Meet the world's fastest-growing fitness chain - Fortune Management

By Brandon Southward

FORTUNE -- Step inside an Anytime Fitness gym and you'll likely notice more of what it lacks than what is there. No massive machinery, mobs of people, or grunting bodybuilders trying to outdo one another.

You'll also take note of the club's particularly small size -- only 4,000-6,000 square feet, nearly eight times smaller than full-service gyms like Equinox. It's clean and tidy, and there are no employees shoving papers in your face convincing you to sign up for the gym's new weight loss plan, "how to lose 50 pounds in five days."

There is none of that in this decidedly unintimidating environment, and that's exactly how Anytime Fitness CEO Chuck Runyon wants it. "We are Cheers?without the beers."

Cheers, of course, the place where everybody knows your name. But this spot doesn't have any Sam-and-Diane-relationship-tensions, and Norm or Cliff won't be dropping by anytime soon.

It's that vibe that has helped make Anytime Fitness the fastest growing fitness club in the world, according to a report released this year by The International Health Racquet and Sportsclub Association, a title the company has held for the last six years. In 11 years, the Minneapolis-based chain has expanded to more than 2,200 clubs worldwide, in all 50 U.S. states and 14 countries. By comparison, it took Subway 23 years to reach 2,000 restaurants and McDonald's (MCD) 32 years to reach 2,000 restaurants.

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Anytime lacks some of the traditional trappings of a gym, but it does have plenty of classes. Walk in, and you will find a kiosk holding more than 100 different video classes that are accessible at all times. Want muscle conditioning? Got it. Want to take a turbo kicking class? They have that too. You pick your class, head into a multi-purpose room, and you're off and running. If the classes don't intrigue you, Anytime Fitness has cardio equipment like treadmills and ellipticals along with resistance workout equipment and free weights.

The relationship between the gym and its members is special, as evidenced by the Anytime Fitness tattoos sported by its passionate members and employees. "It started with a St. Paul franchise owner at a conference in 2005. Since then, over 1,000 people have gotten the Anytime Fitness purple running man tattoo," Runyon said.

He should know. Anytime Fitness foots the bill for the body art; all the tattoo recipients have to do is share why they're getting it. The reasons vary, including some crediting the chain with dramatic weight loss or boosting their self-esteem.

To be sure, Anytime Fitness' ascendance coincides with a boom in the fitness club industry as a whole, with membership expected to reach an all-time high of 52 million in 2013, according to research from IBISWorld. Revenues for gym, health, and fitness clubs in 2013 are estimated to reach a record high of $25.9 billion. Anytime Fitness has seen revenues grow by 80% in the last five years to more than $484 million at the end of 2012, and Runyon anticipates system-wide revenue exceeding $600 million at the end of this year.

So what has fueled Anytime's impressive growth? Pete Moore, founder and managing director of consulting firm and market research firm Integrity Square, thinks it's not just the relaxed atmosphere, pointing instead to its monthly membership costs and 24/7 operating hours model. "Anytime came in charging an inexpensive $35-$55 a month and stripped down labor costs by having the gyms staffed for a certain number of hours, but allowing members to come and go when they like."

Future issues for Anytime Fitness are the same that have plagued the fitness industry as a whole: stagnation and diversification. The industry's memberships and revenue have flat-lined since 2011, and while growth is expected within the next few years, it will be at a slower rate than before. This, along with the growth of competition from yoga studios, Zumba classes, and the convenience of home workouts threatens the future of bigger gyms.

Yet Runyon doesn't feel threatened; he seems to relish the challenge.

"Blockbuster got beat by a better business model in Redbox and Netflix, so we must be prepared to see what's around the corner ... Our focus going forward will be on outside club activities than inside activities," he said.

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To extend their reach, Anytime Fitness has created an online health guide, anytimehealth.com, focusing on meal planning, tracking workouts, and sharing members' fitness successes with others. The website also calculates how many calories and pounds members have lost using its nutritional programs.

To be sure, Anytime Fitness isn't abandoning its brick-and-mortar foundation; the company recently acquired Waxing the City, a Denver-based hair removal salon franchise that Runyon says is the kind of "personal improvement brand" he wants to promote with his company.

There are plans for 250 to 300 new clubs over the next four years, and 25-35% of those clubs will be outside the U.S.

If Anytime Fitness continues to grow at that rate, it won't be long before the entire world knows its name.

Source: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/07/31/anytime-fitness/

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Azusa High School wrestling coach accused of sending explicit messages to minor

AZUSA - The varsity wrestling coach for Azusa High School has been charged with allegedly sending explicit text messages to a minor, police said Tuesday.

Azusa police arrested 31-year-old Brent Monacelli of Azusa on July 20 on a warrant.

Sgt. Tim Harrington said the District Attorney's Office filed one felony count of contacting a minor with intent to conduct certain acts and a misdemeanor count of child annoying against Monacelli and issued a warrant for his arrest on July 15.

The investigation started May 4 when the minor told police about getting the messages, according to Harrington. He wouldn't say the age and gender of the minor or how the minor met the coach.

He said the victim isn't related to Monacelli.

Monacelli, who is out on bail, couldn't be reached for comment Tuesday night. The two phone numbers listed under his name in public records are no longer in service.

Officials with the DA's Office said Monacelli will be arraigned Oct. 4 at Pomona Superior Court.

Source: http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_23762013/azusa-high-school-wrestling-coach-accused-sending-explicit?source=rss_viewed

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Jennifer Garner Sports Large Baby Bump for "Imagine"

Posted Tuesday July 30, 2013 12:06 AM GMT

It's been almost a year-and-a-half since she's had a real baby bump, but Jennifer Garner is revisiting her pregnant days for her upcoming film.

On Monday (July 29), the "13 Going on 30" actress was spotted on the Los Angeles set of "Imagine," where she wore a large fake belly under a maxi dress.

The upcoming dramedy is officially described as follows: "An old letter written to him by John Lennon and Yoko Ono inspires an aging musician to live life differently, and he sets out to reconnect with his biological son."

The Dan Fogelman-written and -directed flick also stars Al Pacino and Annette Bening, and is set to hit theaters nationwide in 2014.

Enjoy the pictures of Jennifer Garner on the set of "Imagine" in NYC (July 29).

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Top ten ? the world?s most dangerous jobs in 2013

SITTING comfortably at work?

On Monday we told how Ashley Lawrence earned her crust rescuing alligators in Florida's Everglades before relocating the deadly reptiles.

The razor-teethed killers don't worry Ashley but is it one of the deadliest jobs in the world?

We decided to take a look at the facts and run through the world's 10 most dangerous ways to make a living in 2013.

10. A policeman in Mexico

Border police ... Mexico's officers face some of the toughest working conditions in the world

A seven-year escalation of the brutal drugs war between Mexico?s cartels and authorities has left its toll on police assigned to the troubled states which border America.

Kidnap and killings are commonplace as the war?s overall death toll reached 60,000 last year ? with thousands of police officers among the dead.

Only last week heavily-armed men ambushed federal police units in the Michoacan border state, killing two officers.

9. A lorry driver in Central Africa

Bus ride ... not the safest way to travel in Central Africa

A combination of tiredness, long hours and quick turnarounds make it one of the most hazardous jobs anywhere in the world ? but it takes on a new level of danger in Central Africa.

Many of the roads are unsurfaced while the oil-rich state of Chad has more than 3,000 deaths recorded each year in a population of 11,000,000 ? the highest rate in the world.

Crashes and ambushes by criminals are a daily hazard ? with one smash in the Central African Republic last year claiming the lives of 23 people and injuring ten.

8. A lumberjack

Logging ... death rates still remain high among lumberjacks

The last thing you want during a day at work is for a tree to fall on your head ? but it?s a daily nightmare for loggers across the globe.

In the US, where safety measures are some of the best in the world, there are around 104 deaths per every 100,000 ? 21 times the average person?s risk of dying.

In March William Goodson, a 72-year-old US lumberjack, was killed when a log struck him on the head.

7. A commercial fisherman

Deep sea fishing ... one of the deadliest of catches

As many will know from TV?s Deadliest Catch, fishing ? especially for Alaskan crab ? is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.

Falling overboard, boats capsizing and malfunctioning tools all contribute to the high death rate of 127.3 per 100,000 workers, as recorded by America?s Bureau of Labor Statistics.

But in fact Alaskan crab fishing has vastly improved its safety record from the 1990s when there were 7.3 deaths a year ? to now just one in six years.

6. A bomb disposal expert

Tricky ... a bomb disposal expert defuses a device

It remains one of the toughest jobs in the military with scores of bomb disposers killed in recent wars against insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It was popularised in Hollywood blockbuster The Hurt Locker but the role has come under increasing scrutiny - particularly during the coroner?s inquest into the death of heroic Capt Daniel Shepherd.

He was killed while trying to defuse a roadside bomb in Afghanistan and was post-humously awarded the George Medal for bravery after dismantling 13 bombs in 36 hours ? while under enemy fire.

5. A journalist in Syria

Civil war ... Syrian government forces patrol in the city of Homs

Reporting the news in Mexico, Pakistan and Somalia are some of the most dangerous jobs in journalism ? but war-torn Syria remains the most deadly.

The Committee to Protect Journalists estimates there were at least 39 killed ? including Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin - and 21 kidnapped in 2012 alone.

Other estimates place the figures much higher while both rebel and government forces are held responsible for the attacks as the bitter civil war rages on.

4. Private security worker in Iraq

Hired muscle .. private contractors fill the gap as conventional fighting forces leave countries

As US, UK and coalition forces have left Iraq - private security firms have moved in to risk life and limb for a weekly wage.

At the back end of last year the Pentagon estimated they had around 7,000 private contractors working for them in Iraq ? with 121 deaths reported in all countries.

Tasked with the dangerous job of guarding embassies, individuals and government buildings against insurgents ? there have been 90,680 US insurance claims by or on behalf of security workers since 2001.

3. A coal miner in China

Attrition ... Chinese miners have died in their thousands during the last few years

Historically one of the toughest jobs out there ? but coal mining in China is the worst of the lot.

Last year 1,384 were killed in coal mining accidents in the Communist state ? down from a staggering 1,973 in 2011.

The rate of death per 100 million tonnes of coal extracted is astonishingly high at 37 ? that?s more than 19 times as many as in the US - with another 28 miners killed in an explosion in May.

2. A commercial pilot on a Russian airline

Fatal journey .. Russia has one of the highest rates of plane deaths in the world

Stepping on to a plane can be a worrying experience for most people ? but if you?re a Russian pilot it takes on an added level of angst.

Over the last ten years around 800 people have died in air accidents across the country ? not to mention those who have died on Russian jets elsewhere.

In 2011 44 people of the 45 on board a plane died near the Russian city of Yaroslavl ? many from the local ice hockey team ? after the pilot, who falsified his flying documents, incorrectly applied the brakes.

1. A bus driver in Guatemala City

Terror ... bus drivers in Guatemala City have been targeted by gangsters

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In a six-year campaign of terror ruthless Guatemalan gangs have murdered around 900 of the capital city?s bus drivers.

Many drivers have quit in fear as law and order in the Central American state has broken down ? with just 5% of murders solved by cops.

The gangsters butcher workers who have not paid the extortion money they demand from the city?s 10,000 buses which serve the population.

The muder rate among drivers rocketed to a shocking one a day for the first two months of this year.

Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/5040752/Top-ten-the-worlds-most-dangerous-jobs-in-2013.html

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Casino theft followed by unintended gift, police say | Northern Star

Topics:? crime, police, richmond local area command

POLICE say a 38-year-old man broke into two Casino homes to steal, but accidentally left something behind as well.

The man was charged with the break-ins at?Gitana and Canterbury streets after the victims of one of his alleged thefts found his mobile phone at their home.

Police said the homes were broken into between 2pm and 6pm with stolen items including?action figures, jewellery, a watch, a TV, and jewellery boxes from the homes.

A few hours after the thefts were discovered, the residents of the Canterbury Street home discovered the phone and handed it over to police.

"Further investigations lead to the recovery of most of the stolen items," police from the Richmond Local Area Command reported on their Facebook page.

The man has been refused bail to appear at Lismore Local Court on Wednesday, July 31.

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Obama, Clinton meeting for lunch at White House

WASHINGTON (AP) ? It's the most talked about lunch in the nation's capital.

President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are dining privately at the White House Monday. While it's not the first time the pair have seen each other since Clinton left the administration earlier this year, each of their get-togethers are closely analyzed.

That's because Clinton is considered a leading contender to replace Obama, though she hasn't said whether she'll launch another presidential campaign.

The president is also being watched for signs of who he will support in the race to replace him. Vice President Joe Biden is also believed to be considering a run for the White House, potentially leaving Obama caught between two of his closest advisers.

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Georgia Reclaims Control of Testing; Neighbor Florida to Consider the Same

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Georgia is withdrawing from the Common Core national assessments, and neighboring Florida could soon follow suit.

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (R), along with Superintendent John Barge, sent a letter to the district superintendents throughout the Peach State last week announcing the decision.

Georgia?s move highlights both immediate, practical concerns and long-term concerns over Common Core. Deal made clear that ?Georgia can create an equally rigorous measurement without the high costs associated with this particular test.?

In 2010, Georgia entered into a partnership among 22 states called the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) to implement the Common Core national assessments, which has a price tag of $29.50 per student. Georgia?s current assessment expense is $10 per student. Common Core would add $27 million to the state?s testing budget.

Education leaders in Georgia also understand that doing what?s best for students means keeping educational decisions within the state and in the hands of local leadership?not distant bureaucrats.

Deal and Barge write:

Creating the tests in Georgia will ensure that the state maintains control over its academic standards and student testing, whereas a common assessment would have prevented [the Georgia Department of Education] from being able to adjust and rewrite Georgia?s standards when educators indicate revisions are needed to best serve students.

Meanwhile, the Florida state Senate has recommended immediate withdrawal from the Common Core tests. Florida Speaker of the House Will Weatherford and Senate President Don Gaetz implored Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett:

Florida?s strong education policies have made us a model for the nation and have resulted in extraordinary gains in student achievement. Too many questions remain unanswered with PARCC regarding implementation, administration, technology readiness, timeliness and utility of results, security infrastructure, data collection and undetermined cost. We cannot jeopardize fifteen years of education accountability reform by relying on PARCC to define a fundamental component of our accountability system. Our schools, teachers, and families have worked too hard for too long for our system to collapse under the weight of an assessment system that is not yet developed, designed nor tested.? It would be unacceptable to participate in national efforts that may take us backward and erode confidence in our accountability system and our trajectory of continued success. By ensuring decisions are uniquely tailored to our state, we reinforce our dedication to providing Floridians with an education that directly leads to success in the opportunities and challenges of our economy.

Common Core is already proving costly in terms of dollars and will prove even more costly in terms of educational liberty down the road. Educational decisions should be in the hands of those closest to the students: parents and local leaders. Exiting the Common Core national standards push makes it more likely that such decisions will be.

Source: http://blog.heritage.org/2013/07/29/georgia-reclaims-control-of-testing-neighbor-florida-to-consider-the-same/

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Israel?s Ben Gurion Airport building its first hotel

July 29, 2013 12:14pm

JERUSALEM (JTA) ? Ben Gurion Airport in Israel is getting its first hotel.

Construction was approved last week by the Israel Airports Authority on land adjacent to the airport?s Terminal 3, according to reports. The Tel Aviv-area hotel would allow direct access to the passenger hall and terminal.

A bidding process will decide on the contractor, who will be responsible for planning and construction costs.

In a statement, the airports authority said the hotel would cater to businesspeople who arrive in Israel for short visits to participate in conferences or events.

?Hotels at airports are a customary service offered to the public of passengers, businesspeople, airlines crews and tourist groups at many airports around the world,? the authority said.

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Anthony Weiner's campaign manager calls it quits amid new revelations

Danny Kadem, Anthony Weiner's campaign manager, has stepped down after the candidate's most recent publicity regarding his behavior online, according to The New York Times. TODAY's Erica Holt interviews David Gregory of NBC's "Meet the Press" about the impact this could have on Weiner's campaign.

By Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC News

Anthony Weiner?s campaign manager has quit in the wake of new revelations about the New York City mayoral candidate's online communications with women, according to a spokeswoman.

The move was first reported by The New York Times late Saturday and confirmed to NBC News by Barbara Morgan, Weiner?s press contact.

Danny Kedem, 31, informed Weiner that he could no longer run day-to-day operations after the mayoral hopeful admitted Tuesday that he continued to send raunchy photos and messages to women after resigning from Congress in 2011 amid a "sexting" scandal, according to the Times report.

Kedem?s resignation deals another blow to Weiner?s beleagured campaign, which has struggled to rebound in the polls following the candidate?s disclosures in the last week.

On Tuesday, Weiner confessed to explicit communications with six to ten women ? three of them after he resigned ? after a gossip website published texts and photos it said were from 2012.

Eduardo Munoz / Reuters

Former U.S. congressman from New York and current Democratic candidate for New York City Mayor Anthony Weiner stops to speak to the media outside after speaking to members of Brownsville Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York on July 28.

At a press conference Tuesday, Weiner ? accompanied by his wife, Huma Abedin, an aide to Hillary Clinton ? apologized and asked voters for a second chance.

?Some of these things happened before my resignation. Some of them happened after,? Weiner said.

?While some things that have been posted today are true and some are not, there is no question that what I did was wrong. This behavior is behind me,? he said, calling his digital indiscretions ?problematic to say the least and destructive to say the most.?

On Monday, the gossip website The Dirty claimed that Weiner, allegedly using the alias ?Carlos Danger,? met an unnamed 22-year-old woman on the social media website Formspring in July 2012, sent her explicit photos and had phone sex with her before the relationship ?fizzled.?

Weiner, a six-term congressman who represented the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, resigned in disgrace in June 2011 after it was revealed he sent a photo of himself in his underwear to a woman via Twitter.

He initially denied it was him in the photo or that he sent it, but Weiner eventually came clean, confessing that he had carried on ?inappropriate? conversations through Twitter, Facebook, email and over the phone with six women over a three-year period.

And yet, less than two years after a stunning fall from grace, Weiner, 48, appeared to be in the midst of a comeback.

Two months after he announced his return to the political stage, he was near or at the top in several polls in the race to replace Michael Bloomberg, eclipsing New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who was widely considered the frontrunner.

Kedem was likely a key ingredient in Weiner's successful formula, helping to transform the long-shot candidate -- a mainstay of tabloid headlines and late-night talk show punchlines -- into a legitimate contender for New York City's top job.

Weiner has not indicated that he will drop out of the race.

Tracy Connor of NBC News contributed to this report.

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OVAC All-Star Football Tournament Features Several Local Players

The unofficial start to the high school football season is here.

University High's Jon Lewis is one of several local players playing in the 68th Rudy Mumley OVAC All-Star Charity Football Classic at Wheeling Island Stadium Sunday.

The annual game that pits Ohio versus West Virginia kicks off at 7:15 Sunday.

Players have spent all week with their new teammates practicing at Bethany College. West Virginia has won two of the past three years, but last year it was the buckeyes of Ohio that won the title.

"We're hoping we can play kids on offense and defense both, but at the same time we want to be able to spell kids," said West Virginia coach Mike Young. "We defiantly will play our best kids to win the ball game, but at the same time ,we want to give every kid an opportunity to play."

"You come here and want to make it enjoyable like you would in any all star game," said Mark Holenka, Ohio's head coach. "You want to build comradery, build relationships. A lot of time, talking to different people in the past, the people they roomed with that week have become friends for life, they still keep in contact with these people."

University High School's Jon Lewis, Deion Cunningham, Tim Kocher, and Trevor Layton are rostered.

Morgantown be represented by Blaine Stewart, Jalen Thomas, and Alex Weidman.

Clay-Battelle's Tyler Menas was selected to play, but will be sidelined due to a should injury.

For a full roster visit the OVAC's web site.

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Why was doomed Spanish train moving so fast?

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (AP) ? By all accounts, the train was going way too fast as it curled around a gentle bend. Then in an instant, one car tumbled off the track, followed by the rest of the locomotive, which seemed to come apart like a zipper being pulled.

The derailment sent pieces of the sleek train plowing across the ground in a ghastly jumble of smashed metal, dirt and smoke.

But a day after Spain suffered its deadliest rail disaster in decades ? which killed 80 people and maimed scores of others ? one question surpassed all others: Why was the train moving so fast?

Investigators opened a probe Thursday into possible failings by the 52-year-old driver and the train's internal speed-regulation systems.

Experts said one, or both, must be at fault for the disastrous Wednesday night crash of the train that was carrying 218 passengers and five crew members to Santiago de Compostela, a destination of Catholic pilgrimage preparing to celebrate its most revered saint.

Instead, this stunned city of nearly 100,000 converted its sports arena into a shelter for the dead and the grieving.

"All Spaniards feel the pain of the families," said Spain's head of state, King Juan Carlos, as he and Queen Sofia met hospitalized survivors of the crash 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) south of Santiago de Compostela. The royal couple dressed in funereal black.

"For a native of Santiago like me, this is the saddest day," said Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who toured the crash scene and declared a national three-day mourning period.

The regional government of Galicia, in northwest Spain, said 94 people remained hospitalized, 31 of them in critical condition, including four children. The U.S. State Department said one American died and at least five others were hurt but cautioned that those figures could be revised upward.

The American victim was identified by the Diocese of Arlington as Ana Maria Cordoba, an administrative employee from northern Virginia. She and her husband and daughter were traveling to visit her son, who had completed the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, according to Catholic News Service, a division of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Many victims suffered severe burns as the train's diesel fuel ignited a fire that caught some passengers trapped in mangled upside-down carriages. Emergency officials took DNA samples from the most heavily burned or the unconscious in an effort to identify both the living and the dead.

Rafael Catala, a senior transport official in Spain's Development Ministry, told radio network Cadena SER that the train appeared to be going much faster than the track's speed limit of 80 kph (50 mph) as it approached the city.

Breathtaking footage of the crash captured by a railway security camera showed the moment when the eight-carriage train approached a left bend beneath a road bridge at a seemingly impossible speed. An Associated Press analysis of the video indicated the train hit the bend going twice the speed limit or more.

Using the time stamp of the video and the estimated distance between two pylons, the AP calculated that the train was moving in a range of 144 to 192 kph (89 to 119 mph). Another estimate calculated on the basis of the typical distance between railroad ties indicated its speed was between 156 kph and 182 kph (96 to 112 mph).

The anonymously posted video footage, which the Spanish railway authority Adif said probably came from one of its cameras, shows the train carriages buckling and leaving the tracks soon into the turn.

Murray Hughes, consultant editor of Railway Gazette International, said a diesel-powered unit behind the lead locomotive appeared to derail first. The front engine quickly followed, violently tipping on to its right side as it crashed into a concrete wall and bulldozed along the ground.

In the background, the rear carriages could be seen starting to decouple and coming off the tracks. The picture went blank as the engine appeared to crash directly into the camera.

After impact, witnesses said, a fire engulfed passengers trapped in at least one carriage.

"I saw the train coming out of the bend at great speed and then there was a big noise," eyewitness Consuelo Domingues, who lives beside the train line, told The Associated Press. "Then everybody tried to get out of the train."

Other witnesses said nearby residents ran onto the tracks and worked to free survivors from the crumpled, flaming wreckage. Some were seen pounding rocks against windows, and one man wielded a pickaxe as survivors were pulled through shattered windows to safety.

Many aboard the train were Catholic pilgrims heading for Santiago de Compostela's internationally celebrated annual festival honoring St. James, a disciple of Jesus whose remains are said to rest in a church shrine. Since the Middle Ages, the city has been the destination for Christian faithful walking the mountainous El Camino de Santiago trail, or "The Way of St. James."

Santiago officials canceled Thursday's festivities and took control of the city's indoor basketball arena to use as a makeshift morgue. There, relatives of the dead could be seen sobbing and embracing each other.

The Interior Ministry ruled out terrorism as a cause.

While sections of the Spanish press pointed an accusatory finger at the train driver, government officials and railway experts cautioned that a fault in systems designed to keep trains at safe speeds could be to blame.

Jose Antonio Santamera, president of Spain's College of Civil Engineering, said one of the train's supposedly fail-safe mechanisms could have failed.

"The security system will detect any fault of the driver, (for example) if he has suffered a blackout and does not answer calls, and then starts the train's security systems. So I almost rule out human error," Santamera said.

He said the crash happened at a point where one speed-regulating system gave way to another, suggesting a possible failure at the handover point.

Spain's lead investigator in the crash, Judge Vazquez Tain, ordered detectives to question the train driver.

Train company Renfe identified the driver, Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, as a 30-year employee of the state rail company who became an assistant driver in 2000 and a fully qualified driver in 2003. The company said Amo took control of the train from a second driver about 100 kilometers (65 miles) south of Santiago de Compostela.

Renfe's president, Julio Gomez-Pomar Rodriguez, told Spain's Cadena Cope radio network that the driver had worked on that route for more than one year.

It was Spain's deadliest train accident since 1972, when a train collided with a stationary carriage in southwest Spain, killing 86 people and injuring 112.

"July 24 will no longer be the eve of a day of celebration but rather one commemorating one of the saddest days in the history of Galicia," said Alberto Nunez Feijoo, regional president of Galicia. Santiago de Compostela is its capital.

Passenger Sergio Prego told Cadena Ser the train "traveled very fast" just before it derailed and the cars flipped upside down, on their sides and into the air.

"I've been very lucky because I'm one of the few able to walk out," Prego said.

The Alvia 730 series train started from Madrid and was scheduled to end its journey at El Ferrol, about 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Santiago de Compostela. Alvia operates high-speed services, but they do not go as fast as Spain's fastest bullet trains, called AVEs.

The maximum Alvia speed is 250 kph (155 mph) on tracks made especially for the AVEs, and they travel at a maximum speed of 220 kph (137 mph) on normal-gauge rails.

Other Spanish train calamities include a 1944 accident involving three trains that crashed in a tunnel. That disaster produced wildly disputed death tolls ranging from the government's official count of 78 to researchers' later estimated tolls exceeding 500.

In 2006, 43 people died when a subway train crashed because of excessive speed in the southern city of Valencia.

In 2004, 191 died when al-Qaida-inspired terrorists detonated 10 bombs on four Madrid commuter trains.

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Associated Press writers Alan Clendenning, Ciaran Giles and Harold Heckle in Madrid, Panagiotis Mouzakis, Fisnik Abrashi and Robert Barr in London, Deb Riechmann in Washington, and Shawn Pogatchnik in Dublin contributed to this report.

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Contribution Of Sacramento Assisted Living Facilities In Caring Senior Members Of Society

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Many elder people lost their freedom, independence in their own home. They wish do live their life in such atmosphere where they could enjoy their personal freedom, their privacy and their independence too. Being stayed in home sometimes does not make them feel satisfied with their lives. At that time the question generally arises that what should you do for your loved ones happiness? What action should be taken for their livings? In this article, you will get the best solutions about choosing assisted living facilities in your area, like for instance Sacramento assisted living facilities.

In our society, the reputation of nursing homes is bit downer. The people do not prefer to live in such nursing homes due to some of the demerits it has from several years but still there are so many homes, which are well reputed and has so many facilities available for old members of the society. If you are loved, health is well maintained and you do not required the regular medical care at that time you don?t need to place them in nursing homes. There are also so many options for them where your loved one could feel more comfortable.

Overview of Assistant Living Facilities

ALF?s are the homes where your loved one can live with their comfort and they can get the assistance with their daily living routine. Your loved one can also feel independent in the assisted living facility homes. The main objectives of such homes are to provide the independence to the people by bridging the gap between the independence of the people with the nursing homes. For choosing the best option for your loved one there are so many difference, which should be taken in mind before deciding any place for them.

Restrictions

In assisted living facilities the people is not much restricted to do anything they like while in nursing homes proper Medicare is provided to the people and for that there are lots of restrictions on the people.

Charges

The assisted living is costly because they provide the personal apartments with so many settings to the person and in nursing homes; limited space is provided to them.

Facilities

The facilities are individually provided in assisted living but the nursing homes provide facilities group wise.

Atmosphere

The atmosphere of assisted living is as if homes and the atmosphere of the nursing homes are like any hospital.

If your loved one is needed the assistance in their daily activities, Sacramento assisted living facilities will become the best option for them and if your loved one needs the proper care with their health then the nursing homes will become the best option for them.

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OpenCL 2.0 provisional spec gets outlined, OpenGL 4.4 released

SIGGRAPH has only just begun, but the Khronos Group is already giving folks of the graphics programming persuasion some fresh APIs to talk about. Yesterday marked the release of the OpenCL 2.0 provisional specification, and it's boasting an Android installable client driver extension, along with improvements to image handling, shared virtual memory and more. It's expected that the new version of OpenCL will be finalized in six month's time, and feedback regarding the changes are being welcomed. The fresh OpenGL 4.4 spec revamps everything from shaders to asynchronous queries while keeping full backwards compatibility, and includes additional functions to make porting Direct3D apps a smoother process. If parallel programming and cross-platform graphics are your thing, hit the break for the full feature breakdown in the press release.

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Job Seekers Tap Into 'Hidden' Job Market

You've heard about trendy bars with unmarked doors or red-hot restaurants with unlisted phone numbers? Now there's a hidden job market, too.

A new study by online career site?FindEmployment?revealed that nearly 80 percent of job seekers are looking to take advantage of the "hidden job market." The hidden job market means that companies are creating roles for candidates who express interest in working for the company.

Job candidates have different methods of finding success in the hidden job market. The research found that nearly 40 percent of applicants believe the best way to approach opportunities in the hidden market is by identifying companies they would like to work for and then?sending those companies their r?sum?. Three in 10 candidates, however, prefer to present themselves personally and request an interview to showcase the talent, research and solutions they could bring to the company.

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Additionally, one-quarter of those surveyed think the best strategy is to research the company's strengths, weaknesses and competitors.

"Job seekers globally need to take advantage of every means of enhancing their visibility in front of employers when they are searching for a job, particularly with such fierce competition with publicly advertised roles," said James Weaver, director of FindEmployment. "The determination to research a company and personally approach them with a tailor-made r?sum? emphasizing the contributions that you can bring to their company?showcases commitment, drive and ambition that can make you stand out as an asset to that company."

The study revealed that people thought employees who were advancing in their careers had utilized the hidden job market the best, followed by the unemployed and?graduates searching for their first job.

The "underground" job-searching method appears to be gaining steam: Overall, 55 percent of those surveyed plan to use some hidden-job-market search techniques in the future.

"It is definitely an approach to job seeking that I would advocate," Weaver said.

This story was provided by?BusinessNewsDaily, a sister site to LiveScience. Follow Chad Brooks on Twitter @cbrooks76?or BusinessNewsDaily @BNDarticles. We're also on?Facebook?&?Google+. This story originally published on?BusinessNewsDaily.

Copyright 2013 LiveScience, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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DUI convictions at risk in California, Bay Area prosecutor warns

Jaskaran Gill was still on probation for a DUI when he was caught doing 100 mph on Interstate 880 in San Jose with his blood-alcohol concentration nearly twice the legal limit.

A second drunken-driving conviction could have stripped him of his driver's license for at least a year and landed him in jail. But a more devastating likelihood loomed: The State Bar might deny Gill the right to practice law or significantly delay the start of his career at a time when he was more than halfway through Santa Clara University law school.

So, Gill claimed that his blood-alcohol level wasn't really 0.14, as the Santa Clara County crime lab had reported in early 2010. The lab's methodology was outdated, he claimed, rendering the test scientifically invalid and therefore not admissible as evidence in court.

Gill's novel defense tactic failed, thanks to a dedicated young prosecutor who won an epic battle with the law student's lawyers -- and to the county crime lab, which demonstrated that Gill would be considered drunk even if the test had been performed using the more up-to-date procedure.

But now, the same prosecutor, Christopher Boscia, is warning that drunken-driving prosecutions across California are vulnerable to similar legal challenges.

"It is simply a matter of time before a trial court in California excludes blood results based on this novel defense tactic," Boscia writes in a highly technical, 32-page article in the upcoming edition

of the Santa Clara Law Review. "If successful, this tactic could undermine every DUI prosecution in the state."

Desperate challenges

Defendants are always coming up with desperate ways to challenge DUI prosecutions, from attacking the credentials of a lab technician to claiming someone else was driving. But the strategy Gill used has already worked in Washington state and Michigan, though so far just in the lower courts.

In California, Boscia contends, the only way to protect some 200,000 annual prosecutions from a possible decision by a judge to exclude the results is if all crime labs revise their procedures and the Legislature updates the DUI regulations. Santa Clara County already has switched to the new protocol for blood-alcohol tests. If an appellate court were to uphold a lower court decision to exclude the results on this theory, it would be binding statewide.

The way the test is now done is arguably outdated for two reasons. Much of the equipment used throughout the state has not been certified as accurate under international standards. The other problem is that a test result -- for instance, Gill's 0.14 blood-alcohol level -- is really an estimate of the true

Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Chris Boscia, San Jose, Calif., April 2013. (LiPo Ching, Bay Area News Group)

value. It actually needs to include another calculation called the measure of uncertainty, which is somewhat like the margin of error in a poll.

In Gill's case, the uncertainty turned out to be plus or minus 4 percent, a fairly tiny range that still put him well over the limit. But in borderline cases, where a defendant's blood-alcohol level is close to the legal limit, presenting a range of values could make a decisive difference. And defense attorneys also can argue, as they did in Gill's trial, that the range of values must be reported in every case because expressing someone's blood-alcohol concentration as a single value gives the judge or jury false confidence in the results.

"Without the measure of uncertainty, the information in a single value is actually misleading," said Ted Vosk, a Harvard law grad with an undergraduate degree in physics and math, and the leading national expert on these kind of DUI challenges.

In California so far, defense attorneys haven't been able to convince judges to exclude the single-value test results. But some lawyers have found -- especially in borderline cases -- that the argument undermines the jury's confidence in the prosecution.

"I make the challenge regularly," said Peter Johnson, the Contra Costa County lawyer who represented Gill. "In one case, the jury told us that was the reason for the acquittal. Some judge at some point is going to take it seriously."

Doubt as a tactic

The concept of uncertainty has been discussed in scientific circles at least since the early 1900s, Boscia writes. In 2011, the not-for-profit group that accredits crime labs issued a guideline advising them they had to convert to it for a broad series of tests, not just for blood alcohol. But the labs and legal community protested, and the deadline was postponed until the end of 2013.

"Uncertainty sounds like doubt, even though it's not,'' Boscia said. "Whenever prosecutors hear the word, they want to run in the other direction."

Some labs have begun the conversion, including the Contra Costa County lab, where Gill's mother works as a toxicologist. But at the time of her son's trial in 2010, her lab had not adopted the new procedures, she acknowledged in a phone interview.

Boscia argues that DUI prosecutions are still vulnerable for several reasons. First, in counties that haven't converted, the tests could be challenged for the next six months.

But even after the change, there will be thousands of blood samples that were tested under the old model that cannot simply be retested using the new procedure because the defense could argue that alcohol tends to deteriorate over time.

A third problem, Boscia says, is that there will be a conflict between the state's regulations covering DUI cases and the way in which crime labs are handling DUI tests. The prosecutor said defense lawyers could then take a different tack and attack those scientifically valid results on that technical conflict. He's calling for the Legislature to quickly update the law -- and also to set up a forensic science advisory board to ensure that the best science is being practiced and presented to juries in California courtrooms.

Boscia also is traveling around the state training other prosecutors how to fend off any legal challenges. Most DUIs are prosecuted by busy novices in three to five days; Boscia's trial stretched over six weeks and lasted 20 days.

"It's important Chris' message be heard,'' said Sepideh Mousakhani, editor of the Santa Clara Law Review. "(His) article has the potential to make a great difference in the legal community."

As for Gill, he was sentenced to 210 days in jail. Now, about 2?1/2 years after his arrest, he has remained sober and is still trying to gain admission to the State Bar -- including, his mom said, by volunteering full-time for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Contact Tracey Kaplan at 408-278-3482. Follow her at Twitter.com/tkaplanreport.

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Apple patent hints at possibility of Liquidmetal iPhone and iPad

For all its tough chemical properties and unusual capacity for intricate molding, Liquidmetal apparently still can't be turned into anything much bigger than Apple's SIM ejector tool or, perhaps, the chess pieces rendered above (for illustrative purposes only!). Attempts to use so-called "metallic glass" to manufacture larger objects, like the bodies of phones or tablets, have been hampered by difficulties in creating large sheets of controllable thickness, because stretching and other traditional techniques just cause the stuff to break. However, a patent recently awarded to Crucible Intellectual Property (the shell company representing the exclusive licensing tie-up between Apple and Liquidmetal Technologies) suggests some progress has been made towards removing this barrier.

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Now, we can't claim dwarven levels of expertise on the subject, but we're inclined to agree with the interpretation of the folks at Electronista, who spotted that the patent describes a range of factory methods (generally involving lots of melting and conveyor belts) for creating sheets of metallic glass of controllable thickness between 0.1mm and 25mm and in widths of up to three meters. The paperwork explicitof these sheets in making iPhones, iPads, watches or indeed "any electronic device known the art." In the shorter term, if you happen to really, really want a Liquidmetal chess set, you can register your enthusiasm at the More Coverage below.

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Could Bangladesh protests upend the government?

Protests shut down Bangladesh this week after a war-crimes tribunal sentenced a prominent Islamist politician to 90 years in prison.

By Saad Hammadi,?Correspondent / July 16, 2013

Bangladeshi activists shout slogans demanding death penalty for Ghulam Azam, the former chief of Islamic political party Jamaat-e-Islami, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, July 16.

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Four people were killed in the clashes, including a child, and a number of others were injured today when opposition supporters for Ghulam Azam, the former chief of Islamic political party Jamaat-e-Islami, attacked police and set buses and trucks ablaze, prompting police to open fire.

?The leaders of both the [country?s political] alliances have said there is a danger of extraconstitutional intervention,? says Manzurul Ahsan Khan, adviser to the central committee of the Communist Party of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh, a country about the size of New York State and with a population of about 150 million, has a Muslim majority and a Constitution defining the nation as a secular democratic republic. Though the country was founded on secularism, it has swung between banning political activities of religious organizations and encouraging greater Islamization. Jamaat-e-Islami, which opposed the war of independence and has several leaders on trial for war crimes, still has strong influence among rural Bangladeshis.

Much of the recent instability has been caused by the war crimes tribunal, set up in 2010 to look into charges of human rights abuses during the 1971 war with Pakistan. The government says 3 million died, but independent estimates put the death toll between 300,000 and 500,000, mostly at the hands of pro-Pakistan Islamist militia. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina?s Awami League-led government has arrested scores of alleged Islamist militants since taking power in 2009 and says the tribunal is needed to heal old wounds.

Including Monday?s verdict, the Bangladeshi war crimes tribunal has sentenced five of the 12 accused of war crimes,?three of whom have been given the death penalty. Mr. Azam was found guilty on 61 counts, including murder, incitement, and complicity to crimes against humanity, but he ?has not been given the death sentence, considering his age,? state prosecutor Syed Haider Ali told Reuters.

That upset both Azam's supporters and critics.

Jamaat-e-Islami has called for a countrywide strike until Thursday, and analysts say the protests show no signs of letting up, as another verdict is expected tomorrow.

?The pro-secular forces are upset by the verdict of the court. Ghulam Azam is a symbol of anti-Bangladesh forces and collaborators who conspired against Bangladesh,? Shantanu Majumder, a political scientist at the University of Dhaka, told the Monitor.

?It has gone against the expectation of the nation, which obtained independence through liberation war,? Mr. Majumder says.

Protests over previous verdicts also turned violent.

Pro-secular Bangladeshi youths, who took to the streets in February to demand capital punishment for all the war criminals shortly after the tribunal gave out its first verdicts, have once again returned to the streets to occupy Dhaka?s main intersection at Shahbag.

?We have rejected this [Monday's] verdict,? says Imran Sarkar, leader of the youth movement, as he stands at the intersection. In February, protesters at Shahbag also demanded Jamaat-e-Islami be banned as a political party and proposed boycotting different establishments patronized by the party.

The ruling Awami League has recently been losing popularity, facing corruption charges against its ministers, criticism over the controversial war crimes trial process, and its position against the opposition?s call for an independent interim government to handle upcoming elections.

Some analysts worry the tensions could push Bangladesh?s democratic gains backward.

The protests, which have repeatedly shut down the country, have hurt the country?s garment industry, as the industry reels from a series of high-profile disasters. One of the largest garment exporters to Western markets, Bangladesh estimates it lost some $500 million in orders to India alone in recent weeks because of blockades and shutdowns.

Wendy Sherman,?the US undersecretary for political affairs, expressed concern over Bangladesh?s repeated shutdowns during her visit in May. ?I worry about a cycle of violence that shuts down a city of millions on what seems like a daily basis,? she told the New Age, a Bangladeshi newspaper.?

Jamaat-e-Islami has criticized the tribunal for failing to maintain international standards and charged that the court proceedings are a way to target political opponents, rather than mete out justice. Though the government denies this, of the 10 people indicted on charges of war crimes, eight are from the Jamaat-e-Islami party and its ally, the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party

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Calif. court declines to stop gay marriages

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? The California Supreme Court is refusing to order the state to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

The court issued an order Monday denying the request by backers of the state's same-sex marriage ban for an emergency order that would have required the state to keep enforcing a voter-approved prohibition on same-sex marriages.

The U.S. Supreme Court last month cleared the way for gay marriages to resume in the nation's most populous state by dismissing the backer's appeal of a lower court ruling that found Proposition 8 unconstitutional.

The state's highest court still plans to separately consider whether that lower court ruling effectively legalized gay marriages statewide or only in Los Angeles and Alameda counties.

The two couples who sued to strike down the ban live in those counties.

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Petition Wants Microsoft to Continue TechNet

Petition Wants Microsoft to Continue TechNet

Another week and another petition. TechNet was retired by Microsoft this month to begin on August 31st. This didn?t sit too well with all of the enthusiasts and professionals who depended on the subscription service to keep up with the latest and best without going broke. An online petition has surfaced on Change.org which requires 5K signatures to be recognized; looks like they will make that and more.

IT Professionals and ISVs need affordable access to Microsoft products normally accessed through TechNet. Please continue TechNet or create an affordable alternative to MSDN subscriptions minus Visual Studio and associated developer tools. Currently, the only comparable MSDN subscription costs $6120.

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Getting back list of entities with android google app engine

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I followed the entire tutorial above and can now successfully add new entities to my end point! Now I just want to be able to get it, maybe into an array list so I can display them! Heres what ive tried. No I dont have any auth or users so I dont need to do that, ill learn that next. anyhow, heres something I threw together but of course it dosnt work because im not sure how to do the http get code.

ArrayList<String> quotesId = new ArrayList<String>(); CollectionResponseQuotes items = new CollectionResponseQuotes();  List<Quotes> list = items.getItems();  for (Quotes quote : list) {  quotesId.add(quote.getId());  } 

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Syrian troops advance against rebels in Damascus

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? Government troops fired tank shells and artillery in heavy clashes between Syrian forces and rebels Sunday on the edge of Damascus, where the military has been pushing its offensive to retake key districts that have been in opposition hands for months.

The Syrian army has seized the momentum in the civil war over the past three months, wresting back territory lost to rebel forces and solidifying its hold over contested areas, particularly on the fringes of Damascus. Two of the embattled districts are Jobar and Qaboun, from which rebels frequently launch mortar rounds on the heart of the capital.

A Syrian military commander said forces loyal to President Bashar Assad have recaptured 60 percent of Jobar, south of Qaboun, and were trying to retake the rest. The commander talked to reporters Sunday during a military escorted tour of Jobar organized by the Information Ministry. His claim could not be independently verified.

An Associated Press reporter on the tour saw widespread destruction that pointed to heavy fighting in the neighborhood. Marble tile factories were destroyed. Reporters made their way in the devastated area by climbing through holes knocked in walls because of warnings of rebel snipers in the area.

At least two bodies, apparently those of rebel gunmen, lay on the floor of a bunker described by the official as a "terrorist" hideout.

"The army is advancing rapidly in Jobar ... the area will be secured in the next few days according to a well-studied plan," the commander said. He declined to be named in line with regulations.

Jobar is near the road linking Damascus with its eastern suburbs known as Eastern Ghouta. Rebels have been using the road to transport weapons and other supplies to the capital, the seat of Assad's power.

The commander said the Jobar-Qaboun axis was important to "cleanse Ghouta from terrorist groups."

Assad's government routinely describes the rebels fighting to overthrow him as terrorists playing out a foreign conspiracy hatched by Israel, the United States and some of its Arab allies in the region, like Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

During the tour of Jobar, reporters were taken to a hideout the army said it seized a day earlier after killing 30 rebels and their leader there. Reporters were shown RPG mortar rounds and explosive devices, as well as an alleged chemical material with a strong odor.

Arabic graffiti on the walls read: "The al-Tawhid Brigade," and "the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" ? names of militant groups fighting to topple Assad.

Sunday's tour came as Syria's main Western-backed opposition group claimed that 200 civilians were trapped in a mosque in Qaboun as fighting raged outside between rebels and Assad's army. It warned that thousands of civilians in Qaboun could be "massacred" by Assad's army as armored vehicles and elite forces move in.

The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said dozens of people were held captive Saturday by regime forces in the basement of the al-Omari mosque, but they were able to escape when clashes broke out between rebel and regime forces in the perimeter of the mosque, and the troops retreated.

It said 13 people, including seven fighters, died in the shelling of Qaboun Sunday.

"They (troops) are using tanks and artillery and are trying to break into Qaboun. The shelling is very intense and there is a lot of smoke," said an activist in the area, speaking via Skype on condition of anonymity, fearing retribution.

"This is day 26 of a bombing campaign, and they still haven't been able to break Qaboun," he said.

In Washington, U.S. officials said Israel targeted advanced anti-ship cruise missiles near Syria's principal port city in an airstrike earlier this month, according to a report by The New York Times. It cited the officials as saying the attack on July 5 near Latakia targeted advanced Russian-made Yakhont missiles that Russia sold to Syria.

There was no immediate comment from Assad's government, whose key political ally and arms supplier is Russia.

Asked about the reports on the CBS-TV show "Face the Nation," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to confirm or deny Israeli involvement.

He insisted that he will not allow "dangerous weapons" to reach Lebanon's Hezbollah militants.

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Halaby reported from Amman, Jordan. Associated Press writers Zeina Karam in Beirut and Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/Syrian-troops-advance-against-rebels-in-Damascus-4664389.php

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