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President Obama on Thursday praised a man he has often criticized, hailing former president George W. Bush for working across the aisle and saying Bush will get credit if Congress can pass immigration reform this year.
Read full article >> Studio chief reveals screenplay for Skyfall follow-up already in pipeline and new
director will be announced soonThe next James Bond film is already being planned and producers hope to announce a director soon,
executives said on Tuesday. It will not be Sam
Mendes, who said recently that he had turned down the chance to oversee a follow-up to his critically-acclaimed effort Skyfall, the highest-grossing Bond movie of all time."We
are very excited about the franchise, we look forward to announcing a director soon," said MGM chairman and chief executive officer Gary Barber in a conference call with investors. "We are currently developing the screenplay and working with our panic away review look forward to developing the script soon and signing a director.
We are hoping within the next three years it will be released."Along with An Unexpected Journey, the blockbuster first part in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy, Skyfall helped MGM to record-breaking figures last year, taking $1.1bn at the box office. Not long ago the studio was languishing in insolvency, resulting in a four-year gap between
2008's Quantum of Solace and the 23rd Bond
outing. Now in a buoyant financial position, and with two Hobbit films yet to come, it is unlikely to encounter similar problems in the near future."[Mendes] did an amazing job on Skyfall," said Barber. "We are very thankful for the work that he did."The next Bond film will almost certainly star Daniel Craig in his fourth outing as 007, the British actor having previously signed up to two more films.
Sherlock Holmes director Vision without glasses review was recently revealed as the bookies' favourite to take up the reins from Mendes.MGM
produced Skyfall in association with Sony as part of a long-term deal to produce Bond movies struck after a dispute over
rights. The two studios will partner up again on Bond 24, working with long-term rights holder Eon Productions.James
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© 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsWASHINGTON - Japan increased its holdings of U.S. government debt for an eighth straight month in January. But the second-largest holder of U.S. Treasury bonds will likely scale back its purchases of foreign holdings, and even sell off some, in coming months to divert money toward rebuilding a natio MOSCOW  Thursday’s Aeroflot flight to Havana closed FAP Turbo without any sign that American fugitive
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according to reporters camped out near the gate, raising questions about how much longer Snowden might remain in suspended animation in the transit zone at Sheremetyevo Airport. Read full article >> Gen. Stanley A.
McChrystal's belittling critique of some of the Obama administration's top officials left the president with a stark choice on Tuesday: overlook comments that border on insubordination, or fire his top commander at a critical moment in Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered throughout Egypt on Sunday to call for the ouster of the country's first elected president, Mohammed Morsi, exactly one year
after he took office. Ireland's economy slid into recession late last year and continued to contract sharply in early 2013, new and revised figures showed on Thursday, just months before it is due to exit its EU/IMF bailout H Miracle aid of Comic Relief, the first 25 people to sponsor this blog chose a subject that would be
covered in it. This blog is the result of combining
those 25 random subjects in a seriously scientific way[Earlier this week, I asked for 25
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Enjoy/endure]They say those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. When I first heard that phrase thought my teacher was referring to the history exams.
If I forgot about those I'd have to repeat them, that much was obvious. So I didn't get why he was saying this as some sort of profound
revelation.I
understand now though that it's a more wide-sweeping Fit Yummy Mummy failing to learn from the past. I'm starting to think it may be a valid point.Take
the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. A pharaoh during the 1300s B.C. He is mostly known among Egyptologists for attempts to convert Egyptian culture from worshipping many gods (polytheism) to worshipping the one, Aten (monotheism).
He is also believed by many to have ruled in a co-regency with his father.So
basically, Akhenaten became ruler because he was born to a privileged background, was part of what was essentially a coalition government
and used his position to enforce a form of austerity on the population motivated largely by ideological concerns.
Sound familiar?Akhenaten was also largely forgotten by history after he died, society went back to how it was before his meddling and later rulers called him 'the enemy'. So that's something
to look forward to.The
belief that history repeats itself is almost entirely Total Wellness Cleanse review Hume's problem with inductive reasoning.
Hume argued that you technically cannot infer something will definitely happen from a limited set of observations. Your neighbour may leave for work at 8am every morning, but you cannot say "my neighbour will leave for work at 8am tomorrow" and actually "know" this is the case in the classical sense.
Just because something has happened before, there's no guarantee that it will happen again in the same way.
This does somewhat undermine the whole concept of scientific research, which is unnerving. Also, Hume would probably not have been able to sit quietly when watching The Matrix.But science isn't the sort
to accept it when philosophy undermines it. Hume's argument falls apart somewhat if the Many World's Theory is taken into account. Derived from models of quantum physics/mechanics, the Many
Worlds Theory claims every event on any scale that could result Fat Loss 4 Idiots outcomes actually causes the universe to split into different universes where each possible outcome does occur. So if it's possible, it does technically happen. Screw you, Hume and your single-universe bias!It's profound. Potentially each roll of the dice creates six separate universes. And in each one, the Monopoly game still ends in a blazing row.
Sci-fi dabbles in parallel universes a lot. But we don't know if it's true, and if it is, we have no idea how to cross between universes. The barrier that separates universes is never really acknowledged, but undoubtedly it's very interesting, like the tight junctions between polarized epithelial cells. Epithelial cells themselves form a barrier between cell masses and spaces, and the barriers between them provided by tight junctions must be doing double duty.
They're like
"metabarriers" or something. They might be easily ignored, but they're crucial, they allow all the Visual Impact Muscle Building of epithelial cells to occur, like forcing critical ions to travel through the cells, rather than around them. Tight junctions exist thanks to big molecules though, and big molecules are boring. They shouldn't be.
Many are essential for life, and these tend to form in space.
SPACE!Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons can be found in abundance in space, usually in nebulae. They're quite complex long chain molecules that are critical for sustaining all known forms of life.
Some even believe these space molecules lead to life on Earth. If it happened here, there's nothing to say that it wouldn't happen elsewhere. Should we start discovering signs of life out in the universe, the field of Astrobiology is going to really take off (possibly literally). Astrobiology is the study of life elsewhere in the universe.
They don't dissect stars or anything, mores the pity.
It's been a purely theoretical Muscle Gaining Secrets far, but if life is discovered elsewhere, maybe the Astrobiologists will be the ones who get all the science groupies. That would be nice, it would give us neuroscientists a break. Ironically, these molecules that may have caused humankind to exist are largely toxic to modern humans. It's almost as if, having created us, the molecules now think we should be destroyed, like their Frankenstein's monster. That's a bit much, being considered vermin by a benzene ring.But evolution is often weird like that. Important stuff ends up becoming antagonistic.
Take teeth.
Human teeth have evolved in such a varied way to facilitate our omnivorous diet.
But human teeth have shrunk over the centuries to leave room for our big skulls and the like, meaning we end up with wisdom teeth, which show up late and just cause hassle.
No matter how important they are, when teeth Grow Taller 4 Idiots they cause no end of grief.But as surprisingly weird as our
teeth can be, nature has produced some dental arrangements that could put the Saw franchise to shame in terms of flesh-rending creativity. The best example of this is probably Helicoprion, a long-extinct prehistoric shark (sort of) with a lower jaw that was essentially a toothy chainsaw.
It's lower "jaw" was a spiral of teeth that could have been extended and
withdrawn, giving it a buzz saw effect. It was like a party whistle, except instead of colourful paper and a vaguely annoying noise, it provided horrifically aquatic mutilation, which would ruin any child's birthday party.If it's a weird evolutionary quirk, odds are a fish has done it at some point.
They are seeming masters at quick and diverse occupation of all manner of niches. This is well demonstrated by East African Haplochromine Cichlid fish, an Fibroids Miracle of explosive
adaptation as they have developed into a very diverse type of fish occupying numerous niches in the East African great lakes in a relatively short period of time. They
provide many good example of sexual dimorphism and also demonstrate things like mouthbrooding; something which no human is capable of and anyone who tries to disprove this should
be arrested.But
even fish we'd think of as 'normal' can do weird things.
Herring may seem nondescript but they exhibit some weird behaviour too. Herring communicate by farting.
Herring have good hearing, and this may be so they can hear the squeaky flatulence produced by others at night, and thus remain in a shoal for safety. The fact that they use fart sounds to maintain safety really does give a whole
new spin to the phrase "silent but deadly".
Other weird senses have developed in fish, but Ovarian Cyst Miracle Birds, like salmon and turtles, have the apparent ability to see the Earth's magnetic field, which helps with navigation. One mechanism for how they do this is that they have a special type of crypotochrome in their eye which produces magnetically-sensitive free-radical pairs when activated by certain wavelengths of light.
I used to work next to a building with an MRI scanner in it, and it was always covered with birds. No wonder, it must have looked like Las Vegas to them.Another driver of evolutionary diversity is sexual selection. In animals as in humans, the desire to obtain a sexual partner often leads to ridiculous outcomes.
Take the antlers of a moose.
How ridiculous do they look? How much effort must it take to grow those things, and then keep your head up when you've done that? The antlers exist purely to aid moose mating habits.
Melt Your Man's Heart season, a bull will find a mate and use his antlers to deter any rivals, or use the antlers as weapons in combat if a love rival is not deterred by antler size alone. Once mating is complete, the antlers just fall off, their role fulfilled. Given that they're solitary, moody creatures that wield needlessly ornate weapons, I'm wondering if Klingons evolved from a moose-type creature.(N.B. "moose" is both the singular and plural term. This might be because moose are solitary creatures, you rarely see more than one so a separate plural hasn't proliferated. The same thing may have happened with "sheep", but for the opposite reason as you never see a lone sheep)Sexual prowess is a powerful evolutionary factor.
Some animals take it too far though, like the unremittingly sexy Koala.
You can just feel the charisma pouring out of the screen in that last Bring The Fresh think about sex so often their brains are shrinking from atrophy. They are so sexy that they have double the sexual organs that more prudish mammals have.
They're even in danger of being wiped out by an STI, that's how bad they are. Although in fairness, it's probably very hard to get a prophylactic that fits a bifurcated penis.These
are all things that evolution seems to have thrown up in the natural world. But when you add the human element, things get even more messy.Evolution has given humans consciousness.
Or has it? The nature of consciousness is often more of a philosophical question, than a scientific one.
I've seen arguments that consciousness is the result of complex process, not necessarily dependant
on the brain, suggesting you could have a consciousness based on the interactions of biscuits in a barrel if it was complex enough, like
some Socrates Theme bizarre Turing machine.
In many ways it's weird to try and think about consciousness. It's a bit like drawing a pencil using a pencil; the information is all there, it gets done, but no understanding occurs between the tool and the outcome.
Consciousness is one of those things we tend to just take for granted because there's not really much alternative.
It does get even more confusing when consciousness starts to go a bit wrong though, like when someone develops schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is another thing that is a lot harder to pin down than the general use of the term suggests. Despite differing diagnostic approaches, the general consensus is that schizophrenia is when an individual starts having delusions and hallucinations that they cannot separate from reality (it is NOT multiple personality disorder, that's something else).
There may be a physical underpinning of this if the dopamine Blogging To The Bank out to be the responsible mechanism, which might help matters.But
human intellect and cognition adds a whole other host of variables to the processes of natural selection. People often refer to it as "survival of the fittest", but even that is debatable. Take Bruce Lee, he was arguably one of
the fittest, most physically capable human beings on the planet.
He won so many
physical fights and was an unarmed combat master. But he died at age 32, from a bad painkiller reaction, epilepsy, or something else relatively innocuous.
Human society seems to throw things at us that physical fitness alone won't be enough to deal with. Many humans try to embrace this while removing the danger, glorifying physical prowess while removing the physical threat. A good example of this is WWE wrestling, where clearly very physically capable athletes do impressive physical things in an attempt Lotto Master Formula like their fighting without actually doing that, swapping performance and theatrics for the entertainment provided by less-scripted physical combat. This may seem like a uniquely human creation, but even this must bow to selective pressures.
The WWE used to be the WWF, until the World Wildlife Fund made them change. It's weird that the WWF, an
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organisation dedicated to conservation, threatened the existence of the WWE.
Ironic, in a way.This
goes to show how
the things humans create are subject to pressures of their own, and need to adapt.
The JML Point and Paint decorating system shows this. It exists based on a totally artificial construct (human homes that need to be painted according to societal norms) and came into existence to occupy a niche that humans had yet to fill (painting is a lot of hassle).
It's not all good though.
Human invention can fill Magic Article Rewriter spaces that, at best, really should be best left alone, exploiting the negative, base elements of human culture.
Things like Heat magazine, which is something that exists purely to exploit the bile, resentment and just plain evil that exists in modern humans. It's function appears to be to glorify celebrities, pointing out to readers that these individuals are superior and should be aspired to, and also gleefully pointing out their flaws and failings, to show that even they are little more than mere scum. This bizarre duality serves to just make everyone feel bad about everything. (Disclaimer: I'm only assuming the above is true, as I've never read Heat)But humans have a bizarre tendency to attack others based on the flimsiest of reasons. We're very social creatures, and a lot of our sense of self-worth from being a member of a group (or culture, or society Auto Mass Traffic a result, we seem to be very wary of those who aren't members of our group, leading to things like discrimination and prejudice. This is most starkly evident with the victimisation of minorities, where members of different group are attacked with the knowledge that they lack the numbers to do anything about it. This happens to all manner of minorities, like recently with trans people.
There are many possible explanations for this sort of behaviour (scapegoating, social learning), but it's never acceptable.But
human society and invention doesn't affect just humans, it also affects other animals, which also have to learn to adapt and endure in these newly-created hostile environments. Take an animal that has a long history with humans, the domestic dog, and let's take a well known example of a hostile human environment, in this case Albert Square from the soap opera Eastenders, which is Video Traffic Academy review place.There
have been several dogs of note that were able to survive in Albert square, such as Wellard (Belgian Shepherd dog), Betty (Cairn terrier), Terrence (Lhasa Apso), ***** (Pug) and more.
It could be possible to determine which of these dogs, if any, was the best suited to survive there, but it would be difficult to rule out subjective measurements. For
example, a dog with properties that allows it to be accepted by multiple owners would be beneficial for the chaotic environment of Albert Square, so Wellard, living with 4 separate owners during his time there, would be considered the best dog using this criterion. However, would it be not more advantageous to adopt a behaviour and quality that means one owner
is
more keen to keep you and avoid dangerous situations as a result, suggesting that ***** the pug (one owner for 7 years) is Social Monkee best dog. Then again, Chips the Basset hound ran away as
soon as someone left the gate open, suggesting his survival instinct is the most highly developed.If there's one thing dogs like, it's sticks.
They love chasing sticks. But if you have a best dog, it could also be said that you should have a best stick with which to entertain it with. Sticks are typically made of wood, and there is a lot of variation in wood. Would a stick of bamboo be best? Its hollow tubular structure would make it good for throwing and wielding as a weapon, but does its rigid nature means it could more often shatter on impact with a hard surface? A stick of cork would be light and safe, but so porous and spongy as to be hard to hurl, and no use for defence at all. The mechanical Commission Killer the woods could be tabulated and cross compared to see if there is a 'best stick'.If
you tabulate both the best dogs and the best sticks and give them ranks, it may be possible to see if there's any connection between them using Spearman's Rho, a statistical technique used to determine if there's a linear relationship between two variables that have undergone rank randomisation. If there is a connection between the best dog (in Albert square) and the best stick, it would suggest that in even the most artificial of human environments, selection pressures and evolution are still working to
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shape our world.
Maybe I'm giving human invention too much credit. Maybe it's more limited than I've previously suggested. Maybe some human inventiveness ends up in cul-de-sacs, much like evolution can sometimes do.
Tom Lehrer was a maths wiz who was also a gifted and celebrated get him back forever satirical songs which are still being sung today, but eventually he just got bored with it, and stopped.
So invention isn't the be-all and end all in itself for everyone.Maybe
at some point we'll find a sustainable harmony where the natural world and human needs and invention can coexist without competing. We could obtain the energy we need from nature reserves, via turbines if they have waterfalls, solar power if there's room, and even hydrogen from algae if that's an option.
We may not even need a sustainable equilibrium, as long as we keep trying to achieve one.
Natural processes and human endeavour; these things are only going to get more important as we progress. They've
apparently just found water on Mars.
They've not found methane yet, but they still might do. And if they find both water and methane on Mars, you know what that yeast infection no more herring! It's the only explanation.Dean Burnett may never speak in coherent sentences again
after writing this.
His fragmented mind can be observed via Twitter, @garwboyACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
alisonatkin, who wanted to hear about the mating habits of the moose. Filth!Kim Kendall, who wanted to include schizophrenia, which she's interested in.
Or suffers from (I forget)Rob Simpson, who often discusses the magnetic vision of birds on his podcast with Chris Lintott, Recycled ElectronsThe generous anonymous donor who wanted to include the victimisation of minorities, either because they didn't understand the intent of this post or they have a dark sense of humourKate Paice, who is a fan of saw-toothed HelicoprionChris Limb, who was hoping I could elaborate on the nature of consciousness (foolishly) Martine O'Callahan who wanted to hear about Bruce LeeKate Shaw, who insisted on including Heat magazine, and so made the world a worse place all roundHelen Lynn, sold out after crisis childish enthusiasm for farting herringDomino, for a weirdly specific interest in East African haplochromine cichlid fishEljay, for a love of AstrobiologyStu, Anna and Riley for suggesting the JML Point and Paint decorating system (they don't work for
the company, I'm told)Gia Millinovich, continuing her interest in high-profile influential men by suggesting Pharaoh AkhenatenAlice Sheppard, who is forever going on about polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in space so decided I should too.Emma
McDonald for Spearman's Rho, which she shall suffer forDan Mitchell, who wanted to know what the best stick was. I'll publish the data when I get itSimon Feeley, who wanted to hear about the best dog in Eastenders. He was my best man. Twice.
Never againLewis Bowman, for requesting the life of Tom Lehrer. I assume he meant it as a subjectAnother anonymous donor wanted the many worlds theory.
In another dimension,
it was done properly lottery cash software for wondering about energy from nature reservesDr Allen Alan for his assertion that Koalas are unremittingly sexyMark Lorch who wanted to hear about Hume's problem with inductive reasoning. Happy now, Mark?@LizzyBenedikz who wanted to hear about tight junctions between polarized epithelial
cells. As you doLin2i, who wanted to hear about teeth. I'm assuming she has
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Now they're all about animals – as the men behind the groundbreaking new £3.6m Tiger Territory at London Zoo explain Hull drew, 2-2, with Cardiff on Saturday, the last day The Secret of deliberate creation 46-game season in what is called The Championship, but is really the second division of English soccer.
The next battle over the debt limit appears to be farther away than many expect – and perhaps not until well into autumn. Higher tax revenue, less spending and a potential massive inflow of money from the recovery of the taxpayer-owned mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mean that the federal government may have to borrow less than anticipated in coming months, analysts say.
Read full article >> Last summer Google chief executive Eric Schmidt declared that in the future people would need to change their names to escape their digital pasts.
Now a few new commercial Web sites are luring users with the promise of anonymity. Federal court overturns a ruling that favored USPS in a dispute with a decorated sergeant major, finding that he ex boyfriend guru abandoned the post office for military service. After a grueling debate, lawmakers voted to legalize the practice in exceptional cases where doctors deem the woman’s life to be at risk from her pregnancy.
Kilian Eng's Object 10 is a collection of beautiful images at once contemporary, nostalgic, and looking towards
the future in equal measure. West Ham confident of securing winger from Mexican club Morelia, while Jed Steer is set to leave Norwich for Aston VillaJefferson Montero West Ham UnitedWest Ham are close to signing Jefferson Montero by triggering the Ecuadorian's £3m release clause at his Mexican club, Morelia.Roberto
MartÃÂnez, the Everton manager, is also interested in Montero, who reportedly came close to signing for Wigan Athletic in January when the Spaniard was in charge. But it is understood that West Ham are confident of securing the services of the 23-year-old winger, who has played for save my marriage today times.René
Meulensteen Man UnitedDavid Moyes has dispensed with René Meulensteen as first-team coach, the Dutchman becoming the last of Sir Alex Ferguson's senior backroom staff to depart the club. Meulensteen follows the assistant manager Mike Phelan, the goalkeeping coach Eric Steele, and the chief scout
Martin Ferguson out of Manchester United. Meulensteen turned down the chance to take up an alternative role.Jed Steer Aston VillaAston Villa's manager, Paul Lambert, has said the Norwich City goalkeeper Jed Steer will become his sixth summer acquisition on 1 July.Lambert
has been busy in the transfer market, bringing
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in the defenders Jores Okore and Antonio Luna, midfielders Leandro Bacuna and Aleksandar Tonev, and the Danish striker Nicklas Helenius.The 20-year-old Steer will complete the move once his deal at Carrow Road expires.
The former England Under-19 international will provide competition for Brad Guzan and Benji Siegrist.guardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and ex2 system or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.
| Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Devotees of Josef Stalin flocked to the Kremlin to praise him for making his country a world power Tuesday, while experts and politicians puzzled and despaired over his enduring popularity. Sergei Bobrovksy shook off a slap shot to his mask and withstood two late
goals, and Mark Letestu had a goal and an assist as the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the struggling Nashville Predators 4-3 on Tuesday night to extend their franchise-record point
streak to 11 games. Celebrating the fab in prefab, ’50s style. The United States continues to work closely with Portugal to find ways to expand and deepen two-way trade and investment to better reflect historically strong political, geostrategic and security ties between the
two countries.
Portugal’s continued drive to modernize and guy gets girl economy will offer possibilities for growth in U.S.
trade and investment over the medium and long term. Demand for high-quality, price-competitive U.S.
products in Portugal is strong, and privatization of several large government-owned companies will provide additional opportunities for investment.With the intent to encourage investment and bilateral trade between the United States and Portugal, with particular focus in the Azores, U.S.
Ambassador to Portugal Allan J.
Katz led a Business Development Road Show. The MIT Portugal Program participated as a partner in this six-day event (April 28-May 3, 2013) bringing 24 Portuguese companies and institutions to Boston, Mass., and Kansas City, Miss.While
in Boston on May 1, the ambassador and the companies visited the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), the largest flexible office facility for growing technology and life sciences companies in the Greater Boston area.
More than 450 companies are currently located at the CIC. This text the romance back by a meeting with the Mass Technology Leadership Council and the Mass High Technology Council. The Mass Technology Leadership Council is the region’s leading technology association and the premier network for tech executives, entrepreneurs, investors and policy leaders. The Mass High Technology Council is an advocate for competitive public policies and practices to sustain Massachusetts as a globally preeminent economy in which to live and work, and to create,
operate and expand high tech businesses.Visitors
toured the MIT Media Lab, an
interdisciplinary research laboratory. MIT Media Lab staff and students have backgrounds ranging from electrical engineering and computer science to sociology and music and others.
Recently, the Media Lab has focused particularly
on design and technologies that address social causes.Later, MIT Portugal Program Director Professor Dava Newman welcomed the ambassador and the companies. The convoy had lunch with MIT Portugal Program staff and students, including those the jump manual the eTeams III.
The eTeams III is a 2-week intense “contact-sport†curriculum designed for non-U.S.
start-up companies to be exposed to, make lasting links within and gain practical entrepreneurial skills useful for the start-up culture of the MIT/Kendall Square ecosystem. This program exemplifies how the MIT Portugal Program harnesses the Institute’s ever-present entrepreneurial and innovative spirit.
The White House said on Thursday that U.S.
intelligence agencies now assess, with “varying degrees of confidence,†that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. A solitary goal by Egemen
Korkmaz guided Fenerbahce to a
narrow victory in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final against Benfica in Istanbul.Korkmaz's goal 18 minutes from time was scant reward for the Turkish side, who could have taken a more commanding lead to Portugal after Cristian Baroni hit a first-half penalty against a post and Moussa Sow and Dirk Kuyt also rattled the simple golf swing of the goal."Normally we are a team that delivers when we find opportunities, but tonight we couldn't do that," Benfica's coach Jorge Jesus said. "But the result is not too bad, we will remain hopeful
until the last minute of the second leg. We will be much better in Lisbon."Roared on by a raucous crowd, Fenerbahce played at a high tempo from the start as Benfica struggled to settle. Sow, who will miss the second leg after being shown a yellow card, soon struck the crossbar and Fenerbahce maintained the pressure. When Ola John clipped the trailing leg of Gokhan Gonul just before half-time Fenerbahce were awarded a penalty, but Cristian failed to convert it.When
Dirk Kuyt also hit a post in the second half it looked like being a frustrating night for the home side but Korkmaz raised the roof when he finally broke the tinnitus miracle system a poor defensive header.Benfica's best chance came when Nicolás Gaitán curled a shot against the outside of a post but Fenerbahce held on for the victory despite some anxious moments.Fenerbahce will also go into the second leg without the striker Webo, stupidly booked for kicking the
ball away, and the midfielder Mehmet Topal, who was cautioned. But their coach, Aykut Kocaman, said his team would fight "until the last drop of their blood".He added: "It will be a very difficult game for us there, but we definitely have acquired the 51%
chance of reaching the final."His goalkeeper Volkan Demirel was more convincing.
"We will win the cup," he told the NTV channel after the game.Europa LeagueFenerbahçeBenficaguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.
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director will be announced soonThe next James Bond film is already being planned and producers hope to announce a director soon,
executives said on Tuesday. It will not be Sam
Mendes, who said recently that he had turned down the chance to oversee a follow-up to his critically-acclaimed effort Skyfall, the highest-grossing Bond movie of all time."We
are very excited about the franchise, we look forward to announcing a director soon," said MGM chairman and chief executive officer Gary Barber in a conference call with investors. "We are currently developing the screenplay and working with our panic away review look forward to developing the script soon and signing a director.
We are hoping within the next three years it will be released."Along with An Unexpected Journey, the blockbuster first part in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy, Skyfall helped MGM to record-breaking figures last year, taking $1.1bn at the box office. Not long ago the studio was languishing in insolvency, resulting in a four-year gap between
2008's Quantum of Solace and the 23rd Bond
outing. Now in a buoyant financial position, and with two Hobbit films yet to come, it is unlikely to encounter similar problems in the near future."[Mendes] did an amazing job on Skyfall," said Barber. "We are very thankful for the work that he did."The next Bond film will almost certainly star Daniel Craig in his fourth outing as 007, the British actor having previously signed up to two more films.
Sherlock Holmes director Vision without glasses review was recently revealed as the bookies' favourite to take up the reins from Mendes.MGM
produced Skyfall in association with Sony as part of a long-term deal to produce Bond movies struck after a dispute over
rights. The two studios will partner up again on Bond 24, working with long-term rights holder Eon Productions.James
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© 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsWASHINGTON - Japan increased its holdings of U.S. government debt for an eighth straight month in January. But the second-largest holder of U.S. Treasury bonds will likely scale back its purchases of foreign holdings, and even sell off some, in coming months to divert money toward rebuilding a natio MOSCOW  Thursday’s Aeroflot flight to Havana closed FAP Turbo without any sign that American fugitive
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McChrystal's belittling critique of some of the Obama administration's top officials left the president with a stark choice on Tuesday: overlook comments that border on insubordination, or fire his top commander at a critical moment in Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered throughout Egypt on Sunday to call for the ouster of the country's first elected president, Mohammed Morsi, exactly one year
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Enjoy/endure]They say those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. When I first heard that phrase thought my teacher was referring to the history exams.
If I forgot about those I'd have to repeat them, that much was obvious. So I didn't get why he was saying this as some sort of profound
revelation.I
understand now though that it's a more wide-sweeping Fit Yummy Mummy failing to learn from the past. I'm starting to think it may be a valid point.Take
the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. A pharaoh during the 1300s B.C. He is mostly known among Egyptologists for attempts to convert Egyptian culture from worshipping many gods (polytheism) to worshipping the one, Aten (monotheism).
He is also believed by many to have ruled in a co-regency with his father.So
basically, Akhenaten became ruler because he was born to a privileged background, was part of what was essentially a coalition government
and used his position to enforce a form of austerity on the population motivated largely by ideological concerns.
Sound familiar?Akhenaten was also largely forgotten by history after he died, society went back to how it was before his meddling and later rulers called him 'the enemy'. So that's something
to look forward to.The
belief that history repeats itself is almost entirely Total Wellness Cleanse review Hume's problem with inductive reasoning.
Hume argued that you technically cannot infer something will definitely happen from a limited set of observations. Your neighbour may leave for work at 8am every morning, but you cannot say "my neighbour will leave for work at 8am tomorrow" and actually "know" this is the case in the classical sense.
Just because something has happened before, there's no guarantee that it will happen again in the same way.
This does somewhat undermine the whole concept of scientific research, which is unnerving. Also, Hume would probably not have been able to sit quietly when watching The Matrix.But science isn't the sort
to accept it when philosophy undermines it. Hume's argument falls apart somewhat if the Many World's Theory is taken into account. Derived from models of quantum physics/mechanics, the Many
Worlds Theory claims every event on any scale that could result Fat Loss 4 Idiots outcomes actually causes the universe to split into different universes where each possible outcome does occur. So if it's possible, it does technically happen. Screw you, Hume and your single-universe bias!It's profound. Potentially each roll of the dice creates six separate universes. And in each one, the Monopoly game still ends in a blazing row.
Sci-fi dabbles in parallel universes a lot. But we don't know if it's true, and if it is, we have no idea how to cross between universes. The barrier that separates universes is never really acknowledged, but undoubtedly it's very interesting, like the tight junctions between polarized epithelial cells. Epithelial cells themselves form a barrier between cell masses and spaces, and the barriers between them provided by tight junctions must be doing double duty.
They're like
"metabarriers" or something. They might be easily ignored, but they're crucial, they allow all the Visual Impact Muscle Building of epithelial cells to occur, like forcing critical ions to travel through the cells, rather than around them. Tight junctions exist thanks to big molecules though, and big molecules are boring. They shouldn't be.
Many are essential for life, and these tend to form in space.
SPACE!Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons can be found in abundance in space, usually in nebulae. They're quite complex long chain molecules that are critical for sustaining all known forms of life.
Some even believe these space molecules lead to life on Earth. If it happened here, there's nothing to say that it wouldn't happen elsewhere. Should we start discovering signs of life out in the universe, the field of Astrobiology is going to really take off (possibly literally). Astrobiology is the study of life elsewhere in the universe.
They don't dissect stars or anything, mores the pity.
It's been a purely theoretical Muscle Gaining Secrets far, but if life is discovered elsewhere, maybe the Astrobiologists will be the ones who get all the science groupies. That would be nice, it would give us neuroscientists a break. Ironically, these molecules that may have caused humankind to exist are largely toxic to modern humans. It's almost as if, having created us, the molecules now think we should be destroyed, like their Frankenstein's monster. That's a bit much, being considered vermin by a benzene ring.But evolution is often weird like that. Important stuff ends up becoming antagonistic.
Take teeth.
Human teeth have evolved in such a varied way to facilitate our omnivorous diet.
But human teeth have shrunk over the centuries to leave room for our big skulls and the like, meaning we end up with wisdom teeth, which show up late and just cause hassle.
No matter how important they are, when teeth Grow Taller 4 Idiots they cause no end of grief.But as surprisingly weird as our
teeth can be, nature has produced some dental arrangements that could put the Saw franchise to shame in terms of flesh-rending creativity. The best example of this is probably Helicoprion, a long-extinct prehistoric shark (sort of) with a lower jaw that was essentially a toothy chainsaw.
It's lower "jaw" was a spiral of teeth that could have been extended and
withdrawn, giving it a buzz saw effect. It was like a party whistle, except instead of colourful paper and a vaguely annoying noise, it provided horrifically aquatic mutilation, which would ruin any child's birthday party.If it's a weird evolutionary quirk, odds are a fish has done it at some point.
They are seeming masters at quick and diverse occupation of all manner of niches. This is well demonstrated by East African Haplochromine Cichlid fish, an Fibroids Miracle of explosive
adaptation as they have developed into a very diverse type of fish occupying numerous niches in the East African great lakes in a relatively short period of time. They
provide many good example of sexual dimorphism and also demonstrate things like mouthbrooding; something which no human is capable of and anyone who tries to disprove this should
be arrested.But
even fish we'd think of as 'normal' can do weird things.
Herring may seem nondescript but they exhibit some weird behaviour too. Herring communicate by farting.
Herring have good hearing, and this may be so they can hear the squeaky flatulence produced by others at night, and thus remain in a shoal for safety. The fact that they use fart sounds to maintain safety really does give a whole
new spin to the phrase "silent but deadly".
Other weird senses have developed in fish, but Ovarian Cyst Miracle Birds, like salmon and turtles, have the apparent ability to see the Earth's magnetic field, which helps with navigation. One mechanism for how they do this is that they have a special type of crypotochrome in their eye which produces magnetically-sensitive free-radical pairs when activated by certain wavelengths of light.
I used to work next to a building with an MRI scanner in it, and it was always covered with birds. No wonder, it must have looked like Las Vegas to them.Another driver of evolutionary diversity is sexual selection. In animals as in humans, the desire to obtain a sexual partner often leads to ridiculous outcomes.
Take the antlers of a moose.
How ridiculous do they look? How much effort must it take to grow those things, and then keep your head up when you've done that? The antlers exist purely to aid moose mating habits.
Melt Your Man's Heart season, a bull will find a mate and use his antlers to deter any rivals, or use the antlers as weapons in combat if a love rival is not deterred by antler size alone. Once mating is complete, the antlers just fall off, their role fulfilled. Given that they're solitary, moody creatures that wield needlessly ornate weapons, I'm wondering if Klingons evolved from a moose-type creature.(N.B. "moose" is both the singular and plural term. This might be because moose are solitary creatures, you rarely see more than one so a separate plural hasn't proliferated. The same thing may have happened with "sheep", but for the opposite reason as you never see a lone sheep)Sexual prowess is a powerful evolutionary factor.
Some animals take it too far though, like the unremittingly sexy Koala.
You can just feel the charisma pouring out of the screen in that last Bring The Fresh think about sex so often their brains are shrinking from atrophy. They are so sexy that they have double the sexual organs that more prudish mammals have.
They're even in danger of being wiped out by an STI, that's how bad they are. Although in fairness, it's probably very hard to get a prophylactic that fits a bifurcated penis.These
are all things that evolution seems to have thrown up in the natural world. But when you add the human element, things get even more messy.Evolution has given humans consciousness.
Or has it? The nature of consciousness is often more of a philosophical question, than a scientific one.
I've seen arguments that consciousness is the result of complex process, not necessarily dependant
on the brain, suggesting you could have a consciousness based on the interactions of biscuits in a barrel if it was complex enough, like
some Socrates Theme bizarre Turing machine.
In many ways it's weird to try and think about consciousness. It's a bit like drawing a pencil using a pencil; the information is all there, it gets done, but no understanding occurs between the tool and the outcome.
Consciousness is one of those things we tend to just take for granted because there's not really much alternative.
It does get even more confusing when consciousness starts to go a bit wrong though, like when someone develops schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is another thing that is a lot harder to pin down than the general use of the term suggests. Despite differing diagnostic approaches, the general consensus is that schizophrenia is when an individual starts having delusions and hallucinations that they cannot separate from reality (it is NOT multiple personality disorder, that's something else).
There may be a physical underpinning of this if the dopamine Blogging To The Bank out to be the responsible mechanism, which might help matters.But
human intellect and cognition adds a whole other host of variables to the processes of natural selection. People often refer to it as "survival of the fittest", but even that is debatable. Take Bruce Lee, he was arguably one of
the fittest, most physically capable human beings on the planet.
He won so many
physical fights and was an unarmed combat master. But he died at age 32, from a bad painkiller reaction, epilepsy, or something else relatively innocuous.
Human society seems to throw things at us that physical fitness alone won't be enough to deal with. Many humans try to embrace this while removing the danger, glorifying physical prowess while removing the physical threat. A good example of this is WWE wrestling, where clearly very physically capable athletes do impressive physical things in an attempt Lotto Master Formula like their fighting without actually doing that, swapping performance and theatrics for the entertainment provided by less-scripted physical combat. This may seem like a uniquely human creation, but even this must bow to selective pressures.
The WWE used to be the WWF, until the World Wildlife Fund made them change. It's weird that the WWF, an
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organisation dedicated to conservation, threatened the existence of the WWE.
Ironic, in a way.This
goes to show how
the things humans create are subject to pressures of their own, and need to adapt.
The JML Point and Paint decorating system shows this. It exists based on a totally artificial construct (human homes that need to be painted according to societal norms) and came into existence to occupy a niche that humans had yet to fill (painting is a lot of hassle).
It's not all good though.
Human invention can fill Magic Article Rewriter spaces that, at best, really should be best left alone, exploiting the negative, base elements of human culture.
Things like Heat magazine, which is something that exists purely to exploit the bile, resentment and just plain evil that exists in modern humans. It's function appears to be to glorify celebrities, pointing out to readers that these individuals are superior and should be aspired to, and also gleefully pointing out their flaws and failings, to show that even they are little more than mere scum. This bizarre duality serves to just make everyone feel bad about everything. (Disclaimer: I'm only assuming the above is true, as I've never read Heat)But humans have a bizarre tendency to attack others based on the flimsiest of reasons. We're very social creatures, and a lot of our sense of self-worth from being a member of a group (or culture, or society Auto Mass Traffic a result, we seem to be very wary of those who aren't members of our group, leading to things like discrimination and prejudice. This is most starkly evident with the victimisation of minorities, where members of different group are attacked with the knowledge that they lack the numbers to do anything about it. This happens to all manner of minorities, like recently with trans people.
There are many possible explanations for this sort of behaviour (scapegoating, social learning), but it's never acceptable.But
human society and invention doesn't affect just humans, it also affects other animals, which also have to learn to adapt and endure in these newly-created hostile environments. Take an animal that has a long history with humans, the domestic dog, and let's take a well known example of a hostile human environment, in this case Albert Square from the soap opera Eastenders, which is Video Traffic Academy review place.There
have been several dogs of note that were able to survive in Albert square, such as Wellard (Belgian Shepherd dog), Betty (Cairn terrier), Terrence (Lhasa Apso), ***** (Pug) and more.
It could be possible to determine which of these dogs, if any, was the best suited to survive there, but it would be difficult to rule out subjective measurements. For
example, a dog with properties that allows it to be accepted by multiple owners would be beneficial for the chaotic environment of Albert Square, so Wellard, living with 4 separate owners during his time there, would be considered the best dog using this criterion. However, would it be not more advantageous to adopt a behaviour and quality that means one owner
is
more keen to keep you and avoid dangerous situations as a result, suggesting that ***** the pug (one owner for 7 years) is Social Monkee best dog. Then again, Chips the Basset hound ran away as
soon as someone left the gate open, suggesting his survival instinct is the most highly developed.If there's one thing dogs like, it's sticks.
They love chasing sticks. But if you have a best dog, it could also be said that you should have a best stick with which to entertain it with. Sticks are typically made of wood, and there is a lot of variation in wood. Would a stick of bamboo be best? Its hollow tubular structure would make it good for throwing and wielding as a weapon, but does its rigid nature means it could more often shatter on impact with a hard surface? A stick of cork would be light and safe, but so porous and spongy as to be hard to hurl, and no use for defence at all. The mechanical Commission Killer the woods could be tabulated and cross compared to see if there is a 'best stick'.If
you tabulate both the best dogs and the best sticks and give them ranks, it may be possible to see if there's any connection between them using Spearman's Rho, a statistical technique used to determine if there's a linear relationship between two variables that have undergone rank randomisation. If there is a connection between the best dog (in Albert square) and the best stick, it would suggest that in even the most artificial of human environments, selection pressures and evolution are still working to
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shape our world.
Maybe I'm giving human invention too much credit. Maybe it's more limited than I've previously suggested. Maybe some human inventiveness ends up in cul-de-sacs, much like evolution can sometimes do.
Tom Lehrer was a maths wiz who was also a gifted and celebrated get him back forever satirical songs which are still being sung today, but eventually he just got bored with it, and stopped.
So invention isn't the be-all and end all in itself for everyone.Maybe
at some point we'll find a sustainable harmony where the natural world and human needs and invention can coexist without competing. We could obtain the energy we need from nature reserves, via turbines if they have waterfalls, solar power if there's room, and even hydrogen from algae if that's an option.
We may not even need a sustainable equilibrium, as long as we keep trying to achieve one.
Natural processes and human endeavour; these things are only going to get more important as we progress. They've
apparently just found water on Mars.
They've not found methane yet, but they still might do. And if they find both water and methane on Mars, you know what that yeast infection no more herring! It's the only explanation.Dean Burnett may never speak in coherent sentences again
after writing this.
His fragmented mind can be observed via Twitter, @garwboyACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
alisonatkin, who wanted to hear about the mating habits of the moose. Filth!Kim Kendall, who wanted to include schizophrenia, which she's interested in.Or suffers from (I forget)Rob Simpson, who often discusses the magnetic vision of birds on his podcast with Chris Lintott, Recycled ElectronsThe generous anonymous donor who wanted to include the victimisation of minorities, either because they didn't understand the intent of this post or they have a dark sense of humourKate Paice, who is a fan of saw-toothed HelicoprionChris Limb, who was hoping I could elaborate on the nature of consciousness (foolishly) Martine O'Callahan who wanted to hear about Bruce LeeKate Shaw, who insisted on including Heat magazine, and so made the world a worse place all roundHelen Lynn, sold out after crisis childish enthusiasm for farting herringDomino, for a weirdly specific interest in East African haplochromine cichlid fishEljay, for a love of AstrobiologyStu, Anna and Riley for suggesting the JML Point and Paint decorating system (they don't work for
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McDonald for Spearman's Rho, which she shall suffer forDan Mitchell, who wanted to know what the best stick was. I'll publish the data when I get itSimon Feeley, who wanted to hear about the best dog in Eastenders. He was my best man. Twice.
Never againLewis Bowman, for requesting the life of Tom Lehrer. I assume he meant it as a subjectAnother anonymous donor wanted the many worlds theory.
In another dimension,
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Now they're all about animals – as the men behind the groundbreaking new £3.6m Tiger Territory at London Zoo explain Hull drew, 2-2, with Cardiff on Saturday, the last day The Secret of deliberate creation 46-game season in what is called The Championship, but is really the second division of English soccer.
The next battle over the debt limit appears to be farther away than many expect – and perhaps not until well into autumn. Higher tax revenue, less spending and a potential massive inflow of money from the recovery of the taxpayer-owned mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mean that the federal government may have to borrow less than anticipated in coming months, analysts say.
Read full article >> Last summer Google chief executive Eric Schmidt declared that in the future people would need to change their names to escape their digital pasts.
Now a few new commercial Web sites are luring users with the promise of anonymity. Federal court overturns a ruling that favored USPS in a dispute with a decorated sergeant major, finding that he ex boyfriend guru abandoned the post office for military service. After a grueling debate, lawmakers voted to legalize the practice in exceptional cases where doctors deem the woman’s life to be at risk from her pregnancy.
Kilian Eng's Object 10 is a collection of beautiful images at once contemporary, nostalgic, and looking towards
the future in equal measure. West Ham confident of securing winger from Mexican club Morelia, while Jed Steer is set to leave Norwich for Aston VillaJefferson Montero West Ham UnitedWest Ham are close to signing Jefferson Montero by triggering the Ecuadorian's £3m release clause at his Mexican club, Morelia.Roberto
MartÃÂnez, the Everton manager, is also interested in Montero, who reportedly came close to signing for Wigan Athletic in January when the Spaniard was in charge. But it is understood that West Ham are confident of securing the services of the 23-year-old winger, who has played for save my marriage today times.René
Meulensteen Man UnitedDavid Moyes has dispensed with René Meulensteen as first-team coach, the Dutchman becoming the last of Sir Alex Ferguson's senior backroom staff to depart the club. Meulensteen follows the assistant manager Mike Phelan, the goalkeeping coach Eric Steele, and the chief scout
Martin Ferguson out of Manchester United. Meulensteen turned down the chance to take up an alternative role.Jed Steer Aston VillaAston Villa's manager, Paul Lambert, has said the Norwich City goalkeeper Jed Steer will become his sixth summer acquisition on 1 July.Lambert
has been busy in the transfer market, bringing
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in the defenders Jores Okore and Antonio Luna, midfielders Leandro Bacuna and Aleksandar Tonev, and the Danish striker Nicklas Helenius.The 20-year-old Steer will complete the move once his deal at Carrow Road expires.
The former England Under-19 international will provide competition for Brad Guzan and Benji Siegrist.guardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and ex2 system or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.
| Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Devotees of Josef Stalin flocked to the Kremlin to praise him for making his country a world power Tuesday, while experts and politicians puzzled and despaired over his enduring popularity. Sergei Bobrovksy shook off a slap shot to his mask and withstood two late
goals, and Mark Letestu had a goal and an assist as the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the struggling Nashville Predators 4-3 on Tuesday night to extend their franchise-record point
streak to 11 games. Celebrating the fab in prefab, ’50s style. The United States continues to work closely with Portugal to find ways to expand and deepen two-way trade and investment to better reflect historically strong political, geostrategic and security ties between the
two countries.
Portugal’s continued drive to modernize and guy gets girl economy will offer possibilities for growth in U.S.
trade and investment over the medium and long term. Demand for high-quality, price-competitive U.S.
products in Portugal is strong, and privatization of several large government-owned companies will provide additional opportunities for investment.With the intent to encourage investment and bilateral trade between the United States and Portugal, with particular focus in the Azores, U.S.
Ambassador to Portugal Allan J.
Katz led a Business Development Road Show. The MIT Portugal Program participated as a partner in this six-day event (April 28-May 3, 2013) bringing 24 Portuguese companies and institutions to Boston, Mass., and Kansas City, Miss.While
in Boston on May 1, the ambassador and the companies visited the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), the largest flexible office facility for growing technology and life sciences companies in the Greater Boston area.
More than 450 companies are currently located at the CIC. This text the romance back by a meeting with the Mass Technology Leadership Council and the Mass High Technology Council. The Mass Technology Leadership Council is the region’s leading technology association and the premier network for tech executives, entrepreneurs, investors and policy leaders. The Mass High Technology Council is an advocate for competitive public policies and practices to sustain Massachusetts as a globally preeminent economy in which to live and work, and to create,
operate and expand high tech businesses.Visitors
toured the MIT Media Lab, an
interdisciplinary research laboratory. MIT Media Lab staff and students have backgrounds ranging from electrical engineering and computer science to sociology and music and others.
Recently, the Media Lab has focused particularly
on design and technologies that address social causes.Later, MIT Portugal Program Director Professor Dava Newman welcomed the ambassador and the companies. The convoy had lunch with MIT Portugal Program staff and students, including those the jump manual the eTeams III.
The eTeams III is a 2-week intense “contact-sport†curriculum designed for non-U.S.
start-up companies to be exposed to, make lasting links within and gain practical entrepreneurial skills useful for the start-up culture of the MIT/Kendall Square ecosystem. This program exemplifies how the MIT Portugal Program harnesses the Institute’s ever-present entrepreneurial and innovative spirit.
The White House said on Thursday that U.S.
intelligence agencies now assess, with “varying degrees of confidence,†that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. A solitary goal by Egemen
Korkmaz guided Fenerbahce to a
narrow victory in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final against Benfica in Istanbul.Korkmaz's goal 18 minutes from time was scant reward for the Turkish side, who could have taken a more commanding lead to Portugal after Cristian Baroni hit a first-half penalty against a post and Moussa Sow and Dirk Kuyt also rattled the simple golf swing of the goal."Normally we are a team that delivers when we find opportunities, but tonight we couldn't do that," Benfica's coach Jorge Jesus said. "But the result is not too bad, we will remain hopeful
until the last minute of the second leg. We will be much better in Lisbon."Roared on by a raucous crowd, Fenerbahce played at a high tempo from the start as Benfica struggled to settle. Sow, who will miss the second leg after being shown a yellow card, soon struck the crossbar and Fenerbahce maintained the pressure. When Ola John clipped the trailing leg of Gokhan Gonul just before half-time Fenerbahce were awarded a penalty, but Cristian failed to convert it.When
Dirk Kuyt also hit a post in the second half it looked like being a frustrating night for the home side but Korkmaz raised the roof when he finally broke the tinnitus miracle system a poor defensive header.Benfica's best chance came when Nicolás Gaitán curled a shot against the outside of a post but Fenerbahce held on for the victory despite some anxious moments.Fenerbahce will also go into the second leg without the striker Webo, stupidly booked for kicking the
ball away, and the midfielder Mehmet Topal, who was cautioned. But their coach, Aykut Kocaman, said his team would fight "until the last drop of their blood".He added: "It will be a very difficult game for us there, but we definitely have acquired the 51%
chance of reaching the final."His goalkeeper Volkan Demirel was more convincing.
"We will win the cup," he told the NTV channel after the game.Europa LeagueFenerbahçeBenficaguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.
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The Justice Department investigates claims of bribery at The Wall Street Journal, Barry Diller’s Aereo could change the game in television, and the case of Matthew Keys highlights problems with hacking laws. A battle for a stretch of northern road that government forces still risk using pits a conventional arsenal against fighters armed with faith as much as weapons.The
revival of Tennessee Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,†starring Scarlett
Johansson, may still recoup its capitalization on Broadway. National agency says number of users has dropped below 300,000, and drug treatment has prevented 5m crimesThe number of heroin and crack cocaine users in England has fallen below 300,000 for the first time, according to the new figures published by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA).The decline in the use of the most Panic away comes as the NTA claims that its drug treatment programme, which reaches 63% of heroin and crack cocaine users, has prevented an estimated 5m drug-related crimes a year, such as burglary, shoplifting and robbery.The treatment agency, which is to be merged into the NHS's Public Health England next month, has also warned that this progress could slip backwards as drug treatment will face heavy competition for health money from other pressing issues such as alcohol abuse.The
new estimates show that the number of heroin and crack users in England has fallen from a peak of 332,090 in 2005-06 to 298,752 in 2010-11, with numbers injecting drugs also down from 129,977 to 93,401 over the same period.The decline confirms that the status and popularity of heroin is clearly waning and is echoed by sharp Vision without glasses in estimates of users under 25, down 5,000 to 41,508, and those in the 25-to-35 age group, down 8,000 to 113,466.Drug
treatment in England grew rapidly after 2001, when only 100,000 were in treatment,
to become the largest in western Europe with 210,000 in treatment by 2008-09 as the government expanded funding as a major anti-crime measure.The
recent reduction in the number of heroin and crack cocaine users has been mirrored by a fall in the numbers entering a new treatment programme from 64,288 in 2006-06 to 47,210. In all just under 165,000 people were in a treatment programme for heroin and/or crack in 2011-12 – about 63% of estimated users, which compares with 37% in the Netherlands.The
NTA says the treatment system has "helped to shrink the pool of heroin and crack FAP Turbo review getting increasing numbers into treatment and effectively taking them off the streets and breaking their habits of entrenched drug use. It acknowledges that the decline in heroin use has been faster in areas where the heroin epidemics first took hold, such London and the north-west, but slower in north-east England.But the agency also warns that one effect is that the
average age of those in treatment is getting older, with over-40s now making up almost a third of the entire population of heroin and crack users in treatment."It will become
increasingly challenging to help these people get better, which in turn will make it more difficult to maintain the trend we have seen in recent years of rising numbers of people successfully leaving the treatment system," said the NTA.
The figure for heroin H Miracle have successfully completed their treatment and not since returned has gone up from 2,637 in 2005-06 to 13,589 in 2011-12.Paul
Hayes, the departing NTA chief executive, said the investment in drug treatment, which has continued under the coalition government, had paid off.But
he warned that funding had to be maintained if this progress was to be
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consolidated when local authorities take over responsibility for commissioning drug treatment services next month and the NTA is merged into Public Health England.Hayes
said he feared drug treatment would find it more difficult to survive in competition for funding with the "big killers" of alcohol, tobacco and obesity: "In strict health terms you can't justify spending three times more
money on drugs as you do on alcohol," said Hayes, adding that the wider impact on crime and Fit Yummy Mummy remain as important as ever.DrugsDrugs
policyAlan Travisguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds The average rate on
30-year fixed mortgages slipped to 4.87 percent from 4.95 percent this week, according
to Freddie Mac. Federal officials are investigating allegations that business partners of Microsoft, one of the world’s richest companies, bribed foreign officials to help enhance sales of the company’s software, according to people familiar with the probe. Read full
article >> Raila Odinga, the second-place finisher in Kenya’s presidential race this month, filed a sweeping petition before Kenya’s Supreme Court on Saturday contending “glaring anomalies†in the vote and calling for a new election. Our blog to accompany the 2013 Total Wellness Cleanse Science Writing Prize asks top science writers about their craft.
Today we speak to Roger Highfield, author, former editor of New Scientist and former science editor of the Daily TelegraphWhat makes a good science story?There's no one-size-fits-all rule, since stories come in many flavours, shapes, colours and sizes. There are Eureka moments, disasters, personal battles, amazing discoveries, baffling mysteries, power struggles, quirky findings, weird insights, you name it.
Here's one way you can tell: if you find yourself excitedly recounting a story to a friend who cares not one jot for science, and they don't reach for their beer in despair, or start twiddling with their mobile phone, you're in business.What do you need to know to write well about science?Whatever the subject, angle, tone, length or style, your story has to tickle Fat Loss 4 Idiots of your readers and maintain their interest to the very last word.
The aim is not to impress a professor with
your knowledge, amaze your mum or to get something off your chest. Think hard about
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your intended audience. They may be ignorant but they are rarely stupid.
They have all kinds of interests and preoccupations and, when it comes to getting their attention, these are the best places to start. Remember that they always have better things to do with their time. If you don't grab them with your first sentence, you might as well give up.How
do you choose your opening line?Make sure that it hooks your intended victim from the very first word. Don't forget that it has to mark the start of a linear, logical narrative that cuts a Visual Impact Muscle Building through what is often a very tangled and complex reality. You need to have figured out the best angle before you write that first line and, as a result, it is the hardest line you're going to write.How
do you get the best out of an interviewee?Just remember who you are there to represent: the reader. You are
not trying to impress, but to ask questions that are calculated to make your interviewee explain a story in a way that informs your reader, that adds colour, and provides the ammunition you need to amuse and entertain them too, not just with words but graphics, boxes, timelines and images. Above all else, it has to connect with your readers. That's why, at a medical conference, one of the IVF pioneers was asked by a Muscle Gaining Secrets the Sun: "What did it feel like to fertilise the eggs of your patients with your own sperm and watch the death of your offspring
under the microscope?"How do you use metaphors and analogies in a story?Metaphors can help create the illusion of understanding
but try not to make them contrived and remember that they quickly break down. Never mix 'em.What do you leave out of your stories?Anything that draws the reader's attention away from the central point you are trying to make along with jargon, pomposity, obscure references, muddled ideas, tangled narratives, lazy adjectives, Latin and convoluted sentences.How do you stay objective and balanced as a writer? Should you?Despite much pontificating about journalists who write "the truth", the reality is that only one person knows the Truth and He/She does not exist. Grow Taller 4 Idiots you can do is aim for the truth. Attempt to present the few facts you have uncovered and be as honest and fair as possible in describing your hazy, parochial glimpse of the truth. There are often many sides to a story, so cover them too.What's the biggest potential pitfall when writing about science?Ensuring that it is interesting, clear and simple enough to grip a general reader yet accurate enough to satisfy a Nobel prizewinner.•
Roger Highfield is director of external affairs at the Science Museum in London.• Read some Roger Highfield – we like Sir Paul Nurse: Geneticist inherits a mystery and Stephen Hawking: driven by a cosmic force of will, both published in the Telegraph.•
Find out more about how to enter the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, in association with Fibroids Miracle and
Observer, on the Wellcome Trust
website – the closing date is 28 April 2013.Science writing prizeScience and natureAwards and prizesDaily TelegraphNewspapers & magazinesNational newspapersNewspapersguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.
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Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Traditional fairytale gets a modern, beautifully-crafted update for iPhone and iPadWhy are we encouraging kids to waste their time on apps? They should be reading books!Arguments on these lines often crop up in the comments section when I write about children's apps for The Guardian. The concern being that digital fun is cannibalising real-world learning and physical play.It's
tempting to brush these suggestions aside: these two worlds are not mutually exclusive, and in many cases, app usage may be eating Ovarian Cyst Miracle TV viewing rather than active pursuits.Yet when it comes to reading, there's an important debate to be had about book-apps and interactive storytelling, and the extent to which animation and interactivity is a support for children's literacy development, rather than a distraction."Never mind the text, here's
the whizzy physics engine" may not be the best model to follow, and concerns about
exactly this issue are the reason why there aren't any Gruffalo apps, for example.Yet it's also true that the best children's book-apps can help children develop not just the mechanics of reading, but reading comprehension too: following and understanding a story and empathising with its characters for example.Which
is a slightly long-winded introduction to my suggestion that British publisher Nosy Crow's new app Little Red Riding Hood is one of the best Melt Your Man's Heart of how to do it right, and one that may win over many of those doubters.It's a retelling of the familiar fairy tale, with beautifully-crafted scenes and characters, and careful use of interactivity and even non-linear storytelling to encourage early reading skills, rather than hamper them.The
tale is told over
a series of scenes, which in Read and Play mode see the text displayed on-screen, with words highlighted in red as they're read out loud. The voice narration comes from child actors rather than adults.This has become a signature feature for Nosy Crow, with the company believing that children's attention is held more by other children's voices.
Judging by an (admittedly-limited) focus group of my two sons, they're onto something.Interactivity
takes two forms.
Some scenes ask children to perform an activity – packing Bring The Fresh review with food through drag'n'drop gestures is the first example.Other
scenes in Little Red Riding Hood's forest walk present her with a fork in the road, with each choice uncovering a different item for the heroine: feathers, dandelions, bees and so on. Sometimes a light mini-game is involved, such as the musical monkey who asks you to copy his tunes to win his whistle, or the spider who you help out of a web-shaped maze.The
twist is that the specific items collected each time are used to beat the Big Bad Wolf at the end of the story: tickle him with the feathers or blowing dandelion seeds in his eyes for example.
Each time a child uses the app, they can choose different items as they play/read.Each mini-game or activity thus ties closely into
Socrates Theme encouraging children to read through to the ending
rather than waylaying them en route.They also make good use of the device's features, from tilting it to guide the spider through to use of the front-facing camera so your child can see their own face reflected in a pond. Simple, but genuinely thrilling for the average child.In short, Little Red Riding Hood is rather marvellous: a children's book-app that impresses with its technical chops, but more importantly with its firm focus on storytelling and reading skills.It
shows there is substance, not just hype, around what apps can bring to children, and like Nosy Crow's previous Three Little Pigs and Cinderella apps, shows how new technology can make a fine foil for familiar fairytales.For now, Little Red Riding Hood is iOS-only, costing £2.99 as a Blogging To The Bank for iPhone and iPad.Nosy
Crow has been building up its Android resources, so hopefully the app
will make its way to Google-powered devices sooner rather than later.Rating: 5/5AppsiPhoneiPadFairytalesPublishingChildren and teenagersStuart Dredgeguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Illuminating a task takes beauty and smarts.
So says the architect Daniel Libeskind, who is shrinking his projects.
Barely 48 hours after seeing his sizable legacy compromised by a report he tested positive for steroids, Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez makes a full and at times emotional confession.
British officials were too focused on containing the financial crisis to analyze information connected to potential interest-rate manipulation, an audit by the Financial Services Authority Lotto Master Formula Tuesday. Labour leader mocks chancellor in opposition response to budget claiming Britons are worse off after string of broken political promises and missed fiscal targetsEd Miliband condemned George Osborne on Wednesday as a "downgraded chancellor", saying the country is now "worse off" than when the coalition was formed nearly three years ago.After
the chancellor admitted that growth forecasts have been adjusted downwards and that the nation's borrowing has increased, Miliband seized on the latest Office of Budget Responsibility figures, saying they showed "real" household incomes
had fallen for three years.He
mocked Osborne in his Commons response to the budget, on the same day that Osborne launched his official Twitter account. "All he has to offer is just more of the same budget.
Today, the chancellor joined Twitter. He could have got it all Magic Article Rewriter characters: growth down, borrowing up, families hit, and millionaires laughing all the way to the bank. #downgraded chancellor," he said.Drawing on research by the House of Commons Library, the opposition claimed that a family with a single income of £20,000 a year would be £600 worse off by 2015 than they were in 2010, even taking account of other measures such as the rise in the income tax threshold."It's
official: Britain is worse off under the Tories," added Miliband.Labour
sought to highlight the coalition's struggle to revive the economy and a second issue now likely to define the next general election: living standards.After
accusing the chancellor of a string of broken promises on improvements to the national debt, deficit and economic growth, Miliband added: "Who is paying the price for the chancellor's failure? Auto Mass Traffic download In his first budget he predicted that living standards would rise over the parliament.
But wages are flat. Prices are rising. And Britain's families are squeezed."Labour's
claim that the
government's austerity programme is to blame for the sustained low growth was the other theme of Miliband's often theatrical speech, which had Labour MPs chanting along with him.He
repeated a trick from prime minister's questions by demanding that David Cameron and other cabinet members admit whether they would benefit from a cut in
the top rate of income tax from 50p to 45p for people earning more than £150,000 a year, which comes into force at the start of April."This is the chancellor's fourth budget," he began. "Every budget he comes to this house and things are worse, not better, for this country. And Video Traffic Academy offers is more of the same: a more-of-the-same budget from a downgraded chancellor," said Miliband, referring to the decision by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's to cut Britain by one notch from the top AAA rating in February."Under
this government the bad news just doesn't stop," added Miliband, ridiculing Cameron's promise last year that "the good news will keep coming".Miliband also highlighted the failures of previous government attempts to revive the house-building and buying markets, including last year's pledge that the right-to-buy scheme would help 100,000 people. A year later, only 1,500 have participated in the scheme."That's
98,500 broken promises," he added.
"For all the launches, strategies and plans, housing completions are now
at the lowest level since the 1920s."Ed MilibandLabourGeorge OsborneBudget 2013BudgetEconomic growth (GDP)EconomicsTwitterInternetBloggingOffice for
Budget ResponsibilityEconomic policyGovernment borrowingBudget deficitJuliette Social Monkee 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds The nation’s crowded transportation system is already feeling the effect of billions of dollars in automatic federal budget cuts, with long waits at some international airports and signs that cargo may begin stacking up on seaport docks because inspectors are working fewer hours. Read full article >> Queen Elizabeth II returned home Monday after receiving treatment for a stomach infection that prompted a brief and rare hospitalization for the 86-year-old monarch.
The recent hack of the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is one more example of the need for
a stronger U.S. cyber security strategy. President Barack Obama pressed for such an initiative in meetings Wednesday Commission Killer with corporate leaders, Bloomberg News reports. The president wants more cooperation between government and private industry to fend off cyber attacks. Nick Stuban was all about football, a quick-footed linebacker at W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax County who did well in the classroom, too: four As, two Bs and a C for first quarter. His history teacher described the 15-year-old as a "model student," and his German teacher was impressed by hi... The first championship game in the College Football Playoff will be held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Tex., which edged Tampa, Fla., in the bidding.
MIT professor Stephen J. Lippard, who is widely acknowledged as one of the founders of the field of bioinorganic chemistry, has been named recipient of the 2014 Priestley Medal, the highest honor conferred by the get him back forever Society (ACS).According to ACS, Lippard is being recognized “for mentoring legions of scientists in the course of furthering the basic science of inorganic chemistry and paving the way for improvements in human health.†“It’s an honor
to join the very distinguished list of Priestley Medal recipients,†Lippard said in an interview with Chemical & Engineering News. “It also makes me very proud of my postdocs, graduate students, and collaborators, without whose work none of this would have happened.
‘Professor’ stands for ‘professional student.’ The best part about being a professor is that you’re constantly learning from the students in your classes as well as from your lab members.â€ÂThe annual Priestley Medal is intended to recognize distinguished service and commemorate lifetime achievement in chemistry.Lippard,
the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry, has spent his yeast infection no more the role of inorganic molecules, especially metal ions and their complexes, in critical processes of biological systems.
He has made pioneering contributions in understanding the mechanism of the cancer drug cisplatin and in designing new variants to combat drug resistance and side effects.His research achievements include the preparation of synthetic models for metalloproteins; structural and mechanistic studies of iron-containing bacterial monooxygenases including soluble methane monooxygenase; and the invention of probes to elucidate the roles of mobile zinc and nitric oxide in biological signaling and disease.
Many of the students Lippard has mentored  including more than 110 PhD students, 150 postdocs and hundreds of undergraduates  have gone on to become prominent scientists and teachers.
Robert Langer, Institute Professor at MIT and the 2012 Priestly Award recipient, says, “I'm delighted to see Steve sold out after crisis Priestly Medal.
He richly deserves it for all the excellent research he has done and
for being such a wonderful mentor and collaborator.â€ÂMIT
colleague JoAnne Stubbe, the Novartis Professor of Chemistry and a professor of biology, says, “He [Lippard] is an inspiration to us all as a scientist and mentor. I stand in awe at his continual ability to identify and move into exciting new fields, and bring a new perspective and change thinking in the field. There is no university/college untouched by a Lippard trainee.
We are all very proud.â€ÂFellow inorganic chemist and MIT colleague Christopher Cummins, a professor of chemistry, says, “Steve has attracted so many talented individuals to study with him because he selects important research problems and works to solve them with creativity, boundless energy, optimism, and contagious enthusiasm.†lottery cash software Cummins adds, “has pushed back the frontiers of the basic science known as inorganic chemistry, even as it has paved the way for improvements in human health and the conquering of disease.
Steve is an educator and a role model
par excellence!" The bride is an industrial designer; the groom, a cost and construction manager. To overcome this, the MIT-led team created a calcium-imaging system that can be targeted to specific cell types, using
a type of green fluorescent protein (GFP). Junichi Nakai of Saitama University in Japan first developed a GFP that is activated when it binds to calcium, and one of the Neuron paper authors, Loren Looger of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, modified the protein so its signal is strong enough to use in living animals.The MIT researchers then genetically The Secret of deliberate creation to express this protein in a type of neuron known as pyramidal cells, by pairing the gene with a regulatory DNA sequence that is only active in those cells. Using two-photon microscopy to image the cells at high speed and high resolution, the researchers can identify pyramidal cells that are active when the brain is performing a specific task or responding to a certain stimulus.
In this study, the team was able to pinpoint cells
in the somatosensory cortex that are activated when a mouse’s whiskers are touched, and olfactory cells that respond to certain aromas.This
system could be used to study brain activity during many types of behavior, including long-term phenomena such as learning, says Matt Wachowiak, an associate professor of physiology at the University of Utah.
“These
mouse lines should be ex boyfriend guru to many different research groups who want to measure activity in different parts of the brain,†says Wachowiak, who was not involved in this research.The researchers are now developing mice that express the calcium-sensitive proteins and also exhibit symptoms of autistic behavior and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Using these mice, the researchers plan to look for neuron firing patterns that differ from those of normal mice. This could help identify exactly what goes wrong at the cellular level, offering mechanistic insights into those diseases. “Right now, we only know that defects in neuron-neuron communications play a key role in psychiatric disorders.
We do not know the exact nature of the defects and the specific cell types involved,†Feng says. “If we knew what cell types are abnormal, we could find ways to correct abnormal firing save my marriage today also
plan to combine their imaging technology with optogenetics, which enables them to use light to turn specific classes of neurons on or off.
By activating specific cells and then observing the response in target cells, they will be able to precisely map brain circuits.The research was funded by the Poitras Center for Affective Disorders Research, the National Institutes of Health and the McNair Foundation. Commercial real estate has long had a place in the portfolios of wealthy investors, who see it as a useful diversification away from more volatile assets like stocks or bonds.
Pavel Dmitrichenko, Bolshoi ballet dancer who confessed to ordering acid attack on Sergei Filin, was 'avenging girlfriend'They once danced on the same stage – two men united in a passion for ballet and bringing glory to Russia's most ex2 system Now, Pavel Dmitrichenko, a dancer at the Bolshoi ballet, has confessed to ordering an acid attack on its director, reportedly motivated by his desire to avenge his girlfriend.The scandal, unprecedented in its violence, has blackened the name of the Bolshoi theatre, an institution that inspired respect and awe around the world, even in the darkest days of the Soviet Union.Now it stands tarnished, another victim of the savage violence and score-settling that has seeped into so many other aspects of Russian life. Some likened the case to the Oscar-winning thriller Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman, in which two dancers vie bitterly for supremacy.Dmitrichenko confessed to his crime against Sergei Filin on Wednesday , one day after being arrested in a police sweep that encompassed a Bolshoi-owned dacha compound on the
outskirts of Moscow guy gets girl region of Tver, 100 miles away.In a police video released to state-run television, Dmitrichenko looked tired and unkempt, with deep circles under his eyes, appearing more like a frightened runaway than a dancer at a world-famous ballet."Yes, I organised this attack, but not to the extent that it occurred," he said. Filin was attacked with sulphuric acid while returning home on 17 January, scorching his face and neck, and leaving him fighting to save his eyesight.Police
statements and anonymous press reports about Dmitrichenko revealed a picture of a man with an unpredictable temper and a deep love for his girlfriend, the Bolshoi dancer Angelina Vorontsova.Until
2009, Vorontsova danced for Filin at Moscow's second ballet company, the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre.
She then transferred to the Bolshoi – and began dancing and studying under text the romance back a flamboyant
principal dancer who would go on to become Filin's nemesis. When Filin joined the Bolshoi as director in 2011, he reportedly felt betrayed when Vorontsova remained a student of Tsiskaridze.According to press reports, Dmitrichenko believed that was why Vorontsova was consistently passed up for roles, including her dream role – the lead in
Swan Lake – as recently as December.The
Bolshoi leadership declined to comment on the arrest of one of its most senior dancers.Mikhail Lavrovsky, a choreographer and ballet teacher, was among several who said they did not believe that, despite his infamous hot temper, Dmitrichenko could organise the attack."Dmitrichenko is a normal person," Lavrovsky, 71, told Izvestiya newspaper. "I don't think he could have done this.
He wasn't deprived of anything.""This never happened in my day," he said.
"You'd the jump manual other in the face
in the dressing room and that was that."As soon as he was able to speak after the attack, Filin said he was sure he knew who ordered the attack against him, although he always refused to publicly name names.
He said he was certain it was linked to his work at the theatre.His
lawyer, Tatyana Stukalova, told Interfax
news agency on Wednesday: "My client is grateful to all law-enforcement agents who took part in uncovering this crime."He knew about
the arrests from the press.
I can't say he was very surprised when he heard about who was suspected."As they uncovered the plot this week, police released the smallest details of the attack, a rare insight into the violence that has long plagued Russia's business, political and human rights worlds.According the simple golf swing Dmitrichenko, motivated by "personal hostile relations linked to [his and Filin's] professional activities", engaged a man named Yury Zarutsky to attack the ballet director.Zarutsky then bought sulphuric acid from a local car repair workshop, waiting until
its water evaporated in order to increase its concentration, a police source told Interfax.Sources said that Dmitrichenko was intimately involved in organising the attack."On the day of
the crime, it was clearly established when the victim would leave the Bolshoi theatre," a source told Interfax.
"The organiser said Filin was heading home, where the attacker was waiting for him."As Filin approached his door, the attacker called his name. When Filin turned around, acid seared his eyes. CCTV footage showed him
falling to the ground, attempting to wash his eyes out with snow.Andrei
Lipatov, who confessed to acting tinnitus miracle system getaway driver, said on the police video: "Yes, I was there at the time.
I drove someone. I didn't see how it happened. I just drove him, waited and drove him away.
I was asked to do it, without explanation."The three men are expected to be charged on Thursday.
They face up to 12 years in prison if convicted.Dmitrichenko
was due to dance the role of Bluebird in Sleeping Beauty on 16 March.
The Bolshoi said they were urgently seeking a replacement.His
girlfriend, Vorontsova, was due to dance in George Balanchine's Jewels on Wednesday evening.RussiaBolshoiDanceBalletEuropeMiriam
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All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Mr. Bush could be setting up a G.O.P. showdown with a protégé, Marco Rubio, and another Bush vs. Clinton presidential
revival of Tennessee Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,†starring Scarlett
Johansson, may still recoup its capitalization on Broadway. National agency says number of users has dropped below 300,000, and drug treatment has prevented 5m crimesThe number of heroin and crack cocaine users in England has fallen below 300,000 for the first time, according to the new figures published by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA).The decline in the use of the most Panic away comes as the NTA claims that its drug treatment programme, which reaches 63% of heroin and crack cocaine users, has prevented an estimated 5m drug-related crimes a year, such as burglary, shoplifting and robbery.The treatment agency, which is to be merged into the NHS's Public Health England next month, has also warned that this progress could slip backwards as drug treatment will face heavy competition for health money from other pressing issues such as alcohol abuse.The
new estimates show that the number of heroin and crack users in England has fallen from a peak of 332,090 in 2005-06 to 298,752 in 2010-11, with numbers injecting drugs also down from 129,977 to 93,401 over the same period.The decline confirms that the status and popularity of heroin is clearly waning and is echoed by sharp Vision without glasses in estimates of users under 25, down 5,000 to 41,508, and those in the 25-to-35 age group, down 8,000 to 113,466.Drug
treatment in England grew rapidly after 2001, when only 100,000 were in treatment,
to become the largest in western Europe with 210,000 in treatment by 2008-09 as the government expanded funding as a major anti-crime measure.The
recent reduction in the number of heroin and crack cocaine users has been mirrored by a fall in the numbers entering a new treatment programme from 64,288 in 2006-06 to 47,210. In all just under 165,000 people were in a treatment programme for heroin and/or crack in 2011-12 – about 63% of estimated users, which compares with 37% in the Netherlands.The
NTA says the treatment system has "helped to shrink the pool of heroin and crack FAP Turbo review getting increasing numbers into treatment and effectively taking them off the streets and breaking their habits of entrenched drug use. It acknowledges that the decline in heroin use has been faster in areas where the heroin epidemics first took hold, such London and the north-west, but slower in north-east England.But the agency also warns that one effect is that the
average age of those in treatment is getting older, with over-40s now making up almost a third of the entire population of heroin and crack users in treatment."It will become
increasingly challenging to help these people get better, which in turn will make it more difficult to maintain the trend we have seen in recent years of rising numbers of people successfully leaving the treatment system," said the NTA.
The figure for heroin H Miracle have successfully completed their treatment and not since returned has gone up from 2,637 in 2005-06 to 13,589 in 2011-12.Paul
Hayes, the departing NTA chief executive, said the investment in drug treatment, which has continued under the coalition government, had paid off.But
he warned that funding had to be maintained if this progress was to be
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consolidated when local authorities take over responsibility for commissioning drug treatment services next month and the NTA is merged into Public Health England.Hayes
said he feared drug treatment would find it more difficult to survive in competition for funding with the "big killers" of alcohol, tobacco and obesity: "In strict health terms you can't justify spending three times more
money on drugs as you do on alcohol," said Hayes, adding that the wider impact on crime and Fit Yummy Mummy remain as important as ever.DrugsDrugs
policyAlan Travisguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds The average rate on
30-year fixed mortgages slipped to 4.87 percent from 4.95 percent this week, according
to Freddie Mac. Federal officials are investigating allegations that business partners of Microsoft, one of the world’s richest companies, bribed foreign officials to help enhance sales of the company’s software, according to people familiar with the probe. Read full
article >> Raila Odinga, the second-place finisher in Kenya’s presidential race this month, filed a sweeping petition before Kenya’s Supreme Court on Saturday contending “glaring anomalies†in the vote and calling for a new election. Our blog to accompany the 2013 Total Wellness Cleanse Science Writing Prize asks top science writers about their craft.
Today we speak to Roger Highfield, author, former editor of New Scientist and former science editor of the Daily TelegraphWhat makes a good science story?There's no one-size-fits-all rule, since stories come in many flavours, shapes, colours and sizes. There are Eureka moments, disasters, personal battles, amazing discoveries, baffling mysteries, power struggles, quirky findings, weird insights, you name it.
Here's one way you can tell: if you find yourself excitedly recounting a story to a friend who cares not one jot for science, and they don't reach for their beer in despair, or start twiddling with their mobile phone, you're in business.What do you need to know to write well about science?Whatever the subject, angle, tone, length or style, your story has to tickle Fat Loss 4 Idiots of your readers and maintain their interest to the very last word.
The aim is not to impress a professor with
your knowledge, amaze your mum or to get something off your chest. Think hard about
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your intended audience. They may be ignorant but they are rarely stupid.
They have all kinds of interests and preoccupations and, when it comes to getting their attention, these are the best places to start. Remember that they always have better things to do with their time. If you don't grab them with your first sentence, you might as well give up.How
do you choose your opening line?Make sure that it hooks your intended victim from the very first word. Don't forget that it has to mark the start of a linear, logical narrative that cuts a Visual Impact Muscle Building through what is often a very tangled and complex reality. You need to have figured out the best angle before you write that first line and, as a result, it is the hardest line you're going to write.How
do you get the best out of an interviewee?Just remember who you are there to represent: the reader. You are
not trying to impress, but to ask questions that are calculated to make your interviewee explain a story in a way that informs your reader, that adds colour, and provides the ammunition you need to amuse and entertain them too, not just with words but graphics, boxes, timelines and images. Above all else, it has to connect with your readers. That's why, at a medical conference, one of the IVF pioneers was asked by a Muscle Gaining Secrets the Sun: "What did it feel like to fertilise the eggs of your patients with your own sperm and watch the death of your offspring
under the microscope?"How do you use metaphors and analogies in a story?Metaphors can help create the illusion of understanding
but try not to make them contrived and remember that they quickly break down. Never mix 'em.What do you leave out of your stories?Anything that draws the reader's attention away from the central point you are trying to make along with jargon, pomposity, obscure references, muddled ideas, tangled narratives, lazy adjectives, Latin and convoluted sentences.How do you stay objective and balanced as a writer? Should you?Despite much pontificating about journalists who write "the truth", the reality is that only one person knows the Truth and He/She does not exist. Grow Taller 4 Idiots you can do is aim for the truth. Attempt to present the few facts you have uncovered and be as honest and fair as possible in describing your hazy, parochial glimpse of the truth. There are often many sides to a story, so cover them too.What's the biggest potential pitfall when writing about science?Ensuring that it is interesting, clear and simple enough to grip a general reader yet accurate enough to satisfy a Nobel prizewinner.•
Roger Highfield is director of external affairs at the Science Museum in London.• Read some Roger Highfield – we like Sir Paul Nurse: Geneticist inherits a mystery and Stephen Hawking: driven by a cosmic force of will, both published in the Telegraph.•
Find out more about how to enter the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, in association with Fibroids Miracle and
Observer, on the Wellcome Trust
website – the closing date is 28 April 2013.Science writing prizeScience and natureAwards and prizesDaily TelegraphNewspapers & magazinesNational newspapersNewspapersguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.
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Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Traditional fairytale gets a modern, beautifully-crafted update for iPhone and iPadWhy are we encouraging kids to waste their time on apps? They should be reading books!Arguments on these lines often crop up in the comments section when I write about children's apps for The Guardian. The concern being that digital fun is cannibalising real-world learning and physical play.It's
tempting to brush these suggestions aside: these two worlds are not mutually exclusive, and in many cases, app usage may be eating Ovarian Cyst Miracle TV viewing rather than active pursuits.Yet when it comes to reading, there's an important debate to be had about book-apps and interactive storytelling, and the extent to which animation and interactivity is a support for children's literacy development, rather than a distraction."Never mind the text, here's
the whizzy physics engine" may not be the best model to follow, and concerns about
exactly this issue are the reason why there aren't any Gruffalo apps, for example.Yet it's also true that the best children's book-apps can help children develop not just the mechanics of reading, but reading comprehension too: following and understanding a story and empathising with its characters for example.Which
is a slightly long-winded introduction to my suggestion that British publisher Nosy Crow's new app Little Red Riding Hood is one of the best Melt Your Man's Heart of how to do it right, and one that may win over many of those doubters.It's a retelling of the familiar fairy tale, with beautifully-crafted scenes and characters, and careful use of interactivity and even non-linear storytelling to encourage early reading skills, rather than hamper them.The
tale is told over
a series of scenes, which in Read and Play mode see the text displayed on-screen, with words highlighted in red as they're read out loud. The voice narration comes from child actors rather than adults.This has become a signature feature for Nosy Crow, with the company believing that children's attention is held more by other children's voices.
Judging by an (admittedly-limited) focus group of my two sons, they're onto something.Interactivity
takes two forms.
Some scenes ask children to perform an activity – packing Bring The Fresh review with food through drag'n'drop gestures is the first example.Other
scenes in Little Red Riding Hood's forest walk present her with a fork in the road, with each choice uncovering a different item for the heroine: feathers, dandelions, bees and so on. Sometimes a light mini-game is involved, such as the musical monkey who asks you to copy his tunes to win his whistle, or the spider who you help out of a web-shaped maze.The
twist is that the specific items collected each time are used to beat the Big Bad Wolf at the end of the story: tickle him with the feathers or blowing dandelion seeds in his eyes for example.
Each time a child uses the app, they can choose different items as they play/read.Each mini-game or activity thus ties closely into
Socrates Theme encouraging children to read through to the ending
rather than waylaying them en route.They also make good use of the device's features, from tilting it to guide the spider through to use of the front-facing camera so your child can see their own face reflected in a pond. Simple, but genuinely thrilling for the average child.In short, Little Red Riding Hood is rather marvellous: a children's book-app that impresses with its technical chops, but more importantly with its firm focus on storytelling and reading skills.It
shows there is substance, not just hype, around what apps can bring to children, and like Nosy Crow's previous Three Little Pigs and Cinderella apps, shows how new technology can make a fine foil for familiar fairytales.For now, Little Red Riding Hood is iOS-only, costing £2.99 as a Blogging To The Bank for iPhone and iPad.Nosy
Crow has been building up its Android resources, so hopefully the app
will make its way to Google-powered devices sooner rather than later.Rating: 5/5AppsiPhoneiPadFairytalesPublishingChildren and teenagersStuart Dredgeguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
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British officials were too focused on containing the financial crisis to analyze information connected to potential interest-rate manipulation, an audit by the Financial Services Authority Lotto Master Formula Tuesday. Labour leader mocks chancellor in opposition response to budget claiming Britons are worse off after string of broken political promises and missed fiscal targetsEd Miliband condemned George Osborne on Wednesday as a "downgraded chancellor", saying the country is now "worse off" than when the coalition was formed nearly three years ago.After
the chancellor admitted that growth forecasts have been adjusted downwards and that the nation's borrowing has increased, Miliband seized on the latest Office of Budget Responsibility figures, saying they showed "real" household incomes
had fallen for three years.He
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Today, the chancellor joined Twitter. He could have got it all Magic Article Rewriter characters: growth down, borrowing up, families hit, and millionaires laughing all the way to the bank. #downgraded chancellor," he said.Drawing on research by the House of Commons Library, the opposition claimed that a family with a single income of £20,000 a year would be £600 worse off by 2015 than they were in 2010, even taking account of other measures such as the rise in the income tax threshold."It's
official: Britain is worse off under the Tories," added Miliband.Labour
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But wages are flat. Prices are rising. And Britain's families are squeezed."Labour's
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repeated a trick from prime minister's questions by demanding that David Cameron and other cabinet members admit whether they would benefit from a cut in
the top rate of income tax from 50p to 45p for people earning more than £150,000 a year, which comes into force at the start of April."This is the chancellor's fourth budget," he began. "Every budget he comes to this house and things are worse, not better, for this country. And Video Traffic Academy offers is more of the same: a more-of-the-same budget from a downgraded chancellor," said Miliband, referring to the decision by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's to cut Britain by one notch from the top AAA rating in February."Under
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MIT professor Stephen J. Lippard, who is widely acknowledged as one of the founders of the field of bioinorganic chemistry, has been named recipient of the 2014 Priestley Medal, the highest honor conferred by the get him back forever Society (ACS).According to ACS, Lippard is being recognized “for mentoring legions of scientists in the course of furthering the basic science of inorganic chemistry and paving the way for improvements in human health.†“It’s an honor
to join the very distinguished list of Priestley Medal recipients,†Lippard said in an interview with Chemical & Engineering News. “It also makes me very proud of my postdocs, graduate students, and collaborators, without whose work none of this would have happened.
‘Professor’ stands for ‘professional student.’ The best part about being a professor is that you’re constantly learning from the students in your classes as well as from your lab members.â€ÂThe annual Priestley Medal is intended to recognize distinguished service and commemorate lifetime achievement in chemistry.Lippard,
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Pavel Dmitrichenko, Bolshoi ballet dancer who confessed to ordering acid attack on Sergei Filin, was 'avenging girlfriend'They once danced on the same stage – two men united in a passion for ballet and bringing glory to Russia's most ex2 system Now, Pavel Dmitrichenko, a dancer at the Bolshoi ballet, has confessed to ordering an acid attack on its director, reportedly motivated by his desire to avenge his girlfriend.The scandal, unprecedented in its violence, has blackened the name of the Bolshoi theatre, an institution that inspired respect and awe around the world, even in the darkest days of the Soviet Union.Now it stands tarnished, another victim of the savage violence and score-settling that has seeped into so many other aspects of Russian life. Some likened the case to the Oscar-winning thriller Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman, in which two dancers vie bitterly for supremacy.Dmitrichenko confessed to his crime against Sergei Filin on Wednesday , one day after being arrested in a police sweep that encompassed a Bolshoi-owned dacha compound on the
outskirts of Moscow guy gets girl region of Tver, 100 miles away.In a police video released to state-run television, Dmitrichenko looked tired and unkempt, with deep circles under his eyes, appearing more like a frightened runaway than a dancer at a world-famous ballet."Yes, I organised this attack, but not to the extent that it occurred," he said. Filin was attacked with sulphuric acid while returning home on 17 January, scorching his face and neck, and leaving him fighting to save his eyesight.Police
statements and anonymous press reports about Dmitrichenko revealed a picture of a man with an unpredictable temper and a deep love for his girlfriend, the Bolshoi dancer Angelina Vorontsova.Until
2009, Vorontsova danced for Filin at Moscow's second ballet company, the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre.
She then transferred to the Bolshoi – and began dancing and studying under text the romance back a flamboyant
principal dancer who would go on to become Filin's nemesis. When Filin joined the Bolshoi as director in 2011, he reportedly felt betrayed when Vorontsova remained a student of Tsiskaridze.According to press reports, Dmitrichenko believed that was why Vorontsova was consistently passed up for roles, including her dream role – the lead in
Swan Lake – as recently as December.The
Bolshoi leadership declined to comment on the arrest of one of its most senior dancers.Mikhail Lavrovsky, a choreographer and ballet teacher, was among several who said they did not believe that, despite his infamous hot temper, Dmitrichenko could organise the attack."Dmitrichenko is a normal person," Lavrovsky, 71, told Izvestiya newspaper. "I don't think he could have done this.
He wasn't deprived of anything.""This never happened in my day," he said.
"You'd the jump manual other in the face
in the dressing room and that was that."As soon as he was able to speak after the attack, Filin said he was sure he knew who ordered the attack against him, although he always refused to publicly name names.
He said he was certain it was linked to his work at the theatre.His
lawyer, Tatyana Stukalova, told Interfax
news agency on Wednesday: "My client is grateful to all law-enforcement agents who took part in uncovering this crime."He knew about
the arrests from the press.
I can't say he was very surprised when he heard about who was suspected."As they uncovered the plot this week, police released the smallest details of the attack, a rare insight into the violence that has long plagued Russia's business, political and human rights worlds.According the simple golf swing Dmitrichenko, motivated by "personal hostile relations linked to [his and Filin's] professional activities", engaged a man named Yury Zarutsky to attack the ballet director.Zarutsky then bought sulphuric acid from a local car repair workshop, waiting until
its water evaporated in order to increase its concentration, a police source told Interfax.Sources said that Dmitrichenko was intimately involved in organising the attack."On the day of
the crime, it was clearly established when the victim would leave the Bolshoi theatre," a source told Interfax.
"The organiser said Filin was heading home, where the attacker was waiting for him."As Filin approached his door, the attacker called his name. When Filin turned around, acid seared his eyes. CCTV footage showed him
falling to the ground, attempting to wash his eyes out with snow.Andrei
Lipatov, who confessed to acting tinnitus miracle system getaway driver, said on the police video: "Yes, I was there at the time.
I drove someone. I didn't see how it happened. I just drove him, waited and drove him away.
I was asked to do it, without explanation."The three men are expected to be charged on Thursday.
They face up to 12 years in prison if convicted.Dmitrichenko
was due to dance the role of Bluebird in Sleeping Beauty on 16 March.
The Bolshoi said they were urgently seeking a replacement.His
girlfriend, Vorontsova, was due to dance in George Balanchine's Jewels on Wednesday evening.RussiaBolshoiDanceBalletEuropeMiriam
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