Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: Chinas Wen tells EU to stick to current climate pact

HTTP:: Chinas Wen tells EU to stick to current climate pact
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will insist key global climate change negotiations next month build on current treaties that limit the obligations of poor countries in controlling greenhouse gas emissions, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: QinetiQ Tests 039 Stealth 039 Wind Turbines

HTTP:: QinetiQ Tests 039 Stealth 039 Wind Turbines
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Working together with the market-leading supplier of wind-power solutions, Vestas Wind Systems, QinetiQ has recently managed to demonstrate a new wind-turbine blade design that supposedly represents a unique radar mitigation technology for the developing industry. QinetiQ, a renowned technology provider and consultancy to the energy and environmental sectors, and Vestas were funded for this line of work by the Government Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) of the United Kingdom, a press release on the corporation's website announces. “We believe that Stealth Turbine technology could be a genuine game-changer for the renewable energy industry by removing a major barrier to its development,” QinetiQ's Strategic Business Director for Energy and Environment, Mark Roberts, says. The new design, which was recently showcased at a wind farm in Norfolk, England, features a 44-meter prototype turbine blade, which is capable of considerably reducing the radar sig!
nature of the turbine. With this innovation, the facilities could essentially be taken out of the equation in air traffic control and air defense systems. “This is another great example of QinetiQ applying its expertise in defense technologies to a different sector. Our long-standing involvement in the development of stealth techniq...
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Pingie: CNN.C: Iran warns reformists before anniversary

CNN.C: Iran warns reformists before anniversary
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As Tehran approaches the 30th anniversary of the Iranian hostage crisis, in which dozens of Americans where held against their will for 444 days, the Islamic republic is firmly warning against reformists taking to the streets to protest the government.
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Pingie: HTTP:: US backs Karzais Afghan poll win

HTTP:: US backs Karzais Afghan poll win
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Obama recognises incumbent as "legitimate leader" but tells him to tackle corruption.
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Pingie: HTTP:: How to Prevent Teapots from Dripping

HTTP:: How to Prevent Teapots from Dripping
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For people serving tea on a regular basis, the teapot effect is well known. It appears when the liquid dribbles at low flow rates, causing numerous tea stains on table covers and clothes. Now, experts in France have managed to determine the root cause of this peculiar effect and also to come up with a way of addressing it. The investigators say that they have discovered a way of linking the small world of hydrophobic materials and effects to the large world of fluid dynamics, where inertia is king. When you pour tea from a kettle, it first begins to flow rapidly, and then, as the pressure drops, so does the flow rate. As this happens, the liquid starts taking the shape of the kettle, and then flowing on the sides of the container. The team of experts, led by scientists at the University of Lyon Laboratoire PMCN, and the Ecole Polytechnique LadHyX, has determined that, by coating the spout of the teapot with a super-hydrophobic coating, such as, for instance, with black s!
oot, the liquid flow stops dribbling and running along the sides of the kettle. “Over the recent years, the development of super-hydrophobic materials, exhibiting the so-called Lotus effect, has stirred up the physics of surfaces. Their exceptional water repellency results from the combination of bare hydrophobicity and micro- or nano- st...
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Pingie: TORRE: MPAA Propaganda Hits 60 Minutes

TORRE: MPAA Propaganda Hits 60 Minutes
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The MPAA scored a victory last night when millions of people tuned in to CBS's 60 Minutes. The 'investigative' news magazine ran a propaganda piece on movie piracy yesterday, allowing the MPAA to insinuate once again that organized crime and BitTorrent go hand in hand.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Epic Mickey Might Be a Trilogy

HTTP:: Epic Mickey Might Be a Trilogy
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It takes courage to work with Disney properties. The well known characters that the company has created over the years are so clearly defined and so pure in their existence that it's hard to put any creative spin on them.And that's just one of the challenges faced by the newly confirmed Nintendo Wii videogame Epic Mickey, the title that aims to tell the story of long forgotten Disney characters living in an alternate world until Mickey Mouse himself shows up. The idea has a lot of potential and it seems that its creators are already thinking about sequels for the game set for 2010.When asked by 1UP about the possibility of putting together a series based on the Epic Mickey concept, Warren Spector, the head of the Junction Point development team, stated that “I don't do anything that isn't extensible. And I will certainly feel like that I have not done my job if we can't make other games in this world with these characters. In my head, I've got two more planned. In the bu!
siness world of reality, those games have not approved, and who knows if we'll ever see them. I had three games planned for Deus Ex, and you see where that got me.”It seems that Spector is also pretty interested in creating other videogames with a Disney cartoon-like sensibility. He talked about how the company now owns rights...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Teri Hatcher s Secret Diet and Exercise Plan

HTTP:: Teri Hatcher s Secret Diet and Exercise Plan
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It’s often been said that it’s extremely hard to feel any kind of sympathy towards Hollywood stars, especially as regards their weight and health. For starters, we tend to believe they have it easier than the rest of us just because they have money, which is clearly not the case. Teri Hatcher, for one, the 44-year-old star of “Desperate Housewives,” has to put in a lot of effort to look as awesome as she does, How Celebrities Lose Weight points out. Of course, as fans from back in Hatcher’s James Bond days know, Teri was never on the chubby side. Quite on the contrary, she was remarked from the start for her tall stature, long limbs and flat abdomen, but that’s not to say she mustn’t work really hard to maintain her figure at 44 as well. Moreover, it’s even more complicated for Hatcher to do so, as she’s also a busy mom and an even busier actress, but she does it nonetheless, because her main focus is on staying healthy. “She tries to keep to a low-f!
at diet as much as possible and uses some diet supplements that work fast. When it comes to diet tips, she likes to eat grilled chicken or steamed fish with fresh vegetables. When she needs a treat, occasionally she’ll give in and go for guilty pleasures, which are banana splits with chocolate...
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Pingie: HTTP:: PlayStation 3 Wand a New Platform for Videogames

HTTP:: PlayStation 3 Wand a New Platform for Videogames
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It seems that Sony has great plans for the new motion tracking controller, shaped like a wand, set to be released at some point during the spring of 2010. Far from seeing it as only an add-on that can offer some players a new way of controlling their experience, the company sees the new device, which has not yet received a marketable, catchy name, as a whole new “platform product,” in the words of Shuhei Yoshida, the boss of Sony Worldwide Studios.Speaking to Gamasustra in an interview, Yoshida stated that “We are still in the very early days of motion control development. We have had talks with company management where we discussed whether we should approach as a peripheral or a platform, and we agree that this has huge potential - so we position this as a hardware platform.”In time, most of the titles released for the PlayStation 3 will likely offer support for the new motion tracking wand but Sony is emphasizing that even on launch date, games such as LittleBigPl!
anet will get support for it through a patch while other publishers, like Konami with Resident Evil 5, might offer a revamped version of their titles for those interested in controlling gameplay through motion.Yoshida is also adamant about the fact that the wand is not only a way to attract those who bought t...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Women Rely on High Fat Foods to Relieve Chronic Stress

HTTP:: Women Rely on High Fat Foods to Relieve Chronic Stress
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Women often find comfort in high-fat foods, especially under circumstances of constant stress. It’s not for nothing that we often see in movies women eating ice cream in the dead of night, straight out of the container, after a breakup, they say. A new study, cited by USA Today, comes to show that, indeed, when suffering from chronic stress, most women will turn to high-fat foods for relief. At the same time, they will also note that their eating habits are spinning out of control and that they need to exercise more will power than before to fight the cravings. Understandably, they will also gain some extra pounds in the same circumstances â€" when it’s overweight and obese women we’re talking about (such was the case with the participants to the aforementioned study), then we have reason for concern. “The women were categorized as having chronic stress if they had ongoing stressful situations such as being unable to pay their rent or mortgage; feeling stuck in !
a job they don’t like; having a spouse or partner who expects too much of them or doesn’t understand them; having a child who isn’t doing well in school; or acting as a family caregiver for someone in poor health. The researchers found that people who had greater chronic stress were more lik...
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Pingie: HTTP:: p2pnet World Headlines Nov 2 2009

HTTP:: p2pnet World Headlines Nov 2 2009
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Silicon Valley golden boy Mike Volpi caught in eBay Skype legal battle Mercury NewsnNot that long ago, Michelangelo “Mike” Volpi, 42, was one of the most important people in Silicon Valley. At Cisco Systems, he was the golden boy who was instrumental in the company’s acquisition strategy and rumored to be in line to eventually [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: US backs Karzais presidential win

HTTP:: US backs Karzais presidential win
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Incumbent congratulated after victory due to opponent dropping out of runoff.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Handset Vendors Confident About the Fourth Quarter

HTTP:: Handset Vendors Confident About the Fourth Quarter
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The worldwide mobile phone market, as many of you might already know, has been greatly impacted by the financial downturn, and it was said on some occasions to be shrinking by about 10 percent during 2009, when compared to the previous year. The third quarter of 2009 has shown some signs of improvement for the market, and it seems that the fourth quarter is expected to be an even better one. Regarding the ongoing quarter of the year, Jake Saunders, ABI Research's VP for Forecasting, stated that, “The outlook for mobile handset markets continues to improve. While 3Q-2009 showed a YoY 6.5% contraction in shipments to 291.1 million, 2009 should close out with only a 4%-5% contraction (to 1,138 million for the year).”More and more mobile phone makers seem to be confident that the fourth quarter of the year will deliver better cash flow due to more robust sales. Starting with the third quarter of the year, markets like North America and Asia-Pacific are already showing signs!
of recovery, driven by enthusiasm for smartphones in the former and by increased interest in upgrades in the latter. When it comes to the market shares handset vendors saw in the third quarter, Nokia remained on the first position with a little more than 37 percent share, followed by Samsung with around 21 perce...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Secret to Losing Weight Is in Making Diet Change the Easy Choice

HTTP:: Secret to Losing Weight Is in Making Diet Change the Easy Choice
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Men and women struggling with their weight and especially those who are constantly looking for a new diet to try out in the hope that, maybe, this time, it will work out, have now new-found hope. A new study has determined that slimmers stand to lose more weight if they make the healthy-diet choice the easy choice, as USA Today informs. What this means is that it’s not enough to just go on a diet, especially if said dietary regime is in sharp contrast with what we’d normally eat. In return, if we choose a diet that does not imply drastic restrictions on our part and, furthermore, set out to lose weight with the help of a friend or relative in the same situation, we actually stand more chances of dropping more pounds than we would otherwise. “Dieters can boost their weight loss if they clean up their act at home and get a partner to lose weight with them, a new study shows. If you want to trim down, you should set up your home to make the healthy choice the easy ch!
oice, says Amy Gorin, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut.” USA Today writes of the new study. In order to come up with these findings, Gorin took 201 obese and overweight volunteers and divided them into two groups. One group went about the losing-weight t...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Driving and mobiles a deadly combination

HTTP:: Driving and mobiles a deadly combination
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p2pnet news view | Mobiles:- In one hour, Phillipa Curtis (right) sent more than 20 messages to friends, some of the texts bragging “about serving singer Dina Carroll at the restaurant where she worked,” said the Daily Mail in February this year.nBut her preoccupation with texting lead directly to the death of another young [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: The 039 Ring Nebula 039 Captured in Breathtaking Detail

HTTP:: The 039 Ring Nebula 039 Captured in Breathtaking Detail
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The Ring Nebula is perhaps one of the most “popular” attractions in the sky, having been photographed on numerous occasions with virtually all telescopes capable of resolving it. By combining optical and near-infrared data of the formation, also known under the astronomical designation M57, experts at the Calar Alto Observatory (CAO), in Spain, managed to obtain a new view of it that presented the planetary nebula in a new light. According to AlphaGalileo, this is a unique photograph of the space structure. The image captures not only the central zones of the nebula and its halo, but also a massive number of stars around it, and a huge number of background galaxies, each located at various distances from M57. Experts at the institution say that the photo is part of the Documentary Photo Gallery of Calar Alto Observatory, and that it is the first to be released after the recent image of the Owl Nebula. The two celestial structures are similar in many aspects, but most !
notably in that they are both members of the same class of nebulas. A planetary nebula is formed by stars no larger than eight times the mass of our Sun. They are unable to explode as novas or supernovas, therefore, towards the end of their burning cycles, they emit a lot of their internal matter as stellar winds. After an ad...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Verizon 039 s BlackBerry Storm2 9550 Sports Bing Application

HTTP:: Verizon 039 s BlackBerry Storm2 9550 Sports Bing Application
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BlackBerry Storm2 9550, the second touchscreen-enabled mobile phone delivered to the market by Canadian handset maker Research In Motion, is already available for purchase in the United States on the airwaves of Verizon Wireless. Moreover, it comes with brand new features and improvements over the previous Storm, such as Wi-Fi connectivity, as well as a pre-loaded Bing application.The presence of this Bing application on RIM's BlackBerry Storm2 is the result of a previously inked deal between Verizon Wireless and Microsoft, according to which Bing, the search engine delivered by the Redmond-based software giant, will become the default search solution on Verizon's handsets. Big Red seems committed to the deal, and it has included the app not only on Windows Mobile-powered phones, but also on BlackBerry ones, and even on those powered by Google's Android operating system. According to phone Arena, the second Storm handset is intended to sport about the same software as the o!
riginal touchscreen device, which determined Verizon to deliver the Bing application to older Storms too. What it offers users includes access to the Bing search engine, as well as quick access to news from Sports, Business, and Technology. In addition, it can provide directions to one location or another, making u...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Girls dodgy MySpace pics upset school principal

HTTP:: Girls dodgy MySpace pics upset school principal
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Two girls who posted whatthey thought were funny pictures on their MySpace pages and upset their school principal are now suing through the the American Civil Liberties Union.n“The girls, identified only by initials, were part of a sleepover last summer attended by other students from Churubusco High School,” [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Stimulated Self Serum Skin Therapy Uses Own Blood to Banish Wrinkles

HTTP:: Stimulated Self Serum Skin Therapy Uses Own Blood to Banish Wrinkles
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We’re all constantly looking for ways to turn back the hands of time, whether it’s by using better cosmetic products or by paying thousands of dollars in a lifetime to dermatologists or, depending on the case, to plastic surgeons. London-based French cosmetic doctor Daniel Sister has just the answer to help us in our quest for eternal youth â€" or the closest to it â€" and it’s in our own blood. The S3 Therapy, or Stimulated Self Serum skin therapy, is not a new concept, although it might sound as such. It implies drawing one’s blood, separating red cells from the clear serum and the platelets, enriching it with vitamins and other nutrients and then injecting it back into the face to help stimulate DNA repair, banish wrinkles and spots, and overall improve skin appearance considerably. Since the procedure basically means injecting one’s face with one’s blood, it’s no wonder it’s also referred to as the “Dracula therapy,” relying on blood for rejuvenation!
purposes. “Dr. Daniel Sister brings a new and natural way to improve your skin. S3 Therapy (Stimulated Self Serum therapy) helps with improving wrinkles, healing of scars and any other cutaneous damage, active hydration of the skin, increased brightness and rad...
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