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As soon as the Lone Ranger
started to be pulled into modern Hollywood, I knew other cowboys would follow. If Hi, Ho, and
Silver, aren't your idea of a good time, how about Bill "Hopalong" Cassidy?
Variety
reports that 300 producer Mark Canton is
joining forces with Pterodactyl Prods. on a film that will feature the iconic Hopalong. The hero,
who was created back in 1904, made his way through stories and novels before going Hollywood in
1935 and appearing in a whopping 66 films through the '30s, '40s, and '50s. Canton says: "We're
looking to ring in the modern age with a branded, well-loved hero that we approach in a fresh way."
(Hopalong had comics, serials, a series, and was the first image to be slapped on a lunchbox.
Of course this would appeal to cross-platform thinkers, but can we really call Hopalong well-loved
today? His fans are at least pushing 50, if not 80 or 90. Nevertheless, I'm intrigued by
this newfound love of cowboys. I guess after pirates, cowboys are the natural progression. And I
can't feel too irked about this all -- I'll save it for the Stooges. How about you?
screenshots theRelativity
is a funky little 3D application created by the developer of OLE Coordinate System, the engine
which SCEJ's Echochrome was originally based on. Virtual characters are now placed inside cubes
instead of above them, and selecting any of the four modes will affect the shape of the corridors
from the autonomous character's view.
The original mode resembles Echochrome and OLE Coordinate System the most, while translation mode
works by joining up two cubes at the exact moment a character moves from one cube to another.
Deformation mode attempts to draw the connecting corridors in 3D global view to reflect the actual
pathway taken by the virtual character, while impossible object mode will draw impossible shapes in
the style of M. C. Escher's artworks to connect corridors, even when such a shape could not exist
in natural form. You can quickly switch between modes by using the F1 to F4 function keys as
well.
Name: theRelativity
Developer: Jun
Fujiki
Category: Application
Type: Freeware
Size: 1MB
Direct download link: Click here
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src="http://img.directoalpaladar.com/2008/11/bacalaotomatekalamata.JPG"/p pAyer vino a visitarme,
por sorpresa, mi querido amigo Costas, vive en una casita azul a la orilla del mar, en un
pequeño lugar, en Grecia. Siempre que viene a verme su madre le manda, para mí, un
tarro de aceitunas Kalamata que ha preparado ella misma./p pA Costas le chifla el bacalao,
así que he preparado strongbacalao con tomate y Kalamata /strongpara él, en honor,
claro, a su madre, Berenice, que ha aportado algo muy importante al plato, las Kalamata./p pPor
cierto Berenice es griego y significa algo así como, “la que lleva a la
victoria”, seguro que triunfáis con el plato./p pstrongIngredientes para 4
comensales./strong/p p4 lomos de bacalao desalado, 1 guindilla picante, 4 cucharadas de pulpa de
tomate natural, 16 aceitunas Kalamata (o loaimes, o árabes, o similares, grandes, negras, de
carne abundante y sabrosa, con sabor a aceite, exquisitas todas ellas), y aove./p p!--more--/p
pstrongElaboración./strong/p pPonemos en u wok, o sartén honda un chorreón de
aove, sobre él la guindilla troceada y encima los lomos de bacalao, piel abajo. Acercamos al
fuego y, sin dejar de agitar el wok o sartén, vamos haciendo un pilpil (emulsionamos la
gelatina de la piel del bacalao con el aceite dando como resultado una salsa con cuerpo
blanquecino-amarillenta)./p pimg class="centro" alt="bacalaotomatepilpil"
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fondo de la sartén esté cubierto de una apetitosa salsa de un color amarillento
opaco, añadimos el tomate, cocinamos 10 minutos, agregamos las aceitunas, 2 minutos y
comemos de inmediato./p pimg class="centro" alt="bacalaotomatesofrito"
src="http://img.directoalpaladar.com/2008/11/bacalaotomatesofrito.jpg"/p pimg class="centro"
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aunque elaborado/p pstrongDegustación/strong./p pEste es un plato de strongbacalao con
tomate y Kalamata /stronges de los que te da pena que se acaben, es sencillamente exquisito. /p pYo
lo cocino muy picante y lo acompaño de vino tinto, y lo suelo preparar para mis más
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This guest post is written by Matt
Rutherford, Web Strategist and technology producer for Charlie
Rose. Matt focuses on the macro themes affecting the internet and the wider world.
In an intimate interview with Charlie Rose on PBS tonight, and available here, Stanford
professor Larry Lessig
reveals some profound views on copyright, remix culture, and the new hybrid economy that is
emerging.
In particular, Lessig speaks out against the abolitionist movement growing against copyright:
My real fear is that the last 10 years have unleashed a kind of revolutionary attitude among the
generation that will take over in 10 years. And it will be hard for them to distinguish between
sensible copyright legislation and the kind that we’ve got right now. So my real fear is
we’re going to lose control of this animal... I just want to reform [copyright] to make it
make sense.
A reform of copyright is clearly overdue. We require a new form of regulation that takes into
account the ease and speed of digital distribution and appropriation. Every week, books cross my
desk clamoring for this change - some of which are certainlyworthreading. And as Lessig
explains on the show, it’s counterproductive to continue to criminalize kids for
file-sharing, remixing and recreating with content. Copyright was established to encourage
creativity, not stifle it.
Cultural Roots
Lessig thinks on a macro time scale. For him, the emerging “read-write creativity”
seen on YouTube and elsewhere is actually a return to our natural cultural roots. Historically,
man has always absorbed and re-created culture – the symbolic retelling of
stories and re-interpreting of songs on the front porch. It is only the emergence of mass media
in the last century that caused us to accept a passive relationship with culture.
What’s so extraordinary about the last four years is that they’ve demonstrated that
the technology of the internet is giving us a chance to go back to the way culture has been from
the beginning…Only the 20th century was a deviation from this. But from the beginning of
culture, it was a normal thing for people to be able to create and recreate the most important
parts of culture that were around them.
As evidence of this, Lessig cites the numerous Charlie Rose remix videos that are floating around
the web.
I’ve seen some of these Rose remixes, and they are enormous. They’re fantastic. But I
would hope, you know, eventually you could be in a position to say I want to encourage this,
please. Please do it.
A lot of these remixes also come across my desk. In the spirit of research, here are a few of the
best so far: Beckett, Kung Fu, nuclear weapons.
They’re all superb. And yes, we do encourage this. As Lessig says, Please do it.
Hybrid Economy
There remains the fundamental question of how a ‘new’ copyright can
maintain revenue. After all, despite the ease of pointing out the flaws in the current system,
it’s quite another matter to propose a viable alternative. Lessig sees the solution, in
part, coming from a new hybrid economy, one that combines the traditional commercial economy with
sharing economies seen in Wikipedia, YouTube and elsewhere:
Businesses have begun to realize that the world is in part divided between commercial economies
like buying and selling books, and sharing economies like Wikipedia where enormous value is
produced for nothing, people are doing it all for free. The most interesting thing I think
we’ve seen though in the last five years is the development of a hybrid economy where
commercial entities are trying to leverage value out of these sharing economies or vice versa,
sharing economies trying to leverage value out of commercial entities. And this hybrid depends
upon the commercial entity showing the proper respect for the creation in the sharing economy,
and giving space to it, encouraging it so that the sharing economy can produce enormous value
that is beneficial to the people inside, and also to the commercial business.
Lessig’s Big Idea
Lessig concludes the interview with his ‘big idea’. It is an inspiring,
and elegant reminder that we are in the midst of an unprecedented social change. Just as the
Gutenberg press facilitated the spread of the Protestant Reformation, fundamentally altering the
course of Western civilization, so too is the internet beginning to spark tectonic changes, the
breadth of which we don’t yet have the historical perspective to grasp. As Lessig explains:
I think the big idea, as every big idea is, is just one amazing step beyond where we are right
now. And I think you think about the Obama campaign, something like Wikipedia, something like the
stuff that’s going on on the Internet, the kind that I think of as read write culture. What
it really is doing is reviving the sense that people can do something. Not the passive couch
potato politics or couch potato culture, but that they can do something. We’re close to
making it really effective. I think the next cycle, what you’re going to see in the way
politics functions, will be unrecognizable, even from today. But when we’re there, it will
be a revival of ideals, aspirations about democracy that will surprise us. The cynicism that we
had in the 20th century will look very 20th century.
Larry Lessig’s interview on Charlie Rose was first broadcast on Friday 11/21/08 on PBS, and
is available in full or in clips: Larry Lessig
(full segment), Larry Lessig
(clips). Matt Rutherford can be reached at matt@charlierose.com.
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CCTV reported that Baidu, referred to as China's Google, had accepted money
from illegal medical companies and placed their Web links on top of search results. Baidu’s
marketing employees were also reported to have the knowledge of these.The service is called
page-rank bid and accounts for more than 80% of the company’s revenue. The company’s
business model, “which inserts ads in the natural search result without notice, has long
been criticized for destroying the integrity of the search engine,” adds China Daily.On previous
milk scandal, Baidu was said to have censored news in exchange for payment from dairy companies,
said ChinaSmack.
CCTV reports page-rank bid of Baidu. The price of
Baidu has lost 37.5 percent after the state TV reports that companies, including unlicensed
medical firms and hospitals, pay Baidu in order to appear around the top of keyword search
results. However, Beijing News viewed CCTV's reports from
another aspect:
Sometimes it's hard for CCTV or Baidu to pick out illegal companies because of their
“excellent camouflages”. In a sense, CCTV's action to expose Baidu actually reflects
their market share competition. Before Baidu grew into a search giant, traditional media like CCTV
controlled a large share of the ad market, while as the internet thrived, shares were reallocated.
Therefore, CCTV's intention to expose Baidu's scandal is easy to understand in two ways: first, as
a media, CCTV is under “obligation” to expose information. Second, CCTV can reduce the
credibility of its competitor in order to fight for more market share.
After CCTV reports, Baidu unveiled its response quickly in a conference call with analysts last
night and promised to design a new system that more clearly separates its paid links from
ordinary search results.China
Journalreports.
“We are doing this because we care. It is important to us. We want to be a responsible
corporate citizen,” said Baidu chief executive Robin Li.
Tianya blogger 阿æœåœ¨çº¿
updu.com.cn calls for regulations to supervise powerful companies like Baidu.
Only unilateral power can lead to the monopoly status that enables the company to obtain the
monopolized right of say and pricing, and have the strength to screen what it dislikes. But the
occurrence of such power is inevitable, so there should be more supervision of the
media and restrictions by relevant laws and regulations.
Many websites starts from pure business. Although they have always played a major role in
publishing information and organizing discussions, they seldom take the responsibility of
traditional media but more focus on simpy running their business.
Publication Date: 2008 Nov 19 PMID: 19020047br/Authors: Ramot, D. - Macinnis, B. L. - Lee, H. C. -
Goodman, M. B.br/Journal: J Neuroscibr/br/Many biochemical networks are robust to variations in
network or stimulus parameters. Although robustness is considered an important design principle of
such networks, it is not known whether this principle also applies to higher-level biological
processes such as animal behavior. In thermal gradients, Caenorhabditis elegans uses thermotaxis to
bias its movement along the direction of the gradient. Here we develop a detailed, quantitative map
of C. elegans thermotaxis and use these data to derive a computational model of thermotaxis in the
soil, a natural environment of C. elegans. This computational analysis indicates that thermotaxis
enables animals to avoid temperatures at which they cannot reproduce, to limit excursions from
their adapted temperature, and to remain relatively close to the surface of the soil, where oxygen
is abundant. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that this mechanism is robust to large variations in
the parameters governing both worm locomotion and temperature fluctuations in the soil. We suggest
that, similar to biochemical networks, animals evolve behavioral strategies that are robust, rather
than strategies that rely on fine tuning of specific behavioral parameters.br/br/post to: a href =
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img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/1_t.jpg'/img: Photo
courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtpWhat are the social consequences when science allows us
to see things that had previously been invisible?/pp Scientists have revealed microscopic life,
nanoscale molecules and galaxies billions of light-years away. These images have revolutionized the
disciplines in which they were made, but they also transformed the public's imagination, giving
common people new things to think and dream about. /pp The intertwined social, scientific and
artistic impacts of 19th century photography is the subject of a new exhibit, Brought to Light
Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900, at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. /pp This gallery
looks at some of the more astounding images and stories from the exhibit. /p pstrongLeft: br /
Hermann Schnauss, Electrograph of a brass wire gauge, 1900/strong As the men of industry attempted
to harness electricity for profit, the public — which knew electricity
primarily as lightning — had to be persuaded that this powerful, invisible
force was something to invite into their homes. Electrographs like this one, produced by exposing a
photographic negative with electricity, helped the public visualize and understand the mysterious
electromagnetic waves that scientists were discovered populating the air. /pp "This is a moment
where [scientists] are trying to harness electricity for practical purposes, but the general public
was kind of skeptical," said Corey Keller, curator of the Brought to Light exhibit. "Their
experiences with electricity were generally through lighting, which they knew could burn things
down and kill you, if you weren't careful. So a great deal of time and money was spent trying to
make electricity understandable and approachable." /p img
src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/3_t.jpg'/img: Photo
courtesy SFMOMApIn the early history of photography, capturing motion was out of the question. The
photographic negatives of the time were not sensitive enough to light to be exposed over the short
time periods required to capture fast action. /pp "If you look at 19th century cityscapes, you
would think that Armageddon had taken place. You don't see any people," Keller said. "It's not that
they aren't there, it's just that they don't show up because they walked through too quickly." /pp
But by the end of the 1870s, more sensitive negatives brought motion within reach. Edward Muybridge
was one of the first photographers to take advantage of the new abilities. /pp In this photo, we
see one of Muybridge's motion studies: two men boxing in jock straps. Historians note that despite
the scientific trappings, Muybridge's work was just art; it did not produce good scientific
evidence about bodies' movements. /p img
src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/4_t.jpg'/img: Photo
courtesy SFMOMApThe ability to capture motion in photography opened up a previously invisible
source of scientific data. Etienne-Jules Marey was a scientist trying to understand biomechanics,
or the motion of the body, and he used photography to acquire information he couldn't get any other
way, as in this photograph of a man on a stationary bicycle. /pp "What happens in this picture is
that each split second exposure is layered on top of each other, so you get the sense of the full
arc of the motion," Keller said. "And he's put a piece of tape down the arm and torso and the leg
where the joints articulated, so as the leg went around and around the whole pedal stroke is
outlined." /pp This wasn't just to create beautiful pictures; Marey was on a committee in France to
improve the ergonomics of the newly popular bicycle. /pp "So by studying the motion of the leg, he
would have been able to improve the engineering of the bicycle," Keller concluded. /p img
src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/5_t.jpg'/img: Photo
courtesy SFMOMApWhile forward-looking scientists like Marey were using photography to understand,
for example, how animals moved, as in this photo, others were less enthused about this new
technology. /pp In particular, photographers' ability to capture images beyond what the human eye
could perceive called into question an important tenet of 19th century science. /pp "What's amazing
is that this is a moment where empirical observation in science is the most important thing, that
idea of objective observation. And this kind of photography proved how completely useless a human
observer was," said Keller. "So you end up with this photographic data that cant' be corroborated
in any other way. It exists independently of any kind of perceptual experience." /pp Technology's
ability to capture detail and motion more accurately than our eyes has only accelerated, of course,
as anyone who has seen a
href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/water-falling-a.html"incredible ultra-slow-motion
YouTube videos can attest/a. /p img
src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/6_t.jpg'/img: Photo
courtesy SFMOMApWhen William Roentgen announced his discovery of X-rays, a photo of his wife's hand
accompanied his paper as it made its way into the scientific community. /pp Over the next few
years, images like this one of a skeletal hand with the ring came to symbolize X-rays. Practically,
the hand is relatively flat and therefore easy to X-ray, but it was the aesthetics and grim-reaper
symbolism that Keller said hit a nerve with the upper classes. /pp "It became fashionable to have
an X-ray portrait taken of your hand," she said, calling attention to x-ray hand portraits of the
last tsar of Russia and his wife. /p img
src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/7_t.jpg'/img: Photo
courtesy SFMOMApThe discovery of X-rays also touched off a lower-brow commercial craze. Within
three months, DIY X-ray kits were available on the market. Photographers, who had access to most of
the tools needed to make the images, began to train this new form of light on just about anything
that might be beautiful. /pp "They were X-raying everything just to see what it looked like,"
Keller said. /pp One stunning example is this X-ray of a foot in a shoe from 1897. In fact, the
connection between X-rays and extremities has remained strong. Even into the 1960s, shoe stores
kept X-ray machines in their lobbies, both as marketing tools and to help their salesmen fit their
patrons' feet correctly. /p img
src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/8_t.jpg'/img: Photo
courtesy SFMOMApThroughout the second-half of the 19th century, photographers strived to unite the
camera with the telescope. The moon, in particular, held a lasting fascination for astronomers and
artists alike. /pp Imaging the moon, after all, was an immensely difficult task. The Earth rotates
and the moon is actually a relatively faint object. It wasn't until John Adams Whipple and George
Phillips Bond figured out how to rotate their camera ever so slightly to cancel out Earth's
movement that simple images of our only satellite became possible. /pp What's interesting is that
despite the fascination with creating pictures of the moon, like this striking image created in
Spain, the images didn't add much for science beyond what detailed drawings could already do. /p
img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/9_t.jpg'/img: Photo
courtesy SFMOMApIf you wanted close-up photos of the moon any time before the Apollo missions, you
were pretty much out of luck. Unless, of course, you built incredibly detailed plaster models of
lunar craters and then snapped carefully lit pictures of them. And that's exactly what an engineer
and astronomer did in 1874 to tremendous acclaim. /pp James Nasmyth, the inventor of the steam
hammer, and James Carpenter, then at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, released a hugely
successful book, The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, illustrated by their
incredible moon mock-ups. The august journal Nature gave the book a rapturous review. /pp "No more
truthful or striking representations of natural objects than those here presented have ever been
laid before his readers by any student of Science," the reviewer wrote. /pp But what's really
appealing about the images isn't their "truthfulness" but their "truthiness." /pp "Astronomers were
perfectly aware of what they were looking at," Keller said. "But they felt that because they were
photographed, it added a layer of authenticity to the undertaking that simple drawings didn't
have." /p img
src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/10_t.jpg'/img: Photo
courtesy SFMOMApAt the other end of the scale of size from the moon, other photographers were
pushing their discipline into the microscopic realm. They had to devise new emulsion chemistries
and types of equipment to capture clear images of tiny things. /pp Leading the charge was
Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch, who worked to overcome any challenge that scientists threw at him.
Unfortunately, he died during social unrest in France in 1871, and his images lay in a photographic
archive until Keller brought them to the US for the exhibition. /p img
src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/11/gallery_earlyscience/11_t.jpg'/img: Photo
courtesy SFMOMApEven as they solved technical challenges, the photomicrographers faced social
resistance. The idea of representing a specific living thing instead of a generalized abstraction
of an organism forced scientists to let go of long-held notions about their discipline. /pp "Prior
to the 19th century, the scientific illustrations tend to represent a type, an ideal. So if you
were going to do a picture of a flower, for example, the illustrator would look at 20 flowers and
then take the common features and make an ideal flower," said Keller. "So, if that particular one
happens to have a defective petal or something peculiar to it, you never really know: Does that
photograph substitute then for that type of flower in general, or does it only represent that one
specimen?" /pp While it may have posed a challenge for scientists of the 19th century, it's the
unique nature of each photograph taken during this early period that wows us, even now. /pbr
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width="1" height="1" //divp They were walking to school in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a
group of teenage girls discussing a test they had coming up, when two men on a motorcycle sprayed
them with a strange liquid. Within seconds a painful tingling began, and there was an unusual smell
as the skin of 16-year-old Atifa Biba began to burn. /ppHer friend rushed over to help her,
struggling to wipe the liquid away, when she too was showered with acid. She covered her face,
crying out for help as they sprayed her again, trying to aim the acid into her face. The weapon was
a water bottle containing battery acid; the result was at least one girl blinded and two others
permanently disfigured. Their only crime was attending school. /ppIt was not an isolated incident.
For women and girls across Afghanistan, conditions are worsening - and those women who dare to
publicly oppose the traditional order now live in fear for their lives./ppThe Afghan MP Shukria
Barakzai receives regular death threats for speaking out on women's issues. Talking at her home in
central Kabul, she closed the living room door as her three young daughters played in the hall.
"You can't imagine what it feels like as a mother to leave the house each day and not know if you
will come back again," she said, her eyes welling up as she spoke./pp"But there is no choice. I
would rather die for the dignity of women than die for nothing. Should I stop my work because there
is a chance I might be killed? I must go on, and if it happens it happens."/ppBarakzai receives
frequent but cryptic warnings about planned suicide attacks on her car, but no help from the
government. Officials advise her to stay at home and not go to work, but offer nothing in the way
of security assistance, despite her requests. She said warlords in parliament who received similar
threats were immediately provided with armoured vehicles, armed guards and a safe house by the
government./ppAfghan women are feeling increasingly vulnerable as the security situation worsens
and a growing number of western and Afghan officials call for the Taliban to join the
government./pp"We are very worried that, now the government is talking with the Taliban, our rights
will be compromised," said Shinkai Karokhail, an outspoken MP for Kabul. "We must not be the
sacrifice by which peace with the Taliban is made."/ppUnder Taliban rule, up until 2001, women were
not allowed to work and were forbidden from venturing outside the home without a male escort.
/ppAfghan women who defy traditional gender roles and speak out against the oppression of women are
routinely subject to threats, intimidation and assassination. An increasingly powerful Taliban
regularly attacks projects, schools and businesses run by women. /ppSix weeks ago,
Lieutenant-Colonel Malalai Kakar was assassinated in her car on her way to work in Kandahar. She
was Afghanistan's highest-ranking female police officer and a fierce defender of women's rights.
Only five feet tall, she was known to have beaten men she found to be abusing their wives. Another
senior female police officer was killed in the province of Herat in June./ppstrongSafe
house/strong/ppTalking to the Guardian at a safe house on the outskirts of Kabul, Mullah Zubiallah
Akhond, a Taliban commander from the southern province of Uruzgan, said the group's attacks on
women were always political and not based on any desire to target or punish women specifically.
/ppHe condemned the acid attack on the group of schoolgirls in Kandahar, and insisted the Taliban
were not involved. "We support the education of girls, but separate from boys. We would not attack
schoolgirls. We only target those working with the government."/ppThe Taliban's regional commands
have varying attitudes toward women, but all those fighting under the Taliban banner are committed
to enforcing their interpretation of sharia law, which forbids women from working or leaving the
house without a male escort./ppThe Islamist group is just one of the many threats facing
Afghanistan's few outspoken female MPs. "Our parliament is a collection of lords," said Barakzai.
"Warlords, drug lords, crime lords."/ppIn parliament, she says, she is often greeted with screams
of "kill her" when she stands up to speak, and she has had no shortage of personal threats from
fellow MPs. /ppThey visit her privately to tell her she will be killed if she continues to speak
out on such issues as the right of a woman to have a personal passport (separate from the standard
"family passport") or against compulsory virginity tests for young women, and the right of a man to
have custody of a child at two years old. It is not only men who oppose women in parliament - both
Barakzai and Karokhail have faced obstruction from other female MPs on key women's
issues./ppKarokhail said that, of the 68 women in the 249-strong parliament, only five were vocal
on women's issues. The majority of women in parliament vote in favour of more traditional
legislation that often rules against women's rights./ppSome women now fear the parliament is
becoming more conservative towards women. "Talibani ideas are natural among our people,
particularly their vision about women," said Barakzai. /ppAccording to Afghan commentators,
President Hamid Karzai, desperate to win next year's elections, has been bringing former mujahideen
commanders into parliament in the hope they will support him at election time. /ppMost of these
former jihadi commanders share the Taliban's ideas about women and are expected to support
legislation that will once again limit women's freedom. In addition, according to the Taliban
commander, the group has a growing number of MPs in parliament lobbying for their policies./ppIn
much of the country, especially rural areas, women remain subservient to the men in their family
and rarely venture out of their homes. Even in the relatively liberal capital, Kabul, it is common
to see women robed in blue burkas trailing five paces behind their husbands./ppIt is difficult to
gauge how the worsening situation in the country is affecting women, but according to a recent
study by the UN, some 87% of them suffer abuse in the home. Afghan human rights groups are
documenting cases of "honour" killings, forced abortions and rape, and a database is now being
constructed by the UN./ppNajla Zewari, who works for the UN's gender and justice unit, believes
violence against women is increasing, fuelled by growing frustrations caused by the economic crisis
and lack of security. She said there had also been a sharp increase in rapes by men who claimed
they could not afford to pay the dowry needed to marry. After the public shame of an attack, the
victim is usually outcast and the rapist is then the only man who will have the woman as his
wife./ppIt is crimes like this that make many Afghans nostalgic for the harsh justice of Taliban
rule. Barakzai countered: "Women were safe, in one sense, under the Taliban - but they were kept as
slaves, they were not allowed to do what they wanted even in their own home."/ppAs the Taliban
strengthen, the future for women in Afghanistan looks bleaker. Barakzai said women's rights, once
heralded as the great success of post-invasion Afghanistan, had been sidelined and might suffer
more in the struggle to find a solution to the fighting./ppLast week, a council of 400 women
politicians met in Kabul to discuss this possibility and prepare ways to counter it. Karokhail
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to which it plays a role in shaping neuronal stimulus selectivity in systems like olfaction,
however, which lack a simple two-dimensional representation of their stimulus space, has remained
controversial. We examined this issue using an experimental preparation that allowed
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the controlled delivery of pheromonal stimuli, in this case derived from the urine of male and
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donor. Examination of both explicitly inhibitory responses, as well as responses to mixtures of
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magnitude, particularly for male-selective neurons. Pharmacological manipulation of this inhibition
resulted in a shift in many neurons' stimulus selectivities. Finally, we found that a behavioral
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necessarily one that is controlled by touch. However, to accommodate the removal of its trademark
keyboard, RIM has taken touch-screens into a literal new dimension by requiring users to depress
the screen to activate a button on the screen, which lowers and springs back like a giant keyboard
key.
The screen's ability to respond to presses as a physical button (like the trackpad in Apple's new
MacBooks), helps provide a more natural feel to typing on the Storm; the feedback is certainly more
satisfying than the solely visual feedback that the iPhone gives. Just because it feels good,
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