Trade Policy: Chris Chelios and Scott Niedermayer, two defensemen with plenty of offensive flair, and punishing power forward Brendan Shanahan headlined the Hockey Hall of Fame class of 2013 announced on Tuesday.     In general, adults need at least seven hours of sleep, and being mindful of diet and exercise during the hours leading up to bedtime can help ensure a restful night.    Bernd Wiesberger shot a 5-under 67 in the final round Sunday to win the Indonesian Masters by a stroke over British Open champion Ernie Els.     Anyone who admires the formidable director Michael Haneke should see Yves Montmayeur's bracing documentary portraitYves Montmayeur's documentary portrait of Michael Haneke, made originally for television, is a must-see for anyone who admires this director. The opening sequence pretty much justifies the admission price on its own: Haneke giving Jean-Louis Trintignant a "walk-through" rehearsal for the chilling dream sequence in his latest film, Amour. (Despite the title, Haneke is not asked for his opinion on Antonioni's 1975 film The Passenger, originally entitled Professione: Reporter, though it is surely an influence.) Montmayeur attempts to question Haneke closely about his work, but the director is adamant in his refusal to interpret, much less defend his movies, though he will talk in general terms about how they challenge our consumption of violence, or our attitude to suffering or injustice. The documentary incidentally shows that Haneke's chucklingly jolly side with interviewers is a defence mechanism. He rather eccentrically says that the rewards of success might mean he gets a "better cut of meat from the butcher", a figure of speech that makes him sound like one of the villagers from The White Ribbon. A bracing study of this formidable and brilliant film-maker.Rating: 4/5DocumentaryMichael HanekePeter Bradshawguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds lincoln lawyer; the lincoln lawyer; lincoln lawyer michael connelly; michael connelly lincoln laywer; matthew mcconaughey; mcconaughey lawyer; marisa tomei; william h. macy; ryan phillippe; lakeshore entertainment; tom rosenberg Russell Hobby of the National Association of Head Teachers cries bullocks. Now that the guys putting together the College Football Playoff have determined where the games will be played, there's only one major item left on the agenda — and it just might be the most important piece.     Many of the nation's majority Shiites fear their demands for greater influence in the country will not be met anytime soon. These photographs were both taken in June 2012, about 30 kilometers (about 20 miles) apart. This greener image was taken in the Hanalei River basin on the north side of the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Photo courtesy of the researchers Both critics and supporters of President Hugo Chávez took to social networks to discuss what was next for Venezuela after the leader’s death. Bruce Lawson on interoperability, browser innovation and why 'WebKit is the kind of thing we dreamed of building'In February 2013, Opera Software announced that it had passed the 300m monthly users milestone across its web browsers for phones, tablets, TVs and computers.At the same time, it sprang a surprise by revealing that it was switching from its own Presto rendering engine to the WebKit engine that's familiar from other mobile browsers.The company said at the time that the switch would eliminate micro niche finder efforts: its engineers could focus less on trying to match WebKit features in Presto, and more on other improvements to Opera's browsers.I sat down with Opera's web evangelist Bruce Lawson at Mobile World Congress to talk more about this, but also about the wider mobile trends that have been driving Opera's growth, and the debate around web standards and native apps."When I joined four and a half years ago, we hadn't got to 100m users. Now there are 300m," he said. "That's big growth, particularly in uncertain economic times. The financials have been good, and the industry has been changing all the time."There have been surprises along the way. For example, the Opera Mini browser, which Lawson says was originally seen as a product for the developing world, turned out to be a big hit with Western smartphone owners as well."The one thing a farmer in rural Bangladesh has with a businessman in Barcelona is shit and expensive connectivity!" he said. "Both ends of the spectrum have the same needs, in that sense."Mobile has been part of Opera's bigger vision around the importance of web standards and interoperability, which Lawson noted is much more a fact of life now, rather than being seen as an "esoteric" campaign."These days, my missus uses Internet Explorer at work, Safari on her iPhone and Opera on the home computer. It's inconceivably stupid if, for example, your bank's website will only work on one or two of those browsers," he says."It's not an esoteric thing about web everywhere. It's just a rubbish consumer experience. People expect that their websites will work across modern browsers, and it really is a crusty old website that doesn't do that."The standards war is won, then? Perhaps not. In a blog post on his personal website at the time of the WebKit announcement, Lawson explained how the debate has shifted:"The web needs to win. Browsers are highly interoperable, because all vendors know that if they're not, they risk being overtaken by proprietary platforms. It used to be Flash and Silverlight that threatened the web. Today's threats are proprietary app platforms and locked-in 'eco-systems'. Tomorrow, new threats will rise."At MWC, Lawson told me how he sees the rise of "devices that you can't install other things on" as problematic – or at least devices where the manufacturer (e.g. Apple) sets the rules on what can and can't be installed.Opera, of course, does have its Opera Mini browser available on iOS, albeit conforming to Apple's rules on browser apps that compete with its own Safari.And now WebKit, which powers that very browser. Lawson is enthusiastic about the implications of the switch for Opera and its 300m users."WebKit is the kind of thing we dreamed of building," he said. "It adheres very well to modern standards: it's generally an excellently standards-compliant browser. And there are diverse organisations involved, with the small players playing an increasingly important role."Competing rendering engines, and the impact felt when a company like Opera switches from one to another, are important issues for web developers. Less so for internet users (whether mobile or not) who are choosing between browsers on other criteria."When you buy a car, you don't tend to ask who made the gearbox. If you're a long-distance sales rep, you might choose the car based on how comfortable it is google sniper review in four hours a day," said Lawson."If you're a petrolhead, you're interested in its nought-to-60 time. If you live in a city, you might be much more concerned with fuel consumption. Each of these people have different criteria, and they're largely not about who manufactured the engine."In other words, switching to WebKit will enable Opera to focus on making more innovative features to follow its speed dials and data compression technology, among others."If you're an engineer spending all of your time coding in order to duplicate something another guy already implemented in another rendering engine, the novelty palls," said Lawson."If you're an engineer and someone asks 'Would you like to do some cool shit, and here's lots of resources to do it', you're going to be a lot happier. Adopting WebKit has freed up loads of the cleverest people in the company to think about those things."Lawson said that Opera won't keep all this innovation to itself. The company contributed a small "symbolic" patch to WebKit on the day of its announcement, and will be adding others in the months to come.Do regular mobile users care about the web standards debate? Which sounds like a rude question, but isn't meant as such: it certainly affects them and their usage of devices, but do they understand why Lawson and his peers see it as so important?"If you talk about people who care about, say, Ubuntu being open and about open source, they're not consumers. Those are mega nerds and I'm proud to be one!" he said."If you mean my mum or missus, no, they don't know the terms interoperability and open standards. What they do know is the fact that when they go to a website on Opera, IE and Safari, it works. That's what standards give consumers, and that's what they notice."Lawson pointed to the explosion in connected devices within the home as being an important factor here – as I wrote this interview, NPD Group has just released results of a survey suggesting the average internet-connected US household now has 5.7 connected, app-capable devices."There's a PS3, Wii, laptops, smartphones, a smart TV, internet radio and then all the stuff I've got for work," said Lawson. "And of course, they all need to talk to each other."It feels like an exciting time for Opera, with mobile growth, the WebKit switch, a new Android browser beta, and its recent acquisition of a former competitor Skyfire, which had pivoted towards mobile video optimisation.iOS and Android may be the kingpins of the smartphone world in early 2013, but the efforts of Opera (and Mozilla, of course, with its Firefox OS) shouldn't be over-simplified as an attempt to beat those big guns.It's as much about keeping up the pressure on them to ensure the web platform remains open and becomes ubiquitous. Or as he puts it at MWC: "The standards discussion is still vital. We need interoperability to move the web forward and keep it as open as we need."Web browsersAppsSmartphonesMobile phonesMobile World CongressAndroidStuart Dredgeguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds The MIT introductory biology course now being offered online through edX is simultaneously something old and something new: a version of a fat burning furnace pdf course that for decades has been taught by senior faculty to packed lecture halls, and the latest offering of the interactive learning platform launched less than a year ago by MIT and Harvard University.MIT’s 7.00x (Introduction to Biology: “The Secret of Life”), which began March 5 and runs for 12 weeks, is one of three new courses offered this semester through edX. There are now six MIT edX courses in total. The online course is taught by senior members of the MIT Department of Biology: Eric Lander and Graham Walker. “It gives us a chance to rethink the course and to think about new ways to use electronic media at MIT, and that’s pretty exciting,” says Lander, a professor of biology who is also director of the Broad Institute. This semester, there are 15 new courses on edX — including the first offerings in the humanities and social sciences — from MITx, HarvardX and BerkeleyX, in addition to reprises of 10 existing courses from these three universities. Courses on edX have attracted more than 700,000 registrants from around the world and are attracting about 100,000 more each month.Even though the biology course was retooled for the Web, it aspires to capture the feel of the course that is taught on campus.“It’s the whole MIT culture,” Lander says. “In many places, people talk about not having to teach, while at MIT it’s the reverse. The most active faculty here want to be in the classroom.”Lander, who’ll host the online course, has taught 7.00 to MIT students in the classroom for close to 20 years. He led the Human Genome Project that in the 1990s sequenced human genes, recently won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Science, and is co-chair of President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology.The introductory biology course has been required at MIT since the early 1990s; for close to 15 years, Lander co-taught it alongside colleague Robert Weinberg, who also recently won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Science for his research on human cancer genes. “At many universities, senior faculty are excused from heavy teaching. But their knowledge makes them more effective in the classroom,” Weinberg says. “It’s a feather in MIT’s cap.” It’s not just Lander and Weinberg teaching 7.00: Sallie “Penny” Chisholm, who received the National Medal of Science in December, also teaches it to MIT freshmen in the classroom. Having such faculty teach an introductory course in the classroom and online inspires students to learn in a way textbooks cannot, Walker says. “It brings a perspective of someone who’s on the cutting edge. That person teaches in a completely different way,” he says. “What’s in the textbook is old. Eric, for example, mentions things that are happening last week or month. It’s very dynamic and challenging, and students pick up on the excitement.”The other two courses launching this spring from MIT are 8.02x (Electricity and Magnetism), led by Walter Lewin, a professor emeritus of physics, and 14.73x (The Challenges of Global Poverty), taught by Esther Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics.Lander says he wanted to teach the online course because it created an opportunity for him and MIT. “It was a chance to rethink this class I loved and taught for 20 years with new forex growth bot says. To make the course work on the Web, Lander, Walker and their biology department colleagues began to meet weekly last September. “We had to think about many, many things,” Lander says, “like how to make people feel like they were in a classroom.”To do that, an Interrotron — the signature device used by Cambridge documentary filmmaker Errol Morris for getting unsettling close-ups — was set up in the middle of the classroom to record lectures, Lander says. Biographical films were also made of the biology faculty.The course is designed for students without any background in biology. The faculty team had to rework the curriculum for edX, devise problems for class, make videos of lab work, and make supplemental videos to show how experiments work. MIT also purchased computer-based protein and gene viewers so online students could view genes and proteins that were previously exhibited in the classroom as models or illustrations. The teachers started using that technology in the classroom, as well.“Instead of giving them a little toy problem about a human gene, now our students can scan a whole gene using computer-based viewers,” Lander says.  “The new technology in our own classrooms is a great thing.”Walker said the edX course is spurring MIT to adapt technology that will improve the way instructors teach students in the classroom.“The software and tools will have a revolutionary effect on how we teach on campus,” Walker says. Cullen Finnerty, one of the most successful quarterbacks in college football history, was found dead in the Michigan woods. 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Brown , the former Bush loyalist tossed out of his FEMA job after Hurricane Katrina, only to emerge as a vocal administration critic and speech-giving consultant. BAGHDAD -- Reeling from a sharp drop in oil prices, Iraq's security forces are trimming bloated payrolls and will be unable to purchase ships and aircraft that Iraqi officials had hoped would allow the country to develop a basic ability to fend off external threats by 2012, the United States'... He also advises on nonmeh footwear for toddlers.     Eva Longoria works as an executive producer of “Devious Maids,” about Hispanic domestics, while she grows as a public figure.     Should they intervene early and practice a form of benign neglect, hoping that the baby fat will melt away as a child grows? For more than a century, architects and builders have strived toward a prefabricated, industrialized house, one made in a factory so that economies of scale would be realized and the product would be affordable to all home

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