New Zealand back turned TV presenter believes France can end the Red Roses’ 37-game winning streak in Bordeaux
Thousands will descend on Bordeaux’s Stade Atlantique on Sunday to watch the Women’s Six Nations grand slam decider between France and England, among them the New Zealand legend Ruby Tui. The World Cup winner and Olympic gold medallist, who has been working for the BBC as a pundit, says she would love to see the French come out on top in Le Crunch to end England’s seven-year trophy hold.
Tui attended her first Six Nations match in round one of this year’s competition at Twickenham, as England took on Ireland. The match felt like an extension of the World Cup party for the 34-year‑old, who witnessed last year’s groundbreaking event through her media duties. The Red Roses will want to deliver the same outcome as that final last September and if they did so they would extend their Six Nations winning run to 39 games in a row and become the first team to win the tournament after claiming the World Cup. But Tui is backing the women in blue.
Continue reading...President posted more than 50 times in three hours, attacking on Obama, NY Times and supreme court
Donald Trump unleashed a late-night social media tirade against his political enemies, attacking predecessors including Barack Obama with false accusations and amplifying calls for his Democratic rivals to be prosecuted.
Just hours before a high-stakes trip to China for talks with Xi Jinping, the US president posted more than 50 times in a three-hour spree from Monday evening into the early hours of Tuesday. Posts included doctored images of himself on the $100 bill and demands that political opponents be arrested.
Continue reading...Albrecht Weinberg spent years teaching students about Nazi atrocities after being imprisoned at Auschwitz and Belsen
Albrecht Weinberg, who survived a series of Nazi concentration and death camps and lost most of his family in the Holocaust before returning to Germany in his 80s, has died.
Weinberg died in Leer, north-western Germany, weeks after his 101st birthday and the premiere of a film about his life, Es Ist Immer in Meinem Kopf (It Is Always in My Head).
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Researchers at Columbia demonstrated the first real-time brain-controlled hearing system that can identify which speaker a listener is focusing on in a noisy environment and automatically amplify that voice while suppressing others. "This breakthrough addresses the 'cocktail party effect,' a major limitation of conventional hearing aids, which often struggle to distinguish between overlapping conversations in noisy settings," reports Neuroscience News. From the report: In the new study, Columbia researchers teamed up with surgeons and their epilepsy patients who were undergoing brain surgery to better pinpoint the sources of their seizures. The hospital patients, who volunteered to be part of this study, already had electrodes implanted in their brains. [senior author Nima Mesgarani's] system used the electrodes to measure the brain activity of the patients as they focused on one of two overlapping conversations played simultaneously. The system then automatically detected which conversation a patient was paying attention to and adjusted the volume in real time, turning up that conversation while quieting the other. For one volunteer, the experience of controlling the system with her brain was literally unbelievable. She accused the researchers of secretly adjusting the volumes. Others told stories about friends and family with hearing impairments who could benefit from such a technology. One person said: "It seems like science fiction."
[...] The scientists developed real-time machine-learning algorithms that could examine the brainwaves and identify which conversation the patients were paying attention to. Once deployed, their system could rapidly deduce which conversation each listener was paying attention to and make it easier for them to hear it. This happened both when the researchers guided the subjects toward a particular conversation, and when the subjects chose freely, as would be necessary in a real-world conversation. "For this to work in real time, the system has to be very fast, accurate and stable for the experience to feel pleasant for the listener," Dr. Mesgarani said. The scientists found their new system correctly identified which conversation the volunteers paid attention to. This dramatically improved the intelligibility of the speech the volunteers focused on, reduced listening effort, and was consistently preferred by the volunteers when compared to conversations the system did not provide assistance with. One volunteer recalled her uncle, who had hearing problems. "Can you imagine if this technology existed in a world [where] ... he could access it? He might actually live a much more peaceful... life." The research has been published in Nature Neuroscience.
[...] The scientists developed real-time machine-learning algorithms that could examine the brainwaves and identify which conversation the patients were paying attention to. Once deployed, their system could rapidly deduce which conversation each listener was paying attention to and make it easier for them to hear it. This happened both when the researchers guided the subjects toward a particular conversation, and when the subjects chose freely, as would be necessary in a real-world conversation. "For this to work in real time, the system has to be very fast, accurate and stable for the experience to feel pleasant for the listener," Dr. Mesgarani said. The scientists found their new system correctly identified which conversation the volunteers paid attention to. This dramatically improved the intelligibility of the speech the volunteers focused on, reduced listening effort, and was consistently preferred by the volunteers when compared to conversations the system did not provide assistance with. One volunteer recalled her uncle, who had hearing problems. "Can you imagine if this technology existed in a world [where] ... he could access it? He might actually live a much more peaceful... life." The research has been published in Nature Neuroscience.
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De groep asielzoekers met een ‘onbekende nationaliteit’ die een eerste asielaanvraag doen, is aan het groeien. Volgens experts gaat het vooral om mensen uit de Palestijnse gebieden. Heeft zo’n registratie gevolgen? „Je kan wel vragen om een geboorteakte uit Deir al-Balah, maar daar is geen gemeentehuis meer over.”
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Het is natuurlijk een groot wonder om geboren te worden, maar wat nog een veel groter wonder is: langzaam de leeftijdsladder opklimmen en gezellig oud worden. Hoe wij, volwassenen, het al zover hebben geschopt blijkt dus een waar godswonder, want onderzoek van de GGD Amsterdam leert dat baby- en kindervoedsel hartstikke ongezond is: "Zo bevatten de meeste fruitpotjes, babypap en kindertoetjes te veel suiker. En de meeste maaltijdpotjes blijken helemaal geen volwaardige maaltijd te zijn." Al die jaren voor de gek gehouden, er is helemaal niemand groot en sterk geworden van die broccolibende of walgelijke wortelwirwar op een lepeltje vermomd als tweelingen vernietigend vliegtuig, we deden het allemaal op eigen oerkracht. Als baby- en kindervoeding, waarbij je toch de meeste prudentie verwacht, al zo ongezond is, hoe zit het dan wel niet met volwassenenvoer? Ja hoor eens, wij nemen vanaf nu geen enkel risico meer en houden het oud, vertrouwd en lekker bij moeders tiet.