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Comet ISON is hurtling toward uncertain destiny with Sun

May 30, 2013 ? A new series of images from Gemini Observatory shows Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) racing toward an uncomfortably close rendezvous with the Sun. In late November the comet could present a stunning sight in the twilight sky and remain easily visible, or even brilliant, into early December of this year.

The time-sequence images, spanning early February through May 2013, show the comet's remarkable activity despite its current great distance from the Sun and Earth. The information gleaned from the series provides vital clues as to the comet's overall behavior and potential to present a spectacular show. However, it's anyone's guess if the comet has the "right stuff" to survive its extremely close brush with the Sun at the end of November and become an early morning spectacle from Earth in early December 2013.

When Gemini obtained this time sequence, the comet ranged between roughly 455-360 million miles (730-580 million kilometers; or 4.9-3.9 astronomical units) from the Sun, or just inside the orbital distance of Jupiter. Each image in the series, taken with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph at the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, shows the comet in the far red part of the optical spectrum, which emphasizes the comet's dusty material already escaping from what astronomers describe as a "dirty snowball." Note: The final image in the sequence, obtained in early May, consists of three images, including data from other parts of the optical spectrum, to produce a color composite image."

The images show the comet sporting a well-defined parabolic hood in the sunward direction that tapers into a short and stubby tail pointing away from the Sun. These features form when dust and gas escape from the comet's icy nucleus and surround that main body to form a relatively extensive atmosphere called a coma. Solar wind and radiation pressure push the coma's material away from the Sun to form the comet's tail, which we see here at a slight angle (thus its stubby appearance).

Discovered in September 2012 by two Russian amateur astronomers, Comet ISON is likely making its first passage into the inner Solar System from what is called the Oort Cloud, a region deep in the recesses of our Solar System, where comets and icy bodies dwell. Historically, comets making a first go-around the Sun exhibit strong activity as they near the inner Solar System, but they often fizzle as they get closer to the Sun.

Sizing up Comet ISON

Astronomer Karen Meech, at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy (IfA) in Honolulu, is currently working on preliminary analysis of the new Gemini data (as well as other observations from around the world) and notes that the comet's activity has been decreasing somewhat over the past month.

"Early analysis of our models shows that ISON's brightness through April can be reproduced by outgassing from either carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide. The current decrease may be because this comet is coming close to the Sun for the first time, and a "volatile frosting" of ice may be coming off revealing a less active layer beneath. It is just now getting close enough to the Sun where water will erupt from the nucleus revealing ISON's inner secrets," says Meech.

"Comets may not be completely uniform in their makeup and there may be outbursts of activity as fresh material is uncovered," adds IfA astronomer Jacqueline Keane. "Our team, as well as astronomers from around the world, will be anxiously observing the development of this comet into next year, especially if it gets torn asunder, and reveals its icy interior during its exceptionally close passage to the Sun in late November."

NASA's Swift satellite and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have also imaged Comet ISON recently in this region of space. Swift's ultraviolet observations determined that the comet's main body was spewing some 850 tons of dust per second at the beginning of the year, leading astronomers to estimate the comet's nucleus diameter is some 3-4 miles (5-6 kilometers). HST scientists concurred with that size estimate, adding that the comet's coma measures about 3100 miles (5000 km) across.

The comet gets brighter as the outgassing increases and pushes more dust from the surface of the comet. Scientists are using the comet's brightness, along with information about the size of the nucleus and measurements of the production of gas and dust, to understand the composition of the ices that control the activity. Most comets brighten significantly and develop a noticeable tail at about the distance of the asteroid belt (about 3 times the Earth-Sun distance -- between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) because this is when the warming rays of the Sun can convert the water ice inside the comet into a gas. This comet was bright and active outside the orbit of Jupiter -- when it was twice as far from the Sun. This meant that some gas other than water was controlling the activity.

Meech concludes that Comet ISON "?could still become spectacularly bright as it gets very close to the Sun" but she cautions, "I'd be remiss, if I didn't add that it's still too early to predict what's going to happen with ISON since comets are notoriously unpredictable."

A Close Encounter

On November 28, 2013, Comet ISON will make one of the closest passes ever recorded as a comet grazes the Sun, penetrating our star's million-degree outer atmosphere, called the corona, and moving to within 800,000 miles (1.3 million km) of the Sun's surface. Shortly before that critical passage, the comet may appear bright enough for expert observers using proper care to see it close to the Sun in daylight.

What happens after that no one knows for sure. But if Comet ISON survives that close encounter, the comet may appear in our morning sky before dawn in early December and become one of the greatest comets in the last 50 years or more. Even if the comet completely disintegrates, skywatchers shouldn't lose hope. When Comet C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) plunged into the Sun's corona in December 2011, its nucleus totally disintegrated into tiny bits of ice and dust, yet it still put on a glorious show after that event.

The question remains, are we in for such a show?

Comet ISON: The View from the North and South

Regardless of whether Comet ISON becomes the "Comet of the Century," as some speculate, it will likely be a nice naked-eye and/or binocular wonder from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres in the weeks leading up to its close approach with the Sun.

By late October, the comet should be visible through binoculars as a fuzzy glow in the eastern sky before sunrise, in the far southeastern part of the constellation of Leo. By early November, the comet should be a much finer binocular object. It will steadily brighten as it drifts ever faster, night by night, through southern Virgo, passing close to the bright star Spica. It is during the last half of the month that observations will be most important, as the comet edges into Libra and the dawn, where it will brighten to naked-eye visibility and perhaps sport an obvious tail.

The comet reaches perihelion (the closest point in its orbit to the Sun) on November 28th, when it will also attain its maximum brightness, and perhaps be visible in the daytime. If Comet ISON survives perihelion, it will swing around the Sun and appear as both an early morning and early evening object from the Northern Hemisphere. The situation is less favorable from the Southern Hemisphere, as the comet will set before the Sun in the evening and rise with the Sun in the morning.

By December 10th, and given that everything goes well, Comet ISON may be a fine spectacle in the early morning sky as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Under dark skies, it may sport a long tail stretching straight up from the eastern horizon, from the constellations of Ophiuchus to Ursa Major. The comet will also be visible in the evening sky during this time but with its tail appearing angled and closer to the horizon.

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Atheer Labs unveils 3D augmented reality mobile platform and a natural human UI (hands-on)

Atheer Labs unveils 3D augmented reality mobile platform and a natural human UI

With the advent of Google Glass and the continued development of platforms like the Epson Moverio and Vuzix Smart Glasses, head-mounted wearables are getting a lot of attention these days. Atheer Labs is a small company looking to catch that wave of interest with a new set of intelligent spectacles and a novel way for folks to interact with them. What you see above is company founder Sleiman Itani wearing Atheer's prototype device that delivers 3D augmented reality and implements what the company calls a "natural human interface."

The hardware is still very much in the prototype stage, and the unit we saw was clearly a hand-built affair. It packs a pair of displays, a rechargeable battery, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, plus an accelerometer, gyro and an IR camera into it's relatively bulky frame -- so it's not not exactly a form factor ready for retail shelves. However, because of that bulk, it can function as a standalone device (it runs an an open source OS that runs Android apps), though it also has the ability to offload some processing to a smartphone.

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APNewsBreak: OSU head jabs Notre Dame, Catholics

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? The president of Ohio State University said Notre Dame was never invited to join the Big Ten because the university's priests are not good partners, joking that "those damn Catholics" can't be trusted, according to a recording of a meeting he attended late last year.

At the December meeting of the school's Athletic Council, Gordon Gee also took shots at schools in the Southeastern Conference and the University of Louisville, according to the recording, obtained by The Associated Press under a public records request.

The university called the statements inappropriate and said Gee is undergoing a "remediation plan" because of the remarks.

Gee apologized in a statement released to the AP.

"The comments I made were just plain wrong, and in no way do they reflect what the university stands for," he said. "They were a poor attempt at humor and entirely inappropriate."

Gee, who has taken heat previously for uncouth remarks, told members of the council that he negotiated with Notre Dame officials during his first term at Ohio State, which began more than two decades ago.

"The fathers are holy on Sunday, and they're holy hell on the rest of the week," Gee said to laughter at the Dec. 5 meeting attended by Athletic Director Gene Smith and several other athletic department members, along with professors and students.

"You just can't trust those damn Catholics on a Thursday or a Friday, and so, literally, I can say that," said Gee, a Mormon.

The Big Ten had for years courted Notre Dame, but the school resisted, seeking to retain its independent status in college football. The school announced in September that it would join the Atlantic Coast Conference in all sports except football. It also agreed to play five football games each year against ACC teams.

In the recording, Gee referred specifically to dealing with the Rev. Ned Joyce, Notre Dame's longtime chief financial officer, who died in 2004.

"Father Joyce was one of those people who ran the university for many, many years," Gee said.

Gee said the Atlantic Coast Conference added Notre Dame at a time when it was feeling vulnerable.

"Notre Dame wanted to have its cake and eat it, too," Gee said, according to the recording and a copy of the meeting's minutes.

Gee was introduced by Athletic Council then-chairman Charlie Wilson, and Gee's name and introduction are included in written minutes of the meeting. Gee's comments drew laughter, at times loud, occasionally nervous, but no rebukes, according to the audio.

The Athletic Council meets monthly during the fall, winter and spring and makes recommendations on athletic policy including ticket prices. December's meeting was at Ohio Stadium.

Ohio State trustees learned of "certain offensive statements" by Gee in January, met with the president at length and created the remediation plan for Gee to "address his behavior," board president Robert Schottenstein said in a statement.

"These statements were inappropriate, were not presidential in nature and do not comport with the core values of the University," Schottenstein said.

Gee has gotten in trouble for his offhand remarks, most recently during a memorabilia-for-cash and tattoos scandal that cost football coach Jim Tressel his job. Tressel had known about allegations that players were trading game paraphernalia for money and tattoos but didn't tell the university in violation of his contract and NCAA regulations.

Gee was asked in March 2011 whether he had considered firing Tressel. He responded: "No, are you kidding? Let me just be very clear: I'm just hopeful the coach doesn't dismiss me." Tressel stepped down three months later.

In November 2010, Gee boasted that Ohio State's football schedule didn't include teams on par with the "Little Sisters of the Poor." An apologetic Gee later sent a personal check to the real Little Sisters of the Poor in northwest Ohio and followed up with a visit to the nuns months later.

Last year, Gee apologized for comparing the problem of coordinating the school's many divisions to the Polish army, an off-the-cuff remark that a Polish-American group called a "slanderous" display of bigotry and ignorance.

Gee has one of the highest-profile resumes of any college president in recent history. He has held the top job at West Virginia University, the University of Colorado, Brown University and Vanderbilt University. He was Ohio State president from 1990 to 1997, and returned in 2007. He earns about $1.9 million annually in base pay, deferred and performance compensation and retirement benefits.

He is a prolific fundraiser and is leading a $2.5 billion campaign at Ohio State. He is omnipresent on campus, attending everything from faculty awards events to dormitory pizza parties. He is known for his bow ties ? he has hundreds ? and his horn-rimmed glasses.

During his comments to the Athletic Council, Gee also questioned the academic integrity of schools in the Southeastern Conference, and the University of Louisville.

The top goal of Big Ten presidents is to "make certain that we have institutions of like-minded academic integrity," Gee said. "So you won't see us adding Louisville," a member of the Big East conference that is also joining the ACC.

After a pause followed by laughter from the audience, Gee added that the Big Ten wouldn't add the University of Kentucky, either.

During the meeting, Gee also said he thought it was a mistake not to include Missouri and Kansas in earlier Big Ten expansion plans. Missouri has since joined the SEC.

"You tell the SEC when they can learn to read and write, then they can figure out what we're doing," Gee said, when asked by a questioner how to respond to SEC fans who say the Big Ten can't count because it now has 14 members.

Gee noted he was chairman of the SEC during his time as Vanderbilt University chancellor. He also told his audience that speculation about the SEC "remains right here," according to the recording.

Gee took a swipe at Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney, one of the most powerful leaders in college athletics, when he answered a question about preserving Ohio State's financial interests in light of Big Ten revenue-sharing plans.

"No one admires Jim Delaney more than I do ? I chaired the committee that brought him here," Gee said. "Jim is very aggressive, and we need to make certain he keeps his hands out of our pockets while we support him."

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Associated Press writer John Seewer in Toledo contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-osu-head-jabs-notre-dame-catholics-163933402.html

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    Abortion doctor's wife: I'm sorry for trusting him

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? The wife of a rogue abortion doctor told a judge Wednesday that her husband deserves his life sentence for killing babies born alive, but complained that she and her children are left to deal with the public scorn.

    Pearl Gosnell must spend at least another four months in prison for helping perform illegal, third-trimester abortions at the seedy clinic, including one on a 14-year-old girl who was 31 weeks pregnant. Her husband, Kermit Gosnell, 72, was sentenced this month to life without parole in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation's polarized abortion debate.

    "I am the wife of Kermit Gosnell. I'm not happy about that now, and I haven't been for a long time," Pearl Gosnell, 51, said at her sentencing Wednesday, when a judge gave her seven to 23 months in prison, minus nearly three months for time served after her 2011 arrest.

    Gosnell lashed out at her husband, saying he refused to take a plea deal that would have spared her prison and saved the family home, and called him cowardly for refusing to speak at his sentencing.

    "By choosing to take the cowardly course that he did, my husband has left me to make the apologies," Gosnell told a judge. "My husband is in jail forever, which is where he should be."

    A trained cosmetologist, she reaped the financial rewards of her husband's busy abortion and pain clinic, and lied about the $250,000 in cash found stashed in their teen daughter's bedroom, a prosecutor said. She told the FBI it came from rental properties.

    "You chose to be his partner in life. And you chose to be his partner in this operation masquerading as a medical facility," Common Pleas Judge Benjamin Lerner said.

    Earlier in the day, Lerner freed a former employee who had pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and testified against Gosnell, though she admits killing a baby born alive in a toilet. Adrienne Moton had spent 28 months in prison, but Lerner credited her with both remorse and redemption.

    "I don't feel I got arrested. I feel I got rescued," the 36-year-old Moton said in emotionally raw remarks to the judge that mirrored a gospel sermon.

    Moton, a friend of Gosnell's daughter, had moved in with the Gosnells as a teen amid family problems. She later went to work in the clinic, moving from the front desk to the procedure room, where she and other unlicensed workers monitored heavily sedated patients as they endured labor and cut the necks of babies born alive.

    She did that at least 10 times before she quit the $10 an hour job and entered a welfare-to-work program.

    "I wasn't thinking about the fetuses or the babies. I was thinking about those women. I was thinking about those stories," Moton said, describing how she wanted to help the female patients, some of whom she saw beaten or coerced outside the West Philadelphia clinic.

    Moton had taken a cellphone picture of an aborted baby that was about 30 weeks old that became a key piece of evidence at Gosnell's trial. The photo was shown repeatedly to jurors.

    Lerner called Gosnell a manipulator and "charismatic sociopath," while defense lawyer Stephen Patrizio, who represents former worker Lynda Williams, called him "a depraved, parasitic hustler."

    Williams was Exhibit A of the way Gosnell preyed on his workers and patients alike, Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore said Wednesday.

    Williams, 44, was raising four children after she saw her husband murdered in nearby Chester. She had long been bipolar, and had left school after sixth grade to raise her siblings. Yet Gosnell put her in charge of anesthesia, leading to the 2009 death of a new immigrant who died after repeated doses of sedatives and painkillers. Gosnell was also convicted of contributing to the woman's death.

    Gosnell played Williams from the start, Patrizio said.

    "He gave her something nobody in her life has ever done. He gave her a little bit of self-esteem," the lawyer said.

    Pescatore asked for at least 10 years for Williams, who pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the deaths of both the patient, 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar of Woodbridge, Va., and a baby that moved after being born. But her sentencing was postponed until federal drug charges can be resolved. They stem from Williams' role at Gosnell's front desk, where she allegedly sold painkiller prescriptions for him to addicts and drug dealers.

    The scheduled sentencings of two other co-workers ? 53-year-old Sherry West and 47-year-old Tina Baldwin ? are likewise on hold amid the federal charges. Gosnell is also charged in the federal court case, but plans to plead guilty at a June 6 hearing. Several other co-defendants, including an unlicensed doctor who admits cutting 100 babies for Gosnell, also await sentencing.

    Before his capital murder trial got underway in March, Gosnell rejected an offer to serve a life term on both the drug and murder charges. In exchange, his wife would have been spared prison time and avoided the likely forfeiture of their home, where she lives with their 15-year-old daughter and 21-year-old son, who is in college. Gosnell also has four older children from two previous marriages.

    "Being the selfish, inconsiderate person that he is ... he decided to go to trial," said defense lawyer Michael Medway, representing Pearl Gosnell. "He left his family essentially hanging out to dry."

    What's worse, he said, his client and her children have to live with a name that "will go down in infamy."

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wife-im-sorry-trusting-pa-abortion-doctor-174653527.html

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    Say Hello To Israel's New Neighbor: Syrian Al-Qaeda Rebel Group Al-Nusra

    Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra, closely identified with al-Qaeda, has "moved in" next to the border with Israel
    In recent months, there has been a shakeout among the various Syrian rebel groups, and one of the dominant ones that has emerged is Jabhat al-Nusra, closely identified with al-Qaeda. The Sunni Islamist group is seeking to take over as much of Syria as possible and place it under Sharia Islamic law.

    Now, the group has taken up positions close to Syria's border with Israel, adjacent to the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. In a video released on Youtube, the group's soldiers are seen conducting training exercises in the Dar'a area of southern Syria, right next to the Heights. In the exercise, the soldiers are seen attempting to take over a building, using weapons and bombs.

    They are also seen singing Arabic songs in praise of terror, and swearing revenge on the ?unbelievers? - the Alawite group that runs Syria, as well as Shi'ite Muslims who, according to Sunni views, hold an incorrect interpretation of Islam.

    The video provides evidence of a well-trained, motivated fighting force, military experts said. The group is clearly better equipped and trained than the other rebel groups, they said, and apparently has incorporated a large number of Sunni Muslim defectors from the Syrian army.

    While the group says that putting the ?Syrian house in order? is its first order of business, it says that it eventually plans to deal with the ?Zionist enemy? and end the ?occupation,? first of the Golan, and then of the ?rest of Palestine.

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    Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/middle-east-africa/255157-say-hello-israels-new-neighbor-syrian-al-qaeda-rebel-group-al-nusra.html

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    The Best Vitamins and Minerals Promote Your Health ? Hot Article ...

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    Simon Hewitt: Tselkov In New York: Brutal Beauty at the Back of the Candy-Store

    After wowing London with his Last Supper at Saatchi during the Winter, Oleg Tselkov hit New York this Spring.

    He was hosted by a fellow Russian ?migr?, Anatol Bekkerman, whose ABA Gallery in Manhattan is full of surprises. First, it has the finest array of malt whiskies this side of the Hebrides. Then, the gray, narrow-stairwell entrance on East 17th Street gives no hint that the gallery stretches all the way to East 18th Street and is 200 feet long.

    Its regular display includes politely commercial works by Fechin, Harlamoff, Goncharova, Korovin and Roerich - and some more challenging offerings by Filipp Maliavin, David Burliuk and Anatol's brother Edward Bekkerman (of whom more another day and, I suspect, not just in this column).

    But, for a dazzling fortnight (April 26-May 10), the back half of the gallery was invaded by Oleg Tselkov, with 50 works (accompanied by a 120-page catalogue) savvily selected to form a comprehensive survey of his career. It began with a Portrait with Flowers from 1961, so early that Tselkov himself had forgotten painting it - although several of his future stylistic hallmarks (almond-shaped eyes, gap-toothed smile, teeth-grinding colour-clashes) are already in evidence. The subject - a lady with a geisha-white complexion in a red-ribboned hat - is no belle, although her poise suggests she feels otherwise; in Tselkov's world of Orwellian double-take, Ugliness is Beauty.

    Soviet Russia, he recalls, meant 'living in a madhouse, where Truth was Lies and Peace was War!'

    From belles to beaus. For almost his entire career Tselkov has painted the same male figure - a bald man with evil eyes and a broken-toothed grin - and turned him into a thing of beauty, resembling a cross between Mussolini, Khruschov and a latterday Phil Collins. The ABA exhibition revealed the monumental splendour and loony heroism of this figure, showing him surviving a series of attacks - from giant paper-clips, giant safety-pins, nails, knives, spades, scissors and axes - with a monstrous indifference whose explanation again lies in Tselkov's Soviet past.

    'As Solzhenitsyn once said, the KGB could hardly have arrested people if they'd known there was a man with an axe behind every door!'

    Two works at ABA surprisingly showed this skinhead tough reading a book (only half-a-dozen pages in it, mind you) as if enjoying Tselkov's well-read empathy. Tselkov has even, having lost his hair and removed his beard, come to look like him: at 79, an Art Brut of a man, with the gait of a prize-fighter itching to rip into his canvas.

    But appearances deceive. Although Tselkov attacks each new work with the rage of someone who 'wants to throw the grand piano out of the window,' as he melodiously puts it, he is a most meticulous practitioner - working tidily at one end of the lounge in his not particularly large flat in a not particularly smart bit of Paris. You expect him to be gulping down the vodka but instead find him sipping claret - leaving the vodka to Tonya, his impeccably elegant wife. The lounge still has its grand piano and alongside, in the only outburst of domestic quirkiness, an all-year-round Christmas Tree. Sometimes Tselkov escapes to the country, to his house in the bald, rolling hills of eastern Champagne: the Lysiye Gori of this Prince Bolkonsky of artists.

    Tselkov prepares his paintings like military campaigns. Their hulking sense of balance comes from intricate, squared-paper planning. Each patch of canvas is worked and reworked with deft paintwork of miniaturist precision; cut up his works and you could derive half-a-dozen exquisite still lifes.

    The works on offer at ABA were priced around $50,000-300,000. The highlight was Five Masks - at 8 x 6ft, one of a series of giant paintings (including The Last Supper) from 1977-79: the High Noon of Tselkov's career. In October 1977 he left Russia for France. He had no choice. 'Leave now' they threatened him 'or you'll be heading in the opposite direction.'

    Bekkerman's ensemble charted Tselkov's stylistic evolution down the years, from his early Fauvist palette to his current acidic diagonals, via Rembrandtian murk and Weisbergian haze. An early Picasso influence is apparent. George Costakis once likened Tselkov to Francis Bacon. Tselkov himself worships a fellow-rebel, Van Gogh, for 'his love of life in all its vile holiness.'

    Sly sexuality pops up here and there. A seated sauna Couple (2006) are viewed from behind in naked lobster-pink. The male head of a 1979 Bust is attached to two enormous breasts, presaging by nearly 30 years the fiberglass treatment dished out to Chairman Mao by the Gao Brothers.

    The exhibition's hanging suffered from excessive lighting and cheap wooden frames, but that hardly mattered. Tselkov can dominate any setting; the only other work than can stand up to a Tselkov is a Tselkov. When, as here, several dozen Tselkovs are lined up together it looks like a candy-store, spangled with the fluorescent colours of a Flavin - achieved by paint, not electricity. Tselkov's psychedelic power-supply sees red confront orange, turquoise target lime, pink pitched against purple and scarlet skirmishing with a green so deep it smells of seaweed. The clashes sound horrific but taste delicious.


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    Another of Tselkov's late '70s masterpieces can be found at the Zimmerli Art Museum in the picturesque university town of New Brunswick, an hour from Manhattan by train. I happened to visit on Rutgers Open Day, when the leafy avenues were alive with serendipitous students, mellow masters and balmy bonhomie.

    But you can never relax when Tselkov's around.

    The Zimmerli boasts one of his most daunting works: Golgotha. Its crucified trio emerge above a crowd of sixteen potato-head lookalikes. The museum's maze of partition walls are artfully arranged so that you espy the Tselkov 40 yards away - summoning you to the back of the hall, whither Tselkov has been banished like a naughty boy, with only a conceptualist red door by Mikhail Roginsky for company.

    During my visit, naughty boys were dashing around playing hide-and-seek in Open Day profusion, occasionally pausing in front of Tselkov's giant yellow gathering to gasp, perhaps for breath.

    Tselkov professes that 'exhibitions never mattered much to me in life' as 'I was more concerned about having money, because I rarely had it. Now I have money, so I'm not bothered about participating in exhibitions.'

    Despite such disarming logic Tselkov is at last being marched towards international acclaim by the crusading zeal of his dynamic daughter Olga. A Tselkov exhibition is currently running (through June 30) at AP Contemporary in Hong Kong. London's Russian Week sees one major Tselkov up for sale at Christie's (June 3) and three more at MacDougalls (June 5). St Petersburg's ineffably stylish Lazarev Gallery will be casting light (hopefully not too much of it) on Tselkov's giant recent works - some of them 4 meters wide - from June 29-August 1, just around the corner from the Repin Academy he frequented in 1954/5 (until some Chinese students got him kicked out for exerting a 'bourgeois' influence on them). And a major Tselkov birthday retrospective is slated for the Ekaterina Foundation in his native Moscow in April 2014.

    As Tselkov turns eighty there is no letting up. Like Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony he is thundering on with clashing harmonies and relentless irony until the beautiful bitter end.

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    Polanski's Venus seduces on last day of Cannes festival

    By Alexandria Sage

    CANNES (Reuters) - An avenging Venus settling the psychological and sexual score is the star of acclaimed director Roman Polanski's "La Venus a la Fourrure" ("Venus in Fur"), one of the Cannes film festival's two final movies in main competition to premiere on Saturday.

    The French-Polish director is one of 20 vying for the top Palme d'Or prize to be handed out at the festival on Sunday by a jury led by Steven Spielberg. Polanski won the prize in 2002 for "The Pianist", his semi-autobiographical drama about the Warsaw Ghetto, for which he also won an Oscar for best director.

    "I think when you show a film here, you have to be in the competition, you have to be a sport," Polanski told journalists before the official screening. "And even if I don't get anything I can say, 'Well, I got it already.'"

    Also screening on Saturday is "Only Lovers Left Alive," U.S. director Jim Jarmusch's languorous retro-cool vampire film.

    Frontrunners for top prize at the end of the 12-day festival include French director Abdellatif Kechiche's love story "Blue is the Warmest Colour" - whose no-holds-barred lesbian sex had audiences buzzing - and "Inside Llewyn Davis", U.S. directors Ethan and Joel Coen's story of a struggling singer trying to make it as a folk singer in the 1960s.

    Also on the short list is "The Great Beauty" from Italy's Paolo Sorrentino, a heady, magical ode to the decadence of Rome, and "The Past" a tension-filled psychological drama from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi.

    The jury of Ang Lee, Vidya Balan, Daniel Auteuil, Lynn Ramsay, Christoph Waltz, Naomi Kawase, Nicole Kidman and Cristian Mungiu will hand out the top prize and a slate of other directing and acting awards on Sunday.

    U.S. director Steven Soderbergh's "Behind the Candelabra" starring Michael Douglas as pianist Liberace was an opulent, rhinestone-encrusted spectacle while the most unabashedly political film this year was director Jia Zhangke's critical look at modern China, "A Touch of Sin".

    Polanski, whose 1974 film "Chinatown" established him as one of the world's great directors, remains controversial after his 1977 flight from the United States after serving time for unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl.

    ROLE REVERSAL

    "Venus in Fur" stars Polanski's wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, as brash actress Vanda who crashes an audition to convince writer Thomas, played by Mathieu Amalric, to cast her as the lead in his new play.

    Soon, the roles in the play are being acted out by Vanda and Thomas, and as the themes of domination and submission come into focus, roles become reversed and reality is blurred.

    The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called Polanski's first French-language film a "playful if occasionally heavy-handed jeu d'?sprit on the subject of sexual role-play, the games we all play, illusion and reality, and directing as a sexual act."

    Peppered with erudite literary references and infused with retro cool - blood is drunk from cordial glasses or frozen into popsicles - "Only Lovers Left Alive" is high on style but short on emotional depth as lovers Adam and Eve seek out type O negative blood and disparage humans as "zombies."

    Starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, Variety's Leslie Felperin called it a "sweet but slight love story" that feels like "an in-joke intended only for select acolytes, who will probably love it with an undying passion."

    (Editing by Patrick Graham)

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/polanskis-venus-seduces-last-day-cannes-festival-150300867.html

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    UK: 2 men charged after Pakistan plane diverted

    LONDON (AP) ? British authorities have charged two men with endangering an aircraft after a plane carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan to Britain was diverted mid-flight.

    Essex Police said Sunday that 30-year-old taxi driver Tayyab Subhani and 41-year-old restaurant worker Mohammed Safdar will appear in court on Monday.

    Both men, from Lancashire in northwestern England, remain in custody.

    A Typhoon fighter jet was scrambled on Friday to divert the Pakistan International Airlines plane traveling from Lahore, Pakistan, to Manchester, and forced it to land at London's Stansted Airport. The Boeing 777 plane landed safely.

    Details about what happened onboard are sketchy but a security official said the situation did not appear to be terror-related.

    Associated Press

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    Amanda Bynes to Rihanna: You Were Beaten Because You're Ugly!

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    Pacers steal Game 2 from Heat, 97-93

    MIAMI (AP) ? David West punched two passes from LeBron James away in the final minute, then punched the air.

    He had plenty of reason to celebrate.

    The Eastern Conference finals are tied, and home-court advantage now belongs to West and the Indiana Pacers.

    Roy Hibbert scored a postseason career-high 29 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, West broke up two passes by James for huge turnovers, and the Pacers evened the East title series at a game apiece with a 97-93 victory over the Miami Heat in Game 2 on Friday night.

    "We haven't done anything yet," Hibbert said. "We haven't closed the series out. We won one game. A lot of us feel we should be up 2-0."

    Paul George scored 22 points, George Hill added 18 and West finished with 13 for the Pacers, who handed the Heat just their fourth loss in their last 50 games, closed the game on a 13-5 run ? and denied one of the game's best playmakers in James twice in the final moments to finish it off.

    "There's only like one person that's more scarier than that," Hill said, speaking of James. "And that's, you know, God."

    The series resumes with Game 3 on Sunday night in Indianapolis.

    "It's one of the best basketball games I've ever been a part of," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. "It wasn't about LeBron making mistakes down the stretch. He played one of the best basketball games I've ever seen anybody play. We were just able to make a couple plays late in the game."

    More specifically, West made a couple plays late in the game.

    "These are two close, competitive games that can go either way," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "We had our opportunities. Enough opportunities."

    With Indiana up 95-93, West intercepted a pass that James was throwing to Ray Allen with 43 seconds left. Indiana didn't cash in that mistake, instead turning the ball over with a shot-clock violation.

    So on the next Miami trip, West denied James ? who led all scorers with 36 points ? again.

    James drove to the right block, spun and tried passing out toward the perimeter. West got his right hand on that pass, knocking it off-course and into the hands of Hill, then extended his hand skyward.

    The Pacers ? just as they did in the second-round series last year ? knew they were winning Game 2 in Miami. Hill made two free throws with 8.3 seconds left to clinch it, and just like that, the series was tied.

    Game 1, Miami won it with James coming through at the end.

    Game 2, the Pacers simply took away the MVP's opportunity.

    "We've been able to maintain our composure throughout the year," West said. "That's helped us throughout these playoffs and especially in environments like these."

    The Heat got 17 points from Chris Bosh and 14 from Dwyane Wade. The Heat led 88-84 in the fourth quarter, only to let the lead, the game and the home-court edge slip away, and James had almost an expressionless look afterward.

    "Nothing broke down," Wade said. "He's going to be hard on himself. He saw guys open, but West was able to get his arms out there at the last moment."

    Lance Stephenson scored 10 for the Pacers.

    The Heat trailed for virtually all of the game's first 30 minutes, then tied the game three times in the third quarter ? but Indiana always had a response. When the game was tied at 60, the Pacers scored seven of the next 10 points. Tied at 67, George quickly had a layup to put the Pacers back on top. Tied at 69, George struck again, this time with a jumper.

    With 5.1 seconds left in the third, George drove the lane and finished a highlight-reel dunk over Miami's Chris Andersen while getting fouled, the free throw putting the Pacers up by five. James connected on a long 3-pointer to close the quarter, then he and George exchanged a few words afterward and slapped each other's hand as if to say, "here we go."

    Sure enough, the show was just getting started.

    "We had our chance tonight," Bosh said.

    Hibbert was creating one problem after another for Miami, so James took it upon himself to challenge him in the fourth. And with about 8 minutes left, he swatted a putback attempt away from the 7-foot-2 Indiana center, starting a play that ended with Chalmers scoring at the other end to give Miami an 85-84 lead.

    On the next possession, James tied up a rebound with Hibbert, then won the ensuing jump ball. Not long afterward, Bosh made a 3-pointer and Miami's lead was up to 88-84 ? its biggest of the night.

    "We just didn't finish the game like we're capable of," Spoelstra said.

    Indiana scored the next five points to reclaim the lead. James' three-point play with 3:32 left put the Heat on top 91-89, and Hibbert answered that with a jump hook over the reigning MVP to tie the game for the 10th time.

    Frantic to the finish, again. And this time it went Indiana's way.

    "Heck of a basketball game, wasn't it?" Vogel asked afterward.

    If there was any remaining lament from losing Game 1 on the final play of overtime, the Pacers didn't show it. They trailed for all of 15 seconds in the first half, and after neither team held a lead of more than seven in the series opener, Indiana found itself leading by 10 late in the first quarter and by 13 with a minute to go before intermission.

    Hibbert was either unguarded or unguardable, making six of his eight shots in the first two quarters and getting to the line on the way to a 19-point half. West, Hill and George combined for 27 more before the break, and when Hibbert scored with 1:25 left the Pacers' lead was 53-40.

    The Heat needed less than a minute to erase more than half of that deficit.

    James made a pair of free throws with 59.1 seconds left, Chalmers had a layup and Mike Miller ? who hadn't taken a shot since May 8, but checked in with 3:23 remaining in the half after Allen and Shane Battier continued to struggle from the outside ? connected on a 3-pointer as time expired, pulling Miami within 53-47 at the break.

    And when Indiana went up nine early in the third quarter, Miami responded with another burst, this time an 11-2 run highlighted by a spectacular reverse dunk by James and capped by two baskets from Wade, the last of which knotted the game at 60-all.

    By then, it was clear.

    Just like Game 1, this one wouldn't be decided until the end.

    NOTES: South Florida resident Jozy Altidore of the U.S. men's national soccer team was among those in attendance, two days before he's set to report to Cleveland and begin training camp for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers. Other celebs in the crowd included newly retired football star and Miami Hurricanes great Ray Lewis, Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. and Rosie O'Donnell. ... The Pacers were called for four technicals (one a defensive 3-second) in a 4-minute span of the second quarter. ... Indiana reserve Sam Young sprained his left ankle in the third quarter. ... Indiana was not planning to fly home after the game, instead staying in Miami one more night and avoiding getting back to Indianapolis around 4 a.m. or even later.

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pacers-steal-game-2-heat-97-93-033532015.html

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    Trans fighter Fallon Fox wins unimpressively (Video)

    Considering Fallon Fox won her first two fights in the first round, it was expected for the first openly trans fighter to walk through her next opponent, Allanna Jones at Championship Fighting Alliance on Friday. In her first nationally televised bout, Fox won with a submission in the third round, but it was not the overwhelming win that oddsmakers were expecting.

    You can watch the full fight in the video above. Fox and Jones both made mistakes like keeping their hands too low and holding their chin out too far throughout the bout. They looked like two inexperienced fighters because that's what they are.

    Much of the controversy that surrounded Fox was the perception that since she was born a man, she would have clear advantage over her opponents. As Sherdog's Jordan Breen pointed out, "So, did anyone watch that and think, 'Wow, what an insurmountable advantage Fallon Fox has, no one could ever beat her!'?" She beat a 2-1 fighter, but not soundly. When she goes up in level of competition, as she will do in the next round of the CFA tournament, she will have a hard time.

    Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/trans-fighter-fallon-fox-wins-unimpressively-video-142855590.html

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    Resource rich countries cannot manage their wealth ? report ? RT ...

    Only 11 out of 58 countries rich in natural resources can effectively manage their wealth, according to the first of its kind report from the Revenue Watch Institute, a think tank which specializes in effective management of natural resources.

    A quarter of all independent countries on planet are resource rich. The 58 states produce 85% of world?s petroleum, 90% of the diamonds and 80% of copper with total profits from their extractive sector totaling more than $2.6 trillion.

    According to the Resource Governance Index (RGI), in 41 countries out of the group the extractive sector contributes a third of their GDP. And the future of these countries heavily depends on how effective they govern their resources.

    Norway takes the top ranking followed by the United States and the United Kingdom, all three majoring in hydrocarbon extraction. Russia comes 22 in the ranking, dragging behind its neighbor Kazakhstan and major South American energy states. Among the countries with the worst natural resource governance are Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkmenistan, and Myanmar concludes the ranking.? The Index shows a striking governance deficit in natural resources management worldwide with only 11 countries on the list scoring satisfactory.?

    The RGI evaluates four key components of resources governance in each country: institutional and legal setting, reporting practices, safeguards and quality controls and enabling environment.?It also takes into account data from the World bank, advocacy groups, including? Transparency International and various ecology watchdogs.

    The Index is based on the assertion that a good governance of natural resources provides successful development of country and is designed to serve as a tool to help identify good practices as well as governing failure.

    The Revenue Watch Institute is a unique organization of its kind exclusively dedicated to address the problems of countries that are rich in natural resources.

    Source: http://rt.com/business/resources-countries-bad-governing-765/

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    Obama heckled by a familiar voice

    Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin is surrounded by security on May 23. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

    President Barack Obama's planned counterterrorism speech was temporarily derailed several times Thursday when activist Medea Benjamin shouted criticisms of the administration's use of drones and operation of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

    Benjamin, co-founder of peace activist group Code Pink, was seated in the audience at National Defense University in Washington, D.C., where Obama gave his speech. She first interrupted him as he announced plans designed to move the U.S. closer to closing the facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

    "You gotta let me speak. I'm about to address it," the president said in response to the heckling. He asked her to sit down so he could continue and repeatedly thanked her for her comments.

    "This is part of free speech, is you being able to speak but also you listening and me being able to speak," Obama said, drawing wide applause from the audience.

    After multiple outbursts and back-and-forths with the president, Benjamin was escorted out of the event.

    "The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to. Obviously, I do not agree with much of what she said. And obviously she wasn?t listening to me and much of what I said. But these are tough issues and the suggestion that we can gloss over them is wrong," Obama said.

    Benjamin and members of her San Francisco-based, female-initiated organization have a reputation in Washington for making scenes at high-profile events, including those with tight security.

    Over the last several months, Code Pink members, including Benjamin, have interrupted the National Rifle Association's press conference on the Newtown, Conn., shooting response?where Benjamin unfurled a sign reading "NRA blood on your hands? and shouted, "Reckless behavior coming from the NRA" before forced from the room?and John Brennan's confirmation hearing to be director of the CIA, which was temporarily suspended as aides cleared the room.

    Benjamin, a 2000 U.S. Senate candidate in California, co-founded Code Pink (the name a hat tip to color-coded terrorism warnings) in 2002 to protest against the Iraq war. President George W. Bush and his Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld are counted among the group's past high-profile targets.

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/code-pink-activist-medea-benjamin-heckles-obama-195521792.html

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    If Tumblr Were a Person, They'd Be This Annoying

    Cloying, GIF-happy, nostalgic, attention span devoid?this woman-as-website impression could only be better if she, well, did some really horrible things! But it's otherwise perfect.

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    Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/j7ML7-vsHt0/your-new-favorite-video-if-tumblr-were-a-person-509741054

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