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One in Four Missouri Families Worries about Food for their Children

By Guest PostAugust 18, 2010Economycenter for food security, colleen heflin, food insecure, food insecurity, foreclose, home loans, matt foulkes, missouri families, missouri hunger atlas, missouri population, missourians, nikki raedeke, nutrition, recession, sandy rikoon, sociology, university of missouri

COLUMBIA, Mo. — As the recession continues, economic casualties continue to mount. Daily, the media report that banks continue to foreclose on home loans and people are still losing their jobs.

Missing from the headlines, however, is the growing number of people that are having more difficulty feeding themselves and their children. According to the 2010 Missouri Hunger Atlas, which was released by a University of Missouri research team, one in four Missouri families with children living at home worries about putting enough food on the table.

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IBM Breaks Double Digit Performance Barrier With 10 Million Transactions Per Minute

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2010Technology10 million transactions per minute, arvind Krishna, hp, ibm, ibm db2 database software, ibm power7-based system, ibm system storage, key computing performance, oracle, tpc performance benchmark, tpc-c, tpmc, transaction processing

ARMONK, N.Y. – 17 Aug 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today an IBM POWER7-based system with IBM DB2 database software and IBM System Storage broke all previous records and topped the 10 million transactions per minute mark using the industry standard TPC performance benchmark, easily besting all results previously achieved by competitors such as HP and Oracle.

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comScore Releases July 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

By Guest PostAugust 17, 20101 commentTechnologyanalysis, aol, ask network, Comscore, Google, Microsoft, qsearch, search engine rankings, search marketplace, u.s search engine rankings, Yahoo

RESTON, VA, August 17, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. With the July 2010 qSearch data release, comScore will now be reporting “Explicit Core Search” results alongside its standard “Total Core Search” results in order to provide transparency around the impact of contextually driven searches.

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18 Signs that America is Rotting Right in Front of our Eyes

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2010Economy, Politicsamerica is decaying, budget cuts, economic collapse, economic downturn, government debt, government subsidized housing

Sometimes it isn’t necessary to quote facts and figures about government debt, unemployment and the trade deficit in order to convey how badly America is decaying. The truth is that millions of Americans can watch America rotting right in front of their eyes by stepping out on their front porches. Record numbers of homes have been foreclosed on and in some of the most run down cities as many as a third of all houses have been abandoned. Unemployment remains at depressingly high levels and the number of Americans on food stamps continues to set new records month after month. (more…)

Microsoft Heralds a New Age of Gaming With “Age of Empires Online”

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2010Technologyage of empires, fable III, games for windows, gamescom 2010, greek civilization, halo, live, Microsoft, microsoft flight, microsoft flight simulator 1.0, microsoft game studios, phil spencer, robot entertainment

COLOGNE, Germany — Aug. 17, 2009 — On the eve of gamescom 2010, the world’s largest consumer-oriented games showcase, Microsoft Corp. unveiled the newest addition to the famed “Age of Empires” franchise, “Age of Empires Online.” Microsoft also announced the development of “Microsoft Flight,” a new entry inspired by the best-selling “Microsoft Flight Simulator” franchise. Published by Microsoft Game Studios, these new titles, along with the previously announced “Fable III,” fully integrate the free* Games for Windows – LIVE online service to deliver compelling socially connected gameplay experiences.

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Berkeley Study Shows Ozone and Nicotine a Bad Combination for Asthma

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2010Health, Scienceasthma, asthma hazard, berkeley lab, chen-lin liu, Health, hugo destaillats, indoor environments, jared smith, kevin wilson, lara gundel, mohamad sleiman, musahid ahmed, ozone, roy kaltschmidt, secondhand tobacco, smoke, thirdhand smoke, tobacco-related disease, ultraviolet light, vuv light

Another reason for including asthma on the list of potential health risks posed by secondhand tobacco smoke, especially for non-smokers, has been uncovered. Furthermore, the practice of using ozone to remove the smell of tobacco smoke from indoor environments, including hotel rooms and the interiors of vehicles, is probably a bad idea.

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Rare Gold Coin in Israel

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2010Culture, Science2, 200-year-old coin, alexandria, andrea berlin, andrew booz, antiquities, donald ariel, egyptian ptolemies, hellenistic age, Iraq, Israel, israel museum, james r wiseman, Jerusalem, john g pedley, kelsey museum, kelsey museum of archaeology, lisa cakmak, ptolemaic egyptian queen, ptolemaic mint, seleucid empire, sharon herbert, sharon webb, tel kedesh, university of michigan, upper galilee

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Sharon Herbert and her team were wrapping up their dig at the Tel Kedesh site in Israel, sweeping the site in the 140-degree heat, when a student showed University of Michigan doctoral instructor Lisa Cakmak what he first thought was a gold candy wrapper.

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Back to School: Are Teachers Equipped to Teach ‘Digital Natives’?

By Guest PostAugust 16, 20101 commentEducation, Technologyanthony salcito, beth simon, bing, digital natives, educators, k–12 students, liveedu, Microsoft, microsoft education, military, onenote, steve kerr, teacher guides, Technology, university of washington

*Many teachers are using Microsoft tools and training to help prepare their students for the future, and are encouraging their peers to embrace using the technology that students are growing up with.*

REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 16, 2010 — Educators are preparing to go back to school, and they’re starting to do so with more than pencils and books. The “digital natives” that fill their classrooms are restless, and teachers are altering their curricula to keep those students engaged and prepared for the future. Microsoft wants to help.

Digital natives are people who have had access to digital technology for most of their lives—in other words, most of today’s school children.

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