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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Feed Wrangler: A Great iOS Reader Replacement for a Price
While yes, the grieving process takes time, if you're still too busy bemoaning the imminent death of your beloved Google Reader
What does it do?
Lets you import your RSS feed from Google Reader, or if you're looking for a new beginning, you can pick and choose which specific lists you'd like to bring in to your new, Reader-less life. From there, you'll get four main screens: unread, all, starred, and Smart Streams. The last follows in the vein of Apple's Smart Playlists, and puts together feeds whichever search terms or already existing feeds you'd like.
Why do we like it?
Convenience is front and center here. The web app lets you manage your lists and browse your feeds when desktop access is available. Plus, for 1Password users, an icon is flawlessly integrated into the start screen, so all it takes is a single tap and you're in browsing headlines. And unlike with many mobile-based reader apps out there, Feed Wrangler doesn't skimp on functionality for screen space. It manages to give you just as much power (star, mark as read, mark all as read, sharing, etc.) as you enjoy in Google Reader while keeping a simple, clean layout that doesn't detract from your experience. Of course, you'll have to REALLY be someone who uses an RSS reader to validate the high price. Everyone else can download the sample version for free and get a glimpse of how the other side lives.
Feed Wrangler, Download this app for: iOS, Free/$19
The Best: Smart Streams
The Worst: Pricey
Source: http://gizmodo.com/feed-wrangler-a-great-ios-reader-replacement-for-a-pri-486145419
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Sunday, April 7, 2013
At least 36 killed in southwest Nigeria bus crash
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) ? An official says at least 36 people have been killed in a bus crash in which a gasoline tanker exploded in southwest Nigeria.
The explosion happened Friday afternoon in Nigeria's Edo state.
Federal Road Safety Corps spokesman Jonas Agwu said three people survived the collision between the large bus and the tanker. Agwu said the crash resulted in a fire that burned for hours, making it difficult for officials to know how many people died in the crash.
Nigeria has some of West Africa's worst roads, despite its oil wealth. Massive potholes and poor paving, coupled with aggressive drivers, are blamed for many crashes. World Health Organization data shows Nigeria suffers from one of the world's highest traffic fatality rates.
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GOP Members of Immigration 'Gang of 8' Pressured by Fellow Republicans
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Grassley, ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and other Republican panel members wrote to the four GOP members of the immigration group asking them for details on the bill they are drafting.Four Senate Republicans, including Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, want the details of the immigration overhaul package being drafted behind closed doors by a bipartisan group of eight senators that hopes to unveil its bill next week.
And they want the details on Monday.
Grassley, who is ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, along with committee members Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas, wrote to the four GOP members of the immigration group asking them the make their staffs available to the committee?s GOP staff by no later than Monday evening.
?The time for transparency has come,? Grassley wrote in a letter dated Thursday to GOP Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida.
?Given the Majority?s rushed time table, we believe it is time for you to discuss the status of your negotiations, disclose what concessions have been made and provide details to members of the Judiciary Committee as well as the entire Republican Caucus,? the letter said.
Others have also raised concerns about the bill being drafted behind the scenes, including Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt.
Nevertheless, Leahy has said he plans to take up the measure as soon as possible, seeking to take advantage of the growing support for revisions, including from the Republican National Committee and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
However, Leahy has also sought to assure Republicans that he wants an open and transparent process and intends to allow for requisite debate and opportunity amendments, in part, to make sure the process does not become an excuse for opposition of the measure.
Sessions, in particular, has been critical of Leahy and believes he plans to try to ram the bill through committee. In the letter, the four Republicans ask the immigration group to help ensure that their minority rights are preserved as the Senate considers the package.
The four said they ?hope you will pledge your commitment to protecting the rights of the minority in the Senate by demanding a full, orderly and open debate process during Committee consideration and when the bill is sent to the full Senate,? the letter said. Rubio has already said he wants a lengthy committee process for the bill.
The group also said it has concerns that Leahy has indicated that he may hold one hearing, given that more than 40 immigration hearings have been held by the panel over the past four Congresses. The group would like, what it argues would be, a more thorough process hearing from a wide variety of experts.
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Mars sand dunes may hint at water beneath
The discovery, based on research in Alaska, opens a window on processes at play early in Mars' history, when it hosted an environment that could have harbored microbial life.
Dunes spanning an area about the size of Texas in the Martian equivalent of the Arctic.
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That is the implication of studies of sand dunes in Alaska's Kobuk Valley National Park, some 380 miles northwest of Fairbanks. There, above the Arctic Circle, researchers using the dunes as stand-ins for dunes on Mars have found evidence for liquid water trapped between the dunes' icy winter coat and subsurface layers of ice or freeze-dried silt that form a temporary, cement-like barrier that prevents the water from percolating deeper into the dune.
The water remains liquid because it exists in an environment of temperature and pressure that allows liquid water, ice, and water vapor to exist side by side.
The discovery of this seasonal mechanism for storing liquid water on Mars-like features at Mars-like temperatures opens a window on processes that could have been at play early in Mars' history, when it hosted an environment that could have harbored microbial life.
?And it could help explain debris flows scientists have spotted on sunlit sections of crater and canyon walls in various locations around the planet.
"Mars has likely had active sand dunes during every geologic era, and some of these eras were warmer and wetter than Mars is today," notes Cynthia Dinwiddie, a researcher with the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.
"There is some possibility that equivalent processes are currently occurring on Mars," primarily in dune fields in Mars' equivalent of the Arctic, she writes in an email. Still, "the likelihood is even greater that equivalent processes occurred on ancient Mars."
The dune field in Alaska that Dr. Dinwiddie and Southwest Research Institute colleague Don Hooper study sits on the boundary between boreal forests to the south and Arctic tundra to the north. Known as the Great Kobuk Sand Dune field, the sands were first formed during ice ages that occurred between 300,000 and 130,000 years ago.
Glaciers sculpted the Brooks Range to the north and left the sandy debris in the Kobuk River Valley. There, wind, meltwater, and more-recent ice ages would continue to rework the material to leave some 24 square miles of mobile dunes on the surface and another 250 square miles of sandy soils that don't get around much anymore.
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Newspaper publishes photo of Pistorius in blades
In this photo taken March 24 2013, shows Olympian athlete Oscar Pistorius running on the track at the University of Pretoria South Africa. The photo was taken by a pupil from the Voortrekker High School in Pietermaritzburg while on a hockey tour in Pretoria. A South African newspaper published the grainy cellphone image of Pistorius at a running track in his carbon fiber blades Thursday as the Olympian?s agent said his return to training was now imminent, but denied he was already in training. (AP Photo/Lisa Smith)
In this photo taken March 24 2013, shows Olympian athlete Oscar Pistorius running on the track at the University of Pretoria South Africa. The photo was taken by a pupil from the Voortrekker High School in Pietermaritzburg while on a hockey tour in Pretoria. A South African newspaper published the grainy cellphone image of Pistorius at a running track in his carbon fiber blades Thursday as the Olympian?s agent said his return to training was now imminent, but denied he was already in training. (AP Photo/Lisa Smith)
FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2012 file photo, South Africa's Oscar Pistorius competes during Men's 100m T44 round 1 at the 2012 Paralympics in London. A judge in South Africa says Pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend, can leave South Africa to compete in international competition, with conditions. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2013 file photo, olympian Oscar Pistorius stands following his bail hearing in Pretoria, South Africa. A judge in South Africa says Pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend, can leave South Africa to compete in international competition, with conditions. (AP Photo/File)
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? A South African newspaper published a grainy cellphone photograph of Oscar Pistorius at a running track in his carbon fiber blades Thursday as the Olympian's agent said his return to training was now imminent ? but denied he was already in training.
The Afrikaans-language Beeld newspaper had the image of what it said was Pistorius, who was charged with murder for the Valentine's Day shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, on the front page of its Thursday edition.
In the photograph ? taken by a high school student from a bus passing by the track ? the double amputee is seen from some distance wearing his blades and dark lycra running clothes and is walking on a track with his hands on his hips.
The photo was taken on March 24 by teenager Lisa Smith, her field hockey coach said, when their team was visiting the University of Pretoria where Pistorius' regular practice facility is.
The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that Pistorius had been at the track in the South African capital city on the day of the photograph.
It was the first time Pistorius had put his blades on since he shot dead Steenkamp in his home in the early hours of Feb. 14, his agent, Peet van Zyl, told the AP later on Thursday.
Pistorius was only "having a jog around the track," the agent said, as the newspaper claimed sources had told it the Olympic 400-meter runner and Paralympic champion had begun full training at the university on March 21. Van Zyl disputed that and said neither he nor Ampie Louw, Pistorius' coach and the man who controls his training sessions, were present at the track on the day the photograph was taken.
Field hockey coach and school sports director Charmaine Koekemoer said she was driving the bus past the track at around 10.15 a.m. on the Sunday morning when members of her Hoerskool Voortrekker girls hockey team started shouting "There's Oscar, there's Oscar!" from the back.
Student Smith then took the photo on her BlackBerry, Koekemoer said. It shows Pistorius in the distance with the bars of a metal fence in the foreground. He is the only person in the shot.
"The kids were very excited," Koekemoer told the AP. "That was the excitement, seeing a world icon in real life. It was nothing to do with his case.
"We didn't see him running around the track. He was just walking to the 100 meter end line down the final stretch. It looked like he was going to take his blades off."
The single photo, a grainy image taken through the black fence and showing Pistorius walking on the far side of the track, was accompanied by a front-page story in Beeld under the headlines "Oscar is back on the track" and "In training with other athletes."
Pistorius' management team was expecting the photo to be published, Van Zyl said, after Pistorius had told them he had visited his track with some Australian athletes on the day a little under two weeks ago. Koekemoer ? who was visiting with her students from the eastern city of Pietermaritzburg ? said there were other athletes around Pistorius when they saw him.
Neither Pistorius' coach nor his agent knew about the track visit until afterward, Van Zyl said.
But while Pistorius wasn't yet in a training routine, the agent said, his return could be any day now. The image of the world's most famous disabled athlete back on his unmistakable running blades was likely now to become more and more common again.
"He might get up this morning and call (coach) Ampie (Louw) and say he wants to be at the track at one o'clock," Van Zyl said. Van Zyl also said Pistorius' desire to start training again did not show disrespect to the family of Steenkamp.
Pistorius denies murder in the Valentine's Day killing of model Steenkamp, saying he mistook her for a nighttime intruder in his home. His next scheduled court appearance is June 4, when prosecutors say they intend to serve indictments.
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Valeant sweetens bid for Obagi Medical
(Reuters) - Cosmetics products maker Obagi Medical Products Inc agreed to a revised $24-per-share buyout offer from Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc after Valeant raised its offer to top a rival bid from German drugmaker Merz Pharma Group.
Obagi shares were up 9 percent at $25.03 in early trading as investors geared up for a takeover fight over a company that makes specialized skin care products to fight signs of aging, sun damage and acne.
Obagi's products are sold only through prescription and are considered to be more potent than commercially available over-the-counter cosmetics, enabling the manufacturer to command a premium pricing.
Specialized cosmetic treatments for aesthetic reasons had taken a hit during the recession, but as the economy stabilizes, physicians offering these services are seeing patients return.
Obagi and Canada's Valeant agreed to a deal last month in which Valeant offered $19.75 per share. However, Merz Pharma topped that with an offer of $22 per share on Tuesday.
Valeant said its latest offer, which values Obagi at about $418 million, has been approved by Obagi's board.
(Reporting by Esha Dey in Bangalore; Editing by Maju Samuel)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/valeant-sweetens-bid-obagi-medical-125109096--finance.html
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