Saints quarterback Drew Brees intercepted four times in a loss to Cleveland. Packers top Vikings. Raiders set team record for points in 59-14 rout of Broncos. DeAngelo Hall’s four picks lead Redskins over Bears. Ravens edge Bills in overtime. (Oct. 24)
Continue reading …Tomorrow’s Young Environmentalists Light Up At The Stage Brower Youth Awards 2010
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The Brower Youth Awards (BYAs) are one of my favorite environmental events that I attend every fall. This past Tuesday was no exception, when six inspiring young activists were recognized for their environmental activism and environmental justice advocacy. From the moment the lights were dimmed in the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, the crowd went wild cheering for the young awardees. These young people definitely give older environmentalists something to be hopeful about. While the six awardees were all from varied backgrounds and regions, they had a com… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Adobe announces Air 2.5 for TVs, tablets and phones, launches Adobe InMarket to package apps
October 25, 2010 No Comment
Adobe’s making a serious play for the app space today, and it’s not limiting itself to phones — its new Air cross-platform runtime environment, is designed to toss apps on your smart televisions and tablets as well. Air 2.5 supports accelerometers, multi-touch gestures, cameras and microphones, GPS data and hardware acceleration in a variety of silicon. What’s more, the company wants a piece of the action, so it’s going to help developers bring their Air 2.5 apps to market by partnering with the stores themselves, and charging a mere 30 percent to take care of your hosting, billing and app store approval — though we’re informed the service will be free for the first year if you sign up today. The newly-christened Adobe InMarket won’t help you get into the iTunes App Store, as you might expect , but it should assist with the Intel AppUp store… and perhaps a pair of brand-new marketplaces from RIM and Samsung as well. Remember when Samsung said it had a single platform for TV and phones late last week? We think this was what the company was talking about, because we have Adobe’s word that the Samsung SmartTV will run Air 2.5 apps when it launches in early 2011. Air will also come standard in RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook , but it’s not just for fun, productivity and games there — Adobe told us that the PlayBook’s entire UI is built on Air. We’re not sure quite what we think of Adobe’s role as encapsulated software middleman in the TV and tablet spaces, but we suppose that’s what the firm’s been doing on desktop PCs for years — after all, what’s Adobe Reader but a free way to open licensed PDFs? You should find the Adobe Air 2.5 SDK available on the company’s website today, and a full press release after the break. Continue reading Adobe announces Air 2.5 for TVs, tablets and phones, launches Adobe InMarket to package apps Adobe announces Air 2.5 for TVs, tablets and phones, launches Adobe InMarket to package apps originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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The first big snowfall of the season gave residents a chance to get a taste of winter around Mt. Hood in northern Oregon. Some people played in the snow, while others had to dig their cars out of the white stuff. (Oct. 24)
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Clashes between Italian police and protesters are continuing in southern Italy over where to dump Naples’ garbage. Protesters torched vehicles and hurled stones at police as trash continued to pile up in the streets. (Oct. 24)
Continue reading …Saints quarterback Drew Brees intercepted four times in a loss to Cleveland. Steelers top Dolphins. Raiders set team record for points in 59-14 rout of Broncos. DeAngelo Hall’s four picks lead Redskins over Bears. Ravens edge Bills in overtime. (Oct. 24)
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BELIZE CITY — Hurricane Richard slammed into Belize’s Caribbean coast just south of its largest city late Sunday, as authorities evacuated tourists from outlying islands and an estimated 10,000 people took refuge at shelters in the tiny Central American nation. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Richard’s top winds were 90 mph (150 kph) – making it a Category 1 hurricane – when it made landfall about 20 miles (35 kms) south-southwest of Belize City, whose neighborhoods are full of wooden, tin-roof homes that are very vulnerable to winds. “The winds are very strong … it’s getting stronger,” said Fanny Llanos, a clerk at…
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“If you’re asking, are there al-Qaeda in Iraq, the answer is yes, there are. It’s a fact, yes.” Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence, August 2002 It was one of the key American justifications for the Iraq war. But the theory that al-Qaeda was present in Saddam-era Iraq, much cited by the Bush adminsitration in the
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – Haiti cholera deaths rose above 250 but the number of new infections and fatalities began to taper off, offering hope the epidemic might have been contained. The new toll of 253 dead and 3,115 infections, provided by the director general of Haiti's health department Gabriel Thimote, represented an increase of only 33 fatalities over a 24-hour period. The disease “is limited to a well-defined perimeter” in the northern region of Artibonite and part of the central plateau, Foreign Minister Marie-Michele Rey told reporters. Speaking in Switzerland where she was attending a summit of French-speaking nations, Rey said that for the time being “those…
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Attorneys for a Canadian held by US authorities since he was 15 said Sunday that a last-minute plea deal could still halt the first war crimes trial under President Barack Obama. (Oct. 24)
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