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Scolari calls Neymar a genius after another dazzling performance

Posted: 22 Jun 2013 06:43 PM PDT

June 23, 2013

Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari described Neymar as a "genius" yesterday and said his side were pumped up and ready for Wednesday's Confederations Cup semifinal.

"He is the hero of every Brazilian and of everyone who loves football," Scolari said of the 21-year-old striker after the hosts finished top of Group A with three wins from three following a 4-2 victory over second-placed Italy.

"He had some great moves today. People who have that genius can make a difference."

Neymar won the man of the match award and scored for the third game running as Brazil shone in a pulsating encounter.

Brazil pressured the Italians from the off and also scored through Dante and Fred, who netted twice.

But it was Neymar's 55th minute freekick that caused the biggest roar in the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador.

"He saw that Buffon took a step to the side and he knew that he was going to hit it in the corner," Scolari told reporters of a curling strike that left goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon rooted to the spot.

Scolari said he took the Barcelona man off because he had committed a few fouls and he wanted to be certain he would not pick up any cautions that could rule him out of future matches.

The coach also saluted defender Dante, the hometown boy who replaced David Luiz in the 34th minute. He popped up inside the box just before halftime to put Brazil ahead.

"I can't say he is a first pick but I have no worries about bringing him on. I've told all the players in the squad, I have no worries about taking someone off because I can trust all of the substitutes."

Although the win was Scolari's fourth in a row, the coach said Brazil were still a work in progress ahead of a probable meeting with Uruguay.

"We are not ready for what we will face in the World Cup but we're ready for the (Confederations Cup) semifinal."

Italy coach Cesare Prandelli agreed with that assessment and rated Brazil, bizarrely ranked 22 in the Fifa rankings, one of the outstanding two teams of the tournament.

"I've seen Brazil grow," said Prandelli, whose side will potentially face world champions Spain in the last four.

"Brazil play precise football and they have four players that attack and that is always decisive. And they are also the good at recovering the ball.

"Along with Spain they are the two strongest teams." – Reuters, June 23, 2013.

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High-fat diet linked to long-term changes in developing brain: study

Posted: 22 Jun 2013 06:01 PM PDT

June 23, 2013

If your teenagers are doing poorly in school, take another look at what they're eating. A small new animal study out of Spain suggests that adolescents who consume a high-fat diet risk long-lasting effects on learning and memory.

In research presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco recently, scientists out of CEU-San Pablo University in Madrid found that adolescent mice fed a high-fat diet displayed significantly impaired spatial memory compared to a control group that consumed the same amount of calories but less fat, as well as a group of adult mice put on the same diet. Courtesy of Piotr Marcinski/Shutterstock.com

Research authors speculate that the brain's memory centers are more susceptible to the effects of a high-fat diet during adolescence, given the amount of hormonal changes at this time.

For the study, scientists put 15 male adolescent mice on a high-fat diet over an 8-week period, in which 45 percent of calories came from saturated fat.

The control group of 15 mice was put on a conventional diet with the same number of calories. A third study group of adult mice was created to test the effects of a high-fat diet in animals later in life.

Groups were placed in an open but walled box with a single chamber containing two toys and allowed to explore the space for 10 minutes. Though already familiar with the boxed environment and one of the toys, the other was new for the mice.

The experiment was conducted two more times -- after a one-hour and 24-hour interval -- and the new toy placed in different spots. Researchers recorded how long it took the rodents to find the new object.

What they found was that adolescent mice that received a high-fat diet took longer to find the new object compared to their counterparts.

Moreover, the damage didn't reverse after the animals were put on a reduced-calorie diet, suggesting the changes could have long-lasting effects, authors said.

Meanwhile, another animal study also found a possible link between high-fat diets and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children by affecting dopamine metabolism in the brain. In the study out of the University of Illinois, mice fed a diet high in fat displayed anxious behavior as well as learning and memory deficiencies. - AFP/RELAXNEWS, June 22, 2013.

You clap, so I clap: Peer pressure drives applause

Posted: 22 Jun 2013 06:01 PM PDT

June 23, 2013

Courtesy of Pressmaster/Shutterstock.comIf you have just seen a play that you privately think is drivel, will you keep silent when everyone around you demands an encore?

Possibly not, says an unusual investigation published Wednesday in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Combining a psychological experiment and mathematical analysis, the research marks a scientific attempt to quantify the fuzzy notion of "social contagion" -- how individual behaviour is influenced by group dynamics.

Mathematician Richard Mann of Sweden's Uppsala University and colleagues video-taped groups of university students as they responded to a seven-minute Powerpoint presentation on a biological study.

Neither the students nor presenters knew the applause was being analysed.

Mann and his team broke the applause down into mathematical models -- and the results were revealing.

"People in the audience didn't make an independent choice about how good the talk was and then clap an appropriate number of times," Mann told AFP by email.

"Instead, they responded very predictably to the social pressure around them, which we believe they felt through the volume of clapping in the room."

As more people started clapping, each individual who hadn't started felt more pressure to join in, the statistics showed.

"Likewise, once people began to stop clapping there was increasing pressure for everyone to stop."

Mann said the results showed that group behaviour was reflected in patterns, and this knowledge had a range of uses.

"Just like we measure how influenza is spreading each year, we can also measure and predict how social unrest or new fashions might spread," Mann said.

"Consider, for example, a new fashion for unhealthy binge drinking. If we can measure and predict the spread of this behaviour, we can make preparations for policing and healthcare ahead of time."

The method could also help predict the rate at which social networks or online groups will go out of fashion.

"Humans, like animals, often respond very simply to available cues," Mann said. "Behaviour can spread through a group through the social pressure of others." - AFP/RELAXNEWS, June 22, 2013.

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Banks wrote ‘The Quarry’ before coincidental diagnosis, explains widow

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 12:42 AM PDT

Few takers at Faulkner auction in NY

June 17, 2013, New York - A major auction of manuscripts and letters of American writer William Faulkner, a Nobel laureate, drew an underwhelming public response at auction in New York Tuesday, with the ... Read More

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Mat Sabu: Pakatan perlu menang sokongan Melayu untuk memerintah Malaysia

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 12:09 AM PDT

Oleh Mohd Farhan Darwis

June 23, 2013

Umno berjaya menanam persepsi parti itu adalah pejuang dan pelindung Melayu, dan Pakatan Rakyat (PR) perlu menghapuskan persepsi sedemikian daripada komuniti Melayu jika mahu mengambil alih pemerintahan negara, kata Timbalan Presiden PAS Mohamad Sabu.

Mohamad yang lebih dikenali dengan nama Mat Sabu berkata Umno berjaya dianggap pelindung survival Melayu dan Islam, yang menjadikan masyarakat Melayu yakin parti majoriti Melayu itu sahaja yang akan mempertahankan Islam, termasuk penggunaan kalimah Allah oleh bukan Islam.

"Umno masih dianggap pelindung Melayu dan Islam ... inilah kalau kita lihat keputusan (pilihan raya) bahawa orang Melayu masih bimbamng kalau Umno kalah bagaimana apa akan terjadi kepada orang Melayu, Islam.

"Ini kejayaan persepsi yang ditanam sejak merdeka, yang menjadikan rakyat takut mengalahkan Umno, termasuk menjaga nama Allah," kata Mat Sabu ketika berucap di Konvensyen Pakatan Rakyat (PR) di Ampang.

Justeru itu, Mat Sabu menggesa rakan komponen PR dari DAP, dan PKR memberi bantuan sewajarnya bagi memastikan persepsi berkenaan dapat dihapuskan.

"Bantuan semua kaum khasnya DAP yang memperolehi undi besar nak buang persepsi Umno pejuang Melayu ... macam mana nak buang dalam masa, tiga atau empat tahun akan datang," katanya di hadapan 400 penyokong PR yang hadir hari ini.

Menurut Mat Sabu, perkara itu perlu diambil berat, termasuk kenyataan-kenyataan beberapa pihak yang dieksploitasi, dan memberi kelebihan kepada Umno.

"Kadangkala itu membantu Umno mendapatkan kerusi, ia perlu diperhalusi, kita merayakan kemenangan tetapi kita hadapi kekurangan di satu pihak lain."

"Peranan wakil rakyat kita perlu dipertingkatkan, memahami daya dan juga inspirasi kaum dan mengubah persepsi terhadap satu perkara," katanya lagi.

Pemimpin-pemimpin PR sebelum ini pernah bertelagah berhubung beberapa perkara seperti pelaksanaan hukum Islam, Hudud sekiranya mereka berjaya memerintah.

Cadangan daripada PAS itu telah ditolak bulat-bulat beberapa pemimpin DAP seperti Pengerusinya, Karpal Singh, yang kemudiannya mencapai konsensus mereka setuju untuk tidak bersetuju.

Isu penggunaan kalimah Allah juga pernah dibangkitkan Setiausaha Agung DAP Lim Guan Eng ketika perutusan Krismas hujung tahun lalu, yang mana kembali menjadikan isu berkenaan suatu perdebatan dan mengambil perhatian ramai pihak.

"Secara umumnya, orang Melayu ini kuat, percaya kepada takdir walaupun cara kepercayaan itu boleh diperbahas," kata Mat Sabu lagi.

Husam Musa direman dua hari untuk siasatan mengikut akta hasutan

Posted: 22 Jun 2013 11:43 PM PDT

June 23, 2013

Naib Presiden PAS Datuk Husam Musa direman dua hari mulai hari ini untuk siasatan mengikut Seksyen 4 Akta Hasutan 1948 berkaitan kenyataannya mengenai 'mati syahid' baru-baru ini.

Perintah tahanan reman sehingga esok itu dikeluarkan oleh Majistret Nik Habri Muhamad di Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah (IPD) Kota Baharu di mana Husam ditahan.

Polis membuat permohonan untuk menahan reman Husam yang juga Anggota Dewan Undangan Negeri kawasan Salor melalui Pegawai Penyiasat ASP Noland A/L Janah.

Husam, 54, ditahan pada 4 petang semalam di Kampung Pandan, Ampang, Selangor oleh polis Bukit Aman dan kemudiannya dibawa ke Kota Baharu malam tadi.

Husam seperti dilaporkan dalam Harakahdaily Ahad lalu berkata peserta yang terkorban ketika menyertai perhimpunan Black 505 di Padang Merbok di sini semalam dianggap sebagai 'mati syahid'.

Bercakap kepada pemberita, Peguam Hisham Fauzi berkata seramai 10 peguam akan mewakili Husam bagi kes tersebut.

Wartawan dan jurugambar tidak dibenarkan memasuki IPD berkenaan yang dijadikan mahkamah majistret sementara. - Bernama, 23 Jun, 2013.

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