Weekend Gaming: Gameloft's Gangstar Vegas hits Google Play ...

If you?re like us, and are looking for a casual or fun game on Android to enjoy throughout the weekend, we have you covered. Yesterday the fine developers at Gameloft released their brand new action-packed title Gangstar Vegas to the Play Store. Whether you?re vegging on the couch, getting ready to watch the NHL Finals, or doing nothing this new game should keep you busy.

This is the newest edition to their ongoing Gangstar game series for Android, only this time around it takes you to the bright lights and money-filled casinos of Viva Las Vegas! This time around you?ll get to play a tough and mean MMA fighter that fights his way through the City of Sin. Gameloft has a lot more than just single player too, so that?s why it?s worth checking out.

You can play through over 80 missions filled with battles, fights, and gun wars, and that?s just on the blockbuster story mode. This is as close to Grand Theft Auto as you?re going to get on Android. Well, without getting Grand Theft Auto right from Rockstar Games. Gameloft added some stunning graphics to this next-gen game, so take a peek at their launch trailer below.

And yes, in case you were wondering, you can walk down Las Vegas Blvd., head through Freemont Street (old Strip) or even wander into some strip clubs if you?d like. Gameloft confirms the open-world nature of the game brings 9x the ground and roads to cover than previous titles, and their new Sandbox mode where you can enjoy Heist modes, MMA fights, robbing Casinos and more. They really went all out!

Gameloft worked really hard on stunning graphics, and a huge open-world gameplay environment here that will give you countless hours of fun. In return, the game will take up a massive 2.5GB of storage on your device, and runs about $6.99 from the Play Store. If you were looking for a good game to enjoy this weekend, we?d start right here. Hit the link below and don?t spend all that cash on the Roulette tables at the Bellagio, like I did last night!

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Source: http://androidcommunity.com/weekend-gaming-gamelofts-gangstar-vegas-hits-google-play-20130622/

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4 ways to be transported by the Paris Air Show

LE BOURGET, France (AP) ? Here's a look at some innovations from this week's Paris Air Show:

JET-LAG CURE?

You know how you feel ? and look ? when you get off a trans-Atlantic flight? Exhausted, blood-shot eyes, swollen ankles. Partially that's jet-lag. But partially that's because you've effectively been up a mountain for several hours, with all that entails, including increased heart rate and shortness of breath.

Some manufacturers are working to reduce those effects ? thanks to new composite materials that are more fatigue-resistant themselves. Currently, commercial jets fly at between 35,000 and 45,000 feet and pressurize their cabins to bring what your body feels down to around 8,000 feet.

But Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner, which is primarily made of composites, brings you down to 6,000 feet. Normal, aluminum-built planes could be pressurized to that level, too, but they would take more of a beating to do so and would have a shorter lifespan. If you're really rolling in it, private jets, like the new Gulfstream, will do you one better: life in the cabin is below 5,000 feet.

IT'S A TRAIN, IT'S A PLANE

Several European research institutions are working on planes with detachable fuselages ? though they currently only exist in computer models, crude mock-ups and their inventors' imaginations.

The concept revolves around a wing that can fly on its own or with the fuselage ? where the cabin is ? attached. The Clip-Air project imagines a wing that could carry three fuselages. You might board your plane at the nearest train station. The fuselage would roll down the tracks to the airport and then attach to the wing ? all while you sipped tomato juice and watched "Toy Story 3."

The Bee-Plane is only slightly less pie in the sky. Its engineers are actually taking the steps toward seeing it take off one day ? though that is years, if not decades, away. The Bee-Plane has just one fuselage, but it could serve as a hospital, say, dropped off in a crisis zone and picked up weeks later.

SOLAR-POWERED DRONE

Weighing about the same as a newborn, the tiny plane disassembles and can pack into a box. It can carry either a surveillance camera or a small payload such as medicine or blood samples. The unmanned aircraft is the first by Design Intelligence Inc. intended for civilian use.

The Norman, Okla., company's president, James Grimsley, said he thinks it could be most useful in countries with plenty of sunlight but little infrastructure. Unlike the Bee-Plane, Grimsley said this model could be put to use within a year.

TOP GUN REDUX

Russia showed off its SU-35 fighter jet internationally for the first time and the pilot for the maiden flight wasted no time with ordinary aerobatics. The plane twirled up, seemed to come to a pause in the sky, then hurtled downward with a deafening roar. At one point, it appeared to cut its engines and float gracefully backwards for a few harrowing seconds.

But Russia's two Ka-52 attack helicopters nearly upstaged the fighter with a mid-air ballet sequence as delicate as any earthbound pas de deux.

Finally, Dassault Aviation, the French fighter jet manufacturer, mounted a camera in the cockpit of its Rafale for anyone with a strong stomach and the desire for a pilots' eye view.

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Rafale cockpit view: http://youtu.be/ngrqEWJ5dws

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/4-ways-transported-paris-air-show-150655584.html

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King's 1963 Detroit march remembered with walk

DETROIT (AP) ? Thousands participated in a Detroit march commemorating the 50th anniversary of one that Martin Luther King Jr. led in 1963.

The walk down Woodward Avenue on Saturday morning culminated in a riverfront rally at Hart Plaza.

The civil rights icon visited Detroit on June 23, 1963, to lead tens of thousands in a freedom walk and also previewed his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Martin Luther King III, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton participated in Saturday's march and rally.

Detroit NAACP President Wendell Anthony said the march "signifies that the work for freedom and justice must continue" in Detroit and worldwide.

Sharpton says it's important to keep fighting for justice and marchers weren't merely taking "a nostalgia trip down Woodward."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kings-1963-detroit-march-remembered-walk-000004969.html

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Greece's Democratic Left Party Plans To Quit Coalition Over State TV Closure

By Harry Papachristou and Karolina Tagaris
ATHENS, June 21 (Reuters) - The smallest party in Greece's ruling coalition was set to pull out of the government on Friday after a row over the abrupt closure of the state broadcaster, leaving Prime Minister Antonis Samaras with a sharply reduced majority in parliament.
A majority of lawmakers from the Democratic Left party were in favour of pulling their ministers from Samaras's government as they held emergency talks, a senior party official said.
In a defiant address to Greeks after midnight, Samaras said he was ready to press ahead without the leftists.
"I want us to continue together as we started but I will move on either way," Samaras said in a televised statement following the collapse of three-party talks on the future of the ERT radio and television station.
"Our aim is to conclude our effort to save the country, always with a four-year term in our sights. We hope for the Democratic Left's support."
Party officials said Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis had advised the party's 14 lawmakers to pull their two ministers and two deputy ministers out of the cabinet. At least one of the lawmakers was in favour of staying in government.
The row coincided with a new hitch in Greece's international bailout with the discovery of a potential funding shortfall due to the reluctance of some euro zone central banks to roll over their holdings of Greek government bonds.
Ten-year Greek government bond yields rose to their highest since late April, on course for their biggest daily rise since July 2012, while Greek stocks tumbled 4 percent.
Samaras's conservative New Democracy party and its Socialist PASOK ally jointly have 153 deputies, a majority of three in the country's 300-member parliament.
That means they could manage without the Democratic Left, but a departure of the party would be a major blow, making it tougher to pass unpopular reforms demanded by foreign lenders and emboldening the hard left opposition waiting in the wings.
"The government can't last for long in its new shape. The horse-trading will begin, there will be more crises, they won't be able to push reforms," said John Loulis, a political analyst.
"At some point we'll have early elections whose outcome can't be predicted."
Officials from all three parties ruled out snap elections for now, which would derail the bailout programme.
An ongoing inspection visit to Greece by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund needs to be completed as planned in July to avoid funding problems, the lenders said on Thursday. That may require new savings measures to plug the gap.
At least two independent lawmakers have suggested they would back Samaras's government, which came to power a year ago in an uneasy pro-bailout coalition aimed at ensuring Greece stayed in the euro zone after nearly going bankrupt.
The coalition has bickered over a range of issues from austerity policies to immigration, and lawmakers from Samaras's parties have accused Democratic Left of blocking public sector reforms needed to secure bailout funds.

UNDER PRESSURE
The latest crisis began 10 days ago when Samaras abruptly yanked the ERT public radio and television station off air and fired its 2,600 workers, sparking an outcry from his two allies, unions and journalists.
Calling it a "sinful" and "wasteful" hotbed of political patronage, Samaras said the move was necessary to hit public sector layoff targets set by Greece's EU and IMF lenders.
After initially refusing to restart ERT, Samaras said on Thursday he had offered during talks with his allies to re-hire about 2,000 workers at a new broadcaster, a compromise accepted by PASOK but rejected by the Democratic Left.
"We will no longer have black screens on state TV channels but we are not going to return to the sinful regime," he said.
But Kouvelis insisted on behalf of Democratic Left that all workers be rehired, saying the issue at stake was far bigger than state television broadcasts.
"This issue is ... fundamentally an issue of democracy," said Kouvelis. "We are not responsible for the fact that no common ground was reached."
Evangelos Venizelos, leader of PASOK, the mainstream socialist party which has been decimated by Greece's debt crisis and would likely lose more ground in a new election, also called on Kouvelis to stay in the coalition.
"The situation for the country, the economy and its citizens is especially grave," said Venizelos. "We want the government to continue as a three-party government."
PASOK would continue backing the government even without the Democratic Left, party spokesman Dimitris Karydis said.
Greece's top administrative court on Thursday confirmed an earlier ruling suspending ERT's closure and calling for a transitional, slimmed-down broadcaster to go on air immediately.
ERT remains off air despite Monday's court ruling ordering it back on, though workers have continued broadcasting a 24-hour bootleg version on the Internet from their headquarters.

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World Refugee Day: UN calls Syria 'worst humanitarian disaster' since cold war

Syria?s grinding civil war has so far produced 1.6 million refugees and millions more internally displaced children and adults ? the reason the global refugee and internal displacement numbers are at their highest since the mid-1990s.

Not since 1994, when wars raged in the Balkans and Rwanda, has the world seen the likes of the 45 million refugees, displaced persons, and asylum seekers estimated at the end of 2012 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

And the Syria conflict shows signs of making 2013 another record year. Syria?s war ?is more brutal and destructive than the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and has turned into the worst humanitarian disaster since the end of the cold war,? said Antonio Guterres, the UN?s high commissioner for refugees, in marking World Refugee Day Thursday.

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At the current rate of flight from Syria ? which has accelerated in the initial months of 2013 ? about 5 million Syrians, or a quarter of the population, could have fled to neighboring countries by the end of the year.

More than half of Syria?s refugees and internally displaced are children, Save the Children says in a new report released Thursday.

The UN?s Mr. Guterres spent World Refugee Day in Jordan to bring attention to both the plight of Syria?s refugees and the challenges they pose to the countries that take them in. Jordan is now home to more than a half-million Syrians.

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Also in Jordan to mark the day was Angelina Jolie, who is a special envoy for UNHCR. At a press conference at the Zaatari refugee camp ?with a population of 185,000, the size of a small city ? the actress noted that Syrian refugees like those at Zaatari left their homes ?with nothing but the clothes on their back.? But she added that they left behind ?a country in which millions of people are displaced, suffering hunger, deprivation, and fear.?

The best hope for Syrians is a political settlement to the civil war that world leaders should press Syria?s factions to accept, Ms. Jolie said. Without some diplomatic solution soon, she added, ?half of Syria?s population ? 10 million people ? will be in desperate need of food, shelter, and assistance? by the end of the year.

Secretary of State John Kerry used a World Refugee Day ceremony at the State Department to announce a near doubling of the US contribution to UNHCR, to $890 million for 2013.

?When the stakes are high, you need to up your game, and I?m proud to say the United States is trying to do that,? Secretary Kerry said, noting that the new funding makes the US the largest contributor by far to the global refugee agency. The US total this year is higher than the contributions of the next six countries combined, he said.

The US is also the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to Syrians both inside and outside of their country. Just this week President Obama announced another $300 million in Syrian humanitarian assistance, bringing the US total for the 26-month-ols conflict to $815 million.

Still, Kerry noted that, despite the understandable focus on refugees that result from the world?s conflicts, a growing segment of total refugees is the result of climate change.

?We live in a world today where not all refugees are refugees as a consequence of revolution or war and violence,? he said. ?We have refugees who are driven out by drought and the lack of food, who move accordingly because they want to be able to live.?

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James Gandolfini leaves behind 2 completed films

NEW YORK (AP) ? James Gandolfini left behind numerous projects in various states of development, including two films that have already completed production.

The 51-year-old actor, who died Wednesday, had been busy, appearing in a flurry of late 2012 releases, including the Osama bin Laden hunt thriller "Zero Dark Thirty," the stylish crime saga "Killing Them Softly" and the 1960s coming-of-age drama "Not Fade Away," which reteamed him with "Sopranos" creator David Chase. Gandolfini continued to gravitate toward character actor roles, several of which will now be released posthumously.

The Brooklyn crime film "Animal Rescue," which was shot this spring, was his final movie. Directed by Michael R. Roskam ("Bullhead") and written by Dennis Lehane, it stars Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace, with Gandolfini playing a bar owner. Fox Searchlight is expected to release it next year.

Gandolfini also co-stars in "Enough Said," a romance from writer-director Nicole Holofcener ("Please Give"). He plays ex-husband to Catherine Keener, who is pursued by another divorcee, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Shot last fall, "Enough Said" is also to be distributed by Fox Searchlight, though there is no release date set.

The "Sopranos" star continued to have close associations with HBO. He had shot a pilot for the network with Steven Zaillian ("A Civil Action") for "Criminal Justice," an adaption of the 2008 BBC series in which he plays a low-rent New York City attorney.

Though HBO initially passed on picking up the show, it was restructured for a more limited miniseries run. No episodes beyond the pilot have been shot, so the series' future is now uncertain.

Gandolfini had also recently signed on to reteam with his "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" co-star Steve Carell. In "Bone Wars," a film from HBO Films, the two were to play rival 19th-century paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. That project, though, was only in the early stages of development.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/james-gandolfini-leaves-behind-2-completed-films-195013015.html

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Solar splashdown provide new insights into how young stars grow by sucking up nearby gas

June 20, 2013 ? On June 7, 2011, our Sun erupted, blasting tons of hot plasma into space. Some of that plasma splashed back down onto the Sun's surface, sparking bright flashes of ultraviolet light. This dramatic event may provide new insights into how young stars grow by sucking up nearby gas.

The eruption and subsequent splashdown were observed in spectacular detail by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. This spacecraft watches the Sun 24 hours a day, providing images with better-than-HD resolution. Its Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument was designed and developed by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

"We're getting beautiful observations of the Sun. And we get such high spatial resolution and high cadence that we can see things that weren't obvious before," says CfA astronomer Paola Testa.

Movies of the June 7th eruption show dark filaments of gas blasting outward from the Sun's lower right. Although the solar plasma appears dark against the Sun's bright surface, it actually glows at a temperature of about 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit. When the blobs of plasma hit the Sun's surface again, they heat up by a factor of 100 to a temperature of almost 2 million degrees F. As a result, those spots brighten in the ultraviolet by a factor of 2 -- 5 over just a few minutes.

The tremendous energy release occurs because the in falling blobs are traveling at high speeds, up to 900,000 miles per hour (400 km/sec). Those speeds are similar to the speeds reached by material falling onto young stars as they grow via accretion. Therefore, observations of this solar eruption provide an "up close" view of what happens on distant stars.

"We often study young stars to learn about our Sun when it was an 'infant.' Now we're doing the reverse and studying our Sun to better understand distant stars," notes Testa.

These new observations, combined with computer modeling, have helped resolve a decade-long argument over how to measure the accretion rates of growing stars. Astronomers calculate how fast a young star is gathering material by observing its brightness at various wavelengths of light, and how that brightness changes over time. However, they got higher estimates from optical and ultraviolet light than from X-rays.

The team discovered that the ultraviolet flashes they observed came from the in falling material itself, not the surrounding solar atmosphere. If the same is true for distant, young stars, then by analyzing the ultraviolet light they emit, we can learn about the material they are accreting.

"By seeing the dark spots on the Sun, we can learn about how young stars accrete material and grow." explains Testa.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/most_popular/~3/0ZGlUd7zKoI/130620162838.htm

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