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Landmark mosque in Aleppo burned in fighting

BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered on Monday immediate repairs to a historic mosque in the city of Aleppo after fierce fighting between rebels and regime forces set parts of the compound on fire over the weekend.

Government troops had been holed up inside the 13th century Umayyad mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in downtown Aleppo for several months before rebels fighting to topple Assad launched a push to liberate it this week.

Activist Mohammad al-Hassan said the army had been using the mosque as a base because of its strategic location in the center of the old city of Aleppo. Rebels and activists have complained that soldiers and pro-government militiamen wrote offensive graffiti on its walls and drank alcohol inside.

But the regime and the rebels are now trading accusations over who is responsible for the fire at the mosque compound adjacent to Aleppo's medieval citadel. Videos posted by activists online show a large fire and black smoke raging inside the mosque on Saturday, and later, its blackened, pockmarked walls. Debris is strewn on the floors where worshippers once prayed on green and gold carpeting.

"Assad's thugs set the mosque on fire as a punishment for being defeated by the Free Syrian Army," the caption on the video read, referring to the rebels fighting to topple Assad. The government on Monday said it pushed back the rebels from the mosque after the weekend fighting, though activists are giving conflicting reports on who controls it.

In another video, a rebel inside the mosque holds up a torn copy of the Muslim holy book, or Quran, saying: "These are our Qurans, this is our religion, our history."

The mosque is the latest victim of the violence plaguing Syria.

On Sept. 29, a fire caused by the fighting swept through Aleppo's covered market, burning more than 500 shops in the narrow, vaulted passageways.

Some of the country's most significant historical sites have been turned into bases for soldiers and rebels, including historic citadels and Turkish bath houses.

In a possible effort to contain the fallout from the damage at the mosque, Assad issued a presidential decree to form a committee to repair the mosque by the end of 2013.

Aleppo has been the scene of intense fighting, particularly since rebels launched a new offensive more than two weeks ago to try to dislodge regime troops. The fighting has devastated large areas of the city of 3 million, Syria's former business capital.

Also on Monday, Turkey forced a plane from Armenia bound for Syria to land to search the cargo for weapons. Foreign ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal said Turkey granted the plane carrying aid for Aleppo permission to fly over its airspace only on condition it can search its cargo for possible military equipment.

After the search, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said the plane would be allowed to continue on to Syria. He said the cargo contained humanitarian aid as stated.

Turkey forced a Syrian passenger plane flying from Moscow to Damascus to land in Ankara last week. Turkey said the Syrian Air plane was carrying military gear while Russia said that the equipment was spare parts for radar systems.

Syria and Turkey barred each other's aircraft from flying over their territory over the weekend after a week of exchanging fire across their volatile border.

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Waterford Graded district budget nears completion

By Dave Fidlin

Correspondent

As a prelude to the district?s upcoming annual meeting, members of the Waterford Graded School Board?s Personnel, Finance and Negotiations Committee this week discussed the proposed 2012-13 budget and property tax levy.

Superintendent Chris Joch presented the committee with the most up-to-date details of the $17.5 million budget, which could still be refined in the next week.

Plans call for increasing the property tax levy ? one of the district?s largest sources of income ? by 2 percent. In the past three years, the district has maintained a status-quo approach by not raising the levy.

Overall, Joch said he anticipates a 2.6 percent increase in revenue in Fund 10 ? the district?s general operating budget that funds most of the daily costs that keep all four schools functioning throughout the year.

During this year?s budget-building process, Joch and other district administrators have anticipated a rise in expenses by an estimated 4.1 percent.

?The increase ? is due to special education programming costs, health reimbursement start-up costs, debt service obligations and unemployment insurance costs,? Joch said.

Like all districts across the state, Waterford Graded is awaiting word on the specific amount of state aid, which is another significant source of income for the district.

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction plans to notify districts of the specific award amount by next Monday, Oct. 15.

Depending upon the amount, Waterford Graded officials could make slight modifications to the budget.

Officials do anticipate a drop in state aid because of the declining enrollment trends in recent years. But Joch pointed to a number of cost-cutting measures that have helped shore up some of the losses, including staff reductions and reviewing a number of contracts, including one for busing.

Moving forward, Joch said strides will have to be taken to find ways of generating income beyond the levy and state assistance.

The issue is to be discussed at the annual meeting scheduled at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 22, in the Evergreen Elementary School cafeteria, 817 W. Main St.

?We have to find other alternate sources of revenue, other than property taxes and state aid,? he said.

There have been changes to the district?s lunch program, for instance, to ensure it is at a break-even point. Revenue from lunches cannot fund other district programs, but dollars elsewhere in the overall budget are needed if the program is not self-sufficient.

The district?s presentation at the upcoming annual meeting will delve into a number of topics, including an analysis of what the mill rate and cost per pupil is in Waterford Graded, compared to other districts.

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NewsDaily: Finance leaders back EU, U.S. to-do list to shield growth

Finance leaders back EU, U.S. to-do list to shield growth

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TOKYO, Oct. 13, 2012 (Reuters) ? World finance leaders on Saturday endorsed a checklist of policy reforms aimed at pressuring Europe and the United States to tackle debt troubles that threaten to choke off global growth.

(L-R) Poland's Central Bank Governor Marek Belka, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim attend their joint news conference at the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank Group in Tokyo October 13, 2012. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (

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To hold each others' feet to the fire, the nations -- meeting under the aegis of the International Monetary Fund -- agreed to review progress in six months.

Their 10-page agenda, however, largely summarized previously planned steps, such as deploying a new European Central Bank bond-buying program and avoiding the U.S. "fiscal cliff" of spending cuts and tax hikes set to take hold early next year.

The checklist and checkup were an acknowledgement of frustration within the IMF and among many emerging market economies over a sluggish and piecemeal policy response to the major risks facing the world economy.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde said nations had narrowed their differences over how to implement policy, seeking to downplay disagreements between the Fund and Germany over how quickly debt-laden countries such as Greece should cut budgets.

"There was no objection to the recommendation that we gave to the membership, which was A-C-T," Lagarde said, spelling out the word letter by letter.

"We might not always agree on everything, but I think there is a general consensus that collective action is going to produce results," she told reporters.

In a communique released after two days of talks, IMF members warned that global economic growth was decelerating and that substantial uncertainties and risks remained.

But the IMF's governing panel, representing the 188 member countries, praised steps that had already been taken, particularly in Europe, to make the world financial system safer, even if they had not yet gone far enough.

"Members all agreed that we are in a better position today than we were six months ago," said Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the chairman of the committee.

Spain's economy minister, Luis de Guindos, said he felt the mood toward his country lifting too. Spain is under pressure to seek a bailout as it struggles to cope with high government debt and the cost of recapitalizing its banks.

"The atmosphere, from International Monetary Fund policymakers or from the private sector, is much more positive than it was before the summer," de Guindos said.

Euro zone sources said they expected Spain to seek financial aid from the euro zone in November.

"Were moving, we're taking steps, we're preparing it," said a senior official who is directly involved in talks about potential Spanish aid. "Things will crystallize in November."

Still, finance leaders leave Tokyo with little concrete evidence fresh progress was being made in the world's debt trouble spots, hamstrung by political considerations.

U.S. presidential elections and a once-a-decade leadership change in China are just weeks away. The euro area has to navigate decisions through several national governments, which Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov likened to maneuvering a supertanker with 17 captains at the helm.

"If you decide to turn it in one direction, it happens very slowly," he said.

EMERGING STRAINS

Reports from the IMF this week downgraded global economic growth forecasts for the second time since April and warned of the need for action in advanced economies to treat a debt hangover that stems in part from earlier efforts to quell the global financial crisis.

To replenish its crisis-fighting war chest, the IMF has taken in $461 billion in contributions from member countries, with Algeria and Brunei the newest members of the donor group, Lagarde said. The United States is among the notable absences from the list of contributors.

Frustration over what many nations see as plodding progress in Europe and in Washington spilled into public view during the meetings.

"Asia alone can't carry the global economy," said Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan. "It is time for the other players to get off the benches and start to pull their weight on global economic growth again."

Emerging markets, which have been caught in the downdraft created by weak economies in Europe and the United States, were disappointed that the IMF missed its target for enacting voting reforms that would make China the third most influential country within the lending institution.

Lagarde said there were "one or two countries" that had not finalized the reforms, which were agreed in 2010, a thinly veiled reference to the United States. The Obama administration does not want to seek congressional approval for more IMF funding before the November presidential election.

European leaders argued this week they had taken big strides toward building a stronger fiscal and banking union, and they earned at least some recognition from the rest of the world.

"This broad framework offers a more promising strategy for addressing the crisis," U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said. "However, what is important is how it will be applied."

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble pointed out that euro zone decision-making does take time given the number of national governments involved.

"If we are not fast enough for markets, sorry, but markets have to wait," he said.

(Reporting by Reuters IMF team; Writing by Emily Kaiser; Editing by Neil Fullick and Tim Ahmann)

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Endeavour's final miles turn into all-night affair

The space shuttle Endeavour is slowly moved down Crenshaw Blvd., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012, in Los Angeles. The shuttle is on its last mission ? a 12-mile creep through city streets. It will move past an eclectic mix of strip malls, mom-and-pop shops, tidy lawns and faded apartment buildings. Its final destination: California Science Center in South Los Angeles where it will be put on display. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

The space shuttle Endeavour is slowly moved down Crenshaw Blvd., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012, in Los Angeles. The shuttle is on its last mission ? a 12-mile creep through city streets. It will move past an eclectic mix of strip malls, mom-and-pop shops, tidy lawns and faded apartment buildings. Its final destination: California Science Center in South Los Angeles where it will be put on display. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

The space shuttle Endeavour is moved to the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Lucy Nicholson, Pool)

Spectators take pictures as the space shuttle Endeavour makes its way through city streets in Inglewood, Calif., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. Endeavour's 12-mile road trip kicked off shortly before midnight Thursday as it moved from its Los Angeles International Airport hangar en route to the California Science Center. (AP Photo/Patrick T. Fallon)

The space shuttle Endeavour is slowly moved down Crenshaw Blvd. at Slauson Ave., Saturday, Oct.13, 2012, in Los Angeles. The shuttle is on its last mission ? a 12-mile creep through city streets. It will move past an eclectic mix of strip malls, mom-and-pop shops, tidy lawns and faded apartment buildings. Its final destination: California Science Center in South Los Angeles where it will be put on display. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Spectators take pictures as the space shuttle Endeavour makes its way down Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles, Calif. on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 to the California Science Center museum. (AP Photo/Patrick T. Fallon)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? In thousands of Earth orbits, the space shuttle Endeavour traveled 123 million miles. But the last few miles of its final journey are proving hard to get through.

Endeavour's 12-mile crawl across Los Angeles to the California Science Museum hit repeated delays Saturday and Sunday, leaving expectant crowds along city streets and at the destination slowly dwindling.

Officials estimated the shuttle, originally expected to finish the trip early Saturday evening, would not arrive at the museum until early Sunday afternoon.

At times it has seemed the only thing moving was the shuttle's fast-changing ETA.

Saturday started off promising, with Endeavour 90 minutes ahead of schedule. But accumulated hurdles and hiccups caused it to run hours behind at day's end. The problems included longer than expected maintenance of the rig carrying the shuttle and physical obstacles within the shuttle's wingspan including light posts, building edges, and most of all trees.

In a scene that repeated itself many times, a small tree on the narrowest section of the move brought the procession to a stop, forcing crews to find creative ways to dip a wing under or raise it over the tree without having to cut it down.

Some 400 trees had been removed to avoid such situations, but officials said most of the trees that gave them trouble could not be cut down because they were old or treasured for other reasons, including some planted in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

The crowd had its problems too. Despite temperatures in the mid-70s, several dozen people were treated for heat-related injuries after a long day in the sun, according to fire officials.

But it was a happy, peaceful crowd, with firefighters having only to respond to a sheared hydrant and a small rubbish fire, and no reports of any arrests.

And despite the late problems the mood for most of the day was festive.

At every turn of Endeavour's stop-and-go commute through urban streets, a constellation of spectators trailed along as the space shuttle ploddingly nosed past stores, schools, churches and front yards as it inched through working-class streets of southern Los Angeles.

Along the 12-mile course, thousands marveled at the engineering. Some rooted for Endeavour when it appeared it might clip a light post.

"This is great for the city as a whole. It makes us proud," said Dean Martinez, a project director for a nonprofit who began waiting before dawn to get a glimpse of Endeavour.

Unlike other high-profile events like the Academy Awards or the Rose Parade, the procession was centered in some of the area's most economically downtrodden and troubled places. The shuttle passed several gritty areas and shuttered businesses, and rolled down many streets that were aflame two decades earlier during the 1992 riots brought on by the verdict in the Rodney King case.

"Having a shuttle come through this area of high poverty, it can only be a good thing" for the community," said Damian Pipkins, a volunteer at Eso Won Books.

Endeavour hit the pavement before dawn Friday, trundling out of the Los Angeles International Airport on a remote-controlled 160-wheel carrier past diamond-shaped "Shuttle Xing" signs. When it reached a freeway overpass that night, it was towed by a truck.

The shuttle made a late-morning pit stop Saturday at the Forum ? former home of the Los Angeles Lakers ? where it was greeted in the arena's parking lot by a throng of cheering spectators. It was late to its second public celebration that included a dance performance choreographed by Debbie Allen.

As it wound through South Los Angeles, residents welcomed its presence. Before the move, some lamented over the loss of shade as trees were chopped down.

Others thought it was a decent trade.

"If you have to go through a little bit of pain to have something nice for the community, then it's worth it," said Pamela Tucker, who lives a block away from Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Endeavour may have circled the globe nearly 4,700 times, but its roots are grounded in California. Its main engines were fabricated in the San Fernando Valley. The heat tiles were invented in Silicon Valley. Its "fly-by-wire" technology was developed in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey.

It's no longer shiny and sleek, like when it first rolled off the assembly line in the Mojave Desert in 1991 to replace the lost Challenger. As it cruised block-by-block, it's hard to miss what 123 million miles in space and two dozen re-entries can do to the exterior.

Shuffling Endeavour through city streets was a laborious undertaking ? nearly a year in the making. It could not be taken apart without damaging the delicate tiles. Airlifting it was out of the question. So was driving on freeways since it was too massive to fit through underpasses.

There were consequences. Several hundred Inglewood residents suffered hours-long outages when power lines were temporarily snipped. Some businesses lost customers because of street and sidewalk closures.

Such a move is not cheap. The cross-town transport was estimated at $10 million, to be paid for by the science center and private donations.

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Associated Press writer Christopher Weber in Los Angeles contributed to this story.

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Mirage Restaurant | Riyadh Eats Restaurant Review Guide

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If there?s one Chinese restaurant in Riyadh hailed as the best, it would be Mirage Restaurant. And we?re not just talking about the food here, its interiors is a spectacle in its own. Huge aquariums filled with colorful fishes greet you, lighted corners and waiting areas, and oriental touches in decors here and there. And did I mention a pond in the middle of the restaurant? Yes, Mirage propels diners into a phantasm of pomp and pageantry.

A meal in Mirage starts with the crisp, savory crackers served with a simple pickled salad and sauces. The menu is an extensive list of Chinese dishes punctuated with some Indian and Japanese cuisine. We ordered the dumplings filled with meat. It arrived in a traditional steamer; its wrapper sensitive to prodding and its content hot and flavorful. The rolls we ordered were served in glass platters. The Rainbow Roll with its torched fish toppings and the Hiroshima Roll surrounded with a crispy coat didn?t disappoint. They?re my favorite treats in our table. Oh, and the shrimp and cheese roll too. It has the right crunch. The paella, mixed noodles, and fried rice were glistening with too much oil. The yellowish, somber lighting in our section highlighted that fact and I had to refrain from getting too many. A little sampling of the three proved they were tasty and flavorful but next time, I?m just getting the simple steamed rice to complement the savory black mushroom beef, which was full-flavored.

The crab thermidor was creamy but delightful to the palate. Though it?s filled with flavor and other ingredients as well, it?s a break from the usual seafood viands in soy sauce and oyster sauce. It?s also served in crab shells? cute! A tower of iced tea nicely rounded up our meal. It?s not too sweet, not too sour. Very adequate to wash down all the sodium we ate. Haha.

Sometimes, the lighting, or the lack thereof, is a nuisance to eating. It was too dim. But others like the ambiance of the whole place. We like the aquariums and ponds which serve as a distraction for the kids. Service is efficient and fast; our waiters friendly and helpful in determining what goes in on one dish and so on. The prices are affordable and the portions are good for sharing. This is the second time we ate in Mirage and we still liked it. Serving good food and displaying interesting interiors, Mirage is not an illusion. It?s here to stay.

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Turkish premier slams Security Council over Syria

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a forum in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. Turkey?s prime minister sharply criticized the U.N. Security Council on Saturday for its failure to agree on decisive steps to end the 19-month civil war in Syria. (AP Photo)

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a forum in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. Turkey?s prime minister sharply criticized the U.N. Security Council on Saturday for its failure to agree on decisive steps to end the 19-month civil war in Syria. (AP Photo)

In this citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, anti-Syrian regime protesters shout slogans during a demonstration at Binnish village, in Idlib province, northern Syria, on Friday Oct. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, right, and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu shake hands before a meeting during a forum in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. Turkey?s prime minister sharply criticized the U.N. Security Council on Saturday for its failure to agree on decisive steps to end the 19-month civil war in Syria.(AP Photo)

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, right, meets briefly with Abdelbaset Sieda, the head of the Syrian National Council opposition group, at a hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Frank Jordans)

ISTANBUL (AP) ? Turkey's prime minister sharply criticized the U.N. Security Council on Saturday for its failure to agree on decisive steps to end Syria's civil war, as NATO ally Germany backed the Turkish interception of a Damascus-bound passenger jet earlier in the week.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an international conference in Istanbul that the world was witnessing a humanitarian tragedy in Syria.

"If we wait for one or two of the permanent members ... then the future of Syria will be in danger," Erdogan said, according to an official interpreter.

Russia and China, two of the five permanent Security Council members, have vetoed resolutions that sought to put concerted pressure on Damascus to end the conflict and agree to a political transition.

Erdogan called for a reform of the Security Council, which he called an "unequal, unfair system" that didn't represent the will of most countries.

He spoke as Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met with Arab and European leaders amid growing tensions between Turkey and neighboring Syria.

Davutoglu held talks early Saturday with Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and U.N. envoy on Syria Lakhdar Brahimi. He told reporters after the meetings that Turkey was prepared to use force again if it was attacked, just as it did last week when a shell fired across the border from Syria killed five Turkish villagers.

"If a similar incident occurs again from the Syrian side, we will again take counter action," Davutoglu told reporters, while stressing that the border between Syria and Turkey is also the frontier of NATO.

One week after the shelling, Turkey intercepted a Syrian passenger plane en route from Moscow to Damascus and seized what it said was military equipment on board.

Syria denounced the move as air piracy, while Russia said the cargo was radar parts that complied with international law.

Germany's foreign minister backed Turkey on Saturday, saying Berlin would have acted the same way if it believed weapons were being transported to Syria over its airspace.

"It's not just about weapons. Weapons need to be steered. Weapons need to be delivered," Westerwelle said. "These are all things that don't need to be tolerated."

But he cautioned the situation between Turkey and Syria could quickly escalate out of control.

"The danger of a 'wildfire' is very big," said Westerwelle, who also met briefly with Abdelbaset Sieda, head of the Syrian National Council opposition group. "If that happens, then this can become a devastating conflict for the whole region."

In Syria, activists said Saturday that army troops clashed with rebels on several fronts across the country, including in Aleppo, the largest city.

Amateur video posted online Saturday shows the aftermath of what is described as an artillery attack on a neighborhood in Aleppo. The video shows a large cloud of gray smoke pushing through a narrow alley lined by apartment blocks. Residents then converge on a damaged building. "Is anyone in there?" one of the men is heard calling out as others try to put out small flames with pieces of cloth.

Eventually, rescuers are seen pulling three bodies out of the building. Two appear to be dead, including a man with a bloody face. The third is carried away on a stretcher, amid shouts of "Allahu Akbar," or "God is Great.

The authenticity of such videos cannot be confirmed independently, since Syria imposes tight restrictions on foreign journalists.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group, said at least two people were killed in the shelling.

Another amateur video posted Saturday showed the scattered, burning wreckage of what appeared to be an aircraft. Several gunmen stood near the debris, as civilians rushed to the scene. The narrator said video was shot in the countryside west of Aleppo.

Rami Abdul-Rahman, the head of the Observatory, said he was told by local rebel fighters in the area that they had shot down the plane. The video showed flames shooting out of what appeared to be left of a wing, and other wreckage a few dozen yards away.

The claim could not be verified independently.

Opposition fighters have claimed to have shot down helicopters and warplanes in the past, although the regime blamed most of the problems on mechanical difficulties.

Over the past month, rebels overran two air defense bases, including one on Friday near Aleppo. This would give them access to heavy weapons, though experts questioned whether they would be able to make use of any missiles they may have spirited away.

More than 32,000 people have been killed in Syria since a revolt against President Bashar Assad erupted 19 months ago. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled the fighting, which has devastated whole neighborhoods in Syria's cities and towns.

The Observatory, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said regime forces were pounding the rebel stronghold of Homs in central Syria with mortar fire and artillery Saturday. The southern province of Daraa, the birthplace of the revolt, also sustained shelling by the Syrian army throughout Saturday. Fighting between army troops and rebels raged around Idlib province, in and around Aleppo and on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, the Observatory said.

Earlier, Syria's state-run news agency reported that Damascus supported a proposal by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to find a "mechanism of direct security communication between Syria and Turkey."

SANA reported that Syrian government officials and Russia's ambassador in Damascus discussed ways to establish a joint Syrian-Turkish security committee that would "control the security situation on both sides of the border in the framework of respecting the national sovereignty of the two countries."

Turkey has made no comment on the proposal, and it is unclear whether Moscow has presented it to the Turkish government yet.

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Barbara Surk in Beirut contributed to this report.

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Lukashenko speech hints at possible future political reform in - RT

Belarussian President Aleksandr Lukashenko (AFP Photo / Vasily Fedosenko)

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko called on the newly elected parliament to modernize the country?s political system. That process will largely depend on domestic circumstances and the situation in neighboring countries, he said.

?Under tough pressure from outside, when the existence of the country is at stake, we will still gather around some personality like other Slavic people do, in order to protect ourselves and defend our piece of land,? Lukashenko said during a Thursday speech at the final session of the outgoing Belarusian parliament.

He said that it is impossible to outmaneuver Belarus, and that ?it is necessary to think about other ways of influencing? the country and its society.

Lukashenko announced that he would continue to grant parliament new powers as civil society develops, Belarusian news agency BelTA reported. He also expressed ambitions to modernize the country to the level of other developed nations.

?Today someone may think this is a fantasy. But some time ago the idea of Belarus being a sovereign state with its own independent policy also seemed to be wishful thinking,? Lukashenko said.

He also said that the Belarusian electoral system should remain unchanged for the time being: ?Let?s not rush. These are not us who should define ? we will make a decision. And time and the people should define.?

Lukashenko supporters won every seat in the Belarusian parliament in the country?s September 23 election, while opposition groups boycotted the polls.

Source: http://rt.com/politics/lukashenko-belarus-reform-parliament-182/

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Brookfield secures ?150m from Wells, Santander ... - CoStar Finance

Brookfield Office Properties closed the financing of 99 Bishopsgate with ?150m five-year senior loan from a three-bank consortium led by Wells Fargo, which follows the US investment bank?s ?UK real estate lending strategy of financing major US clients in London.

Wells Fargo is thought to have taken a larger share than the two additional banks in the consortium, Santander and Aareal Bank, in what was a popular financing ticket with several banks also keen to have been part of the consortium in an effort to develop a relationship with Brookfield.

The ?150m five-year senior loan, which funded on 28 September, is thought to reflect around a 55% LTV, which implies the valuation on the 339,000 sq ft office tower is around ?270m.

Brookfield?s ability to secure competitive tenders from the banking market demonstrates traditional lenders willingness to follow prime clients even where there is leasing risk, Real Estate Capital reported yesterday.

The 26-storey City office tower, extensively redeveloped in 1995, is 62% occupied, of which 40% is to Deutsche Bank through to 2021. There is 100,000 sq ft that has been vacated by Deutsche Bank, which has been refurbished and Brookfield are looking for tenants to fill this lower-level space.

The loan pricing Brookfield agreed with Wells, Santander and Aareal Bank likely reflects this leasing risk which is thought to be around 350 basis points. Last month, Brookfield hired Montagu Evans? Martin Wallace as head of leasing.

All parties declined to comment.

Wells Fargo returned to UK property lending earlier this year, having closed at least three deals in the last six months, and has a building pipeline, which includes the refinancing of Westbrook Partners? 10 Dolphin Square, a legacy Wachovia loan.

Wells? current lending appetite is to finance London commercial real estate ? only against the bank?s existing clients, which are all US investors. Wells has turned down requests to lend outside London, including a prime hotel in Amsterdam, in line with this currently strict criterion.

Wells is purely a balance sheet lender, and is the largest US commercial real estate lender with a circa $130bn loan book. Wells? European exposure is entirely inherited from its October 2008 acquisition of Wachovia, with around a $1bn loan book.

In March, Wells refinanced the legacy Wachovia senior loan behind Westbrook Partners? Colonnade Walk, at 123 Buckingham Palace Road in Victoria, taking half of the ?100m five-year senior loan alongside MetLife, priced at around 275 bps over three-month LIBOR, reflecting a circa 60% LTV.

Wells? second deal so far was as part of a three-bank senior debt club ? with HSBC and Deutsche Pfandbriefbank ? to finance Blackstone?s circa ?300m 17-strong Project Triangle industrial portfolio, sold by majority owner London & Stamford, taking around a ?50m hold.

Aareal Bank is understood to be ready to rebalance it European property loan book with an uptick in UK property lending in the coming months, while Santander remains committed to UK property lending although the bank?s wider problems has decreased its total appetite and increased its costs of funding.

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Do Students Like Your Communication Style? | Faculty Focus

October 12, 2012

By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Faculty Evaluation

Should instructors care whether or not students find their exchanges satisfying? They should, because as this research (and previous studies) document, those levels of satisfaction correlate positively and significantly with something these researchers call ?affective learning.? Affective learning involves student feelings and emotions toward the subject matter and the teacher.

When those feelings are positive, they impact levels of motivation and cognitive learning in direct and measurable ways. What?s being explored here empirically makes a lot of intuitive sense as well. Most of us have experienced first-hand the ?good vibes? generated when students in a class are reacting positively.

How are positive feelings about a course and instructor generated? Communication plays a central role. It matters what the instructor says in front of the whole class and in individual interactions?such was when students request information, ask about course content, exchange greetings, or ask a personal question.

As in other research reports, the instrument developed and used in these studies is included in the article referenced below. It contains 24 items in its long version and eight in a shorter version.

Here are some sample items from the instrument:

• I usually feel positive about my conversations with my teacher.
• My teacher makes an effort to satisfy question I have.
• I feel comfortable talking with my teacher.
• I wish my teacher was better at communicating with me.
• My teacher genuinely listens to me when I talk.
• My teacher makes time for me when I want to talk to him/her.

It is interesting to speculate what students might have to say about their communication with you, but with this instrument, and others like it, you can anticipate student responses by completing the form at the same time students do. Comparing a self-assessment with student feedback is a great way to learn more about the impact of teaching efforts on students?in this case the impact of communication exchanges.

Because the instrument is specific and detailed, it enables identification of areas of strength and weakness. As important is whether or not you can trust your assessments. If what you believe about your communication with students is verified by their feedback, that knowledge enables teaching with greater confidence. If not, the feedback offers insights that can lead to more accurate assessments of student responses. This applies not just to student-teacher interactions but to whatever aspect of teaching or student learning you and your students are assessing.

Instruments like this one can be used by practitioners to gain individual feedback. Obviously they cannot be used to collect research data without permission of the researchers.

Reference: Goodboy, A. K., Martin, M. M., and Bolkan, S. (2009). The development and validation of the student communication satisfaction scale. Communication Education, 58 (3), 372-396.

Excerpted from ?Communication Satisfaction Scale,? The Teaching Professor, 24.10 (2010): 6, 7.

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Reasons To Choose Gaming Laptop

The majority of people think that a word 'gaming' in a laptop naming means that the gadgets should be used only by professional gamers. However, that?s not true. At all. If to compare the usual ?made-for-everyday-use? laptop and a gaming one, it can be noted that to some extend they are different.

Nevertheless, gaming gadgets have some additional hardware for good gaming performance, there are some reasons to consider buying it for work or for pleasure. Even though, they cost a bit more. Why? Here are the reasons:

The processor

What is the very important thing that any gamer wants the laptop to have? Of course, it is speed! That?s the reason why to have the latest generation processor is essential. If to speak metaphorically, a processor is the heart of a computer. It is the processor that is responsible for the data processing and all general functions of the laptop. But don?t ordinary users want to have a fast-working laptop? I believe the answer is rhetorical.

The graphics card

It is one of the main reasons why the price on the gaming laptops is higher. However, a good graphics card not only improve gaming graphics, but it also make your laptop work faster, it improves the overall performance, including the Internet browsing, photo editing, video streaming, etc. Sometimes people try to save several bucks on it and choose a good processor without caring about the card and later they have to buy another card for their pcs to get good productivity.

Memory

Current games have very high technological requirements to the laptop memory, both internal and external. And gaming laptops have the extended parameters of RAMs and ROMs. But who said that you wouldn?t need it for online video streaming or email checking or file loading in everyday life?

Future Build

Today people complain that pcs technologies are becoming outdated too soon. But what concerns gaming laptops, they are built with time reserve. I mean that the developers add only the latest technological solutions to them so that the users have at least 2 years reserve till their device becomes old. So, paying a bit more now, they save more on the future upgrades. To some extent it can be called an investment into the future. Especially if you are not just an I-check-emails-and-social- networks-accounts user and want to work with video design, audio management software, etc.

Performance Build

Generally speaking, gaming laptops are built to work perfectly. They are optimized for performance. In all aspects, including audio systems, coverage, keyboards and so on and so forth.

As you can see, all functionalities that are implemented into gaming laptops can be very useful for people who demand a lot from their laptops in everyday life as well. So, don?t be confused and choose the laptop that answers your wishes, and don?t look at the names or titles. They are all relative.

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Social Gambling Conference Welcomes ... - Online Gambling News

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11 October 2012 (LONDON, UK)- The Social Gambling Conference adds two new speakers to the elite line up of industry experts. The conference, the first show dedicated to casino-style social games, is taking place on November 16th?at Dexter House in London.

George Zaloom, Founder and CEO of Playgistics has joined the Monetization panel where he and other pioneers in the space will discuss different paths to the monetization of social casino-style games. Raf Keustermans, Co-Founder and CEO Plumbee has joined the CEO panel, where he will be giving his vision of the future for the social gaming market along with a panel of distinguished guests.

?George and Raf joining the show add new perspective and ideas to the already diverse conference.? said conference Chairman and iGaming expert Michael Caselli. ?As leaders in the space, its our great pleasure to have them on our line-up of expert panelists.?

The Social Gambling Conference aims to help attendees understand their opportunities in the growing social gambling sector. Attendees can register at for the conference at www.SocialGamblingConference.com

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About the Social Gambling Conference: www.socialgamblingconference.com

The Social Gambling Conference, hosted by iGaming Business, will be held at Dexter House on the 16th?of November. It is a conference for anyone that wants to define their own unique opportunities in the crossroad between the social games space and the iGaming space. It is also a forum for investors in social and gambling that want to stay on the cutting edge of social monetization. The Social Gambling Conference covers the transition between social and real money gambling, regulation in the space, monetization and the opportunities in social gambling. But perhaps most importantly, the conference provides an insight into where the leaders and innovators in the space are directing the industry.

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iGaming Business has been involved in the iGaming sector for over 10 years. They specialize in publishing and providing high level information to the iGaming sector through magazines, events, websites and intelligent reports. With over 16,000 affiliates, operators and vendors regularly reading our information off-line and 75,000 online iGaming Business is the biggest publishing company within the sector. Please visit www.iGamingBusiness.com for further information.

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Property Management - Susie Isaacs

If you are looking to rent out a piece of real estate, whether it be a home or commercial lot, one option to consider is renting through a property management companies. These companies, which are typically run by licensed real estate agents, market and manage rental properties for owners who wish to maintain a measure of distance from their tenants.

The role of a property management company is to serve as a go-between for the landlord (owner) and the tenant. Often these companies will accept rent from tenants, help address maintenance concerns, and express any tenant concerns to the landlord on the tenants' behalf. The company will also help negotiate the lease on a home or commercial lot, and may market homes available for rent.

If you have ever served as the landlord for a property, then you know how valuable these services can be. Allowing someone else to screen maintenance concerns, market the piece of real estate, and draw up leases will free up much of your time to pursue other interests or homes to buy. The company also handles other unpleasant tasks that come with being a landlord, such as notifying tenants when rent increases and dealing with negligent tenants or eviction problems.

There can be some downsides to working with a property management firm as an owner. First, some of these companies do not behave responsibly toward tenants, as they have less of a vested interest in the property than you do. For instance, if your tenants are complaining of a maintenance issue, the company has the responsibility to deal with the problem. If they do not do so in a timely manner, you will have unhappy tenants, while you know nothing of the problem. If the problem is a serious one that could lead to personal injury, you could be held liable, even though the manager is the one at fault.

This is a rare problem, however, as most property management companies have your best interests in mind. After all, if the tenant becomes unhappy and leaves the home, you lose money, but so do they.

The best way to avoid any potential problems is to carefully screen the various companies you find as you look for a property management company to work with. Talk with other owners about their experiences in the industry. Choose a company that has a list of repair professionals on hand to call instantly. For instance, does the firm work with a qualified plumber, ensuring that your tenants can have their plumbing fixed quickly and efficiently when there is a problem? With the right company, you can have all of the benefits and few of the headaches, allowing you to earn income from your rental homes with little effort on your part.

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Russian-Made Tech Vs. America's Stealth Warplanes

There is something unnerving about watching Iranians browse weapons built to hunt down and destroy American warplanes.

The International Salon of Weapons and Military Equipment?2010, held at the famed Zhukovsky airfield outside Moscow, outwardly resembles U.S. defense industry shows. Exhibits stand in rows inside a cavernous hangar converted into a convention hall. Engineers and sales flacks talk up their wares. Employees hand out pens tattooed with company names and logos. Clusters of visitors?on the first day of the show, mostly potential international customers?gather at the displays. Here, a couple of Eastern Europeans peer through the scopes of unloaded sniper rifles. There, a group of Asians gawk at a demo of small radio-controlled quadrotors.

This is all pretty standard defense industry fare. But some differences become more apparent when I reach the booth of the Russian firm Almaz-Antey, one of the world's leaders in antiaircraft weaponry and the nation's largest arms dealer. A promotional animation on a large screen hanging over the display shows an Almaz missile streaking toward an airplane that looks a lot like a carrier-launched F-35C Lightning II. The missile closes and the airplane disappears in an orange explosion.

The image is shocking?I'm used to seeing American stealth warplanes prevail, in combat as well as in corporate promotional animations. The U.S. government has invested 16 years and $396 billion to ensure that F-35s can fly undetected through well-defended airspace. And the Russians are selling defense systems that can knock them out of the sky?

I notice a trio of men in nearly identical gray suits and close-cropped beards examining toy-train-size models of mobile radar and missile launchers. They are from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, a civilian institution that has ties to the military. Late last year, a scientist from Sharif visiting the United States was arrested for purchasing unspecified equipment that could be used in military programs.

Almaz engineer Ivan Shalaev sidles next to them and they settle into a conversation in English. It's a perfect opportunity to eavesdrop. The Iranians ask Shalaev questions about infrared sensors that can detect an airplane by the heat of its engines and the air friction against its skin. But Shalaev tells the Iranians that infrared is just one tracking method the company offers to customers.

Behind him are seekers that use enhanced radar to chase down warplanes. Several are cut open to show a gimballed disc studded with a forest of tiny T-shaped transmit/receive modules. Under the disc is a small computer that can quickly process even the most subtle radar returns. This makes the missile responsive and difficult to outwit. Almaz-Antey is selling these upgraded warheads to fit on existing antiaircraft missiles, including ones it sold to Syria, Venezuela, China, and Iran.

The Iranians don't answer any direct questions, beyond stating their university affiliation, when I introduce myself as an American journalist. But Shalaev is open, even friendly. He's a hometown boy; his father was an engineer, too, who worked on advanced Russian aerospace programs here at the Zhukovsky.

The young engineer is not shy about which airplanes are in his company's crosshairs. Asked if the new seekers could track and destroy an F-35, Shalaev grins and says, "Well, we're going to try."

Two years after the Zhukovsky Arms show, sales of Russian antiaircraft equipment are surging, and Almaz-Antey is at the head of the effort. Company officials, quoted in Russian media, say that the nation's new defense plants?the first built in 20 years?will make antiaircraft weapons.

That's not good news for U.S. pilots and American allies. The Pentagon strives to hold any place in the world, no matter how well defended, under threat of air attack. Modern U.S. warplanes are designed to evade enemy radar, electromagnetic snoopers, and heat-seeking missiles. The Pentagon calls this low observable (LO); the rest of the world calls it stealth.

"Russia still believes it has an important role to play in the world," says Travis Sharp, an analyst with the Center for a New American Security. "Producing and selling advanced military equipment is one way to signal to other states that you are not someone to mess with, nor are your allies someone they should mess with."

Selling these weapons is also lucrative. In a recent $2 billion deal, Almaz-Antey delivered 15 batteries of S-300PMU-2 mobile antiaircraft missile systems to China. Each battery has two or three radar units and four missile launchers. The radar can simultaneously track 100 targets; each launcher can shoot four missiles that speed toward targets at Mach 6. That's about 60 missile-launching vehicles for the price of four F-22 Raptors. The S-300's keen radar and fast-moving missiles guard the Taiwan Strait and form an umbrella that would protect a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

Scary as the missiles might be, it's the radar systems that pose the gravest threat to stealth airplanes. Post?Cold War engineers in Russia breathed new, deadly life into VHF radars that have been around since the 1970s by digitizing their signals. Increasing computing power has improved the system's ability to glean coherent information from a jumble of data. Faint VHF radar returns that once would have been construed as random background noise can now be detected and identified.

"These VHF radars can detect aircraft constructed using stealth technology," Viktor Ozherelev, a division head at Almaz-Antey, claimed at a 2007 arms show. "The Americans know their stealth program has failed." Most experts say this is an exaggeration, but it's not unfounded.

The interplay between radar and airplanes is a physical one. Stealth airplanes are shaped to deflect radar waves away from the receivers?but not every radar scans at the same wavelength. Increasing the frequency of a wave decreases its wavelength (the distance between its peaks). The shorter the wavelength, the more detailed the return and the better the resolution.

Aerospace engineers designed stealth airplanes primarily to beat the detection equipment that poses the greatest threat?X-band radar. Surface-to-air batteries use this band because it operates at wavelengths that give the optimal compromise between the range and resolution needed to identify and track a target. But when stealth airplanes are exposed to radar waves longer than this wavelength range, they generate stronger radar returns.

For this reason, well-equipped defenders have more than one kind of radar protecting the same airspace, set up at different angles. For example, a defender protecting a fixed target (like a uranium-enrichment facility) could share data from a network of several radars to get enough information to accurately launch a missile. A VHF radar could detect incoming aircraft while lower-frequency S-band or L-band radars on the flanks could paint the target from the sides. Russia sells such counterstealth radar combinations as package deals.

These integrated-air-defense systems, as the Pentagon calls them, complicate any war plan. Pilots of stealth aircraft are expected to dismantle these networks?as B-2 Spirit bombers have done over Iraq, Serbia, and Libya.

The upper echelons of the military warn that there are limits to stealth in these networked environments. "The rapid expansion of computing power ushers in new sensors and methods that will make stealth and its advantages increasingly difficult to maintain," Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, wrote in the July 2012 issue of Proceedings magazine, published by the U.S. Naval Institute. "Maintaining stealth in the face of new and diverse counter-detection methods would require significantly higher fiscal investments in our next generation of platforms."

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/planes-uavs/russian-made-tech-vs-americas-stealth-warplanes-13506974?src=rss

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EXPO REAL Special Report: 2012 Prime Property Award Winners ...

October 10, 2012

By Gabriel Circiog, Associate Editor

As exhibitors settled in at their stands and activated their metaphorical networking switches, Day 2 at Expo Real 2012 International Trade Fair for Commercial Property and Investment, held at M?nchen International in Munich, Germany began. In Hall A2, as fresh graduates and young aspiring professionals attended Career Day, the stage was being set for the greenest event of the day: The 3^rd Sustainable Investment Conference.

Organized by Union Investment, one of the leading real estate investment companies in Europe, with around 20 billion euros of assets under management, the conference focused on introducing the best practices and forward-looking investment policies. Moderated by TV journalist Mishal Husain, the conference kicked off with a keynote speech: ?Beyond sustainability ? the new concept of quality? from Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart of Erasmus University of Rotterdam, University of Twente and Luneburg as well as co-founder of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry in Charlottesville, Va. The conference continued with discussions on various topics such as trends, strategies and challenges in moving from green buildings to green portfolio management and strategies for involving users and service providers. An array of leading experts in sustainability participated, such as: Tatiana Bosteels, Head of Responsible Property Investment, Hermes Real Estate, London; Mark Creamer, Head of Valuation and Advisory Services, CBRE, London; Dr. Reinhard Kutscher, Chairman of the Management Board, Union Investment Real Estate GmbH, Hamburg; Dr. Heiko Beck, Chief Operating Officer, Union Investment Real Estate GmbH, Hamburg.

The event concluded with the anticipated 2012 Prime Property Award, which has gained a reputation as the real estate equivalent of the Oscars. The 2012 competition attracted an impressive 160 entries showcasing properties in 19 European countries. A 10-man jury, which initially narrowed down the entries to 15-best ranked sustainable real estate investments in Europe, chose this year?s winners and they are:

Third Place ? Kungsbrohuset in Stockholm, an office building which generates its energy in a very ingenious way: by harvesting the body heat of the approximately 200,000 people who pass through Stockholm?s adjacent main railway station every day. The energy is used to heat water, which ultimately maintains a constant 72 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit in the 323,000-square-foot building. Award recipient: Swedish investor Jernhusen AB;? Architects: Strategisk Arkitektur.

Second Place ? Kaufhaus Tyrol department store in Innsbruck, a 353,000-square-foot retail property that showcased commitment to sustainable practices, while also paying close attention to the urban planning aspects. The stand-out feature is the extensive use of water from the river Inn and the innovative low energy concept. Award recipient: Signa Prime Holding AG; Architects: David Chipperfield Architects.

First Place ? ThyssenKrupp Quarter in Essen, a 208,000-square-foot office complex developed on a former industrial site. The ensemble is also the heart of a new high-density urban district that features extensive and accessible public spaces. Dr. Frank Billand, jury member, characterized the design as ?Iconic headquarters architecture. The innovative shading elements are key architectural features of this striking ensemble and will influence energy ?efficient solar shading design around the world.?

In an exclusive interview for Commercial Property Executive and Multi-Housing News, Olaf Drehsen of JSWD Architekten and Walter Grasmug of Chaix & Morel et associ?s revealed that the award comes after 10 years of collaboration between the two architecture companies on various projects, time in which they have won many awards. But the Prime Property Award received today is the most special one as it has brought the top laurels for the first completed project by the duo. The stand-out elements which grabbed the win of the coveted award, in Walter Grasmug?s opinion, were the circa 400,000 horizontal louvres which track the position of the sun and make an important contribution to reaching energy values of 136.9 kWh/square-meter/per annum.

In addition to the three main prizes, the international experts also awarded a special prize to Norwegian investor Inspiria Eiendom AS for the Inspiria Science Center in Graalum, Norway. Designed by AART architects A/S, the science center utilizes exciting experiments and interactive exhibits to offer information on renewable energy and waste avoidance to around 200,000 schoolchildren a year.

The positive vibe generated by the Sustainable Investment Conference and the Prime Property Award, continued throughout the afternoon and was sustained via forums such as ?Let?s talk logistics,? ?Intelligent urbanization: Sustainable urban development ? chances and challenges? and ?Talking Real Estate ? Finance.?

As the afternoon progressed and the attendants continued their interaction, the focus and discussions, at one point or another, shifted towards the John Jacob Astor Competition. Expo Real, in the spirit of John Jacob Astor, the results-oriented real estate tycoon who was associated with some of the most innovative real estate projects, such as his hotels that were the first in the world to feature running water, was set to crown the most extraordinary contemporary commercial real estate project.

The ceremonial prize-giving ceremony was held in the Networking Lounge, a fitting venue, as the winner was decided via public voting and implicitly also showcased a mastering in social media networking. In the presence of an expert public and Eugen Egetenmeir, Messe Munchen?s managing director, the winner was announced: the Hilton Inn Hotel at the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey, with a record 23,240 votes. Located in one of the oldest and most valuable residential areas of Istanbul, the 210-room hotel is the first project in Turkey to achieve the LEED Gold certification and one of only 50 hotels worldwide to obtain this honor. Developed by Amplio Real Estate Investments, the luxurious 3,285-square-meter (35,000-square-foot) hotel showcases multiple sustainability features such as rooftop solar panels which manage to provide 40 percent energy savings.

As the John Jacob Astor prize-giving ceremony concluded and the day drew to a close, the atmosphere relaxed and Expo Real successfully transposed its motto, ?Building Networks,? from a literary statement to a social reality within the grounds of Messe M?nchen International as attendants indulged in a glass of German beer to top off a successful day.

Source: http://www.cpexecutive.com/regions/international/expo-real-special-report-2012-prime-property-award-winners-announced/

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Osborne refuses to budge over his austerity package | The Times

George Osborne vowed yesterday to stick to his plans for repairing the economy as he attempted to rebuild public support for austerity.

The Chancellor insisted that this was no time for turning and ruled out easing up the pace or scale of cuts.

Invoking Margaret Thatcher, Mr Osborne told the Conservative Party conference that he would not buckle, adding: ?We will press on and we shall overcome.? Then, speaking as much to the hall as to the wider electorate, he asked for ?your support, your trust and your resolve as we go through these challenges together?.

Within hours of Mr

Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/economics/article3562454.ece

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