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This 900-year-old bowl made in China just sold for $37M

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HONG KONG – A nearly 900-year-old porcelain Song dynasty bowl smashed the world auction record for Chinese ceramics on Tuesday, selling for $37.68 million…
HONG KONG – A nearly 900-year-old porcelain Song dynasty bowl smashed the world auction record for Chinese ceramics on Tuesday, selling for $37.68 million at a Sotheby’s sale in Hong Kong.
The small, blue-green item broke the previous record, also set in a sale in Hong Kong, when a 500-year-old imperial “chicken” cup from the Ming dynasty Chenghua period sold for $36.0 million in 2014, Sotheby’s said.
The 5-inch bowl, used to wash brushes, was fired in the famed Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) kilns in Ruzhou, and was sold to an anonymous buyer after a 20-minute bidding battle.
Such “Ru guanyao” wares — known for their intense blue-green glaze and “ice-crackle” pattern — are extremely rare because the kiln in China’s central Henan province had a brief production run of only around two decades.
The bowl, from the Chang Foundation in Taiwan’s Hongxi Museum, is one of only four known pieces of Ru heirlooms in private hands. Since 1940, no more than six Ru vessels have ever appeared at auction, according to ceramics expert Regina Krahl.
“We’ve had in last 20 years a huge sort of influx of mainland Chinese buyers. We’re filling the room with new prices, new interest and that’s what’s really driven the price today,” said Sotheby’s Asia deputy chairman Nicolas Chow, who declined to reveal the nationality of the buyer.

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Did Manafort Use Trump’s Campaign to Pay Back Russia?

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The darkest theory of the 2016 campaign becomes extremely plausible.
Before he took control of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Paul Manafort ran a political influence operation in Ukraine. Manafort’s goal in Ukraine was to elect a corrupt, pro-Russian party led by Viktor Yanukovych, and to prevent the country’s government from falling into the hands of pro-Western opposition. Perhaps the darkest read of the Russia scandal is that Trump was an American Yanukovych — a pro-Russian candidate, elected with Russian backing, at the direction of Manafort. That dark scenario is what the recent revelations about Manafort’s role all point to.
Two weeks ago, the Washington Post reported that Robert Mueller and congressional investigators had obtained emails recording correspondence between Manafort and representatives of Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch. Being a billionaire in Russia is not like being a billionaire in the United States. It requires maintaining an intimate relationship with Vladimir Putin. Their foreign policy dealings do not involve freelancing. When he is dealing with Manafort, Deripaska is doing Putin’s bidding.
In one email obtained by the Post, Manafort asked, “How do we use to get whole?” Manafort’s spokesman tells the Post this means nothing, because “it’s no secret Mr. Manafort was owed money by past clients.” But the known contours of the relationship indicate just the opposite. It is not that Manafort was owed money. It appears Manafort owed the money.
The year before Manafort joined Trump’s campaign, Deripaska filed a complaint in a Cayman Islands court that Manafort had borrowed $19 million from him and failed to account for it, and even hired a private investigator to track down Manafort, who had essentially gone into hiding. Julia Ioffe and Franklin Foer have obtained the emails that the Post reported on earlier. And while the messages are written carefully and frequently encoded — they refer to “black caviar jars” to mean payments, for instance — they indicate that Manafort was trying to impress Deripaska with his work as Trump’s campaign manager.
Manafort’s role as unpaid campaign manager for Donald Trump gave him a position of potentially enormous value to Russia. His massive debts to a Kremlin-aligned oligarch made him enormously vulnerable to being used as an agent of Russian influence. This is probably why the FBI was wiretapping Manafort, as CNN has reported, and why espionage experts have described Manafort as having the profile of an “ideal spy.” The emails are crucial because they go beyond circumstantial evidence to show Manafort communicating with Russian paymasters.
More specifically, he can be seen displaying his relationship with Trump to the person he apparently owed a massive sum of money. If he was using his position to get whole, as he wrote, it would mean Manafort was delivering favors to Russia through the Trump campaign in order to pay off his debt.
Having a president’s campaign manager secretly working on behalf of a hostile power would constitute a scandal of almost unimaginable scale (unimaginable in the pre-Trump world, anyway.) But this might not be the totality of the scandal. Many reports have suggested that Robert Mueller is not only trying to target Manafort, but is hoping to find sufficient evidence of criminality to induce Manafort to flip on Donald Trump. One short passage in a CNN report from last month is worth pinning in your memory: While Manafort left his position as campaign manager in August 2016, he continued to speak with Trump through the campaign and even after Trump took office. Their conversations continued “until lawyers for the President and Manafort insisted that they stop,” CNN learned.
Whatever problems Manafort faces with Mueller, Trump’s exposure to those problems may be fairly extensive.

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Трагедія в таборі Одеси: екс-заступниця Труханова отримала підозру

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Прокуратура Одеської області повідомила про підозру екс-заступниці міського голови Одеси Зінаїді Цвірінько у неналежному виконанні своїх службових обов’язків, унаслідок чого через пожежу в таборі «Вікторія» загинули троє дітей. Новини України, Одеса, Пожежа в таборі Одеси, Кримінальні новини, ГПУ, Розслідування — Телеканал новин 24
Прокуратура Одеської області повідомила про підозру екс-заступниці міського голови Одеси Зінаїді Цвірінько у неналежному виконанні своїх службових обов’язків, унаслідок чого через пожежу в таборі «Вікторія» загинули троє дітей.
Про це у Facebook повідомила прес-секретар генпрокурора Лариса Сарган.
Зазначимо, що 21 вересня стало відомо про те, що мер Одеси Геннадій Труханов підписав звільнення з посади у зв’язку із виходом на пенсію свого заступника з гуманітарних питань Зінаїди Цвірінько.
Як уточнили в ГПУ, Цвірінько повідомлено про підозру у вчиненні кримінального правопорушення, передбаченого ч.2 ст.367 КК (службова халатість).
За даними Сарган, Цвірінько підозрюється в тому, що «внаслідок неналежного виконання своїх службових обов’язків через несумлінне ставлення до них, будучи обізнаною про порушення правил пожежної безпеки у вищезазначеному закладі, не вжила заходів щодо укладення договорів на обслуговування високотехнологічних сучасних систем пожежогасіння, а також сприяла заселенню дітей до оздоровчо-спортивного комплексу, який фактично не був готовий до експлуатації».
Речниця генпрокурора також додала, що співробітники прокуратури Одещини спільно зі слідчими та оперативниками Нацполіції проводять близько 20 обшуків на 14 підприємствах у межах розслідування кримінального провадження за фактом службового підроблення.
«За даними слідства, вказані підприємства входять до кола юридичних осіб, які протягом 2015 — 2016 років здійснювали фінансово-господарську діяльність спільно з генпідрядником щодо реконструкції дитячого табору «Вікторія», – написала Сарган.
Досудове розслідування у кримінальних провадженнях триває.
Нагадаємо, пожежа в дитячому таборі «Вікторія» в Одесі спалахнула в ніч на 16 вересня. У результаті 3 дитини загинули та ще 3 потрапили до лікарні.

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Woman orders yoga mat, receives $400K worth of drugs instead

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That’s not what she ordered.
That’s not what she ordered.
A South Carolina woman was shocked when she opened up a package she received in the mail to find it contained a large bag of illegal drugs.
The Rock Hill woman, who wanted to remain anonymous, said she met her mail carrier outside her home expecting to receive the yoga mat she had ordered.
Instead, the woman was handed a heavy box and a bag of pills, which had spilled out of the package, ABC reports .
Handcuffed man who jumped off Bronx highway busted with oxycodone
According to WSOCTV, the box contained roughly 20,000 oxycodone pills worth an estimated $400,000.
The woman said she immediately called police.
York County drug agents told the outlet that the box was shipped from Newport Beach, California.
Drug unit commander Marvin Brown said that the drugs are usually shipped to «vacant apartments [and] homes where people have gone to work for the day.»
Police seize 677 pounds of drugs after domestic disturbance call
He said the pickup person waits outside the home to accept the package.
Brown said he thinks whoever mailed the box most likely meant to send it to the woman’s old address because no one is living there.
However, the street was misspelled on the package so the post office found the woman’s current address and forwarded it to her.
«The dealers weren’t as intelligent as they thought they were,» he said.
N. J. mailman had undelivered mail, drug paraphernalia: cops
The pills have all been taken into evidence by the Rock Hill Police Department. The narcotics team said it will try and trace the package to find out who sent it and who was supposed to receive it.

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The Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy

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Fully opening this new window on the universe will take decades—even centuries
Editor’s Note (10/3/17): This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.” This article is being resurfaced to highlight scientists’ plans to hunt for the elusive spacetime ripples in the near and far future.
A century ago, when Albert Einstein first predicted the existence of gravitational waves —subtle ripples in spacetime produced by massive objects hurtling through the cosmos—he also guessed they could not ever be seen. Although the echoes of distant celestial symphonies must ripple through the very fabric of reality, Einstein thought their ethereal harmonies were destined to remain eternally unheard.
On Thursday, scientists using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) proved Einstein both right and wrong, announcing their detection of the first note in a cosmic symphony he predicted no one would ever hear. It was a burbling chirp of gravitational waves produced by the cataclysmic birth of a black hole from the merger of two smaller ones. Emitted in a distant galaxy when multicellular life was just beginning to populate Earth, the waves traveled at the speed of light for more than a billion years to at last wash over our planet last September, taking just seven milliseconds to traverse the distance between LIGO’s twin listening stations in Louisiana and Washington State.
Now, unlike Einstein a century ago who could scarcely imagine gravitational waves ever being seen, the scientists hunting the elusive spacetime ripples already have big plans for more detectors and observatories in the near and far future.
“Imagine light having never been collected in a photograph,” says Janna Levin, an astrophysicist at Barnard College of Columbia University and author of a forthcoming book about LIGO. “The first thing people want to do is just to capture the recording, which is what LIGO has done.”
Soon, astronomers say, LIGO will record and unveil far more than the birth cries of newborn black holes. It and other operational observatories are already looking for ripples from the violent death throes of massive stars and from collisions of city-size orbs of degenerate matter called neutron stars. Current observatories could also help reveal what makes spinning neutron stars called pulsars tick, mapping their starquake-shaken interiors and any centimeters-high “mountains” (which would weigh roughly the mass of a planet because of neutron stars’ extreme density) that could pop up on their surfaces.
Decades from now new generations of space telescopes could capture the mergers of supermassive black holes and glimpse pulsars spiraling to doom down their maws, or see snapping “cosmic strings,” proton-thin intergalactic defects in spacetime that may have been stretched across the infant universe during an inflationary growth spurt. Tracked and timed by radio telescopes, rapidly spinning pulsars can themselves be transformed into galaxy-spanning detectors sensitive to spacetime ripples with wavelengths measured in light-years. Ultimately, the most ambitious gravitational wave observatories astronomers can presently conceive might someday record the hiss of waves emitted in the first fractions of a trillionth of a second after the big bang. Then, cosmologists could watch—could listen—as the first seeds of cosmic structure crystallized from a seething quantum fog.
What most excites scientists, though, is the unknown. “Are there things out there that we’ve never even wrapped our heads around with telescopes?” Levin wonders. “Seeing black holes collide is a golden discovery, but we expected that. What else is out there? I want to see something dark.”
“The skies will never be the same,” says Szabolcs Márka, a physicist and LIGO team member at Columbia University. “Imagine you can touch, smell, taste, and see—and one day you can hear. That day is a glorious day. This is what has happened to us, as humanity. From today, we can hear the cosmos. We can see the unseen.”
The most expensive “nothing” ever made.
Having found its first signal, LIGO is now gearing up to transform them into routine tools for astronomy. The twin LIGO stations each pass laser light back and forth between mirrors along perpendicular four-kilometer-long arms arranged in an L. An incoming wave would slightly warp these arms so that one became longer or shorter than the other by only a few thousandths the radius of a single proton, altering the flight time of the light and triggering a detection. Any number of background noises can scuttle the delicate measurement—LIGO can also hear ocean waves pounding distant coastlines, airplanes flying overhead and even the seismic hum from washing machines.
“We’re trying to detect something smaller than the atoms our detector is built of,” says Imre Bartos, a LIGO member and lecturer at Columbia University. “It doesn’t sound believable, to be honest with you.” That LIGO can hear gravitational waves at all over the cacophony of background noise is due to both stations recently receiving a series of noise-canceling “Advanced LIGO” upgrades that will soon make them 10 times more sensitive than they were during a fruitless first-generation search that occurred between 2002 and 2010. All told, the upgrades bring the experiment’s total cost to more than $1 billion, most of it paid by the National Science Foundation. LIGO’s ultra-high-vacuum hermetic perfection, Márka quips, is “the most expensive ‘nothing’ ever made.”
As Advanced LIGO reaches its maximum sensitivity and plans a third listening station in India, it will work in tandem with other European laser interferometers such as GEO600 and Advanced VIRGO to rapidly make the detection of gravitational waves routine. “We’ve just made a machine that has given humanity a new sense, beyond the usual five,” says LIGO team member Rana Adhikari, a Caltech physicist who helped develop the upgrades. “We’re going to have to learn what it is like to feel the burbling of space with these brand-new gravitational fingers.”
With gravitational waves set to soon ripple through several high-precision laser interferometers on Earth, astronomers will be also be able to locate where exactly each set of the ripples is coming from. LIGO’s first detection of colliding black holes, by contrast, could only be traced to a huge arc of sky over the Southern Hemisphere. Pinpointing the sources of gravitational waves will allow astronomers to point other telescopes their way, boosting the chances of learning more about them via x-rays, gamma-rays, radio waves, neutrinos and more.
Burying the noise
The current generation of ground-based laser interferometers can only go so far, however. The length, number and location of an interferometer’s arms intimately influence its resilience against background noise and the varieties of gravitational waves it can probe. LIGO’s four-kilometer-long arms are the biggest in the world, but at the project’s Louisiana site the encroaching, noisy sprawl of nearby Baton Rouge is getting too close for comfort to the delicate detectors.
Researchers are now planning and building a next generation of even bigger and more isolated detectors deep beneath the ground where hundreds of meters of overlying rock shield against most anthropogenic noises and seismic stresses. In the Kamioka mine in Japan, the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA) is already taking shape as workers construct twin sets of three-kilometer arms in newly bored tunnels. Slated to enter operation in 2018, KAGRA will use cryogenically cooled mirrors of sapphire to deliver LIGO-like sensitivity.
After KAGRA, a consortium of European partners is forming tentative plans for an even more ambitious subterranean laser interferometer, the Einstein Telescope, which could come online in the late 2020s at a cost of $1 billion or $2 billion. Although it presently lacks funding and a construction site, its conceptual design calls for dual cryogenic and room-temperature beam lines running through three 10-kilometer arms arranged in the shape of an equilateral triangle rather than an L. That configuration would help it pinpoint the sources of gravitational waves on the sky and allow it to see the longer-wavelength ripples from a wider range of sources including binary white dwarfs, slower-spinning pulsars and intermediate-mass black holes weighing hundreds or thousands of suns. It would also begin to construct a reasonably detailed map of “background” sources of gravitational waves—the accumulated ripples from all the messy, violent mergers and explosions all across the sky.
“People wonder why we are not content with one gravitational-wave detector, why we wish to build bigger ones,” says Harald Lück, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany who is a member of the GEO600 and Einstein Telescope teams. “Like electromagnetic radiation, gravitational waves cover an incredibly large range of wavelengths, and you can’t catch all of them with any single facility.” On the ground, Lück says, the arms of laser interferometers are unlikely to ever exceed 50 kilometers—past that, seismic noise, Earth’s curvature, imperfect optics and the great expense of digging deep tunnels would outweigh any conceivable scientific gains.
Sooner or later, it will simply be cheaper to forsake Earth, to build and operate truly giant gravitational-wave observatories in space.
Space is the place
Whenever the first gravitational wave mission launches into space, radio astronomers will wryly say they were there first. Using radio telescopes on the ground, researchers have already devised space-based gravitational wave detectors using nature’s resources: large numbers of pulsars spread throughout space that spin once every few milliseconds, sending out lighthouse-like beams of light that reach us in regular beats. By cross-correlating the arrival times of all the different pulses to nanosecond precision across decades, astronomers hope to detect gravitational waves with wavelengths measured in light-months and light-years as their passing periodic ripples distort spacetime around Earth. Merging galaxies should produce such extra-large waves as supermassive black holes at their galactic cores lock into orbital pairs and eventually collide. As compelling as the technique is, it has yet to deliver any detections, although the likelihood of success grows over time as astronomers incorporate more pulsars into their observations.
In addition to using pulsar timing, many researchers hope to also study gravitational waves through space-based laser interferometers. Freely floating in deep space far from Earth’s noise and gravity, such facilities could in theory boast arms of almost any length. In practice, however, designers of possible future missions have grappled with the great complexity of engineering such ambitious spacecraft as well as new frontiers of contaminating noise in space. Those limitations have constrained their designs to arm lengths of “only” millions of kilometers.
In the 2000s NASA and the European Space Agency jointly worked to develop a Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a constellation of three satellites that would form a triangular interferometer with three five-million-kilometer arms. That would be big enough to see gravitational waves emitted by any merging supermassive black holes that may have existed around the time when the universe’s first stars began to shine, about a hundred million years after the big bang.
In 2011, however, NASA abandoned the effort due to its high estimated cost and shortfalls in the agency’s science funding. ESA regrouped and downsized the project to become “eLISA,” an “evolved” design calling for three satellites forming one-million-kilometer arms that could lift off in the mid-2030s. Last December ESA launched eLISA’s precursor, a technology development mission called LISA Pathfinder. Meanwhile, other researchers are attempting to develop an alternate space-based interferometry technology that uses microscopic clouds of atoms rather than bulky spacecraft to further shrink the need for long, expensive baselines.
Regardless of the interferometric technique used, “the science case for a space-based interferometer has never been in doubt,” says Paul McNamara, ESA’s project scientist for LISA Pathfinder. “It would allow us to look at the biggest, most violent events in the universe and map the entire history of mergers across a huge slice of cosmic time…. What has always been in doubt is whether it is possible to build an instrument that can measure to picometer-precision across millions of kilometers after having the life shaken out of it by a rocket launch.”
Currently under commissioning in an orbit some 1.5 million kilometers sunward of Earth, LISA Pathfinder is set to begin science operations in March, although it will not be capable of seeking gravitational waves. Instead, it will demonstrate that its payload of two gold-platinum cubes can come as close as possible to a state of weightless, perfect rest. Held in a shielded vacuum enclosure within the spacecraft, the cubes should feel essentially no outside forces other than gravity. If separated by millions of kilometers and linked by lasers, such a system could then detect the exquisitely small distance changes caused by passing gravitational waves. Reaching a state of perfect rest within a sunlight-baked spacecraft studded with heaters, antennas, and thrusters is far from easy, however.
“Think of the weight of a bacterium sitting on your hand—that’s roughly the same amount of residual acceleration, of force, that a cube [is allowed to] deviate from freefall” on the spacecraft, McNamara says. Lasers on LISA Pathfinder measure a cube’s distance from the enclosure’s walls, directing microthrusters that keep the spacecraft centered on the cube. The microthrusters are so minuscule that a thousand firing at full blast could barely lift a sheet of notebook paper in Earth’s gravity—yet the 450-kilogram LISA Pathfinder only carries six.
Mapping the newborn cosmos
In 2005, before it abandoned LISA, NASA conducted a small study investigating a possible super-sized successor comprising a complex arrangement of four LISA-like constellations with beefier lasers and telescopes. Called the “Big Bang Observer,” the mission as conceived would probably be so astonishingly expensive that few if any researchers have dared to actually estimate its price tag. It would be sensitive to nearly all the same targets investigated by LIGO and LISA out to distances of 10 billion light-years or more, but its true goal would be to assemble a detailed map of gravitational waves from the earliest eras of the primordial universe.
This “stochastic gravitational wave background” would contain crucial information about the universe’s very first moments and its mysterious era of inflation, when it seems to have almost instantaneously ballooned from proton- to grapefruit-sized, amplifying quantum-scale density fluctuations along the way that shaped the first large-scale cosmic structures. In its importance for our understanding of—well, everything—measuring such a signal would be even more revolutionary than mapping the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the relic light from when the early universe first cooled to transparency some 380,000 years after the big bang.
The CMB is a literal firewall on efforts to peer further back in time using light—nearly all information about earlier events carried by photons was erased as they bounced aimlessly within the hot, dense plasma that suffused the infant universe. Yet for primordial gravitational waves, the CMB is not a firewall—it is a window. Those with very long wavelengths could leave faint imprints in the CMB to mark their passing. Most primordial waves would breeze through without a trace, however, scarcely interacting with anything else in the universe for all the rest of time—at least until they ripple through the right detector.
“In a way, the stochastic background is the hardest thing to detect, but also the one which would offer you the most insight, because black holes and neutron stars are kind of old hat,” says Bruce Allen, a LIGO team member and director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. “Let’s suppose we jump ahead a thousand years to when our highly advanced civilization has built observatories that cover the whole gravitational spectrum.” Such tools could map the spectrum of primordial gravitational waves and perhaps distinguish “kinks and bumps” within it that reveal the earliest and most epochal milestones in the universe’s evolution.
“Maybe it’s not a thousand years away,” Allen goes on. “Maybe it’s just a century until something like the Big Bang Observer, and a century after that we’ll build something broadband. What matters is that getting the stochastic background’s spectrum is one of the last things humans will ever be able to do with studies of gravitational waves. Somewhere out there in the universe there’s probably a civilization that has already done it. We just haven’t—yet.”

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Прогноз погоди: В Україну йде потепління з дощами

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У найближчу добу холодне повітря поступово покине територію України, йому на заміну прийде більш тепла повітряна маса, яка несе з собою дощі, повідомляє Інтерфакс-Україна з посиланням на Укргідрометцентр
У найближчу добу холодне повітря поступово покине територію України, йому на заміну прийде більш тепла повітряна маса, яка несе з собою дощі, повідомляє Інтерфакс-Україна з посиланням на Укргідрометцентр.
У середу, 4 жовтня, вночі в західних регіонах, а також у Житомирській, Вінницькій областях, і вдень в Карпатському регіоні, північних і більшості центральних областей очікуються дощі; на решті території — без опадів.
Температура вночі 4-9° тепла, на узбережжі Чорного моря до 12°, в східних регіонах, Дніпропетровській і Запорізькій областях 1-6° тепла, на поверхні грунту та місцями в повітрі заморозки 0-5°, вдень 12-17° тепла, в Одеській і Миколаївській до 20°, у північних та місцями західних областях 9-14°.
У Києві, 4 жовтня, вночі без опадів, вдень дощ, температура вночі 6-8° тепла, вдень 11-13°.
У четвер, 5 жовтня, в західних, північних, місцями центральних та східних областях прогнозується невеликий короткочасний дощ, на решті території — без опадів.
Температура вночі 5-11° тепла, на узбережжі Чорного моря до 14°, в східних регіонах і Запорізькій областях 1-6° тепла, на поверхні грунту місцями заморозки 0-3°, вдень 10-16° тепла, на півдні до 20°.
У Києві, 5 жовтня, місцями невеликий короткочасний дощ, температура вночі 7-9° тепла, вдень 12-14°.

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5 PH films take the spotlight at the Tokyo fest

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Five Filipino films will be showcased at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival in Japan, from Oct. 25 to Nov. 3.
Five Filipino films will be showcased at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival in Japan, from Oct. 25 to Nov. 3.
Two Filipino films are competing in the Tokyo fest’s Asian Future section. Loy Arcenas’ big-screen musical adaptation of Nick Joaquin’s “Ang Larawan” (The Portrait) will make its world premiere at the Tokyo fest as part of the Asian Future section. The fest’s website describes Arcenas’ film as “a romantic family-themed musical with brilliant singing by world-renowned stars.”
Joanna Ampil, who played Kim in the West End production of “Miss Saigon,” topbills “Ang Larawan,” along with Rachel Alejandro and Paulo Avelino.
Making its international premiere in the Asian Future section is Arnel Arbi Barbarona’s “Tu Pug Imatuy” (The Right to Kill). The Tokyo fest’s website calls Barbarona’s film “a tense, multi-award-winning” work.
“Tu Pug Imatuy” won best picture at this year’s Sinag Maynila Film Festival, which is spearheaded by Cannes-winning Filipino director Brillante Ma Mendoza.
Daniel Palacio’s “Pailalim” (Underground), which is produced by Mendoza, is included in the World Focus section. The Tokyo fest’s website sums up Palacio’s film as “a family drama that bridges the gap between the living and the dead.”
According to the site, “Pailalim,” which debuted at this year’s San Sebastián fest, is “a story of struggle, survival and love in a place nobody could call home.” Palacio’s film will be having its Asian premiere at the Tokyo fest.
Another Sinag Maynila film, HF Yambao’s “Kristo,” is featured in the Crosscut Asia: What’s Next Southeast Asia? program. Yambao’s movie centers on the struggles of a cockfight bet collector who moonlights as a market vendor. The Crosscut Asia section includes films chosen by different screen luminaries from the region and Mendoza recommended “Kristo” to the fest.
Mendoza is slated to give a master class on the topic, “working with actors,” at the fest on Oct. 26. The Tokyo event’s website commends Mendoza for “leading Filipino cinema into its ripe Third Golden Age.”
A cinematic gem from the Second Golden Age of Philippine cinema, the restored version of Mike de Leon’s 1980 musical-comedy “Kakabakaba Ka Ba?” (Will Your Heart Beat Faster?), will be shown in the Discovering Asian Cinema program of the Crosscut Asia section.
The president of this year’s main competition jury is Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones. A special retrospective on the works of Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh will also be mounted this year.

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U. S. expels 15 Cuban diplomats over Havana embassy mystery illness

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Fifteen diplomats were expelled from Cuba’s Washington embassy on Tuesday, a response to an illness which pared the U. S. presence in its Havana embassy.
Oct. 3 (UPI) — Fifteen diplomats were expelled from Cuba’s Washington embassy on Tuesday, a response to a mysterious illness which reduced the U. S. presence in its Havana embassy.
The White House announcement comes days after the State Department removed non-essential personnel from the U. S. embassy in Havana.
Only 27 people now work at the Havana embassy. At issue is a condition at the embassy causing permanent hearing loss and possible brain damage to embassy personnel. The U. S. State Department said at least 22 embassy staff have been injured while on duty. It remains unclear who or what is responsible for the illnesses.
The White House has not blamed Cuba for the mysterious events, but has repeatedly stated that Cuba bears responsibility for ending them. The State Department also expelled two Cuban diplomats in May over the incidents.
Tuesday’s reduction in Cuba’s workforce in Washington will ensure that «we have equitable staffing levels» between Cuba and the United States, a State Department official said. The Cuban diplomats were given seven days to leave Washington.
The State Department official said diplomatic ties between the two countries, established during former President Barack Obama ‘s administration, remain intact. The official added, though, that a full U. S. presence in Havana depends on «full assurances» from Cuba of U. S. personnel safety.
Since the start of the illnesses, the administration of President Donald Trump has stopped issuing visas to Cuban citizens hoping to visit the United States and issued a travel warning to U. S. citizens visiting Cuba.

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House GOP proposes 5-year extension for children's health

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House Republicans are proposing a five-year extension of financing for a program that provides health insurance for millions of low-income children.
House Republicans are proposing a five-year extension of financing for a popular program that provides health insurance for 8.9 million low-income children.
GOP lawmakers have unveiled the measure three days after federal funding for the program expired. Though no states are expected to immediately run out of money, some are preparing to take initial steps to wind down their programs amid uncertainty over what Congress will do.
The proposal would increase Medicare premiums on high-earning people and take other steps to pay for extending the children’s health program.
The measure includes an additional $1 billion for Puerto Rico’s Medicaid program.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee plans to vote on the bill Wednesday. The Senate Finance Committee is expected to approve a similar measure the same day.
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Нобелевская премия по физике: чем важно открытие лауреатов

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Ученые обнаружили гравитационные волны
Во вторник, 3 октября, ученые Райнер Вайсс, Барри Бариш и Кип Торн получили Нобелевскую премию по физике — за обнаружение гравитационных волн детектором LIGO.
О том, почему это открытие является очень важным, пишет Meduza.
Руководитель лаборатории прикладной инфракрасной спектроскопии МФТИ, физик Александр Родин объяснил: если представить себе наше пространство-время как сеть координат, то гравитационные волны — это возмущения, рябь, которая будет бежать по сетке, когда массивные тела (например, черные дыры) искажают пространство вокруг себя.
«Это можно сравнить с землетрясением. Представьте, что вы живете в городе. В нем есть какие-то маркеры, которые создают городское пространство: дома, деревья и так далее. Они неподвижны. Когда где-то поблизости от города происходит крупное землетрясение, колебания доходят до нас — и колебаться начинают даже неподвижные дома и деревья. Вот эти колебания и являются гравитационными волнами; а объекты, которые колеблются, — это пространство и время», — объяснил он.
Конкретные усилия по обнаружению гравитационных волн начались в послевоенный период с несколько наивных устройств, чувствительности которых, очевидно, не могло хватить для регистрации таких колебаний. Со временем стало понятно, что детекторы для поиска должны быть очень масштабные — и они должны использовать современную лазерную технику. Именно с развитием современных лазерных технологий появилась возможность контролировать геометрию, возмущения которой и являются гравитационной волной. Мощнейшее развитие технологий сыграло ключевую роль в этом открытии. Какими бы гениальными ни были ученые, еще 30–40 лет назад сделать это было технически просто невозможно.
Гравитационные волны были предсказаны Альбертом Эйнштейном в общей теории относительности около ста лет назад. Все XX столетие находились физики, которые ставили под сомнение эту теорию, хотя появлялось все больше и больше подтверждений. И наличие гравитационных волн — это критическое подтверждение теории.
«Кроме того, до регистрации гравитационных волн о том, как ведет себя гравитация, мы знали только на примере небесной механики, взаимодействия небесных тел. Но было понятно, что гравитационное поле имеет волны и пространство-время может деформироваться подобным образом. То, что мы до этого не видели гравитационных волн, было белым пятном в современной физике. Сейчас это белое пятно закрыто, положен еще один кирпич в основание современной физической теории. Это фундаментальнейшее открытие. Ничего сравнимого за последние годы не было», — утверждает ученый.
Есть в регистрации гравитационных волн и практический момент. Возможно, после дальнейшего развития технологий можно будет говорить о гравитационной астрономии — о том, чтобы наблюдать следы наиболее высокоэнергичных событий во Вселенной.
Как сообщал «Обозреватель», ранее были названы лауреаты Нобелевской премии по медицине .
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