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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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Monday, October 25, 2010
Island cover volcanic ash returns as cancelled clouded flights
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Sunday, October 24, 2010
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Darren star splash apologises for mccormack hibs pushing
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Games That Can Change The World
BURLINGAME, CALIF. -- Tending to your crops on "FarmVille," backing up those "Tetris" blocks ideally or exploring a mass-multiplayer online universe similar to "World of Warcraft" are all ways that videogames entertain and addict. But can those same underlying diversion mechanics be used to have videogames that can assistance coax educational, amicable and environmental change?A transformation over the past decade toward "serious games," or games with a higher role over entertainment, has diversion developers, companies and right away even the White House observant "Yes, they can." fdcWincolComputeStyle(); fdcWincolComputeListpos("feature_with_art"); OAS_query = "?template=story_feature_with_art";var alertsList = { "alerts":[{"type":"tickers","key":"ATVI","value":"ATVI"},{"type":"tickers","key":"MSFT","value":"MSFT"},{"type":"tickers","key":"TTWO","value":"TTWO"},{"type":"tickers","key":"ERTS","value":"ERTS"},{"type":"keywords","key":"Mangahigh","value":"Mangahigh"},{"type":"keywords","key":"Videogames","value":"Videogames"},{"type":"keywords","key":"MiniMonos","value":"MiniMonos"},{"type":"keywords","key":"FarmVille","value":"FarmVille"}]}; firstHTML(); OAS_AD("BigBanner"); secondHTML(); OAS_AD(centBan); thirdHTML(); showHMenu(fdcchannel); OAS_AD("StoryLogo"); Videogames Games That Can Change The World Oliver J. Chiang,05.04.10, 06:00 PM EDTHow videogames are addressing social, environmental and tutorial issues. Games That Can Change The World BURLINGAME, CALIF. -- Tending to your crops on "FarmVille," backing up those "Tetris" blocks ideally or exploring a mass-multiplayer online universe similar to "World of Warcraft" are all ways that videogames entertain and addict. But can those same underlying diversion mechanics be used to have videogames that can assistance coax educational, amicable and environmental change?A transformation over the past decade toward "serious games," or games with a higher role over entertainment, has diversion developers, companies and right away even the White House observant "Yes, they can."emailprintreprintnewslettercommentssharedel.icio.usDigg It!yahooFacebookTwitterRedditrssforbes:http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/04/farmville-minimonos-mangahigh-technology-videogames.html?partner=yahoobuzz"I"ve grown up with games and I"ve seen how absolute they"ve been and can be, and to think that that intensity is only left to being entertained would be a disaster," says Ben Sawyer, a diversion developer who cofounded the Serious Games Initiative in 2002 at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C. "Games have the capability to etch a complaint in a most some-more multi-dimensional conform than alternative media, and give the capability to dive low in to the factors."In Pictures: Games That Can Change The WorldIf a diversion is finished right, even immature young kids will be means to learn formidable amicable and environmental issues. "MiniMonos" is an eco-friendly version of "World of Warcraft" for kids. Founded in 2007 in New Zealand, the a Web-based universe where young kids from around the creation carry out charcterised gorilla avatars. Instead of relocating up the diversion levels by sport monsters or fighting enemies, "MiniMonos" players get rewards for you do things similar to cleaning up the firth or recycling garbage. The target is to introduce values of sustainability, munificence and village but inducing yawns."When I was seeking at environmental games out there, they had you review all this things about how the medium works, and afterwards you played a small diversion at the finish and had a quiz, and I said, "Oh my God, thats so boring," " says Melissa Clark-Reynolds, arch senior manager and owner of the MiniMonos diversion company.,,2010/05/04/farmville-minimonos-mangahigh-technology-videogames.htmlThe "MiniMonos," site right away has some-more than 12,000 purebred users. Clark-Reynolds says users are communicating opposite Twitter and diversion fan blogs, and a little players have proposed their own real-world initiatives, such as "Pick Up Trash Fridays.""Armchair Revolutionary," meanwhile, was only launched in beta in Apr and is directed at an comparison audience. Cofounded by Ariel Hauter--who additionally helped found one of the largest amicable shift organizations in the party industry, The Hollywood Hill--"Armchair Revolutionary" can be described as "FarmVille" meets activism since it combines amicable gaming with Internet activism. Players can have 99-cent donations to the projects the diversion supports, trimming from health caring to sustainability projects. Under the diversion rubric, they can additionally finish amicable activism tasks similar to e-mailing real-life successful management team or receiving quizzes to improved assimilate the work of an activist.Another piece of the interest of critical games is the capability to have lifeless or formidable tasks fun and addicting. Mangahigh, a U.K.-based infrequent games website, for instance, aims to have the repeated tools of math education, similar to memorization or drills, interesting by games similar to "Pyramid Panic." Mangahigh was founded by Toby Rowland, who additionally founded one of the greatest European infrequent games portal King.com, and Dr. Marcus du Sautoy, a University of Oxford math professor.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
BP Gulf oil brief Lawmakers give Interior Secretary Salazar barbecuing over offshore drilling
WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar held pointy critique from lawmakers Tuesday over the governments failures in overseeing offshore oil drilling, and he concurred his dialect had been messy in holding industry accountable.Salazar, in his initial coming prior to Congress given the Apr twenty collision that unleashed a large Gulf oil spill, betrothed an renovate of the group that regulates offshore oil training to give it "more tools, some-more resources, some-more autonomy and larger authority."Even as legislators in Washington debated what went wrong, justification of the measure of the complaint usually grew. Federal regulators scarcely tripled the sovereign waters in the Gulf of Mexico where fishing is close down since of the spill. And supervision scientists were study aerial photos to see if oil from the brief had entered a absolute stream that could take it to Florida.Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., in opening a congressional conference in to the spill, pronounced Congress longed for to try "the purpose of regulatory failure" in the collision and what President Barack Obama has concurred for years has been a "cozy relationship" in between supervision regulators and the oil and gas industry.While the means of the collision at the BP PLC well and brief has nonetheless to be pinpointed, inform unclosed so far raises the subject of where the Minerals Management Service, the Interior group that oversees offshore drilling, was in ensuring that wells are drilled safely, pronounced Bingaman.Salazar betrothed an renovate of sovereign regulations and pronounced censure for the BP brief rests with both industry and the government."There will be extensive lessons to be schooled here," he told legislators, adding that changes in sovereign law were certainly needed.But Salazar cautioned opposite overreaction, observant that the Gulf waters furnish scarcely a third of the nations oil.How the supervision — together with Congress — responds to the offshore mess is crucial, pronounced Salazar, observant that the Challenger space convey mess close down the space module for 2 1/2 years and the Three Mile Island chief collision "shut down the chief industry for thirty years."Salazar pronounced the "blame game" should be set in reserve until the complaint is bound and the upsurge of oil is close off from the BP well 40 miles off the Louisiana coast. He pronounced he expects a inform to the boss on the spill, due in thirty days, will furnish recommendations to urge reserve oversight.That didnt prove a little of the senators."It is prolonged past time to empty the reserve and environmental engulf that is MMS," spoken Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. "This group has been in rejection about reserve problems for years." Previous Page twelve
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Music noble Diddy visits locked up rapper Lil Wayne for an hour discuss at Rikers
Maybe Rikers should get a velvet rope.Rap mega-star Lil Wayne - sealed up on a gun self-assurance - brought in at slightest one some-more bold-faced name this week: Diddy.The song noble stopped by the Eric M. Taylor correctional trickery to revisit Lil Wayne on Wednesday. Diddy, innate Sean Combs, even substituted his oppulance wheels for the open train similar to all the alternative visitors Wednesday.Diddy was on a pre-approved list to see Lil Wayne, whose genuine name is Dwayne Carter Jr., and the discuss was singular to an hour, sources said.The "Lollipop" thespian was locked up in Mar and is portion one year at the back of bars.Diddy transient a prison judgment when he was found not guilty of weapons receive and alternative charges after a 1999 shoot-out at a New York nightclub.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Sat. 3/27 Death Notices
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Afghanistan law personally forgave fight crimes human rights abuses
Afghanistan reliable for the initial time publicly on Tuesday that it had enacted in to law a sweeping atonement for fight crimes and human rights abuse carried out prior to 2001.Human rights groups have voiced fear that the law appeared to have been enacted quietly, extenuation sweeping shield to members of all armed factions for acts committed during decades of fight prior to the tumble of the Taliban.President Hamid Karzai had betrothed not to pointer the National Stability and Reconciliation Law, when it was upheld by council in 2007.Human rights groups contend they schooled usually this year that the check had been published in the central gazette, creation it law.Karzais spokesman, Waheed Omer, pronounced on Tuesday that the check had turn law since it was upheld by two-thirds of the council and thus did not need Karzais signature.Parliament is done up mostly of lawmakers from former armed groups, a little indicted by rights groups and typical Afghans of fight crimes."This law was upheld with a two-thirds infancy in the parliament, and according to the constitution, when a law is upheld with a two-thirds majority, it does not need the boss to pointer it," Omer told a briefing.It was the initial time the house had reliable that the magnitude had turn law.Brad Adams, Middle East executive for watchdog Human Rights Watch, pronounced there was still poser surrounding the process, and because it assumingly took some-more than dual years for headlines of the laws dramatization to be done public."This law is comprehensive disgrace. Its a slap in the face to all the Afghans who suffered for years and years of fight crimes and warlordism," Adams told Reuters.He called on the general village and the United States to request vigour on Afghanistan to dissolution the law."The U.S. needs to confirm either they"re with the victims or the perpetrators, and have their views well known publicly," he said.During Karzais eight years in power, he has consistently enclosed former commanders of armed factions in his supervision and middle circle, together with most indicted by the West of fight crimes and alternative abuses.Both of Karzais dual clamp presidents are former leaders of armed groups whose factions squabbled for carry out of Kabul in the 1990s, when thousands of civilians were killed and hundreds of thousands fled their homes.Supporters of the freedom contend prosecuting old allegations would risk restarting years of polite war. But critics contend on condition that a sweeping atonement for former warlords allows them to keep their hold over the economy and open life.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Beer Can Make Your Bones Strong
dyetGood headlines for drink hounds. Downing pint after pint competence be great for you - sort of. Hops or dark barley malts have "dietary silicon," that promotes bone health apparently. Dietary silicon is found in a lot of foods, mostly fruits, vegetables, and total grains. And, patently drink is done from grains. Writing in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, researchers contend drink contains silicon in soluble form, or orthosilicic acid.And hops are installed with the stuff. So, given Americans, and alternative countries on the Western diet, love a great six-pack, it creates drink a vital writer of dietary silicon in the Western diet. But, usually the drink with a lot of hops - flowering plant clusters - used to give drink the season enclose the majority silicon. Malt doesnt have scarcely as much. The complaint is malt is used some-more mostly in the brewing process. So you probably dont wish to rely on a outing to the beer hall to get your vitamins and minerals. But, the not a bad forgive to go!Via Food Navigator.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
WSJ: Verizon iPhone in the works
(Credit:James Martin/CNET)In further to a newiPhone indication that functions on AT&Ts network, Apple is additionally reportedly prepping an iPhone that is concordant with Verizons network.The Wall Street Journal quoted unnamed sources in a story Monday who contend one of Apples stipulate manufacturers--the companies that set up the hardware according to Apples specifications--is operative on an iPhone that runs on a CDMA network. Thats the cellular network that Verizon uses in the U.S. The sources pronounced the CDMA-compatible iPhones will go in to mass prolongation in September, though when Apple would sell it wasnt mentioned. Apple has traditionally expelled new iPhone hardware in late Jun or early July.There have prolonged been rumors that a Verizon iPhone was in the works, but Apples disdainful stipulate with AT&T in the U.S. has appeared to be a roadblock. However, the never been transparent how prolonged AT&T was postulated exclusivity. Apple has combined one more carriers in alternative countries but as not long ago as Jan has not sounded overwhelmingly certain about the probability of you do so in the U.S.The Journal story says that whilst Apples normal partner for construction iPhones has been Taiwans Hon Hai, a opposite manufacturer, Pegatron, has been reserved to set up the Verizon-compatible model. Pegatron is additionally formed in Taiwan and is a auxiliary of Asustek. Hon Hai is pronounced to be operative on the next-generation iPhone that will work on AT&T in the U.S. and on GSM networks in alternative countries.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Is Plastic Surgery a New Religious Rite of Passage? Reproductive Justice
Apr 25, 2010 & & & Reproductive Justice headlines around email. & & Start a Petition » change_setup("300", "Featured", "all", "#DCB000", 6); The worldwide office of fleshly improvement, Photographer Zed Nelson claims, has turn similar to a new religion.In&Love Me, Nelson&turns his lens on the tellurian mania with obtaining undiluted bodies. His photos etch in loving, if infrequently lurid, item justification of physique racism from around the globe: a preposterously muscled bodybuilder in Las Vegas, prosthetic nose implants in Beijing, a poster advertisement in Senegal promotion a skin-lightening product, and the leader of a maximum-security-prison beauty manifestation in Rio.The office of earthy soundness as a new religion? Theres reason to think so.Inner Goodness, Outer EvidenceThough it might be a tellurian phenomenon, the roots of this emplacement on the physique might distortion partly in American religion.&We need usually think of Americas most fleshly obsessions (from dieting to fitness crazes to cosmetic surgery) to proceed to think that ideology and commitments at the really heart of American enlightenment are at work here. Harvards&R. Marie Griffith&argues that religion, privately Protestant forms of Christianity, has been a key change on the source and origination of American bodies.&Protestant ascetic expressions of Christianity, Griffith argues, foster what she calls fleshly acts of devotion. Griffith traces alternate Christian conceptions of essence from these early-modern Protestant roots by Christian Scientism and the New Thought Movement. The importance on manifesting the inner, devout self by disciplines moulding the outer, earthy self has bearing the physique to the forefront of the American imagination.According to Griffith, the preferred of fleshly soundness rose to ubiquitous inflection toward the close of the twentieth century, rising from the devout eremite diet movements that initial cropped up in the late 1950s. Promoting the thought that middle integrity was strong in ones outdoor aspect, this capillary of friendship was built on the didactic discourse that fat was sin. A thin, firm, pleasing body, it was believed, was the perceivable thoughtfulness of integrity and godliness.&The thought that fit bodies weigh fitter souls permeates the American alertness with stress about the physique whilst moulding ideology about beauty.Today, as Zed Nelson wants to show in his work, the forces of globalization have propelled the American source of the undiluted physique in to the universe at large, where it has joined with and inflected normal Western ideals of beauty. Nelson writes, The guarantee of fleshly alleviation is fueled by promotion campaigns and commercially-driven Western media, reflecting an increasingly slight palette of beauty.Holy AnorexiaAnxiety and eremite courtesy to the physique are, of course, zero new in eremite life. Scholars of Gothic sacrament know that carry out over eating was, as&Caroline Walker Bynum&has said, at the core of eremite world-denial.&1234; &
Sunday, October 3, 2010
In a Coma With the Plug Pulled on Health Insurance Investigations
Mar 26, 2010 & & & Investigations headlines around email. & & Start a Petition » change_setup("300", "Featured", "all", "#DCB000", 6); With her heart set on a career as a chef, Heather Galeotti enrolled in a San Francisco culinary school. One winter night, her hold up took a near-fatal spin when she was strike by a car. The 22-year-old lay in a deep sleep for scarcely 6 months.Galeottis jarred family told the sanatorium that she was lonesome by her fathers health caring plan with Kaiser Permanente. The sanatorium reliable her standing with Kaiser and proceeded to provide her. Medical bills piled up to some-more than $4 million.Then in Jul 2007, five months in to Galeottis treatment, Kaiser dumbfounded the family with&a letter. The Galeottis would have to find an additional approach to compensate the bills. Based on report perceived from her fathers employer, Kaiser pronounced that the immature womans coverage had not been in outcome when she was hit.We were usually blindsided, pronounced her mother, Maureen Galeotti. There was no approach we could means it. The box was shifted to Medicaid, where Galeottis bills would have to be lonesome by taxpayers.Ten months later, California insurance®ulators systematic Kaiser&to cover Galeottis care, observant that Kaiser had no basement for denying remuneration alternative than to grasp a poignant monetary asset at the responsibility of her family, the sanatorium and the states Medicaid program.Like most word disputes, the Galeotti box has the share of miscommunication, official wrangling and blank documents. But it stays a sheer e.g. of a ghastly use by a little word companies and employers slicing off coverage retroactively for a little patients with costly healing claims.The new health caring remodel check bans retroactive decisions by insurers in policies sole to individuals, solely in cases of fraud. However, as it stands the anathema would not request to organisation policies, such as the one hold by the Galeotti family, that cover a little 150 million Americans.KEY DOCUMENTS »Galeotti box raises questions about retroactive stop of health insurance.Heather Galeottis story, reported here for the initial time, came to the Huffington Post Investigative Fund by the adulting project, that seeks to strew light on the middle workings of the word industry. Former and stream employees at Kaiser responded to the Funds online requests for assistance from insiders. Their tips led the Investigative Fund to brand the Galeotti family and acquire annals of the case, together with inner Kaiser e-mails.Major insurers in California, together with Kaiser,&agreed in 2008&to stop retroactively cancelling coverage a use well known in the industry as rescission. At the time, Kaiser voiced that it had not rescinded anyones coverage given 2006. But the new agreements and increasing regulatory inspection usually practical to patients shopping their own particular coverage, not to organisation policies.Even so, Kaiser might have disregarded state law in the Galeotti matter. While disappearing to criticism on an particular case, Lynne Randolph, mouthpiece for the Department of Managed Health Care in California, pronounced that a retroactive termination of coverage by an employer is slight usually when the coverage is cancelled for non-payment of premiums. The Galeottis one after another to compensate their premiums via their daughters healing crisis.1234; &
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