NBC launches 2 apps to watch the Olympics

(AP) ? NBC is launching two mobile apps that will let people watch Olympics events as they happen, look up athlete profiles and access other extra content on their iPads, iPhones and certain Android devices.

NBC says most of the content will be available only to pay-TV subscribers who have MSBC and CNBC as part of their service. The apps ? NBC Olympics and NBC Olympics Live ? are free to download starting Thursday.

The apps were created by Adobe Systems Inc. Adobe says NBC will receive analysis about how people interact with the content and ads on the apps.

NBC says is the first time that all the Olympic events, more than 3,500 hours of coverage, will be available on smartphone and tablet computers.

Associated Press

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Creative Art, Music Space Opens on Antique Row - Kensington Patch

Kensington, MD--Pick-Up Productions (www.pickupproductions.com), a one stop shop for creative music industry services, is proud to announce the opening of a new art gallery and liveroom: FNDTN (www.fndtnarts.com).? With a wealth of music industry experience, Pick-Up Productions? co-founders Sean Gaiser and Matt Corrado are looking forward to bringing a new and notable venue to Kensington, MD.

For years, Pick-Up Productions has been embedded in the DC area music scene.? Located in the area?s Antique Row, 3762 Howard Ave Ste A, the creative group serves as the exclusive booking agency for Bayou, Acre 121 and the Bullpen, and offers studio, web design and graphic design services.? The newly opened boutique gallery space and intimate live music venue is conveniently located next to Pick-Up Productions in Kensington, and will be starting its calendar of events in September.

Foundation is a flexible 800 square foot gallery with an intimate 50 person capacity.? The room will feature a constant rotation of monthly and bi-monthly artist exhibitions featuring local and regional painters, fine artists, photographers, videographers and performance-based artists.? The venue will also host a rotating calendar of intimate concerts and live music events on a weekly basis throughout each month.? Visitors can expect to see some local favorites and up-and-coming regional bands fill the community-oriented venue.

Gaiser and Corrado will also be opening Foundation?s doors to private event rentals.? Complete with a built in performance stage, a pro audio sound system, LED stage lighting, a high-definition projector, built in booth seating and hardwood floors, Foundation has the ability to accent a wide range of art-based programming.

?There are a couple of bright spots in Kensington, Md., but nothing as youthful as Foundation, a new gallery, music venue, and event space situated in the area?s Antique Row,? said Kriston Capps of the Washington City Paper.

As a space for the arts, Foundation is dedicated to showcasing a wide variety of the area?s rich live music and fine arts culture as well as a range of art-based programming for the greater Washington DC community.

About Pick-Up Productions

Pick-Up Productions is a one stop shop for creative music industry services. Based in the Washington, DC area, Pick-Up services the music industry with live show production, event booking, a full service recording studio, marketing, graphic design, and local music media.??Pick-Up currently serves as the sole booking agency for Washington DC venues?Bayou,?Acre121, and?The Bullpen.?

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Holy rumors Batman! Your next game is a prequel?

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Hold onto your capes, Batman fans. Word on the street today is that the critically-acclaimed,?best-selling Batman series of games?from Rocksteady Studios is getting a third?installment -- and it's going to be a prequel.

Variety reports the sequel to "Batman: Arkham Asylum" and "Batman: Arkham City" will be a "new, highly stylized" prequel that revolves around Batman's first meeting with the Joker and that it?may explore the founding of The Justice League.

According to Variety, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment -- eyeing the success that Marvel and Disney had with The Avengers movie this summer?--?is looking for ways?to bring the DC Comics heroes together. And so the next Batman game?is going to be based on DC Comics from an era known as the Silver Age, which spans from the 1950s to the 1970s. ?It was during this time that Batman -- along with heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman --? founded the Justice League of America.

Whether the game will actually involve the Justice League is not clear. Variety says only that it has been told that?Warner Bros. Interactive "is expected to reteam some of the characters in some form."

Meanwhile, the earliest the new game would launch is?2014, reports Variety,?which suggests it?may be in the works for the next generation of game consoles. Of course,?Sony and Microsoft have yet to even officially reveal what their next machines will be and when they will launch.

So let's keep in mind that?this news is only a rumor. Warner Bros. has?declined to comment on Variety's report. Of course, Comic-Con is under way in San Diego this week, so perhaps we'll get some official news sooner rather than later.

In the meantime, you don't have to wait until 2014 to play a video game with your DC favorites. "Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes" launched last month and is an?excellent hero-filled romp. Check out In-Game editor Todd Kenreck's review right here:

And there's also the fighting game "Injustice: Gods Among Us"?which is expected to launch sometime next year.??Check out the trailer for that game right here:

Winda Benedetti writes about video?games for msnbc.com. You can follow her tweets about games and other things?on Twitter?here?@WindaBenedetti?and you?follow her?on Google+. Meanwhile, be sure to check?out the?IN-GAME?FACEBOOK PAGE?to discuss the day's?gaming news and reviews.?

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DreamWorks Plans Theme Park

Shrek might find a home in the swamps of northern New Jersey.

The Hollywood studio that created the green ogre and the wisecracking zoo animals of "Madagascar" announced Wednesday it had agreed to license its characters, storytelling and technology for a theme park at a long-stalled and vacant megamall in the Meadowlands.

DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, in a joint statement with the mall developer, said the indoor theme park 10 miles west of New York City would create "a unique and innovative family entertainment experience."

The company says at this time its only involvement will be licensing the rights to its characters and storytelling. The American Dream mall in East Rutherford would be the first wholly themed DreamWorks park. Dreamworld, a theme park in Australia, features some DreamWorks characters but not exclusively.

The studio was looking for a U.S. presence and thought the mall site near New York would be a good fit, one that could become an international tourist attraction, a DreamWorks spokesman said. The company previously had plans for a theme park in Dubai, but that project fell through.

Mall developer Triple Five, of Alberta, Canada, said it hoped to open the mall and theme park in 2014 but was unlikely to do so in time for the Super Bowl, being held at nearby MetLife Stadium.

Spokesman Alan Marcus said financing and design work remain to be completed.

Plans for the mall, along the New Jersey Turnpike, include an indoor ice rink, ski and snowboard park, water park, movie theaters, restaurants, retail stores and a live performing arts theater.

The project has been a white elephant; originally named Xanadu, it was scheduled to open in 2007 but remains vacant and unfinished, with a multicolored and multipatterned exterior that Gov. Chris Christie has said made it one of America's ugliest buildings.

Triple Five, which owns Mall of America near Minneapolis, took over the New Jersey project in 2010. Marcus said developers are confident the entertainment additions and other planned changes will make it successful.

The two NFL teams that play at MetLife Stadium, the New York Jets and the New York Giants, have sued to block the project, claiming the developers are violating an agreement they had to give the teams a say in any expansion plans. They say a projected annual attendance of 55 million visitors to the new mall exceeds the scope of the original proposal and would create a "transportation nightmare."

The developers on Tuesday asked a judge to dismiss the suit. Marcus argued the developers' latest plans would ease traffic congestion by providing more parking and things for fans to do after games rather than having to drive straight home. The mall plans to provide more than 30,000 parking spots.

The New York Times was first to report the DreamWorks deal.

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Run-DMC announces reunion at Fun Fun Fest

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Why the military must invade our schools

Our Policy Review is also examining the case for a number of specialist ?Service Schools? where parents and communities want them. They could employ ex-Forces personnel as qualified teachers, offer mentoring support, have a cadet force on site and offer adventurous outdoor training. They could use their autonomy to develop specialisms in areas such as international affairs, history or physical education. There are already good examples of success. The Duke of York?s Royal Military School in Dover specialises in science, sport, physical and outdoor education, and is trialling a BTEC qualification in Military Music. Results are impressive: pupils do twice as well as the national average at GCSE, including in English and Maths.

Of course, new or existing state schools of all types could take advantage of these specialisms, but we think there would be an opportunity for specialist Service Schools to be established as academies and benefit from appropriate external sponsors, working in partnership with the Armed Forces, the Reserve Forces and Cadets? Associations and Service charities. Labour?s academies programme always had a strong focus on bringing in external ?sponsors? to support a school financially and with renewed leadership and expertise. By contrast, the Government has focused on converting schools without bringing in an outside sponsor.

Making the most of the expertise that exists within our Armed Forces can not only give young people opportunities to learn from service people?s many transferable talents, but also a greater awareness of the Forces and their values.

A recent report by the think tank ResPublica outlined how offering young people opportunities to learn from the ethos of the Forces could help tackle disadvantage and even promote social mobility, a goal central to Labour?s philosophy. We would expect specialist Service Schools to be particularly popular in communities with the greatest social and economic need, which have never had the same range of educational opportunities as more affluent areas.

These plans would also provide new career opportunities and skills for those leaving the Forces at a time when many are entering a strained jobs market.

All of these measures would aim to better integrate military and civilian communities and families, ensuring there is mutual support before and after military service, and that our troops can continue to make an enormous contribution to our country away from the frontline. The Government has spoken about making more of the military in education, but its programmes are either yet to deliver or have lapsed into populist, disciplinarian sentiment. Our plans are not about creating ?boot camps?, nor are they about recruitment. Rather, we want to provide life-changing skills in areas such as leadership and teamwork to give more young people the chance to benefit from the unique resources of our Services.

When it comes to schools, it is clear that our Armed Services can be a force for good.

Stephen Twigg is shadow education secretary and Jim Murphy is shadow defence secretary

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Lance Armstrong calls doping case 'personal vendetta'

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Taliban claim Afghan blast that killed 6 US troops

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, is greeted by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda for their talks at Noda's office in Tokyo Monday, July 9, 2012. Karzai said Monday he is encouraged by pledges to provide Afghanistan with $16 billion in aid, but warned that corruption in his country cannot be rooted out unless donors themselves take more action. (AP Photo/Yoshikazu Tsuno, Pool)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, is greeted by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda for their talks at Noda's office in Tokyo Monday, July 9, 2012. Karzai said Monday he is encouraged by pledges to provide Afghanistan with $16 billion in aid, but warned that corruption in his country cannot be rooted out unless donors themselves take more action. (AP Photo/Yoshikazu Tsuno, Pool)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda prior to their talks at Noda's office in Tokyo Monday, July 9, 2012. Karzai said Monday he is encouraged by pledges to provide Afghanistan with $16 billion in aid, but warned that corruption in his country cannot be rooted out unless donors themselves take more action. (AP Photo/Yoshikazu Tsuno, Pool)

(AP) ? The Taliban took responsibility Monday for a bomb blast in Afghanistan that killed six American troops, while other militants launched suicide attacks on two police headquarters that according to officials left seven attackers and two children dead.

German Brig. Gen. Gunter Katz, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, said the six Americans were killed on Sunday when their armored vehicle struck a bomb planted in eastern Afghanistan. He said a seventh American soldier was killed in a separate insurgent attack in the south.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack in Wardak province, just south of Kabul, in a statement. They were the latest American casualties from bombs planted by insurgents along roads, paths or mountain tracks.

Coalition and Afghan forces are trying to secure areas of Wardak that insurgents use as gateway into the Afghan capital where they stage high-profile attacks on Afghan government and NATO targets.

Wardak provincial police chief Gen. Abdul Qayum Baqizoi said that after the explosion in Jalrez district, a coalition airstrike killed a local Taliban commander and wounded three insurgents.

In the south, three suicide bombers riding in a three-wheeled vehicle blew themselves up Monday afternoon in Kandahar city, killing two children and wounding six other civilians, said Kandahar provincial spokesman Ahmad Jawed Faisal.

A short time later, three more suicide bombers tried to attack the police headquarters in Kandahar, but were gunned down by police before they could get into the compound, Faisal said. The incident was still being investigated, but Faisal said authorities suspect that the three attackers in the vehicle, a form of miniature pickup known as a zaranj, were headed toward police headquarters when their explosives detonated prematurely.

Two policemen and four civilians were wounded in the 90-minute gun battle around the police headquarters.

A surge in Afghan and coalition forces during the past two years has routed Taliban fighters from many of their strongholds in the south, but the insurgents have stepped up their attacks this summer to take back key areas.

Militants also attacked a police headquarters building in Shibirghan, the capital of Jawzjan province in the north.

Provincial governor Mohammad Aleem Saaie said a suicide attacker on a bicycle blew himself up near the headquarters. He said 26 people were wounded, including two policemen, a doctor and a prosecutor.

"This was another attack against innocent civilians," said Gen. Abdul Aziz Ghairat, the provincial police chief. "The majority of the wounded people are civilians."

In other violence, authorities said gunmen assassinated a chief prosecutor in Ghazni province in eastern Afghanistan Monday morning as he drove to work. Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, the deputy provincial governor, said Sahar Gul was shot twice ? once in the head and once in the chest.

The Taliban routinely target Afghan government officials to weaken support for President Hamid Karzai's administration.

Separately, President Hamid Karzai on Monday condemned the public killing of a married Afghan woman who was accused of allegedly running off with another man.

In a statement, Karzai called the execution-style slaying an unforgiveable crime. A video of the killing, which surfaced recently, showed the woman being shot multiple times as people stood nearby cheering.

Before it collapsed in 2001, the hardline Taliban regime carried out public executions of women, mostly for adultery.

Police in Shinwari district of Parwan province say the Taliban were behind the woman's slaying, which occurred about up to 12 days ago.

Karzai's condemnation comes as donor nations met in Tokyo to pledge $16 billion in aid for Afghanistan. The donors expressed strong concerns over how the money will be handled and also called on Kabul to improve human rights, especially women's rights.

"Such a crime is unforgivable in the sacred religion of Islam and the laws of the country," Karzai said.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul and the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces on Sunday also condemned the killing of the woman.

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Associated Press writers Amir Shah and Rahim Faiez in Kabul and Mirwais Khan in Kandahar contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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