| Credentials, Accomplishments and Redemption
Among connoisseurs and admirers of fine art, nothing is more troubling than the discovery that a great and celebrated painting is a forgery. Those who praised the picture find themselves embarrassed. Worse still, all reverence for the picture vanishes and its high value plunges to near worthlessness. .
Why Warne was never captain
THE seven deadly sins that scuttled Shane Warne's hopes of ever becoming captain of the Australian cricket team have finally been revealed. In the words of one former Cricket Australia director, the trouble-prone champion leg-spinner "sooner or later . . . would always let you down". Despite that, the holder of the world record for Test wickets remains in demand. CA directors are meeting today to decide, among other things, if there is a suitable coaching or promotional job they can offer Warne with a view to using his expertise in spin bowling to unearth future exponents of the art. The ambivalence with which the men who run the game view Warne is detailed in the first officially sanctioned history of Cricket Australia, the governing body, since 1905.
Switchball Rolls on to Xbox LIVE(R) Arcade
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Sierra Online, a division of Vivendi Games, has released Switchball(TM), a new puzzle game for Xbox LIVE(R) Arcade. The Switchball game challenges players to guide a transformable ball along extensive maze-like courses suspended in midair and set in stunning, expansive worlds. The game has already received critical praise, winning TeamXbox.com's "Best Downloadable Game of E3" and "Editor's Choice" awards, as well as a 9.4 out of 10 rating from the site. "Switchball exemplifies the innovation and level of quality we are bringing to Xbox LIVE Arcade," said Nicole Perez, vice president of marketing, Sierra Online. "Switchball's striking graphics, as well as the physics-based gameplay, advances the genre." Developed by Atomic Elbow, the Switchball game features an advanced Ageia-based physics engine, making the physical puzzles intuitive and allowing players to interact with objects just as they would in the real world.
Anti-Bush Campaign Planned
A liberal advocacy group plans to spend $8.5 million in a drive to make sure President Bush's public approval doesn't improve as his days in the White House come to an end. Americans United for Change plans to undertake a yearlong campaign, spending the bulk of the money on advertising, to keep public attention on what the group says are the failures of the Bush administration, including the war in Iraq, the response to Hurricane Katrina, and the current mortgage crisis. In selling the plan to fundraisers, the group has argued that support for President Reagan was at a low of 42 percent in 1987 but climbed to 63 percent before he left office. "All of a sudden he became a rallying cry for conservatives and their ideology," said Brad Woodhouse, president of the group.
Short skirts and fast cars will have to wait, says Jankovic
When you have pain in your back, the worst thing is to have heels on and put on a short dress," the third-ranked Jankovic said when asked if she'd take another ride in an Italian sports car before she leaves Melbourne. "Because I can't bend down, I can't do anything." Jankovic twice sought medical treatment in the second set of her 6-3, 6-1 semifinal loss to Maria Sharapova, laying outstretched on a towel while a physiotherapist massaged her lower back. "I felt really some strange pain in my back where I felt like I was so stuck," she said. "I wanted to withdraw, but it was a semifinal." The Serb also regrets her promise to join American Bethanie Mattek in the doubles competition, where they lost in the third round. "I shouldn't even have played doubles, but Bethanie asked me to play when I was in my off season," she said.
Viacom's Dauman
Many of Viacoms brands are household names around the world. MTV is synonymous with cool across countless countries and is widely recognized for having revolutionized television. Nickelodeon redefined childrens programming with the irreverent fun of SpongeBob SquarePants and the lovable lessons for preschoolers provided by Dora the Explorer. One of Viacoms top priorities has been keeping up with the young generation, providing content they want on all the platforms and devices they are using—the Internet, cell phones, iPods and more. The other major objective has been delivering profits to shareholders. To that end, in March of 2005, Sumner Redstone, the controlling shareholder of Viacom, announced that he was splitting the company into two separate entities in order to increase the value of its stock price.
We Want Our Scrabulous!
True, there are so many more important things to be worrying about _ the war, the stock market, freezing pipes, emptying the litter box or the dirty diaper bin. But that's precisely the point. For many of us, Scrabulous is a brief escape from the many "have to's" in life and a way to connect with like-minded nerds. To me, it ranks right up there with my iPod and M&Ms. .
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