| Kaiser Permanente and Golden State Warriors Team Up to Fight Childhood ...
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente and the Golden State Warriors are teaming up to help fight childhood obesity with a video game that teaches kids to get active and an education outreach program in Bay Area schools. The partnership tips off on Tuesday, November 6 at the Warriors-Cleveland Cavaliers game at ORACLE Arena, where Warriors forward Al Harrington will encourage children, parents and teachers to play "The Incredible Adventures of the Amazing Food Detective" (www.amazingfooddetective.com), a video game recently launched by Kaiser Permanente. Amazing Food Detective is the only free, online video game in English and Spanish that teaches children to eat healthier foods, get more active and manage how they spend their time in front of the computer and television.
Frontline tackles Internet-driven generation gap
"Growing Up Online," the Frontline documentary that airs tonight, starts out sounding alarmist, as well as a few years late. "It's Friday night, and six friends are having a party," a voice-over intones ominously, as teenage boys settle down with their computers to play a first-person-shooter game. "Within minutes, they're locked in battle." The same gloomy tome is used to describe kids watching YouTube, a boy logging onto MySpace, a group of teens sending text messages. It's the sort of reaction adults probably had when kids first started playing video games, or talking on the phone. Indeed, "Growing Up Online" takes a parental view, yet it isn't terribly generous to the parents. Yes, many grown-ups are unaware of their children's online doings. But according to Frontline, adults are also barely capable of understanding all of this technology.
Salmond in ‘sleaze’ row over calls and Trump meetings
When Trump unveiled his dream for the North-East of Scotland he declared that he would build the greatest golf course in the world. It would be christened The Trump International, Aberdeen. Aficionados of the sport doubt he can be trusted to create a masterpiece. One critic of his course in Florida, which he boasts is the best in the state, said it exhibited the taste of a Colombian drug lord. Trump shamelessly exploited his mother Marys Scottish roots to help sway doubters and, during negotiations that divided the community, threatened to take his money to Northern Ireland if the Scots did not embrace him. History shows that the chances of adversaries as humble as a fisherman and a councillor defeating a determined Trump are about as high as a hair falling out of place on his remarkably coiffured head.
Students Learn About Energy, One Lego Block at a Time
On a Badger football Saturday, a different kind of game was being played in the area as well. It's one that combined Lego's and robots with engineering. It's part of the First Lego League, a product of the toymaker a science and technology group in the late '80s. The point of it is for kids in grade 4 to 9 to have fun, but also learn. This year's theme was called the Power Puzzle, and challenged students to learn about renewable energy. For the past eight weeks, 142 teams in Wisconsin designed a robot that will build items like make-believe wind turbines and hydroelectric dams in a small Lego-like world. "Really the robot, the Lego's, that's the hook that gets them in the room, but the research project is something that is very timely, it gets something that has some depth to it that they have to learn," said Ben Senson, a robotics mentor and science teacher at Memorial High School.
SnapMail 5.0
SnapMail 5.0 provides a simple way for organizations of any size to implement cross-platform, peer-to-peer e-mail and file transfer, and it adds several nice touches missing from conventional e-mail programs. After installation, SnapMail automatically displays a list of users on your network. If your company has multiple sites (or multiple network segments within a site), you can configure SnapMail on one computer in each area to function as a server, relaying messages to other locations and queuing messages for users when they're offline. Although users can set up remote access to their messages, SnapMail does not easily accommodate changing IP addresses, so the technique doesn't work well for travelers. I was able to pick up the basics of using SnapMail almost immediately, without consulting the manual.
Who would you make No. 1?
David Leeder, Sports Editor, Globesports.com: Hi Steve and thanks for joining us today. Before we begin, I'd like you to walk us through how the list is devised. And was there any apprehension about naming an inanimate object as the most influential person in Canadian sports considering the large range of possibilities this year? Steve McAllister writes: My pleasure, Dave. The Top 25 originated in the '90s and was resurrected when I came to the Globe in the fall of 2000. William Houston and James Christie do most of the heavy lifting in compiling the list, with input from yours truly and the other members of the sports department. Yes, there were concerns from Bill and Jim when the idea of making the loonie the No. 1 power player was put out there in our original meeting.
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