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This photo released by Obama for America shows a Barack Obama teaching at the University of Chicago Law School.

New York (PRWEB) May 14, 2012

Bloomberg Sports, the world’s leader in sports analytic technology, today announced the integration of the Fantasy Alarm feature to their “Front Office 2012″ fantasy baseball product, a state-of-the art enhancement which will provide all subscribers who opt in with an unlimited amount of instant updates on all their fantasy players’ activity. This valuable enhancement, free to all subscribers, officially launched today.

Via text message or email, Fantasy Alarm provides Front Office subscribers with direct access to critical, time-sensitive information such as injury, schedule, and latest news. The alarms are tailored to the fantasy...

With four of Los Angeles professional sports teams in action this weekend — three of them in postseason contests — authorities are warning of a possible harmonic convergence of gridlock in the downtown area.

The heavier than normal traffic is expected to last from Friday through Sunday as the Lakers, Clippers and Kings are all in action for a total of five playoff games in three days.

The Dodgers will be hosting the St. Louis Cardinals as part of a weekend homestand. And on Sunday morning, the final stage of the Amgen Tour of California will start in Beverly Hills and end in downtown LA

As if that was not enough, a weekend trade show is also scheduled...

Since August, there have been three tragic pedestrian deaths in a seven-block radius near the Castro and Upper Market area.

While each of the incidents included acts of negligence, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, the public reaction to the fatalities has been notably varied.

If the names of Wallace Loggins and Chris Bucchere — a Muni driver and cyclist, respectively, involved in two of the deaths — are searched for on the Internet, several indignant stories pop up. However, a search for the name of a third person — Gregg Wilcox, a motorist who struck and killed a pedestrian — yields considerably less outrage.

The actions...

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Prior to 1966, the people in Miami did not know what it was like to have a professional sports team in their city. The only sports they knew came from the University of Miami, which back then was not the powerhouse it would become in the 1980s and 1990s.

Sports may not be the focal point of South Beach, since there are plenty of other things to do than attend a sporting event. However, if a city wants to be considered as important, sports have to come into the picture. Miami certainly doesnt need sports to attract visitors, but it definitely helps.

The University of Miami football team played its inaugural season in 1926. However, it wasnt until Howard Schnellenberger became...

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In a recent Hospital Impact blog post, Jonathan H. Burroughs recalled an instance early in his medical career when he disrespected an inexperienced nurse and drove her to tears.

In my most caustic and superior tone I told her so that everyone could hear, If you dont know what epinephrine and atropine are, you should not be here; please send me a nurse who knows what [he or she] is doing, wrote Burroughs, a certified physician executive and American College of Physician Executives fellow.

With a daughter entering the healthcare field, Burroughs wondered whether physician-nurse relationships have since improved.

His disrespect–and...

Bus agencies respond, note varied riders choose transit

Posted on | May 5, 2012 | Comments

So as promised, though no one really asked, here are the responses to my blog entry earlier about the perception of the bus as not for middle and upper-class riders. The general consensus is bus use is up and that all sorts of people are contributing.

Heres what I received from Riverside Transit Agency spokesman Brad Weaver:

I would say that we are not a perfect system but we remain the travel mode of choice for a growing number...

Its hard to remember now, but there was a time before online social networking. Since then, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and, most recently, the online pinboard Pinterest have woven themselves through our daily lives with terrifying efficiency. No wonder that new implications continue to emerge.

The latest? If youre a big noise on social networks, major brands could soon be in contact. Not to push you products; to ask, instead, if youll feature those products in your photographs, videos, or status updates. For a fee, of course. Think of it as fanvertising: the most potent signal yet of the new ways in which brands are angling to leverage the peer-to-peer influence allowed by online...

The spotlight shown on early cinema by recent films like The Artist and Hugo has been burning bright for some years now at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont. This CityBrights piece marks the first in a monthly look at whats showing on the other side of the Bay.

May is set to be an eclectic and even electric month in Niles. In addition to three more installments of the famous serial, The Perils of Pauline, the venerable East Bay film museum is set to screen one of the big hits of the era, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino, as well as Laughing at Danger, an early thriller with plenty of pulp fiction trappings. And thats not all. There is also...