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ANG LEE WINS SECOND DIRECTING OSCAR FOR "LIFE OF PI"
T aiwanese-born Ang Lee won his second Oscar for Best Directing on Sunday for "Life of Pi," the adaption of Yann Martel's fantasy adventure novel about an Indian boy who survives a shipwreck but is stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
“Life of Pi” was nominated for 11 Oscars - including Best Picture - and also won for Cinematography, Original Score and Visual Effects. Starring newcomer Suraj Sharma,the film was lauded by critics for Lee's ability to bring the complex book to life.
"Thank you movie god," Lee said to a big laugh from the audience. "I really need to share this with all 3,000 - everybody who worked with me on 'Life of Pi'," he said.
Lee won in a year in which the director's race was one of the most controversial for its exclusions, most notably Ben Affleck, the director of "Argo" who picked up the top award from his peers at the Directors Guild and a slew of other awards.
Lee, 58, won his first Academy Award in 2006 for directing "BrokebackMountain," the story of a complex love affair between two men.
He began directing Chinese-language films and has made 13 films in a diverse career. Those films have included the special effects-laden "Hulk" based on a Marvel comic Book and the adaption of Jane Austen's classic, "Sense and Sensibility."
His 2000 Chinese-language film "Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger," won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was a surprise hit with worldwide ticket sales of $213.5 million.
Lee came to Hollywood's attention after directing three Chinese-language films, including "The Wedding Banquet" in 1993, nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Lee cast Sharma, then a 17-year old student, for the role of a young Pi Patel in 2010 after 3,000 young men auditioned for the lead role.
After his family goes down in the giant ship, Pi spends most of the film on the lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific, trying to avoid being consumed by the 450-pound (200-kg) tiger, a premise that Lee pulled off with heavy reliance on special effects and a digital tiger. The ocean scenes were filmed in a 1.7-million-gallon (6.4-million-liter) tank. Movie reviewer critic Roger Ebert gave the film 4 out of 4 stars, calling it "a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery."
President Barack Obama also gave "Life of Pi" a thumbs-up in an interview with People Magazine, saying the film "was good - because we had read that book together."
BARACK OBAMA HEADS TO ISRAEL FOR FIRST TIME AS PRESIDENT Barack Obama is flying to Israel for his first trip there as US president, amid protests and tight security in Israel and the Palestinian
territories
,Thursday 20 March 2013 00:56 GMT
The war in Syria and concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions will loom large in talks, say correspondents.
But US officials are trying to lower expectations that Mr Obama will seek to make significant headway on restarting the Israel-Palestinian peace process.
Settlement supporters are a big force in Israel's new coalition government.
And correspondents say Israelis are more preoccupied with instability in the wider Middle East region than with breathing new life into the peace process, which broke down in 2010 amid a dispute over continued Israeli settlement construction.
Mr. Obama is due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during his three-day visit.
At home Mr. Obama has been criticised for not having visited Israel in his first term as president, with some saying it shows he is not close enough to the country, says BBC North America editor Mark Mardell, who is in Jerusalem.
That is despite his administration's repeated assertion that the two countries share an "unbreakable alliance". Thousands of Israeli and Palestinian security officers have been assembled in Jerusalem and the Palestinians' de facto capital in the West Bank, Ramallah, ahead of his trip.
The state of the economy and social issues dominated Israel's last election, and the president has said he is not going to the region bearing any grand peace plan.
But with warnings that time is running out for a two-state solution, some still think he will try to lay the ground for some greater effort to restart talks, our correspondent says.
The president's relationship with Mr. Netanyahu has been notoriously frosty and one recent opinion poll suggested a mere 10% of the Israeli public had a favourable opinion of the US president.
The main event of this trip is a speech to the Israeli people - his main task is to build bridges and improve his image, which could give him more leverage over the new Israeli government, our correspondent adds.
On Tuesday Palestinian protesters gathered in Ramallah and Bethlehem, some throwing shoes at images of the president and others driving over his portrait, reports said.
Demonstrator HuwaidaArraf told Reuters news agency that Mr. Obama's visit was "a slap in the face".
"People are angry and disappointed that this far into his presidency, Obama has done nothing, and aid to Israel's occupation continues to flow," he said.
Meanwhile, Israeli demonstrators gathered in Jerusalem to demand Mr. Obama free Jonathan Pollard, imprisoned in the US in 1987 for spying for Israel.
"Let my people go," said one banner.
US HURRICANE SANDY
Businesses and residents across the northeast US face billions of dollars of losses and days of disruption after Hurricane Sandy swept through the region.
The storm rolled inland on Tuesday having caused the deaths of at least 40 people in the US and Canada, cutting power to more than 8 millions people and flooding Wall Street and much of lower Manhattan.
After being closed for two days, the New York Stock Exchange plans to resume normal trading Wednesday. But Michael Bloomberg, New York mayor, said it could be at least three days before electricity supplies were restored to the 750,000 people in the city who lost power, and four days before the subway was running again.
New York‟s subway suffered the worst damage in its 108-year history, with seven of the 10 tunnels under the East River flooded.
Andrew Cuomo, governor of New YorkState, admitted that officials had not been prepared for the scale of the storm surge as rivers burst their banks, flooding tunnels and power infrastructure.
A record 14ft storm surge hit southern Manhattan on Monday night –about 4ft above the previous record, set in1960. Hundreds of vehicles and buildings were damaged in New York and surrounding areas as underground garages, basements and ground floors were flooded.
Business life was disrupted in the US financial centre, with the release of some company results and economic data delayed.
On the New Jersey coast, which bore the brunt of Sandy‟s landfall on Monday night, search and rescue teams were beginning operations to reach stranded people in several towns including Atlantic City, Governor Chris Christie said on Tuesday.
The level of devastation on the Jersey shore is unthinkable. Three towns in New Jersey were swamped with up to five feet of water. In total, 2.4m households in New Jersey were without power – twice the number affected by tropical storm Irene in 2011, Mr. Christie said.
Campaigning in the US presidential election also came to a halt. President Barack Obama cancelled stump events and declared a major disaster in New York City, Long Island and parts of New Jersey, releasing millions of dollars in federal emergency aid. Mr. Obama will visit New Jersey with Mr. Christie on Wednesday.
PEOPLE’SPERSONALITIE S AND THEIR SHOES
Researchers at the University of Kansas say that people can accurately judge 90 percent of a stranger's personality simply by looking at the person's shoes.
"Shoes convey a thin but useful slice of information about their wearers," the authors wrote in the new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality. "Shoes serve a practical purpose, and also serve as nonverbal cues with symbolic messages. People tend to pay attention to the shoes they and others wear."
Medical Daily notes that the number of detailed personality traits detected in the study include a person's general age, their gender, income, political affiliation, and other personality traits, including someone's emotional stability. Lead researcher OmriGillath said the judgments were based on the style, cost, color and condition of someone's shoes. In the study, 63 University of Kansas students looked at pictures showing 208 different pairs of shoes worn by the study's participants. V olunteers in the study were photographed in their most commonly worn shoes, and then filled out a personality questionnaire.
So, what do your shoes say about your personality?
Some of the results were expected: People with higher incomes most commonly wore expensive shoes, and flashier footwear was typically worn by extroverts.
However, some of the more specific results are intriguing. For example, "practical and functional" shoes were generally worn by more "agreeable" people, while ankle boots were more closely aligned with "aggressive" personalities.
The strangest of all may be that those who wore "uncomfortable looking" shoes tend to have "calm" personalities. And if you have several pairs of new shoes or take exceptional care of them, you may suffer from "attachment anxiety," spending an inordinate amount of time worrying about what other people think of your appearance. There was even a political calculation in the mix with more liberal types wearing "shabbier and less expensive" shoes.
The researchers noted that some people will choose shoe styles to mask their actual personality traits, but researchers noted that volunteers were also likely to be unaware that their footwear choices were revealing deep insights into their personalities.
MICHIGAN MAN HAS 29 COLLEGE DEGREES AND COUNTING Every June, students all over the country don their caps and gowns for graduation. Whether it's from high school, college or graduate school, most people could easily count their own graduations on one hand.
But not 71-year-old Michael Nicholson of Kalamazoo, Mich. Nicholson has earned 29 degrees and is now pursuing his 30th.
"I just stayed in school and took menial jobs to pay for the education and just made a point of getting more degrees and eventually I retired so that I could go full-time to school," Nicholson told .
"It's stimulation to go to the class, look at the material that's required and meet the teacher and students. It makes life interesting for me," he said. "Otherwise, things would be pretty dull.
"Nicholson has one bachelor's degree, two associate's degrees, 22 master's degrees, three specialist degrees and one doctoral degree.
Most of the degrees are related to education such as educational leadership, library science and school psychology, but other degrees include home economics, health education and law enforcement.
Nicholson is currently working on a master's degree in criminal justice.
"I would like to get to 33 or 34. I'm almost there," he said. "When I complete that, I'll feel like I've completed my basic education. After that, if I'm still alive -- that would take me to 80 or 81 -- I would then be free to pursue any type of degree.“
Nicholson's early interest in education came from the encouragement of his parents, who wanted him to be well-educated. His Canadian father was forced to drop out of school after the third grade to work and his mother graduated from high school.
"We were motivated to continue with our educations and go as far as we could go," he said of himself and his siblings. "She [his mother] wanted something better for us than simply working at a factory, so she kept doing the necessary for us to continue."
Nicholson's first degree was a bachelor's in religious education from WilliamTyndaleCollege in Michigan in 1963. Five degrees later, he was pursuing his doctorate in education from WesternMichiganUniversity in 1978.
While pursuing the doctorate, he met Western Michigan University Professor Tom Carey when Nicholson was working as a parking lot attendant writing tickets for the university. He wrote Carey three tickets in one day and the two have now known each other for 35 years.
Travel
MALDIVES
Three-quarters of a million tourists flock to the pristine, white beaches every year - but this booming industry has come at a price. When the influx of foreigners left the government struggling to cope with a relentless stream of rubbish, their answer was to turn one of this islands into a dumping ground.
Clouds of pungent, toxic smoke rising from open fires, piles of filth made up of plastic bottles, crisp packets and consumer detritus... it's a far cry from the white sands, crystal-clear waters and gently swaying palm trees that we associate with the Maldives, the quintessential paradise island holiday destination set in the Indian Ocean.
Of its 200 inhabited islands, which are spread across an area of 35,000 square miles, 99 are dedicated resorts. Three-quarters of a million tourists visit every year – more than double the domestic population. Of these, over 100,000 travel from the UK.
The capital, Malé, is four times more densely populated than London. Given these facts, it's hardly surprising that the Maldives has a waste disposal problem. What you are seeing here is a view of the Maldives on which no honeymooners will ever clap eyes.Four miles west of Maléis the country's dumping ground, Thilafushi –or RubbishIsland as it has simply become known.
The country dumps upwards of 330 tons of rubbish on the island every day, a figure attributed largely to the tourist industry on which the chain of atolls relies. Each visitor generates 3.5kg of waste per day.
Now, the government of the Maldives has belatedly banned the dumping of waste on the island, due largely to an increase in the number of waste boats 'fly-tipping' directly into the sea, fed up with waiting seven hours or more to offload their cargo. The freighters are now ferrying debris to India instead.
THE WORLD'S ANGRIEST CAT' WHO HAS THOUSANDS OF FANS This is Colonel Meow, the furious-looking feline whose sourpuss expression has made him an internet sensation. Despite a rather fluffy coat, the black smoke Persian cat appears anything but cuddly thanks to his evil stare and a face that seems to be fixed in a permanent frown.
Fans have nicknamed him the …world‟s angriest cat‟. But while even the most ardent cat lover might be reluctant to get too close to Colonel Meow in real life, his Facebook page has attracted more than 32,000 …likes‟ from around the world.
Photographs uploaded to the page by his owner Anne Marie Avey carry tongue-in-cheek captions on Colonel Meow‟s behalf, such as: …Behold, minions! I have learned to touch my nose with my tongue. Now honour my great achievement . . . with treaties and scotch.‟
Another reads: …I WANT to plan my world domination . . . but I also wanna get drunk and eat treaties.‟Colonel Meow had a troubled upbringing – the profile discloses that he was found by the roadside after being abandoned in Seattle, Washington.
But his softer side is also revealed in a brief biography where he admits that he has a fear of birds which might hamper his ambitions to conquer the world.
Miss Avey, who adopted Colonel Meow from an animal shelter, now hopes to take him to Los Angeles and make him a star.
And perhaps world domination isn‟t too far away, as Facebook users have posted dozens of pictures of themselves pulling sour expressions in tribute to the grumpy pet.
MO YAN WINS NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
Chinese writer Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday for works which the awarding committee said had qualities of "hallucinatory realism".
The SwedishAcademy praised his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
The 57-year-old is the 109th recipient of the prestigious prize, which was given last year to Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer.
The awarding ceremony will be held on Dec. 10.
Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award - only given to living writers - is worth 8 million kronor ($1.2 million).
Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the RoyalSwedishAcademy, announces the 2012 winner of the Nobel prize for literature in Stockholm.
The literature prize is the fourth of this year's crop of prizes, which were established in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel and awarded for the first time in 1901.
Mo Yan profile
Mo Yan (a pseudonym for Guan Moye) was born in 1955 and grew up in Gaomi in Shandong province in north-eastern China.
His parents were farmers. As a twelve-year-old during the Cultural Revolution he left school to work, first in agriculture, later in a factory.
In 1976 he joined the People's Liberation Army and during this time began to study literature and write. His first short story was published in a literary journal in 1981. His breakthrough came a few years later with the novella Touming de hongluobo (1986, published in French as Le radis de cristal 1993).
Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel GarcíaMárquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition. In addition to his novels, Mo Yan has published many short stories and essays on various topics.
FRESH MEAT SALES SOAR AT MORRISONS AMID HORSEMEAT
SCANDAL
Supermarket sees 18% rise in non-frozen meat products since horse DNA was first identified in Tesco value beef burgers
Simon Neville , Thursday 14 February 2013 13.37 GMT
Morrisons appears to be the biggest winner from the horsemeat scandal after the supermarket chain reported an 18% rise at its fresh meat counters in the wake of revelations over tainted food.
The retailer said it had posted the double-digit increase since horse DNA was first identified in Tesco value beef burgers. It published the sales data as another study found 45% of shoppers would avoid the meat aisles of chains found selling the contaminated meat.
Morrisons has around 1,700 butchers across 500 stores and anecdotal evidence from staff points to customers seeking out fresh meat at its stores instead of frozen food.
Fresh beef burger sales have jumped 50%, fresh pork sales are up 124%, beef mince is up 21% and lamb rose 15% over the past two weeks, compared with last month, the company said.
Morrisons' chief executive, Dalton Philips, said: "Because we work direct with farms, even owning our very own, our counters and expert staff can confidently offer the most reliable meat to customers." Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's declined to comment on their meat sales.
Morrisons has a business model which sources meat through a variety of local farm communities, which means bosses have closer knowledge of the supply chain. As a result, during the horsemeat scandal the company's response has been limited to removing Findus-branded lasagnes from shelves after tests found some contained 100% horse.
By comparison, Tesco and Aldi have found horsemeat in their value lasagne and bolognese ranges because the meat was supplied by the same French supplier, Comigel, which supplied Findus. Tesco later admitted some samples contained more than 60% horsemeat.
Horsemeat was found in burgers processed at factories owned by ABP Food Group in Yorkshire and Ireland. The same company supplied burgers to Lidl, Iceland, Tesco, Aldi and Dunnes stores, as well as Burger King restaurants.
Even Waitrose has been implicated for mislabelling, when pork was found in its beef meatballs.
A poll by Retail Week magazine found that 45% of shoppers would avoid the meat aisles of the chains found to be selling horsemeat labelled as beef. Nearly three-in-four customers said they felt suppliers were most at fault for the contamination, but stores including Tesco, Asda, the Co-operative and Iceland are likely to suffer, the survey found.
The Food Standards Agency has ordered all meat suppliers and sellers to test their meat products, with the first tranche of results expected to be released on Friday.
Science IBM SAYS COMPUTERS WILL SEE, TASTE, SMELL, TOUCH AND HEAR
THINGS BETTER IN THE FUTURE
Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the world within the next five years. The IBM list is called "Five in Five." The company says it considers its own research and the new directions of society and business when identifying the technologies.
This year, the list describes some future devices that will extend our five senses. Imagine looking for clothes online and touching your computer or smartphone to feel the cloth. IBM Vice President Bernie Meyerson predicts that technology could be available in the next five years.
"You're talking about almost reinventing the way computers operate and how you interact with them as humans."
Touch is just one of the senses that computers will help to extend. IBM says smart machines will soon be able to listen to the environment and give us information about the sounds they hear. For example, Bernie Meyerson says an advanced speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying.
"From the sound the baby is creating, that particular frequency in the voice of the child, you know the difference between a child for instance who is sick as opposed to a child who is just lonely. That kind of understanding would be great for parents. This kind of thing is not possible today, but with a sophisticated enough system, it actually is possible."
Smart machines will also help identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your computer or cell phone, the machine will study thousands of molecules in your breath. Then it can tell you whether you need to see a doctor.
"It can give you an alarm and say; …Hey, you may not feel sick yet, but you have an infection, which you must go see your doctor immediately.'"
In the near future, built-in cameras in our personal computers will be able to examine and name colors and recognize images. Mr. Meyerson says IBM scientists are also developing a computer system that can examine and combine food molecules to create the most popular flavors and smells.
"It'll start to be able to recommend to you foods you'll love the taste of, but it can also keep track of the caloric limits, whether you have limits on fat or cholesterol that you can eat. So it strikes this almost ideal balance between the best possible taste and the best possible nutritional outcome."
Mark Maloof is a computer science professor at GeorgetownUniversity. He says he hopes the progress that IBM is predicting will lead more students to create future inventions.
"It's going to be very exciting to see what young people do with the increased availability of mobile platforms and networking and computing power."
Professor Maloof says advances in computer technology will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives.。