Manchester United vs Sunderland Feb 28 2015

Manchester United vs Sunderland Feb 28 2015

Wayne Rooney

 

 Wayne Rooney scored his first league goals in over two months to give Manchester United a 2-0 victory over 10-man Sunderland.
But while it was a good day for the United captain, referee Roger East had a Saturday afternoon to forget.
East bizarrely decided to dismiss Sunderland's Wes Brown after awarding the spot-kick from which Rooney broke the deadlock, even though John O'Shea was clearly the man who pulled back Radamel Falcao in the penalty box.
The mistake came on the day football's lawmakers delayed live trials of video technology at matches for at least 12 months.
The home fans at Old Trafford grew increasingly agitated after watching the latest sub-par performance from their star-studded team in the first half, but Rooney placated them with his controversial 66th-minute spot-kick.
And the United talisman rounded off the win with six minutes to go after he nodded in from close range.
United boss Louis van Gaal will not care too much about the fact that referee East got the wrong man.
He will probably be more concerned about watching replays of the first half.
United were woefully poor at times. Their passing was poor and their attempts to turn defence into attack were way too slow.
Angel di Maria took the blame for the poor opening 45 minutes. The British record signing was substituted at half-time following a wasteful showing.
Still, Van Gaal will point to the fact that his team returned to winning ways - and they are back up to third in the Barclays Premier League.
Van Gaal made a point of criticising his strikers at his pre-match press conference on Friday, but they were not the ones who were at fault in the first half against the Black Cats.
Rooney and Falcao were starved of success thanks to a poor showing from a midfield containing £110million worth of talent.
Rooney did have an early chance after giving his marker the slip, but he could only nod wide.
Other than that, the United captain was starved of service.
It was Sunderland - the team who had won just one league game in nine prior to this weekend - who looked the most threatening team early on.
Connor Wickham was allowed to drift in from the left flank and glide unopposed for 20 yards before driving a low shot towards goal. Not for the first time this season, David de Gea rescued United. He tipped Wickham's shot around the post and was on hand to save from Jermain Defoe moments later.
Di Maria admitted this week that his performances had not been up to scratch and that was certainly the case on Saturday.
The Argentinian looked anything but a £59.7million player. His only success was when he swung a cross to the back post which was cleared to Ashley Young, who wastefully volleyed over.
Di Maria and Ander Herrera were being easily out-muscled by the Sunderland midfield and the United fans were not happy.
Jonny Evans was booed when he played the ball back to De Gea when and the fans yelled ``Attack! Attack! Attack!''.
For a brief moment, the players heeded their calls.
Young chested down a Di Maria cross and blasted a low shot at goal which was turned onto the bar by O'Shea.
Costel Pantilimon then tipped Rooney's free-kick over the bar and Sebastian Larsson cleared off the line from Marcos Rojo.
In the final move of the half, Di Maria sprinted down the left on the counter, but his ball to Falcao was sloppy - way too sloppy for a man who arrived at Old Trafford with a £59.7million price tag.
It came as no surprise when Di Maria was hooked at half-time, replaced by Adnan Januzaj.
Januzaj's pace offered United more incision, but otherwise it was a similar story for the hosts, whose performance was laboured and unproductive.
The little Belgian did well to strike a fierce volley on the hour, but the shot whistled just wide.
Then came the moment where the match turned in United's favour. Falcao found space in the area, but just as he was about to shoot, O'Shea pulled his shirt back and Brown intercepted the ball.
East pointed to the spot and sent Brown off, much to the shock of O'Shea. The Irishman told the referee he had pulled Falcao back and not Brown, but East stood by his decision and after a few minutes' protest, the former United right-back walked.
Once all the confusion had died down, Rooney blasted the ball past Pantilimon to put United ahead.
The United fans seemed to object to Van Gaal's second substitution by booing as Falcao was replaced by Marouane Fellaini.
But they were happy again when Rooney wrapped up the win by nodding in from close range after Pantilimon had spilled Januzaj's shot.

Google Deepmind recently developed an AI which learns itself from scratch

Google recently developed an AI which learns!

Google's DeepMind AI can beat 49 Atari video games. That may not sound like much, but the real deal here is it taught itself to play. It represents a breakthrough in artificial intelligence capable of learning from scratch without being fed instructions from human.

Just imagine these kinds of intelligence with superior computing speed and perfect execution would be develop not only for simple games but for different real-life task, robotics, and even for technological and scientific advancement.

A video on Google's AI

Disrespectful Maoist , they don't value peoples they just value power.

Disrespectful Maoist , they don't value peoples they just value power.

Maoist are destroying peoples lives in the name of protest. They just value power and the nation to run as they want it to run. The on-going protest on khula manch , Kathmandu. Peoples have been hurt and some of them had their only way of living destroyed.  

The crowd here in Khula Manch, Kathmandu is unbelievable. The number of peoples, unimaginable. And an interesting thing is they are mostly peoples living out of valley.

Photo Source: MRR - Facebook

Police baton Charge opposition rally at Baneshwor

KATHMANDU, FEB 28 - The 30-party opposition alliance led by UCPN (Maoist) is demonstrating its ‘show of strength’ at Khulamanch in the Capital on Saturday in order to pile pressure on the ruling parties to give up the voting process adopted at Constituent Assembly (CA) and comprehend with the past agreements to draft the constitution through consensus. 

The UCPN (M) leader Baburam Bhattarai is leading the rally from Kalanki, Narayan Kaji Shrestha from Tinkune and Barshaman Pun from Lagankhel. These mass will converge at Khulamanch where the leaders of opposition alliance will address the rally.

Meanwhile, the mass led by Shrestha from Tinkune has crossed the restricted area at New Baneshwor. Security personnel had stopped the mass in front of Trolley Bus office and disallowed them from moving past the CA building.

However, the mass pushed itself forward through the middle of the road and the security personnel had to resort to baton charge and also fired few rounds of tear gas shells in order to contain the agitating mass. Cases of injuries to both sides have been reported.

The District Administration Office, Kathmandu had announced the 750 meter area from Trolley Bus office to Everest Hotel as restricted area.

Industrialist shot dead in Biratnagar

BIRATNAGAR, FEB 27 - Industrialist Govinda Khatiwada has been shot at by unidentified persons at local Trimurti Chowk at 6:15 pm on Friday evening.

Deputy Superintendent of Police, Prabhu Prasad Dhakal, said that an unidentified person shot at Khatiwada injuring him on wrist and thigh. The person fired two rounds seriously injuring the sixty-year-old. He was rushed to Biratnagar Nursing Home, and he is now reported to be out of danger.

The police further said an eyewitness had informed that that industrialist Khatiwada was shot at by a person riding a motorcycle with Indian registration number plate.

A manhunt for the shooter is underway, said the police.

Officer caught red handed taking Rs 50,000 bribe

RAJBIRAJ, FEB 27 - The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Friday caught red-handed one gazetted third-class officer while receiving Rs 50,000 in bribe at Rajbiraj Revenue Office. The anti-graft team also took the service seeker into custody.

The arrested have been identified as gazetted third-class officer Rajendra Prasad Sah and service seeker Ambar Yadav of Rajbiraj-5. The service seeker was paying the money to Sah in exchange for the promise to settle a land related case.

“Based on a tip-off, we were keeping a close tabs on the activities of service seekers and the Land Revenue Office for the past three days,” said Gokul Niraula, an officer at CIAA’s contact office in Itahari. “We caught the duo red handed after the service seeker Yadav called officer Sah inside the registration room of the office and gave him the bribe money.”

The CIAA organised a press conference in Rajbiraj to make public the guilty of corruption charges.

At the conference, accused officer Sah claimed service seeker Yadav put the money into his pocket though he had not demanded the bribe money. But Yadav claimed he had to make the payment after Sah nagged him by repeatedly asking for money to settle the case.

Source: ekantipur.com

Leonard Nimoy better known as Spock died at the age of 83 because of COPD

Leonard Nimoy better known as Spock died at the age of 83 because of COPD 

Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy, who lived long and prospered alongside his alter ego Mr. Spock, died Friday at his Los Angeles home. The creator of television’s most beloved pointy-eared, hyper-logical half-Vulcan, was 83. The death of the “Star Trek” star was confirmed by his wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, and his son, Adam.Nimoy had suffered for several years from chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), which makes it difficult to breathe. 

“I quit smoking 30 yrs ago,” he tweeted last week. “Not soon enough. I have COPD. Grandpa says, quit now!! LLAP.” 

“LLAP” was Spock’s best-known catch phrase: Live long and prosper.


Leonard Nimoy lived up to his longtime catchphrase: Live long and prosper. Having achieved success in many arenas during his lifetime, the actor, director, writer and photographer has died at age 83. His wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, reportedly confirmed his death to the New York Times, saying the cause was end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Most widely known for his performance as half-human, half-Vulcan science officer Spock on the classic sci-fi TV show “Star Trek” and its many subsequent film and videogame incarnations, Nimoy was also a successful director, helming “Star Trek” pics “The Search for Spock” and “The Voyage Home,” as well as non-“Star Trek” fare; an accomplished stage actor; a published writer and poet; and a noted photographer. He also dabbled in singing and songwriting.

SWINE FLU OUTBREAK !

SWINE FLU OUTBREAK

Just when we had put a dangerous outbreak of avian flu behind us, the recent news of a prominent government official, National Planning Commission Joint Secretary Bhaba Krishna Bhattarai has succumbed to swine flu.So far 17 have been victimized by it this year.

The news has taken the nation by storm. Swine flu has been detected before in Nepal, though it has not been detected in swine.

When it was first discovered in humans in 2009, it caused a nationwide panic, with people coming in droves to get checked for swine flu, and one school in Hetauda even instituting a rule on all students to wear masks. Because swine flu is highly contagious, spreading even from minimal contact and sneezes, the fear that it may become an epidemic was high.

However, times have changed since 2009. In the interim, swine flu has already spread in Nepal. It has become so common in humans that one in every four persons with flu is estimated to have swine flu. Most Nepalis have developed immunity to it, and thus walk around oblivious to the virus in their bodies even though people in many parts of the world continue to die from the flu.

To date, there has not been a single death in Nepal from avian flu, leading to the conclusion that it (avian flu) was effectively contained in Nepal. Bhaba Krishna Bhattarai’s death from swine flu has led to the opposite conclusion, but in fact, Bhattarai had not contracted the flu from local contagions. He had just come back from a trip to the US. And even in 2009, swine flu had been detected in incoming travelers from many different countries.

Though most of us are not in immediate danger from swine flu, it affects different people differently based on individual immunity powers. Children, the elderly, and those already suffering from diseases are vulnerable to it.

To them it may prove fatal, even though swine flu can be easily cured if detected in preliminary stages. Meanwhile, the government has not been proactive in providing the vaccine for swine flu, which have just arrived in the country after several years of order.

A faster reaction to such epidemics is definitely warranted, seeing that the viruses that cause flu mutate into new forms rapidly. A vaccine for one strain may soon be outdated when a newer, vaccine-resistant strain develops. In Nepal, the vaccine for swine flu is still not available over the counter, and though the government has pledged to provide it for free, most people have no idea how to procure it.

There is a need to raise awareness among the public about the danger that swine flu poses to us. Cases of flu and symptoms like fever, runny nose, sore throat, etc should not be taken lightly. But at the same time, it is important to avoid the kind of panic generated in 2009.

The knowledge of antidotes that are available in case the flu becomes serious must be widespread. Though we have relatively little to be afraid of from swine flu, it does not mean that the danger has been completely eliminated.

Precautions to be taken to prevent SWINE FLU

• Avoid close contact with people who are sick
• Stay inside when sick
• Cover mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing
• Washing hands often helps protect one from germs
• Avoid touching eyes, nose or mouth
• Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage stress, drink plenty of fluids and eat nutritious food.

Use mask to prevent SWINE FLU

Acid attack in Kathmandu raises questions over safety of girls

KATHMANDU, Nepal  – Sangita Magar’s completely swollen and partially disfigured face showed all the agony she has been going through.
Whenever she tried to speak, her swollen lips would prevent her from doing so. Tears would then roll down to her hospital bedsheet. Her mother Chameli Magar keeps wiping her itchy, sticky eyes but this brings no respite from her suffering. She just lay straight and helpless on the bed, closing her watery eyes.
Sangita Magar, 16, one of the victims of Sunday’s acid attack at Basantapur-based Minus Plus Institute, a tuition center for SLC-appearing students, receiving treatment at Kathmandu Medical College as her mother sits beside her with a solemn expression. (Shreejana Shrestha/Republica)
Sangita is just 16 and dreams of nothing else but scoring good grades in the upcoming School Leaving Certificate (SLC) exams. Her dream now seems elusive. She is the victim of an acid attack that took place at Basantapur, Sunday morning. She has sustained serious injuries to the abdomen, chest, right hand and leg.
She, along with two friends, came under acid attack while attending supplementary tuition near her rented rooms at Bansantapur. A masked man had stormed into the room to carry out the attack
“Our teacher was absent, so I was helping my friend Seema with accounting. Suddenly a man with a black cap came in at around 6 a.m. and threw a bottle of acid at us,” said Sangita. Her friend Hebu, who escaped injury in the attack, rushed her home.
Sangita’s father Prem Bahadur Magar said that he poured cold water on her head as she was hurting badly and rushed her to Bir Hospital. As the case was serious, she was referred to Kathmandu Model Hospital.
“As far as we know, our daughter is not in any relationship with anyone. She is a very quiet and homely person,” informed her father.
Throwing of acid at women and girls is quite rare in Kathmandu, unlike in the Tarai districts and across the border. The way Sangita and her friends were attacked in broad daylight in the capital reflects the grim situation of women and girls in the country.
Sangita has been living with her family in rented quarters at Basantapur for over seven years and does not hesitate to call it her home, a place where she feels safe and cozy. However, what happened on Sunday in the ‘hometown she admires’ is her worst nightmare come true
Sangita is in shock. But remarkably, the horrible incident has not deflected her from her aim of excelling in the SLC exams that start from 19 March. “Even after the acid attack she has been repeating that she wants to appear the SLC and study science later on,” said her mother in a tearful voice.