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Saturday 31 March 2012
New maps of Mercury show icy-looking craters
Data from NASA's Messenger spacecraft bolsters the case that ice lines the inside of polar craters on Mercury.
Kings move into division lead with 4-1 victory over Oilers
Anze Kopitar finishes with a goal and two assists as the Kings hold Edmonton to 14 shots.
EDMONTON, Canada — The words came first and then the actions followed about nine or so hours later. And just like that, the Kings returned to a place where they have been before, briefly.
EDMONTON, Canada — The words came first and then the actions followed about nine or so hours later. And just like that, the Kings returned to a place where they have been before, briefly.
Bellator?s Joe Warren ready to move on and ?pummel Pat Curran?
HAMMOND, Ind. -- Bellator featherweight champ Joe Warren admits he does not take losses well, but he was forced to deal with it after getting knocked out by Alexis Vila in the Bellator bantamweight tournament.
Luckily, he doesn't have to relive memories of that 1:04 fight. He doesn't have any memories of the fight at all.
"After that last fight, I don't remember it. I hate to say it. I'd never been knocked out or submitted in practice to the point where I went out," Warren told Cagewriter.
He admits that he was emotional in the loss because fighting means so much to him.
"You put everything you have in one basket, when it doesn't work, it's emotional. When I lose it takes a piece of my heart away. I don't take losses well."
The last memory MMA fans have of Warren is of him laid out from Vila's punch, but he's ready to stop that losing streak in his title bout against Pat Curran on Friday night.
"The reason I'm a champion is that when I'm down, I push back up. What's done is done. I can't go back and change it. Now I have to focus on the task at hand, and that's to pummel the [expletive] out of Pat Curran," Warren said.
"The only thing I'm worried about for me is to impress myself. I've worked as hard as I can in the room. I'm still a young fighter. I haven't really had a fight yet where I've impressed myself."
Though fans may wants a spectacular knockout or submission, getting the win is most important for Warren, even if that means grinding out a decision.
"Keep my hands up, my chin down, and winning a five-round war. I'm here to win. I know you guys want knockouts and submissions. I need a win to keep my belt and take care of my family."
After Friday night, Warren will get ready for the U.S. Olympic Trials, where he will try to make his first Olympic team. Warren won a world championship as a Greco-Roman wrestler but was suspended for the Beijing Olympics. He also wants to return to Bellator's bantamweight tournament because it's a better weight class for him.
Even with all that on his plate, he isn't worried about focus.
"I'm constantly focused. I believe in myself, I believe in my training. I have a great support system, so all I have to worry about is taking a deep breath and pressing myself and putting on a show."
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Friday 30 March 2012
From Hama to Homs, by way of Sarajevo, Kigali (but also Skopje and Nairobi)
It's thirty years this month since the father and brother of the current Syrian President Assad cracked down on a Muslim Brotherhood rebellion in Hama, Syria, killing somewhere between 5,000 and 25,000, according to Amnesty International's best guess. If you...
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What the Candidates Didn?t Talk About Tonight
Tonight?s GOP debate featured a longer discourse on Arlen Specter than it did on America?s relationship with the rest of the world. It?s become something of a lost cause to lament the lack of discussion of foreign policy issues in...
Smokers to get blood tests for lung cancer in mass NHS trial of procedure that detects disease up to FIVE years before symptoms appear
A life-saving blood test, developed by a company in Nottingham, predicts lung cancer up to five years before symptoms emerge.
Could taking 40 winks in the classroom help boost your exam results?
Snoozing towards the end of a lesson has not traditionally been viewed as a compliment to the teacher. But falling asleep just after receiving information makes us more likely to absorb it, researchers claim.
Shooting suspect studied serial killers, massacres, officers say
A Waller man accused of killing his parents and brother had studied serial killers to the point of grading their work and spent years researching mass shootings at schools and other public places, authorities said Thursday.
Thursday 29 March 2012
Interactive Game of Thrones content comes to HBO Go iPad app
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Permalink | | Email this | CommentsCal State plans to freeze enrollment next spring at most campuses
Facing uncertain budget prospects, the system also plans to wait-list all applicants the following fall pending the outcome of a proposed tax initiative on the November ballot.
Facing uncertain budget prospects, California State University officials announced plans to freeze enrollment next spring at most campuses and to wait-list all applicants the following fall pending the outcome of a proposed tax initiative on the November ballot.
Facing uncertain budget prospects, California State University officials announced plans to freeze enrollment next spring at most campuses and to wait-list all applicants the following fall pending the outcome of a proposed tax initiative on the November ballot.
Kristen Stewart Talked 'Fifty Shades of Grey' With Robert Pattinson! "Hell, Yeah" She'll Read It!
Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson Talk 'Fifty Shades'
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Since the erotic best-selling trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey was inspired by Twilight, it's only natural for some fans to picture Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as the lead roles. So, have the Twilight stars even heard of the new series?
OK! NEWS: FIFTY SHADES OF GREY MOVIE RIGHTS SOLD! WHO SHOULD PLAY CHRISTIAN & ANASTASIA?
US natgas futures off 1 pct early ahead of EIA storage report
* New front-month May contract slips early
* Estimates for big storage build Thursday pressure prices
* Mild weather forecasts, high production also weigh
* Coming up: EIA, Enerdata natural gas storage data Thursday
NEW YORK, March 29 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas futures fell
early Thursday for the fourth straight session as record-high
supplies, mild weather forecasts and expectations for a sizable
weekly inventory build this morning again hit prices.
A record-mild March s 
* Estimates for big storage build Thursday pressure prices
* Mild weather forecasts, high production also weigh
* Coming up: EIA, Enerdata natural gas storage data Thursday
NEW YORK, March 29 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas futures fell
early Thursday for the fourth straight session as record-high
supplies, mild weather forecasts and expectations for a sizable
weekly inventory build this morning again hit prices.
A record-mild March s
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Green coffee beans show potential for losing weight
In a limited trial, 16 overweight young adults taking various doses of green coffee bean extract lost an average of 17.5 pounds and 16% in body fat in 22 weeks. But questions remain, experts say.
When roasted at 475 degrees, coffee beans are sometimes described as rich and full-bodied. But for the full-bodied person who is not so rich, unroasted coffee beans — green as the day they were picked — may hold the key to cheap and effective weight loss, new research suggests.
When roasted at 475 degrees, coffee beans are sometimes described as rich and full-bodied. But for the full-bodied person who is not so rich, unroasted coffee beans — green as the day they were picked — may hold the key to cheap and effective weight loss, new research suggests.
O2 and Vodafone blast Ofcom?s 4G approval
O2 has joined in with Vodafone, as network operators move to criticise Ofcom’s theoretical green light given to Everything Everywhere regarding its planned early 4G roll-out later this year. This saga began when Ofcom said it was fine, in principle, … Continue reading
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Microsoft's 'HTTP Speed + Mobility' aims to make the web faster, could be the next big ping
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How Cowbird Transforms Storytelling on the Web
Cowbird.com creates a space for those personal stories that you don't want to post as status updates on Facebook, tweets or blog posts. The site, a storytellers social network, didn't set out to become what it is today. Rather, it began as an experimental project by artist Jonathan Harris on his 30th birthday. Harris started posting photos that he thought were interesting to his personal site, number27.org, along with an accompanying short story about each one. That fun daily project continued for 440 days, and eventually evolved into the ever-growing Cowbird.com, a place to catalogue life experiences that doesn't feel gimmicky like Facebook Timeline, yet more personal than public-facing Twitter. It's also a neat way to meet other storytellers who think about story format in the same way.
What Cowbird is really trying to do, however, is something much bigger than just building another social network where stories live and die. It wants to bring back the art of storytelling, that same art that's been lost in the 24-hour Web news cycle, the constant onslaught of tweets and Facebook status updates, image-heavy Tumblr blogs, Storify and the viral video that's got everyone talking. It also creates a safe space to tell stories that don't feel right for the entire public Web, but aren't personal in a "Dear Diary" kind of way.
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"I was starting to notice that things on the Web were getting more compressed and, in my opinion, more superficial, and I was interested in a space for longer-form, deeper self expression," Harris tells ReadWriteWeb. "There was also this novelty of the social Web. I was interested in a sanctuary for storytellers to engage in a form of self expression."
Joining Cowbird is like entering a new society or, as Harris puts it, a family. Right now the community is small, about 11,000-12,000 authors, and about 13,000 stories have been told. Cowbird adds about 200 stories per day, and receives 50-100 invitation requests to join. Few are turned away, save for the spammers and marketers. Each new community member receives a personal welcome from Annie Correal, the community manager. Unlike Storify, which serves as a curation tool and space to bundle conversations from around the Web, Cowbird provides a space for storytellers who want to step away from the present and into a creative space that is less dependent upon the now and the social.
Today's featured story is the perfect example of what does well on Cowbird. To earn a living, by Giovanni Savino, is 355 words and includes sound. On the Web, the majority of readers move fast, tweet and Facebook often, look for headlines and striking images, and enjoy easily digestible, visceral text. Savino's short story is a snapshot of a primitive slaughterhouse in the south of the Dominican Republic. Sounds of shrieking, dying animals provide background noise as you, the reader, consume the text.
After reading, you have the option to share to 16 different types of social media. Or not. You can also just keep the story within Cowbird.com by "loving" it, and then joining the author's audience. To transition away from the online community completely, print the story and take it with you to some place that's far from a glass screen. Cowbird also tells you where the story took place; then it shows you other stories set there. Cowbird makes it easy to grow your community by showing you other collections that have added this story, the author's audience (which will presumably grow the more time they spend on Cowbird), and some other people who love the story.
Writing a story on Cowbird provides a key element: The ability to add a character to your story. The idea here is to make people in your everyday life fictionalized characters. You can add a role to the character - either choose from a variety of templates or create your own. You'll also see other characters on the site that have been named as such. Characters can have a birthplace and location. If you'd like to bridge the space between fact and fiction - and if the character you create is a living person - add an email address, and they'll be notified every time you write a story about them. I added my grandmother as one of the main characters.
The story I submitted is about the significance of the owl symbol in my life. It's called My Owl Returns.
The best way to discover stories on Cowbird is to wander using the Serendipity button. If there's a historical time period you're searching for, use the history timeline (though it's important to note that most of the stories were posted after 2000, though there certainly are sprinklings of stories that occurred before that year). Cowbird provides an opportunity to search for stories by place (sorts by country, city or world), people, topics and sagas, such as first loves and the Occupy movement. If you spend enough time wandering about, you'll find what you're looking for.
Harris has bigger ideas for what Cowbird can eventually become. "I have always had this dream of building a public library," he says. "Especially if we can get people using it around the world in many different languages."
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