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2021-11-06 20:20:18 Wales v South Africa: Autumn Nations Series – live!

Live updates from the 5.30pm GMT kick-off in CardiffAlun Wyn Jones to miss Six Nations with shoulder injuryGet in touch! You can email Lee here or tweet himIt’s honking down with rain in Cardiff. Not sure who this works out better for. Plants probably.Pre match reading Continue reading...

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#Autumn_internationals #Rugby_union #Wales_rugby_union_team #South_Africa_rugby_team #Sport Open / Comment

2021-11-06 20:20:14 Cranberry juice won’t cut it: UTIs and the potential for repurposing drugs

The winning essay in the Max Perutz science writing award 2021, published below, was written by Vicky Bennett from the department of biology and biochemistry at Bath UniversityIn May, PhD students who are funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) were invited to enter the Max Perutz science writing award 2021 and write a compelling piece about their research for the non-scientific reader.From the many entries received, the 10 that made the shortlist covered diverse topics, including dementia, childhood adversity, the role of genes in schizophrenia and the use of hypnosis to treat psychosis. Continue reading...

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#Science #Medical_research #Antibiotics #Health #Awards_and_prizes Open / Comment

2021-11-06 20:20:10 House 6 January panel to issue new round of subpoenas for Trump allies

Focus on events at Willard hotel ‘command center’John Eastman among about 20 individuals in committee’s sightsRoadmap to a coup: inside Trump’s plot to steal the presidencyThe House select committee investigating the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January is poised to issue subpoenas to top Trump lieutenants involved in attempting to subvert the 2020 election results from a “command center” at the Willard hotel in Washington, according to a source familiar with the matter.The subpoenas, which could be issued as soon as next week, reflect the select committee’s interest in events at the hotel just across from the White House, where Donald Trump’s most loyal aides plotted to keep him in office. Continue reading...

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#US_Capitol_attack #US_politics #US_news #House_of_Representatives #Donald_Trump Open / Comment

2021-11-06 19:40:18 Justin Adams and Mauro Durante: Still Moving review – a bravura performance

(Ponderosa)From blazing rock-outs to aching love songs, this inspired duo deliver a thrilling and spontaneous setAside from being first lieutenant in Robert Plant’s band, the Sensational Space Shifters, guitarist Justin Adams boasts a notable history producing luminaries like Malian group Tinariwen, Gambia’s Juldeh Camara and, most recently, Puglian ensemble CGS (Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino). Hence this sparky duet with CGS singer, violinist and percussionist Mauro Durante.Recorded straight to tape with no overdubs, Still Moving proves a thrilling, spontaneous affair, switching between the laments and love songs of southern Italy and the gritty blues of North Africa and North America. Adams is an astonishing player, able to summon a mood of angst with a few reverberating chords of desert blues before a jolt into John Lee Hooker boogie, as he does on opener Dark Road Down, where the two men raise voices against a war-torn world of “trouble and pain”. Durante delivers an aching version of Amara Terra Mia, a big Italian hit, a paean to an elemental world of night sky and olive groves. Still Moving describes a Mediterranean sea trek, with days of rowing to an inhospitable shore; half Homer, half modern migrant. There’s a blazing rock-out on Calling Up, and, somewhat oddly, a version of Little Moses from the Carter Family’s country Bible. A bravura performance. Continue reading...

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#Music #Culture #Blues #Pop_and_rock Open / Comment

2021-11-06 19:40:15 Mounting concern over environmental cost of fake snow for Olympics

Beijing Games will require almost 49 million gallons of water to create conditions for Alpine eventsThe mountains that will be the setting of the Alpine events for the forthcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing boast spectacular scenery and breathtaking runs, but lack just one vital ingredient: real snow.Between January and March this year, the National Alpine Ski Centre in Yanqing, about 55 miles north-west of Beijing, had just 2cm of snow. London, Paris and Madrid all recorded greater snowfalls, according to data compiled by the website worldweatheronline.com. Continue reading...

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#China #Winter_Olympics #Asia_Pacific #World_news #Skiing Open / Comment

2021-11-06 19:40:11 Brighton v Newcastle: Premier League – live!

Premier League updates from the 5.30pm GMT kick-off ‘Elite and impressive’: Howe verdict from Newcastle’s JonesGet in touch! You can email Scott hereBrighton & Hove Albion: Sanchez, Veltman, Duffy, Dunk, Lamptey, Mwepu, Bissouma, Cucurella, March, Lallana, Trossard.Subs: Webster, Maupay, Mac Allister, Gross, Moder, Steele, Locadia, Richards, Sarmiento.Newcastle United: Darlow, Murphy, Krafth, Lascelles, Clark, Ritchie, Almiron, Hayden, Shelvey, Wilson, Saint-Maximin.Subs: Dubravka, Schar, Joelinton, Lewis, Manquillo, Fraser, Willock, Gayle, Longstaff. Continue reading...

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#Premier_League #Football #Brighton_&_Hove_Albion #Newcastle_United #Sport Open / Comment

2021-11-06 19:20:15 How can we tame the tech giants now that they control society’s infrastructure? | John Naughton

It’s hard to see how the ‘platform power’ of the likes of Amazon can be curbed, given that they are running vital cloud servicesPardon me for a moment while I shed a few crocodile tears. The proximate cause of this grief is the news that the revenues of Snap, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are down by an estimated $9.85bn in the second half of this year. Just to put that in context, as I write, the stock market valuations of the first three of these behemoths are $86.9bn, $930.36bn and $44.07bn respectively. YouTube is harder to estimate because it’s part of Alphabet, its holding company, but since that’s valued at $1.93tn (that’s trillion, by the way) we may safely assume that YouTube’s revenue decline was, as engineers say, “in the noise”.And yet all these outfits were complaining loudly at the injustice that had been done to them by one of their peers – Apple. Why so? Well, back in April, the iPhone manufacturer introduced its grandly named app-tracking transparency policy via a tweak to its mobile operating system, which forced iPhone apps to ask for permission before they tracked the behaviour of users to serve them personalised ads. Continue reading...

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#Cloud_computing #Apple #Amazon #Google #Alphabet Open / Comment

2021-11-06 19:20:10 Irish police arrest British man on suspicion of threatening to kill MP

Person alleged to have made threat during a phone call to a female Labour politicianPolice in Ireland have arrested an English man on suspicion of making threats to kill an MP.The man, 41, was detained in the Cork suburb of Douglas on Saturday after gardai carried out a search warrant at a house. Continue reading...

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#Ireland #Labour #Crime #Politics #UK_news Open / Comment

2021-11-06 18:40:18 The Tories reveal yet again their belief that the rules are for little people, not for them

The attempt to scrap the parliamentary standards system is the latest example of a slide into corruption and moral bankruptcyAs the Conservative party decided to self-immolate in sleaze last week, one of the most jaw-dropping aspects was the insistence from Owen Paterson and his supporters that the investigation which found he had “egregiously” breached lobbying rules “did not comply with natural justice”.The idea he has been denied justice is laughable. The process for regulating the conduct of MPs has multiple safeguards to ensure fairness. Any investigation will be carried out by an independent standards commissioner. After that, a committee of MPs and lay members recommends whether any sanctions should be imposed, and finally MPs approve or reject those sanctions. Our system is widely regarded as an example of best practice across the world. Continue reading...

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#Owen_Paterson #Boris_Johnson #Politics #UK_news #Conservatives Open / Comment

2021-10-19 00:20:22 Succession review: smash hit reaches fabulous new heights of comedy – and cruelty

From the bloody machinations of Logan and Kendall to Cousin Greg’s buffoonery, the third series of the HBO drama continues to deliver the most thrilling and beautifully obscene TV there isRead the first of our episode-by-episode recapsFrom those Apocalypse Now-style helicopters to Logan Roy (Brian Cox) roaring his intention to go “full fucking beast”, it is safe to say that Succession (HBO/Sky Atlantic) is back. Though production was delayed by the pandemic, no time has elapsed here. It drops straight into the aftermath of Kendall Roy’s (Jeremy Strong) decision to publicly eviscerate his father and the family business, Waystar Royco, at the end of season two, when he gave a press conference revealing the cover-up of the scandal for which he was supposed to take responsibility. Now that the bomb has been detonated, the fallout looks spectacularly bloody.There was a small danger the story might have reached a climax there, from which it would be tough to move on. Much of the opening episode is taken up with frantic phone calls between potential allies or enemies, in an attempt to gather up the pieces and begin to sort them out. It is a testament to the show’s quality that this relatively static wrangling – though the characters zip all over the world, to find the safest place to settle – makes for thrilling television, and that various conversations about choosing a side are as gripping as they are. It may all be a play, but when the play is as nasty as this, it is impossible to look away. Continue reading...

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#Television_&_radio #Succession #Culture #Television #Brian_Cox Open / Comment