Apple Store Now Selling Nike?s Fitness Tracking FuelBand In The U.S., Canada And The U.K.

Apple added the Nike+ FuelBand to its online store this morning, with two new colors and availability not only in the U.S., but in the U.K. and Canada, too. In addition to Apple Store shelves, the FuelBand will also be available via Nike's online and physical retail stores in those countries in the new colors. That's a first for Canadians.

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Though market shows steady increase, investors down in Tri-Cities

Stewart Beach hasn?t fielded any calls from people demanding he steer their money onto Wall Street.

On one hand, Beach, a financial adviser with Clear Perspective Advisors, of St. Charles and Aurora, acknowledges such an admission may seem incongruous.

Since early summer, the stock market has risen steadily, with Dow Jones Industrial Averages hitting levels not seen since before the market crash at the beginning of the Great Recession in 2007.

But while the market appears to have resumed its historical upward march, Beach and others who help Tri-Cities residents manage their money said their clients are responding to the seeming market rally with a bit of incredulity.

?I?m not getting any calls from clients yelling at me because we?re ?missing the market,? ? Beach said. ?They?re not saying, ?Put more money in!?

?Instead, what we?re hearing is a lot of people being really, really cautious.?

After the 2008 stock market crash, even otherwise optimistic investors opted for caution, pulling money out of the stock market and seeking safer investment vehicles in which to place their funds.

Based on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the stock market has nearly erased all losses associated with the crash, hovering above 13,000 recently, just shy of the all-time high of about 14,000 in 2007.

?For the people that held the course, they?re almost back to where they were [in their portfolio value] to before the crash,? Beach said.

Dave Brady, a finance adviser and owner of Brady Investment Counsel of Geneva, said the generally steady nature of the stock market in recent months has prompted him and others to move clients back to what he called a ?fully allocated? position.

For most investors, that means putting about 60 percent of their portfolio in stocks.

?If our guidelines say a particular investor should be at a 60-40 stock allocation, then we are very comfortable right now getting them back to 60-40,? Brady said.

For many investors, the stock market represents the best choice for clients? long-term investing plans, Brady said. While the market will always present some risk, stocks have ?far outdone? other investment vehicles in returning gains.

Beach agreed investors have few realistic alternatives, with traditional savings vehicles returning virtually nothing.

?We know that, unless they just want to make sure they can?t lose anything, they?re not really excited at putting their money in the bank,? Stewart said. ?They?re not even keeping up with inflation.?

Reports filed with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation reveal in the first half of this year, just before the months-long stock market rally began, most local banks reported declines of 3 to 27 percent in the amount of money invested in ?time deposits,? such as CDs.

While stocks have represented a better investment option, advisers cautioned against too much optimism.

Brady said he believes the market increases don?t necessarily represent economic growth. Rather, Brady said, it is merely the market returning to ?fair value.?

And Brian Green, a financial adviser at Capital Management Group in St. Charles, said the lack of healthy economic growth also has led him to counsel against investing too heavily in stocks.

?It?s really tough right now as a financial adviser for me to say, ?Everything?s going to work out as it always does,? ? Green said.

Recently, investors appear to be acting on their wariness.

A recent survey reported by the financial trends tracking organization, the Investment Company Institute, revealed investors continued in October to pull more money out of mutual funds than they put in, a trend that began in September.

During the seven-day period from Oct. 3 to 10, investors pulled $2.3 billion from mutual funds. That comes on top of more than $23 billion that flowed out of mutual funds from Sept. 12 to Oct. 3, the ICI report said.

Green said his clients are growing increasingly pessimistic about the market?s and economy?s future.

Green, Brady and Beach noted their clients have expressed worries over the upcoming presidential election, government debt, global political issues and the so-called ?fiscal cliff? ? a shorthand term that describes the mix of tax rule changes, regulatory changes, government spending cuts and higher tax rates for workers, businesses and investors that will take effect Jan. 1 unless Congress and President Barack Obama act to avert them.

Green said if investors are particularly worried, he ?doesn?t spend any time trying to talk them out? of increasing their cash holdings.

?If you are generally concerned, then earning 0.5 percent with no risk may not be such a bad thing, if it brings you some peace of mind,? Green said.

For now, advisers said they are counseling most clients to stay defensive and stand pat.

?The market right now is kind of like a traffic jam on a freeway,? Beach said. ?We?re jammed up, can?t see too far ahead, but generally moving slowly in a positive direction. And, just like in a traffic jam, now?s not the time to be trying to constantly switch lanes.?

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Utah GOP activist facing rape charges found dead

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A Utah Tea Party activist and Republican fundraiser charged with more than two dozen felony counts of rape and sexual assault has died from an apparent suicide just four days after he was freed from jail on bail, his attorney said on Wednesday.

Greg N. Peterson, 37, was found dead in his remote Heber City-area cabin, in the mountains about 50 miles east of Salt Lake City, by two bail bondsmen late on Tuesday, defense lawyer Cara Tangaro said.

An initial investigation indicates Peterson died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Wasatch County Sheriff Todd Bonner said at a news conference Tuesday night. The death remained under investigation.

The cabin was the site of Peterson's annual Rocky Mountain Conservative BBQ - an annual summer fundraiser initiated in 2010 for Republican Party luminaries, including presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch and the state's governor, Gary Herbert.

Peterson was arrested in July and charged by Salt Lake County prosecutors with 25 counts sexual abuse, assault, rape, sodomy and kidnapping. The charges stem from allegations that Peterson had attacked four women he met through an online dating site for Mormons or at church-related events.

Wasatch County prosecutors filed a similar sex abuse case against Peterson in August after a fifth woman came forward.

Peterson, a financial planner, had denied the allegations, although he had not yet entered a plea in either case. On Friday, Peterson had posted bail of $2 million and was released from jail.

The bail bondsmen went looking for Peterson on Tuesday after something went awry with the signal from his ankle monitor and no one was able to reach him by phone, Tangaro said.

"We were worried that something was wrong," Tangaro told Reuters on Wednesday. "We had been having contact with Greg daily since his release."

Peterson had no known medical history that put him at risk for suicide and had not displayed any signs that he was in distress, Tangaro said. Peterson had felt, however, tremendous pressure from media coverage of the case, which he believed had unfairly demonized him, she said.

"I think the thought that he may not overcome that image, no matter the outcome of his case, was very difficult," Tangaro said. "We were absolutely shocked by (his death)."

Tangaro said she does not believe Peterson's apparent suicide should be interpreted as an admission of guilt.

(Reporting by Jennifer Dobner; Editing by Steve Gorman and Eric Beech)

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Hybrid of Sandy, winter storm eyes East Coast

HAVANA?? Hurricane Sandy, strengthening rapidly after crossing the warm Caribbean Sea, slammed into southeastern Cuba early on Thursday with 110 mph winds that cut power and blew over trees across the city of Santiago de Cuba.

The storm has a 70 percent chance of smacking the Northeast and mid-Atlantic next week, with gale-force winds, flooding, heavy rain and maybe even snow, government scientists said Wednesday.

Forecasters said the storm slated to hit the country's most populous corridor will be an unusual hybrid of hurricane and winter storm ? an early winter storm in the West and a blast of arctic air from the North are predicted to collide.

The eye of the Category 2 storm came ashore just west of Santiago de Cuba, 470 miles southeast of the capital Havana, with waves up to 29 feet and a six-foot storm surge that caused extensive coastal flooding, Jose Rubiera of the Cuban weather service said in a television report.

Story: Hurricane Sandy lashes Cuba; Northeast next week?

Rubiera held the phone up to a window so viewers could hear Sandy's roaring winds that he said had left the city "completely dark" and created a "very tense" situation.

Heavy rains were falling throughout the storm-stricken region, with forecasters predicting six to 12 inches for most areas and as much as 20 inches in isolated places.

Rubiera said Sandy had intensified rapidly as it neared land fueled by 88-degree waters on its way from Jamaica, struck earlier in the day by the storm when it was still at Category 1 on the five-step Saffir-Simpson hurricane intensity scale.

A Category 2 storm has winds between 96 and 110 mph, leaving Sandy within a whisker of becoming a Category 3 hurricane.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami reported gusts up to 114 mph, but Rubiera said a weather station on the Gran Piedra, a mountainous outcropping near Santiago de Cuba, had a gusts up to 152 mph.

At least 55,000 people had been evacuated ahead of Sandy, Cuban officials said, principally because of expected flooding.

Billion-dollar storm?
"It'll be a rough couple days from Hatteras up to Cape Cod," said forecaster Jim Cisco of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration prediction center in College Park, Md. "We don't have many modern precedents for what the models are suggesting."

It is likely to hit during a full moon when tides are near their highest, increasing coastal flooding potential, NOAA forecasts warn. And with some trees still leafy and the potential for snow, power outages could last to Election Day, some meteorologists fear. They say it has all the earmarks of a billion-dollar storm.

Video: Hurricane Sandy could shift into East Coast nor?easter (on this page)

Some have compared it to the so-called Perfect Storm that struck off the coast of New England in 1991, but Cisco said that one didn't hit as populated an area and is not comparable to what the East Coast may be facing. Nor is it like last year's Halloween storm, which was merely an early snowstorm in the Northeast.

This has much more mess potential because it is a combination of different storm types that could produce a real whopper of weather problems, meteorologists say.

"The Perfect Storm only did $200 million of damage and I'm thinking a billion," said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the private service Weather Underground. "Yeah, it will be worse."

Interactive: Cubans brace for Hurricane Sandy (on this page)

But this is several days in advance, when weather forecasts are far less accurate. The National Hurricane Center only predicts five days in advance, and on Wednesday their forecasts had what's left of Sandy off the North Carolina coast on Monday. But the hurricane center's chief hurricane specialist, James Franklin, said the threat keeps increasing for "a major impact in the Northeast, New York area. In fact it would be such a big storm that it would affect all of the Northeast."

The forecasts keep getting gloomier and more convincing with every day, several experts said.

Cisco said the chance of the storm smacking the East jumped from 60 percent to 70 percent on Wednesday. Masters was somewhat skeptical on Tuesday, giving the storm scenario just a 40 percent likelihood, but on Wednesday he also upped that to 70 percent. The remaining computer models that previously hadn't shown the merger and mega-storm formation now predict a similar scenario.

The biggest question mark is snow, and that depends on where the remnants of Sandy turn inland. The computer model that has been leading the pack in predicting the hybrid storm has it hitting around Delaware. But another model has the storm hitting closer to Maine. If it hits Delaware, the chances of snow increase in that region. If it hits farther north, chances for snow in the mid-Atlantic and even up to New York are lessened, Masters said.

NOAA's Cisco said he could see the equivalent of several inches of snow or rain in the mid-Atlantic, depending on where the storm ends up. In the mountains, snow may be measured in feet instead of inches.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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LeftLane Sports: HOT Shoe, Apparel, and Gear Sale! | Utah Sweet ...

LeftLaneSports.com?is getting down and dirty, offering up to 90% off shoes, apparel, and gear! ?This sale lasts till November 1, but hot items will sell out quickly. Here?s a sneak peak of what is being offered:

Saucony Powergrid Guide 5 Shoes for only $54.95! These retail for about $110, and even received an award from Runner?s World, so you know it?s a great shoe.

This cute TEVA Pasas Mary Jane shoe is just $32.45!

Men?s Globe Espy Shoes are just $18.95 (regularly $40).

Isn?t this Gramicci Zenobie Top adorable? It?s less than $20! There are tons of fall and cool weather clothing options available at a great price!

I just love this Canari Flurry ?Long Sleeved Jersey, and it?s only ?$26.36! That will be perfect for winter running.

There are a lot of men?s apparel, too, like this Millet Red Rock shirt for only $19.96!

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Dell XPS 12

The Windows 8 hybrid ultrabooks are here, transforming from laptop to tablet, and back again, with ease. The second of these shape-shifting laptops to come into PC Labs is the Dell XPS 12. As a convertible ultrabook, the Dell XPS 12 works as both a laptop and a tablet, utilizing the same flip-and-fold design last seen on the Dell Inspiron Duo (Black) . Dell has dropped the Duo name, which is actually now used by Sony for its own convertible ultrabook, the Sony VAIO Duo 11 (D11213CX) .

The name change is understandable, as the XPS 12 has little in common with the Dell Inspiron Duo, save for the screen which flips around within a securely framed lid. The external styling bears a strong resemblance to the Dell Inspiron 13z , with a soft-touch exterior and metal frame. Looking at the specifications, it's clear that the XPS 12 is in a different category than the Dell Inspiron Duo, with an ultrabook-class Intel Core i7-3517U processor instead of a netbook-class Atom, and a 256GB solid-state drive offering significant performance gains over the slower hard drives used in netbooks.

Design
Weighing 3.3 pounds and measuring 0.95 by 12.5 by 8.6 inches (HWD), the XPS 12 meets Intel's standard for convertible ultrabooks, and it's just a bit on the heavy size among ultrabooks (convertible or otherwise) we've seen, similar to the 3.2-pound Asus Zenbook Prime UX32VD-DB71 . It also has a design more in aligned with laptop sensibilities than tablet, with a slightly tapered chassis. This works well on a laptop, as seen on the laptop-only Inspiron 13z, but with a tablet the lack of uniform thickness is a little awkward. Unlike the Sony Duo 11, however, it is comfortable to hold, with rounded edges and soft touch panels across the underside. When using it as a tablet for watching movies or browsing the Web, it's comfortable enough, but you'll probably keep it in landscape mode, as the wedge profile puts the screen at a slant when in portrait mode.

The display also has more to offer than just a nifty backflip. The 12.5 inch display boasts 1920-by-1080 resolution, along with 400-nits of brightness and automatic ambient light sensing?and it's also a touch screen, tracking ten touch points at once. Covered with Gorilla Glass, it should resist scratching even when kept with the screen out. The audio?which gets some software enhancement with Waves Maxx Audio 4.0?is good, but not great, producing slightly muddied sound.

The physical keyboard is superb. The chiclet keys have the same soft-touch, matte-finish coating used on the rest of the palmrest. There's also more spring to them than are usually found on ultrabooks, and the result is an excellent typing feel. The onscreen keyboard is no better or worse than those on other tablets, but you'll definitely benefit from having the physical keyboard should you want to write anything longer than a tweet. The touchpad also features the soft-touch coating, making the touchpad fairly comfortable. It's a clickpad, with right and left buttons integrated into the surface of the pad.

Features
Despite the limitations imposed by the narrow confines of the convertible ultrabook form-factor, Dell has included a fair selection of ports and connectivity options into the XPS 12. On the right edge of the tablet are two USB 3.0 ports (one with Sleep and Charge), a power connector, and a button that lets you check the battery power level on an adjacent indicator. On the left, you'll find a headset jack, volume up and down buttons, a screen rotation lock button, and a sliding power switch.

Notably absent, however, is an Ethernet port, meaning that the 802.11n WLAN connection is your only option for getting online, and Bluetooth 3.0 adding wireless pairing for peripherals. You'll also be missing any ports for video output. Without any sort of VGA or HDMI output, the only ways to get your content onto a TV is through either a mini DisplayPort (which requires an adapter for HDMI) or via Wi-Di, which will require either a Wi-Di equipped TV or adapter, like the Netgear Push2TV. This model is aimed at consumers, but an enterprise-focused configuration will be available with Windows 8 Professional and will include BitLocker Encryption with Trusted-Platform Module (TPM).

The XPS 12 is also outfitted with a 256GB solid-state drive (SSD). As of now, 256GB is probably the highest capacity SSD you'll see offered in consumer systems, so it's hard to complain. Spinning hard drives offer larger capacity, but are prone to damage when dealing with vibration and movement, both of which are abundant when using a tablet. The XPS 12 has no optical drive, but in this form-factor, it won't be missed.

Along with the inclusion of Windows 8, and the accompanying default tiles found on the Start Screen, Dell has added a few of its own, such as a direct link to the Amazon Store, Amazon's Kindle app, a preview of Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft Live Essentials 2012 (Photo Gallery & Movie Maker), and the new Windows 8 Skype app. Dell also includes some resources for users, like the "Getting Started with Windows 8" app, Dell Shop, My Dell Support Center, Dell Backup & Recovery. Anti-virus protection comes in two forms: the default, Microsoft's Security Essentials, as well as a 30-day trial of McAfee's Windows 8 security app. Dell covers the XPS 12 with a one-year warranty, which includes parts and labor, accidental damage service, and a year of premium telephone support.

Performance
Unlike the Inspiron Duo, which was an Atom-powered netbook, Dell has outfitted the XPS 12 just as it would any other ultrabook, equipping it with the same Intel Core i5-3517U (1.9GHz) processor found in the Asus Zenbook Prime UX32VD-DB71, and pairing it with 8GB of RAM. It's an ultra-low voltage processor, designed for efficient power-usage, but it still offers more than enough capability for all of your web-surfing and media consumption needs. More importantly, for anyone wanting to get some work done and take advantage of the keyboard and touchpad option, productivity is also alive and well. In PCMark 7, our productivity benchmark, the XPS 12 score 4,638 points, similar to the Sony VAIO Duo 11 (4,648 points) and ahead of the Asus UX32VD-DB71 (2,523 points), largely due to the solid-state drive used in the XPS 12. In our processor speed test, Cinebench R11.5, the XPS 12 scored 2.19 points, a fraction of a point behind the Sony Duo 11 and Dell Inspiron 13z (2.40 and 2.39 points, respectively).

That processing capability also means you can do some multimedia work with the XPS 12, as seen in our Handbrake and Photoshop CS6 benchmark tests, which the XPS 12 completed in 1 minute 26 seconds and 6:31, respectively. It's a bit slow for bigger projects, but it means you can trim your YouTube videos and do some minor photo edits without having to leave the couch. Gaming, however, is a different matter. While the integrated Intel graphics processing provides all of the needed eye candy for video and graphics-heavy Web browsing, it falls short of 3D gaming support, returning unplayable scores in both Heaven and Aliens Vs. Predators. Casual games?including those offered through the Windows Store?will still work just fine, so enjoy your Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja without fear.

The Dell XPS 12 lasted 5 hours 9 minutes in our video battery rundown test, putting it a full two hours ahead of the Sony VAIO Duo 11 (3:09). For a device that's all about portability, that long battery life is essential?you lose a lot of the flexibility and convenience of a tablet when you're tethered to a wall outlet.

Where the Sony VAIO Duo 11 left us nervous about the future of the hybrid ultrabook, the Dell XPS 12 puts us back on solid ground. While the design is a better laptop than a tablet, the XPS 12 is a solid performer, thanks to ultrabook-grade specs, long battery life, and a design than prioritizes comfort and usability. It's a bit early to be picking favorites, but the Dell XPS 12 is a front runner in the nascent hybrid category.

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Languages for iPhone review

There is already a plethora of language translation dictionaries in the App Store, so what makes the new Languages for iPhone app by Tapity and Sonico Mobile so special? It's fast, reliable, stored directly onto your iPhone, and straight-up gorgeous. Languages also includes a lot of user interface elements and gestures that makes using Languages very intuitive and easy to use.

Having information stored locally on your iPhone is very important for apps like this. You never know when you'll need to look up a translations, so the last thing you want is to have to rely on your carrier's network connection to give you access to your dictionary. That's why Jeremy Olson, the Founder of Tapity, made offline storage a priority.

While Languages is going to be a lifesaver for students and travelers, I really think the fact that it works offline makes it valuable to almost anyone, regardless of whether or not they actively need translation. 99 cents buys you the peace of mind that you'll never get stuck without reliable translation again.

Languages includes 12 different translation dictionaries consisting of 8 different languages. Here's a list of the included dictionaries that will appear on a nicely designed bookshelf.

• Spanish -- English
• German -- English
• French -- English
• Italian -- English
• Dutch -- English
• English -- Portuguese

• Swedish -- English
• French -- Italian
• French -- Spanish
• Dutch -- French
• Dutch -- Italian
• Spanish -- Dutch

When you first download Languages, only the Spanish/English and German/English dictionaries will be installed as a way to limit the size of the app. You can download any of the other dictionaries at your leisure at no additional cost.

In dictionary mode, the words will be listed in alphabetical order. To jump to a section of the dictionary, tap and hold on the alphabet on the right. The letters will magnify around your finger and highlight the letter you're actually on. The visuals for this is really cool and makes it look like the alphabet wraps around your finger. When you settle on a letter, a second column will appear that alphabetizes a list of the first two letters of words included with your chosen letter. This streamlines your search and minimizes scrolling.

In the toolbar at the top of the dictionary, you'll find a search bar, a button that takes you back to your bookshelf, and a flag button that switches between primary languages. And because the developers are fans of gestures, even ones that are "just for fun", you can also pinch to close your dictionary and watch in animate back onto the shelf.

Dictionary mode is a great and all, but even with the enhanced alphabet scrolling, it still isn't ideal for looking up words in rapid succession. That's where Languages search mode comes in, and a quick swipe to the right gets you there. The curser will automatically jump to the search bar and a keyboard slides up. This is great for iPhone 5 users with small hands because it eliminates the needs to reach to the top of the screen to tap the search bar, especially when one-handed.

As you type the word, you'll get instant results. Words that are from your primary language will appear on the left and point to its translation on the right, and matches from the secondary language will appear on the right and point to its translation on the left. To clear the word and star over, a quick swipe to the right will delete the search field and bring the keyboard back up.

The good

• Dictionaries are offline
• Includes 12 languages
• Gorgeous and intuitive interface
• Time-saving gestures
• Tap a word to copy it or jump to that word's dictionary entry
• Fast
• Great price

The bad

• Limited phrases
• Lacks verb conjugations (coming soon)
• No pronunciation (coming soon)

The bottom line

Languages is a gorgeous translation dictionary that will be a great companion for anyone who is learning another language or even those who are fluent in multiple languages but need to look up vocabulary from time to time. From the moment you start using Languages, you know that a lot of work, heart, and soul was poured into it and this is what sets it apart from similar apps. And at just $0.99 for 12 dictionaries, Languages is quite a steal.

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SwiftKey Flow keyboard takes the fight to Swype with predictive gestures (video)

SwiftKey must be keen to finish its bout with Swype, as it just went for the knockout. It's launching SwiftKey Flow, an extension of its Android keyboard that blends SwiftKey's familiar word prediction with the hold-and-swipe gestures we most commonly associate with the company's arch-rival. Speed-minded typists now just have to glide across the virtual keys and let go as soon as Flow makes a correct guess. They don't have to pick a typing mode and stick with it, either, as both gestures and the usual taps will work at the same time. Prospective testers will want to sign up today for the SwiftKey Flow beta starting in the next few weeks. Everyone else, though, might want to watch from the bleachers -- the new parallels between SwiftKey and Swype just made this fight infinitely more entertaining.

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Working Late Hours Could Lead to Lung and Prostate Cancer ...

Up working late last night?

As if you needed another reason to hate the night shift: According to researchers at the University of Quebec, people who log late hours on the job?shifts that include the hour from 1 to 2 a.m.?for 6 months are more than twice as likely to suffer from prostate and lung cancer than daytime workers.

The link between night shifts and cancer?seems to be based in your hormonal system, researchers say. Normally, your body secretes melatonin?a hormone vital to your sleep cycle?late at night. Melatonin makes your immune system more sensitive by increasing the number of messenger proteins it uses to spot threats. When you miss out on the late-night melatonin surge, your body has a harder time detecting and beating threats like cancer.

So what do you do if you?re stuck working the night shift? Pop 0.5 mg of melatonin 30 minutes before bed?no matter what time you hit the sack. It can help reset your hormonal cycle. A recent study in the journal Circadian Rhythms showed that late-night workers who were given a dose of melatonin before bed fell asleep 16 minutes earlier and reported sleeping better than when they were just given placebo pills. (Learn how else you can harness The Power of Melatonin.)

And don?t forget that what you do during the day also counts. A 2012 Swiss study found that the better illuminated your environment is during the day, the more melatonin you secrete?and as a result, the more soundly you sleep. A bright day makes the night seem darker, which signals your body that it?s time to amp up levels of melatonin, researchers say.

If you?re lacking light throughout your day, replace your bulbs with ones that emit cool, white light?look for 4100K on the label. They?ll brighten your room more naturally than standard incandescent bulbs.

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'Won't be pleasant': Obama lays out goals

President Barack Obama waves from Marine One before he departs the White House to campaign. (Larry Downing/Reu??

President Barack Obama laid out an astoundingly ambitious second-term agenda in an interview published Wednesday, vowing to forge a "grand bargain" with Republicans to reduce the national debt and achieve comprehensive immigration reform?all in 2013.

"It will probably be messy. It won't be pleasant," Obama told the Des Moines Register's publisher and its editor by telephone. The daily made the exchange public after the White House dropped its insistence that it be off-the-record.

Messy? Unpleasant? Well, yes. Even if Obama wins re-election?hardly a done deal?few if any analysts expect the Democrats to retake the House of Representatives. And while the Democrats are forecast to hold on to the Senate, betting that the president's party will secure a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority is a fool's game?at least according to the latest polls. That makes these promises reliant on Obama using the bully pulpit of the White House more effectively than he has since taking office in January 2009.

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"The good news is that there's going to be a forcing mechanism to deal with what is the central ideological argument in Washington right now, and that is: How much government do we have and how do we pay for it?" Obama said in the interview. He was referring to the so-called "fiscal cliff" at the end of 2012?the looming expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts, the painful automatic domestic and military spending cuts known as the "sequester," and the end of a temporary payroll tax reduction and some unemployment benefits.

The president has pushed for letting the Bush-era tax cuts, which he renewed entirely in late 2010 in the face of Republican pressure, expire for individuals making $200,000 or more or families pulling in $250,000 and above. Obama signaled that his long-standing offer for deficit and debt reduction will still be on the table, a move that could irk Democrats.

"I am absolutely confident that we can get what is the equivalent of the grand bargain that essentially I've been offering to the Republicans for a very long time, which is $2.50 worth of cuts for every dollar in spending, and work to reduce the costs of our health care programs," Obama said. (The White House quickly clarified that he meant $2.50 of spending cuts for every dollar in new tax revenue.)

"We can easily meet?'easily' is the wrong word?we can credibly meet the target that the Bowles-Simpson Commission established of $4 trillion in deficit reduction, and even more in the out-years, and we can stabilize our deficit-to-GDP ratio in a way that is really going to be a good foundation for long-term growth," Obama said. "Now, once we get that done, that takes a huge piece of business off the table."

"The second thing I'm confident we'll get done next year is immigration reform," said Obama, who has drawn fire from the Hispanic community for not keeping his 2008 campaign pledge to do just that. Republicans, meanwhile, have accused him of softening immigration enforcement for political gain.

"Since this is off the record, I will just be very blunt. Should I win a second term, a big reason I will win a second term is because the Republican nominee and the Republican Party have so alienated the fastest-growing demographic group in the country, the Latino community," he said. "And this is a relatively new phenomenon. George Bush and Karl Rove were smart enough to understand the changing nature of America. And so I am fairly confident that they're going to have a deep interest in getting that done. And I want to get it done because it's the right thing to do and I've cared about this ever since I ran back in 2008."

Republican opposition doomed immigration reform the last time around, and the political payoff is not always clear?but senior Obama adviser David Plouffe told reporters Wednesday that the Republican Party could not afford to drive off Latino voters if the party hopes to survive.

"Republicans basically walked away from their belief that we need immigration reform. My suspicion is if you lose a presidential election to Latino voters by 40 points in a fastly [sic] growing country, the responsible thing to do if you're in that party that's losing by 40 points is to look in the mirror," Plouffe said.

Plouffe also said he thought he saw "more and more Republican senators ... saying they're more open to revenue" (meaning: tax increases).

"And most Democrats have shown themselves open to do tough things on spending," Plouffe added. "It's going to require both parties coming together."

Chris Moody contributed reporting.

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CEO's ex-wife backs bid to unseal Romney testimony

CANTON, Mass. (AP) ? The ex-wife of Staples founder Tom Stemberg is in probate court in Massachusetts to tell a judge she's OK with unsealing testimony that former Gov. Mitt Romney gave in her divorce case.

Maureen Stemberg Sullivan appeared in court Wednesday morning with lawyer Gloria Allred. The Boston Globe has asked a judge to lift an impoundment order on Romney's testimony in the case from the 1990s.

Stemberg has been a surrogate for Romney, now the Republican presidential nominee, and spoke on Romney's behalf at the GOP convention. Staples was founded with backing from Romney's firm, Bain Capital.

Allred says she does not object to the newspaper's motion to modify a confidentiality order that prevents parties in the divorce from discussing it.

She would not characterize Romney's testimony in the case.

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BBC airs unseen expose on its disgraced star

LONDON (AP) ? BBC reporters put their own bosses in the hot seat over their role in an expanding pedophilia scandal, airing footage from a previously unseen expose of one of the BBC's most popular entertainers and quizzing senior management about why they canned the bombshell program.

Monday night's powerful but often awkward broadcast centered on revelations that late children's television star Jimmy Savile was one of the country's most prolific predators, suspected of sexually assaulting more than 200 children over his decades-long career. The scandal's explosion has cut an ugly gash through the venerable broadcaster's public image, a wound made all the worse by the revelation that executives there scrapped what would have been a hard-hitting expose of Savile's misdeeds last year.

Tim Burt, a managing partner of the Stockwell Communications crisis management firm, said the BBC faces a major blow to its reputation at a time when it is entering delicate negotiations with the government about the terms of its charter.

"To have a civil war inside on a matter of editorial judgment and the handling of potentially criminal investigations could not have come at worse time," he said.

The broadcast set out to explain why the Savile investigation was never televised. The answer remains murkier than ever ? the BBC stopped short of accusing any of its bosses of a cover-up ? but viewers were given harrowing testimony about the scale of the abuse, including allegations that girls and, in at least one case, a boy, were forced to have sex with Savile in his car, his camper van, or dingy dressing rooms on BBC premises.

"I'm so full of self-disgust. I can't believe that I did such things," said Karin Ward, who described being cajoled into giving the presenter sexual favors when she was just a young teen. She said she should have tried to put a stop to it but "I didn't. None of us did."

The program was surreal in parts, not least because nearly all the children who surrounded Savile in archival footage were shown with their faces blurred out ? each one of them a potential victim of sexual abuse. Also bizarre was the fact that the BBC was effectively conducting a televised inquisition into itself. One particularly striking scene involved a journalist bombarding BBC boss George Entwistle with questions on what appeared to be his morning commute.

"I've never seen an organization do such a knocking job on itself," commented ITV journalist Kenny Toal. "Fair play to the journalists who spoke up against their bosses."

BBC editor Peter Rippon ? who stepped down temporarily only hours before the show was aired ? was hit by some of the hardest knocks. Under fire from his two reporters, he was shown to have put out a series of misleading statements about the documentary. Emails appeared to show he was enthusiastic about the expose at first, but abruptly changed his mind for reasons that remain unexplained.

Reaction was mixed, with some viewers criticizing the BBC for not having pushed its executives harder. Others congratulated the broadcaster on a compelling broadcast that must have been difficult to organize. The Mirror's deputy television editor Mark Jefferies said in a message posted to Twitter that the program was "very thorough, compelling and depressing" and which he said showed the BBC "at its best."

"Sadly it was highlighting BBC at its worst," he said.

The scandal and the alleged cover-up have already drawn unusual criticism from the prime minister.

"The nation is appalled, we are all appalled by the allegations of what Jimmy Savile did and they seem to get worse by the day," David Cameron said earlier Monday.

The BBC can expect harsh treatment at the hands of Britain's newspapers, said Bob Calver, a lecturer in broadcast journalism at Birmingham City University. He suggested that publications from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire, which has been shaken by revelations of widespread criminality at its newspapers, would be particularly harsh.

"The print media will not let this story go," he said. "Because BBC was not implicated in the phone hacking scandal, it was pointing the finger at the print media, which has long felt that the BBC is smug and gets special treatment. This is an opportunity for the print media to come back at them."

There seemed to be every sign of that late Monday. Murdoch's The Sun newspaper said that BBC chiefs were "accused of betraying license fee payers by misleading the public over pervert Jimmy Savile." BBC's revenues are paid by license fees from viewers.

Asked how the BBC could have avoided some of the scandal, producer Meirion Jones answered: "Very easily. By broadcasting a story about Jimmy Savile and how he was a pedophile."

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Associated Press writers David Stringer and Robert Barr in London contributed to this report.

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University observes Cyber Security Awareness Week

Mississippi State University's 5th-annual Cyber Security Awareness Week runs Tuesday through Friday this week as part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month.

During the week, students, faculty and staff will have opportunities to interact with information security experts to gain valuable information that can be used to protect themselves and raise their awareness of information security issues.

During these three days, Information Technology Services will host an information booth from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the first floor of Colvard Student Union, and guest speakers give presentations about cyber security topics of interest.

T-shirts will be given away at events while supplies last.

Cyber Security Awareness Week Event schedule:

Tuesday, Oct. 23:
Copyright Panel Discussion
McCool Hall, Room 100 - 12:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 24:
Dr. William A. Craig - Director
Software Engineering Directorate
US Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center
"AMRDEC SED Overview and Cyber Security"
Colvard Student Union, Fowlkes Auditorium - 11:30 a.m.

Thursday, Oct. 25:
Special Agent Gregory Schnackenberg
Jackson Cyber Squad
"FBI's Role in Cyber Investigations"
Colvard Student Union, Fowlkes Auditorium - 2 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 26:
Tom Ritter, Security and Compliance Officer - Office of the CIO
"Encryption/Email, What does the Campus Information Security Program Say?"
Colvard Student Union, Fowlkes Auditorium - 11:30 a.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 23 - Friday, Oct. 26:
Cyber Security Information Booth
TIME: 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
LOCATION: Colvard Union, First Floor

For more information, go to http://infosecurity.msstate.edu and
http://filesharing.msstate.edu.

If you require special assistance relating to a disability, please contact the
ITS Help Desk via email at helpdesk@msstate.edu, by phone at 662-325-0631 or
toll free at (888) 398-6394.

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World stocks mixed after US earnings disappoint

BANGKOK (AP) ? World stock markets were mixed as traders unnerved by last week's disappointing U.S. corporate earnings results waited for another round Monday.

The glum results from Wall Street giants Microsoft, General Electric and McDonald's took traders by surprise and caused U.S. stocks to finish substantially lower on Friday. Investors in Asia and Europe on Monday saw little reason to go against the flow.

"The U.S. market had a significant drop," said Linus Yip, strategist at First Shanghai Securities in Hong Kong. "A significant drop in the U.S. will have an impact on Asian markets as a whole."

Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.2 percent to 5,886.57. Germany's DAX shed 0.2 percent to 7,363.16 and France's CAC-40 slipped marginally to 3,502.31.

But Wall Street appeared set to recoup some of the ground lost Friday. Dow Jones industrial futures rose 0.2 percent to 13,280 and S&P 500 futures added 0.2 percent to 1,427.20.

Trading was subdued earlier in Asia. Japan's Nikkei 225 rose just 0.1 percent to close at 9,010.71, weighed down by a widening of its trade deficit in September.

Japan's Finance Ministry said exports plummeted 10 percent last month from a year earlier, hurt by financial and debt problems in Europe, and a surge in anti-Japanese sentiment in China.

In September, a territorial dispute with China over disputed islands in the East China Sea sparked anti-Japanese riots. In the aftermath, exports to China sank 14 percent from a year.

South Korea's Kospi lost 0.1 percent to 1,941.59 and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 dropped 0.7 percent to 4,541.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 0.7 percent to 21,697.55 and mainland Chinese shares also posted gains. The Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.2 percent to 2,132.76 and the smaller Shenzhen Composite Index gained 0.5 percent to 882.03.

Yip said that "hot money," or short-term speculative inflows, being funneled into Hong Kong are helping to support its stock market. The money is coming from investors who believe that mainland China's slowdown has bottomed out and will start to pick up stream in the final quarter of the year.

Markets may stay subdued ahead of the release later in the week of U.S. data including monthly new home sales, durable goods orders and third-quarter GDP figures, some analysts said. The upcoming U.S. presidential election and developments in the Europe debt crisis also added uncertainty to the mix.

Traders also awaited a slew of corporate earnings from U.S., including Yahoo Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc.

Benchmark oil for November delivery was up 34 cents to $90.39 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $2.05 to end at $90.05 per barrel in New York on Friday.

In currencies, the euro rose to $1.3042 from $1.3023 late Friday in New York. The dollar rose to 79.81 yen from 79.27 yen.

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ROMNEY WINS FINAL DEBATE | Weekly World News

Pundits on all major networks agree? Mitt Romney crushed President Obama in tonight?s final debate.

The final debate between President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Gov. Mitt Romney that took place at 9 p.m. Oct. 22nd in Boca Raton is over and? Mitt Romney absolutely demolished President Obama, according to all the mainstream media sources.

President Barack Obama dodged and weaved when trying to answer questions about Libya and the Mid East, while Mitt Romney remained calm and just told the audience, ?we can do better.?

President Obama was caught in numerous half-truths when he was trying to explain why the administration blamed the attack in Libya on a half-baked video by a crazy person.

?We are still looking into it,? the President reportedly told the audience. ??We should have an answer to what happened by 2016, after I?m out of office.?

?Mitt Romney won the election tonight,? said former Clinton adviser, ?Paul Begala.??According to my sources, President Obama will resign on November 6th and save the country from having to go through the expense of an election.?

Mitt Romney seemed at ease when talking about foreign policy. ?Look, China is screwing us over, so when I take office I think we should screw them back. ?Poland? ?I love sausage. ?England? ?A great place for a Mormon mission. ?Russia? ?My son is going to kick Putin?s a**..?

?President Obama looked like a little boy next to Mitt Romney,? said Rachel Maddow of MSNBC. ??I?m going to vote for Mitt.:

And in a surprising tweet, Bill Maher said, ?I think we should all vote for Romney and then in January.. the revolution begins!?

President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were much more friendly toward each other for this debate. ?They were not as aggressive as last time, though Romney reportedly whispered to Obama, ?contradict me again and I?m going to kick your leg.?

Bob Schieffer of CBS moderated the debate. ? By all counts, he was better than Candy Crowley, but he also did help President Obama out whenever he could. ?In a discussion on Iran, Schieffer interrupted Romney to say, ??you?re flat-out wrong Governor, President Obama is not going to bomb Iran until after the election. ?And he may bomb Israel, too.?

Polls conducted by MSNBC showed that President Obama won the debate with a 99% of viewers calling Romney the winner and only 1% calling Obama the winner. ?But that 1% then donated over $30 million to the Obama campaign, led by George Clooney.

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Plotters planned UK attack "bigger than 7/7"

LONDON (Reuters) - Three British men planned to carry out suicide bombings which could have been more devastating than the July 7, 2005 attacks in London, a court heard on Monday.

Fifty-one people died and over 700 were injured in co-ordinated suicide bombings on London underground trains and a bus by four British Islamists in the so-called 7/7 attacks.

Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid and Ashik Ali, both 27, are accused of being central figures in the plot, jurors at Woolwich Crown Court were told.

"The police successfully disrupted a plan to commit an act or acts of terrorism on a scale potentially greater than the London bombings in July 2005 had it been allowed to run its course," said prosecutor Brian Altman.

"The defendants were proposing to detonate up to eight rucksack bombs in a suicide attack and/or to detonate bombs on timers in crowded areas in order to cause mass deaths and casualties.

"One of them even described a plan to cause another 9/11," he added, referring to the 2001 attacks in the United States.

All the men, from the city of Birmingham in central England, are accused of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts, which they deny.

Naseer is accused of five counts of the offence, Khalid four and Ali three, all between Christmas Day 2010 and September 2011. Nasser and Khalid are also accused of travelling to Pakistan for training in terrorism.

(Reporting by Alessandra Prentice; Writing by Stephen Addison Editing by Maria Golovnina)

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Candidates seek foreign policy edge in 3rd debate

Actress Ashley Judd, center, gives a pep talk to volunteers for the Obama for President campaign at the Fredericksburg, Va. office on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star, Robert A. Martin)

Actress Ashley Judd, center, gives a pep talk to volunteers for the Obama for President campaign at the Fredericksburg, Va. office on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star, Robert A. Martin)

Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., waves goodbye to hundreds of supporters at the Colorado Jet Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 during a campaign stop. (AP Photo/Bryan Oller)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney looks at a menu as he orders dinner at BurgerFi on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 in Delray Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Still neck-and-neck after all these months, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney head into their third and final debate with each man eager to project an aura of personal strength and leadership while raising doubts about the steadiness and foreign policy credentials of the other guy.

Each is aiming for a commanding performance Monday to settle the seesaw dynamics of the first two debates: Romney gave Obama an old-fashioned shellacking in the first round, and the chastened president rebounded in their second encounter.

The 90-minute faceoff at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., offers the candidates their last opportunity to stand one-on-one before tens of millions of Americans and command their undivided attention before next month's election. Both candidates largely dropped out of sight and devoted their weekends to debate preparations, a sure sign of the high importance they attach to the event.

While the principals warm up for their evening debate in the battleground state of Florida, their running mates will be busy Monday seeking votes in two of the eight other states whose up-for-grabs electoral votes will determine the next president ? Vice President Joe Biden in Ohio and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan in Colorado. Also still hotly contested: Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Virginia.

Deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said Monday that "it really now comes down to that small segment of undecided voters."

Appearing on NBC's "Today" show, Cutter said, "The ground game is in credibly important at this point. We feel pretty good about where we are."

It fell to campaign surrogates on Sunday talk shows to frame the foreign policy matters that moderator Bob Schieffer will put before the candidates in a discussion sure to reflect "how dangerous the world is in which we live," as the CBS newsman put it. Iran's nuclear intentions, the bloody crackdown in Syria, economic angst in Europe, security concerns in Afghanistan, China's growing power ? all that and more are on the agenda.

On Iran, senior Romney campaign foreign policy adviser Dan Senor said on NBC Monday that Romney's approach is that "we've got to reach a diplomatic solution." He said the Obama administration's policy on Iran for the past four years has not discouraged Tehran from moving forward with its nuclear ambitions.

On Libya, Senor said "they didn't have the proper security" at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi where Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others were killed on Sept. 11.

The series of interviews Sunday and Monday fed into the broader debate over which candidate offers the steady hand and sound judgment for a nation facing myriad challenges at home and abroad.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, arguing for the Republicans, faulted Obama for "his failure to outline broad goals, real goals, a real view of what America's role in the world should be." Romney, by contrast, would "use America's role in the world as a catalyst for peace, prosperity and freedom," he said.

Ryan, campaigning in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Sunday, faulted the president for potential defense cuts and said that when adversaries "see us projecting weakness, when they see us hollowing out our military ... they think we are a superpower in decline." It was a likely preview of one of Romney's arguments in the debate.

Obama adviser David Axelrod said that when the president took office "we were isolated in our position on Iran and in the world. And today, the world is unified against Iran with us, all because of the leadership of this president."

The Obama campaign released a blistering memo from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., accusing Romney of offering nothing but "endless bluster" on international issues.

"He is an extreme and expedient candidate who lacks the judgment and vision so vital for the Oval Office," said Kerry, who is considered a leading candidate to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state if Obama wins a second term.

When it comes to their foreign policy credentials, both candidates have reasons for optimism and concern: While foreign policy has been a strength of Obama throughout the campaign, some recent polls show his advantage narrowing. The Pew Research Center's October poll, for example, found that 47 percent of Americans favored Obama to make "wise decisions about foreign policy," while 43 percent preferred Romney.

American University professor Jordan Tama said the difficult trick for Romney in the debate will be to challenge Obama on foreign policy without looking like he's criticizing the commander in chief, which can be off-putting to voters. Obama, for his part, must make the case that his policies are sound and his leadership strong despite ongoing challenges around the world, including unrest in the Middle East and the chaotic situation in Libya that left four Americans dead.

While foreign policy has been overshadowed during this campaign by concerns about the domestic economy and jobs at home, everything matters in a race this tight. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Sunday showed each candidate favored by 47 percent of likely voters, reflecting a boost of support for Romney following his strong performance in the first debate in early October.

With early voting under way in many states, there is precious little time for the candidates to break loose. More than 4 million Americans already have voted.

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Associated Press writer Julie Pace contributed to this report.

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Suspected gunman in Wis. shooting found dead

Radcliffe Haughton, 45, is suspected of targeting a Milwaukee-area mall on Sunday morning where his estranged wife is believed to have worked as a hair stylist. He was found dead hours later. NBC's Kevin Tibbles reports.

By M. Alex Johnson, NBC News

New in this version: Gunman found dead; two weeks ago slashed wife's tires

Updated at 8:31 p.m. ET: A man who was ordered last week to turn over all his weapons in a domestic dispute opened fire Sunday at his estranged wife's workplace near Milwaukee, killing three women and injuring four others, authorities said. He then apparently shot himself to death, police said.

Bill Dedman and Tricia Culligan of NBC News and Charles Benson, Todd Hicks, Susan Kim and Jermont Terry of WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee contributed to this report. Follow M. Alex Johnson on Twitter and Facebook.

The suspect was identified as Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, Wis., said Brookfield Police Chief Daniel Tushaus, who said Haughton was found dead in the building, a 9,000-square-foot, two-story salon and day spa across the street from a busy mall. ?Police had not identified the dead on Sunday evening.

Police told reporters they were expecting an armed encounter with Haughton, who was ultimately found in a locked area in the salon. It took several hours to find him because their search was slowed by concern there may have been an explosive device.?Police said it turned out to be a propane tank and they didn't know who brought it into the building.

Milwaukee County court records show that Haughton's wife, Zina Daniel Haughton, filed for a restraining order on Oct. 8.

Police said there had been a previous incident at the nail salon, and that Haughton had slashed his wife's tires.

A hearing was held on Thursday and Haughton was ordered to deliver his firearms to the sheriff and to have no contact for four years with the complainant or the residence. The complainant isn't identified in the court record, and the court records don't indicate whether he surrendered any firearms.?

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Court record online showing the restraining order against the suspect in the shooting.

Other records indicate that Haughton was also charged with disorderly conduct in January 2011, a charge that was dismissed in June 2011 when a witness failed to appear in court.

Police said the shootings began at 11:09 a.m. (12:09 p.m. ET) at the Azana Day Spa, across Moorland Road from Brookfield Square mall in Brookfield, about 10 miles west of Milwaukee. The mall was closed as SWAT team members scoured the area for Haughton.

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Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Milwaukee, where the victims, aged 22, 30, 32 and 40, were taken for treatment, said the survivors were women who had been shot. Two were undergoing treatment in the emergency room for non-life-threatening conditions, and the two others underwent surgery. Their conditions weren't reported.

The hospital said it?had resumed normal operations after having been locked down while Haughton was still believed to be at large.

Zina Haughton has a state license as a cosmetology manager. Two workers at the salon said Zina Haughton was estranged from her husband.

Brookfield, Wis., Police Chief Daniel Tushaus says Radcliffe Haughton was found dead after shooting at least seven people at a day spa.

Records suggest that Haughton had endured several years of financial problems, with a civil judgment for $19,000 in 2006 and a state tax lien for $5,000 in 2009. His home has been listed as for sale by owner. His former job, from 2003 to 2007, is listed in public records as general manager of a former Land Rover dealership in the Glendale area of Milwaukee County.

Auto advertisements and business records list a man named Radcliffe Haughton as sales manager at an auto dealership in Milwaukee. Calls to the dealership weren't returned.

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Suspect's father aghast
Haughton's father, also named Radcliffe, was shocked and dismayed upon learning that his son was the suspect.

"Oh, my God," the elder Haughton told WTMJ in a telephone interview from his home in Florida. "The Haughton family apologizes, and we are sorry."

"This is not a reflection of the Haughton family," he said, adding: "One member of the Haughton family has done something terrible. This is not the Haughtons' way. This is not the way we live. This is not how I raised my son up."

Haughton told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that he spoke to his son just last week, telling him he could stay with him in Florida if he needed to.

"I told him, 'Whatever you do, don't do anything stupid,'" the elder Haughton said.

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People run screaming from spa
At the scene of the shootings, an eyewitness, Jenny Remshak, told WTMJ that she was parked nearby when she saw a woman "crawling out of the building, and she rolled over to the cops, and they picked her up and took her right away in the ambulance."

A few minutes later, "about 10 people come running out of the building, screaming," Remshak said.

"Everybody was just grabbing their hearts and covering their mouths and watching in fear," she said.

It was the second mass shooting in the Milwaukee area in just 2? months. A gunman opened fire at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee on Aug. 5, killing six people and wounding at least three others, before being shot to death.

Three people were killed and a fourth was injured last week when a gunman stormed a hair salon in Casselberry, Fla. The gunman then killed himself.

NBC's Isolde Raftery contributed to this report.

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Edmonds Military Wire: Looking for a job? Companies are hiring veterans

By Michael Schindler

If you are a veteran, your chances of getting hired may be improving, according to JP Morgan Chase.

Chase, which along with 10 other companies formed the 100,000 Jobs Mission, states that? ?76 companies in the 100,000 Jobs Mission have hired 28,186 veterans through the third quarter of 2012. This number is up nearly 10,000 from the 18,249 veterans hired through June 30, 2012.?

This news is good. Especially since several weeks ago I reported that fewer members of the Business Roundtable plan to hire. In June of this year, 36 percent of those CEOs thought they would hire. In early 2011, 52 percent of the CEOs said they planned to increase their hiring. Now, in October of 2012, that number is only 29 percent.

I don?t have a breakout of the Roundtable guys who are part of the 100,000 Jobs Mission initiative, but I think it?s safe for me to assume some are part of both and that our veterans are getting acknowledged ? and some hired ? despite a precarious economy.

?The 100,000 Jobs Mission is really gaining momentum,? said Eddie Dunn, an Army combat veteran and an executive on the Military and Veterans Affairs team at JP Morgan Chase. ?The United States has the best military in the world ? and the companies in our coalition are fortunate to have already hired over 28,000 veterans through our initiative.?

Over the next four to five years, we can expect some 1 million service members to transition out of the military and be active participants in the job pool and our communities. The question for our communities and employers: Are you ready?

Employers, if you are looking to hire an exceptional workforce, you can join the 100,000 Jobs Mission as long as you commit to hire transitioning service members and veterans, report hiring numbers and share best practices ? and there is no fee.

If you are looking for a job, check out the companies that are a part of the Mission. Whether you are an employer or a job seeker, visit 100000jobsmission.com. You can see the companies already involved here.

Bottom line: Network, Network, Network. If you are a job seeker, target those companies that are part of the 100,000 Jobs Mission. In order for them to accomplish their mission, they need to help you accomplish yours, which is to be gainfully employed.

Michael Schindler, Navy veteran, and president of Edmonds-based Operation Military Family, is a guest writer for several national publications, author of the book ?Operation Military Family? and ?The Military Wire? blog. He is also a popular keynote and workshop speaker who reaches thousands of service members and their families every year through workshops and seminars that include? ?How to Battle-Ready Your Relationship? or ?What Your Mother-in-Law Didn?t Tell You.?? He received the 2010 Outstanding Patriotic Service Award from the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs.

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