Vicar accuses police of being 'manipulated by homosexuals' after authorities arrested an American evangelist in Wimbledon
A London priest has said you can quit being gay like you can with smoking cigarettes or using drugs.
Peter Ratcliff, a vicar of St John?s Church of England in Colliers Wood, south-west London, came to an American evangelist?s aid after his arrest last week.
Last week, Tony Miano was held for around six hours after he preached homosexuality was a sin on Wimbledon streets as the international tennis event took place.
In a YouTube video, police can be seen approaching the 49-year-old to question whether he had been offending public order. He was later arrested and released without charge.
Ratcliff accused police of being ?manipulated by homosexuals? and demanded a public apology.
?If anybody should be charged with hate it is his accuser who appears to have sworn at him,? he said.
?In the USA there are now groups of ex-homosexuals who have been able to repent of homosexuality in the way that one might for example give up cigarettes or drugs.?
Ratcliff is possibly referencing ?ex-gay? groups like Exodus International, which recently closed its doors admitting ?gay cures? did not exist and apologizing to the gay community.
The British priest added: ?I call upon Merton police to publicly apologise for such high handed use of the law and for allowing themselves to be manipulated by homosexuals who are evidently trying to silence those who not merely have Biblical and moral objections to homosexuality but are proclaiming the way of eternal life through Jesus Christ to all people regardless of their present circumstances.?
India retain number one ODI rank, Australia at number two
New Delhi: Indian cricket team is on cloud nine today with their back to back title victories and retained their first position in the ICC ODI rankings following the annual update of the list announced on Friday.
India just won the tri nation series in the West Indies and also was victorious in Champions Trophy played last month in England.
India won the final of the series in a thrilling and later the list featuring India as the topper was announced. India has been the number one team since February 2013.
India with 122 rating points is leading the list followed by Australia (114) while the third place has been given to England (112).
The rating has been concluded determining the ODI matches completed after August 1, 2010 due to which England was overtaken by Australia though its current performances has been very great.
Two women were killed and a man was wounded in an attack at a store in a busy San Francisco jewelry market Friday, authorities said. Police arrested a blood-covered man who they said twice opened fire on officers.
Officers initially responded to reports that multiple people had been shot at the GiftCenter & JewelryMart in the city's South of Market district about 2 p.m. (5 p.m. ET) and encountered a man running out of the store.
San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said the man, who was covered in blood, opened fire on the officers. He then fled to a nearby restaurant, where he opened fire on a second group of officers before he apparently ran out of ammunition, at which point he surrendered.
The man had a revolver and an "edge weapon" ? described as a folding knife ? when he was taken into custody. He was being treated for superficial wounds, Suhr said.?
It wasn't clear whether the blood that covered him was from his wounds or from the victims, Suhr said..
Inside the market, police found the bodies of two women and a man who had been wounded in the lobby of one of its many jewelry stores. The cause of their wounds hadn't been determined, Suhr said, and no further information about them was immediately available.
Suhr said the male victim was stable at a hospital.
Suhr said police believed there was only the one suspect, but he said officers were scouring the area "out of an abundance of caution." He asked people in the area to stay indoors and shelter in place for the time being.
The block where the shootings occurred is lined with jewelry stores and is near the Concourse Exhibition Center, a venue for large conventions and trade shows. No events were taking place there Friday, according to the site's event calendar.?
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This story was originally published on Fri Jul 12, 2013 6:55 PM EDT
AAA??Jun. 20, 2013?3:12 PM ET Digital 3-D atlas of brain reveals tiny details By MALCOLM RITTERBy MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer??
In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers use a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into slivers 20-micrometers thick, resulting in over 7,400 slices. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)
In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers use a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into slivers 20-micrometers thick, resulting in over 7,400 slices. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)
This image made from video provided by researchers shows a highly-detailed image of the hippocampus region of the human brain. The digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections made from the brain of a 65-year-old woman. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Montreal Neurological Institute/McGill University, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine/Research Centre Juelich, and National Research Council of Canada)
In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers use a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into slivers 20-micrometers thick, resulting in over 7,400 slices. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)
In this photo provided by Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans, researchers arrange sections made from a brain preserved in paraffin wax. A digital three-dimensional model called "BigBrain" was produced from the thousands of sections. Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world. The researchers, from Germany and Canada, reported their work Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the journal Science. (AP Photo/Katrin Amunts, Karl Zilles, Alan C. Evans)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Scientists have a new brain atlas to help them study their favorite organ. It's a digital, three-dimensional model called "BigBrain."
Its resolution is finer than a human hair, so it can reveal clusters of brain cells and even some large individual cells. It is being made available to scientists around the world.
To make the atlas, researchers sliced a cadaver brain from a 65-year-old woman into 7,400 thin sections, stained them to reveal tiny features, and photographed each one. Then they used computers to combine the data into a 3-D digital model.
The idea of thin-slicing a brain to study its anatomy is not new. In fact, complete bodies of a man and a woman were sliced and photographed about 20 years ago to create an anatomy reference called the Visible Human Project.
For the new brain-mapping project, the researchers chose the woman's brain for no special reason other than it was basically healthy, said Katrin Amunts of Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf in Germany.
She is lead author of a report on the atlas published Thursday in the journal Science. Scientists have begun mapping data from other brain studies onto the new model to gain new insights, said senior author Karl Zilles of the Juelich Aachen Research Alliance in Juelich, Germany.
"You don't have Facebook? Then how do you get on Farmville?," asks Brian as Peter explains his disdain for the world's largest social network. While Tim was relatively mum on that subject, it turns out he broke his Google Glass... somehow. So, while the aforementioned bearded wizard works on getting a replacement -- and 3D printing a better case -- feel free to hear about this week's biggest stories in consumer electronics by streaming our newest episode below.
LONDON (AP) ? British officials are charging two journalists for The Sun newspaper as part of an investigation into bribery of public officials.
The Crown Prosecution Service said Friday that The Sun's Jamie Pyatt and John Edwards will be charged along with Robert Neave ? a former healthcare assistant at Broadmoor, Britain's hospital for the criminally insane ? with conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office.
Prosecutors allege that over nearly nine years, The Sun paid more than 30,000 pounds ($46,500) to public officials ? including Neave ? for information including about the health and activities of Broadmoor patients and details about a royal family member's work.
The charges are being brought as part of Operation Elveden, an investigation being run in conjunction with probes into phone hacking.
Contact: Jes Andersen jean@science.ku.dk 45-23-60-11-40 University of Copenhagen
Electronic components built from single molecules using chemical synthesis could pave the way for smaller, faster and more green and sustainable electronic devices. Now for the first time, a transistor made from just one molecular monolayer has been made to work where it really counts. On a computer chip.
The molecular integrated circuit was created by a group of chemists and physicists from the Department of Chemistry Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. Their discovery "Ultrathin Reduced Graphene Oxide Films as Transparent Top-Contacts for Light Switchable Solid-State Molecular Junctions" has just been published online in the prestigious periodical Advanced Materials. The breakthrough was made possible through an innovative use of the two dimensional carbon material graphene.
Kasper Nrgaard is an associate professor in chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. He believes that the first advantage of the newly developed graphene chip will be to ease the testing of coming molecular electronic components. But he is also confident, that it represents a first step towards proper integrated molecular circuits.
"Graphene has some very interesting properties, which cannot be matched by any other material. What we have shown is that it's possible to integrate a functional component on a graphene chip. I honestly feel this is front page news", says Nrgaard.
The molecular computer chip is a sandwich built with one layer of gold, one of molecular components and one of the extremely thin carbon material graphene. The molecular transistor in the sandwich is switched on and of using a light impulse so one of the peculiar properties of graphene is highly useful. Even though graphene is made of carbon, it's almost completely translucent.
The hunt for transistors, wires, contacts and other electronic components made from single molecules has had researchers working night and day. Unlike traditional components they are expected to require no heavy metals and rare earth elements. So they should be cheaper as well as less harmful to earth, water and animals. Unfortunately it has been fiendishly difficult to test how well these functional molecules work. Until now.
Previously the testing of the microscopic components had researchers resort to a method best compared to a lottery. In order to check whether or not a newly minted molecule would conduct or break a current, they had to practically dump a beakerfull of molecules between two live wires, hoping that at least one molecule had landed so that it closed the circuit.
Using the new graphene chip researchers can now place their molecules with great precision. This makes it faster and easier to test the functionality of molecular wires, contacts and diodes so that chemists will know in no time whether they need to get back to their beakers to develop new functional molecules, explains Nrgaard.
"We've made a design, that'll hold many different types of molecule" he says and goes on: "Because the graphene scaffold is closer to real chipdesign it does make it easier to test components, but of course it's also a step on the road to making a real integrated circuit using molecular components. And we must not lose sight of the fact that molecular components do have to end up in an integrated circuit, if they are going to be any use at all in real life".
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Electronic components built from single molecules using chemical synthesis could pave the way for smaller, faster and more green and sustainable electronic devices. Now for the first time, a transistor made from just one molecular monolayer has been made to work where it really counts. On a computer chip.
The molecular integrated circuit was created by a group of chemists and physicists from the Department of Chemistry Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. Their discovery "Ultrathin Reduced Graphene Oxide Films as Transparent Top-Contacts for Light Switchable Solid-State Molecular Junctions" has just been published online in the prestigious periodical Advanced Materials. The breakthrough was made possible through an innovative use of the two dimensional carbon material graphene.
Kasper Nrgaard is an associate professor in chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. He believes that the first advantage of the newly developed graphene chip will be to ease the testing of coming molecular electronic components. But he is also confident, that it represents a first step towards proper integrated molecular circuits.
"Graphene has some very interesting properties, which cannot be matched by any other material. What we have shown is that it's possible to integrate a functional component on a graphene chip. I honestly feel this is front page news", says Nrgaard.
The molecular computer chip is a sandwich built with one layer of gold, one of molecular components and one of the extremely thin carbon material graphene. The molecular transistor in the sandwich is switched on and of using a light impulse so one of the peculiar properties of graphene is highly useful. Even though graphene is made of carbon, it's almost completely translucent.
The hunt for transistors, wires, contacts and other electronic components made from single molecules has had researchers working night and day. Unlike traditional components they are expected to require no heavy metals and rare earth elements. So they should be cheaper as well as less harmful to earth, water and animals. Unfortunately it has been fiendishly difficult to test how well these functional molecules work. Until now.
Previously the testing of the microscopic components had researchers resort to a method best compared to a lottery. In order to check whether or not a newly minted molecule would conduct or break a current, they had to practically dump a beakerfull of molecules between two live wires, hoping that at least one molecule had landed so that it closed the circuit.
Using the new graphene chip researchers can now place their molecules with great precision. This makes it faster and easier to test the functionality of molecular wires, contacts and diodes so that chemists will know in no time whether they need to get back to their beakers to develop new functional molecules, explains Nrgaard.
"We've made a design, that'll hold many different types of molecule" he says and goes on: "Because the graphene scaffold is closer to real chipdesign it does make it easier to test components, but of course it's also a step on the road to making a real integrated circuit using molecular components. And we must not lose sight of the fact that molecular components do have to end up in an integrated circuit, if they are going to be any use at all in real life".
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