Explore the White House with your mouse

Dead US presidents abound in “The People’s House”. Picture: Google Art Project Source: Supplied YOU can now tour “The People’s House” from the comfort of your own home, after Google gave 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a new address online. The White House has teamed with the Google Art Project to develop a virtual tour of the President’s residence – a process driven by US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama’s desire for their home to be more accessible.

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Kenyan villagers embrace Twitter

Chief Kaiuki uses Twitter regularly to contact his Kenyan village. Picture: Twitter Source: news.com.au WHEN the chief in a western Kenyan village received an urgent call that thugs were invading a school teacher’s home, he sent a message on Twitter. Within minutes residents in this village of stone houses gathered outside the home, and the thugs fled. The tweet from Chief Francis Kariuki was only his latest attempt to improve village life by using the micro-blogging site Twitter.

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Bruins’ Marchand named NHL’s first star

Boston Bruins left-winger Brad Marchand was named the NHL’s first star of the week Monday after helping his team to a pair of home victories. Marchand had six points (four goals, two assists) over two games last week. He recorded his first career hat trick and first five-point game in an 8-0 rout of the Florida Panthers on Friday. Marchand also scored the winner in a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Dec. 19. New York Rangers right-winger Marian ...

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Italian official predicts Canada to win 16 Olympic medals in London

Canada will bring home 16 medals from the London Olympics and finish 18th in the medal standings, according to an Italian sports official who projects Games results. Luciano Barra has Canadians winning five gold, two silver and nine bronze in his medal projections based on recent world championships. “Canada in London will surely do very well because your program ‘Own the Podium’ is one of the ideal in the world,” Barra stated in an email to The Canadian Press. “Still ...

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Controversy Surrounds Muslim-American Reality TV Show

A new controversy over Islam has arisen in the United States, this time over a reality TV show that profiles Muslim Americans and a home improvement chain’s decision to pull its advertising from the show. The company, Lowe’s, decided to end its ties to the program after a conservative Christian group labelled the show “propaganda” that hides the “danger” of the Islamic agenda. It’s a scene from All-American Muslim… “I have no concerns about travelling around the anniversary of 9/11,” ...

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‘Captain America’ Overtakes ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ for No. 1 on DVD Charts

“Captain America: The First Avenger” Home Entertainment scored a rare triple-play victory on the home video charts the week ending Oct. 30, as summer theatrical blockbuster Captain America: The First Avenger rode its $176.6 million box office gross to a No. 1 debut on both sales charts as well as the rental chart. Captain bumped Walt Disney Studios’ Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the previous week’s huge tentpole release, to No. 2 on both the Nielsen VideoScan First ...

Submited at Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 at 11:00 pm by admin

eOne nabs Vivendi vid biz in Canada

LONDON — eOne has taken over Vivendi Entertainment’s home entertainment biz in Canada. The acquisition, effective from Jan. 1, will see eOne’s market share in the retail sector significantly increased by Vivendi’s library giving the distrib rights to a raft of docu and special interest genre titles. Under the deal, eOne will become the exclusive distributor in Canada for key home entertainment distribution labels, including Navarre, Funimation, Shout!, Factory, Classic Media, Mill Creek and National Geographic.

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Thome wants to play next season

Jim Thome intends to keep moving up baseball’s home run list. The 41-year-old slugger on Monday became the first ballplayer to address the City Club of Cleveland since Babe Ruth in 1925 and stated he still has the passion to play. Whether or not that is with the Indians or another team will be determined when impending free agents become eligible to begin negotiations five days after the end of the World Series. Thome, eighth all time with 604 homers, ...

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Tigers’ Martinez, Young in Game 4 lineup

There seems to be as good a chance for a pair of healthy lineups in the American League Championship Series as a sunny day in Detroit or Texas. But that probably will change — as far as each team’s lineups — for Wednesday’s 4:19 p.m. ET begin in Game 4 at Comerica Park in Detroit, where light drizzle fell earlier in the day. Both Tigers designated hitter Victor Martinez and left-fielder Delmon Young were penciled into the starting lineup after ...

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Pendrel takes gold at mountain bike worlds

First global title in this discipline for Canada since 2002 The Canadian PressPosted:Sep 3, 2011 11:46 AM ETLast Updated: Sep 3, 2011 11:43 AM ET  Canada’s Catharine Pendrel, here racing a month ago in England, went to the lead right from the begin on Saturday and came home with the a gold medal.

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