Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Johansson, Zeta-Jones to win the top Tony Awards
Monday, May 3, 2010
Hope for brain surgery pacemaker
Motives block electrical signals that cause the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. There is no cure
The team won the United Kingdom of 366 patients who received either surgery treatment and medication alone. When follow-up after a year, and researchers based in Birmingham Bristol Liverpool, London and Oxford I found who underwent surgery reported better quality of life.
The researchers wrote in the Lancet medical journal say that surgery is an important option for treating patients who suffer from Parkinson's disease. Professor Keith Wheatley at the University of Birmingham told the BBC: It's not a cure. What it does is help control symptoms more than medication alone. In the 10-year study, funded by the UK Parkinson's charity the Medical Research Council and the Ministry of Health, said to be the biggest trial of its kind in the world. (Patchy)
Dr Kieran Breen director of research and development in the United Kingdom Parkinson's access to deep brain stimulation and was incomplete.
He said that surgery should be made available to the people who need them when they need it.
There is still Postcode lottery in the United Kingdom when it comes to access to services Parkinson's, he said.
We want to make sure that everyone with Parkinson's disease and equality in access to care and support they need wherever they are. Have been diagnosed with Bob Garland aged 65, from Plymouth with Parkinson's disease 18 years ago. He had surgery at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol in 2002. He said: "It took away the extremes of the movement of my problems.
And encouraged others to get an opinion on whether the process was appropriate for them.
You have to go into it with an attitude is very positive, he said.
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
Yuan- up bad for China's economy, Minister Warns
To allow the yuan to strengthen against the dollar would hurt the Chinese economy in the short term, has said a senior Chinese officials.
But he said Yi Xiao Chun, Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Commerce, and he expected the currency to rise in the longer term.
He accused other countries in an attempt to force the appreciation now.
There has been speculation that China is preparing to allow the yuan to appreciate by Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives in Washington next week.
Mr. Yi, speaking at the Boao Forum for Asia, a gathering of senior officials and business figures from across Asia on the island of Hainan, south China.
Chinese Ministry of Commerce close to exporters in the country, and reports indicate officials have been pressing strongly against those within the Chinese government who now say that the value of the yuan be allowed to rise.
Politicised debate
China in effect pegged its currency to the weakening US dollar in late 2008 when the effects of the global economic crisis started to be felt here .That has given the country's exporters an unfair advantage ever since critics say because when the value of the yuan is artificially low their goods appear cheaper.
Mr. Yee said: The crisis is not over yet, and an increase in the value of the yuan would hurt China's economy now.
He says that the biggest headache for China is that this is no longer just an economic problem but the focus has been on the relations between the two countries.
The politicization of some politicians and academics, Americans, and because of the difficulties at home and this argument . he says. They put the blame on other countries, including China for their own problems and this is unreasonable.
Deputy Trade Minister refuses to be drawn on what is the appropriate exchange rate for the yuan and the dollar.
Rising imports
But he says that the current level is reasonable and helped keep the country's trade flows are stable.It would be wrong to see the comments also ruled out any rise in the short term though.
Instead it indicates the level of opposition to such a step that exist within some factions in the Chinese government.Hundreds of dollars in bills and notes 100 yuan
Exchange rate between the dollar and the yuan is a sensitive issue for the United States and China
The others in Beijing to be on the grounds that China needs to change its policy.
Holding down the yuan's value by intervening in the market and expensive.
He also suggested that China was likely to announce the trade deficit in March when the release of monthly trade figures at the weekend - the first monthly deficit in more than five years.
Is largely a result of higher commodity prices and strong demand for raw materials to power China's booming economy.
Chinese officials have seized on the deficit to insist the country has "open" policy towards trade, with an emphasis on it is likely to be short-term phenomenon, as is being exported to the previous level.
"Stimulus measures we are still experiencing the impact," he said.
In the past few months I have imported large quantities of iron ore, copper and crude oil coal and steel and this is why our imports have grown strongly.
At the same time the United States and European markets for our goods is still weak, and in spite of our exports are recovering and they do not recover as fast as imports grow.
The minister said he could not say whether this is the direction in the long term. Economists point out that it was likely to have an impact on the short term.
China does not want a trade surplus or a trade deficit insisted Mr. Yee.
We want to be balanced our trade. Our efforts to increase domestic consumption and it works, so we can not simply regard the deficit as a bad thing."
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Malik, Mirza try to clear up marriage muddle
Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik denied claims that he was married before after a police interrogation in his fiancee's home in Hyderabad India the top tennis player Sania Mirza.
Marred the preparations for the wedding of sports stars' cross-border claims by an Indian woman Ayesha Siddiqui who married the King in 2002.
The owner was born and weddings Mirza huge public interest in various parts of Pakistan and India the two insurance usually in fierce competition. But they vowed to accusations of scandal the worsening my friend.
It seems that the couple together in the city of Hyderabad on Monday to answer questions from journalists and emphasized that no wedding plans are affected by these allegations.
Malik said he was cooperating fully with the police and accused my friend of lying in order to get "cheap popularity".This woman must prove that all those things you say and I'm here to answer all the questions he said. "We have not done anything wrong."Mirza, defended her husband to be saying that he never kept them "in the dark" about my friend.If there was anything for him to prove he can prove it" she said. "But it is not fair to say these things without proof and it's very painful for our families.Owner (28 years old) arrived on Saturday in Hyderabad where he is due to get married Mirza (23) on April 15.
Pair - both Muslim - intend to live in Dubai after the ceremony.
But my friend and threatened to sue the owner if he refuses to "divorce officially" have pre-marital Mirza.My friend who made a series of charges including that signed the nikahnama (wedding agreement) which provides money to the owner of the intolerable.She has also appeared on television to denounce the owner of a cheat who threw it to his colleagues and said it was overweight.Questioned by Indian police on Monday, the owner of the house in Hyderabad Mirza, and confiscated his passport.It is a preliminary investigation. Family friend and filed a complaint with police and verify the facts" police said the state of Andhra Pradesh President of RR Girish Kumar.In an interview with the Times of India on Sunday, Malik said he began a phone relationship with my friend in 2001 after they sent him photographs.
He said he and his family tried repeatedly to meet my friend that he wanted to marry her but she always refused.
He admitted that the owner of the newspaper in 2002 he signed nikahnama thinking about marrying a girl you're one was in the pictures.
But the girl said that the approval of the proposal and another person without giving further details.
Mirza whose short skirts tennis angered Muslim groups in India and recovering from a wrist injury that saw her slip the world level of 27 in 2007 to 92.
She said she was a celebrity on the national level since 2005 when aged 18 years, she became the first Indian to win WTA title.Only in January that it broke off a commitment to his childhood friend saying it was "contrary to the betrothed."
Malik a former captain in the Pakistani cricket team and is serving a ban for a year to the lack of discipline.Newspapers printed a copy of the wedding of the alleged agreement of 2002. This seems to be signed by both the owner and friend, but not - as is required by law - by any witnesses.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Space shuttle Discovery blasts from the state of Florida
And carry astronauts will be put in space three times to make repairs on the station and the recovery experience.
Shuttle which launches from space in Florida the Kennedy Center and includes three female astronauts for the first time.The shuttles come to the end of their lives as useful tools and Gallacher BBC correspondent in Miami Andy says he is not yet clear what will replace them.
President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit the Space Center soon to clarify the direction NASA in the future.
Our correspondent says some 6,000 are expected to lose jobs as reducing the space program again.
White House wants to shut down the development of spacecraft intended to replace the shuttle which had been taken astronauts to the moon by 2020.
But the plans have met with the negative reception in the U.S. Congress. Politicians say that is not replaced by defined strategy and clear enough and lacked a timetable.Emotional in an interview in some cases with the BBC News NASA Administrator Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden admitted that he was willing enough to come out and explain the president's plan. But he also expressed his determination to win over skeptics.
We explained to the people on Capitol Hill and to the American public that we are not losing our leadership in the exploration rights and we are not losing our leadership in space exploration. he said.
Prime NASA shuttle through the tears
NASA gave the shuttle mission management team on Saturday unanimously adopted a go for launch despite the distortions seen in the recent ground test of the devices of the vehicle.
Engineers said the anomalies that were discovered during testing of enhanced devices are unlikely to affect the safety of all.
Said Mike Moses, the launch of space shuttle director of integration said: We are really excited about this mission and science and we'll be able to get on board the International Space Station Lkiem what it should do and show their real .. national laboratory.
Spacewalkers will Rick Mastracchio and Clay Anderson, to replace one of the gyroscopes space station which has failed switch tank of ammonia.
Monday, March 29, 2010
India says Nemo - BazGos design hydropower project is within the Haddou
India and Sindh Water Commissioner G. Ranganathan said his Pakistani counterpart Shah group on the second day of three day talks here that there is no need to change the design.
During the talks, which took place yesterday Pakistan sought to make changes in the design of Nemo Bazgo hydroelectric power project.
On the second day of the three-day talks here, and delegations from India and Pakistan maintained their positions Nemo - Bazgo and Chutak energy projects most of Islamabad has expressed reservations.At the end of today's discussions, Pakistan and Sindh, the water of the group Ali Shah told reporters that the two sides will hold talks again Nemo - Bazgo project tomorrow as well as addressing Chutak hydropower plant.
Ranganathan said that India remained committed to the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 and was a "design of all energy projects according to the criteria allowed under that."
He said that India would address all concerns and reservations made by Pakistan.
During the talks today on the Pakistani side insisted that the nemo - Bazgo project design was based on the maximum "estimated figures projected in relation to water flow floods."
He insisted that the Indian side must take into account the actual flow of the river and modify the design accordingly so that the opportunities to "manipulate the flow of water" can be minimized.Shah also said that Pakistan could be selected for the arbitration of a third party under the provisions of Indus Water Treaty if the problem is not resolved amicably.
The two sides seek to achieve convergence in accordance with the provisions of the treaty he added. And will conclude tomorrow.