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                    ‘Al right,’ George said. ‘What you going to do with us afterwards?’
                    ‘That’ll depend,’ Max said. ‘That’s one of those thing you never know at the time.’
          George looked up at the clock. It was a quarter past six. The door from the street opened. A street-car motorman came in.
                    ‘Hello, George,’ he said. ‘Can I get supper?’
                    ‘Sam’s gone out,’ George said. ‘He’ll be back in about half an hour.’
                    ‘I’d better go up the street,’ the motorman said. George looked at the clock. It was twenty minutes past six.
                    ‘That was nice, bright boy,’ Max said ‘You’re a regular little gentleman.’
                    ‘He knew I’d blow his head off,’ Al said from the kitchen.
                    ‘No.’ said Max. ‘It ain’t that. Bright boy is nice. He’s a nice boy. I like him.’
          At six-fifty-five George said: ‘He’s not coming.’

                    ‘You talk too damn much,’ Al said ‘The nigger and my bright boy are amused by themselves. I got them tied up like a couple of girl friends in the convent.’
                    ‘I suppose you were in a convent.’
                    ‘You never know.’
                    ‘You were in a kosher convent. That’s where you were.’
          George looked up at the clock.
                    ‘If anybody comes in you tell them the cook is off, and if they keep after it, you tell them you’ll go back and cook yourself. Do you get that, bright boy?’

                    ‘You ought to go to the movies more. The movies are fine for a bright boy like you.’
                    ‘What are you going to kill Ole Anderson for? What did he ever do to you?’
                    ‘He never had a chance to do anything to us. He never even seen us.’
                    ‘And he’s only going to kill him for, then?’ George asked.
                    ‘We’re killing him for a friend. Just to oblige a friend, bright boy.’
                    ‘Shut up,’ said Al from the kitchen. ‘You talk too god-dam much.’
                    ‘Well, I got to keep bright boy amused. Don’t I, bright boy?’

                    ‘I'll tell you,’ Max Said. ‘We’re going to kill a Swede. Do you know a big Swede named Ole Anderson?
                    ‘Yes.’
                    ‘He comes in here to eat every night, don't he?’
                    ‘Sometimes he comes here.’
                    ‘He comes here at six o’clock, don’t he?
                    ‘If he comes.’
                    ‘We know all that, bright boy,’ Max said. ‘Talk about something else. Ever go to the movies?’
                    ‘Once in a while.’

                    ‘I can hear you, all right,’ Al said from the kitchen. He had propped open the slit that dishes passed through into the kitchen with a catsup bottle. ’Listen, bright boy,’ he said from the kitchen to George. ‘Stand a little further along the bar. You move a little to the left, Max.’ He was like a photographer arranging for a group picture.
                    ‘Talk to me, bright boy,’ Max said. ‘What do you think’s going to happen?’
         George did not say anything.

                    ‘Well, bright boy,’ Max said, looking into the mirror, ‘why don’t you say something?’
                    ‘What’s it all about?’
                    ‘Hey, Al,’ Max Called, ‘bright boy wants to know what it’s all about.’
                    ‘Why don’t you tell him?’ Al’s Voice came from the kitchen.
                    ‘What do you think it’s all about?’
                    ‘I don’t know.’
                    ‘What do you think?’
          Max looked into the mirror all the time he was talking.
                    ‘I wouldn’t say.’
                    ‘Hey Al, bright boy says he wouldn’t say what he thinks it’s all about.’

         The door of the kitchen opened and the nigger came in. ‘What was it?’ he asked. The two men at the counter took a look at him.
                    ‘All right, nigger. You stand right there,’ Al said.
          Sam, the nigger, standing in his apron, looked at the two men sitting at the counter. ‘Yes, sir,’ he said. Al got down from his stool.
                    ‘I’m going back to the kitchen with the nigger and bright boy,’ he said. ‘Go back to the kitchen, nigger. You go with him, bright boy.’ The little man walked after Nick and Sam, the cook, back into the kitchen. The door shut after them. The man called Max sat at the counter opposite George. He didn’t look at George but looked in the mirror that ran along back of the counter. Henry’s had been made over from a saloon into a lunch-counter.

                    ‘You talk silly,’ Al said to him. ‘What the hell do you argue with this kid for? Listen,’ he said to George, ‘tell the nigger to come out here.’
                    ‘What are you going to do to him?’
                    ‘Nothing. Use your head, bright boy. What would we do to a nigger?’
          George opened the slip that opened back into the kitchen. ‘Sam,’ he called. ‘Come in here a minute.’

                    ‘What’s the idea?’ George asked.
                    ‘None of your damn business,’ Al said. ‘Who’s out in the kitchen?’
                    ‘The nigger.’
                    ‘What do you mean the nigger?’
                    ‘The nigger that cooks.’
                    ‘Tell him to come in,’
                    ‘What’s the idea?’
                    ‘Tell him to come in,’
                    ‘Where do you think you are?’
                    ‘We know damn well where we are,’ the man called Max said. ’Do we look silly?’

                    ‘What’s the bright boy’s name down the counter? Al asked Max.
                    ‘Hey, bright boy,’ Max said to Nick. ‘You go around on the other side of the counter with your boy friend.’
                    ‘What’s the idea?’ Nick asked.
                    ‘You better go around, bright boy,’ Al said. Nick went around behind the counter.

                    ‘What are you looking at?’ Max looked at George.
                    ‘Nothing.’
                    ‘The hell you were. You were looking at me.’
                    ‘Maybe the boy meant it for a joke max,’ Al said.
George laughed.
                    ‘You don’t have to laugh,’ Max said to him. ‘You don’t have to laugh at all, see?’
                    ‘All Right,’ said George.
                    ‘So he think it's all right,’ Max turned to all. ’He thinks it's all right. That’s a good one.’
                    ‘Oh, he’s a thinker,’ Al said. They went on eating.

          George put down two platters, one of ham and eggs, the other of bacon and eggs, on the counter. He set down two side dishes of fried potatoes and closed the wicket into the kitchen.
                    ‘Which is yours?’ he asked Al.
                    ‘Don’t you remember?’
                    ‘Ham and eggs,’
                    ‘Just a bright boy,’ Max said. He leaned forward and took the ham and eggs. Both men ate with their gloves on. George watched them eat.

                    ‘They eat the dinner,’ his friend said. ‘They all come here and eat the big dinner.’
                    ‘That’s right.’ George said.
                    ‘So you think that’s right?’ Al asked George.
                    ‘Sure.’
                    ‘You’re a pretty bright boy, aren’t you?’
                    ‘Sure,’ Said George.
                    ‘Well, you’re not,’ said the other little man. ‘Is he, Al?’
                    ‘He’s dumb,’ said Al. he turned to nick. ‘What’s your name?’
                    ‘Adams.’
                    ‘Another Bright boy,’ Al said. ‘Ain’t he a bright boy, Max?’
                    ‘The town’s full of bright boys,’ Max said.

                    ‘Give me bacon and eggs,’ said the other man. He was about the same size as Al. Their faces were different, but they were dressed like twins. Both wore overcoats too tight for them. They sat leaning forward, their elbows on the counter.
                    ‘Got anything to drink?’ Al asked.
                    ‘Silver beer, bevo, ginger-ale,’ George said.
                    ‘I mean you got anything to drink?’
                    ‘Just those I said.’
                    ‘This is a hot town,’ said the other. ‘What do they call it?’
                    ‘Summit,’
                    ‘Ever hear of it?’ Al asked his friend.
                    ‘No,’ said the friend.
                    ‘What do you do here nights?’ Al asked.

     
                    ‘I’ll have a roast pork tenderloin with apple sauce and mashed potatoes,' the first man said.
                    ‘It isn’t ready yet.’
                    ‘What the hell do you put it on the card for?’
                    ‘That’s the dinner,’ George explained. ‘You can get that at six o'clock.’
          George looked at the clock on the wall behind the counter.
                    ‘It’s five o'clock’
                    ‘The clock says twenty minutes past five,’ the second man said.
                    ‘It’s twenty minutes fast.’
                    ‘Oh, to hell with the clock,’ the first man said. ‘What have you got to eat?’
                    ‘I can give you any kind of sandwiches,’ George said. ‘You can have ham and eggs, bacon and eggs, liver and bacon, or a steak.’
                    ‘Give me chicken croquettes with green peas and cream sauce and mashed potatoes.’
                    ‘That’s the dinner.’
                    ‘Everything we want’s the dinner, eh? That’s the way you work it.’
                    ‘I can give you ham and eggs, bacon and eggs, liver â€"’
                    ‘I’ll take ham and eggs,’ the man called Al Said. He wore a derby hat and a black overcoat buttoned across the chest. His face was small and white and he had tight lips. He wore a silk muffler and gloves.

by Ernest Hemingway


The door of Henry’s lunch-room opened and two men came in. They sat down at the counter.
                   â€˜What’s yours?’ George asked them.
                   â€˜I don’t know,’ one of the men said. ‘What do you want to eat, Al?’
                   â€˜I don’t know,’ said Al. ‘I don’t know what I want to eat.’
          Outside it was getting dark. The street light came on outside the window. The two men at the counter read the menu. From the other end of the counter Nick Adams watched them. He had been talking to George when they came in.

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I can take one more comfort. That is, I can hope we learn something from this awful situation and create some sort of positive outcome. I hope the plight of this innocent chimpanzee can help shed light on the gravity of snare hunting as a threat to our closest living relatives. There are committed individuals in Uganda trying to ensure that this won’t happen to another chimpanzee. For example, please consider supporting a snare removal program such as the Jane Goodall Institute Snare Removal Program or the Kibale Snare Removal Program. Here’s hoping snare hunting becomes a thing of the past.

The veterinarians freed the chimpanzee’s body from the snare and carefully collected it for post-mortem analysis and a respectful burial. He was so small, so vulnerable, and so beautiful. Life had only just left him, and I was simultaneously so sorry for him and so grateful that he no longer had to suffer the fear and pain he had been feeling.

What can we make of this tragedy? I feel distraught and helpless over the loss of this young innocent life. I can find comfort in a couple of thoughts, though. First, I am grateful that none of our team members was injured in what potentially could have been a very dangerous situation. If I had insisted that we push in to get a closer look when other chimps surrounded us, I could instead be writing an account of one of our team members being attacked by a chimpanzee. Second, I am grateful that, if he had to die, at least the loss of consciousness he experienced was relatively painless compared to a week or more of suffering slow starvation, a fate endured by some chimpanzees similarly caught in snares.

The wound, along with our account of where the chimpanzees traveled, corroborated the notion that the injury had occurred the previous day. Perhaps most tragically, he had only just died. If we had been able to intervene only an hour sooner, the outcome could have been very different. This particular detail is staggeringly difficult for me…

The vets also assessed the reason for his injury. It was caused by what is known as a landmine snare, a particularly complex snare devised to catch a large animal such as a bushbuck. The complex construction made it clear that it would have been difficult if not impossible for the chimpanzee to free himself, at least not without losing his foot in the process. This snare was likely set by an illegal logger in one of the nearby camps within the forest, perhaps one of the men who went crashing through the forest to avoid being seen by us just earlier that morning.

Thankfully, the veterinary staff from Budongo could not have been more calming and professional. Their assessment was that the chimpanzee was likely an orphan since there was no sign of his mother in the vicinity. We should expect a chimpanzee mother to remain nearby if her infant is trapped in a snare. They also assessed the cause of the infant’s death.

The infant was found hanging upside down by the trapped leg. It seems that he had fallen from the leafy cushion of branches on which he was seated and was unable to right himself. Perhaps he was simply too tired after all the trauma he’d experienced since the previous day. As he hung upside down, the oxygen-poor blood accumulated in his head as the heart was unable to pump it back up to his chest and replenish his brain with oxygen-rich blood.

We trekked through the forest until we finally arrived again at the location of our little friend. As we pushed through the dense vegetation, I couldn’t see the chimp at his usual post. For a brief moment, my heart leapt as I thought he may have escaped his snare. A moment later, however, I was devastated by realityâ€"he was not visible because he had died and was now hanging below the branch where we found him earlier.

My mind was reeling. How could he have died so soon? Sure, it took hours for help to arrive, but he looked so strong earlier. Dozens of “what ifs” flooded my thoughts. What if we had ignored the risks and pushed in further yesterday to assess the situation fully and see that he was truly ensnared? What if we had stayed by his side today? What if we had just tried to release him on our own before help arrived? If we did release him, could we have helped him find the other chimpanzees in his community? I was heartbroken and guilt-ridden with thoughts that I should have done more.

We suspected that he had been ensnared there sometime after the party arrived on Tuesday morning. We left the area immediately to get phone reception and called our colleagues at the Budongo Conservation Field Station for assistance. We hoped their veterinary staff could provide the necessary help to free the chimp from his snare.

Phone signals were poor and transportation was challenging between Budongo and our location. We spent hours waiting but eventually received word that help was on the way. Finally, two veterinarians from Budongo met us in a nearby village. I was relieved that help had finally arrived and that this chimpanzee could be given a chance to be free again and to go on with his young life.

I decided that it would be too risky to move closer through the dense vegetation. Given the thickness of the undergrowth, we would have to approach very closely to see the young chimp well enough to assess the situation thoroughly. If he then became very upset, others in the party could come to his defense and we could risk being seriously attacked. I would have to rely on my field assistant’s assessment that the youngster was fine despite what seemed to be unusual behavior. At least, we noted hopefully, there was no distressed mother visible. We left the possibility of sample collection behind and went home for the day.

The next morning, we came back in the hopes that the chimpanzees had all left and the dung samples remained. As we approached, we heard and saw no sign of chimpanzee presence. However, we soon heard the unmistakable whimpers of the same young chimpanzee. Jack and I looked at each other with sinking, awful dread. The infant chimpanzee was indeed trapped there. I approached, passing through the vegetation to get a close look at the chimpanzee. He had a wire snare around his left foot. He still seemed strong and relatively healthy despite being trapped.

We watched as a subadult male climbed a tree. He produced a dung sample, and we noted its location so we could find it there after they had moved. When it seemed that the chimpanzees may be preparing to leave, we decided to slowly and carefully move closer to the tree where we saw the male, in an attempt to collect the dung. As we approached, we found that a young chimpanzee was watching us from deep within the dense vegetation.

The youngster was about three years old. He watched us fearfully and whimpered from a limb about one meter off the ground, then became more fearful and began to scream. We wondered why he didn’t simply leave his leafy perch. Was he injured or trapped? One of our field assistants, who led in the front of our party, assured us confidently that he could see both hands and feet, and that all limbs were free. Despite these assurances, I was left with an uneasy feeling. However, a large party of chimpanzees was still nearby. An adult started to climb down from his position in a tree.

We received news that chimpanzees had been heard far inside the forest early that morning. Jack and I, along with a field assistant and a guide from the National Forestry Authority, began traveling through the forest en route to the area where they were heard. Around mid-morning, we too began hearing pant hoot vocalizations from the chimpanzees, as well as occasional whimpers and screams, which are not unusual, especially among larger parties. We projected waypoints for their location and followed trails in that direction until we knew we were close. It sounded like a large party was present, with a second party approximately 200 meters away.

We decided to leave the nearby party so as not to disturb them, instead backtracking along their trail in the hopes of finding nests from the previous night. After successfully locating numerous nests and dung samples, we followed their trail back to where they’d been calling in the hopes of finding that they’d gone, leaving some dung samples behind. Instead, we saw a number of chimpanzees, which, along with their earlier vocalizations, suggested a large party was still present.

Scientific American
Maureen McCarthy
September 9, 2013 8:58 AM


This is our last week of data collection. It was supposed to be a laid-back week to collect a few more samples and enjoy a few final days tracking chimpanzees, a fieldwork victory lap of sorts. It didn’t turn out as I’d hoped, though. Instead, things went very, very wrong.

On Tuesday, we ventured back to a forest reserve south of the Budongo Forest. It’s one we’ve visited numerous times before…a much larger forest than most we visit, one which helps functionally connect the fragmented forests of this corridor region to the much larger Budongo Forest to the north. On the surface, chimpanzees here have a good habitat compared to our friends to the south in most forest fragments I’ve been studying. A closer look, however, reveals an abundance of illegal logging and snare hunting sites within the forest. Though snare hunting is illegal, it is a leading cause of injury and death among chimpanzees in Uganda. Up to one third of chimpanzees in forests of Western Uganda have sustained snare injuries (Reynolds, 2005; Wrangham and Goldberg, 1997; Wrangham and Mugume, 2000).

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MERS was isolated only last year, but may have infected humans many times before without having been recognized. Scientists believe that it originated in bats, and a fragment of viral gene identical to the virus taken from human cases was recently found in a Saudi bat.

But it does not jump readily from person to person, and another animal may help it jump from bats to humans.

Camels in several countries have been found to harbor antibodies that attach to MERS, suggesting that they have recovered from infection with a similar virus.

“But if that is suggestive that camels are the most likely intermediate host, why are we not seeing clinical human cases in Sudan, Egypt, Oman, Spain and the Canary Islands?” Dr. Memish asked. “The puzzle is still not solved.”

According to the World Health Organization, there have been 108 known human cases of MERS since it emerged in 2012, of which 50 have been fatal.

There is no recommended treatment, although patients are often put on ventilators and given corticosteroids to fight inflammation in their lungs and other supportive therapy.

The ribavirin/interferon cocktail tested on the monkeys is currently used to treat chronic hepatitis C in humans. It does have side effects; interferon can cause sleeplessness and depression, while ribavirin is toxic to red and white blood cells, which can be very dangerous if it is prolonged.

Hepatitis treatment lasts for months, Dr. Fauci said, while treatment for MERS would presumably be short-lived because the virus replicates quickly.

The number of monkeys was minimal, treatment was started very soon after infection, and drugs that work in monkeys sometimes fail in humans, he said, adding: “But if I were a doctor with MERS patients, and I had nothing else to give them, I wouldn’t hesitate. If someone has advanced disease, there’s 50 percent mortality.”

Dr. Ziad A. Memish, the deputy health minister of Saudi Arabia, where most of the known MERS cases have occurred, said doctors there had already tried the two-drug combination on patients. It did not work well, he said, but that might have been because it was started late, when patients were hospitalized and already severely ill.

“This is great news and much-needed information, although it’s very preliminary,” he said.

Saudi doctors tried the regimen, Dr. Memish added, because of a recent article in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases reviewing therapies that seemed to help during the 2003 global epidemic of SARS, which is also caused by a coronavirus.

http://www.nytimes.com/
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: September 8, 2013


A combination of two well-known antiviral drugs protects monkeys against MERS and could potentially be used to save humans from the lethal disease, scientists said on Sunday.

Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases gave the drugs, ribavirin and interferon, to half of six rhesus monkeys eight hours after they were infected with the virus, now known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus.

The three that got the two-drug cocktail had less virus in their blood, no breathing difficulties and only minimal X-ray evidence of pneumonia, while the untreated animals became very ill, said the authors of the study published by Nature Medicine.

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the institute’s director, called the study “not a game changer, but an important observation.”

He also added that the information sector must assist the government to disseminate awareness to all stakeholders. “The media acts as a driver to create awareness of public welfare initiatives taken up by their governments, explain why the ASEAN community prioritizes pepole's interests and how member countries can forge deeper cooperation.”

The one-day roundtable was aimed at increasing awareness and promoting understanding amongst  journalists from the member countries of the East Asia Summit on key issues that affect the ASEAN community.

They also deliberated upon the progress report of the Master Plan of Asean Connectivity and the prospects of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.

Secretary General Le Luong Minh replied in the affirmative to Mizzima's inquiry on whether he is confident that Myanmar is ready to take the ASEAN Chair in 2014.

She expressed confidence that the AEC would be completed by 2015. She added that the ASEAN must also streamline its economic policies into clear cut rules so as to ensure efficient implementation of measures laid out in the blueprint.

Dr. Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria highlighted the need to strengthen the ASEAN Secretariat as well as implement mechanisms to ensure there is no roll-back on commitments.

International and local experts joined 70 editors and opinion makers during the roundtable organized by ERIA and the Prime Minister of Brunie’s Office.

Mr Mahrub  Murni, Permanent Secretary of Media and Cabinet, Brunei’s Prime Minister’s Office, said in his opening speech at the meeting that it is incumbent on journalists to understand progress the ASEAN has made over the years to accomplish the three pillars, namely political and security cooperation, economic cooperation, and socio-cultural cooperation.

The announcement was made during the one-day meeting, entitled 'The 2nd Editors Roundtable: Challenges Ahead: AEC 2015 and Beyond', organized by Jakarta-based Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) on September 11.

The remaining 20% that is yet to be implemented comprises issues such as free trade and free investment, he added.

Dr. Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria, Secretary-General, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia also echoed his opinion in the meeting.

11 Sep 2013 07:10   
Written by Mizzima News   


   
ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh (left) with Professor Hidetoshi Nishimura, Executive Director of ERIA seen at the 2nd ERIA Editors Roundtable held here today. Mr Le Luong Minh answers the questions from the editors attending the meeting in Brunei.


Le Luong Minh, Secretary General of the ASEAN announced that the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will be completed by 2015. He said that currently 80% of the AEC blueprint adopted by the 13th ASEAN Summit on November 20, 2007 in Singapore has been implemented.

Joe & Rika Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago â€" Chicago, America

Donated to the university by two former students, Joe and Rika Mansueto, the state of the art library has the capacity to house up to 3.5 million volumes â€" all underground. The library’s temperature is carefully monitored, ensuring students learning under the huge glass dome can work in peace.
Tom Rossiter

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at University of Toronto â€" Toronto, Canada

Opened in 1973 and named after the Yorkshire merchant Thomas Fisher (whose grandsons donated to the university) the library is the largest repository of books and manuscripts in Canada. It has expanded over the years to include over 700,000 books â€" and 3,000 linear metres of manuscript holdings.
Flickr (Thomas Fisher Library)

Library at Pontifical Lateran University â€" Rome, Italy

Started in 2004 and completed in 2006, the library works against the assumption of traditional classicist architecture associated with Rome. The library functions almost on interlocking layers, as gentle ramps act as links from one floor to the next â€" and as the bookshelves. The central â€" fire proof â€" tower houses 70,000 volumes and rare manuscripts. The library is part of the Pontifical Lateran University, an institution that boasts four saints among its alumni and is known as ‘The Pope’s University’.

Another photo of the interior of the Philological Library

It is part of the largest university in Berlin, the Free University, and has four floors which link six of the university’s courtyards. Soon after its completion the distinctive style and shape of the building earned it the nickname, ‘the Berlin brain.’
Flickr (Timtom.ch)

Philological Library at the Free University â€" Berlin, Germany

Commissioned in 1997 and completed in 2005, the Philological Library brought together 10 previously separate humanities and philosophical volumes. It contains over 700,000 volumes and has space for 650 readers.
Flickr (Malbooth)

Another view of the George Peabody library.
Flickr (Daderot)

George Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins University â€" Baltimore, America.

Opened in 1878, the library collection contains over 300,000 volumes largely from the 18th and 19th centuries. Transferred between various institutions, the library is now with Johns Hopkins University. The most well-known room is the Peabody Stack Room, which contains five floors overlooking the ground, decorated by ornamental cast-iron balconies. The skylight is 61 feet from the floor.
Matthew Pettroff

The 20 most spellbinding university libraries in the world
From Harry Potter to high-tech glass domes, these universities have some serious libraries to their names
Rose Troup Buchanan
http://www.independent.co.uk/
Tuesday 27 August 2013


You can't have a university without a library. The hub of any academic's life, some of these libraries have been feeding the minds of scholars for nearly 500 years.

From Duke Humfrey's Library at Oxford, built in the 16th century, to the Joe & Rika Mansueto library built only a couple of years ago, to the Stirling Memorial library built in the 1930s, each has its own unique look and feel.

How we expect our libraries to appear and function has changed. Irrespective of age, the following buildings each demonstrate unusual and beautiful approaches to the focal point of any university.

As you prepare to head off to university for the first time - or perhaps if you're already studying in one of these institutions - all these libraries stand testament to the brilliance of books.

In 2011 alone, 694 inventions were born at MIT, according to the university’s own Technology Licensing Office. Creations join a diverse range, from email, digital ink and the spreadsheet to nuclear fission, PET scans and the disposable razor. The man behind the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, is one of MIT’s professors - can you get much better than that?

Alumni of MIT include Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon; Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general; Edwin Land, creator of the Polaroid camera; and 78 staff and students who have won the Nobel Prize.

Mechanical, scientific and engineering creativity and expertise thrive at MIT, arguably more than in any other educational institution worldwide. Staff are so determined to bring out their prodigies’ genius that pranks, known as ‘hacks’ in the community, are rarely punished and instead, actively encouraged. Such hacks have in the past included one student presenting a tribute to Apple founder Steve Jobs by replacing a clock tower with the Apple logo, and another involving a fire engine being placed on top of the university’s Great Dome in remembrance of 9/11.

There’s no doubting that Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford, Yale and Oxford have affirmed themselves as world class universities but, yet again, they find themselves falling in MIT’s vast technological shadow.

So why is MIT number one in the world university rankings?
It’s topped the world university rankings for the second year running, but what gives Massachusetts Institute of Technology the wow factor?
Jess Denham
http://www.independent.co.uk/
Tuesday 10 September 2013


Long-term Ivy League rival Harvard may only lurk two miles down the road, but Massachusetts Institute of Technology is on top of the world rankings. That's a far cry from six years ago when it could only manage tenth place. But what propels it to the top of the list?

Widely known as MIT, the Institute admitted its first batch of freshmen in 1865 following an effort by reputed natural scientist William Barton Rogers to found an educational establishment with a focus on the practicality of industrialising America.

Today, MIT’s five schools and one college house 34 academic departments along with world-class laboratories and numerous other facilities. Tellingly, its strengths lie in the fields of engineering, science and technology, and its exclusivity involving which students they accept - roughly one in 17 - means that only the very best make the cut.

But Harvard, Stanford and the rest of the universities in the top 10 can all boast of similar things. MIT’s real selling point is its expertise at transforming the buds of its students’ technology ideas into hugely successful businesses. Described by Bill Clinton as having ‘the best technology-transfer program in the country’, MIT graduates have started thousands of companies in what they term their own ‘living lab’.

This is the life!

Luoy bitaw. Pero unsa man pud tawon iyang gibuhat. oi. Mora man siyag retard...

Yummy!

The top 20 universities

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a strong emphasis on science, engineering and technological education and research.  Founded 1861.

2. Harvard University Oldest established university in the United States, dating back to 1636. Eight US presidents have been graduates and it is the alma mater for 62 living billionaires.

3. Cambridge University The UK’s highest ranking university. It grew out of an association of scholars - who were refugees from Oxford after falling out with local townsfolk - in 1209.

4. University College London UCL is the oldest constituent college of the University of London. It was the first in England to be established on an entirely secular basis to admit students regardless of their religion - and their sex.

5. Imperial College London Founded in 1907, it specialises in science, engineering, medicine and business.

6. Oxford University There is evidence of teaching here way back in 1096 - making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world.

7. Stanford University Located in California, it was founded in 1891 and named after the son of railroad magnate Leland Stanford who declared “the children of California shall be our children”

8.Yale University Founded in 1701 in New Haven, Connecticut, it has around 5,300 undergraduates and 6,100 graduates and professional students. It has educated five US presidents.

9. Chicago University The university, with about 15,000 students, is consistently rated as one of the world’s top 10 universities. It is home to the University of Chicago Press, the largest university press in the US.

10=. California Institute of Technology Sited in Pasadena, it places strong emphasis on science and engineering and was established in 1891.

10=. Princeton University Founded as the College of New Jersey in 1746, it adopted its present name in 1896. It specialises in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering - but does not have schools of medicine, law or business.

12. ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) The highest ranking university outside the US and UK, it specialises in engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management and is sited in Zurich.

13. University of Pennsylvania Founded by Benjamin Franklin, who advocated focussing on a practical education for commerce and public service just as highly as the classics and theology, it now offers a broad range of courses.

14. Columbia University Founded in 1754 as King’s College by royal charter, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state of New York. It is famous for annually administering the Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s most prestigious award.

15. Cornell University Located in Ithaca, New York, it was founded in 1865 with the intention of teaching all fields of knowledge - a pledge contained in the motto of its founder Ezra Cornell who said: “I would fund an institution where any person can find instruction in any body.”

16. John Hopkins University It is a not-for-profit private research university based in Baltimore and founded in 1876 by the philanthropist of the same name. It has campuses in Italy, China and Singapore as well as the States.

17=. Edinburgh University The first UK newcomer into the top 20 and also the highest ranking Scottish university. It receives around 47,000 applications a year - making it the third most popular university in the UK by volume of applicants.

17=. Toronto University Founded by royal charter in 1827, it assumed its present name in 1850 after becoming a secular institution (it had previously been controlled by the Church of England). It is noted for its influence on the world of literary criticism and communications theory. It also first pioneered the use of insulin and stem-cell research.

19=. Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) one of two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (the other being ETH Zurich), it opened with a mission to educate engineers and scientists, be a national centre of excellence in science and technology and provide a hub for interaction between the scientific community and commerce.

19=. Kings College London  The second newcomer from the UK to the top 20, it can lay claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829.

John O’Leary, a member of the QS Global Academic Advisory Board, said: “The UK invests below the OECD average in higher education so it is unrealistic to expect its universities to continue to punch above their weight indefinitely.

“The current success of leading institutions shows how vital it is that the Government matches the investments made by other countries in order to maintain their world-class status.”

The rankings are the first to be published to take in a full-year of the new fees regime in the UK which allows for fees of up to £9,000 a year to be charged - meaning institutions more heavily reliant on students for their income can tap into more resources.

Universities Minister David Willetts praised the findings as “fantastic news for the universities, their academics and their students who are some of the most employable in the world.”

He added: “Our reforms to undergraduate finance have put universities on a sustainable financial footing and sharpened incentives to deliver a world-class student experience.”

Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group - 17 of whose 24 institutions are in the top 100 - said the group’s focus on research and high quality teaching “means the UK performs formidably well against other nations in spite of its size”.

However, she pointed out that the UK spent far less on higher education than the US, China and other Western European countries, adding:  “If our universities are to compete in the future they need the Government to provide light-touch regulation and continued investment and to be welcoming to genuine international students.

Meanwhile, a report by Universities UK - the body which represents vice-chancellors - will today show an increase in the number of students receiving bursaries from 346,000 to 442,000 since the introduction of the new fees structure.

Nicola Dandridge, its chief executive, said: “Fees have meant that institutions can continue to provide students with the world-class education they expect from universities and continue to improve on what they can offer to students.”

Revealed: Record as six UK universities are in world's best
But more UK institutions are slipping down the rankings
Richard Garner, Education Editor
http://www.independent.co.uk/
Tuesday 10 September 2013


A record six UK universities are ranked in the top 20 throughout the world, according to research published today.

However, the widely respected QS World University Rankings show there is no cause for complacency - as more UK universities are slipping down the world university league table than improving their position.

The results of the research show four UK institutions in the top 10 - Cambridge (the highest ranking at number three), University College London, Imperial College London and Oxford (down one slot at number 6).  The two UK newcomers to the top 20 are Edinburgh (at 17=) and Kings College London (19=).

However, the table goes on to show that, of the 45 UK universities to reach the global top 400, 29 have a lower ranking than they had at the start of the global financial crisis in 2007/8, 21 have dropped more than 10 places while just five have moved ten places higher.

In addition, when it comes to research only Cambridge remains in the global top 30 for citations with just UCL, Oxford and Imperial joining it in the top 50.  The US, by contrast, has 31 institutions in the top 50.

There were warnings from academics last night that the UK’s position could deteriorate if investment in higher education remained below the average level for OECD countries.

Quote from: Lollapalooza on September 10, 2013, 03:38:40 PM
akong i-specify "CHICKEN EGG" lisod na... daghan byang klaseng itlog... pula, puti, yellow... ug luspad ahahahahh

Naa puy balhiboon. Balut ba...

Quote from: islander on September 11, 2013, 02:09:30 PM
I believe the unique features of cats' sleep stem from the fact that they live in another world. Cats are crepuscular -- that is, they are biologically programmed to be most wakeful and active in the twilight hours of dusk and dawn. Cats reside in the boundary between night and day -- between waking and sleep. In fact, cats challenge the commonly held notion that it's impossible to be simultaneously asleep and awake. Not only are they able to sleep while sitting up, their sense of smell and hearing can remain active during most of their sleep.

Cool...

But two Meedi residents contacted by Reuters confirmed the incident and said that local tribal chiefs had tried to cover up the incident when news first broke, warning a local journalist against covering the story.

Many poor families in Yemen marry off young daughters to save on the costs of bringing up a child and earn extra money from the dowry given to the girl.

A U.N. report released in January revealed the extent of the country's poverty, saying that 10.5 million of Yemen's 24 million people lacked sufficient food supplies, and 13 million had no access to safe water and basic sanitation.

Human Rights Watch urged Yemen's government in December 2011 to ban marriages of girls under the age of 18, warning it deprived child brides of education and harmed their health.

Quoting United Nations and government data, HRW said nearly 14 percent of Yemeni girls were married before the age of 15 and 52 percent before the age of 18. The group said many Yemeni child brides-to-be are kept from school when they reach puberty.

Discussions on the issue were shelved by political turmoil following protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2011 that led to his ouster.

(Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Mahmoud Habboush; editing by Mike Collett-White)

Child bride in Yemen dies of internal bleeding on wedding night: activist
Reuters â€" 14 hours ago


SANAA (Reuters) - An eight-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal bleeding on her wedding night after marrying a man five times her age, a social activist and two local residents said, in a case that has caused an outcry in the media and revived debate about child brides.

Arwa Othman, head of Yemen House of Folklore and a leading rights campaigner, said the girl, identified only as Rawan, was married to a 40-year-old man late last week in the town of Meedi in Hajjah province in northwestern Yemen.

"On the wedding night and after intercourse, she suffered from bleeding and uterine rupture which caused her death," Othman told Reuters. "They took her to a clinic but the medics couldn't save her life."

Othman said authorities had not taken any action against the girl's family or her husband.

A local security official in the provincial town of Haradh denied any such incident had taken place. He did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the press.

Bwahaha!

One serving lang, payts na!

Super lami pud ni, humba nga pata...

Sarap! Kini kay galasalasa jud...

151. Tanzania (3.770)

152. Rwand2a4 (3.715)

153. Burundi (3.706)

154. Central African Republic (3.623)

155. Benin (3.528)

156. Togo (2.936)

141. Chad (4.056)

142. Yemen (4.054)

143. Afghanistan (4.040)

144. Bulgaria (3.981)

145. Botswana (3.970)

146. Madagascar (3.966)

147. Senegal (3.959)

148. Syria (3.892)

149. Comoros (3.851)

150. Guinea (3.847)

131. Burkina Faso (4.259)

132. Mali (4.247)

133. Liberia (4.196)

134. Georgia (4.187)

135. Nepal (4.156)

136. Niger (4.152)

137. Sri Lanka (4.151)

138. Gabon (4.114)

139. Malawi (4.113)

140. Cambodia (4.067)

121. Myanmar (4.439)

122. Cameroon (4.420)

123. Kenya (4.403)

124. Sudan (4.401)

125. Tajikistan (4.380)

126. Haiti (4.341)

127. Sierra Leone (4.318)

128. Armenia (4.316)

129. Congo (Brazzaville) (4.297)

130. Egypt (4.273)

111. India (4.772)

112. Mauritania (4.758)

113. Palestinian Territories (4.700)

114. Djibouti (4.690)

115. Iran (4.643)

116. Azerbaijan (4.604)

117. Congo (Kinshasa) (4.578)

118. Macedonia (4.574)

119. Ethiopia (4.561)

120. Uganda (4.443)

101. Somaliland region (4.847)

102. Mongolia (4.834)


103. Zimbabwe (4.827)


104. Tunisia (4.826)

105. Iraq (4.817)

106. Serbia (4.813)

107. Bosnia and Herzegovina (4.813)

108. Bangladesh (4.804)

109. Laos (4.787)

110. Hungary (4.775)

91. Zambia (5.006)


92. Philippines (4.985)


93. China (4.978)


94. Mozambique (4.971)


95. Dominican Republic (4.963)

96. South Africa (4.963)


97. Lebanon (4.931)


98. Lesotho (4.898)


99. Morocco (4.885)


100. Swaziland (4.867)



81. Pakistan (5.292)


82. Nigeria (5.248)


83. Kosovo (5.222)


84. Honduras (5.142)


85. Portugal (5.101)


86. Ghana (5.091)


87. Ukraine (5.057)


88. Latvia (5.046)


89. Kyrgyzstan (5.042)


90. Romania (5.033)


71. Lithuania (5.426)


72. Estonia (5.426)


73. Algeria (5.422)


74. Jordan (5.414)


75. Jamaica (5.374)


76. Indonesia (5.348)


77. Turkey (5.345)


78. Libya (5.340)


79. Bahrain (5.312)


80. Montenegro (5.299)

61. Angola (5.589)


62. Albania (5.550)

63. Vietnam (5.533)


64. Hong Kong (5.523)


65. Nicaragua (5.507)


66. Belarus (5.504)


67. Mauritius (5.477)


68. Russia (5.464)


69. North Cyprus (5.463)


70. Greece (5.435)


51. Poland (5.822)


52. El Salvador (5.809)

53. Moldova (5.791)

54. Paraguay (5.779)

55. Peru (5.776)


56. Malaysia (5.760)

57. Kazakhstan (5.671)

58. Croatia (5.661)

59. Turkmenistan (5.628)

60. Uzbekistan (5.623)

41. South Korea (6.267)

42. Taiwan (6.221)

43. Japan (6.064)

44. Slovenia (6.060)

45. Italy (6.021)

46. Slovakia (5.969)

47. Guatemala (5.965)

48. Malta (5.964)


49. Ecuador (5.865)

50. Bolivia (5.857)


31. Trinidad and Tobago (6.519)

32. Kuwait (6.515)

33. Saudi Arabia (6.480)

34. Cyprus (6.466)

35. Colombia (6.416)

36. Thailand (6.371)

37. Uruguay (6.355)

38. Spain (6.322)

39. Czech Republic (6.290)

40. Suriname (6.269)

21. Belgium (6.967)

22. United Kingdom (6.883)

23. Oman (6.853)

24. Brazil (6.849)

25. France (6.764)

26. Germany (6.672)

27. Qatar (6.666)

28. Chile (6.587)

29. Argentina (6.562)

30. Singapore (6.546)

11. Israel (7.301)

12. Costa Rica (7.257)

13. New Zealand (7.221)

14. United Arab Emirates (7.144)

15. Panama (7.143)

16. Mexico (7.088)

17. United States (7.082)

18. Ireland (7.076)

19. Luxembourg (7.054)

20. Venezuela (7.039)

LiveScience Staff   |   September 09, 2013 07:04am ET


The United Nations General Assembly's second World Happiness Report ranks countries based on several measures of well-being and analyzes the factors that contribute to that well-being. Here are the country rankings, based on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the most satisfied with life. The scores are an average of results between 2010 and 2012.

1. Denmark (7.693)

2. Norway (7.655)

3. Switzerland (7.650)

4. Netherlands (7.512)

5. Sweden (7.480)

6. Canada (7.477)

7. Finland (7.389)

8. Austria (7.369)

9. Iceland (7.355)

10. Australia (7.350)

Luoy gud, in the same way that some TB retard is luoy...

Quote from: islander on September 10, 2013, 03:29:11 PM
at least naman koshkosh was born a century after magellan landed in the philippines.

Nadaot na imong memory sa pagkinamras, o kaha natakdan na ka sa retard mode. Shouldn't it be TWO centuries?

Quote from: islander on September 10, 2013, 03:32:51 PM
bitaw, uy... kamras, tuhik, yatak, tamak, patid, you name it, he does it.  apil pa tanan violent computer games...

PIKOY, BALIK NA!  aron mapaspas ug alegre ning tb.  atot ba nimo uy.  mamiya lang kag mga buhing dagko...

Balik Bay Piks, 'cause the circus has not left town...

Quote from: Lollapalooza on September 10, 2013, 03:27:32 PM
speaking of kamras.. hain na gyud to si engr. pikoy oi... mao to'y kusog mangamras...

He he, labi na kon makasimhot og wan sak sapal...

Quote from: Lollapalooza on September 10, 2013, 03:24:06 PM
ang kaning bird's nest soup naa'y ingredient nga egg.. of which allergy ko ani.. labaw na ang chicken hehehehe

Ah, mao ba? Allergy to egg, that's rather hard...

Sayang lang kay dishonorably discharged. The jerk turned tail during a minor skirmish...

Quote from: islander on September 09, 2013, 11:24:46 AM
nibalhin nimo?  don't tell tatlo na ang atin ngayon...

Right. He only had one to begin with. Birok ang ugok.

Quote from: islander on September 10, 2013, 03:21:09 PM
pakamras tingali ay....

Hmm, wa pa ba diay ka maluya sa pagkinamras og unggoy?

Quote from: islander on September 10, 2013, 03:18:26 PM
dia pay qualified tingali nga no. 7 punchline ni miriam:

on her arch-enemy, senator jp enrile---

"He is a man who has grown so old in government corruption that I believe he was a waiter during the Last Supper."

Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/484303/lawmakers-linked-to-pork-barrel-scam-should-be-jailed-says-santiago#ixzz2eXDz4iN4

Oh, my! Older then than Koshkosh Balongush who was born in 1721!

Quote from: islander on September 10, 2013, 03:11:58 PM
tuna kinilaw ray ako bi... gigutom man kong gatan-aw ani, huhuhu.

Nigawas ang pagka-iring...

Quote from: Lollapalooza on September 10, 2013, 03:04:00 PM
yep... mao ra gyud na akong gibanatan... bird's nest soup and chicken curry are not for me...

Bitaw. Para ni sa di tinuod nga food lovers...

Waffo bitaw sa side view, kadaot lang kay misamot kalapad ang ilong...

Quote from: islander on September 10, 2013, 03:03:11 PM
unsa man ka hubag?  gag writer ni miriam?

Hmm, haven't you considered the possibility that I am Miriam herself?

(Agoi, hapit na ta matakdi sa naay delusion of idiotic grandeur diri!)