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Recently PSU was invited over to Reykjavik, the capital city of Iceland, for the annual EVE FanFest event. FanFest is a gamer gathering that has EVE and DUST 514 players from around the globe embarking on a pilgrimage for three days of special events, as well as keynotes, presentations, and roundtables, where the future of CCP's games--EVE Online and DUST 514--is discussed. By the end of it all, CCP had laid out a very clear roadmap that spans from May 6, with the release of Uprising, to further down the line.
In a pre-FanFest stream, Senior Game Designer Gavin Frankle revealed that, in the interest of "expectation control," CCP is going to be a lot clearer and more open on what exactly it's working on behind-the-scenes. During FanFest, 'DUST 514: Advancing the Core' was the presentation that focused on this philosophy of transperency and outlined what gamers can expect in the next couple years.
CCP's basic strategy for now is to focus on the systems and technologies that they have at the moment and to build upon them while fleshing out all content. Dropsuits, weapons, items, and vehicles will each have a racial variant (there are four races) that affects the nature of their usage. Additionally, the core FPS gameplay elements--vehicle control, character control, aiming, the HUD, modules, module functionality, and more--will all get enhanced. In 12 months, DUST 514 will have received another three or four updates and CCP can move on to elements considered extraneous to the game's foundation.
After this has been accomplished, we will probably start seeing some of the other cool features that have been mentioned in the past, like Gladiator mode, where your corporation can host custom corp battles, stream them, and allow ISK betting.
Creative Director Atli Mar said that a Weapons Lab was under construction that would act as a "try before you buy" shooting range to test weapons, dropsuits and equipment.
In what Executive Producer Brandon Laurino affectionately calls "Penetration" mode, console mercs will be able to breach and engage EVE ships on PC via some sort of drilling pod. The idea of console players boarding EVE ships on PC was brought up at FanFest 2012 and I'm personally very happy to see this develop.
Then there is the PvE mode with Rogue Drones. In districts held in Planetary Conquest, corporations will be able to go onto the planet's surface and engage rogue drones. There will be a survival mode and a hunt-and-destroy mode where you have to seek out hives. Further down the line, players will be able to salvage drones for resources that can be sold to EVE pilots. In turn, EVE Online players will be manufacturing the weapons, armor, and vehicles that DUST 514 players buy in return.
In the 'CCP Presents' keynote, Laurino showcased other unique features, including a more vertical level with anti-gravity gameplay. With such features augmenting the current experience, the future is looking very dynamic and exciting in the EVE Universe.
Below is a brief overview of what was brought up during the presentation, but I urge you to go here and watch the stream itself too, as there is a great Q&A with the fans at the end.
Near future content (< 12 months)
Gameplay controls - Aim assist improvements are in the works. With 'aim friction', the reticle slows down once it hits its target, making finer movements possible. 'Aim adhesion' moves the reticle slightly as the target moves to help with tracking, while 'aim magnetism' rotates your character to keep the target in your view. Gavin assured the audience that aim assist functions will be "only working when you don't notice them."
Scanning system - Part of the electronic warfare set, the basics of scanning will be improved, giving additional info like enemy intel and whether you've been scanned.
Hacking - Hacking deployable equipment (like infantry-deployed turret installations) and infantry equipment like nanohives (ammo regen points), drop links (spawn points), etc. will be implemented. This adds another layer in strategy concerning where these items are placed.
War point - A cooldown was created in response to abuse of triage points. This will be refined alongside new WP rewards such as headshot bonuses, dropship bonuses, and scanning bonuses for spotting foes.
Caldari and Amar light dropsuits and Caldari, Galente, and Minmatar heavy suits will be added.
The Pilot - Weak outside of vehicles but in a vehicle this role increases overall efficiency and gives a real boost to vehicular prowess.
Commando - A large frame class with less HP but two light weapon slots allowing for a more dynamic, pure combat role.
Caldari and Minmatar assault rifles and Galente and Caldari pistols will be added.
Double grenade slots on some dropsuits.
Drop uplinks - Personal and squad-restricted uplinks that give you more control over who can use your strategically placed spawn points.
Repair tool - This will receive improvements to lock-on, which can be tricky at the moment.
Nanohives - These will be given different colored bubbles to denote what kind of benefit you'll get from each.
Bubble shield - A deployable shield that protects you from gunfire, including from snipers.
Cloak field - Cloaking grants you predator-like stealth abilities. However, cloaking breaks if you fire and is disturbed if you move.
Stasis webifier - In EVE Online, this skill slows down ships by 50-60%. Might we get the ability to freeze tanks and dropships in their place?
Energy drainer - In EVE Online, a similar skill transfers the enemy's energy into your ship. We can speculate what that may equate to in the DUST 514 realm.
Ferroscale plates - Gives you less HP but you don't suffer the speed penalty.
Reactive plates - Gives you less HP but has an additional armor repair bonus.
Shield energiser - Sacrifices shield HP for a regen rate buff.
Power Diagnostic Unit (PDU) - Gives PG and reduced shield regen delay.
New Amar and Minmatar vehicle and turret variants.
Far future content (> 18 months)
Electronic Warfare - Electronic warfare gameplay will be the other side of combat. An EW merc contributes with the notion that knowledge is power. The ability to give advanced intel to your squad on the nature of your enemy, as well as manipulating their intel, is at the core of this gameplay style. The coolest example mentioned was the ability to switch off your enemies voice comms.
War Reporter and Harvester - Not much was said about these, but I presume Harvester could have something to do with salvaging dead mercs. The PvE Rogue Drone game modes are going to offer this industry aspect so it isn't unreasonable to think it will be applied to battles too.
Race specific HUDs - Verisimilitude is "making something appear real or true" and is a word often used by CCP to talk about the EVE Universe. Making the HUD look and feel more in line with the different races and their style of technology fits with making DUST 514 feel more real in the context of EVE's lore.
Environment-specific suits - Environment attributes that affect gameplay, such as snow levels that slow the heat build-up in weapons. Suits, weapons, and modules will be released to deal with these positive and negative planetary attributes. If you're fighting on a district of a snowy planet, then having your squad dressed in snow-resistant armor and weaponry would give you an advantage over your enemy that they could only negate by doing the same.
Tech 3 weapon customisation - This awesome feature will allow players to create their ultimate weapon by switching in various attachments and making alterations that affect its functionality.
Nanite injector - Short term effects of using the nanite injector will include increased armor damage bonus for a set time.
Infantry-deployed installation turrets - Sentry guns that are orbitally delivered to the field.
Firing as a passenger in Light Attack Vehicles (LAV).
New vehicle classes - The fighter jet and the hover bike were revealed at FanFest, and Laurino also mentioned MTACs which are mechs, but he wasn't ready to show them to us.
These are just the informational highlights of FanFest 2013. There are plenty of things not listed here, including an informative Q&A from some of the audience, including yours truly. See the whole presentation here.
CCP has come up with a very competitive price for all this additional future content: free. That's right! All future DUST 514 expansions, updates, and content will be free, just like the game itself. There has never been a better time to jump into the EVE Universe. Go download it free from the PlayStation Store and get sucked into the rabbit hole.
Also, if you wanna join PSU's corporation (or, "clan", in the DUST 514 universe), then click below. We have a great team of friendly and skilled players who will help you on your journey to being a badass mercenary. With May 14--DUST 514's official launch out of open beta--just around corner, there's never been a better time to jump in.


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Hate your office cubicle? Science backs you up. In a research paper, Harvard Business School doctoral candidate Ethan S. Bernstein found support for a "transparency paradox," in which job performance declines as workers become more visible to managers. In other words, most modern offices are a disaster from a productivity standpoint. But is the cubicle, specifically, so deserving of our ire?
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Recently, The Atlantic's Rebecca J Rosen interviewed Nikil Saval, author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace, to discuss the relationship between workplace design and our experience as workers.
The most surprising thing Saval discovered, early on in his research, was that the cubicle was intended to liberate employees, not corral them.
"The original designs for the cubicle came out of a very 1960s-moment; the intention was to free office workers from uninspired, even domineering workplace settings," he says. "The designer, Robert Propst, was a kind of manically inventive figure -- really brilliant in many ways -- with no particular training in design, but an intense interest in how people work. His original concept was called the Action Office, and it was meant to be a flexible three-walled structure that could accommodate a variety of ways of working -- his idea was that people were increasingly performing 'knowledge work' (a new term in the 1960s), and that they needed autonomy and independence in order to perform it."
A Symbol of Power
So how did that utopian ideal become the burlap box we know today? In short, like all work spaces, it came to reflect hierarchy and power.
Even in open offices, Saval says, you'll see markers of power. Managers will have more space, or better space, or even more plants, while lower status workers will get smaller allocations and less desirable spots. Also, today's knowledge workers are largely invisible; Saval refers to a recent essay in The New Yorker, in which George Packer notes that a search for images of Amazon generally won't bring up photos of engineers or warehouse workers, but pictures of a website with a shopping cart and an "add to cart" button.
The Upside: A Test
Cubicles aren't all bad. Saval points out that workers in open offices might even miss them. Any office space is only as good as the company that uses it.
If your space is driving you nuts, the best thing to do is to try to figure out why, and see if there's something you can do to mitigate the problem, whether it's negotiating a day or two a week of working at home, blocking off time to work in a conference room, or asking your manager if it's possible to move to a location that's not as noisy.
It's also helpful to know that cubicles can function as a metaphor, too. If you hate yours, your problem might not be with your workspace, but with your company. Untangle that issue, and you'll know whether you need to look for a new spot in your current office -- or a new job.
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But one caf? in Brooklyn is thinking not just about its clientele, but also about its workers.
It's hired at risk, troubled kids, offering them a job, and a chance.
There are rave reviews for a brand new caf? in Bedford-Stuyvesant, serving up coffee to the community with the hopes of bettering the community.
"I grew up around here," said Efrain Hernandez, caf? owner.
Efrain Hernandez opened the cafe with about $40,000; money he raised by selling fresh produce and Christmas trees, and from donations.
The people who work there are young men from the neighborhood, where unemployment is high and opportunities are scarce.
"It gives guys a few bucks to further your education," Hernandez said.
It's the spirit of working, learning, and serving the community that he learned from Father Jim O'Shea.
When Efrain was imprisoned for selling drugs, Father O'Shea continued to have faith in him and together they dreamed up Re-Connect Caf?, that helps these young men re-connect with their best selves.
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by Eugene Hernandez
The 10th edition of the Nantucket Film Festival will kick-off tomorrow in Massachusetts with the North American premiere of Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers," fresh from its Grand Prix win at the Festival de Cannes last month. The event will continue through Sunday at the popular New England island resort. Andrew and Luke Wilson's "The Wendell Baker Story" will close the festival.
Steve Martin will receive the NBC Universal Screenwriters Tribute, presented by Lorne Michaels and hosted again by network news anchor Brian Williams. Peter Farrelly will be back at the festival this year hosting the popular Late Night Storytelling event.
The festival's staged reading Ben Stiller will direct this year. The film, "Spectacle: Part One of the Mark Rosen Chronicles," from a script by Stacey Weiss and Dan Chariton and produced by Stiller's Red Hour Films. It will feature Stiller along with actors Macaulay Culkin, David Krumholtz, Robert Sean Leonard, John Slattery, Michael Boatman, Heather Burns. The film will also present a reading of "9/11 Kevin," a winning script from Triggerstreet.com's screenplay competition with ScriptShark.
Festival Executive Director Jill Burkhart, Artistic Director Mystelle Brabbée and Festival Programmer Tom Hall recently unveiled plans for the annual event, which focuses each year on screenwriting.
Among the films set to screen at this year's festival include Jessica Sanders and Marc Simon's "After Innocence," Paul Provenza and Penn Jillette's "The Aristocrats," Craig Lucas' "The Dying Gaul," Ralph Arlyck's "Following Sean," Danny Leiner's "The Great New Wonderful," Craig Brewer's "Hustle & Flow," Lodge Kerrigan's "Keane," Tim Kirkman's "Loggerheads," Miranda July's "Me And You And Everyone We Know," Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro's "Murderball," Mark and Jay Duplass' "The Puffy Chair," Steve James' "Reel Paradise," Henry Corra's "Same Sex America," and Rupert Murray's "Unknown White Male." Special beach screenings will include showings of Alastair Fotherfill and Andy Byatt's "Deep Blue" doc, and a showing of Steve Martin's "Roxanne."
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Daniels, who performed at the 2003 Media Research Center Gala, pulls no punches in his March 27 post, where demonstrates the absurdity of the politically correct language deployed by the Obama administration:
Well Mr. Obama, I might have missed it but I haven't heard you mention 9/11 once, and just in case you've forgotten these noble enemy comba… sorry, "foreign mischief-making citizens", -or whatever you end up calling them- of yours murdered over 3000 of our citizens in three different locations on American soil and your milksop definitions of these pus ball killers is just not good enough for me.
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San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener (yes, that's his name) says last year's law ordering those who bare everything in public to put a towel between their bottoms and public benches or restaurant seats hasn't stopped the complaints he gets about men who prefer to go without (clothes, that is) in the city's Castro District.
So Tuesday, the city's board of supervisors is scheduled to vote on an ordinance "amending the San Francisco Police Code ... to prohibit nudity on public streets, sidewalks, street medians, parklets, and plazas, and on public transit vehicles, stations, platforms, and stops, except as part of permitted parades, fairs, and festivals."
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Neutrophil differentiation into a unique hybrid population exhibiting dual phenotype and functionality of neutrophils and dendritic cells
- Hironori Matsushima1,
- Shuo Geng1,
- Ran Lu1,
- Takashi Okamoto1,
- Yi Yao1,
- Nobuyasu Mayuzumi1,
- Paul F. Kotol2,
- Benjamin J. Chojnacki1,
- Toru Miyazaki3,
- Richard L. Gallo2, and
- Akira Takashima1
- 1Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, OH;
- 2Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego and VA San Diego Health Care System, San Diego, CA; and
- 3Division of Molecular Biomedicine for Pathogenesis, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Both immature and mature neutrophils differentiate into a previously unrecognized hybrid population when cultured with GM-CSF.
The resulting hybrids exhibit dual phenotype and functionality of both neutrophils and dendritic cells.
Neutrophils have been reported to acquire surface expression of MHC class II and co-stimulatory molecules as well as T-cell stimulatory activities when cultured with selected cytokines. However, cellular identity of those unusual neutrophils showing antigen presenting cell (APC)-like features still remains elusive. Here we show that both immature and mature neutrophils purified from mouse bone marrow differentiate into a previously unrecognized "hybrid" population showing dual properties of both neutrophils and dendritic cells (DCs) when cultured with granulocyte macrophage-colony-stimulating factor but not with other tested growth factors. The resulting hybrid cells express markers of both neutrophils (Ly6G, CXCR2, and 7/4) and DCs (CD11c, MHC II, CD80, and CD86). They also exhibit several properties typically reserved for DCs, including dendritic morphology, probing motion, podosome formation, production of interleukin-12 and other cytokines, and presentation of various forms of foreign protein antigens to naïve CD4 T cells. Importantly, they retain intrinsic abilities of neutrophils to capture exogenous material, extrude neutrophil extracellular traps, and kill bacteria via cathelicidin production. Not only do our results reinforce the notion that neutrophils can acquire APC-like properties, they also unveil a unique differentiation pathway of neutrophils into neutrophil-DC hybrids that can participate in both innate and adaptive immune responses.
- Submitted July 20, 2012.
- Accepted December 20, 2012.
- © 2013 by The American Society of Hematology


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What's in store for BG's (LSE: BG.) shareholders in the year ahead?
In this festive mini-series, we look at the 2013 prospects for some of your favourite FTSE 100 (UKX) shares. Today, it's the turn of BG Group (LSE: BG) (NASDAQOTH: BRGGY.US).
BG was once the can-do-no-wrong darling of the UK oil and gas sector. But that image has been tarnished somewhat in 2012 -- a year that's seen BG's shares fall 24% compared with an average 8% fall for the sector and a 6% gain for the FTSE 100.
The year began swimmingly enough for BG, its shares rising 10% to over £15 before the end of March. The stock suffered during the general market correction in the summer, but the real damage to the year's performance came at the end of October when the company released its Q3 results. The shares fell 14% on the day and were trading as low as £10 by mid-November.
What didn't the market like about BG's Q3 statement? The big shock was that the company said it expected zero production growth in 2013. This was not only below market expectations for the year, but also seemed to put a dent in the company's longer-term target of compound annual growth of 6-8% through to 2020. The market, evidently, was not interested in the fact that much of the production would merely be deferred rather than lost.
Earlier this month, BG announced that Chris Finlayson would succeed Sir Frank Chapman as the group's chief executive from 1 January. The Footsie has seen plenty of new CEO appointments in the last few years, many at companies that have been in a crisis of one kind or another -- and such appointments have led to the inevitable strategic review and subsequent restructurings as the new CEO imposes his view of the best way to move the business forward.
Despite BG's hiccup in production, it can hardly be described as anything like a company in crisis. Sir Frank Chapman's intention to retire was announced as long ago as 2011, so the appointment of Chris Finlayson simply constitutes an orderly succession. I don't expect the new CEO to make any fundamental changes to the company's present strategy. That strategy is to divest non-core assets to raise capital towards funding the commercialisation of the group's largest and most valuable resources, most notably in Brazil's offshore Santos Basin.
The fall in BG's share price puts it on a discount to its asset value -- true asset value, rather than book value -- which some analysts calculate to be as much as 30-40%. However, if the market's ignoring the asset-valuation in rating the shares now, there seems little reason to suppose it won't go on ignoring it in 2013; and instead wait for visibility on production-growth prospects for 2014.
There is, though, something that could drive BG's shares up. While stock-market investors seem to be dismissing the value of the company's assets, corporate executives and M&A advisers might just be rubbing their hands about the discount. BG has been the subject of takeover speculation in the past, and a bid -- or even a rumour of one -- would certainly see BG's shares at a higher level during 2013 than they are going into the year.
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Katt Williams weekend in Seattle really couldnt have gone worse. He was arrested four times, kicked out of four hotels, hit with a summons to appear in court and now, could potentially lose $301,000 on the stupidest nautical-related impulse offer Ive ever heard. But hey, at least every single man, woman and child in Washington will know the comedian was there by the time he leaves.
During an interview with KOMO in which he accuses the police force of painting him as a public menace, Williams told the outlet hes offered the government $301,000 for the Washington State Ferry Rhododendron, which recently went up for auction and failed to sell. He wants to move his family, his animals and his staff members onto the vessel so it can serve as a makeshift hotel until his upcoming court date. Following that, hed like to keep it as his home base in order to file a $50 million lawsuit against the city of Seattle for cripping his reputation as a father and a black man and as a taxpaying citizen and as a person who is not a convicted felon.
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This was a place I like to bring my kids and let them do stuff without people caring who they were.
As for stand-up comedy, Williams says hes done with it. Hes talked it over with his family. He doesnt want to perform, and theyre apparently okay with it. If he follows through on his promise, its unclear what he might do as a profession or to kill time, but as long as he stays out of the headlines, it will be an improvement. In just the past few weeks, hes been accused of leading police on a high speed chase, walking into a Target and bitch slapping an employee and most recently, throwing a lit cigarette at a womans face. Sometimes no news is good news.


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This shutdown was orchestrated and planned well in advance at least 6-8 months ago. Millions of tax dollars were appropriated and spent in this process. There is a paper trail a mile long leading directly to the White House.
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I'm guessing Jason Statham wasn't in a good mood earlier today. Statham spit in the face of a photographer outside 211 Elizabeth Street in Manhattan. Ewww. That's just plain vile Jason!
The actor was apartment hunting with his girlfriend Rosie Huntington-Whiteley when he approached photographers threatening them with bodily harm.
Maybe the actor is still a little on edge due to the fact that his driver got in to a fender bender yesterday (February 22) in Mahattan. The 44-year-old and his model-turned-actress girlfriend, 24, had stepped out of their car when their driver got in to a minor crash with another motorist.
While no one was injured in the incident, the police were called to the scene. The driver of the black SUV looked highly agitated as he spoke to an officer. Um, probably because he just got in to a car accident.


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Bollywood actress Tabu stated once that women empowerment is paradoxical because the real empowerment should come from within than without. Director-actor Mahesh Manjrekar is learnt to have come up with such a role about a woman who dares to assert her identity and sexuality in a society straitjacketed in old mindset. Film titled 'White', Mahesh wants to cast Tabu in the role of a middleclass woman who walks out on her insensitive, uncaring husband but also has an affair with a young man.
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which one is going to be nessie ?
the one on the left in the black is Mackenzie Foy who will play Renesmee!
Does anyone else feel like she is too old?!?!? I always imagined Nessie as about a 2 or 3 years old!
No. there not using her body. they are going to take her face and put it onto younger girls bodies to make her look younger. the oldest she will get is around 6 years old.
ur so right…wen bella seen her for the 1st time she was almost the size of a 3 month old
She's soo cute.!!Love her face. Def. a great choice for Renesmee!
I feel the same way…I was thinking more toddler like!
Nawh, just adorable!! She is such a cutie, and a bonus that she actually sort of has the Rob Pats cross Kristen Stew look… well to me anyway. Such a lucky girl!! She will cherish this moment forever!! (:
i think she looks to old as well. but she is adorable
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World-renowned archeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass is the former Minister of Antiquities in Egypt and the director of ongoing excavations at Giza, Saqqara, and the Valley of the Kings. He received his PhD in 1987 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied as a Fulbright Fellow. Dr. Hawass is known both as a highly respected Egyptologist who has written numerous scholarly articles and books, and for his charisma and ability to reach out to the public, raising awareness of archaeology and the preservation of Egypt's precious heritage.
Dr. Hawass has made a number of major discoveries over the course of his career, including the Tombs of the Pyramid Builders at Giza and the Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariya Oasis. Dr. Hawass has discovered two previously unknown Old Kingdom pyramids, one near the Great Pyramid of Keeps at Giza, and one belonging to a queen of King Teti at Saqqara. Also at Saqqara, he has rediscovered the pyramid of the 6th Dynasty queen Khuit, along with another pyramid that he has determined belonged to a 5th Dynasty king.
As an archaeologist deeply concerned about the conservation and protection of Egypt's monuments, Dr. Hawass has led major conservation projects for the Great Sphinx, along with the Serapeum and Step Pyramid at Saqqara. He has developed site management plans for a number of important historic areas, including the Unfinished Obelisk Quarry in Aswan and the temples of Kom Ombo, Edfu, and Dendera. He has also initiated the construction of nineteen new museums throughout Egypt, including the Grand Egyptian Museum that will be built near the pyramids at Giza.
Dr. Hawass's dynamic personality and his extensive and wide knowledge have sparked global interest in ancient Egypt. He has brought the world of the pharaohs into the homes and hearts of people all over the world through his numerous television appearances and books for all audiences. In 2006, Dr. Hawass received an Emmy from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for a special on ancient Egypt produced by KCBS in Los Angeles.
Dr. Hawass has also appeared in many documentaries for the BBC, Discovery Channel,
National Geographic, the History Channel, PBS, and The Learning Channel. He was chosen by the BBC for a profile representing Egypt in the New Millennium, and was featured by CNN in a short profile in 2008. National Geographic has produced a film on his life and work. Dr. Hawass is the spokesman for CNN on archaeological news in Egypt, and he has been featured on many TV shows in Europe and Japan. He has been profiled in print in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the London Times. In 2010, he appeared on a reality-based television show on The History Channel called Chasing Mummies.
Dr. Hawass has written many books about ancient Egypt for general audiences, including:
Silent Images: Women in Pharaonic Egypt; The Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt; Secrets from the Sand; Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs; Tutankhamen: The Treasures of the Tomb; Royal Tombs of Egypt: The Art of Thebes Revealed; The Great Book of Ancient Egypt: In the Realm of the Pharaohs; and Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders. His book about his great discovery at Bahariya Oasis, The Valley of the Golden Mummies, became a bestseller and has been published in five languages. He has also written several books for children. He writes regular columns for AI-Ahram Weekly and Harus (the in-flight magazine of Egypt Air), and has contributed articles to GEO, along with many other popular magazines.
Over the course of his long career, he has been presented with numerous awards and honors. In 1998, he received the First-Class Award in the Arts and Sciences from President Mubarak, along with the Pride of Egypt Award, by the members of foreign press in Egypt. In 2000, the Association of Egyptian American Studies named him Scholar of the Year, and was one of the 30 international personalities that received the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement, in recognition of his achievements in archaeology.
In July 2001, National Geographic selected Dr. Hawass as one of the Explorers In Residence and was presented with a Silver Medal and membership in the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. In November 2002, his name was inscribed in the famous CD of the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission. In February 2005, Dr. Hawass received an Honorary Doctorate by the American University in Cairo. In 2006, Time Magazine chose him one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2005. In 2007 was named Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters and in 2008 was awarded the rank of Commander in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Also in 2008, el Dr. Hawass obtained the World Tourism Award from UNWTO and was appointed Goodwill Ambassador in Tokyo by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
In 2009, Dr. Hawass was decorated by the Spanish Ministry of Culture with the King Juan Carlos's Medal of the Spanish Order of Arts and Culture.
To learn more about Dr. Zahi Hawas please visit www.drhawass.com


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Real Madrid v Real Betis
(Primera vuelta: 0-1)
The return fixture of one of the games of the season. Betis' 1-0 win in round 13 might not have been an end-to-end classic, but it had an epic feel to it. After all, Real were still hoping to retain their league crown, while Betis were recovering from a morale-sapping thrashing in the derbi. The way they recovered, in front of a typically fearsome Benito Villamarin crowd, was heroic, as they battened down the hatches and survived a white onslaught to defend Benat's fine first half goal.
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The circumstances leading into this match might be different, but the stakes are still high. Betis still have hopes of a European spot next season, and might just view the shifted priorities in Madrid as a real opportunity. Whisper it, but surely Pepe Mel must think that a distracted host might just offer him the chance to pull off a rare league double over Los Merengues. Not sure I would agree with Mel here or bet on football.
Betis will have to address the central midfield malfunction which went a long way towards handing Sevilla a 3-0 lead in the first half of the derbi in the last round. They can't afford such a misfire at the Bernabeu, and the question is whether Nosa is ready to step up from scoring an iconic goal to doing the job he was brought in to do, and impose himself on the heart of the match.
It was a fine header which snatched a point for Betis, and perhaps it will help to catapult him forwards and aid his acclimatisation in the Spanish game. Never mind the unpleasant treatment he got from his own fans; Nosa's goal will earn the undying respect and gratitude of the right-minded Beticos, who have come out strongly in support of him after the abuse he suffered. It ought also to boost his confidence, and now he needs to kick on.
How Real handle this match is a key factor too, of course. Surely they won't put out all the big guns, but their shadow eleven seems to have perfected the knack of playing unconvincingly but doing enough to win. This Betis side is capable of asking difficult questions of them, though, and isn't liable to sit back and grind out a result. This could be well worth watching.
And on the most important matter of all regarding this fixture, we'll find out what colour shorts Betis will wear!
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Gonzalo Higuaín
This is a fixture he has happy memories of. Last season he was in the middle of a remarkable purple patch, having hit three hat tricks in four matches, one for his country, two for his club. The final one was against Betis in a 4-1 and the final, match ball-clinching goal was particularly impressive. It was also Cristiano Ronaldo's 100th game for Real, but he didn't mark it with a goal, for once allowing someone else to enjoy the headlines.
Such prolific form seems a long way off now for Higuaín. He's broadly considered to have gone backwards since then, with the consensus seeming to be that Mourinho doesn't really fancy him any more. He's found some form of late, though, hitting five goals and managing two assists in his last six games, including a fine finish to round off the 3-0 win at Athletic last Sunday. Fourteen goals in twenty starts isn't a bad record by any stretch of the imagination, and Betis must watch him carefully again.
Sevilla v Atletico Madrid
(Primera vuelta: 0-4)
Sevilla might well stink on the road – a look back at their 4-0 thumping by Atletico earlier in the season will give you a chance to see just how bad they can be – but they're redoubtable opponents at home, and as Atletico enter the final straight they'll find this a less than straightforward match. They were made to look stupid at the Vicente Calderon, and will see this as a chance to redress the balance.
You might argue that knocking Sevilla's away form is a little unfair after they raced into a 3-0 lead away to Real Betis last weekend. However, the way they capitulated from that winning position said everything about the frailties in Sevilla's make-up.
But to accentuate the positive, their home record is formidable. They've won their last six home league matches, and seven of their last eight home games in all competitions.
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They'll have to maintain their fine form at the Estadio Sánchez-Pizjuán without Gary Medel though. As inflammable a player as you can imagine, Medel was inevitably sucked into a conflict in the derbi – perhaps deliberately sucked in by a crafty Jose Cañas – and picked up his seventh red card in eighty-nine Sevilla appearances and got dismissed in the derbi for the second season in a row. The Pitbull will therefore be missing from the heart of the match, robbing us of a potentially spiky contest in the centre of the pitch.
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They've given Atletico a sterner test since that thumping though, showng a great deal more spirit in the Copa del Rey semi-final. They've come a fair distance under Unai Emeri and now need to push and enjoy a strong end to the season, with some players needing to show they deserve to be part of his plans for next season.
One of those playes is José Antonio Reyes, who will also have a chance to show what he can do to his old team. Atlético's fans used to chant his name, but it seemed to be done more as an ironic protest against unpopular coach Gregorio Manzano. Earlier in his time at the Calderon they were chanting "Reyes, die now!"
Atlético will have been relieved by a return to their familiar emphatic ways last weekend. Before then they'd suffered a disappointing wobble, dropping nine points from fifteen. However, their defence has maintained its fearsome record on the road: the last time they conceded an away goal in the league was on the 10th February, 418 minutes ago, when Leo Baptistao got his second in the Rayo derby.
Valencia v Málaga
(Primera vuelta: 0-4)
Which Valencia will turn up for this match? The side which looked rather innocuous in the first half of the previous round as Espanyol dominated them? Or the side which roared back after the break, looking themselves again and missing out on victory only through an equaliser from the last kick of the match, thirty seconds after the allotted injury time had ended? Not that Los Ches can complain after the madness of the round before that, when they got a late winner from a throw-in awarded to the other side, and to be fair the referee correctly added on that extra time in Barcelona as Valencia had taken the lead during the additional three minutes.
Málaga recovered from the disappointment of their European exit by grinding out a 1-0 win over Osasuna, a side against whom one goal is almost always enough. The danger for them is clear: with the end of their European adventure there's a massive danger that their season will lose purpose and form will drift away. How successfully the coaching staff can convince the players that there really is a chance of overturning UEFA's ban might be a key factor in keeping morale up.
It all seems a long way away from the sides' clash in November, when Málaga thumped Valencia 4-0. It wasn't a result which reflected the nature of the match, as Malaga really ought to have won it by a greater margin. The game offered a wonderful exhibition of how Manuel Pellegrini's Málaga operates when everything clicks, but his similarly-monikered compatriot in the opposing dugout found it a lot less pleasant.
For Mauricio Pellegrino the match marked a key point in a series of horrible results which ultimately cost him his job. At the time it seemed a harsh call, but the subsequent success of Ernesto Valverde suggests maybe the change was for the best. The head-to-head might be gone, but Valverde will get a chance to show how far the team has come by clawing back a couple of those goals.
Celta de Vigo v Real Zaragoza
(Primera vuelta: 1-0)
Celta are now four points shy of survival and looking doomed. Real look like they're joining them. Their defeat to Barsa in the last round put them in the bottom three, at last, after an agonising length of time spent hovering just above the drop zone, waiting for one of the bottom three to find some form. This match surely represents a final, desperate chance for one of these sides and a death knell for the other.
Deportivo La Coruna v Athletic Bilbao
(Primera vuelta: 1-1)
A fascinating match to come up at this point of the season. Depor's sudden, remarkable run of wins has catapulted them improbably out of the drop zone, and Fernando Vázquez is on course to have a statue of him erected if he can keep it up. This northern clash brings them up against an Athletic side which has suffered through a depressing campaign, but at least they have never quite looked like it would deteriorate into a scrap against relegation. But if they lose this match, they'll be just three points ahead of Depor. Marcelo Bielsa's Is it time for Athletic's fans to think the unthinkable?
Barcelona v Levante
(Primera vuelta: 4-0)
Levante are suffering a rather dismal 2013, which they'll hope hit the low point last weekend. This match won't offer any respite though.
Getafe v Espanyol
(Primera vuelta: 2-0)
You've got to admire Espanyol. The character they showed against Valencia in the last round encapsulated their season. Getafe themselves have had a typical season, quietly impressive. Both sides might well have an eye on next season already, and what they'll need to do to build on their achievements since the winter break.
Granada v Real Valladolid
(Primera vuelta: 0-1)
Granada are in real bother and should look at a game like this as a crucial opportunity to pull away. Those opportunities are fast running out though: after this match they only have two games against sides in the bottom half of the table, one of which is resurgent Espanyol. No win in eight and three consecutive losses is a dreadful run of form which needs to end immediately.
Real Mallorca v Rayo Vallecano
(Primera vuelta: 0-2)
Real's victory over Celta last Monday was massive, and leaves them just one point away from safety. Another home game offers them a real chance to make that final step out of danger.
Osasuna v Real Sociedad
(Primera vuelta: 0-0)
Twenty-six goals scored in thirty-one games is the rather worrying statistic haunting Osasuna. It means that they can't quite pull clear of the relegation zone, and this doesn't feel like a game they should approach with a great deal of confidence.


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