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User Reviews of Angry Birds Space

admin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:29:25 +0000

After a giant claw kidnaps their eggs, the Angry Birds chase it into a wormhole and find themselves floating in a strange new galaxy – surrounded by space pigs! Luckily the Angry Birds have super powers of their own…

Angry Birds Space features 60 interstellar levels on planets and in zero gravity, resulting in spectacular gameplay ranging from slow-motion puzzles to lightspeed destruction. With regular free updates, brand new birds, brand new superpowers, and a whole galaxy to explore, the sky is no longer the limit!

FEATURES

• 60 interstellar levels!
• Regular free updates!
• Brand new birds!
• Brand new superpowers!
• Zero-gravity space adventures!
• Trick shots using planets’ gravity!
• Hidden bonus levels!
• Beautifully detailed backgrounds!

Fresh twist on a classic.

The new gravity elements should prove to revitalize a strong franchise. Having grown a bit tired of playing AB after near addiction this has me hooked all over again. Enough to fight through extremely frequent crashes, the last which even rendered my home screen blank. Hopefully in time this will be as smooth as the original. AsusTransformer with ICS update.

Doesn’t download?

Hmm, it says the game is compatible with my phone, doesn’t work though when I try to download. Suddenly the download stops and on the site it shows it’s installed, on the market it says “Free,” and shows nowhere else on my phone. Not in storage or apps. Samsung Galaxy Q (SGH-T589R) Anyone have any suggestions? Same thing with Seasons. I’m sure it’s just as great as the other games though

Gotta love gravity

So far I’m quite satisfied with the improved gameplay. When you pull a bird back to launch, its projected course is far more accurate than in previous versions due to an extended arc. Also the use of “gravity” to send the birds into “orbit” around objects is a very neat feature. Only into world 2 (after just a few minutes) but I can say this is the best angry birds yet.

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Should it be illegal to smoke in your own car?

admin — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:35:22 +0000

How would you feel if the government told you that you couldn’t smoke in your own car?

Perhaps you’d endorse the idea that public health officials were trying to make it harder for people to maintain a habit that increases their risk of developing lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease and a host of other problems. Maybe you’d rejoice that you’d never again be forced to carpool to a meeting with a chain-smoking colleague. You might even breathe a sigh of relief for all the children of smokers who would be able to ride to school, soccer practice and piano lessons without being forced to inhale clouds of secondhand smoke.

UK doctors call for ban on smoking in cars.
The British Medical Association is calling on the government to ban smoking at all times in cars, a step that would go beyond regulations elsewhere.
Darron Cummings, AP
The group that represents U.K. doctors said the confined environment in cars exposes drivers and passengers to 23 times more toxins than a smoky bar.

Other opinion: Banning smoking in cars is poisonous to a free society.

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New Ads to Wake Parents Up to Dangers of Co-Sleeping

admin — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:53:06 +0000

As reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the campaign, unveiled last Wednesday, includes two posters of a baby lying inside a bed following to a large knife. In one, the baby is white; in the other, the baby is black. “YOUR BABY SLEEPING NEXT TO YOU CAN BE JUST AS DANGEROUS,” the copy blares.

The second-leading cause of infant mortality in Milwaukee is SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, which usually final results from ”unsafe sleep,” according to the health department’s website. A type of “unsafe sleep” is bed-sharing with parents.

Opinion from reader:

1. I’m from the Milwaukee area, the problem is these girls that are drinking or getting high, then coming home and going to bed with their babies. They lose that natural awareness most cosleeping mothers have at that point. The same goes for anyone that takes pain meds or sleep meds. I coslept with both my babies and if they breathed wrong for a half second I was awake. People need to learn to do it the right way and the mothers who are under the influence while cosleeping should get charged in their baby’s death.

2. I am so angry. The campaign is a bunch of lies. Co-sleeping lowers SIDs risks in infants when done properly. A baby’s breathing will become in sinc with moms and lowers chance of them not breathing properly. If you want to lower deaths teach proper ways to co-sleep. No pillow tops, no smoking,no drinking before bed, no meds that make you sleepy, no blankets over baby,and no drugs. A poster above said about rolling over on the baby. I have never rolled over on my kids. I co-slept 5 children and never an accident. I slept curled around my kids holding them. If the mortality rate is so high then they need to look and see if some of thos parents were not drunk or stoned.

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Air pollution: another cause of lung cancer in non-smokers

admin — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:53:26 +0000

air pollution

People who have never smoked, but who live in areas with higher air pollution levels, are roughly 20 percent more likely to die from lung cancer than people who live with cleaner air, researchers conclude in a new study.

Though smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer, about one in 10 people who develop lung cancer have never smoked.

lung cancer

Now study shows that Living in a high pollution area may increase a non-smoker’s risk of dying from lung cancer by 20 percent. The increased risk for lung cancer associated with pollution is small in comparison to the 20-fold increased risk from smoking.

Lung cancer is the deadliest type of cancer for both men and women. Each year, more people die of lung cancer than of breast, colon, and prostate cancers combined. Lung cancer is more common in older adults. It is rare in people under age 45. Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer.

Processed Meat and Red Meat Linked to Diabetes Risk

admin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:06:07 +0000

Eating processed meats and red meat regularly increases your risk of type 2 diabetes, a large new study shows.

Red meat, especially processed red-colored meats like bacon, sausage, and hot dogs, may perhaps boost a person’s chance of building kind a few of diabetes. The much more processed or unprocessed red-colored meat a guy or woman eats, the higher the risk, in accordance with a manufacturer new research within the American diary of Clinical Nutrition.

Type 2 diabetes is linked with obesity. It takes place once they entire body does not generate sufficient from the hormone insulin, or even the cells do not use insulin properly. Insulin facilitates the entire body use glucose or bloodstream sugar for energy. When bloodstream sugar continues to be elevated with diabetes, problems which include center disease, blindness, and nerve and kidney harm can occur.

Type 2 diabetes has a very strong genetic component, and multiple environmental factors, such as obesity, physical inactivity and poor diet, interact with genetics to increase the risk and accelerate the development of the disease.

According to LiveScience, researchers also found that replacing one daily serving of red meat (processed or unprocessed) with a serving of nuts per day was associated with a 21-percent lower risk of diabetes; substituting low-fat dairy, a 17-percent lower risk; and substituting whole grains, a 23-percent lower risk.

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Smoking warning for women with heart disease risk

admin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:46:35 +0000

Women who smoke have a 25 per cent higher risk of developing heart disease than males smokers, researchers have warned.

Scientists from Minnesota and Johns Hopkins universities in America studied information from 4 million participants and discovered the risk for women might be even worse compared to final results recommend since they smoke fewer cigarettes than men.

In their record in respected healthcare diary The Lancet they wrote: “Women may extract a higher volume of carcinogens along with other poisons through the same exact quantity of cigarettes than men.

Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow, a cardiology professor on the college of California, Los Angeles and also a spokesman to the American center Association, noted that “smoking continues to be the major result in of preventable deaths in men and women worldwide.”

It is quite well-documented that cigarette smoking raises the threat of coronary center illness in man and women, he added. “Complete cessation from cigarette smoking is by much the one greatest enhancement to well being that woman and man who smoke can make,” Fonarow said.

Report: Teen Pregnancy Rate Declines Within the U.S.

admin — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:01:15 +0000

A new federal government record around the welfare of American kids showed mixed results, citing optimistic trends for example a decreasing quantity of births to teens although noting continuing concerns, such as high rates of adolescent medication use and childhood obesity.

“The teen birth figures have … declined tremendously,” Edward Sondik, the director within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, informed Reuters inside a information conference. “Despite a little blip a few of many years ago, they carry on on this downward trend,” Sondik added. “So we are seeing considerable interpersonal modifications ideal in the front of us.”

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Is Sugar the Problem of Obesity?

admin — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:38:04 +0000

Adult obesity rates increased in 16 states throughout the previous year, and none of the 50 states showed any decline in their rates of obesity. Colorado is now the only state in the nation with an obesity rate of less than 20 percent of the population — but just barely, with a rate of 19.8 percent.

Obesity has now turn into a significant result in of preventable passing away inside US due to the fact it qualified prospects to center illnesses and diabetes.

So why has America gotten so excess fat inside final couple of decades?

One concept is sugar. The USDA has lately are available out in opposition to sugary beverages (i.e. sodas) using the intro of its MyPlate dietary guideline. Even prior to this development, vocal critics have currently placed the obesity blame squarely on sugar.

Sugar also disrupts the body’s capability to regulate excess weight obtain and satiety and hence creates folks obese, based on Lustig. He stated a calorie from sugar is not identical being a calorie from an additional source; instead, sugar unhealthy calories are inherently extra fattening.

However, they totally missed the boat on sugar, which has steadily created America fatter and fatter from the final couple of decades.

Where and How to Watch NASA’s Final Space Shuttle Launch

admin — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:49:27 +0000

NASA‘s last space shuttle launch in history is set to blast off from Florida on July 8 2011.

Location: If you don’t want to shell out that kind of money, there’s good news. Great viewing spots abound on Florida’s Space Coast, and they’re free.

The city of Titusville, just 12 miles across the Indian River from Kennedy Space Center, is a premiere spot. It affords great views from numerous parks along the water, including Space View Park and Parrish Park (on the causeway between Titusville and the spaceport).

The town of Port Canaveral, a popular harbor for cruise ships, is also a good choice, affording largely unobstructed views.

Another good option for shuttle viewing is a spot along the coast in the nearby city of Cocoa Beach.

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Android 4.0-Powered ‘Beast’ Google Nexus 4G

admin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:20:27 +0000

Following competition from mobile devices last Monday the Internet giant Google reported the launch of its new smartphone Nexus S 4 G for Sprint company.

The Google Nexus 4G will have these:
dual core 1.2GHz or 1.5Ghz processor (OMAP 4460 or an Snapdragon processor)
720p HD resolution display
1GB of RAM
5 megapixel camera
Full HD 1080p video recording
Android 4.0

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