| 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.
Gallaudet Faculty Joins In
Monday was supposed to be the day Gallaudet University got back to business. After student and alumni protesters shut the campus down for several days, and university officials called in police officers late Friday to end the standoff and arrest more than 130 students, the university got off to a fairly normal start yesterday. Although protesters manned the front gate, classes were held as usual, and the football players who had locked the campus down on Wednesday were back in uniform and running drills on Hotchkiss Field. The soccer team hosted Wesley College in a tough match and lost 4-0. .
Open Thread
Has anyone else found it interesting, that recent votes, universal healtcare for instance, that the push was for the "children", yet these same folks refuse to enact legislation to actually protect the children - anti-preditor laws, Jessica Laws, etc.? And to add insult to injury, they stand for eliminating chidren at the start with pro-abortion talk. Nice to know that they have such specific "feelings" for the children. There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V .
Albert Cheng returning to radio
Talk-show host turned legislator Albert Cheng King-hon plans to go full circle and return to the airwaves rather than the Legislative Council, he announced yesterday. Mr Cheng, along with activist Leung Kwok-hung, were surprise winners in their debut Legco campaigns in 2004, but yesterday Mr Cheng said he had no intention of running again. He announced during a Legco debate that he had applied to launch a new radio station. .
Swan blames inflation rise on previous govt
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has used today's inflation figures to attack the previous Howard Government's economic record. The Consumer Price Index has risen a slightly higher than expected 0.9 per cent, driven by petrol prices, banking costs, rising rents and domestic holidays. That takes annual inflation to 3 per cent, which is right on the Reserve Bank's upper limit. Perhaps more importantly, the central bank's own two underlying measures have surged to 3.8 and 3.4 per cent. Today's cost of living figures from the Bureau of Statistics are seen as crucial ahead of next month's interest rates decision from the Reserve Bank. Mr Swan says elevated inflation is the Liberal Party's parting gift to Australian families. "Now it's pretty clear when you look at underlying inflation that these pressures have taken a long time to build," he said.
Brodcast networks are no longer the king of primetime they're the ...
From "Dancing With the Stars" and "Kid Nation" last fall, to the current hype-o-rama for mid-January's "American Idol" return, it seems the only shows people are really talking about on old-line networks such as CBS and ABC anymore are reality shows - most of which look like something that might well have aired on, well, cheesy cable channels. .
Big break for young cueman
A young Hawkeridge cueman who dreams of turning professional has taken a step closer to a place in the national team. Ben Harrison, 16, who practises with top professional Stephen Lee at Trowbridge Snooker Club, recently beat off the competition in the qualifying rounds of the English Amateur under 19s Championships in Woking. Harrison was one of only three players from the south to go through to the national finals in Leeds in May, where he will compete for a place in the England Home International Under 19s team and £600 prize money. Harrison said: "I thought I had no chance but I played well and it was a good day. When you're playing an England player you're thinking I've got my hands full', but I pulled it out and it was brilliant. "I wasn't actually that nervous because I was just enjoying the game.
Courting the South's Black Vote
And that has been Obama's campaign rally cry ever since. But just as important, Childs and Greenwood may also have helped Obama connect more genuinely with the kind of Southern rural black voter whose support he'll need through the primary odyssey but who represents a different challenge than the urban, Northern black electorate he's more familiar with. "For him to have worked among poverty as much as he has in Illinois, he would have to know what black folks have gone through," Childs says. But during his visit, she adds, "something went on in that room that had to do with him coming to a small town and hearing those five words and knowing what people like us here can do, no matter what our problems. I think seeing our experience had an impact on him." Still, it's not as if Obama can now take Greenwood for granted.
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