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India’s squads for South Africa tour
NEW DELHI: India’s squads announced on Monday for next months Test and one-day series in South Africa:
Test squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kolhi, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ravindra Jadeja, Zaheer Khan, Ambati Rayudu, Wriddhiman Saha, Ishant Sharma, Pragyan Ojha.
One-day squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Yuvraj Singh, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Ambati Rayudu, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Amit Mishra.
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Killer dinosaur found in Utah; preceded T. rex
The two-legged beast was estimated to stretch more than 30 feet long and weigh more than 3 tons. It helps fill a gap in the fossil record of big North American predators between earlier killer beasts and the arrival of the group including T. rex. It wasn't related to that famous beast.
Researchers from the Field Museum in Chicago and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh announced the finding Friday in the journal Nature Communications. They named the beast Siats meekerorum, (SEE'-otts MEE-ke-ROH'-ruhm) after a man-eating monster of legend from Utah's Ute tribe, and a family that has donated to the Field Museum.
The specimen discovered in 2008 in Utah was a juvenile. Researchers estimated the adult size by extrapolating from the recovered fossils, which included bones of the back, tail, hip, foot and shin.
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Dead baby wakes at China funeral parlour before cremation
The parents of the critically-ill boy, who was less than one month old, had agreed to end his medical treatment at Anhui Provincial Children’s Hospital in eastern China, hospital sources told Xinhua state news agency.
A death certificate was issued before the baby was sent to a funeral parlour in Hefei, the provincial capital -- only for staff there to be alerted by crying on Wednesday.
It was unclear how long he had been at the funeral parlour, or when his cremation had been due.
The baby was immediately sent back to the hospital, several news outlets including the Beijing News reported on Thursday.
"Because the baby still had life signs, we continued to give him transfusion to maintain his life for humanitarian reasons," a hospital staff member told Xinhua.
The baby was born with a "congenital respiratory system malformation", the report added.
The baby was receiving treatment at the hospital late Wednesday, reports said.
A doctor was suspended, a nursing worker laid off and an investigation launched into the incident, the hospital said, according to Xinhua.
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Kids less fit than parents were: Global study
On average, it takes children 90 seconds longer to run a mile (1.6 kilometer) than their counterparts did 30 years ago. Heart-related fitness has declined 5 percent per decade since 1975 for children ages 9 to 17.
The American Heart Association, whose conference featured the research on Tuesday, says its the first to show that children fitness has declined worldwide over the last three decades.
"It makes sense. We have kids that are less active than before," said Dr. Stephen Daniels, a University of Colorado pediatrician and spokesman for the heart association.
World Health Organization numbers suggest that 80 percent of young people globally may not be getting enough exercise.
Health experts recommend that children 6 and older get 60 minutes of moderately vigorous activity accumulated over a day.
Only one-third of American kids do now.
"Many schools, for economic reasons, dont have any physical education at all," Daniels said.
Sam Kass, a White House chef and head of first lady Michelle Obamas Lets Move program, told the conference on Monday, "We are currently facing the most sedentary generation of children in our history.
"The new study was led by Grant Tomkinson, an exercise physiologist at the University of South Australia.
Researchers analyzed 50 studies on running fitness - a key measure of cardiovascular health and endurance - involving 25 million children ages 9 to 17 in 28 countries from 1964 to 2010.
The studies measured how far children could run in 5 to 15 minutes and how quickly they ran a certain distance, ranging from half a mile to 2 miles (3.2 kilometers).
Todays kids are about 15 percent less fit than their parents were, researchers concluded.
"The changes are very similar for boys and girls and also for various ages," but differed by geographic region, Tomkinson said.
The decline in fitness seems to be leveling off in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and perhaps in the last few years in North America.
However, it continues to fall in China, and Japan never had much falloff - fitness has remained fairly consistent there.
About 20 million of the 25 million children in the studies were from Asia.
Tomkinson and Daniels said obesity likely plays a role, since it makes it harder to run or do any aerobic exercise.
Too much time watching television and playing video games and unsafe neighborhoods with not enough options for outdoor play also may play a role, they said.
Other research discussed global declines in activity.Fitness is "pretty poor in adults and even worse in young people," especially in the United States and eastern Europe, said Dr. Ulf Ekelund of the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, Norway.
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A Minute With: Sarah Silverman on standup success, network TV failure
Silverman, 42, fond of ironic jokes that often play on race, religion and rape, will star in her own standup comedy special, "We Are Miracles," on HBO on Saturday.
Silverman, who also starred in her own cable series, "The Sarah Silverman Program" from 2007-2010 and works as a liberal political activist, spoke with Reuters about her brand of humor and why she is not cut out for network television.
Q: Why did you choose a venue that could only seat 39 people for "We Are Miracles?"
A: I thought it'd be cool to make a special that would feel like you were part of a very small, intimate crowd. I guess it's the Heisenberg principle that you can't ever purely observe something purely because ... by being there you're changing it.
Q: Can "intimate" ever be too small for standup comedy?
A: I very confidently decided to do this and then I went on tour and did a lot of big rooms and felt the laughter washing over me and went, "(Expletive!) What have I done?" But it felt like it was cool. ... You still want the crowd to be able to be a mob in that they work as one piece in lots of ways. You still hear individual laughs. You hear jokes hitting people differently.
Q: How has your standup act changed since your 2005 theatrically released special "Jesus Is Magic?"
A: I was a little more of a character than myself. I was playing this very ignorant, arrogant girl-woman who said the opposite of what I really felt in real life. There laid the kind of shock-value of it. I love that special, but it's different from who I am now. I'm years and many therapy sessions and life experiences later.
Q: There has always been a strong undercurrent in your humor that life is rather insignificant.
A: As you get older, mortality starts to creep in. You have friends that start dying, I mean, not of old age. It's like you get aches and pains and you're not invincible and you can't do acid while you have strep throat and stay out until seven in the morning like you could when you were 20. Religion is something that I'm fascinated by because grownups are involved, and it just seems so bizarre to me.
Q: Your comedy pilot "Susan 313" was recently turned down by NBC. Do you believe your humor can work on network TV?
A: No, I don't. I think they did the right thing. I saw a lot of things wrong with the pilot.
It's not that I need to be dirty. I remember talking to the head of NBC (Robert Greenblatt) and he had just come from (premium cable network) Showtime, and he was like, 'I want to make a Showtime show for NBC.' I think he really did at that time, and I told him, 'It's not like I want to say (expletive) on network TV.' I just want to be able to be far out and not have network executives worry that people in Peoria might not be interested. People in Peoria are interested in far-out (expletive).
Q: Comedy is often a pass/fail profession, either the audience laughs or they don't. How do you manage that pressure?
A: It's daunting, but I realized something that I think is really important to realize as a comedian: it's like comedy dies in the second-guessing. Even though there are stakes, and if you go into that wormhole you can terrify yourself into total paralysis. But there's no hope of succeeding if you don't throw all of that away and just do what you think is funny and don't worry about what the audience wants or doesn't want.
To me, that's the downfall of network television. It's all these old grownups trying to second-guess what a 14-year-old boy wants to watch. It's stupid. You don't want a 14-year-old to dictate what they want to see. They don't know what they want to see yet. That's your job to show them what's cool. And there's no confidence. There's so much money involved in network television and the stakes are so high compared to how irrelevant they have become because they (viewers) have 600 other channels that can do whatever the (expletive) they want. ... Network channels should basically be live sports and live call-in voting talent shows because to have real success you have to take a chance, and they don't have that kind of leeway. They have so much at stake and so little relevance compared to the stakes..--REUTERS
England all out for 136 in 1st Ashes Test
The tourists lost their last eight wickets for 81 with fast bowler Mitchell Johnson taking four for 61.
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Oil prices fall in Asia as US euphoria wears off
The US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate for January delivery, fell 27 cents to $95.17, while European benchmark Brent oil for January dropped 24 cents to $109.84.
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Saudi Arabia says six shells fall near border post close to Iraq, Kuwait
"Six mortar shells fell in an uninhabited area near the new al-Auja border guard centre of Hafr al-Batin in the Eastern Province. Thank God no damage resulted from it," said General Mohammed al-Ghamdi, the border guard media spokesman, in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
The area is on the far northwestern fringes of the kingdom's oil producing region and several hundred km (miles) from its largest oilfields.
Ghamdi said he had been in contact with border guards of "neighboring countries" to take necessary measures to determine the source of mortar fire and prevent it recurring.
Sunni Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter and a close ally of Kuwait, has an uneasy relationship with the Shi'ite Muslim-led Iraqi government, which it regards as a pawn of its main regional rival Iran.
It has not had an ambassador in Baghdad since before the 1990-91 Gulf War.
Sectarian fighting in Iraq over the past decade has involved Sunni militant groups close to al Qaeda and Shi'ite militias which regard Saudi Arabia unfavourably.
The kingdom has constructed a barricade of fences and earthen dykes along its Iraqi border to prevent infiltration of militants from the country.
Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province shares around 60 km (38 miles) of border with Iraq near the town of Hafr al-Batin. The border area is deep in the desert, with no towns or villages nearby. The province also borders Kuwait.
Saudi Arabia has significant oil facilities in the Neutral Zone it shares with Kuwait, more than 100 km (62 miles) from Hafr al-Batin, but its main oil and gas fields are located much further to the southeast, hundreds of km (miles) away. REUTERS
Top Police Officer Removes After Pindi Mishape
The Dera Ghazi Khan RPO Akhtar Hayat will replace Zaeem Iqbal as early as possible, while Bilal Siddiq has been appointed as New SP VVIP Security of Rawalpindi City.
The decision came after Rawalpindi incident during the Ashura procession on Friday November 15 2013. A curfew had been imposed in the city after clashes which was lifted on Yesterday.
Section 144 still remains imposed in the city and strict security arrangements are in place outside places of masjid, Imambargah. The army also remains deployed in order to tackle any difficult situation.
Meanwhile, the death toll in Rawalpindi Incident from the tragedy rose to 11 after another body was recovered from the place.
Dylan puts interactive video spin on Like a Rolling Stone
"Posted on bobdylan.com, it invites viewers to channel-surf between mock TV shows where the song is lip-synched by newscasters, reality TV stars, tennis players, fashionistas, game show hosts and a levitating cartoon cat, among others.
Dylan himself appears on a "Music 1 Classics" channel in vintage footage, performing the song in concert in 1966 alongside his background band The Hawks.
"No two people will engage with the video in the same way twice," said a statement by New York-based digital media firm Interlude, which developed the patented interactive technology that underpins the video.
Dylan, who earlier this month re-issued all his albums in a massive box set, is currently on tour in Britain, where he will play the Royal Albert Hall in London for the first time since the 1960s.
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Dollar extends gains in Asia
The greenback climbed to 100.39 yen in Tokyo morning trade from 100.03 yen in New York Wednesday afternoon.
The euro inched down to $1.3426 from $1.3435 while it strengthened to 134.78 yen from 134.40 yen.
Minutes from the Feds October meeting released Wednesday showed policymakers felt recent data indicate the time is approaching to start cutting down its $85 billion a month bond-buying scheme.
National Australia Bank said the minutes point to the likelihood of tapering sooner than later."
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