also purchase Christmas ornaments and decorations from local artists inside, or warm up by the fire because creating Christmas memories with families is what Christmas Tree Lane is all about.

Christmas Tree Lane in Etna will be open every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday leading up to Christmas. For more information, click on the Christmas Tree Lane website.

Source: http://www.5newsonline.com/news/kfsm-etna-christmas-tree-farm-reopens-after-tornado-20111126,0,5045106.story?track=rss

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Monday, November 28, 2011

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