Video: Join Bill Nighy, who supports the Robin Hood Tax campaign, as he visits a Trussell Trust food bank in London
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President Barack Obama tells The Associated Press that he believes he’s the best person to “finish the job” of getting the country back on track economically. (April 15)
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Outlining his strengths and weaknesses as a President and as a candidate, President Barack Obama said in an interview with The Associated Press that his main concern as re-election approaches is the state of the economy. (April 15)
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BBC Human Planet takes an in-depth look at The Douche, observing them in their natural habitat. For a few weeks, the BBC film crew had the opportunity to follow a unique specimen, they were able to observe and record its mannerisms, rituals and way of life. The result of this is BBC Human Planet: The Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Laughing Squid Discovery Date : 14/04/2011 23:15 Number of articles : 6
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Thursday night during American Idol, Universal Pictures and director Jon Favreau premiered the theatrical trailer for the upcoming Summer blockbuster Cowboys & Aliens. Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde, the big budget, western sci-fi hybrid is scheduled for release on July 29. Up until now we’ve seen a teaser trailer [1], a Super Bowl commercial [2] and attendees of Comic Con, Butt-Numb-A-Thon… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 15/04/2011 02:28 Number of articles : 6
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Crackdown on dissent continues with apparent detention by authorities in China of two more associates of activist-artist A lawyer linked to Ai Weiwei went missing on Thursday night and a designer from the company handling the artist’s affairs was taken by police six days ago, according to supporters. Friends have not been able to reach Liu Xiaoyuan for almost 24 hours. The rights lawyer posted a message on a microblog at 8pm on Thursday saying he was being “followed by identified people”. His phone is switched off. Last week he said he would “of course” act for Ai if requested. He spent several hours at a police station on the day Ai disappeared, although his brief detention did not appear to relate to the artist. It occurred after he requested to visit a female activist and officers reportedly berated him for tweeting about another missing lawyer. Separately, a letter issued online on Friday said plainclothes police seized designer Liu Zhenggang, 49, at his home in Beijing on 9 April and no one had been able to reach him since. Liu worked for FAKE, the design and architecture firm that handles Ai’s affairs and belongs to the artist’s wife. Police did not respond to queries about the two men. Ai’s detention has sparked an international outcry, and his case is far from alone. The last two months have seen dozens of lawyers, dissidents and activists being criminally detained and arrested or simply going missing in one of the toughest crackdowns for years . It appears to have been sparked by anonymous calls on websites overseas for “jasmine revolution” protests inspired by the Middle East uprisings. Ai was stopped at Beijing airport on 3 April and has been incommunicado ever since. Officials have said he is under investigation for economic crimes but police have still not informed his family that he is detained. Also missing are his friend Wen Tao, 38; driver and cousin Zhang Jinsong, also known as Xiao Pang, 43; and accountant Hu Mingfen, 55. An open letter to the ministry of public security and Beijing police, signed by Ai’s wife, Lu Qing, as well as colleagues and relatives of the missing, urged an investigation into the disappearances. The Guardian was unable to reach Lu but a friend of Ai’s posted a link to the letter and a studio assistant confirmed it was genuine. “The people … all disappeared or got kidnapped in a very short period of time and we request that the public security bureau investigate the matter. We are deeply concerned about the situation Ai Weiwei and his colleagues are in now,” the letter said. “Kidnapping citizens or making them disappear is a severe crime and it immensely hurts people, relatives and friends around them. “We believe justice can only exist if every administrative procedure is carried out in accordance with the law. Otherwise any conclusion or result that’s been drawn does not hold water … We hope that the public security bureau can act according to the law and protect people’s rights.” Reuters reported that a third person had been sent to re-education through labour after taking pictures of police officers at a site proposed for a “jasmine revolution” protest on 6 March. Wang Yuqin said her husband Yang Qiuyu, 48, a campaigner for the rights of petitioners, was seized by police at Xidan in Beijing. She said she would hire a lawyer and sue authorities for sending him to a labour camp without trial. “They want to use labour camps to crush dissent,” she said. Rights groups say that lawyer Ni Yulan, who was taken by police a few days ago, has been criminally detained for “creating a disturbance”. A person close to her, who did not want to be named, told Reuters: “She has nothing to do with it [the "jasmine revolution" call] … She was very careful about not getting involved. “The innocent are being taken away. It’s getting more and more terrifying out there.” The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institution warned in a statement: “An expanding catalogue of abductions by the Chinese authorities [is creating] a climate of fear. The IBAHRI calls on the Chinese government to release all illegally detained human rights lawyers; cease all forms of harassment of the same; and to make a public statement on the whereabouts of ‘disappeared’ lawyers, the reasons for their arrest and their treatment in detention.” China Ai Weiwei Human rights Tania Branigan guardian.co.uk
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Nat Cary’s statement at inquest into G20 protest death contradicts findings of another specialist Ian Tomlinson is likely to have died from injuries sustained when he was pushed from behind by a police officer at the G20 protests in London, a forensic pathologist has told an inquest. Dr Nat Cary conducted his postmortem a few days after video footage showed PC Simon Harwood striking Tomlinson with a baton and pushing him to the ground near the Bank of England two years ago. Tomlinson, 47, collapsed and died less than three minutes later. Cary said he believed the way Tomlinson fell to the ground was likely to cause a “blunt force trauma” to his abdomen. He said damage to the liver was the “most likely” cause of the internal bleeding, but the blood loss could have been caused by other burst veins. He believed this led to rapid internal bleeding, which would have caused Tomlinson to collapse to the ground and go into cardiac arrest. Cary said the video footage showed that Tomlinson was unable to properly break his fall, and his elbow became trapped between his body and the pavement. He said bruises on the outside of his body, as well as those to his abdomen, were consistent with this. “There is every prospect that the elbow has basically made contact with the ground and there has been a transmitted force through to the contents of the abdomen,” he said. Cary’s findings contradict those of another pathologist, Dr Freddy Patel, who was the first to examine Tomlinson’s body in the presence of four police officers after his death. Two other pathologists, Dr Kenneth Shorrock and Dr Ben Swift, have concluded the newspaper seller died of internal bleeding. In his evidence earlier in the week, Patel said he spent several hours looking for a cause of the internal bleeding but, when he could not find a source, concluded through the “process of elimination” that Tomlinson had died of natural causes. He specifically concluded that Tomlinson, a father of nine, died from sudden “arrhythmic” heart attack caused by coronary artery disease. However, Patel accepted that any heart attack may have been triggered by Tomlinson’s encounter with the police officer 150 seconds earlier, conceding there was a “compelling association” between the two incidents. The jury has heard that Patel has twice been suspended by the General Medical Council in the past seven months after disciplinary hearings into his botched postmortems. They include cases where he was found guilty of dishonesty, clinical failings and refusing to abandon his original conclusions of a heart attack. Patel conceded he sometimes got things wrong but denied being deliberately dishonest or lying. Cary, who is also a specialist in coronary artery disease, said there was no evidence from his postmortem that heart attack was the cause of death. Whereas Patel believed Tomlinson’s most blocked coronary artery was 80% to 90% blocked, a body tissue expert said that the same artery was 50% blocked. Cary’s opinion was that the same artery was between 60% and 70% blocked, which he said was very unlikely to have triggered a heart attack. “This is not the sort of blockage in atheroclerotic disease in coronary arteries that causes sudden death,” he said. A pivotal element within the inquest is the extent to which three litres of fluid found in Tomlinson’s abdomen consisted of blood. Patel was the only pathologist to observe the fluid, which he described as “a large-volume intra-abdominal bleed”. However 12 months later, after reading how other pathologists had found Tomlinson died of internal bleeding in the abdomen, Patel changed his description to “[bodily] fluid with blood”. Patel told the inquest he did not know what proportion was blood but believed it was mostly bodily fluid. He said a sample he took of the fluid was inadvertently discarded. Cary told the jury that he could not be sure from photographs of the amount of blood. But he added that despite Patel’s altered findings he was confident the quantity of blood in the abdomen was “substantial” and enough to cause Tomlinson’s collapse and subsequent death. “Clearly at the time Dr Patel took that sample, he must have thought that a significant proportion of it was blood, because he was going to submit it for toxicology as blood.” Ian Tomlinson Police Paul Lewis guardian.co.uk
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Yes, this is what happens when you combine Kinect with a recliner on a motorized platform — perfectly normal people doing awesome zombie impersonations! This week at Microsoft’s MIX 11 web developer conference, the enterprising Clint Rutkas of Coding4Fun / Channel 9 fame showed off his Kinect-driven “Jellybean” armchair on stage during the keynote, and later let our very own Sean Hollister take it for a spin. Sadly, we missed our chance to capture this special occasion on video for posterity when the laptop used to control this armchair overlord ran out of juice in the final stages of our practice run. The motorized platform uses eight batteries, four omnidirectional wheels each with its own motor, and a pair of motor controllers connected to a laptop which interprets the input from Kinect (using the new SDK for Windows ) and provides visual feedback to the driver. A gesture interface brings the entire contraption to life and even includes a hand signal to recline the armchair. Take a look at some closeup shots in our gallery below and watch our video of the recliner in action after the break. Gallery: Kinect-driven armchair hands-on Continue reading Kinect-driven ‘Jellybean’ armchair hands-on (video) Kinect-driven ‘Jellybean’ armchair hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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