A church group made up of Michigan friends and family is obscenely rich after winning a $129 million jackpot with a lottery ticket bought at a porn shop. (Nov. 12)
Continue reading …Big 3 Nets’ Evening News Election and Pre-Election Week Audiences Down Nearly 20% From 2006
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Along with the cheerful news that Fox News trounced its cable news competitors on Election Night (at NewsBusters ; at BizzyBlog ), those longing for more fairness and balance in television news coverage can take some comfort in the fact that the Big Three Networks' evening news shows came in with audiences almost 20% lower during the week before and the week of the 2010 midterm elections compared to the same two weeks in 2006. As seen below, NBC took the smallest hit of the three networks, losing an average of “only” 1.2 million viewers in the two comparative weeks involved. ABC got hit harder, while CBS lost nearly 3 in 10 viewers (Sources: MediaBistro — Nov. 1, 2010 ; Oct. 25, 2010 ; Nov. 6, 2006 ; Oct. 30, 2006 ): read more
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Is it Sony’s play against the Wiimote , or the Kinect … or both ? Hard to say exactly, but there’s no question that the PS3 is no longer on the outside looking in when it comes to motion gaming. Now that it’s been on the market for a few months, we’re looking to hear from early adopters — have you enjoyed your time with the Move ? Has it lived up to your expectations? Any quirks with gameplay that you’d iron out? Any particular games that you’d prefer to see play nice with the apparatus? Set yourself in the mindset of a SCEA designer for a tick and let us know how you’d do the Move differently down in comments below. And yeah, sticking with ” Arc ” is totally an acceptable suggestion to make. How would you change Sony’s PlayStation Move? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Continue reading the main story Sudan: Country at a crossroads Africa’s next nation? Panoramic photo: Returning south Dream election result for Bashir Threat to Khartoum’s island garden The UN Security Council has received a controversial report on violations of the Darfur weapons embargo, after weeks of delays due to objections by China….
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Will Lynch was in court facing charges of beating the priest he says molested him as a child. At his arraignment, dozens of protesters of clergy abuse showed up to support him and bring awareness to clergy sex abuse. (Nov. 12)
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In a newly released police tape, Jeromie Cancel tells police that he killed a Pace University student in 2008 because ‘he was bored’. In his confession, he goes on to say that after the murder he sat down and watched a movie. (Nov. 12)
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ARTHUR BEESLEY ANALYSIS:�Intervention by key EU states proves Irish crisis is an issue for the entire single currency area THE GOVERNMENT’S problems intensified radically this week as investors questioned whether Taoiseach Brian Cowen and his battle-bruised Ministers will be able to extract Euro6 billion from next year’s budget and settle the banks. A nerve wracking local drama it may be, with appalling consequences for taxpayers, but it is more than that. The onslaught presents a host of tricky dilemmas for the EU authorities. Tension on the markets reached fever pitch on Thursday as Irish borrowing rates climbed above 9 per cent for 10-year money, a ruinous rate that is more than three…
Continue reading …Screen Grabs: it’s WP7 product placement overload, make no Bones about it (video)
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Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com . Okay, Microsoft , we get it. Fictional characters just love Windows Phone 7 . They can’t string three scenes together without pulling up Maps or trying to force the phrase ” Bing it ” into our vernacular. This time it’s Bones star Emily Deschanel, aka Dr. Temperance Brennan, whipping out an LG Quantum mid-interrogation to engage in a little textual activity — much to the mock ire of hunky co-star David Boreanaz. But don’t listen to him, he’s probably just jealous they didn’t have such gratuitous product placement back when he was still pretending to be a vampire. You know, back before vampires went all mainstream. [Thanks, Afzal N] Continue reading Screen Grabs: it’s WP7 product placement overload, make no Bones about it (video) Screen Grabs: it’s WP7 product placement overload, make no Bones about it (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Authorities were searching for an Ohio woman, her two children and a female friend in an investigation that prompted an overnight lockdown on the campus of Kenyon College, where the woman’s pickup truck was found nearby, a sheriff said Friday. (Nov. 12)
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Authorities were searching for an Ohio woman, her two children and a female friend in an investigation that prompted an overnight lockdown on the campus of Kenyon College, where the woman’s pickup truck was found nearby, a sheriff said Friday. (Nov. 12)
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