Windows Blue is Microsoft's future low-cost OS with yearly updates

Windows Blue is Microsoft's future low-cost OS with yearly updates

Microsoft is busy preparing its next-generation Windows client, shortly after shipping Windows 8 in October. The Verge has learned from several sources familiar with Microsoft?s plans that the company is planning to standardize on an approach, codenamed Blue, across Windows and Windows Phone in an effort to provide more regular updates to consumers.

The new update on the Windows side, due in mid-2013, will include UI changes and alterations to the entire platform and pricing. We?re told that Microsoft is aiming to make Windows Blue the next OS that everyone installs. The approach is simple, Microsoft will price its next Windows release at a low cost or even free to ensure users upgrade. Once Windows Blue is released, the Windows SDK will be updated to support the new release and Microsoft will stop accepting apps that are built for Windows 8, pushing developers to create apps for Blue.

We understand that you will need a genuine copy of Windows to upgrade to Windows Blue. Built-in apps and the Windows Store will cease functioning if a copy is upgraded that is pirated. Sources tell us that Microsoft will likely keep the Windows 8 name for the foreseeable future, despite the Windows Blue update. A big part of Windows Blue is the push towards yearly updates for Microsoft?s OS. Microsoft will kick off an annual upgrade cycle for Windows that is designed to make it more competitive against rival platforms from Apple and Google.

We reached out to Microsoft for comment, however a company spokesperson refused to discuss Windows Blue.

Source: The Verge

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The End of the Printing Press?

Electronic communications are reshaping personal life, and may right now be causing the rapid demise of print. Media academics know well the theories of Marshall McLuhan. He came up with the phrase "the medium is the message," and the term "global village," among other juicy contributions to our comprehension of media.

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Russian Cossacks test their powers in Moscow street patrol

MOSCOW (Reuters) - By tradition, Cossacks protected Russia's borderlands, but on Tuesday descendants of the Tsarist warrior caste patrolled a patch of central Moscow as part of a resurgence encouraged by President Vladimir Putin.

A handful of men in high lambswool hats and epaulettes paced a slushy square around a major railway station, looking for illegal trade and other infractions in what they called a trial run for further patrols in the heart of the Russian capital.

While a few venders in a chilly underpass left when Cossacks approached, the patrol - unarmed and outnumbered by journalists - was uneventful for a group with a reputation as whip-wielding horseback warriors protecting frontiers from foreign threats.

But it was a sign of a Cossack revival that plays into Putin's calls for patriotism and his praise of Russian traditions - and which critics say aggravates the ethnic tension the president has struggled to keep under control.

"Our aim is very clear: we want there to be law and order in the capital, for people to live and work honestly and for crime to be punished," said Vladimir Timofeyev, who identified himself as a "Cossack colonel" and wore a green camouflage coat.

Moscow's central district administration and the Cossack affairs department released a statement saying Tuesday's patrol was the "personal initiative" of a Cossack leader. It also said Cossack patrols could begin on a official basis early next year.

The Cossacks cannot make arrests or check documents. They receive free public transport but no pay, city officials said.

Claiming descent from nomads and fugitives from serfdom who served tsars with their swords and lived in relative freedom on Russia's edges, Cossacks are symbols of Russian patriotism.

Their past is also colored by anti-Jewish pogroms in the tsarist era, and their nationalism is a volatile additive to tension between ethnic Russians and minorities in cities such as Moscow, where many migrants are Muslims from the North Caucasus and ex-Soviet republics in Central Asia.

"They will bring order and it's nice to look at them," Tatyana, a teacher who declined to give her last name, said as she entered the train station. "You remember the past, and it's all coming back - it's great."

Cossacks faced systematic killings and deportation at the hands of the communists following the Russian revolution, and have enjoyed a resurgence since the 1991 Soviet collapse.

PRAISE FROM PUTIN

Putin praised the Cossacks in an article published during his campaign for the March 2012 presidential election.

"The state's task is to help the Cossacks in every way, to attract them into military service and into the military and patriotic upbringing of young people," Putin said.

The use of Cossack patrols has been on the rise in recent months, both in outlying areas of Moscow as well as their historic heartland in the southern Russian steppe, adjacent to the heavily Muslim regions of the North Caucasus.

As many as 1,000 Cossacks took to patrolling streets in parts of the Krasnodar region, which borders the North Caucasus and includes Sochi, the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

The Krasnodar patrols, created by regional governor Alexander Tkachev, help police intervene against crimes and check documents, but media speculated that could lead to racial profiling for migrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Cossacks announced plans for patrols around churches in southeastern Moscow after punk group Pussy Riot belted out a vulgarity-laced "punk protest" in the capital's main Russian Orthodox cathedral, Christ the Saviour.

The head of the church, Patriarch Kirill, has told believers that Pussy Riot was part of an organized attack on Russia's main faith and what he called the moral foundations of the country.

COSSACKS VERSUS PUSSY RIOT

Cossacks blocked the entrance to a Moscow art gallery exhibiting art depicting Pussy Riot last month, leading to a standoff with riot police called in to disperse them.

"This is not the first time that Cossacks are emerging as a conservative force ready to punish or warn those who from their point of view are acting improperly," said Maria Lipman, a political analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center.

Lipman said the higher Cossack profile was a product of a growing Kremlin reliance on conservative forces, such as the Russian Orthodox Church, to counter mostly liberal opponents who staged the biggest protests of Putin's 13-year rule over the past year, drawing demonstrators from the urban middle class.

"Because the protesters were modernized urbanites, the response was found in conservative morals and the government has shifted to a conservative stance," Lipman said, adding that this "deepens divisions in Russian society that have been latent up to this point."

Vladimir Morozov, a pensioner on his way in from the Moscow suburbs, agreed. He said Cossack patrols were "set against Pussy Riot" and could only increase ethnic tension.

"It's just support for Putin," he said.

Art student Nadezhda Irchishina saw no harm in the patrols - but little help, either.

"I think it's just for show," she said. "Crimes will simply be committed out of their line of sight."

Moscow police declined to comment on the Cossack patrols.

The Cossacks on patrol in Moscow said they are limited to verbal persuasion and summoning the police if they see a crime, but they hope that will change.

"When it is all legalised, we will have different powers," Gennady Tyshkov, a retired police officer in a crisp uniform, said with a smile.

(Additional reporting by Anastasia Gorelova and Mikhail Antonov; editing by Jason Webb)

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From degeneration to regeneration: Advances in skeletal muscle engineering

ScienceDaily (Nov. 26, 2012) ? A study published today in BioMed Central?s open access journal Skeletal Muscle reports of a new therapeutic technique to repair and rebuild muscle for sufferers of degenerative muscle disorders. The therapy brings together two existing techniques for muscle repair ? cell transplantation and tissue engineering ? specifically, mesoangioblast stem cells delivered via a hydrogel cell-carrier matrix.

A number of conditions can lead to considerable degeneration or loss of skeletal muscle and, since skeletal muscle has a limited capacity for self repair, therapies for muscle reconstruction or regeneration are often necessary. There are currently two ways to rebuild muscle: cell transplantation, whereby stem cells are injected directly into the muscle or arteries, and tissue engineering, whereby cells are embedded on a biomaterial scaffold to reconstruct a whole muscle.

Stem cell transplantation on its own can be limited by poor cell survival, but the authors hoped that the technique in combination with tissue engineering could increase the chances of efficacy for localized disorders of muscle.

The research team, comprised of researchers from institutions all over Europe, embedded Mab cells within a polyethylene glycol and fibrinogen (PF) hydrogel scaffold that has a proven track record in tissue and cardiac engineering. The Mab/PF grafts were then injected into mice, directly into the chronically inflamed and sclerotic regions typical of the advanced stages of muscular dystrophy. The team observed increased engraftment and survival of Mabs when injected with PF than with Mabs suspended in saline solution.

Five weeks after treatment, analyses revealed that Mabs had better integrated into regenerating muscle fibers when used with a PF carrier than when used without. In addition, there was better organization of muscle fibers when Mabs was used in combination with PF.

Lead author Cesare Gargioli commented, ?This study demonstrates a novel tissue engineering approach that is capable of producing enriched donor cell engraftment into skeletal muscle after an acute injury or in more-difficult-to-treat advanced-stage muscular dystrophy. Both Mabs and PF are currently undergoing separate clinical trials, but their combined use may increase efficacy for sufferers with more localized forms of muscular dystrophy or disorders that lead to damage of skeletal muscle, including hernias and sphincter disorders.?

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NASA video captures massive solar eruption

NASA spacecraft captured HD video of a giant plasma eruption on the surface of the Sun Friday. This plasma eruption is not headed toward Earth, so isn't expected to cause any communication problems. The sun is currently in the middle of an active phase of its 11-year solar weather cycle.

By Tariq Malik,?Space.com / November 19, 2012

A giant solar eruption is captured on Nov. 16, 2012 by NASA's sun-watching Solar Dynamics Observatory. The solar eruption was not aimed at Earth.

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The sun unleashed a monster eruption of super-hot plasma Friday (Nov. 16) in back-to-back solar storms captured on camera by a NASA spacecraft.

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The giant sun eruption, called a solar prominence, occurred at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT), with another event flaring up four hours later. The prominences was so large, it expanded beyond the camera view of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which captured high-definition?video of the solar eruption.

In the video, a colossal loop of glowing red plasma erupts from the lower left of the sun, arcing up and out of frame as it blasts away from the star.

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"The red-glowing looped material is plasma, a hot gas made of electrically charged hydrogen and helium," officials with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, which oversees the SDO mission, explained in a description. "The prominence plasma flows along a tangled and twisted structure of magnetic fields generated by the sun?s internal dynamo. An erupting prominence occurs when such a structure becomes unstable and bursts outward, releasing the plasma."

?Friday's solar eruption does not appear to be aimed at Earth, so will likely have little effect on our planet. But that was not the case earlier this week when a powerful solar flare erupted on Monday (Nov. 12). That flare registered as an M6-class eruption, a moderate but still intense solar event.

On Tuesday and Wednesday (Nov. 13 and 14), space weather conditions sparked a geomagnetic storm that supercharged the Earth's auroras, creating spectacular northern lights displays for observers at high latitudes.

When aimed directly at Earth, the most powerful solar flares and eruptions can pose a threat to satellites and astronauts in orbit, and also interfere with communication, navigation and power systems on the ground.

The sun is currently in the middle of an active phase of its 11-year solar weather cycle. The current cycle is called Solar Cycle 24 and is expected to peak in 2013.

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The Sounds in Lincoln Are the Same Ones Honest Abe Heard

If you need any other proof that the filmmakers behind Lincoln went above and beyond the call of duty to make the film as authentic as possible, sound designer Ben Burtt tracked down one of Lincoln's original pocket watches and recorded its actual ticking sound. That's dedication. More »

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Americans tied to Israel caught in Gaza conflict

Americans both inside and outside of Israel have had their lives turned upside down in the last week and a half, from reservists who have felt the need to return to Israel, to brides-to-be forced to alter wedding day plans.

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$7.8 million grant will help eight African nations - African Business ...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have awarded a $7.8 million research grant to help eight African nations improve their sustainable farming methods.

Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Ethiopia and Tanzania are set to benefit from the grant which has been awarded to the Michigan State University from the Gates Foundation Global Development Program.

It will be used to help guide policymaking efforts to intensify farming methods that meet agricultural needs while improving environmental quality.

The Foundation, established in 1994, focuses on improving people?s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. It has awarded, since its inception, some $25 billion in grants.

It has been demonstrated that African governments spend more than $2.5 billion a year on agricultural intensification and therefore the Foundation?s help will be paramount in helping them achieve the desired outcomes.

Thomas Jayne, MSU?s project co-director and agriculture, food and resource economies faculty member, said: ?All of the partners have made a long-term commitment to help this region?s programs reach their full potential.MSU has longstanding expertise in this field?and our commitment to institution building was a major reason as to why the Gates Foundation put its trust in MSU for this grant.?

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During the next four years, the team will work with 10 African universities, institutes and government ministries to promote effective government strategies that help African farmers become more productive and food secure.

The team also will build the capacity of national policy institutes to guide and support their own countries? agriculture ministries and eventually accept and manage international grants.

Along with the international partnerships, Jayne will collaborate with fellow MSU researchers from the agricultural, food and resource economics department.

Together, the team will focus on three key crops ? maize, sorghum and rice ? and seek to improve seed development, fertilization and crop rotation to increase yields in a sustainable manner.

The grant builds upon MSU?s longstanding commitment to this region and stands as a tribute to the legacy of the MSU researchers who pioneered efforts such as these, Jayne added.

?In 2008, MSU used a $4 million Gates Foundation grant to analyse the region?s agricultural marketing and trade systems to provide guidance to governments in the region on strategies to raise agricultural productivity and create more efficient, sustainable markets for small farmers.

?By guiding investments and developing policies, we?re hoping to create benefits that go beyond the direct recipients,? Jayne said. ?The ripple effect could provide insights that feed more broadly into improving the policy processes in other countries in the region.?

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HoseMaster of Wine?: Decorating My Thanksgiving Tree

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. There?s just nothing about it I don?t like. Decorating the festive Thanksgiving tree with human scalps, what a marvelous tradition! In our family, we used real ones collected from the special education class at the local Barber College. And, boy, was it hard making sure our dog Lung Oyster (I named him after our chain-smoking nanny, whose name was Spotty) didn?t eat most of them before we could get them on the tree! But I?m sure most families have the same problem.

My family was also very musical. My father was a banjo player, though his fingers were webbed, a genetic trait that pops up in our family every now and then due to a quick dalliance an ancestor once had with a platypus. ?Lips are fine,? she said, ?but a bill really enchants the little man in the boat.? Mother played raw kidney. I can still hear it slapping against her leg in time to one of our favorite Thanksgiving Carols, ?Blessed be Those Who Shove Stuffing in Cavities.? Our family would go house to house on Thanksgiving Day playing our instruments and singing everyone?s favorite holiday songs. I was the least musical of our family, so I would carry Lung Oyster and play him like a bagpipe. The neighbors would gather on their porches, most of them wearing their traditional Thanksgiving crotchless bicycle pants, just like the Pilgrims wore, their blunderbusses dangling, to listen to our renditions of classic Thanksgiving Carols like ?Grandma?s Stuffed Yams in Her Girdle Again,? ?O Come All Ye Butterballs,? and ?We All Know Sis Prefers the Dark Meat.?

It seems like Grandma would be preparing the Thanksgiving feast for the whole week before the big day. She?d usually spend an entire day just baking up her famous Thanksgiving specialty, cat pie. She made enough cat pies for dinner, and for everyone to take one home with them. I liked Siamese the best because after a slice I?d have less fur in my teeth. Sis liked Abyssinian. I still laugh when I think about how after every Thanksgiving meal she?d grab her favorite cat pie and say, ?Abyssinia guys next year!? as she walked out the door. Grandma didn?t really enjoy making cat pies, but she respected all great American traditions. ?The Pilgrims offered cat pies to the Indians,? she used to tell us, ?so they?d teach the Pilgrims how to grow marijuana. That?s why the Pilgrims came to this country. For the dope, you know. Now light your old granny a splif while I whack the tail off this Persian.? If we were good, we got to hang the fresh cat tail on the Thanksgiving tree! If Lung Oyster didn?t eat it first.

Our family also believed in helping the less fortunate on Thanksgiving Day. Most of the morning we?d spend volunteering at the local homeless shelter, serving up big helpings of loose screws and lugnuts from Dad?s jars he kept in the garage. Sure, it was sacrifice, but the looks on the faces of those needy people were heartwarming. Every year I thought we?d run out of loose screws. But not in my family! We were never out of loose screws. After we were finished, when every last person in line had had his fill of lugnuts, Mom would always invite a few over to the house to join us in our Thanksgiving celebration. They always added so much color to our feast. We?d all laugh and give thanks as Lung Oyster grabbed their legs and wouldn?t let go. ?Those screams,? Dad reminded us, ?take us back to that first Thanksgiving, and the Indians decorating their Thanksgiving tree with Pilgrim scalps.? That always made us think about what it must have been like, that first Thanksgiving, how bloody and disgusting it was. Which we thought was cool. And at the end of the evening every one of the invited needy guests went back to his cardboard box where he slept with his own cat pie. I?m getting hungry just thinking about it. Sprinkle a little bit of tropical fish food on top of a warm piece of cat pie, and, man, that was mighty good eatin?!

During the meal, everyone had to talk about what his favorite food was on the table and how it related to Thanksgiving. Of course, all of us usually picked the same food and the same story every year, just like everyone probably does in your family. I always chose the creamed leeches to talk about. How the Pilgrims had come to this country to escape religious persecution and grow pot, but almost starved to death because they?d forgotten to pack eating utensils. But they were lucky, those Pilgrims, they?d come to America, the land of leeches. You could eat leeches, even as they were eating you. And you didn?t need a fork. So we eat creamed leeches on Thanksgiving to remind us of that miracle, and of what the Pilgrims? descendants, now called Tea Party Republicans, believe. America is full of leeches. Eat them before they suck us dry. You know, no matter how many times I tell it, it still touches me.

So I?m sorry for writing just another boring Thanksgiving wine blog post. But, you know, we all just have to. Our readers want to know what wine to drink with the Thanksgiving feast, and I know that almost everyone in America now turns to wine blogs for their wine and food pairing needs. And it?s a good time to remind everyone to be grateful. For sulfites. For the blessing that is an alcoholic blackout. For 89 point wines, and not that crap with lower numbers. For drunken harvest interns and their genitalia. For genitalia. For the miracle that is the Internet, which replaces the voices in our own head with the voices of even sicker people, and for pennies a day. For back labels, the mattress tags of wine. For laughter, for joy, for armpit orgasms.

Every Thanksgiving, it?s my job to go down to the wine cellar and bring up a surprise to serve with our dinner. Most years, I bring up Grandma, wondrously taxidermied, more carefully stuffed than the bird on the table, usually a cassowary. And I bring up wine. Lots of it. What kind of wine goes best with Thanksgiving?s many bounties? The good stuff, the stuff you share with the people you love. You know what it is. Go get it.

Happy Thanksgiving!?

Source: http://hosemasterofwine.blogspot.com/2012/11/decorating-my-thanksgiving-tree.html

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GTA: Vice City digital sales suspended over dispute with Sony

Rockstar have had to pull Grand Theft Auto: Vice City from all digital platforms after Sony kicked up a fuss over the use of a Michael Jackson song.

The game has been pulled from Steam, and Rockstar made a post on the official Steam forum to explain.

?Due to some music licensing issues, we?ve had to temporarily remove Vice City PC from digital stores,? a Rockstar spokesperson said. ?We?ll make it available again as soon as possible.?

People who had already purchased and downloaded the game will not be affected, they will still be allowed to re-download the game whenever they choose.

While Rockstar themselves didn?t officially confirm which track was responsible, news site Cinema Blend alleges it to be Michael Jackson?s ?Wanna be Startin? Something,? which plays on the game?s Fever 105 station.

Sony Music Entertainment has reportedly blocked the use of the content on copyright grounds, thus Rockstar has been forced to suspend digital sales until the matter is resolved.

Rockstar are planning an iOS and Android release of the game later this year, so I?m sure they?ll be looking to resolve this as soon as possible.

Source: Eurogamer

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Johar Cup hockey India draw with Malaysia

Bombay News.Net Saturday 17th November, 2012

India took lead in the 19th minute through a brilliant effort from Akashdeep Singh who slipped the ball past Hafizuddin Othman. Gagandeep Singh converted penalty corner in the 25th minute.

Malaysia reduced the margin in the 28th minute scoring a field goal through Noor Faeez Ibrahim.

Malaysia levelled the match in the 45th minute through Firhan Ashaari.

Gurmail Singh put in good effort in the 58th minute to give India a 32 lead but Noor Faeez Ibrahim scored an equaliser in the 69th minute.

India, who have remained unbeaten in the five matches, are already through to the final of the tournament.

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New Board Game Items for November & December 2012

In the run up to Christmas there will be several new expansions out for Power Grid, Catan and Ticket to Ride ideal to extend your own games or buy as Christmas presents for friends and family. As well as a new exciting card game for Star Wars, may the force be with you.

First off is the new expansion for Power Grid with new maps and cards of Northern Europe / United Kingdom & Ireland. Note it does require a copy of the original Power Grid game. The rules are the same, where by the objective is to supply the most cities with power when someone?s network gains a predetermined size. However the differences are using different maps and new power plant cards:

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One for fans of Catan, Mayfair Games has announced the November release of Catan Histories: Merchants of Europe. This is a twist on the 2010 release Settlers of America: Trails to Rails from designer Klaus Teuber. The game uses the simple and fun Catan hex and resource system to recreate the rise of the merchant class across Europe.?Merchants provided the European population with goods of all kinds, such as fur from the north, cloth from Flanders, wine from the south, and spices from India. The most important commodity of all was salt and was highly prized in the Middle Ages to preserve food.

Recruit new merchants and send them to distant cities to establish trading posts and expand your interests. The more trading posts you have, the more commodities are at your disposal which you can sell profitably in foreign cities. To ensure that your commodities arrive safely at their destination, you must open up trade routes and equip caravans. You win the game if you are the first to deliver all of your commodities to foreign cities.

This classic Euro-style strategy board game can be played with 2-4 players (best with 4), ages 12 and up, and takes about 90 minutes per game. Preorder yours here

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Due out in December is the Ticket to Ride Vol 3 ? The Heart of Africa, set in the vast wilderness of Africa at the height of its exploration by intrepid explorers, missionaries and adventurers. This is a single-sided expansion map for Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride: Europe (it will require a copy of either of these games), focuses on the central and southern ?heart? of the continent displayed in a vertical format.

This expansion includes 48 Destination Tickets, new Terrain Cards and multi-lingual Rules booklet. Designed for 2-5 players, ages 8+, this expansion takes 30-60 minutes and is played using Train cards and Trains from either Ticket to Ride or Ticket to Ride Europe. Preorder yours here

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Lastly it?s time to relive Star Wars, may the force be with you in this new card game. The characters, starships, and situations of the original Star Wars trilogy come to life in Star Wars: The Card Game?, a head-to-head Living Card Game? of tactical combat and strategic planning that allows two players to wage cinematic combats between the light and dark sides of the Force.

Command such legendary characters as Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa, Boba Fett, and Darth Vader. Launch strategic assaults against your opponent?s objectives. Tempt fate in thrilling edge battles. Seek to make an ally of the Force or master its power for your own purposes. Can it get much more fun than this? Preorder yours here.

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Spain agrees on aid for poor homeowners in eviction row

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain passed a decree on Thursday to help the most needy families facing eviction during the nation's economic crisis, responding to an outcry over a homeowner who killed herself when bailiffs arrived to throw her out.

The government said it would suspend evictions for two years for homeowners including those with small children, the disabled and long-term unemployed who can no longer keep up their mortgage repayments.

"This is an emergency response to mitigate the effects of the worst of the economic crisis," Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said.

The government would increase the amount of social housing available at low rents for people who have lost their homes, she told a press conference.

Mortgage relief would be available only to people earning less than 19,200 euros ($24,400) a year.

Banks, many of which are about to receive the first funds from a European bailout of up to 100 billion euros, have repossessed almost 400,000 properties since the real estate market crashed in 2008, including commercial buildings.

But the suicide last Friday of 53-year-old Amaia Egana, who jumped from her fourth-floor flat in the northern Basque Country as she was about to be evicted, has pushed the issue to the top of the political agenda.

Evictions have become increasingly common in recession-bound Spain, where a 25 percent unemployment rate coupled with drastic government spending cuts has badly hurt the weakest in society.

Many homeowners can no longer keep up payments on their mortgages after losing their jobs or businesses.

($1 = 0.7856 euros) (Additional reporting by Aimee Donnellan in London, Paul Day in Madrid and Padraic Halpin in Dublin; editing by David Stamp and Will Waterman)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/spain-agrees-aid-poor-homeowners-eviction-row-134901961--sector.html

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For Alzheimer?s, Detection Advances Outpace Treatment Options

Joshua Lott for The New York Times

Awilda Jimenez got a scan for Alzheimer?s after she started forgetting things. It was positive.

When Awilda Jimenez started forgetting things last year, her husband, Edwin, felt a shiver of dread. Her mother had developed Alzheimer?s in her 50s. Could his wife, 61, have it, too?

He learned there was a new brain scan to diagnose the disease and nervously agreed to get her one, secretly hoping it would lay his fears to rest. In June, his wife became what her doctor says is the first private patient in Arizona to have the test.

?The scan was floridly positive,? said her doctor, Adam S. Fleisher, director of brain imaging at the Banner Alzheimer?s Institute in Phoenix.

The Jimenezes have struggled ever since to deal with this devastating news. They are confronting a problem of the new era of Alzheimer?s research: The ability to detect the disease has leapt far ahead of treatments. There are none that can stop or even significantly slow the inexorable progression to dementia and death.

Families like the Jimenezes, with no good options, can only ask: Should they live their lives differently, get their affairs in order, join a clinical trial of an experimental drug?

?I was hoping the scan would be negative,? Mr. Jimenez said. ?When I found out it was positive, my heart sank.?

The new brain scan technology, which went on the market in June, is spreading fast. There are already more than 300 hospitals and imaging centers, located in most major metropolitan areas, that are ready to perform the scans, according to Eli Lilly, which sells the tracer used to mark plaque for the scan.

The scans show plaques in the brain ? barnaclelike clumps of protein, beta amyloid ? that, together with dementia, are the defining feature of Alzheimer?s disease. Those who have dementia but do not have excessive plaques do not have Alzheimer?s. It is no longer necessary to wait until the person dies and has an autopsy to learn if the brain was studded with plaques.

Many insurers, including Medicare, will not yet pay for the new scans, which cost several thousand dollars. And getting one comes with serious risks. While federal law prevents insurers and employers from discriminating based on genetic tests, it does not apply to scans. People with brain plaques can be denied long-term care insurance.

The Food and Drug Administration, worried about interpretations of the scans, has required something new: Doctors must take a test showing they can read them accurately before they begin doing them. So far, 700 doctors have qualified, according to Eli Lilly. Other kinds of diagnostic scans have no such requirement.

In another unusual feature, the F.D.A. requires that radiologists not be told anything about the patient. They are generally trained to incorporate clinical information into their interpretation of other types of scans, said Dr. R. Dwaine Rieves, director of the drug agency?s Division of Medical Imaging Products.

But in this case, clinical information may lead radiologists to inadvertently shade their reports to coincide with what doctors suspect is the underlying disease. With Alzheimer?s, Dr. Rieves said, ?clinical impressions have been misleading.?

?This is a big change in the world of image interpretation,? he said.

Like some other Alzheimer?s experts, Dr. Fleisher used the amyloid scan for several years as part of a research study that led to its F.D.A. approval. Subjects were not told what the scans showed. Now, with the scan on the market, the rules have changed.

Dr. Fleisher?s first patient was Mrs. Jimenez. Her husband, the family breadwinner, had lost his job as a computer consultant when the couple moved from New York to Arizona to take care of Mrs. Jimenez?s mother. Paying several thousand dollars for a scan was out of the question. But Dr. Fleisher found a radiologist, Dr. Mantej Singh Sra of Sun Radiology, who was so eager to get into the business that he agreed to do Mrs. Jimenez?s scan free. His plan was to be the first in Arizona to do a scan, and advertise it.

After Dr. Sra did the scan, the Jimenezes returned to Dr. Fleisher to learn the result.

Dr. Fleisher, sad to see so much plaque in Mrs. Jimenez?s brain, referred her to a psychiatrist to help with anxiety and suggested she enter clinical trials of experimental drugs.

But Mr. Jimenez did not like that idea. He worried about unexpected side effects.

?Tempting as it is, where do you draw the line?? he asks. ?At what point do you take a risk with a loved one??

At Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, Dr. Samuel E. Gandy found that his patients ? mostly affluent ? were unfazed by the medical center?s $3,750 price for the scan. He has been ordering at least one a week for people with symptoms ambiguous enough to suggest the possibility of brain plaques.

Most of his patients want their names kept confidential, fearing an inability to get long-term care insurance, or just wanting privacy.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/health/for-alzheimers-detection-advances-outpace-treatment-options.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Constituencies bend Okla. Gov's ear on health care

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? Looming decisions for Gov. Mary Fallin on how Oklahoma will respond to the sweeping federal health care law are prompting an energetic, behind-the-scenes lobbying effort by hospitals, insurance companies, business and industry groups, and other constituencies that will be affected by provisions of the law.

Fallin is expected to announce within the next week her position on whether the state will move ahead with setting up a state-based online health insurance marketplace, or exchange, required under the law. Oklahoma policymakers also must decide whether the state will expand its Medicaid eligibility to provide coverage to thousands of low-income, uninsured citizens.

Fallin has yet to stake out a position on either proposal and faces a delicate political balancing act in a state where Republicans have bitterly resisted the requirements of the new federal health care law. On the one hand, hospital officials and chamber groups are pushing for both a state-based exchange and an expansion of Medicaid. But both of those ideas are fiercely opposed by tea party and other grass-roots activists who have been fighting implementation of the law since its passage in 2010.

"It's a real challenge for the governor because what it's done is put her right in between two major constituent groups inside the Republican Party," said Keith Gaddie, a professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma.

The Tulsa Metro Chamber, which represents more than 3,000 members, is among those lobbying the governor to support both a state-operated insurance exchange and an expansion of Medicaid.

"Certainly health care is one of the two largest employment sectors in Tulsa, so we're very cognizant of the jobs health care provides in our community," said Susan Harris, a senior vice president at the chamber who works on health policy. "Also, we need a healthy workforce. Healthy workers get better jobs, make more money and take care of themselves. It's better for the whole community if we've got a healthy workforce."

Fallin herself opposed the law when she was a member of Congress and even dangled a "Don't Tread on Me" flag before a tea party rally at the U.S. Capitol during the health care debate in 2010. Fallin and other Republican leaders initially hoped the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn the law, and when that didn't happen, she withheld a decision on whether to proceed until after the election, hoping Mitt Romney would be elected and either help overturn or the slow the implementation.

Oklahoma was among the states that over the law, and even after the Supreme Court's decision, Attorney General Scott Pruitt amended his lawsuit to challenge its implementation of the law.

"There is political risk in quitting resistance, but after you fail three times you really have to reassess whether or not you're going to prevail in this fight," Gaddie said. "At some point you just have to leave the battlefield and go home."

Fallin spokesman Alex Weintz said Friday the governor is still exploring the state's option as they relate to both the creation of a state exchange and the expansion of Medicaid.

"We feel like we have kept, as of right now, the doors open for the state of Oklahoma to pursue whatever we decide is the best option for our citizens," Weintz said. "We don't feel like anything has been ruled out, simply because of time restraints, at this time."

States initially had until Nov. 16 to provide federal officials with a blueprint for how the state-based exchange would work, but Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a letter to governors Friday that they have another month, until mid-December, to submit detailed plans. Sebelius noted that she still wants to hear by the end of next week if states plan to set up a state exchange. States that don't will have a federal exchange operated for them.

Nearly 20 percent of Oklahoma citizens currently are uninsured, and an expansion of Medicaid to 133 percent of the federal poverty level would make an additional 180,000 adults eligible for Medicaid, according to the Oklahoma Hospital Association, one of the groups pushing Fallin to support the Medicaid expansion.

State health officials estimate such an expansion would result in more than $1.5 billion in federal funding to the state during the first three years when the federal government picks up the full cost of the expansion. The state's share would grow to 10 percent of the cost by 2020, which would amount to about $56 million, according to estimates from the Oklahoma Health Care Authority.

But those federal and state costs are why the Medicaid expansion is being opposed by conservative activists and Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma's junior senator who has railed against increased federal spending.

"I do believe our state Medicaid's program can help Oklahomans who qualify for the program," Coburn wrote in a letter to Fallin last month urging her to reject the Medicaid expansion. "But at a time when our national debt is $16 trillion and Congress is running trillion-dollar annual deficits, it is unlikely that federal promises of stable Medicaid funding are anything more than a mirage."

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Sean Murphy can be reached at www.twitter.com/apseanmurphy

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/constituencies-bend-okla-govs-ear-health-care-154940575--finance.html

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Vatican digs in after gay-marriage advances in Washington ...

By NICOLE WINFIELD | The Associated Press ? Published November 10, 2012 Modified November 10, 2012

VATICAN CITY ? The Vatican is digging in after gay marriage initiatives scored big wins this week in the U.S. and Europe, vowing to never stop insisting that marriage can only be between a man and a woman.

In a front-page article in Saturday's Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, the Holy See sought to frame itself as the lone voice of courage in opposing initiatives to give same-sex couples legal recognition. In a separate Vatican Radio editorial, the pope's spokesman asked sarcastically why gay marriage proponents don't now push for legal recognition for polygamous couples as well.

Catholic teaching holds that homosexuals should be respected and treated with dignity but that homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered." The Vatican also opposes same-sex marriage, insisting on the sanctity of marriage between a man and woman as the foundation for society.

The Vatican's anti-gay marriage media blitz came after three U.S. states approved same-sex marriage by popular vote in the election that returned Barack Obama to the U.S. presidency, Spain upheld its gay marriage law, and France pushed ahead with legislation that could see gay marriage legalized early next year.

"One might say the church, at least on this front, has been defeated," L'Osservatore Romano wrote. "But that's not the case."

The article insisted that Catholics were putting up a valiant fight to uphold church teaching in the face of "politically correct ideologies invading every culture of the world" that are backed by institutions like the United Nations, which last year passed a non-binding resolution condemning anti-gay discrimination.

"The church is called to present itself as the lone critic of modernity, the only check ... to the breakup of the anthropological structures on which human society was founded," it said.

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi, for his part, said gays can have their rights protected by means other than through legal marital recognition. He stressed that children should have a right to say they have a father and a mother.

"If not, then why not contemplate freely chosen polygamy, and naturally so as to not discriminate, polyandry?" he asked sarcastically. Polyandry is when a woman has two or more husbands.

"As a result, don't expect the church to stop insisting that society recognizes a specific place for marriage between a man and woman," he said.

The U.S. election had been closely watched at the Vatican because of the strong divisions that erupted during the campaign between the Obama administration and U.S. bishops over gay marriage, which Obama endorsed in May. The administration and bishops clashed more vehemently over Obama's health care mandate requiring nearly all U.S. health insurance plans to cover contraception, which the church opposes.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said the contraception mandate - which exempts houses of worship but applies to faith-affiliated employers - is a violation of religious freedom.

The Vatican's reaction to Obama's re-election was tinged with such lingering criticism, with Pope Benedict XVI congratulating Obama and praying that the ideals of freedom and justice continue to be upheld.

Lombardi went further urging the administration to respect essential values in "promoting a culture of life and religious freedom" - Vatican buzzwords referring to abortion, contraception and the insurance mandate.

It was a far cry from the Vatican's enthusiastic response to Obama's election in 2008. Then, the pope termed Obama's election an "historic occasion" in a personal note of congratulations sent right after he won, a break with traditional Vatican protocol that usually sees official telegrams of congratulations sent on inauguration day.

Source: http://www.theolympian.com/2012/11/10/2314696/vatican-digs-in-after-gay-marriage.html

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