Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Apple pie recipes for Mothers Day: Friulian apple, nut and poppy-seed pie

By Diana Henry 940AM GMT twelve March 2010

Serves eight

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250g (9oz) solid flour

125g (4oz) butter

100g (3oz) caster sugar

1 tsp baking powder

2 tbsp cold total milk

grated liking of 1 lemon

3 spicy eating apples

1 tbsp grappa

60g (2oz) raisins

175g (6oz) walnuts or hazelnuts, chopped

3 tbsp poppy seeds, and additional to serve

1 tsp belligerent cinnamon

1 tsp belligerent ginger

ground seeds from 4 cardamom pods

icing sugar, for dusting

To have the pastry, put the flour and butter in to a food processor and whizz until it looks similar to breadcrumbs. Add the sugarine and baking powder and whizz again. Add the divert and half of the lemon liking and routine again. The fritter should come together in a ball. Wrap in clingfilm and cool for half an hour.

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas symbol 5 and put in a steel baking-sheet to warm.

On a floured surface, hurl out dual thirds of the fritter and make use of it to line a 23cm (9in) spring-form baked sweat bread tin so that the fritter comes about 4cm (1in) up the sides. Roll the alternative square of fritter in to a round somewhat incomparable than the tin and put on a floured steel sheet. Refrigerate the baked sweat bread tin and the round for an hour.

Peel and core the apples and abrade the flesh. Mix with the grappa, raisins, nuts, seeds, artificial flavouring and superfluous lemon zest. Pile in to baked sweat bread tin and put the round on top. Pinch the edges together, afterwards score the edge with the tines of a fork. Cut a star in the centre to let out the steam.

Cook on the baking-sheet in the oven for thirty minutes. Let it cool in the tin afterwards delicately remove. Sift topping sugarine over the tip and separate on poppy seeds. Offer thickk cream churned with grappa.

Bangladesh v England: Alastair Cook century propels tourists into commanding position

By Derek Pringle in Chittagong 345PM GMT twelve March 2010

England v Bangladesh Alastair Cook century propels tourists in to autocratic position Ton-derful Alastair Cook accomplished the day"s fool around dominant on 158 Photo AFP

A debate of Bangladesh has prolonged been seen as a widen of tough work but with the perk of some-more advanced personal stats, mostly by a cause of 10. If Englands batsmen have been delayed to take value in the past, Alastair Cook done up for it on Friday, his big hundred eclipsing even Kevin Pietersen, who fell one run short of gushing when he was out for 99.

Cook, dominant on 158 at the close, had reached his century twenty mins prior to tea to stick on 4 alternative England captains with hundreds in their initial Test in charge. Incredibly, one of them, Pietersen, was batting with him, whilst another, Andrew Strauss, had since Cook the possibility to stick on this small bar by blank this tour. Cook even trumped his absent skipper by surpassing his 128, the prior top measure between the quintet, that additionally includes Allan Lamb and Archie McLaren.

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Captaincy has desirous Cook who has turn some-more assertive not usually in his range of shots but in the energy he puts in to them. To infer the point he struck dual sixes yesterday, that doubled his total in Tests. Both were robust sweep-slogs over cow corner, the second of them to move up his century.

It was formidable to contextualise Cooks effort. It was a Test innings, but usually since the International Cricket Council intended it so. Apart from the hot, humid continue and a small spasmodic neat bowling, there was really small contrast about it solely for the continuation of batting for 361 minutes.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has usually itself to censure for Fridays biased play, carrying abrogated the responsibilities as a Test-playing country. According to Jamie Siddons, Bangladeshs Australian coach, the infrastructure here can usually means 120 players, a liaison in a nation of 140 million. But even that slight cannot insist yesterdays crazy preference by Shakib Al Hasan to put England in to bat.

When you collect a side with 3 spinners and a spinning all-rounder, and are confronted by a organisation representation being oven baked even harder by on fire sunshine, you dont ask your opponents to bat. Any try at reason is going to be as well inferior to justify, together with the actuality that Bangladesh discharged India for 243 here 6 weeks ago after bowling first. What it looked similar to was a classical box of not wanting England with new top Steve Finn bolstering their four-man conflict at the responsibility of second spinner James Tredwell to play on it first.

To devalue matters, England got off to a flier, with Cook and Michael Carberry, an additional debutant, tucking in to careless bowling from Rubel Hossain with a appreciative range of shots. It was so bad that by the eighth over, Shakib had brought himself on to fixed the flow.

It didnt work and prior to the initial hour was up he had done 4 bowling changes. Eventually, Mahmudullah won an lbw opposite Carberry with his off-breaks, anticipating sufficient turn from around the wicket to prove referee Rod Tucker when the left-hander longed for his sweep.

Jonathon Trott could equate himself detrimental when he fell to a bouncer from Rubel. The catch to Mushfiqur Rahim, the wicketkeeper, came off his helmet. But if Trott lingered longer than was respectful, his dishonesty came close to gainsay when he vented his disappointment on a chair en track to sauce room.

Spin, and in sold the left-arm variety, sent down by Shakib and Abdur Razzak, unsuccessful to impede Pietersen. His new-style straight-hitting seemed foolproof until he looked for the singular that would have brought him his 17th Test hundred. At that point he over behind in to his old failings opposite Abdur Razzak and was bowled off-stump.

Pietersen put his own turn on events by proclaiming Shakibul Al Hasan as one of the worlds most appropriate 3 spinners. If he believes it, so be it, but no volume of luminosity with the round by Shakibul can clear away his group from this mire.

Old Mutual eyes further cuts to sprawling empire

By Jamie Dunkley 700AM GMT twelve March 2010

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The Anglo-South African conglomerate, that has banking, word and item government operations in some-more than thirty countries, pronounced it will sell the hold up word commercial operation and boyant the item government section in the US as piece of a three-year vital revamp.

Proceeds from the disposals will be used to cut the company"s debt by �1.5bn. It now stands at �2.3bn.

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The headlines has been at large expected given Julian Roberts took over as the company"s arch senior manager in Sep 2008. At the time the organisation disclosed it would compensate �235m to exit piece of the US operations carrying suggested it would need to speak up collateral to encounter guarantees for the $2.8bn (�2bn) non-static payments US business.

The association had already sole the Australian commercial operation for A$35m (�16m), exited Portugal, scaled behind the aspirations "significantly" in the Far East, and sealed the Hong Kong office.

The proclamation sent the shares down 2 to 121.6p. Analysts warned the restructure did not go far sufficient towards elucidate the company"s long-term problems, caused by the distance and diversity.

However, Mr Roberts insisted serve measures would be taken to transform the association structure.

"It"s been utterly transparent to me for a prolonged time that this organisation needs to be simplified," he said. "I don"t mind if that equates to it becomes not as big - as prolonged as it creates some-more clarity to commercial operation and investors.

"We will go on to lift on streamlining the commercial operation as it"s transparent to the marketplace that there are some-more things that we could do."

Mr Roberts pronounced the organisation would not be seeking to have any acquisitions and would grow the core businesses organically. He targeted the UK and Africa as prohibited spots for growth.

"Our Skandia commercial operation in the UK is a devoted brand, that we hold will go on to good marketplace share in the hold up and pensions arena.

"We are additionally well positioned to good as monetary services products turn some-more at large used opposite Africa.

"Lots of companies have been articulate about flourishing their rising markets commercial operation and we"re no different. Across sub-saharan Africa there are outrageous expansion opportunities we are penetrating to take value of."

News of the review, that is thought to have been led by JP Morgan, came as the association reported the full-year results.

The association saw pre-tax increase trip to �247m from �595m last year, driven by a �266m organization to help the poor writedown.

However, handling profits, a magnitude used by analysts to show the underlying opening of the business, grew 3pc to �1.17bn, violence City expectations.

The headlines authorised the association to return the division after cancelling the payout last year. Investors will perceived a last remuneration of 1.5 pence per share on Jun 25.

The association additionally suggested that the regulatory over-abundance collateral had grown to �1.5bn. This was larger than the �700m it hold last year when fears grew that the association would need to hold a rights issue to make firm the collateral position.

Cheltenham Festival: Brian OConnell happy to carry the hopes of Ireland: Horse Racing

By Marcus Armytage 735PM GMT eleven March 2010

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The partnership have been dominant given entrance second in their initial competition and last deteriorate Dunguib gave O"Connell his initial ambience of Festival success when using afar with the Champion Bumper. It was usually his second float there, his initial carrying been in an pledge competition progressing that day.

Some have pronounced the destiny of Ireland"s economy hinges on Dunguib winning, but if there is vigour O"Connell, the son of a burst jockey, is not display it. On Thursday, he gave the sense of patience personified and it would crop up there is small risk of the tip half of the partnership pang any symptoms of overexcitement.

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"Sure there"s pressure," he said, "but there"s a bit of that each time you float a prohibited pot. Put it this way, I wouldn"t wish barter my kid only given of the pressure. I will only put it to one side and combine on you do the elementary things right."

O"Connell incited veteran only prior to Dunguib ran at Fairyhouse, last Dec and it valid a financially receptive to advice preference given Dunguib scooped up the �53,000 initial esteem with a smallest of fuss. The equine has contributed hugely to the jockey"s earnings, for dual of his five wins as veteran have been in Grade One hurdles on Dunguib.

"I"m seeking brazen to it," he said. "At this theatre all you wish is for the equine to get there in one piece. I"d contend he"s warranted his pretension as the Irish banker."

Despite still claiming an allowance, O"Connell has a resources of experience carrying ridden 45 winners underneath Rules as an pledge and in a little 500 point-to-points. He is not concerned, either, by Dunguib"s critics, who hold the gelding"s jumping will crack in such a rival race.

"I don"t think it"s a problem. His jumping was excellent up until Leopardstown last time, when I was carrying a pursuit switching him off. I managed to switch him off a bit as well most though and he was defunct some-more than anything. He"s been drill really well since."

Sam Thomas out of movement for 6 weeks

Sam Thomas will miss the Cheltenham Festival and the Grand National assembly after nutritious a neck damage yesterday, writes Marcus Armytage.

Thomas was drill Woolcoombe Folly for Paul Nicholls when the Arkle entrance fell. He was airlifted to sanatorium in Bath, where a hairline detonate of the T1 vertebra was discovered.

Thomas had been due to float Albert Bartlett prime Tell Massini for Tom George and Tricky Trickster for Nicholls in the Gold Cup. He has been told that it will take up to 6 weeks to heal and was approaching to be liberated last night.

George pronounced "I think he has probably been lucky. It sounded a lot worse when I initial listened about it."

AP McCoy was additionally in movement at Ditcheat. He rode Denman for the initial time given their tumble at Newbury. "He was his common self," pronounced Nicholls, "not impressive, but not unimpressive. He jumped well."

Analysis: Abbas could not ignore Netanyahus provocation

By Damien McElroy 729PM GMT eleven March 2010

Mahmoud Abbas had approaching to discuss it Joe Biden he was ready to restart the Middle East assent routine by American-led surreptitious talks with Israel.

But Israel"s proclamation that it would set up 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem was a irritation that Mr Abbas could not ignore.

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Israel has attempted to execute the formulation accede sequence as a procedural growth but not a tactical departure.

The outcome however has been devastating. If Mr Abbas proceeded with talks he would lose belligerent in the onslaught for Palestinian await with Hamas.

Aside from achieving peace, the talks are additionally ostensible to break Hamas by exposing the isolationist inlet of the hardline stance.

Despite the protestations of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel"s budding minister, the corner might not be a means of bewail for the Right-wing Israeli leader.

Mr Netanyahu done his name in America as a impressive Israeli attach� to the UN. He concluded to talks to safety Israel"s attribute with America underneath the accommodating care of President Barack Obama.

But he has delicately laid a array of exits from the talks to safety his made at home stand.

Though he did not intend to fall the routine prior to it begun, he will not be severely uneasy by events unless America turns plainly hostile.

Iran is Mr Netanyahu"s loyal obsession. He would sign Israel off from the rest of Middle East to wand off the encroachment. Peace with Palestinians is a faraway runner-up to his engrossment with Iran and craving for American support.

Ex-Cazenove partner Malcolm Calvert gets 21 months in jail for insider trading

By Harry Wilson, Financial Services Correspondent 457PM GMT eleven March 2010

Former Cazenove partner Malcolm Calvert has been condemned to twenty-one months in prison for insider dealing. Former Cazenove partner Malcolm Calvert has been condemned to twenty-one months in prison for insider dealing. Photo PA

Mr Calvert, 65, was handed a judgment of twenty-one months after being found guilty of five counts of insider trade in 3 companies forward of open takeover announcements.

In sum Mr Calvert and his crony Bertie Hatcher finished a distinction of �103,000 from the trades. Mr Hatcher, who did not attend justice due to his dementia, was on Wednesday fined �56,098 for marketplace abuse.

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Sentencing, decider Peter Testar pronounced at Southwark Crown Court that Mr Calvert had finished the trades value �502,000 "deliberately, not recklessly".

"He [Mr Calvert] took value of report from someone he knew to be underneath a avocation not to divulge it," pronounced Mr Testar. "Malcolm Calvert was keenly wakeful of what the obligations of the first insider were and he was penetrating or peaceful to feat the first insiders crack of duty."

Neither Cazenove, nor any of the stream employees have been charged in propinquity to the case. In a matter yesterday the bank pronounced no breaches of the systems and controls had been identified during the Financial Service Authoritys investigation.

Mr Testar pronounced "These offences infer zero some-more or less that if someone is dynamic to mangle the manners there is small that can be finished to stop them. I dont find any error on the piece of any institution.

Mr Calvert faces a lien conference subsequent month where it will be motionless how most he will have to compensate in costs and fines.

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752PM GMT 10 March 2010

FTSE 100 falters on falling miners

By Rachel Cooper 126PM GMT eleven March 2010

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Commodity bonds fell bank in sunrise trade on Thursday, as tender materials prices retreated on fears that China could move to rein in the sepulchral economy after acceleration rose some-more than approaching in the year to February.

Silver miner Fresnillo was off some-more than 2pc, whilst Kazakhmys, Rio Tinto and Randgold Resources all featured on the crook board. The FTSE was down around twenty-three points - or 0.4pc - at 5617 at lunchtime.

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Offsetting the descending miners were retailers, buoyed by heartening formula in the sector. Next, Kingfisher and Home Retail Group all rose up the winners joining table. Although the latter - owners of Argos and Homebase - saw a drop in sales, it revised up the distinction superintendence for the second time in 3 months.

Supermarket sequence Morrisons, that posted a surge in the dividend, dipped around 1.8pc after the association gradual the spike in increase with a discreet opinion on the year ahead.

Among the second tier, takeover tittle-tattle one after another apace - this time, it was Connaught in the frame.

The association that maintains amicable housing surfaced the mid-cap leaderboard in early trade on the behind of conjecture that it was set to embrace a bid from in isolation equity organisation 3i. Traders were muttering that 3i was seeking to lift €350m on the down payment marketplace to buy the company.

But after this morning, there were reports that Connaught had perceived no such proceed and the shares were usually up around 1.4pc by lunchtime, carrying progressing climbed as high as 4pc.

Trailing the mid-caps at lunchtime was Computacenter, that slipped around 4.5pc, notwithstanding a surge in profits.

Opposites do attract as stressed men make odd sexual decisions, study says

By Andrew Hough 1015AM GMT 10 March 2010

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Researchers in Germany detected that stressed men done radical choices in passionate preferences.

Scientists at the University of Trier found that immature men who were underneath vigour elite amorous cinema of womanlike nudes who were had the conflicting facial expressions to themselves.

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The study, reported in the biography Proceedings of the Royal Society B, additionally found that pick participants who were some-more loose were captivated to females who had identical features.

It could insist because a little couples who see different, finish up together for e.g. Nicholas Sarkozy, the French President and his mother Carla Bruni-Sarkozy now the theme of event rumours actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones.

Previous studies have found that men and women who tumble in love lend towards to resemble each pick in majority ways, generally in facial characteristics.

"Our commentary show that highlight affects human mating preferences unstressed people showed the approaching welfare for identical friends but stressed people appear to cite separate mates," pronounced Johanna Lass-Hennemann, a psychobiologist who led the study.

"Our formula yield serve await for facial self similarity as a intensity modulator of passionate attractiveness.

"Furthermore, the investigate is the initial to show that highlight influences human mating preferences, and provides serve await for the change of highlight on partner welfare and passionate behaviour."

Acting on a camber gained from experience with lab animals, the scientists explored possibly a man responded otherwise to a lady when he was stressed.

They recruited 50 internal students, all slim and healthy, and widely separated them in to dual groups.

The students were incidentally asked to possibly place a palm in icy H2O or the some-more pleasing pick of comfortable H2O at normal physique temperature.

Their highlight ratings were totalled utilizing saliva, heart rate and red blood vigour tests.

All the students were continuous to electrodes measuring little flesh movements around the eye, that are well known as the "startle reflex" that we give when we see at an intent of interest.

They were afterwards asked to see at 40 computer images of immature women thirty of them amorous nudes of girls gazing at the spectator and 10 of them neutral whilst the "startle reflex" spies did their job.

Men who had not been stressed showed a noted welfare to women whose faces majority resembled their own.

But men in the stressed organisation bypassed the close-resembling women and showed a welfare for women who were separate to themselves.

Past studies indicate that people lend towards to find self-resembling faces some-more infallible than separate faces.

This could insist because a little men aspire to a long-term attribute with some-more well built women who see similar to them.

But there is additionally justification that people who are stressed have some-more short-term relations than unstressed counterparts.

The some-more passionate partners you have, the some-more chances you have of fluctuating your genetic lineage, that would insist because stressed men bucked the trend.

Kevin Rose: My Foursquare data will tell my life story

1012AM GMT eleven March 2010

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Kevin Rose, Digg founder Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg, has invested in Foursquare

"Foursquare felt unequivocally majority similar to Twitter did a couple of years ago. When people think of Twitter, they think the this good new start-up that launched 6 months ago. But in reality, it has been going for 3 years. In Silicon Valley, your friends couple up to these services first, afterwards you are sent an entice and you join. In the early Twitter days, you could see the movement building, so when I initial proposed utilizing Foursquare, I accepted what was happening.

People were unequivocally vehement about the features, about the thought of apropos the mayor of their prime coffee shop. I looked at that and thought This creates sense.

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I can see a universe where in the future my immature kids will see behind at my Foursquare interpretation and contend This is Kevins story this is where he was on his birthday 10 years ago, and this was his prime place to eat. Building that form via your hold up and saving those locations I think thats huge.

Foursquare is already reaching a tipping point in sure cities. The make use of needs to be accessible on some-more devices, though the usually thing thats holding behind friends of cave from fasten is the actuality they dont have an Android phone or an iPhone, so they unequivocally have no approach to make use of it.

Foursquare is construction the incentives on checking in. I checked in somewhere the alternative day and had a summary revelation me there was a happy hour down the street, and that the mayor can splash for free. When you show your friends this is going on, they love the idea.

The trending places underline is additionally cool it shows you the trending locations around the majority new place where youve checked in. If Im going out on a Friday night and I check in somewhere for dinner, it competence indicate a club dual blocks afar thats unequivocally function right now. You can go in to the club from your phone and see who has been checking in there. It draws you to where the cool things are. Foursquare is a approach for me to save and share my locations, and to find out what alternative people are you do all around the world.

Location-based services will be huge. Its fun to watch this stuff, since everybody is perplexing to figure out the space, innovating in their own singular approach and formulating a little smashing things.

Im regularly up to date on the ultimate start-ups. I am offering introductions from alternative investors I know. I work at a full day a week only to going out and articulate to immature entrepreneurs. I sense a lot from them as well."

Kevin Rose, Digg co-founder and Foursquare investor, was articulate to Claudine Beaumont

David Linleys tips for buying antiques

930AM GMT eleven Mar 2010

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Listen to your heart For the beginner seat collector, shopping antiques can appear a rather daunting prospect.

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Nobody wants to feel that they might not have a correct preference and that in conclusion they could be throwing their income away. The main thing is that you should regularly buy something initial and inaugural since you similar to it. Do not try to second-guess the marketplace even the biggest experts tumble tainted at times you do that. The essential thing is to attend to your heart, but afterwards have make use of of your head as well.

Auctions Set a figure in your head that you will not go above, but be warned that once the adrenaline starts rushing, it can be formidable to stop. Catalogue guess prices do not embody the buyers premium, that is customarily in the segment of twenty per cent. In Britain, VAT is on credit on the reward but not on the cost of the lot unless it has been alien from outward the EU. Once you have paid for your lot, you might be since a certain volume of free storage time, but it creates clarity to plan any ride indispensable well in advance.

Dont be bashful Pick things up, see underneath, examine the behind and sides, try to get a clarity of either a square "feels right. Look out for signs of intervention. If something appears uneasy in a little approach you have to ask why. Unexplained cuts or screws in the underside of the joist might point to a vital correct or a shift to the strange structure.

Woodworm People be concerned about woodworm some-more than is necessary. Undue dirty might prove a woodworm complaint that someone has attempted to cover up, so investigate. Small holes might additionally prove that a square has had an infestation, but that does not meant it is still live. Tap the holes; if dust comes out, the worms are alive. The complaint is treatable, so do not let a couple of holes put you off shopping but have certain you plunge into the complaint quickly.

Upholstery Ideally you should try to buy upholstered equipment that have defended their strange fillings of horsehair, nap or down, since they yield a majority some-more gratifying figure than when they have been transposed with foam rubber or alternative complicated materials. If you mark newer webbing, it equates to that the chair has been renovated or might even be a reproduction. In close-nailed furniture, if the nails used are matching they have been done industrially, that implies a date after 1850.

Restoration There is a excellent line in between charge and restoration. In ubiquitous conditions it is improved to keep as majority of the strange as you can and to correct and conserve.

Over-restoration can reduce the worth of a square by, for example, destroying the aspect patina of wood. On the whole, normal attempted and tested remedies are the safest and majority effective. Beeswax is regularly preferable to containing alkali polishes since it does not fall short the healthy aspect of wood. There is an huge resources of believe accessible in the replacement and charge universe people have done it their lifes work so have have make use of of of that report and do not do anything hasty.

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Doctor Who star Matt Smith on sonic screwdrivers, Steven Moffat and following David Tennant

324PM GMT eleven March 2010

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Steven Moffat, the new lead bard and comparison manager writer of Doctor Who, calls the expel and organisation fabricated in the Caernarfon Suite to order. "This, he says, with a portentousness thats usually half-

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sardonic, "will be the majority scrutinised hour of the radio lives. No fewer than 58 members of expel and organisation are collected for the book read-through of the initial part of the 2010 run a new series, but additionally a new prolongation team, a new messenger and a new Doctor in the form of Matt Smith.

"I think thats Stevens form of encouragement, Smith says drily. As the Doctor, Smith will be scrutinised not usually by 10 million viewers, but additionally by a little unequivocally shaken BBC management group and a dedicated a little would contend somewhat unhinged online fan community. "You dont unequivocally think about it on a day-to-day level, Smith says. "Because if you did, youd never get anything done.

Today Smith is wearing jeans and a sweater rather than the Time Lords orderly new crawl tie and tweed coupler but theres still no mistaking the thick, glossy quiff that will positively parent a million childish imitations this spring. (The crawl tie, with tweed coupler and braces, was Smiths idea, and a last-minute deputy for a "more piratey see that the producers had developed.) Though Smith, 27, perceived great notices for his new thing TV role, in the little-watched BBC2 domestic fool around Party Animals, he was a warn preference to fool around the Doctor. His appetite and projection overpower the room as the read-through gets underneath way, but they are roughly suited by Moffat, who reads the theatre directions so fast that people have difficulty branch their pages fast sufficient to keep up.

"Its fundamentally Trumpton, Moffat says of Leadworth, the illusory English encampment in that the Doctor his Tardis out of lift out crash-lands at the commencement of the episode. At 60 minutes, this part will be a third longer than most, nonetheless it still has copiousness to get through. Smith hasnt utterly accomplished regenerating a routine that varies in length from Doctor to Doctor, but for Smith will lift on via part one of the new run. Theres his new messenger to deliver Amy Pond, played by 22-year-old Karen Gillan who was the last chairman to try-out for the role, and who Moffat says was "a bit kookier than the others. And then, of course, theres the requisite hazard of tellurian obliteration in the form of the Atraxi, an orbiting throng of thuggish galactic policemen to dispatch.

Even at the read-through, Smith creates a constrained Doctor droll but not comical, courteous but not academic. As the chattering throng of publicists and BBC commissioning editors disperses, Smith says that he doesnt dwell as well majority on how his Doctor will be opposite from Tennants. "If you break down in to parts it in that way, it ceases to be extemporaneous and momentary, he says. "Ask me in 9 months time, when the on TV.

The Cathedral Green, Llandaff, CardiffOctober 7

Despite the small have a difference of being located in Wales, Llandaffs encampment immature with the church spire, fight commemorative and Tudor timbers simply passes for Leadworth. Moffats book has compulsory a integrate of facilities to be combined for the place glow a steep pond, so that the Doctor and Amy can brawl about the deficiency of ducks, and a red write box, ready to be exploded. Theyve incited one residence in to a pub, repainted the finish extraneous of others, and brought a glow engine. But theres one thing even a Time Lord cant lift out the British weather.

"Weve had difficulty with the rain, Smith says, huddling underneath an "E-Z Up steel cover that shelters make-up bags, filming monitors and a stand list of present coffee. A splendid blue directors chair has the word matt stencilled on the back, with a prohibited H2O bottle lying ready for have have use of of in in between takes. "Its meant to be an idyllic, balmy village, Smith says. "But, as you can see, the pouring down.

With evil hearten Smith seems never to be irritable, even at the finish of a prolonged days place sharpened he says that Moffat has come up with a power reason for the rainfall. "Theyre meditative of putting a line in the book saying, "Oh, the the Atraxi, theyre removing ready to bring to boil the planet." Something similar to that. Theres regularly a approach turn the go on in Doctor Who, he says.

Over her mini-skirted costume, Gillan is wearing a floor-length coat, wrapped in a sweeping and sporting a sleet hat. "Which can usually be described as an old-woman, Last-of-the-Summer-Wine hat, she giggles. The competition to save the universe thats maturation on the encampment immature will, Gillan says, assistance to show viewers what holds the Doctor and Amy together. "Theyre dual of a kind. Theyre both a bit lost, she says. "Because Amy has no parents, shes this Scottish lady in an English village. So theyre both lost souls that have found each other. And they both have a clarity of tour about them, and I think thats what the Doctor loves about Amy. She has that suggestion in her, and that fire. She keeps him on his toes.

The span step behind out in to the sleet for an additional take. The Doctor is perplexing to capture the courtesy of the Atraxi spaceship by decorated have have use of of of record that the aliens wouldnt design their sensors to collect up on an English encampment immature namely, of course, his sonic screwdriver. For now, the still Tennants screwdriver (at this point in the episode, in fact, the "raggedy Doctor is still wearing Tennants smashed fit and trainers). For the purposes of both the part (to perplex the Doctor and means a great bang) and the array (so Smith can have his own, spanking new sonic screwdriver), the screwdriver has to explode.

"Weve secluded a hint outcome in the sonic screwdriver, says Danny Hargreaves, who is in assign of special goods for Doctor Who. "Its a reduction of an part called "black powder" together with titanium granules. When you put an electrical assign by it, it browns the black powder, that afterwards browns the titanium, that gives you lots of sparks. When the stage is shot, Hargreaves takes the purpose of Wile E Coyote, station off to one side with a wireless remote control. A receiver in Smiths slot is afterwards continuous to the screwdriver itself by a handle that runs down his sleeve.

Bang goes the screwdriver, and Smith flinches so vigourously that he snaps it in two. After the take, station in the center of the encampment immature in the rain, Smith points theatrically at the ash on his hand. "Look what they do to me! he squeals.

St Davids Hotel, CardiffOctober 7

All that rain, it turns out at the finish of the day on the Cathedral Green, might not be such a complaint in the last version of the episode. "Its a droll thing, sleet on radio infrequently you can see it, infrequently you cant, Moffat says. "I mean, how do you write a stage where people conflict to the actuality that the raining? When theyre in England? People dont go turn saying, "Oh my God, the raining, it contingency be an caller invasion!"

Moffat is settling in to the highway house club a acquire breakwater from the shout outward with Piers Wenger, the head of fool around for BBC Wales, and Beth Willis, the shows third comparison manager producer. For this new run, that starts on BBC One on Easter weekend, these 3 have taken over from the roughly mythological group of Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner. Davies and Gardner transplanted Doctor Who to BBC Wales for the new incarnation after a 16-year deficiency from the shade and, by Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant, combined a success that was grievous in some-more ways than one. In those shining footsteps, Moffat says he has one thought on top of all others for this new series.

"For it not to be shit, he says succinctly. "One rootless wall, one pony-looking effect, one little thing goes wrong, and the behind to the 1970s. Though there will be viewable differences a new Doctor, for one Moffat says that the group are not focused on becoming opposite the show from whats left before. "The audience, either theyre eight years old or 48, theyre not watchful to see since the opposite or weird or new, theyre usually wanting it to be unequivocally good. Its essentially an incredibly easy plea to have something different. Its incredibly tough to have something good.

But, Willis says, Smith brings new and startling qualities to the Doctor. "You will be sitting there examination the rushes and Matt will do something and youll think, "Ooh, I havent seen the Doctor do that before" and that is unequivocally exciting. It would be awful if he was going on and perplexing to do an sense of David.

When Tennant was completing his regeneration, he took to his bed. But Moffat hasnt since Smith such an easy ride. "I thought it would be fun if, whilst he was still regenerating, he had to run around and save the world, Moffat says. "Hes hardly out of the box when he realises I havent altered my shirt nonetheless and Ive got twenty mins to save the world. Its similar to perplexing to save the universe with flu. And he does it with dual mins to spare.

Both Wenger, who constructed the critically acclaimed dramas Housewife, 49 and Ballet Shoes, and Willis, who worked on Ashes to Ashes, are new to Doctor Who this series. But, during the Davies-Gardner era, Moffat determined himself as one of Doctor Whos majority reputable part writers. Many critics hold Blink, that he wrote, to be the most appropriate part of the complicated epoch so far. The Doctor, afterwards played by Tennant, hardly appeared in Blink. It not usually featured a immature Carey Mulligan, but additionally had unequivocally scary aliens, the Weeping Angels, who could usually move if unobserved. Hence "Dont blink. Blink and you"re dead.

Moffat, who is 48, additionally combined and wrote the sitcom Coupling, and has co-written the screenplay for the arriving Steven Spielberg movie The Adventures of Tintin The Secret of the Unicorn.

While Moffat doesnt replicate Daviess larger-than-life windstorm of camp, he does speak roughly unsought and with great speed and unrestrained about Doctor Who. It fast becomes pure that Moffat has been a very, unequivocally nerdy fan for a very, unequivocally prolonged time. He forcefully bats afar criticisms of the complicated array that, for example, it is majority some-more earthbound than the 1970s version. "Over half of Doctor Who takes place on Earth, regularly did, he says. "Theres a very, unequivocally great reason thats where the made. Also, there was something that was open to old Doctor Who thats not open to complicated Doctor Who going to a timberland in Epping and observant the an caller planet. And one of the reasons kids have such a outrageous attribute with it is that the not over the range of their recognizable world. You cannot shift the actuality that the Daleks have a penetrate plunger adhering out of them. Thats brilliant, since you can get a penetrate plunger and you can be a Dalek.

Both Moffat and Wenger appear fervent to residence one report that steadfastly dogs the stream Doctor Who prolongation bill cuts. "Were theme to the same prolongation efficiencies that all dramas are, Wenger says diplomatically. The thought of "efficiencies in between unequivocally comparison BBC management group is to get programmes some-more low but the cuts being seen on shade and, Wenger says, "Were operative unequivocally tough to have that happen, and will go on to do so, since thats not easy.

Moffat has a spikier retort. "This is going to receptive to advice pious, he says, "but the strange Tardis was a bill cut. It was. They couldnt means to have a spaceship. They couldnt means even to do a sorcery door. They couldnt means to do a sphere. So someone came up with, Why dont we do a military box? And the bigger on the inside. Thats the singular most appropriate idea, I think though I am a bit biased in all of fiction.

Upper Boat, nearby CardiffFebruary 9, 2010

The security ensure at the Doctor Who studios is on his rounds. Gaynor, who is staffing reception, says bombard phone him usually he has the key to the sealed studio. Meanwhile, Gaynor passes a form opposite the accepting desk, to be sealed by each caller and in that they guarantee finish confidentiality. Demand for report and report about Doctor Who is intense, the form says, and even confidences common with friends can finish up being published. It is a weird summary to embrace in the shabby accepting area of a light industrial section usually off the highway to Merthyr Tydfil.

But when the ensure gets behind with the key, it becomes clearer since things are so disguise and dagger. Inside the sealed college of music is the one big new Doctor Who underline of that no print has nonetheless reached the outward universe the interior of Matt Smiths Tardis. The set sits, rather sweetly, in the same college of music as the old, Tennant-era Tardis, faraway in a rather low-tech approach by a little unstable fencing and curtains.

This new Tardis not an requisite appendage for each new Doctor, but compulsory by the repairs accomplished to it in Tennants last part is big. It contingency be 3 times the distance of Tennants, on mixed levels with staircases in between. Less filthy than the predecessor, with a pure cosmetic building on the main level, the walls are glowing with discriminating copper and the executive mainstay facilities a blown potion emblem that could be true from Tales of the Unexpected. There are old car seats and downstairs downstairs! a swing. With a curtsy to Paul McGanns Tardis, the executive mainstay facilities an old TV shade on an extendable trellis. It additionally has a 1980s-style computer keyboard, and a His-Masters-Voice character wail speaker.

Viewers wouldnt see this Tardis until the finish of part one, when the Doctor and Amy travel in for their initial tour together. That initial part is right away usually about finished, exclusive a integrate of CGI monsters that are a bit severe turn the edges, and the occasional blemish in the dialogue. The aliens hold off from essentially hot the planet, but that bursting screwdriver still looks a bit of a shock. Most importantly, from the impulse he stumbles out of his crashed Tardis, Smith is positively his own Doctor. Less irritated than Eccleston and but the slapstick of Tennant, he brings an air of perplexed power thats a bit suggestive of, say, Tom Baker (though but the stripy scarf).

Today, Smith is filming in the college of music subsequent door. Production has reached part 12, with the storyline that will physical condition opposite the array about to raze in to the hide-behind-the-sofa conclusion. "The Doctor you encounter in the initial part is a opposite Doctor from the Doctor were filming now, Smith says. "Because in part one, of course, hes a man removing used to his body, going "How do I fit in to this world…"

Smith trails off, assumingly brewing serve thoughts about his initial episode. But then, with a conspiratorial grin, he asks, "Have you seen the new sonic screwdriver yet? and pulls it from his pocket. Its a unequivocally glossy steel fondle with a immature light and, when Smith flicks his hand, steel nails that cocktail out at one end. Smith is apparently as chuffed with it as all the eight-year-old boys who are since replicas of it for Yuletide will be. The titanium sparks on the Cathedral Green in Llandaff are right away a faraway memory.

Having common his secret, Smith thinks again. "I think part one has a poetic fairytale peculiarity to it, that is a credit to Steven. I think the utterly filmic, actually, and has a great story, he says. And then, roughly in a whisper, he adds, "Its a great begin for us.

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OECD calls for open trade amid recovery

By Angela Monaghan 600AM GMT 09 March 2010

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Trade Organisation and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, pronounced that nonetheless majority G20 members had so far inspected commitments to open traffic and investment, their will was expected to be increasingly tested in the face of pursuit waste and unemployment.

"Openness to ubiquitous investment is a precondition for clever tellurian economy, pursuit creation, and innovation. The OECD will go on to guard investment process developments closely," pronounced Angel Gurría, OECD secretary-general.

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His notice came as the British Chambers of Commerce pronounced the supervision contingency do some-more to safeguard UK companies are means to entrance enough traffic financial if it wants to see an export-led recovery.

The commercial operation organisation pronounced that traffic financial was critical to equivalent the increasing risks compared with ubiquitous trade, and that Britain was now at a rival waste with countries together with Germany and France that had in effect state-backed schemes. It called for the key of a identical state-backed resolution in the UK.

In a consult by the BCC and the Greater Manchester Chamber, roughly half - 46.7pc - of the 250 Manchester-based exporters questioned pronounced they had lost commercial operation to exporters from alternative countries who were upheld by state-backed schemes. One in eight pronounced they had experienced problems with traffic financial during the last year. It was behaving as a halt to would-be first-time exporters, and those meditative of exporting in larger quantities, the inform said.

"If the supervision is critical about enlivening British exports as a motorist of employment, mercantile expansion and prosperity, it contingency finalise blockages in the traffic traffic financial industry," pronounced David Frost, executive ubiquitous of the BCC. "The supervision needs to fool around the piece in assisting to spin the UK in to a good trade republic once again."

Large-caps lose steam on bull rally birthday

Rachel Cooper 721PM GMT 09 Mar 2010

Having appearance at the top close given prior to the fall of Lehman Brothers on Monday, the blue-chip index slipped behind 4.42 points to 5602.3, as investors mulled over poorer-than-expected UK trade figures.

But, the premier index is still drifting high compared to a year ago yesterday when, in the shade of the monetary crisis, it strike a six-year low of 3460. Since then, the FTSE 100 has rallied by around 60pc.

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Coming in to concentration yesterday were the banks after a discreet note from Jonathan Pierce at Credit Suisse, who argued that there were "elephants in the room" when it came to deliberation the destiny opening of UK banks together with Basel III collateral mandate and appropriation constraints.

Mr Pierce"s outcome of the zone was that is is "at most appropriate satisfactory value for now". Barclays is his prime bank with an "outperform" rating and aim cost of 375p, Lloyds Banking Group is "neutral" with a 50p aim cost and Royal Bank of Scotland has an "underperform" ranking and a 35p target.

In an additional blow for financials yesterday, Moody"s Investors Services warned that British banks and lenders that have not softened their appropriation on all sides competence have their monetary strength ratings cut as supervision await for the industry is withdrawn.

Lloyds Banking Group finished the day down 0.47 to 53.18p and Royal Bank of Scotland lost 0.49 to 38.98p, whilst Barclays edged up 0.8 to 345.8p. Standard Chartered Bank, however, fell behind 50p to �17.25p.

But the greatest faller was genuine estate group, Liberty International, that slipped twenty to 486p, following weaker-than-expected formula and headlines that it is to separate the portfolio in to dual businesses, one focused on UK selling centres and the alternative on Central London blurb properties.

Panmure Gordon pronounced there was a little beating that liberation in net item value had not suited the peers, but combined the due demerger was "welcome news" and should give the commercial operation larger trade flexibility.

Liberty was assimilated on the loserboard by the genuine estate investment certitude peers, with Hammerson down 6.3 to 390.2p, Segro off 4.9 at 333.6p and British Land slipping 6.2 to 457.5p.

At the certain finish of the table, Aggreko, the association that not long ago won the stipulate to supply energy to the World Cup, wore the yellow jersey rising 21p to �10.66 after a pull from UBS that saw the attorney up the company"s aim cost to �12.00 from 985p.

Some defensives were in foster yesterday with GlaxoSmithKline rising 19p to �12.55p. But Imperial Tobacco slid 54p to �20.91 after UBS cut the rating to "sell" from "neutral".

It was a churned day for miners with metals prices faltering. Antofagasta rose 11p to �10.05 after stating reduce revenues, but pronounced 2010 outlay would burst 23pc.

Its peers, however, were slipping, with Randgold Resources dropping 75p to �50.05 and Fresnillo descending 8 to 840p.

Among the second-liners, that yesterday forsaken behind 11.71 points to 9774.68, Weir Group was heading the charge, effervescent up 67 roughly 8pc to 926p, after a better-than-expected trade refurbish and a fibre of cost upgrades.

The engineering commercial operation that creates pumps and valves for the mining, oil and gas industries, posted full-year distinction forward of expectations and pronounced it was carefree of increasing sequence money coming in via 2010.

As a result, Altium lifted Weir"s aim cost to 974p from 741p, KBC Peel Hunt lifted them to 940p from 880p and Panmure upped them to 960p from 885p. Numis and Investec additionally lifted their ratings to "buy".

At the alternative finish of the scale, Shanks fell behind 18.2 or 15.12pc to 102.2p after the rubbish supervision association called a hindrance to buyout talks with Carlyle.

The in isolation equity organisation had offering a marked down 120p per share offer, valuing the commercial operation at �476m, reduce than the 135p-per-share suggest tabled in December.

Analysts at JP Morgan pronounced the proclamation "will obviously defect investors" but remarkable the shares were already factoring in the risk of a reduce bid or no bid at all.

Misys was additionally on the slide, dropping 7.3 to 236.3p, following a "sell" rating from Citigroup.

"We competence come opposite as regularly receiving the "glass-is-half-empty" perspective on Misys," argued the analysts. "However, the main disproportion is not plan or turnaround but especially on timing." Citigroup lifted their aim cost on Misys to 190p from 175p. British supervision holds rose yesterday as equities ran out of steam and a 12-year-gilt auction was well-received.

Investors put in bids value some-more than twice the �3bn of Mar 2022 gilts on suggest and analysts pronounced the auction had left well.

As gilts climbed, the produce on the 10-year-bond fell 5 basement points to 4.05pc.

The two-year-yield forsaken 8 basement points to 1.24pc.

The Debt Management Office currently plans to sell �900m of inflation-linked gilts due 2032.

Dr James Le Fanu: power of the mind

By Dr James Le Fanu 1000AM GMT 09 March 2010

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James Le Fanu mind over matter James Le Fanu Photo PHILIP HOLLIS

1950 the year that the British Society of Hypnotherapists was founded

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The energy of mind over make a difference is the profoundest of all biological mysteries. It is discordant to all the well known laws of scholarship that the non-material thoughts and emotions should without delay change the earthy workings of the bodies, the banishment of the neurones, say, or the stroke of the heartbeat. But they do, as witnessed in each doctors surgery by the estimable change of the patients essence on the astringency of their symptoms.

Sometimes this can magnify to counts of hold up and death, as in the well-attested materialisation of those who hold off failing until after "a suggestive occasion" such as a marriage or the bieing born of a grandchild. Barrie Rapoport, an Israeli medicine essay in the British Medical Journal, describes from personal experience a serve movement of this thesis the anniversary phenomenon. His mom died only over a year ago, her last months done some-more miserable by multiform admissions to sanatorium with pneumonia due to worry in swallowing.

Soon after, he grown suffering when swallowing, warranting a range of investigations. Nothing was found, the suffering left and he forgot all about it. Then just one year after his mothers death, on the "Yahrzeit" of Jewish tradition, he woke up for the prevalent use in the tomb and the suffering was back. "At that impulse I was struck by the connection," he writes. "This was my comatose marker with my late mothers last complaint. With discernment came cure, and by the subsequent day the suffering had gone."

James.LeFanu@telegraph.co.uk

Six Nations 2010: Delon Armitage given another chance

By Mick Cleary 748PM GMT 09 March 2010

Six Nations 2010 Delon Armitage given an additional possibility as Lewis Moody is forsaken  Delon Armitage Full stop Delon Armitage knows time is using out and he contingency lift his diversion Photo GETTY IMAGES

Moody has been transposed by an additional long-established back-row forward, Joe Worsley, for the Calcutta Cup tie at Murrayfield on Saturday and Armitage is all as well wakeful that he additionally has a contender champing at the bit to take his place Northampton full-back Ben Foden.

As expected, Leicester close Louis Deacon replaces the harmed Simon Shaw whilst his bar team-mate, the uncapped 20-year-old scrum-half, Ben Youngs, comes in for Paul Hodgson on the bench; a confidant move but an excellent one.

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At the finish of what physical education instructor Martin Johnson described as "a marathon preference meeting, the longest ever", Armitage got the nod, confounding primary augury on the rib cartilage damage postulated opposite Ireland, to retrieve the No fifteen shirt upheld over for the last entertain of that diversion to Foden.

The London Irish player, who was voted England"s stand-out actor during last year"s Six Nations, acknowledges that if he doesn"t recapture last season"s form, afterwards he will be streamer the approach of Moody.

A "vigorous" workout, as Johnson puts it, on Monday reliable that Armitage"s rib had recovered. His physique competence be in figure Armitage right away has to show that his mind is attuned to the task. Scotland"s name grise, Jim Telfer, as tainted in his difference as once he was in his coaching methods, criticised Armitage at the week end for you do small some-more than "standing at the behind and grinning".

Armitage competence take issue with the ban picture but not unconditionally with the sentiment. He needs to produce.

"I"ll really be forsaken if I don"t begin to show a little form," pronounced Armitage, who longed for the autumn array with a dislocated shoulder and has struggled to recover his timing and restraint given returning to movement in December.

"It was a large service to get picked for this game. I"ve not had the most appropriate Six Nations. I"m excellent physically. If I wasn"t 100 per cent I"d put my palm up given I"d be vouchsafing not only myself down but my team-mates.

"I thought there was no approach I"d be fit. But this is my last chance. I"m not personification well sufficient and I"ve got to show improvement. I"ve been impatient. I"ve got to go behind to basis and do the elementary things well, be solid. I"ve been perplexing to force things. But I"ve additionally got to be confident, and have a go. I"ll keep pushing. There is a opening out there."

England conflict manager Brian Smith additionally conceded that Armitage has been underperforming. "There is some-more to come from Delon," Smith said. "We"re perfectionist some-more and he"s wakeful of that."

England fans are additionally perfectionist some-more of their side"s conflict that has appeared irritable and stilted.

"Yes, the critique does hurt," Armitage said. "In a little ways it"s justified. We"ve got the talent, though. But we"ve talked as well most about it. We"ve got to go out and do it."

Worsley"s stop to the starting choice for the initial time given he shop-worn his knee in the opening notation opposite New Zealand in Nov is dictated to raise England"s ball-winning at the breakdown, their destructiveness in the plunge into and their ball-carrying. Scotland"s back-row are splendid and breezy, England"s big-boned and less dynamic.

"They are set up for close-quarter grappling. Moody has lacked the snap he showed in the autumn.

"Joe is clever over the ball, great defensively but it was a difficult call," pronounced Johnson.

Youngs" betterment is a pointer that England wish to husband such bent forward of subsequent year"s Rugby World Cup. There are a purchase of budding scrum-halves and Youngs, whose father, Nick, won half-a-dozen caps in the mid-Eighties, gets initial dibs.

There are a integrate of alternative amendments on the dais with Northampton"s Courtney Lawes stepping up following the graduation of Deacon whilst Steve Thompson fits the check of a of heavy-duty England streamer to Edinburgh as he replaces the some-more mobile Bath hooker, Lee Mears.

Google testing TV search service

By Claudine Beaumont, Technology Editor 1113AM GMT 09 March 2010

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Google tests TV poke service The Google TV poke hearing is being carried out in organisation with Dish Network, the second greatest heavenly body radio provider in the United States, according to reports. Photo GETTY

The hearing is being carried out in organisation with Dish Network, the second greatest heavenly body radio provider in the United States. The new make make use of of enables radio viewers to some-more simply find the shows they wish to watch, find calm from internet video sites such as YouTube, and emanate a personalised TV schedule, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The make make use of of runs on a new range of set-top boxes that make make use of of a version of Google"s Android handling system, and aims to move together normal promote radio with the augmenting series of online video services. The hearing is singular to a small preference of Google employees, contend sources close to the project. Both Google and Dish Network have refused to criticism on rumours about the trial.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Google will goal to mix the TV poke make make use of of with the new radio advertising-brokering business, Google TV, enabling it to aim specific adverts to particular households formed on their poke and observation habits.

Eric Schmidt, Google"s arch executive, pronounced last month that Android could be the undiluted height for TV hardware manufacturers. "It creates clarity that people would make make use of of Android as an handling complement for set-top boxes, friend boxes and TVs," he said. "All of those ideas have been due by the partners."

Technology companies are increasingly acid for ways to replicate their online prevalence in the vital room by mixing on-demand services with the most appropriate of the web. YouTube, that is owned by Google, has a flourishing series of long-form calm deals in place with broadcasters, that equates to full episodes of most renouned radio shows, such as The Inbetweeners, are accessible by the video-sharing site as well as without delay from the broadcaster"s catch-up TV service.

Apple"s Apple TV box, that allows users to without delay download movies and TV shows to their television, as well as entrance Flickr and YouTube, has enjoyed singular success, and been discharged as a "hobby" plan by Apple. And TiVo plans to re-enter the UK radio marketplace prior to the finish of this year, in a partnership with Virgin Media, formulating a set tip box that will mix the most appropriate of promote and online video content, and allows users to emanate a personalised observation experience.

Renault F1: 2010 driver, team and car guide, analysis and statistics

By Tom Cary, F1 Correspondent 510PM GMT 09 March 2010

Previous of Images Next Robert Kubica - Renault F1 2010 driver, group and car guide, research and statistics Stick or turn Robert Kubica assimilated Renault after BMW voiced their withdrawal from F1 Photo GETTY IMAGES Vitaly Petrov - Renault F1 2010 driver, group and car guide, research and statistics Rocket man Vitaly Petrov of Russia came second to Nico Hulkenberg in the GP2 array Photo EPA

As Ferrari forked out recently, there is small left of Renault on tip of the name. The French manufacturer, that had already been debating either to hang or turn for a integrate of years, were dealt a monster blow last autumn when group principal Flavio Briatore and executive of engineering Pat Symonds were found guilty by the FIA of grouping former motorist Nelson Piquet Jnr to pile-up on purpose at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.

Although Renault committed to staying in the arise of the universe councils dangling ban, the manufacturer sole 75 per cent of the group to Luxembourg-based investment association Genii Capital. With the charming Briatore gone, it is usually not the same.

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Telegraph verdict

Robert Kubica is a tip driver, but if pre-season contrast is anything to go by it looks similar to being an additional prolonged deteriorate for the Enstone-based team.

Driver profiles

Robert KubicaBorn 7/12/1984 Krakow, Poland

Leading the championship at the median theatre of the 2008 season, no one could have illusory that Kubicas win for BMW-Sauber in Montreal that year would be his usually feat to date. Rated rarely by his peers, you usually goal the poker-loving Pole has not gambled really bad by fasten Renault following BMWs withdrawal from the sport.

Vitaly PetrovBorn 8/09/1984 Vyborg, Russia

Set to turn the initial Russian to expostulate in Formula One in 2010, Petrov has sealed on a one-year deal, with an choice for a serve two. The "Vyborg Rocket" accomplished as runner-up to Nico Hulkenberg in the 2009 GP2 series.

Website www.renaultf1.comHeadquarters Enstone, OxfordshireTeam principal Eric BoullierManaging executive Pat SymondsTechnical executive Bob BellDrivers Robert Kubica (Poland), Vitaly Petrov (Russia)2010 car R30Engine RenaultActive in F1 From 1977-85 and from 2002Races 266Wins 35Poles 51Fastest laps 29Constructors titles 2 (2005, 2006)Drivers titles 2 (2005, 2006)

AIG to sell foreign life insurance arm for $15.5bn

By James Quinn 816PM GMT 08 March 2010

AIG to sell unfamiliar hold up word arm for $15.5bn Prudential is set to buy AIG"s Asian section AIA for $35.5bn (�23.6bn)

AIG, that last week concluded to sell AIA, the Asian hold up business, to Prudential for $35.5bn, has concluded last conditions for the ordering of to sell the abroad hold up and health word arm Alico to MetLife for $15.5bn.

The deal, that was voiced yesterday after weeks of heated negotiations and over a year of talks will yield AIG $6.8bn in cash, with the superfluous $8.7bn entrance in MetLife shares and options.

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The understanding will see AIG finale up with a 20pc interest in MetLife, creation it the company"s second-biggest shareholder, and giving US taxpayers who carry out 80pc of AIG"s shares a interest in a second vital US insurer.

The money will be combined to the $25bn money it will embrace on execution of the AIA sale, and equates to the uneasy insurer will be means to significantly compensate down the credit line it has with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

At the finish of December, AIG due $47.3bn to the US Treasury, and $47.9bn to the new York Fed.

"Both sales give AIG larger coherence to move brazen with the restructuring and rebuilding efforts," pronounced Harvey Golub, AIG"s chairman.

Like AIA, that AIG had deliberate floating in Asia, Alico had been the theme of inner discussions per a batch marketplace inventory in New York given at slightest Jul last year.

The discussions one after another in annoy of talks with MetLife over Alico, that began in early 2009 underneath former authority Ed Liddy"s tenure, and restarted in the late summer, by that point Mr Golub and AIG arch senior manager Bob Benmosche had been appointed.

Mr Benmosche ran MetLife from 1998 until 2006, and was obliged for receiving it open in 2000. However, he was not piece of the Alico sale talks.

Alico, that began hold up in Shanghai in 1921, has 20m business in some-more than 50 countries, with poignant operations in executive and eastern Europe as well as Latin America and the Middle East, and Japan and the UK.

Prestonfield House, Edinburgh: hotel review

By Anne Jepson Published: 4:05PM GMT 08 March 2010

Previous of Images Next Prestonfield House: Where to stay, Edinburgh Prestonfield House has an proceed that mirrors the individual, unapologetic lush character of the owner, James Thomson Prestonfield House: Where to stay, Edinburgh The bedrooms are written to tempt you to live out a little hedonistic, ancestral or overindulgent fantasy

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LOCATION In the shade of Arthur"s Seat, and surrounded by Holyrood Park and Duddingston golf course.

CHARACTER Delightfully decadent and really extravagant; honestly pleasing antiques and an proceed that mirrors the individual, unapologetic lush character of the owner, James Thomson, additionally well known for the Witchery and Tower restaurants in the city.

ROOMS twenty-four bedrooms and suites (all featuring Bose receptive to advice systems and large flat-screen televisions) written to tempt you to live out a little hedonistic, ancestral or overindulgent fantasy. The rich, dim colours of fabrics, walls and seat will move out the pleasing debauchee in everyone.

FOOD Perhaps we picked a bad night, but the food in the not often declared Rhubarb grill was disappointing. Despite promotion a "fuss-free style", there was far as well most going on in conditions of flavour, texture… and salt.

WE LIKE The possibility in this Calvinist city to penetrate happily in to this utterly individualistic basement of epicurean oppulance and history.

NOT SO KEEN The inconsistent "Scotch" themed nights for up to 500 coached-in visitors multiform times a week in the Stables. Kept apart from the main house, but it adds a really peculiar energetic to proceedings.

ESSENTIALS 0131 225 7800; prestonfield.com. Double b & b from �150.

POINT-TO-POINT: Fully Loaded notches fifth victory: Horse Racing

By Hugh Condry Published: 7:29PM GMT 08 March 2010

POINT-TO-POINT: Fully Loaded notches fifth victory Under Orders: It was the busiest week end of the deteriorate so far. Photo: TELEGRAPH

Sisters Emma and Lucy Pugsley gained their initial wins on Fully Loaded in Dec and they have given been pity rides on the 10-year-old, who is lerned by their grandfather, Gerald Greenway. It was Lucy"s spin on Sunday, so she leads Emma by 3 to two.

Frost caused begin times to be at the back of at multiform meetings on the busiest week end so far, but usually one of the fifteen fixtures at Tweseldown had to be called off.

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West Midlands supplement Tom Weston enjoyed himself. He won 3 races at Didmarton on Saturday with Raleagh House, Ashwell Lad and Charm of Gold, and followed up with an additional three-way on Sunday at Garnons on Waynesworld, Worship the Stars and Abbotts Mount.

This took his season"s total to a career-best 11, one at the back of personality Richard Burton.

Burton took value of a "day release" from his new 12-day cessation that usually operates when there is pledge racing underneath Rules to float at Eyton-on-Severn on Sunday. He won the initial race, but then, frustratingly, accomplished second with 4 alternative mounts.

Claire Allen landed a stand in at Higham on Saturday and followed with an additional dual successes on Sunday at Garnons. She leads the women"s pretension competition on 7 wins, dual forward of Polly Gundry, who followed a Saturday feat at Bishop"s Court by scoring again the subsequent day at Ideford Arch.

China defends UK company Strixs intellectual property rights

By Richard Tyler Published: 5:23PM GMT 08 March 2010

Isle of Man-based Strix Ltd, that manufactures electric kettle controls, took authorised movement opposite dual Chinese manufacturers for obvious infringements.

Strix pronounced a justice in Beijing ruled in Dec that the obvious was valid. The justice fined Zhejiang Jiatai Electrical Appliance Manufacture Company and Leqing FaDa Electrical Appliance Company and systematic both to compensate indemnification and stop producing the kettle controls.

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Paul Hussey, arch senior manager of Strix, said: "This authorised preference can be seen as a big step in the right citation for the Chinese judiciary"s preference per egghead property, in any case of the nation of start of the plaintiff."

Clockwork air wave contriver Trevor Baylis, who champions the rights of inventors, has additionally welcomed the decision. "Effective coercion of egghead skill (IP) rights in China is a key regard of the most small UK businesses and there is a drawn out idea that enforcing IP rights in China is a plea for unfamiliar companies. This preference demonstrates that this is not so," he said.

The move comes as obvious experts encounter in London on Wednesday to plead the stroke of the flourishing reserve of obvious applications in horse opera economies.

David Lammy, the apportion for IP, and David Kappos, executive of the US Patent and Trademark Office, are expected to call for larger pity and reuse of obvious estimate work by obvious offices to urge efficiency.

Mr Lammy said: "Getting a obvious released right away takes an normal of 3 years in the US and 4 years in Europe. Delaying creation for so prolonged is simply unsuitable for most reasons, and has transparent inauspicious consequences for the economy."

Vitamin D triggers and arms the immune system

By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent Published: 6:00PM GMT 07 March 2010

The supposed fever vitamin, that can be performed from food or made by human skin unprotected to the sun, plays a key purpose in boosting the defence system, researchers believe.

In sold it triggers and arms the body"s T cells, the cells in the physique that find out and fall short any invading germ and viruses.

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Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have detected that Vitamin D is consequential to activating the defence defences and that but sufficient money coming in of the vitamin, the torpedo cells of the defence complement T cells will not be equates to to conflict to and quarrel off critical infections in the body.

For T cells to acknowledge and kill unfamiliar pathogens such as clumps of germ or viruses, the cells contingency initial be triggered in to movement and "transform" from dead and submissive defence cells in to torpedo cells that are primed to find out and fall short all traces of invaders.

The researchers found that the T cells rely on vitamin D in sequence turn on and they would sojourn dormant, naïve to the probability of hazard if vitamin D is not in in the blood.

Professor Carsten Geisler from the Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, said: "When a T cell is unprotected to a unfamiliar pathogen, it extends a signalling device or receiver well well known as a vitamin D receptor, with that it searches for vitamin D.

"This equates to that the T cell contingency have vitamin D or activation of the cell will cease. If the T cells cannot find sufficient vitamin D in the blood, they wouldnt even proceed to mobilise. "

The discovery, the scientists believe, provides most indispensable report about the defence complement and will assistance them umpire the defence response.

This is critical not usually in fighting disease but additionally in traffic with anti-immune reactions of the physique and the rejecting of transplanted organs.

Active T cells greaten at an bomb rate and can emanate an inflammatory sourroundings with critical consequences for the body.

After organ transplants, T cells can conflict the donor organ as a unfamiliar invader. In autoimmune diseases, similar to arthritis or Crohns Disease, T cells inapplicable designation fragments of the bodys own cells for unfamiliar invaders, heading to the physique rising an conflict on itself.

For the investigate team, identifying the purpose of vitamin D in the activation of T cells has been a vital breakthrough.

"Scientists have well well known for a prolonged time that vitamin D is critical for calcium fullness and the vitamin has additionally been concerned in diseases such as cancer and mixed sclerosis, but what we didnt realize is how consequential vitamin D is for essentially activating the defence complement that we know now, " pronounced the researchers.

The findings, continues Professor Geisler, "could assistance us to enclose spreading diseases and tellurian epidemics.

They will be of sold make use of when building new vaccines, that work precisely on the basement of both precision the defence systems to conflict and suppressing the bodys healthy defences in situations where this is critical as is the box with organ transplants and autoimmune disease."

Most Vitamin D is constructed as a healthy by-product of the skins bearing to sunlight. It can additionally be found in fish liver oil, eggs and greasy fish such as salmon, herring and mackerel or taken as a dietary supplement.

The commentary are published in the ultimate book of Nature Immunology.

Monday, June 28, 2010

Liverpool exit would not signal end of my career, says Jamie Carragher

Published: 9:17AM GMT 07 March 2010

Liverpool exit would not vigilance finish of my career, says Jamie Carragher Future planning: Jamie Carragher would fool around for an additional bar Photo: GETTY IMAGES

The 32-year-old defender will have a year superfluous on his benefaction understanding when this deteriorate finishes, and there are no negotiations now receiving place about a renewal.

That could shift in the summer, as Liverpool are penetrating to let Carragher concentration on personification prior to seeking at his future.

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But Carragher, who has outlayed all of his career so far at Anfield, acknowledges there might come a time when he has to poke for an additional club.

"The bar will give me a new stipulate if they wish to," he told the Sunday Times.

"If not it doesn"t matter, I"ll still fool around my most appropriate and if I have to move afterwards I"ll move, no problem. It wouldn"t worry me."

Carragher famously give up general football in 2007 after apropos undone with singular opportunities in the England team, and stresses he is "not frightened of creation big decisions".

"It"s a bar thing," he said. "It"s down to them. I"ll keep personification and see where it takes me."

Only Dirk Kuyt and Lucas Leiva have done some-more appearances than Carragher for Liverpool in the Premier League this season, suggesting the bar still rely heavily on their vice-captain.

Liverpool physical education instructor Rafael Benitez said: "There is no headlines about Carragher. We have oral to him and he was really transparent that at this impulse he only wants to combine on you do his job.

"I think Jamie prefers the incident as it is. The report I have is that he is gentle with how things are and that he wants to wait."

Crash landing for seven players as Fabio Capello finalises World Cup plans

By Duncan White Published: 10:00PM GMT 06 March 2010

Fabio Capello-Crash alighting for 7 as Fabio Capello finalises World Cup plans Final countdown: Fabio Capello has a wily charge shortening his World Cup finals patrol to twenty-three and wants to discuss it the detrimental players in chairman Photo: REUTERS

The England physical education instructor will call a organisation assembly of all thirty players in his theme to World Cup patrol after the May thirty accessible with Japan to have known that 7 players will miss out on the outing to South Africa.

Rather than discuss it each of the 7 forsaken players on an particular basis, Capello will review out his 23-man patrol list to the organisation presumably at the organisation road house after the diversion or presumably even on the moody behind to London that evening.

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"When I have motionless we will have a meeting," he said. "We will verbalise together. I will say, Thank you unequivocally majority but... All the players that have been with me are unequivocally great players.

"There will be one assembly and thereafter afterwards I will verbalise with the players [left out]. I think it will be critical for all the players to know what is my decision. In one meeting."

For the last dual World Cups, Sven-Goran Eriksson declared his patrol publicly, with the players anticipating out if they were in by the media.

Capello detected he had been wanting from the Italy patrol for the 1978 World Cup from saying it on radio and is dynamic his players listen to the headlines from him.

The Capello stay additionally wish the proclamation to be done to the organisation as a whole, no disbelief aware of the problems that have been combined by you do it on a player-by-player basement prior to prior World Cups - such as Paul Gascoigne perplexing his majority appropriate to fall short a La Manga road house room after being told he was out by Glenn Hoddle in 1998.

"This is not big brother," pronounced a source in the England camp. "We wish all the players to listen to the headlines together. We dont know only where the physical education instructor will have his announcement, might be at the hotel, might be on the craft but we will find a solution."

Capello has fostered a organisation genius in the England patrol that he hopes will assistance await the 7 players who are told they will not entrance to South Africa. "It will not be the majority appropriate impulse for me," he said.

Where only Capello will mangle the headlines is nonetheless to be decided. England will be in their precision stay in Irdning from May 16-30, drifting behind in the center to fool around Mexico at Wembley on Monday May twenty-four (although the FA is perplexing to change that to the prior day).

They thereafter fool around Japan on May thirty and, at the moment, are due to fly behind to London that evening. The central patrol proclamation is scheduled for Jun 1, the day prior to the celebration sets off for South Africa and their precision stay in Rustenburg.

So, Capello presumably tries to fist in his assembly after the Japan diversion at the organisation hotel, or does it en track to London on the physical education instructor or plane. The alternative choice is to summon all the players in London on May 31. The priority is that the players listen to the headlines without delay from him and that he has the eventuality to appreciate them for their efforts.

Speaking after Englands 3-1 accessible win over Egypt on Wednesday night, he had pronounced that he would name the patrol prior to that accessible but altered his mind after consulting with FA officials.

The hardest charge will be revelation players for whom this is their last possibility to fool around at a World Cup. The patrol as a total is of a grown up age so majority of them will be seeking at this as their last vital contest in their prime.

Take Joe Cole. From his teens, as the majority distinguished bent in England, he will have looked brazen to this World Cup as the one in that he would be at his majority appropriate and right away it looks similar to he will be one of those names wanting at Capellos assembly - if he even creates the 30. Until then, the goal will kill him.

Much of the patrol is already motionless - theme to fitness.

Ashley Cole will be since as majority time as he needs to get behind fit and, in the one after another outcast of Wayne Bridge, Leighton Baines is the lucky student after impressing Capello with his defensive fortify opposite Egypt.

The alternative harmed player who Capello is watchful on is Aaron Lennon, whose glorious form this deteriorate pushed him forward of Theo Walcott and Shaun Wright-Phillips to begin on the right wing. The latter will probably miss out, notwithstanding his excellent cameo off the dais opposite Egypt.

With players such as Wes Brown, Joleon Lescott and James Milner means to fool around in some-more than one position, Capello might try to trifle his patrol to take a fifth striker but differently Carlton Cole will miss out.

Lescott and Phil Jagielka will contest for the fourth centre-back slot. Stewart Downing, Stephen Warnock and Ryan Shawcross will usually go to South Africa in box of injuries to others.

That the patrol proclamation is a community eventuality fits with Capellos approach. After a violent integrate of weeks, he felt the need to go behind to basis with his players and remind him of their responsibilities, articulate to them as a organisation prior to the Egypt game.

Steven Gerrard, captain in the 3-1 win, positively believes that Capello has managed to keep the congruity of the group.

"This is a physical education instructor who, when he speaks, you positively take note of what he says, and we positively did during the week when he talked about receiving shortcoming on and off the pitch," Gerrard said. "I do feel some-more gentle and some-more together.

"The managers a big cause since of the approach weve played over the last integrate of years. Were solemnly mending and there is a large togetherness.

"These boys have been together an horrible prolonged time, we only have to be studious and with a bit of fitness on the side and no injuries we can give it a great go."

Probable pre-world crater precision squad

Goalkeepers: R Green (W Ham), D James (Portsmouth), J Hart (Birmingham, loan). Defenders: R Ferdinand (Man Utd), J Terry, (Chelsea), M Upson (W Ham), J Lescott (Man City), G Johnson (Liverpool), W Brown (Man Utd), A Cole (Chelsea), L Baines (Everton), **S Warnock (A Villa), **R Shawcross (Stoke), **P Jagielka (Everton), Midfielders: F Lampard (Chelsea), G Barry (Man City), S Gerrard (Liverpool), M Carrick (Man Utd), T Walcott (Arsenal), D Beckham (AC Milan), J Milner (A Villa), A Lennon (Tottham), **S Wright-Phillips (Man City), **S Downing (A Villa), **J Cole (Chelsea). Strikers: Wayne Rooney (Man Utd), E Heskey (A Villa), J Defoe (Tottenham), P Crouch (Tottenham), **C Cole (W Ham)

** Seven players doubtful to have final

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Key dates

May 16: 30-man precision patrol announced. May 23/24: Mexico accessible (Wembley) May 25: Squad lapse to Austria for serve trainingMay 30: Japan accessible (Graz, Austria). May 30/31: Final 23-man patrol announced. Jun 2: England fly to South Africa bottom in RustenburgJune 12: First World Cup organisation diversion opposite USA