The 2011 Formula 1 racing season just wrapped up in Brazil, but Sky is already breaking down what it will bring to the series as it takes over UK coverage next year. Launching in March, Sky Sports F1 HD will be a channel dedicated to round the clock coverage of the world's most technologically advanced racing series including every race, practice, and qualifying session. Sky customers with the Sports and HD packages will see the HD channel appear at number 408 on the dial, although there's no word yet whether or not it will be available on BT Vision or Virgin Media. Other tidbits include a promise of Sky Go access, and that despite the broadcaster's big 3D push, there's no such coverage planned for 2012. Seeing how long it took for true HD broadcasts from F1 we're thinking that could take a while, but here in the US we'd simply settle for a promise of no more tape delayed broadcasts on Fox (and some competent challengers for the Red Bull team while we're asking) for next season. Until then, check out this brief video trailer, plus a press release with all the details after the break.
YOUTUBE comedy hit Humza Arshad comes to Liverpool this week as part of a nationwide university comedy tour.
He has become arguably the UK?s most popular British Pakistani comedian after receiving millions of views for his Diary of a Badman series on the website.
The video diary chronicles the life of a self-styled ?Badman with seriously good looks? as he attempts to impress girls, survive marriage offers via Skype and escape the wrath of his rolling pin-wielding mum.
?Hopefully, the tour will show that British Pakistanis are about more than just kebab shops and taxis. Although, let?s face it? we do it best!? jokes Humza.
Azme Alishan, a Pakistani campaign that aims to shift perceptions about the country and its culture, is organising the tour.
A spokesman explains the campaign wants to bring Humza to a wider audience.
?Humza uses his Pakistani heritage to bring something special to his comedy,? says the spokesman. ?The Azme Alishan campaign in the UK is really excited to be part of the Badman phenomenon.?
Despite his massive appeal among young people of all backgrounds, the tour will be the first time Humza has taken his act nationwide.
It will feature the comedian treating fans to unseen footage from his YouTube series as well as live versions of favourites such as the comedy track Jam that Hype and the Badman VS Mum rap battle.
Humza will also be joined on stage by up and coming singers JP and Kalum. The London-based comedian, who studied acting at Croydon College and completed a drama degree at Richmond Drama School, made his first Badman video in September last year but it wasn?t until two months later that he released it after he was persuaded by friends and family.
He describes the character he has created as ?a stereotypical young guy in today?s society who gets into trouble but learns from his experiences?.
He?s now completed eight different videos, but stand-up is a new ball game.
Expect some improvisation and ?good messages? amongst the routine.
BADMAN comes to Liverpool John Moores University?s Art & Design Academy in Duckinfield Street, Liverpool on Friday, December 2 at 7pm.
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Hello, you can call me Midnight or whatever you want to call me! That being said I'm a friendly and easy going person and quite difficult to annoy - and I'm sorry if I sound too serious on this search thread! Just trying to get to the point :-]
I am looking for someone to do any of these anime/manga with me! I'm hoping that whomever I roleplay with has read the manga and watched the anime. At least have watch the anime and not come to me clueless!
????=Craving!! ???=I like it! ??=You may need to convince me. ?= Not in the mood for it, but it's not an absolute no. Present to me a good plot.
If the title is crossed out then it's a no or I'm already roleplaying it.
-Bleach???? OC x OC (Preferable) Canon x OC Canon x cannon (May say no to the pairing you suggest if I don't like it - same goes for any canon x canon pairing!)[/align]
- Soul Eater ??? OC x OC Canon x canon
-Inuyasha ???
OC x OC
- Fruits Basket ??? OC x OC
-Pokemon ???? For this one, I only require the general knowledge of Pokemon. I haven't seen any of the anime except the original. I know all generations as far as games and regions go. OC x OC
I'm searching for someone who is literate, good with grammar and someone who isn't afraid to write long posts because I love writing. And depending on how inspired I am, I can write any where from 4-10 paragraphs. Or if you want word count, my posts can go anywhere from 800-1500, although it really depends on how inspired I am by the rp, or better yet what you give me. I have been roleplaying for over ten years, so I have plenty experience to satisfy your roleplaying needs!
Here are my samples and I'd appreciate seeing some of yours <3
?Romance is NOT a must. I don't like starting off by saying my character will fall in love with your character. I also don't try and mold my characters into a perfect someone for your character. If our characters fall for each other, they fall. If not, they don't! End of story! I also will NOT do love at first sight. It's called character development and love at first sight doesn't fit into character development's definition.
?OOC chat is required <3
?I only roleplay on threads!
?Be able to provide me with 600 words or more - no less. I take quality over quantity for sure, but if you can't stick to at least 600 words or more, then we aren't meant to be! I'm getting strickter - sorry! I'm looking for someone who is able to keep up with my writing...
?Be nice.
?Proper Grammar
?If we do a canon x OC, then doubling is a must.
?no one liners, I'm warning you now. I will drop the roleplay - as harsh as it sounds. I just can't work with one liners.
?I will go only as far as doubling - no more. And keep in mind that it is only Canon x OC that I double.I will have one canon and one OC if we double. With everything else we have one main character and the rest of ours are side characters.
?I refuse to go into a roleplay without first coming up with a plot . And I refuse to come up with a plot all by myself unless I already have a plot for that subject.
-Do Heterosexual roleplays -Do homosexual roleplays (and for the sake of my sanity don't call it yuri or yaoi! I will ignore you out of pure annoyance!) -Play females and males -Will contribute to the plot. -Is up for suggestions - as in if you don't see an anime (or other fandom) up there that you know/like, throw in something! I may or may not know/like what you suggest! -I am open to any original roleplay setting, just suggest!
Wont's:
-Naruto (Sorry, don't know it!) -Roleplay with someone who doesn't help contribute to the plot. -Won't roleplay with someone who does one liners. -Bestiality -Any strange fetish for that matter. -Anime in which I've never heard of before. -Twilight (Don't even ask.) -Roleplay via any sort of messenger.
I think that's it.
I really hope you're interested! PM me if you are!
BEIJING (Reuters) ? Three prospective school teachers have appealed to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to end discrimination against people with HIV after they said they were wrongly denied teaching jobs because their employers discovered they had the virus that causes AIDS.
The landmark petition, delivered Monday by mail to the State Council Legislative Affairs Office, is a bold test of China's promise to enforce the rule of law.
The three signatories had filed separate lawsuits against their local governments after provincial education bureaus rejected their applications for teaching jobs because mandatory blood tests revealed they were HIV positive, even though they had passed written tests and interviews.
The three men had hoped to persuade the courts that a five-year-old law supposed to protect the employment rights of people with HIV should supersede local regulations that prevent the hiring of HIV-infected civil servants.
Two courts in China have ruled against the two men who filed lawsuits against their governments in Anhui and Sichuan in 2010.
In the third lawsuit filed in Guizhou, the judge told the plaintiff in October the courts "will not accept the lawsuit and that the plaintiff should ask the local government to solve it," Yu Fangqiang, whose Nanjing-based organization, Tianxia Gong, advocates for people with HIV, told Reuters.
"We know that in a country like China that has 1.3 billion people, 740,000 people who are infected with HIV is just a small portion of the population," said the petition, a copy of which was seen by Reuters.
"The voices to defend the employment rights of people with HIV tend to be drowned out by the majority's sense of fear."
"But we also know that the adherence to the country's rule of law and the equality of its people is the country's soul and is the backbone of the country's modernization," it said.
"Every Chinese citizen and every department will undoubtedly benefit from this and will not be subject to the threat of the unlawful deprivation of their legitimate rights and interests."
Beijing was initially slow to acknowledge the problem of HIV/AIDS in the 1990s and had sought to cover it up when hundreds of thousands of impoverished farmers in rural Henan province became infected through botched blood-selling schemes.
But the government has since stepped up the fight against it, spending more on prevention programs, launching schemes to give universal access to anti-retroviral drugs to contain the disease, and introducing policies to curb discrimination.
The virus is now primarily spread in the country via sexual contact.
In a country where taboos surrounding sex remain strong and discussion of the topic is largely limited, people with HIV/AIDS say, however, they are often stigmatized.
Yu said that discrimination of people with HIV, especially in civil service recruitment, is "still a very big problem."
People in China living with HIV and AIDS are routinely being denied medical treatment in mainstream hospitals due to fear and ignorance about the disease, according to a study released by the United Nations' International Labor Organization (ILO) in May.
The petition, which was sent to the government office that helps to draft and oversee the implementation of laws, comes ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1.
The signatories to the petition said they had noted that Wen had previously "shown his concern" for people with HIV on the day, by "shaking the hands and embracing" HIV-infected people.
(Additional reporting by Beijing Newsroom, Editing by Ken Wills and Sugita Katyal)
Research reveals shocking new way to create nanoporous materialsPublic release date: 27-Nov-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Easan Sivaniah es10009@cam.ac.uk 44-122-333-7267 University of Cambridge
Research demonstrates simple, scaleable method with realistic capability of industrial cross-over
Scientists have developed a new method of creating nanoporous materials with potential applications in everything from water purification to chemical sensors.
In order to produce a porous material it is necessary to have multiple components. When the minor component is removed, small pores are left in its place. Until now, creating nanoporous materials was limiting as it was believed the minor component had to be connected throughout the structure as well as to the outside in order for it to be removed.
However, new research published today (Sunday, 27 November) in the journal Nature Materials has demonstrated a much more effective, flexible method called collective osmotic shock (COS) for creating porous structures. The research, by scientists at the University of Cambridge, has shown how by using osmotic forces even structures with minor components entirely encapsulated in a matrix can be made porous (or nanoporous).
The lead author, Dr Easan Sivaniah from the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, explains how the process works: "The experiment is rather similar to the classroom demonstration using a balloon containing salty water. How does one release the salt from the balloon? The answer is to put the balloon in a bath of fresh water. The salt can't leave the balloon but the water can enter, and it does so to reduce the saltiness in the balloon. As more water enters, the balloon swells, and eventually bursts, releasing the salt completely.
"In our experiments, we essentially show this works in materials with these trapped minor components, leading to a series of bursts that connect together and to the outside, releasing the trapped components and leaving an open porous material."
The researchers have also demonstrated how the nanoporous materials created by the unique process can be used to develop filters capable of removing very small dyes from water.
Dr Sivaniah added: "It is currently an efficient filter system that could be used in countries with poor access to fresh potable water, or to remove heavy metals and industrial waste products from ground water sources. Though, with development, we hope it can also be used in making sea-water drinkable using low-tech and low-power routes."
Other applications were explored in collaboration with groups having expertise in photonics (Dr Hernan Miguez, University of Sevilla) and optoelectronics (Professor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Laboratory). Light-emitting devices were demonstrated using titania electrodes templated from COS materials whilst the novel stack-like arrangement of materials provide uniquely efficient photonic multilayers with potential applications as sensors that change colour in response to absorbing trace amounts of chemicals, or for use in optical components.
Dr Sivaniah added, "We are currently exploring a number of applications, to include use in light-emitting devices, solar cells, electrodes for supercapacitors as well as fuels cells."
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For additional information please contact:
Easan Sivaniah
University of Cambridge, Department of Physics
Cavendish Laboratory
Tel.: 44-1223-337267
E-Mail.: es10009@cam.ac.uk
http://www.bss.phy.cam.ac.uk/~es10009/
Notes to editors:
1. The paper 'Collective osmotic shock in ordered materials' will be published in the 27 November 2011 edition of Nature Materials.
2. The work was funded by the Qatar Foundation (QNRF), EPSRC, CONACyT, and the Spanish Ministry of Science.
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Research reveals shocking new way to create nanoporous materialsPublic release date: 27-Nov-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Easan Sivaniah es10009@cam.ac.uk 44-122-333-7267 University of Cambridge
Research demonstrates simple, scaleable method with realistic capability of industrial cross-over
Scientists have developed a new method of creating nanoporous materials with potential applications in everything from water purification to chemical sensors.
In order to produce a porous material it is necessary to have multiple components. When the minor component is removed, small pores are left in its place. Until now, creating nanoporous materials was limiting as it was believed the minor component had to be connected throughout the structure as well as to the outside in order for it to be removed.
However, new research published today (Sunday, 27 November) in the journal Nature Materials has demonstrated a much more effective, flexible method called collective osmotic shock (COS) for creating porous structures. The research, by scientists at the University of Cambridge, has shown how by using osmotic forces even structures with minor components entirely encapsulated in a matrix can be made porous (or nanoporous).
The lead author, Dr Easan Sivaniah from the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, explains how the process works: "The experiment is rather similar to the classroom demonstration using a balloon containing salty water. How does one release the salt from the balloon? The answer is to put the balloon in a bath of fresh water. The salt can't leave the balloon but the water can enter, and it does so to reduce the saltiness in the balloon. As more water enters, the balloon swells, and eventually bursts, releasing the salt completely.
"In our experiments, we essentially show this works in materials with these trapped minor components, leading to a series of bursts that connect together and to the outside, releasing the trapped components and leaving an open porous material."
The researchers have also demonstrated how the nanoporous materials created by the unique process can be used to develop filters capable of removing very small dyes from water.
Dr Sivaniah added: "It is currently an efficient filter system that could be used in countries with poor access to fresh potable water, or to remove heavy metals and industrial waste products from ground water sources. Though, with development, we hope it can also be used in making sea-water drinkable using low-tech and low-power routes."
Other applications were explored in collaboration with groups having expertise in photonics (Dr Hernan Miguez, University of Sevilla) and optoelectronics (Professor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Laboratory). Light-emitting devices were demonstrated using titania electrodes templated from COS materials whilst the novel stack-like arrangement of materials provide uniquely efficient photonic multilayers with potential applications as sensors that change colour in response to absorbing trace amounts of chemicals, or for use in optical components.
Dr Sivaniah added, "We are currently exploring a number of applications, to include use in light-emitting devices, solar cells, electrodes for supercapacitors as well as fuels cells."
###
For additional information please contact:
Easan Sivaniah
University of Cambridge, Department of Physics
Cavendish Laboratory
Tel.: 44-1223-337267
E-Mail.: es10009@cam.ac.uk
http://www.bss.phy.cam.ac.uk/~es10009/
Notes to editors:
1. The paper 'Collective osmotic shock in ordered materials' will be published in the 27 November 2011 edition of Nature Materials.
2. The work was funded by the Qatar Foundation (QNRF), EPSRC, CONACyT, and the Spanish Ministry of Science.
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ELECTRIC cars are clean, green and rather cool these days - even if they can't compete with conventional vehicles in terms of battery life and driving range. These disadvantages could disappear, however, with a system for wirelessly charging cars as they speed down the highway.
To do this, Shanhui Fan and colleagues at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford University in California, suggest using magnetic coils embedded in the roadway to create a weak field that resonates with a coil on the car to transfer power. This kind of power transfer works on a similar principle to an opera singer shattering a glass by singing precisely the right note. In 2007, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology demonstrated that magnetic resonance could be used to transfer power wirelessly between two stationary objects 2 metres apart.
Fan, who presented his work at the Stanford Global Climate and Energy Project Symposium in October, wondered whether magnetic power transfer would be possible at highway speeds, and at levels sufficient for vehicles. Accounting for the metal body and movement of the car, his calculations showed that a set of resonant coils and discs could transfer about 10 kilowatts with a 97 per cent efficiency within 7 microseconds - fast enough for the highway. The system, which the group has yet to build, should be safe because power can only be transferred between two objects whose resonance is very closely attuned.
There are two main benefits of highway wireless power, says Fan. A driver wouldn't have to fear getting stranded on the road with nowhere to plug in, and electric-car batteries could be smaller, cutting costs.
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) ? Libyan authorities have unveiled 17 ancient Roman figurines, which they say revolutionary forces seized from Moammar Gadhafi's soldiers during the battle for the capital Tripoli.
Director of the state antiquities department Saleh Algabe showed the recovered objects to reporters on Saturday, hailing the find as an important recovery of national treasures.
The pieces include a female figurine and several small human busts in marble, as well as two pottery fragments. Albage said they date back to the second and third centuries A.D.
He says the pieces were seized from a truck on the road to Tripoli's airport on August 20, as revolutionary forces were entering the capital. He says it appeared Gadhafi's forces wanted to smuggle them out of the country and sell them.
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More people are having trouble feeding families than in decades...that includes people who truly can barely afford to feed their animals. Banfield Charitable Trust is doing something about that with a pet food campaign called Season of Summers. Diane McGill, executive director and CEO of explains how easy it is for you to make a difference, with a donation or even a click on Facebook's Banfield Charitable Trust page- and 'like it.'
John O'Hurley stars on Broadway in Chicago, played J. Peterman on Seinfeld, was the first season winner on Dancing with the Stars, and he announces dog shows on TV -- including the Thanksgiving Day National Dog Show presented by Purina.
Andrea Arden, host of Animal Planet's Underdog to Wonderdog, is a frequent guest on the Today Show; if those accolades aren't enough -- she's now authored a bible, "Barron's Dog Training Bible." Rarely do I get to speak with the author of a bible.
Vaccines have become nearly as controversial in medicine for pets as they've become for children. Dr. Link Welborn, chair of the American Animal Hospital Association Task Force which just revised canine vaccines recommendations, explains what's new and we also talked about some misconceptions that people have concerning vaccines for dogs. Also, if you're interested in vaccines - check out the 2011 Canine Vaccine Guidelines yourself; they're free to download.
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