Monday, July 1, 2013

Combo Crew (for Android)


Combo Crew, the latest Android title from developer The Game Bakers, aims to eliminate one of the problems inherent to mobile action games: poor touch screen controls. Instead of requiring gamers to continuously jam their digits onto a glass screen, Combo Crew maps punches, kicks, and super moves to swipes?a far superior way to interact with a touchscreen interface. While it's easy to unleash moves in this arena-style 2D brawler, design elements intended to streamline the controls remove the challenge and the need for move set mastery.

Welcome to the Jungle
Combo Crew opens with a generic backstory that plays out as a pseudo-parody of games of this type: Mr. Boss invites Gina (a Hair-Fu practitioner), Dolph (an action movie star), and Parker (a video game junkie) to his Boss Tower for dinner?but it's a trap! The baddie simply wants to challenge and defeat the best fighters in order to stroke his ego.

Although Combo Crew introduces you to three cutesy protagonists, only Gina and Parker are available for fisticuffs duty right away; you unlock Dolph after you've fought a few matches and earned 20 in-game credits (that's right, in-game currency?no cash needed). A fourth character, Sammo, is also a 20-credit buy.

Each brawler starts with four attacks?a mix of regular blows, guard breakers, and crow ground attacks. New moves are unlocked as you complete chapters, while other moves are unlocked after successfully completing missions in Combo Crew mode (a series of fight-based challenges). Once new moves are acquired, you can use them to replace the old ones if you'd like, but you can only carry four attacks at a time. Spending credits in the Shop lets you purchase Boosts (temporary power-ups such as a health-replenishing burger) or Perks (permanent character improvements such as a greater damage output).

Fight Club
Swipe-based inputs are how you unleash your fury onto Mr. Boss' foot soldiers. Swiping up, down, left, or right executes basic attacks, but there are advanced methods, too. Tapping the screen, holding, and then swiping toward an enemy delivers a guard breaker that crumbles a block defense. Swiping with two fingers uncorks impressive auto-combos that string multiple hits together without any further input. When your super-meter is full, tapping the super-attack icon lets you bust out a flurry of hard-hitting moves. There's a surprisingly amount of depth to the combat system: you can even do air juggles and knockdown attacks. Your combos are tallied as you land blows, and the music gets remixed on the fly as the total grows.

The simplified combat works well and the hits are quite satisfying, but there are some associated tradeoffs. You don't actually move your opponent; swiping causes your character to dash toward a foe and attack. You can't rely on positioning to set up attacks/dodges as you can with classic beat 'em ups like Double Dragon or River City Ransom. If you want to avoid an attack, you must swipe attack when an exclamation point appears over an enemy's head to perform a counter. The streamlined controls also result in button-mashing as a viable combat scheme, which removes the challenge.

Combo Crew is a solo experience, but there is an unusual (and creative) asynchronous co-op element. Suppose a bad guy gives you the business and whittles your health down to zero. Instead enduring a game over, you can ask a Combo Crew-playing friend to remotely take over your game. Your buddy has the opportunity to finish up your mess, and if s/he beats the round, your friend's score is converted into health for your character. When your fighter's health gauge is filled, any remaining points are added to your score.

Knuckle Up
Combo Crew is an entertaining diversion that should scratch genre fans' beat 'em up itch. It's cute, colorful, and had a surprisingly deep combat system. Still, you don't necessarily need to learn it; button-mashing can get the job done, too. What makes Combo Crew work, the simple control scheme, also works against it. Still, those who want to punch a few grunts in the face will find a lot to like.

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The Perfect Monitor For Normal People Is Your Deal Of The Day

The Perfect Monitor For Normal People Is Your Deal Of The Day

If you need a new monitor, or a second monitor, or a monitor in your bathroom, then this Asus 24" LED is an excellent choice. It's sitting at its lowest price ever of $130 after rebate, which is squarely in impulse buy territory, and it's also the best selling monitor on Amazon, which speaks highly of its reputation. An easy recommendation for anyone looking for something that's normal people size and resolution. [Amazon]

Edit: Our lead deal is expired, such is life. Plenty more great stuff in today's post though.


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I'm Shane Roberts, hopefully many of you already know me from Kotaku's Moneysaver. I'll be your interim Dealmaster while we continue our search for new team members to take over this segment and start a new one at Lifehacker. Your questions about the positions and anything else are welcome, and more importantly, this transitional period is an excellent time to leave your feedback about Dealzmodo.


Top Deals

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? PC/Mac Borderlands + Borderlands 2 + Season Pass [Steam] ($22) | Amazon | Note: The Mac version of Borderlands 1 will not unlock with this bundle, but you can still play it on a PC or gift it to a friend.

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Amazon has some pretty sweet discounts on memory cards and the like today. Best picks include:

? Transcend 16GB Class 10 SDHC Memory Card ($14)

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Aaron Hernandez Motive: Keeping Odin Lloyd Quiet About Previous Murders?

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Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger's Wedding Ceremony: All the Details!

It's almost time for?Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger?to tie the knot.?

Before the couple says "I do" though, we've got the scoop on the musical duo's upcoming ceremony!

PHOTOS: Is Avril Lavigne showing off a baby bump?

The couple's three-day wedding celebration kicked off last night in the South of France in Cannes with a rehearsal dinner, a wedding source tells E! News.

"[Avril] picked Cannes because she's spent significant time in Paris in the past few years and summered in places like St. Tropez," the source said. "She's very immersed in French food, ambiance and culture. It's her favorite place to be."

While the pair isn't expecting a ton of celebs at their affair, former X Factor?judge?L.A. Reid is expected to attend the duo's nuptials.

NEWS: Avril Lavigne shares her wedding plans

The actual ceremony will be held Monday night at an undisclosed location, and according to the source, not even the guests know where they're going just yet.

They're all being picked up from a location in Cannes and driven to the wedding venue.

Last month, Avril told E! News she and her hubby-to-be wanted their wedding to be very intimate.

"We want it to be unique and special and we it to be a very big event but at the same time it's small and it's just close friends and close family," Lavigne said.

PHOTOS: Speaking of destination weddings, check out the celebs that tied the knot in Italy!

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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Southwest braces for more sizzling temperatures

Kim Roer smiles as she cools off at the splash pad at Tempe Beach Park during the Tempe Bicycle Action Group swimsuit ride in Tempe, Ariz. on Saturday, June 29, 2013. About 100 biked around the city cooling off in splash pads, pools and fountains. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace)

Kim Roer smiles as she cools off at the splash pad at Tempe Beach Park during the Tempe Bicycle Action Group swimsuit ride in Tempe, Ariz. on Saturday, June 29, 2013. About 100 biked around the city cooling off in splash pads, pools and fountains. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace)

Quyenh Lam of Toronto stops to shoot video of the Bellagio fountain show along The Strip, Saturday, June 29, 2013 in Las Vegas. Saturday's daytime high was expected to reach 117 degrees, which is the city's all-time high. It was 108 at noon Saturday in Sin City. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Brian Stolfa of Scottsdale, Ariz. gets on his bike after cooling off in the fountain in front of Old Main on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe, Ariz. during the Tempe Bicycle Action Group swimsuit ride on Saturday, June 29, 2013. About 100 cyclists biked around the city cooling off in pools and fountains. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace)

People play in a pool in an apartment complex in Tempe, Ariz. during the Tempe Bicycle Action Group swimsuit ride on Saturday, June 29, 2013. About 100 cyclists biked around the city cooling off in pools and fountains. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace)

Mark Eastwood of Tempe, Ariz. gets out of the fountain in front of Old Main on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe during the Tempe Bicycle Action Group swimsuit ride on Saturday, June 29, 2013. About 100 cyclists biked around the city cooling off in pools and fountains. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace)

(AP) ? High temperatures brought discomfort to much of the Southwest on Sunday as many parts of the region were coming off several record-breaking heat days and bracing for more sizzling temperatures.

Triple-digit heat struck again in the valleys and desert regions of Southern California, while metropolitan Phoenix saw just a slight drop in temperatures after experiencing record-breaking heat Saturday.

Six half-marathon runners in Southern California were hospitalized Sunday for heat-related illnesses. A day earlier, paramedics responding to a Nevada home without air conditioning found an elderly man dead.

Runners in the Southern California race who required medical attention were extremely dehydrated, and some experienced cramps, Pasadena Fire Department spokeswoman Lisa Derderian said. Several other runners were evaluated along the route but weren't taken to the hospital, she said.

Paramedics were deployed along the 13.1-mile race, and buses with air conditioning were provided for runners to cool off. The event was supposed to be a marathon, but it was downgraded due to low turnout last year.

Hikers, bikers and dog walkers were scarce on typically busy trails in the Santa Monica Mountains above Los Angeles. At midday, two women and a panting German shepherd huddled in a rare sliver of shade along a fire road before striking out in the hot sun.

Atop San Vicente Peak, cyclist Jeff Disbrow, 49, of Santa Monica was clad in black and lathered in sweat as he took a break and refilled his water bottle.

"It's not the best day to be out here ? unless you want to suffer," he said. "It's like Arizona."

In Utah, a record 105-degree heat caused an interstate on-ramp to buckle in Salt Lake City, and hampered firefighters in their battle against three wildfires. The Interstate 215 on-ramp had to be closed for four hours Saturday night after a short section of it expanded, Utah Department of Transportation spokesman John Gleason said.

The section looked like a pothole before it was repaved, he said. No problems were reported, and traffic was rerouted around the closed lane.

Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Larry Nunez said the city hasn't seen any deaths that were classified as heat-related, but emergency workers have gotten 98 heat-related calls within the metro area since Friday morning.

The 119-degree high in Phoenix on Saturday marked the fourth-hottest day in metro Phoenix since authorities started keeping temperature records more than 110 years ago. The high temperature for the metro area hit 115 on Sunday.

Temperatures could drop slightly in Phoenix within the coming days as monsoon storms are expected to make their way through the state. Such storms could bring cloud cover but could produce more humidity and possibly contribute to dust storms.

Several Southern California communities set same-day record highs Saturday including Palm Springs, where the mercury peaked at 122 degrees.

Death Valley, the hottest place on the planet, reached 127 degrees Saturday. It was forecast to be 1 degree hotter Sunday. As sweltering as it will be, it's still shy of the record high of 134 degrees, set nearly a century ago on July 10, 1913.

In Las Vegas, temperatures were on the rise again after the city reported a record overnight low of 89 degrees Sunday.

With the temperature at 111 degrees early Sunday afternoon, National Weather Service forecaster Dan Berc said Las Vegas could also break its record high of 117 degrees set in 2005 and 1942. Forecasters are calling for the high to reach 116 degrees.

On Saturday, a man died and another was hospitalized in serious condition in Las Vegas heat-aggravated incidents as the temperature soared to 115 degrees.

Associated Press

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Candidates for Madison mayor square off in debate

There was a showdown Monday night in Madison between the candidates for mayor.

Longtime Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler faced off against challenger John Bell Crosby during a debate held at Madison Central High School. The two candidates went back and forth over more than a dozen issues.

"You look at his record and you see what his track record is. And you ask yourself, 'Do I want that?'" Hawkins-Butler said.

"Folks, we need to get more fiscally secure in this town. We've got to get safer in this town," Crosby said.

Hawkins Butler touted her record and said there's nothing wrong with Madison. Crosby argued that Madison must move forward.

Crosby claimed that he's had trouble getting a campaign headquarters because of a home field advantage.

"My best answer to that is intimidation and humiliation. That force that's out there, an unseen force, I mean. The best way to put it is the headquarters that she has right now, I was turned down on," Crosby said.

"He says he hasn't been able to get a campaign headquarters because of intimidation. What do you say to that?" 16 WAPT's Erin Kelly asked the mayor.

"I have no answer. I just think it's ridiculous. I'm not going there," Hawkins Butler said.

The candidates battled it out over issues like economic growth, the city's look and parks and recreation.

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Obama cites liberties, Israel in heritage month declaration

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- President Obama cited the Jewish striving for freedom and the U.S.-Israel bond in his Jewish American Heritage Month declaration.

"Jewish immigrants from all over the world wove new?threads into our cultural fabric with rich traditions and?indomitable faith, and their descendants pioneered incredible?advances in science and the arts," Obama said Tuesday in declaring May as Jewish American Heritage Month. "Teachings from the Torah lit?the way toward a more perfect Union, from women's rights to?workers' rights to the end of segregation."

Among other Jewish American contributions, Obama listed "scientists and teachers, public servants and private citizens, wise leaders?and loving parents."

He said Americans could see Jewish "accomplishments in every neighborhood, and we see them abroad in our unbreakable bond?with Israel that Jewish Americans helped forge."

Congress legislated Jewish American Heritage Month in 2006 and Obama was the first president, in 2010, to mark it with a celebration.

This year there will be no White House fete because of budget cuts.

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A Classy, Hardcover Scoreboook for a Classic, Hardscrabble Game

If there?s one thing I learned about baseball from my pitcher grandpa, it?s that you?re not really watching unless you?re keeping a scorecard.

The only cards I?ve ever used have been flimsy things, printed on news stock and quickly tossed in the circular file. But graphic designer Bethany Heck is attempting to inject a little style into the genre with the Halfliner Scorebook, a luxurious-looking scorecard that hit Kickstarter a few days ago.

The Halfliner is based on feedback from customers who bought Heck?s first scorecard, which was funded on Kickstarter back in 2011. Users asked for things like a rigid chipboard case that serves as a support for writing and space for more games (this one has room for 81). The super minimal graphic design allows more space for notation, too, plus an intro to the sport for n00bs and extra innings, sub slots, and stats columns. According to Heck, everyone has their own weird habits and notations, and the Halfliner is attempt to give devotees enough room to do their own thing. ?Scorekeeping is a personal expression,? she says in her pitch. ?I wanna give fans the cleanest scorebook experience possible.?

Heck is the founder of the Eephus League, a project that began as her senior thesis at Auburn in 2010. The company?which is named for the awkwardly high, slow pitch?began as a way to articulate ?baseball?s beauty, oddities and wonderful fans.? It?s since blossomed into a beautifully designed online magazine and shop devoted to the minutiae of the sport?of which there is an almost unlimited supply. [The Halfliner Scorebook]

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Jury deliberates on Philly abortion doctor accused of murder

By Dave Warner

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Jury deliberations began on Tuesday in the murder trial of a Philadelphia doctor accused of killing babies and a patient during late-term abortions at a clinic serving low-income women.

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, who ran the now-shuttered Women's Medical Society Clinic, could face the death penalty if convicted by the jury in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia.

The case focuses on whether the infants were born alive and then killed.

The seven-woman, five-man jury began deliberations early in the afternoon on Tuesday after receiving instructions for about an hour and a half from Judge Jeffrey Minehart. The trial is in its sixth week.

The charges against Gosnell and nine of his employees have added more fuel to the debate in the United States about late-term abortions.

It is legal in Pennsylvania to abort a fetus up to 24 weeks into a pregnancy. Other states have recently put new restrictions on abortions, with Arkansas banning them at 12 weeks and North Dakota at six weeks.

Gosnell is charged with first-degree murder for delivering live babies during late-term abortions and then deliberately severing their spinal cords, prosecutors said.

His defense contends there is no evidence the babies were alive after they were aborted.

Defense lawyer Jack McMahon, in his closing argument on Monday, cited testimony by Medical Examiner Sam Gulino, who said none of the 47 babies tested randomly from the West Philadelphia clinic had been born alive.

"You may not like that evidence, but it is the evidence," McMahon said.

Assistant District Attorney Edward Cameron said in his closing argument that witnesses testified that one of the aborted babies was breathing before its neck was cut, another made a whining sound and another moved its arms and legs.

"You have three witnesses who saw a baby breathe and move, and he killed it," Cameron said.

'HOUSE OF HORRORS'

The clinic that prosecutors call a "house of horrors" has been cited as powerful evidence by both abortion and anti-abortion rights groups.

Reverend Frank Pavone, director of the anti-abortion group Priests for Life, said the often gory trial testimony "will change the conversation ... It'll help people engage and make them realize they're not just talking about a theoretical idea."

Abortion-rights activists said Gosnell was an outlier among predominantly safe and legal abortion providers.

"Gosnell ran a criminal enterprise, not a healthcare facility, and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law," said Eric Ferrero, a spokesman for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Testimony has depicted a filthy clinic serving mostly low-income women in the largely black community. McMahon said Gosnell wanted to help the under-privileged community.

Gosnell is also charged with murdering Karnamaya Mongar, 41, of Virginia, who died from a drug overdose after going to him for an abortion, prosecutors said.

The defense lawyer said Mongar was given guideline amounts of the drug Demerol as an anesthesia during the abortion, as had hundreds of other women at the clinic.

Gosnell, who has been in jail since his January 2011 arrest, is being tried along with Eileen O'Neill, a medical graduate student accused of billing patients and insurance companies as if she had been a licensed doctor. Eight other defendants have pleaded guilty to a variety of charges and are awaiting sentencing.

(Additional reporting by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian; Editing by Barbara Goldberg, Scott Malone, Lisa Von Ahn and Ellen Wulfhorst)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/case-u-abortion-doctor-accused-running-house-horrors-000222756.html

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Sina Weibo, China's Equivalent of Facebook and Twitter, Gets $586M Investment From Alibaba

Sina WeiboSina Weibo, the micro-blogging platform that took root among China’s white-collar class, may be worth more than $3 billion today after Alibaba agreed to pay $586 million to buy preferred and ordinary shares in the company. The deal creates a strategic alliance between Alibaba, which runs the eBay of China, and Sina Weibo, which is kind of like a Facebook-Twitter hybrid. Weibo grew to 46 million daily users and earned $50 million in advertising revenue last year, according to an SEC filing last week from parent company Sina. It was 12 percent of parent company Sina’s total advertising revenue. Like Twitter and Facebook, Sina Weibo has gotten a lot more aggressive about pushing in-stream or news feed advertising. Last week, they announced a new product called ?Window Recommendations? in partnership with Alibaba’s Taobao. In that integration, about 3 to 5 ads featuring Taobao goods get pushed into a Weibo stream. The two companies say the deal happened so that both companies could better connect Alibaba merchants to their Weibo users and followers and experiment with new ideas in social commerce. The partnership could bring $380 million in advertising and e-commerce revenues to Weibo over the next three years, Sina said. Alibaba also reserves the right to bump its ownership up to 30 percent. It’s interesting because no such equivalent partnership exists in Western markets. E-commerce companies like eBay and Amazon have basic Facebook integrations but no deep strategic investments. Alibaba is also making the deal as it’s expected to go for a very highly anticipated IPO. The company recently did a management re-shuffle, putting in Jonathan Lu Xaoxi as its new CEO, after founder Jack Ma stepped down.

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Will green tea help you lose weight?

Apr. 29, 2013 ? Evidence has shown that green tea extract may be an effective herbal remedy useful for weight control and helping to regulate glucose in type 2 diabetes. In order to ascertain whether green tea truly has this potential, Jae-Hyung Park and his colleagues from the Keimyung University School of Medicine in the Republic of Korea conducted a study, now published in the Springer journal Naunyn-Schmedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology.

The active constituents of green tea, which have been shown to inhibit intestinal glucose and lipid uptake, are a certain type of flavonoid called gallated catechins. The authors had previously suggested that the amount of gallated catechins necessary to reduce blood glucose concentrations can be achieved from a daily dose of green tea. However, the amount of green tea needed to decrease lipid uptake from the gut is higher and has been shown to have adverse effects in humans. Once in the bloodstream, gallated catechins can actually increase insulin resistance, which is a negative consequence especially in obese and diabetic patients.

For their study, the researchers tested the effects of green tea extract on body weight and glucose intolerance in both diabetic mice and normal mice fed a high-fat diet. To prevent a high dose of gallated catechins from reaching the bloodstream, the authors also used a non-toxic resin, polyethylene glycol, to bind the gallated catechins in the gut to prevent their absorption. They then looked at the effects on the mice of eating green tea extract alone, and eating green tea extract plus polyethylene glycol. They compared these against the effects of two other therapeutic drugs routinely prescribed for type 2 diabetes.

Results showed that green tea extract in isolation did not give any improvements in body weight and glucose intolerance. However, when green tea extract was given with polyethylene glycol, there was a significant reduction in body weight gain, insulin resistance and glucose intolerance in both normal mice on a high fat diet and diabetic mice. The polyethylene glycol had the effect of prolonging the amount of time the gallated catechins remained in the intestines, thereby limiting glucose absorption for a longer period.

Interestingly, the effects of the green tea extract in both the intestines and in the circulation were measurable at doses which could be achieved by drinking green tea on a daily basis. In addition, the effects of green tea extract were comparable to those found when taking two of the drugs which are currently recommended for non-insulin dependent diabetes.

The authors conclude that "dietary green tea extract and polyethylene glycol alleviated body weight gain and insulin resistance in diabetic and high-fat mice, thus ameliorating glucose intolerance. Therefore the green tea extract and polyethylene glycol complex may be a preventative and therapeutic tool for obesity and obesity-related type 2 diabetes without too much concern about side effects."

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Monday, April 8, 2013

Philadelphia gets ready to play 'Pong' on building

Shown is the Cira Centre, right, on Thursday, April 4, 2013, in Philadelphia. The classic Atari video game will come to life on the facade of the 29-story skyscraper. Hundreds of built-in LED lights at the Cira Centre will replicate the familiar paddles and ball. The effort is the brainchild of Frank Lee, a Drexel University game-design professor. Pong will be played April 19 and 24, to bookend an event called Philly Tech Week. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Shown is the Cira Centre, right, on Thursday, April 4, 2013, in Philadelphia. The classic Atari video game will come to life on the facade of the 29-story skyscraper. Hundreds of built-in LED lights at the Cira Centre will replicate the familiar paddles and ball. The effort is the brainchild of Frank Lee, a Drexel University game-design professor. Pong will be played April 19 and 24, to bookend an event called Philly Tech Week. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Shown is the Cira Centre on Thursday, April 4, 2013, in Philadelphia. The classic Atari video game will come to life on the facade of the 29-story skyscraper. Hundreds of built-in LED lights at the Cira Centre will replicate the familiar paddles and ball. The effort is the brainchild of Frank Lee, a Drexel University game-design professor. Pong will be played April 19 and 24, to bookend an event called Philly Tech Week. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

The Cira Centre is shown on Thursday, April 4, 2013, in Philadelphia. The classic Atari video game will come to life on the facade of the 29-story skyscraper. Hundreds of built-in LED lights at the Cira Centre will replicate the familiar paddles and ball. The effort is the brainchild of Frank Lee, a Drexel University game-design professor. Pong will be played April 19 and 24, to bookend an event called Philly Tech Week. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

(AP) ? Philadelphia is getting ready for a supersized game of "Pong" ? on the side of a skyscraper.

The classic Atari video game will be re-created later this month on the facade of the 29-story Cira Centre, where hundreds of embedded LED lights will replicate the familiar paddles and ball.

Organizers expect hundreds of onlookers as gaming enthusiasts use giant, table-mounted joysticks to play from afar. The players will be standing on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a site that offers an unobstructed view of the office building from across the Schuylkill River.

"'Pong' is a cultural icon, cultural milestone," said Frank Lee, the Drexel University game-design professor behind the concept. "This is my love letter to the wonders of technology as seen through the eyes of my childhood."

Despite the buzz the idea has received since being announced Wednesday, Lee said it took five years to find people willing to make it happen. He eventually met kindred spirits at Brandywine Realty Trust, which owns the Cira Centre, and at the online news site Technically Philly.

Now, what might be the world's largest "Pong" game will be played April 19 and 24 as part of Philly Tech Week, the news website's annual series of events, seminars and workshops spotlighting the city's technology and innovation communities.

"This is one of the best things I could imagine that could make people aware that there's something happening here, and bring more people into the fold," Technically Philly co-founder Christopher Wink said.

Wink estimated about 150 people might play over the two days ? most will be chosen by a lottery, but some spots will be reserved for younger students enrolled in science, technology, engineering and math programs.

Among those playing will be 36-year-old Brad Denenberg, one of three winners picked at random during a Tech Week preview on Wednesday. Denenberg, who runs the tech startup incubator Seed Philly, confessed to some trepidation. He said he's actually not a big gamer.

"My biggest fear is that I'm going to play against some 8-year-old who will destroy me," Denenberg said.

In today's gaming era of lifelike graphics ? think "Call of Duty" ? and colorful characters ? think "Angry Birds" ? it's hard to imagine how the pixelated "Pong" qualified as revolutionary when it was introduced in 1972.

The black-and-white arcade game used simple block shapes to simulate two paddles and a ball; the object was for players to hit the ball so their opponents could not return it. A home version paved the way for the game console industry.

At the Cira Centre, the game will be re-created using hundreds of lights already embedded in its north face. The tower stands by day as a gleaming, mirrored edifice in west Philadelphia, but each night it illuminates the skyline with colored, patterned displays. A spokesman could not be reached for comment Thursday.

Lee said he was driving by the building one night five years ago when he was suddenly struck with the idea that the lights could be configured to play the shape-fitting game Tetris.

The concept grew from there. Last month, after finally securing the necessary permissions, he and two colleagues successfully tested giant versions of "Pong" as well as the classic games "Snake" and "Space Invaders." People might get to play "Snake" on April 24, Lee said.

The effort has been satisfying on a technical level, Lee said, describing "Pong" as "a large-scale interactive, light-based art project."

But he noted it was rewarding on an emotional level as well, comparing it with the excitement he felt as a boy when he would put the "Pong" game cartridge into the console. And he hopes it inspires a new generation of innovators.

"I hope kids ... will go on to be the leaders, and push technology forward and do wondrous things in the future," Lee said.

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Sunday, April 7, 2013

Exxon's duck-killing pipeline won't pay taxes to oil spill clean-up fund

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A technicality has spared Exxon from having to pay any money into the fund that will be covering most of the clean up costs of its Arkansas pipelinespill.

The cleanup efforts themselves took a sobering turn as crews found injured and dead duckscovered in oil.

The environmental impacts of an oil spill in central Arkansas began to come into focus Monday as officials said a couple of dead ducks and 10 live oily birds were found after an ExxonMobil Corp.

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Friday, April 5, 2013

Monetary stimulus not enough for Japan: Germany's Schaeuble

STRASBOURG (Reuters) - Japan cannot count on central bank actions alone to boost its economy and must carry through with structural reforms, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Thursday.

Speaking to journalists at an event on Franco-German ties, Schaeuble said Japan knows it must find a solution to its structural problems.

"If monetary policy is used instead of financial and economic changes then we run in the wrong way," he added, speaking through an interpreter.

The Bank of Japan dramatically stepped up its monetary stimulus on Thursday with plans to inject $1.4 trillion into Japan's economy in less than two years.

The central bank's plans to increase its asset-buying have irked other countries and especially France, which is concerned such actions will boost the value of the euro and make euro zone exports more expensive on international markets.

Schaeuble's French counterpart, Pierre Moscovici, told the same event in the border town that exchange rate issues should be dealt with jointly within the Group of 20 economic powers.

"I believe that over the long term exchange rates should reflect economic fundamentals," Moscovici told journalists, adding that countries should refrain from artificial ways of supporting their economies.

(Reporting by Ingrid Melander; editing by Mark John)

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Bradley Manning: ?New York Times? Endorsed Source, or Traitor?

Last month Private First Class Bradley Manning pled guilty to charges that could land him 20 years in prison for his role in releasing thousands of classified documents obtained and published by WikiLeaks.

Twenty years might seem like adequate punishment for a whistleblower, particularly one who exposed a trove of wrongdoing in America?s war in Iraq and its dealings around the world?exemplified by a 2007 viral video showing a U.S. Apache helicopter gunning down civilians and a Reuters journalist in Baghdad, a revelation extensively covered by The New York Times.

Two decades, however, apparently isn?t good enough for the government. Prosecutors are pursuing a life sentence for Manning, for the far-reaching charge of ?aiding the enemy.?

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Noted lawyers and constitutional scholars Floyd Abrams and Yochai Benkler summed up the military?s argument against Manning in a New York Times op-ed titled ?Death to Whistleblowers?:

Under the prosecution?s theory, because Private Manning knew the materials would be published and that Al Qaeda could read them once published, he indirectly communicated with the enemy. But in this theory, whether publication is by WikiLeaks or The Times is entirely beside the point. Defendants are guilty of ?aiding the enemy? for leaking to a publishing medium simply because that publication can be read by anyone with an Internet connection.

In effect, Manning is being formally tried as a traitor because Al Queda can read the information he leaked on the Internet.

?This charge is incredibly troubling,? Trevor Timm, cofounder and executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, tells TakePart. ?The charge is so vague, it doesn?t exclusively encompass classified information. It?s any information that could be accessed by ?the enemy.? That means it doesn?t just affect Manning, or even just future whistleblowers. Any active military member who writes an op-ed critical of U.S. policy could be aiding an enemy. It could affect military members on Twitter or Facebook.?

?It is troubling to see how much the mainstream media has ignored the Manning case,? says Timm. ?Manning gave the media a treasure trove of information that they have been using for the past two years. Yet many in the press have been ignoring the ?aiding the enemy? charge and how it could affect their work going forward.?

The charge, if upheld, could also fundamentally alter journalists? ability to uncover wrongdoing by the military, or the government at large. After all, newspapers are on the Internet too.

?Osama bin Laden once told all of his followers to read Bob Woodward?s book?one of the most esteemed journalists in America?for information,? says Timm. ?Woodward?s sources are high-ranking military members. He?s talking about top-secret information?often far more classified than what Manning shared.

?By this logic, Woodward?s sources are aiding the enemy.?

Despite the seemingly ominous potential consequences Manning?s case could have on future whistleblowers and the ability of journalists to conduct high-profile investigations using anonymous sources, the many news outlets are only now picking up on the broader implications of Manning?s case.

?It is troubling to see how much the mainstream media has ignored the Manning case,? says Timm. ?Manning gave the media a treasure trove of information that they have been using for the past two years. Almost every day you see a story that originated from Manning?s leak. It has enriched the public?s knowledge of what the government is doing in their name. Yet many in the press have been ignoring the ?aiding the enemy? charge and how it could affect their work going forward.?

Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, the man behind the Pentagon Papers, is revered in media circles and among government transparency and First Amendment advocates as a paragon of virtue. Why not Manning? Especially after news broke last year that the military was virtually torturing him in captivity.

The reason may be simple generational pettiness and old media snobbery.

?I do feel that, unfortunately, if Manning had given information directly to The New York Times [instead of the upstart WikiLeaks], his case would receive more attention,? says Timm. ?And that?s a shame, because this case will affect the world of journalism regardless of who broke the story.?

Now, with the military pursuing aiding the enemy charges full bore, it may be too late to stop the case?s chilling effect on the First Amendment.

?If the media made noise about this earlier, the prosecution may not have pursued it,? says Timm. ?Hopefully, as the trial comes close, the chorus will get louder and louder and the charges will be dropped.?

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