| Video games exercise elderly brains
GRANDMA and grandpa are joining the wave in video and computer games as makers step up efforts to promote the software as exercise for the brain. Based on growing scientific evidence, certain types of game-playing is increasingly being viewed as calisthenics for the brain that can be especially useful for seniors at risk of memory loss, dementia and various vision problems. Makers of computer-based and online programmes aimed at the elderly have been growing, while Japanese giant Nintendo has sold more than 8.6 million copies, including 1.4 million in the United States, of its Brain Age programmes for its DS game console. Nintendo says it makes no specific health claims for Brain Age games, but the programmes, which were developed by Japanese neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima and include tasks in memory, mathematics, reading and even music, are "challenging exercises to get users' brains pumping." The company says the games are designed to stimulate the brain, especially the prefrontal cortex which helps apply stored knowledge to everyday skills.
Coming Soon: SR to Release E-mail Exchanges ... (Not so fast...)
The rest of the messages only refer to attachments. Those attachments are explicit, so we can't publish them. We've also gone through each message to blur e-mail addresses for privacy reasons. So, if we don't publish any of the explicit images, and we refuse to blur, crop or otherwise alter them, all we're left with is a bunch of forwarded messages that say things like "take a look at this!" We decided that did not advance the story in any significant way. Ken Sands, online publisher .
Friday, January 25
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Tatas, Briley in business jet venture
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: After circling around the aviation business for almost a decade, the Tata group, which pioneered aviation in India, took the plunge on Tuesday. (In Video)
The steel-to-salt conglomerate has picked up a `significant stake' in Bjets—a business jet operator that plans to start aircraft charter and fractional ownership programmes. Bjets announced an order for 50 biz-jets, largely Cessna Citation CJ2s and Hawker Xps, worth about Rs 2,400 crore. The Singapore-based Briley Group is the majority shareholder in Bjets with Indian Hotels. The exact shareholding has not been disclosed.
The business aircraft charter market in India is fragmented, with no single large player that offers corporates a mixed fleet of various aircraft types. Though the number of business jets being bought has grown exponentially in the past few years, most are being brought in by companies for their own use.
Ex-mobster warns of gambling's dangers
FAIRFAX, Va. | It's clear right away -- long before the woman sitting up front asks, "Did you shoot anyone?" -- that this guy with the straight-out-of-central-casting Brooklyn accent and gold chain is not your typical college lecturer.It's clear from Michael Franzese's life story -- the 17 years in the mafia, the millions upon millions of ill-gotten gains, the "Yuppie Don" nickname, the prison term -- that he is a breed apart from the professors usually addressing this crowd.And it's clear, from the wide eyes and dropped jaws in a George Mason University auditorium on a recent evening, that these kids in their gray hooded sweat shirts are listening intently, drawn in by Franzese's message and mien.They're hearing Franzese deliver the same, simple points he makes to college athletes and coaches, to NBA rookies and Major League Baseball players and umpires, to professional tennis players and NFL veterans.Know the dangers of gambling, because, he says, "If you don't have a gambling problem, you know somebody that does.
Only 3 more days ...
I'm starting to get the bug to get back to bloggin', but I'll resist until Monday. Meanwhile, I couldn't resist posting this e-mail from John Rook because it's right on. And so again, the in house newsletter of the Hagadone empire, The Coeur dAlene Press, demonstrates why the newspaper, like its publisher, lacks the respect of north Idahoans. Always used to slant the news in favor of a Hagadone campaign, the Press has now invited its less than valid readership to vote on the top stories of this past year. Of course, missing from the list is the passing of one of Idahos best known leaders, Ronald Rankin. His death in October leaves a huge vacancy that the Haga-Press can only hope will never be duplicated in the future. Rankin as a Kootenai county commissioner and as an ombudsman for the citizens of the county for dozens of years was never appreciated by Duane Hagadone or the editors of his newspaper as he often held their feet to the fire on issues vital to the public.
Harry forced out of war zone
Had to laugh , though no laughing matter, if Harry remains the troops around him will be targets for the taliban. Yes ! I can see it now , Taliban well that's it Harry is away home we may as well put away the guns. Troops in a war zone Targets, there a novel idea. .
Notes to Interviewers Should Go Beyond A Simple Thank You
A thoughtful follow-up carries as much clout as a cover letter, many experts say. Nearly nine out of 10 senior executives consider a written thank you influential in evaluating candidates, according to a 2007 survey of 150 respondents by Accountemps, a professional staffing service. Your post-interview correspondence should deliver a sales pitch far more compelling than a simple thanks. "Put a spin on it that acts in your favor,'' recommends Kate Wendleton, president of the Five O'Clock Club, a career-counseling network in New York. "An effective thank-you letter should hit every one of an employer's hot buttons," concurs Wendy Enelow, an author, trainer and career consultant in Coleman Falls, Va. You can hit those buttons by linking your skills to solving specific workplace problems that you learned about during interviews.
B.C. adds own probe into Taser death
Premier Gordon Campbell apologized yesterday on behalf of all British Columbians for the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski. And the B.C. government launched a "full public inquiry" into his death at Vancouver International Airport. Campbell said the impact on Dziekanski's mom was "devastating in more ways than I can imagine." .
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