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.

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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.