Global stock markets eke out modest gains

BANGKOK (AP) ? Global stock markets eked out modest gains as traders refrained from big moves ahead of a meeting of the U.S. central bank that starts later Tuesday.

The Federal Reserve is not likely to announce any policy changes at the conclusion of its two-day meeting, but markets will be on the lookout for hints of an expiry date for the Fed's massive stimulus program.

"Apparently investors are in no mood to place any large bets ahead of the conclusion of the ... meeting on Wednesday but prefer to stay on the sidelines," Anthony Lam of Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong said in a market commentary. "As such markets will likely trade in relatively tight ranges for the day."

In early European trading, Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.5 percent to 6,593.87. Germany's DAX gained 0.8 percent to 8,321.62 and France's CAC-40 advanced 0.5 percent to 3,987.99.

Wall Street also appeared headed for a session of gains, with Dow Jones industrial futures rising 0.2 percent to 15,515 while S&P 500 futures gained 0.2 percent to 1,686.10.

The Fed is currently buying $85 billion in Treasury and mortgage bonds a month in a move that has kept long-term rates near record lows and supported economic recovery. The program has been a boost to stock markets, since low interest rates make equities and commodities a more attractive investment.

Economic data this week could go a long way to determining when the central bank begins to reduce its monetary stimulus. Many in the markets think the Fed could start paring back its stimulus program as early as September.

Japan's benchmark index recovered some of the territory lost during Monday's plunge. The Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.5 percent to close at 13,869.82 despite a drop in industrial output for June. The Economy Ministry said manufacturing slipped 3.3 percent from the month before in June and was 4.8 percent lower than a year before.

While the data underscored the fragility of Japan's economic recovery, it also could provide further argument in favor of the aggressive steps taken by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to rejuvenate the moribund economy, analysts said. His "Abenomics" policies employ aggressive monetary easing to fight deflation and higher government spending to jump-start an economy stuck in neutral for decades.

"It's probably not a bad thing that industrial production fell. It gives more justification for Abenomics," said Evan Lucas, market strategist at IG in Melbourne, Australia.

Elsewhere in Asia, South Korea's Kospi advanced 0.9 percent to 1,917.05. Hong Kong's Hang Seng added 0.5 percent to 21,953.96. Markets in Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia also rose. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was little changed. Mainland Chinese shares were mixed.

Benchmark crude for August delivery was down 56 cents to $103.99 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The near-month contract for the benchmark grade fell 15 cents to close at $104.55 a barrel on the Nymex on Monday.

In currencies, the euro rose to $1.3275 from $1.3261 late Monday. The dollar rose to 98.16 yen from 97.90 yen.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/global-stock-markets-eke-modest-gains-085559727.html

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Panel backs lung cancer screening for some smokers

For the first time, government advisers are recommending screening for lung cancer, saying certain current and former heavy smokers should get annual scans to cut their chances of dying of the disease.

If it becomes final as expected, the advice by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force would clear the way for insurers to cover CT scans, a type of X-ray, for those at greatest risk.

That would be people ages 55 through 79 who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years or the equivalent, such as two packs a day for 15 years. Whether screening would help younger or lighter smokers isn't known, so scans are not advised for them. They also aren't for people who quit at least 15 years ago, or people too sick or frail to undergo cancer treatment.

"The evidence shows we can prevent a substantial number of lung cancer deaths by screening" ? about 20,000 of the 160,000 that occur each year in the United States, said Dr. Michael LeFevre, a task force leader and family physician at the University of Missouri.

Public comments will be taken until Aug. 26, then the panel will give its final advice. Reports on screening were published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The recommendation is a big deal for many reasons. The task force, an independent group of doctors appointed by the government, in recent years has urged less frequent screening for breast and cervical cancers, and no screening for prostate cancer, saying PSA blood tests do men more harm than good. There are no good ways to screen for ovarian cancer or other less common types.

But lung cancer is the top cancer killer worldwide. Nearly 90 percent of people who get it die from it, usually because it's found too late for treatment to succeed. About 85 percent of lung cancers in the U.S. are attributable to smoking, and about 37 percent of U.S. adults are current or former smokers. The task force estimates that 10 million Americans would fit the smoking and age criteria for screening.

The American Cancer Society used to recommend screening with ordinary chest X-rays but withdrew that advice in 1980 after studies showed they weren't saving lives. Since then, CT scans have come into wider use, and the society and other groups have endorsed their limited use for screening certain heavy smokers.

The scans cost $100 to as much as $400 and are not usually covered by Medicare or private insurers now. But under the new health care law, cancer screenings recommended by the task force are to be covered with no copays.

"It's generally going to be covered by all health plans" if the advice gets final task force approval, said Susan Pisano of the industry trade group America's Health Insurance Plans. She said her group may develop a response during the public comment period but has had "high regard" for the task force in the past "because they rely so heavily on the evidence" in crafting their recommendations.

The task force considered lung cancer screening in 2004 but said there was too little evidence to weigh risks and benefits. Since then, a major study found that screening the age group covered in the task force's recommendation could cut the chances of dying from lung cancer by up to 20 percent and from any cause by nearly 7 percent.

Screening "is absolutely not for everybody," not even all smokers, LeFevre stressed. That includes President Barack Obama, who said a couple years ago that he had quit smoking. Obama is too young (he will turn 52 in a few days) and too light a smoker (he reportedly smoked less than a pack a day), to be in the high-risk group advised to get screening.

The potential benefits of screening may not outweigh its possible harms for people not at high risk of developing lung cancer. A suspicious finding on a scan often leads to biopsies and other medical tests that have costs and complications of their own. The radiation from scans to look for cancer can raise the risk of developing the disease.

"These scans uncover things, often things that are not important. But you don't figure out that for a while," and only after entering "the medical vortex" of follow-up tests, said Dr. Peter Bach, a cancer screening expert at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

The best way to prevent lung cancer is to quit smoking or never start, and screening doesn't make smoking safer, doctors stress.

"That's everyone's public health concern: People will see this as a pass to continue smoking," Bach said of screening. "I don't think it's likely," because people know how harmful smoking is, he said.

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Online:

Personal risk assessment tool: http://www.mskcc.org/lung-screening-tool

Task force advice: http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org

Evidence review: http://bit.ly/13rK8EO

CDC stop smoking advice: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/panel-backs-lung-cancer-screening-smokers-210216297.html

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Obama honors Giants on World Series win

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama says the San Francisco Giants are making a "habit" of dropping in at the White House.

Obama welcomed the 2012 World Series champions Monday at a South Lawn ceremony honoring their victory and their community service work. The Giants swept the World Series in October, defeating the Detroit Tigers 4-3 in the final game after being nearly knocked out in the playoffs.

The president says their second title in three seasons was because of stellar pitching, defense and timely hitting. But Obama didn't predict that finish. On the campaign trail last year, he anticipated a World Series between the White Sox and the Washington Nationals.

The crowd of well-wishers included Giants Hall of Famer Willie Mays, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-honors-giants-world-series-win-185439903.html

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Increased fluctuation in blood pressure linked to impaired cognitive function in older people

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Higher variability in visit-to-visit blood pressure readings, independent of average blood pressure, could be related to impaired cognitive function in old age in those already at high risk of cardiovascular disease, suggests a new article.

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97% Blackfish

All Critics (65) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (2)

It not only delivers astonishing, suspenseful footage that makes it a legitimate thriller, but also serves up thoughtful meditations about using wild animals for our own entertainment.

It's hard to imagine anyone coming out of this movie and not swearing off the next vacation trip to Orlando, San Antonio or San Diego.

Unfortunately, this feels like a ten-minute news segment blown up to theatrical proportions.

While Cowperthwaite's film opens with a simple question about the behavior of a single killer whale, it ends up mounting a persuasive ethical argument against keeping orcas in captivity.

"Blackfish" is no trumped up horror story fueled by Hollywood brand names and special effects. In this riveting documentary directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, all of the creatures are real, and all seem entitled to the serious chip on their shoulders.

The film may be depressing. But even with a terrible, watery musical score, it's also good.

Cowperthwaite juxtaposes to devastating effect official PR spin with news reports and eye-witness accounts of marine park tragedies.

[An] impressive, often gripping documentary ...

Engrossing when offers alarming CSI-type forensic analysis into the death of a whale trainer [but] the narrow focus on SeaWorld raises more questions that aren't considered.

Through interviews with whale scientists and several former Sea World trainers, [Cowperthwaite] paints a disturbing picture of the profit-minded climate of deceit that prevailed at the company.

Puts 'killer whales' into wildlife and humanitarian perspective while giving you all of the dangerous action sequences you could possible want. Free Willy, it ain't.

Blackfish marries biography, activism and psycho thriller into a pleasing cinematic shape, starting with a single whale and the trainers who worked with him.

Some of the archive footage is exceedingly harrowing, but the case against commercially condoned cruelty is made without sensationalism, and few will be able to watch this without a growing sense of outrage.

Cruelty begets cruelty and whales don't belong in the circus.

It is never less than gripping, and devastatingly undermines the notion of performing whales as wholesome family entertainment.

Damning and disturbing viewing.

It's a strong piece of video journalism in which images and the interviews deliver the information, and we reach our own conclusions.

A horrifying, heartbreaking eye-opener about human inhumanity to other intelligent and emotional beings who share our planet.

As horribly gripping as a serial-killer thriller, though the real villain is not the ostensible culprit, but its human captors.

An acclaimed and chastening documentary about what happens to human beings - injury, mutilation, death - when they pen orcas in sea parks.

Important, informative, imperfect.

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Explosions rock Libya's Benghazi, protesters take to streets

By Feras Bosalum and Ghaith Shennib

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Explosions rocked the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Sunday in what appeared to be attacks on judicial buildings, a security official said, sparking protests a day after more than 1,100 inmates escaped during a prison riot there.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Benghazi's streets denouncing the latest violence, according to residents.

Thirteen people were slightly wounded in one of the blasts which targeted a court in the north of the city, said Interior Ministry spokesman Rami Kaal.

Mohammed al-Hijazy, a spokesman for Benghazi security operations, added: "Assailants threw an explosive device under a car as it was parking in front of the court."

Hijazy said another explosion occurred in front of an office belonging to the justice ministry, but it was not immediately clear what had happened in that incident.

Both blasts happened around the time families were breaking their Ramadan fast.

Residents living near the court said the building, and others nearby, had sustained significant damage. Windows were blasted out and rubble was scattered on the ground.

"It was very loud and I saw the smoke," resident Hassan Bakoush said. "Some balconies of nearby buildings are damaged."

Armed violence and lawlessness, caused in part by militia groups who often do as they please, has hobbled governance in large areas of the oil-producing North African state following the 2011 war that toppled Muammar Gaddafi.

Protesters took to Benghazi's streets shouting anti-government and anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans, demonstrator Abdulhay Mohammed said, echoing scenes from two days ago.

"We are protesting against weak security. People are angry," he said. "People are shouting 'Benghazi wake up', 'The people want the Muslim Brotherhood out' and 'Zeidan gather your belongings'," he added, referring to Prime Minister Ali Zeidan.

ASSASSINATIONS PROMPT PROTESTS

Hundreds of protesters had attacked the Benghazi and Tripoli offices of Libya's Muslim Brotherhood and the headquarters of a liberal coalition in the capital after demonstrations turned violent late on Friday.

Those protests were prompted by the killing of a prominent political activist and critic of the Brotherhood, Abdelsalam al-Mosmary, shot after leaving a Benghazi mosque. Two military officers were also killed in the city on Friday.

"These were professional killers, not normal criminals," Justice Minister Salah al-Marghani told reporters in Tripoli after visiting Benghazi, referring to Friday's assassinations.

He added that the government wanted a team from "friendly" countries and U.N. Security Council members to investigate the violence.

Zeidan has said he would reshuffle his cabinet and reorganize the government to cope with the "urgent" situation in the country. A spokesman for Libya's legislature said its members would hold an emergency meeting on Monday.

Earlier on Sunday, officials said that about 100 inmates out of 1,117 who escaped during a riot in Kuafiya prison on the outskirts of Benghazi on Saturday had been recaptured.

Officials said there had been an attack on the jail compound from outside as well as a riot inside after which some prisoners set their cloths and bed sheets on fire. Guards opened the gates to let them escape the fire, Marghani said.

Residents had helped guards to arrest some escapees.

Mohammed Sharif, head of security in Benghazi, said some prisoners had turned themselves in and others had been captured.

Officials said the escapees included criminals from other African states.

Benghazi has seen a wave of violence since last year with attacks on security forces as well as foreign targets, including the assault on the U.S. mission last September in which the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed.

(Reporting by Feras Bosalum, Ghaith Shennib, Ulf Laessing and Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Mike Collett-White)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/explosions-rock-libyas-benghazi-protesters-streets-010836070.html

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Beaumont Health System launches research trial of bioresorbable heart scaffold

Public release date: 29-Jul-2013
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1 of a select number of US centers testing a 'disappearing' device that's absorbed by the body

Beaumont Health System has joined a multicenter, international research study of a new temporary heart device that helps keep an artery open following angioplasty, then is broken down and absorbed by the body.

The research will compare the effectiveness of the new "disappearing" device, the AbsorbTM Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold made by health care company Abbott, with drug-eluting, metal stents that are commonly placed in heart arteries as a permanent implant. Absorb is referred to as a scaffold to indicate it is temporary in nature, unlike a permanent metallic stent. It is made of polylactide, a material commonly used in medical implants such as dissolving sutures. Coronary artery stents were approved for use in the United States in 1994. Similar to a mesh tube, stents prop open a heart artery after a blockage is cleared with a procedure called angioplasty.

In angioplasty, a doctor threads a catheter, or hollow tube, into the arteries of the heart through a small incision in the groin or wrist, with a tiny balloon at its tip that, once inflated, pushes a blockage against the artery wall to open the artery and improve blood flow to the heart. Angioplasty is often followed by insertion of a stent coated with medication, called a drug-eluting stent, at the site of the blockage to keep the vessel open and prevent renarrowing. Metallic stents are a permanent implant in the wall of the artery.

"Stents have revolutionized the treatment of heart blockages by helping many patients to avoid having repeat angioplasty procedures and in some cases open-heart surgery," says Amr Abbas, M.D., Beaumont's director of interventional cardiology research and the study's principal investigator. "This new bioabsorbable vascular scaffold is the latest technique in heart treatment in interventional cardiology."

Research has shown that the support of a coronary stent is only needed for a few months after implantation while the artery wall is healing. Although researchers hoped to create a temporary scaffold that dissolved after doing its job, there were many scientific challenges. A decade ago, scientists at Abbott started development of Absorb and now Abbott is the first company in the world to begin testing a bioresorbable vascular scaffold in patients in the United States.

The Absorb BVS is available in Europe, Middle East and parts of Asia. It is an investigational device not available for sale in the U.S.

ABSORB III will enroll approximately 2,250 patients, the majority in the U.S.

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For more information on the Beaumont study, including enrollment criteria, call Diedre Brunk, Beaumont Cardiology Research at 248-898-5580.

About Beaumont Heart & Vascular Care

Beaumont is Michigan's, and one of the nation's, most experienced providers of heart care, recognized on U.S. News & World Report's 2013-14 "America's Best Hospitals" list for cardiology and heart surgery. The Beaumont Heart and Vascular Center is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art facility that's dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart problems. Beaumont's Ernst Cardiovascular Center offers a collaborative approach to treating and managing the most complex heart and vascular conditions, including atrial fibrillation, heart valve disease, heart failure, aortic aneurysm and dissection. The center offers low-cost, preventive heart screening for adults and high school students. Beaumont's Ministrelli Women's Heart Center is the first in Michigan devoted exclusively to the prevention, diagnosis, and research of heart disease in women. Find out more at http://heart.beaumont.edu/

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Contact: Angela Blazevski
angela.blazevski@beaumont.edu
248-551-0445
Beaumont Health System

1 of a select number of US centers testing a 'disappearing' device that's absorbed by the body

Beaumont Health System has joined a multicenter, international research study of a new temporary heart device that helps keep an artery open following angioplasty, then is broken down and absorbed by the body.

The research will compare the effectiveness of the new "disappearing" device, the AbsorbTM Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold made by health care company Abbott, with drug-eluting, metal stents that are commonly placed in heart arteries as a permanent implant. Absorb is referred to as a scaffold to indicate it is temporary in nature, unlike a permanent metallic stent. It is made of polylactide, a material commonly used in medical implants such as dissolving sutures. Coronary artery stents were approved for use in the United States in 1994. Similar to a mesh tube, stents prop open a heart artery after a blockage is cleared with a procedure called angioplasty.

In angioplasty, a doctor threads a catheter, or hollow tube, into the arteries of the heart through a small incision in the groin or wrist, with a tiny balloon at its tip that, once inflated, pushes a blockage against the artery wall to open the artery and improve blood flow to the heart. Angioplasty is often followed by insertion of a stent coated with medication, called a drug-eluting stent, at the site of the blockage to keep the vessel open and prevent renarrowing. Metallic stents are a permanent implant in the wall of the artery.

"Stents have revolutionized the treatment of heart blockages by helping many patients to avoid having repeat angioplasty procedures and in some cases open-heart surgery," says Amr Abbas, M.D., Beaumont's director of interventional cardiology research and the study's principal investigator. "This new bioabsorbable vascular scaffold is the latest technique in heart treatment in interventional cardiology."

Research has shown that the support of a coronary stent is only needed for a few months after implantation while the artery wall is healing. Although researchers hoped to create a temporary scaffold that dissolved after doing its job, there were many scientific challenges. A decade ago, scientists at Abbott started development of Absorb and now Abbott is the first company in the world to begin testing a bioresorbable vascular scaffold in patients in the United States.

The Absorb BVS is available in Europe, Middle East and parts of Asia. It is an investigational device not available for sale in the U.S.

ABSORB III will enroll approximately 2,250 patients, the majority in the U.S.

###

For more information on the Beaumont study, including enrollment criteria, call Diedre Brunk, Beaumont Cardiology Research at 248-898-5580.

About Beaumont Heart & Vascular Care

Beaumont is Michigan's, and one of the nation's, most experienced providers of heart care, recognized on U.S. News & World Report's 2013-14 "America's Best Hospitals" list for cardiology and heart surgery. The Beaumont Heart and Vascular Center is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art facility that's dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart problems. Beaumont's Ernst Cardiovascular Center offers a collaborative approach to treating and managing the most complex heart and vascular conditions, including atrial fibrillation, heart valve disease, heart failure, aortic aneurysm and dissection. The center offers low-cost, preventive heart screening for adults and high school students. Beaumont's Ministrelli Women's Heart Center is the first in Michigan devoted exclusively to the prevention, diagnosis, and research of heart disease in women. Find out more at http://heart.beaumont.edu/

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Animal Welfare Records and Statistics Regulations 1999

Reprint as at 1 July 2013

(SR 1999/392)

Michael Hardie Boys, Governor-General

At Wellington this 8th day of November 1999

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

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Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry for Primary Industries.

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Marlins hitting coach Martinez resigns over player complaints of abusive behavior

Miami Marlins fall to the Pirates at warp speed.

MIAMI Jose Fernandez was the first one in the postgame interview room Sunday, and rightly so. He established the organization's single-game rookie strikeout record (13) in a 3-2, series-clinching win over the Pirates.

Per its history, little good that happens to the Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! goes unencumbered. Not long after Fernandez concluded, President of Baseball Operations Larry Beinfest entered and brusquely announced the Marlins had accepted the resignation of hitting coach Tino Martinez.

A source confirmed Martinez for months had been at odds with several players and staff members, including manager Mike Redmond. It recently came to Redmond's attention that Martinez engaged rookie Derek Dietrich in an inappropriate physical manner less than a week after his arrival in the big leagues.

Martinez denied reports that he put his hands around Dietrich's neck, saying his grabbed his jersey. The incident was serious enough that the Major League Baseball Players' Association was made aware of it well after the fact.

A stunned Dietrich, who was optioned to Double-A Jacksonville last week, was at a loss about how to handle the situation. He chose to keep quiet and somehow produced despite unimaginable duress. Dietrich ultimately relayed the story to Redmond. One other person witnessed what happened in the batting cage and corroborated Dietrich's account.

"I want to say that I never physically touched anyone by the neck," said Martinez, who apologized for his behavior. "That never happened. I have made some comments to certain players at certain times that I thought were more constructive criticism on separate occasions. Obviously they didn't feel that way and it kind of backfired on me.

"I just thought with some young players you needed to be a little firmer and try to get them on the right track, but obviously I made a mistake and I apologize for that to the Marlins' organization, my family and everyone involved."

Had owner Jeffrey Loria not stepped in and tried to mend the situation, Martinez likely could have avoided a blemish that no doubt will follow him the rest of his baseball life. Instead, Martinez's otherwise fine reputation as a two-time All-Star and 1997 American League Most Valuable Player runner-up is marred. Further, Loria takes the hit for pushing the hire instead of letting Redmond choose.

A source said several hitters complained about Martinez's demeanor and abusive behavior. Martinez and Redmond recently engaged in a verbal altercation. Redmond made it clear to management he wanted Martinez out. That Martinez was not Redmond's hitting coach choice was a point that stuck in his craw.

"[Resigning] was the right thing to do," said Martinez, who forfeits the remainder of a three-year contract. "[Loria] thought there were other options, but no, that's the right thing to do.

"I was frustrated at times the way players were behaving. When I asked them to do something they wouldn't do it. I thought the way to get them to do it was by being firm with them. I probably used some four-letter words. I thought I was doing the right thing, but I obviously wasn't."

The Dietrich incident wasn't isolated, the source said. Martinez in spring training berated minor league infielder Matt Downs for working with then minor league hitting coordinator Greg Norton. Martinez took offense that Downs would take instruction from an unaccomplished big league hitter like Norton, who recently left the organization to become the hitting coach at Auburn.

Since spring training Martinez has displayed erratic behavior and mood swings that prompted some to question whether he is bi-polar. Another person who's received firsthand accounts of Martinez's abuse wondered how a 16-year veteran and core player of the New York Yankees' dynasty of the late 1990s with almost 2,000 career hits could harbor such insecurity.

Martinez also had incidents with several other players, including Chris Valaika and Casey Kotchman, who Martinez at one point challenged to a fight.

Another player with more than a decade in professional baseball told the source he's never had a coach curse at him until Martinez did so this spring.

"We're all disappointed in the outcome and I think we're focusing right now on moving forward," Redmond said.

Tuesday, the Marlins are expected to name minor league field coordinator John Pierson their interim hitting coach.

jcrodriguez@tribune.com or @JCRMarlinsbeat on Twitter.

Source: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-marlins-notes-0729-20130728,0,3378831.story?track=rss

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Obituaries 7-29-13 | Lincoln Times-News

Caron Brown

Caron Brown went home to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, entering into the fullness of joy in His presence, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013.

He was a loving and faithful husband to his wife of 37 wonderful years, and a gracious and generous father to his children. He is survived by his wife, Elaine Brown of Lincolnton; son, Greg Brown and daughter-in-law, Mary C. Brown; and two granddaughters, Emmaline and Georgia, of Cheverly, MD; daughter, Rachel Brown of Lincolnton; son, Philip Brown, of Gastonia, and daughter-in-law-to-be Kristin Haas, of Dallas, N.C.; brother, Loren Brown, of Boerne, Tex..

His love and affection, steadfastness and strength as a husband, father, son, and friend will be remembered with respect and deep gratitude. He was born on July 29, 1951 in Cedar Rapids, IA to James and Anna Brown, both of whom preceded him in death. His sister, Mary F. Brown, also preceded him in death.

He served in the United States Navy from 1971 to 1978 with tours on the USS South Carolina as an Electrician?s Mate First Class. He was diligent to provide well for his family through 35 years of employment with Duke Energy at McGuire
Nuclear Station.

Throughout the years, Caron enjoyed participating in a local body of Christian believers, listening to music and audio books, playing racquetball with friends, home construction projects, and spending time with family. He enjoyed many hours and days and years with his family playing board games, camping and hiking, ?train spotting,? playing and watching sports, biking, trying out a pun and eliciting smiles and groans, traveling to visit extended family, listening to piano,
violin, and guitar being played by his wife and sons, and simply sharing a good meal or a cup of coffee over a conversation about life and the Lord.

The family will be receiving friends at Warlick Funeral Home, Lincolnton on Tuesday, July 30, 2013 from 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. A funeral service will be at First Baptist Church, located at 201 Robin Road, Lincolnton, on Wednesday, July
31, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. Burial will follow at Salem Baptist Church, located at 1982 Salem Church Road, Lincolnton.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made on the website www.hattensinhaiti.com or to Hospice of Catawba County.

Warlick Funeral Home, Lincolnton is serving the family.

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Frances Eileen Davis Homesley

Frances Eileen Davis Homesley, 90, of Cherryville died July 27, 2013.

A Service of Remembrance will be held today at noon at First Baptist Church. Burial will follow in City Memorial Cemetery.? The family will receive friends today from 11 a.m. until 11:45 a.m. prior to the service at the church.

Carpenter?s Funeral and Cremation Services, Cherryville is serving the Homesley family.

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Beverly Jeanette Flynn Walls

Beverly Jeanette Flynn Walls, 38, of Cherryville died July 27, 2013.

A memorial service will be held July 30, 2013 at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church. Burial will be private. The family will receive friends this evening from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the church.

Carpenter?s Funeral and Cremation Services, Cherryville is serving the Walls family.

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Clay England

Clay England, 80, of Maiden died July 26, 2013.

His funeral service was 2 p.m. on July 28, 2013 at Marvin United Methodist Church. Burial followed in Forest Lawn Cemetery. The family received friends from 1 p.m. until 1:45 p.m. on July 28, 2013 in the fellowship hall.

Warlick Funeral Home, Lincolnton served the England family.

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Ronnie Dale Wylie

Ronnie Dale Wylie, 61, of Lincolnton died July 25, 2013.

A Memorial Service will be held today at 6 p.m. at New Heights Baptist Church. The family will receive friends from 5 p.m. until 5:45 p.m. prior to the service at the church.

Carpenter?s Funeral and Cremation Services, Cherryville is serving the Wylie family.

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Zoua ?Pha? Chang

Zoua ?Pha? Chang, 30, of Claremont died July 23, 2013.

The Hmong Services were held at The Venue at Eastside Park, 307 South McClin Creek Road, Conover which began July 27, 2013 and ended July 28, 2013 with burial at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Hickory.

Burke Mortuary, Newton is serving the Chang family.

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Matthew Daniel Lail

Matthew Daniel Lail, 28, of Lincolnton died July 24, 2013.

A memorial service will be held today at 3 p.m. at Hulls Grove Baptist Church, Vale.

Robert F. Bennett, Funeral Service Licensee, is serving the Lail family,

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Source: http://www.lincolntimesnews.com/2013/07/29/obituaries-7-29-13/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=obituaries-7-29-13

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Sony Xperia Tablet Z gets official Android 4.3 Jelly Bean AOSP ROM

Sony has decided not to waste any time and push the freshly announced Android 4.3 Jelly Bean as part of its Android Open Source Project (AOSP) for the Xperia Tablet Z.

Sony Community manager Marcus Hansson says that Sony developers began work only after Google made its Android announcement at the event yesterday just to get the latest Jelly Bean version running on the Tablet Z. As a result, not all of the Android 4.3 functionality works just yet.

However, while the official post says it?s pretty unstable, the build seems to run just fine on the tablet. The enhanced multi-profile support works just fine, so does Wi-Fi, as you can see from the video below. With time, more of the cool Android 4.3 Jelly Bean features will be made available through the AOSP program, so stay tuned.

If you?re an advanced Sony Xperia Tablet Z user, head up to the company?s GitHub repository from the source link below to get your hands on the beta Android 4.3 Jelly Bean ROM.

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Source: http://blog.gsmarena.com/sony-issues-android-4-3-jelly-bean-aosp-for-the-xperia-tablet-z-doesnt-recommend-it-as-a-daily-runner/

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GALAXY GeForce GTX 780 HOF Edition is a Beast ? Ships With External Power Supply Module

Galaxy Tech unveiled their latest GeForce GTX 780 HOF Edition graphics card at Computex 2013, the card looked amazing in terms of design and featured a white PCB but most of the details regarding clock frequencies weren?t unveiled to the public until now.

Image is courtesy of ChinaDIY!

ChinaDIY got hold of the Galaxy GeForce GTX 780 HOF and provides a brief overview of Galaxy?s flagship GeForce 700 series offering. The GeForce GTX 780 HOF follows six principles -??frequency, power, materials, PCB, cooling and overclocking. All these principles combine to form Galaxy?s highest tier Hall of Fame edition GPU offerings. In terms of specifications, the GeForce GTX 780 HOF comes with the GK110-300-A2 core that features 2304 cores, 192 TMUs, 48 ROPs and a 3 GB GDDR5 memory running along a 384-bit interface. The card makes use of custom designed PCB which is white in color and features memory chips from?Elpida Memory. The core runs at an clock speed of 1006 MHz with a GPU Boost clock of 1058 MHz while the memory operates at the reference 6008 MHz or 6 GHz effective frequency.

The PCB design on the GeForce GTX 780 HOF is impressive in itself, featuring an 8+2 Phase PWM which is given power through dual 8-Pin connectors. The back of the PCB is equipped with the industry?s high-end?Panasonic tantalum capacitors. In total, the core has its eight while the memory has four?KEMET tantalum capacitors with a capacity of?330uF. On the back, six?MDU3606 Mosfet from Magnachip can also be spotted. To deliver high-speed under overclocked specs, the memory is equipped with its own heatspreader. The PWM supply has its own set of heatsink. Its an incredible design for a PCB which would allow users to gain impressive overclock settings as seen previously when HKEPC overclocked the same GPU to 1900 MHz on core and 7.4 GHz memory clock as seen here.

Ofcourse, a GPU of such a design would require large amounts of cooling to keep the core and memory stable. Galaxy covers the cooling side with their flagship HOF series dual fan cooler which offers a much beefier heatsink design. The Galaxy GeForce GTX 780 HOF makes use of a densely packed aluminum fin array that?s conveyed heat through four 6mm heatpipes running through the copper base. The dual fans measure 9cm and have a total of 9 blades which are enough to handle some mighty overclocks. The shroud itself looks beast for the monster card that is the GeForce GTX 780 HOF.

A separate external power supply module also ships with the GeForce GTX 780 HOF which can be bought offering an 8 Phase PWM with its own set of voltage adjustment and tuning points powered via three 8 Pin connectors. A must have for LN2 overclocking.

Image is courtesy of Expreview!

As far as pricing is concerned, we don?t have any concrete details yet but it looks like the card would be limited to the APAC region for now just like the iGame Kudan GTX 780 models. Nevertheless, NVIDIA?s AIC partners did pop up some real cool looking GeForce GTX 780 models this round such as the GTX 780 DirectCU II OC from ASUS, MSI?s upcoming GTX 780 Lightning, Gigabyte?s WindForce GTX 780 and not to mention, the EVGA GTX 780 Classified with ACX cooler.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Wccftechcom/~3/P8ELuBB_Fhk/

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A Website Exposes Instagram Frauds Who Use Filters But Tag #nofilter

As sacred a hashtag as #tbt is on Instagram, the hashstag #nofilter is right there with it. If the selfie's purpose is to crown your own face with likes, not using a filter on a picture and then bragging about it through a hashtag is to megaphone your arrival as an artist. Like saying you could totally be a photographer if you weren't stuck in a cubicle all day. Like telling the whole world to look at you and then not look at you but really, look at you. Digital flexing. #nofilter

But, lo and behold, because people on the Internet cannot tell the truth and because the Internet exposes all things as lies, there exists a beautiful Tumblr called Filter Fakers that exposes the Instafrauds that claim they use #nofilter but actually *GASP* use filters like Earlybird and X-Pro II. How dare they sully the self-congratulatory cult of Instagrammers who just take real pictures! How dare they pretend that hue of sky blue is real! How dare they massage their selfie skin tone with filters!

The Filter Fakers website is an automated archive catches people who use the #nofilter tag but actually use Instagram's built-in filters. If you're tweaking pictures with other filter apps (like a true Instaprofessional) it can't catch you. There are unwritten rules to Instagram and this blatant false advertising is one of them. And though a few of these filter fakin' folks claim #nofilter in sarcasm, many of them are obviously trying to paint their lives in better colors than what their real life palette offers. [Filter Fakers via Daily Dot]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/haha-a-website-exposes-instagram-frauds-who-say-they-u-640645612

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Rocket-launched camera reveals highways and sparkles in the solar atmosphere

June 30, 2013 ? Using an innovative new camera on board a sounding rocket, an international team of scientists have captured the sharpest images yet of the Sun's outer atmosphere. The team discovered fast-track 'highways' and intriguing 'sparkles' that may help answer a long-standing solar mystery. Prof. Robert Walsh of the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) will present the new results on Monday 1 July at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in St Andrews, Scotland.

With partners in the United States and Russia, the UCLan team used a sounding rocket to launch the NASA High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, USA. During its short flight, the Hi-C team obtained images of the solar atmosphere (the solar corona) five times sharper than anything seen before and acquired data at a rate of about one image every five seconds.

The new camera observed the Sun in extreme ultraviolet light and focused on a large, magnetically-active sunspot region. Images from Hi-C reveal a number of new features in the corona, including 'blobs' of gas ricocheting along 'highways' and bright dots that switch on and off rapidly which the group call 'sparkles'.

In the new images, small clumps of electrified gas (plasma) at a temperature of about one million degrees Celsius are seen racing along highways shaped by the Sun's magnetic field. These blobs travel at around 80 km per second (the equivalent of 235 times the speed of sound on Earth), fast enough to travel the distance from Glasgow to London in 7 seconds. The highways are 450 km across, roughly the length of Ireland from north to south.

The flows of material are inside a so-called solar filament, a region of dense plasma that can erupt outwards from the Sun. These eruptions, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), carry billions of tonnes of plasma into space. If a CME travels in the right direction it can interact with Earth, disturbing the terrestrial magnetic field in a 'space weather' event that can have a range of destructive consequences from damaging satellite electronics to overloading power grids on the ground. The discovery and nature of the solar highways allows scientists to better understand the driving force for these eruptions and help predict with greater accuracy when CMEs might take place.

Another new set of images could help explain an enduring mystery of the Sun. Astronomers have long struggled to understand why, with a temperature of two million degrees, the corona is around 400 times hotter than the solar surface. Hi-C images reveal dynamic bright dots which switch on and off at high speed.

These 'sparkles' typically last around 25 seconds, are about 680 km across (the size of the UK) and release at least 1024 (one million million million million) Joules of energy in each event, or around 10,000 times the annual energy consumption of the population of the UK (based on information from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change). The sparkles are thus a clear signal that enormous amounts of energy are being added into the corona and may then be released violently to heat the plasma.

Solar physicist Professor Robert Walsh, UCLan's University Director of Research, added: "I'm incredibly proud of the work of my colleagues in developing Hi-C. The camera is effectively a microscope that lets us view small scale events on the Sun in unprecedented detail. For the first time we can unpick the detailed nature of the solar corona, helping us to predict when outbursts from this region might head towards the Earth."

NASA Marshall heliophysicist Dr Jonathan Cirtain, principal investigator for the Hi-C mission said: "Our team developed an exceptional instrument capable of revolutionary image resolution of the solar atmosphere. We took advantage of the high level of solar activity to focus in on an active sunspot and obtained these remarkable pictures."

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/Ztg1Lp94jwI/130630225227.htm

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