Trade Policy: Decision follows concerns raised in Germany after recent studies associating starch drips with greater risk of mortality or injuryThe use of starch drips to treat low blood volume and steep drops in blood pressure in UK hospitals has been suspended amid concerns over their safety.The benefits of the treatment, thought to be used on tens of thousands of British patients each year, no longer outweigh the risks, according to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. The watchdog's decision has been backed by intensive care specialists.Salt-based drips are being recommended as an alternative for circulation support during surgery and to treat critically ill patients with burns, trauma injuries and the bacterial blood infection known as sepsis.The German-based multinationals B Braun and Fresenius Kabi are recalling all UK stock of starch drips. The decision follows recommendations from European authorities, which were alerted to concerns from the German medicines agency after recent studies which associated them with a greater risk of mortality or injury.Sarah Branch of the MHRA's vigilance and risk management division said: "The use of these types of drips has fallen in the last year because of published evidence which shows that there is an increased risk associated with the use of hydroxyethyl starch [HES] products compared with simple salt [crystalloid] solutions."Having considered the available evidence, and taken advice from the Commission on Human Medicines, we have decided to suspend their use in the UK."Julian Bion, the dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine said: "The decision to suspend the use of HES products, and the recommendation to use crystalloid solutions for fluid resuscitation, are supported by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, the Intensive Care Society and the Royal College of Anaesthetists. We have issued a position statement and guidance for our members on our respective websites."The MHRA also revealed that its officials, working with local police and the Border Force, had seized counterfeit and unlicensed medicines worth £12.2m in the UK as part of a worldwide crackdown co-ordinated by Interpol. The haul included more than 3.7m doses of unlicensed medicines. Supposed treatments for slimming, hair loss and erectile dysfunction were found.NHSMedical researchHealthJames Meikleguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds     Woman who sang in Bollywood films for 60 years dies in Mumbai after suffering ill health, says daughterThe singer Shamshad Begum, whose lilting voice charmed fans of Bollywood films for more than 60 years, has died at the age of 94. The singer's daughter, Usha Ratra told local media that Begum died in Mumbai on Tuesday after a period of declining health."The golden voice of Shamshad Begum, play back singer of great eminence in some of the most historic film songs … now silent … RIP," the Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan wrote on Twitter.Begum was born in Amritsar, Punjab, and started her career on radio in 1947 before singing for the movies. Her most memorable songs include Mere Piya Gaye Rangoon from the 1949 film Patanga and Leke Pehla Pehla Pyar from the 1956 hit "CID".Teri Mehfil Mein Qismat, her duet with India's most famous playback singer Lata Mangeshkar in the 1960 blockbuster Mughal-E-Azam is still often played on Indian radio."I am saddened to hear of the death of Shamshad Begum. I have sung with her in several films and she had a pleasant and simple personality," Mangeshkar wrote on Twitter.Begum received the Padma Bhushan, one of India's highest civilian awards, in 2009.IndiaBollywoodguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsTwenty pubs in four days. The number of Venezuelans hunting for luxury homes around the world jumped by a greater degree than any country last year as political uncertainty escalated in the South American state, a report from property consultant Knight Frank shows. Q. My house has aluminum siding. The baked-on finish has become badly scratched in places. Is it possible to paint it? What preparation and paint are needed? --Mary Fusilier's love for Westlife becomes running theme through powerful service broadcast live across Bury market squareFifty-one days after the soldier Lee Rigby was hacked to death on a London street, his body was finally laid to rest near his home town of Middleton.Thousands of people lined the streets of nearby Bury on Friday to pay their respects to the fusilier and listen his powerful funeral service, which was broadcast live across the town's market square and attended by dignitaries including the prime minister, David Cameron, and London mayor, Boris Johnson.On a day with little to smile about, Rigby's colleagues lightened the mood inside Bury's packed parish church with a eulogy which captured the dormitory humour of life in the barracks.One of his best friends, Sean Sheer, said when he first met Rigby he considered him "the most annoying and campest man I'd ever met – what kind of grown man turns up to work in a Westlife T-shirt?"Rigby's dubious love for the Irish boyband was a running theme. Westlife's song I'm Already There was played at the service, along with R Kelly's World's Greatest. The soldier's wife, Rebecca, said before the funeral that her husband took her to see Westlife at Wembley, pretending he had bought the tickets for her, "when we all knew they were for Lee".Lieutenant Colonel Jim Taylor, Rigby's commanding officer in the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, recalled raised eyebrows when Rigby volunteered to be a member of the drums corps. "I think this surprised his fellow fusiliers and his family, as Lee had no musical background – a well-known passion for Westlife and other boy bands, but no real musical skills."Taylor remembered how Rigby "drove everyone crazy with his incessant tapping of tables, steering wheels" as he went through the six-month drum training.To be with Rigby, said Taylor, "was to be where it was most fun – the centre of good times and much mischief. People quickly fell under his spell. Whether it was in work or off duty, at a ceremonial engagement or on operations, Lee just knew how to lighten the mood. He could brighten a room within moments, and, by all accounts, could clear a dancefloor in seconds if a Whitney Houston track was playing."There was also mention of Rigby's Patrick Swayze impression during a regimental BBQ, and much amusement among the drum platoon when it emerged he was allergic to the new camouflage cream.But despite the ribbing, those who spoke at Rigby's funeral paid tribute above all to a family man, whose love for his two-year-old son Jack knew no bounds. "Everywhere Lee went, Jack would be with him, showing him off at every opportunity," recalled Sheer.On Thursday, the day before his dad's funeral, Jack arrived aquaponics 4 you download vigil at Bury parish church wearing a Manchester United top bearing his father's nickname, Riggers.On the day his dad was laid to rest, the toddler was wearing another T-shirt made especially for the occasion. This time it was navy blue, with gold letters on the back: "My Daddy My Hero". His grandmother, the fusilier's mother Lyn, was wearing a dark jacket on to which she had pinned the red and white fluffy hackle which usually juts out from the regiment's berets.The family, who have been inundated with cards, letters and flowers of condolence from all over the country and abroad and from all faiths, wanted a private service, with well-wishers asked to show their respect by lining the streets outside.Hundreds of veterans and members of the public gathered to honour 25-year-old Rigby, a machine gunner and ceremonial drummer in 2RRF, who was killed as he returned to Woolwich barracks from the Tower of London on 22 May.In her address, the Rev Clare Callanan said: "Fusilier Lee Rigby has been tragically separated from all of this, from his life and his work which he was so proud. He no longer lives to the beat of that drum. He has been separated from his future and all the potential and possibilities that were there. He has been separated as a son, a brother, a husband, a father, a mate and a brother in arms from all of you."Helen Piddguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds     NBC's Jon Miller discusses the company's deal for English Premier League rights and their groundbreaking MLS coverageI'm talking to Jon Miller about the moment he began to realize that the globalization of soccer had crossed his own doorstep: I now have a 23-year-old son, who from the time he was 17, 18, when I would be getting up on a Saturday or Sunday morning to play golf, he would come trudging down the stairs at 7am wrapped in a blanket, with a hat pulled down over his eyes and sit on the couch, and I would say "What are you doing?" And he would say "Manchester United is on" or "Arsenal is on", and I was amazed. To try and get a teenage kid out of bed to do anything is always a challenge. But the fact that he'd be up and he would park himself to watch these games and have his friends come over and do the same thing, was obviously eye-opening.Miller is President of Programming for NBC Sports and NBC Sports Network, and he led the network's acquisition of the US broadcast and digital rights to the English Premier League. NBC landed the rights last October, following a two-year process that started with a Premier League delegation talking to interested parties at a series of meetings in New York. Those conversations included the incumbent rights holders, Fox Soccer, ESPN and the upstart, Al Jazeera-owned beIN network, who would have loved to add the Premier League to their recent scoops of La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1. After the initial contact in New York, NBC expressed interest. Miller and his team then "continued to make ourselves smarter; continued to do our own research on the property and how it would be received and what we could do differently to showcase it. Clearly the sport of soccer is growing exponentially in this country, and you can argue that soccer is the biggest sport in the world, and in our mind the Premier League is the biggest league in that sport. We jumped at the chance."As the team worked on a bid last summer, Miller traveled to London as part of a 2,700-strong NBC Olympic staff. He confirmed that the NBC team took the opportunity to have further discussions with the Premier League, prior to the final bid process a few months later. It must have been an interesting moment – NBC's Olympic coverage met with a mixed reception, mainly owing to the decision to repeatedly tape-delay by up to six hours, in order to meet prime time at home. NBC could point to the tactic being a success in terms of increased audience and exceeded revenue targets, but privately some of the criticism about the broadcaster misreading and even alienating a tech-savvy audience (for whom participating in the live Twitter feed, for example, was an increasing part of the viewing experience), seemed to take the network aback, particularly when it had invested so much into its web platform as part of its coverage. There was no denying, however, the scale of the technical logistics NBC brought to the Olympics, both on TV and online. This may have been the moment when a bid began to look truly appetizing to the Premier League. Of course, cynics might say that the reported $80m to $85m per year NBC is paying for the rights to show up to 380 games can't have hurt either – but the Premier League and its leading sides are ever more aware of the increasingly lucrative American market, and would have looked very carefully at what network could give them the exposure they wanted. Having the generals of a visiting broadcast army on their doorstep as the decision neared might have helped too.NBC and MLS Given NBC's decision to delay some of its Olympic broadcasts, it is perhaps ironic to note that one of the embarrassment of riches currently available to US viewers of Premier League games is not available to English viewers – the ability to watch, live, games that kick off at 3pm on a Saturday (GMT). This is the traditional kick-off time for the league and it is protected by Football Association restrictions on UK broadcasters, though this protection has been steadily circumvented by Sunday and Monday night kick-offs, not to mention noon and evening Saturday kick-offs, to accommodate domestic broadcast partners. Tellingly, when Mark Lazarus, chairman of the NBC Sports Group, first discussed the deal for Premier League rights he was keen to emphasize that "there will be live, exclusive games, and we're not going to tape delay any of them". Beyond that, Miller has a track record of not resting on his laurels when it comes to broadcast innovation. As well as securing the Premier League rights, he has acquired the rights to Formula One and ushered in the NHL Winter Classic; he also presided over a period in which the NBC producer Sam Flood introduced the Inside the Glass convention to ice hockey – reporting direct from team benches during games. Miller says: Everybody, the NHL, international broadcasters, told us we were crazy, it would never work – and now it's become a staple of the sport.Miller is cautious about revealing too much in advance about tinnitus miracle review Premier League coverage will entail, but a glance at the network's MLS coverage, which started last season and which reached a new peak of intensity with last Saturday's 10-hour Rivalry Week broadcast, might give some clues. For one thing, there has been the innovation of ex-player and color commentator Kyle Martino operating at field level between the two teams' technical zones, in an adaptation of the Inside the Glass convention. There is also Martino's partnership with lead announcer Arlo White, a former BBC commentator and announcer for the Seattle Sounders, who moved over to lead NBC's MLS coverage and also led the Olympic soccer commentary team.White and Martino developed a quick rapport last season, making what could have been a difficult format for soccer (the lead and color announcer being in different parts of the stadium) work seamlessly. As Pierre Moossa, the NBC co-ordinating producer in charge of Saturday's broadcast (and the 150 staff who worked on it) put it:It's almost like they're having a phone conversation. They can't see each other, but yet they flow so well, and the two of them really make this concept work... The way we see it is if you're having a conversation on your couch or on the phone, you'll obviously step on each others' toes now and then, but the pros outweigh the cons, and the pros are obviously you can get that vision, that sight, that sound. Over here what the coaches are saying; over here the perspective on tactics you never normally get access to.MLS BreakawayI was speaking to Moossa, as well as White and Martino (and show anchor Russ Thaler) in the build-up to Saturday's epic broadcast, the centerpiece of which was a two-and-a-half-hour live show, MLS Breakaway, from the station's new studio facility in Stamford, Connecticut. The show was to be anchored by Thaler, with White and Martino providing expert analysis. During the build-up week the anticipation from Moossa and the technical team was about making the format "flow" and respond to the very specific rhythms of soccer. Moossa said:This is the most challenging part of the show, is the 'flow'. Soccer as a game has a different flow and it is not like in NFL where one team is at the 20-yard line and are probably going to score – (in soccer) teams can score at a moment's notice... soccer's a game where you have to be judicious and you have to be conservative in what you do (in covering it). You can't just switch around between feeds randomly... during play you have to feel it out a little bit and get to the most exciting parts.Or as White put it: "By and large we'll be reacting to things that are happening instead of getting ourselves into trouble by trying to pre-empt it and anticipate it."Thaler called the likely effect "a moving-picture Twitter, if that makes sense"; Martino joked that the live show's juggling of feeds, played "right into my ADD", and added:In the modern era of all the different devices and all the different ways that you can consume your sporting event. I'm sure you're like I am, where you have your laptop on your lap, with your iPad to your right and your TV on. The tough part about that is that it's impossible, it's like looking at a shooting star – the second you look in that area, you've just missed it. Trying to follow all that action on all those media devices is difficult. The great part about the studio is we have 30 people here that are watching the action that can grab these moments and we can show replays. We can have control over the game in a way where we're not going to miss anything. We might miss it live, but everybody's going to see all the action, and that's unique for a weekend full of games.To make the challenge more difficult, the three were calling the first game of the day live from Red Bull Arena in New Jersey, before bussing quickly to Connecticut to prep for the live show. I wondered how Moossa et al, having constructed a show built round the flow of soccer, were managing these logistical transitions within the "flow" of their working day. As I was covering the game, I took the chance to duck into the NBC outside broadcast van at Red Bull Arena, just as the initial live broadcast was finishing. The game had been a frenetic 0-0 draw in which New York had attacked relentlessly but DC, as Martino put it to me, "seemed to have cellophane over the goal". (He evidently liked the line, and repeated it later on air.) As the countdown from the live broadcast ended and Moossa stood up from his seat at the front of the OB truck, there was none of the usual sense of relief or adrenaline draining "We're out!", that you associate with such moments – at least, not for him. Moossa briskly thanked those around them and was straight on his feet and headed for the door, where Martino, White and Thaler were gathering themselves for the short walk to a minibus and a police escort to the highway. White still had traces of his TV make up on his face. Would the team rest en route? "Actually we're going to watch Sporting KC v Chicago on Kyle's phone on the way up – he's got the app. I'm planning on staying caffeinated!"White hurried away, still enthusing about "the best 0-0 I've seen in years". It had indeed been a wild game, but when the MLS Breakaway show started later, Sporting KC and Chicago hadn't managed a goal either and White's wish that "hopefully we'll see some goals" was not yet being rewarded. As it turned out, the live cameras would only capture one goal as the show moved between feeds, and there were few actual abrupt "breakaways", when coverage was interrupted to switch to an incident elsewhere. Despite the soccer refusing to play ball with the needs of the broadcasters, the MLS Breakaway coverage was smooth, sometimes even unnervingly so. We didn't get a lot of jerky jump cuts, but there were a lot of subtle slow pans and pushes as the camera refused to ever quite settle, whenever we saw the three presenters in their futuristic studio set. Martino and White alternated between answering Thaler's prompts and speaking to camera, while in voiceover mode they would pick up and comment on the footage in front of them, before segueing into introducing the local commentary teams for a few moments. These were perhaps the most undefined moments of the broadcast. Moossa had claimed earlier in the week that: We're not a big fan of calling games off tube. I think it'd be a little bit arrogant of us to think that Arlo and forex growth bot call a better game off tube than somebody on site. They're going to need to get to the pertinent information and fill the gaps, but also let it breathe a little bit and let the other announcers take over.Watching the show, though, once or twice it felt a little like watching a good relay team taking a little too long to pass the baton, and with the studio commentary audio pushed high above the game feed volume, certain live moments had the distant feel of replays, with the game audio atmosphere muted. It was nothing to do with the quality of the analysis – Martino and White are astute commentators – but having come from calling a game earlier in the day they still seemed in announcer mode from time to time, so the transitions to the announcers in situ occasionally felt a little jarring, like changing tense mid-sentence.But as a first effort, and an epic first effort to boot, the experiment certainly did enough to suggest that a version of it is well worth repeating, not least to address the diffuse presence of the league, because of its staggered schedule. Unlike the English league, there is no traditional kick-off time in MLS, and aside from the other challenges it faces, MLS commissioner Don Garber has called this lack of a distinct "MLS time" in the weekend a challenge for the league in registering with new fans. Experiments like this, which parenthesize MLS weekend action in a coherent way, may help.MLS and the Premier LeagueIt seems a fair guess to say that MLS Breakaway might be a model for part of NBC's Premier League coverage, and in some ways this experiment with the format was a fairly typical MLS exercise, from an ambitious tech-friendly league looking for edges wherever it can find them. As for how the Premier League coverage and the continued MLS coverage might work together or overlap, Miller was sticking to the "wait and see" line. But he did say:I think you'll see it [a link] in the form of great cross-promotion. I think you'll see it with consistent 'looks' in terms of production quality. I think you'll see it in some of our '36' programming, which is shoulder-programming (pre- and post-game programming built on rights access) that we do to showcase different athletes... But they're completely different properties and brands and each deserves their own voice.He also pointed out that where NBC will be the exclusive Premier League rights holder (and it is not planning to subcontract games, as Fox does with ESPN), it is one of several partners MLS has, including ESPN, Univision, numerous local affiliates and its own MLS Digital arm: "It's a much, much different relationship. Our Premier League relationship is significantly broader than our MLS relationship."One thing that does seem clear, as the dust settles on last weekend's experiment: Miller, Moossa et al are serious about the challenge and aware of the potential of soccer for a newer generation of US sports fans. Before I finished speaking to Miller, he shared another example of how the sport has been opening his eyes:I think if you walk down the streets of New York City you used to see young people only wearing baseball jerseys and NBA jerseys and stuff like that. Now you see them wearing Manchester United and Liverpool and Arsenal and Tottenham jerseys. Oftentimes when I'd drive through the city early on a Saturday morning, I'd see bars up and down the streets of Manhattan at 8 or 8.30 overflowing with Premier League fans who were going to watch games. I realized that this was a sport that had an enormous passionate following, and if you don't pay attention to that you're making a big mistake...MLSPremier LeagueNBCUS televisionUS television industryDC UnitedNew York Red BullsSporting Kansas CityChicago FireUS sportsGraham Parkerguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds It's more critical that governors understand their roles and the practical ways to make a difference, argues Lord BichardSince Sir Michael Wilshaw suggested last month that we might have to pay governors to join the boards of schools in tough circumstances, there has been a lot of debate about competent governance and how to achieve it.Over the past 18 months I have travelled around the country speaking to governors and local authorities about how to raise standards of governance - and the message is clear: at times school governors can be ineffective, not because they lack motivation or incentive, but because they can lack the confidence and understanding as to what good governance actually looks like.In this country we have developed a system of governance that is driven by an army of highly-skilled volunteers who are responsible for millions of hours of altruism and good will. Governors do what they do because they want to exchange their own particular blend of skills and experience for better education outcomes for children. The rewards need not be financial; governors turn up because they want to make a difference.So if we have an abundance of motivated governors all keen to make their mark, what is the problem? What are we trying to solve? To my mind, the central issue in the debate, and one which Sir Michael Wilshaw raised in his speech, is of governor effectiveness. He suggests that there is "... too much time spent looking at the quality of school lunches and not enough on maths and English". He is right to say that too often, too many governors are unsure of the sorts of issues they should be confronting.In my time advising Ten Governor Support, a question-answering service for school governors, we have collected web usage data on the sorts of practical problems and issues that governors across the country are trying to overcome; and by some distance, the most common questions are "what is my role?", "what do I have to do?" and "when do I have to do it?" Looking through a list of the most popular articles on our website reveals a lack of certainty on the part of school governors. Of all the articles most frequently read, two of the top three, 'Governors' year planner' and 'Annual work plan for the governing body', specifically address the "what should I do and when?" type question.This level of uncertainty highlights the fact that the role itself is complex and largely unrecognised. A recent survey conducted by YouGov for Ten Governor Support shows that even though school governors control more than £38bn of public money, 82% of the public are oblivious of their influence. When asked who decides how to spend a school's budget, answers ranged from the prime minister to Michael Gove, with 41% simply confessing they didn't know.The elephant in the room trademiner download chronic disparity between the good will of the governor community and the investment required to make sure that governors' time, their goodwill, is put to effective use. Governors need to understand their roles and appreciate how they can practically make a difference; they need examples of where other governing bodies have succeeded and failed. The reality is that a reduction in local government spending has heavily impacted upon the quality of local authority delivered governor support.Governing bodies need to own the fact that, to all intents and purposes, they are the responsible body for their school. If the school succeeds, they are doing a good job; if it doesn't, they aren't. But if they are to fully embrace this accountability, they must be provided with the training, information and support they require in order to be effective. School governors embody the very spirit of the 'big society', which is why pay is not the critical issue.Lord Michael Bichard is a former public servant chief advisor at Ten Governor Support.This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional. To get articles direct to your inbox, and to access thousands of free resources, sign up to the Guardian Teacher Network here. Looking for your next role? See our Guardian jobs for schools site for thousands of the latest teaching, leadership and support jobsSchool leadership and managementLeadershipSchoolsTeachingLord Michael Bichardguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Venezuela's foreign minister says the South American country has cut off all diplomatic contact with the United States because Washington is meddling in its domestic affairs. CIA Director Leon Panetta helped touch off an avalanche of erroneous expectations Thursday when he testified that there was a "strong likelihood" that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would step down by the end of the day. On the filming of “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” post 9/11 America and the “twin cities” of Delhi and Lahore.     The Keen Company revives “The Old Boy,” A. R. Gurney’s 1991 tale of class-consciousness, money, loyalty and resistance to change. • Manager is positive team will focus on Leicester play-off• Zola hopes first-choice goalkeeper Manuel Almuniawill be fitThere were broken bones and broken hearts at Vicarage Road on Saturday and the challenge for Gianfranco Zola now is to pick Watford's players off the floor after their failure to snatch the final automatic promotion place out of Hull's hands. On a manic last day in the Championship, Hull's 2-2 draw with Cardiff meant that Premier League football would already be Watford's if they had beaten Leeds, only for a 2-1 defeat to consign them to a play-off semi-final against Leicester.With the first leg to come on Thursday, Watford have not got long to flush the disappointment out of their system before they head to the King Power Stadium. Yet this was a defeat that came at a heavy price. The signs were ominous when Watford's first-choice goalkeeper, Manuel Almunia, felt a tweak in his left hamstring during the warm-up and it got even worse for them when his replacement, Jonathan Bond, was taken to hospital after a careless push on Ikechi Anya by the Leeds substitute Dominic Poleon led to a horrible collision that caused a 12-minute delay.After Bond, who suffered a broken nose and a concussion, was taken off, Zola had to turn to Jack Bonham, a 19-year-old debutant who had expected to watch from the stands and, irony of ironies, Poleon – who was on the pitch only because Steve Morison had been caught by a stray elbow from Joel Ekstrand early on – then capitalised on indecision between Bonham and Ekstrand to give Leeds the lead. Almen Abdi equalised in the sixth of the 16 minutes added on in the first half, but Bonham was later at fault for Ross McCormack's chipped winner in the 90th minute. Over the course of the season, Watford threw away 14 points because of goals conceded in the last 15 minutes.Zola said that Bonham's mistakes will make him stronger, but he is still hopeful that Almunia and Bond will make swift recoveries. "Hopefully Almunia should be all right for Thursday and we hope Bond's injury is not too bad," Zola said, suggesting that Bond could play with a protective mask. "Manuel felt a problem in his left hamstring, which has given him a problem recently, during the warm-up, and it was too risky to play him – but we think he can play at Leicester."If Bonham does get another chance, however, at least he can count on the support of his team-mates. "He's fine," Nathaniel Chalobah said. "He is a good lad, the whole team got behind him in the changing room and everyone makes mistakes. As long as you have people round you, people trying to get your confidence back up then it's fine. Jack does not get any blame."There was less sympathy for Troy Deeney, who will be suspended for the first leg on Thursday after his red card. Zola smiled ruefully when it was pointed out that Deeney's first booking was for kicking the ball away and Watford will miss their 19-goal striker. Yet they have strength in depth and have beaten Leicester 2-1 home and away this season. Zola, though, is already setting the example his players must follow by focusing on the future."I don't think the games we've played against Leicester earlier this season will be relevant," Zola said. "This is a completely new game, a new challenge, and we will be ready for it. The players will still be down over the weekend, but on Monday they will be ready to fight."Man of the match Tom Lees (Leeds)WatfordLeeds UnitedLeicester CityGianfranco ZolaChampionshipJacob Steinbergguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds     "Every time you use your cellphone, there is a little breadcrumb that’s stored that can be used in a lot of different ways to help improve human lives," says Jameson Toole, a second-year PhD student in MIT's Engineering Systems Division. Photo: Allegra Boverman Soft diets of today have led to dental problems In most flood affected areas entire village economies were dependent on tourism. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) will not make a bid for the Senate, he announced late Friday, a decision that comes after months of consideration and throws wide open the race for the Republican nomination. King announced his decision on Twitter, saying a Senate race would take him out of "urgent battles" in Congress that cannot wait until after the 2014 election. Read full article >>     Edelman Leather cooked up a scheme with architect Jack Travis to engage his class of Pratt Institute interior-design graduate students in a special vitiligo treatment months after computer activist Aaron Swartz’s suicide, the Media Lab hosted a memorial for Swartz on Tuesday afternoon. At the time of his suicide, Swartz was facing 13 felony charges for illegally downloading documents from JSTOR from a data closet on the MIT campus. Hosted by Media Lab Director Joi Ito, the memorial included tributes from Ethan Zuckerman; David Weinberger; Swartz’s partner, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman; and Aaron’s father, Robert Swartz. Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig read remarks from Tim Berners-Lee, who was unable to attend. In his remembrance Berners-Lee wrote, “Aaron went through appalling things during the last years of his life as a result of the prosecution, and so did those closest to him. I think we have to recognize the damage that has been done to the world … But that isn't the main thing I want to say. Now, at this memorial, I want to get back to who Aaron was and the wonderfulness of him as a person. I want to do this because, just as we do indeed need to learn from his death, we also need to learn from his life…” Weinberger and fellow activist Alec Resnick spoke of Swartz’s extraordinary intellect, his need to make sense of the world, and his strong desire to make an impact. Media Lab alumnus and PhD candidate Benjamin Mako Hill, who participated through a video sent from Germany, commented on Swartz’s rare ability not “only to work within a system, but also with a system."Both Robert Swartz and Stinebrickner-Kauffman called on MIT to provide a full explanation of its role in the court case, and to examine this in the context of MIT’s tradition of scientific inquiry. Stinebrickner-Kauffman commented, “I was hopeful that it could learn from mistakes made and make sure this injustice and tragedy is not repeated.” She also commented, “Nerd does not equal criminal.”  In concluding, Ethan Zuckerman acknowledged the impact Swartz had well beyond the people who knew him. “He helped give people another version of a hacker, not that of a criminal, but as an activist who wants to change the world.” He challenged MIT to continue a difficult conversation around the Swartz case, and expressed a desire that the takeaway “isn’t about sadness and anger, but rather about a communal realization of hope.” • Somerset 320; Australia 266-4• Shane Watson hits 90 after opening for touring side The Australians have lost some high-profile leaders recently, but the one that really matters, their cricket captain, is still alive and kicking. On yet another banana skin-free day for the tourists Michael Clarke batted for almost two hours. More often than not he hit the ball with the middle of his bat; he stroked seven silky boundaries, he scampered in between the wickets and he ducked the odd bouncer without any obvious twinge.Unless there is another lumbar rebellion Clarke is on course for the first Test at Trent Bridge and the Australians are starting to look like a coherent cricket team, though not yet too reminiscent of the 1948 Invincibles. In his first knock since March Australia's best batsman looked in fine fettle. An off drive against Jamie Overton was majestic and soon Clarke lofted the spinner, George Dockrell, back over his head as if he had never been away. Not since Sir Donald Bradman has an Australian cricketer overshadowed the other batsmen in his team so completely.Then, to general surprise, Clarke was dismissed for 45 by Craig Meschede, who delivered a beauty that only a good player would have edged. Meschede, 21 and with lots to learn, looks innocuous enough but he seems to specialise in dismissing galactic batsmen. Two years ago his maiden first-class wicket was Sachin Tendulkar; last week he dispatched Shivnarine Chanderpaul at Derby and Clarke (and Usman Khawaja, but he does not yet qualify for the top tier).The other plus for the tourists was the innings of Shane Watson, who hit 90 from 94 balls and at one stage was on course for a hundred before lunch. Watson often looks invincible but then infuriates. At Taunton he hit the ball with massive authority. He rocked on to the front foot and drove through the covers and midwicket with easy power – there were 20 boundaries in his innings so it was a marvel of energy conservation. He was particularly severe on the mighty Meschede. It all looked incredibly easy for him until just before lunch, when his leading edge gave a catch to cover off Overton, whose figures disguised his promise.Watson is comfortable at the top of the order, where he poses a more obvious threat, so here is another thing sorted for the tourists. Watson only knew of this plan after the sudden appointment of Darren Lehmann and he likes it. "It's nice to have the backing of the coach", he said."Opening is something I love and very exciting. I've worked with Darren before and I know how he operates. He doesn't beat about the bush". Watson may well be happier in the new regime.The expectation is that he will be accompanied in the Test by Ed Cowan, who had a less happy day. He was given out caught behind in Gemaal Hussain's first over and was clearly nonplussed by the decision. He loitered and for a moment it looked as if he was keen to open a debate with the umpire about this turn of events – an idiosyncratic departure after one of several idiosyncratic decisions in this match.Nor was Khawaja very convincing before edging Meschede to first slip. However, Phillip Hughes remained unbeaten until the rain swept in from the Quantocks at tea time. He had some luck. On 12 he had a huge hack at Dockrell and might have been bowled or stumped but was neither. Thereafter he was more discreet. Brad Haddin was altogether more assured and not the first visitor to Taunton to relish the short boundary at the Old Pavilion End.Australia cricket teamMichael ClarkeAshes 2013The AshesCricketAustralia sportSomersetVic Marksguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 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