Can devices like the iPad and even the iPhone be useful learning tools for young kids? Absolutely, says SmarTots, which has developed a mobile apps recommendation and analytics platform specifically for kids aged 2-7 (and their parents, educators and mobile app developers from around the world).Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/7U3jl9TDwCk/
ST. LOUIS?? Nolan Ryan must have been getting a tad uncomfortable as the innings ticked by Thursday night and the Rangers crept ever closer to a two-game World Series deficit.
The team's president and chief executive had boldly predicted on a Dallas radio station that Texas would need six games to wrap up the series, but the St. Louis Cardinals had already taken the opener and were leading Game 2 by a run heading into the ninth inning.
That's when Ian Kinsler and Elvis Andrus delivered back-to-back singles, and Josh Hamilton and Michael Young followed with back-to-back sacrifice flies. Texas went on to win 2-1.
Rather than needing four straight wins to back up their boss, the Rangers just need three more in four.
On the eve of the opening of Jon Bon Jovi's new community restaurant, Soul Kitchen in Red Bank, N.J., I got the chance to sit down with the singer and talk about his new project.
"Our offense is such that every night, we can break out and have a big inning like we did against Detroit," Ryan said before Game 2 at Busch Stadium. "When I looked at St. Louis' pitching, I don't look at their pitching like a (Justin) Verlander where you say, 'Boy, Verlander is on. We're going to hope that something good has to happen.'
"I'm not downplaying the Cardinals' pitching by any means," Ryan said. "I feel every night that we should score some runs and give our pitchers the opportunity to win some ballgames."
Rangers manager Ron Washington said he didn't feel any added pressure by the prediction coming from the team's most visible face. But the entire team certainly feels a little more comfortable going back to Texas with the series knotted a game apiece.
Last year, Texas dropped the first two games of the World Series against San Francisco and never managed to recover. The Giants went on to win the series in five games.
"It's the World Series, last two teams. Every victory is huge," Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler said. "It was a big win for us. We're just happy the series is tied up and we're going back to Texas and in front of our crowd."
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FREESE TAG: Cardinals third baseman David Freese, the NL championship series MVP, singled in the seventh inning Thursday night and has a 12-game postseason hitting streak that began with Game 2 of the division series.
It's the longest single-season streak for the franchise and ties Yadier Molina (2006-11) and Mike Matheny (2001-04) for the longest stretch overall. Freese, who hit sixth in the order, is batting .422 (19 for 45) in the postseason with four homers, six doubles and 14 RBIs.
Not bad for a hometown hero.
"It feels good," Freese said. "Hitting streaks are great as long as those hits help the team, so that's what I'm going to try to keep doing."
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GLOVE ME TENDER: Elvis Andrus ranged as far as he could to his left, diving at the edge of the outfield grass behind second base, and snared the hard grounder off the bat of Rafael Furcal.
In one fluid motion, the Rangers shortstop scooped the ball with his glove to Ian Kinsler as the second baseman glided over the bag, ending the inning and preventing St. Louis from scoring a run.
Little did he know how critical that run would be.
The defensive gem in the fifth inning Thursday night kept things scoreless, and the Rangers managed to get two sacrifice flies in the ninth inning to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 and send the series back to Texas tied at one game apiece.
Naturally, it was Andrus who scored the go-ahead run on Michael Young's flyball to center.
But it was Andrus' play with the leather that allowed Texas to stick around. Kinsler said the glove-toss was perfect, and he struggled to come up with a better defensive play he'd seen.
"The situation that was in, and being that it was a World Series game and just the run-saving play, that play was ridiculous," Kinsler said with a chuckle. "It was probably one of the best I've seen, not just him, but one of the best defensive plays."
"When we get home tonight," Josh Hamilton added, "I'm going to watch it again."
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'CZYN MUSIC: Marc Rzepczynski's stuff has been tough enough for the Texas Rangers to hit.
Manager Ron Washington wasn't even going to try pronouncing his last name.
For the record, it's zep-chin'-ski. But the Rangers would just as soon not have to learn it. The left-hander struck out consecutive pinch hitters to end the seventh in the Cardinals' 3-2 victory in Game 1, and then retired two more batters without trouble in their 2-1 loss in Game 2.
"I don't know how to pronounce his last name, so I'm not even going to try," Washington said before Game 2 on Thursday night. "You've got to give credit to Marc. Marc executed his pitches, and when pitchers execute, usually the results that we got is what you get."
Washington doesn't need many pinch hitters in the regular season because of the DH, and Texas was just 12 for 61 (.197) with a homer and 12 RBIs as a team. Three Cardinals had more than 20 pinch hit at-bats and St. Louis was 51 for 224 (.228) with three homers and 32 RBIs.
Pinch hitter Allen Craig delivered the go-ahead RBI in the sixth inning Wednesday night, and came through with another pinch hit single for the Cardinals' only run in Game 2.
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NOT GONNA MISS THIS: Country music star Trace Adkins is originally from Louisiana, but it turns out he's a big Cardinals fan.
The Grammy-winning singer of such hits as "You're Gonna Miss This" is friends with St. Louis assistant trainer Barry Weinberg, and has become close to manager Tony La Russa. So it made sense that Adkins was on hand to sing the national anthem before Game 2 on Thursday night.
"American Idol" winner Scotty McCreery performed the anthem before Game 1 on Wednesday night, and Ronnie Dunn is scheduled to sing it when the series shifts to Texas for Game 3 on Saturday.
Adkins didn't flaunt his fandom when he took in batting practice Thursday, though he did greet Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols on the field. Adkins stuck with his trademark cowboy hat, black boots and a beige World Series jacket, and said he was pleased the weather was better than Game 1.
Temperatures were still in the low-50s, but any chance of rain had moved away.
"I had this all planned," Adkins said.
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AP Sports Writer R.B. Fallstrom contributed to this report.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Noble Paths
Beschreibung
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"More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm."
~Buddha
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Buddha meets Benjamin Franklin. Noble Paths is a unique, fusion app incorporating Buddha's Noble Eightfold Paths with Ben Franklin's now famous, simple and time-proven method of daily tracking to enhance awareness and personal growth.
Noble Paths applies the same practical, methodical approach that Ben used to train his mind and refine his character through the exclusive focus upon one virtue for one week, "leaving all others to chance." (See iTunes App store "Virtues" App.)
With Noble Paths, the very same technique is successfully applied to incorporate each of the Buddhist Noble Eightfold Paths into your life. Each "Right" Path is, of course, experiential, resulting in a gradual path toward self-improvement. One can not rush character improvement; as Buddha stated, "Little by little we make ourselves good as a bucket filled with water, drop by drop."
Noble Paths aligns with the chief intent of the Noble Eightfold Paths, establishing a mechanism to enhance our presence and, with such awareness, track our progress daily as we live in accordance with with each "Right" Path.
One can only learn via experience and new opportunities arrive at our door every day. It is up to us to recognize these lessons and learn for ourselves. Others may share with us ? but even the most wise can only open the door, we must enter ourselves. Hence, it becomes our duty and requires our constant vigilance to enhance our awareness and openness to each moment.
Noble Paths the app is a powerful tool that can willfully assist you in your quest for supreme presence.
Noble Paths can help us all to recognize that it is ultimately each of these moments that will shape our destiny.
The surest way to enlightenment is via the Noble Eightfold Paths. This elegant app is a welcome addition for anyone interested in personal development.
The Noble Eightfold Path:
? Right View
? Right Intention
? Right Speech
? Right Action
? Right Livelihood
? Right Effort
? Right Mindfulness
? Right Concentration
Not sure which Path to focus on? Let the Universe decide for you with the unique "Select Random" feature.
With Noble Paths 1.0, you can enhance your daily experiences through practical and experiential mindfulness.
? Select and active any of the Eight Paths
? Establish target scores for your active focus period.
? Use the "Select Random" to let the Universe decide for you
? Activate more than one Path for a period (not recommended at the beginning!)
? Customize your focus period -- whether one day, one week, one month or custom
? Score yourself incrementally (by half Buddha points)
? Chart your progress against your goal target.
? Revisit historical progress through charting
? Activate an iPhone Badge reminder to make sure you keep your commitment to daily scoring/tracking.
? Enhance your mindfulness habit by having the Noble Eightfold Paths with you all the time
? And much more!
"...The Noble Eightfold Path is one of the principal teachings of the Buddha, who described it as the way leading to the cessation of suffering (dukkha) and the achievement of self-awakening. It is used in Buddhist practice as a technique to develop insight into the true nature of phenomena (or reality) and to eradicate greed, hatred, and delusion."
- Wikipedia, 2009
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Keywords: Noble Paths, Enlightenment, Nirvana, Buddha, Buddhism, Self Improvement, Mind Training, Well-Being, Personal Development, Character Development, Habits, Self Discovery
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Organizing a themed birthday party is an enjoyable event for kids as well as their parents. Even the guests love to receive invitations and dress well for such a party. However for some parents, organizing a themed birthday party can be a hectic job as they do not have the idea of how to go with a successful party. With little planning and creativity, such birthday parties can be real fun and interesting for kids.
Birthday invitations in this respect play the most important role as it needs special attention. Every birthday invitee looks forward to a nicely decorated invitation card since it conveys the entire theme of the birthday party. So, birthday invitations need to be appealing and eye catching too. Infact, it is mainly the kids who get enthralled on receiving such invitations and they become more fascinated in attending the party.
With so many good websites, it is not at all difficult to choose a perfect birthday party invitations. You would be provided with unique ideas for online invitations or printed cards. If your kid has fancy of being dressed up as a pilot and love airplanes then one such wonderful and popular theme among the kids is airplane birthday invitations.
Since airplane birthday party invitations indicates your kid?s concern and portrays his style, it is important that you look for the perfect kind of invitation card. Select appropriate color scheme for your child?s birthday party that would also suit well with the invitation cards too. This kind of airplane birthday invitation is available in creative form or as a cartoon which goes perfectly well with small kids. For young kids or teenagers, you may want to look for something more stylish and elegant.
You can select any kind of flying design and merge it with your child?s birthday party whether your kid likes propeller airplanes or fighter planes. So, whether the birthday party is for a kid or a youngster, an appropriate birthday invitation card is the talk of the day which is attractive, colorful and catchy.
While browsing, you will come across with options of many lovely cartooned invitations with adorable pictures of baby pilots. On the front there is a picture of a landing strip with many brightly colored airplanes circling on top of it along with text like ?come and fly soaring high?. Such birthday invitation cards depict the fanciful and playful nature of small kids.
There are more refined and modified airplane themed invitation cards for birthdays which concentrate better on the designs rather than cartoon figures. Birthday invitation cards with just an outline of airplane are also popular in this category. They have less colors and good contrasting shades.
You may choose any designed airplane birthday invitations but at the end it has to appeal your guests when they have the first glimpse of the card. Therefore, select a suitable design that represents your kid?s interest and one that even your guests can cherish for long.
Your son will feel like he is a pilot with Airplane birthday invitations, wearing costumes and airplane toys decorated into your home.
Jet Airways, India?s premier airline, has been adjudged the Best International Airline? at the Conde Nast Traveller India Awards. At a glittering ceremony in Mumbai last night, India?s preferred international carrier was honoured with the prestigious award over several other leading international airlines. This award has been introduced by British Conde Nast Traveller magazine, together with Vogue.com and cntraveller.in to celebrate the launch of Conde Nast Traveller in India in October 2010. Mr. Sudheer Raghavan, Chief Commercial Officer, Jet Airways said, ?We are proud and honoured to receive this award from Conde Nast Traveller in recognition of our renowned international service. Jet Airways is committed to delivering truly world class service and has worked to continuously enhance the excellent in-flight services on all our flights.
The Best Indian Airline? award is testimony to our commitment to focus on the needs of the passenger and to enhance the Jet Airways experience for our customers. We will persist in our endeavor to exceed customer expectations and create benchmarks in service standards for others to follow.? With 23 international destinations and 85 daily international flights, Jet Airways along with Jetlite is the largest private airline operator in the country. Jet Airways currently flies to New York (both JFK and Newark), Toronto, Brussels, London (Heathrow), Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Colombo, Bangkok, Kathmandu, Dhaka, Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Jeddah, Sharjah, Dammam and Riyadh. Johannesburg is the twenty-third destination recently added in the airline?s international network. For the domestic market Jet Airways recently launched the all new ?Konnect Select?, a premium cabin on several domestic routes, effective April 26, 2010. ?Konnect Select? is specifically targeted at the business and leisure travelers who desire more flexibility, comfort and benefits.
Conde Nast Traveller is an internationally renowned magazine for travel and leisure. Conde Nast Traveller India Awards is a unique digital Readers? India Travel Awards. People responded with 15 categories to vote for ? including favourite cities, states, hotels, airports, airlines and more. This one-off Readers? India Travel Awards will act as a precursor for Conde Nast Traveller in India hosting its own Readers? Travel Awards in 2011.About Jet Airways Konnect Jet Airways (including its all-economy, no-frills Jet Airways Konnect service) operates over 380 flights daily.
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In an attempt to keep software piracy at bay and give users the gaming encounter of the yesteryears, Nintendo has come up with a novel way of distributing games of the past through its Virtual Console service. The titles available on Virtual Console are those which were originally released on various video game consoles of the past. The best part of these games is that these games could be played in their original form using the help of an emulator, which ensures that you enjoy the gaming encounter in its very original form on Nintendo Wii game console. Ahead of we get to the details of the top Wii Virtual Console games, let?s try to understand what Wii Virtual Console games are all about.
Wii Virtual Console Games
When we talk concerning the Wii Virtual Console games list, it functions games belonging to Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Nintendo 64, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Commodore 64 etc. Even though the original gameplay of all these games is retained when they are made available on Nintendo?s Virtual Console, some games are tweaked to make them better. Owing to the fact that the Virtual Console service is region-locked, the Wii games available with this Nintendo feature in one region may not be available in other regions of the world. These games might be played using Wii Remote, Classic Controller as well as the GameCube Controller.
Best Wii Virtual Console Games
The lengthy list of Wii Virtual Console games for North America functions 378 titles (which is actually a considerable rise considering the fact that only 12 titles were available at the time of its launch.) All these titles could be purchased by spending somewhere between 500 and 1300 Wii Points. After downloading them from the Virtual Console library, you can store them in Wii?s built-in 512 MB flash memory. The current versions of Wii system software facilitates transfer of these games from internal memory to a removable SD card, and back. If you intend to purchase any of these Nintendo Virtual Console games, the list of top Wii Virtual Console games given below will be of significant help for you.
RankGame TitleSystemGenre1The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of TimeN64Adventure2Mario Kart 64N64Racing3The Legend of ZeldaNESAdventure4Super Mario 64N64Action5Super MetroidSNESAdventure6The Legend of Zelda: Majora?s MaskN64Adventure7Super Mario BrosSNESAction8Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven StarsSNESRPG9Sonic the Hedgehog 2MDAction10Street Fighter II: The World WarriorSNESFighting
Other Wii Virtual Console games which deserve a mention here include ActRaiser (SNES), Blaster Master (NES), Castlevania III: Dracula?s Curse (NES), Contra III: The Alien Wars (SNES), Devil?s Crush (TG-16), Donkey Kong Country (SNES), Lords of Thunder (TG-16), Magical Drop III (Neo Geo), Mayhem in Monsterland (Commodore 64), Paper Mario (N64) etc.
If you intend to spend your Wii Points on buying these classic games, the list of very best Wii Virtual Console games will surely come handy for you. It?ll not just help you make a choice, but make sure that you save your valuable time. With 378 odd titles to choose from (some of which boast of getting the top SNES games while others are the very best Nintendo 64 games), choosing the best is no doubt a Herculean task. Add to it the fact that preferences differ from person to person, and this task becomes even far more hard. In such circumstances, a generic list of best Wii Virtual Console games is surely a blessing in disguise.
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