'I'm a victim of child abuse,' reveals Tim Roth Bullied at school, abused as a child and memorably murdered in Reservoir Dogs - it hasn't been easy for the versatile actor By Lina Das UPDATED: 20:58 GMT, 11 April 2009 Enlarge 'It (child abuse) happened during my childhood up to my early teens and although I'm not going to say who it was, he's long gone now,' says Tim Roth (above at the Burbank Warner Ranch studios in California) After roles ranging from the foppish prince in Rob Roy to the wounded undercover cop who gushed seemingly endless torrents of blood in Reservoir Dogs, no one could accuse Tim Roth of a lack of diversity. Growing up in Dulwich, south-east London, with a journalist father and artist mother, Roth made his debut as a psychopathic skinhead in Made In Britain, and starred in films as diverse as The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover, and Vincent And Theo. In 1999, Roth directed The War Zone, starring Ray Winstone, which was praised for tackling incest and child abuse. I'm a victim of child abuse.
Next Age of Discovery The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2008 December 26, 2008 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. 2008 was a banner year for progressive media: we helped to boot conservatives from power and elect a President running on a promise of change. AlterNet played its part, with groundbreaking political and cultural stories -- some culled from the best progressive sources on the web and many more produced in-house. Below, we've assembled the 10 most popular stories of the year; the articles you read, emailed, and sent flying around the Internet. Here are AlterNet's 10 most popular stories of the year. 10. Amy Goodman, Democracy Now Consumers are getting duped by the food industry, paying the price with their health. 9. By AlterNet Staff, AlterNet It's not hard to stir up negative publicity when you advocate gunning down wolves from airplanes and deny the human causes of climate change. 8. By Naomi Wolf, AlterNet 7. By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com 6. By Nicole McClelland, Mother Jones 5. 4.
Measuring your Google search's carbon footprint Updated at 12:20 a.m PST January 12 to include Google comment. Worried about the carbon footprint of your Google searches? A Harvard University physicist says a typical search on a desktop computer generates about 7 grams of carbon dioxide. "Google operates huge data centers around the world that consume a great deal of power," Alex Wissner-Gross told the newspaper. The global IT industry generates about 2 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, or about as much greenhouse gas as the world's airlines, according to a recent Gartner study cited by the newspaper. Google disputed that report late Sunday evening, saying in a blog that the "time it takes to do a Google search, your own personal computer will use more energy than Google uses to answer your query." Queries vary in degree of difficulty, but for the average query, the servers it touches each work on it for just a few thousandths of a second. Google first introduced its 2030 energy road map in the fall.
Natural7 on NPR MIT's EurekaFest showcases high school students' problem-solving prototypes EurekaFest is a yearly event held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that showcases the prototype inventions of high school students from around the country. The inventions consist of various gadgets and devices aimed at helping solve real-world problems. One of the more impressive ideas I saw during the two days I spent covering the event was a prototype “sensing” cane for blind people. The cane features sensors that can detect objects up to eight feet away, at which point the cane’s handle begins buzzing once per second and increases in intensity as objects get closer. There were actually two separate teams working on sensing canes – one from Harvard, MA and one from Norfolk, VA. Other interesting concepts included the following: Pressure-sensitive illuminated computer cable: USB cable that lights up when you squeeze it, allowing you to easily identify a particular cable among other cables plugged into your computer. Lemelson-MIT Program’s EurekaFest [MIT.edu] Like this video?
Who needs newspapers when you have Twitter? | Salon News Mr. Anderson, let’s talk about the future of journalism. This is going to be a very annoying interview. I don’t use the word “journalism.” OK , how about newspapers? They are in deep trouble both in the United States and worldwide. Sorry, I don’t use the word “media.” There are no other words. Hang on a minute. No. Your local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, is fighting for survival. … I wouldn’t notice. It comes to me in many ways: via Twitter, it shows up in my in box, it shows up in my RSS base, through conversations. You just don’t care. No, I do care. As millions upon millions trusted the classic media previously. If something has happened in the world that’s important, I’ll hear about it. The New York Times, CNN, Reuters and others can publish their best reporting on the Web and you’d never read it? I read lots of articles from mainstream media but I don’t go to mainstream media directly to read it. True. Exactly. Newspapers are not important. We’re still figuring that out. Yes.
BBC article A rare 1937 Bugatti sells at auction for £3m A classic Bugatti car, which gathered dust in a Tyneside garage for half a century, has been sold for 3.4m euros (£3m) at an auction in Paris. Bonhams had listed lot 17403 as a "motoring icon" with an engine that has not been fired up for 50 years. Relatives of reclusive Newcastle doctor Harold Carr found the 1937 Type 57S Atalante in a garage after he died. It was originally owned by Earl Howe - first president of the British Racing Drivers' Club. 'True supercar' Bonhams tempted bidders by writing in its sales description: "The new owner will have the pleasure of firing up [engine] 26S and hearing that turbine-like sound that so excited Earl Howe when he collected this car from Sorel in 1937. "Once again [chassis] 57502, a true supercar with impeccable credentials, emerges to take its place on the world stage." Earl Howe took delivery of the sporty two-seat Atalante after it was completed in 1937 and kept the car for eight years.
Mayor Palin: A Rough Record John McCain was clear about why he picked half-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate. "I found someone with an outstanding reputation for standing up to special interests and entrenched bureaucracies," he said in introducing her in Dayton, Ohio, on Friday. Palin was someone, he noted, "who reached across the aisle and asked Republicans, Democrats and independents to serve in government." It is a powerful reinforcement of McCain's own political brand: tough, reform-minded, willing to break with his own party for the right cause. But in the first major race of her career — the 1996 campaign for mayor of her hometown, Wasilla — Palin was a far more conventional politician. In the early '90s, Wasilla was little more than half as big as it is today, and much more loosely confederated. Eventually, they started a police department, led by chief Irl Stambaugh. Four years later, she took on her former workout buddy in a race that quickly became contentious. St. St.
Asia-Pacific | Winning hearts and minds in Vietnam In my 46 years of experience in journalism, I have often found that the most remarkable material surfaces by accident. So it is with the Saigon Songs, recordings made in the Vietnam War, which have never been broadcast before. They are among the most moving mementoes of war I have ever heard. Their edge is sharpened, it seems to me, by a special relevance to the wars of today. The Saigon Songs date from the Americans' hearts and minds campaign, between 1965 and 1967, as they poured their ground troops into Vietnam in support of the South Vietnamese government. Hearts and minds The campaign was run by Maj Gen Ed Lansdale of the US Army, who by all accounts was a most remarkable man. His weapons were not guns but words and music, through which he hoped to persuade the people in the villages to resist the North Vietnamese communists and the home-grown insurgents, the Viet Cong. Lt Gober was devoted to the cause and to the soldiers alongside him. He certainly did not back in 1966. 'Heart songs'
CNN.com - E-mails 'hurt IQ more than pot' - Apr 22, 2005 Friday, April 22, 2005 Posted: 8:08 AM EDT (1208 GMT) LONDON, England -- Workers distracted by phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than a person smoking marijuana, a British study shows. The constant interruptions reduce productivity and leave people feeling tired and lethargic, according to a survey carried out by TNS Research and commissioned by Hewlett Packard. The survey of 1,100 Britons showed: Almost two out three people check their electronic messages out of office hours and when on holidayHalf of all workers respond to an e-mail within 60 minutes of receiving oneOne in five will break off from a business or social engagement to respond to a message.Nine out of 10 people thought colleagues who answered messages during face-to-face meetings were rude, while three out of 10 believed it was not only acceptable, but a sign of diligence and efficiency. In 80 clinical trials, Dr. "This is a very real and widespread phenomenon," Wilson said.
Crumbling dollar resonates through economy - Stocks & economy WASHINGTON — Things in the U.S. sure are tough. Brother, can you spare a euro? Signs saying "We accept euros" are cropping up in the windows of some Manhattan retailers. A Belgium company is trying to gobble up St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, the nation's largest brewer and iconic Super Bowl advertiser. The almighty dollar is mighty no more. Vacationing Europeans are finding bargains in the U.S., while Americans in Paris and other world capitals are being clobbered by sky-high tabs for hotels, travel and even sidewalk cafes. Everything made in America — from goods to entire companies — is near dirt cheap to many foreigners. Since oil is bought and sold in dollars worldwide, the devalued dollar has made the recent surge in energy prices even worse for Americans, leading to $4 gasoline in the United States. Further declines in the dollar will add to oil's appeal as a commodity to be traded. Oil, suggests influential energy consultant Daniel Yergin, is "the new gold."
Fordlandia: The Failure Of Ford's Jungle Utopia Chess Boxing: You Throw A Punch, I Take Your Queen : Krulwich Wonders… hide captionThe "graphic novel" that started it all. Enki Bilal A/Casterman S.A It's called chess boxing and it's like it sounds. We start in a ring. There are screaming fans. These are video highlights from 2003's first world Chess Boxing Championship in Amsterdam, featuring "lepe the Joker" versus "luis the Lawyer," with "lepe" pulling off a thrilling down-to-the-wire victory, which is nice because "lepe" is Lepe Rubingh, the guy who invented the game — or maybe reinvented it. Yves Sucksdorff/WCBO It's fast. Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images I've never seen this live, but hunting around the web, it seems there are now chess boxing clubs in Germany, Russia, England, Bulgaria and the US. Lepe says he got the idea for chess boxing from a 1992 comic book called Froid Equateur, drawn by French-Yugoslavian artist and film maker Enki Bilal. The sport has a website, and a slogan: "Fighting is done in the ring, and wars are waged on the board." Miguel Villagran/AP