You?d think that in this day in age of digital software, scientists wouldn?t need to destroy a real building to test the strength of its materials. But that?s exactly what?s happening this summer in Buffalo, where a team of Johns Hopkins engineers are using a hydraulic ?shake table? to recreate the 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles.
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By Mike Clark Post-Tribune correspondent July 31, 2013 7:36PM
Indiana's Larry Crisler hits a double against Illinois during the bottom of the fourth inning of the Crossroads Championship Series held at the Steel Yard in Gary, Ind., Wednesday, July 31, 2013. The series is organized by former Gary RailCats player Eric Blakeley. | Guy Rhodes~For Sun-Times Media
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GARY ? Summertime is anything but vacation time for Larry Crisler, especially this week.
The incoming senior at Bishop Noll led one team to a championship on Wednesday and is hoping to repeat the feat this week in Ohio.
Crlsler helped Team Indiana defend its Crossroads Championship Series title with a 6-2 win over Team Illinois at U.S. Steel Yard.
After posing for a few pictures around the Crossroads trophy, Crisler was ready to hit the road. He and his Indiana Chiefs of Hammond 17-and-under teammates open play Thursday morning in the Pastime Tournaments 17U Mizuno World Series at Ohio State in Columbus.
?It was just pretty fun, a break from the regular summer team,? Crisler said of the Crossroads event, which featured a skills competition, a showcase for college coaches and a four-team tournament that also included teams from Ohio and Michigan.
Crisler only had two at-bats in Wednesday?s eight-inning championship game because Indiana coaches used a 15-man lineup to showcase as many players as possible.
But he made the most of his chances, slugging a pair of doubles. He scored two runs and drove in two more in the seventh, when Indiana put up four runs to break a 2-2 tie.
?It gives me confidence, seeing how I?m going to Ohio today, playing tomorrow (in the World Series),? he said.
Crisler also helped his cause during the showcase; according to Crossroads founder Eric Blakeley, Portage?s Christopher Klenk and Crisler had the two best 60-yard dash times among all the players on hand.
That should boost Crisler?s recruiting stock.
?I?m listening to people right now,? he said. ?I?m pretty excited about that, wondering what schools are going to offer.?
Klenk was 1-for-2 for Indiana on Wednesday, while Portage teammate Kevin Jones saw action on the mound.
Like Crisler, Blakeley came away from the event with a good feeling.
?I?m happy with it,? Blakeley said. ?We did some things ... to kind of tighten up the nomination process. We had a lot more nominations (for players for the state events) this year than last year. ...
?Our events are as good as the hundred coaches out there playing games and scouting players to bring to the event.?
Having the finale at the Steel Yard, where Blakeley finished his playing career with the RailCats, is something he?d like to continue.
?I love this place,? he said. ?This was one of the best baseball experiences I?ve had, to play out my career here. I love coming back here to allow the local kids to be able to come here and bring in people from four states to see what they have here.?
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A depiction of Glendale?s famous Meatball the Bear will be the centerpiece of the city?s next Rose Parade float, council members decided?Tuesday.?
After he was caught devouring frozen Costco meatballs from a garage refrigerator in Glendale last year, Meatball gained celebrity status for frequent jaunts through the city's hillside neighborhoods.
He was relocated to a San Diego County wildlife sanctuary in August.?
Titled ?Let?s be neighbors,? the Glendale float will feature the 400-pound California black bear?s animatronic likeness popping up and down inside a trash can ? its lid teetering on his head ? as he's surrounded by wildlife companions, including a waving raccoon, skunk, deer and red-tailed hawk.?
The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the $155,000 project, concocted by a panel of city workers and float-builder Phoenix Decorating Co., the Glendale News-Press reported.
Mayor Dave Weaver noted Meatball?s star turn has already sparked widespread enthusiasm about the float.
?I never thought [the float] would take off like that. People have associated with Meatball so strongly,? said Weaver, a longtime booster for the city?s Rose Parade entries.?
The float will be the city?s 100th in the Rose Parade, a record of participation second only to Los Angeles, Glendale Community Services and Parks Director Jess Duran said.?
?I think it?s a really cute float and very topical, and really the first one in a long time that speaks to people,? Councilwoman Laura Friedman said.?
While many of the city?s past floats have privileged style over substance, ?this one kind of says something,? Friedman continued. ?A lot of us would like to work it out with wildlife and live side by side with them.??
Despite voting for the design, Councilman Ara Najarian shared a less-than-rose-colored view of Meatball?s removal from Glendale after two attempts to relocate the persistent visitor deep within the Angeles National Forest.?
Najarian said state wildlife officials should have made more attempts to release Meatball into the wild and was critical of his temporary placement in a fenced concrete enclosure.?
Meatball ?is not running free; he?s in a wildlife Guantanamo, as some have called it,? Najarian said. ?I hate to be a spoilsport, but does anyone out there find it ironic that under the caption of??Let?s be neighbors? is the centerpiece of Meatball, a former resident who was deported from Glendale in chains and is now in a wildlife prison??
Friedman applauded Glendale residents for mobilizing a fundraising campaign to help move Meatball into a more spacious outdoor habitat, though the effort hit a snag when he was denied entrance to a Colorado animal sanctuary.?She and Councilman Frank Quintero instead focused concern on the float?s six-figure price tag and the city?s slow progress in raising $75,000 from corporate donors and the community in order to reduce the financial burden for the city.?
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iran will be ready to resume nuclear talks with world powers as soon as the country's president-elect puts together his negotiating team, the foreign minister said Wednesday amid signals on both sides to try to quickly restart dialogue.
The comments by Ali Akbar Salehi follow a meeting in Brussels with members of the six-member group that reopened talks last year with Iran on its disputed nuclear program. The West fears the program is designed to develop atomic weapons, while Iran insists it is only for peaceful purposes.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the group ? the five permanent U.N. Security Council nations plus Germany ? seeks to resume negotiations "as soon as possible." Four rounds of talks since last year have failed so far to make significant headway, and no date has been proposed for their resumption.
Iran's newly elected president, Hasan Rouhani, himself a former top nuclear negotiator, is currently piecing together his government. He will be sworn-in early next month.
In separate comments attributed to Rouhani, he dismissed Israel's warnings of possible military action against Iran's nuclear program, telling veterans of the 1980-88 war with Iraq that they should scoff at threats from a "miserable country in the region."
The remarks were carried by tasnimnews, a newly established conservative news website. The statement was not reported by state media or other more established news outlets. Rouhani's advisers declined to comment.
At the Brussels meeting, no new offers were discussed, according to a Western diplomat with knowledge of the session. But the diplomat said the possibility was raised about "positive" steps ? that could include easing sanctions ? in return for more flexibility by the new chief negotiator for Iran, who will replace hard-liner Saeed Jalili. He finished a distant third in June's presidential election to the centrist Rouhani.
The diplomat was not authorized to brief media and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Shortly after Iran's election in June, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the Islamic Republic was willing to halt its 20 percent enrichment of uranium, which has been a key concession sought in the negotiations. Iran, however, has not publicly commented on the presumed offer or what other potential steps the country could take.
The 20 percent enriched uranium is much closer to warhead-grade material than the level needed for energy-producing nuclear reactors. Iran says it needs the higher enrichment for its medical research reactor.
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Associated Press writer George Jahn in Vienna contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/official-iran-open-nuke-talks-once-team-named-113236208.html
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By Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is deliberately leaving it vague as to whether President Barack Obama will attend talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin if the saga involving former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden is unresolved.
Putin has invited Obama for face-to-face talks in Moscow ahead of a St. Petersburg summit in September with leaders of the G20 nations, and the White House announced on June 17 that Obama would both attend the summit and go to the Russian capital.
But that announcement was before Snowden fled to Moscow from Hong Kong on June 23 to avoid facing U.S. espionage charges for revealing details about secret U.S. surveillance programs involving phone and Internet data.
Snowden, stuck in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, has since applied for temporary asylum in Russia, putting Moscow further on the spot. The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Putin would not be the one making the decision.
Pressed on Wednesday on whether Obama will still go on the Moscow part of the trip, White House spokesman Jay Carney was vague.
"I have no further announcements on our travel to Russia. The president intends to go to Russia in September," he said.
An Obama decision not to go to attend talks with Putin would register his displeasure with the Russian leader's refusal thus far to expel Snowden back to the United States.
An administration official said the White House vagueness about the Obama Moscow visit "reinforces without being belligerent that this is an irritant."
Obama and Putin spoke by phone about Snowden last Friday. Administration officials say Obama's message was the same as that communicated by other U.S. officials at various levels to their Russian counterparts - that Russia has the legal basis to expel Snowden and should do so.
The Snowden affair has already prompted a U.S. lawmaker to suggest that Washington should consider boycotting the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics if Snowden is granted asylum in Russia.
"I love the Olympics, but I hate what the Russian government is doing throughout the world," Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC on Tuesday. "If they give asylum to a person who I believe has committed treason against the United States, that's taking it to a new level."
Putin signaled on Wednesday that he did not want a dispute over Snowden to derail Russian relations with the United States.
The White House agreed.
"We share President Putin's views expressed again, that we don't want this matter to do harm to our bilateral relations," said Carney.
(Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton and Timothy Gardner; Editing by Alistair Bell and Sandra Maler)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-vague-whether-obama-moscow-amid-snowden-flap-204841948.html
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