วันพุธที่ 26 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2554

Great Scot, what a bunch of true heroes | Kevin McKenna

forget which is which is the definitive list of the largest in Scotland, which really

Another list of Scotland has been compiled and provided further evidence that some important people in this country should not be allowed on their own.

Who's Who in Scotland asked each of the individuals listed in its latest issue on behalf of the Scottish past 25 100 years. I assume that the invitation was extended only to those who are still alive, but I doot hae mA.

According to these people, Donald Dewar is our great countryman of this period, but it gets worse, the Queen Mother, soaking the age of the colored eggs who hated Gandhi, is number three. Dewar, I'll admit that perhaps maybe the best Scottish Glasgow Garscadden represented at Westminster, but even that was tainted reward when he committed one of the biggest political blunders of all time: to Derry Irvine (Lord Chancellor and painter and decorator back part time) to escape his wife. Previously, Irvine thought impossible even to have escaped with the wife of the deceased in a funeral Armadale.

Almost as politically disastrous was the idea that devolution would kill Scottish nationalism Dewar. Now the place is crawling with them and we will soon ask the Scottish passport and forced to recite "Scots Wha Hae" in the interviews of our citizenship in 2016. Thank you, Donald.

The shallow Who's Who

list includes the usual assortment of predictable behavior worthy and good. It might have been compiled by Ethel and Gertrude on tea and bannocks at Morningside Parish Church needle exchange to raise funds. And yes, once again I find myself having to compile a list of Scottish heroes to remind us what really makes the country brilliant.

helped me in my efforts in this endeavor by some dishes by hand and philosophers of the golden triangle of Glasgow, Vroni planning and Rogan. One rule of the house in the collection of which is already better known under the name Who

Ithna

list. You can never be on the list for two consecutive years. Also open to the Scots who have resided for at least 10 years.


last assigned the nomenclature of the civic and cultural life of Scotland mint cream, including cultural icons like Jim Baxter, Hot Shot Hamish and cannibal Sawney Bean profound misunderstanding Ayrshire, which he has lent his name to a department store chain of coffee up the street. So it's farewell to all.

Here, however, is the new top three on the list of those heroic times of all Scots. A complete list of top 100 is available on request.

Tommy Sheridan

World News
. But not before treating us to the test the funniest Scottish criminal history that included the kind of flesh of imagination had seen only sleepovers Caligula.


Neil Lennon


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Yes, Amanda Knox is guilty. Guilty of being sexually active and female

Obsession media with the privacy of Amanda Knox shows that women are always defined by their sexuality Amanda Knox is a whore? Puta-like? Pork? A man-eating predator that was before the courts, bought

condoms

? Or as they say a lot simpler in the case of the Italian prosecutor and the British tabloids guilty ? Because, after four years of trials and appeals and testimony and evidence, and finally last week it all came up

Sex and the City

character that most resembled. Samantha (ie, sexually voracious - and perhaps capable of killing)? Or Charlotte (sweet and modest, and probably not)

Because even in 2011, as the trial of Amanda Knox has shown with regard to female sexuality, they remain more or less the only two options available. There was a complex graphical representation Madonna / whore, because since 1989 the video for "Like a Prayer" Madonna put on a bra and is sharp with a priest. According to the indictment, was a "sex game gone wrong." The defense has been a serious miscarriage of justice. Amanda Knox was not a prostitute. O innocent. But even then it was a bit complex for some people. These little things are so tedious trials, after all. In fact, it would be much simpler and easier to use a Witchfinder General, or, for example, Amanda Platel.

"What is Amanda Knox so it cools the blood?" Spin Doctor became a guest columnist last week

. Obviously, we can do a simple substitution are the words "Knox" and "Platel" and say something like "allies Gobsmacking hypocrisy almost sociopathic levels of overconfidence," but, unfortunately, Knox, In

CSI levels of moral consideration. "There is something disturbing about Amanda Knox," Platel wrote.

Oh, Amanda. When you will have a stool, avoiding all yours? But then there was more than a touch of the Middle Ages to the case. Not only the environment in the Umbrian hill town, which was missing a demented hunchback and a hooded monk background
The Name of the Rose
, but also his vision of female sexuality as something evil and uncontrolled. If the representation of Amanda Knox in the event that the charge was something Samantha
Sex and the City

, perhaps due more to Lucrezia Borgia. According to the barrister, Amanda Knox was a student at Seattle University, which may or may not have been involved in the murder of her roommate, who was a "demonic, satanic, diabolical devil" who was "dedicated to lust, drugs and alcohol. "
details of the life of Knox were dissected with a mixture of excitement and lust. Condoms. The rabbit vibrator. The pot smoking with her boyfriend. This may or may not have had sex with a stranger on a train. We know how you got the love, because he said, in prison she was HIV positive and asked to be ready before he was told that a mistake had been made, and the list was leaked to a journalist. A video of 33 seconds of Knox on YouTube, which shows that it is a bit annoying, has been viewed 845,000 times (and the characteristics of the final line of light, a friend said: "I know what you gonna do, what we will spot-on on the Internet! "Yep., friend). If the world is confused about Amanda Knox - and judging by the number of acres of newspapers and vicious spat ongoing between those who believe he is guilty and those who insist he is innocent - perhaps because it is not yet clear, and threatened by the sexuality of young women.



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Syria, Libya and Middle East unrest -live updates


. The Syrian security forces killed dozens of people in Hama factions within the rebel Libyan fighter Benghazi

10:12:
A couple of interesting tweets suppression

Syria of Borzou Daragahi, Middle East correspondent for the Los Angeles Times:


activist contacted by telephone in Hama said that the tanks have to penetrate the heart of the city, even in the suburbs. # # Syria 15march

defections Al-Arabiya reports of the five tanks Hama, amateur video shows soldiers kissing militants 15march # # Syria

10:05:

The famous

Syria Director state television, Reem Haddad which made comparisons with Iraq, Ali comic innocent explanations highlight the government's response to sudden events, told Al Jazeera the security forces had entered Hama, because people could not go on their daily lives. She said:

Hama is no longer a part of Hama. It's as if it belonged to another planet. It is not acceptable.

9:59:

At least 45 people died in Hama, according to the Syria

Human Rights Watch.

Rami Abdel Rahman, the Observatory, told AFP.

"between the army and security forces Hama this morning and opened fire on civilians, killing 45 people and injuring several others.


said elsewhere, "six people were killed and 50 wounded by security forces in the eastern town of Deir ez-Zor, and three were killed and dozens injured in the Harak southern region of Deraa. "

9:53:

many are leaving Hama video claiming to be the suppression of today

Syria

security forces. Here is a selection:

This shows the tanks in the streets and a burning truck with gunfire in the background:

This shows thick clouds of black smoke over the city:


9:38:

There are many different accounts on the number of people killed in Hama now floating. The
Syrian

Falling Down

Facebook witnesses as saying that "at least 62 dead and hundreds injured." Others cite the deaths in the 40's, but the the picture remains unclear.



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วันอังคารที่ 25 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2554

Rampant Chelsea a long way off satisfying financial fair play agenda | Owen Gibson

une director nouveau et Les Joueurs de discuter Qui achete l'une d'énormes versez les Frais suggèrent une cordons Pas des resserrement de Dans l'Ouest Bourse de Londres

Quand

Michel Platini, à l'annonce sont le fair-play du programme de qu'il d'occup Jusqu'a financeur owner Chelsea Roman Abramovich, Comme sont champions improbable. Le président de l'UEFA à déclarer partisans du Club du Pour Lui plaid with avait Pressothérapie des Moyens de Contrôle et les wages Comité d'experts de Spirale Générale d'inflation dans la tige.

Toutefois

lui faire de la publicité Russe timidement prison-titre-grabbing lui, Pas Toujours entiérement quoique reussi, Janvier sur UNE paire feuilles £ 74,000,000 David Luiz Fernando Torres et versez versez les réchauffer Une Autre frénésie de expenses . D'Abord avait IL et la rémunération de 5 millions de livres de Carlo Ancelotti, italien réalisateur lui remporté Qui a sa double sera en première saison, MAIS une Été congédié l'après sont deuxième.

Il ya eu

propageront loin, puis £ 13,3 M pour la cause de Porto à activer la clause de la Nouvelle sortie Gestionnaires de 33 ans, Andres Villas-Boas. CELA conduit à la Somme dépensée au recrutement et la DANS le Gestionnaires des Rémunérations et du personnel technique des SEULEMENT UN 69 millions de livres pour achete DEPUIS Chelsea Abramovitch en 2003. Pendentif Temps CE, IL à injecter £ 739m ouest In the Club à Londres.

Maintenant

de la page Retour des Frais crient Manchettes à l'Etude pour d'énormes Luka Modric Tottenham Hotspur, Romelu Lukaku d'Anderlecht, Porto Radamel Falcao, l'Ajax Gregory van der Wiel et retour Santos Neymar attaquant .

à rien n'a Chelsea Changé désastreuses qu'ils entreprises la DANS et Une Stratégie Globale doivent S'inscrire élaborée par l'exécutif, Ron Gourlay, Qui a Encore «point d'Équilibre qui Leur mais. Pourrait être de des outsiders Maïs du commentaire demandeuse Diable, et versez Arriver plan de LE.

Corde

le raid que le projet de loi sera versez du club with Salaires Des plus de Dans la Premier League eleves à 174 millions de livres, à 82% Qui Fonctionne du Revenu, n'est Pas Vous Devez atteindre faciles. Tous Les Deux de Ils doivent essayer d'obtenir une masse salariale Renouvellement mutandis vous-d'ouvre vieillissante D'Une principale de la réduction des Pertes d'avant Qui s'élevait tax à 78 millions de livres et en account L'arrivée des locataires FFP imminente.

Il n'ya plus de very much De Temps que vous croient. Grace A UNE série de réformes négociées par l'Association européenne de club puissant, Qui l'Agence pour remplacer le G-14 va les représenter vues et 191 ainsi que des clubs puissants du continent, la Conformité le chemin de l'UEFA aux rules aux considérablement adouci.

Bien Haut et Fort

parle Platini en soutenant que vous Secteur Privé menace imminente parce que les clubs Réduire des Chaleurs Couts de contrôle ILS Ont qu'ils savent Un peu de grâce.

Les créations nouvelles préoccupations AVEC UNE taille
modèle de 25 Premier League et en Ontario Jusqu'a Besoin de Chelsea, Moyen Âge Alors que l'Salaires et des bas, l'UA Moins d'ATTENDEZ also nombreux quitte à arriver. Beaucoup de Joueurs de club, vous essayer d'avancement, vêtu Ne Pas d'importantes commissions. Yuri Zhirkov, Boswinga José, Florent Malouda, Nicolas Anelka, Salomon Kalou, John Obi Mikel, Paulo Ferreira et Alex, par exemple nominale, Dans CE Domaine Tomber pourraient.

Jusqu'a
Haut Niveau Cinq Joueurs du laissez-Est prévu dans la rotation, plus normale et des jeunes dans le prêt d'Autres operateurs vente. IUP IL déjà Groupe Qui Ont Été des Joueurs Etablis Au coeur du Succès à l'ère Abramovitch de Chelsea, MAIS appelee opportunit representent Villas-Boas grande. Commentaire décidez-vous à Gerer, John Terry, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, Michael Essien et pourrait Donner pour ton vous mandats. Si Deux Nouveaux arrivants à l'avant pourrait être d'un signal de Drogba de sortie, Essien à l'ombre que l'Été Alors qu'il etait CE versez party UNE DERNIÈRE saison des grands.

du CLE du Premier Groupe du Point de Vue HNE FFP masse Descendre le salaire. Chelsea, IUP L'Espoir d'vêtus Les Jeunes Joueurs - dont les frais, plutôt élevés, au sud peuvent être de contrats des Amortis - un DES Salaires inférieurs de remplacer ceux qu'ils Ont
Le Saint Graal

HNE à quelques with Jeunes Talents mélange de l'Académie - Qui est Toujours l'espoir que Cobham Abramovitch Investissements Chaleurs sera énorme dans Dépit payante des Résultats d'atténuer et Le départ de Frank Arnesen - et quelques-joindre à la DANS superstars des Torres Le Moule. C'EST un original, et à l'ONU PLUS OU MOINS Degré grande, sont les Rivaux Chelsea suite. Toutefois, plus les verser les needs du club de Londoni antidépresseurs, Comme les sont Salaires Pertes et les eleves en plus et La Possibilité d'EST Revenu augmentée qu'il Moins de Temps.
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While the diplomats haggle, deadly tensions are mounting in the nascent Palestine

The search for a Palestinian state in the UN has exacerbated a climate of fear in the land in the West Bank

settlers came down the hill from the base, mostly on foot, but sometimes on horseback or tractor or 4x4. Flags of Israel and sometimes carry guns, shovels and dogs. There may be three or even 40. What taunt local villagers, and sometimes attack them. Often, the Israeli army arrives and trains its guns against the villagers.

In Qusra, deep in the hills on the terraces of the West Bank, fear grows. "The settlers are constantly cause us," said Hani Abu Reid, chief of the village council. "They started olive trees, killing sheep, burning our mosques and the curse of our prophet. They want to drag us into the field of violence. I do not want to go. "

that the search for a Palestinian state promises to be mired in diplomacy behind the scenes for weeks or months, the tension on the ground is mounting. The two Jewish settlers and Palestinian villagers say he is responsible for an increase in attacks during the last fortnight, particularly small incidents like stone throwing, petrol bombs and insults. Both sides claim the other is preparing to invade their communities and the attack on his people. He created a tense atmosphere of fear and threat, and it can be a harbinger of battles to come if the struggle for land moves up a gear with the imminent establishment of a Palestinian state.

demand for Palestinians to be admitted to the United Nations as a full member, formally presented Friday, will now be considered by the Security Council for an indefinite period, the in which efforts to reach both sides to return to the negotiating table will increase.

Without progress, press the Palestinians to vote in the Security Council, a decision of the United States has promised to veto. The Palestinians have the opportunity to request the Assembly to 193 members in general to improve the condition, although short of a complete state. As this process inches, anger in the field is growing.

Friday, violence between the outpost settlers Esh Kodesh and about 300 inhabitants Qusra ended in a cloud of tear gas and bullets fired on the villagers by Israeli troops, two of which reached Issam Odeh, 33, killed the father figure of eight.

Qusra establish a defense committee earlier this month after one of four mosques in the city was destroyed by an attack condemned by the American colonists and the European Union. Up to 20 armed men patrolling the mosques 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 every night, and Abu reidi claims that have frustrated at least one attack. Other Palestinian villages have followed suit.

in the hills, the preparations for the fighting were also conducted for weeks. Safety around the settlements and outposts were strengthened with barbed wire additional closed-circuit cameras, security guards and dogs. And the settlers themselves are armed and prepared in anticipation of what they believe is the intention to rob the Palestinians in the manufacture of state expected for a reality on the ground.

militants in the settlement of Qiryat Arba, outside Hebron, clubs have been distributed, helmets and tear gas to the outposts nearby. "They have all the tools that could provide for them to protect themselves," said Bentzi Gopstein, a board member of Qiryat Arba, the
Ynet
News site. " But we must remember that the best defense is attack. We can not be close to our fence. If the Arabs can not come to us, must learn that we can not reach them. "

The settlers believe that Israeli soldiers will be hampered by restrictions imposed by the commanders fear the negative publicity. "They do not get the right orders," said the radical activist Itamar Ben-Gvir of Qiryat Arba. "No state in the world that allows the enemy to cross their lines and go in their communities. If the army does properly, we must defend ourselves. "
women and children participate in a defensive action, he said. "We want to make an equation. Women against women, children against children, the Arabs intend to use their children and who will not stand still. "



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What is Madness? by Darian Leader - review

Darian Leader

study of madness has great ideas, but Alexander Linklater left with a sense of desperation

Can there be a professional field, in the absence of politics, as divided and factionalised that address the problems of the mind? Take a sample of approaches to psychiatrists, psychologists, behavioral genetics, cognitive neuroscientists and psychoanalysts psychopharmacologist - and there are factions within factions, models of brain functions that compete with "psychotherapy" designs mind competing social constructions that compete with evolution. More than a competition of ideas, a clash of worldviews.

Darian Leader clinic belongs to the threat in the world for all: that of the psychoanalyst. Although the language of Freudian childhood memory and repression still flashing by Western culture, psychoanalysis as a practice has been largely removed from the UK public health. Culture in general has been followed and it is now common to hear the ideas that have been around for a century of being ridiculed. Leader is one of the powerful voice of a few left actively - even aggressively - to promote the language of dreams, libido and Oedipal formation of the mind

One problem with psychoanalysis is that defense, although relatively small, is deeply divided among its members - a victim, in terms of Freud, the narcissism of small differences. For the uninitiated, the disagreements between the Freudians, Jungians, Kleinians, or Winnicott's disciples may have become black, to the point of meaning. And belongs to the faction leader's most obscurantist of all French. Esotericism of the lush Jacques Lacan

But where the master may be unreadable, the leader can be a good explanation of basic principles and, especially, the central objective of the project of psychoanalysis. While classical psychiatry is to eliminate the capacity of the patient's history and detached from well-developed long lasting relationships therapy, psychoanalysis is still a champion of careful listening and deep psychological understanding.

In the first chapters of

What is madness?

Leader

spends a good amount of time attacking the traditional approach of psychiatry and some of his critics are on track: classifications failures

are powerful concepts in Lacanian theory, among them the principle that language is not simply a tool we use to describe reality, but a built-in functionality for which (in part) created the reality. Run away with this idea, however, and you may be able to say almost anything you like and reality confused. How many readers now have to follow a leader, when he says that a girl unconscious in the early development reproaches her mother for not providing a penis and looks his father to give a "not as an anatomical organ, but in as a child? "Loco is obviously less than, say, a diagnosis of OCD based on the observation of the rituals of excessive hand washing

This book is a complex and contradictory, brilliant in parts and stupid in others, and therefore very difficult to summarize. But the most interesting is the design of the head of madness as a matter of law. All forms of insanity, psychoanalytic reading of the head, are responses to internal conflicts, and his work as a therapist is "discover the logic" in that his subjects say psychotic.


because he sees the reason in the madness that the head can also be argued that there is no such thing as "mental illness" - which sees madness as a response natural to experience unbearable. And there is a large project in the ambition to discover the logic of the disease in this way. But it is also limited by his belief in the human mind as essentially a process of reasoning. Exclude the possibility that there may be logical, that thought can not be central to the formation of the neurochemical and structural brain can produce effects that are not subject to this type of analysis.



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Mystery files cast doubt over verdict on Robert Magill gangland killing

Kevin Lane was 16 years in prison after being convicted of murder. But the police obstruction of justice?

was a murder made a remarkable morning in a haven of Hertfordshire. Two men had approached Robert Magill, while walking his dog near his home Chorleywood October 13, 1994. One was seen by several witnesses to get a gun and shot five times in Magill closely. The final blow was given to his head bowed as Magill.

from today, Kevin Lane has served 16 years and 255 days from a minimum of 18 years in prison for the realization of what was considered a classic contract killing. Lane was raised in the criminal world, but he always maintained his innocence of the crime.

Many aspects of the case remain a concern and the new evidence is now threatening to burst Lane not only condemnation, but the way it was achieved.

The

Observer

understands that a team of experts reporting to the Attorney General is to consider whether a handful of files confidential internal police, apparently related to the case and sent anonymously attorney Lane, Maslen Merchant, are authentic.

files that have been seen by the

Observer

appear to be copies of secret memos sent between a number of officers involved in the case. For legal reasons, the tests may not be reproduced at the time. But if it is authentic, Lane's lawyers believe they would have a significant effect on the appeal of his client.

In its opinion filed with the Court of Appeal, lawyers say the documents, "it is true, the argument to show the most obvious and deliberate ... surprised by the police to divert the course of justice and ensure the murder conviction applicant. "

also light on the dark path in which the legal system treated murders, often having to go far to protect the sources of the police who helped secure a conviction, but they were closely linked with the criminal world .

central charge against Lane was his impression of the palm, found in a plastic garbage bag in which it was said that the murder weapon was taken. The coating was found in the trunk of a car has admitted driving lane. Another point to start the car has been tested and found traces of nitroglycerine in it, indicating the presence of a weapon.

Lane, who had traveled to Spain two weeks before his death under a false name, said he was home at the time of the murder, but agreed that he had borrowed the car a week before the murder. Fingerprints, his son was also in the car, which strengthens the claims that Lane used to transport his family around.

The new material, if real answers many of your questions. First track was brought to trial in October 1995 with Roger Vincent, who was found not guilty in the murder of Magill by court order. A jury could not reach a verdict in the alley.

Lane since the conviction at his second trial, evidence showed that Vincent had long discussions with the police shortly after his arrest. The joint statements with the legal team for a Detective Sergeant Lane, Christopher Spackman, also confirmed that Vincent had visited Spackman detained in HMP Woodhill.


Spackman was later imprisoned for conspiring with others to steal £ 160,000 from Hertfordshire police, money, married with three children because of her lover.


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วันจันทร์ที่ 24 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2554

Vision scientist helps to rescue John Martin's vision of destruction | Tim Smith

Psychologist Tim Smith describes how a painting was saved by a combination of eye-tracking technology, and conservation experts Photoshop

When the Tate Britain has decided to organize a major exhibition of the work of British artist John Martin, who faces a difficult decision: Should we try to restore his masterpiece the work lost, the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum? This work was the centerpiece of Martin solo exhibition in 1822 at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, where the ads he describes as "the most remarkable production of the pencil that appeared in this or any other country." But in 1928 The painting was declared irreparable harm if the Thames burst its banks and flooded the basement of the gallery. He suffered severe water damage and one fifth of the fabric - the section that shows the eruption of Vesuvius -. He missed

In 2010, Tate decided to try a restore. Advances in conservation techniques that the existing paint could be cleaned and stabilized, but this is the important question of what to do with losses article. As part of its investigation, the Tate decided to consult - a scientific vision - and together they designed an experiment to help guide the restoration process

My research is to study how to help visual scenes and how this influences what we see. The same features that can attract our attention in the real world, as people's faces, the points of high contrast and violent images also guides attention when looking at an image. The classical theories of conservation, such as the theory of Cesare Brandi restoration in the 1960s refers to contemporary psychological theories of vision, but our understanding of the human visual system has advanced considerably since then.

decisions taken by the Conservatives in the restoration of important works of art have a direct influence on how the final painting will be seen and there are many psychological knowledge that can inform this process. For example, computer models of visual attention can mean a guardian if the crack or loss of a segment is likely to capture the viewer's attention and how this will change depending on the context in which we see the painting.

For damage

John Martin decided to compare how the spectators who attended and gave meaning to different digital reconstructions of the file paint the eye movements of the viewer. A Eyetracker uses infrared high-speed cameras to record when a person sees on a screen. This allowed the Tate to predict how viewers can participate in the final product before embarking on costly and time consuming work in the paint itself. conservative TATE Sarah Maisey created four versions of digital painting. Taking data from a small intact copy of the painting of Martin, Sarah has created a digital image of the existing paint, digital retouching smaller losses and insertion of a modified copy of the smallest the great loss. These images were presented to 20 spectators (who had never seen before painting) on ??a large computer screen in my laboratory, as part of a longer sequence of painting. Each viewer is to see the fully restored version, a similar version but with less detail in the section of filling, a restored version with muted colors in the filling section or a neutral color to fill with no detail.

immediately obvious to look in places completely rebuilt version was that the paint contains only a few highlights of the activity, such as the heart of the volcano, the city in the midground and the foreground the figures. When the reason for the viewer's gaze is reproduced as a video that is not clear how the mouth of the volcano is one of the first areas to be set and the viewer follows the lines drawn by Martin Diagonal View across the city for figures in the foreground.

In the neutral version of the painting of the mouth of the volcano and part of the city is lost, but the viewer stops on the banks of the loss, spends much less time in the figures first. The result of the research structure different is that when asked to describe the content of the work, viewers of the recalcitrant version did not know he had a picture of a volcano. The painting has lost its meaning and the audience could not see, as originally planned by Martin. Martin
vision of destruction was given a new lease of life and can now be enjoyed by future generations, instead of lying abandoned in the shops of the Tate. Hopefully this turns out to be the first of many collaborations between science and the vision of art conservation.

Tim Smith


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Vision science helps to rescue John Martin's vision of destruction

Psychologist Tim Smith describes how a painting was saved by a combination of eye-tracking technology, and conservation experts Photoshop

When the Tate Britain has decided to organize a major exhibition of the work of British artist John Martin, who faces a difficult decision: Should we try to restore his masterpiece the work lost, the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum? This work was the centerpiece of Martin solo exhibition in 1822 at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, where the ads he describes as "the most remarkable production of the pencil that appeared in this or any other country." But in 1928 The painting was declared irreparable harm if the Thames burst its banks and flooded the basement of the gallery. He suffered severe water damage and one fifth of the fabric - the section that shows the eruption of Vesuvius -. He missed

In 2010, Tate decided to try a restore. Advances in conservation techniques that the existing paint could be cleaned and stabilized, but this is the important question of what to do with losses article. As part of its investigation, the Tate decided to consult - a scientific vision - and together they designed an experiment to help guide the restoration process

My research is to study how to help visual scenes and how this influences what we see. The same features that can attract our attention in the real world, as people's faces, the points of high contrast and violent images also guides attention when looking at an image. The classical theories of conservation, such as the theory of Cesare Brandi restoration in the 1960s refers to contemporary psychological theories of vision, but our understanding of the human visual system has advanced considerably since then.

decisions taken by the Conservatives in the restoration of important works of art have a direct influence on how the final painting will be seen and there are many psychological knowledge that can inform this process. For example, computer models of visual attention can mean a guardian if the crack or loss of a segment is likely to capture the viewer's attention and how this will change depending on the context in which we see the painting.

For damage

John Martin decided to compare how the spectators who attended and gave meaning to different digital reconstructions of the file paint the eye movements of the viewer. A Eyetracker uses infrared high-speed cameras to record when a person sees on a screen. This allowed the Tate to predict how viewers can participate in the final product before embarking on costly and time consuming work in the paint itself. conservative TATE Sarah Maisey created four versions of digital painting. Taking data from a small intact copy of the painting of Martin, Sarah has created a digital image of the existing paint, digital retouching smaller losses and insertion of a modified copy of the smallest the great loss. These images were presented to 20 spectators (who had never seen before painting) on ??a large computer screen in my laboratory, as part of a longer sequence of painting. Each viewer is to see the fully restored version, a similar version but with less detail in the section of filling, a restored version with muted colors in the filling section or a neutral color to fill with no detail.

immediately obvious to look in places completely rebuilt version was that the paint contains only a few highlights of the activity, such as the heart of the volcano, the city in the midground and the foreground the figures. When the reason for the viewer's gaze is reproduced as a video that is not clear how the mouth of the volcano is one of the first areas to be set and the viewer follows the lines drawn by Martin Diagonal View across the city for figures in the foreground.

In the neutral version of the painting of the mouth of the volcano and part of the city is lost, but the viewer stops on the banks of the loss, spends much less time in the figures first. The result of the research structure different is that when asked to describe the content of the work, viewers of the recalcitrant version did not know he had a picture of a volcano. The painting has lost its meaning and the audience could not see, as originally planned by Martin. Martin
vision of destruction was given a new lease of life and can now be enjoyed by future generations, instead of lying abandoned in the shops of the Tate. Hopefully this turns out to be the first of many collaborations between science and the vision of art conservation.

Tim Smith



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Dirt, nudity and tears at Glastonbury

Science

guerrillas have made their own brand of popular science for the Glastonbury Festival this year, offering decontamination muddy revelers

Done a man with a confessional, crying how much he misses his mother. Another said he had a preference for instant coffee shameful. Some could not remember his name. Many were shouting at the top of their lungs into the microphone. A few undressed in the glow of neon pink before cleaned with wet wipes.

began at the entrance to a giant cube white, the decontamination unit, amid the mud of Glastonbury. . Puzzled guests - who thought it was a nightclub - were received by two guides in costumes Biohazard, which led to a microbial zoo: a variety of Petri dishes with colorful swirls and scratches and stains bacteria arc

Some strains produce these artistic patterns on their own.

Proteus mirabilis

, with his tail whip, nothing in circles at high speed through the agar, producing concentric rings.

"attract people and helped them learn that they really could not live without these" dirty, disease-causing things, "says Sarah Forbes, a doctoral student in microbiology from the Manchester University, which increased the plates. She gives the example of

Staphylococcus epidermidis

, who lives on our skin and prevents other more virulent bacteria to take root. " / Aa>

The exercise was part of the scientific experiment guerrilla past that seeks to introduce non-scientists to the beauty and importance of our favorite subject in the mixture of artistic and cultural events - places where people do not expect to see science, and where we can reach more people likely to avoid anything to do with it, perhaps after experiencing financial boring routine at school.

"We tried to put science in a non-conventional spaces unconventional - and it was certainly the strangest project we have delivered to a music festival, however," says Jen guerrilla science director Wong

bettors

Muddy, leaning forward to hear the cacophonous grimecore next door, were horrified to learn that our bodies are home to thousands of species of bacteria. A kilogram of bacteria live in our intestines alone, and in general, will house 10 times more bacterial cells than our own cells.

Perhaps most shocking of all party animals of the mud is the fact that they found this screen in the Shangri - the frantic hours after the "naughty corner" for Glastonbury. Next door was the nest of snakes, dance music night full of dirty appropriate electronic, through how sleep Rave (with an arena for fighting in a cage pillow), and through the unit Decontamination is an expanding range of areas such as art installations and places of micro, full of dead heads of the wrist, neon lights, and mannequins placed in very compromising positions.

scientific areas providing the most rebellious at Glastonbury was the creation of Debs Armstrong, creative director of Shangri-La, in collaboration with Dr. Amy Sanders at the Wellcome Trust, which has been organizing a series of events celebrating the dirt. "Glastonbury seemed an obvious choice: the organizers and visitors have to deal with a lot of mud and dust, showers and toilets limited, and many humans (and their germs) in the neighborhood," says Dr. Sanders
With support from the Wellcome Trust as part of their season of Dirt, guerrilla warfare scientist was hired to clean the citizens of the virus.

for eight hours a day for three days, "decontaminate" the revelers mud snaked through a hexagonal network of cameras in our giant white cube.
As part of the narrative of the decontamination unit after their lesson in microbiology, customers can opt for one of two types of disinfection: physical, leading to the dressing room (yes Many people chose to strip), then smoke, strobe-lit shower and moral, which led to a meeting in good faith with private psychiatrists: Dr Mark Salter, Dr. Peter Macrae, Dr. Priscilla Kent, and Dr. Caroline Methuen



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Ayman al-Zawahiri's ambition for al-Qaida | Ed Husain

Al-Qaida is far from over, despite the death of Osama bin Laden. The United States should engage more with the Arab countries to overcome the Salafists

A week before he became the leader, May 8, Zawahiri talked about his next steps for Al Qaeda. Fiercest enemy of the United States presented its new battlefields, exposed major weaknesses, targeting new global public and made public the new aspirations. At the same time, America seemed to internal and focused on the crumbs of obscene pictures of a U.S. legislator. Last month, the U.S. jubilation was to kill bin Laden. Short attention of the United States - in contrast to the long distance view of al-Qaeda - is a subject that Ayman al-Zawahiri repeatedly mentioned in the last of Al Qaeda released 30 minutes for the world.

published last Wednesday night in the middle of a week the media busy with the German chancellor in Washington DC and the banalities of Rep. Anthony Weiner, most of the United States ignores excellent video Ayman al-Zawahiri time. It was not operational in time for the United States, who was in the era Arabic. Launch was a carefully orchestrated to ensure that the communication of al Qaeda was ready for the start of the Arab weekend: Thursday and Friday. Thursday, tens of thousands of young Arabs in the Middle East had seen the video. By Friday, more talk on jihadist Internet forums. More importantly, Al Qaeda was alive and relevant to the developments of Arab Spring, or civil war in Yemen, Syria and Libya on Friday.

a fragile, ill-looking Zawahiri repeatedly stabbed the air as he delivered his message of barbarism to new audiences that are operationally available to Al-Qaeda in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Pakistan and Somalia. Zawahiri has repeatedly mentioned countries for one reason: there was no Al Qaeda presence in these places that now could be extended at the request of the hard-line interpretation of Sharia as state law. His interest was not in Saudi Arabia and Iraq - as was the case a decade ago. Moreover, the direction of the clergy in many of these countries had wept openly Osama bin Laden "martyrdom" that took place prayer funeral Mass in absentia in Cairo, Karachi, Somalia and elsewhere. Zawahiri ways a radical new sympathy for Al Qaeda. Your best proof of this development was the fact that the U.S. government has not provided the images of bin Laden's death, for fear of offending the followers even al-Qaida. Can we fault his logic? Zawahiri knows he is right: the smell in the fear of his enemy.


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'Football here is honest, fast and direct'

Uwe Rösler

, the former Germany striker who became a hero in Manchester City, has high hopes in the League

Early in the Premier League in mid-1990, Uwe Rösler was in its way a version of Eric Cantona of Manchester City. Less real, less pretentious - less successful - but strongly attached to the support of the club, a hero of blue sky between the first wave of foreign players in the first news sites. If Cantona's arrival was the signal for a boom generations in the United States, while the city was faced with Rösler sets down to retirement, the contrast between the two is even more pronounced.

Rösler was appointed director of the League One Brentford in June Five league games in his re-entry in English football chasteningly looks so fast and at home to walk by eating an apple in Hollywood certainly not near Griffin Park.

sprints Rösler When his heart to throw an apple on a wall before taking her picture, two thoughts occur: first, is very close to someone in the room window (Griffin Park is the kind of terrain), and second, it seems that it could still be out there doing a job for the team if he was. This is a significant achievement in itself for a man who almost lost his life to cancer in 2003. And if there is still a slight sense of the incongruity of the sight of this great, friendly, charismatic former Premier League star honored by taking care of minor power in the west of London, so it is important to note that any Rösler his career has been a process of reinvention of the street.

is, after all, a man who played international football five times for a country that no longer exists. Like many East Germans, the Berlin Wall fell in 1990 seems to have left a sense of movement. "People ask me where your house and I always say that I am a European," Rösler said. "My wife is Norwegian. I have my roots in Germany. And I had my best time in England. I feel at home.

"In some ways I was very pleased that the wall fell. There was a lot of possibilities. On the other hand I realized it was probably the end of my career International, particularly in West Germany won the World Cup in 1990. I was in competition with Rudi Voller, Jurgen Klinsmann, Oliver Bierhof. "

In 1994, 26, Rösler was signed by the City of Nuremberg by Brian Horton. English football has had a fascination of the time Rösler was sent to a football school of excellence in Leipzig for 11 years. "We heard on the tapes that night the British crowd, just the songs. It was amazing. This is where my interest in English football began. In East Germany could not see, then , so we had the sound in your place. "

"I liked it when I got here. Football English is poor.'S Honest. It's fast and simple. In the 90's was not so much tactics, c ' was like two boxers hit until you hit the ground. As a striker, I knew I would be a lot of possibilities. In Germany, there was a lot of man-marking and cleaning staff, who was much more difficult to score. "

Rösler scored 50 goals in 150 games for the city, but in retrospect it is easy to see his career tied around a series of exciting moments of balance. It was the bright object in a losing cause against United in the FA Cup with wild gestures towards the conclusion of his manager, Alan Ball, who had left the team ("I think good, if a player for me now" ). In addition, the incident in which Rösler threw his shoes in the city of fans at the end of a 6-0 defeat in their last game ("The fans, we are encouraged. It was a gesture of good will. But not everyone saw like that ").


bravery is something Rösler is able to speak. In 2003, shortly after scoring the winner of Lillestrøm SK in the first game of the season in Norway, was diagnosed with an aggressive tumor in his chest and said that without immediate surgery, could not survive. "My first thought was," Why me? "" When you were in an area where everything is based on healthy people, who had never met people who were sick or in the fight against the hospital for their life. It was a totally new experience.


"I just tried to survive. I think you can beat cancer, to some extent be very mentally positive, trust in doctors and treatments. The mental aspect is so strong in the healing of your body. "



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Lionel Messi mesmerises in Madrid but football is the star | Richard Williams

Real Madrid and Barcelona, ??to show that football can still aspire to be something more than bad taste to raise money show

Just when you think you know what you can do best footballer in the world produce something even more surprising. On Sunday night, before 80,000 fans at the Bernabeu in the first round of the Spanish Supercup between Real Madrid and Barcelona, ??Lionel Messi conjured a goal in a game quite extraordinary exceptional.

On any other night, Messier objects made headlines. This time, however, the match itself was the star. Full of adventure and commitment, said that football can still aspire to be something more than bad taste, the show that greed has become. But of all the many moments of skill and daring, the Argentine goal was little that will be remembered.

When the ball came to him a few meters from the edge of Real Madrid, had three opponents at hand. The first of them, Xabi Alonso, was merely a spectator, as Messi challenge Sami Khedira, the German midfielder was pinballing turning 90 degrees to follow the recovery. It reached ahead of Pepe obstacles that almost discarded before returning again and get a left foot shot inside the near post to own.

here was little Messi arrived in Barcelona at age 13, the need for treatment of growth hormone expensive, showing that it is able to beat a couple of tough guys in football. It was almost everything he did during the night - their contributions were others arrived earlier, with an accurate pass to David Villa who has allowed Spain to cut through the left and found the corner top of the net - but it was enough.

seasonal warming These accessories can be in danger of being a good name. Ten days ago Manchester United beat local rivals in a hard fought match between two teams eager to set up a marker of the season. The same thing happened to a degree even more on Sunday in Madrid as described by Jose Mourinho to the task of purging the bad memories of last season when they were traumatized by a 5-0 defeat at Camp Nou, Barcelona lost in the semi-finals of the European Cup, losing in the league and were left with only limited success in the Copa del Rey.

Sunday night suggested that the balance of power may be the night outside Mourinho begins his second season in the Spanish capital. Despite the brilliance of the objectives with which to neutralize his opponents hit Mesut Ozil and Alonso and secure a draw to take the second stage Wednesday, Madrid deserved to win.

is true that the European champions, without Carles Puyol and Sergio Busquets, while Gerard Pique and Xavi started in the afternoon on the bench. But Barcelona has given a competitive debut of Alexis Sanchez, the Chilean striker who made a first Udinese ? 26m (£ 23m) this summer.

5 feet 7 inches Only

but built like a bull, Sanchez proposed to add a new dimension to an attack side already well equipped. For the local computer, Karim Benzema looked like a man reborn, Cristiano Ronaldo opened his mouth open and Fábio Coentrão, the newcomer, has shown promise.

There is no comparison between the match at the Bernabeu with a lead of curious principle of the Premier League season could be good for English football. There were two teams of the highest level of talent, energy and ambition, to give their all in an effort to win the game. The passes have been hit hard and controlled immediately. The movement was constant and imaginative. Both teams were faithful to their traditions: fast and flashy Madrid, Barca most complex and cerebral. Among them, 22 inputs and six substitutes thing that was produced a pleasure to watch, spurred by two managers who seemed to have forgotten the caution.


Kidnapper gets

a test in the Olympic road race


The two riders in the break was over, followed by a short interval by the pack hunting and his caravan of vehicles. Then there was a vacuum in which the spectators along the route the Olympic test event through Richmond Park began to wonder if it was over.


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In defence of Middlesex University | Suzanne Moore, Lorraine Gamman and Janet Lee

The form of poly

is to become the institution of higher education the most expensive in England. Can it really offer more than Oxbridge? Guardian columnist

Suzanne Moore

and two alumni Another form of presentation of their experience He poly

According to the Guide to Good Times University, Middlesex University is to become the most expensive means of the student seeking a degree all the honors Pay £ 8.602, £ 7.549 £ Compare with 8034 Oxford and Cambridge. Why people should be surprised that purpose of education from the University Middlesex year could be as much as the year Oxbridge education? Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore, a professor of Lorraine Gamman of Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, and Janet Lee, editor of Salon de la Culture, Middlesex Polytechnic are all graduates who have received grants to study:

Suzanne Moore: I gave everything Middlesex happened because I had a grant

When I started working people in the newspapers

kept asking me what college I was. Then reeled off a list of colleges of Oxbridge Theys and when I said, "Middlesex Poly" They could not or would not listen. "Well," said one editor now very famous, "It probably why you have such an extraordinary year for the world. "

effect. What could I have learned Eventually it? I often wonder, as I am now half surrounded by the products of the best schools and colleges that seem best to know a lot about the history and the dates and more enjoyable than I have accents and are extremely charming.

I arrived in my 20 years at the Middlesex Poly as the goldsmiths did not let me in, I had no A-levels dropping out of school with 16. I read non-stop, had been round the world, and had loads of jobs. I took some Bolivian textile in the interview and ranted on about Eduardo Galeano and Mark. Theys took me anyway.

we work hard. We read everything in the original or if it was Freud Levi-Strauss. I Was pierced by scholars such as Claire Pajaczkowska, wearing Doc Martens objective Poststructuralism If we get straight off the press. And Barry Curtis, who made us understand what was important to working-class experience. When I got pregnant with my second year, Lon Fleming, a prominent anthropologist, said: "Bring the baby What do you think would happen in other cultures.?" The idea that I would have entered his head not never stop so I did not. I went to a doctorate (Theories of Pleasure, natch) but I never finished until the money ran out. Gave me a Ph.D. Honorary Theys few years ago I would like to end my goal yet true one day.

the wits to think for myself. To the question, and yes, subject to Oxbridge notions of excellence. I know people look at my studies because their nose does not belong to the institution. Well, this is the institution with moral and intellectual superiority ICT (?) Who governs this month now and although it is not educating people like me. I never Enjoy the Oxbridge contacts that gives you. I just connected on my own ability to chaos. You see, Middlesex Polyversity, as I like to call it, I taught critical thinking.

free.

is what is being closed.
Lorraine Gamman Professor: I would be trapped Middlesex Without the mentality I grew up in


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Chris Power | A brief survey of the short story part 35: Tadeusz Borowski

In Borowski atrocity stories are stacked on the atrocity, but argued that the close identification with the creator of the character was a deliberate decision to moral

"I saw the death of a million people - literally, not metaphorically," wrote the Polish poet Tadeusz Borowski, author in 1946, in a letter. Borowski was arrested by the Gestapo in Warsaw in 1942, shortly after publishing his first book of poetry. After two years at Auschwitz, who was released from the Dachau concentration camp by the army in the spring 1945 US seventh. Another book published in 1945, before moving in short stories, who left after 1948 to write communist propaganda. He committed suicide in 1951, 28.

relatively small, their stories have a unique place in literature of the Holocaust and fiction in general. In

remember and imagine the Holocaust

, Christopher Bigsby identifies it as a link between Kafka and Beckett. Borowski brutal stories called "a journey to the limits of a particular experience." This experiment was daily life in Auschwitz as a kapo, a prisoner who works non-Jew, plans and achievements to survive amid daily slaughter.

In "The Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen," Borowski Tadek narrator describes a day's work in the unloading ramp and direct transport of Jews to the trucks that take them in gas chambers nearest you. The work is hard - just emptying transport before another arrives - but the work is an option, while money and other valuables held by the Reich, food and clothing can be claimed by people working on the ramp. These are the key to survival.

This fact Tadek fellow inmates and accomplices in the criminal purpose of the field, a fact that the stories repeatedly recognized. At the end of "this way gas", the words Tadek. "Suddenly, I see the field as a haven of peace is true, others may be dying, but somehow still alive, there is enough food, enough strength to work." Tendency of readers to see that Tadek Borowski (Tadek Tadeusz stands for) bothers the author, but the Polish critic Jan Kott says that the close identification with the creator of the character was a deliberate decision by Borowski morality, "the acceptance of mutual responsibility, mutual participation, blame each other for the concentration camp. "In his book on artists under communism,

mind captive

, Czeslaw Milosz identifies one of the outstanding stories Borowski:" In the vast literature the atrocity of the century 20, rarely found a story written from the perspective of an accomplice in the crime. "

Some errors are common to read Borowski, and another is even attentive readers, as Neal Ascherson and Judt, Tony, is to describe their stories and memories. In his study of the literature of the Holocaust
Mil
Darkness
, Ruth Franklin says, "consider the pure testimony" any text, completely free of influences and conventions narrative aesthetic, is naive. "This is especially true in the case of Borowski, not only by the testimony of his fellow prisoners suggests that it was very different from the blind eye, narrators often cruel. His style stripped again, although not as extreme as Hemingway, who read avidly, is designed so diligently. His metaphors reflect the reality on the ground, and "the empty floor, glistened like wet leather strap", and the same caution applies to the structure. "One day Harmenz" describes a "normal" day at camp. In the middle of the details of the violence of exhausting labor, arbitrary and random, you can go almost unnoticed as Tadek face death three different times, each threat arise suddenly and requires a different tactic to avoid this deadly picaresque with him to feed a Jew who goes to the gas chamber the day unexpected act of charity that is complex -.. as a perversion any more, so it distorts the environment in which it occurs - but Borowski holds a position in a paper that offers

Another mistake morality is concerned. Al Alvarez Borowski described the atmosphere of stories like "a kind of moral silence, as the pause after a cry." This is a memorable description, but misleading. Borowski is in itself moral despair. As Milosz writes, is "a nihilist in his stories, but I do not mean that it is amoral. However, the results of a nihilistic ethical position, the tearing of the world and humanity." If your cold prose belies it's because, as the narrator discusses "The people who walked on", "a man has only a limited number of ways you can express strong feelings and violent passions. It uses the same gestures, like when you're feeling is only small and unimportant. common words pronounced the same. "
Distrust Borowski is the ability of their stories "to express what he wanted with his inability to escape from Auschwitz as a subject, he left a position in art impossible. His work has been reported in Poland, and when the Association of Polish writers officially married socialist realism in 1949 there was no place in fiction for its astringency. He has produced a lot of repetitive propaganda, but private comments suggest that his faith in Stalinism was completely eroded in the time of his suicide. The exact reasons for his death is uncertain, as many other details related to this concern the testimony of the Holocaust, but the terrible power of their stories has not diminished .


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