Researchers Say that gorillas play games of tag like humans do
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Gorillas play "tag" in a similar way to humans, scientists have discovered. By studying footage recorded in zoos, the team found that the great apes would hit a playmate and then run away, chased by the gorilla they had struck. Occasionally, the roles would then reverse, with the chaser hitting back, and then getting chased. The research, published in the journal Biology Letters, suggests the primates are testing the limits of acceptable behaviour within their social group.
Marina Davila Ross from University of Portsmouth said: "This shows a strong similarity to the game of tag in children. "We cannot say it is exactly the same as the game of tag, because games involve rules and the individuals need to be aware of these rules, but the behaviour does looks similar." Hit and run The researchers looked at footage of playing gorillas taken from five zoos, which had been recorded over a period of three years. Dr Davila Ross, who carried out the research with scientists from the Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover, Germany, said the team found examples of this behaviour on 86 occasions. She told BBC News that the films had enabled the researchers to study how the apes would respond to an advantageous or disadvantageous scenario. "When you hit someone that represents an unfair situation. Because of this, it allowed us to assess for the first time how animals respond to an inequity in their natural social setting." She added: "We found the hitters moved first and ran away - it was a hit and run behaviour. And this indicated that the hitters created for themselves an advantage and they tried to keep this advantage." She said that this implied that the gorillas were capable of changing their behaviour in unfair situations. The researchers also found three occasions where the gorillas did not run if they had hit another ape very gently, suggesting that they could judge how roughly they were playing, and alter what they do next accordingly.
Dr Davila Ross said the hit and run games could help the animals to learn how to better judge social situations. She said: "It seems to me that they can learn through this kind of behaviour about limits and how far they can go in a social setting, and also about their specific group members and how far you can go with them."
So the French lower house has voted to ban the burka or niqab in a public place. It was by a massive majority: 355 to 1. The Greens and some of the Socialists abstained. There are still hurdles to be crossed, but France is heading to a moment when a woman wearing a full-face veil in public could be stopped by a police patrol and fined 150 euros (£125). If the police gather evidence that a woman is being forced to dress in a niqab, then the man faces a very heavy fine. The mood among MPs today heading into parliament was strongly in favour of a new law. No doubt some would have been influenced by polls that suggest that up to 70% of French voters support such a ban. One French MP described veils as "muzzles", and "walking coffins". But the main motive behind this vote was to reinforce French identity. MPs believe that those who live in, or visit, France should embrace French values. Time and again in parliament MPs argued that hiding a woman's face violates the ideal of equality and encourages segregation. The fear behind this is of separate, parallel communities. There are only about 2,000 women in France who wear the burka or niqab. Many are recent converts to Islam. I spoke today to 26-year-old Anissa. She has been wearing the niqab for two years. She says the new law is Islamaphobic and she will not remove her veil. "I think it is against international law," she told me. "Personally speaking, removing my veil is against my conscience. And I won't take it off." That will be one of the difficulties: enforcing such legislation. Initially there will be a six-month period where women who wear the full-face veil are stopped and told about French laws and the reasons behind them. But after that period a police officer could tell her to remove the veil or risk a fine. Clearly, in some suburbs of Paris with strong Muslim communities it would be very sensitive to order a woman to remove her veil. It will also be hard to prove that a woman is wearing a veil against her wishes. Another risk is that the ban will create martyrs. Frederic Lagache of the police union said to me today: "Our concern is that some people will be manipulated by extremists and cause trouble on the streets when we stop them." Already a businessman has offered to set up a fund to pay any fines incurred by women. There are also likely to be a series of legal challenges. But today marked an important moment in the debate over multiculturalism. Increasingly the French want new arrivals and members of ethnic minorities to integrate more. There will be those in the banlieues - the suburbs where many minorities live - who will argue that they are the ones who are prevented from integrating into mainstream French society.
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The Ghost Writer Synopsis: The Ghost Writer is a film adaption of the Robert Harris novel The Ghost. When a successful British ghostwriter, The Ghost, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, his agent assures him it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start—not least because his predecessor on the project, Lang's long-term aide, died in an unfortunate accident. The Ghost flies out to work on the project, in the middle of winter, to an oceanfront house on an island off the U.S. Eastern seaboard. But the day after he arrives, a former British cabinet minister accuses Lang of authorizing the illegal seizure of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA—a war crime. The controversy brings reporters and protesters swarming to the island mansion where Lang is staying with his wife, Ruth, and his personal assistant (and mistress), Amelia. As The Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA—and that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind.
Reviews: One thing is for certain, Roman Polanski knows how to build tension and The Ghost Writer delivers on that front and is, for the most part, a very satisfying paranoid thriller of which Polanski is a known master. The story twists and turns down a few roads I didn't see as necessary, but in the end it delivers a punch you most likely saw coming, but were never entirely convinced would actually arrive. Ewan McGregor stars as The Ghost, a writer for hire. He finds himself ghosting the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang played by Pierce Brosnan. Knee deep in political scandal and surrounded by protestors at every turn, Lang isn't exactly a prime subject for a glowing autobiography. Things look even worse when taking into consideration McGregor's predecessor died under mysterious circumstances. Nevertheless, locked away in a beach-side fortress in Martha's Vineyard, The Ghost takes to his duties, attempts to sort through the lies and deception and the closer he gets to the truth the more ominous the plot becomes. He must now decide how deep he wants to dig as he's watched closely by Lang's assistant, played by Kim Cattrall sporting one of the worst English accents I've heard in some time, and grows ever closer to Lang's wife played beautifully by Olivia Williams whom we last saw as the school teacher in An Education. McGregor, however, is the highlight as he most often is anytime he isn't involved in a film sporting a budget of considerable size. As long as you get him into true actor's territory he's one of the best and The Ghost Writer is no exception in a role that carries the film. He even outshines Tom Wilkinson, who appears to be uncharacteristically sleepwalking through his limited screen time. The screenplay, which was, predominately, adapted by Robert Harris working from his own source novel, carries shades of Polanski's personal life as the director contributed slightly to the story. This is hardly a surprise, and it's relatively easy to shrug off as Polanski's exploits have been the source of a recent documentary and even more recently publicized to the point of such rabid lunacy you can only laugh the film's parallel's off, which I am sure will outrage the mob even more.
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Inception Hollywood Sci-Fi Movie 2010 Cast And Crew Cast:Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard,Ellen Page,Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy,Tom Berenger,Michael Caine, Lukas Haas,Tohoru Masamune Director: Christopher Nolan Producers:Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas Music Director:Hans Zimmer Photographer: Wally Pfister Composer: Hans Zimmer Release Date: 16 Jul 2010 Genre: Sci-Fi Language: English
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Inception Synopsis: Inception is a sci-fi action thriller film. Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible: inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming. Inception Reviews: The most pertinent question discerning moviegoers will ask each other this summer is not “Have you seen Inception?” but rather “How many times have you seen Inception?” It’s that demanding a film, one that will puzzle and infuriate as many people as it enraptures and enchants. Repeat viewings are recommended, even urged. Writer/director Christopher Nolan changed the way people thought about superhero movies with his cerebral blockbuster The Dark Knight. With Inception, he has boldly reinvented the heist picture, once again rattling the cranium in the process. The film is the year’s brainiest thriller; it might also be the riskiest. Leonardo DiCaprio cuts a rakish figure as Dom Cobb, a corporate spy who functions like the Freddy Krueger of the boardroom: he enters the dreams of industry captains and steals their most valuable secrets. It’s a process called “extraction” and, for a price, Cobb can also teach businessmen how to block midnight assaults on their most hidden thoughts. Cobb’s talents are eagerly sought, but they have taken a personal toll tinged with intimations of tragedy. He’s chased by memories of his wife, Mal (Marion Cotillard), the mother of his two young children, whose status in his dream life is as uncertain as her corporeal existence is in the real world. Mal is thus right at home in Inception, where nothing can be taken at face value and you’re never sure if you’re inside your own head or someone else’s. Canadian cutie Ellen Page is Ariadne, a student architect Cobb hires to join his ace team of extractors. Her job is to design realistic dreamscapes of rooms and buildings that will help hoodwink the team’s corporate marks. “You are the dreamer; you build the world,” Cobb tells her. Ariadne also functions as the film’s “Basil Exposition,” the audience’s representative in trying to figure out what’s going on. She constantly quizzes Cobb about actions and motives. Cobb’s team also includes Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who works so closely in concert with him, he could almost be considered his avatar. Then there’s team forger Eames (Bronson’s Tom Hardy), who can shape-shift to keep up with the ever-deepening layers of deception. Finally, there’s a chemist named Yusuf (Dileep Rao), who brews the drugs needed by both Cobb’s crew and their victims to properly consummate a dream theft. Regarding the drugs, the least compelling part of the film, it’s a pity Nolan didn’t devise a less hoary mode of psychic transit. But it is steeped in tradition: The Matrix and its literary antecedent, Alice In Wonderland, two of many acknowledged inspirations for Inception, both employed pharmaceuticals to enter alternate realms. Cobb and his dream raiders are given their most challenging assignment by a businessman of curious interests named Mr. Saito (Ken Watanabe), who wants them to implant an idea inside a rival’s head, rather than pulling one out. This perilous process is called “inception” (hence the film’s title) and it requires the triple play of negotiating a dream within a dream within a dream, a concept that’s almost impossible to fathom. The subject of the inception is billionaire heir Robert Fischer, Jr. (Cillian Murphy), who has to be covertly convinced to dissolve the company about to be bequeathed to him by his dying father. Failure to do so, Saito darkly warns, could have dark consequences for the world — we assume he means the real world. Nolan is far from the first director to use dreams and alternate realms for dramatic purpose. There are any number of film and literary influences found in Inception, the most compelling being Last Year at Marienbad, the classic brain screw by French director Alain Resnais that set a potentially dangerous romance inside an unsteady realm of doubt and intrigue. The connections are both visual and aural. Inception was filmed in colour, but it’s so desaturated it resembles Marienbad’s monochrome steeliness. Hans Zimmer’s occasionally strident score strikes notes with Resnais’s work. Interestingly, Nolan claims not to have seen Marienbad before making Inception, but he feels he may have been unconsciously affected by films that were influenced by it. He also disavows any prior knowledge of Martin Scorsese’s recent Shutter Island, also starring DiCaprio, in which marital grief and concepts of reality and unreality are similarly explored to graphic extremes. Where Nolan breaks fresh ground is how deeply he probes the grey matter of both his characters and the audience. He makes no concessions to mainstream notions of plot and character development, even as he constantly one-ups the thriller and heist genres with dazzling action scenes. A scene where a speeding train gives jaw-dropping new meaning to the old saying about having your thoughts derailed is sure to send senses reeling and hearts racing. It’s no coincidence that Murphy’s character, who is not as gullible or ripe for exploitation as he seems, is named after late chess master Bobby Fischer, who was as willfully mercurial as he was brilliant. Inception is just like that, constantly confusing us even as it appears to be leading us on the path to enlightenment. Concepts and explanations are thrown out on the run — “Downwards is the only way forwards!” Cobb bafflegabs — and there will be many times you'll wish you could grab one of the small talismans that dream travellers hold close to them in the film, in order to prevent themselves from forever becoming lost in a subconscious state. Inception isn’t a perfect film. Nolan may well have overestimated the patience of the audience, especially since the film takes a good hour of its nearly 2 ½-hour running time to get its mental machinery fully cranked. At first, Inception left me cold, feeling as if I’d just eavesdropped on somebody’s bad acid trip. Now I find I can’t get the film out of my mind, which is really the whole point of it, isn’t it?
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Jeremy Green, ESPN Writer, Arrested On Child Pornography Charges
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BRISTOL, Conn. — Jeremy Green, the son of former NFL coach Dennis Green, no longer has a job as an NFL analyst at ESPN after being arrested this week on a child pornography charge in Connecticut. Bristol police say the 38-year-old Green was picked up on Thursday around 5 p.m. in a Southington hotel and charged with possession of child pornography, possession of narcotics and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was presented in court Friday and is being held on a $750,000 bond. Police are not releasing details and say the warrant is sealed. ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys says Green had worked since 2005 as a contributor to ESPN.com, but was not employed there as of Friday. He declined further comment. A phone message also was left seeking comment from the Green family.
Bobbi Eden Oral Sex Pledge Falls Through At World Cup
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Bobbi Eden, the porn star who appeared to offer widespread oral sex in the event of a Dutch World Cup victory, is disappointed after her team lost to Spain in the final on Sunday. The blonde sex actress previously promised on Twitter that she would "give a BJ to all my followers," and the pornographic pledge nearly came to fruition: the Netherlands advanced to the World Cup final and came within minutes of a shootout with Spain, but ultimately forfeited a dramatic goal with just minutes remaining in extra time. Eden was noticeably upset on Twitter when the Netherlands lost, writing, "Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!" She also made clear that she was "bummed," tweeting that "I am really bummed" and "Damn i'm bummed." Still, despite the fact that her oral oath went up in flames, Eden promises to "team up" with fellow porn star Vicky Vette to "do something for our followers! Only for followers!" Scroll down to see some of Eden's tweets.
Best And Worst World Cup 2010 Moments (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
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We have now reached that moment in time where one must face up to the cruelest aspect of the World Cup, which is that it will be another four years before one glorious month of summer is given over to being captivated by the greatest sports tournament in the world. As the writer Aleksandar Hemon remarked last month: "A sad fact of human existence is that an average life seldom contains more than 20 World Cups--our games are tragically numbered." Alas, all there is left to do now is look back on what was, Overall, the 2010 World Cup provided its share of memorable moments: a first-time champion in Spain; a national disgrace in France; a psychic octopus in Paul, and a historic setting in South Africa. The South American teams looked invincible during the group stage but all fell apart by the quarterfinals, with the exception of Uruguay. For the second tournament in a row it was an all-European final. Netherlands-Spain wasn't a great game in the end, but that's pretty much par for the course. At least the best squad won. As for U.S.A. fans, they were treated to their share ecstasy and agony as the national team both mounted amazing comebacks and also squandered a great opportunity to go deep into the tournament. Such are the joys and sorrows of the World Cup. Better luck in four years. And so before we completely say goodbye to the 2010 World Cup, here are 30 of the best and worst moments from this year's tournament.
1 There were no doubt a few teenage boys around the world who found themselves suddenly rooting for Paraguay to go all the way after a beautiful 24-year-old lingerie model named Larissa Riquelme pledged to run naked through the streets "with my body painted with the colors of Paraguay" if the team won the World Cup. Just how devoted is Riquelme to her country? Despite their having gone out in the quarterfinals, Riquelme has decided to run naked anyways as a "present" to the team. Losing has never looked so good.
2 In a tournament marked by instances of spotty goalkeeping, England goalie Robert Green's blunder against the U.S. easily rose above the rest as a moment of true bumbling horror. Even Clint Dempsey, who Green so graciously gifted a goal, seemed to feel sorry for him after the game. Green was swiftly replaced in the England net by the equally gaffe-proned David "Calamity" James. Long live the "hand of clod.
3 Landon Donovan's heart-stopping last minute goal against Algeria to rescue the Yanks from elimination will go down as one of the great moments in U.S. soccer history. It was also a redemption of sorts for the U.S. star, who had been criticized over the years for supposedly not having what it takes to truly compete at the top level. For one game at least, Donovan was an American hero, and he gave fans something to truly be proud of. Yes, the U.S. team was ultimately exposed as totally second-rate, but there and then, they provided an instance of World Cup ecstasy.
4 While Netherlands midfielder Mark van Bommel did everything he could during the tournament to burnish his reputation as the pre-eminent Dutch thug, he was outdone at the last minute by teammate Nigel de Jong, who straight up drop-kicked Spain's Xabi Alonso during the final. It barely merits mentioning that the ball was nowhere near his chest.
5 No moment reignited the debate over whether FIFA needs to embrace the use of extra referees and video technology than the Frank Lampard goal that wasn't against Germany. Everyone in the stadium and at home could see the ball clearly crossed the line; hell, even German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer said he knew it was a goal, but just kept playing anyhow. The only people who didn't notice this were the ones paid to notice such things: the refs. Will someone finally decide to save these imperfect creatures from themselves? FIFA President Sepp Blatter said the organization would "review" the issue, which in bureaucrat speak means he promises plenty more of the same in 2014.
6 Sara Carbonero, the attractive TV reporter and girlfriend of Spanish keeper Iker Casillas, was, of all things, blamed for Spain's surprise loss to Switzerland in the opening game of the tournament, the theory being that she had distracted Casillas both before and during the match with her presence on the sidelines. This conjecture was weakened somewhat by subsequent games in which Spain won and Carbonero was at the match. Presumably Spain's World Cup win has exhausted any remaining enmity among fans still holding on to this absurd notion.
7 If before the World Cup started someone had bet you that the All Whites would end the tournament as the only team not to lose a single game you might have thought them crazy. And yet, that was the case, as the scrappy squad won three well-earned draws against the likes of Italy, Paraguay and Slovakia. Sure, it didn't help them to advance beyond their group, but it's certainly far more than anyone expected when it all began. And still far, far better than France.
8 Ghana's Asamoah Gyan found himself with a chance to be a national hero when he walked up to take the penalty kick in the 120th minute of the quarterfinal against Uruguay following Luis Suarez's controversial goal-line handball. His shot, sadly, hit the crossbar, sending the game to a penalty shootout that Ghana would ultimately lose, thereby bringing Africa's run in the World Cup to a close. But Gyan himself showed what it means to be a true competitor when, instead of falling apart following his critical miss, he strode forward and smashed home the team's first penalty kick as if the previous few minutes had never happened.
9 Of all the dysfunction produced by France at the World Cup, perhaps nothing was more astonishing then when forward Nicolas Anelka reportedly responded to a piece of criticism from coach Raymond Domenech during halftime of the team's game against Mexico by saying "Go fuck yourself you son of a whore." If only he had brought that kind of passion and tenacity on the field!
10 Puyol's goal in Spain's semifinal victory over Germany provided not just an occasion to celebrate the man's heading ability but also the man's head itself, or more specifically, the sublime heavy-metal hairdo that adorns it. Despite pleas to cut it over the years, the Spanish defender has resolutely stood by his signature look. Why mess with success.
11 Everyone's favorite prognosticating German cephalopod mollusk was the undisputed media darling of the 2010 tournament for good reason: Paul was a perfect 8 for 8 in his World Cup picks. The bookies in Vegas had nothing on this guy. Unswayed by appeals to nationalist sentiment, Paul made the tough calls that are the psychic's fate, picking Spain to beat his fellow Germans in the semifinals. Octopuses everywhere have Paul to thank for elevating the species and hopefully sparing at least some of them from appearing on menus in the immediate future.
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Iker Casillas & Sara Carbonero KISS After World Cup (VIDEO)
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Early in the World Cup, it seemed that Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas and his gorgeous reporter girlfriend, Sara Carbonero, could be a be a distraction powerful enough to thwart Spain's World Cup efforts.
After the Spaniards were shockingly upset in their first match of the tournament, some fans felt that the beautiful sports correspondent prevented her boyfriend from fully focusing on his on-field duties. Following the stunning loss, Carbonero even asked Casillas how he managed to "muck this up." Such concerns were quickly cast aside as Spain began to dominate in South Africa, and with a World Cup victory in hand, the thought that Carbonero was a distraction now seems silly. After defeating the Netherlands in extra time on Sunday, Carbonero interviewed Casillas, but the exchange quickly turned into a celebration as the pair began to kiss in front of the camera. Scroll down to see the smooch.
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A group of political prisoners freed by Cuba are on a flight bound for Spain to start a new life in exile. The seven dissidents were driven to Havana airport, to be reunited with family members leaving with them. They are the first of 52 detainees set free under a deal brokered last week by the Roman Catholic Church and Spanish diplomats. The Cuban authorities have promised to release all 52 dissidents, but it is not known how many will go to Spain. Officials say they will not be required to stay in Spain and will be free to head elsewhere. Both the US and Chile have offered them asylum. Elizardo Sanchez, head of the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCHRNR), has said at least three prisoners have told the Church that they want to remain in Cuba. Continued protests The former prisoners were reunited with their wives and children late on Monday. Spanish consular officials at the airport interviewed them one by one and then granted them visas. In a phone call from Havana airport, one of the freed men, Omar Ruiz, told the Associated Press: " I won't consider myself free until I arrive in Spain." In the hours before their departure, relatives had been told to prepare to leave Cuba at a moment's notice. "Sunday they performed medical check-ups, did paperwork for the passports and told us to be ready starting today," Irene Viera, the wife of community organiser Julio Cesar Galvez, told AP. "I'm very nervous about all of this," she said. "I can finally see him without it being in prison for the first time in years." The seven men are travelling on two flights. One, operated by Air Europa, is due in Madrid at 1300 (1100 GMT), while the second, operated by Iberia, is expected to touch down an hour later. The wife of the journalist Ricardo Gonzalez told the BBC that one of the first things they would do after arriving would be to go for a long walk together. Earlier, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said up to 11 prisoners and 65 family members might arrive on Tuesday. The prisoner release announced last Wednesday could become the biggest this decade on the communist-ruled island. Under the agreement, 52 political prisoners should be freed in the coming months. All were part of a group of 75 dissidents rounded up in 2003 and sentenced to jail terms of between six and 28 years. The other 23 have already been freed. On Sunday, a group of the wives and mothers of the political prisoners - known as the "Ladies in White" - staged their weekly march through Havana calling for the release of all political prisoners. The Ladies in White during their weekly protest in Havana on 11 July 2010 The Ladies in White's fight to secure the release of all dissidents goes on The leader of the Ladies in White said their marches would continue. "While there is one political prisoner or prisoner of conscience, there will be Ladies in White," Laura Pollan said. Before Monday's releases there was a total of 167 "prisoners of conscience" in Cuba, according to the CCHRNR. Cuba has always denied that it has political prisoners, describing them as criminals paid by the US to destabilise the country. Just hours before the dissidents left, ailing former President Fidel Castro appeared on state television for the first time in 11 months. The 83-year-old spoke at length on international affairs - including North Korea and Iran.
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