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By Mike Clark Post-Tribune correspondent July 31, 2013 7:36PM
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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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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)
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Mathew Knowles, the father of Beyonce and Solange Knowles, married former model Gena Charmaine Avery in Houston, Tex. last weekend, Us Weekly reports. However, his daughters weren't among the guests in attendance.
Mathew, 61, who was formerly Beyonce's manager, told Us: "Unfortunately, Beyonce and Solange had previous engagements which made it impossible for them to attend."
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Beyonce fired her father as her manager in 2011 but insisted at the time that the split was amicable. She is currently in the midst of her "The Ms. Carter Show" world tour, but had a night off last Sunday, June 30, when the wedding took place, according to her website.
Mathew divorced Solange and Beyonce's mother, Tina, in 2011 after 31 years of marriage. He had been engaged to Avery for a year and a half, Us Weekly reports.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - A giant panda, one of a pair presented by China four years ago to mark warming ties with Taiwan, has given birth to a female cub at a Taipei zoo, officials said Sunday. The 9-year-old Yuan Yuan delivered the cub Saturday night, following artificial insemination given in March, the zoo announced. It was the seventh such attempt on Yuan Yuan in three years, they said. ...
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Hong Kong singer Sandy Lam emerged as the biggest winner of Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards Saturday, bagging four awards, including Best Mandarin Album for Gaia and Best Mandarin Female Singer. Gaia, which tied for the most nominations with six nods, also won Best Musical Arranger and Best Album Producer. Taiwanese aboriginal a cappella singing group O-Kai Singers, which also got six nods, ...
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The first cub of a pair of giant pandas given as a goodwill gift to Taiwan by the Chinese mainland was born at 8:05 pm Saturday in the Taipei Zoo, the zoo said.The newborn cub weighs only about one thousandth of its mother Yuan Yuan, and its gender has yet been identified as the mother has kept it around her since its birth, said Lin Huei-jhen, a spokeswoman of the zoo.According to the zoo, Yuan ...
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A female panda named Yuan Yuan given to Taiwan in late 2008 by mainland China together with a male panda, named Tuan Tuan, delivered a baby panda last night at Taipei Zoo, with Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin instructing the zoo to take good care of them, according to the Taipei City ...
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Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, and Jacob O'Neal Latimer Jr. star in the movie 'Black Nativity.' Jennifer Hudson plays a struggling single mother who sends her son (Latimer) to spend the holidays with her parents.
Jennifer Hudson stars in 'Black Nativity.'
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It doesn?t take so long for Langston to buckle under the strict rules imposted by his grandpa (who is a reverend), which eventually leads the frustrated young man to attempt and flee back to Baltimore. However, along the way, Langston makes new friends who ? along with some divine intervention ? teach him vital lessons about family, faith, and healing from the past, as illustrated through the soulful music and story of the?Black Nativity.
American R&B recording artist and actor Jacob O?Neal Latimer Jr. plays Langston in the film Black Nativity, which is based on the stage musical created by the 20th century black culture innovator, Langston Hughes. The film?s all-black primary cast includes Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker (The Butler), Angela Bassett (Olympus Has Fallen), Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious 6), Mary J. Blige (Rock of Ages) and Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls).
The Black Nativity teaser trailer is here, and it provides a sneak peek at the film?s cast ? with an emphasis on (no surprise) Latimer and Hudson ? performing original songs and tweaked renditions of staple Christmas carols. It seems an interesting mix of gospel and R&B, but we?ll see how musical purists feel about this cinematic interpretation of Hughes? show.?At the least, Black Nativity?s clean visual design and standard vocal recording approach?ought to be less divisive than director Tom Hooper?s use of cin?ma v?rit? techniques on?Les Mis?rables.
Black Nativity was adapted for the big screen and directed by Kasi Lemmons, the actress/writer/director whose filmmaking body of work includes the Southern period drama?Eve?s Bayou?and true-story based?Talk to Me. Both of those movies tend to be cited as being underrated by the online film critic/blogger community, so perhaps Black Nativity will be the project that brings Lemmons more attention and the wider acclaim that many feel she deserves.
Sandy Schaefer blogs at Screen Rant.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Ailing anti-apartheid leader and former South African President Nelson Mandela remained in hospital on Monday in a "critical but stable" condition, the government said.
Mandela has been in a Pretoria hospital for more than three weeks receiving treatment for a recurring lung infection, his fourth hospitalization in six months.
The faltering health of the 94-year-old, a figure admired globally as a symbol of struggle against injustice and racism, has reinforced a realization that the father of the post-apartheid South Africa will not be around forever.
While he lies in hospital, many South Africans are looking ahead to his 95th birthday on July 18.
"We must all be able to do something good for humanity on this day in tribute to our former President," President Jacob Zuma said in a statement.
Mandela's health also dominated a two-day visit to South Africa by U.S. President Barack Obama over the weekend.
Obama met the Mandela family on Saturday, offering words of comfort and praising the retired statesman as one of history's greatest figures.
(Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda; Editing by Ed Cropley)
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Getty ImagesIf the Ravens? qualification for Super Bowl XLVII dusted off long-forgotten memories of the alleged involvement of Ray Lewis in a double murder, the Aaron Hernandez situation has sandblasted them.? And with the Patriots dumping Hernandez the moment he was arrested in connection with the death of Odin Lloyd, the contrast between the respective approaches of the two franchises to situation involving murder became as sharp as possible.
While many believe the Patriots must have had access to inside information about the Hernandez investigation at the time he was cut, the more accurate assumption would be that the Patriots decided early in the process, without the benefit of any specific intelligence about the case, that no employee arrested in connection with a murder investigation is fit to remain employed by the team.
The Ravens came to the exact opposite conclusion.? The man who coached the team at the time, Brian Billick, recently compiled an exhaustive explanation of the team?s reasoning and approach to the Lewis situation.
Billick explains that the team?s decision to rally around Lewis arose from their faith in his ?overall innocence.?? In so doing, Billick implies that the Patriots had no faith in Hernandez?s innocence.
But Lewis was hardly ?innocent.?? Lewis wouldn?t have been arrested, charged, and prosecuted based on no evidence.? Prosecutors routinely walk away from trying to secure a conviction under the very high standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt if they believe that the evidence, while pointing to the defendant?s guilt, nevertheless creates an opening for an ?if it doesn?t fit, you must acquit? concoction of enough doubt to secure an acquittal.? Moreover, judges don?t allow cases to go to trial absent the existence of enough evidence to allow a reasonable jury to conclude that the high bar of proof beyond a reasonable doubt had been met.
For Ray Lewis, the prosecutor eventually decided to cut a deal, and Lewis decided not to tell the prosecutor to pound sand/salt/whatever and force the trial to a verdict.? This wasn?t a case where the charges were dropped with no strings attached.? Lewis pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in order to escape the far more serious charge of murder.
The Ravens had no qualms about welcoming back to the team without suspension or other punishment (other than the $250,000 fine imposed by the league) a man who pleaded guilty to obstructing justice in a murder case.? New England?s swift and decisive action regarding Hernandez this week amounts to a clear statement that, even if Hernandez had simply lied to the police or concealed evidence regarding a murder, any alleged wrongdoing regarding a murder provides enough reason to move on.
Right or wrong, the Ravens treated Ray Lewis far differently than the Patriots treated Hernandez.? And while it seems that Billick may be trying in artful fashion to soften some of the harsh, inescapable realities the Ray Lewis case, the fact remains that the Ravens had no qualms about embracing and defending a man who clearly had enough involvement to result in a judge allowing a murder trial to proceed, and in Lewis eventually entering a guilty plea for a crime related to the killings.? The Patriots, in contrast, opted to have no further involvement with anyone who had done anything, actually or allegedly, that would get him arrested in connection with the intentional death of another human.
For each organization, it sets a precedent that they surely hope they?ll never have to use in a similar case.
BAGHDAD (AP) ? Iraqi officials say the death toll from a series of bombings late Thursday targeting soccer fans watching a match in cafes in and around Baghdad has risen to 36.
Police and hospital officials said Friday the toll includes 20 killed and 40 wounded at a large cafe in the city of Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad. The first bomb exploded near the entrance, followed by a car bomb targeting onlookers near the blast site. Rescue teams found several bodies on Friday morning.
Authorities late Thursday reported 16 dead and dozens wounded in attacks on other cafes in Baghdad and the Shiite town of Jbala south of the capital.
The officials released the information on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak to journalists.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/officials-death-toll-iraq-bombings-36-113238550.html
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The White House is headed for a showdown with Senate Republicans over President Obama's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
In his climate-change speech Tuesday, Obama went out of his way to praise his nominee, Gina McCarthy, who is currently the assistant administrator for air quality at EPA.
"Gina has worked for the EPA in my administration, but she's also worked for five Republican governors," Obama said. "She's been held up for months, forced to jump through hoops no Cabinet nominee should ever have to?not because she lacks qualifications, but because there are too many in the Republican Party right now who think that the Environmental Protection Agency has no business protecting our environment from carbon pollution. The Senate should confirm her without any further obstruction or delay."
Obama's full-throttled defense of her in a major policy speech is a sign that the administration isn't backing down on getting McCarthy through the Senate, even as Obama is headed for another clash with Republicans over directing EPA to move ahead on controversial rules controlling greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has said he will try to schedule a vote on McCarthy's confirmation after the July Fourth recess. Thomas Perez, Obama's choice for Labor secretary, and Samantha Power, his nominee for U.N. Ambassador, are also still pending.?
McCarthy's confirmation is currently being held up by Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., who is frustrated with an interagency review process EPA is involved in. Blunt has said his problem is not with McCarthy, but with the administration more generally. Yet even if Blunt lifts his hold, McCarthy will still face the hurdle of getting enough votes for cloture.
The controversy surrounding McCarthy's nomination has been inflamed by Obama's speech, which predictably infuriated Republicans, many of whom are already fuming over what they say is EPA's overzealous regulation of the coal industry.
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo, whose state produces 40 percent of the coal in the entire country, argued Wednesday that the comments Obama made in his climate speech contradict what McCarthy told Congress in her confirmation hearing.
"EPA is not currently developing any existing source GHG regulations for power plants," McCarthy told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in April.
"Her response to the EPW committee with questions about existing coal-fired power plants, and then the president's speech, says to me either she is arrogant or ignorant in terms of her response," Barrasso said Wednesday. "Either she knew, and wasn't truthful with the committee. And if she didn't know, she should have known because she already has such an important role at EPA."
It is unclear how?or whether?Barrasso's accusation will be addressed.
But if Republicans do succeed in blocking her nomination, the administration has a fallback option: McCarthy could execute Obama's climate-change directives from her current post as EPA's top air chief. Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe could remain in his post indefinitely, which is allowed under EPA's organizational plan. Perciasepe even got some praise from Barrasso.
"He has a long history there," Barrasso said. "I think he'd be a better choice."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-gop-face-showdown-over-epa-nomination-120323661.html
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NEW YORK (AP) ? New York Giants free-agent wide receiver Brandon Collins has been suspended without pay for the first four games of the 2013 regular season for violating the NFL Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse.
The NFL announced the suspension of the first-year player on Monday.
The 24-year-old Collins will be eligible to return to the Giants' active roster on Sept. 30, the day after the team plays the Kansas City Chiefs. The Southeastern Louisiana product spent part of last season on the Giants' practice squad and will be eligible to participate in all offseason and preseason practices and games.
Collins had played well in the recent veterans minicamp.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/free-agent-wr-collins-suspended-4-games-nfl-185700743.html
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CommaFeed (free) straddles two worlds. It offers a Web-based RSS feed reader to be your Google Reader placement: import your feeds and you are good to go in an environment that looks almost like Google Reader. It also lets the intrepid DIY-er download the actual software from GitHub to build a personal RSS reader on RedHat's OpenShift platform. Build it, and you will never have to worry about losing your RSS reader ever again.
If you don't want to deal with code, you just register for an account on CommaFeed.com. If you are looking for a Google Reader replacement, you check off the "Google Reader import" box to kick off the automatic import. To do so, you have to enter your Google credentials on the second screen of the registration process to let CommaFeed handle the import. If the idea of giving your login credentials to a random Website skeeves you out (as it does for me) you leave the box unchecked and just do the manual import later. Giving the user a choice wins CommaFeed good karma points.
Here is bonus karma: You can poke around the almost-full-featured demo to try it out before signing up. I am so tired of having to register an account just to try out a service.
CommaFeed's interface looks really similar to the classic Google Reader, and many of the keyboard shortcuts are the same. The team has promised to add the remaining shortcuts soon. You can also use the built-in sharing options to share posts on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or Instapaper. Themes are coming, and if you know a little CSS or HTML, you can modify the look and feel anyway you like.
You can also filter the screen to view just the unread items, mark everything in a feed as read, or sort items by date. The search engine lets you find related posts. It was one of my favorite things about Google Reader and I am thrilled CommaFeed included it.
You can toggle between the option to see only headlines, or headline plus a summary underneath. Google Reader lets me see the first few words of the story in headline view; CommaFeed doesn't. Headline view really is just the headline. I kind of miss it, but it's a minor quibble in the grand scheme of things.
Subscribing to a new feed is as simple as clicking the Subscribe button and pasting a feed URL. Removing it is just a matter of selecting the feed on the left sidebar and clicking on the wrench icon. This brings up the feed details page, and you just hit "Unsubscribe." You can change feed details, such as renaming it, changing the category, and changing the order it shows up in the list of feeds.
There isn't any mobile support, which is a bit of a disappointment. It's not a deal-breaker for me since I generally read via my Web browser, even on my mobile devices, but I know a lot of people prefer using native apps. If you are one of them, look at Feedly?or check out the iOS app for Digg Reader.
The site's popularity has surged in the past few days, which has impacted performance. Even so, it hasn't felt particularly sluggish or difficult to use. In fact, I am feeling forgiving because it's clear the team is actually trying to address the performance issues and improve the service with the influx of new users.
I like CommaFeed, and it is almost as good as Editors' Choice?G2Reader, but what really gets me excited is its build-your-own-reader capabilities. I originally tried Tiny Tiny RSS (a PHP application) and was frustrated at how sluggish the application was, so I was nervous about trying CommaFeed (a Java server application). I needn't have worried, because CommaFeed was quite easy to install and I had no performance issues.
CommaFeed is much more flexible, as it can be installed on either Windows or Linux (provided you install a Web server such as Tomcat). I also liked the fact that the GitHub repository had instructions on how to throw up CommaFeed onto RedHat's OpenShift cloud platform (which uses JBoss). I also liked the fact that CommaFeed can be installed on either Windows or Linux. The instructions are thorough for an open source project, but a little opaque to anyone new to server management or building code. Keep Google handy for assistance.
If you want to try OpenShift, the GitHub README file links to a detailed and well-done "alternate" instruction manual that really smoothes out all the bumps in the process.
Overall, CommaFeed is one of the best alternatives to Google Reader that I've ever used, and I am right now trying to decide if I am going to stick with the Web-based version, the version on my server, or OpenShift. It's a great dilemma to have, really. The interface and usability is on par with The Old Reader, but the platform has a little bit more growing up to do before it can completely take on our Editors' Choice G2Reader. But if you want to host your own RSS Reader, you can't go wrong with CommaFeed.
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Public release date: 19-Jun-2013
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(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) A study of the patients who received injections of steroids contaminated with the fungus Exserohilum rostratum from the New England Compounding Center has found that some patients had fungal infections even though they did not experience a worsening of their symptoms and that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can help detect infection, especially among those individuals who received injections from highly contaminated lots.
The study, along with an editorial by UC Davis Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology George R. Thompson, appears in the June 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"The study shows that patients exposed to the contaminated steroids can no longer be reassured that the lack of new or progressive symptoms equates to a lack of fungal infection," Thompson said. "Exposed patients may have paraspinal or spinal infections even though they do not notice any increase in pain or neuropathic symptoms. Magnetic resonance imaging at the injection site is recommended to screen for infection in high-risk patients, but it should not be widely adopted, particularly for patients who received injections in peripheral joints, which the study associated with a much lower attack rate."
In the fall of 2012, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with state and local health departments and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), began investigating an unprecedented multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis among patients who received contaminated steroid injections for the treatment of back pain or neuropathic symptoms. While meningitis was the primary complication after the initial steroid injection, spinal or paraspinal infections can surface weeks to months later. To date, more than 740 patients in 20 states have been diagnosed with meningitis, spinal or paraspinal infections, joint infections or other complications at or near the injection site linked with compouding pharmacy formulations. Patients who received injections in peripheral joints only, such as the knee, shoulder or ankle, could be at risk for joint infection and are also included in the investigation.
"Continued vigilance and collaborative efforts with radiologists experienced in interpreting MRI findings of E rostratum are needed to detect late fungal infections in patients to improve health outcomes," Thompson said.
According to the CDC, Exserohilum is a common mold found in soil and on plants, especially grasses, and it thrives in warm and humid climates. While it is a very rare cause of infection in people, the mold has been known to cause several different types of infections, including infection in the skin or the cornea (the clear, front part of the eye), which are typically due to skin or eye trauma. Exserohilum can also cause more invasive forms of infection in the sinuses, lungs, lining of the heart and bone, which are thought to be more likely to occur in people with weak immune systems.
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UC Davis Health System is improving lives and transforming health care by providing excellent patient care, conducting groundbreaking research, fostering innovative, interprofessional education, and creating dynamic, productive partnerships with the community. The academic health system includes one of the country's best medical schools, a 619-bed acute-care teaching hospital, a 1000-member physician's practice group and the new Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. It is home to a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, an international neurodevelopmental institute, a stem cell institute and a comprehensive children's hospital. Other nationally prominent centers focus on advancing telemedicine, improving vascular care, eliminating health disparities and translating research findings into new treatments for patients. Together, they make UC Davis a hub of innovation that is transforming health for all. For more information, visit http://healthsystem.ucdavis.edu.
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carole.gan@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
916-734-9047
University of California - Davis Health System
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) A study of the patients who received injections of steroids contaminated with the fungus Exserohilum rostratum from the New England Compounding Center has found that some patients had fungal infections even though they did not experience a worsening of their symptoms and that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can help detect infection, especially among those individuals who received injections from highly contaminated lots.
The study, along with an editorial by UC Davis Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology George R. Thompson, appears in the June 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"The study shows that patients exposed to the contaminated steroids can no longer be reassured that the lack of new or progressive symptoms equates to a lack of fungal infection," Thompson said. "Exposed patients may have paraspinal or spinal infections even though they do not notice any increase in pain or neuropathic symptoms. Magnetic resonance imaging at the injection site is recommended to screen for infection in high-risk patients, but it should not be widely adopted, particularly for patients who received injections in peripheral joints, which the study associated with a much lower attack rate."
In the fall of 2012, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with state and local health departments and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), began investigating an unprecedented multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis among patients who received contaminated steroid injections for the treatment of back pain or neuropathic symptoms. While meningitis was the primary complication after the initial steroid injection, spinal or paraspinal infections can surface weeks to months later. To date, more than 740 patients in 20 states have been diagnosed with meningitis, spinal or paraspinal infections, joint infections or other complications at or near the injection site linked with compouding pharmacy formulations. Patients who received injections in peripheral joints only, such as the knee, shoulder or ankle, could be at risk for joint infection and are also included in the investigation.
"Continued vigilance and collaborative efforts with radiologists experienced in interpreting MRI findings of E rostratum are needed to detect late fungal infections in patients to improve health outcomes," Thompson said.
According to the CDC, Exserohilum is a common mold found in soil and on plants, especially grasses, and it thrives in warm and humid climates. While it is a very rare cause of infection in people, the mold has been known to cause several different types of infections, including infection in the skin or the cornea (the clear, front part of the eye), which are typically due to skin or eye trauma. Exserohilum can also cause more invasive forms of infection in the sinuses, lungs, lining of the heart and bone, which are thought to be more likely to occur in people with weak immune systems.
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UC Davis Health System is improving lives and transforming health care by providing excellent patient care, conducting groundbreaking research, fostering innovative, interprofessional education, and creating dynamic, productive partnerships with the community. The academic health system includes one of the country's best medical schools, a 619-bed acute-care teaching hospital, a 1000-member physician's practice group and the new Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. It is home to a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, an international neurodevelopmental institute, a stem cell institute and a comprehensive children's hospital. Other nationally prominent centers focus on advancing telemedicine, improving vascular care, eliminating health disparities and translating research findings into new treatments for patients. Together, they make UC Davis a hub of innovation that is transforming health for all. For more information, visit http://healthsystem.ucdavis.edu.
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June 18, 2013 ? University of Leicester scientists have discovered a potential genetic contributor to the increased risk of heart disease among men.
A team of researchers including clinicians and scientists have made an important step forward in search of the mechanisms underlying increased risk of coronary artery disease in men who carry a particular type of the Y chromosome (haplogroup I).
The team, from the University's Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and Department of Health Sciences, have followed up their recent award-winning study showing that men with haplogroup I of the Y chromosome have a 50 per cent greater risk of developing the disease.
Their new paper goes further -- and identifies the possible genes of the Y chromosome which could be responsible for its association with coronary artery disease.
Coronary artery disease is the name given to the narrowing of blood vessels delivering blood to the heart, meaning that not enough oxygen can reach it.
This can lead to angina symptoms, such as constriction of the chest, and heart attacks.
Coronary artery disease, also known as coronary heart disease, is responsible for almost 80,000 deaths each year -- over 200 people every single day -- according to figures from the British Heart Foundation, who provided funding for the study.
The figures -- collected between 2009 and 2011 -- also show that one in six men and one in nine women die from heart disease.
The Leicester scientists' research, published in the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, used a sample of around 2,000 men from four European populations.
The study found that men in haplogroup I have lower numbers of copies of two important Y chromosome genes in macrophages -- the type of white blood cells involved in both defence against infections and atherosclerosis.
Specifically, men with haplogroup I were shown to have decreased expression of 2 genes: the ubiquitously transcribed tetratricopeptide repeat, Y-linked gene (UTY) and protein kinase, Y-linked, pseudogene (PRKY) in macrophages.
The team found no association between haplogroup I and traditional cardiovascular risk factors -- such as high blood pressure, smoking and obesity.
Principal investigator Dr Maciej Tomaszewski, a clinical senior lecturer at the University's Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, said: "I am very pleased with publication of this piece of research. It was conducted as a part of Lisa Bloomer's PhD studentship in my laboratory.
"I believe, we have made another step forward to deciphering the genetic background behind increased risk of coronary artery disease in men with haplogroup I.
"We now want to investigate whether and how the down-regulation of UTY and PRKY genes in macrophages may translate into increased risk of coronary artery disease.
"Ultimately, we wish to understand how human Y chromosome regulates susceptibility to cardiovascular diseases and if there is anything we can do to better diagnose, prevent or treat them."
Shannon Amoils, Senior Research Advisor at the British Heart Foundation, which part-funded the study, said: "This study continues prize-winning research into the Y chromosome and heart health.
"What's intriguing about these latest findings is the discovery of two specific genes that may be linked to an increased risk of coronary heart disease.
"This is the first time this connection has been made, so it will be interesting to find out more as scientists explore the area further."
The research was funded primarily by Departmental PhD scholarship, the British Heart Foundation, and the University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust.
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Google's newly released Cloud Print app lets Android users send documents and photos to their Wi-Fi connected printers. It's a handy app that's usefulness propelled it to the lead position on today's Apps Worth Downloading list. Following Cloud Print is StudyBlue, an app for making study flashcards and connecting with other students to help maximize study efficiency. Finally, Beejumbled puts a new twist on Boggle-like word scramble games.
What?s it about? Google's Cloud Print app is finally here, allowing users to print from their Android devices to printers connected to their Wi-Fi networks.
What?s cool? At its simplest, Google's Cloud Print lets users connect a printer to a Wi-Fi network, hook it up with Cloud Print, and then send print jobs to it from any Android device connected to that network. It's a principle other apps have handled in the past, but Google's version brings the company's classic simple and elegant app design along with it. You can monitor your print jobs from the app to see how they're doing, and send documents and images from your device's Gallery for printing quickly and easily.
Who?s it for? If you've got printers you can access on your Wi-Fi network and want an easy way to print from your phone or tablet, Google has provided it.
What?s it like? Other cloud printing apps include HP e-Print and Cloud Print from developer Paulo Fernandez.
What?s it about? Study app StudyBlue allows students to make flashcards to make studying easier, and includes a number of other features to help them be successful in school.
What?s cool? Studying efficiently and effectively is one of the toughest skills to learn in school, and StudyBlue aims to help students with that issue by making it easy for them to create flashcards that can help. You can snap a photo of an item and record your own information about it to create a card, and then use that card to help you remember what you need to know. The app includes stats that let you focus on what you're struggling with over what you already know, and you can also search online for flashcards from other students. The app even includes a messaging feature, so you can use it with other students in your class and help each other study better.
Who?s it for? StudyBlue is specifically aimed at students, but anyone who needs to study particular information can get some use out of it. Just note you'll need to create a free account on StudyBlue.com to use the app.
What?s it like? Check out Dictionary.com Flashcards and RU Studying Custom Flashcards for some studying alternatives.
What?s it about? Beejumbled is a word game in which players find words in a jumble of letters and earn points for creating specific ones.
What?s cool? Beejumbled isn't unlike titles such as Boggle, in which players are handed a pile of letters and asked to create words out of them by linking adjacent letter tiles together. In Beejumbled, however, the interesting twist comes from which ?bees? you choose as your characters in each round. Like other word titles, you get extra points for making longer words, but you also score more if you adhere to your bee's special ability ? one gives more points with words containing the letter ?k,? for example, while another might add points for words that end in ?ick.? There's also a head-to-head multiplayer mode and weekly tournaments to keep you engaged in the larger competition.
Who?s it for? Fans of word games and jumbles will find some interesting new takes on those games in Beejumbled.
What?s it like? As mentioned, Boggle is another title with an angle on word scrambles, and you'll find some other cool ideas in W.E.L.D.E.R.
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