Selig expects to decide Cubs-Red Sox feud

By RONALD BLUM

updated 8:07 p.m. ET Oct. 28, 2011

ST. LOUIS - Baseball commissioner Bud Selig expects he will have to decide what compensation the Boston Red Sox should receive for allowing general manager Theo Epstein to leave and join the Chicago Cubs.

Epstein quit Boston with a year on his contract to became the president of baseball operations for the Cubs. If Boston and Chicago can't reach an agreement by Tuesday, the issue goes to Selig.

"If I had to guess today, it'll be another thing that I have to deal with on November 1st," Selig said Friday night before Game 7 of the World Series.

Now 37, Epstein became the youngest GM in major league history in 2002 at age 28. Boston won the 2004 Series for its first title in 86 years, then won again in 2007. This year's Red Sox led the AL wild-card race by nine games before play on Sept. 4 but finished one game behind Tampa Bay.

The Cubs haven't won the World Series since 1908 and haven't even reached it since 1945.

"From the Cubs' standpoint, they've done very well, and I know how much it means to (owner) Tom Ricketts and all the Cubs' fans," Selig said.

Selig, who has been commissioner since September 1992, repeated he intends to retire in December 2012 but admitted many people don't believe him.

Sitting in the front row of the news conference room, Sue Selig nodded her head.

"Starting with my wife, I'm happy or sad to say, but she's somewhat skeptical," Bud Selig said.

On other topics, Selig:

?hopes Albert Pujols, who is eligible for free agency after the World Series, re-signs with the St. Louis Cardinals. "I hope Albert stays in St. Louis, I really do. But that's his judgment to make."

?refused to discuss MLB's attempt to get a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge to order owner Frank McCourt to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers. "We're in litigation. ... We'll just keep working."

?said MLB wouldn't set a league-wide policy for banning alcohol in clubhouses. "I think each club has to make their own decision."

?remains confident about bargaining for a labor contract to replace the one that expires Dec. 11 but said "there's a lot of work to be done yet." Management's desire for fixed signing bonuses for amateur draft picks is the major remaining issue.

?said the New York Mets have not repaid the $25 million loan they borrowed from MLB last offseason. "I do have a lot of worries today, but frankly I'm happy to say the Mets are not one of them."

?said video review by umpires could expand to fair and foul calls next season.

?said MLB will top 2010's revenue of $7 billion.

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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DirecTV's iPad app updated with live TV streaming, as long as you stay at home

DirecTV debuted its iPad app in February with an impressive suite of remote control and content browsing options, but one of the few missing features was the ability to watch TV on it, which has now been added. Like similar apps from Cablevision and Time Warner Cable, v1.3.1 adds the ability to watch 38 channels live on the tablet, provided you're connected to the same home network as your DirecTV Plus HD DVR. That home restriction, plus being limited to only live TV streams and not DVRed programming separates it from Sling's apps, but at least it's still a free add-on. If you want to watch recorded shows or take them on the go you'll still need the Nomad box for that. Check below for a link to one of DBSTalk's usual thorough walkthrough PDFs breaking down the new features, a few screengrabs sent in by a reader, and the complete channel list after the break.

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Reader: Give Gisele's son a big cookie

Our readers continue to contribute some funny, smart and incisive comments to our Today Entertainment Facebook page. Every Friday, we'll highlight those that really stood out. If you see a great comment throughout the week, click the ?Like? button underneath it to draw it to our attention.

1. On "Gisele: My toddler thinks broccoli is dessert"
Juanita Cross: " Didn't she also say her labor was completely pain and drug free? Yeah, I am not taking advice from her and if I ever see her son I am giving him a big cookie."

2. On "Steven Tyler talks tooth and consequences from his bathroom fall"
Peg Marston Trimper:? "OK, maybe now, Steven Tyler, you will think you're getting a little too old for concerts. Gee, you're my mom's age."

3. On 'Hours after release, Michael Lohan back in jail"
Daiv Ericksen:? "So this is the new father-daughter project. Hmm...nah, I pass. I would rather train her to play soccer."

4. On "Teenage Frances Bean Cobain is engaged"
Ripleigh Degenhardt: "I got married at 19 and 6 years later we're doing great! She doesn't have her mom in her life, a big bonus! If you take divorce off the table from the word go and you force yourself to work it out, then you can survive anything."

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5. On "Miley Cyrus to cover Bob Dylan on tribute album"
Teddy Quinn: "I love the fascist Dylan fans, 'she shouldn't be allowed to sing...' Really? Wow, what a bunch of uptight jerks. Of course Dylan knows who she is. He is extremely up on pop culture. He probably loves that she's covering him, as any songwriter would be. Leave the little girl alone, meanies."

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Please Don't Feed the Endangered Eagles?

It?s a fairly common practice to help certain endangered species in the wild by providing them with extra food or prey. But could these activities actually end up harming the very species conservationists are trying to help?

Researchers from Spain?s National Museum of Natural Sciences, the Do?ana Biological Station and GIR Diagnostics asked that question in a recent study of the Spanish imperial eagle, also known as the Iberian imperial eagle or Adalbert?s eagle (Aquila adalberti). One of the world?s rarest raptors, conservationists frequently supplement the bird?s natural prey with farm-raised rabbits. According to a study published in this month?s issue of Ecological Applications, such rabbits are often treated with antibiotics and antiparasitics, and young eagles who eat this meat face depressed immune systems and higher levels of pathogens in their systems.

The researchers took blood samples from 191 young eaglets in three different groups. The first group did not receive any supplemental food; the second received wild and/or domestic rabbits that were first tested and found to be chemical-free; and the third was fed rabbits that came from farms and could have contained the dangerous chemicals.

The results were striking. The presence of antibiotics in their food actually made the eaglets more susceptible to illness: Seven different avian pathogens were found in the third group of eaglets, and the vast majority of these birds required extra medical care. According to the study?s abstract, ?a higher presence of antibiotics (fluoroquinolones) was found in sick as opposed to healthy individuals among eaglets with supplementary feeding, which points directly toward a causal effect of these drugs in disease and other health impairments.?

The authors call this ?a telling example of well-meaning management strategies not based on sound scientific evidence becoming a ?contraindicated? action with detrimental repercussions undermining possible beneficial effects by increasing the impact of stochastic [random] factors on extinction risk of endangered wildlife.?

Luckily, these sick birds all received extra care and treatment to protect them from these pathogens. That?s because the Spanish imperial eagle is one of the most heavily managed endangered birds in the world?so intensely managed, in fact, that the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources upgraded the species from ?endangered? to ?vulnerable? in 2005, in spite of their still-limited population. But other endangered species in the wild might not be so lucky if they encountered similarly tainted food.

The Spanish imperial eagle almost disappeared a few decades ago due to habitat loss, accidental poisonings and electrocution on power lines. Only 30 pairs of birds remained on Earth in the 1960s. Conservation efforts helped raise that number to 253 pairs in 2008 and then to 283 pairs in May of this year, when the first eagle chick born through artificial insemination was hatched at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.

Even with conservation efforts, illegal wildlife trafficking continues to be a threat to this species. In June 16 people?including the staff director of the San Jer?nimo breeding center in Seville, Spain?were arrested for illegally gathering eagle eggs from the wild and selling the chicks for as much as $24,800. According to the English-language Spanish news site The Olive Press, police rescued 101 eagles from the center, where they also found 11 dead birds. The center staff has also been accused of inflating their reported breeding counts in order to boost their grant revenue.

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Gut bacteria linked to MS

Questions remain about how autoimmune disorder is triggered

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The spark that ignites multiple sclerosis may come from within. A new study in mice points to normal intestinal bacteria as a trigger for the immune disorder.

In patients with multiple sclerosis, the body?s immune system attacks the brain, stripping away a protective sheath called myelin from nerve cells. This causes inflammation that leads to the disease. Although the exact causes of MS are not known, scientists generally agree that a genetic predisposition combines with one or more environmental triggers to set off the attack on the brain. The new study provides evidence that friendly bacteria may be one of those triggers.

Mice genetically engineered to develop multiple sclerosis?like symptoms don?t get the disease when raised without any bacteria in their guts, a research team from Germany reports online October 26 in Nature. But germ-free mice that were then colonized with intestinal bacteria quickly developed the disease, the team found. About 80 percent of mice with intestinal bacteria developed MS-like symptoms, but none of the germ-free mice did.

The result is not a total surprise. Previous reports had indicated that gut bacteria might be involved in autoimmune disorders such as MS, juvenile diabetes and arthritis, says Simon Fillatreau, an immunologist at the German Rheumatism Research Center in Berlin. ?So maybe it was expected, but that it is really such a black-and-white response? Probably not,? says Fillatreau, who was not involved in the study. ?It?s very big news.?

Despite their possibly nefarious role in multiple sclerosis, intestinal bacteria are not generally bad guys, says Amy Lovett-Racke, a neuroimmunologist at Ohio State University in Columbus. Gut bacteria help the immune system mature properly and interact with the immune system all the time. ?Most of the time, those immune responses are very good and even protective,? she says. ?We?re all colonized with bacteria in our guts and most of us lead normal, healthy lives.?

Researchers need to figure out whether multiple sclerosis is caused by a faulty immune system that reacts inappropriately to gut bacteria, or if some specific bacterium sets off the chain reaction.

Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy and Hartmut Wekerle of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany, and their colleagues used the genetically engineered mice to try to figure out the series of events that might connect gut bacteria to the immune system?s attack on the brain. Something happens in the gut to stir up immune cells called T cells. The riled-up T cells then leave the gut and travel to lymph nodes in the neck where they meet up with antibody-producing immune cells called B cells. The T cells produce chemicals that help B cells mature and prepare to attack myelin. Then, both types of immune cells travel to the brain and spinal cord and begin fraying the myelin coating on nerves, the researchers propose.?

It?s not clear, however, how gut bacteria prompt T cells to ramp up, or which of the hundreds of species of bacteria in the intestines might be responsible.

?I don?t personally believe that one type of bacteria will do the job,? says Krishnamoorthy. He thinks the overall mix of bacteria may be important. The researchers are beginning systematic work to try to narrow down their vast pool of suspect bacteria. Preliminary evidence suggests that some type of Clostridium may be involved, but it is still too early to say for sure, he says.


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Europe bailout fund chief visits Beijing

(AP) ? The chief of Europe's bailout fund visited Beijing on Friday to discuss possible terms for a bond sale aimed at raising money from China and other non-European investors.

Klaus Regling, chief executive of the European Financial Stability Facility, said he is not holding negotiations with China as a potential investor. He said the fund is still talking to investors to decide the terms for raising new bailout money authorized this week by European leaders.

European leaders agreed this week to increase the bailout fund's size from 440 billion euros ($624 billion) to as much as 1 trillion euros with money raised from outside investors, including sovereign wealth funds.

Regling said China has purchased EFSF bonds before but he declined to say how much.

The European bailout fund is developing two schemes to increase its financial firepower. The first would allow the fund to act as an insurer for bonds issued by weaker governments such as Spain or Italy. The second would be a fund to provide extra money to the EFSF.

Regling said he would meet with officials of China's finance ministry and central bank.

"It will be interesting to listen to them, like I listen to investors from many other parts of the world," he said. He said the fund's managers want to find out how to structure investments "so that the money will actually come" from China and other investors.

Regling said the meetings were not negotiations with potential investors, but "regular consultations at an early phase."

Asked about suggestions that China might impose political conditions on a contribution, Regling said Chinese officials had not raised that issue with him. Some European and Chinese commentators have suggested Beijing might press Europe for trade concessions or to refrain from human rights criticisms.

"I have not been confronted with this," Regling said. "I am not talking on behalf of the European Union, so I am the wrong person" to discuss such issues.

Chinese leaders have expressed sympathy and promised to support the European Union, their country's biggest export market. But they have made no specific public commitments of money or other aid.

Regling said he would present the bailout fund's bonds as a potential commercial investment to China once the details are worked out, and hoped that Chinese officials would find the terms attractive.

He noted that China regularly needs to find safe investments for its multibillion dollar monthly trade surpluses.

"I am optimistic we will have a longer term relationship," he said.

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The X Factor Goes Live, Reveals Final 12


On its first live performance show of the season, all 17 remaining contestants on The X Factor took to the last night.

It was a long, at times painful evening that featured a handful of contenders, but just as many pretenders. It also featured the shortening of Drew Ryniewicz''s name to just Drew because apparently Simon Cowell doesn't have confidence we can pronounce the full thing.

But did Drew make the cut? The top 12 is revealed below...

Melanie Amaro Performs

GIRLS
Melanie Amaro
Rachel Crow
Drew

BOYS
Brian "Astro" Bradley
Marcus Canty
Chris Rene

OVER-30s
LeRoy Bell
Stacy Francis
Josh Krajcik

GROUPS
InTENsity
Lakoda Rayne
The Stereo Hogzz

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Workers' Comp Insurance Reversal for ???Miracle??? Joplin Tornado Survivor (ContributorNetwork)

Mark Lindquist was doing his job at work for three developmentally disabled adults May 22. He tried to save the lives of those people he swore to protect despite a terrifying EF5 tornado bearing down on the building. Lindquist had incredibly high medical bills that workers' comp insurance initially refused to pay. Then his story made national headlines and the insurance company suddenly reversed course and paid his staggering bill because he was injured on the job.

Here is some background information Lindquist's story.

* The Springfield News-Leader first reported Lindquist's heroic deed July 5. He was in a coma, barely recognizable from swelling, and his body was trying to fight off a deadly fungal infection. The same fungus was partially responsible for the deaths of five people.

* Lindquist's medical bills were $2.5 million. His family filed a workers' comp insurance claim because he was on duty and on the clock when the tornado hit Joplin.

* Lindquist worked for a group home that watched over adults who needed round-the-clock care. He made barely over minimum wage and had no health insurance.

* As many as 7,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed in the Joplin tornado. Lindquist tried saving lives by throwing mattresses over the men who had Down syndrome.

* The victim was identified by family members by brown flecks in his eyes. Otherwise, when Lindquist was brought to the hospital, he was unrecognizable due to his injuries.

* Lindquist was in coma for two months. He lost his shoulder blade and all of his ribs were broken. The tornado threw him two houses away from care center on Iowa and 22nd, one of the hardest hit areas of Joplin. KYTV reports he spent time rehabilitating in the Missouri Rehabilitation Center in Mount Vernon, a city one county over.

* Lindquist is the brother of nationally-known artist Linda Lindquist-Baldwin. She is known for her "snickles" figurines.

* The Joplin Globe reported Oct. 24 that the insurance company called Baldwin to let her know paying her brother's claim was a "top priority." It was the same insurance adjuster who earlier had denied the claim for workers' comp insurance.

* An AP story ran Oct. 23 about Lindquist's family trying to get workers' comp insurance. The family tried since June to get the insurance company to accept the claim. The claim was originally because according to company representatives he was at no greater risk than anyone else in Joplin that day.

* Lindquist's employer, Community Support Services, wanted him to have the workers' comp claim fulfilled. The employer didn't have a problem with a $2.5 million claim--the insurance company did. The hero continues to heal and will have more medical bills involving his rehab.

William Browning, a lifelong Missouri resident, writes about local and state issues for the Yahoo! Contributor Network. Born in St. Louis, Browning earned his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Missouri. He currently resides in Branson.

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New Jamaica PM retains security, finance chiefs (AP)

KINGSTON, Jamaica ? Jamaica's new prime minister has left two prominent ministries unchanged and says he will announce the rest of his Cabinet later in the week.

Andrew Holness was sworn in Sunday as Jamaica's leader. The 39-year-old lawmaker took over from Bruce Golding, who stepped down after four years as prime minister.

On Monday, Holness announced that Finance Minister Audley Shaw and National Security Minister Dwight Nelson have retained their posts. He says his government could not afford to "have any gaps at all" in those ministries.

Holness says the rest of his Cabinet will be appointed before the week is up.

During his inaugural address, Holness said he intended to keep the education portfolio as prime minister. He had served as education chief under Golding.

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