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David Conway, Professor of Biology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the study indicated that it would be hard to reduce malaria further by adding more preventative measures indoors.
It was likely that some of the remaining transmission of malaria was due to mosquitoes biting people outside in the evening, Conway said.
Our lives would be incomplete without mobile phones. It keep us in contact with the outside world but most of time people don’t follow mobile etiquette.
One can be subjected to plenty of ill-effects while using a mobile phone. Health risks are quite high and people who use their phones while riding are prone to accidents.
Metrolife spoke to a few people and asked them whether mobile etiquette matters to them at all.
The worst affected are bike riders. They talk on the phone while riding and are caught for breaking traffic rules as well.
“Once I almost hit a girl who was walking on the road and talking on her phone. She wasn’t aware of what was happening around her. I have confronted several situations like these. People quite often tend to lose control of the vehicle while speaking on the phone,” says Gowtham, an IT employee.
The mobile menace is not just confined to the roads alone. People try to flaunt their mobiles in public places as well.
“I have seen people talk loudly and endlessly on their cell phones in buses and other public places, unmindful of who is around them. They also talk in vulgar language and think it is a great thing to do so,” says Prem, who heads the logistics department in a private firm.
Suma, an aerobics instructor, finds mobile ring tones exasperating.
“Some people deliberately set a high volume ring tone and this really irritates people around them. The sound of the tone is so annoying that I don’t feel like using my phone for a few days,” she says.
People must have basic manners and realise where, when and how to use a cell phone without causing trouble to those around them, feels Bhagya, a government employee.
“It is really sad to see people attach so much importance to a cell phone. They lack the basic courtesy to even apologise when they cause inconvenience to others. This is an individual problem that can be rectified by the particular individual, no rule or regulation would make a difference,” she wraps up.
The New Zealand arm of global research firm Kantar TNS says its research shows New Zealanders are very sceptical about information they read online, and this could create a big headache for brands and business marketing through social media.
The findings come from a piece of Kantar TNS research entitled ‘Navigating the Digital Labyrinth’ – a survey of almost 2000 New Zealanders — which, it says "lifts the lid on Kiwi attitudes to all things digital."
Kantar TNS New Zealand client director Jonathan Pickup said the company's research suggested only 19 percent of New Zealanders trust the information they read online.
“If brands don’t demonstrate authenticity, there is a real risk that the lack of trust in the vehicle used to deliver a message can be transferred to the message owner by association," he said.
Facebook (29 percent trust) and Twitter (16 percent) were the most likely companies to be distrusted and mainstream service providers such as a respondent's main bank (85 percent), main insurance provider (72 percent) and electricity provider (70 percent) considered the most trustworthy.
However, Pickup said the lack of trust was not discouraging people from using these platforms with 71 percent of Kiwis using Facebook every day. Nineteen percent said they use it less than a year ago and 34 percent said they use it more often.
YouTube had a higher net growth (nine percent using less, 39 percent using more). Instagram usages changes were similar to those for Facebook but only four percent of respondents indicated increased Twitter usage and nine percent indicated less usage.
Pickup said Kantar TNS's research also showed Kiwis to be worried about their online security but most not doing the simple things they know they should to protect themselves.
"While 84 percent describe themselves as security conscious, only 49 percent of New Zealanders are using anti-virus software. Only 19percent change their passwords regularly, with 68 percent admitting this is something they should do more often," he said.
"While 41 percent use different passwords for different sites, 47 percent know this is something they should do, but don’t. And just over a fifth of those surveyed review security settings regularly on sites they log into but almost 60percent feel they should do so more often."
The nation’s students say they will probably regret ever choosing to go back into American classrooms again.
WASHINGTON—Despite years of putting up with underperforming teachers, overcrowded classrooms, and a gradually deteriorating educational experience, American students reluctantly announced Tuesday that they would be giving the nation's public school system yet another chance this fall.
Saying they would "probably kick themselves later" for deciding to enroll once more in a system that has let them down time and time again, millions of American children agreed to put up with their schools' insufficient funding and lack of adequate arts and science programs in hopes that administrators might finally start providing a nurturing, or at least tolerable, environment in which to learn.
"I know I've been burned many times in the past by our nation's educational infrastructure, but if they promise to change, I'd be willing to give them another shot," said sixth-grader Gregory Jacobs, whose Norfolk, CT–area middle school recently cut more than 15 members of its teaching staff. "Yes, I realize they say every year that it's going to get better and it never does, but my future is at stake here, so I guess I'm just hoping our schools will finally live up to their promise."
"I don't know, maybe I'm being naïve by expecting things to change," Jacobs added. "But is hoping for improved overall scholastic quality really such an outrageous expectation?"
Admitting they were a little reluctant to put their faith in the same flawed bureaucracy that, for decades now, has failed to close the ever-widening achievement gap and cannot fix painfully apparent budget inadequacies, the nation's K through 12 pupils told reporters that what eventually sealed their decision to return to school was a deep, unshakable faith that the richest, most powerful country in the world would be able to meet the highest global standards for education.
While U.S. students have granted the public school system another in a long series of chances to prove itself, they were quick to issue a list of demands they hoped politicians, administrators, and educators would be able to meet in the coming year.
"Look, if we're going to come back, I would personally like to see some guarantees from these officials that indicate they really are committed to making these schools work," said Elizabeth Gray, a third-grader at the overcrowded Thaddeus T. Barker Elementary School in Brooklyn. "I'm talking new equipment and resources, better-trained teachers, smaller classrooms, more one-on-one interaction with students, and higher achievement standards, as well as improved models for accountability."
"Also, we're going to need to see the American student's international ranking in mathematics go up from 32th to at least 26th," continued Gray, adding that the implementation of a new strategy to get the number of high school dropouts down from 1.2 million annually to an even 1 million would be a "terrific start." "These are things my classmates and I have wanted from day one, and I would like the reassurance of administrators that they are achievable."
In a final plea to school boards across the country, the nation's students said that when they begin showing up to class in the coming month, they really hope they haven't once more placed their futures in the hands of inept administrators who are "just going to make [children] look like fools for trusting them again."
Grateful for another opportunity to amend its past administrative blunders, the Department of Education was quick to promise it wouldn't let students down this time and would do all it could not to mess everything up again.
"We want to thank all of our students for this vote of confidence," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a special televised press conference. "We are seriously going to work harder than ever before this year and make some real changes. I promise. Students will not regret giving us this chance."
"That being said, funding is a little tight right now, so try to keep your expectations within reason," Duncan added.
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A tyrant is abroad in the land — a man who would be king — setting his ambition above his country’s welfare. He’s cunning and manipulative, answering to no laws but those that serve his desires. No, we are not gazing into a mirror of the 21st century, but 16th-century England near the end of the War of the Roses. Unhappily, the toxic atmosphere seems close to our own reality.
From the first declarative sentence of the villain’s opening monologue, “Now is the winter of our discontent,” to the final pleas of the monarch at Bosworth Field, “A horse! A horse! my kingdom for a horse,” William Shakespeare’s “Richard III” unfolds nightly on the Boston Common — weather permitting — in an impressive production, under the carefully calibrated direction of Steven Maler. Difficult as they are to follow, the competing motives of the characters and complicated genealogy are sorted out and blocked on stage to the sounds of trumpets, drums and a helicopter flying overhead across the night sky. Maler is a master at casting, enhancing Shakespeare’s retelling of English history.
When we first meet the wanna-be monarch, he is the Duke of Gloucester, later to seize the throne. Darkly resplendent in thoughts and costume, the actor, Faran Tahir, looks like “the other, ” totally in control of every encounter, in contrast to the blond women he seeks to marry. Tahir omits the tradition of playing the role as a hunch back, taking on a limp and a weak arm for his physical deformities. Tahir nails the character from his first long soliloquy, bringing the audience into his confidence as co-conspirators. Wearing a face mike (like the rest of the leading characters), he speaks Shakespeare’s words with the clarity of a fine piece of crystal. Tahir starts high, pushing the temperature and pacing even further and faster over the passage of time, telescoped into nearly three hours.
His alter ego is the Duke of Buckingham, portrayed by Fred Sullivan, Jr., with a cheery demeanor and sense of humor, despite the terrible deeds he undertakes in the name of the king. His motives are equally self-serving given that Gloucester has promised him a special title and lands for his aid. Sullivan, one of the most accomplished actors in the region, presents himself as a contrast to the coiled and scowling Tahir, even as he shares the conspiracies.
Gloucester steps his way to the throne by murdering his rivals, among them his so-called beloved brother, Duke of Clarence (a sympathetic Remo Airaldi), next Lord Hastings, the Lord Chamberlain (a knowing but regretful Mark Torres) and finally, most dreadfully, the two little Princes, Edward, rightful heir to the throne, and his younger brother, Richard (Seamus Doyle and Brendan O’Brien, the well-spoken children of the cast).
The four women that confront Gloucester/Richard are royalty by marriage and birth; Lady Anne (Libby McKnight) whom he marries then murders; the Duchess of York (Sarah Sinclair), his mother; Queen Elizabeth, wife and widow to King Edward and mother of the two slain Princes (a riveting Deb Martin); and the old Queen, Margaret (Bobbie Steinbach). Margaret promises revenge on Richard and prophecies his downfall in a thundering first act tour-de-force by Steinbach.
You’ll not soon forget the Act II scene of the three queens mourning the deaths of the Princes in the Tower that includes Sinclair’s helpless fury at bringing Richard into the world, nor the mesmerizing thrust and parry between Martin and Tahir when he attempts to wheedle her permission to marry her young daughter to further cement his claims to the throne.
The starkly simple décor is designed by Eric Southern. The costumes are mostly shaded in black with Jessica Pabst’s costume designs taken from Alexander McQueen’s trendy 20th century menswear. An air of doom pervades Richard’s victories, even to the parade of all-black banners that frame his hasty coronation.
Richard is defeated at the end, a win for the forces of right and order, finally ending the era of misrule. One might wonder if — and when — history repeats itself.
Uber may be the company that is most emblematic of the most recent wave of Silicon Valley start-ups: amazing, industry-transforming convenience married to breathtaking rapacity, aggression, and general dickishness. Founder and ousted CEO Travis Kalanick’s combative strategy of expanding by entering new cities without permission, generally over the objections of regulators, has, despite some turbulence, paid off handsomely for the company, which is seeking a $100 billion valuation in its upcoming initial public offering. But the S-1 it filed yesterday in anticipation of the IPO reveals that a profitable future is far from a sure thing for Uber — and the cities over which it ran roughshod as it grew will have their opportunity for revenge, should they want it.
As much of the coverage of the S-1 has already noted, Uber does not, currently, make money. In fact, it loses money, and a great deal of it: $3 billion in 2018 alone. In fairness, it’s losing less money than it used to ($4.1 billion in 2017), but it’s also growing more slowly. The problem, as it stands, is that the math doesn’t quite add up: It’s difficult to provide an affordable rideshare service that is also an attractive proposition to the driver-contractors who make up Uber’s enormous — and increasingly angry — workforce.
One way of thinking about Uber is that it’s currently a kind of charity program in which wealthy investors — who are plowing money into a money-losing enterprise — and not-wealthy cab drivers — who, when all is said and done, earn something like minimum wage — subsidize low taxi rates for urban professionals. Obviously, it’s not actually a charity, but the idea is that Uber as it presently exists is not a particularly enticing business, and investors are willing to let it burn money for now not because they think that New Yorkers and Los Angelenos deserve cheap cab rides, but because they believe that Uber will eventually transform from a semi-charitable taxi app into a globally dominant transportation “platform,” encompassing all kinds of vehicles and all kinds of transported objects, and that at monopoly-scale, the economics of the business will fall into place.
Uber will always have trouble in rural and suburban areas, where owning a car is cheap and common, and where rides take longer, come along less often, and are generally less likely to make drivers money in aggregate. Cities, which are dense enough to make driving an Uber a more lucrative undertaking, are always going to be Uber’s bread and butter — especially cities where car ownership is expensive, like New York, or where public transportation is lacking, like Los Angeles.
That makes for some pretty incredible leverage. The Kalanickian corporate premise that Uber can and should do what it wants in cities, regardless of regulators’ objections — and that it should pull out of markets, like Austin, that won’t bend to its will — all but collapses when you understand how much Uber depends on those cities as markets. In fact, cities hold a great deal of power over Uber. Put more bluntly, New York City might be able to destroy Uber, should it choose to. The S-1 notes New York’s recently implemented taxi regulations — which limit the number of new rideshare drivers, and implement minimum per-mile and per-minute rates — as examples of how new regulations in its major markets can adversely affect its business. San Francisco, for its part, may vote on a ridesharing surcharge this year. Why stop there? Transport for London recently came close to banning Uber entirely.
Apple is currently hard at work on a “completely rethought” Mac Pro, with a modular design that can accommodate high-end CPUs and big honking hot-running GPUs, and which should make it easier for Apple to update with new components on a regular basis.
This is undoubtedly good news for Apple fans who need a powerful machine and don’t have the time or energy to build it themselves. Over the last decade, Apple’s desktop line has often languished, but each eventual refresh has revealed a machine too powerful for the average user. Aspirational machines most of us have zero use for.
But the new MacPro isn’t coming this year. As Gruber notes, Apple is merely announcing the product, through five reporters (Gruber, Matthew Panzarino, Lance Ulanoff, Ina Fried, and John Paczkowski) in order to placate old MacPro fans who are eager for an upgrade and may even be eyeing sleek machines from Dell and HP (or plotting to build their own).
But why was Apple even forced to placate fans? When any nerd with a credit card can go build their own PC in an afternoon, why is Apple going to take five years to build a new damn machine?
The problem lies in the war of form versus function that rests at the heart of Apple’s design ethos. While successful compromise has been found, repeatedly, in the laptop space, and, reportedly, in the all-in-one space (Gruber also mentioned a new redesigned iMac is expected later this year) Apple has never quite cracked the code when it comes to desktops.
It either builds big, stunning towers like the iconic G5, or it builds tiny over-designed pieces of art like the G4 Cube and 2013 MacPro. Apple has yet to find a middle ground and develop a machine that is as upgradeable as desktops demand to be, while still being as smartly designed as Apple’s lineup has traditionally been.
We’re not going to get into exactly what stage we’re in, just that we told the team to take the time to do something really great. To do something that can be supported for a long time with customers with updates and upgrades throughout the years. We’ll take the time it takes to do that. The current Mac Pro, as we’ve said a few times, was constrained thermally and it restricted our ability to upgrade it. And for that, we’re sorry to disappoint customers who wanted that, and we’ve asked the team to go and re-architect and design something great for the future that those Mac Pro customers who want more expandability, more upgradability in the future. It’ll meet more of those needs.
Whatever is coming next from Apple will have the expandability desktop users demand, but it certainly sounds like some of the clutch Apple design may be sacrificed in the process.
How old is Daniel Kaluuya, Black Panther and Get Out star and who's the Oscars 2018 nominee's girlfriend?
How old is Daniel Kaluuya, Black Panther and Get Out star and who’s the Oscars 2018 nominee’s girlfriend?
DANIEL Kaluuya is a British actor who's been making waves in Hollywood after starring in the 2017 horror film Get Out and the hit film Black Panther.
Who is Daniel Kaluuya and who's he dating?
Daniel was born in London on 8 May 1989 - that makes him 28.
He began his career as a teenager in improvisational theatre, and appeared in the first two seasons of the E4 teen Skins, which he also co-wrote.
He's currently enjoying a career high after his 2017 horror film Get Out earned him nominations for a BAFTA, Golden Globe, SAG Award and a Critics' Choice Award in the best actor in a leading role category. He has also won the 2018 BAFTA Rising Star Award and an Oscars nomination for Best Actor.
His role in Get Out also see him win an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.
Daniel currently lives in West London with his girlfriend, Amandla.
Amandla was Daniel's date to the Golden Globes on January 7, and the pair stepped out together in May 2017 for the MTV Movie & TV Awards.
Who does Daniel play in Black Panther?
Daniel takes on the role of W'Kabi in the Marvel Studios blockbuster film Black Panther.
The film, which has so far received rave reviews from the critics, is the first Marvel production to focus on black characters from the comics.
It is set in the fictional African nation of Wakanda and expand on the storyline that was first introduced in Captain America: Civil War of how T'Challa becomes the Black Panther.
T'Challa's father T'Chaka is king of the African nation Wakanda and has the ceremonial title Black Panther as the chief of the Panther Tribe, but is killed when a bomb goes off at the UN making his son the Black Panther.
When did Daniel Kaluuya star in Black Mirror?
Daniel played the role of Bingham "Bing" Madsen in the Fifteen Million Merits episode of Black Mirror.
The episode premiered on Channel 4 in 2011, and gained popularity after it was subsequently released on Netflix in the United States.
Daniel's performance in Black Mirror attracted the attention of Jordan Peele, who later cast him in Get Out.
What films has Daniel starred in?
What TV shows has Daniel starred in?
TALLINN- Russia's recent large-scale military exercise Zapad was neither an "anti-terror exercise" nor "purely defensive", but a "dry run" for a "full-scale conventional war against NATO in Europe", the German daily Bild reports, citing two analysts.
According to Bild's sources, the drill rehearsed the capture of the Baltic states and Belarus as well as a "shock campaign" against Western European NATO nations such as Germany and the Netherlands, but also against Poland, Norway and the non-aligned states of Sweden and Finland.
According to the two sources, Kremlin forces rehearsed capturing NATO's "region of vulnerability, according to the Russian view", namely the three Baltic states. "To realize this, you would have to quickly do the Suwalki gap operation" in order to cut off Poland and NATO reinforcements from Lithuania. This is exactly what Russia did, creating the artificial state of "Veyshnoria" at the exact location of the 40-kilometre land bridge between Poland and Lithuania, carried out on Belarusian territory, however.
At the same time, Russia rehearsed "neutralizing or taking under control air fields and harbors (in the Baltic states), so there are no reinforcements arriving from other NATO states there", Bild reports.
The sources emphasized that, in the case of an emergency, this would, in the first few days, be a purely military operation. "This does not mean that you have to occupy the countries and declare 'Peoples' Republics' or something like that, but that you have to occupy the harbors, airports and so on".
The sources revealed that "Russian air force strategic aviation, long-range aviation, took part in the exercise on two days and conducted simulation flights over the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. They exercised bombings of Western European targets, approaching the German and Dutch coast from the North Sea as well as Swedish, Finnish and Polish mainland from the Baltic Sea. The drill included waves of Tu-95 strategic bombers as well as support aircraft like fighter jets and refueling planes."
These bombers rehearsed launching missiles and cruise missiles. They returned to their bases before reaching NATO shores. In a real-life situation, their targets would include "critical infrastructure, that is, air fields, harbours, energy supplies and so on, in order to shock the countries and make the populations demand from their governments that 'we shouldn't be involved here, we should go for peace instead'", the sources said.
In war, another aim of these Russian activities would be "to prevent them (NATO armies) from taking military action, deploying troops and reversing Russian army gains in the Baltics". Hence, German naval bases at the Baltic Sea and the North Sea would be prime targets for such aerial attacks. Although the sources did not know which German, and possibly Dutch, targets exactly the Tu-95 bombers were directed at, they stressed: "This was part of their exercise in September!"
The sources added that, "of course, in war time, Russian bombers would have approached from the East as well, but in 'peace times', this attack direction (towards Germany) along the Norwegian coast would make sense". Russia could not practice strategic air attacks from the East due to the Belarusian and Ukrainian airspace between Russia and its potential targets. Moreover, the sources made it clear that strategic air raids would have been flanked by large-scale missile attacks on NATO targets, using Iskander tactical missiles in the Kaliningrad region for targeting NATO strategic assets in the Baltic Sea countries. It is "not clear, but likely" that such attacks were also rehearsed in the Zapad 2017 drills.
According to the sources, these risky manoeuvres (over the North Sea) could show that Russia has planned "show of force attacks" that deeply penetrate Western-dominated air space and a "surprise element", as NATO missile defenses are better prepared in the East of Europe than in NATO states like Norway, Denmark, the UK, and Germany.
In order to cripple NATO's capacities in the event of a large-scale ground offensive against Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the exercise involved "anti-submarine warfare and air defense drills throughout the Baltic Sea". The focus area was the eastern Gotland Basin.
According to the interviewed Western intelligence sources, Sweden and Finland would come under attack in the case of a real war against NATO. These attacks were also rehearsed in September. "We know that, in case of a war with NATO, Russia would not expect Sweden and Finland to remain neutral, although they are not part of NATO. Stockholm and Helsinki would allow NATO aircraft to use their airfields and so on". The source alleged that most Swedish and southern Finnish air fields would therefore come under Iskander missile attacks.
Roman gladiators had a diet that was mostly vegetarian, according to an analysis of bones from a cemetery where the arena fighters were buried.
The study has been carried out by academics from the Medical University of Vienna in Austria and the University of Bern in Switzerland.
They found the gladiator diet was grain-based and mostly meat-free.
The examination of gladiator bones also found evidence they drank a drink made from plant ashes.
This ash drink was a form of health-boosting tonic to help gladiators recover after fighting and training.
"Plant ashes were evidently consumed to fortify the body after physical exertion and to promote better bone healing," says Fabian Kanz, from the department of forensic medicine at the Medical University of Vienna.
He said it was like the way "we take magnesium and calcium, in the form of effervescent tablets, for example, following physical exertion".
The conclusions about this ash drink were based on measuring levels of strontium in the gladiators' bones.

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