| Call 4 Action: Thomas & Friends Toymaker Settles Lead Suit
You could be eligible for a refund from one of the country's most popular toymakers, involved in multiple lead-paint recalls last year. The company selling "Thomas & Friends" toys has decided to settle a $30 million lawsuit. Anyone who bought one of the recalled toys can now begin filing a claim against RC2 Corporation, which sold the products. .
Facebook, Scrabulous, and the End of Innocence
Oh no. I'd finally managed to kick the Scrabulous habit – at one stage I had eight games going simultaneously – when news came through that the Facebook application was under threat from the makers of Scrabble. After a couple of months in rehab, I had to start another game – just so that we could get some television pictures, you understand. But the bust-up over a game which is currently enjoyed daily by nearly 600,000 users is not just of interest to the addicts. It tells us something about what happens when bright young internet brands start to grow up. Remember when Youtube was young, all those years ago? It started life by maintaining that it was merely a playground for the video activities of its users – so if a teenager posted a happy-slapping video from a mobile phone or grabbed the latest episode of Lost and puts it up for friends to enjoy, that was not their fault.
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"I love it down here," says John D'Angelo, who's in a freezing cold, 20-metre-deep hole, wearing a hard hat but neither scarf nor gloves, and walking among iron workers and form-work carpenters hollering urgently at one another. The falling snow adds a delicacy to the robust scene. His joy in this muddy construction pit makes you wonder, because it's a little scary in this pit – the concrete walls loom high, a power saw roars, a backhoe jackhammers through the shale bottom, a crane swings loads of timber across the site and the spikes of rebar seem like something out of a torture chamber. It's not just the construction he loves, though this former high school teacher-turned-builder is at home in these big digs. "We are creating hope here, and aspirations," he says.
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