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Saturday, June 30, 2012
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Understanding Google Play: Meet the new Android Market
Google Play is a lot of things, but more importantly, it's a lot of things all in one place. Google?has taken a wrecking ball to the Android Market as we know it (a store for apps and games) to create a comprehensive store combining the Android Market, Google Music, and Google eBookstore.
Google Play is a cloud-based one-stop shop for all things entertainment, Google's answer to Apple's iTunes store. Its nuances and changes are beneficial to everyone ? not just those with Android devices???so sit back and enjoy the Google Play scenery.
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Microsoft releases list of 180 Windows Phone 8 launch countries
We?ve heard Microsoft bandy around a figure of 180 countries getting Windows Phone 8 at launch for a week or so, but up until now we haven?t been able to see the list itself. Things are coming into focus today, as the company tells us exactly which 180 countries are getting Windows Phone 8 Marketplace and the company?s App Hub app submission portal when devices first hit stores. Perhaps more interesting than the list itself is the news that developers in every country with Windows Phone 8 Marketplace will be getting access to App Hub ? a massive increase over the 38 markets available for aspiring developers in Marketplace?s previous iteration. Check below to see if your country made the cut (click the image for a larger version).
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University of Toledo, AFSCME extend contract
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The University of Toledo and its AFSCME union agreed to a one-year extension of a three-year contract.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees at the University of Toledo has agreed to a one-year contract extension, the Toledo Blade reports.
The union's 2,000 members at the university's Health Science campus approved the deal on Wednesday, the newspaper reports. The university's board of trustees approved the contract June 18.
Terms of the extension were not reported, but the original contract gave workers a 2 percent raise in November 2010 and a 3 percent raise in 2011 to go along with higher health insurance premiums, the newspaper reports.
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3 Fellers Desserts Expand To Earth Fare And Another Whole Foods ...
GOOCHLAND, Va., June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ ??3 Fellers, a Virginia-based bakery and gluten-free food manufacturer, announced this week that it will provide gluten-free desserts and dinner rolls to bakery sections of two grocery retailers in the East by July 6, 2012. Approximately 20 Whole Foods and 30 Earth Fare grocery stores will carry these items from 3 Fellers.
"We are very excited about this opportunity," said Mike Feller, president of 3 Fellers. "Celiac awareness is growing rapidly as more and more people learn to understand the condition, and there is a heightened demand for gluten-free goods. As a result, we are working closely with Whole Foods and Earth Fare to provide our high-end products to their customers."
Roughly 20 Whole Foods stores in Florida will join the natural and organic food store chain's locations throughout the Mid-Atlantic in carrying 3 Fellers layered gluten-free brownies, eventually adding four-inch mini pies to their Florida inventory as well. The Mid-Atlantic stores feature these items in addition to 3 Fellers gluten-free cupcakes.
"Our premium products are a natural fit with both companies," said Feller. "We are very fortunate to have developed a great working relationship with both organizations, and we look forward to growing with them."
Earth Fare, one of the nation's leading natural and organic food retailers, will offer 3 Fellers gluten-free brownies and mini pies in nearly 30 stores in six states, as well as the company's new line of dinner rolls.
About 3 Fellers, LLC: 3 Fellers (http://3fellersbakery.com) is a family-owned gluten-free bakery and manufacturer based in Goochland, Virginia. It uses all-natural ingredients to make the highest quality wholesale gluten-free baked goods and desserts, including gluten-free rolls, brownies, specialty cupcakes and mini pies. The company carries the highest level of certification from the Gluten Free Certification Organization (GFCO) and is a local sponsor for the West End Gluten Intolerance Group.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
UN court acquits Karadzic of 1 genocide count
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ? The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of one charge of genocide Thursday but upheld 10 other war crimes counts related to atrocities in Bosnia's bloody war.
While the decision was a setback for prosecutors and angered survivors in Bosnia, the 10 pending charges against Karadzic include another genocide count covering his alleged involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
The charge that was dismissed Thursday covered the mass killings, expulsions and persecution by Serb forces of Muslims and Croats from Bosnian towns early in the country's 1992-95 war, which left 100,000 dead. Presiding Judge Oh-Gon Kwon said prosecutors did not provide enough evidence to "be capable of supporting a conviction of genocide in the (Bosnian) municipalities."
At the halfway stage of Karazdic's long-running trial, judges said there was enough evidence to uphold charges including murder and persecution in the early stages of the war, but the killings did not rise to the level of genocide, which requires prosecutors to prove intent to wipe out a specific group in whole or part.
Prosecutors finished presenting their evidence in May and earlier this month Karadzic had asked judges to dismiss all 11 counts, saying prosecutors had failed to prove their case.
Karadzic's lawyer, Peter Robinson, welcomed Thursday's rejection of the genocide charge.
"Dr. Karadzic and myself both thought it was a courageous decision of the trial chamber to say at this stage of the case that there was no genocide in the municipalities in Bosnia in 1992," Robinson told The Associated Press outside the court. "But I do expect that the prosecution will want to appeal this decision."
Prosecutors had no immediate reaction.
But survivors of the Bosnian war said the decision could set back any reconciliation.
"We are shocked and disappointed," said Edin Ramulic, who heads an association of victims in Bosnia's Prijedor region. "We have no reason to hope now that the Serbs will go through catharsis and acknowledge that the non-Serbs in Prijedor had been killed, tortured, exterminated, raped."
Prof. Lara J. Nettelfield, a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter in Britain who has written a book about the tribunal, called the ruling by the court disappointing but not surprising.
"Judges (at the tribunal) have consistently refused to support the prosecution's charge of genocide anywhere but in Srebrenica," Nettelfield said.
The court has repeatedly ruled that the massacre in Srebrenica was genocide, but has never convicted any suspect of genocide for the campaign of killings in the Bosnia towns and villages at the outset of the war.
"The decision also represents a huge disappointment for survivors in those municipalities and anyone who held out hope that the court ? with the imperfect mechanism of individual criminal accountability ? would leave behind a body of decisions that corresponded to lived experience there," she added.
Residents of Karadzic's wartime stronghold of Pale, near the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, were delighted to hear that one charge was removed from the indictment of the man they consider a wartime hero.
"His arrest was stupid to begin with," said Rosa Hadjibesarovic, a Pale resident. "I was surprised when he was arrested. I hope he will be acquitted on all charges."
Karadzic was arrested in 2008, 13 years after he was first indicted on charges of masterminding Serb atrocities during Bosnia's war. His trial started in 2009 and prosecutors rested their case in May. The trial will continue later this year on the 10 remaining counts and he will begin his defense on Oct. 16.
He faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted.
Karadzic's former military chief, Gen. Ratko Mladic, also is on trial on almost identical charges. The first witness in that trial is to begin testifying early next month.
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Associated Press writer Aida Cerkez in Sarajevo contributed to this report.
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Half of inhaled soot particles from diesel exhaust, fires gets stuck in the lungs
ScienceDaily (June 27, 2012) ? The exhaust from diesel-fueled vehicles, wood fires and coal-driven power stations contains small particles of soot that flow out into the atmosphere. The soot is a scourge for the climate but also for human health. Now for the first time, researchers have studied in detail how diesel soot gets stuck in the lungs. The results show that more than half of all inhaled soot particles remain in the body.
The figure is higher than for most other types of particles. For example "only" 20 per cent of another type of particle from wood smoke and other biomass combustion gets stuck in the lungs. One explanation is that diesel soot is made up of smaller particles and can therefore penetrate deeper into the lungs, where it is deposited. The study was made on diesel particles (which mainly consist of soot) and was recently published in the Journal of Aerosol Science. Ten healthy people volunteered for the the study.
"Findings of this kind can be extremely useful both for researchers to determine what doses of soot we get into our lungs out of the amount we are exposed to, and to enable public authorities to establish well-founded limits for soot particles in outdoor air," says Jenny Rissler, researcher in aerosol technology at Lund University's Faculty of Engineering and responsible for publishing the study.
In population studies, other researchers have been able to observe that people who live in areas with high concentrations of particulates are more affected by both respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. But since there is no conclusive evidence that it is precisely the soot that is to blame, the authorities have so far not taken any decisions on guidelines.
"Currently there is no specific limit for soot particles in the air, despite the fact that soot in the air is linked to both lung cancer and other diseases," says Jenny Rissler.
But Jenny Rissler thinks that in the future, limits on soot levels will also be set, with reference to the WHO's recent reclassification of diesel exhaust from "probably carcinogenic" to "carcinogenic."
Soot particles are not only connected to effects on health but may also contribute to a warmer climate. Paradoxically, other types of aerosol particles can partly be desirable, insofar as they have a cooling effect on the climate and thereby mitigate the warming effect of carbon dioxide.
"Soot particles are black and absorbs light, thus producing a warming effect. So it could be a double advantage to reduce it," she observes.
Jenny Rissler will next be studying individual variations in lung deposition and exposing cells to soot. She is also in the process of further developing methods to measure the surface area of the particles, as this has shown to be an important indicator of their harmfulness.
Background: Every time we breathe, we inhale tiny airborne particles, so-called aerosol particles. Some occur naturally, while others are the result of human activity. Soot mainly belongs in the latter category, as a by-product of combustion from power stations to small-scale wood fires and decorative candles. Another common source of soot is the exhaust from diesel engines, even though modern diesel cars have considerably reduced emissions thanks to efficient filters.
The EU will be tightening rules on emissions for heavy duty diesel vehicles in 2014.
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- Jenny Rissler, Erik Swietlicki, Agneta Bengtsson, Christoffer Boman, Joakim Pagels, Thomas Sandstr?m, Anders Blomberg, Jakob L?ndahl. Experimental determination of deposition of diesel exhaust particles in the human respiratory tract. Journal of Aerosol Science, 2012; 48: 18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2012.01.005
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Emma Stone Attracted To Gwen Stacy's 'Spider-Man' Tragedy
'That is so shocking and horrifying and kind of beautiful in some way,' actress tells MTV News of her character's tragic end in the comics.
By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield in "The Amazing Spider-Man"
Photo: Marvel / Columbia Pictures
The news of Emma Stone's casting in "The Amazing Spider-Man" was first met with almost universal approval. She would be the perfect Mary Jane Watson, fans thought. But when her true role as Gwen Stacy became clear, there was almost a bittersweet understanding.
If Gwen is remembered for one thing, it is her death at the hands of the Green Goblin.
When MTV News' Josh Horowitz spoke with the actress, she told him that the tragic end for the character was what initially drew her into the project. "That was part of the reason why I was kind of drawn to the role, that mark on pop-culture history," she said. "I read all about Gwen, and I thought that was so amazing."
Even with Gwen's death as an iconic moment in comic book history, canon is constantly rewritten for film adaptations. Stone sought answers from the filmmakers as to whether the film version of Gwen would respect the book, and she was pleased with the response.
"I spoke to the people behind the movie, and they said, 'Yeah, we're planning on staying true to the comics.' And I was like, 'If you're making a movie like this, that's something I want to be a part of,' " Stone said. "That is so shocking and horrifying and kind of beautiful in some way. The fact that people unsubscribed and burned their copies — I like anything that causes some kind of upheaval."
Her director Marc Webb couldn't say whether Stone's version of Gwen would meet the same fate in an upcoming installment, but he couldn't deny the allure of working with that moment. "I think that remains to be seen, but let me tell you this: The ultimate tragedy of Gwen Stacy is a really provocative and powerful part of the Spider-Man canon," he said. "I think it would be really extraordinary to explore that, but I don't want to take the wind out of the drama."
Check out everything we've got on "The Amazing Spider-Man."
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Short History of Massage Therapy ? Yapperz.com - Speak out loud.
Have you appreciated the therapeutic amazing benefits of a specialized therapeutic massage these days? Have you been pondering routine therapeutic massage as portion of sustaining a strong and fit way of life? Let's get a look at the story of therapeutic massage to better recognize the precious source that a licensed expert therapeutic massage therapist can provide on your staff of healthcare suppliers.
Term Origin
Inside our ongoing vocabulary, massage will be the guide manipulation belonging to the comfortable tissues from the overall body, executed making use of the arms in the therapist, as a way to acquire therapeutic gains. The Greek root of your term is masso or massein, indicating to the touch, to take care of, to knead, or to squeeze. The Latin root massa has the exact same signifying since the Greek. The Arabic mass'h as well as the sanskrit makeh imply to press softly.
Historical Situations
Therapeutic massage is one of the earliest and most natural usually means of relieving ache and pain. Whenever a human being has any damage or problems, the very first instinctive impulse can be to gently touch or rub the affected place. There's a lot of artifacts during historic civilizations that suggest that prehistoric guys and women put into use therapeutic massage and even herbs and oils inside the standard care in their bodies. Therapeutic massage, as taught anciently by healers or physicians, was on the list of most notable types of health care inside ancient planet. Massage Manhattan Beach.
The Chinese and Egyptians both practiced therapeutic massage as early as 3,000 B.Do. The Chinese focused on managing factors of vigor with acupuntcure (using the use of needles) and acupressure (finger strain in its place of needles). The Egyptians are imagined to obtain established reflexology all over 2500 B.C.
The follow of massage spread from China to Japan and India, and later on on to the Greeks of Europe. The Greek physician Asclepius, who was later worshipped for the reason that god of medication, put together physical fitness and therapeutic massage to form the artwork of gymnastics. Hippocrates, a enfant of Asclepius, wrote about the positive aspects of massage in healthcare procedures. His recognized code of ethics, the Hippocratic Oath, remains in use by medical professionals at this time. Hippocrates taught that every one physicians really should be educated in the utilization of massage as the system of recovery.
The Romans realized in the benefits of therapeutic massage within the Greeks and, merged with their public bathtub properties, created therapeutic massage obtainable to the prosperous and very poor alike. Roman normal Julius Caesar is believed to own had a every day therapeutic massage to treat neuralgia and epileptic assaults.
There may be not a good deal recorded of therapeutic massage in the Dark Ages. While using invention on the printing press around the Renaissance, there was a resurgence of interest in massage as everyday people when again put value on bodily overall health and overall look. Healthcare pros could now share their routines and tales of triumph with authorities globally.
Contemporary Times
Fashionable Therapeutic massage could be the continuation of historical ways and theories merged with modern day day familiarity with the whole system systems. You can find a substantial overall body of Western explore that now supports the Historic practices on the Eastern civilizations. The commonest kind of massage may be the Swedish therapeutic massage, which is certainly a therapeutic massage produced to boost the circulatory and immune product. It's very highly effective in growing the flow of fluids through your body and eliminating toxic mobile throw away even though delivering fresh new oxygenated blood with the muscle mass.
The documented added benefits of therapeutic massage are prevalent and relished across the globe. While using the modern day importance that could be now getting put on preventative and alternate therapies, the long run utilization of therapeutic massage to improve health and fitness and manage a vigorous life style will only increase in worldwide recognition.
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
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Baghdad market bombs kill 14, wound more than 100
BAGHDAD (AP) ? Two bombs exploded in an open-air market in Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 14 people in the latest round of spiraling violence six months after the last U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq.
More than 160 people have died this month in attacks mostly attributed to Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaida. They are targeting security forces and Shiite civilians in an attempt to weaken Iraq's fragile government, which is mired in deadlock and struggling to provide security and even basic services like electricity.
Friday's explosions, timed within minutes of each other, came at midmorning in the mostly Shiite neighborhood of Husseiniyah in northeast Baghdad. No one claimed responsibility.
Mohammed Hussein al-Jizani said he was haggling with customers in his shoe store next to the market when he heard a loud blast and ran outside.
"Three minutes later, there was a second explosion as people and policemen were rushing to the site of the first bomb," al-Jizani said. "The evil insurgents chose the best time to attack, because the market is usually busy on Fridays with young people gathering to sell and buy birds."
The blasts killed at least 14 people and wounded 106, a medical official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
The death toll for the month of June is the second highest so far in 2012, rivaled only by January, when 198 Iraqis were killed in a series of blasts widely seen as al-Qaida's attempts to shock the country immediately after the last American troops withdrew in December.
The absence of international forces combined with the government divisions and weak Iraqi security have emboldened the militants, said Stephanie Sanok, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who formerly worked at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on governance issues.
"The insurgents are now more complacent in the knowledge that international forces are not going to come riding back in," she said.
Also Friday, a bomb exploded in a car parked near the entrance of the Shiite al-Askari shrine in the city of Samarra, 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of Baghdad, killing one pilgrim and wounding 13 other people, officials said.
The shrine was the site of a huge explosion in February 2006 that sheared off its golden dome and ignited fierce sectarian fighting between Sunnis and Shiites across Iraq.
Officials and experts fear the surge in violence may signal Iraq's potential descent into a failed state, despite its oil wealth, billions of dollars in foreign aid and years of security assistance from U.S. troops. While violence is nowhere as widespread as it was just five years ago, when multiple sectarian killings threatened to push the country into civil war, deadly bombings and shootings still happen nearly every day.
The political crisis that has gripped Iraq since the day after U.S. troops left in December has also heightened sectarian tensions and potentially fueled some of the attacks.
"Insurgents are taking advantage of these fissures in order to influence not only the government but also public opinion of where the power actually lies within Iraq," Sanook said.
In the latest political standoff, parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi, leader of the Sunni-dominated Iraqiya political coalition, criticized the Shiite-led government for tearing down blast walls protecting the legislature. Al-Nujaifi said he would not send parliament employees back to work until the walls were put back up. That could happen as soon as Saturday.
Al-Nujaifi also said there were enough votes in parliament to oust Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, from power ? even though Iraq's president, a Kurd, has predicted the effort would fall short. Al-Maliki's critics accuse him of sidelining his political opponents and refusing to share authority.
Baghdad operations command spokesman Col. Dhia al-Wakil said Friday that recent attacks shouldn't be taken as a sign of security forces' failure.
"During the past days, the insurgents have mainly attacked soft targets such as pilgrims and markets because they cannot confront the Iraqi security forces," he said.
However, another police official acknowledged that most of Iraqi police and army members are not qualified to deal with the security challenges and they lack training and equipment. He spoke under condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment to reporters.
"Once again, innocent people are paying the price for the incompetence of our security forces," shoe seller al-Jizani lamented.
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Associated Press writer Kay Johnson contributed to this report.
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If you're a Facebook user with a tendency to make typos or regrettable comments, I've got good news: The social network is now allowing us to edit our Facebook comments as much as we want.
According to a Facebook spokesperson, "you'll now be able to edit your comments anytime after you post them." She adds that this is "particularly useful if you've made a typo and already have some likes and don't want to delete your comment entirely."
In the past, Facebook allowed folks to edit their comments for a couple of seconds after they're posted?? and only if no one has replied to them. This meant that you had to either catch your mistakes really?quickly or just plain completely delete your comment.
But with the new editing feature, you can click the "x" button on a comment at any time and have the option to edit it.
Once you've edited your comment, it will have a little "Edited" button next to the timestamp, to alert other folks of the change.?
And that's not all other folks will see.?Clicking on that new button will allow you?? and other users ? to view the edited comments history. This means that?your shame won't be hidden entirely. But it also prevents you from making sneaky changes in an attempt to make people look bad, like changing "I like ice cream" to "I kick kittens" after 100 people have liked your comment.
Ah, well. It's still a decent trade-off for the ability to edit out typos at any time.
Like any new Facebook feature, the?new comment editing ability seems to be rolling out gradually, so don't fret if you're not seeing it yet. You soon will.
Want more tech news, silly puns, or amusing links? You'll get plenty of all three if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts,?or circling her?on?Google+.
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Champs! James' triple-double lifts Heat to title
Miami Heat small forward LeBron James (6) and shooting guard Dwyane Wade react in the final moments during the second half at Game 5 of the NBA finals basketball series, Thursday, June 21, 2012, in Miami. The Heat won 121-106 to become the 2012 NBA Champions.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Miami Heat small forward LeBron James (6) and shooting guard Dwyane Wade react in the final moments during the second half at Game 5 of the NBA finals basketball series, Thursday, June 21, 2012, in Miami. The Heat won 121-106 to become the 2012 NBA Champions.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Miami Heat power forward Chris Bosh (1) reacts after Game 5 of the NBA finals basketball seriesagainst the Oklahoma City Thunder, Thursday, June 21, 2012, in Miami. The Heat won 121-106 to become the 2012 NBA Champions.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Miami Heat small forward LeBron James (6) shoots against Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins (5)during the second half at Game 5 of the NBA finals basketball series, Thursday, June 21, 2012, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Derek Fisher (37) talks to small forward Kevin Durant (35) between plays against the Miami Heat during the second half at Game 5 of the NBA finals basketball series, Thursday, June 21, 2012, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Oklahoma City Thunder small forward Kevin Durant (35) looks at the scoreboard during the second half at Game 5 of the NBA finals basketball series against the Miami Heat, Thursday, June 21, 2012, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
MIAMI (AP) ? Music blared and confetti fell, the only celebration LeBron James really wanted in Miami.
Not that one two summers ago, the welcoming rally where he boasted of multiple titles, perhaps without realizing how hard it would be to win just one.
He dreamed of this moment, with teammates surrounding him and the NBA championship trophy beside him.
"You know, my dream has become a reality now, and it's the best feeling I ever had," James said.
James had 26 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists, leading the Miami Heat in a 121-106 rout of the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday night to win the NBA Finals in five games.
Ripped and ridiculed for the way he announced he was leaving Cleveland and taking his talents to South Beach, it's all worth it now for James.
Best player in the game. Best team in the league.
And now, NBA champion.
"I'm happy now that eight years later, nine years later since I've been drafted, that I can finally say that I'm a champion, and I did it the right way," James said. "I didn't shortcut anything. You know, I put a lot of hard work and dedication in it, and hard work pays off. It's a great moment for myself."
And for his teammates, who watched the Dallas Mavericks celebrate on their floor last year.
James left the game along with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh for good with 3:01 remaining for a round of hugs and the start for a party he's been waiting for since arriving in the NBA out of high school as the No. 1 pick of the 2003 draft. James hopped up and down in the final minutes, shared a long hug with opponent Kevin Durant, and then soaked in the "MVP! MVP! chants during the raucous postgame.
"I wanted to become a champion someday," James said. "I didn't know exactly when it would happen, but I put in a lot of hard work."
He was a choker last year, the guy who came up small in the fourth quarter, mocked for "shrinking" in the moment while playing with what he called "hatred" in trying to prove his critics wrong.
He came to Miami seeking an easier road to the finals but found it tougher than he expected, the Heat coming up empty last year and nearly getting knocked out in the Eastern Conference finals this time by Boston. Facing elimination there, James poured in 45 points on the road to force a Game 7 and the Heat won it at home.
"It was the hardest thing I've ever done as a basketball player," James said. "You just put a lot of hard work into it and you hope that one day it will pay off for you."
This time, with a chance to clinch, the Heat took control in the second quarter, briefly lost it and blew the game open again in the third behind their role players, James content to pass to wide-open 3-point shooters while the Thunder focused all their attention on him.
The disappointment of losing to Dallas in six games a year ago vanished in a blowout of the demoralized Thunder, who got 32 points and 11 rebounds from Durant.
Bosh and Wade, the other members of the Big Three who sat alongside James as he promised titles at his Miami welcoming party, both had strong games. Bosh, who wept as the Heat left their own court after losing Game 6 last year, finished with 24 points and Wade scored 20. The Heat also got a huge boost from Mike Miller, who made seven 3-pointers and scored 23 points.
That all made it easier for James, the most heavily scrutinized player in the league since his departure from Cleveland, when he announced he was "taking his talents to South Beach" on a TV special called "The Decision" that was criticized everywhere from water coolers to the commissioner's office. James has said he wishes he handled things differently, but few who watched the Cavs fail to assemble championship talent around him could have argued with his desire to depart.
In Miami he found a team that didn't need him to do it alone, though he reminded everyone during this sensational postseason run that he still could when necessary. He got support whenever he needed it in this series, from Shane Battier's 17 points in Game 2 to Mario Chalmers' 25 in Game 4.
In the clincher it was Miller, banged up from so many injuries that he limped from the bench to scorer's table when he checked in. He made his fourth 3-pointer of the half right before James' fast-break basket capped a 15-2 run that extended Miami's lead to 53-36 with 4:42 remaining in the first half.
The Thunder were making a remarkably early trip to the finals just three years after starting 3-29, beating the Mavericks, Lakers and Spurs along the way. With Durant, Russell Westbrook, Serge Ibaka and James Harden all 23 or younger, the Thunder have the pieces in place for a lengthy stay atop the Western Conference.
But their inexperience showed in this series, a few questionable decisions, possessions and outright mistakes costing them in their franchise's first finals appearance since Seattle lost to Chicago in 1996. Westbrook scored 19 but made only four of his 20 shots, unable to come up with anything close to his 43-point outing in Game 4, and Harden finished a miserable series with 19.
"It hurts, man," Durant said. "We're all brothers on this team and it just hurts to go out like this. We made it to the finals, which was cool for us, but we didn't want to just make it there. Unfortunately we lost, so it's tough."
Nothing they did could have stopped James, anyway.
Appearing fully recovered from the leg cramps that forced him to sit out the end of Game 4, he was dominant again, a combination of strength and speed that is practically unmatched in the game and rarely seen in its history.
Wade skipped to each side of the court before the opening tip with arms up to pump up the fans, then James showed them nothing wrong with his legs, throwing down an emphatic fast-break dunk to open the scoring. He made consecutive baskets while being fouled, showing no expression after the second, as if he'd hardly even known he was hit. Drawing so much attention from the Thunder, he started finding his wide-open shooters, and the Heat built a nine-point lead before going to the second up 31-26.
Oklahoma City got back within five early in the third before consecutive 3-pointers by Chalmers and Battier triggered a 27-7 burst that made it 88-63 on another 3-pointer by Miller. James didn't even score in the run until it was almost over, hitting a pair of free throws after he was flagrantly fouled by Derek Fisher while powering toward the basket.
Gone was the tentative player who was mocked for shrinking on the big stage last year, too willing to defer to others who didn't possess half his talents. This time, he was at peace off the court and attacking on it, vowing to have no regrets and playing in such a way they wouldn't be necessary.
Miami had outscored Oklahoma City by just 389-384 over the first four games, but the Thunder were buried under a barrage of 14 3-pointers, tying the NBA record.
"They just hit 3s after 3s. They got it going and we couldn't stop them," Thunder center Kendrick Perkins said. "Things just didn't go our way."
Notes: Miami became the third team to sweep the middle three games at home in the 2-3-2 format. The Detroit Pistons took all three from the Los Angeles Lakers in 2004 before the Heat did it against Dallas in 2006. ... Coach Erik Spoelstra tied Pat Riley for the Heat franchise record with his 34th postseason win. He is 34-22, while Riley was just 34-36. ... The four-game losing streak that Oklahoma City finished the season with was its longest of the season. The Thunder had dropped three straight games to Memphis, Miami and Indiana from April 2-6.
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Kemp hopes to be healthy for All-Star game
By JANIE McCAULEY
AP Baseball Writer
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updated 3:05 p.m. ET June 21, 2012
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Dodgers slugger Matt Kemp still is optimistic about playing in the All-Star game next month in Kansas City - as long as he's sure he will be healthy for the stretch run with NL West-leading Los Angeles.
Whether manager Don Mattingly and the medical staff give him the go-ahead is another question altogether. Kemp says he and Mattingly have discussed the All-Star game.
Kemp has been on the disabled list for a second time this season since May 31 with the same strained left hamstring that first sidelined him from May 14-29.
Kemp, runner-up for last year's NL MVP and the National League's All-Star votes leader with 3,322,009 in baseball's latest count this week, insists he won't play in the Midsummer Classic if there is any question.
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Rio+20 sustainability conference: Got toilets?
As more and more people flood into megacities like Lagos, Nigeria, in search of opportunities, sanitation systems are badly strained.
People wear life jackets as they prepare to board ferry boats at Ikoyi jetty in Lagos, Nigeria, June 18.
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EnlargeThe 150 heads of state present at this week?s Rio+20 sustainability conference can access running water and flushing toilets when taking breaks between sessions. But that?s not the case for the nearly two and a half billion people worldwide without access to toilets ? which can impact the health of communities and cleanliness of drinking water ? a real obstacle facing growing megacities around the world.
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Take Nigerian film star Godfrey Achionye. With his briefcase and pointed animal-print shoes, Mr. Achionye looks every bit like the popular actor he is from Nollywood, Lagos's famous film industry.
But at home, Achionye must share a squat toilet and bucket bath with three other families. To get to work, he navigates sewage-flooded streets in Ajegunle, Lagos's largest slum, which offers all-important proximity to the hectic city's economic opportunities but little in terms of proper shelter and sanitation.
Just crossing the road is hard work. Residents and visitors hop from rock to rock, walk along stubby brick walls, or jump over pools of black water that flow into the streets from open sewers. On one street, residents tired of sinking their shoes in garbage-filled mud made a trail in the road, using thick sponges, plastic bags, and other refuse to create a surface to walk on.
For a neighborhood that several million people call home ? no one knows the exact number ? Ajegunle remains largely cut off from basic infrastructure, like the running tap water Lagos's elites take for granted.
And yet, Ajegunle is just one of many such slums that 70 percent of Lagos's population, and, indeed, even part of its middle class, call home.
As more and more Nigerians flood into Lagos in search of jobs and opportunities, the sanitation system is badly under strain. Without improvements, risks of disease increase. Already Nigeria has been hit by several cholera outbreaks, claiming thousands of lives.
Poor sanitation is the main cause of outbreaks like this in a country where 33 million people lack access to toilets. Human waste is out in the open and can contaminate water sources.
Diseases can be carried in human waste, and their top casualties are babies and toddlers. This contributes to Nigeria's high infant mortality rate.
For some, a starting point is simply raising the issue of sanitation, which has long been taboo.
"This habit of doing in public what ought to be done in private strikes me as pointing to a much deeper cultural crisis," US-based Nigerian academic Okey Ndibe wrote last year in a column titled "Nigeria As One Open Toilet."
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3 Essential Dorm Accessories
Your dorm room will be an important part of your college life. To start your college journey on the right note, choose practical dorm accessories. These dorm room essentials can help you settle into college life with ease.
Cooler or Mini Fridge Coolers and mini fridges are practical dorm accessories. They are perfect for holding snacks and sodas for all-night study sessions. When you have deadlines and projects due, you don't have to go to the cafeteria to get snacks, simply store them in your mini fridge to save time. If you want a place to store your midnight munchies, these dorm room essentials are the answer.
Choose coolers that will help you keep food cold or hot. The heating option is helpful to keep hot chocolate and apple cider warm in the winter. Opt for fridges and coolers with removable shelves and racks so they can be cleaned easily.
Organizing Tools Organizing tools help to make the most of the available space so they are great choices for space-constrained dorm rooms. Desk organizers, closet organizers, shower caddies and vanity organizers are helpful dorm accessories. These dorm room essentials help to keep your dorm room clutter-free and organized.
Pen cups, trays and magazine holders are great for keeping all your school supplies organized on your desk. Closet organizers can be used to arrange clothes, accessories and shoes so you can quickly get ready for early classes. A great tip to stay organized is to put up your to-do list on the fridge door with magnets. Vanity organizers and shower caddies are smart storage solutions to hold your makeup and bath essentials like shampoo and shower gels.
Storage Tools Canvas storage bins, wicker storage baskets and plastic crates are dorm room essentials that can help you store all your college essentials. Bins and baskets with labels are ideal for storing anything from clothes and books to CDs and DVDs. These dorm accessories can be tucked away in the closet or under the desk or the bed. Opt for large crates and bins with casters so it's easy to slide them underneath the bed.
Storage and organization are the two main aspects to keep in mind when decorating your dorm room.
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Analysis: Healthcare sees emerging future in frugal innovation
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LONDON (Reuters) - When Argentinian car mechanic Jorge Odon was joking around with friends about how to get a cork out of an empty wine bottle using only a plastic bag, his thoughts were a long way from problem of maternal mortality.
Yet in the middle of the night, it struck him that the problem with the cork and the bottle was remarkably similar to obstructed labor, when a baby can't get through the birth canal and puts its own and its mother's life at risk.
Despite his wife's skepticism - when he shook her awake to tell her his brilliant idea, she apparently told him to go back to sleep - Odon patented his idea, got partners on board and developed the "Odon device" which is now in trials.
If the enthusiasm shown by Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), is borne out, he'll go down in history as inventor of the first new assisted delivery device since vacuum suction and forceps were introduced decades and centuries ago.
His simple device slides a disposable plastic sheath around the baby's head, allowing an attendant to pull the baby out. As well as providing a cheap and safe alternative to forceps and vacuum pumps, it could protect the baby from the transmission of HIV or other infections in the birth canal.
"It's inexpensive, it's ingenious, and it's so simple it can be used by lower level staff," Chan told a meeting of global health experts in London last week. "If it is approved, it would give resource-poor settings something they very badly need - a new life-saving tool." (link.reuters.com/jyg88s)
QUALITY AND ACCESSIBILITY
Odon is not alone in pursuing such low-tech solutions. Big companies like General Electric and Siemens, who build some of the world's most complex and costly pieces of healthcare kit, are also working to develop cheaper medical devices that can secure sales in emerging markets and, potentially, win business at home.
The new wave of thinking effectively turns on its head the idea that healthcare innovation must always make something more high-tech, more sophisticated, more complex - and hence more expensive.
With this kind of disruptive innovation, sometimes called "frugal innovation", instead of adding yet more bells and whistles, the idea is strip down to the bare necessities.
"Disruptive innovation basically answers the question - instead of making what we already have better, and therefore more expensive and less accessible, can we instead introduce something more affordable, more convenient and more accessible to more people," said Jason Hwang, director of healthcare at the California-based Innosight Institute think tank.
It's not necessarily about lower spec, or lower quality, but it is definitely about lower barriers to access.
The best way to achieve this kind of innovation, according to executives at GE Healthcare, one of the leaders in the field, is to be "in country for country" - an approach it has taken in developing handheld mobile ultrasound and electrocardiogram (ECG) scanners for use in regions where health clinics are few and far between, but the needs of the people are just as great.
For Mike Hess, an expert in cardiac rhythm disease management at the medical device firm Medtronic, it's also about reducing the likelihood a product might fail in potentially high-volume and lucrative emerging markets.
"If you develop a product for an air-conditioned, power-stable, sterile environment and then put it into an environment where none of those things are true, it's likely to fail," he told the conference.
MARKET OPPORTUNITY
There's nothing startlingly new about companies adapting their products or the way they sell them to suit the needs and capabilities of poorer people in emerging markets.
After all, single cigarettes are sold from kiosks in places where many people cannot afford to buy a full pack. Consumer goods firms like Unilever sell shampoo in single-use sachets for the same reason. British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline sells single tablets of its painkiller Panadol in India.
But some experts think the healthcare industry in general has been behind the curve.
While frugal cars, computers and mobile phones have rapidly become entrenched in emerging markets, there has been a tendency until recently to view large swathes of the developing world as a lost cause rather than a medical market opportunity.
Ali Mufuruki, chief executive of the Infotech Investment Group in Tanzania, said healthcare firms would do well to learn lessons from other industries.
Citing Coca Cola's high-profile advertising campaign, which pictures young Africans above the slogan "a billion reasons to believe in Africa", Mufuruki says he'd like to see healthcare giants adopt a similar attitude.
"Coca-Cola sees a business opportunity in every African. We (in the healthcare industry) need to look at Africans not as needy, poor, problematic customers but as people with special needs that we can work to meet."
Medtronic, the world's largest medical devices company, says it's got the message.
Chief Executive Omar Ishrak told Reuters in January his researchers were now working to bring low-cost implantable devices to patients in Asia, Latin America and Africa. The U.S. firm has identified heart pacemakers as the most likely area for initial research and development.
MODERN-DAY BAREFOOT DOCTORS
Other experts point to history and say the health industry just needs to bring up to date what it has done before.
Sailesh Chutani's Seattle-based start-up firm Mobisante took its lesson from China's 1960s Cultural Revolution, when Mao Zedong sought to address a critical shortage of medics in rural areas by giving basic training to an army of "barefoot doctors" and sent them out to provide essential care.
Mobisante's solution has been to develop a smartphone ultrasound probe called the Mobius which works like its full-sized big brother but fits into your pocket like a mobile phone.
It can handle up to six continuous hours of scanning between charges and can be used for fetal ultrasounds and imaging of organs like kidneys, gall bladders, glands and soft tissue.
The device sends the image by mobile phone signal to a remote specialist to read, bringing the benefits of a full-blown scanning clinic to rural areas where there may be no expert in reading ultrasound scans - or even a steady electricity supply.
"Diagnosis is critical in healthcare - and if you make diagnosis so ubiquitous and available that you don't have to go to a doctor or hospital to get it, that's huge," said Chutani.
"We think of this as a modern day version of the Chinese barefoot doctors. But we give them shoes, and they carry devices like these that can essentially tell you what is wrong with someone."
The device costs around $7,000, but Mobisante has also taken a leaf out of the cellphone industry's book and designed a business model under which the kit can be leased to the user for a more manageable monthly fee.
EYE CATCHING FOR COST CUTTERS
While the new approach is born out of a desire to service poorer countries with potentially large volume markets, the ideas - and the products emerging from them - are also starting to catch the eyes of recession-hit economies in the developed world.
Chutani said he's already noticed a shift in both Europe and the United States, primarily fuelled by the need to contain or cut healthcare costs, to look at lower-tech, more accessible and more affordable ways to get health technology to patients.
With frugal innovation also focused on coming up with products that can be used by less skilled workers, developed economies are eager to explore ways to save money on years of training and on paying top dollar for medical experts.
"This is a time of nearly global austerity," the WHO's Chan said. "And with budgets shrinking, how can the unprecedented momentum for better health be maintained? Much of the answer lies with these kinds of innovations."
(Additional reporting by Ben Hirschler; Editing by Peter Graff)
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