In this study, children of foreign nationality living in Switzerland were about twice as likely to be obese as Swiss children. Non-Swiss children watched more television and had less physical activity, suggesting that the disparity in obesity prevalence between Swiss and foreign children may be partially amenable to culturally sensitive interventions.

Intel looking more at software now.
New Trojan Horse program steals passwords at banking sites.
US Presidential campaign web sites lack security.
Comcast blocks spam email hole; drops spam by 35 percent.
This excuse didn't work for me in school and it shouldn't work for these guys either.

The player's army starts small...really small! In fact to start with it only includes the player's general character. The player also starts with a small treasury and can choose which units to recruit into their fledgling army. Initially you wont be able to afford too many troops & the higher quality units like Legionaries & Praetorians will be well out of reach. As the player fights and wins battles, their men gain experience & honours. These can be used to buy skills for the squad, ranging from improved weapons handling to the ability to hold a new formation.

1 Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban - Electronic Arts $29
2 City Of Heroes - NCsoft $46
3 Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising - NovaLogic $38
4 Rise Of Nations - Microsoft $35
5 Far Cry - Ubisoft $39
6 Battlefield Vietnam - Electronic Arts $38
7 MS Flight Simulator 2004: Century Of Flight - Microsoft $40
8 MS Age Of Mythology - Microsoft $32
9 Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic - LucasArts $28
10 The Sims: Superstar Expansion Pack - Electronic Arts $22

HomeLAN - The games are also being developed with the assistance of the US Marine Corps. How are the military branch making their influence known in the game?

Peter Tamte - The Marine Corps is integrally involved in all aspects of development because the Marines will actually be using both games as training simulations. There have already been about 30-40 Marines integrally involved -- from Privates to Colonels. These Marines, who were getting shot at in Afghanistan and Iraq just a few weeks before helping us make the Close Combat games, have contributed exceptional expertise to the products in everything from Marine Corps procedures to what it sounds like to get shot at.

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HomeLAN - What weapons and items will be used in the game?

Jan Marek - Each character will have a couple of his favorite weapons. We do not plan to overwhelm the player with abundance of weapons and gadgets. Instead we focus on creating classical western weapons of massive power and extremely realistic effects. We can achieve those by using the new system FX's of ChromeEngine 2004.

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Interesting Link of the Day:Ask Peter Jackson about his King Kong remake. My question for Mr. Jackson is, "Why Jack Black? Why? Why? Why?"

Patch 1.2 is in its final stage of production: a nasty scoreboard bug and a CDkey security issue remain to be fixed, but otherwise a huge list of improvement/fixes have been implemented and tested successfully.
We�re now localizing all the readme files, and the final candidate will be tested extensively later this week to make sure it is really solid - we don�t want to rush in the last few days after such a long development time.

Thanks for your patience,

Matthieu Boulard � Far Cry UbiSoft Producer

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Bill Gates's report on spam email.
Microsoft settles Arizona anti-trust lawsuit.
New Mac OS versions has better search features.
However, one guy says Apple copied his program.

Building on the game�s player-versus-player focus � and the most anticipated feature of Chronicle 1 for current Lineage II fans � is the large-scale castle siege. Each server will have five new castles available for conquest, which can be controlled for two weeks. After this time, competitive clans and alliances can prepare themselves for another siege. Several hundred players can take part in the sieges, which feature sword battles, archery attacks, dazzling magic and Siege Golems, huge creatures that can be summoned to knock down castle walls. Once a castle is captured, a player can become the castle lord and hire mercenaries, collect taxes and upgrade the castle against future sieges.

Of course, this is supposed to be a game console first and foremost and Nokia sent over a few games along with the QD for us to try out. The QD itself doesn�t have any graphical improvements from the original N-Gage so any game made for the original will play on the QD as well. It�s a good thing, too, since there are so few games made for the console in the first place. The Nokia published game we received was Ashen, a first person shooter from developer Torus Games. It is, however, awful, with horrible looking graphics and terrible gameplay. The other two games we got to play were from Electronic Arts, the Tiger Woods 2004 golf game and The Sims Bustin� Out. Not surprisingly, both of these games are far better. The Sims game has some good graphics and controls and the Tiger Woods title was especially good looking.

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This game is not meant as a realistic game like Full Spectrum Warrior tried (and we think failed) to do. Zombie�s goals were not particularly high but at least they achieved them for the most part; create a game that takes you through a number of locations worldwide, fire a lot of ordinance at your enemies and eventually..well we won�t talk about the ending. There isn�t a whole lot of innovation here but the presentation of the game, from the level design to the weapons models and more, is solid and entertaining. The Xbox Live multiplayer features are decent but it�s the single player presentation that�s actually at the center of the game here.

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Interesting Link of the Day:National Treasure trailer. Ummm..this looks sort of silly..