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George Floyd's death might not have caused global outrage if it hadn't been filmed. But do viral videos actually reduce police abuse?</div>
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"They killed this man, bro. He was crying, telling them 'I can't breathe.'"</div>
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For more than five minutes Darnella Frazier rambled on Facebook Live about the killing she had witnessed - repeating over and over again that she had video evidence.</div>
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A short time later on that night in late May, Frazier uploaded a video of the death of George Floyd - including the eight minutes and 46 seconds in which Derek Chauvin forced his knee onto his neck.</div>
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Had it not been for that video and other footage from bystanders, it's likely that Mr Floyd's death would never have sparked global outrage. But does that make viral videos, shot on the phone in your hand, an effective check on police abuse?</div>
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Why was this one different?</h2>
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Darnella Frazier's video was far from the first viral footage to document police brutality.</div>
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In 2016, <a class="story-body__link" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52896872" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Philando Castile died after being shot by police in his car</a>. Like the death of George Floyd, Mr Castile's death also happened in Minnesota - in Falcon Heights, just a short drive from Minneapolis. His girlfriend live-streamed the immediate aftermath on Facebook, including shots of Castile's lifeless body in the driver's seat.</div>
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The day before, Alton Sterling was killed by two police officers outside a convenience store in Louisiana. Video evidence filmed on a smartphone was posted online.</div>
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In 2014, footage captured events leading up to the deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Laquan McDonald in Chicago. In fact, many cite the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers, captured on videotape in 1991, as one of the first "viral" police abuse videos - long before the social media era.</div>
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None of those events, however, sparked quite the same level of global outrage as the footage of George Floyd.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1rem;">Experts put the impact of Floyd's death down to the length of the video, combined with the specific nature of its graphic content.</span></div>
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"While a gunshot is very quick, it is immediately traumatic and very easy for one to look away," says Allissa Richardson, author of Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism.</div>
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"This video transfixed people because of the callous nature of the killing coupled with the brazen nature of the police, who knew they were being filmed and still did it anyway," she says.</div>
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Online activism</h2>
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The <a class="story-body__link" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c48yrnxgd7rt/black-lives-matter" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Lives Matter movement</a> started in 2013, and the deaths of Mr Garner and of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked huge protests the following year.</div>
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But Ms Richardson says rather than ushering in a brand new form of activism, new technology is simply being deployed for a much older purpose.</div>
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She uses the term "black witnessing" to explain how African Americans have historically tried to record injustices, dating back to the era of slavery in pre-Civil War America, drawing inspiration from Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who led America's abolitionist movement. In his first autobiography, Douglass documented his experiences as a slave.</div>
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"When black people are picking up their cell phones, they're not just recording in the wrong place at the right time," she says. "They're attempting to connect, historically, dots between atrocities."</div>
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Others note the defensive nature of the mobile phone.</div>
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"For African Americans, every encounter with a law enforcement officer is potentially a life and death situation," says clinical psychologist Monnica Williams. "They film these interactions for their own protection."</div>
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Watching the police</h2>
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In the wake of George Floyd's killing, videos have also been used by activists to monitor the policing of protests, often in chaotic and confusing situations.</div>
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When David Frost pressed record on his phone's camera during a protest on 31 May, he thought the police had taken another life.</div>
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"I wanted as many people to see it [as possible]," he says. "I was six feet away ... when he got shot."</div>
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Mr Frost, a white man, started filming after 20-year-old Justin Howell, an African American, was shot in the head with a "less-lethal" bean bag munition in Austin, Texas. In the video, protesters were seen carrying the injured man towards police, in an attempt to get help. Then police opened fire again.</div>
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Mr Howell suffered life-changing injuries as a result, including brain damage and a fractured skull. Mr Frost's video was viewed over 10 million times on Twitter, and was widely covered by US media.</div>
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"It wasn't until we had gotten almost three million hits that the Austin Police Department even mentioned anything," he says.</div>
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After the incident went viral, Austin police announced they would no longer be using bean bag munition for crowd control.</div>
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Justin's brother, Josh Howell, told BBC Trending: "The quickness with which the video spread on social media really added to the whole response."</div>
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Police filming</h2>
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There is no single database counting the number of people killed by police in America each year, but data collected by the independent research group <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mapping Police Violence</a> has found that on average nearly 1,100 people have been killed by police since 2013.</div>
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While most are white, the dead are disproportionately African American: last year they made up 24% of the total despite being 13% of the American population.</div>
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Lawyers and activists say they are seeing more video evidence in cases involving police brutality.</div>
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There is a "huge increase," in the number of clients who are coming in with filmed evidence, says Tracey Brown, who heads the civil rights and police brutality group at the Cochran Firm in New York City.</div>
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That marks a change, she says, from the first wave of Black Lives Matter protests. Then, many activists pushed the idea of police body cams and dashcams mounted in police cars. But studies show they haven't led to a decrease in police shootings or an increase in accountability.</div>
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"In many municipalities the police officers don't get charged," Ms Brown says. She notes that in many places, it's impossible to obtain disciplinary records which contain, she says, "critical information when trying to bring charges against police officers".</div>
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And just because videos exist, it doesn't mean lawyers or the public are always able to see them.</div>
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"Police departments don't release videos until you're well into a criminal prosecution or a civil lawsuit," she says.</div>
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In one notable case, dashcam footage showing that Laquan McDonald was walking away from Chicago officers when he got shot <a class="story-body__link" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34935544" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">was kept under wraps</a> for over a year, until pressure by activists and journalists succeeded in getting it into the public domain. Officer Jason Van Dyke was eventually <a class="story-body__link" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46928035" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">convicted of second-degree murder</a>.</div>
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Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab, says neither police cameras nor bystander footage can really be an effective check on abuse.</div>
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"Our legal system gives so much flexibility to the police to use violence in the course of carrying out their duties," he says.</div>
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"Imagery may matter as far as getting people out into the streets, but it does not matter as far as preventing police from using violence in the first place."</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Face coverings will become </span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53397617" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">compulsory in shops and supermarkets in England</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> from 24 July and the police can issue £100 fines for those who don’t comply, the government announced today. Children under 11 and people with certain disabilities will be exempt. The government has been under growing pressure from scientific organisations, including the Royal Society and the recently formed Independent SAGE, to introduce legislation making face coverings mandatory in indoor spaces. </span><a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/q-a-on-covid-19-and-masks" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">World Health Organization guidelines</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> also support the use of face coverings in confined or crowded places where physical distancing isn’t possible. </span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More than 5 million workers in the US are </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/politics/coronavirus-health-insurance-trump.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">estimated to have lost their health insurance</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> this year due to the economic impact of the pandemic, according to a </span><a href="https://www.familiesusa.org/resources/covid-coverage-is-not-enough-the-american-people-need-comprehensive-health-insurance-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-and-resulting-economic-crash/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">report by Families USA</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, an advocacy group for healthcare consumers. This is the highest increase since the 2008 financial crisis when 3.9 million adults became uninsured, according to the report. </span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The coronavirus may be able to spread from a pregnant person to their fetus, suggests a case study published in </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17436-6" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nature Communications</i></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. Tests of placental samples from this case study are consistent with transmission in the womb, physician and study author Daniele DeLuca at the Antoine Béclère hospital in Paris told the </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/14/baby-boy-infected-with-coronavirus-in-womb" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Guardian</i></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. DeLuca said he suspects this isn’t the first such case, but this is the first time it has been confirmed that coronavirus was transmitted in the womb. The baby who tested positive for covid-19 developed brain inflammation a few days after birth, but he and his mother have both since recovered. The study builds on earlier, more preliminary evidence that the </span><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632823-400-what-the-latest-research-suggests-about-the-coronavirus-in-pregnancy/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">coronavirus can be spread via the placenta</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/humansofcovid.19/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Humans of COVID-19</a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is a project highlighting the experiences of key workers on the frontline in the fight against coronavirus in the UK, through social media.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81273378?s=a&trkid=13747225&t=more" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Coronavirus, Explained</i></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> on Netflix is a short documentary series examining the on-going coronavirus pandemic, the efforts to fight it and ways to manage its mental health toll.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rules-Contagion-Outbreaks-Infectious-Collection/dp/1788160193" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Rules of Contagion</i></a> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is about the new science of contagion and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour. The author, Adam Kucharski, is an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and in the book he examines how diseases spread and why they stop.</span></div>
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M. Irfan Zafarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634596219590700990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092065078012004545.post-17081292959269155082020-07-13T07:36:00.002-07:002020-07-13T07:36:59.191-07:00The wearable cyborgs that use brain waves to power up your muscles<div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">
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<span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">Kristen Sorensen was 55 when she became paralyzed from the neck down last year.</span></div>
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"It came out of nowhere," says Sorensen. "I'd been fine and exercising every day, but it just started with tingling in my fingertips then progressed."</div>
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Diagnosed in October 2018 with Guillain Barre syndrome, a rare disorder that affects the body's nervous system, she never expected to walk again.</div>
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But earlier that year, the Brooks Cybernic Treatment Center in Jacksonville, Florida, became the first US center to use a unique rehabilitative technology developed in Japan -- the Hybrid<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>Assistive Limb (HAL).</div>
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HAL -- essentially<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>a wearable cyborg -- helps those with spinal cord injuries and muscular dystrophy regain their movements and strengthen their nerves and muscles. Known as exoskeletons, they're a type of lightweight suit, with joints powered by small electric motors, that serve as mechanical muscle.</div>
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Here's what's truly mind-blowing:<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>Patients use their brain waves to control them.</div>
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When Sorensen heard about the brain wave-controlled exoskeleton, which was developed by Japanese roboticist Yoshiyuki Sankai, she knew she had to give it a try. She was determined to walk at her daughter's wedding a few months later in December.</div>
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But it's not just those with disabilities or injuries who stand to benefit. By 2050, there will be more than 2 billion people over age 60, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and exoskeletons could offer a solution to the world's aging population.</div>
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In the future, as human bodies wear down<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>with age, an exoskeleton -- powered by active minds -- could help people stay on their feet.</div>
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With such huge potential applications available, the global medical exoskeleton market will be worth an estimated <a href="https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/exoskeleton-market-40697797.html?gclid=CjwKCAjw-ITqBRB7EiwAZ1c5U1B09BUZvY3qsQn9QB30eSCM_z7x3LMKCiWNLvxfSsmBGqdezQYLBBoCM0kQAvD_BwE" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">$2.8 billion</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>by 2023, according to research company Markets and Markets.</div>
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When Sorensen first tried HAL, she could barely move across flat surfaces.</div>
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A trained physiotherapist at the Brooks Center helped her fit HAL over her waist and trousers, connecting her to sensors that help pick up faint bio-electric signals on the surface of the skin, which communicate a patient's intention to move. Once HAL receives these signals, it helps support the person's movements.</div>
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But you can't just put on HAL and expect to be sprinting in seconds. Rehabilitation requires time, determination and the help of a physiotherapist and a body weight harness that ensures patients are supported and kept upright while they use HAL on a treadmill. During that training, physiotherapists keep a log of each patient's motions and the settings used -- from walk to jog mode. They can monitor the user's movements and adjust the settings accordingly, so their movements come more naturally.</div>
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Sorensen says it initially felt like HAL was doing most of the work by helping induce her muscles to make small leg movements that mimic natural walking patterns, but then she found herself increasingly in the driving seat.</div>
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"After the first couple times, your brain connects to HAL, and I could see I was moving my legs myself," she says. "It was just incredible -- my heart was just bursting."</div>
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She overcame her paralysis by training with HAL.</div>
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Usually it takes those with less severe mobility issues than Sorensen between two to 10 tries for patients<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>to get used to HAL so that the sensors and the brain can start working together, according to Sankai. But after almost 40 training sessions, each lasting an hour-and-a-half, Sorensen was back on her feet, albeit with the support of a walker. She made it to her daughter's wedding.</div>
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Currently, Sankai's exoskeletons are helping patients restore their muscle movements in Japan, the Philippines and in Germany and Poland.</div>
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The brain behind HAL is bespectacled billionaire roboticist Sankai. He heads up Japanese company Cyberdyne -- founded in 2004 -- where his vision has been to create these "wearable cyborgs" designed to "fuse man, machine and information."</div>
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And while the name of Sankai's firm might recall the scary Cyberdyne Technologies that created villainous robots in US science-fiction blockbuster "Terminator," the Japanese roboticist wants to create tech not for war, but for peace and rehabilitation.</div>
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Yoshiyuki Sankai wants to augment humanity with his exoskeleton devices.</div>
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When Sankai was a 9-year-old in the 1960s, he discovered "I, Robot" by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov and became entranced by the positive applications of technology. He decided to pursue engineering at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. In 1998, Sankai made his first HAL prototype, <a href="https://www.wipo.int/ipadvantage/en/details.jsp?id=2605" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">which became the world's first</a>, and spent the next decades refining the product into the sleek, lightweight version of today.</div>
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Previously robotic-assistance tech centered on military use. But these days, HAL is part of a wave of research that focuses on using exoskeleton tech to treat ailments or provide support to wearers. For example, researchers at Harvard unveiled a soft <a href="https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/health-medical/harvard_university_mobility_enhancing_soft_robotic_exosuit/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">exosuit in 2014</a> that enhances a patient's strength, much like HAL. And automobile makers like Ford are using exoskeletons on factory floors <a href="https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2018/08/07/ford-rolls-out-exoskeleton-wearable-technology-globally-to-help-.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">to reduce worker fatigue</a>. HAL, too, has potential beyond the medical field, with everything from rescue and support and labor intensive factory work to entertainment and elderly care.</div>
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"The average age of workers (in Japan) is very high, so these technologies can help them and gradually increase elderly people's physical functions so they can remain independent," says Sankai.</div>
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But when new technologies are created there are few or no social and legal rules to regulate them.</div>
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Sankai says these measures must be debated in advance so all parties involved in the manufacture and use of technologies such as exoskeletons maintain control over the development direction. Cyberdyne has two ethics committees; one dedicated to promoting research; the other on standing by the idea of peace when creating and developing new devices and technologies.</div>
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Next up, Sankai and his team are collecting data on their treatment method to better improve their existing medical devices. Sankai's aim is to prepare medical devices that will maintain and increase human health for longer.</div>
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For now, he is happy seeing everyone from seniors to the severely disabled regain independence. It's a thought that Sorensen shares.</div>
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"When I used HAL, there were people who came from all over the country to use the equipment," she says. "I would like this kind of technology to be more readily available."</div>
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President <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/candidate/trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> on Saturday finally did the one thing that public health experts and even his own aides have begged him to do to save lives. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/politics/trump-walter-reed-visit-mask/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">He wore a mask</a> in public during a visit to wounded service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.</div>
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Given his intransigence for so many months, it was a small but significant <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/politics/trump-walter-reed-visit-mask/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">gesture</a> at a time when coronavirus cases are surging in the US and the President has failed to grasp the depth of the crisis or offer any coherent strategy to control the spread of the virus.</div>
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While he was willing to wear the mask to protect US service members, Trump made it clear this week that he viewed the hospital setting as a unique one -- clinging to his insistence that there is a "time and place" for masks amid a raging pandemic that has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-maps-and-cases/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">claimed the lives</a> of at least 134,815 Americans.</div>
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His concern about safety does not apparently extend to schools, which he's pressuring to reopen, potentially putting millions of Americans at risk. His delusional view of the virus -- mainly that it's <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/politics/donald-trump-july-4-coronavirus/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">"harmless"</a> -- serves his political agenda of getting the economy moving and the country back to "normal" ahead of the fall election. But if he's going to win back any of the suburban moms the Republican Party lost so badly in the 2018 midterms, he may want to reconsider using America's children as chips in his political games.</div>
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He continues to jeopardize American lives -- including that of his own supporters -- on the campaign trail, too. The President had planned to continue flouting the guidelines of his public health experts by holding a campaign rally for his supporters in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Saturday night -- which was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/politics/new-hampshire-rally-delayed/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">postponed due to weather</a> -- where the campaign said it would encourage but not mandate attendees to wear masks, and there likely would have been little adherence to guidance regarding large gatherings (other than the move outdoors, which can help reduce the rate of spread).</div>
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'This should not be a lead story in the news'</h3>
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Underscoring the divide between Trump and the public health experts he doesn't listen to, the President and the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/politics/donald-trump-anthony-fauci-coronavirus/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">have not spoken for weeks</a>. And Fauci has been relegated to podcast and print interviews, likely because he has corrected the President's misinformation campaign about the virus.</div>
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While Trump has recently said that the US is in a "good place" when it comes to the coronavirus and has touted the current mortality rate in the United States (an indicator that generally lags behind rising case numbers), Fauci has delivered the blunt, unsettling facts about the direction of the pandemic.</div>
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"As a country, when you compare us to other countries, I don't think you can say we're doing great. I mean, we're just not," Fauci said last week on the FiveThirtyEight podcast.</div>
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Fauci also said recently that he "would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 (new infections) a day if this does not turn around." Given that prediction of a frightening increase in cases in the coming weeks, public health experts said Saturday that they were glad the President had finally worn a mask, but as Dr. Peter Hotez put it: "This should not be a lead story in the news."</div>
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"Back in February or March, it would have been the lead story, but not now. We are way past that -- we have this terrible public health crisis right now," Hotez, the Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told CNN's Ana Cabrera during an interview on "Newsroom" Saturday. "The fact that we are still discussing masks is ridiculous. We have to do so much more right now to help slow this terrible onslaught that we are facing from Covid-19. With a steep acceleration, we are going to hit 70,000 cases this week."</div>
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Hotez, who is also co-director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development,<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>noted that the number of cases will quickly rise to 100,000 new cases per day, as Fauci predicted -- leading to even greater strain on hospitals, ICUs and staff, many of whom are already getting sick in hotspot areas. "We have no national plan, national roadmap how to deal with this and how to stop it," he said.</div>
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Yet even with that alarming rise in cases, Trump kept a relentless focus on reopening during another confounding week where he sent America's parents into a tailspin by demanding that <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-science-education/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">schools reopen</a> in the fall.</div>
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Though many states are pulling back on reopening after seeing their case numbers soar, Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from school districts that do not reopen, while calling the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on reopening schools "very tough and expensive." While most schools are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/politics/donald-trump-threat-to-cut-school-funding-fact-check/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">funded locally</a>, cutting federal funding would likely impact the neediest of America's children and hit schools already <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/politics/school-funding-jobs-trump-education/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">squeezed by the pandemic</a>.</div>
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In a subsequent press conference of the White House coronavirus task force Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence created even more confusion by stating that the CDC was going to issue different guidelines to clarify the rules for students to return, suggesting the agency was caving to the President's pressure. (Dr. Robert Redfield, the head of the CDC, then said Thursday that the agency was<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/cdc-guidelines-school-reopenings/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank"> not revising the guidance</a> but instead providing additional information to help schools plan for reopening.)</div>
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Even though some children have become seriously ill and have died from the coronavirus, Pence emphasized last week that the risks to children infected by the virus are lower than they are for other age groups. He said it was a blessing that "apart from having an underlying health condition, children do not appear to be susceptible to serious illness from the coronavirus." (During the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/press-briefing-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-july-8-2020/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">discussion of schools</a>, Redfield also said that "in general, this virus does not cause significant illness in children.")</div>
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But Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, seemed to imply that the nation does not yet have enough data -- because of the limited testing of children at this point -- to draw conclusions about the infection rate among children.</div>
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"If you look across all of the tests that we've done... the portion that has been the lowest-tested portion is the under-10-year-olds," Birx said during Wednesday's coronavirus task force briefing. She said the nation's health experts are still trying "to really figure this out, because parents have done an amazing job of protecting their children."</div>
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"We know the mortality rate in under-25 from the CDC data is less than 0.1%, and so that has been holding," Birx said. "But until we know how many have been infected, we have no evidence that there is significant mortality in children without coexisting diseases. And that's what we're looking for right now, is to really make sure we've overturned every rock and understand that in deep detail."</div>
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Teachers and other adults at risk</h3>
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Beyond the health concerns about children, there are growing worries about the health of teachers, and how the virus could spread -- with children as carriers -- from schools back into multi-generational homes with vulnerable older family members.</div>
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Teachers' unions around the country, political powerhouses in their own right, balked at Trump's threats this week. A new analysis released Friday evening by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that nearly <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/politics/teachers-schools-coronavirus/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">1.5 million teachers in America</a> are at higher risk of serious illness if they contract the coronavirus.</div>
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Those teachers, who comprise about 24% of the total, have health conditions including diabetes, heart disease or obesity, or are older than 65, which makes them more vulnerable to serious illness if infected with Covid-19, according to the <a href="https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/how-many-teachers-are-at-risk-of-serious-illness-if-infected-with-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Kaiser Family Foundation analysis</a>.</div>
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So far, no one in the Trump administration has explained how schools can actually reopen and maintain social distancing between students -- given that crowded classrooms are essentially the status quo in many school districts across the country.</div>
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In that leadership<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>vacuum, the nation's school districts and governors are trying to solve that puzzle on their own (as the need for greater school funding to contend with the virus, rather than less, is apparent to nearly everyone except the President).</div>
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There is no question that parents want their children to go back to school, because it will be impossible for most parents to go back to work at full capacity if their kids are not in the classroom. And the most economically disadvantaged families may suffer the most if schools do not reopen.</div>
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But parents also have made it clear that they want it to be safe, and many fear a second wave of infections if proper measures are not taken to contain the virus in schools.</div>
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A <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/312674/parents-slightly-favor-full-time-person-school-fall.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Gallup survey</a> in June found that 56% of parents with children in grades K-12 want their children's instruction to be fully in-person this fall. About 37% preferred a hybrid program that would encompass some part-time school and some distance learning. About 46% of parents said they were very or somewhat worried about their children getting the virus.</div>
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The New York Times obtained <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/politics/cdc-documents-warn-high-risk-schools-reopening/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3061f3; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">an internal CDC document</a> last week that warned that fully reopening K-12 schools and universities would create the "highest risk" for the spread of the coronavirus.</div>
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It is too soon to know how American parents will respond to the administration's haphazard approach to school reopenings, but Trump's tactics of confusion and obfuscation have not gone over well so far. And putting children at risk in order to satisfy the President's desire for a strong economic reopening this fall may carry a heavy political price.</div>
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<strong>India</strong> has passed Russia as the country with the third-highest number of coronavirus cases in the world after recording a record number of cases for one day.</div>
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The health ministry added 23,000 new cases on Monday, taking India’s total to 697,000 and almost 20,000 deaths. On Sunday <a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/india" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #ab0613; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">India</a> racked up nearly 25,000, its highest total for one day.</div>
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The increases took India past Russia as the third highest total in the world behind Brazil with 1.6m cases and the United States with 2.88m.</div>
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In the Indian capital New Delhi, medical staff started treating patients at a spiritual centre converted into a sprawling isolation facility and hospital with 10,000 beds, many made of cardboard and chemically coated to make them waterproof.</div>
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About the size of 20 football fields, the facility on the outskirts of the city will treat mild symptomatic and asymptomatic cases.</div>
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State government officials fear Delhi, home to 25 million people, could record more than half-a-million cases by the end of the month. The city has repurposed some hotels to provide hospital care. It is also converting wedding halls and has several hundred modified railway coaches standing by.</div>
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A strict lockdown in place since late March has gradually been lifted, allowing most activities after the economy nose-dived during the shutdown.</div>
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Schools, metro trains in cities, cinemas, gyms and swimming pools remain closed and international flights are still grounded. Authorities have made wearing masks mandatory in public places, while large gatherings are banned and shops and other public establishments are required to implement social distancing.</div>
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Like India, <strong>South Africa</strong> imposed some of the strictest stay-at-home measures in the world in late March in a bid to limit the spread of Covid-19, but the number of infections is rising daily as the lockdown rules are gradually eased. <a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/southafrica" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #ab0613; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">South Africa</a> on Saturday reported more than 10,000 new coronavirus infections, the highest daily jump on record for the country. There have been 196,750 cases and 3,199 deaths in the country so far.</div>
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The total global number of cases is 11.4 million, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The virus has claimed the lives of 533,780 people.</div>
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In the <strong>United States</strong>, the Centres for Disease Control reported 52,228 new cases on Sunday, marking the fourth day in a row that new cases have been over 50,000 according to its tallies.</div>
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Two prominent Texas mayors warned that <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/05/coronavirus-texas-mayors-serious-trouble-hospital-beds-florida-trump" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #ab0613; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">hospitals in their cities will be “overwhelmed” by cases of Covid-19 inside two weeks</a>, even as Donald Trump continues to portray the coronavirus resurgence nationwide as the embers of a fire <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/05/trump-july-fourth-speech-rushmore-coronavirus-race-protests" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #ab0613; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">he is steadily extinguishing</a>.</div>
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The <strong>Australian</strong> state of Victoria recorded its largest jump in cases at any point in the coronavirus crisis, with 127 cases reported on Monday, as the premier announced the border with neighbouring New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/06/border-closes-between-nsw-and-victoria-as-southern-state-records-largest-ever-jump-in-covid-19-cases" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #ab0613; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;">would be closed from midnight on Tuesday</a>. The decision marks the first time the border between the two states will be closed in 100 years.</div>
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Victoria also recorded one new death, bringing Australia’s total fatalities to 105. The country has 8,583 cases.</div>
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In response to the record case increase, New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian says, “what’s occurring in Victoria hasn’t yet happened in Australia. It’s a new phenomenon”.</div>
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NSW police commissioner Mike Fuller meanwhile warned that the border was very long, but would be thoroughly monitored.</div>
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“Someone could choose to swim across the river, walk through the bush, use dirt tracks,” he said, noting that aerial surveillance, for example with drones, will be used to enforce the restrictions.</div>
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<strong>Iran</strong> broke a sombre record for daily deaths, meanwhile, 163 people in the country dying in 24 hours. The government has introduced compulsory face masks in public spaces<strong> </strong>after admitting that its efforts to introduce effective voluntary social distancing have failed.</div>
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The governor of Tokyo, <strong>Japan</strong>, Yuriko Koike, won a second term, propelled to an election victory by public support for her handling of the coronavirus crisis, despite a recent rise in infections.</div>
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<strong>Peru</strong> on Sunday jumped past 300,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19, the fifth-highest in the world, as the Andean nation of nearly 33 million people slowly reopens its battered economy. Peru’s death toll from the virus now stands at 10,589, the 10th-highest in the world.</div>
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Barack Obama’s country's immigrants shift to stop expulsion of
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President Barack Obama has recently declared, to avoiding
the expulsion of unlawful immigrants who joined the U.S as kids with immediate
effect, a shift that has received varied responses around the nation. At the
moment those who are outdated 16 - 30 and have resided in the U.S. for five
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In his statement, Barack obama said, "It is unnecessary
to expel skilled adolescents who, for all means and requirements, are citizens
of America."
This statement is perceived as a significant governmental transfer in an election
season, however as stated by Obama is "the exact thing to carry out".
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While on the other hand, Mitt Romney, who is the
presidential challenger of Obama, believes that this is the incorrect way to move
towards the challenge. This shift is perceived to instantly affect nearly
around 80 million youthful immigrants in the United States. </div>
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At this moment majority of unlawful immigrants who were scare
of rapid expulsion will now be able to perform in the United States
without being reluctant, on the condition they fulfill the required
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At the same time as perceptibly the shift had the awe-inspiring
assistance of all the young immigrants, there were many others who did not
approve too. If truth to be told, throughout his conversation, President Barack
Obama was disturbed by the journalist, who inquired him, why he preferred
visitors over real citizens of America?
Barack Obama plainly reacted by stating that it was not the right occasion for queries,
and that he did not take queries in the center of any conversation.</div>
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Most up-to-date viewpoint forms expose that President Barack
Obama and Republican competitive Mitt Romney are operating throat to throat
before elections planned for Nov this season.</div>
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A variety of United States armed and intellect companies are
increasing their monitoring operations all the way through the African place,
collecting details on residences of Al-Qaeda along with other known combative
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Besides Al-Qaeda, Joseph Kony’s opposition military and
Somalian enemy systems have also been focused. At this junction, it is
uncertain if any of these U.S operations have guided United States military attacks on
those categories, however one must believe that to be an ultimate item of this
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Since 2007, the United States
secret aircraft operations have been efficient in African countries, additionally
appears to be increasing quickly while the United
States existence in Afghanistan
and Iraq
chill out. A latest tale published in the Washington Post offers to some extent
details about where some of the secret aircraft abodes are situated and their
journey tracks over the African Countries.</div>
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In nations where an organized governmental framework
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The Foreign Minister, Djibril Bassole, of that nation described
his issues about Al-Qaeda and identical categories getting hold in the place. “We
call for to battle and secure our boundaries. After their integration in your
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At this junction, there has been no discuss of the United States
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for such kinds of tasks. With enough intellect from the present navy of secret
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In south east of Papua, there is Korowai clan, which was unidentified before 1970. This region is the south east portion of the western New Guinea and it is suspected that their residents still engulf human meat. </div>
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The Korowai citizens are 3000 in figure. Even they did not discern before 1970 that there are other humans exist in this world too. They used to suppose that they were the only humans dwelling in this world. </div>
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The Korowai speech belongs to Awyu-Dumut folks which is the tongue of South East Papua. An English linguistic specialist has now geared up its grammar and dictionary. </div>
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The greater part of Korowai people resides on houses geared up on the trees. There residential area is entirely detached from the rest of the village. They do not wish to go any where else from their inhabited area. But, when they get connected with the cultured world and particularly the European people established many villages for the residence where they supplied all the probable amenities, even then they did not shift from their place. But from 1980s few Korawai people began shifting to these new villages in Yaniruma. But there number was very low. These villages are been established at the coasts “Mu” and “Mbasman” of River Becking that is not very distant from their own locale. </div>
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In 1987 a village was set up at Manggel, in 1988 second village was set up at Yafufla, in 1989 a village named Mabul was set up at the coasts of River Eilanden and in 1998 one more village was set up at Khaiflambolup. In a nutshell these villages were organized for Korowai people but in reply they did not demonstrate the eagerness that was anticipated. This is due to this uninterested stance that many villages are still exposed vacant. </div>
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The fundamental cause for that may be that these settlements are located far-flung from the wherewithals of food (Sago). In the local speech the word “Sago” is used for foodstuff. </div>
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The Korowai people are fundamentally hunters and fulfill their hunger by hunting. They also do gardening and now slowly diverting towards yielding harvest. The Korowai people are aware of the significance of protein from the start and for that reason they hunt animals and are very skilled in catch fish. They accomplish their necessities of proteins from the aforementioned food. </div>
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What trade Korowai people do? And what they vend or purchase? The knowledge about this is very small and not adequate. There are particular methods in Korowai family to perform the daily errands of life for example “Sago” means the liability of getting ready food is of mature young people. They not only gather food but also get ready it. Similarly whatever religious rituals they rejoice as per their faiths, young people also take part in these ceremonials. There is no function of women in these kinds of observances. </div>
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Some Korowai people began works that supplied them slight money. But these earnings were purported. Such local residents began work with vacationer companies. They led the tourists and served them in every manner. It means they can get both monetary and money-oriented reimbursements from their touring business. These prospects are on very restricted level for at the present. Local guides create the travelers trips these villages and horde them fairly sound. They also systematize local “Sago” requests for tourists, take their goods from one place to a different and concurrently demonstrate them conventional and antique displays, which they carry out themselves. </div>
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In the past of Korowai tribe, once for restricted time (from around 1996 to 1999) chaos overcame there. The crucial cause was that the very valuable wood (Agarwood) of this village that is also called (gaharu) in the local tongue was happening moving outside unlawfully. In fact the thing was that some foreigners or smugglers, who were conscious of the worth of this wood, began cutting the precious wood of this forest. Innocent Korowai people could not do anything in opposition to them and mutely observed their expensive natural reserve prowling by plunderers. </div>
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The worth of this wood can be conjectured by the truth that any purchaser used to disburse around 4 dollars for one kilogram of gaharu wood. Similarly these precious “gaharu” woods arrived at the bazaars of Europe and Middle East, where one thousand dollars per kilogram of this priceless wood were also hunted. The smuggling of this wood was also carried out by means of Southern coast “Agats” and also from “Jayapura” at the Northern coast. Assistance from missionary planes was also sought after for this reason that used to disembark and leave from ”Yaniruma” and “Boma”. The control of “Gaharu” trading was under the army and army was administrating this business. </div>
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The precious wood of Papua forests was driven outside. Along with this thrashing, there was greater trouncing that the business of "body selling" augmented to bigger extents that played a significant part in extending AIDS in the entire Papua. </div>
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Here also like other cultured realms of the world, parental system is set up, in which father is the head of the house and he manages the whole communal, economical and political affairs. The polygamy custom is also conventional in this tribe but generally they do not wed with the blood relatives. Nowadays they began to have a preference wedding with cousins from mother side.</div>
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Here the headship constitution is founded on primeval times i.e. any influential person becomes the head of the tribe with respect to his individual character and abilities. There is no position of any organization in this headship. The combating among tribes begins particularly due to quarrels associated to shedding magical spells. </div>
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The conviction of Korowai tribe is that this entire cosmos is filled with all kind of spirits, in which a number of spirits are more exceptional and in agreement to each other as measure up to other spirits. Particularly reverence is paid to the spirits of forefathers. According to Korowai tribe’s faith, the “Ginol Silamtena” is the spirit of the maker of this cosmos. But Korowai people neither furnish any significance to it in their every day lives nor do they agree to that there is any function of it in their every day lives. It is necessary for each and every person of Korowai tribe to organize an exceptional dinner once in his life period. According to their belief, affluence and development takes place due to this dinner party. </div>
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Korowai people are custodians of strange and precious traditions, which comprises of their ghostly tales, folk tales, magical maxims and enchantments and antique traditions of natural feats.</div>
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In regard to death and life after death, Korowai people suppose that in return of the acts of a person, he has to approach again in this world. The people, who have departed from their tribes after death and now existing in the world of spirits, any one of those spirits can send his relative once more in this world and that person will rebirth in the form of any new born in their tribe. </div>
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In the end of the 1970 decade, few Christian (Protestants Missionaries) began subsisting with Korowai citizens. In the decade of 1980 an Indonesian human specialist Dea Sudarman geared up many documentaries for Japanese Television. </div>
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In 1993 a film squad had organized a do research study in the “Dio Village”. The chief subject of this study was “The dwellings made on trees and man-eating”. The Korowai people were displayed pessimistically in this case reading, which showed the way to the manufacturing of the film “Lords of Garden”. </div>
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In 1996 a local Christian Society was set up that contains the members from the neighborhood clan “Kombai”. For the long time it has been considered that Korowai people are extremists in their faiths and will never deflect to any other religion and will oppose against such struggles. Thus many people adopted Christianity in the end of 1990 decade and officially pierced in this religion. </div>
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In the autumn of 2003 a small panel of Bible Translators arrived at in Yaniruma and began their work. </div>
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In May 2006 an excursion guide Paul Riffle guided the crew team of Australian T.V. Show “60 Minutes” in order to prepare a special report on this tribe and their people. After few days of filming a man arrived at the crew team and asserted that his six year nephew “Wa-Wa” had been blamed of becoming a sorcerer (Kakua). He was in immense hazard, since he could be murdered and gobbled. But the crew team of “60 Minutes” rejected to help that person. But later Paul Riffle got in touch with his rival “Seven Network”, who approved to send a “Today Tonight” crew for taking “Wa-Wa” out of this region. </div>
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One of the information about Korowai people was got that they still consume human flesh. But human specialists say that it does not occur at present, since these people are in steady synchronization with external people and it is also exposed in the newest reports that fake narratives has been extended in order to propagate tourism. </div>
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In 2006 a T.V. show “60 Minutes” declared that when somebody is blamed of becoming a sorcerer “Khakhua” in the Korowai culture and on verifying the offense he was beaten cruelly, hanged up and afterwards gobbled. In this respect many unverified declarations were also made that the brain of a person is eaten instantaneously whereas the dead body is still hot and that pregnant women and children does not take part in this eating.</div>
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Korowai houses are made on height, for which higher wood pillars are fixed on the land initially. This way has been going on since past, in order to keep the houses safe from water and flood. Secondly these houses remain away from the reach of the invaders. This step is specifically taken for the safety of children and women; otherwise the conqueror tribe either makes women and children their slave or kills and eats them. </div>
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The thick, high and strong pillars of iron wood in one way keep the houses safe from fire too, otherwise the strategy of invaders is to fire the houses made of wood, grass and straw, which compels the residents to come out of their houses due to smoke and suffocation and thus invaders arrest them. Iron wood is that hard and solid wood, which does not catch fire easily. </div>
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The time the Middle East conditions have been deteriorating, the oil rates have also been mounting speedily and these circumstances are deadly for the whole world because high price rises that is an outcome of elevated oil prices, has made the matters most horrible in almost every area of life around the world. Conversely the increasing require of oil has also made the hitch even more complex. </div>
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Brazil that is on number nine in oil generating countries and as per their verification, they generate 2.75 millions barrels of oil daily that is 3.2% of the entire world’s manufacturing. Brazil sells abroad 271,000 barrels oil to America daily, while it has 12.8 Billion barrels of oil assets. </div>
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UAE comes on No. 8 in oil manufacturing countries that generates 3.3 % of the entire world’s construction i.e. 2.81 million barrel daily. Nevertheless, it sells abroad only 10,000 barrels to America everyday and its assets of oil are about 97.8 billion barrels. </div>
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The making of oil in Iran is 4.2 millions barrel every day that is 4.9% of the entire world’s manufacturing. The noteworthy thing is that Iran does not sell abroad a single barrel to America. Therefore the oil stores of Iran are elevated i.e. 137.6 billion barrels. </div>
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And the only super power America is on number 3 in oil manufacturing countries and its everyday production is 8.85 millions barrels that is 10.4% of entire world’s manufacturing, while America everyday sells abroad 8.63 barrels oil. Its oil stores are said to be 19.2 billion barrels.</div>
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Saudi Arab comes on No. 1 in oil generating countries. Its everyday manufacturing is 10.3 million barrel. It is 12.1% of the entire world’s manufacturing. Saudi Arab supplies 1.08 million barrels of oil to America on daily basis, while its own oil stores are 259.9 billion barrels. The manufacturing of these 10 countries is 61.14 of the whole world’s oil manufacturing. <br />
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Natural gas is found is such pores of rocks which are linked to each other and reach on earth by the wells of gas present in the rocks. Some reserves of gas are present in the pores of rocks but the passages among them are so narrow that make the passing of gas to the wells almost impossible. Such reserves are called “Tight Gas” However, in the last few years the technology has find out ways that made getting this type of gas possible too. </div>
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The Petroleum reservoirs have two important characteristics on the basis of which the reserve of gas or petroleum is found in that rock. Firstly the reservoir rock should contain pores in which gas can be stored. This characteristic is called Porosity. Secondly these pores should be interlinked so that when the gas entered the well from the pours it could reach the earth easily. This characteristic is called Permeability.<br />
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The measurement of Permeability is Millidarcy and 5 to 10 millidarcy is considered a good permeability that can easily pull the gas out of the well. This is the description of known or customary reservoirs. Now we will talk on the new types of rocks in which the permeability is less to 1 millicarcy. This is a tight gas. Since gas is obstructed among the particles of sand therefore such reservoir is called “Tight Gas Sand”. </div>
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American government has given it a Lead Platinum Certificate. This means that the designing and technology of this building has been certified environmental friendly as per the government of America’s tough standards. It is the second highest building of Manhattan and the first government certified environmental friendly building. It is also called The Bank of America Tower.<br />
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This building is decorated with technologies like saving the rain water for afterward usage, recycling of used water, recycling of building material for long term usage, technology of better and minimum usage of energy and such type of glass is used, which not only provides greater benefits from the sunlight but also reduces the affects of sun heat. Modern design, wonderful art of building and all the available technologies have made this building specifically environmental friendly. </div>
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The residents of Germany have established an example by establishing the Sonnenschiff Solar city, in Freiberg Germany. This town is self-independent in power supply. Modern photo voltaic panels have been installed in every house of it which uses the solar energy. The solar cells installed at the roof of every house benefits in a way that the town now creates four times more electricity than the whole town uses. There are total of 52 houses.<br />
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M. Irfan Zafarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634596219590700990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092065078012004545.post-78080616487483977592011-05-06T11:23:00.000-07:002013-07-16T20:10:18.727-07:00Revolutionary Discovery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPOlW-1fPK3gl9xjLhhkXkYno7WHdNyaQG7ufaRZcOCo7jLatG0kQkYfY68lRoX_5l6giqGjaPBl39N4Nb9JfNGwp57EeUP5NTFz-TXqLreOTqiAqUjh2UpCf-NIsj163Jpo_pbxvo-IAE/s1600/apple+1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPOlW-1fPK3gl9xjLhhkXkYno7WHdNyaQG7ufaRZcOCo7jLatG0kQkYfY68lRoX_5l6giqGjaPBl39N4Nb9JfNGwp57EeUP5NTFz-TXqLreOTqiAqUjh2UpCf-NIsj163Jpo_pbxvo-IAE/s1600/apple+1.jpeg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI0bUsx99NvY7bUHYM-mbAoupRuZltoVac39XwsSgglEdqrZ6jRRDZjiN0bzrbqvMy5c5a1RvJB7shV_YUrdaYPj6m14DO4s0qbCXvsVq2X9zWyJtyRMaVv9SKwiePR4YFDhrnG7_yT1t8/s1600/wheat+1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI0bUsx99NvY7bUHYM-mbAoupRuZltoVac39XwsSgglEdqrZ6jRRDZjiN0bzrbqvMy5c5a1RvJB7shV_YUrdaYPj6m14DO4s0qbCXvsVq2X9zWyJtyRMaVv9SKwiePR4YFDhrnG7_yT1t8/s1600/wheat+1.jpeg" /></a>Among the most important of human problems, rising population is forefront. Along side the environmental and seasonal changes have spread such a disaster that standing harvest started ruining. Diseases started attacking them and resultantly the real danger of food scarcity came forward. Wheat has ever been the most important food for the whole world and it’s also the oldest human food. Just imagine how human can live without wheat in the world. </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLljE1sbIIiC-n1AJX2Z_PP0ZHGzjUWqdQh7CSas-9oTEgf2dkHMiR8fwKYzwYdnzVWOiuClgEuaNkEN_6cQq_pjPWkoSBfan8nsl15166UQcOwMTcHfFBlFOVBlgw2wzCkZSsMlfliZgl/s1600/wheat+3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLljE1sbIIiC-n1AJX2Z_PP0ZHGzjUWqdQh7CSas-9oTEgf2dkHMiR8fwKYzwYdnzVWOiuClgEuaNkEN_6cQq_pjPWkoSBfan8nsl15166UQcOwMTcHfFBlFOVBlgw2wzCkZSsMlfliZgl/s1600/wheat+3.jpeg" /></a>This is a genetic era. If genetic code of any living organism would be sought, its breeding and growth could be controlled. The Britain scientist have achieved great success in decoding the genetic code of wheat, which would result in a way that the hardest wheat could be prepared which could cope with the environmental and seasonal changes. It would breed more in less space and likewise the rising population needs could be fulfilled. </div>
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The team of Neil Hall scientist of Liverpool has discovered this code. They say that the benefits of their research would reveal in the next five years. </div>
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Genome or genetic map provides the complete DNA details of any living organism. DNA is a combination of complex molecules which provides complete instructions about the structure and activities of any living organism. When Genome of any living organism has been understood, we get extraordinary information about it, for instance, how it came into existence, how its beginning and growth did happens and how does it die etc. </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh78h_cZJ4HgRg-49HKkt1JK5ZLq0dtBAvnBGe0DnU5mUvdAkQOqJfmt6TTHQeaBV9OMVuML_n4hlwRB22rpVfsA_4hUGB-LyQglz-kqIUXax7l07y4-KL7rf5jqedPmEjUSbSwqqAcgPPV/s1600/wheat+2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh78h_cZJ4HgRg-49HKkt1JK5ZLq0dtBAvnBGe0DnU5mUvdAkQOqJfmt6TTHQeaBV9OMVuML_n4hlwRB22rpVfsA_4hUGB-LyQglz-kqIUXax7l07y4-KL7rf5jqedPmEjUSbSwqqAcgPPV/s1600/wheat+2.jpeg" /></a>The Wheat entered in the world of genetics a little late. The genetic code of rice was found in 2005, maize in 2009 and of Soya bean in the beginning of last year. The reason for its late entry is that its genetic map is extraordinary bigger and thicker. It is not only bigger than rice and maize but also five times bigger than human genome. For e.g. when one kind of Sugar Wheat was examined, there were 6 copies of the same gene, whereas in majority of living organisms there are 2 copies of the same gene. Now the genetic engineers could easily make such technology by which wheat could be prepared using artificial means. </div>
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On the other side, the international team of scientists which included scientists from Italy, France, Newzeland, Belgium and America have discovered the genetic code of Apple. This would help in understanding that which gene is responsible for any characteristic of an apple. It would also be known that which gene is responsible for resistance from diseases and which one is better for growth. Likewise the human control on Apple production and its various characteristics would increase. Besides other information, gene provides information about its general appearance, health, production, color and taste too. </div>
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M. Irfan Zafarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634596219590700990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092065078012004545.post-91833625404505296922011-05-05T08:58:00.000-07:002013-07-16T20:14:56.272-07:00Michael Jackson – The King of Popular Music<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Whenever on any pleasant morning or cool evening, he saw his same age children were playing different games in the parks, tears used to run out from his eyes, but Michael Jackson got tremendous reward of his tear. He reached such horizons of success and popularity, which many singers even can’t dream of. The selling records of Michael Jackson’s audios and videos are still unbeatable. His name is mentioned in the Guinness Book of World Record under more than one title. One of those titles is “The Most Successful Entertainer of All Time”. </div>
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More than this amount, he donated after collecting from his welfare programs. He also has the honor of the “Highest Pop Star Donator” to welfare organizations. After 80’s his personality remained victimized of several disputes, rumors and scandals. His changing nose pattern and complexion remained the topic of news, sometimes he got the accusation of bad behavior with children, which could not be proved. This disputed prince of the Music World married in 1994 with the daughter Liza of Elvis Presley and in 1996 with a Nurse named Dabby. He had two children with her.<br />
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One was the son, whose name he chose “Prince” (which was also the nickname of Michael in his youth). Second one was a girl, whose name was chosen as “Paris”. The third child’s name of Michael Jackson was Michael Jackson II. His nickname is Blanket. He was born in 2002 and his mother is unknown and father is also dubious. However, Michael Jackson said that the child was his own but the mother was rented. After the death of Michael Jackson, his childhood friend Mark Laster opined that “Paris” may be his daughter because her face resembles with that of her own daughter. He claimed that he has given his sperm as a present or donation.<br />
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During 2003 and 2005 Michael Jackson started using narcotics to much extent and his weight was started deteriorating quickly. He also remained sometime in Bahrain as a guest with an Arab Sheikh. The rumors of his converting into Muslim have also been spread at that time. In 2006, the news of his financial crisis started coming. During that time he returned to America and started living in a rented palace because his own house was closed due to the accusations of not paying of loans and legal proceedings.<br />
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On 25<sup>th</sup> June, 2009 at 22 min past 12 his illness news was received on an emergency number of Fire Department in Los Angles. In three minutes ambulance reached his house. According to the medical staff he was not breathing at that time. At 56 min past 12 doctors officially declared him death. This way the story of life of the King of Popular Music ended. But the guesses about his death, the pull and push of his heredity and accusations on various people in respect of his death is still going on. </div>
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1<sup>st</sup> May is the Word Day of Labors and its decision has also been taken by labors themselves and not by UNO, because by that time UNO didn’t exist. On this day labors all over the world celebrate the memories of 1886 Chicago labors who sacrificing their lives get 8 hours timings approved for themselves. On this day, labors all over the world organize seminars, processions; rallies and meetings to express their resolution that they will continue their struggle until the exploitation system has not been eradicated. </div>
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The patient and hard struggle of labors, workers, servants and innocents has been going on for centuries. This tussle is going on since the inception of this world. When for the very first time few powerful people after drawing lines on the earth started claiming their possession and made the weaker, innocent and obedient public their servant by aggravation and cruelty. The class difference in the society started prevailing since then. The powerful and cruel people of that time started taking forceful hard work from them and made them their servant. But in 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> century the labor body started strengthening. This was the period when steam engines and factories were entering into the machine era. The laborers were paid very less amount in lieu of their severe hard work. </div>
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Exactly 125 years ago from now, such enthusiastic, revolutionary and dedicated political and labor leaders had been born who for the first time called complete strike and presenting their valuable lives turned the labor movement in the new direction and rose the laborers’ head with pride by sacrificing their blood. This incident occurred in the industrial city of Chicago in America near the famous “Hay” market. The laborers of that time raised their voice against the then authorities, industrialists, factory owners, landlords and money holders that challenged them to listen, “You cruel people we are also humans, give us the right of living too, fix our working hours, raise our salaries and give us livelihood.”<br />
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They were shouting to the laborers of the world to get united; they were united without any difference in cast, creed or color and were asking for their rights and demands. The whole industrial city of Chicago was jammed. The Chimneys of Mills and factories had stopped excreting smoke. This was the first time in the history when the hard workers had raised the mutiny flag by their unity and wrote a new chapter by calling the complete strike. Then on 1<sup>st</sup> May 1886 in the morning the anonymous journalist while performing his revolutionary duty had written a writing which has now become the part of the history. </div>
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“Oh! Laborers! Your fight has been started. The time will take itself the final decision. Step forward to get your demands accepted, for your duty hours, continue your struggle, the authorities will have to bend, victory will be yours, never lose courage, be united, in this lies your survival, your success, keep fighting till the fulfillment of your demands, “</div>
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This writing of the journalist had rose additional emotions and they demanded strongly for 8 hours timings and then for the first time 24 hours had been adjusted like that we will do 8 hours work, we will rest for 8 hours and we will pass 8 hours with our family. The authorities, mill owners, money holders didn’t like this slogan and unity of the laborers and they taking the strict action opened fire on them. They wounded the weaponless, peaceful and weaker laborers, </div>
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The white peaceful flag of the laborers becomes red. The shirt of one of the laborer turned red with the blood. Then they made that red blooded flag their own flag in place of white flag and decided that they will not go to work unless their demands were not fulfilled. Red flag will now be our flag and from then onwards the red flag became the flag of laborers. </div>
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At last the authorities accepted the demands of the laborers and likewise for the first time the 8 hours timings were accepted. On this occasion seven prominent leaders of laborers including Fisher, Angeel, Peterson and Spies were brought to trial and 4 leaders were sentenced to death. These leaders went from this world but left their work, name and their movement alive for good. Afterwards, laborers got their many demands accepted by their struggle. The revolution came in Russia in 1917. Laborers got their many demands accepted in Europe. Now the timings in Europe are 6 hours. But still in many parts of the world exploitation with the laborers are going on and there is a need of long and hard struggle like Chicago laborers did by the laborers of that exploited areas in order to get their justified demands accepted by the authorities. UNO also need to play its role in such areas of the world.</div>
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In Japan, after having the most dreadful earthquake as a result of Tsunami which causes Nuclear crises, have paved way to apprehensions regarding the safety of Atomic Reactors in the world.<br />
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According to a recent research many Atomic Reactors in the world are facing the danger of Tsunami or earthquakes and it is doubted that this situation can duplicate itself like Japanese “Foko Shimari Reactor”, which would be more disastrous because the their capability dealing with disasters is far more less than Japan. Be ware that Japan possesses the best capability of dealing with disasters. </div>
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According to the research of Maple Craft there are 76 Atomic Plants in Japan, Taiwan, China, South Korea, India, Pakistan and America, located at places which can be affected by Tsunami. In different countries of the world there are 442 Atomic Power Plants, in which every 10<sup>th</sup> is facing the danger of earthquake. Be ware that most of these plants are situated in Japan, America, Taiwan, Armenia and Slovenia.<br />
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The auditor of Maple Craft Mr. Helen Hoj says that although the Atomic crisis of Japan is the first incident of its type but other countries can face this terrible situation. The Atomic Plants that are situated in the Southern Coastal Line in South Korea, Taiwan, South China, India, Pakistan and America or which are under consideration of installation in these areas are considered sensitive as regard to Tsunami. On the other hand the Atomic facilities of America, Taiwan, Armenia, Iran and Slovenia are likely to be affected by earthquake. </div>
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According to the Professor Kath Berahnam of Imperial College London, Japan is the most modern country in regards to technology but they are also facing problem in dealing with the crisis of Atomic Plants. Therefore, apprehension is natural for rather less developed countries for their Atomic Plants situated in dangerous zones. Nuclear safety experts refer to the Russian Atomic Plant situated 30 K.m. away from the Capital of Armenia.<br />
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In December, 1988 a powerful earthquake hit in the North West of Armenia, in which 25 thousand people were killed. Next year the Metsamore Atomic Plant had to shut down due the dangers of earthquakes. Although one Plant of this Reactor has been made useless, however, the other is operational. International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) has been monitoring the safety protocols of this Plant for a decade; however, apprehensions are still present.<br />
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According to World Nuclear Association the present Nuclear Plant of Metsamore is a source of apprehension for European Union and neighboring country “Turkey” situated just 16 kms away from the plant. Many bodies are raising voices for shutting down this Reactor, but Armenia who depends much on this plant for the supply of Energy says that it will remain operational until the establishment of an alternate. </div>
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M. Irfan Zafarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634596219590700990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092065078012004545.post-33760503120425985082011-04-09T22:33:00.000-07:002011-04-09T22:33:09.571-07:00Actress Sienna Miller not satisfied--Even after phone hack apology<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfFdsC0QNC9WUwtazCgQcrw3HNVZ6ErGnHlDzzVInd7k7LtnIx569iJfDeMJKoiuPNJsCbaCrf13wyoK2B419r3eixvyfLAnPqb8gzD2FpAfMd0Tb6Yw89zOS-MiCkCEdsp9odpKG1ccw/s1600/Sienna+Miller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfFdsC0QNC9WUwtazCgQcrw3HNVZ6ErGnHlDzzVInd7k7LtnIx569iJfDeMJKoiuPNJsCbaCrf13wyoK2B419r3eixvyfLAnPqb8gzD2FpAfMd0Tb6Yw89zOS-MiCkCEdsp9odpKG1ccw/s640/Sienna+Miller.jpg" width="465" /></a></div><h1 style="text-align: justify;">Sienna Miller will sue again The News of the World</h1><h2 style="text-align: justify;">The News of the World offers compensation for phone hacking, but Sienna Mill is not satisfied and will sue the paper anyhow.</h2><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="i1" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dateline">LONDON</span><span class="dateline"> — </span>The paper News of the world has offered compensation to Actress Sienna Miller of any justifiable claims and acknowledged eavesdropping the voicemails of public figures. But it has done little effect to stop the scandal which has endangered the goodwill of Britain’s political establishment and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Many celebrities are suing the paper but the lawyer Mark Thomson of Sienna Miller said that Sienna has not dropped her lawsuit against the paper which she accuses of “outrageous violations of privacy” and is awaiting for more information before taking any further action. The actress further accuses that the stated paper is continuously accessing her phone for the last one year and gathering information about her, her family and her former partner Jude Law.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the other hand News of the world has been accusing their two scoundrel employees for years and who were also jailed in 2007 for eavesdropping and hacking of voicemails crime of royal staff, which includes Prince William and Prince Harry. News of the world has further regret genuinely their past behavior for incepting voicemails. However, Murdoch, the owner of the paper could not stop the critics. John Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister, added that until the hacking of voicemails issue is not resolved the government should stop the Newspaper taking full control of satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the other hand the government has approved plans by Murdoch's News Corp. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that if it spin off its Sky News channel as an independent company they are offered to buy the 61 percent of BSkyB it does not already own.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Police found about 3,000 phone numbers after their initial inquiry of phone hacking</strong><br />
Critics of the Newspaper say that there are thousands of people who were victimized by the Newspaper’s rogue reporters but currently paper is facing around 20 lawsuits.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Police has arrested and questioned newspaper’s chief reporter, its former head of news, and forced Andy Coulson, former News of the World editor hired as Prime Minster David Cameron’s communication chief, but not arrested to step down from his job</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Four British National Newspapers: The Sun, the News of the World, The Times and The Sunday Times are owned by Murdoch’s News International Ltd. The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and the Fox Television are their U.S. media outlets, whereas News International is a subsidiary of Murdoch’s News Corporation.</div></div>M. Irfan Zafarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634596219590700990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092065078012004545.post-78566472984779562872011-04-02T20:32:00.000-07:002011-04-02T20:32:38.095-07:00Cricket World Cup 2011 review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC09J53n2OYkYIZaytvqE4b7fQLI806Jnn1GdTWyKXpdvpDAQxZF24v807H4HaSvd3dq4idWXj-R_PHG0aBf_mJynchBld-DBQ0EsJyw4yZVPXs6IEW9HJGempEyjcqAmRHYTHr6n75tXm/s1600/kevin_obrien_1863141c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC09J53n2OYkYIZaytvqE4b7fQLI806Jnn1GdTWyKXpdvpDAQxZF24v807H4HaSvd3dq4idWXj-R_PHG0aBf_mJynchBld-DBQ0EsJyw4yZVPXs6IEW9HJGempEyjcqAmRHYTHr6n75tXm/s320/kevin_obrien_1863141c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><h2>The highs and the lows of the 2011 Cricket World Cup. </h2><div id="mainBodyArea"><div class="firstPar"><b></b><span class="caption" style="color: blue;">Sensational: Kevin O'Brien's innings against England will live long in the memory</span><br />
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<b>What it has proved...</b><br />
That 50 overs per side on a dry pitch is far and away the best format for a one-day cricket match. The ICC president Sharad Pawar may say this World Cup has been a triumph, and it has been less sterile than the last one in the West Indies, but it has again failed to give the sport’s finest talent the right stage often enough. </div><div class="secondPar">There have been far too few interesting matches, the majority of the 49 ending in predictably huge margins, and far too much travelling for all concerned, in far too long a period. But those games - whether high or low-scoring - between evenly matched sides have shown that a 50-over match on a dry pitch can be cricket at its best. </div><div class="thirdPar"><b>Best run-chase...</b><br />
Ireland knocking off 328 to beat England - with not only three wickets but five whole balls remaining. What is more, Ireland had been 111 for five off 24.2 overs. Has any one-day international been won from a more hopeless position? </div><div class="fourthPar"><b>Worst run-chase...</b><br />
South Africa not even getting close to the 222 they needed to beat New Zealand in the quarter-final and losing by 49 runs. </div><div class="fifthPar"><b>Bravest innings...</b><br />
Faced with a baying crowd in Ahmedabad, and calls for his resignation from the Australian captaincy, and handicapped by a left finger that is still a painful mess, Ricky Ponting scored a century. </div><div class="related_links_inline"><div class="headerOne styleFour"><h2>Related Articles</h2></div><ul><li class="bullet"> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/cricket-world-cup/8421391/India-v-Sri-Lanka-Cricket-World-Cup-final-2011-live.html">India v Sri Lanka: as it happened</a> <br />
<span class="relContDate">02 Apr 2011</span> </li>
<li class="bullet"> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/cricket-world-cup/8423805/India-v-Sri-Lanka-captains-innings-from-Mahendra-Singh-Dhoni-seals-World-Cup-with-final-flourish.html">India win the World Cup</a> <br />
<span class="relContDate">02 Apr 2011</span> </li>
<li class="bullet"> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/cricket-world-cup/8423254/India-v-Sri-Lanka-Jeff-Crowe-in-more-World-Cup-final-controversy-after-toss-confusion-in-Mumbai.html">Toss sees final start in controversy</a> <br />
<span class="relContDate">02 Apr 2011</span> </li>
<li class="photo"> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/cricket-world-cup/8423308/India-v-Sri-Lanka-Cricket-World-Cup-Final-2011-in-pictures.html">The final reckoning</a> <br />
<span class="relContDate">02 Apr 2011</span> </li>
<li class="bullet"> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/cricket-world-cup/8423362/India-v-Sri-Lanka-Mahela-Jayawardene-century-leaves-World-Cup-final-in-balance.html">Final left in balance after Jayawardene ton</a> <br />
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</ul></div><div class="body"><b>Best individual performance...</b><br />
Against England, Kevin O’Brien hit 24 off 11 balls from James Anderson, 24 off nine balls from Tim Bresnan, and 21 off 11 balls from Graeme Swann. In all, he hit 113 from 63 balls. <br />
The best way for England to improve as a 50-over team Given the blanket ban on 50-over county cricket by the far-sighted England and Wales Cricket Board, select Kevin O’Brien, of Ireland, and Ryan ten Doeschate, of Holland. <br />
<b>Best Asian XI for a match against the best non-Asian XI...</b><br />
Based largely on performance in this tournament, and on a typical pitch in this tournament: Sehwag, Tendulkar, Dilshan, Sangakkara (wk/capt), Yuvraj, Mathews, Afridi, Harbajan, Zaheer, Malinga and Muralitharan. 12th man: Hafeez. <br />
<b>Best non-Asian XI...</b><br />
Based largely on performance in this tournament: Watson, Strauss, Trott, Kallis, de Villiers (wkt), ten Doeschate, K O’Brien, Lee, Vettori (capt), Swann and Steyn. 12th man: Peterson. <br />
<b>Best collective performance...</b><br />
The umpires. The top handful really are excellent and don’t really need the technology of the Decision Review System, except to prove to everyone how good they are. <br />
<b>A worthy cause...</b><br />
The ICC has done a commendable job in helping to de-stigmatise Aids, but the sight of a red ribbon on the shoulder of international cricketers has become too familiar. It would be just as worthy to highlight the female infanticide that now goes on in south Asia: India’s latest census reveals there are now only 914 females, even though they live longer, to every 1000 males. <br />
<b>Poignant reminder...</b><br />
The Taj Mahal in Mumbai - the hotel of the cricket world - is fully functioning again, following the terrifying terrorist attack of November 2008. The Windsor across the park from the MCG in Melbourne, and the Hilton overlooking the Savannah in Port-of-Spain, have had their moments but this is still the place. <br />
In addition to the players enjoying respite from fans outside, cricket administrators have been planning how to make sure no active politician ever becomes ICC president again, after Pawar. <br />
The security is so intense traffic has been banned from the street outside, and the Gateway of India is deserted, but that allows the crows to be heard in the trees surrounding the pool. After the violence, again, birdsong. </div></div></div>M. Irfan Zafarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634596219590700990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092065078012004545.post-60400251485185693162011-04-02T19:55:00.000-07:002011-04-02T20:10:13.033-07:00Hundreds stage pillow fight in central London<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01863/pillow_1863078c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01863/pillow_1863078c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<h2>On International Pillow Fight Day, hundreds flocked to Trafalgar Square in central London to bop one another over the head. </h2><h2></h2><div class="firstPar">Tom Nizio had come equipped for a fight – with starry pyjama trousers on his legs and a pillow in his rucksack. </div><div class="secondPar">"I love this kind of fun," said Mr Nizio, 29, from Acton, west London, surveying the gathering crowd in Trafalgar Square yesterday. "I heard about it on Facebook, and just thought, I've got to have some of this." </div><div class="thirdPar">He released the pillow from his rucksack and set off on his rollerblades. It was about to begin – the novelty addition to the London season, International Pillow Fight Day. </div><div class="fourthPar">Organised – sort of – in cities around the world, International Pillow Fight Day can best be described as a global gathering of those who have yet to grow out of pillow fights, with a bit of charity fund-raising on the side. </div><div class="fifthPar">It is the brainchild of Kevin Bracken and Lori Kufner, who, in 2005 while students at Toronto University in Canada, founded the art group Newmindspace.<br />
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<div class="body">International Pillow Fight Day started in 2008, but pillow fighting has always been part of Bracken and Kufner's <i>oeuvre</i>. Indeed, judging by their online "how-to" guide, it can change the world. <br />
"This is a building block of our goal to spread free event culture to every corner of the world. <br />
"Imagine that anywhere on the face of the Earth, there may some day be free, fun, massive public events like pillow fights and interactive art installations on every day of the year. <br />
"Imagine that in the future, we will be united by our drive to live free, fun public lives! That is the era we dream of." <br />
None of which seemed to put anyone off. They had come to Trafalgar Square in their hundreds, in fluffy slippers, dressing gowns, skintight jumpsuits, elephant outfits and other liberal interpretations of the pyjama dress code. <br />
Some had no sensible reason to be here. <br />
"There's not much thought gone into it," said Fredrika Drake, 25, a waitress from Camden, north London. "I just thought – awesome! Fun!" <br />
Others may have thought about it too much. <br />
Josie Colgate, 32, a sales adviser, brandished her pillow and glanced slyly at her boyfriend Sam Hobson, 28, from Maidstone, Kent. <br />
"He's my main target. I don't normally get the opportunity." <br />
The klaxon sounded. Trafalgar Square filled with about 200 swinging pillows and innumerable flying feathers. <br />
All this, in front of smiling Police officers – despite an apparent lack of any official permission. <br />
At the Greater London Authority, the landowner of Trafalgar Square, a Mayoral spokeswoman said tersely: "No permission has been given. We are not providing further comment." <br />
Perhaps unsurprisingly, whoever was "organising" Saturday's pillow fight had adopted the "I'm Spartacus" approach to leadership responsibility. <br />
On the section of the International Pillow Fight Day's website inviting each city's organisers to identify who was hosting their event, the Londoners had simply entered: "We all are." <br />
It fitted the philosophy of the movement's founders, which may appeal to anyone trying to cut through red tape to organise a Royal Wedding street party. <br />
"Never ask permission," Bracken and Kufner have written. "It is very unlikely anybody will say yes. The permit culture we citizens witness in city halls around the world is perhaps the single largest barrier to experiencing the full richness of public life in the cities we live in. Public assembly is a human right." <br />
And money from the £5 "whack n' keep" souvenir pillows was going to raise funds for aid to the tsunami-struck areas of Japan. <br />
Similar scenes were being re-enacted yesterday in about 130 locations, from Adelaide, Australia, to Zurich, Switzerland - via Chisinau, Moldova; Caracas, Venezuela; and Seoul, South Korea. <br />
As for Tom the rollerblading builder, he was last seen charging into the melee offering the closest that anyone came to tactical insight. <br />
"I'm just going to go in and hit anyone who comes in my way." <br />
He vanished into in a cloud of feathers, pillows and pyjamas – the fog of pillow combat. </div></div></div>M. Irfan Zafarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634596219590700990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092065078012004545.post-11522216785482271202011-03-28T20:25:00.000-07:002011-03-28T20:25:28.137-07:00Rs 100cr riding on Sachin’s 100th international century<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix4ZFSqiqPH7nB0E9e0HG7WjxSXC5qkf4S8HDQrtfL_ufOjOd-VxrlaUM-E_Q904yN5A7_41JZ54PT3SBKHu4l1T_YZFn6qTKWV27NoiHxs5k2ZEfEpvCFl7zXDjClf8wLEVVSnlyF6TC2/s1600/ddee9d02-19a4-4cee-9940-56078409740cMediumRes.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix4ZFSqiqPH7nB0E9e0HG7WjxSXC5qkf4S8HDQrtfL_ufOjOd-VxrlaUM-E_Q904yN5A7_41JZ54PT3SBKHu4l1T_YZFn6qTKWV27NoiHxs5k2ZEfEpvCFl7zXDjClf8wLEVVSnlyF6TC2/s320/ddee9d02-19a4-4cee-9940-56078409740cMediumRes.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="color: blue;">Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar during a training session at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. India and Sri......</div><br />
It’s a Rs 100-crore question. Will Sachin Tendulkar get his 100th international century in the World Cup semi-final clash between India and Pakistan at Mohali on Wednesday? Bookies, who have already accepted bets of Rs60 crore on Tendulkar scoring a century against Pakistan, expect the figure to cross the Rs100-crore mark by Wednesday. <br />
<div class="story_lft_wid"> <div class="gry-line"> </div><div class="stry-bot-margin"> </div><div class="stry-bot-margin"> </div><div> </div><div class="stry-bot-margin"> </div></div>“The craze surrounding Sachin’s 100th international hundred, especially against Pakistan, has given us a good business opportunity,” said a city bookie, requesting anonymity because the betting business is illegal.<br />
He added that despite the odds going against Tendulkar’s ton, most people are placing bets in his favour.<br />
The odds on Tendulkar scoring a century are Rs 4.5 per rupee bet. But bookies are hopeful of Sachin scoring a half-century — the odds are Rs 1.1 per rupee bet. The lower the rate, the higher the chances of that result taking place.<br />
Not just Tendulkar, bookies feel that neither an Indian nor a Pakistani player would be able to score a century on Wednesday. “That’s because both sides are expected to give 100% in fielding and bowling, thereby restricting runs,” the bookie explained.<br />
The bookies also expect Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh to score 50 runs and more.<br />
India are favoured to win the match against Pakistan with the odds of 62 paise for every rupee. Pakistan are far behind with a rate of Rs 1.55.<br />
India are also favourites to lift the World Cup and are quoted at Rs 1.62 per rupee bet. Sri Lanka follow closely with a rate of Rs 1.8.<br />
Bookies also expect a record turnover for the India-Pakistan match. “The match is expected to generate around Rs 6,000 crore,” the bookie said. This would be the highest turnover for a single cricket match. The India-Australia match on March 24 had witnessed a business of Rs 2,000 crore.<br />
<div class="bot_margin"> </div><div class="clr_both"> </div></div>M. Irfan Zafarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634596219590700990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092065078012004545.post-737947093738266162011-03-28T20:20:00.000-07:002011-03-28T20:20:24.766-07:00Protesters clash with police in Mohali<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPqXsVGoemJNlq4hJ4YRNNdpMQLcA_uPCk6AsYi9yhi3pW6E-FUhWsSk-Pw4-33L4rvqUDUwCeURs5fjj0zU95X7vtuPLe8SH6BcSKwmeqLUIfoyOCwrKq0MgWf0I5Y1de8E1WjTr4N4DS/s1600/ARV_MOHALI_514430f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPqXsVGoemJNlq4hJ4YRNNdpMQLcA_uPCk6AsYi9yhi3pW6E-FUhWsSk-Pw4-33L4rvqUDUwCeURs5fjj0zU95X7vtuPLe8SH6BcSKwmeqLUIfoyOCwrKq0MgWf0I5Y1de8E1WjTr4N4DS/s320/ARV_MOHALI_514430f.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span style="color: red;">Security personnel guarding the PCA stadium ahead of the Cricket World Cup semifinal match between Pakistan and India in Mohali on Monday.</span><br />
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<div class="body"> The security apparatus of the PCA stadium, scheduled to host the World Cup semifinal, was tested here today as pharmacists from the state staged a vociferous protest when the Pakistani team was practicing inside the stadium. </div><div class="body"> The agitating pharmacists, working on contract, were demanding regularisation of their jobs and had gathered here from various parts of Punjab, police sources said. </div><div class="body"> The Police used tear gas shells and water canons to control the protesters. One media—person, who was caught in the melee, was hurt. </div><div class="body"> Dozens of OB vans and camera crew are currently stationed outside the stadium. Prime Ministers of both India and Pakistan and a host of VVIPs are scheduled to come here on Wednesday to watch the match between the traditional rivals. </div><div class="body"> Police said protesters pelted stones at the cops and damaged some private vehicles. </div><div class="body"> However, the agitators alleged police high handedness, saying they were holding a peaceful protest in support of their demands </div><div class="body"><br />
</div></div>M. Irfan Zafarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634596219590700990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092065078012004545.post-35340515623127476632011-03-26T22:37:00.000-07:002011-03-26T22:37:17.462-07:00F.B.I. Casts Wide Net Under Relaxed Rules for Terror Inquiries, Data Show<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-vrqXj4Br0k-soMusxQwHV_rfWnXvZbfzTfpjrTZypaMJKqW2iLLQDz-PLXZa_UdD73qrSgLU1FWJkImNObKHmT4wCwVs5RFBOxWc10NoftA2YQBM6-DJ6v2FbqV4h29qc81jYipCiS8/s1600/FBI-2-HOLDER-popup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-vrqXj4Br0k-soMusxQwHV_rfWnXvZbfzTfpjrTZypaMJKqW2iLLQDz-PLXZa_UdD73qrSgLU1FWJkImNObKHmT4wCwVs5RFBOxWc10NoftA2YQBM6-DJ6v2FbqV4h29qc81jYipCiS8/s320/FBI-2-HOLDER-popup.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> John Ashcroft, an attorney general in the Bush administration, loosened F.B.I. rules after the Sept. 11 attacks. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn05cZa9BHxP6TiktT7YJX3uObwmN2EiPKgW915I7EUxlW-sGKWz7-JNX_BgNh4HE4c-k-Ca-OBI1Pgy9rc3lInhj6JrloEWq3-fOERtshxi04mShxfK6uLkLxOS23sydobIrQQXpdUZWC/s1600/FBI-1-ASCROFT-popup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn05cZa9BHxP6TiktT7YJX3uObwmN2EiPKgW915I7EUxlW-sGKWz7-JNX_BgNh4HE4c-k-Ca-OBI1Pgy9rc3lInhj6JrloEWq3-fOERtshxi04mShxfK6uLkLxOS23sydobIrQQXpdUZWC/s320/FBI-1-ASCROFT-popup.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., has not changed policies on F.B.I. investigation rules that were relaxed by the Bush administration in 2008.<br />
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WASHINGTON — Within months after the Bush administration <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/us/29manual.html" title="New York Times article.">relaxed limits</a> on domestic-intelligence gathering in late 2008, the <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/federal_bureau_of_investigation/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the Federal Bureau of Investigation.">F.B.I.</a> assessed thousands of people and groups in search of evidence that they might be criminals or terrorists, a <a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/politics/20110326-FBI.pdf" title="Justice Department letter (PDF).">newly disclosed Justice Department document</a> shows. <br />
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In a vast majority of those cases, F.B.I. agents did not find suspicious information that could justify more intensive investigations. The New York Times obtained the data, which the F.B.I. had tried to keep secret, after filing a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act. <br />
The document, which covers the four months from December 2008 to March 2009, says the F.B.I. initiated 11,667 “assessments” of people and groups. Of those, 8,605 were completed. And based on the information developed in those low-level inquiries, agents opened 427 more intensive investigations, it says. <br />
The statistics shed new light on the F.B.I.’s activities in the post-Sept. 11 era, as the bureau’s focus has shifted from investigating crimes to trying to detect and disrupt potential criminal and terrorist activity. <br />
It is not clear, though, whether any charges resulted from the inquiries. And because the F.B.I. provided no comparable figures for a period before the rules change, it is impossible to determine whether the numbers represent an increase in investigations. <br />
Still, privacy advocates contend that the large number of assessments that turned up no sign of wrongdoing show that the rules adopted by the Bush administration have created too low a threshold for starting an inquiry. Attorney General <a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/eric_h_holder_jr/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Eric H. Jr. Holder.">Eric H. Holder Jr.</a> has left those rules in place. <br />
Michael German, a former F.B.I. agent who is now a policy counsel for the <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/american_civil_liberties_union/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)">American Civil Liberties Union</a>, argued that the volume of fruitless assessments showed that the Obama administration should tighten the rules. <br />
“These are investigations against completely innocent people that are now bound up within the F.B.I.’s intelligence system forever,” Mr. German said. “Is that the best way for the F.B.I. to use its resources?” <br />
But Valerie E. Caproni, the bureau’s general counsel, said the numbers showed that agents were running down any hint of a potential problem — including vigilantly checking out potential leads that might have been ignored before the Sept. 11 attacks. <br />
“Recognize that the F.B.I.’s policy — that I think the American people would support — is that any terrorism lead has to be followed up,” Ms. Caproni said. “That means, on a practical level, that things that 10 years ago might just have been ignored now have to be followed up.” <br />
F.B.I. investigations are controlled by guidelines first put in place by Attorney General Edward H. Levi during the Ford administration, after the disclosure that the bureau had engaged in illegal domestic spying for decades. After the Sept. 11 attacks, those rules were loosened by Attorney General <a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/john_ashcroft/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about John Ashcroft.">John Ashcroft</a> and then again by Attorney General <a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/michael_b_mukasey/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Michael B Mukasey">Michael B. Mukasey</a>. <br />
Some Democrats and civil liberties groups <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/washington/21fbi.html" title="New York Times article.">protested</a> the Mukasey guidelines, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/washington/04fbi.html" title="New York Times article.">contending</a> that the new rules could open the door to racial or religious profiling and to fishing expeditions against Americans. <br />
In 2006, The New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/politics/17spy.html" title="New York Times article.">reported</a> that the <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/national_security_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about National Security Agency, U.S.">National Security Agency</a> had each month been flooding the bureau with thousands of names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses that its surveillance and data-mining programs had deemed suspicious. But frustrated agents found that virtually all of the tips led to dead ends or innocent Americans. <br />
When the Mukasey guidelines went into effect in December 2008, they allowed the F.B.I. to use a new category of investigation called an “assessment.” It permits an agent, “proactively or based on investigative leads,” to scrutinize a person or a group for signs of a criminal or national security threat, according to the <a href="http://documents.nytimes.com/the-new-operations-manual-from-the-f-b-i" title="Copy of the manual.">F.B.I. manual</a>. <br />
The manual also says agents need “no particular factual predication” about a target to open an assessment, although the basis “cannot be arbitrary or groundless speculation.” And in selecting subjects for such scrutiny, agents are allowed to use ethnicity, religion or speech protected by the First Amendment as a factor — as long as it is not the only one. <br />
An assessment is less intensive than a more traditional “preliminary” inquiry or a “full” investigation, which requires greater reason to suspect wrongdoing but also allows agents to use more intrusive information-gathering techniques, like wiretapping. <br />
Still, in conducting an assessment, agents are allowed to use other techniques — searching databases, interviewing the subjects or people who know them, sending confidential informers to infiltrate an organization, attending a public meeting like a political rally or a religious service, and following and photographing people in public places. <br />
In March 2009, <a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/russell_d_feingold/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Russell D. Feingold.">Russ Feingold</a>, then a Democratic senator from Wisconsin, asked the F.B.I. how many assessments it had initiated under the new guidelines and how many regular investigations had been opened based on information developed by those assessments. <br />
In November 2010, the Justice Department sent a classified letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee answering Mr. Feingold’s question. This month, it provided an uncensored copy of the same answer to The Times as a result of its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. <br />
F.B.I. officials said in an interview that the statistics represented a snapshot as of late March 2009, so the 11,667 assessment files were generated over a roughly four-month period. But they said they believed that agents had continued to open assessments at roughly the same pace since then. <br />
Some aspects of the statistics are hazy, officials cautioned. <br />
For example, even before the December 2008 changes, the bureau routinely followed up on low-grade tips and leads under different rules. But that activity was not formally tracked as an “assessment” that could be easily counted and compared. <br />
F.B.I. officials also said about 30 percent of the 11,667 assessments were just vague tips — like a report of a suspicious car that included no license plate number. Such tips are entered into its computer system even if there is no way to follow up on them. <br />
Finally, they said, it is impossible to know precisely how many assessments turned up suspicious facts. A single assessment may have spun off more than one higher investigation, and some agents may have neglected to record when such an investigation started as an assessment. <br />
Ms. Caproni also said that even though the F.B.I. manual says agents can open assessments “proactively,” they still must always have a valid reason — like a tip that is not solid enough to justify a more intensive level of investigation but should still be checked out. <br />
But Mr. German, of the A.C.L.U., said that allowing agents to initiate investigations without a factual basis “seems ripe for abuse.” He added, “What they should be doing is working within stricter guidelines that help them focus on real threats rather than spending time chasing shadows.”<br />
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</div>M. Irfan Zafarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634596219590700990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092065078012004545.post-49045022078644051702011-03-22T19:47:00.000-07:002011-03-22T19:47:50.463-07:00Ponting to quit after World Cup: reports<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoEtABGzpH5T5hcit89rLbhjJxki7bZzps7k_w3WswUzOmEhI_rAWy_cqFTNhdf-a8pySPySiLgbjyOkvnblQ1Vt699L7oa1wPbgGOd6f9TJ_Hr3foMTY31C31b0Gt-_Y2w_Hh-uX-FCBP/s1600/Ponting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoEtABGzpH5T5hcit89rLbhjJxki7bZzps7k_w3WswUzOmEhI_rAWy_cqFTNhdf-a8pySPySiLgbjyOkvnblQ1Vt699L7oa1wPbgGOd6f9TJ_Hr3foMTY31C31b0Gt-_Y2w_Hh-uX-FCBP/s320/Ponting.jpg" width="177" /></a></div><b style="color: blue;">Ricky Ponting's World Cup campaign has been filled with much-publicised frustrations.</b><div class="first">Besieged Australian captain Ricky Ponting reportedly plans to retire from international cricket at the end of his team's World Cup campaign.</div>England's MailOnline website claims in an unsourced report that Ponting - Australia's most successful skipper - will resign if his side loses to India in tomorrow night's quarter-final in Ahmedabad.<br />
The website says Ponting wants to end his career captaining an English county side.<br />
The 36-year-old has come under increasing pressure recently after a string of poor performances with the bat and several shows of frustration.<br />
Ponting has managed just 102 runs at 20.40 at the World Cup, less than half his 358-match career average.<br />
He has not scored a one-day international century in more than a year, his most recent coming when he struck 106 against the West Indies in February 2010 at the Gabba.<br />
<h2>Axing talk 'gutless'</h2>Meanwhile, Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) chief Paul Marsh has lashed out at talk that Ponting could be axed as captain as "gutless" and "irresponsible".<br />
Marsh was seething at a report in the Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday, citing an unnamed Cricket Australia official as saying there was stiff opposition at boardroom level to Ponting staying in the job.<br />
"We need to be looking at the future. It's time for us to make a change," said the official in comments that reverberated around the Australian camp in India.<br />
Marsh was not impressed, particularly with the speculation coming so close to the India quarter-final clash on Thursday.<br />
"Firstly, if a senior official is going to make such inflammatory comments about our national captain, and one of this country's greatest-ever players, how about having the guts to at least put your name to them," he said.<br />
"Secondly, the team is days away from one of its biggest games in recent memory and now they have to deal with the speculation and discussion surrounding these irresponsible comments.<br />
"I've been scratching my head all day trying to work out why someone associated with CA would make these comments two days before a World Cup quarter-final."<br />
Ponting, who has been captain for nine years, was under pressure even before the World Cup, having earned the dubious distinction of becoming the only Australian skipper to fail to win the Ashes three times.<br />
He has done himself no favours in India, taking a reprimand from the International Cricket Council after smashing a dressing-room TV in a fit of fury after being run out during Australia's win over Zimbabwe.<br />
He was also criticised for angrily throwing the ball to the ground after colliding with team-mate Steven Smith during their victory over Canada, and for failing to walk in Saturday's defeat to Pakistan.<br />
But the team has rallied round the star batsman.<br />
"From my point of view he's the best man for the job, and has been our leader for a long time. He's certainly got the full support of all the team. We love having him as our captain," said Michael Hussey.<br />
</div>M. Irfan Zafarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634596219590700990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092065078012004545.post-54408326319619231442011-03-22T19:43:00.000-07:002011-03-22T19:43:02.311-07:00Defeat the Libyan regime. And then?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfRbN4C0EFjdzPtG40lvFPG0wrmOeQtEkGqlZ4ojPHGAHz2iyjNolI8mY-s3u720OgPJcWkMLoQrOqjTC5aEYgMlL9Z9J7O86jWdrYU75xzKqJ13KwhDMqrinwidhTaRAAWO_0k76k4uz0/s1600/mushroom-libya-620_1853034b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfRbN4C0EFjdzPtG40lvFPG0wrmOeQtEkGqlZ4ojPHGAHz2iyjNolI8mY-s3u720OgPJcWkMLoQrOqjTC5aEYgMlL9Z9J7O86jWdrYU75xzKqJ13KwhDMqrinwidhTaRAAWO_0k76k4uz0/s320/mushroom-libya-620_1853034b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b style="color: red;"><span class="caption">Vehicles belonging to forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi explode after an air strike by coalition forces</span></b> <br />
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In 1975, Muammar Gaddafi told the Italian journalist Mirella Bianco: "When the people takes power it becomes its own government; and at that moment it is I who will find myself in opposition." Now, with British and French combat jets targeting the Libyan regime's murderous campaign to regain rebel-held cities, part of that statement appears prophetic: 42 years after Col Gaddafi seized power, dusk appears to be upon a man Anwar Sadat, Egypt's late president, once described as "100 per cent sick and possessed by the devil".<br />
<div class="secondPar">Libya's anaemic military won't be hard to defeat. From the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, though, we have learnt that the real test of an intervention isn't the defeat of the regime it targets: it is what comes next. There is good reason to fear that the people's own government of which Col Gaddafi spoke won't be much better than the dystopia that preceded it.</div><div class="thirdPar">Power in Libya's rebel-held regions now lies with a disordered mosaic of tribal patriarchs and mid-ranking military officers who have abandoned the regime for more primordial allegiances.</div><div class="fourthPar">Eastern Libya's Zuwaya and Misratah tribal chieftains, who enjoyed great power before Col Gaddafi took over, sense an opportunity to seize control of oil revenues. In the west, the Warfala, under pressure from the regime since an abortive 1993 rebellion, see a chance to settle scores.</div><div class="fifthPar">For the most part, this leadership seems to have a moral compass that points in much the same direction as that of the regime. Tarek Saad Husain, a Benghazi-based rebel commander, warned the residents of Col Gaddafi's home town: "Either you join us, or we will finish you."</div><div class="related_links_inline"> <div class="headerOne styleOne"><h2><span>Related Articles</span></h2></div><ul><li class="bullet"> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8394319/Libya-Col-Gaddafi-vows-to-defeat-colonial-air-strikes.html">Gaddafi vows to defeat 'colonial' airstrikes</a> <br />
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</ul></div><div class="body">Libya's tribes, moreover, aren't the only ones flying their flags on the streets. Fighters have established an Islamic emirate in Derna, 775 miles from Tripoli, while jihadists trained in Sudan and Afghanistan are said to be fighting alongside tribal rebels.<br />
To make sense of this exceptionally muddy landscape one needs an understanding of Libya's complex political history. Libya has been described as "anti-state": deriving power not through taxation but rents from oil; through the provision of patronage, rather than real institutions; through terror rather than a functional military. The country's armed forces, for example, were only 91,000 strong at their peak in the 1980s – about a third of the number needed, the expert Anthony Cordesman has estimated, to operate its gargantuan equipment stockpiles.<br />
In 1969, when a group of military officers led by Col Gaddafi overthrew King Idris bin Muhammad as-Senussi, they won neither a nation nor a state – and kept it that way.<br />
Libya's Ottoman rulers had left large swaths of the country ungoverned. Italian colonialism brought together Tripolitania in the west, Cyrenaica in the east, and arid central Fezzan, through a ferocious war that ran from 1922 to 1935, and involved the liberal use of poison gas against tribesmen.<br />
Eastern tribes, who played a key role in the struggle against the Italians, won out in the negotiations that led to Libya's independence. King Idris, their figurehead, received the throne as a Christmas Eve gift in 1951.<br />
King Idris was the grandson of Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, the founder of a religious order inspired by the fundamentalist Wahhabi order of Saudi Arabia. The Senussi commanded great influence in eastern Libya, where they successfully arbitrated between feuding tribes.<br />
The monarchy soon accumulated unprecedented wealth. In 1953, Britain obtained the rights to station troops in Libya for £3.75 million a year; the United States leased an airbase at $4 million a year. The last nine years of King Idris's rule also saw Libya become the world's fifth-largest oil exporter.<br />
But the boom led to growing income disparities and a surge of migrants into Tripoli. The city doubled in size between 1960 and 1964, creating joblessness and social tensions on a scale the monarchy simply couldn't handle.<br />
King Idris's regime, the scholar Carole Collins has noted, needed "to perform the functions of a national bourgeoisie – to regenerate and reinvest capital, and to develop infrastructure". <br />
Instead, the monarchy, described by the former American diplomat James Akins as "one of the most corrupt in the world", survived by funnelling funds to its clients among the eastern tribes.<br />
Following the coup, Col Gaddafi continued with the system – though his own Qadhafa tribe and its allies became the principal beneficiaries of the patronage system, instead of their eastern rivals.<br />
In return for their loyalty, tribal leaders received benefits such as key jobs and contracts in projects like the £7.5 billion man-made river that sucks water from underground aquifers to feed Libya's cities and farms.<br />
Gaddafi's manifesto, <i>The Green Book</i>, applauded the tribe as a form of "natural social protection". The state, by contrast, was an "artificial political, economic and sometimes military system which has no link to human values".<br />
Luis Martinez, in his book The Libyan Paradox, pointed to the pre-modern regime-building practices of revolutionary Libya. Khuwaylidi al-Hamidi, the chief of police, married his son, Khalid, to Gaddafi's flamboyant daughter, Aisha Gaddafi, and one of his daughters to the ruler's son, Saadi.<br />
The army became the stage on which tribal tensions were played out – just as they had been before the coup.<br />
In 1993, for example, Abdel Salam Jalloud – Libya's long-standing second-in-command and a trusted lieutenant who had, in 1970, been dispatched to offer China £75 million for a nuclear weapon – attempted to seize power.<br />
Mr Jalloud's Magariha tribe backed him, along with the Warfalla and al-Zintan – much the same coalition that is fighting Col Gaddafi today. Intense fighting was seen in the Bani Walid area, 80 miles south-east of Tripoli. But the air force, packed with recruits from Col Gaddafi's Qadhafa, held fast and the regime won.<br />
Eight plotters were executed in January 1997. Later that year, new laws institutionalised collective punishment of tribes through the denial of entitlements as the punishment for rebellion.<br />
Even as Col Gaddafi moved to suppress tribal tensions, though, a new threat was emerging. In the 1980s, he had encouraged thousands of Libyans to join the jihad in Afghanistan, as part of his desire to emerge as a leader of the Islamic world. But when they returned to Libya, they served a different god. <br />
In 1984, Libyan authorities hanged two students alleged to have been members of Islamist groups on the campus of the al-Fateh university in Tripoli; nine more were executed at Benghazi in 1987.<br />
Fighting between the al-Qaeda-linked Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and regime forces in Benghazi claimed dozens of lives in 1995. In 1996, there was further fighting around Derna and Benghazi. Britain, according to David Shayler, a former MI5 officer, funded the LIFG, to punish Col Gaddafi's support of terrorists in the west. Even though the LIFG was eventually crushed, and, following the events of 9/11, internationally proscribed, the jihadists had gained political legitimacy. In May 2009, thousands attended the funeral of Ali Mohamed al-Fakheri, a high-ranking al-Qaeda member who died in a Tripoli prison.<br />
Libyan Islamists have, worryingly, been winning battles for the first time this year. Last month, jihadists led by rebel military officer Adnan al-Nawisri seized hundreds of weapons and vehicles from depots in Derna and proclaimed what they are calling the Islamic Emirate of Barqa, the ancient name for western Libya.<br />
Abdelkarim al-Hasadi, who fought with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, appears to have de facto control of the Derna Emirate. Men like al-Hasadi are certain to get what support al-Qaeda can muster. Osama bin Laden's inner circle includes Muhammad Hassan Qayid, known also as Abu Yahya al-Libi, the younger brother of the LIFG leader Abdul Wahhab Qayid Idris. <br />
For decades, the social conditions for an Islamist insurgency did not exist in Libya. In a 1999 interview, LIFG spokesperson Omar Rashed lamented that Libya's people had not "passed beyond the stage of sentiments to the stage of action".<br />
Paradoxically, the neoliberal economic policies ushered in by Shokri Ghanem, the prime minister, and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the ruler's son, may have helped just that to happen, by weakening the patronage networks on which the regime was built. <br />
Libya's tribal patriarchs may wish only for a redistribution of the spoils of power, not a revolution. <br />
But many young people see the regime's pro-western policies as the root of their problems and want more fundamental changes.<br />
If the Libyan war drags on, warring tribal factions will seek support where they can find it – and the jihadists will be happy to oblige them.<br />
"War is the father of all things," wrote the Greek poet and philosopher Heraclitus, "the king of all: some it has shown as gods, some as men; some it has made slaves, some free." His lesson is simple: we must beware the consequences not just of defeat, but also of victory. </div><div class="oneSixth"><br />
</div></div>M. Irfan Zafarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634596219590700990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092065078012004545.post-30000100365343057512011-03-19T20:44:00.000-07:002011-03-19T21:28:59.884-07:00Pakistan halt Aussies winning streak, take top spot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdR2DhBJB6O1eTPWkdMyajvHp2xRogGZ6kA2Qnj23kggbORjBVLWKQr7Pe3bkwjFKRNlXP4msdJJMn2q8HU8etgRUyGuwMad53_fh5yco7Ph5maquatoYppiyANVPL1NQLAQrLHq_FJpSH/s1600/cricket.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdR2DhBJB6O1eTPWkdMyajvHp2xRogGZ6kA2Qnj23kggbORjBVLWKQr7Pe3bkwjFKRNlXP4msdJJMn2q8HU8etgRUyGuwMad53_fh5yco7Ph5maquatoYppiyANVPL1NQLAQrLHq_FJpSH/s320/cricket.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">COLOMBO: Pakistan stopped Australia’s unbeaten 34-match run in the World Cup and secured top spot on their group table, beating the defending champions by four wickets in their final match of the Group A here at the R Premadasa Stadium on Saturday.<br />
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Chasing an easy target of 177 runs, Pakistan completed victory with nine overs to spare but they lost six wickets in the process.<br />
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Umar Gul took three for 30 to help Pakistan dismiss Australia for 176 -- their lowest World Cup total since 1992 -- before Umar Akmal hit an unbeaten 44 to steer Pakistan to victory in 41 overs, finishing top of the pool with 10 points.<br />
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Pakistan, champions in 1992, will play the fourth placed team in Group B, while Australia (nine points) finished third behind Sri Lanka (nine points) on run-rate and will play the second placed team from Group B.<br />
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This was Australia's first defeat in the World Cup since losing to Pakistan by 10 runs in Leeds in 1999.<br />
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But the champions, led by spearhead Brett Lee (4-28), fought hard and twice raised hopes of an unlikely win.<br />
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Pakistan were cruising along on 98-2 before Lee derailed the chase in his first over of his second spell, dismissing Younis Khan (31) and Misbah-ul-Haq for a first-ball duck -- both caught by keeper Brad Haddin.<br />
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Mitchell Johnson removed Asad Shafiq (46) while Jason Krejza tempted skipper Shahid Afridi (two) to hole out in the deep, but Umar and Abdul Razzaq (20 not out) saw their team home with a cautious 36-run stand for the seventh wicket.<br />
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Razzaq hit two boundaries off spinner Jason Krejza to complete the victory.<br />
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Lee had taken two wickets in his first spell, taking a smart catch off his own bowling to dismiss opener Mohammad Hafeez (five) before trapping Kamran Akmal lbw for 23.<br />
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Shafiq, who hit five boundaries during his 81-ball knock, added 53 with Younis and 41 with Umar to keep Pakistan on track.<br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Earlier, Gul and Razzaq (2-8) exposed the untested Australian batting after Ricky Ponting won the toss and decided to bat on a seemingly flat R. Premadasa stadium pitch.<br />
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Haddin (42), Michael Clarke (34) and Steve Smith (25) offered some resistance as Pakistan applied relentless pressure to take the last seven Australian wickets for a mere 59 runs after they were 117-3.<br />
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Pakistan, who opened the attack with left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman from one end, forced an early breakthrough when Gul bowled opener Shane Watson for nine.<br />
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Haddin added 63 for the second wicket with Ponting (19) before Pakistan struck twice, with Hafeez removing the Australian skipper off a miscued cut, caught by wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal.<br />
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Left-arm paceman Wahab Riaz then had Haddin caught behind by Kamran in the 24th over. Haddin hit three boundaries and a six during his 80-ball knock.<br />
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Pakistan then took four wickets in the space of 30 runs to reduce the Aussies to 147-7 and later Gul removed Krejza and Lee cheaply to wrap the Australian innings for their sixth lowest World Cup total.</span></div></div>M. Irfan Zafarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634596219590700990noreply@blogger.com0