FDA: Mold, bacteria at pharmacy tied to outbreak

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Federal health inspectors say they found bacteria and mold growing in rooms that were supposed to be kept sterile at the pharmacy linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis.

The Food and Drug Administration has released its initial report after investigating the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass., earlier this month.

Inspectors say they found green, yellow and red growths, water droplets and other potential contaminants in a room used to mix and seal specially formulated medicines.

Steroid injections made by the New England Compounding Center have been tied to an outbreak of fungal meningitis that has sickened 328 people across the U.S., causing 24 deaths. Last week FDA officials confirmed the black fungus found in company vials is the same as that which has sickened patients.

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Black widow's tango mortale in gamma-ray light: Scientists discover record-breaking millisecond pulsar with new analysis method

ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2012) ? Pulsars are the compact remnants from explosions of massive stars. Some of them spin around their own axis hundreds of times per second, emitting beams of radiation into space. Until now, they could only be found through their pulsed radio emissions. Now, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) in Hanover assisted by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy have discovered a millisecond pulsar solely via its pulsed gamma radiation. A new data analysis method developed by the AEI was crucial for the success. The pulsar is accompanied by an unusual sub-stellar partner, which it is vaporizing, hence the name "black widow."

Back in 1994, astronomers discovered a source of strong gamma-rays in the constellation of Centaurus. They suspected that a pulsar was the origin of the energetic radiation. Now, a team of scientists led by Holger Pletsch from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) has solved the mystery and identified the culprit: the millisecond gamma-ray pulsar PSR J1311-3430. The development of a new data analysis method by the AEI scientists enabled the discovery, since rapidly spinning pulsars are extremely difficult to find.

To unambiguously identify a gamma-ray pulsar, astronomers must know its properties to very high precision. This includes its position, spin frequency, and how the latter changes over time. If the pulsar is in a binary system, the analysis problem is even more complicated: at least three additional orbital parameters have to be determined as well.

In the case of PSR J1311-3430 astronomers had already observed the companion, which is heated by the radiation from the pulsar, with optical telescopes. They were thus able to partially constrain the orbital parameters and confine the position of the pulsar.

"We developed a particularly efficient method to search the data from NASA's Fermi satellite for gamma-ray millisecond pulsars, including those in binary systems. Only this method enabled us to probe the wide parameter ranges," says Holger Pletsch, lead author of the article published in Science. The new analysis method enables scientists to conduct a 'blind search' for gamma-ray millisecond pulsars for the first time -- right up to very high spinning frequencies.

The scientists analysed the Fermi data on the Atlas computer cluster at the AEI. "Our search used data collected by the gamma-ray satellite over a total of four years. Very soon after we started running the analysis, a clear signal showed up in the results. What we saw was very exciting," says Pletsch.

PSR J1311-3430 spins 390 times per second, emitting gamma-ray photons into space in the form of a beam, similar to a lighthouse. In roughly one in a million revolutions of the pulsar, a single photon reaches the detector on board Fermi.

The gamma-ray signal also reveals much about the companion to the astronomers: the orbital motion of the binary system modulates the photon arrival times, yielding information about the partner star. "The companion object is small and unusually dense," says AEI Director Bruce Allen. "It is at least eight times as massive as the planet Jupiter, but has at most 60 percent the planet's radius."

From this information, the researchers calculated the density of the companion, which turned out to be unusually high; it is around 30 times as dense as the Sun. Presumably, the small companion is the compact remnant of a star which has been orbiting the pulsar since earlier times. Over time, the pulsar accreted matter from the star, thereby accelerating its rotation. Pulsar and companion moved closer and closer together.

"At present, the remaining stellar core, which presumably consists mainly of helium, is heated by the radiation from the pulsar and literally evaporated," says Holger Pletsch. Astronomers call this type of pulsar a 'black widow', in analogy with a species of spider which kills the smaller male after mating. In the distant future, PSR J1311-4330 might possibly completely vaporize its companion and from then on travel through space alone.

And that's not all: "Our discovery is not only a first, it also sets several new records," explains Bruce Allen. Currently, the odd couple is orbiting its common centre of mass on an almost perfect circular trajectory in only 93 minutes. This is the shortest known orbital period of all pulsars in binary systems.

At a distance of only 1.4 Earth-Moon separations, the binary system is the closest one known to date with a pulsar. The pulsar is speeding along its circular orbit with at least 13,000 kilometres per hour. Its light-weight companion is even faster, at up to 2.8 million kilometres per hour.

Holger Pletsch and his colleagues also had a close look at older observations with the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia, but were unable to find the fast pulsar here. "Apparently, the cloud of vaporized material from the companion absorbs most of the radio wave emissions from the pulsar and possibly makes it invisible to radio telescopes," says Lucas Guillemot from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, co-author of the publication. The scientists are already planning further observations at higher radio frequencies. They hope to use them to accurately determine the object's distance from Earth, for example.

Systems like this provide astronomers with new insights into the evolution of very close binary systems, which are as yet still incompletely understood. PSR J1311-3430 could also shed new light on the generation of the gamma-ray photons and radio emissions in the strong magnetic field of pulsars. The pulsar may just be the tip of the iceberg: many other unidentified gamma-ray sources may harbour similarly unusual systems. Thirty years after the discovery of the first millisecond pulsar in the radio range, the novel analysis method of the Max Planck researchers at the AEI has opened a new door to the easier identification of these elusive celestial objects.

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A Finnish Tradition: Baby Gifts for All Moms - Blogs | Babble

All Finnish mothers receive a box of these baby essentials.

I remember when I had Harlan I was so caught up on what essential baby items I needed. I knew that I wouldn?t have much time to get out of the house and I wanted to have everything that would get me and my baby through those first few weeks together. Thankfully I had family nearby that threw me a wonderful baby shower giving me all of the essentials (and more) that I needed.

With Avery I was very lucky to have many of those essentials stored away and ready for her arrival. We didn?t have to buy much at all for her and she is happily wearing many of her sister?s hand me downs that are still in great shape.

Although I know how fortunate I am, I know that there are many not as fortunate and that are doing everything they can to provide the essentials for their little one.?I recently discovered ?something amazing that the government in Finland does for all new mothers in their country. When I read about the program, I was blown away at their generosity and passion for women and children.

All expectant mothers living in Finland receive a package of baby essentials from the government. The package including clothes, bedding, and other child care items. The program started back in 1937 and was originally reserved only for low-income mothers. The grant was introduced to try to combat the low birth rate and high infant mortality of the time. In 1949 the grant became accessible to all mothers in Finland. First time mothers now have the option of receiving the maternity package or a cash benefit. According the the Kela website, nearly all mothers choose the maternity package.

As I was looking through the contents of the package, they listed the box as a special gift as well. Now most of us would think of a box as just a box. But the Finnish government has really put a lot of thought into this program because the box can also double as a ?crib when you bring your baby home. Pretty incredible, right?

It?s inspiring to see what this country is doing to promote motherhood. It would be pretty incredible if more picked up on their generosity and did the same.

What do you think of these maternity packages?

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More from?Lauren?on Baby?s First Year:

Read more from Lauren at her personal blog,?A Mommy in the City, where she chronicles her life living in New York City with a suburban mentality. For more updates, follow Lauren on?Facebook,?Twitter,?Pinterest, and?Instagram! Check out more of Lauren?s Babble posts at?Being Pregnant?and?Baby?s First Year.

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FOXBORO ? Before he plays at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, Patriots running back Shane Vereen wants to make a stop at Buckingham Palace.

"I just want to see the soldiers outside of the Palace that can't smile," a smiling Vereen said Tuesday. "I just want to take a picture."

On deck

Sunday, Patriots (4-3) vs. St. Louis Rams (3-4), at London, 1 p.m.

And then he'll play for the usually dour coach Bill Belichick in New England's second trip in four years to London where they'll face the St. Louis Rams.

"The time change, the travel ? that's certainly different than most normal games," Belichick said, "but it's not anything we haven't dealt with before. We've traveled to the West Coast. We're just going the other direction. Hopefully, we'll be able to deal with it."

The Patriots went to London in 2009, beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 35-7, but most players on that New England team won't be with this one when it travels across the Atlantic Ocean on a red-eye Thursday night.

For Vereen, in his second NFL season, it will be his first trip to Europe.

"I'm excited to go, see what it's all about and be able to play somewhere else, but at the same time we do have to go get a 'W,'" Vereen said, adding, "I think it's fun" more than the inconvenience of making a long trip in the middle of the season.

"I think it will be a good thing for us. I think it will be a good thing for St. Louis as well," he said. "Middle of the season, you kind of start getting into the lull, the every-day routine. So to break the routine a little bit and get to go out of the country, I think will be something fun."

Injured safety Steve Gregory, who missed the last two games with a hip injury, visited London with the San Diego Chargers in 2008 and is looking forward to another trip.

"It was a great experience," he said. "Obviously, I had never been there before so to see London, the overall experience, was just amazing."

As far as his off-field plans, Gregory joked that he would see Queen Elizabeth, "if she'll let me." Running back Stevan Ridley, asked about visiting the queen, said, "Hey man, if she calls, yeah."

Placekicker Stephen Gostkowski, who made the 2009 trip, said, "It was a lot of fun and we got a win and hopefully it will be the same experience. It's a long trip but it's not too much farther than like when we went to Seattle (Oct. 14). So, it will be a good experience if we play well and can come home with a win."

As far as what he might like to do this time, Gostkowski said, "I doubt we'll really have time to really enjoy . go sightseeing, maybe take a tour bus, I don't know. They haven't told us the schedule yet. It will be fun if we win and we'll have a good time."

The Wembley Stadium field hasn't gotten great reviews.

"Every field is different, you get used to it," Belichick said. "It's a grass field. It's not the fastest field but we've played on plenty comparable to that. It's a little different environment out there. They do the soccer cheers and the rugby cheers and all that.

"It's a little less football-oriented."

NOTES: Gostkowski, who kicked the tying and winning field goals last Sunday in a 29-26 overtime win over the New York Jets, said, "I got a chance to help the team and I came through. It was fun. It was a good feeling to come out with a win, a division win against a team that we like to beat."... The Patriots have gained more than 350 yards in each of their last 16 games, tying an NFL record set by the Rams (1999-2000), this week's opponent. "I'm a lot more concerned about wins than yards. I don't really care about the stats," Belichick said. "I just care about scoring more points than the other team."

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V3 Click will protect the computer from all USB devices before any unsecured data is transferred.

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The V3 Click uses visual clues to show what it is doing relative to your system?s health, helping cut down on confusion, using Green, Blue and Red as color indicators. Yellow tends to imply an ?uh-oh? situation, so AhnLabs wisely omitted that stop light configuration.

In addition to keeping malware at bay, the V3 Click also has system tune-up capabilities to help improve system performance.

The V3 Click also features two protected USB ports of its own, along with 2.7GB of internal storage, so not only can it protect your system and tune it up, but offer an additional port and personal storage as well, a nifty set of features for a consumer security appliance.

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Cruise files $50M suit against magazine publisher

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? An attorney for Tom Cruise said he filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit Wednesday against the publishers of Life & Style magazine for articles that said the actor has abandoned his 6-year-old daughter, Suri.

Cruise's attorney, Bert Fields said to falsely claim the actor deserted his daughter is a "vicious lie."

"Tom is a caring father who dearly loves Suri. She's a vital part of his life and always will be," Fields said. "To say it in lurid headlines with a tearful picture of Suri is reprehensible."

The lawsuit was filed in a Los Angeles federal court.

An email message left for a spokeswoman for Bauer Publishing, which produces Life & Style, was not immediately returned.

Cruise and Suri's mother, Katie Holmes, were divorced earlier this year. They had been married for six years. The breakup has been tabloid fodder, and Suri often appears in entertainment magazines.

Cruise doesn't like to file lawsuits but felt it was appropriate because "sleaze peddlers" are trying to make money about the actor's relationship with his daughter, Fields said.

"These serial defamers are foreign-owned companies with their global headquarters in Hamburg," Fields said. "They take money from unsuspecting Americans by selling their malicious garbage. Having to pay a libel judgment may slow them down."

If Cruise prevails, Fields said his client would give the money to charity.

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Lane Cove auction to sell off antiques and Victorian furniture - Local ...

THERE will be something for everyone at a home contents auction in Lane Cove on Sunday.

The auction will be held at the Lane Cove Bowling Club at 151 Burns Bay Rd.

HAVE YOUR SAY: Will you be attending the auction? COMMENT BELOW.

There will be antiques, art, collectables, antique furniture, a Victorian walnut wine table and cedar bookcases. Original works by Robert Dickerson, David Boyd, John Olsen, Norman Lindsay, Pro Hart, David Bromley and Adam Cullen will be of high interest.

Penfolds Grange, rare jade and porcelain are likely to draw solid bidding.

For details visit pottleauctions.com.au.

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2012 CLT20: Jacques Kallis blames weather gods for KKR?s early exit ? Cricket News Update

Kolkata Knight Riders? South African import, veteran all-rounder Jacques Kallis on Monday lamented the washed out game against Perth Scorchers in Durban, following the IPL side?s group stage ouster from the ongoing Champions League T20 tournament.

The Gautam Gambhir led reigning IPL champions thrashed in-form local outfit, Nashua Titans, by a whopping 99-run margin in their fourth and final CLT20 Group A fixture, here at Newlands in Cape Town, on Sunday.

While speaking to media reporters after his side managed to sign off on a triumphant note, senior all-rounder Jacques Kallis said that the Knight Riders could have made the tournament semi-finals had there not been a washout at Kingsmead last Wednesday.

?It's a pity we didn't start of the tournament like this,? Kallis said after the comprehensive win over the local favourites, Titans.

?I felt that we started playing some good cricket in Durban (against the Perth Scorchers) but unfortunately the weather stopped us from getting through to the next round. That was disappointing," the prolific all-rounder added further.

The Kolkata Knight Riders? Champions League T20 campaign got off to a tumultuous start with the IPL outfit losing both its opening matches ? to Delhi Daredevils by 52 runs and Auckland Aces by seven wickets. The rain-ruined fixture against the Australian side, Perth Scorchers, knocked Gambhir and men out of the tournament.

With one foot already out of the tournament, the reigning IPL champs played aggressive cricket against Titans last night, outclassing the tournament favourites in every department. An impressive show from KKR?s top order helped them set an intimidating 188 for 5 on the board, before Lakshmipathy Balaji led attack bundled the opposition batting line-up for just 89 in 16.4 overs.

Happy with his side?s performance against the Titans, Kallis said that this was a nice way to bid adieu to the esteemed Twenty20 league, featuring domestic champions from around the world.

?This was almost a perfect game for us,? said Kallis, a veteran of 143 Twenty20 games. ?We came out and batted really well and paced the innings nicely. There were some fantastic individual knocks and then we bowled with the intensity we needed to bowl with.?This was a nice way to end this campaign," the veteran Proteas all-rounder concluded.

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Every person knows that this is a very wide subject due to the fact now a day?s Laptop or computer technology is playing a massive element in hospital performs. Therefore, we deemed Agha Khan University Hospital due to the fact it is nicely knowed and respected hospital in Karachi.

We also like to thank the administration of Agha Khan University Hospital for their helping hand, particularly to Mr. Saleem Quershi (Manager ISD Dept.AKUH), Mr. Sikandar Khan (Manager Bio-Healthcare Dept.AKUH) and Mr. Dilawar Khan (Asst. Manager Bio-Health-related Dept.AKUH).

4 WIDE Locations OF AKUH

Agha Khan University Hospital is utilizing Personal computer technology in 4 wide Places. Those Places can be defined as the backbone of AKUH?s administrative and decisional operates.

1. Software program.

two. Servers.

three. Networks.

Four. Bio-Medicals.

1. SOFTWARES: ?

In this location AKUH are working with 3 Application programs which are as follows:

1.1. Patient Care.

1.two. Administrative.

1.three. Economic.

1.1. PATIENT CARE Programs: ?

In this Computer software AKUH keeps record with regards to 3 varieties of individuals, i.e. Out-individuals, In-individuals and Outdoors referrers.

Out individuals are these who go to a physician for normal checkups and therapy in clinics. The records are kept in the database, which AKUH utilizes for those individuals.

In individuals are individuals who are admitted in emergency instances like burnout, heart attack, fracture and other serious and dangerous circumstances. When a patient is admitted his/her admission date, day and month are updated in this Application Computer software along with bed and ward quantity. A medical doctor and ancillary staff are appointed to that particular patient. The medicine which is prescribed to that patient, the variety of remedy the patient will purchase, the meal he/she will be provided are all updated in this Application Computer software.

Outdoors referrers are these individuals which are prescribed to take X-rays, lab test, and other form of checkups by these medical doctors which are not a element of hospital staff.

1.two. ADMINISTRATIVE Programs: ?

Via this Software AKUH keeps the record of the equipments that are they operating well. The info about current medical doctors, nurses, ancillary staff along with division specifications and requirements. The nutrition records of individuals are also kept here.

The fundamental objective of this Software is to administrate and manage the activities, which are held daily in hospital premises.

1.three. Monetary Programs: ?

In this Software program AKUH keeps the record concerning Economic activities of individuals and hospital. For e.g.

If a patient is admitted in hospital for surgerical objective than how considerably payment he/she had created or how considerably balance has left of his/her actual payment. All the Economic record of individuals is kept in this Software.

Like any other organization entity AKUH also keeps its record, for e.g. how significantly machinery, food and other inventory stuff are left. They also prepare and follow accounting cycle which entails common journal, ledger, trial balance, adjustment, Monetary statement.

two) SERVERS:-

AKUH is working with much more than 200 servers in its network. Some are as follows:

two.1. Database servers

two.two. Computer software servers

two.three. Web servers

two.1. DATABASE SERVERS: ?

To create database server AKUH utilized some language with the passage of time. The languages which they are working with described as beneath.

?? SQL server

?? Oracle

?? Visual Fundamental

?? ASP.NET

?? JAVA

AKUH applied SQL server to create Computer software Software program associated to patient care just before 1980?s. They utilised oracle language as a server to create Application Software associated to patient care and Economic Places in mid 1980?s. In 1995, AKUH employed third generation language to create programs of patient care, administrative and Economic Locations.

These days AKUH are utilizing Visual Standard, ASP.NET and Java to create Computer software softwares.

two.two. Computer software SERVERS: ?

Individuals servers are produced to manage or manage Software softwares connected to patient care, administrative, Monetary and human resource departments. Those servers manage the flow of entries at the time of storing and retrieving info.

two.three. INTRANET: ?

Online servers, communication servers and exchange e-mail server individuals servers are related to the intranet of the hospital to communicate just about every medical doctor and staff member to every single other. They can share reports and other needed facts relating to individuals. AKUH has offered links to its clinics and franchises Outdoors the hospital to communicate, monitor and fulfill their specifications and requirements of machinery connected activities.

three) NETWORKS: ?

AKUH is working with CAN (Campus Region Networking) which is spread in 3 diverse Places but interrelated to just about every other by switches.

Essentially PACS (Image Archiving and Communication Method) is a new technology and only AKUH is utilizing it in Pakistan. It is associated to RIS (Radiology Info Method). Those systems are additional associated to other departments and machinery.

Archiving indicates ?Storage? so, Via this associated networking hospital administration shops any facts relating to a patient which is updated to the network and that patient can retrieve his/her facts by a MR quantity (MR # is an I.D offered to a patient for retrieving details).

PACS is also employed to capture and shop pictures digitally from exactly where medical doctors and surgeons access By means of their thin customers. This technology replaces the old film rule in which an x-ray of a patient is obtained by capturing an Picture on a sheet it was damaging for human health and physique. Right after all this method the info is stored in SAN (Storage Location Network). AKUH has made SAN to facilitate its functioning.

Four) BIO-Health-related: ?

It is a distinct division of AKUH which purchases and monitors the overall performance of Health-related equipment and machinery. This division is additional divided into 4 sub departments which are as follows:

Four.1. Healthcare MANAGEMENT EQUIPMENT: ?

This division bargains with 3 goal which are life saving, therapy and monitory.

In life saving and help, the equipment associated to remedy complicated and important decease are monitored and maintained.

In therapy, all the equipments and machinery utilized to treat an in-patient are monitored.

In monitory, the efficiency of all the equipment and machinery employed by physicians, surgeons and ancillary staff are maintained and monitored.

Four.two. Acquire Division: ?

In this section members of bio-Health-related division have to see that what are the equipment they have to Obtain, Immediately after the decision, 1st they Bought the needed equipment Following acquiring the equipment they saw the technical Instruction to that equipment that how to install that equipment and how to utilised that equipment. Then they create a strategy that how to maintain individuals equipment and if there is a uncertain breakdown happens in the equipment how to manage individuals uncertain breakdown. Soon after all individuals measures the subsequent step is to put the equipment in the appropriate place, Right after the collaboration and expansion of the equipment they train all the unique medical doctors have to employed those equipment that how to employed and deal with individuals equipment. Bio-Healthcare works is to monitor all the equipment individuals are in use in the hospitals. Immediately after monitoring the subsequent step is to replace that equipment. In this replacement section when some equipment comprehensive it life or the equipment is completely depreciated they replace all these equipments. This is what the responsibilities of the Bio-Healthcare acquire division.

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The Low Down on Eye Tests | HEALTH & FITNESS & FOOD

When is the most suitable time to have your glasses or lenses changed? We often never pay attention to our curative glasses or lenses we are wearing. Really we want to check our eyes frequently annually or at a minimum as soon as we feel inconvenient with our recent glasses or contact lenses.

Eye Vision Testcan be done by your doctor or optometrist to determine whether you need a less or even more corrective glasses or lenses. New prescribed glasses or lenses will be made according to your test result.

Generally the doctor will do easy test to test your eyes as follow:

1. Retinoscopy. It is usually the 1st eye exam that doctor will give you to make approximation of your prescription.

2. Refraction. During this test, doctor will be well placed to decide your actual prescription by utilizing phoropter in front of your eyes and shows you series of lenses selections. Here you can find the correct mix of lenses which may possibly make you see well.

3. Autorefractors and aberrometers. With this test, your GP can instantly determine your prescription. Your jaw need to rest stable on both invents while you look at a pinpoint of light or other image.

4. Cover test. This is the simplest and the most common test among the others to determine how your eyes work together.

5. Slit-lamp examination. It is also called a biomicroscope which will grant the doctor to gain magnified picture of the structures of the eyes so as to completely evaluates them for the sign of illness of infection,

6. Glaucoma test.

7. Visible field testing.

8. Dilation.

Eye Vision Testcan actually be simple to do as all you need is generally available on the net at this age. There are several sorts of eye tests which can on occasion be found online since they are essentially have been introduced long time ago. You should pick one of them which is acceptable according to your eyes problem. These are some of the tests:

- Eye test chart - This is a surprisingly straightforward optometrist's chart you'll find on the internet. Any difference in the dream of both of your eyes can be examined by utilizing this test.
- Eye vision test
- Snellen eye test
- Alzheimer's eye test

Snellen and Alzheimer's eye tests are conducted to diagnose if there's specific problem related to your vision. Eyes are absolutely important for homo sapiens, that's why you have to look after them properly. After you feel something weird to your vision, take a quick eye test either online or by making appointment with your optometrist. With the advance technology there's nothing not possible to discover a solution.

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Spain's Rajoy gets mixed message in regional votes

MADRID, Spain (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy secured backing for his austerity drive in a vote in his home region of Galicia on Sunday, but a clear win for nationalist parties in the Basque Country could soon prove a headache for the central government.

According to exit polls, Spain's ruling centre-right People's Party was set to retain its absolute majority and government in Galicia with 39 to 42 seats in the regional parliament compared with 18 to 20 seats for the Socialist Party and 15 to 18 seats for two nationalist parties.

Opinion polls before the vote had indicated the PP would win 39 or fewer seats.

In the Basque Country, the nationalist PNV (Partido Nacionalista Vasco) was set to win with 24 to 27 seats, compared with 23 to 26 seats for Bildu, a pro-independence party, 13 to 15 seats for the Socialist Party and 9 to 11 seats for the PP.

The vote in Galicia, where austerity steps were taken by the People's Party even before Rajoy took national office one year ago, had been seen as a referendum on the Spanish government's handling of the euro zone crisis. The PP has ruled in the region for 24 of the past 31 years.

European officials and analysts said Rajoy wanted to wait until after the election before requesting more European aid because he feared lenders' conditions, such as a reform of the pension system, could anger voters.

The Spanish prime minister, who received a euro zone pledge in June of up to 100 billion euros to recapitalize banks, said on Friday he still had not decided whether to request a sovereign bailout. Senior euro zone officials told Reuters they expected an aid request to be made next month.

The Galician result will give the prime minister some political breathing space after polls showing him losing support amid massive demonstrations against spending cuts in public services and successive tax hikes.

The Socialists had hoped for a repeat of regional elections in Andalusia earlier this year where it lost to the PP but managed to form a coalition government with another left-wing party.

But Sunday's results may re-open a leadership war in the Socialist Party, which ruled in Spain from 2004 to 2011.

FRESH CHALLENGE

In the Basque Country, the outcome of the vote, as expected, was influenced by central government attempts to reduce provincial power.

Spain has fallen into its second recession since 2009 and the International Monetary Fund forecasts the economy will contract by 1.3 percent next year. Unemployment is 24.6 percent.

But in the Basque Country and in Catalonia, where nationalist parties are also set to win regional elections on November 25, issues such as fiscal and territorial autonomy dominate the agenda.

It is not yet clear who the Basque nationalist PNV will have to rely on to form a government. Political analysts said it may prefer to team up with the Socialist Party rather than with Bildu, which many see as linked to Basque separatist group ETA.

Opposition parties have accused the government of using the crisis to claw back powers from Spain's 17 autonomous regions, whose overspending was partly to blame for the failure of the country to meet its deficit targets last year.

The central government has offered funding to the regions in exchange for more control over local finances. So far, seven regions, including Catalonia, have said they would tap the liquidity line. The Basque Country is not expected to do so.

(Editing by Ralph Gowling and Jason Webb)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/spains-pm-rajoy-wins-key-regional-vote-exit-183540111.html

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NBC/WSJ poll: 2012 Presidential contest now tied

NBC's David Gregory makes sense of new polls showing conflicting leads in the 2012 presidential race.

By NBC's Mark Murray, Senior Political Editor

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Heading into Monday's final debate and with just over two weeks until Election Day, President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney are now tied nationally, according the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Obama and Romney both get 47 percent among likely voters in the latest edition of the poll, conducted entirely in the aftermath of the second presidential debate last Monday. In the last national NBC/WSJ poll, which was conducted before debate season began, the president held a narrow, three-point lead over his GOP challenger, 49 percent to 46 percent.

But among the wider pool of all registered voters in this new survey, Obama is ahead of Romney by five points, 49 percent to 44 percent.

Looking at some of the most important demographic groups, Romney leads among men (53 percent to 43 percent), Obama is up with women (51 percent to 43 percent) and they are essentially tied among voters in the Midwest.

The full poll ? which was conducted Oct. 17-20 among 1,000 registered voters and 816 likely voters ? will be released at 6:30 pm ET tonight.

The margin of error is plus-minus 3.1 percentage points for the sample of registered voters and plus-minus 3.43 percentage points for the sample of likely voters.?

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Factbox: The wealthy behind the presidential race

(Reuters) - Individual donors to presidential candidates can contribute up to $2,500 for the state-by-state party nominating contests and another $2,500 for the general election. But independent groups called Super PACs have no limits on what they can raise from individuals, corporations or labor unions.

Here is a look at wealthy individuals who have contributed at least $1 million to the major "super" political action committees as disclosed to the Federal Election Commission.

RESTORE OUR FUTURE

Total raised as of September 30: $110.5 million

(Supports Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney)

* Bob Perry - Houston builder who was a major donor to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that helped undermine 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry by attacking his Vietnam War record. Total donations: $10 million

* Sheldon Adelson - billionaire Las Vegas casino magnate who built the Venetian hotel and casino. Donation: $5 million

* Miriam Adelson - Sheldon's wife. Donation: $5 million

* Bill Koch - brother of conservative financiers David and Charles Koch. He runs Oxbow Carbon, a Florida-based firm that is also a donor and shares its address with another contributor, Huron Carbon. Total donations, including through firms: $4 million

* Steven Lund - runs Nu Skin, a Utah skin care and cosmetics company whose former executives have been linked to two other firms that share an address in Provo, Utah, and donated to the Super PAC: F8 LLC and Eli Publishing. Lund's wife Kalleen is also a donor. Total donations from the Lunds and firms: $3 million

* Julian Robertson - hedge fund industry legend at Tiger Management. Total donations: $1.3 million

* Crow Holdings - Dallas-based investment firm managing the wealth of the family of the late Dallas real estate mogul Trammell Crow, whose sons Harlan and Trammell S. Crow are also donors. Total Crow Holdings and Crow donations: $1.3 million

* Harold Simmons - billionaire Dallas banker and CEO of Contran Corp who has contributed to PACs supporting Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich. Donations: $1.3 million

* Frank VanderSloot - Idaho businessman who runs the nutritional and cosmetics company Melaleuca. The firm and its subsidiaries have also donated. Total donations: $1.1 million

* The Villages of Lake Sumter - a community in Florida run by billionaire Gary Morse, who is also a donor alongside his wife Renee and their several children. Along with the Morse family, thirteen companies controlled wholly or partially by Morse that share an address in The Villages have also contributed. Total donations of all: $1.7 million.

* Kenneth Griffin - Chicago-based hedge fund manager and CEO of Citadel LLC. Total donations: $1.1 million

* Bob Parsons - billionaire founder of web hosting giant Go Daddy. Donation: $1 million

* Jim Davis - chairman of New Balance Athletic Shoes Inc. Donations: $1 million

* Stanley Herzog - CEO of Missouri-based Herzon Contracting Corp. Donation: $1 million

* Bruce Kovner - billionaire hedge fund manager at Caxton Alternative Management. Donation: $1 million

* Rocco Ortenzio - Pennsylvania healthcare executive and founder of Select Medical Corp. Total donations: $1 million

* John Childs - founder of private equity firm J.W. Childs Associates LP in Florida. Donation: $1 million

* Edward Conard - a New York investor and former executive at Bain Capital, a private equity firm co-founded by Romney. Donation: $1 million

* John Kleinheinz - Texas hedge fund manager for Kleinheinz Capital Partners Inc. Donation: $1 million

* J.W. Marriott Jr. - chairman and CEO of Marriott International, brother of Richard. Total donations: $1 million

* Richard Marriott - chairman of Host Marriott International. Total donations: $1 million

* Robert McNair - owner of the Houston Texans football team. Donation: $1 million.

* Robert Mercer - New York hedge fund manager at Renaissance Technologies. Donation: $1 million

* John Paulson - a prominent New York hedge fund manager at Paulson and Co. Donation: $1 million

* Rooney Holdings Inc - private investment firm formed in 1980s to acquire the Manhattan Construction Co. and has since expanded into many areas. Total donations: $1 million

* Paul Singer - hedge fund manager who helped fund efforts to legalize gay marriage in New York. Donation: $1 million

* Paul and Sandra Edgerly - Paul Edgerly of Brookline, Massachusetts, is an executive at Bain. The Edgerlys each have given $500,000. Total donations: $1 million

* Steven Webster - private equity executive at Avista Capital in Houston. Total donations: $1 million

* Robert Brockman - executive at Reynolds and Reynolds, a Dayton, Ohio-based car dealership support company that shares a P.O. Box with CRC Information Systems Inc, Fairbanks Properties LLC and Waterbury Properties LLC, which split the donation three ways. Total donations: $1 million

* Miguel Fernandez - chairman of MBF Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm. MBF Family Investments also donated to the Super PAC. Total donations: $1 million

* Renco Group Inc. - owned by New York billionaire Ira Rennert, another frequent contributor to Republicans this year. Donation: $1 million

* OdysseyRe Holdings Corp - reinsurance underwriting company in Stamford, Connecticut that is a U.S. subsidiary of Toronto-based Fairfax Financial. Donation: $1 million

PRIORITIES USA ACTION

Total raised as of September 30: $50.1 million

(Supports Democratic President Barack Obama)

* James Simons - billionaire hedge fund manager, founder of Renaissance Technologies Corp. Donation: $3.5 million

* Fred Eychaner - founder of Newsweb Corp. Donation: $3.5 million

* Jeff Katzenberg - chief executive of DreamWorks Animation. Donation: $3 million

* Steve Mostyn - Houston attorney. Donation: $2 million

* Irwin Mark Jacobs - former CEO of Qualcomm Inc. Donation: $2 million

* Jon Stryker - billionaire activist and heir to the medical supply company fortune of his grandfather. Donation: $2 million

* Anne Cox Chambers - billionaire daughter of James M. Cox, founder of Cox Enterprises. Total donations: $1.5 million

* National Air Traffic Controllers Association - union representing more than 16,000 workers. Donation: $1.3 million

* S. Daniel Abraham - billionaire creator of Slim-Fast brand, chairman of S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace. Donation: $1.2 million

* Barbara Stiefel - retiree in Coral Gables, Florida. Donation: $1.1 million

* United Auto Workers - Donations through various funds: $1.1 million

* Kareem Ahmed - chief executive at Landmark Medical Management in California. Donation: $1 million

* David Boies, Jr - New York lawyer. Donation: $1 million

* Morgan Freeman - Hollywood actor. Donation: $1 million

* Amy Goldman - writer and heiress to the New York real estate fortune of Sol Goldman. Donation: $1 million

* Franklin Haney - owner and CEO of FLH Company, a Washington-based real estate company. Donation: $1 million

* Bill Maher - stand-up comedian. Donation: $1 million

* Mel Heifetz - real estate developer and gay activist. Donation: $1 million

* Michael Snow - Minnesota lawyer. Donation: $1 million.

* Steven Spielberg - film director. Donation: $1 million.

* Ann Wyckoff - Seattle philanthropist. $1 million.

* Service Employees International Union Committee on Political Education - union representing more than 2 million workers. Donation: $1 million.

* United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry - union representing some 340,000 workers. Total donations: $1 million

AMERICAN CROSSROADS

Total raised as of September 30: $68 million

(Supports Republican candidates for federal offices)

* Harold Simmons - Total donations together with Contran Corp: $15.5 million

* Bob Perry - Total donations: $6.5 million

* Robert Rowling - an Irving, Texas, businessman and a conservative and active Republican donor. His company, TRT Holdings Inc, which runs Omni Hotel and Gold's Gym chains, is also a donor. Total donations: $4 million

* Joe Craft - billionaire coal executive from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and CEO of Alliance Holdings, which is also a donor. Total donations: $2.1 million

* Jerry Perenchio Living Trust - a trust of billionaire television tycoon A. Jerrold Perenchio, who is a former chairman of Spanish-language broadcaster Univision. Donation: $2 million

* Crow Holdings - Dallas-based real estate investment firm. Total donations: $1.5 million

* Weaver Holdings and Weaver Popcorn - Indiana-based company specializing in popcorn. Total contributions: $1.9 million

* Stephens Inc - a Little Rock, Arkansas, broker dealer. Total donations: $1.3 million

* Armstrong Group - telecommunications conglomerate in Pennsylvania. Donation: $1.3 million

* JWC III Revocable Trust - Donatoin: $1.3 million

* Robert Brockman - executive at Ohio-based Reynolds and Reynolds. Similarly to Restore Our Future, three firms sharing a P.O. Box - CRC Information Systems Inc, Fairbanks Properties LLC and Waterbury Properties LLC - split the donation three ways. Total donations: $1 million

* Whiteco Industries - Indiana-based company involved in advertising, construction, entertainment and hotels. Donation: $1 million

* The Mercury Trust - entity linked to California private equity firm of Saul Fox. Donation: $1 million

* Clayton Williams Energy Inc - Midland, Texas-based drilling company. Donation: $1 million

* Jay Bergman - of PETCO Petroleum Corporation. Donation: $1 million

* Kenneth Griffin - Citadel Investment Group chief executive. Total donations: $1 million

* Wayne Hughes - Founder of Public Storage. Total donations: $1 million

* John Childs - Chairman and CEO of Boston-based JW Childs Associates. Total donations: $1 million

* Philip Geier - New York executive. Total donations: $1 million

* Irving Moskowitz - a Florida bingo magnate who runs a charity in California and is known for his support of Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem. Donation: $1 million

* Robert Mercer - co-CEO of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies. Donation: $1 million

(Reporting by Patrick Temple-West, Alexander Cohen and Alina Selyukh; editing by Todd Eastham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/factbox-wealthy-behind-presidential-race-042513361.html

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Listings on Samsung and Amazon sites suggest that Google's new Samsung Chromebook will be available as a 3G model for $330—which will include a monthly data allowance for two years. More »

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Military zeppelin could land cargo without a runway

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Staff report , TechNewsDaily

In the future, U.S. soldiers abroad may see their supplies come in carried under the bellies of zeppelins. Aeros Corp., a California-based startup, is working on a high-tech prototype airship on the behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense. When completed, Aeros' Pelican zeppelin will test a novel combination of airship and airplane technologies for carrying cargo long distances, the industry news site Aviation Week reported.

In the Pelican's first test flights, scheduled for early 2013, developers just want to see that they can fly and control the aircraft, Aeros CEO Igor Pasternak told Aviation Week. In the future, Aeros hopes to build a larger version of the Pelican to carry tens of tons of cargo, like current military cargo planes do. Unlike planes, however, the Pelican should be able to take off and land vertically, so it won't need long runways at its landing sites. It should also be able to sit on the ground while it's being loaded, so it won't require tethers like other airships, and it will be able to land in poor weather.?

"This will land in Africa, Afghanistan, a Walmart parking lot ? wherever," Pasternak told the Los Angeles Times.

Cargo isn't the only reason the military is interested in airships, and the military isn't the only market for a modern generation of airships, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Pentagon now uses drones to patrol enemy areas, but airships can be more effective and less expensive patrollers. An unmanned airship is able to hover over one spot for days, while drones can only go on hours-long flights. The U.S. already has more than 100 camera-equipped balloons over Afghanistan, the Los Angeles Times reported. The balloons, called aerostats, are too large to be shot down.

Meanwhile, Lockheed Martin Corp. is developing airships to carry commercial cargo.

Not all of the military's bets on airships have worked out, the Los Angeles Times reported. ?The army has lost lighter-than-air craft during high winds, including an $8.2 million airship that drifted away and exploded during a tropical storm in Puerto Rico. The Air Force also scrapped a $211 million project called the Blue Devil because of development problems.

Sources:?Aviation Week,?Los Angeles Times

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When the ?gold standard? of evidence doesn't support your agenda ...

?you smile and just ignore it:

Los Angeles, CA ? The Action for Health Diabetes (Look AHEAD) study, a trial comparing an intensive lifestyle-intervention program aimed at achieving and maintaining weight loss and fitness in patients with type 2 diabetes, has been stopped for futility.

A large cardiovascular-outcomes study funded by the National Institutes of Health that included 5145 adults with diabetes and a body mass index >25 kg/m², Look AHEAD failed to show a difference in the rate of nonfatal MI, nonfatal stroke, death, or hospitalization for angina among patients randomized to an intensive lifestyle intervention and those randomized to a control arm consisting of education alone.

Despite significant reductions in weight and improvements in physical-fitness levels among patients with diabetes, investigators concluded that the intervention arm, which included individual sessions with a nutritionist and/or personal trainer, as well as group sessions and refresher courses, failed to provide any benefit in terms of cardiovascular outcomes.

Dr Anne Peters (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), one of the study investigators, said in an interview that the trial was successful on one level?namely, that patients lost weight and improved their fitness. Data published at four years showed that the intensive intervention led to weight loss of up to 10% in the first year and that patients maintained a 6.5% reduction in body weight in the following three years. Over an 11-year follow-up period, the patients reported a 5% reduction in body weight from baseline, said Peters.

In addition, early data showed that treadmill fitness levels, hemoglobin A_1c levels, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, HDL-cholesterol levels, and triglyceride levels were all significantly improved among patients in the lifestyle-intervention arm when compared with the control group. The only cardiovascular risk factor that remained unchanged with treatment was LDL-cholesterol levels.

As lessons to be drawn are:

Despite the lack of cardiovascular benefit observed in Look AHEAD, Peters stressed that diabetic patients should not stop exercising or begin eating anything they wish.

?We do know that weight loss and exercise can prevent diabetes,? said Peters. ?I am a big advocate of prevention, both early prevention of obesity altogether, as well as prevention of diabetes in individuals who have become overweight. Lifestyle changes can help prevent diabetes. Once you have diabetes, I think weight loss and exercise can have benefits, but they are not going to reduce the risk for the primary outcome that we set for Look AHEAD, which was a risk for macrovascular events or death.?

Yes, Dr. Peters, you know exactly what millions of people you have never met should do for the rest of their lives to stay healthy.? In fact, why bother conducting clinical trials?? And we shall continue to listen, comply, and never question the advice of public health authorities!

Meanwhile one wonders what will happen to those private enterprises that are invested heavily in providing to the consumer the ever elusive lifestyle recommendation.? What in the world will they be telling patients?? Of course, it probably doesn?t matter: we don?t expect the IPAB to have any issue with this futility?

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