US 30-year mortgage rate at 2-year high: 4.46 pct.

A home is for sale in Glenview, Ill., on Sunday, June 16, 2013. The National Association of Realtors reports on a measure of the number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes in May Thursday June 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

A home is for sale in Glenview, Ill., on Sunday, June 16, 2013. The National Association of Realtors reports on a measure of the number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes in May Thursday June 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The average U.S. rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage surged this week to 4.46 percent, the highest in two years.

The increase from a 3.93 percent average last week was the largest one-week jump in 26 years, according to a report Thursday from mortgage buyer Freddie Mac. And it shows the Federal Reserve's hints that it might slow its bond purchases this year are already affecting consumers.

In the short run, a spike in rates could prompt more people to buy homes, giving the housing recovery an added boost. That's because would-be buyers would want to lock in the rates before they rise further.

But if rates continue to climb, eventually some buyers might feel priced out. That could slow homes sales at a crucial time.

Interest rates have jumped after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said on June 19 that the Fed could slow its bond purchases later this year if the economy strengthens. Since Bernanke's comments, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note has risen to a two-year high. Mortgage rates tend to track the yield on the Treasury note.

Freddie Mac also said the average on the 15-year mortgage rose to 3.50 percent from 3.04 percent last week. That's the highest since August 2011.

Mortgage rates remain low by historical standards. Still, the impact on buyers' wallets in just the past two months is striking.

A buyer who locked in a 3.35 percent rate in early May on a $200,000 mortgage will pay $881 a month, according to Bankrate.com. Another buyer who gets a 4.46 percent rate this week on a mortgage of the same amount will pay $1,008 a month.

The difference: $127 more a month, or $45,720 over the lifetime of the loan. The figures don't include taxes, insurance or initial down payments.

Anthony Geraci, a Cleveland real estate broker-owner, is already seeing more sales activity in his market because of the increase in rates.

"People are getting off the fence a little bit more or choosing to buy now instead of choosing to buy three months from now," said Geraci, whose brokerage has 270 agents.

The rise in rates comes at a critical time in the housing recovery. Low mortgage rates have helped fuel home sales over the past year. In May, completed sales of previously occupied homes surpassed the 5 million mark for the first time in 3 ? years.

And the number of people who signed contracts to buy homes leaped last month to the highest level since Dec. 2006, the National Association of Realtors said in a separate report Thursday. That suggests sales will rise even further in the coming months because there is generally a one- to two-month lag between a signed contract and a completed sale.

Greater demand, along with the tight supply of homes for sale, has driven up home prices. It's also fueled more construction, which creates jobs and contributes to economic growth.

Geraci says a slight rate increase won't put off buyers immediately because there just aren't enough available homes for sale.

"So buyers that find a nice home, no matter what the rates are, are going to move on it," Geraci said. "If there's enough supply, people might sit and wait a little bit and see if the rates come down."

Rising rates motivated Alex Backus to act two weeks ago and sign a contract on a $365,000, three-bedroom house in the Seattle suburb of Edmonds, Wash.

Backus, 30, had searched listings for two months before signing the contract. He locked in a 30-year loan at a fixed rate of 4.125 percent.

"Seeing that interest rates were starting to come back up, it seemed like now was the time to really start to get serious about buying a home," said Backus, an aerospace engineer.

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Veiga reported from Los Angeles.

Associated Press

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Calmer backdrop to market as Fed concerns ease

LONDON (AP) ? The calmer mood that has prevailed in financial markets this week continued Thursday, though the upcoming end to the half-year may prompt some volatility in trading.

Markets have had a better week after suffering big losses and swings earlier in the month, and that was helped by figures showing the U.S. economy grew at only a 1.8 percent annualized rate in the first quarter, instead of the previous estimate of 2.4 percent.

The Fed has indicated that it is inclined to start reducing the financial assets it buys in the markets later this year ? so-called tapering ? and possibly end the stimulus next year. But with economic growth still sub-par, analysts said the central bank may have to wait for a little longer. That is positive for stocks as investors have become conditioned to the extra liquidity the stimulus has provided markets over the past few years.

"The market welcomed yesterday's downward revision given the implication that it should mean that the Fed decides not to taper too quickly," said Jane Foley, an analyst at Rabobank International.

"A measure of calm has descended on the markets over the past session or so, though it is likely that investors will remain jittery in the coming weeks," she added.

In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 0.4 percent at 6,191 while Germany's DAX rose 0.1 percent to 7,952. The CAC-40 was also 0.1 percent higher at 3,730.

Wall Street was poised for a solid opening following a run of positive sessions ? Dow futures were 0.2 percent higher while the broader S&P 500 futures rose 0.3 percent.

Given that the markets continue to be focused on the Fed's policies, weekly jobless claims figures and pending home sales data later in the day are likely to garner attention.

Also, trading may increasingly be driven by calendar effects as some investors look to make their portfolios look better for the end of the half-year. Even after the volatility over the past few weeks, stocks have had a pretty strong first half to the year.

"Traders may also be inclined to start undertaking a degree of position keeping in the near term ? tomorrow marks the end of the month, quarter and mid-point of the year," said Fawad Razaqzada, market strategist at GFT Markets.

Earlier in Asia, markets were also buoyed as interbank lending rates in China continued to ease after a pledge earlier in the week by authorities to shore up banks facing cash shortfalls.

The central bank had allowed rates that banks pay to borrow from each other to soar last week, part of an attempt by Beijing to clamp down on massive credit in the informal lending industry.

Fears of a credit crisis in the world's second-biggest economy had contributed to a rout in global markets that ended when policymakers in China softened their stance with the promise to provide "liquidity support" if needed.

Japan's Nikkei 225 jumped 3 percent to close at 13,213.55 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 0.5 percent to 20,440.08. South Korea's Kospi surged 2.9 percent to 1,834.70. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 added 1.7 percent to 4,811.30, a day after Julia Gillard was ousted as Prime Minister to be replaced by Kevin Rudd.

"He will be the person who will try to rescue Labour's election campaign, three months before Australians head to the polls, a move that appears to have received the approval of the markets," said Craig Erlam, market analyst at Alpari.

Trading in the currency markets was steady, with the euro flat at $1.3017 and the dollar 0.4 percent higher at 98.14 yen.

In the commodity markets, the mood was also calmer, notably with regard to gold, which slumped Wednesday to a near three-year low. It was down only 40 cents at $1,229 an ounce. Oil prices were steady too, with the benchmark New York rate up 35 cents at $95.85 a barrel.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/calmer-backdrop-market-fed-concerns-ease-112104551.html

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Texas woman set to be 500th execution in state

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) ? Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state, is set to mark a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday with the execution of convicted killer Kimberly McCarthy.

If McCarthy is put to death in Huntsville as planned, she would become the 500th person executed in Texas since the state resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1982. The 52-year-old also would be the first woman executed in the U.S. since 2010.

McCarthy's attorney, Maurie Levin, said she has exhausted all efforts to block the execution, after denials by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

"If there was something to appeal, I would," said Levin.

Texas has carried out nearly 40 percent of the more than 1,300 executions in the U.S. since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976. The state's standing stems from its size as the nation's second most populous state as well as its tradition of tough justice for killers.

With increased debate in recent years over wrongful convictions, some states have halted the practice entirely. However, 32 states have the death penalty on the books. Still, it's clear the debate over capital punishment has touched Texas, with lawmakers providing more sentencing options for juries and courts narrowing the cases for which death can be sought.

McCarthy faces execution for the 1997 robbery, beating and fatal stabbing of retired college psychology professor Dorothy Booth. Booth had agreed to give McCarthy a cup of sugar before she was attacked with a butcher knife at her home in Lancaster, about 15 miles south of Dallas. Authorities say McCarthy cut off Booth's finger to remove her wedding ring.

Police also had linked two other slayings to McCarthy, a former nursing home therapist who became addicted to crack cocaine.

In her appeals, McCarthy contended prosecutors improperly excluded black jurors and that her lawyers failed to challenge the moves at trial or in early appeals. McCarthy is black, and Booth was white. All but one of the 12 jurors at McCarthy's trial were white.

In January, McCarthy had been moved to a small holding cell a few steps from the Texas death chamber when a Dallas judge moved her execution to April. That timing then was reset for June when Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said he wanted to await the outcome of capital punishment-related bills before lawmakers in Austin.

On Tuesday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declined to reconsider its denial a day earlier of McCarthy's appeal, saying her claims should have been raised previously.

Levin, a University of Texas law professor, said because the court's ruling focused on a procedural and not a substantive issue, the case cannot be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"The shameful errors that plague Ms. McCarthy's case ? race bias, ineffective counsel and courts unwilling to exercise meaningful oversight of the system ? reflect problems that are central to the administration of the death penalty as a whole. For this to be the emblem of Texas' 500th execution is something all Texans should be ashamed of," Levin said.

McCarthy declined to speak with reporters as her execution date neared.

Anti-death penalty groups planned to protest outside the Walls Unit in Huntsville, where McCarthy is set to receive a lethal injection Wednesday evening.

"The whole world is looking at Texas," said Gloria Rubac, with the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement in Houston.

McCarthy would be the 13th woman nationwide and the fourth in Texas put to death since 1976. In the same period, more than 1,300 men have been executed nationwide, 496 of them in Texas. Virginia is a distant second, nearly 400 executions behind.

Federal statistics show that over the past three decades women account for about 10 percent of convicted murderers. According to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, there were 63 women on death row in the U.S. as of Jan. 1, representing 2 percent of the nation's 3,125 condemned prisoners.

Prosecutors showed that McCarthy stole Booth's Mercedes and drove to Dallas, pawned the wedding ring she had removed from the woman's severed finger for $200 and then went to a crack house to buy cocaine. Evidence also showed she used Booth's credit cards at a liquor store.

Booth's DNA was found on a 10-inch butcher knife recovered from McCarthy's home.

McCarthy blamed the crime on two drug dealers, but there was no evidence either existed.

Blood DNA evidence also tied McCarthy to the December 1988 slayings of 81-year-old Maggie Harding and 85-year-old Jettie Lucas. Harding was stabbed and beaten with a meat tenderizer, while Lucas was beaten with both sides of a claw hammer and stabbed.

McCarthy, who denied any involvement in the attacks, was indicted but not tried for those slayings.

McCarthy is a former wife of Aaron Michaels, founder of the New Black Panther Party, and he testified on her behalf. They had separated before Booth's slaying.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/texas-woman-set-500th-execution-state-073800079.html

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Obama outlines broad plan to curb climate change

President Obama laid out an ambitious campaign to address climate change Tuesday, mapping a course that would bypass Congress to cut emissions from hundreds of coal-fired electric power plants and setting the stage for a possible rejection of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The effort could shape Obama's presidential legacy and fulfill a key promise of his 2008 campaign. It also could plunge him into a bruising and potentially costly political battle.

His plan, which relies heavily on actions the executive branch can take on its own, would put the U.S. on track to significantly cut its greenhouse gas output by the end of the decade. It also would devote billions of dollars to preparing the country for the higher seas, harsher weather and more frequent flooding that experts predict climate change will bring.

Obama directed the Environmental Protection Agency to develop by next June the first U.S. regulations designed to cut carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, which are responsible for about a third of U.S. greenhouse gases. The new rules would be expected to hasten the closing of some coal-fired plants, sharply cutting the amount of greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere, but probably raising electrical bills for some consumers.

He also pledged that he would approve the Keystone XL project, which would bring oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast, only if the pipeline resulted in no "significant" increase in greenhouse gases ? a benchmark interpreted in sharply different ways by the project's backers and opponents.

"As a president, as a father, as an American, I am here to say, we need to act," Obama told a crowd gathered in the 92-degree heat of a sunny courtyard at Georgetown University. "I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

"Americans across the country are already paying the price of inaction," he said.

Given the lengthy path that major rules require and the likelihood that the power industry will challenge them in court, the effort Obama is starting might not take full effect until after his term ends.

The speech, his most detailed statement on global warming since his election in 2008, showed a president who has become chastened ? at least rhetorically ? by the practical and political difficulties of combating climate change.

As a candidate five years ago, Obama called on supporters to see his campaign as "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal" ? a line that Republicans have frequently mocked for its hubris.

On Tuesday, Obama gave a more subdued look ahead, saying that even if the U.S. begins to adopt new policies against climate change, "the seas will slowly keep rising and storms will get more severe."

"It's like tapping the brakes of a car before you come to a complete stop and then can shift into reverse," he said. "It's going to take time for carbon emissions to stabilize."

The timing of the speech reflected the conflicting pressures the administration faces on the issue. It took place during a news-filled period in Washington ? the final week of the Supreme Court's term and in the midst of a Senate debate on immigration ? and the day before the president was scheduled to leave on a trip to Africa. It drew rapt attention from many environmentalists, but much less television coverage than the typical high-profile presidential address.

That may have pleased White House strategists who face tricky politics on climate issues. On one side, liberal Democrats who form a large part of Obama's core support, particularly on the West Coast and in the Northeast, have made global warming a top-priority issue. Many have grown restless with the lack of action on the subject. Some of the Democratic Party's biggest financial backers, particularly in California, have pressed Obama to move more aggressively on climate issues.

Away from the coasts and liberal enclaves, however, Americans typically rate climate change as a low priority, polls have shown. Regulations that would cut the use of coal to generate electricity would probably have their biggest effect in the South and Midwest, where coal-generated power is most common.

Republicans, some members of industry and conservative Democrats quickly attacked Obama's plan.

"The regulations the president wants to force on coal are not feasible. And if it's not feasible, it's not reasonable," said Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III from the coal-producing state of West Virginia, who in his 2010 campaign aired an ad showing him shooting a gun at the text of a Democratic climate change bill.

"It's clear now that the president has declared a war on coal," he said.

At the same time, environmental activists hailed Obama's statements.

"The president's speech offered exactly what many of us have been waiting to hear from him," said Lisa Heinzerling, a professor at Georgetown Law and former top EPA official under Obama. "In particular, by extending emissions limits to existing power plants, he's taking dead aim at the most severe environmental problem facing the planet."

The announcement on the Keystone XL project would give Obama a reason to block the Alberta-to-Texas pipeline should he decide to do so, but does not necessarily commit him. He left undetermined how big an increase in emissions he would consider significant and whose calculations of the effects he would most heed.

"It was a shock for people who've been watching this; it was like a thunderclap," said Van Jones, founder of Rebuild the Dream, a liberal think tank, and a former White House advisor on green jobs under Obama.

The company proposing Keystone XL, TransCanada, welcomed the focus on greenhouse gases, as did the project's backers.

"Today President Obama stated Keystone XL can be approved only if it does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution," the company said in a statement. "The almost five-year review of the project has already repeatedly found that these criteria are satisfied."

The State Department's most recent environmental assessment of Keystone XL said that the tar-like oil the pipeline would transport emits 17% more greenhouse gases than conventional crude oil from the moment a barrel is extracted to the time it is burned in a car engine. The EPA said the State Department's analysis badly underestimated the emissions.

Opponents of the pipeline said they were hopeful.

"The president has heard the Keystone critics," said Tom Steyer, a Bay Area billionaire and clean-energy philanthropist who is spearheading a campaign to block approval of the pipeline. "We will keep the pressure on."

neela.banerjee@latimes.com

Source: http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/4us5eiiVTGY/la-na-obama-climate-change-20130626,0,4878435.story

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Exclusive: China Mobile, Etisalat weighing bids for Pakistan telco - sources

By Dinesh Nair and Matt Smith

DUBAI (Reuters) - Pakistan mobile operator Warid Telecom has been put up for sale by its Abu Dhabi owners and is likely to draw interest from China Mobile and Etisalat, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

The Abu Dhabi Group, a conglomerate led by a ruling family member in the oil-rich emirate, is seeking to sell all 100-percent of shares in Warid Telecom, two of the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The third source, however, said the company would also be prepared to sell a smaller controlling stake.

Pakistan's mobile telecommunications sector has five operators and is ripe for consolidation after a period when a troubled economy, increasingly high levels of market penetration and stiff competition has forced companies' margins lower.

The sellers have mandated U.S. investment bank Lazard and British lender Standard Chartered as advisers for the process, the sources said. One estimated a sale could fetch about $1 billion.

Walid Irshaid, the chief executive of Pakistan Telecommunications (PTCL), a unit of United Arab Emirates-based Etisalat, said the company is weighing a potential bid.

"We are interested to see if it makes sense for us, but it's not only us. Warid is an existing operator that has been here for many years and so we're saying 'let's look at the prospects,'" he told Reuters.

"There are too many players in Pakistan. Margins have eroded for everybody and the market must consolidate - we're all operating under low margins and low ARPU (average revenue per user) and that isn't long-term sustainable."

Warid Telecom declined to comment. China Mobile, which has increased its subscriber base by nearly three-quarters since 2010-11 and operates under the Zong brand, was not immediately for comment.

SHRINKAGE

Warid launched its cellular services in Pakistan in May 2005 and had 12.54 million subscribers at the end of March of this year, down from 17.39 million in 2010-11, making the company the country's smallest operator.

Pakistan's total subscriber base rose 12.2 percent to 122.1 million over the same period, meaning Warid's market share fell to 10.3 percent from 16 percent.

The other operators in Pakistan are Oslo-based Telenor and Orascom Telecom, which operates under the name Mobilink and is the sector leader. Neither was immediately available for comment.

PTCL's mobile business is under the Ufone brand, while it has a 95 percent share of the country's fixed line subscribers.

"The board (Warid Telecom) has been looking for a business partner to add value to Warid," a second source familiar with the matter said, adding China Mobile and Etisalat had both expressed interest in acquiring the company.

In 2007, Singapore Telcommunications bought a 30-percent stake in Warid for about $758 million. That stake purchase gave Warid Telecom an enterprise value of about $2.5 billion.

SingTel sold back that stake in January for $150 million and a right to receive 7.5 percent of the net proceeds from any future sale, public offering or merger of Warid.

The Abu Dhabi conglomerate also agreed to sell Warid Telecom's Uganda business to Bharti Airtel in April without revealing the financial details of the transaction.

Bharti recently agreed to buy the remaining 30 percent in Warid Telecom Bangladesh after taking a 70 pct stake in that business in 2010.

The Abu Dhabi Group, led by ruling family member Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak al-Nahayan, invests in emerging markets and also has large investments in Pakistan including Bank Alfalah Ltd, Al Razi Healthcare and Wateen Telecom.

(Additional reporting by Devidutta Tripathy in New Delhi and Lee Chyen Yee in Hong Kong; Editing by Patrick Graham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-china-mobile-etisalat-weighing-bids-pakistan-telco-101710902.html

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Windows 8.1: Everything You Need to Know (Updating)

Microsoft rolls out the next version of windows, 8.1, at its annual Build developers conference today. It's a big deal. Windows 8 was a crazy ambitious step, what follows is just as important. This is what Microsoft's taken from your months of feedback (or just, yelling).

Almost everything coming in 8.1 seems like a genuine improvement. The question, then, is exactly how much improvement. It's not so much good news/bad news as good news and wait that's all the good news? That's part of Microsoft's plan, though, as it's focusing on smaller, faster releases.

We'll be updating this post throughout Microsoft's keynote (refresh to see the latest updates), but we've started you with an overview of what's going into the update. You can watch the keynote live here.

To Start

Welp, you can boot to desktop now. You can also boot basically anywhere else you want, too?the All Apps screen, individual apps, the Start Menu.

The Start button also returns, but it only flings you into the Start Screen?no old school Start menu.

There are also some new tile sizes: The smaller square tiles (like Windows Phone 8's), which let you cram more stuff onto your homescreen, and the gigantic square tile, which can display a bunch of information, like emails or calendar appointments.

You can select a group of tiles at once and drag them into their own group, which you can name, like a folder.

Swiping up from the Start screen brings up All Apps, which can now be sorted in more ways. This is a nice improvement from the swipe-then-tap required to bring this up in Windows 8.

The start screen can be customized to more colors and has some "motion accents" that move as you scroll through the metro tiles. Or, blessedly, you can just put your desktop wallpaper behind the Start screen.

As a whole, the changes to the Start screen are pretty indicative of the update as a whole. A few functional improvements, some of which are highly anticipated, but just as much window dressing and little flourishes.

Wider Customization

Microsoft's big push for 8.1 is to make Windows feel more customizable, and that goes beyond the Start screen.

All your Modern/Metro apps will get automatic updates through the Windows Store in 8.1.

The most visible change is the tweak to multitasking. "Snap View", or the ability to pin a Metro app to either side of the screen, has been changed to let you drag to resize the apps. Meaning: If you want to have, say, Mail on the left side and a browser on the right, you can have each app take up 50 percent of the screen, or drag the divider around to your liking.

The new snap features open new Metro apps automatically, but we still aren't sure how this works with forcing an app to default to open in its own window.

In addition to this, you can have up to four apps snapped as vertical columns on your screen. All screens can take four apps, but obviously you're going to want a larger monitor to handle them (16:9 or 21:9 being ideal).

IE11 in Metro can now open more than one window, and can have infinite tabs.

Microsoft has looked into allowing you snap apps as horizontal rows?either at the top and bottom of the screen, or within columns created by snapped apps?but that's not currently possible. Yell about this some more and maybe it'll show up in an update down the road.

The lock screen can now be a moving collage of photos from your PC, SkyDrive, and Phone. You can also do things, like answer Skype calls, from the lock screen as well.

Mail will be updated in an upcoming build to have some new features like "sweep", which gets rid of all of the same spammy emails of a type. So, LivingSocial: you can get rid of every LS app at once, or only keep the oens from with the past 10 days or so.

Music got a new auto-generating playlist feature that makes a whole playlist from a selected artist.

Gestures

The on-screen keyboard has some new gestures. You can slide up from any key that has a number as a secondary key, and the number will be inserted automatically, instead of having to switch to a different panel.

You can use hands-free swiping to scroll through apps, which is allegedly helpful for stuff like the new Food and Drinks app, which is more or less a huge cookbook.

Multi-Monitor

We know you'll be able to keep the Start Screen pinned to one screen permanently now, but we'll have more specifics soon, hopefully.

Each monitor will now have its own scaling factor, meaning that you can zoom in with a high DPI monitor, and then move the app to a lower DPI screen without it being huge and awful. The app just resizes on its own.

SkyDrive

SkyDrive features more prominently in 8.1. You can decide in all your apps whether to view files on your PC or on SkyDrive, and where things are saved. We'll add further features as they're announced.

Settings

We're going to see a lot of new APIs today that will allow developers to make apps more customizable. We're also told that the first party Microsoft apps will have more options as well. We'll have more details as the specific APIs are announced.

Search

Search is a big addition for Windows 8.1. Well, "change" is probably more appropriate.

In Windows 8, Search was broken down to search by applications, on the web, in the store, through your files. You decided which you'd see.

In 8.1, Search is universal. Searching for any term will bring up a "hero" display if you press enter, showing you results from the web, in your files, and anywhere else, which you scroll through.

If you just type into the field, though, the pane on the right hand side of the screen will display results in real time, a lot like Apple's Spotlight. This is a good thing, in theory, but we still want to see how it works in a day to day setting.

Apps

Performance is supposed to be faster for all apps in 8.1. We'll let you know if we see the difference.

For devs, there are new performance analysis tools in Visual Studio 2014 to test network health, battery life effects, and other variables with app performance.

There's also a new tool to make push notifications easier to put into apps. So for users, notifications should be better in the apps you use.

The Store is totally remodeled, with new lists that make it easier to find things.

3D Printing

Microsoft is partnering with Makerbot, 3D Systems, Form Labs, Autodesk, and several other software and hardware companies to add 3D printing support to 8.1.

Windows Phone 8.1

Apparently we're going to be hearing about Windows Phone, too, which is unexpected. We're going to be adding details about it as we have them.

Business

Microsoft is also pushing new enterprise features, like better and easier encryption. Obviously, Windows 8 wasn't a huge hit for that sector, so this is sorely needed. More details to come here.

Good thing? Bad thing?

Windows 8.1 brings good stuff to the table. The question isn't really if it's good, but if it's good enough. A lot of that will depend on how the new developer tools are implemented going forward, and how much developer support overall improves this year.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/windows-8-1-everything-you-need-to-know-585637162

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'Human Evolutionary Genetics' by Jobling, Hollux, Hurles, Kivisild, and Tyler-Smith

Public release date: 26-Jun-2013
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New second edition -- now available!

Garland Science is proud to announce the publication of the long-awaited Second Edition of Human Evolutionary Genetics by Jobling, Hollux, Hurles, Kivisild, and Tyler-Smith.

Now in full-color, the Second Edition of Human Evolutionary Genetics has been completely revised to cover the rapid advances in the field since publication of the highly regarded First Edition. Written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, it is the only textbook to integrate genetic, archaeological, and linguistic perspectives on human evolution, and to offer a genomic perspective, reflecting the shift from studies of specific regions of the genome towards comprehensive genomewide analyses of human genetic diversity.

Human Evolutionary Genetics is suitable for courses in Genetics, Evolution, and Anthropology. Readers with a background in anthropology will find that the streamlined genetic analysis material contained in the Second Edition is more accessible. The new edition also integrates new technologies (including next-generation sequencing and genomewide SNP typing) and new data analysis methods, including recent data on ancient genomes and their impact on our understanding of human evolution. The book also examines the subject of personal genomics and its implications.

The new Second Edition has been comprehensively revised and updated. New to the Second Edition:

• Two new authors contributing additional expertise in genome variation, infectious disease, primatology and anthropology.
  
• Now with a new layout and in full-color throughout, making the text and figures easier to read.
  
• Two additional chapters, reflecting developments in understanding the human genome in the context of other hominid and great ape genomes, and in complex disease.
  
• The guest-authored 'Opinion Boxes' are retained, with completely new boxes and guest authors to reflect current issues and controversies.
  
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About the Book:

Human Evolutionary Genetics, Second Edition (Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8153-4148-2) was written by Mark Jobling, Edward Hollux, Matthew Hurles, Toomas Kivisild, and Chris Tyler-Smith and published by Garland Science. The new edition is available in paperback and is 650 pages with 357 full-color illustrations. Figures in PowerPoint and JPEG formats will be available for instructors.

For additional book information, and to learn about e-book options visit: http://www.garlandscience.com/heg2.

The Authors:

Mark A. Jobling - University of Leicester, UK
Edward Hollox - University of Leicester, UK
Matthew Hurles - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Toomas Kivisild - University of Cambridge, UK
Chris Tyler-Smith - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK

About Garland Science:

Garland Science has been publishing scientific textbooks of the highest quality for over two decades. In that time, Garland has established itself as one of the leading publishers in the fields of cell and molecular biology, immunology, genetics, and protein sciences. Our publications include such classics as Molecular Biology of the Cell, Essential Cell Biology, Janeway's Immunobiology, The Immune System, The Biology of Cancer, Human Molecular Genetics, and Introduction to Protein Structure.

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Public release date: 26-Jun-2013
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Garland Science, Taylor & Francis Group

New second edition -- now available!

Garland Science is proud to announce the publication of the long-awaited Second Edition of Human Evolutionary Genetics by Jobling, Hollux, Hurles, Kivisild, and Tyler-Smith.

Now in full-color, the Second Edition of Human Evolutionary Genetics has been completely revised to cover the rapid advances in the field since publication of the highly regarded First Edition. Written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, it is the only textbook to integrate genetic, archaeological, and linguistic perspectives on human evolution, and to offer a genomic perspective, reflecting the shift from studies of specific regions of the genome towards comprehensive genomewide analyses of human genetic diversity.

Human Evolutionary Genetics is suitable for courses in Genetics, Evolution, and Anthropology. Readers with a background in anthropology will find that the streamlined genetic analysis material contained in the Second Edition is more accessible. The new edition also integrates new technologies (including next-generation sequencing and genomewide SNP typing) and new data analysis methods, including recent data on ancient genomes and their impact on our understanding of human evolution. The book also examines the subject of personal genomics and its implications.

The new Second Edition has been comprehensively revised and updated. New to the Second Edition:

• Two new authors contributing additional expertise in genome variation, infectious disease, primatology and anthropology.
  
• Now with a new layout and in full-color throughout, making the text and figures easier to read.
  
• Two additional chapters, reflecting developments in understanding the human genome in the context of other hominid and great ape genomes, and in complex disease.
  
• The guest-authored 'Opinion Boxes' are retained, with completely new boxes and guest authors to reflect current issues and controversies.
  
• Each chapter ends with in-depth review questions.
  
• Comprehensive glossary of over 1,300 terms, doubling the terms in the first edition.

Praise for the First Edition of Human Evolutionary Genetics:

"I strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in human evolutionary genetics or anthropological genetics. It would be an ideal choice for advanced undergraduates and graduate courses on this topic, and would also be a key reference for those active in such research." HUMAN GENOMICS

"[Human Evolutionary Genetics] is one of the best textbooks on any subject I have ever read. It belongs on the shelves of everyone interested in the genetic aspects of human evolution. There is also much of value in it for paleoanthropologists, historical linguistics, archaeologists, and human biologists (biological anthropologists), as well as for geneticists with various complementary specialties and interests." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

"I strongly recommend Human Evolutionary Genetics as an undergraduate textbook. At the same time, I recommend this book to any readers with an interest in human evolution or human genetics." HUMAN GENETICS

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About the Book:

Human Evolutionary Genetics, Second Edition (Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8153-4148-2) was written by Mark Jobling, Edward Hollux, Matthew Hurles, Toomas Kivisild, and Chris Tyler-Smith and published by Garland Science. The new edition is available in paperback and is 650 pages with 357 full-color illustrations. Figures in PowerPoint and JPEG formats will be available for instructors.

For additional book information, and to learn about e-book options visit: http://www.garlandscience.com/heg2.

The Authors:

Mark A. Jobling - University of Leicester, UK
Edward Hollox - University of Leicester, UK
Matthew Hurles - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Toomas Kivisild - University of Cambridge, UK
Chris Tyler-Smith - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK

About Garland Science:

Garland Science has been publishing scientific textbooks of the highest quality for over two decades. In that time, Garland has established itself as one of the leading publishers in the fields of cell and molecular biology, immunology, genetics, and protein sciences. Our publications include such classics as Molecular Biology of the Cell, Essential Cell Biology, Janeway's Immunobiology, The Immune System, The Biology of Cancer, Human Molecular Genetics, and Introduction to Protein Structure.

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