Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 3, 2012

40 Games From EA as a Exclusive Gift to Nokia Asha Family

40 Games From EA as a Exclusive Gift to Nokia Asha Family

The Asha series come with an Exclusive Games Gift from EA –  with 40 games to download from Nokia Store including Tetris, Bejeweled ..

Check the video teaser after the break

… Need for Speed The Run, Monopoly Here & Now, SimCity Deluxe and more. You just need to click the EA icon on your phone, and download all 40 titles within 60 days from the first download.

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Monday, March 5, 2012

Ohio shooting suspect's family 'devastated'

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — The family of a teenager suspected of opening fire in the cafeteria of a suburban Cleveland high school, killing one student and wounding four others, says it is "devastated" by the shootings.

In a statement issued to WKYC-TV in Cleveland Monday night (http://on.wkyc.com/A4Yohv ), a lawyer representing the family of T.J. Lane offered "their most heartfelt and sincere condolences" to the family of slain student Daniel Parmertor, adding that they are praying for the four other injured students from Chardon High School.

Lawyer Robert Farinacci says Lane's family is trying to understand how the tragedy happened.

The shooting Monday morning sent students at the 1,100-student school screaming through the halls.

The FBI says the suspect was arrested near his car a half-mile from Chardon. He was not immediately charged.


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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Ohio shooting suspect's family 'devastated'

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — The family of a teenager suspected of opening fire in the cafeteria of a suburban Cleveland high school, killing one student and wounding four others, says it is "devastated" by the shootings.

In a statement issued to WKYC-TV in Cleveland Monday night (http://on.wkyc.com/A4Yohv ), a lawyer representing the family of T.J. Lane offered "their most heartfelt and sincere condolences" to the family of slain student Daniel Parmertor, adding that they are praying for the four other injured students from Chardon High School.

Lawyer Robert Farinacci says Lane's family is trying to understand how the tragedy happened.

The shooting Monday morning sent students at the 1,100-student school screaming through the halls.

The FBI says the suspect was arrested near his car a half-mile from Chardon. He was not immediately charged.


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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Amphibian family first for India

22 February 2012 Last updated at 02:40 GMT Richard Black By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News Chikilidae adult and eggs Females brood the eggs for months, apparently without feeding at all A new family of caecilians, the most enigmatic branch of the amphibians, has been discovered in northeastern India.

The animals, which at first glance resemble worms, live in forest soil and are most closely related to an African group of caecilians.

The females incubate their young for several months without eating.

Writing in the Royal Society journal Proceedings B, the scientists say the animals may be threatened by population growth and slash-and-burn agriculture.

Caecilians are very hard to spot as they live either underground or under leaf litter that lies on the soil.

The new discovery was the result of about 250 soil-digging expeditions over five years that covered every northeast Indian state.

"Caecilians are the most cryptic group of animals, and it's not possible to identify whether it's a new species or genus or family just after collecting it," said SD Biju from the University of Delhi, who led the project.

"We studied the molecules (DNA) and the morphology, both internal and external, to identify the species," he told BBC News.

When the analysis was complete, the researchers found they had not only a new species on their hands, but the first representative of a hitherto unknown family.

Continue reading the main story Frog eye First true amphibians evolved about 250 million years agoThree orders: frogs (inc. toads), salamanders (inc. newts) and the limbless caeciliansAdapted to many aquatic and terrestrial habitatsPresent on every continent except AntarcticaMany metamorphose from larvae to adultsThis is the 10th caecilian family to be identified, and the team named it Chikilidae, derived from the name used in the local Garo tongue.

DNA evidence suggests the family split from its closest African relatives more than 140 million years ago, when the ancient super-continent of Gondwana fragmented, separating present-day India and Africa.

Unlike the familar frogs and salamanders, caecilians are limbless and smooth.

Their eyesight is very limited and their skulls adapted for burrowing.

Reproduction and rearing of the young are varied. The most unusual known example is a species where the babies eat the mother's skin, which she sheds for the purpose.

Chikilidae'shabits are not quite so spectacular, though the mothers stay wrapped around their developing eggs for 2-3 months at a time, apparently not eating at all during this period.

Although Chikilidae turned up in about a quarter of the survey sites and so might be quite abundant, Prof Biju believes its future is not assured.

Chikilidae egg Chikilidae eggs hatch into adult caecilians, with no larval stage in between

"We found them not only in the forest area but also very close to human settlement," he said.

"So conservation of this group is extremely challenging."

Some of the animals have reportedly been killed by villagers who mistook them for poisonous snakes. In fact, they carry no venom.

One positive point for the new discoveries is that the region seems to be free of the fungal disease chytridiomycosis, which has devastated amphibian populations in many parts of the world.

Globally, amphibians are the most threatened group of animals, with about 40% of species on the internationally-recognised Red List.

But new discoveries are regularly made, though most come from rarely-visited regions of rainforest rather than quite densely-populated areas.

Prof Biju has been involved in discovering scores of other new amphibian species in India, where he has been dubbed "FrogMan".

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