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NIGHTWATCH Extract: Trusted Bodyguard Executes Governor in Pakistan for Being a Blasphemer–Observations on Meaning for Church & State

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Pakistan: An elite police commando from the provincial police force who was assigned as a bodyguard for the governor of Punjab Province murdered the governor today in Islamabad. The commando dropped his weapon and surrendered to the police, bragging that he was proud he killed a blasphemer. With that, Pakistan's political crisis deepened.

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New ABC News Weekly Show Related to the Design Revolution & Global Health

01 Poverty, 02 Infectious Disease, 03 Economy, 04 Education, 07 Health, International Aid, Technologies, Videos/Movies/Documentaries

Be the Change: Save a Life
ABC News kicks off year-long global health care series Friday, Dec. 17 at 10pm eastern/9pm central.

“20/20 ABC starts a weekly show about the Design Revolution.”
Tonight: Stanford's Extreme Affordability Program showcased: http://abcn.ws/f16Dq9

Thanks to those posting to the Out of Poverty Twitter feed

Also see:

+ How the “Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability” class launched several internationally known start-ups

+ Design for the Other 90% Exhibit + “Micro-Giving” Global Needs Index to Connect Rich to Poor/Fullfill Global-to-Local Requests

Be the Change: Save a Life

ABC News kicks off year-long global health care series Friday, Dec. 17 at 10/9c.
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New Low Cost + Extremely Portable Water Filter – OsmoPure

01 Poverty, 02 Infectious Disease, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 12 Water, Gift Intelligence, Peace Intelligence, Technologies

MassChallenge has awarded OsmoPure, an NCIIA E-Team, one of its four $100,000 prizes. See announcement.

OsmoPure, from Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, is developing a low-cost water purification device for developing countries based on simple membrane filtration technology. The team showcased the invention at NCIIA's student innovation showcase in San Francisco earlier this year.

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Poverty Is Not a Game (PING) – A game about poverty

01 Poverty, 04 Education, Technologies
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PING is an online game made for secondary schools, forming a starting point to discuss the subject ‘poverty’ and what it means to be poor. Ping is aimed at the students of the secondary and third degree. The students become the main characters in the game. They can choose between Jim or Sofia, who, due to certain circumstances, end up on the street and need to find their own path.

PING shows that games can help to introduce complex social subjects like poverty in the class room.

The partners of the PING project want to contribute to the social debate encouraging the use of games at school as a tool to open the difficult discussion about poverty.

PING was made possible with the help of The King Baudouin Foundation (Belgium), IBBT (Belgium), with The Network of European Foundations, the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany) , the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal/UK) and Fondation Bernheim (Belgium).

Play the game on line or download PING.

For the development of the game there was an intensive collaboration with the European Schoolnet (umbrella organization consisting of 31 ministries of education from the European member states) and the European Poverty Network (umbrella organization of poverty organizations from the European member states) to make games discussable in an educational context. The manual and game will be distributed in all secondary schools in Belgium with the support of the Belgian government.

PING was internationally launched on October 20th 2010 at the European convention “Poverty is not a game. Serious Games as a mean to discuss complex societal issues” in Brussels.

The game and manual are now available on the website.

Also available in Nederlands,  Français, and Deutsch