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FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2013 photo, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at a gun violence summit at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, where he outlined his proposals for federal gun control reforms. Police said Wednesday, May 29, 2013, that threatening letters containing traces of the poison ricin were opened Friday, May 24, 2013 at New York City?s mail sorting facility and Sunday, May 26, in Washington at the headquarters of the nonprofit started by Bloomberg, Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Both were addressed to Bloomberg and contained threats referencing the debate on gun laws. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2013 photo, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at a gun violence summit at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, where he outlined his proposals for federal gun control reforms. Police said Wednesday, May 29, 2013, that threatening letters containing traces of the poison ricin were opened Friday, May 24, 2013 at New York City?s mail sorting facility and Sunday, May 26, in Washington at the headquarters of the nonprofit started by Bloomberg, Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Both were addressed to Bloomberg and contained threats referencing the debate on gun laws. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2011, file photo provided by the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System, Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales participates in an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Bales, charged with slaughtering 16 villagers during one of the worst atrocities of the Afghanistan war, has agreed to plead guilty in a deal to avoid the death penalty, his attorney told The Associated Press on Wednesday May 29, 2013. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS HIDDEN IN PLANTS ACROSS U.S.

An AP investigation found more than 120 facilities in 28 states with a potentially devastating blast zone.

2. SYRIA GETS RUSSIAN MISSILES

President Bashar Assad tells Lebanese TV that the first shipment of long-range S-300 defense missiles has arrived.

3. SOLDIER TO ADMIT TO AFGHAN VILLAGE MASSACRE

Robert Bales' lawyer says the Army staff sergeant was "crazed" and "broken" when he left his post and attacked a village, killing 16.

4. THE CONTROVERSY BEHIND OBAMA'S NEW PICK FOR FBI

James Comey, deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush, testified in Congress that he thought Bush's no-warrant wiretapping program was questionable.

5. WHAT HAPPENED TO CHINESE BABY TRAPPED IN SEWER

Authorities turned the baby over to his grandparents and aren't charging the 22-year-old mother who admitted giving birth to him in a toilet.

6. RICIN LETTERS TARGET NEW YORK MAYOR

The threatening posts containing traces of the deadly poison were addressed to Bloomberg and to his gun-control group in Washington.

7. TALIBAN DEALT BLOW AFTER DRONE STRIKE

Pakistani intelligence officials say the group's deputy leader, Waliur Rehman, was buried hours after he was killed in the strike.

8. WHY OBAMACARE COULD CANCEL YOUR HEALTH PLAN

The AP's Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar reports that many private policies could be canceled because they don't measure up.

9. JAMES TAYLOR, AEROSMITH TO PLAY FOR BOSTON

Jimmy Buffett also joins performers with ties to Massachusetts for a benefit concert for the bombing victims.

10. WHO's CHARGED WITH DRY-ICE BLAST AT DISNEYLAND

A 22-year-old park employee was arrested on suspicion of putting the device in a theme park trash can, where it exploded.

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From Fashion to Films

Director Cindy Meehl at a party for the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking awards in 2012.

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When documentary filmmaker Cindy Meehl was 7, she fell in love with a pony at a birthday party. ?I just wanted to get up close and touch the animal. I was in awe of it,? she says. Fifty-six-year-old Meehl smiles as she tells this anecdote, her tanned face brightening at the memory. As she talks, one of her four dogs snores audibly in the living room. Meehl and her husband live on a farm with a veritable menagerie?those dogs, a bunny, and two horses?in Redding, Conn.

She started riding at the age of 10 in her hometown of Jackson, Miss., and she still has a trace of a soft Southern accent. Meehl would ride as much as she could and sketch horses in her spare time?art was her other main interest growing up. But she never thought she?d combine the two, as she did with her first feature-length documentary film Buck, about horse trainer Buck Brannaman.

Way before she became an award-winning movie director, Meehl was a successful fashion designer. She started her college education at Mississippi State and then moved to New York to finish her degree at Marymount Manhattan College, after which she studied art at the National Academy. When she graduated, she sold ties at Bloomingdale?s and wore a lot of shoulder pads. (It was the ?80s.) She started designing dresses with two other artists using hand-painted silks.

The way she tells it, she stormed into Bergdorf Goodman and presented her line, which at that point was called ?Sasha, Cindy and Phil.? Even though she wasn?t a fashion insider by any means, she had spunk. Not only did Bergdorf?s buy the clothes; they put the frocks in their heralded window display at 58^th Street and Fifth Avenue. The business kept building and building, but Meehl realized that she didn?t enjoy the creative pressure of fashion?s unrelenting grind. ?It sounds so glamorous, but it didn?t ultimately appeal,? Meehl says. ?You work that hard, and you?re still always behind.?

Her final designs were for a friend?s wedding party. She was recently married, and she and her husband, writer Brian Meehl, had just moved to the horse farm in Connecticut where she lives today. Over the next several years, ?I had children and an art studio,? Meehl says. And of course, she had the horses. Then, about 10 years ago, she took a clinic in Montana from Buck Brannaman, and it altered her entire outlook on riding.

Brannaman?s way of dealing with horses is staggeringly sensitive. The way Meehl describes his methods while demonstrating with Red, one of her two horses, is that Brannaman teaches you how to speak their language. Instead of yanking on its reins to tell it what to do, you use your body to signal how you want the horse to move. Meehl seems totally relaxed when communicating with Red. She has that same easy repartee with Red when she?s riding him, showing how Brannaman?s body-language-based methods work on horseback.

?I wanted to tell other people about Buck,? Meehl says, but her fellow horsemen and women, especially on the East Coast, weren?t particularly receptive. She didn?t feel capable of teaching Brannaman?s methods, until she realized that a film would be a good way to get his style of horsemanship out into the world. Her two daughters were almost grown at this point?the oldest was in college, and the youngest was in high school?and Meehl was looking for a new project. Though it doesn?t, at first glance, seem related, her fashion background was helpful when she first started thinking about making Buck. ?I?ve had a lot of art training,? Meehl explains ?and I?m very visual and interested in composition and structure. I knew how I wanted it to look.?

But she was also humble, and she had very little experience with a camera. So she went about hiring the best producers and editors she could find. She tried two filmmaking teams before she started working with producers Julie Goldman and Andrea Meditch. She flew down to Washington, D.C., to have lunch with them, ?At that point I had some footage to show them. I was, of course, biting my nails to see if they?d actually help me,? Meehl says.

They signed on, and they shaped Brannaman?s moving life story for the screen. In addition to being a so-called ?horse whisperer? who can tame the wildest of stallions, Brannaman also survived a brutal childhood in rural Wyoming. His mother died when he was a child, and he ended up in a foster home. He went on to have a wonderful relationship with his wife and three daughters, and established a thriving business.

Meehl also credits Buck?s editor, Toby Shimin, for helping her tell an inspiring? story about Brannaman?so inspiring that the film won the audience award when it played the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. Meehl has also created 7 Clinics, an instructional DVD series using Brannaman?s methods; she directed a music video for the independent country artist Templeton Thompson for the song ?When I Get That Pony Rode?; and she is currently helping to produce another documentary called Unbranded, about three young men riding horses from Mexico to Canada.

But that?s not to say that Meehl is a one-trick documentary-making pony. She is interested in making films about non-equine topics and is in the early stages of planning a documentary about alternative veterinary medicine.

Her message to anyone who is thinking of changing careers is to be receptive to what the world is telling you. Two years ago, ?I had no desire to make a film or be in the film business,? Meehl says. ?I think the message here is you always have to be open. Maybe you?re not on the right path. Just somehow you hear that call, and you go.?

This month, Slate is sharing stories of people who started over?like budget wonk Ina Garten,?better known as the Barefoot Contessa?in our "Second Acts" Hive. We want to hear your tales, too. Please go here?to submit your story about starting over.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_hive/2013/05/how_sundance_winner_cindy_meehl_director_of_buck_left_fashion_for_films.html

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UFC fan uses guillotine choke to hold off attempted carjacker after watching UFC 160

Stockton, Calif., is the home of UFC fighters Nick and Nate Diaz, but another Stocktonian made the news for his MMA moves over the weekend. Abel Simmons was returning home from watching UFC 160 with his family when he used a guillotine to hold off a man who was attacking his family.

Simmons' two children were in the backseat of his SUV when the family car pulled into their driveway. A man walked up to the car and started banging on the windows, and then tried to open the door. Simmons, who was in the passenger seat, got out and scuffled with the man until he had him in a guillotine.

"I had him in a guillotine choke. And he wasn't getting out of that. I had that lock really tight," said Simmons. "I just held him in place and said, 'Well, guess you are going to jail tonight buddy.'"

Simmons' wife called 911. When the police arrived, the man tried fighting them, as well. He was arrested for attempted carjacking, battery and resisting arrest.

Watching UFC fights is not meant to be educational, but at least Simmons did learn something from tuning into Saturday's bouts. Now, if you've watched a few fights and haven't had any kind of training, you probably shouldn't go patrolling the streets looking to stop injustice with a choke hold. But it's nice to know that watching fights helped one family stay safe. The same can't be said for people who tuned into the basketball playoffs this weekend.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/ufc-fan-uses-guillotine-hold-off-attempted-carjacker-143145461.html

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Nintendo Japan announces white 32GB Wii U, Wiimote quick charger

An official extended battery for its Wii U Gamepad isn't the only thing Nintendo Japan posted on its website tonight, as it also added a white option for the Wii U 32GB Premium set, a 30th Anniversary Luigi special edition 3DS XL and quick charging option for the Wiimote. Surveys surfaced earlier this year suggesting a fast charging option on the way for the Wiimote, and in Japan gamers will be able to add the accessory -- consisting of replacement battery / backplate and dock, pictured after the break -- starting July 13th for 4,200 yen ($41). That's the same day the white Wii U premium will arrive as well, coming at the same price and packing the same accessories as the existing black 32GB console. Finally, Nintendo listed all the details for the special Luigi edition 3DS XL announced recently on Nintendo Direct. Of course, none of these are the desirable games that even Iwata admits the Wii U needs, but a few more choices can't hurt, can they?

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It?s Over: Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth Split?Engagement Off!

It’s Over: Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth Split…Engagement Off!

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth’s three-year romance is reportedly over once and for all, with Miley telling friends they are “done”. There have been rumors of a split swirling for some time now, with sources saying Miley and Liam were trying to work through their issues. But it looks like they have split for good! ...

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Rescuers save a newborn from sewer pipe in China

BEIJING (AP) ? Chinese state media say firefighters and medics have rescued a newborn boy from a sewer pipe below a squat toilet.

The state-run news site Zhejiang News says a tenant heard the baby's cries in the public restroom of a residential building in eastern China's Puijian county Saturday and notified authorities. Firefighters removed an L-shaped section of the pipe ? about 10 centimeters (3 inches) in diameter ? and rushed it to a hospital where it was dismantled and the baby was treated.

Video footage of the rescue was broadcast nationally overnight.

Zhejiang News says the child ? named Baby No. 59 from the number of his incubator ? is safe.

Police are treating the case as an attempted homicide, and are looking for the mother and anyone else involved.

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The drive for 'football' to be king in Australia

The symbolism of the name for the beautiful game is intertwined with the sport's place within the sporting landscapeThe Guardian is in town, and already it seems embroiled in everybody's favourite etymological debate: is the beautiful game called "football" or "soccer"?As the Guardian unveiled its Australian website on Monday, there were more than a few curious football fans taking a peek at its sports coverage. In Britain, the Guardian is home to one of the best football sections in the English-speaking world, and so it stands to reason that its...

Source: http://www.footballhq.co.uk/news/the-drive-for-football-to-be-king-in-australia

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Pope urges Mafiosi to stop exploitation of others

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Pope Francis paid tribute to a courageous priest murdered by the Sicilian Mafia as a martyr and urged mobsters on Sunday to abandon their evil ways, particularly the exploitation of people in trafficking rackets such as prostitution.

Francis issued his call to organized crime members to convert their hearts, a day after the beatification of the Rev. Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi in Palermo. The Vatican honored Puglisi as a martyr in the ceremony, 20 years after he was slain in the city by mobsters for defiantly preaching against the Mafia in a neighborhood where Cosa Nostra held sway.

Francis told a crowd in St. Peter's Square that the Mafia killed the Rev. Giuseppe Puglisi because he tried to keep youths from being recruited by mobsters.

Beatification is the last formal step before possible sainthood. As part of the process leading to beatification, church officials considered statements that convicted Mafiosi had given to investigators. The mobsters told authorities that Cosa Nostra bosses had ordered Puglisi's murder because he had dared defy the Mafia by his preaching and work with young people. Mafia bosses convicted of ordering the slaying and are serving life sentences in prison.

The pope didn't attend the beatification ceremony, which drew tens of thousands of people to an esplanade near Palermo's seaside. Instead, he used the traditional Sunday papal appearance to pilgrims, tourists and Romans in St. Peter's Square to hail Puglisi as a martyr and "an exemplary priest, especially dedicated" to serving young people.

"Educating young people according to the Gospel, he took them away from organized crime, and thus it (the Mafia) tried to defeat him by killing him," Francis said.

Puglisi was gunned down a few months after Pope John Paul II made a pilgrimage to Sicily and angrily called on mobsters to "convert" their hearts. At the time the island was still shocked by the 1992 bomb blast assassinations by Cosa Nostra, two months apart, of Italy's top anti-Mafia magistrates.

"I think of the great pain suffered by men, women and even children, exploited by so many mafias," Francis said. He decried the crime syndicates for "making them do work that makes them slaves, prostitution."

"Behind this exploitation and slavery are the mafias," the pope said. Francis, two months into his papacy, has branded human trafficking as one of the most terrible evils plaguing the world.

"They cannot make our brothers slaves," Francis said. "Let us pray that these Mafiosi and Mafiose convert to God," the pope said, using the Italian words to indicate both male and female mobsters. Women have increasingly been playing command roles in Italy's organized crime world as crackdowns see many of the male mobsters jailed for long terms, and have long helped syndicates by hiding fugitives in their homes and with other assistance.

Puglisi worked in one of Palermo's poorest and roughest neighborhoods, trying to give hope and options to young people, often recruited by Cosa Nostra for drug pushing, numbers running and other jobs in the mob's illicit activities. Francis has repeatedly said his vision of the Catholic church is a "poor church for the poor," and encouraged clergy to work with people on society's margins and avoid having the church turn inwards onto itself.

Investigators say that along with drug trafficking, human trafficking, including in illegal immigrants to work clandestinely in agriculture or factories, and of young people from abroad for prostitution, has become one of the most profitable industries for organized crime.

Francis put his strategy of paying attention to faithful on the periphery into practice Sunday, choosing as his first parish to visit in Rome one so far on the city's outskirts that he took a helicopter from the Vatican, about 20 kilometers (13 miles) away, to arrive. The pope is also bishop of Rome, and Francis spent much of the pastoral visit conversing casually with children in the front row who were making their first Communion at Mass celebrated by him.

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The Future of Credit Cards: 4 Big Trends on the Horizon - Mint

At a recent conference devoted to travel and credit card rewards, executives from Chase, Barclaycard, US Bank, Capital One and American Express were on hand to share their views on the future of credit cards ? and there was a broad consensus on where the industry is going in the next few years.

Here are four of the biggest credit card trends on the horizon that emerged from the discussion:

Banks are leveraging Big Data.

When you think about it, credit card issuers don?t just collect money, they also collect massive amounts of data. They know who you are, how much money you make, and where you spend it.

The next step is for them to provide offers that are directly relevant to customers.

Think of the way that your grocery store uses a loyalty program to track your spending and offer you coupons at checkout, but then imagine that model extended across multiple merchants.

That is what is implied by Big Data.

[Related Article:?The Simplest Credit Cards in America]

Card issuers will capitalize on mobile devices.

Closely tied to their push to capitalize on their data, banks see a future where they can present these offers to their customers in real time.

By combining location information and spending data, banks can present customers offers that they can act on when away from their computers.

The question then becomes, will cardholders value these offers, or find them to be a nuisance? Banks are betting that the more relevant they are, the less of an issue they will be.

Banks also hope to offer cardholders not just deals and offers, but valuable information to help them?manage their spending.

In a follow-up interview I had with Shane Holdaway, Managing Vice President of US Cards for Capital One, he described a future where his bank would offer information to consumers about how they spend, and how to spend smarter.

In his vision, your credit card becomes a budgeting tool rather than just a method of payment and finance.

[Related Article: Can You Really Get Your Credit Score for Free?]

Banks will offer more products to the unbanked and underbanked.

Do you know any adult who does not have a bank account?

The?FDIC Household Survey?concluded that 8.2% of U.S. households are unbanked (meaning they don?t have a checking or savings account), and more than 20% are underbanked (meaning they have a checking or savings account, but use non-bank means of credit, like payday loans) ? and those numbers are growing.

Sonali Chakravorti, Vice President of Membership Benefits for American Express, stated that in partnering with Walmart on the BlueBird prepaid card, American Express was looking at the next generation of customers who don?t even want a bank account.

While it remains to be seen,?the next generation?might find bank accounts as relevant as land lines, compact discs, and print publications.

[Related Article: What NOT to Do With Your Credit Card Rewards]

Expect less junk mail, but more social media marketing.

Matthew Massaua, Senior Director US Card for Barclaycard, made the point that credit card marketing is changing to meet the times.

According to Massaua, social media marketing of credit cards is growing while direct mail marketing is starting to decline. In fact, Barclaycard has lead the way in integrating social media with its credit card products by introducing its innovative?Ring card.

David Gold, General Manger of Partnerships for Chase Card Services, highlighted the importance of new media to the credit card industry.

In fact, he noted that he wakes up every day worried about what will be written online about his products by bloggers who focus on how many cents they can get out of of each point.

Others on the panel also admitted following blogs and other online outlets closely. So when you read a site like this, you can be sure that the banks are listening, too.

The industry will undergo an evolution, not a revolution

Change is coming, but it won?t be overwhelming.

When asked about the pace of change in the industry during the next two years, four of the five panelists characterized the industry as going through more of an evolution than a revolution.

Only Bob Daly, Senior Vice President of US Bank, would hint at some major change his bank could introduce within the next two years.

Whether he was trying to out-psych his competitors, or he has something extraordinary up his sleeve, only time will tell!

It was interesting, and educational, to hear credit card industry executives share their thoughts on the future. By understanding where credit cards are going, you won?t be surprised when you get there.

Source: http://www.mint.com/blog/credit/the-future-of-credit-cards-0513/

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Retailers reveal how e-business is breathing new life back into ...

By Holly Dutton

LAS VEGAS: Brick and mortar stores don?t need to worry about online retailers, they just need to join their ranks.

In 2012, online retail accounted for six percent of all retail sales, compared to traditional retail stores which accounted for the other 94 percent, said Marianne Wilson, editor in chief of Chain Store Age, at the ?Retail: The Next Wave? panel here Sunday, citing numbers by Forrester Research.

?The other side of the coin is that it?s growing at a faster rate,? said Wilson of online retail, adding that Forrester is projecting an increase to nine percent by 2016.

Panelists agreed traditional retail has a lot to learn from the internet. Pictured above l-r: Daniella Yacobovsky, Stephen Gallant of Jos. A Bank and James Tenser of VSN Strategies.

Daniella Yacobovsky, co-founder of online jewelry retailer BaubleBar, said ?You?ll die as a retailer? if your company doesn?t get comfortable with social media.

The New York City-based BaubleBar, which began online, transitioned into pop-up stores in Manhattan, which were very successful.

?The web has made the retail world a smaller place,? said Wilson. She cited UK-based TopShop?s entry into the U.S. market with crowds lining the street in Soho for the store?s opening as a sign that shoppers are more informed in today?s market.

Yacobovsky, who started BaubleBar with friend and fellow Harvard Business School classmate, Amy Jain, looked to Amazon.com as a model for online retailing.

With sophisticated web analytics that track shopper?s every move, the company is able to get a clear view of who their customers are. ?What they do best is analyze data,? she said.

George Sappenfield, senior vice president of real estate, store planning and facilities with ANN, inc, which owns the Ann Taylor and Ann Taylor LOFT brands, helped to re-invent their brand, including bringing in actress Kate Hudson as a model/spokesperson for the brand and focusing in on their target audience.

The company opened a successful brick and mortar store in the rural northwest Texas town of Lubbock, after tracking online shoppers and finding they had a huge customer base for Ann Taylor LOFT.

Online data has also revealed some not-so-secret truths about this generation?s young people, that many are time-strapped and have short attention spans when it comes to shopping.

?A lot of our (online) orders come in over the evening hours,? said Stephen Gallant, VP of Facilities Development at men?s clothing retailer, Jos. A Bank. The company also has strong online numbers in rural areas where there isn?t a physical store.

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?I think companies are succeeding that realize where offline fails, where online fails, and how to bridge the gap,? said Yacobovsky.

And in a look to the future, one Seattle retailer is taking online and brick and mortar to the next level, with a completely interactive in-store experience with cutting-edge technology.

Last year, former Amazon executive Nadia Shouraboura founded Hointer, a men?s clothing store where shoppers can use an app on their smartphone in a streamlined process to choose and try on clothes.

When someone sees something they like, they scan it with their phone and when they get to their designated fitting room, the clothes are already there waiting for them, delivered by a sophisticated German robotic system.

In addition to Hointer?s 3,000 s/f pilot location in Seattle, the company has a store in Palo Alto, CA and one more opening in Seattle May 31.

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Source: http://www.rew-online.com/2013/05/23/retailers-reveal-how-e-business-is-breathing-new-life-back-into-slumbering-store-operations/

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CSN: Sandoval's walk-off HR beats Nats in 10th

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SAN FRANCISCO ? On the ice or the grass, it was one heck of a good night to be a Shark.

A Panda, too.

Gregor ?White Shark? Blanco lit the lamp at the last possible moment for the Giants. His two-out, two-strike triple in the ninth inning erased the Washington Nationals? one-run lead.

Then Pablo Sandoval turned extra innings into his personal home run derby, crushing a tape-measure, two-run shot deep into the chilly night as the Giants exploded for a 4-2, 10-inning victory Tuesday night.

Sandoval?s home run was his eighth of the season ? and the second walkoff homer of his career, with the other also coming against the Nationals in 2009. This one capped off the Giants? 13th comeback win of the season.

It was also the Giants? third walkoff homer of the season, joining Buster Posey and Guillermo Quiroz; they didn?t have one all of last year.

The Giants improved to 15-1 when holding their opponent to two runs or fewer this season.

Starting pitching report

It?s a common piece of advice scrawled on so many scouting reports describing so many great starting pitchers over the years:

Get to them early, or you might never get to them at all.

That?s exactly how it played out for Matt Cain and Stephen Strasburg. Cain left some mistakes at the belt in the first inning, and the Nationals hit enough of them while scoring a pair of runs on two doubles and a single.

Strasburg had trouble finding his bearings as well, issuing two walks and loading the bases. But when your changeup is 88-90 mph, the scouting reports only help so much.

Aside from that jumpy first inning, Cain continues to round into form. Ryan Zimmerman and Ian Desmond each hit run-scoring doubles in the first inning, but Cain settled into a good groove after that. He faced the minimum in five of his final six innings while striking out seven.

It was the first time the Giants received a start of at least seven innings and no more than two earned runs since May 12. And it was Cain?s third quality start out of his last four.

He kept the Nats off the board in the fourth inning after a walk, a single and a sacrifice put two runners in scoring position with one out. After hitting Roger Bernadina with a pitch, Cain scooped up a dribbler from Kurt Suzuki and made like an option quarterback with a sidelong pass to the plate for a forceout. Then Cain struck out Strasburg to end the threat.

Bullpen report

Javier Lopez gave up a leadoff double in the eighth, but he got a key strikeout and Jean Machi stranded two inherited runners. Sergio Romo followed with a scoreless ninth. It was just Romo?s third appearance in 13 days.

Jeremy Affeldt worked a perfect 10th inning ? his ninth consecutive scoreless appearance ? to earn the victory.

At the plate

Strasburg had trouble locating in the first inning, which is not anything new for him. He entered the game having allowed nine of his 26 runs in the first inning; opponents were batting .308 against him in the first and .198 the rest of the way.

Angel Pagan walked and was wiped out on Marco Scutaro?s double play, but the Giants still managed to load the bases when Sandoval and Posey singled and Hunter Pence looked at ball four. Brandon Belt took a golf swing through an 88 mph changeup to end the inning, though.

The Giants managed a run in the second inning when Blanco singled, advanced on a sacrifice and scored on Pagan?s two-out hit.

Then Strasburg tightened up. The Giants managed just one more hit against him and he retired the 10 hitters he faced. His changeup bordered on unfair; a 89-mph pitch struck out Posey in the third inning. Then a 90-mph changeup ? yes, those exist ? overpowered the reigning NL MVP for another strikeout in the sixth.

Strasburg had thrown a high and tight fastball earlier in that at-bat that put Posey in the dirt.

The Giants got the tying run into scoring position in each of the last two innings, as the crowd buzzed in anticipation of another comeback.

They weren?t appeased in the eighth, after Marco Scutaro hit a two-out double to the wall in left field off Tyler Clippard to extend his hitting streak to 19 games ? one short of matching the 20-game streak that Scutaro rattled off to end last season. Pablo Sandoval fouled back a pitch down the middle before grounding out.

But down to their last strike, the Giants did it again. Posey led off with an infield single and pinch runner Andres Torres stayed stuck to first base on two fly outs.

Then Blanco hit closer Rafael Soriano?s two-strike slider to deep right field. Bryce Harper, who needed 11 stitches after face-planting into the Dodger Stadium wall last Monday, appeared a bit tentative as he raced back. The ball one-hopped against the wall for a triple that scored Torres.

It was the first earned run Soriano allowed since April 9.

Scutaro whistled a single up the middle to precede Sandoval?s homer in the 10th ? making it 12 multiple-hit games out of 13 for the No. 2 hitter, who ended the day with a .337 average.

Sandoval connected on Yunesky Maya?s 1-0 pitch. And just like that, the Giants positioned themselves to try for a sweep against the vaunted Nats ? a team that beat them soundly in five of six meetings last season.

In field

Cain?s shovel pass was the defensive play of the night, and came straight out of Derek Jeter?s playbook. Because he?ll be moved up to pitch Sunday, Cain won?t face the A?s next week.

The Giants managed to win on a night that plate umpire Bruce Dreckman's strikeout did more floating than the raft in "Life of Pi."

Attendance

The Giants announced 41,642 paid on Until There?s A Cure Night.

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The Giants and Nationals complete their three-game series Wednesday afternoon. Madison Bumgarner (4-2, 3.09 ERA) is scheduled to start against Washington left-hander Gio Gonzalez (3-2, 4.01). First pitch is scheduled for 12:45 p.m. PDT.

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Microsoft launches Xbox One, calls it the console for all-in ... - Firstpost

Redmond, Washington: Microsoft thinks it has the one.

The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that wants to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies and other entertainment. It will go on sale later this year, for an undisclosed price.

For the past two years, Microsoft has led the gaming industry in console sales with the Xbox 360. But it?s been eight years since that machine came out, and Microsoft is the last of the three major console makers to unveil a new system. In those eight years, Apple launched the iPhone and the iPad, ?FarmVille? rose and fell and tablets began to threaten desktop computers, changing how people interact with games and beyond.

Now, the stakes are high as Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are all using their latest machines to not only draw gamers but also command the living room. The goal is to extend their reach beyond loyal legions of hardcore gamers and to become as important to our lives at home as smartphones have become to our lives on the go.

Don Mattrick, Microsoft?s president of interactive entertainment business, said the company has spent the past four years working on the ?all-in-one home entertainment system.?

Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft?s interactive entertainment business, talks about the next-generation Xbox One entertainment and gaming console system?s capabilities for viewing live sports. AP

At an hour-long presentation at the company?s Redmond, Washington, headquarters on Tuesday, Microsoft executives used voice controls to seamlessly switch back and forth between watching live TV, listening to music, playing a movie and browsing the Internet ? all while running apps for fantasy football and Skype chats. It showed how users could watch live sports on TV while getting updates on their fantasy leagues on a split screen.

?It really extends the home entertainment experience,? Gartner analyst Brian Blau said.

He said the console seems to appeal to ?more than just a core gamer in the family? and should be of interest to all types of audiences, from sports players to TV viewers to those who are ?social and want to share things.?

Xbox One is the third entry in the latest round of the ?console wars.? It follows Nintendo Co.?s launch of the Wii U in November and Sony Corp.?s tease in February for the upcoming PlayStation 4. Each of the next-generation consoles have shifted away from simply serving as gaming machines, as they incorporate streaming media apps and social networking features.

With the Xbox One, people will be able to connect their cable or satellite set-top box and watch TV through the game machine. The Xbox One has its own guide and lets people change channels by voice command.

Senior Vice President Yusuf Mehdi demonstrated how the console switched quickly between channels after saying show names such as ?Mary and Martha? or commands like ?watch MTV.? His voice command of ?What?s on HBO?? brought up the channel guide for HBO.

?No more memorizing channels or hunting for the remote control,? Mehdi said.

The interface for the TV goes well beyond the functionality in the Wii U, which still requires users to press buttons to change the input source on the TV. Xbox One seamlessly switched between games, movies and TV shows with a single voice command.

?You can switch to your game like it?s a TV channel flip,? said Marc Whitten, Microsoft?s chief product officer of interactive entertainment business. He called it a ?lag-free instant experience.?

Microsoft also unveiled a new version of its camera-based Kinect system with better motion and voice detection, including the ability to read faces and tell whether you?re smiling or not. The Kinect will be required for Xbox One to work. The company also introduced a more ergonomic Xbox controller, with new buttons and a slightly different layout from the Xbox 360 controller. The new console will also add the ability to play Blu-ray discs, matching what Sony has in its older PlayStation 3.

Among the games previewed for Xbox One were the military shooter ?Call of Duty: Ghosts? from Activision Blizzard Inc., the soccer extravaganza ?FIFA 14? from Electronic Arts Inc. and the racing simulator ?Forza Motorsport 5? and time bender ?Quantum Break,? both from Microsoft Game Studios. Microsoft said more games will be shown at next month?s E3 video game conference in Los Angeles.

The company said there will be more than 15 games available exclusively on the Xbox One in the first year after it launches, eight of them new franchises. In recent years, the Xbox has been the exclusive home to such popular gaming franchises as ?Halo,? ?Forza? and alien shoot-?em-up ?Gears of War.?

Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter noted that Tuesday?s presentation was more general than what Microsoft will likely give at E3, where games will be central as thousands of game industry insiders, bloggers and journalists gather for the annual industry conference.

?They didn?t focus on games,? he said. ?They focused on everything else.?

That everything else includes a multiyear agreement between Microsoft and the National Football League to develop new interactive viewing experiences for pro football games through such products as the Xbox One and Microsoft?s Surface tablet computer. Fans will get the ability to watch games, chat with other fans, view statistics, access highlights in real time and gather fantasy information about players and teams ? all on a single screen. For those who prefer multiple screens, fans can get an even deeper experience on mobile devices such as tablets.

Microsoft is also branching into creating original content beyond games, following the trend of other technology companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and Netflix Inc. Director Steven Spielberg will produce a TV series involving Microsoft?s popular ?Halo? franchise.

Microsoft said games for the Xbox 360 won?t work on the new system, though the company said it will continue to make games for the older machine. The Xbox One won?t require a constant connection to the Internet, but having it will be useful for many of the gaming and entertainment features. The Xbox has been popular largely because of its Xbox Live service, which lets users play games online with other players for as much as $60 a year.

The original Xbox debuted in 2001, and its high-definition successor premiered in 2005. Part of the Microsoft entertainment and devices division that also includes Skype and the Windows Phone, the Xbox represents a small fraction of Microsoft?s overall revenue. In the latest quarter, revenue in that division amounted to about 12 percent, or $2.5 billion of the $20.5 billion total.

Nintendo kicked off the next generation of gaming in November with the launch of the Wii U, the successor to the popular Wii system. The Wii U features an innovative tablet-like controller, though its graphics is on par with the previous-generation Xbox 360 and Sony?s PlayStation 3. Nintendo said the console sold just 3.45 million units by the end of March, well below expectations.

Sony was next, teasing plans for its upcoming PlayStation 4 ? without showing the actual box ? at a February event in New York. The reaction to that console, which featured richer graphics and more social features, was mixed. The PS4 is expected by the holidays.

Microsoft didn?t waste any time showing off the Xbox One console, new Kinect sensor and Xbox controller at the beginning of Tuesday?s presentation.

Microsoft?s stock fell 23 cents, or less than 1 percent, to close Tuesday at $34.85.

Associated Press

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My World: Ban On Suryanamaskar!!!

Recently a post in FB striked me...'Ban On Suryanamaskar'..I dont understand the need for such a movement in India- which holds the credit of having Yoga as its first 'Global Brand'. I am compiling some statistics in this regard...

"The latest "Yoga in America" study, just released by?Yoga Journal(yogajournal.com) shows that?Americans spend $5.7 billion a year on yoga classes and products, including equipment, clothing, vacations and media (DVDs, videos, books and magazines). This figure represents an increase of 87 percent compared to the previous study in 2004?almost double of what was previously spent."

"The Wal-Mart Web site has some 1,000 yoga products. Yoga is a multi-billion dollar industry in the USA, with some 30 million American practitioners, $27 billion/year revenues (from centres, audios, videos, books, conferences, retreats), over 10,000 studios/teachers, and more than 700,000 subscribers to Yoga Journal magazine.?

Over 98% of yoga teachers, instructors and students in the USA are non-Indians. Wonder why we Indians are not interested in teaching yoga ? especially when the 2 million strong Indian community in the United States is one of the most educated and wealthiest groups? "

Now, below is the most interesting fact.?Pakistan Standard Industrial Classification?has included YOGA as a part of their?Sports and Recreation Education.

"Pakistan Standard?Industrial Classification(All Economic Activities)?PSIC Rev. 4 (2010)

Sports and recreation education : Sports instruction (baseball, basketball, cricket, football, etc)?? camps, sports instruction?? cheerleading instruction?? gymnastics instruction?? riding instruction, academies or schools?? swimming instruction?? professional sports instructors, teachers, coaches?? martial arts instruction?? card game instruction (such as bridge)???yoga instruction "

What I dont understand is 'Why the so called secular Indians doesnot take it in this way? Are we that much STUPID?'

India is not an Independent country until and unless the subjects(The People) are freed from the submissive thoughts. Not only in this case but also in all fields of economy. Only when our economy is secured, we can prosper. Only then we can rise from the label of 'Developing to Developed'. If we dont do this now, the future generation will curse us for our inability of giving them a safe and secure place to live.

All these acts are done by those who dont want India to prosper. These are the acts that originated from their FEAR. They will continue to create problems in India. It is the people of India who has to decide whether they want a safe, secure, peaceful, economically secured nation or unsafe, insecure and economically unstable nation like Pakistan,Palastein, Iraq or Israeil.....

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Toby Keith tours devastated Okla. hometown

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Toby Keith is one of country music's biggest stars -- but he's also a native of the Sooner state. And after this week's devastating tornadoes that tore through Oklahoma also ripped into his hometown of Moore, Keith hurried home to see what had happened, and how he could help. He brought TODAY's Matt Lauer on a tour Wednesday to survey the damage.

"It was devastating to see, but it was even worse flying in because I know all these streets," he said. "That little grocery store on the corner there is where we got our baseball cards. Where we got our gas for mowing lawns in the summer."

Lauer and Keith stood just a few blocks from where he grew up in town; the family moved to a farm a few miles away once he was almost out of junior high. He has a home in town, as do other members of his family. "There's a lot of places it could have come across, and this is where it came across," he said. "You just look at the devastation."

His son-in-law heard about the schools in town getting hit, and immediately jumped into action -- though there were some obstacles, Keith reported: While driving there his truck flipped over, he got electrocuted, put a nail in his foot and had a tunnel collapse on him. But he still made it in for the rescue effort.

As Keith says, the people of his town are "resilient."

"They are so prepared for it," he said. "They'll bounce back. Homes will start going up quick and they'll prepare for the next one."

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The man who no longer matters

His at-bats used to be riveting; now, nobody's paying attention

By Joe Posnanski

NBCSports.com

updated 10:48 a.m. ET May 20, 2013

The thing that?s strange ? the thing that?s sad ? is how little excitement there is now when he comes to the plate. Let?s go to a moment in Sunday?s Angels-White Sox game. The count is 3-0, and Albert Pujols has the green light. There should be an electrical charge buzzing the air. Only ? really ? there isn?t a buzz. There isn?t a charge. There isn?t anything at all. The thrill-o-meter is at zero.

So strange. So sad. It used to be one of baseball?s great thrills to watch Albert Pujols hit. Whether you were a Cardinals fan or not, you would find yourself marking the pace of games by Albert Pujols' at bats.

Pujols just hit, so he probably won?t come up for another two innings, let?s get a hot dog.

St. Louis is down two, but Pujols is scheduled to hit fourth in the eighth.

Hey, the Cardinals avoiding the double play means Pujols will get up one more time before the game?s over.

Stuff like that. Here are the top five players in baseball history after 10 years in Batting Wins Above Replacement ? so, perhaps, the five best hitters after 10 seasons (the slash statistics are batting average/on-base percentage/slugging percentage):

Ted Williams: .347/.484/.633 with 366 doubles, 323 homers, 1,261 RBIs, 1,273 runs.

Albert Pujols: .331/.426/.624 with 426 doubles, 408 homers, 1,230 RBIs, 1186 runs.

Lou Gehrig: .343/.440/.640 with 321 doubles, 267 homers, 1,143 RBIs, 1,075 runs.

Stan Musial: .347/.431/.584 with 373 doubles, 206 homers, 923 RBIs, 1,044 runs.

Babe Ruth: .346/.477/.701 with 271 doubles, 305 homers, 932 RBIs, 969 runs.

Now, Ruth was a pitcher for much of his early career, and Pujols played in a better offensive era than many, but let?s not get too technical about all this. In his first 10 years, Albert Pujols hit more homers than any player ever, and also more doubles.

But the thing that was most striking about Pujols is that he was always exactly as good as he had been the year before. He never had a bad year. He never had anything RESEMBLING a bad year. They called him ?The Machine.? If you take the WORST statistical totals he had those first 10 years ? that is, the lowest batting average he had over those 10 years, the fewest home runs he hit, etc. -- you STILL come up with this season:

.312 average, .394 on-base, .561 slugging, 33 doubles, 34 homers, 117 RBIs, 99 runs.

Repeat: Those are his WORST numbers in those first 10 years. The guy was a first-ballot Hall of Famer on his worst day.

And he was thrilling to watch hit. He stood at the plate with that wide stance ? he looked so sturdy and immovable, like he was magnetically connected with the batters? box. He was like a marble statue up there.

The pitcher would throw a ball just off the plate, and Pujols would not only refuse to swing, he would look down and kick at the dirt as if the pitch had never happened, as if it was not even worthy of his disdain. Then, when the right pitch came, his pitch, he would unleash with such ferocity you could almost see the cartoon exclamation points dancing around the collision of bat and ball. Everyone has a Pujols example. He was always one swing away from inspiring awe.

That made him exciting, riveting, one of those athletes who could stop time ? and now it?s just gone. It isn?t just that Albert Pujols is hitting .241, slugging about 200 points below his career average and striking out more than he?s walking again. By now, we must have gotten used to Pujols slow starts.

Through May 3, 2011: .231/.298/.419 with seven homers.

Through May 14, 2012: .197/.255/.275 with one homer.

Through May 19, 2013: .241/.313/.418 with seven homers.

Each of the last two seasons, he hit well enough the last four-plus months of the season to end up with strong numbers. Last year, for instance, after May 14 he hit .312/.374/.589 with 42 doubles and 29 homers. You have to believe that he will start hitting again at some point.

But, even assuming he does again find the range, even assuming he has a few more productive years, the truth is that Pujols has entered a different phase of his career. After years of being the best player in baseball, Pujols is now sort of beside the point.

Look: He is 33 years old, just beginning a $240 million contract, and he?s playing for an overpriced and kind of dreadful team that looks like it was built by a rotisserie baseball beginner who ran out at the last minute and bought three fantasy baseball magazines. He looks hurt. He looks tired. He looks out of place. He looks ? well, truth is, who is even looking anymore?

Miguel Cabrera, who for years had to deal with being kind of a poor-man?s Albert, won the Triple Crown, something Pujols could never quite do. He?s the one who inspires awe now. St. Louis, the team and town he had come to represent, has gone on without him, and the Cardinals have the second-best record in baseball. And Pujols is not even the most exciting or interesting player on his own team.

You tell me: If you are a young Angels fan, who will you associate with and whose jersey will you buy ? Albert Pujols or Mike Trout?

It wasn?t supposed to happen like this. Few players in baseball history have worked as hard as Albert Pujols to achieve greatness. He was doubted every step of his life. He moved to Kansas City from the Dominican Republic when he was young, and everyone always whispered that he was older than he said. As a high schooler, he hit legendary home runs his average topped .500 ? but he was not even on the Kansas City?s Star?s all-metro first team, and he was not drafted. He went to Maple Woods Community College and crushed the ball with such ferocity that no self-respecting scout could possibly miss it ? he hit .461 with 22 homers in 40 games and, according to legend, did not strike out a single time. But scouts did miss it. Pujols was not drafted until the 13^th round by the Cardinals.

Eighteen months later, Cardinals manager Tony La Russa got his first good look at Pujols. His mind was utterly blown. Pujols played every day in St. Louis and had one of the greatest rookie years in baseball history. He was better every year after that.

He was driven by the doubters, spurred by the skepticism, galvanized by people?s pessimism. He talked often about his faith and how God awakened and strengthened him. He spent hours swinging bats in the cage. He cut out anything at all that might be a distraction. And he became the best player in baseball. Then, he became the best player in baseball again. Then he became the best player in baseball again.

It was a never-ending cycle for him. They said he was slow ? he stole 16 bases the next year. They said he struck out too much ? he started to annually appear in the Top 10 for fewest strikeouts per at-bat. They said his defense was a liability ? he won two Gold Gloves and almost certainly deserved a few more.

Then, two years ago, he was a free agent and, he did not think the Cardinals respected him enough. Their first offer to him was insultingly low (well, relatively speaking, it was a five-year deal for $130 million). The Cardinals seemed to want him on the cheap (well, relatively speaking, $210 million with a bunch of it deferred). There?s no way to get into Pujols? mind but you suspect he thought that, as the best player in baseball, he deserved the most money in baseball.

He got $240 million. He will be getting an average of almost $28 million a deal for the next eight years. Other than Alex Rodriguez?s insane contracts ? which brought their own pain ? it was the highest baseball deal ever signed.

But, there?s a cost too. And the cost is ? well, back to Sunday?s game. It is Angels and White Sox, a couple of sub-.500 teams, and the count is 3-0. The Angels announcer points out that Pujols does not often swing 3-0, but this is a good time to swing if the pitch is right. Sure. Swing away! The air is warm, meaning the ball will travel if hit right. The Angels are up comfortably. Here is a chance for Albert to break out of a slump, to get a little greedy, to give the fans a thrill.

The pitch is right. Pujols unleashes the swing. There are no cartoon exclamation points. Instead, he pops up to the shortstop, completing his 0-for-4 day. There will be better days, of course. But the big thing, is nobody really seems to notice. Nobody really seems to care. That?s the cost.

Joe Posnanski is the national columnist for NBC Sports. Follow him on Twitter @JPosnanski. Click here to subscribe to Joe's stories.

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CT Scans for Under-20s Raise Risk of Cancer | Stuff.co.nz

The risk of getting cancer increases for people who have CT scans before they are 20, a large Australian study has found.

The researchers who carried out the study, led by Professor John Matthews from the Melbourne University School of Population and Global Health, called for limits on the use of CT scans.

"Future CT scans should be limited to situations where there is a definite clinical indication, with every scan optimised to provide a diagnostic CT image at the lowest possible radiation dose," the study said.

While radiation doses from CT scans carried out now were likely to be lower than doses from scans done between 1985 and 2005, some increase in cancer risk was still likely, it said.

The study, published today on bmj.com, suggested young people who underwent CT scans were 24 per cent more likely to develop cancer compared with those who did not. But the researchers emphasised the number of extra cancers expected was low.

In a group of 10,000 young people, 39 cancers would be expected during the next 10 years, but if they all had one CT scan, there would be up to six extra cancers.

The 10.9 million people in the study cohort identified from Australian Medicare records were aged from 0-19 at the start of 1985, or were born from 1985 to 2005.

Of the group, 680,211 were exposed to CT scans at least 12 months before any cancer diagnosis. Of those who had scans, 18 per cent had more than one.

By the end of 2007, 3150 of the exposed group and 57,524 of the unexposed group had been diagnosed with cancer.

The incidence rate was 24 per cent greater in the exposed group after adjusting for age, gender and year of birth. Risk increased by 16 per cent for each additional CT scan.

Researchers acknowledged that in some cases, low-grade cancers in the brain may have given rise to symptoms that were investigated several years before they were finally diagnosed. Almost 60 per cent of CT scans were of the brain.

While they could not assume all excess cancers were caused by CT scans, they concluded the "increased incidence of many different types of cancer... is mostly due to irradiation".

Given that the study only included cancers diagnosed in cohort members up to the end of 2007, the "eventual lifetime risk from CT scans cannot yet be determined", the researchers said.

They recommend practitioners weigh the benefits against the potential risks to justify each CT scan decision.

In an accompanying editorial, Dr Aaron Sodickson from Harvard Medical School said it was important to recognise the incidence of cancer in children was extremely small, so "a 24 per cent increase makes this risk just slightly less small".

Many methods were available to manage radiation dose and with further validation of risk models, more accurate risk assessment could be performed to "better-inform imaging decisions".

For brain cancer, the incidence in the exposed group declined with time from the first CT-exposure, but brain cancer incidence was still significantly higher more than 15 years after the first exposure.

For other solid cancers (tumours as opposed to cancers of the blood or bone marrow) the absolute excess cancer incidence increased significantly with time since the first exposure.

For all cancers combined, the proportional increase declined with the number of years since the first CT scan, but was still higher at 15 or more years after the first exposure.

For brain cancer, the highest risk was for children exposed before the age of five. That risk decreased the older a child was at the first exposure. But for all cancers combined the risk remained significantly higher for those who were oldest (15-19 years) when they had their CT scan.

For solid cancers other than brain cancer, the proportional increase in risk was 23 per cent in females and 14 per cent in males.

- ? Fairfax NZ News

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NASA?s BARREL mission launches 20 balloons

May 21, 2013 ? In Antarctica in January, 2013 -- the summer at the South Pole -- scientists released 20 balloons, each eight stories tall, into the air to help answer an enduring space weather question: when the giant radiation belts surrounding Earth lose material, where do the extra particles actually go?

The NASA-funded mission is called BARREL for Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses and is led by physicist Robyn Millan of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. During this month of bright, sunny days, the BARREL team launched a balloon every day or two into the circumpolar winds that circulate around the pole.

Each balloon floated for anywhere from three to 40 days, measuring X-rays produced by fast-moving electrons high up in the atmosphere. BARREL works hand in hand with another NASA mission called the Van Allen Probes, which travels directly through the Van Allen radiation belts. The belts wax and wane over time in response to incoming energy and material from the sun, sometimes intensifying the radiation through which satellites orbiting Earth must travel. Scientists need to understand this process better, and even provide forecasts of such space weather, in order to protect our spacecraft.

As the Van Allen Probes were observing what was happening in the belts, BARREL tracked electrons that precipitated out of the belts and hurtled down Earth's magnetic field lines toward the poles. By comparing data, scientists will be able to track how what's happening in the belts correlates to the loss of particles -- information that can help us understand this mysterious, dynamic region that can impact spacecraft. The BARREL and Van Allen Probes teams work together closely. They zeroed in on three specific dates in January 2013 with interesting geomagnetic activity to research initially, dates in which the data from the two missions overlaps and is particularly abundant.

Having launched balloons in early 2013, the BARREL team is back at home building the next set of payloads. They will launch 20 more balloons sometime in 2014.

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