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March 7th, 2010 at 11:19 pm

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After fielding several complaints over its app-approval policy, it seems rather ironic that Apple would allow an app that looks (and works) exactly like a Nintendo DS into its App Store. That said, it could have something to do with the way the app works.

Look for more news on this once Nintendo catches wind of it.

Nintendo DS lookalike app hits the App Store

Apple might have let one slip by. An app that looks awfully similar to the Nintendo DS is now available in its App Store.

According to the app’s App Store listing, more games, case colors, and microphone functionality will be made available at some point in the future.

Early last month, Apple rejected a Commodore 64 emulator called C64 that was trying to gain entry into its App Store. The app, which allowed owners to use Commodore BASIC, also allowed users to play authentic Commodore 64 titles. In a rejection notice sent to the app’s developers, Apple cited section 3.2.2 of its iPhone Developer’s Agreement, which states that “an application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means.”

Does that look like a Nintendo DS to you?

DS Double Sys is not, theoretically,North Face Footwear, an emulator. The game is a simulation of a Nintendo DS. That might have helped the app gain admission into the App Store.


Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has written about everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems. Don is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and posts at The Digital Home. He is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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Regardless, it should be interesting to see how long it stays in the store. Nintendo can’t be happy about an app that costs $4.99 depicting its hardware. And if more games are made available, it might cause even more trouble for the app’s developers.



Dubbed DS Double Sys, theiPhone app from ZM2 Dev “can turn your device into a ‘Handheld Game Console.’” When users boot up the app, the DS’s familiar design is featured on the screen,timberland pro boots, including its dual displays. App owners can change the color of the DS to match their real-life version, zoom in on individual screens,ugg classic, and even play games. ZM2 Dev said that gamers receiving higher scores on its Pixel Mania title will be able to unlock more DS colors and a “secret game.”

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March 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 am

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Tickets are $50 and can be purchased by calling 587-0737 Ext. 1.

Equinox Theatre Holds Wine Tasting Fundraiser at Emerson Ballroom, 11/13

On Friday, November 13th, Equinox Theatre will hold a wine tasting fundraising event at Emerson Ballroom from 7pm to 11pm.


From 7pm to 9:30pm,ugg store usa, there will be entertainment by Broad Comedy, Soren Kisiel,Discount North Face Trousers, and Jeni Fleming, with the Kelly Roberti Quartetand a silent auction, along with wine and hors d’oeuvres. From 9pm until 11pm, there will be dancing to Jeni Fleming and the Kelly Roberti Quartet.

In addition to its professional productions, Equinox offers theater and comedy classes to adults and kids and also implements its nationally recognized Teen Theatre program.

Now in its twelfth year, The Equinox Theatre Company strives to produce unusual work – modern works that challenge their audiences and wouldn’t be produced elsewhere in the community. Their eclectic, imaginative,mbt outlet, and professional productions have garnered accolades from supporters that range from “on The Edge” to “nourishing the spirit” to “downright astonishing.”



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February 28th, 2010 at 11:04 pm

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Bin Laden Threatens More Attacks on US
CAIRO (Jan. 24) – Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the failed attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas in a new audio message released Sunday threatening more attacks on the United States.

However, a senior U.S. intelligence official in Washington said there is “no evidence whatsoever” that the al-Qaida leader had any involvement in the plot or even knew about it in advance. So the message indicates bin Laden may want to appear in direct command of the terror group’s affiliates around the world at a time when some analysts have suggested he is mostly a figurehead.

The Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab told federal agents shortly afterward that he had been trained and given the explosives by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, an al-Qaida-inspired offshoot in bin Laden’s ancestral homeland of Yemen.

In the minute-long recording released to al-Jazeera Arabic news channel, bin Laden addressed President Barack Obama saying the recent attempt was meant to send a message similar to that of the Sept. 11 attacks.

“The message delivered to you through the plane of the heroic warrior Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a confirmation of the previous messages sent by the heroes of the Sept. 11,” he said. “America will never dream of security unless we will have it in reality in Palestine,” he added.

“God willing, our raids on you will continue as long as your support for the Israelis continues.”

U.S.-based IntelCenter, which monitors militant messages, said bin Laden used specific language he has used before in advance of attacks, a possible indicator of an upcoming action within the next 12 months.

The phrase “Peace be upon those who follow guidance” appears at the beginning and end of messages released in advance of attacks to warn al-Qaida’s enemies that they need to change their ways or they will be attacked, IntelCenter said in a statement. The language, used in the latest message as well, allows al-Qaida to blame the actual attack on those who refuse to change their ways, which in the group’s view forces a response.

There was no way to verify the voice on the audio message was actually bin Laden, but it resembled previous recordings attributed to him.

The U.S. said it could not immediately authenticate the message. But White House adviser David Axelrod told CNN’s “State of the Union” that whatever the source, the message “contains the same hollow justification for the mass slaughter of innocents.”

Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up his plane as it approached Detroit Metro Airport on Christmas Day. However, the explosive powder he was hiding in his underwear failed to detonate.

On Friday, Britain raised its terror threat alert to the second-highest level, one of several recent moves the country has made to increase vigilance against international terrorists after the Christmas Day bombing attempt on a flight from Amsterdam.

Bin Laden’s message came four weeks after the Yemen-based group made its own claim of responsibility for the bomb plot with a different justification – linking it to Yemeni military attacks on al-Qaida targets with the help of U.S. intelligence.

But the U.S. intelligence official said al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is linked to the central al-Qaida that bin Laden heads and recent intelligence indicates there are ongoing contacts between al-Qaida in Yemen and in Pakistan. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.

The message appeared to be an attempt by bin Laden to stay relevant, said Rohan Gunaratna, author of “Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror.”

“The training and the definition of the attack was by the local leaders of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, so in many ways you can say bin Laden is exploiting for his benefit this particular attack,” he said. “Bin Laden still wants to claim leadership for the global jihad movement.”

Of all the various offshoots and branches of al-Qaida around the world, Gunaratna said the group in Yemen is one of the closest to bin Laden since it is made up of bodyguards and associates of the organization’s top ideologues. Yemen is bin Laden’s ancestral homeland.

“Today the operational relationship has somewhat suffered, but the ideological relationship is very strong and that is why bin Laden claimed this attack,” Gunaratna said.

Two of the group’s top members were former detainees released in November 2007 from the U.S. military prison Guantanamo Bay.

Since the Christmas Day attempt, the Yemeni government, at the U.S.’s urging has stepped up its attacks on the group’s hideouts in the rugged country’s remote hinterland.

Analysts have long debated how much control bin Laden, who is believed to be somewhere in Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, really has over the various organizations using his group’s name.

The Yemen-based group, however, has closer ties than most to bin Laden and his key lieutenants, many having once been their bodyguards.

In the past year, bin Laden’s messages have concentrated heavily on the situation of the Palestinians in attempt to rally support from Muslims around the world.

Some analysts say bin Laden is focusing on the close U.S.-Israeli relationship because he is worried about Obama’s popularity across the Middle East with his promises to withdraw from Iraq and because his father was a Muslim from the African nation of Kenya.

The plight of the Palestinians, especially in the blockaded Gaza Strip where 1,400 were killed in an Israeli offensive a year ago, angers many in the Arab world.

“The Palestinian conflict was never part of the al-Qaida original mandate, but Osama is clearly exploiting it,” Gunaratna said.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Andy David dismissed the latest al-Qaida message and its attempt to link Israel with attacks on the U.S.

“This is nothing new. He has said this before,” he said. “Terrorists always look for absurd excuses for their despicable deeds.”

The last public message from bin Laden appears to have been on Sept. 26, when he demanded that European countries pull their troops out of Afghanistan. The order came in an audiotape that also warned of “retaliation” against nations that are allied with the United States in fighting the war.

Associated Press Writers Lara Jakes and Salah Nasrawi in Cairo and Ian Deitch in Jerusalem contributed to this report. Filed under: Nation, World, Top Stories Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. Active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.


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February 23rd, 2010 at 3:20 am

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AMERICAN IDIOT will be produced on Broadway in association with Berkeley Repertory Theatre.For more information, visit www.AmericanIdiotOnBroadway.com.


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Related Links Full Cast Announced for AMERICAN IDIOT; Cast to Appear on Grammy Awards STAGE TUBE: A Look Back at the Berkeley Rep Production of AMERICAN IDIOT AMERICAN IDIOT Moves To Broadway; Opens at St. James Theatre April 20, 2010 Cast of AMERICAN IDIOT Featured On Green Day’s New Version of Their Single ‘21 Guns’

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Michael Mayer comments, “Green Day’s iconic album is one of the most brutally honest, eloquent, and poetically theatrical responses to the post 9/11 world that I have encountered. I hear in these amazing songs the frustration and anger and dreams of a lost generation of Americans. Collaborating with Billie Joe and the band has been a mind-blowing thrill from day one.”

Based on the Reprise Records Grammy® Award-winning album of the same name, AMERICAN IDIOT features the music of Green Day and the lyrics of its lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong. The show is directed by Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening), who also collaborated with Armstrong on the book, and choreographed by Olivier Award-winning Steven Hoggett (Blackwatch). The Tony-winning composer Tom Kitt (Next to Normal) is the music supervisor, orchestrator and music arranger. In addition, Kitt also provided string arrangements for Green Day’s latest album 21st Century Breakdown.

The cast of AMERICAN IDIOT collaborated with Green Day to record a new version of the hit single “21 Guns.” Produced by the band’s singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, the track was released by Reprise Records on December 22, 2009 for purchase through all digital retailers. “21 Guns” is the second single from Green Day’s gold album 21st Century Breakdown. The digital version of the track has gone platinum, selling more than one million downloads, earned 2010 Grammy® Nominations for “Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals” and “Best Rock Song”, while the video won three 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in September, including “Best Rock Video.”

The show features scenic design by Tony-nominee Christine Jones (Spring Awakening), costume design by Baryshnikov fellow Andrea Lauer (The Butcher of Baraboo), lighting design by two-time Tony-winner Kevin Adams (Hair), Sound design by Obie Award-winner Brian Ronan (Cabaret), as well as video design by Darrel Maloney.

“American Idiot is that rare and tricky creature, a true rock opera,” says Charles Isherwood of The New York Times. “Directed with polish and precision by Michael Mayer, American Idiot has its own voice: bitter and melancholy, attuned to an era more doubting than hopeful. Perhaps most strongly – and promisingly? – the show’s story of young men on a confused search for themselves during a time of changing social mores and foreign wars recalls Hair, the musical about the make-love-not-war generation. (Both musicals also do most of their storytelling in song.) Mournful as it is about the prospects of 21st-century Americans, the show possesses a stimulating energy and a vision of wasted youth that holds us in its grip.”

The limited engagement of AMERICAN IDIOT at Berkeley Rep’s Roda Theatre began previews on September 4, 2009, opened on September 16, 2009, extended twice and played its final performance on Sunday, November 15, 2009. AMERICAN IDIOT’s record breaking run brought in the biggest advance sale in the Theatre’s 41-year history, the biggest day at the box office, 17 of the top 20 days ever and due to ticket demand had to announce the first extension before it had played its first performance.

AMERICAN IDIOT follows working-class characters from the suburbs to the city to the Middle East, as they seek redemption in a world filled with frustration – an exhilarating journey borne along by Green Day’s electrifying songs. This high-octane show includes every song from the album, as well as several new songs from 21st Century Breakdown. Green Day won two Grammys ®- Best Rock Album and Record of the Year – for its multi-platinum American Idiot, which sold more than 12 million copies worldwide. Now the band brings this explosive album to the stage with the director of Spring Awakening, which won eight Tony Awards in 2007.

Tickets for the Broadway run of AMERICAN IDIOT are now available exclusively to American Express card holders. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on February 14th. AMERICAN IDIOT will begin previews on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 and open on Broadway Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at the ST. James Theatre.



“Experiencing American Idiot on stage in Berkeley was incredible,” says Billie Joe Armstrong. “We have really enjoyed working with Michael, Steven, Tom and the cast. The energy and chemistry of the group is contagious. Michael Mayer was able to bring life to the characters of American Idiot and Tom Kitt’s musical arrangements are breathtaking. We’re so proud that the show is coming to Broadway!”

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February 23rd, 2010 at 3:18 am

Tbjs America’s first Internet addiction detox prog

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In case any of you were wondering, the ReStart program is not covered by health insurance. Yet.

Now those who have allowed gaming or the Web to take over their lives have their own place of salvation in the United States.

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His schoolwork began to suffer, and his parents checked him into the center. Now he looks after the goats and chickens, and goes cross-country running. He said he knows that the Web will still be a part of his life but that he feels the center has given him a new balance.

King 5 News reported on the program’s first patient, 19-year-old Ben Alexander of Iowa City, who became addicted to World of Warcraft.

Indeed, there is much concern generally about gamers’ health and whether, for example, a lack of light is contributing to their alleged ill-being. Are those who become overweight or depressed already inclined to do so, or does gaming have some influence?

Heavensfield Retreat Center in the kindly named Fall City, near Seattle, claims to have the first Internet addiction detox program in the States. Called ReStart, it essentially offers a 45-day detox from the need to socially network and game until your mind and fingers are more numb than a Jonas Brothers fan after a concert.

For some, it really is a war against Warcraft.

The first, for example, is: “Have a strong desire or impulse to use the Internet.” I would have thought that, if this were the most important element, we should all be checking in now. And who among us could resist blogging about it afterward?

For $14,500, you can be saved from yourself and your virtual world.However, the criteria that the center uses to define Internet addiction make for interesting reading.

America's first Internet addiction detox program

When stars need to wean their bodies off an excess of alcohol or drugs, they waft off to the Betty Ford Center or the Priory in London.



Here’s criterion No. 4: “Use of Internet in spite of its harmful effects; despite knowledge of harmful effects, Internet use is hard to stop.”

Do we really know just how much the Web is harming us? Isn’t it supposed to be enlightening us, bringing us closer together, and turning us into the human informational machines of the Singularity Age?

As has been shown over the decades, sometimes rehab works, and sometimes it doesn’t.

Chris Matyszczyk is an award-winning creative director who advises major corporations on content creation and marketing. He brings an irreverent, sarcastic, and sometimes ironic voice to the tech world. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET.


So perhaps the most valuable information to come from the center in the long run is whether, as with other addictions, there are certain psychological predispositions to Web addiction and whether there really ever can be a cure for something that has become so central to the way we live.

“I would play until I fell asleep at my keyboard,” he said.

Still, the center’s last criterion, No. 9, does come some way toward defining the serious and painful nature of Internet addiction: “Everyday life and social function is impaired (e.g., in social, academic, and workability.)”

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February 23rd, 2010 at 2:23 am

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February 21st, 2010 at 11:13 pm

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Sowohl steigende Temperaturen als auch zunehmender Niederschlag bedrohen historische Bausubstanzen, die durch die ver?nderten klimatischen Bedingungen nicht nur besch?digt, sondern im schlimmsten Fall sogar zerst?rt werden k?nnen. Nicht zuletzt sind auch die zahlreichen Besucher eine Belastung für die historischen Bauten, denn sie bedeuten auch Temperaturschwankungen und eine erh?hte Luftfeuchtigkeit. Das unsch?ne Resultat kennen viele nur zu gut: Schimmelbildung.

Weltkulturerbe: Bedrohung durch den Klimawandel

Historische Bauten auf der ganzen Welt haben Jahrhunderte überdauert, doch der Klimawandel geht auch an ihnen nicht spurlos vorüber. Das Projekt ?Climate for Culture“ untersucht jetzt die Auswirkungen und Gefahren für Weltkulturerbest?tten und will Schutzma?nahmen erarbeiten. Am Montag fiel in den Münchner Pinakotheken der offizielle Startschuss für das fünfj?hrige Forschungsprojekt.

Die einen schimpfen noch über einen mehr als mittelm??igen Sommer, die anderen k?mpfen mit den seit Oktober versch?rften Vorgaben der Energieeinsparverordnung: Die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels sind überall zu spüren. W?hrend in ganz Deutschland schon wieder ordentlich gefroren wird und sich die Erwartungen an den bevorstehenden Klimagipfel in Kopenhagen in Grenzen halten, stellt sich eine Gruppe von Forschern die Frage: Wie sehr leidet das Weltkulturerbe unter den ver?nderten Bedingungen?

An dem Projekt ?Climate for Culture“, das von der EU mit fünf Millionen Euro gef?rdert wird, werden sich insgesamt 30 Einrichtungen aus 16 L?ndern beteiligen. Die Untersuchungen betreffen unter anderem auch die Pyramiden, das Kolosseum in Rom sowie K?nigsschl?sser in Bayern und die historischen Altst?dte in Wismar und Stralsund.

Initiator des interdisziplin?ren Forschungsprojektes ist das Fraunhofer Institut für Bauphysik, dass das Projekt auch koordinieren wird. Unter anderem werden sich Klimaforscher, ?konomen, Physiker und Architekten zusammentun – dann wird fünf Jahre lang am Computer simuliert, berechnet, ausgewertet. Erkl?rtes Ziel ist das Erstellen eines Katalogs, in dem die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf Weltkulturerbest?tten, vor allem aber M?glichkeiten zu ihrem Schutz aufgeführt werden sollen.

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February 8th, 2010 at 11:55 pm

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February 8th, 2010 at 1:24 am

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Angesichts der weltweiten Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise hatten die Berliner Flugh?fen im vergangenen Jahr das Finanzierungskonzept für den Hauptstadt-Airport ge?ndert. So wurde seitens Berlin, Brandenburg und Bund vereinbart,ghd hair straightners, die BBI-Verbindlichkeiten in H?he von 2,4 Milliarden Euro mit einer Bürgschaft abzusichern.

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February 7th, 2010 at 11:58 pm

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Der Energieausweis sollte ein gro?er Wurf werden: Die energetische Bewertung eines Geb?udes soll neuen Mietern Orientierung bezüglich des zu erwartenden Energieverbrauches geben und Vermietern als Anreiz für eine energetische Modernisierung dienen, schlie?lich wird in Zeiten stetig steigender Nebenkosten wohl niemand mehr eine Energieschleuder mieten oder kaufen. Seine gesteckten Ziele hat der Energieausweis noch nicht erreicht.

Das liegt nach Ansicht der Experten des Deutschen Energieberater-Netzwerkes an den handwerklichen M?ngeln des Energieausweises. Dessen zentrale Energiekennzahl ergibt sich aus dem Energieverbrauch bezogen auf die Wohnfl?che,Paul Smith Casuals, sagt aber nichts Konkretes über die Einsparm?glichkeiten. Auch die potentiellen Kosten einer Modernisierung in Bezug auf den Nutzen kommen kaum zur Sprache. Hinzu kommt, dass mit dem Energieverbrauchsausweis eine der beiden Ausweisvarianten lediglich die verbrauchte Energie misst – und die ist bekanntlich h?chst individuell, schlie?lich haben es viele gern mollig warm, w?hrend andere lieber einen Pullover anziehen, statt die Heizung aufzudrehen. Und auch die Ausstellung selber steht in der Kritik, denn es gibt keine einheitliche Vergabestelle. Stattdessen k?nnen die unterschiedlichsten Berufsgruppenden den Ausweis ausstellen, was die Vergleichbarkeit

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