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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Massacre leaves America shocked and grieving ... again

President Obama addressed the nation in an emotionally charged speech Friday, wiping away tears as he expressed sympathy for the families of the victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

By Allison Linn, NBC News

President Barack Obama reacted to news of the horrific elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Friday like many other Americans: As a parent first.

?I know there?s not a parent in America who doesn?t feel the same overwhelming grief that I do,? the president said in a tearful midday speech.

Obama was among many public figures who were left feeling overwhelming grief ? and parental empathy - ?for the families who were victims of the massacre that killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

?The majority of those who died today were children ? beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old,? the visibly emotional president said. ?They had their entire lives ahead of them: birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own.?

Obama went on to say that the nation had gone through too many mass shootings too many times.

?This evening Michelle and I will do what I know every parent in America will do, which is hug our children a little tighter, and we?ll tell them that we love them, and we?ll remind each other how deeply we love one another,? he said.

The heartbreaking mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School was met with disbelief and tears from people across the country. NBC's Kevin Tibbles reports.

Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy reacted with sadness. "Evil visited this community today. And it's too early to speak of recovery, but each parent, each sibling, each member of the family has to understand that Connecticut - we're all in this together. We'll do whatever we can to overcome this event. We will get through it. But this is a terrible time for this community and these families."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the shooting hit him as a parent and a politician.

?I am in shock and disbelief at this horrible tragedy that took so many innocent lives today. As a father and grandfather, it is beyond my comprehension why anyone would want to hurt innocent children. I join the millions of Americans whose thoughts and hearts are with those suffering because of this horrible crime in Connecticut,? he said in a statement.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said that the department's hearts and prayers were with the school's students and staff and surrounding community. He, too, reacted as a parent.

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"School shootings are always incomprehensible and horrific tragedies. But words fail to describe today's heartbreaking and savage attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School. As the father of two children in elementary school, I can barely imagine the anguish and losses suffered today by the Newtown community," he said.

Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut also said that he and his wife were heartbroken for the nation, and as parents.

"Hadassah and I are shocked and heartbroken by the horrific events in Newtown today. We know this community and its people well. It is a beautiful town with wonderful people. As parents and grandparents, our hearts grieve for them today, and we send our prayers to each of them,? Lieberman said in a statement.

House Speaker John Boehner appealed to Americans to come together, and to seek solace in religion.

"The horror of this day seems so unbearable, but we will lock arms and unite as citizens, for that is how Americans rise above unspeakable evil.?Let us all come together in God's grace to pray for the families of the victims, that they may find some comfort and peace amid such suffering,? Boehner said in a statement.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell offered the hope that such violence could be eradicated.

"We are all crushed by the news of today's horrifying massacre in Newtown. I invite everyone to lift their hearts in prayer for the victims and their families and to unite around the hope that there will soon come a day when parents no longer fear this kind of violence in our nation again,? McConnell said.?

The outpouring of sympathy also came from overseas.

Students described hearing shots and screams over the intercom at school, which is how they first knew something was wrong. The survivors lived because of the bravery of their teachers. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.

England's Queen Elizabeth II sent a message to Obama reading: "I have been deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the dreadful loss of life today in Newtown, Connecticut; particularly the news that so many of the dead are children. Prince Philip joins me in extending our heartfelt sympathy to you and the American people at this difficult time. The thoughts and prayers of everyone in the United Kingdom and throughout the Commonwealth are with the families and friends of those killed and with all those who have been affected by today's events."

Pope Benedict XVI's spokesperson, Cardinal Tarcisio Berton, wrote in a statement: "The Holy Father was promptly informed of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown and he has asked me to convey his heartfelt grief and the assurance of this closeness in prayer to the victims and their families, and to all affected by the shocking event. In the aftermath of this senseless tragedy he asks God, our Father, to console all those who mourn and to sustain the entire community with the spiritual strength which triumphs over violence by the power of forgiveness, hope and reconciling love."

Some public figures also called on the nation to re-evaluate gun laws.

Mark Kelly, husband of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was gravely injured in a?shooting on Jan. 8, 2011, said he and his wife were sending their prayers to the victims.

"As we mourn, we must sound a call for our leaders to stand up and do what is right. This time our response must consist of more than regret, sorrow, and condolence. The children of Sandy Hook Elementary School and all victims of gun violence deserve leaders who have the courage to participate in a meaningful discussion about our gun laws - and how they can be reformed and better enforced to prevent gun violence and death in America. This can no longer wait,? Kelly?s statement on Facebook read in part.

There have been several mass shootings in 2012 alone, and on Friday President Obama said politicians will need to come together to take action regardless of the politics. NBC's Tom Costello reports.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said his deepest sympathies were with the families of the shooting, and he called on national figures to do more than send their thoughts and prayers.

"With all the carnage from gun violence in our country, it's still almost impossible to believe that a mass shooting in a kindergarten class could happen. It has come to that. Not even kindergarteners learning their A,B,Cs are safe. We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to talk about gun laws. We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek. And now we are hearing it again. For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with guns. Today, many of them were 5-year olds. President Obama rightly sent his heartfelt condolences to the families in Newtown. But the country needs him to send a bill to Congress to fix this problem,? Bloomberg?s statement said in part.

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I think what happens is that NTs try to get those romantic relationships at a young age because the older people do it - regardless if they've developed those emotional feelings yet or not, just to copy what the older people do.. This gives them an innate interest in it, so to speak. My theory is that because Aspie children don't see the point of having a relationship just for the fact of copying older people - probably means they don't see the point later on as well. Once one falls in love for the first time - then you start getting interested in them. This is only from my own experience though. _________________ "Only those who do not fit in the world have the power to change it"

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Friday, December 14, 2012

Ukraine parliament speaker elected amid brawls

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ? A violent brawl between supporters of the president and opposition lawmaker broke out in parliament on Thursday, nearly overshadowing the naming of a new pro-government speaker to lead the fractious body.

The Party of Regions led by President Viktor Yanukovych secured a slim majority in the Verkhovna Rada on Thursday following an October election condemned as unfair by the West. But three opposition parties made a strong showing and vowed to challenge Yanukovych's grip on power.

Some took that literally. For the second day of the new parliament's work, fists flew as opposition lawmakers chanted "Shame! Shame!" and "No to defectors!"

Shortly after parliament began its work Thursday morning, opposition lawmakers swarmed the parliament's podium and a fight erupted with pro-government legislators. Lawmakers wrestled with each other and some deputies were knocked over in the melee.

Opposition lawmakers were angry over the fact that some of their opponents continued the controversial practice of voting in place of their absent colleagues, despite a recent ban.

Yanukovych ally Volodymyr Rybak, a 66-year-old former mayor of the eastern city of Donetsk, interrupted his speech in frustration.

"Esteemed deputies, let us calm down," he said as the fight continued and he was widely ignored.

After a short break was announced and the fight ended, Rybak was elected parliament speaker in a 250-450 vote by Yanukovych allies. The opposition refused to take part.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-parliament-speaker-elected-amid-brawls-112815809.html

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Health insurance: US paying more for less

By Maggie Fox, NBC News

Health insurance premiums have shot up more than 60 percent in the last eight years, and if they keep up at this pace the average family of four will be paying $25,000 a year just for health insurance, according to a report released Wednesday.

At the same time, deductibles are also going up for employer-sponsored plans, so workers are paying more and more for less and less, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund said.

?Workers are paying more for less financial protection when they get sick,? said Commonwealth Fund senior vice president Cathy Schoen, who led the team writing the report.

Currently, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, an average worker with employer-sponsored health insurance pays between about $15,000 to $16,000 a year for that coverage. Workers at bigger firms pay more. Coverage is about $5,600 a year for a single person.

The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that conducts health policy reform research, did a state-by state look at health insurance premiums and deductibles and used Census Bureau data on earnings for the report, which covers 2003 to 2011.

?Premiums for family coverage increased 62 percent across states -- rising far faster than income for middle- and low-income families,? the report says. ?At the same time, deductibles more than doubled in large and small firms. Workers are thus paying more but getting less-protective benefits. If trends continue at their historical rate, the average premium for family coverage will reach nearly $25,000 by 2020.?

One big reason for the rising premiums? Rising expenses. ?Broad evidence of poorly coordinated care, duplicative services, and administrative waste, as well as rising prices charged to those privately insured, signal that greater efforts are needed to slow cost growth in both private and public insurance markets,? the report finds.

This isn?t controversial. Earlier this year the independent Institute of Medicine made a formal pronouncement on what think-tanks and academic institutions had been saying for years. It said the U.S. health care system wasted $750 billion in 2009, about 30 percent of all health spending, on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud, and other problems.

?The U.S. health insurance system remains highly fragmented, marked by elevated spending on admin?istration and an inability or unwillingness to combat high health care costs in private insurance markets. Our system includes Medicare coverage for those 65 and older and some disabled individuals, state-operated Medicaid programs, and an array of competing private insurance plans,? the report adds.

The Commonwealth Fund has been a big fan of the Affordiable Care Act, the 2010 health reform law known widely by supporters and opponents alike as Obamacare. And the report says the legislation will do a lot to lower costs, but not enough.

?Health insurance is expensive and has become less affordable, no matter where one lives. Insurance premiums rose sharply in all states during these eight years and, because wages failed to keep pace, increased as a share of median household income,? the report says.

?The net result is that it is more difficult for many insured workers and their families to save for education or retirement -- or simply to meet day-to-day living expenses.?

And, the group says, the economy has made things worse. ?With the recent recession, millions of workers lost their jobs or were otherwise unable to afford coverage and, as a result, joined the ranks of the uninsured. From 2008 to 2010, the per?centage of people with employment-based insurance fell from 58.9 percent to 55.3 percent,? the report says.

?An estimated 9 million adults ages 19 to 64 lost a job with health benefits and became uninsured during this period.?

Michael Ramlet, a health economist at the right-leaning American Action Forum, says?one reason health insurance costs actually slowed during the recession is that people stopped getting anything but the most essential health services.

?That is starting to change as you have this slow recovery,? Ramlet said in a telephone interview.

He thinks expenses will go up even more as the Affordable Care Act?s requirements kick in. These include the so-called essential health benefits -- the minimum requirements for the health insurance plans that people will buy on the open market starting in 2014. These aren?t the same plans as those offered by employers, but Ramlet thinks the federal requirements will make these new retail plans pricey.

?They are very rich,? he said. ??Economists would warn you there there is no free lunch and more things cost more money.?

Ramlet believes this could affect employer-sponsored insurance. Already some federal requirements such as provision of free health screenings are making employers think?twice about offering insurance, he said. ??Honestly I don?t think employers are going to stay in the insurance game for very long,? Ramlet said.

Just this week, the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans said more than 85 percent of employers surveyed say they plan to keep offering health insurance to workers. But Ramlet believes those numbers will fall as health insurance becomes more and more expensive.

He also predicts more people will gamble and not buy health insurance at all -- although the health reform law is designed to encourage people to buy it. That could be a risky option when an unanticipated medical emergency can quickly rack up hundreds or even of thousands of dollars in bills.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Ecuador's president says Venezuela's Hugo Chavez undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba

QUITO, Ecuador - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba, Ecuador's president said Tuesday.

"Commander Hugo Chavez is being operated on at this moment. It's a very delicate operation," Rafael Correa said at an event in the Ecuadorean city of Tulcan.

"At this time he's passing through one of the hardest moments of his life. Our heart and our solidarity go out to a historic president," he said.

Correa, a close ally of the Venezuelan leader, travelled to Cuba on Monday and met with Chavez.

Chavez announced on Saturday that he needed to undergo a fourth cancer-related surgery after tests showed that "some malignant cells" had reappeared in the same area where tumors were previously removed.

Chavez also said for the first time that if his illness cuts short his presidency, Vice-President Nicolas Maduro should take his place and should be elected president to lead his leftist movement.

It's his third operation to remove cancerous tissue from his pelvic area in about a year and a half. An initial surgery for a pelvic abscess in June 2011 helped reveal he had cancer.

Chavez has also undergone chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ecuadors-president-says-venezuelas-hugo-chavez-undergoing-cancer-165839686.html

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Violent video games: More playing time equals more aggression

Dec. 10, 2012 ? A new study provides the first experimental evidence that the negative effects of playing violent video games can accumulate over time.

Researchers found that people who played a violent video game for three consecutive days showed increases in aggressive behavior and hostile expectations each day they played. Meanwhile, those who played nonviolent games showed no meaningful changes in aggression or hostile expectations over that period.

Although other experimental studies have shown that a single session of playing a violent video game increased short-term aggression, this is the first to show longer-term effects, said Brad Bushman, co-author of the study and professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State University.

"It's important to know the long-term causal effects of violent video games, because so many young people regularly play these games," Bushman said.

"Playing video games could be compared to smoking cigarettes. A single cigarette won't cause lung cancer, but smoking over weeks or months or years greatly increases the risk. In the same way, repeated exposure to violent video games may have a cumulative effect on aggression."

Bushman conducted the study with Youssef Hasan and Laurent B?gue of the University Pierre Mend?s-France, in Grenoble, France, and Michael Scharkow of the University of Hohenheim in Germany.

Their results are published online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and will appear in a future print edition.

The study involved 70 French university students who were told they would be participating in a three-day study of the effects of brightness of video games on visual perception.

They were then assigned to play a violent or nonviolent video game for 20 minutes on each of three consecutive days.

Those assigned the violent games played Condemned 2, Call of Duty 4 and then The Club on consecutive days (in a random order). Those assigned the nonviolent games played S3K Superbike, Dirt2 and Pure (in a random order).

After playing the game each day, participants took part in an exercise that measured their hostile expectations. They were given the beginning of a story, and then asked to list 20 things that the main character will do or say as the story unfolds. For example, in one story another driver crashes into the back of the main character's car, causing significant damage. The researchers counted how many times the participants listed violent or aggressive actions and words that might occur.

Students in the study then participated in a competitive reaction time task, which is used to measure aggression. Each student was told that he or she would compete against an unseen opponent in a 25-trial computer game in which the object was to be the first to respond to a visual cue on the computer screen.

The loser of each trial would receive a blast of unpleasant noise through headphones, and the winner would decide how loud and long the blast would be. The noise blasts were a mixture of several sounds that most people find unpleasant (such as fingernails on a chalk board, dentist drills, and sirens). In actuality, there was no opponent and the participants were told they won about half the trials.)

The results showed that, after each day, those who played the violent games had an increase in their hostile expectations. In other words, after reading the beginning of the stories, they were more likely to think that the characters would react with aggression or violence.

"People who have a steady diet of playing these violent games may come to see the world as a hostile and violent place," Bushman said. "These results suggest there could be a cumulative effect."

This may help explain why players of the violent games also grew more aggressive day by day, agreeing to give their opponents longer and louder noise blasts through the headphones.

"Hostile expectations are probably not the only reason that players of violent games are more aggressive, but our study suggests it is certainly one important factor," Bushman said.

"After playing a violent video game, we found that people expect others to behave aggressively. That expectation may make them more defensive and more likely to respond with aggression themselves, as we saw in this study and in other studies we have conducted."

Students who played the nonviolent games showed no changes in either their hostile expectations or their aggression, Bushman noted.

He said it is impossible to know for sure how much aggression may increase for those who play video games for months or years, as many people do.

"We would know more if we could test players for longer periods of time, but that isn't practical or ethical," he said.

"I would expect that the increase in aggression would accumulate for more than three days. It may eventually level off. However, there is no theoretical reason to think that aggression would decrease over time, as long as players are still playing the violent games," he said.

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Stem cell research provides hope for infertile cancer survivors

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Transplanted stem cells could preserve male fertility

Radiation and chemotherapy can pack a powerful punch against all kinds of cancers. Those who survive, however, are often left with bad news: Their treatments have rendered them infertile.

A UTSA professor has now demonstrated that it is possible to remove testicular stem cells from a monkey prior to chemotherapy, freeze them and later, after cancer treatments, transplant these cells where they can restart sperm production and restore fertility.

UTSA Assistant Professor Brian Hermann worked in collaboration with researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) on a technique that might be used to make male cancer patients fertile using their own spermatogonial stem cells.

"This is a really exciting milestone for this research," said John McCarrey, director of the San Antonio Cellular Therapeutics Institute. "This is the first time that anybody has been able to show the concept works in a primate model, and that is an important step in moving the research forward to clinical trials."

While men facing cancer treatments, which could cause infertility, are able to store their own sperm for future use in the fertility clinic, this is not an option for boys before puberty who are not yet making sperm. But, all prepubertal boys have spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) in their testes, which could be used for transplantation.

The concept of using spermatogonial stem cells to restore fertility was first introduced in the mid-1990s by University of Pennsylvania scholar Ralph L. Brinster. Since that time, scholars have been working to demonstrate the concept is viable.

But more work is required.

The research must overcome a number of hurdles before it can become a common clinical practice.

"This research demonstrates the proof of principle that the concept works in primates and has a good chance of working in humans," said Hermann. "We need to better understand the optimal timing of transplantation, how to prepare testicular stem cells for transplantation and make them safe for transplantation, and how to maximize their ability to restart sperm production."

But it's hard for researchers to know when clinical trials will begin since the removal and storage of spermatogonial stem cells is currently a rare practice worldwide.

"There are currently only a handful of clinics around the world that will remove and preserve testicular stem cell samples from prepubertal patients, and that limits the availability of candidates," said Hermann. "Until more clinics get on board and save stem cells for patients, we are limited in what we can do to test transplantation in clinical trials."

Hermann joined the UTSA College of Sciences' faculty in summer 2011, following a post-doctoral fellowship at MWRI alongside Associate Professor Kyle Orwig. At UTSA, he is continuing to focus his research on basic and translational studies of spermatogonial stem cells to preserve fertility in boys treated for cancer and related diseases.

"For a long time, oncologists have been unable to address the long-term consequences of life-saving chemotherapy and radiation treatments such as infertility," said Hermann. "That is now beginning to change as laboratory research such as this study provides new experimental options for patients facing infertility after cancer."

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Hermann's research is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund and UTSA.

To learn more about Professor Brian Hermann's research, visit http://hermannlab.utsa.edu or read "Spermatogonial Stem Cell Transplantation into Rhesus Testes Regenerates Spermatogenesis Producing Functional Sperm" in the current issue of Cell Stem Cell, the nation's leading stem cell journal.

About UTSA

The University of Texas at San Antonio is one of the largest of nine academic universities and six health institutions in the UT System. As a multicultural institution of access and excellence, UTSA aims to be a national research university providing access to educational excellence and preparing citizen leaders for the global environment.

UTSA serves nearly 31,000 students in more than 135 degree programs in the colleges of Architecture, Business, Education and Human Development, Engineering, Liberal and Fine Arts, Public Policy, Sciences and University College, the Honors College and the Graduate School. Founded in 1969, UTSA is an intellectual and creative resource center and a socioeconomic development catalyst for Texas and beyond. Learn more at www.utsa.edu.

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Stem cell research provides hope for infertile cancer survivors

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Transplanted stem cells could preserve male fertility

Radiation and chemotherapy can pack a powerful punch against all kinds of cancers. Those who survive, however, are often left with bad news: Their treatments have rendered them infertile.

But more work is required.

The research must overcome a number of hurdles before it can become a common clinical practice.

But it's hard for researchers to know when clinical trials will begin since the removal and storage of spermatogonial stem cells is currently a rare practice worldwide.

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Hermann's research is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund and UTSA.

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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Same-sex weddings in Wash. to begin on Sunday

Laurie Johnson and Margaret Witt celebrate attaining their marriage license on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, at the Spokane County Courthouse in Spokane, Wash. Washington state now joins several other states that allow gay and lesbian couples to wed. Gov. Chris Gregoire signed a voter-approved law legalizing gay marriage. Because the state has a three-day waiting period, the earliest that weddings can take place is Sunday. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Dan Pelle) COEUR D'ALENE PRESS OUT

In this photo provided by Richard Wood, retired Army Col. Grethe Cammermeyer, left, kisses Diane Divelbess, her partner of 24 years, as they pose for photos after the two received their marriage license Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, in Coupeville, Wash. Two retired military women who fought for the rights of gays in the military were among the hundreds of couples who received their marriage licenses this week as Washington state's voter-approved law allowing same-sex marriage took effect. Former Air Force flight nurse Maj. Margaret Witt, of Spokane, and Cammermeyer, of Whidbey Island, both successfully challenged the military's ban on open service by gays and lesbians. They were first in line on Thursday in their home counties to receive their licenses with their partners as the law took effect. (AP Photo/ kapchur.us photography, Richard Wood)

Former AIR FORCE officer Margaret Witt, right, and Lori Johnson, left, stand in their south hill home, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 in Spokane, Wash. They are planning to marry in a few weeks after receiving one of the first marriage licenses for same sex couples this week. Witt fought the Army over "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and was with President Obama when he signed the repeal. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Jesse Tinsley) COEUR D'ALENE PRESS OUT MBI

OLYMPIA, WASH. (AP) ? Two retired military women who fought for the rights of gays in the military were among the hundreds of couples who received their marriage licenses this week as Washington state's voter-approved law allowing same-sex marriage took effect.

Former Air Force flight nurse Maj. Margaret Witt, of Spokane, and retired nurse, Army Col. Grethe Cammermeyer, of Whidbey Island, both successfully challenged the military's ban on open service by gays and lesbians. They were first in line on Thursday in their home counties to receive their licenses with their partners.

"First, to be able to serve their country openly was in and of itself historical, and a significant step forward for our nation. And now to be able to legally wed the person they love is yet another historical milestone," said Anne Levinson, a gay rights activist who worked on the campaign to approve same-sex marriage. "They're remarkable women."

Gov. Chris Gregoire and Secretary of State Sam Reed certified the election on Wednesday afternoon, and the law took effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, when couples in Seattle lined up to pick up their licenses just after midnight.

Because the state has a three-day waiting period, the earliest that weddings can take place is Sunday.

"It will be an amazing energetic, joyous experience," said Witt, who will marry her partner of nine years, Laurie Johnson, on Dec. 15 in Spokane.

Witt, 48, was discharged from the Air Force Reserve because the military learned she was a lesbian, but a federal judge found her dismissal unconstitutional in 2010, and Witt retired with a full military pension last year. She is currently a physical therapist at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Spokane.

The policy that banned gay and lesbian members of the military from serving openly, known as "don't ask, don't tell," was repealed last year, but Witt said there's more to be done.

Since gay marriage is still not recognized under federal law, Witt said that military family members are still at risk of not being recognized as next of kin by the military.

"I'd like to see all military members and their families recognized and taken care of," she said. "As far as we've come in the military, my job's not done."

Cammermeyer plans to get married Sunday at her home in Langley, joined by nine other couples who will also get married there before her annual Christmas party that will also serve as a wedding reception.

Cammermeyer, 70, earned national attention with her fight to stay in the Washington National Guard. She was fired in 1992 after disclosing her sexual orientation during a 1989 interview for a security clearance as chief nurse of the National Guard. A federal judge ordered her reinstated in 1994; the government did not appeal.

Cammermeyer said her ability to now marry Diane Divelbess, her partner of 24 years, was an "opportunity to be treated as a family and as equals."

"There's still a lot of inequities that state law can't take care of, but it certainly shows that we are one of many states now that are moving toward recognition," Cammermeyer said.

Last month, Washington, Maine and Maryland became the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote. They joined six other states ? New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont ? and the District of Columbia that had already enacted laws or issued court rulings permitting same-sex marriage.

Referendum 74 in Washington state had asked voters to either approve or reject the state law legalizing same-sex marriage that legislators passed earlier this year. That law was signed by Gregoire in February but was put on hold pending the outcome of the election. Nearly 54 percent of voters approved the measure.

The law doesn't require religious organizations or churches to perform marriages, and it doesn't subject churches to penalties if they don't marry gay or lesbian couples.

In addition to private ceremonies that will start taking place across Washington state this weekend, Seattle City Hall will open for several hours on Sunday, and several local judges are donating their time to marry couples. Aaron Pickus, a spokesman for Mayor Mike McGinn, said that more than 140 couples have registered to get married at City Hall, and weddings will begin at 10 a.m. In Olympia, a group of local judges has offered to perform wedding ceremonies just after midnight on Sunday at the Thurston County courthouse.

Married same-sex couples will still be denied access to federal pensions, health insurance and other government benefits available to heterosexual couples because the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA, bars federal recognition of gay unions. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to take up gay marriage sometime during the current term. Several pending cases challenge the federal benefit provision of DOMA, and a separate appeal asks the justices to decide whether federal courts were correct in striking down California's Proposition 8, the amendment that outlawed gay marriage after it had been approved by courts in the nation's largest state.

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Salinas urologist may face discipline from California Medical Board

A Salinas urologist under federal investigation is also facing possible sanctions by the California Medical Board over a separate issue.

Dr. Aytac Apaydin, co-owner of Salinas Valley Urology Associates, is accused of failing to realize he left a wire in a patient's bladder despite a radiologist's CT scan report identifying the problem. The man complained of severe pain and urinary bleeding for eight months before a doctor in Arizona discovered the error and removed the wire, according to the state complaint.

The man sued Apaydin in Monterey County Superior Court, reaching an undisclosed settlement a year ago. He also reported the incident to the California Medical Board, which investigated and filed a formal accusation seeking suspension or revocation of Apaydin's license in August 2011.

In seeking serious discipline, the medical board noted that Apaydin was publicly reprimanded in May 2008 for allegedly altering a patient's records and failing to inform him of the effects of Lupron, a hormone drug often used to treat prostate cancer that can cause severe hot flashes.

The latest action has not gone to trial. Deputy Attorney General Lynne Dombrowski, who is prosecuting the case for the medical board, said she is expecting a "decision" fairly soon. Such cases often are resolved without a trial.

Apaydin and other doctors who practice at Salinas Valley Urology are simultaneously being federally investigated over some of their business practices. A spokeswoman

for the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the investigation but declined to discuss its nature or status.

The Inspector General's Office is responsible for eliminating fraud and abuse in Medicare, Medicaid and other programs.

A Nov. 6 report by Bloomberg News said the inspector general is examining whether the doctors at the Salinas clinic, which includes a surgery center, radiation facility and pathology lab, are violating laws that prohibit physicians from referring patients for treatments chiefly for profit. Particularly at issue, the article said, is intensity-modulated radiation therapy, or IMRT, a treatment for prostate cancer.

In addition to Apaydin, co-owner Dr. Stephen Worsham and the clinic's radiation oncologist, Dr. David Gallardo, nine other urologists pay to see patients at the center at 1115 Los Palos Drive a few hours a week ? providing an apparent loophole in the "self-referral" laws. None has been accused of wrongdoing.

Salinas Valley Urology issued a statement following the Bloomberg article, saying some of its facts were wrong and that the center's doctors provide "state-of-the-art ... thorough and compassionate diagnostic and treatment services to our patients."

Apaydin did not respond to requests for comment for this article. A Sacramento attorney representing him, Robert Sullivan, said the allegations pending before the medical board and in a separate medical-malpractice lawsuit have nothing to do with radiation therapy for prostate cancer.

The medical board's action targets only Apaydin. It details the years-long medical saga of a patient referred to as "J.P.," who had been Apaydin's patient since 1995.

J.P. was 72 when Apaydin removed his cancerous prostate in December 2004. In July 2007, he went to see Apaydin with complaints of frequent nighttime urination, bloody urine and abdominal pain.

The state accusation says Apaydin "apparently" diagnosed a constriction in the bladder neck. He treated the problem by running a wire through the blockage to guide a laser used to ease the stricture. He did not realize the laser also cut through the wire, leaving a piece in the patient's bladder. The accusation says Apaydin's medical records did not contain an operative report, nor documentation of an antibiotic he had prescribed.

Eleven days later, a radiologist in Apaydin's office conducted an abdominal CT scan. In his written "finding" and "impression," the radiologist twice stated, "There is a coiled metallic wire seen within the urinary bladder."

Apaydin initialed the report to indicate he had received it and reviewed it. Two weeks later, J.P. again complained of pain and urination five times a night. A urinalysis again showed red blood cells.

Apaydin recommended he return in three months.

Another five weeks passed and J.P. called Apaydin from Yuma, Ariz., where he was working. He was passing blood and experiencing pain with urination and incontinence. Apaydin prescribed an antibiotic and urinary analgesic, but detailed neither prescription in his records, the accusation states.

When J.P. returned from Yuma two months later, he was still experiencing the symptoms. Apaydin continued his antibiotic and recommended Kegel exercises for the incontinence.

By March 2008, J.P. had added impotence and blood clots to his list of maladies, according to the accusation. Apaydin's records do not indicate if he continued the man's antibiotic and do not document any other treatment.

In May 2008, after returning to Yuma, J.P. turned to a new doctor, who found and removed the wire.

In a written summary of J.P.'s care, Apaydin said he read and signed off on the patient's original CT scan, but failed to notice the finding of the wire in the bladder.

The accusation states Apaydin is subject to discipline for "repeated negligent acts," including failing to recognize he had cut the guide wire during the cystoscopy, failing to adequately review the CT report on four separate occasions and failing to maintain adequate and accurate records.

It seeks revocation or suspension of his license and his authority to supervise physician's assistants, and, if he is placed on probation, an order for him to pay the costs of the board's probation monitoring.

Monterey County court records show Apaydin also was sued for malpractice in 2010 and 2011. One of those lawsuits was settled, the other is pending trial.

Sullivan said it is not unusual for a surgeon to face two lawsuits over an 18-year practice.

Virginia Hennessey can be reached at 753-6751 or vhennessey@montereyherald.com.

Source: http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_22150080/salinas-urologist-may-face-discipline-from-california-medical?source=rss_viewed

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Winnik baffled at NHL?s reaction to union offer

Puzzled by the events of a bizarre day in the contentious labor battle between NHL owners and players, Ducks winger Dan Winnik didn?t want to wait and read about why the league rejected the latest proposal put forth by his union.

Ducks winger Dan Winnik (center) is flanked by Winnipeg?s Ron Hainsey and free agent Chris Campoli as the three listen in on NHL commissioner Gary Bettman?s press conference Thursday.

As NHL commissioner Gary Bettman steamed in ticking off the reasons why a deal wasn?t reached to end the lockout, Winnik and other players slipped into the back of conference room full of reporters at a New York City hotel to hear it directly from the source.

In short, Winnik was taken aback at the assertion from the Bettman that the players? association doesn?t want to reach an accord.

?They asked us to address their three main issues,? said Winnik, who?s been part of the NHLPA?s negotiating committee from the beginning. ?And that?s what we thought we were doing today. We didn?t know by us not completely agreeing to what they want was that?s it.

?I should say we didn?t think it would lead to that.?

Bettman told assembled media that most elements of the owners? offer were now off the table. It included their willingness to?beef up their amount?in deferred payments to fulfill existing player contracts?from $211 million to $300 million.

Owners also offered to keep eligibility for free agency at 27 years of age and salary arbitration rights. But the NHLPA had to accept a 10-year deal ? which both sides could opt out after eight ? and limit players? contracts to a maximum of five years.

The union countered Thursday with an eight-year agreement and contracts to last no longer than eight years but the NHL ? after apparent progress made over two days ? wanted a deal struck Wednesday night and was angered when one wasn?t made.

For now, it appears the only path to a new deal is if players are willing to accept the owners? terms. Deputy commissioner Bill Daly said the five-year contract limit is ?the hill we will die on.?

?This is clearly their boldest move they?ve made,? Winnik said. ?And to think that if everything?s off the table and everything that was done since June or the first time we met is all gone, it is insane to me.

?That?s just insane to think that any progress we made is gone because we refused to accept those contracting rights.?

The last-resort maneuver of union decertification may now pick up steam. It would allow individual players to bring lawsuits against the league and declare the lockout illegal under antitrust laws.

Asked whether decertification is more of an option now following the latest breakdown in talks, Winnik simply said ?you can make your own judgment on that.?

A tempest of emotion was the order of the day and it wasn?t limited to Winnik. Ducks winger Matt Beleskey tweeted: ?Pulling offers off the table in December? This on an off business is ridiculous!!! Sit down, negotiate and figure it out!?

Owners also spoke out for the first time through league-allowed statements after staying quiet largely by the threat of a $1 million fine.

?While I sense there are some members of the players association that understand our perspective on these issues, clearly there are many that don?t,? Winnipeg Jets owner Mark Chipman said.

Said the Toronto Maple Leafs? Larry Tanenbaum: ?I am very disappointed and disillusioned. Had I not experienced this process myself, I might not have believed it.?

Winnik said he wasn?t of the belief that the sides had an agreement because there were still some conflict over the player contracting rights.

For instance, it is his contention that the owners? insistence on no more than a five-percent salary variance between years will result in players having larger salary-cap hits and leaving less for teams to sign depth players.

In detailing the players? offer Thursday, Fehr said his side proposed a maximum 25-percent variance between years. Owners are pushing their number in order to prevent long-term deals with little money in the final years to circumvent the cap.

?You get into a problem of only star players and the highest-paid players making the money and there?s no middle class,? Winnik said. ?That was a problem for us.

?We addressed that with a proposal which we gave them today. It?s unfortunate that they tend to give proposals with a deadline where it?s take it or leave it. This is not the first time that we have heard that.?

But what incensed Winnik were implications that the players? desire to bring NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr back into the bargaining sessions killed a potential deal.

Players and owners met all day Tuesday without Fehr and Bettman at the table and appeared to find common ground on previous sticking points but owners.

?I think it?s insane to think that this broke down because we stopped meeting [solely] as players and owners,? Winnik said. ?We have a union and a head of that union and we hired him for a reason because he is the best at what he does.

?I just think that?s completely ridiculous if people are saying this didn?t get gone because we wanted Don back in the room and that it?s Don?s fault.?

Until now, Winnik has been firm in his belief that an agreement would be reached and there would be hockey played on the ice. Now the veteran is starting to seriously contemplate whether another NHL season will be canceled due to labor strife.

?Yeah, I think it kind of dims the light of optimism, for me at least,? he said. ?I guess that?s what everyone?s got to wonder now.

?This isn?t enjoyable for anybody.?

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Source: http://ducks.ocregister.com/2012/12/07/winnik-baffled-at-nhls-reaction-to-union-offer/113811/

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Literate RP Partner wanted for a few Fandoms!

Well hello there ;D.

Clearly I've managed to snag your attention, so thank you for taking the time to read this.

You can call me Mad, or Bianca if you so fancy. I've been a member of RPG for a year or so and have made a couple roleplays on here as well as participating in some great ones others have made as well.

I'm currently looking for a few RP partners for my favorite fandoms. I'm open to non-fandom rp's, but these are just some ones I've been craving as of late.

P.S: I prefer to play female over male characters. While I enjoy fandoms, I'll rarely play a canon character. I just really enjoy the settings of most of these plots xD.

Fandoms:

Spartacus:

? Dragon Age: Dragon Age is amazing and I've really been looking for an active RP partner to write with me on this one. Second choice!

? Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, or even venturing into a completely different area would be alright. The Elder Scrolls series has always been one of my favorites and I'd be completely for roleplaying out something with my partner

?Silent Hill: Horror, horror, and more horror! Not completely sure how we would do this, but it would be amazing to do something with this little bugger. I loved the first movie, the video games, and even the comics. The second movie was...eeh, but that's just my opinion.

?Other: I'm also open to 1x1 with Greek Mythology, horror, superheroes , drama, gore, drugs, sex [RPG rules apply of course], and music. I'm not up for any realistic roleplays at the moment, so I'm pretty much game for anything else.

Other Details:

Romance:

? Literate individuals: I can write up to a thousand words per post, but I'd prefer to keep it 500 minimum. I'm not expecting you to write a novel, but I'd like someone who can give me something to work with. Quality over quantity though lovelies.

So if any of these ideas sound interesting to you at all, feel free to shoot me a PM.

Thank you kindly <3. -Mad

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The Drowning set to revamp first-person shooters on mobile

A refreshing new first-person shooter game for iOS was announced recently called The Drowning. It's being built by some of the folks that worked on Halo, Battlefield, and Far Cry, so as you'd expect the graphics look absolutely spectacular so far, but that's not even the most interesting thing about the game.

The main thing these guys are trying to do is revamp the way FPS titles are played on mobile, and that means ditching the dual-stick layout. Instead, they're trying out a new layout where one taps to shoot and swipes to turn around. Players fire with two fingers instead of one, as you might expect; the shots land in between where two fingers tap, and pinching zooms down the sights. Weapons will be craftable (!) and upgradeable, apparently. Besides all that, the game's story seems extremely interesting, which you can get a taste of in the trailer below.

That's an interesting twist on the classic mobile first-person shooter, especially in the wake of Modern Combat 4, which leans heavily on the dual joystick layout (though there is the option for gyro controls). Expect The Drowning to launch on iPhone and iPad early next year for free. More info is available at their home page over here.?

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

'Black Marble' glitters with Earth's night lights

NASA Earth Observatory

The night lights of the Americas shine in this visualization of our planet at night, which is based on data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October. The image, released by NASA Earth Observatory today, has been nicknamed the "Black Marble."

By Alan Boyle

NASA is known for its "Blue Marble" images, which show Earth's sunlit disk as seen from space ? and now it's making a splash with the nighttime view, nicknamed the?"Black Marble."

This picture of the night lights of North and South America is just one frame in the Black Marble series, which is based on data from the Suomi NPP satellite and was unveiled today during the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in San Francisco. The image has been built up from readings made by the weather/climate satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, or VIIRS.

It'd be tough to snap this kind of picture at any single moment, because of cloud cover as well as seasonal changes in the way sunlight falls on our planet. Suomi NPP's handlers had an easier job, because the satellite could make multiple passes in April and October. Those fly-overs produced data that could be presented as a full-disk nighttime view of Earth.

NASA says the VIIRS instrument's "day-night band" is well-suited to pick up on dim signals such as city lights as well as gas flares, auroras, wildifires and reflected moonlight. For the Black Marble images, stray sources of light were removed during processing to emphasize the city lights.

"Artificial lighting is an excellent remote-sensing observable and proxy for human activity," Chris Elvidge, who leads the Earth Observation Group at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Geophysical Data Center, said in today's image advisory.

Weather forecasters are using the VIIRS imagery to track fog and low clouds through the night ? which can be a concern for high-traffic coastal airports such as San Francisco.?But it's not just about the weather: Researchers can track night lights over time to estimate economic activity and population growth. For example, satellite images graphically show how North Korea's economic development has lagged behind that of its neighbors, or how India has developed through the decades. Night-light pictures can also help facility planners decide where to put astronomical observatories that need dark skies, or help emergency officials gauge the extent of power outages.?

?For all the reasons that we need to see Earth during the day, we also need to see Earth at night,? Steve Miller, a researcher at NOAA?s Colorado State University Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, said in a?NASA news release. ?Unlike humans, the Earth never sleeps.?

NASA Earth Observatory / NOAA NGDC

This composite map of the world was assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012.

Check out the full array of Black Marble imagery, including an animation, at the NASA Earth Observatory website or Goddard Space Flight Center's Flickr gallery. Oh, and don't miss NASA's "White Marble."

These Black Marble views serve as today's offering in the Cosmic Log Advent Space Calendar, which cracks open a fresh picture of Earth as seen from space on a daily basis from now until Christmas. For more Advent calendar goodness, turn to The Atlantic's Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar and the Zooniverse Advent Calendar.

More images of Earth from space:

Alan Boyle is NBCNews.com's science editor. Connect with the?Cosmic Log?community by "liking" the log's?Facebook page, following?@b0yle on Twitter?and adding the?Cosmic Log page?to your Google+ presence. To keep up with Cosmic Log as well as NBCNews.com's other science and space news coverage,?sign up for the Tech & Science newsletter, delivered via email. You can also check out?"The Case for Pluto,"?my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.

Source: http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/05/15703256-black-marble-glitters-with-earths-night-lights?chromedomain=cosmiclog&lite

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