Los Angeles Dodgers: Ranking Top 25 Players In Looking Up This List.



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One look at the Dodgers top prospects and it boils down to one word. Pitching. In looking up this list, the Dodgers are incredibly deep with great young arms and it's likely the tradition of great Dodger pitchers will continue into the next decade.


I liked listening to the Dodgers on KABC. It's a local talk radio station I listened to anyway, but I think it's a good thing to have the broadcasts on an all-sports station. I look forward to seeing what kind of post or pregame shows they develop around the game broadcasts. When the broadcasts were on KABC, you didn't get a lot of pre- or post-game programming; they were anxious to get back to their scheduled shows. In fact, when games would run long, I would hear the other hosts complaining about the game cutting into their show.


At the same time, there aren't that many flashy hitters, so when you see the Dodgers' offensively challenged lineup, one has to hope that their young farmhands continue to develop as hitters, because not too many of their top prospects scream crazy power or high average.

Here's one writer's take on the 25 best prospects in the system, starting from 25 and moving to 1.





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Lady Gaga is getting her Little Monsters amped up for the "Marry the Night" video.




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It is Celebrity related news.Lady Gaga is getting her Little Monsters amped up for the "Marry the Night" video."Just wrapped my 5th music video, can't wait to unfold all its secrets and share with you moments from my past I have yet to reveal," she said on the site. "Put Born This Way back in the vessel, for rebirth, as I lay in mine. When too strong to divorce, then buckle up, MARRY THE NIGHT."

Gaga shot the video earlier this month in her hometown. She was spotted all over town filming scenes for the Born This Way single's video, including at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island.

In addition to getting philosophical about the clip, Gaga also shared the cover art for the single, the fifth off her chart-topping album. "Do you want the #MARRY THE NIGHT SINGLE COVER tonight?" the Mother Monster asked her dedicated legion of fans. "If monsters make MARRY THE NIGHT SINGLE COVER the number one trending topic I will release it tonight. Early. SORRY INTERSCOPE! I LOVE THEM!"

After Twitter blocked all chances to get the trend going, Gaga defied the rules and released the art anyway. "Even better, you pissed [off] Twitter. Be prepared to Marry the Night at 8pm PST," she said before dropping it with this message: "New York is Not Just a Tan that You'll Never Lose."

In the picture, Gaga is dressed in leather, shaking her blond hair around. She's posing on the wet hood of a car while a fire burns behind her. It looks to be a scene from the video. No word yet on when the clip will premiere.




Polar bears and greenhouse gases: Can one live with the other? It is a questionable story.




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U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan also concluded that federal officials were within their authority in a rule allowing "incidental" harm to polar bears that might occur as a result of oil and gas activities in the Arctic -- provided that those activities already are authorized under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.The suit was filed by advocates for the polar bears, which are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Warmer temperatures are shrinking the bears’ primary habitat on the sea ice, making them a  focal point in the debate over greenhouse gas emissions. Conservationists argue there is no way to ensure the bears’ survival unless their biggest threat -- global warming -- is attacked, perhaps thousands of miles from where the bears live.

A variety of oil industry and business groups, along with the governor of Alaska, had joined the government in opposing the suit filed by four leading conservation organizations. They argue that it is impossible to draw a scientific link between, say, a new coal power plant n Arkansas and the shrinking of the ice footprint in Alaska.

The court in its ruling Monday from Washington, D.C., didn't address the merits of either argument but did say that the government had met its obligations under the Endangered Species Act. The judge said the act gives federal regulators broad discretion to decide what kinds of harm to let occur to species listed as merely threatened, rather than endangered.

"The question at the heart of this litigation -- whether ESA is an effective or appropriate tool to address the threat of climate change -- is not a question that this court can decide based upon its own independent assessment, particularly in the abstract," the judge wrote.

"The answer to that question will ultimately be grounded in science and policy determinations that are beyond the purview of this court," he said. "The question this court must decide is whether the agency has articulated a rational basis for the protections set forth in its special rule for the polar bear...The court finds that the [U.S. Fish and Wildlife] Service has done so."

"The polar bear was the first species added to the endangered species list solely because of threats to the species from global warming. Today’s ruling does not limit the applicability of the ESA to greenhouse gas emissions affecting species listed as endangered under the act, or to other threatened species for which Interior has not issued a specific exemption," the plaintiffs noted in a statement.

"Just this summer, Arctic sea ice reached its second lowest level on record, making polar bear protections more important than ever," added Jason Rylander, senior attorney for Defenders of Wildlife. "Only by acknowledging and accounting for the dramatic effects of climate change can this administration give this Arctic icon a realistic chance of survival."

The special rule under challenge also provides an exception from the prohibitions against harm to bears for activities already authorized under the Marine Mammal Protection Act -- essentially, oil and gas exploration and production across the North Slope. Such production has long coexisted with polar bears.
Very few bears have been killed as a direct result of oil and gas production, and Sullivan said it was reasonable to conclude that existing protections are sufficient. Some are even more stringent than the Endangered Species Act.

"We are pleased that the judge decided that the Endangered Species Act is not the proper way to regulate climate change," said Eric Wohlschlegel of the American Petroleum Institute. He declined to say more until lawyers had scrutinized the decision.

The big impact, conservationists say, is that the government will now have to consider the environmental effects of allowing exemptions not only for greenhouse gases, but possibly for pesticides, mercury, PCBs and other pollutants that make their way into the Arctic food chain.

"The real-world impact is the full scope of protections for the polar bear is back in the Obama administration's court," Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity said in an interview. "They have to do the review, they have to reissue the rule, and they're getting a second chance to do things right by the polar bear."



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Gemma Louise Atkinson popularly known as Gemma Atkinson is an English actress, television celebrity and glamor and lingerie model. She was born on 15th November 1984 in Bury, Greater Manchester.

In early 2006, Atkinson underwent breast enlargement surgery, which took her bra size to a 34E. She said in an interview that she lost weight due to a fitness regime and her bust size declined and that the surgery then gave them the original shape they once had.Atkinson did some great works as a part of her charity work. Her main agenda is to bring awareness about breast cancer among people. She participated in several walks and running events as part of her effort to bring awareness about breast cancer.

Atkinson has previously dated football star Cristiano Ronaldo. She was engaged to Marcus Bent and Kyle Seymour earlier but split up with them later. The following gallery has some of the pics of her.

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Malaria kills more than 780,000 people a year In The World "WHO"



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Todays Malaria:
Today, 3.3 billion people – half the world's population – are at risk of malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes. In sub-Saharan Africa, insecticide-treaded mosquito nets have proven to be one of the most effective ways to fight the epidemic. By distributing these nets to families, providing indoor residual spraying, and delivering over 142 million malaria drug treatments throughout the world, we are on track to eliminate malaria as a public health problem in most affected countries.



SEATTLE, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Nearly a third of all countries affected by malaria are on course to eliminate the mosquito-borne disease over the next 10 years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday.

In a progress report published by the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) partnership at the start of an international Malaria Forum conference in Seattle, the United Nations health body said "remarkable progress" had been made.

Up to a third of the 108 countries and territories across the world where malaria is endemic are moving towards being able to wipe out the disease within their borders, it said.

"Better diagnostic testing and surveillance has provided a clearer picture of where we are on the ground -- and has shown that there are countries eliminating malaria in all endemic regions of the world," Robert Newman, director of the WHO's Global Malaria Programme, told the conference.

Almost half the world's population -- or 3.3 billion people -- are at risk of malaria and the parasitic disease killed 781,000 people in 2009, according to the latest data. Most of its victims are in Africa.

Malaria elimination -- halting the disease's transmission and reducing infections to zero within a defined area -- was first attempted on a large scale during the Global Malaria Eradication Programme from 1955 to 1972.

During that time, 20 countries were certified by WHO as malaria-free. But that number dropped to just four countries during the following 30 years when efforts to control the spread of the disease lapsed. "The world sort of gave up on malaria, and we lost ground," said Newman.


PROGRESS MADE

RBM said in a report in September that a rapid scale-up of a range of malaria control measures -- such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets, indoor spraying, faster and more accurate diagnosis and access to anti-malaria drugs -- has saved an estimated 1.1 million lives in Africa over the past 10 years.

International funding for the fight against malaria has also risen substantially in recent years, reaching about $1.5 billion in 2010, up from $100 million in 2003.

David Brandling-Bennett, deputy director for malaria at the Gates Foundation, which was hosting the Seattle conference, said it was vital for global health authorities, donors and national governments not to take their eye off the ball.

"The reality is that malaria does fight back ... and we don't want to lose the momentum from these gains," he said.

The Malaria Forum is hosted and funded by the Gates Foundation, a $34 billion fund run by the billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The foundation is devoted largely to health projects in poor countries.

In 2007, Gates and his wife Melinda urged the international community to fight for the global eradication of malaria, saying that to aspire to anything less would be "timid".