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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Construction Connection Announces Plan to Help Construction ...

Construction Connection?s educational resources target small and medium-sized businesses across the country. They aim to help struggling businesses get back on their feet and bring the construction industry into the 21st century.

Austin, TX (PRWEB) October 30, 2012 -
Construction Connection is launching a plan to offer assistance to small and mid-sized contracting companies, as well as individuals, with their many educational resources and services. Members of?constructionconnection.com, the company?s online industry-specific networking website, have access to a plethora of educational and useful resources including their partners and consulting services, informative blogs, personalized support services and more. In their mission to help individuals and construction companies increase their efficiency and profitability, Construction Connection is working to connect people with experienced experts who can show them how to grow their businesses and expand their skills and knowledge base.

Construction Connection?s website is the gateway to valuable resources for both businesses and individuals. By?registering and completing a free online profile, members can connect with the company?s partners. The?partners are made up of professionals?whose expertise is particularly relevant to the construction industry. Partners include legal firms, engineers, manufacturers, consultants and many more all of whom are available to offer support and guidance. If a contractor has a question about how to best provide benefits to employees, or how the new Patient Protection Affordable Care Act will affect small businesses, he or she can consult the Construction Connection partner the Fringe Benefit Group. For help with complicated legal matters, Smith, Currie & Hancock, LLP offers thoughtful articles and expert counsel. These and other partners are there to help businesses and individuals flourish.

Members of constructionconnection.com can also seek out advice through their blog, support services and even social sites like?Facebook?and?LinkedIn. The blog covers a variety of topics and offers advice on subjects such as personal growth and motivation, how to hire the right individual and how to operate a business more efficiently for greater profitability. The?support services?are also immensely beneficial to members. Not only does Construction Connection boast quality, personalized support, but the co-founders of the company regularly call members on the phone to help them set up their account, enhance their personal profile or post a job opening. For a website that has over 40,000 members, this type of individual attention is unrivaled.

?We see a lot of companies owned and managed by experienced and hard-working contractors, but their businesses are struggling in the current business climate because they don?t know how to market their products and services; lots of companies don?t have a basic marketing plan in place and many don?t even have websites. That?s why we?re so passionate about the support and educational aspect of Construction Connection and?our Consulting SimplifiedTM program,? says Kent Leighton, co-founder of Construction Connection. Leighton and his partner Suzanne Breistol have both been in the construction industry for many years and both know how to run successful and profitable operations. They understand the value of networking with people within their own industry who can offer advice that is relevant and will make a difference.

Leighton and Breistol are determined to help small and mid-sized businesses improve their online presence, hire quality employees and find the answers that will help their businesses grow. They work with individuals to teach them how to best market their skills so that they can find the right job, whether they are a construction accountant, a superintendent or an electrician. ?We?re also here to listen,? says Breistol. ?Sometimes the best service we can provide is just to be a caring person that listens and doesn?t judge, but instead offers feedback and encouragement to help people clarify their thoughts and actions.? Construction Connection aims to help the construction industry continue to recover from a long period of decline by providing a place for people to network, find answers and advice, find a job or a new employee and build their online presence.

Construction Connection was created out of a need for a more effective and streamlined way for construction industry professionals to find the right jobs or hire new, qualified employees and to find answers and solutions to run their businesses more successfully. Construction Connection is a patent-pending, one-of-a-kind profile creating / matchmaking system that delivers effective results. The founders of Construction Connection, both industry professionals themselves, have a passion for connecting people with experts in the industry to help them find smart business solutions; they encourage experts to share their knowledge and act as resources for others. In addition to the networking system, Construction Connection provides free educational resources, so industry professionals can spend as little as 5 minutes at a time learning something new that could enhance their professional careers and grow their businesses. Construction Connection saves you time, money and aggravation by matching people to people, people to companies, companies to people, and companies to companies.

Source: http://www.constructionconnection.com/blog/features/plan-to-help-professionals-and-small-to-mid-sized-contracting-companies-with-industry-basics-for-smart-business/

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George Lucas: I Sold Lucasfilm To Disney To ?Protect It?

Though it's obviously more of a show business story than it is a technology industry story, the news of Lucasfilm's $4 billion sale to Disney has reverberated throughout the tech world this afternoon. This is partly just because of Star Wars' cult status among the geeks (and I use that term with all respect and love) who make the web go 'round. But also, Lucasfilm has straddled the worlds of tech and film in a unique way, with its headquarters in San Francisco instead of LA and its strong operations in tech- and engineering-heavy things such as visual effects, sound design, animation, and gaming.

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In Virginia, Obama and Romney camps mount furious final push for votes (Washington Post)

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A Minute With: Rapper RZA putting on "Iron Fists" for new movie

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rapper and music producer RZA is best known as the leader of the hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan which also includes such popular members as Method Man, Ghostface Killah and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard.

RZA branched out into film, taking on small acting roles and scoring music, including the soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill: Vol. 1."

Now, nearly a decade later, 43-year-old RZA has combined his childhood love of martial arts movies to co-write with Eli Roth the feature film "The Man With the Iron Fists," which he also directs and acts in the title role.

Shot on location in China, and co-starring Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu, Iron Fists is set during the 19th century and sees several groups of warriors and assassins descend on a village in search of gold. The quiet and unassuming local blacksmith (RZA) ends up being the village defender.

RZA, whose real name is Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, sat down with Reuters in Hollywood to talk about the film and the future of the Wu-Tang Clan.

Q: You had to pull double duty, working simultaneously in front and behind the camera. How did you balance that?

A: "My spirit had to be extra strong to pull this off. It was difficult because in the morning (as the director) I'm worrying about everybody else, I'm talking fast. Then I have to get ready for the scene and I gotta sync my voice down to this guy. I gotta sync my spirit to him. He doesn't smile once in the film. I smile. I'm not this morbid dude. He's almost empty."

Q: This is your biggest acting role to date. What did you learn as an actor?

A: "The thing about playing him that I could attest to as an actor was that I was lonely in China. I was personally lonely. And I think that shows on screen (in the character)."

Q: You're in an exotic location with Russell Crowe and some of the biggest names in martial arts. How could you be lonely?

A: "I had no love, yo. You know what I mean? Going into a massage parlor is not gonna give you no love. I was yearning for it. For a brief minute there, I learned why actors fall in love with their co-stars."

Q: How's that?

A: "Because the only girl I had was (co-star/love interest) Jamie Chung. We all went out one night after shooting and Jamie had a guy friend with her. I looked over and I was so jealous. I felt weird. I told my buddy, 'I'm about to punch this guy in the face!' In that moment, I just felt that she was my woman. And the sad thing for me is, it would have been a one way street because she wasn't interested in me at all."

Q: Looking back on your first experience directing a studio movie, what do you think?

A: "It was hard work. It was 18 hour days. It was cold. The food was terrible sometimes and the language was an issue. But I kept it fun. I didn't let nothing deter me from this path. I'm grateful and happy I had a chance to learn this craft and express it. I feel that out of everything I do as an artist - I make music, I write lyrics, I'm into fashion and clothing - filmmaking is the perfect medium and accumulates it all. I found what I should be doing. I matured into being this kind of person."

Q: So many members of the Wu-Tang Clan are doing their own thing. Will you be assembling again soon for another album?

A: "Only time will tell. For now, I will say Iron Fists is Wu-Tang. We have all the members participating on the soundtrack. And if you look closely, you'll notice that when (Rick Yune's character) needs a second suit of knives, there are W's on that second suit. You gotta look closely though. So the Wu-Tang is there. I made it subtly into the film so fans can enjoy it and feel the energy."

Q: Some groups have their time in the spotlight and disappear. Others manage to evolve and stay relevant. Where is Wu-Tang at?

A: "To me, film is the medium that Wu-Tang needs to be at. I don't think Wu-Tang needs to be in clubs while we gettin' drunk and dancing. We need to be in theaters now where we sitting with our families and really appreciating our childhood in a different way. This is the reason why (movies like) 'Iron Man', 'Captain America', 'Thor', 'The Avengers' all work. Because we are adults who read comics and now we want our children to understand what we love."

Q: So Iron Fists is the beginning of that for Wu-Tang - having others understand and appreciate the martial arts you all love?

A: "If Iron Fists goes over well and people accept it, we got great ideas for part two already. We've got a great sequel for all the characters and back stories that are so remarkable."

Q: Sounds like you're creating your own Marvel universe in a sense.

A: "Essentially, yes."

(Reporting by Zorianna Kit, editing by Jill Serjeant)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/minute-rapper-rza-putting-iron-fists-movie-145345208.html

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Mood of the Nation: Business owner spending less

MIAMI (AP) ? On the eve of the 2012 elections, The Associated Press interviewed dozens of Americans to try to gauge the economic mood of the nation. People were asked about jobs, housing, gas prices, retirement and other issues. Among them was Hilda Mitrani, 51, of North Miami Beach, Fla. The Great Recession and slow economic recovery have devastated her public relations and marketing business. But Mitrani says positive signs are emerging.

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Mitrani's long-time clients are spending cautiously, if at all ? and she has had to adjust her own lifestyle as a result.

She delays making home repairs. She keeps an eye on the thermostat. And only occasionally, she's able to treat herself to a new pair of shoes.

"It's been a hard recovery," says the single mother of two children.

Mitrani is among many feeling squeezed by a painfully sluggish economic rebound. Unemployment remains high at 7.8 percent. Average pay trails inflation. And the economy is growing too slowly to accelerate hiring.

Mitrani's clients in the nonprofit and health care sectors are reluctant to spend on public relations when they may need that money for supplies or other basics, she says. So Mitrani, who used to employ two part-time workers, now runs the business alone.

But even with lower overhead, she still feels squeezed.

"You're not sure if you're going to get paid this month or next month, or if you're going to have a new client to replace the project that you just finished," she says.

Routine utility bills feel like a burden. And thinking about college tuition payments ? her daughter is a junior at Washington University in St. Louis ? is "nerve-wracking."

More than anything else, though, she laments the endless string of payments for insurance. "Between the car, the house, the health ? so much of the income goes to insurance that it's hard to get ahead," she says.

She rations healthcare for herself to cut down on co-pays. And when her daughter needed medical attention earlier this year, she found herself saying dueling prayers in the hospital.

"Please don't let this cost an arm and a leg. And please let her be OK," Mitrani recalls saying.

Mitrani is resigned to the fact that her retirement won't be as comfortable as her parents'. Compared with her parents' generation, Mitrani believes Americans today are a bit more materialistic and might need to ratchet back expectations a bit. There's evidence this is happening: Consumers have been saving and reducing debts more, and spending less, than before the financial crisis.

Still, Mitrani sees some reason for optimism. The stock market is coming back: The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index is up more than 12 percent this year. And slowly, clients are beginning to inquire about using her services in 2013.

"They're asking for proposals and planning expansions," she says. "They're starting to talk about the future."

To watch video of Mitrani and for more on this topic, go to: http://bigstory.ap.org/topic/mood-of-the-nation

AP video journalist Robert Ray contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mood-nation-business-owner-spending-less-040245162.html

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Recent findings may help to fight melanoma's resistance to chemotherapy

Public release date: 30-Oct-2012
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IRIC discovery could lead to better treatment of skin cancers

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Blocking the action of a particular protein in our skin could improve the treatment of skin cancers, according to a study published in Oncogene yesterday by Philippe Roux, a researcher at the University of Montreal's Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC). "Our findings reveal part of the mechanisms responsible for the resistance of melanoma to anti-cancer treatments, and suggest that a particular protein in our bodies called RSK may be targeted in combination therapies to overcome drug resistance," Roux explained.

Although melanoma accounts for only 4% of all skin cancers, it is responsible for 80% of skin cancer-related deaths worldwide as it is highly invasive and resistant to conventional chemotherapies. Melanoma originates from pigment-producing cells, called melanocytes, located in the skin. The incidence of malignant melanoma is growing rapidly worldwide and there is still no effective therapy to treat it. Approximately 160,000 new cases of the disease are diagnosed each year.

Roux and his team focused their research on a signaling pathway called Ras/MAPK, which is often deregulated in melanoma, but also in lung, colon and pancreatic cancers. A signaling pathway is a chemical chain reaction that causes the cells in our bodies to act in a certain way. In this study, Roux and his team found that a protein in the Ras/MAPK pathway, RSK, contributes to chemoresistance by altering the response of cancer cells to chemotherapeutic agents.

This is the second Oncogene publication for Philippe Roux this year. In a paper published in July, Roux and his colleagues, IRIC Principal Investigators Katherine Borden and Sylvain Meloche, demonstrated that the same protein involved in chemoresistance contributes to melanoma growth, making the protein RSK a promising therapeutic target for treating the disease.

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The study was made possible thanks to grants from the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute and the Cancer Research Society.

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RSK promotes G2 DNA damage checkpoint silencing and participates in melanoma chemoresistance H Ray-David, Y Romeo, G Lavoie, P Dlris, J Tcherkezian, J A Galan and P P Roux Oncogene advance online publication, October 29, 2012; doi:10.1038/onc.2012.472

About Philippe Roux

Philippe Roux is Principal Investigator of the Cell Signalling and Proteomics research unit at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) and Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universit de Montral. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Signal Transduction and Proteomics and holds a Career Development Award from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP). For more information about Philippe Roux, please visit www.rouxlab.org.

About IRIC | Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer

An ultra-modern research hub and training centre located in the heart of Universit de Montral, the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) was created in 2003 to shed light on the mechanisms of cancer and discover new, more effective therapies to counter this plague. IRIC operates according to a model that is unique in Canada. Its innovative approach to research has already led to discoveries that will, over the coming years, have a significant impact on the fight against cancer. For more information about IRIC, please visit www.iric.ca.

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Recent findings may help to fight melanoma's resistance to chemotherapy

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IRIC discovery could lead to better treatment of skin cancers

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Labrinth, Taylor Swift top UK music charts

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Officials see delay before northern Mali offensive

LONDON (AP) ? Western officials say a planned military push to reclaim northern Mali from al-Qaida-linked rebels is unlikely to begin before next year ? despite concerns about an escalating terrorist threat posed by the militants there.

Britain's special representative to the Sahel, Stephen O'Brien, said Tuesday that nations seeking to support Mali's government will spend several months working out what assistance the West African country requires. A U.N. Security Council resolution will be needed to authorize a military offensive, which would be African-led.

O'Brien says "That will all, around the turn of the year, start developing a very clear twin track approach ? on both the political and the possible military side."

Ex-Italian Premier Romano Prodi, U.N. special envoy to the Sahel, also indicated Tuesday that planning may take some time.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/officials-see-delay-northern-mali-offensive-144008211.html

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Romney, Obama Take Break from Campaign Trail for Jokes

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney took a brief break from the campaign trail to appear at the 67th Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York on Thursday. The event is organized by the Catholic Archdiocese every year as a fundraising dinner to benefit children's charities.

The dinner gave the two candidates the opportunity to lightly roast each other for charity, as well as get in some self-deprecating humor about themselves to please the crowd. Romney and Obama will next meet on Monday for the third and final presidential debate before the elections.

Here are some of the highlights to emerge from Romney's and Obama's attendance at the Al Smith dinner on Thursday.

* Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who is the archbishop of New York, sat between the two men at the event, according to reports by the New York Times and other media outlets. Dolan spoke at both the Republican and the Democratic National Conventions this year.

* The Al Smith dinner is named for the first Catholic presidential candidate, Alfred E. Smith, who was also at one time a Democratic governor of New York. Attendance at the event is largely considered to be obligatory for any presidential candidate, according to a Reuters report.

* Reuters also made mention of the two men's mutual comedic target during the event, Vice President Joe Biden. Romney joked with the crowd that Biden's public statements often appeared to work his campaign's favor, telling attendees that the vice president's television appearances should be followed by the tagline "I'm Mitt Romney and I approve this message."

* While the tone of the evening was mostly light, both men managed to get in some subtle political digs regarding the economy, taxes, and other topics.

* They also each managed to aim their jabs at themselves, with Romney alluding to his assertion that he would cut funding to PBS by joking that "Big Bird didn't see it coming." Obama, for his part, targeted his widely panned performance in the first presidential debate, saying that he did better in the two men's second meeting this past Tuesday because he "felt really well-rested after the nice, long nap I had in the first debate," as quoted by ABC/OTUS News.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/romney-obama-break-campaign-trail-jokes-162000475.html

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Monday, October 22, 2012

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How to Manage Two Personal Brands | Business 2 Community

Personal branding requires you to craft a professional image by communicating your unique interests, skills, and expertise. Your personal brand should reflect not only your professional interests, but it should also provide specific insight into your industry to show others what you know. But what happens if you need to promote two very different personal brands?

There are plenty of individuals who have varied interests and professional identities. Perhaps a political blogger is also pursuing side projects in photography. Or a high school teacher is looking to start a network for other adults interested in environmentalism.

Whatever the case, having multiple professional images to maintain can create a rift in your identity. You don?t want to risk alienating part of your audience, but you also need to promote two different focuses. Luckily, you have a few options for this juggling act. The beauty of it is, you can choose whatever option works best for you:

Fine-tune your focus. Determine which aspects of your brand actually need to be promoted. If you run a small business but also work as a public speaker, you may find you have a greater need to promote your public speaking career rather than a business that people are able to find through other outlets, like advertisements or word-of-mouth. That doesn?t mean you need to wipe your business from your professional online presence?for example, you can include that you?re a small business owner in your LinkedIn bio, but focus your blogging efforts on public speaking insights.

Segment your brands. Some may find it best to completely separate their two focuses. This could involve creating separate Twitter accounts: for instance, one for your graphic design work and insight, another for your 9-to-5 at a marketing company. This doesn?t mean you have to have a secret, split personality?feel free to include links to your other Twitter account, blog, website, or portfolio so that your audience can easily browse both of your professional interests.

Merge your brands. This option can be tricky, but many people find it?s easiest to simply communicate that they have a multi-faceted professional image. This is because many workers don?t have the time to manage multiple online profiles, nor do they want to risk dramatically segmenting their audience. Merge your brands by clarifying in your Twitter bio or on your LinkedIn page that you?re a teacher by day, environmentalist by night, and share information and insight relevant to both professional images. If you?re clear about both interests, your audience should have no problem finding the information most relevant to them.

Personal branding involves a tricky balance no matter what your career aspirations. Promoting multiple professional focuses often depends on what you find most manageable. Weigh the options above to determine what?s best for you?good luck!

Author:

Heather R. Huhman is a career expert, experienced hiring manager, and founder & president of Come Recommended, a content marketing and digital PR consultancy for organizations with products that target job seekers and/or employers. She is also the author of Lies, Damned Lies & Internships (2011), #ENTRYLEVELtweet: Taking Your Career from Classroom to Cubicle (2010), and writes career and recruiting advice for numerous outlets.

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In Iran, not even prisoners want to hang out with Ahmadinejad

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Mystery in Gulf of Mexico: Why is oil leaking from Deepwater disaster site?

Oil identified as coming from the Macondo well, site of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of 100 gallons per day. The Coast Guard is investigating.

By Mark Guarino,?Staff writer / October 19, 2012

In this 2010 file photo, fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, off Louisiana.

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Oil is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of about 100 gallons per day near the Macondo wellhead, the site of the oil spill over two years ago that became the worst environmental disaster in US history.

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The US Coast Guard reports that the oil has been leaking since at least Sept. 16, when satellite images first revealed a sheen of surface oil located about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast and in the vicinity of where the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, 2010, killing 11 people.

Five million barrels of oil, or 205 million gallons, were released into the Gulf in the three months following the explosion.

The sheen has varied in size since its detection. Samples taken to Coast Guard laboratories in Morgan City, La., and New London, Conn., concluded the oil originated from the Macondo well.

On Sunday, the Coast Guard dispatched remotely operated vehicles to collect oil samples from the underwater site. The agency reported on Wednesday it suspected the oil was leaking from a discarded containment dome, one of several technologies used to contain the original oil spill. The dome is located about 1,600 feet from the Macondo site.

In a statement, Capt. Duke Walker, on-scene coordinator for the Coast Guard, said the agency ?is further evaluating what is believed to be seepage from the containment dome to determine how best to respond.? The Coast Guard is not yet specifying how the oil could be seeping from the dome or what may be causing it to do so now.

BP, the British oil giant responsible for the 2010 drilling operation, reports that the Macondo wellhead remains sealed since it was permanently capped with cement in mid-September 2010. The Coast Guard?s underwater inspection Sunday double-checked the wellhead as well as residual wreckage from the explosion.

The containment dome, standing four stories high and weighing 98 tons, was lowered 5,000 feet below the water?s surface to the ocean?s floor on May 6, 2010, just weeks after the explosion. The device was originally meant as a temporary measure to contain the gushing oil from one of two main leaks while recovery crews worked to plug the well. The dome?s design allowed oil and gas to flow through a pipe to a surface vessel.

Five days later, however, the dome failed after methanol, combined with freezing undersea water, crystallized in the dome, making it buoyant. Filled with flammable material, the device floated to the surface, but engineers later manipulated it so it could rest safely on the ocean?s floor.

Following the oil spill, the Obama administration issued stricter regulations for companies drilling in the deep waters of the Gulf, which is the largest source of domestic oil in the US. Despite a temporary moratorium on drilling in the region in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, permits for drilling new wells in water deeper than 500 feet are up to pre-disaster levels.

According to the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the agency tasked with regulating offshore drilling, the US has to date issued 89 permits this year, more than all the permits issued (76) in 2009, one year before the disaster. The agency?s website reports that 32 permits were issued in 2010 and 38 in 2011.

The issue of drilling on federal lands became a contentious issue in Tuesday?s debate between Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Obama. In the debate, Mr. Romney accused the president of slashing permits for drilling in half during his administration. Mr. Obama denied the accusation.

The increased pace of permitting has pleased some oil and gas industry analysts, who say the administration is on the right path.

?We?re just now seeing the permitting return to pre-Macondo levels,? Andy Lipow, president of the Houston-based consulting firm Lipow Oil Associates LLC, told Bloomberg News Wednesday. ?With oil prices hovering around $90 to $100 a barrel, it makes sense to look for oil in that area.?

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