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Monday, August 5, 2013
San Diego Mayor starts 2-week therapy
SAN DIEGO - Therapists say admitting one has a problem is the first step toward recovery. For San Diego Mayor Bob Filner that could be tricky.
The first-term mayor and former congressman starts two weeks of intensive therapy Monday while facing a sexual harassment lawsuit and calls for his resignation amid a flurry of allegations that he groped women for years.
Even as he undergoes treatment, Filner is set to be grilled by lawyers under oath this week in a lawsuit brought by his former communications director that claims he asked her to work without panties, told her he wanted to see her naked and dragged her around in a headlock while whispering in her ear.
Neither Filner nor his office has released details about his therapy or its location. Filner is picking up the tab for the treatment.
Filner's accusers, his one-time supporters and voters have expressed skepticism that any two-week program is an appropriate remedy for what Filner himself has described as years of inappropriate behavior toward women. Longtime therapists also questioned how much progress could be made.
"It is pie-in-the-sky to think that in two weeks anyone could be a new man," said Helen Friedman, a St. Louis psychologist who has treated compulsive sexual behavior for 30 years, though she said it was a good start.
Success will depend on how far the 70-year-old Filner goes in acknowledging his problems, experts said.
"Typically in the first few sessions you have to find someone you really trust," said Lilli Friedland, a Beverly Hills psychologist who advises business executives on sexual harassment. "`Can I open up with all my dirty laundry, and is this person expert enough?' It takes a number of sessions and visits to establish that trust."
Some voters wondered whether the therapy stint was simply an effort to buy time amid extraordinary pressure to resign.
"He needs to save face," said Christina Imhoof, 72, who voted for Filner in November but then quit the Democratic Party over the allegations. She said she suspects Filner will return after the time-out and say his therapist has encouraged him to resign for medical reasons.
Filner announced his plans on July 26 to enter a behavioral counseling clinic to "begin the process of addressing my behavior." He called it the first step in a continuing program that would involve ongoing counseling.
"I must become a better person ... I must demonstrate that my behavior has changed," Filner said then, while offering apologies and an acknowledgement that his "failure to respect women, and the intimidating contact, is inexcusable."
The mayor's office did not respond to interview requests.
Nine women, including a university dean and a retired Navy rear admiral, have gone public in the past month with accusations that Filner cornered them and made unwanted sexual advances that included groping and slobbering kisses. At least five renewed their calls for Filner to resign after he pledged to begin therapy.
"It is highly doubtful that two weeks of therapy will correct for decades of reprehensible behavior," said Laura Fink, who alleges that Filner patted her buttocks at a 2005 fundraiser when she was deputy campaign manager to the then-congressman.
One accuser, former Filner communications director Irene McCormack Jackson, has filed a harassment lawsuit against him. Her lawyer, Filner's attorney and city lawyers will depose him Friday.
Filner, the city's first Democratic leader in 20 years, will keep full powers while in therapy and said he would be briefed twice-daily on city business. Filner also has delegated significant authority, including the ability to sign contracts, to an interim chief operating officer, Walt Ekard, a former county administrator.
The mayor's absence comes during a summer lull, with the City Council on August recess. Nevertheless Filner's Republican predecessor, Jerry Sanders, said his absence occurs when the mayor's office normally "would get caught up, do a lot of policy work and make sure things got in order."
Sanders, who now leads the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, believes the scandal is affecting day-to-day business. He said department directors are hesitant to make decisions, that money has not been released for the city's tourism marketing district, and investors are reluctant to start projects.
"We are hearing companies saying: `Why would we move to San Diego? With this going on the city is the absolute object of ridicule around the country,"' Sanders said.
Experts who spoke generally about treatment approaches and not specifically about Filner said patients being treated for addictive or compulsive sexual behavior typically get a medical examination to rule out chemical imbalances or other physical ailments.
Therapists would try to build trust so the patient is comfortable sharing personal information and try to determine if the person is in denial.
Once a problem is acknowledged, doctors try to identify what triggers the behavior so patients can develop a coping
mechanism, build a support network and find other ways to control it. Long-term treatment may involve weekly group or individual therapy.
Friedman said any such recovery requires hard work over a lifetime.
"People feel after an inpatient stay that they have things under control," she said. "However, when they are back in their usual environment, they're confronted with the same triggers that got them into treatment."
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
Collier: Blowout loss doesn't ruin a great week of baseball
For most of the past month, this rare five-game entanglement between the Pirates and the St. Louis Cardinals loomed on the calendar like an ominous and perhaps even fateful crossroads, yet when it finally came around, both teams rolled into it with little evident apprehension.
The Pirates and Cardinals knew the one thing about this series that maybe we didn't care to know because it might have taken the fun out of it, that it would only turn out to be really significant if somebody swept it.
Despite the gathering of another massive North Shore crowd, this one carrying dollar store brooms and frothing to see St. Louis get skunked in a five-game series for the first time in 97 years (seriously, 1916), the Redbirds put a big fat purple 13-0 bruise on Clint Hurdle's pitchers Thursday night and got out of town with their dignity.
With their dignity, yes, but without their 11/2-game lead in the National League Central Division, which they turned over to the Pirates by losing four out of five.
Had the Pirates swept it and wound up ahead by 3 1/2, or had the Cardinals done the same and pushed the Pirates 6 1/2 games behind, then you might have had something both teams would point to in October as the place where so many things started to go right/wrong. As it is, in terms of relevant Central Division politics, this series will enjoy the approximate shelf life of a hard-boiled egg rolling down the aisle of a PAT bus.
Or something.
It's not like the Pirates haven't been in first place before, and it's not like the Cardinals are about to plunge into a dark depression at the prospect of being 1 1/2 games out with 55 to play.
But as theater, it was little else than the very best essence of the sport.
Baseball must ultimately be adjudicated, obviously, with pennants won, a World Series staged, a champion crowned and another city's heart ceremoniously broken on national television. But it says here that none of that is necessarily better than this, than these past five games, when nearly 130,000 people came out on four perfect summer nights in Pittsburgh and watched the best teams in baseball perform with purpose and passion.
The whole edge-of-your-seat, heart-palpitating-on-every-pitch brand of big-league ball can wait until October as the promised product of what dreams may come, but the game lives for the summer. This was a series that could not have been placed more perfectly than at the intersection of July and August. It was a series to savor, to relax, sit back, talk ball, have a dog or two and a brew or three, and to lament nothing except that PNC Park could be here for another 50 years and never produce a more perfect showcase.
In practical terms, the Pirates proved they could beat the very best competition in a variety of ways, shutting 'em out (6-0), outlasting 'em in 11 (2-1), spanking 'em hard (9-2), coming from behind (5-4), and proved beyond any doubt they are far from a perfect machine.
Oh yeah, 13-0.
In practical terms, Charlie Morton, the starter Thursday night, worked six shaggy innings to extend a funk in which he has now allowed 38 hits in 302/3 innings with an ERA of 4.98. He's no Brandon Cumpton.
The Cardinals, always glad to see Morton, lashed him for 10 hits in five innings. St. Louis is 8-2 all time against Morton. Against the Cardinals, his career ERA has swollen to 6.30.
If the Pirates have a part of their rotation squealing with dysfunction, the Cardinals are possibly solidifying theirs thanks to Joe Kelly, 25, who kept the Pirates hitless into the fifth and worked six shutout innings. Starting for only the fifth time in 2013, Kelly has allowed just one run in his past 172/3 innings.
No one figured him for the stopper when it came to the Cardinals' seven-game losing streak, their first of longer than three all season.
Nine games remain between these teams, six of them in St. Louis, the final one Sept. 8.
Should you be looking for the next fateful scheduling crossroads, the next ominous zombiescape dystopia, you might look past Sept. 8 to the season's horizon, because after that final Pirates meeting, the Cardinals might very well play the final 19 games of the season against teams with losing records.
Nineteen days of Brewers, Mariners, Rockies, Cubs, Nationals and, yes, more Brewers.
A lot will happen between here and there, and perhaps beyond, and maybe it will be more dramatic and more momentous and even more historic.
But it won't be better baseball than the baseball that filled this week.
Can't be.
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Lawyer: Snowden has a place to live in Russia
In this still image taken on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 and released by Russia24 TV channel, shows Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, second right in the center, and National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, center back to a camera, as Snowden leaves Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. Snowden has received asylum in Russia for one year and left the transit zone of Moscow's airport, his lawyer said Thursday. Kucherena said that Snowden's whereabouts will be kept secret for security reasons. (AP Photo/Russia24 via Associated Press Television) TV OUT
In this still image taken on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 and released by Russia24 TV channel, shows Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, second right in the center, and National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, center back to a camera, as Snowden leaves Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. Snowden has received asylum in Russia for one year and left the transit zone of Moscow's airport, his lawyer said Thursday. Kucherena said that Snowden's whereabouts will be kept secret for security reasons. (AP Photo/Russia24 via Associated Press Television) TV OUT
A street cafe visitor reads a fresh Russian newspaper "Izvestia" with a front page pictures of Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, center, and National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, center left, taken on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Snowden has received asylum in Russia for one year and left the transit zone of Moscow's airport, his lawyer said Thursday. Kucherena said after meeting with the fugitive at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where he was stuck since his arrival from Hong Kong on June 23, that he handed him the papers proving his status. Kucherena said that Snowden's whereabouts will be kept secret for security reasons. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
In this image taken form Russia24 TV channel, Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena shows Snowden's a temporary document Russia while speaking to the media after visiting National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has received asylum in Russia for one year and left the transit zone of Moscow? airport, his lawyer said Thursday. Kucherena said after meeting with the fugitive at Moscow?s Sheremetyevo airport, where he was stuck since his arrival from Hong Kong on June 23, that he handed him the papers proving his status. Kucherena said that Snowden?s whereabouts will be kept secret for security reasons. (AP Photo/Russia24 via APTN) TV OUT
MOSCOW (AP) ? National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has a place to live in Russia after being granted temporary asylum, but he still hasn't decided what he wants to do next, his lawyer said Friday. The big question may be how much choice he actually has.
Russia granted a year of asylum to Snowden on Thursday, allowing him to quietly slip out of the Moscow airport where he had been holed up for almost six weeks as he evades charges of espionage in the United States. Authorities have suggested he will have wide freedom to work, but Kremlin watchers believe his moves are likely being closely controlled by Russian intelligence.
Snowden "is in a safe place," but the location will remain secret out of concern for his security, his lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told Russian news agencies. The systems analyst who revealed himself as the source of reports in the Guardian newspaper of a vast U.S. Internet surveillance program needs time after his ordeal in airport limbo to figure out his next steps.
He was seen only once in his weeks in the transit zone of the Sheremetyevo airport. Despite troops of photographers and reporters camped out inside and outside the airport, no one apparently saw him leaving, except for someone who snapped a photo of Kucherena talking to blurry figures who the attorney later said were Snowden and Sarah Harrison, a WikiLeaks staffer who has been advising him.
Kucherena said he expects Snowden to speak to journalists soon. "As soon as he decides what he will do, I hope he will announce it himself," the ITAR-Tass news agency quoted the lawyer as saying.
The move to grant Snowden asylum infuriated the Obama administration, which said it was "extremely disappointed" and warned that the decision could derail an upcoming summit between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The decision gives Russia cover to depict itself as a defender of human rights, pointing a finger to deflect criticism of its own poor record on rights including free speech. But the secrecy that surrounded Snowden's time at the Moscow airport and his unwillingness so far to talk to the press indicates he is being controlled by Russian intelligence, Andrei Soldatov, a Russian journalist who co-authored a book on the Russian intelligence services said.
"Does he have independent sources of information and communication? My impression is that he has none, which means he's not his own master," Soldatov said.
He said Kucherena's statements about concerns for Snowden's safety do not hold water.
"We are all perfectly aware that Snowden, who has just received asylum, does not face any danger in Russia," Soldatov said. "American intelligence does not kidnap or assassinate people in Russia, that's a fact. This is a just a pretext."
One of the reasons for keeping Snowden isolated may be to prevent him from speaking about the people he met and what really happened to him during the 39 days he spent in the airport's transit zone, Soldatov said. For the same reason, Soldatov said he expected Russian authorities to find a job for Snowden that will prevent him from having contacts with journalists.
Putin has denied that Russia's security services have worked with Snowden, either before or after he arrived in Moscow on a flight from Hong Kong. But security experts have said that Russia's intelligence agencies would not have passed up a chance to at least question a man who is believed to hold reams of classified U.S. documents and could shed light on how the U.S. intelligence agencies collect information.
Snowden's temporary asylum allows him to work in Russia, with some restrictions, said immigration lawyer Bakhrom Ismailov.
"Snowden has the same rights for employment as a Russian citizen except that he is not allowed to work as a public servant or take a job in law enforcement agencies," said Ismailov, a managing partner at Yurinvestholding. The founder of Russia's Facebook-like social network site VKontakte, has already made what sounded like a job offer on Twitter.
The law on temporary asylum says a person with this status is entitled "to receive assistance" in traveling out of Russia. Ismailov said that this assistance could mean issuing a travel document, but this is not normally done for people with temporary asylum.
Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia had offered Snowden asylum and he told human rights figures during a meeting in mid-July that he wanted to visit all those countries. But Kucherena said Thursday that Snowden no longer has such plans.
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Associated Press writer Lynn Berry in Moscow contributed to this report.
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Friday, August 2, 2013
NBA Free Agency: Would you give Greg Oden a shot?
Former Portland Trail Blazers center Greg Oden may be returning to the league this year. He's not going to break the bank as a free agent, but would you take a chance on him? I know we already have three young bigmen prospects already in Derrick Favors, Enes Kanter, and Rudy Gobert . . . but seriously . . . this guy has a 7'5 wingspan, 9'5 standing reach, had a 34" vertical as a 6'11 (in socks) guy and was pretty quick for his size.
I'd buy out Andris Biedrins and add Greg if it was for under $3 million a year.
But, let's be honest here, if it was up to me I would sign Kyrylo Fesenko for 4 years at the price of $3 million a year.
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U.N. rights chief calls for investigation into Syria massacre
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Friday she wanted an independent investigation into an apparent massacre carried out by Syrian opposition forces in the town of Khan al-Assal.
"Based on the analysis by my team to date, we believe armed opposition groups in one incident - documented by a video - executed at least 30 individuals, the majority of whom appeared to be soldiers," she said in a statement issued by her office.
Syrian state media have accused insurgents of killing 123 people, mainly civilians, during a rebel offensive in Aleppo province late last month.
A group calling itself the Supporters of the Islamic Caliphate posted a video on YouTube of around 30 bodies of young men piled up against a wall. It said they were militiamen who had supported President Bashar al-Assad.
Over 100,000 people have died in Syria's civil war. In the early months of the conflict Assad's forces were blamed for the documented human rights abuses, but the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria now says both sides have committed atrocities.
"Opposition forces should not think they are immune from prosecution. They must adhere to their responsibilities under international law," Pillay said.
Pillay's office said its team in the region was continuing to investigate the circumstances and scope of the killings, and it had information from a reliable source that opposition fighters were still holding government officers and soldiers captured in Khan al-Assal.
The town is one of three sites due to be visited by another group of U.N. investigators, who are trying to find the truth about allegations that chemical weapons have been used in the conflict.
(Reporting by Tom Miles; editing by Andrew Roche)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-rights-chief-calls-investigation-syria-massacre-135819444.html
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July 2013 Windows 8 market share
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Gateway P-79xx, Windows 7 64 Pro SP1, qx9200 @ 2.93-3.20 GHz, 8GB Ram, Mushkin Chronos DX 480GB, 500GB XT, Flush USB 3.0 express card, 260m Desk @ 550/1000/1350, Game @ 600/1000/1450 & powermizer off.
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Max Levchin Wants Us To Mine Hurricanes For Energy
Health care, finance, education, food and transportation are the five big areas of tech opportunity PayPal co-founder Max Levchin outlined today at Mixpanel's Data Driven Conference. But perhaps the most interesting tidbit he dropped was his dream of harnessing hurricanes for energy.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/pyjqj4XBsVw/
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This Intense Real-Life F-35 Picture Looks Like an Iron Man Frame
This is an awesome shot of a test F-35 zipping around California's Edwards Air Force Base sent to us by a tipster. Can you imagine this buzzing by your window?
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Could planting trees in the desert mitigate climate change?
[unable to retrieve full-text content]As the world starts feeling the effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and consequent global temperature rise, researchers are looking for a Plan B to mitigate climate change. A group of German scientists has now come up with an environmentally friendly method that they say could do just that. The technique, dubbed carbon farming, consists in planting trees in arid regions on a large scale to capture carbon dioxide.
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98% Mud
All Critics (154) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (151) | Rotten (3)
For at least three-quarters of the way, this is a fine film, and one that kids and parents could see together.
There is an enchanted-fairy-tale aspect to Mud, but its bright, calm surface only barely disguises a strong, churning undercurrent.
A modern fairy tale, steeped in the sleepy Mississippi lore of Twain and similar American writers, and with a heart as big as the river is wide.
Nichols has a strong feeling for the tactility of natural elements-water, wood, terrain, weather.
Nichols takes his time with the story, dwelling on how the boy is shaped by the killer's tragic sense of romance, yet the suspense holds.
"Mud" isn't just a movie. It's the firm confirmation of a career.
Warm, humorous, and smart, a Huckleberry Finnish snapshot of carefree boyhood on the brink of adolescence.
Mud is about the fragility of men, the craving to be loved - by a woman, by other men - and how easily that love is misplaced, taken away, cheated or lost.
Mud has a rare big-screen beauty, and its old-fashioned storytelling recalls A River Runs Through It, Night of the Hunter, and Stand By Me.
This moody, broody character-driven crime story is another fine step in the career redemption of Matthew McConaughey.
Mud is the kind of small scale, character driven drama one rarely sees out of the States any more, and cements Nichols as one of his country's most significant independent auteurs.
Just like its lead character, this film is packed to the brim with sadness, swagger and soul.
All the women in this movie are shrews, liars and/or emasculators.
Mud is a moving exploration into the nature of manhood, with superb performances, striking location and engrossing story creating a mesmerising and heartfelt coming of age drama.
A stripped back approach to tracking the process of growing up, but lacks the faith to see the plan executed to the end
Nichols takes his time unravelling Mud and Ellis's entwined fates, but his characters are so rich that it's well worth being in their company.
In its energy and nuance, Mud seems like the kind of film Hollywood would've made in the Seventies, and would've continued to do if not for the advent of market-conscious filmmaking.
More than a mere tribute to Twain and Dickens: this has all the makings of a modern classic.
An extremely sophisticated and progressive examination on how adolescent masculinity is defined by often-contradictory cultural attitudes towards femininity.
Mud is as beautiful to watch as it is to listen to, and feel kinship to, whether you're from the South or just Southern at heart.
In Jeff Nichols, America has a champion of the religious and working class. With the schism between the right and left in the U.S. growing ever larger... his ascent couldn't have come at a better time.
This is a film with a great naturalistic style and captivating performances and which does just about everything right.
Jeff Nichols writes characters with depth, nurtures strong performances form his cast and allows the screenplay's backwater setting to effectively create tone and texture.
This is American cinema at its very best as Huckleberry Finn meets Stand By Me.The two boys are terrific and McConaughey is sensational as Mud, dazzlingly frazzled as the hunted and haunted man on the run.
Up till just past the three-quarter mark, Mud is one heck of a nifty psychological fable.
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Sex after heart attack? Docs urged to give advice
CHICAGO (AP) ? Many heart specialists are hardly Dr. Ruth ? sex is not something they relish bringing up with patients. But new guidance says they should, early and often, to let survivors know intimacy is often possible after a heart attack.
Discussions should involve everything from when and how to resume sex, to what position might be best for some conditions or not advised for others, according to a consensus statement released Monday by the American Heart Association and the European Society of Cardiology.
It's billed as the first scientific statement with detailed guidance on resuming sex after a heart attack, stroke or other cardiac condition and is based on a review of medical literature.
"Sexual health is an important part of the overall health of the individual," even for the oldest patients, said Elaine Steinke, a researcher and professor of nursing at Wichita State University in Kansas. Steinke was the lead author of the statement published in the heart association's Circulation journal and the European Heart Journal.
Co-author Tiny Jaarsma, a professor and heart failure researcher at Sweden's Linkoping University, said in an email that doctors and nurses "rarely discuss sex 'spontaneously', but often wait until the patient brings up questions around sex. Health care providers often are afraid to upset patients or might feel embarrassed themselves."
Fears and anxieties about resuming sex are often numerous: Will it cause another heart attack? Can I use Viagra? What if my defibrillator goes off during sex? And many are too shy to ask, so heart doctors, nurses and other health care workers should take the lead and initiate the discussion with men and women patients of all ages and their partners, according to the statement.
Many heart patients can safely resume sexual intercourse after first checking with their doctors, and the answers to many questions depend on each patient's overall health, the guidance says. Patients with mild, stable chest pain face a low risk for a sex-triggered heart problem, whereas patients with advanced heart failure should postpone sex until their condition is stabilized.
General precautions listed in the statement include:
?Before resuming sex, make sure you can engage in moderate physical activity, such as walking briskly up two flights of stairs, without chest pain, breathlessness or other symptoms.
?If moderate activity is too strenuous, avoid intercourse but not intimacy: hugging and kissing may be OK.
?Have sex in a comfortable, familiar place and avoid things that could add stress to the experience, including extramarital affairs.
?Tell your doctor about any symptoms during sex, including chest pain, dizziness or insomnia afterward.
?Some positions may not be safe. Heart bypass surgery patients should avoid being on top in the missionary position, and Steinke said having sex in a more "upright position" may be easier for some heart failure patients, whose symptoms may include shortness of breath.
Ruth Westheimer, the famed 85-year-old sex therapist known as "Dr. Ruth," commented on the study Monday through her publicist from Switzerland, where she was hiking.
When hospitals have invited her to speak, she always gives the same message: "Doctors need to ask their patients about sexual functioning," even if both sides are embarrassed by the topic.
"When it comes to sex and heart issues, in my experience it's as likely to be the partner of the heart patient who is afraid of having sex because it might cause a heart attack as the patient him or herself," Westheimer said. "What I suggest is that people write down their questions and send it to the doctor in advance of their appointment. That way they'll be sure the question gets asked and the doctor will have had time to get prepared to answer it."
Dr. Vijay Divakaran, a cardiologist with Scott & White Hospital in Round Rock, Texas, said the consensus statement is important and will change practice. Cardiologists don't get formal training in discussing sexual issues with their patients but the conversations get easier, he said
"Sometimes patients don't talk about it, they just Google it, and there's a lot of misconceptions" online, Divakaran said. "Once you start asking them, you would be surprised that it almost always is an issue."
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Online:
American Heart Association: http://www.heart.org
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AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/LindseyTanner
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sex-heart-attack-docs-urged-advice-202336268.html
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WWE Battleground debuts on pay-per-view Sunday, Oct. 6
On Sunday, Oct. 6, WWE pay-per-view returns to Buffalo, N.Y., for the first time in two years with an all-new, landmark event: WWE Battleground!
Taking place at Buffalo's First Niagara Center, tickets for the huge debut go on sale this Saturday, Aug. 3, at 10 a.m. ET and will be available at the box office and Tickets.com.
Featuring all of the top WWE Superstars and Divas ? including WWE Champion John Cena, CM Punk, Rob Van Dam, ?Mr. Money in the Bank? Randy Orton and more ? the inaugural WWE Battleground is sure to be a spectacular that no WWE fan will want to miss.
There?s just no telling what type of action is in store for members of the WWE Universe when the world's top competitors converge on one the United States? true wrestling hotbeds, Buffalo!
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Monday, July 29, 2013
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Solar Energy, Wind Energy, & Energy Efficiency News
Here are some top solar energy, wind energy, and energy efficiency stories we think are worth a read (after you?ve read our own stories on these topics, of course. 
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Ice-free Arctic winters could explain amplified warming during Pliocene
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Year-round ice-free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why the Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to new research carried out at the University of Colorado Boulder.
In early May, instruments at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii marked a new record: The concentration of carbon dioxide climbed to 400 parts per million for the first time in modern history.
The last time researchers believe the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere reached 400 ppmbetween 3 and 5 million years ago during the Pliocenethe Earth was about 3.5 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer (2 to 5 degrees Celsius) than it is today. During that time period, trees overtook the tundra, sprouting right to the edges of the Arctic Ocean, and the seas swelled, pushing ocean levels 65 to 80 feet higher.
Scientists' understanding of the climate during the Pliocene has largely been pieced together from fossil records preserved in sediments deposited beneath lakes and on the ocean floor.
"When we put 400 ppm carbon dioxide into a model, we don't get as warm a planet as we see when we look at paleorecords from the Pliocene," said Jim White, director of CU-Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and co-author of the new study published online in the journal Palaeogeography, Paleoclimatology, Palaeoecology. "That tells us that there may be something missing in the climate models."
Scientists have proposed several hypotheses in the past to explain the warmer Pliocene climate. One idea, for example, was that the formation of the Isthmus of Panama, the narrow strip of land linking North and South America, could have altered ocean circulations during the Pliocene, forcing warmer waters toward the Arctic. But many of those hypotheses, including the Panama possibility, have not proved viable.
For the new study, led by Ashley Ballantyne, a former CU-Boulder doctoral student who is now an assistant professor of bioclimatology at the University of Montana, the research team decided to see what would happen if they forced the model to assume that the Arctic was free of ice in the winter as well as the summer during the Pliocene. Without these additional parameters, climate models set to emulate atmospheric conditions during the Pliocene show ice-free summers followed by a layer of ice reforming during the sunless winters.
"We tried a simple experiment in which we said, 'We don't know why sea ice might be gone all year round, but let's just make it go away,' " said White, who also is a professor of geological sciences. "And what we found was that we got the right kind of temperature change and we got a dampened seasonal cycle, both of which are things we think we see in the Pliocene."
In the model simulation, year-round ice-free conditions caused warmer conditions in the Arctic because the open water surface allowed for evaporation. Evaporation requires energy, and the water vapor then stored that energy as heat in the atmosphere. The water vapor also created clouds, which trapped heat near the planet's surface.
"Basically, when you take away the sea ice, the Arctic Ocean responds by creating a blanket of water vapor and clouds that keeps the Arctic warmer," White said.
White and his colleagues are now trying to understand what types of conditions could bridge the standard model simulations with the simulations in which ice-free conditions in the Arctic are imposed. If they're successful, computer models would be able to model the transition between a time when ice reformed in the winter to a time when the ocean remained devoid of ice throughout the year.
Such a model also would offer insight into what could happen in our future. Currently, about 70 percent of sea ice disappears during the summertime before reforming in the winter.
"We're trying to understand what happened in the past but with a very keen eye to the future and the present," White said. "The piece that we're looking at in the future is what is going to happen as the Arctic Ocean warms up and becomes more ice-free in the summertime.
"Will we continue to return to an ice-covered Arctic in the wintertime? Or will we start to see some of the feedbacks that now aren't very well represented in our climate models? If we do, that's a big game changer."
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CU-Boulder geological sciences Professor Gifford Miller also is a co-author of the study. Researchers from Northwestern University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research also were involved in the study, which was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Year-round ice-free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why the Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to new research carried out at the University of Colorado Boulder.
In early May, instruments at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii marked a new record: The concentration of carbon dioxide climbed to 400 parts per million for the first time in modern history.
The last time researchers believe the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere reached 400 ppmbetween 3 and 5 million years ago during the Pliocenethe Earth was about 3.5 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer (2 to 5 degrees Celsius) than it is today. During that time period, trees overtook the tundra, sprouting right to the edges of the Arctic Ocean, and the seas swelled, pushing ocean levels 65 to 80 feet higher.
Scientists' understanding of the climate during the Pliocene has largely been pieced together from fossil records preserved in sediments deposited beneath lakes and on the ocean floor.
"When we put 400 ppm carbon dioxide into a model, we don't get as warm a planet as we see when we look at paleorecords from the Pliocene," said Jim White, director of CU-Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and co-author of the new study published online in the journal Palaeogeography, Paleoclimatology, Palaeoecology. "That tells us that there may be something missing in the climate models."
Scientists have proposed several hypotheses in the past to explain the warmer Pliocene climate. One idea, for example, was that the formation of the Isthmus of Panama, the narrow strip of land linking North and South America, could have altered ocean circulations during the Pliocene, forcing warmer waters toward the Arctic. But many of those hypotheses, including the Panama possibility, have not proved viable.
For the new study, led by Ashley Ballantyne, a former CU-Boulder doctoral student who is now an assistant professor of bioclimatology at the University of Montana, the research team decided to see what would happen if they forced the model to assume that the Arctic was free of ice in the winter as well as the summer during the Pliocene. Without these additional parameters, climate models set to emulate atmospheric conditions during the Pliocene show ice-free summers followed by a layer of ice reforming during the sunless winters.
"We tried a simple experiment in which we said, 'We don't know why sea ice might be gone all year round, but let's just make it go away,' " said White, who also is a professor of geological sciences. "And what we found was that we got the right kind of temperature change and we got a dampened seasonal cycle, both of which are things we think we see in the Pliocene."
In the model simulation, year-round ice-free conditions caused warmer conditions in the Arctic because the open water surface allowed for evaporation. Evaporation requires energy, and the water vapor then stored that energy as heat in the atmosphere. The water vapor also created clouds, which trapped heat near the planet's surface.
"Basically, when you take away the sea ice, the Arctic Ocean responds by creating a blanket of water vapor and clouds that keeps the Arctic warmer," White said.
White and his colleagues are now trying to understand what types of conditions could bridge the standard model simulations with the simulations in which ice-free conditions in the Arctic are imposed. If they're successful, computer models would be able to model the transition between a time when ice reformed in the winter to a time when the ocean remained devoid of ice throughout the year.
Such a model also would offer insight into what could happen in our future. Currently, about 70 percent of sea ice disappears during the summertime before reforming in the winter.
"We're trying to understand what happened in the past but with a very keen eye to the future and the present," White said. "The piece that we're looking at in the future is what is going to happen as the Arctic Ocean warms up and becomes more ice-free in the summertime.
"Will we continue to return to an ice-covered Arctic in the wintertime? Or will we start to see some of the feedbacks that now aren't very well represented in our climate models? If we do, that's a big game changer."
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CU-Boulder geological sciences Professor Gifford Miller also is a co-author of the study. Researchers from Northwestern University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research also were involved in the study, which was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
Driver of crashed Spanish train held on suspicion of negligent homicide
The driver of the fast-moving train that derailed on Wednesday in Spain, killing 78 people, was released from the hospital Saturday. NBC's Lester Holt reports.
By The Associated Press
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain --?Spain's interior minister announced Saturday that the driver whose speeding train crashed, killing 78 people, is now being held on suspicion of negligent homicide.
Minister of Interior Jorge Fernandez Diaz announced the step against Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, who previously had been detained on suspicion of recklessness.
The minister also said Garzon, 52, has been discharged from the hospital and taken to a police station.
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Scores are killed and injured in a train derailment in NW Spain.
Blame has increasingly fallen on the driver, with the country's railway agency saying it was his responsibility to brake before going into the high-risk curve where the train tumbled off the rails and smashed into a wall. But it's still not clear whether the brakes failed or were never used, and the driver has remained silent so far.
A blood-soaked Garzon was photographed Wednesday being escorted away from the wreckage, at first by civilians who had hurried to the scene of the accident and then by police, but it is not clear just what his medical status is.
Unconfirmed media reports said that Garzon had injured ribs.
He had been expected to give a preliminary statement to judicial police as early as Thursday, but that process was delayed, reportedly due to health reasons. Earlier Saturday, the justice department said Garzon's first appearance before a judge had been postponed until Sunday.
In Wednesday's crash, the train's eight carriages packed with 218 passengers blazed far over the speed limit into a curve and violently tipped over. Diesel fuel sent flames coursing through some cabins.
The president of Adif, the Spanish rail agency, said that the driver should have started slowing the train 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) before the dangerous bend. He said signs clearly marked this point when the driver must begin to slow.
Normally, police take a first statement that is then examined by an investigating judge who must then take testimony within 72 hours of the arrest. That deadline is Sunday.
Although that initial court hearing would be closed, it would give hints about the status of the investigation. The judge would decide whether to jail the driver as an official suspect, release him on bail, or release him without charges. If a judge finds sufficient evidence for a criminal trial, the suspect will be charged and a trial date set.
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Healthy pets could lead to healthier pet owners
The veterinarian examined Bella, a spotted cocker spaniel, and quickly concluded she was obese and needed to lose weight.
Working with a trainer, Maria Gastelum put her pooch on a nutrition and fitness plan. The regimen produced another benefit: Gastelum started to eat better and exercise more.
"If I didn't have her, I wouldn't own a pair of tennis shoes," said the Ontario resident. "It's really unbelievable how she's motivated me."
Los Angeles County public health officials hope that millions of pets living in the region can provide the same sort of inspiration and results for their owners. The idea is simple: If people won't exercise, eat better and stop smoking for themselves, maybe they will for their pets.
"You look at pets, and they look like their owners," said Karen Ehnert, acting director of veterinary public health for the L.A. County Department of Public Health. "We envision that by improving their pet's health, we can improve the family's health as well."
A year-old coalition of veterinarians, doctors, health educators, animal trainers and others called Healthy Pets, Healthy Families is trying to figure out how best to accomplish that. The group has conducted surveys of vets and pet owners and identified the areas where human and animal health overlap. Now, members are designing health education campaigns and finalizing goals for the year 2020, including reducing the number of pet owners who smoke and increasing the proportion of dog owners who go on daily walks. They also want to promote smoke-free parks.
Ehnert, who is heading the coalition, wants owners to think more about what both they and their pets eat and to view their dogs as exercise buddies. She is encouraging neighborhood dog-walking clubs, which she said have the added benefit of reducing isolation.
Nationwide, about 53% of dogs and 58% of cats are overweight or obese, according to the Assn. for Pet Obesity Prevention. They are at higher risk for diabetes, arthritis, hypertension and respiratory conditions. Many of the owners who have overweight dogs are overweight themselves, according to a 2010 academic study.
Veterinarians are often reluctant to talk about obesity with the owners, who may treat their pets like children and overindulge them, said Peter Weinstein, the executive director of the Southern California Veterinary Medical Assn. and a member of the coalition. "A discussion with a pet owner about their pet's weight is a very touchy subject, especially when an owner also has a weight problem," he said.
The causes of obesity are the same in both pets and humans: not enough exercise and too much unhealthy food, experts say. Just as humans snack on potato chips, animals snack on treats and table scraps ? and both gain weight. "We have gotten as a population into bad habits for ourselves, and we have extended them to our pets," Weinstein said. "We need to find ways to change those habits."
Gastelum acknowledged she and Bella had developed bad habits. After a long day at work in Los Angeles, Gastelum used to arrive home and collapse on the couch. Bella ate too much during the day and they rarely walked in the evenings. They both felt exhausted.
"I would feed off her energy and she would feed off mine," she said. "We just lagged."
After being warned about her dog's weight problem, Gastelum started working with Melissa Morrison, founder of Fur Fitness, an organization that works to reduce pet obesity through training and education. Morrison said her clients feel embarrassed about their pets' obesity and are usually eager to get them slimmed down. Sometimes, she said, the owners see their pets lose weight and say, "That is great you got the dog healthy ? what about me?"
During a recent Healthy Pets coalition meeting in Los Angeles, participants broke into groups to discuss topics such as obesity, secondhand smoke, bite prevention and the importance of vaccinations.
At one table, they talked about pet owners failing to recognize the dangers of pets breathing cigarette smoke and eating cigarette butts. The public health department distributed copies of fliers explaining the risks and urging pet owners, "Stop smoking for their health and yours!" One postcard, featuring a photo of a dog with a gas mask, reads: "Got Fresh Air?"
At another table, Weinstein noted owners unwittingly overfeed their pets, advising they give their dog just a cup of food when the container they use holds several cups.
Heather Readhead, a family medicine doctor with the public health department, said she has seen similar problems with her diabetic patients. Readhead said she didn't know much about animal health before joining the coalition but now sees opportunities to help people by focusing on how they care for their pets.
Gastelum set out to exercise with Bella on a recent morning, hooking on a pink and black leash and grabbing a bottle of water. They walked briskly through their quiet Inland Empire neighborhood to a local school, where Bella chased Gastelum around the grass, taking breaks only to take a few sips of water from a small bowl.
A bird flew by and Bella took off running. "Go get 'em, baby girl," she said, but the bird was too fast.
Since starting the fitness routine last year, Gastelum said she has lost six pounds and Bella has dropped 10. They both stopped being couch potatoes and now have much more energy.
Back home, Bella, panting softly, climbed up onto a leopard-spotted blanket. Gastelum, face glistening with sweat, sat down beside her and patted Bella's head.
anna.gorman@latimes.com
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New York Public Library Fighting to Retrieve Baseball Artifacts Stolen by Thieves and Sold Online
From The NY Post:
Baseball artifacts stolen 40 years ago from the main branch of the New York Public Library are popping up online, and the FBI appears as stumped as a grade-schooler deciphering the Dewey Decimal System.
The library is missing several hundred relics donated by baseball magnate Albert Spalding?s widow in 1921 ? including a $50,000 photo of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, ancient baseball cards and letters to and from one of baseball?s founding fathers, Harry Wright.
The missing materials ? including score sheets from baseball?s first game in 1846 between the Knickerbockers and the New York Nine, and the constitution of Brooklyn?s Excelsior baseball club from 1865 ? are worth more than $1 million, memorabilia blogger Peter Nash estimated.
The FBI launched an investigation into the ballgame bygones in 2009, confiscating 25 lots of letters from Pennsylvania-based sports memorabilia dealer Hunt Auctions.
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Now the library is playing hardball to get its property back and is exploring legal options against consignors.
?The New York Public Library has made it extremely clear that it wants all of its materials returned and made accessible to the public, where they belong,? said spokeswoman Angela Montefinise.
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House Fire Damages Wedding Preparations
Friday, July 26 2013, 10:39 PM MDT
House Fire Damages Wedding Preparations (KUTV) The community rallied behind a Provo family whose daughter's wedding preparations were destroyed in a fire.Crews battled the early morning house fire at 2803 West 880 North Friday. Officials say the fire started in the garage. Firefighters were able to contain the fire and keep most of it to the garage.
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said she had been planning her daughter?s wedding and had all of their
preparations in the garage ? everything was lost, besides the daughter?s
wedding dress which was at the dry cleaners.
Investigators
say rags soaked with stain self-combusted and set the garage on fire.
The family said they had just stained their deck and had been doing a
lot of work on their home and hard in preparation for the
upcoming backyard wedding.
Several in the community and 2News Facebook fans have stepped up with offers to help. The family is very grateful for the offers, but says that right now, they're still taking some time to process the tragedy before making any decisions.
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
India's Lanco Infra starts process to restructure $1.3 billion debt
By Neha Dasgupta
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's Lanco Infratech Ltd
If the process is approved by its lenders, Lanco would be the second debt-laden company to go for a major loan restructuring within nine months, after lenders to wind turbine maker Suzlon Energy
Lanco, which produces power, builds roads and constructs residential and commercial buildings, has asked banks to restructure the debt, a company statement said on Saturday.
The Business Standard newspaper earlier said Lanco had started discussion with its bankers to restructure debt worth 90 billion rupees.
The company, which acquired Australia's Griffin Coal Mining Co for about $760 million in 2011, said the debt restructuring would involve Lanco Infratech as a standalone unit and would not impact any of its units including the Australian business.
Banks bring cases to the so-called corporate debt restructuring process to negotiate relaxed repayment terms with struggling borrowers.
Many lenders have expressed worry about loans to the power, commercial real estate, construction, aviation, textile and metals sectors, which are among those hardest-hit by slowing growth and sluggish policymaking that has deterred investment.
"The current adverse macro-economic situation that has been prevailing in India since last 12 months has affected the performance of LITL's EPC business as well as the subsidiary business," the company said referring to the engineering, procurement and construction business.
"We expect this situation to remain for another 18 to 24 months time," it said, adding the restructuring process will help Lanco to complete its ongoing projects on time.
Lanco, which had total debt of 336 billion rupees as of the end of March, posted losses in the last two financial years, as the weak Indian economy, growing at its slowest in a decade, hit infrastructure investment.
Project bottlenecks, largely because of problems in acquiring land, and high funding costs, have also sapped investment in the infrastructure industry in Asia's third-largest economy.
(Writing by Sumeet Chatterjee; Editing by Robert Birsel and David Holmes)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/indias-lanco-infra-starts-process-restructure-1-3-144311376.html
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This Week's Top Comedy Video: Daria Movie Trailer
I'm probably not as big a fan as some of you guys when it comes to Daria and/or Aubrey Plaza but even I have to admit Aubrey Plaza as Daria in a real life movie of Daria is all kinds of awesome. I'd actually like it if more movies and TV shows flip flopped into different style: Game of Thrones as an animated movie Pixar-style, Wall-E as a premium cable TV show and so on.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-top-comedy-video-daria-movie-trailer-929435052
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The Pegboard Wall Workspace
Pegboards are wonderful tools for organizing all sorts of things. You can even use one to upgrade one wall of your office for a display and accessorizing system you can easily switch up whenever you want.
Flickr user travisdodson doesn't have much on his wall (though in the back you can see a room full of gear neatly organized on a pegboard). Still, it's not hard to see how you could hang clipboards, photo frames, accessories for your many computers, and even plants on that versatile wall.
If you have a workspace of your own to show off, share them with us by: a) posting it in the discussion below, attaching your image to the post, b) posting it to your personal Kinja blog using the tag featured workspace, or c) adding it to ourLifehacker Workspace Show and Tell Flickr pool. Make sure any photos you include are at least 640x360. Keeping them to 16:9 helps, too! Include a little text about the stuff you used, how you came up with the design, and any other relevant details. If your clever organization and good design sense catches our eye, you might be the next featured workspace.
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Video: Express Scripts VP talks about jobs and future of St. Louis area
KMOV.com
Posted on July 24, 2013 at 6:14 PM
Updated today at 6:21 PM
(KMOV.com) -- So how is the St. Louis job market and economy?
The area does have growing industries that are hiring.
Express Scripts has had a big impact on the St. Louis area and its economy in a relatively short period of time.
The company was founded in 1986, but the really big push has come in the last couple of years while other companies struggled.
In June of 2010, the company opened its Technology and Innovation Center, creating hundreds of new jobs.
In December of that year, the company announced a $73 million expansion of its north St. Louis County headquarters- including the promise of more jobs.
In April of 2012, the company got FTC clearance for a merge with MedCo, creating the largest pharmacy provider in the United States.
Just last month, Express Scripts announced it will hire 1,500 more highly paid workers.
Wednesday Brian Henry, Vice President of Corporate Communications at Express Scripts, joined News 4 for a sit down interview.?
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Belichick says Pats will learn from Hernandez case
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) ? A grim-faced coach Bill Belichick said Wednesday the New England Patriots will learn from the "terrible experience" of Aaron Hernandez's arrest on a murder charge and work to improve their player evaluation process.
Speaking publicly for the first time since the tight end was arrested four weeks earlier, Belichick said he was "shocked and disappointed" to learn of the criminal investigation while he was out of the United States.
He also sought to minimize future attention on the case.
"My comments are certainly not in proportion to the unfortunate and sad situation that we have here, but I've been advised to address the subject once, and it's time for the New England Patriots to move forward," Belichick said. "Moving forward consists of what it's always been here ? to build a winning football team, to be a strong pillar in the community and be a team that our fans can be proud of.
"I'm not trying to make this story disappear, but I respect the judicial process and have been advised not to comment on ongoing legal proceedings. I'm advising our players to do the same things."
The Patriots cut Hernandez after he was arrested the morning of June 26 and before he was charged that afternoon. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty.
Players are scheduled to report to training camp on Thursday when quarterback Tom Brady and the five other captains from last season will be available to reporters. The first practice is scheduled for Friday.
Belichick opened his 22-minute news conference by speaking from prepared notes.
He expressed sympathy for the family of shooting victim Odin Lloyd, said the team's in-depth process of studying a player's background is "far from perfect" but wouldn't be overhauled, and took responsibility for bringing people to the team.
"The hundreds of players we've had through this program in the last 14 years, there's been a lot of good ones, a lot of real good ones," said Belichick, who became coach in 2000. "We'll try to do a good job in bringing people into this organization in the future and try to learn from the mistakes that we've made along the way, of which there have been plenty."
At about the same time as Belichick was speaking, Hernandez was in court for a probable cause hearing in which prosecutors asked for more time to present evidence to a grand jury. The hearing was rescheduled for Aug. 22.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the victim and I extend my sympathy really to everyone who has been impacted," Belichick said. "A young man lost his life. His family has suffered a tragic loss and there's no way to understate that."
Belichick was unusually expansive in his answers. He declined to answer some questions about Hernandez, saying he had been advised not to answer those about people involved in the legal case.
"This case involves an individual who happened to be a New England Patriot, and we certainly do not condone unacceptable behavior and this does not in any way represent the way that the New England Patriots want to do things," he said. "As the coach of the team, I'm primarily responsible for the people that we bring into the football operation."
He didn't say, in response to a question, if he had talked with Hernandez since the player's name was linked to it.
Belichick said "the fundamentals" of the Patriots' player evaluation process will stay the same as they've been since he became coach in 2000, but the team will work hard to do it better.
Hernandez dropped to the fourth round in the 2010 NFL draft because of character issues. Several teams took him off their draft board.
"We look at every player's history from the moment we start discussing it," Belichick said, "going back to his family, where he grew up, what his lifestyle was like, high school, college experiences. We evaluate his performance, his intelligence, his work ethic, his motivation, his maturity, his improvement and we try to project that into our organization on a going-forward basis."
Belichick wouldn't answer a question about starting cornerback Alfonzo Dennard, who was charged with first-offense drunken driving after being pulled over in his car on July 11 in Lincoln, Neb., while on probation. He remains on the team.
Players are evaluated on "a case-by-case basis," Belichick said. "Whatever the circumstances are on any one individual, you'll have to make the decision based on an individual basis."
With Hernandez, he said, the team "acted swiftly and decisively" to cut him. "Having someone in your organization that's involved in a murder investigation is a terrible thing."
Patriots owner Robert Kraft has said he was "duped" by Hernandez. When Belichick was asked if he also had been "duped," he said he couldn't comment.
"We stress high character and we stress making good decisions," Belichick said. "We'll learn from this terrible experience that we've had.
"We'll become a better team from the lessons that we've learned."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/belichick-says-pats-learn-hernandez-case-224056393.html
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