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New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University (TNDALU) has declared the BL degree exam results for the examination held in May 2017 for 3 year and 5 year degree courses. Results have been announced for all the semesters other than final semester. Result is available at the official website of TNDALU tndalu.ac.in...
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Of course, there is not really sufficient reason for jingoistic exultation.
Fabio Capello was right to be deadpan and deliberately downbeat after watching his side kick off their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign with a decent win.
But although the coach was correctly cautious, a few questions were answered last night.
We learned that the team and the tactics which looked disastrously inept in the World Cup can carry England beyond the flaccid challenge of woefully poor East European sides. We realised that, despite all their dismal disappointments in the finals of tournaments, England should still be strong enough to qualify.
We understood that, even when he doesn’t score, Wayne Rooney can prise open defences for others to profit. And, perhaps above all else, we discovered that English fans are, on the whole, steadfast and fervent. They demonstrated that they were there to cheer and encourage. There was not a hint of booing or jeering.
The question that was not addressed was: Why on earth were we all at Wembley on a Friday night? The switch away from Saturday robs big swathes of the population of their alibis. There will be no excuse today for not doing the housework, DIY or shopping.
But nor is there any acceptable excuse for the break with tradition. And the Wembley attendance of 73,246 was evidence that fans don’t like Fridays. The figure was fractionally more than watched last month’s friendly with Hungary but disappointing for the start of a competitive qualifying campaign. Surely the number wo...
Yet we must get used to Friday internationals. The switch from Saturday was not a temporary experiment or an English aberration. It was part of a Continental shift.
UEFA have scheduled most of the qualifying programme on Fridays and Tuesdays. Wednesdays have been ditched as well – and there is the clue to the culprits.
In introducing the big move away from Saturdays and Wednesdays, UEFA have acquiesced to pressure from the clubs, including those in the Premier League, who want their players to have an extra day’s rest before returning to action for them. So there were 22 full internationals played across Europe last night and only tw...
Yet while the Premier League said “Thank FA it’s Friday”, the change upset fans, many of whom complained that the rest of the weekend is devoid of top level football. There is no Premier League or Championship programme today. Tomorrow there is only one fixture in any of England’s top four divisions – seven miles from ...
According to an advertisement in last night’s programme, “We’re on a new journey – this time to UEFA Euro 2012”. Leaving aside the irritation that everyone, from Tony Blair to X-Factor hopefuls, consider themselves on journeys these days, it was the trip to Wembley last night that will have persuaded supporters that Fr...
Roadworks on the M1, a crash with lane closures on the M25 and the normal pre-weekend motorway madness combined to clog most major routes to the stadium. And those who let the train take the strain found that many saver deals are not available on Fridays.
So those who braved and beat the travel difficulties were clearly determined to get their money’s worth.
England emerged for the start to an extraordinary outpouring of fervour – but many were still picking their way to their seats after Jermain Defoe had shot England ahead in the third minute.
Of course Defoe’s other two goals and the one contributed by Adam Johnson provoked loud cheers, but the support was not limited to the scorers.
Whenever Theo Walcott did anything productive he was given huge backing and there was also a spontaneous and heartfelt ovation for Rooney when he almost scored with an audacious chip.
What a pity that such remarkable fans have been treated with such disdain by UEFA’s Friday switch.
What did 2016 mean for science? Science correspondent Miles O’Brien sits down with William Brangham to discuss some of the more remarkable discoveries, innovations and setbacks this year, including the confirmation of one of Einstein's major predictions, the global outbreak of Zika, a breakthrough in gene editing, self...
But first: 2016 has been a wild ride, one that we're not likely to forget anytime soon, much of it focused on politics, but many things happened in the world of science and technology as well.
William Brangham starts our review for our weekly segment, the Leading Edge.
Indeed, we wanted to look at some of the more remarkable discoveries and innovations, and setbacks that we saw in the scientific world this year.
And so we welcome back our very own science correspondent, Miles O'Brien.
Good to be here, William.
So, everyone is doing their year-end best-of list for 2016. Let's do ours.
Scientifically, what's top of your list?
Let's start with basic research, shall we, the real hard-core science.
The biggest one by far was a historic find announced in February, the detection of gravity waves. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, confirmed one of Einstein's major predictions about the nature of gravity, namely, that the merging of two black holes should send subtle gravity waves ripp...
Ladies and gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves. We did it.
LIGO scientists managed to find those waves measuring tiny contractions and expansions of space itself.
They did this with two massive laser facilities, one in Louisiana, one in Washington state, a pair of the most precise rulers ever built, if you will.
So why is this scientific discovery, why is this so high on everyone's list?
Well, it's as the scientists discovered a new language and then learned it. And they can now directly observe much more precise, much more fundamental forces of nature, which opens up a whole new realm of experiments in precision.
It's like they used to be able to see the puddles, and now they can see the whole rainstorm. So, it adds fidelity to their quest.
So, let's stay in space. What other big discoveries, innovations, what else did we see out there?
Well, I'm always watching for the possibility that there might be life out there. I assume you are too.
Exoplanets, these are planets that would be around another solar system.
And right around a dozen of them are in a so-called habitable zone, the Goldilocks site, where there might in fact potentially be the conditions for life.
The total catalog now is 3,500 planets, a smaller handful in the habitable zone. No one has checked in yet, no aliens so far.
A little closer to home, NASA's Juno spacecraft also entered orbit around Jupiter. Juno sensors will collect data on the gas giant up close in hopes of understanding how Jupiter formed and evolved.
So, these are all unmanned missions that you have been describing.
I know there has been a lot of effort in putting us humans out into space. How has that been going?
Well, the road to Mars is long and winding, to say the least, William.
Private companies are running resupply missions to the space station while testing technology. The results have been mixed, frankly. Among the thrill of victory highlights, in April, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster landed upright on a remote barge at sea. It was a spectacular picture, and they stuck it.
But there were some agony in defeat moments as well. SpaceX, most notably in September, an explosion occurred during an engine test on the launchpad. It destroyed the rocket, its satellite payload, and a lot of launch facilities.
It was the second Falcon 9 failure in 15 months. So, whether SpaceX can deliver on its promise of providing cheaper access to space without compromising safety, that remains an open question at the end of this year.
Let's talk a little bit about human health. And we have seen this year scientists talking ever so cautiously about ending epidemics like the HIV epidemic.
But insect-born diseases certainly came roaring back with a vengeance this year.
They certainly became in the realm of household lexicons, when you start talking about things like Zika. It actually became a household term because of the global outbreak that occurred.
And scientists in Brazil linked this mosquito-borne virus to a rise in microcephaly and other severe fetal brain defects. More than 90,000 Zika infections reported in Brazil in the first few months of 2016. The U.S. has seen relatively fewer cases, about 5,000 known infections.
The numbers on birth defects are still rolling in, but so far in the U.S., 11 percent of the Zika cases during pregnancy have resulted in birth defects, while Brazil's rate is closer to 40 percent. Now, scientists are trying to find some solutions to all this.
A vaccine, of course, would be great, but they're also in Brazil using genetically modified mosquitoes, deploying these insects that are tweaked in such a way that they have a fatal gene that would spread in the wild, sort of a suicide gene. We will see if that works.
The beauty about this technique is that it can reach the mosquitoes, where no other technique can find it. We're using mosquitoes to fight themselves.
On the subject of genetic modification, where are we with the technique known as CRISPR? This has been heralded for a year or so as one of the greatest potential discoveries.
As you know, William, CRISPR a breakthrough gene editing technique using proteins extracted from a type of bacteria.
Researchers are able to easily target specific DNA sequences, snip them and replace them with whatever they want. This year, scientists in China used CRISPR for the first time to modify a human cell. They moved immune cells from a cancer patient, disabled the gene which makes them less effective against cancer and then...
Now, that's an exciting prospect, to have these kind of super-duper immune cells going after cancer. We don't know yet if it's working, though. The results aren't in. So we will watch that in 2017.
Let's talk a little bit about technology.
Computers are getting faster. They're getting smarter. There's a lot of talk about A.I. and artificial intelligence. If anywhere, are we seeing this play out in the world today?
Right in front of us on the road, William.
We're seeing self-driving cars appear much faster than I think we are probably ready for. In parts of Pittsburgh now, you can order up a self-driving Uber. The human being is there to grab the wheel just in case, but, basically, we are well on our way to a world where we're not necessarily driving our cars anymore.
This past year, though, we did have the first death of a person using a self-driving component of the Tesla Models. So, that's a little piece of history and a reminder. What Tesla will tell you is, it's still, on a per-mile basis, much safer than human beings driving.
Miles, before you go, the world of astronomy this week lost one of its luminaries, Vera Rubin. Can you tell us a little bit about her?
You know, William, Vera Rubin was an astronomer who changed the way we think about the universe and forced the scientific community to change the way it treated women.
In the 1970s, she realized that galaxies are spinning too fast, that they would really fly apart if they relied simply on the gravity of the things we can see around them. She knew there had to be something else there, a lot of something.
And this is what led to the discovery of what we now call dark matter. We don't know exactly what it is yet. There is a lot of ideas about it, but we haven't seen it just yet.
But Vera Rubin was right there at the beginning, among the first female astronomers, blazed a trail for many others. And many great astronomers today really just stand on her shoulders.
All right, Miles O'Brien, thanks so much for being here.
The government should not approve 21st Century Fox’s bid to take over Sky. It’s alarming that the company’s demonstrated culture of malfeasance and governance deficiencies borne out of Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s commitment to advancing his personal political agenda has not already been sufficient to warrant ou...
The soft touch to which the government is treating Murdoch’s bid is also revealing -- it seems to come in part because of the disproportionate amount of political power and influence that Murdoch wields. As Secretary Bradley accurately notes, this takeover will give Murdoch even more power and influence. That kind of d...
Beware Murdoch’s promises and assurances. As we have noted, he has made an awful lot of them in the past in order to a secure a deal, only to swiftly disregard his word once the deal was finalized.
In mid-June, Media Matters for America President Angelo Carusone sent a letter to the U.K.'s chief broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, highlighting a number of recent developments -- all of which concern Fox News -- that are pertinent to Ofcom’s investigation into the potential takeover of Sky PLC by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st C...
The recent developments detailed in Media Matters' letter to Ofcom further underscore that Murdoch and his sons fail to satisfy the conditions necessary to acquire British satellite broadcasting company Sky in full and expose dangers that the bid for Sky would pose to the British public and media landscape.
The letter from Carusone follows a March 30 report Media Matters submitted in partnership with global activism group Avaaz to Ofcom that detailed the risks Murdoch’s desired takeover of Sky poses to British broadcasting standards.
Before that, Media Matters and Avaaz submitted a report to Secretary Bradley of the U.K. Department for Culture, Media and Sport that demonstrated that the risk of Foxification is too great to simply rubber-stamp a Murdoch takeover. On March 16, Bradley referred Murdoch's takeover bid to Ofcom for a thorough investigat...
21st Century Fox already owns 39.1 percent of Sky. Murdoch abandoned a previous bid for full ownership in light of an investigation into mass hacking at his U.K.-based newspapers. Following an investigation, a parliamentary report found that Murdoch was “not a fit person” to run a major corporation and that his son Jam...
More bad news for Volkswagen owners. Researchers from the University of Birmingham have reverse engineered the keyless entry system of many Volkswagen cars. Up to one hundred million cars made between 2000 and 2016 could be affected.
If you own a Volkswagen with keyless entry, it's likely to be vulnerable to a remote-cloning attack, according to new research. After reverse-engineering the keyless entry systems of multiple VW models from the early 2000s to 2016, a team of researchers believe that the vast majority of the 100 million vehicles from VW...
BEIJING - Twelve-year-old Ye Wocheng became the youngest golfer to qualify for a European Tour event when the Chinese schoolboy survived a late wobble to grab a place at the Volvo China Open on Wednesday.Ye's two round two-under-par total of 142 at the Western China qualifier earned him a spot at the May 2-5 European a...
ELLINGTON — The Ellington Farmers' Market is hosting a birds of prey program by Horizon Wings Rapture Rehabilitation and Education Center at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, at the Indian Valley Family YMCA, 11 Pinney St.
The presentation features a bald eagle, owls and other birds of prey. Learn what features all raptors have in common and their individual stories as well as the characteristics and behaviors of each species while viewing these magnificent creatures up close.
ELLINGTON — The Ellington Lions' Club's monthly fundraiser at Hometown Pizza Restaurant, 175 West Road, will take place from 4 to 9 p.m. Monday, Jan. 7. Eat-in or take-out is available and 10-percent of proceeds fund local charitable activities sponsored by the Ellington Lions Club, such as the Jacob Roger Poulin Found...
Exhibition Dates: Jan. 20 to Feb. 24. Opening Reception: Sunday, Jan. 20, from 2 to 4 p.m. Art Drop Off Dates: Thursday, Jan. 10, 2 to 6 p.m.; Friday, Jan. 11, 2 to 6 p.m., and Saturday, Jan. 12, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pick-up of Unaccepted Work: Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2 to 6 p.m., and Wednesday, Jan.16, 2 to 6 p.m.
Stevie Nicks just couldn't keep her boy bands straight.
The 70-year-old singer hilariously referred to Harry Styles as a member of NSYNC at her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Friday, in what was meant to be a compliment to him. Styles presented Nicks with her honor at the event; afterwards, the Fleetwood Mac songstress attempted to explain their bond.
"What I really loved about Harry was that when he decided to make a solo record from NSYNC -- sorry, not NSYNC," Nicks said, realizing her mistake.
"Sorry. I’m never going to live that one down, I know it," she confessed. "One Direction. Well, I liked One Direction too."
Styles -- who wasn't in NSYNC with Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick -- started One Direction with Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne and Niall Horan on The X Factor in 2010. The group went on hiatus in 2016 to pursue solo projects.
Nicks, who performed with Styles at the event, praised his solo work after her slip up. "He will still be around in 30 or 40 years. He'll still be doing [music] just like I have continued to do it," she told reporters. "He'll still be rocking it across the country when he’s, you know, 60, 70, 50, 40."
Styles had a lot of love for Nicks as well.
"'Dreams' was the first song that I knew all the words to, before I really knew what all the words meant," he said. "She is so much more than a role model. She’s a beacon to all of us. Whenever you hear her voice, life gets just a little bit better. When she sings, the world is hers, and it is yours. She is everything ...
See more on Styles in the video below.
The iPhone is great, until, one frosty day, you realize its capacitive touchscreen doesn't work through gloves. So we tested three pairs of iPhone-friendly gloves to decide which were best.
Gimmick: Finger tip flaps allow your real fingers to do the typing.
Gimmick: Shimmery gold finger tips activate the iPhone's capacitive touch screen.
We just got word that E-Tips are sold out nationwide with no plans for additional production. UPDATE: They'll come back in the Fall 2009 line.
Gimmick: Like the North Face E-Tips, the shimmery gold finger tips activate the iPhone's capacitive touch screen.
So our conclusion is a sad one. The North Face gloves were our favorite if you can stand the overly-techie design (which my wife hated but I loved). However, the tavos do come in a close second, offering a passable way to check your email in the cold.

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