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BANGUI (Reuters) - Armed groups in Central African Republic have forced thousands to flee and pushed government and medical services close to collapse four months after rebels seized the capital, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) said on Tuesday.
Attacks and looting were common in Bangui, where a transitional government that includes some of the rebels has failed to keep order, MSF said in a report ahead of a visit by U.N. and European Union humanitarian chiefs on Thursday.
"The country is in the grip of a humanitarian emergency while the international community looks on with indifference," the aid group said.
Seleka rebels, led by Michel Djotodia who is now the interim president, marched into the riverside city on March 24, forcing former President Francois Bozize to flee.
The grouping of five rebel movements launched its insurgency in December, accusing Bozize of reneging on a 2007 peace deal.
The country bordering Chad, Sudan and four other countries in the heart of the continent has been plagued by unrest and poverty since its independence from France in 1960, despite its rich mineral deposits.
Since taking over, the interim government led by Djotodia has failed to control its fighters who have been accused of reprisal killings and other atrocities.
No one from the interim government was immediately available to comment on the MSF report on Tuesday.
MSF said there was a complete absence of state authority in the rest of the country, which was at the mercy of armed groups.
"U.N. agencies and many non-governmental organizations have withdrawn to the capital, leaving the majority of the country without aid ... The people have effectively been abandoned just when they most need help," it said.
State buildings, ministries, schools, hospitals and private homes have been looted. Most civil servants have fled.
"These attacks have deprived an already vulnerable population of 4.4 million people spread across a country bigger than France, access to even basic medical treatment," it said.
"Malnutrition and preventable diseases are rife, while malaria is the leading cause of death," it added.
MSF mission head, Ellen van der Velden, said there were a third more malaria cases than the same last year.
The country already has the second-lowest life expectancy in the world, at just 48 years.
(Writing by Bate Felix; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/central-african-republic-chaos-abandoned-msf-143614880.html
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Japanese shares rose on Monday and the dollar hit a three-year high against a basket of major currencies after U.S. job creation accelerated in June, signaling growth in the world's largest economy is gathering momentum. ...
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He finally did it! Murry becomes the first Brit to win Wimbledon since oh AGES but what have the famous people tweeted about it?
It was a nail-baiting final but Andy Murray finally managed to defeat Novak Djokovich in straight sets.
But who cares about all that tennis stuff ( click here if you do ) what did the excited celebs have to say on Twitter?
Victoria Beckham, who was sat in the royal box, tweeted this lovely picture of the big moment:
And came over all patriotic:
"Congratulations to @andy_murray and his family. Wonderful day at #wimbledon!! So proud to be British! X vb"
David Baddiel simply tweeted the word: "WOW"
Holly Willoughy echoed the thoughts of the nation when she tweeted: "OMG...OMGFG!!!" x
Caitlin Moran asked the important question of the day:
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?Mel Sykes, who's celebrating her 43rd birthday today ( look at her career in pics here ) had this to say:
"Yeeeeeeeessssssaaaaaaaaa #andymurray wahoooooooooo xxxxxxxxx"
and "Tears are streaming!"
Trust Frankie Boyle to tweet this:
"Not a great game to be honest #wimbledon."
We think he's being sarcastic.
Joey Barton provided some LOLS:
"This pool of sportsman that are despised is shrinking with that victory by Murray. I'm starting to get lonely... #comebackandy"
As did David Walliams:
"So pleased for Andy Murray winning Wimbledon. I know how he must feel right now having once won a TV Quick Award."
Alesha Dixon got a bit emoticon-happy:
"So happy!!! :) So deserved!!!:) So emotional X"
Ellie Goulding was in a singing mood:
"The winner takes it aaaaaaall"
David Cameron was very formal and proper about the whole thing:
"It was a privilege to watch @Andy_Murray making history at #Wimbledon, and making Britain proud."
How many aides did it take to compose that?
Luckily Olly Murs was on CAPS LOCK to give his two cents:
"JUST WITNESSED HISTORY HERE.... @andy_murray @wimbledon CHAMPION!!!"
Clare Balding (who knows about sport) had this to say:
"Wow. Standing in tears with all the folks from @RDACarlisle. Well done Andy Murray! What a champ."
Tears were flowing over in LA in Patrick Kielty's house:
"Last time a Scot in shorts made me cry was when I found out Jimmy Krankie was a woman. Go Andy!? #wimbledonfinal"
Meanwhile his wife Cat Deeley had a bit of a crush:
"What a splendid chap ..."
As did Paul Hollywood:
"Wimbledon Champion Andy Murray wow!! Well done Andy"
We think betting for sports personality of the year is now off.
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/andy-murray-wins-wimbledon-celebrity-2036403
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THE PSNI have confirmed that transcripts of interviews relating to the murder of IRA victim Jean McConville, carried out as part of a project at Boston College, are being handed over.
The PSNI had been attempting to obtain the transcripts of tapes recorded with IRA member Dolours Price, who died in January.
The transcripts are understood to contain information about the death and disappearance of the Belfast mother-of-10.
In a statement the PSNI said: ?Two detectives from Serious Crime Branch have travelled to Boston to take possession of materials authorised by the United States appeal court as part of their investigation into the murder of Jean McConville.
The west Belfast mother was among dozens of people - later known as the Disappeared - who were abducted, murdered and secretly buried by republican militants during the Troubles.
The officers will return to Northern Ireland to assess the material and continue with their inquiries.?
The transcripts were made as part of Boston College?s ?Belfast Project?, which was designed to be an oral history of Northern Ireland?s Troubles.
Project director, Ed Moloney, and his researcher, Anthony McIntyre, had resisted attempts by the PSNI to obtain the transcripts, and had hoped that the US Supreme Court would overturn a Boston Federal Court decision to hand the tapes over.
Ms Price was an unrepentant republican hard-liner who became a bitter critic of Sinn Fein when the party endorsed the Good Friday Agreement and encouraged the IRA to give up its weapons.
She clashed with party leader Gerry Adams in recent years over her allegations that he had been her IRA Officer Commanding during the early 1970s.
The 62-year-old consistently claimed that Mr Adams, now a Louth TD, had ordered the kidnap and killing of Mrs McConville in 1972.
Mr Adams has always denied being a member of the IRA.
She said she had made the claims in an interview with the American university academics who have compiled an oral history on Northern Ireland?s 40-year conflict.
The recordings were started in 2001 and were made on the condition that confidentiality would be guaranteed until after the death of the republican and loyalist paramilitaries who took part.
Price, the former wife of actor Stephen Rea, was convicted and jailed along with her sister Marian for the 1973 attack on London?s Old Bailey courts in which one man died and more than 200 people were injured.
She spent eight years in jail including several weeks on hunger strike before being released in 1980.
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Rendering CGI faces that look close to real is hard, but we're starting to see hardware that can pull it off
A team of researchers led by led by Abhijeet Ghosh of Imperial College London and Paul Debevec of the University of Southern California have developed a process of scanning human faces at such a high level of detail that the reproductions are effectively perfect. No pore goes unnoticed.
The process works thanks to extremely detailed application of light during the capture process. As New Scientist explains:
Using a specially developed lighting system and camera, they photographed samples of skin from people's chins, cheeks and foreheads at a resolution of about 10 micrometres, so that each skin cell was spread across roughly three pixels. They then used the images to create a 3D model of skin and applied their light reflection technique to it. The result was CGI skin complete with minute structures like pores and microscopic wrinkles. Finally, they fed the CGI images to an algorithm that extended them to fill in an entire CGI face.
Earlier versions of this same tech have been put to commercial use before. In fact, digital effects company Weta Digital used some of these same techniques in the production of Avatar. But many of the finer details that helped get the Na'vi across uncanny valley?like moles and wrinkles?are were added by hand. The latest and greatest version of this capture tech can pull that stuff off automatically, making it waaaay more practical and less labor intensive.
The crew at USC is already working with games publisher Activision to try to find a way to bring these sort of high quality faces to games as soon as possible, though it'll probably be a while before consumer tech can handle it. We're close to finally getting across the uncanny valley though. The porn
Source: http://gizmodo.com/these-incredible-facial-scans-capture-detail-down-to-th-688704163
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