Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Wim Wenders' "Pina" brings European Film Awards

Lars von Trier's apocalyptic drama "Melancholia" is Europe's best film. A prize goes to Germany: Wim Wenders tribute to PinaBausch. Three winners wereobviously better to do than to travel to the ceremony in Berlin.



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Berlin - The favorite of the evening was the gala far: Lars von Trier, nominatedeight times for his apocalyptic drama "Melancholia" has won the European Film Awards trophy for best film. The award took place at his wife of scandal-meetdirector at the gala in the Berlin Tempodrom.

"Melancholia" staged the end of the world as an intimate drama about two different sisters, one of the forces on the planet earth hurtling to take stock.
The European Film Awards are presented by the European Film Academy (EFA).The British Tilda Swinton and Colin Firth of the jury were honored as best actor -Firth for "The King's Speech," Swinton for "We Need To Talk About Kevin". The two had not come for the ceremony.

Among the few German nominees could Wim Wenders' "Pina" the trophy for Best Documentary win. The work is a 3D tribute to the late choreographer PinaBausch. The screenplay award went to Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and LucDardenne ("The boy with the bicycle"), in the category of best director to put theOscar-winning actress Susanne Bier ("In a better world") by. Tom Tykwer's movie "Three" went empty-handed in the division's best cut, there won "The King'sSpeech."

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Massa advises Barrichello to quit

Rubens Barrichello has been 323 races under his belt, making it the longest-serving Formula 1 driver. The helmet of a 39-year-old does not want to hang on the nail for a long time. But before his home race on Sunday in Sao Paulo (27/11/11, Live Scores in sportschau.de from 16.45 clock) he recommends just compatriot Felipe Massa's resignation. "I have advised him to stop," the Ferrari driver is quoted as saying.
Barrichello is currently at his employer Williams on the sidelines. The English team toying with a return of former world champion Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) and has apparently also cast an eye on Adrian Sutil, Force India whose days are numbered. There is no place for Barrichello, unless he still drives on additional sponsorship money.


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And this is precisely what Massa before his 100th Race for Ferrari annoyed: "It can not be that Barrichello is looking for sponsors so he can go racing - not after what he has achieved in Formula 1," says the Brazilian and once more: "I have advised him not to stop, because I think he is too old. "
Barrichello is not thinking of retirement - or is it?
Absolutely not want the Paulista, São Paulo, such as those in newborns called, be robbed of its racing glory: "I will not beg," Barrichello said at the official press conference at Interlagos. He had 19 wonderful years. Announces the Wiliams-driver with this brief comment on his impending departure?
Here, the desire of the Brazilian population is deep for a racing idol. Barrichello and Massa's recent victories are back years. And also the third driver in the Brazilian field, Bruno Senna calls, despite his surname is not currently the best hope for a successor to the legendary Ayrton forth.
Despite all the discussion is for Barrichello even a withdrawal of the question."I'm 40 and next year will be 20 years in this business. It is almost a must that I'm here next year," said the Brazilian British TV channel BBC. Therefore, he will do everything to make it again next year at the start is.
It bothers him, evidently not that of his previous eleven Grand Prix successes probably come to no other will win. When asked why he is the Formula 1 am doing at all, instead of enjoying private life, has Barrichello a very simple answer: "I'm doing this job because I love him And I still want to enjoy some time in full.. "

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Coming-of-age film "Submarine"

In Richard Ayoade's new film "Submarine" a boy from Wales, the rise of the outsider trying to cool guys. Purposeless.
Eventually, as Oliver is once again humiliated in front of all other students, because he loves the wrong woman has long hair or just enough fights, one wonders whether "Submarine" is not an entirely different movie could have been.One who tells them that puberty has its good sides, working title: "How happy I was with 15" or better: "My successful first time." That would be really something new.
Instead, the British director Richard Ayoade tells of a youth, where everything goes wrong, and not allow things holds many surprises: a gangly teenager in the province has problems with girls and suffers from its staid at home. Oliver (Craig Roberts) from Wales, read Shakespeare, but secretly wants to be part of the cool guys. To escape his outsider existence, he decides to find a girlfriend and also the marriage of his parents to bring back into balance.Attack from the Unseen
Lurking in the small-town high school world, the clichés at every turn, which is not necessarily bad if they are oversubscribed as shrill as Ayoade: The schoolyard bullying is a battlefield, known only to victims or perpetrators. The girl, in which the hero falls in love ignites, preferably at random things, so it is exciting. And Oliver's parents live a caricature of a dead husband, who appears in a movie night with the neighbors like a swashbuckling adventure. As Oliver's father (Noah Taylor), a marine biologist, learns of his new girlfriend, he expresses his son only once a cassette with some rock in the hand that supposedly was already in his youth very helpful.

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That is absurdly comic horrors Oliver pulls himself back into his thoughts. As the U-boat on the poster that hangs on his wall, he tried to dive and to operate out of obscurity. A fake love letter to his mother (Sally Hawkins) is to lie down, let their passion for the glow father. A classmate who is more unpopular than he writes Oliver a booklet on bullying defense.And of course, flirting with the pyromaniac Jordana (Yasmin Paige) is planned meticulously. Like trying to persuade his conquest at last for the first sex: nice in a suit and tie, with red balloons and flowers sea. Of course still ends in disaster.And if he still gets what he wants, then stays out of the hoped-for redemption.
Directed by Richard Ayoade is a well known comedian in his homeland and has shot music videos for bands like the Arctic Monkeys. Their singer and songwriter Alex Turner then also contributed the soundtrack for "Submarine."Ayoade is a master at creating mood and bad mood. The respectable homes, junkyards and the railroad tracks, the forlorn town, all that is set in a convincing scene. The light from Wales is as gloomy as the view of the protagonist, and Oliver is not a spectator envy for his life.
But even the compassion has its limits, because ultimately the story follows fairly familiar patterns. Oliver is so awkward and obstinate, that he is quickly becoming the biggest spinners spin this film reach, you can not really close to him. He lurches from one mishap to another, without being out of his damage is sometimes wiser. For a while it's fun to watch this eccentric and wait for it turns out that the genius in freak shows up. But sometimes there is just only a freak.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Meat laboratory as a recipe against hunger?

A Dutch researcher muscle cells can grow in the petri dish. 2012, the first test-tube hamburger be ready. To some this may seem distasteful, but there are many good reasons.
The work of Mark Post reminiscent of Frankenstein's not a little kitchen. It looks like in a normal laboratory with facilities for sterile work: incubators, microscopes.Two weeks ago, he and his two colleagues, the laboratory experiment for the current set up. During music playing in the background the radio in front of him, he explains how he brings the meat in the petri dish to grow.





As a starting point are myoblasts, that muscle precursor cells from an embryo - in this case from a cow. "We isolate the myoblasts and create a cell culture so that they multiply. If we have enough cells, progression to the myotubes, which are the real muscle. These we put in a Petri dish and let it grow in the incubator. "
What a muscle cell needs to grow
The incubator mimics exactly according to the conditions which prevail in the interior of a cow: the temperature is 37 ° Celsius, the humidity close to 100 percent, the carbon dioxide content of about 5 percent. The oxygen content is slightly below 21 percent. They are fed with a nutrient solution, the myotubes from sugars, proteins, amino acids, minerals and vitamins. No growth acceleration, no genetic engineering - the cells in the incubator should feel just as comfortable as they were growing closer to a beef rump.

Mark Post, professor of physiology at the University of MaastrichtThe result after six weeks looks as if one of the layers of a paper handkerchief plucked and apart from a few centimeters wide strip cut would have. That one should be able to eat? Mark Post laugh - even he laughs a lot and be happy. "The tissue is still not white flesh color. It has the consistency of tissue, thus you can not have much taste. We are currently working on the scientific basis to establish the optimal conditions for the meat in the dish. "
There is no shortage of volunteers
But next year will mark his far post. Then he wants to introduce a prototype: a hamburger meat laboratory, which will look exactly like a traditional burger forge."The volunteers are already queuing up who want to try the first hamburger," said Mark Post, this time very seriously.
He would also like to do, but Mark Post will have to give precedence to his financial backers. Although the Dutch government has funded the project, but the lion's share is currently provided by a private sponsor. Since 2008, the medical researcher at the in-vitro meat. This post has Marc to do otherwise is not just a little: In addition to his professorship of physiology at the University of Maastricht, he runs the CARIM Research Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases with 250 employees. Research project in the flesh but only three people - including his own
Donors urgently sought

The incubator will find the same conditions as in the interior of a cowThe Maastricht team is not the only world that works to flesh out the retort. In New York, researchers are experimenting with fish fillet, at the University of South Carolina with turkey, also at Oxford University and the University of Missouri to run similar experiments. In the Netherlands, the scientists of some universities have joined together to form a network. While Mark Post operates the basic research, take care of others for example, the optimal composition of the nutrient solution for cell cultures.
In August 2011, researchers in Gothenburg, Sweden had met to discuss their activities in terms of lab meat to coordinate their research and jointly sponsor aufzutun. To make the cell pale stripes in ten, fifteen years a juicy burger marketable, it would take several 1,000 employees, organized in a global network, estimates Mark Post. And money, a lot of money! With its proto-hamburger only once provided the proof that it works, then go to the money supply, it is hoped post.
An increasing number of positive reactions

Mark Post with burgers and petri dishMark Post are situated in front of a real burger and a petri dish with the broth for the meat lab. With his method could also be an entire steak in cultivating in the lab, he says. Because the basic principle is always the same and are the same for poultry or pork. Public attitudes have changed about his project: "Before the first response was usually: Würg! Nobody will ever eat! Today, many say: Yes, it makes sense that we seek alternatives to meat. Let us see the benefits! "
In his view, these are mainly three: "The way we produce meat is very inefficient.Pigs and cattle as main sources of meat have a Biokonversionsrate of only 15 percent. . We have to grow much vegetable protein and eat the animals give to get a relatively small piece of animal protein "in order to get a kilo of meat, a cow needs seven kilograms of food - usually in the form of grain. Soy is also used what is perhaps even more rain forest cut down. About one-third of the world's grain harvest lands, according to a study by the University of Oxford in the stomachs of cattle, rather than on the plates of people in developing countries."This way we will not manage to feed the world population with high quality food," said Mark Post, which offers. "And the cattle is a burden to the environment. The animals consume large amounts of water and land. 70% of the acreage of the world are occupied by livestock. Furthermore, the energy consumption is enormous. The animals emit a substantial proportion of our climate killer. "
Livestock as a climate killer

In the stomach of cows is brewing somethingThe problem is mainly the methane gas. Because every 40 seconds a cow burps.But that is anything but a cute burp, but an enormous burden on the global climate. Each cow slipped out in this way per day up to 250 liters of methane gas that is 23 times more climate-damaging greenhouse gas than CO2. Around a billion cows worldwide is brewing as bad. As a result, livestock accounts for about a fifth of a percentage of all greenhouse gases is responsible!
Not only for the environment it would be a blessing if we find other resources for proteins. "We want to displace the conditions under which the animals live and die. A developed society can accept less and less. We also know that arise with the intensive animal husbandry, diseases and epidemics among animals, which in turn means that we need to use antibiotics. "
The consequences of meat consumption

Since many runs along the water in the mouthMark Post itself is not a vegetarian and he is aware that meat consumption is one of many for the western lifestyle. A juicy piece of meat on the plate is increasing affluence but also in other world regions to measure the things culinary.According to a forecast by the Food and Agriculture Organization FAO, meat consumption will double by the year 2050 to 460 million tons annually. But that would not cope with our planet.
But who would consume the meat lab? Would it be a lifestyle product for wealthy do-gooders or to help fight hunger in the world? An interesting question to which there is an intense debate said the Dutchman, "You can serve niche markets and offer all kinds of meat. But my ambitions are there already invested a little higher.My main interest is to make something that is more effective than the meat that we know today. "Thus, the in-vitro meat would also help to fight hunger. And that's, Mark has set the goal post.