“Website Opened to Study Songun Politics in Malta” plus 2 more |
- Website Opened to Study Songun Politics in Malta
- Jürgen Klinsmann says England are Germany's World Cup inspiration
- China pushing the envelope on science, and sometimes ethics
| Website Opened to Study Songun Politics in Malta Posted: 27 Jun 2010 06:41 PM PDT Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- The Group for the Study of Juche Philosophy and Songun Politics of Malta opened its Internet homepage on June 19 on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. | The secretary general of the group referred to the background against which the homepage was opened. He stressed that the group would give wide publicity to the Juche idea and the Songun idea and the reality of the DPRK winning victory after victory. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Jürgen Klinsmann says England are Germany's World Cup inspiration Posted: 28 Jun 2010 12:24 AM PDT  When Jürgen Klinsmann prepared a blueprint to change the face of German football, six years ago, he took his inspiration from the Premier League. It was not unusual to see him or his assistant, Joachim Löw, at matches in England and they saw the future for their country in the high-tempo, direct style in front of them. Löw succeeded Klinsmann as Germany manager after the 2006 World Cup and he has continued to drum English fundamentals into his players. When the nations meet in the last 16 of this year's finals, on Sunday in Bloemfontein, the Germans intend to beat England at their own game.
"Our philosophy was always to play a fast-paced, attacking style of football. That is what we introduced to the German national team," Klinsmann said. "We developed a team to start passing from the back, hitting balls to the strikers but keeping the ball on the ground. It is a process that has taken Germany six years to learn to play but England were playing that way six years ago. "Joachim and myself often went over to Premier League games and we tried to implement a style that really creates more speed and creativity. As a result, there is now a generation of German players coming through that has become used to that system and they are comfortable with it. The players have now grown into it and Joachim is continuing that by telling the players that they have to be proactive and highly energetic going forward, with one or two touches if possible. But we still want to create space for creative players like Mesut Ozil." Klinsmann's team enjoyed a run to the semi-finals in 2006, losing to the eventual champions, Italy, and reflected the new, 21st-century Germany with the vibrancy of their football. Löw's class of 2010 are different; there are only nine survivors from 2006 and 12 of the 23 are aged 24 or under. Klinsmann, who had two spells at Tottenham Hotspur in the 1990s, noted that "in Germany, you can watch all the English games at the weekend and people do". The squad's young players cannot remember a time when they were not drip-fed football from the Premier League. "There is big excitement about Sunday's game," Klinsmann said, "because there is so much respect for English football, the big English clubs and the way that England play. England showed during qualification that they can play so we are not just looking at them from their three group games. Joachim knows exactly what this England team are capable of doing." Löw's 4-2-3-1 formation is designed to spring numbers forward at pace, including from the full-back positions. Although Bastian Schweinsteiger has been reinvented as a central midfielder by Louis van Gaal at Bayern Munich and tends to hold in Löw's team, his partner, Sami Khedira, who has made light of the absence of the injured Michael Ballack, charges from box to box. In front of them, from right to left, Thomas Müller, Ozil and Lukas Podolski fuse pace, technique and penetration. All of these players could fit seamlessly into Premier League teams. Klinsmann rates the lone striker, Miroslav Klose, as an "exceptional talent". He managed Klose at Bayern in 2008-09 and says "he is similar to Wayne Rooney in that he can step up and make a difference". Klose, though, needs man-management and Klinsmann says that while he gets it at international level, he did not over the past domestic season. Klose scored three goals in the Bundesliga for Bayern. "Klose needs lots of support from the coaching staff. He needs talks, he needs confidence and he needs to be given a good buildup with a focus on him," Klinsmann said. "But at Bayern, he is in a different situation. Since I left the club just over a year ago they have brought in other players for lots of money. They have played them and Bayern have been successful so Klose was on the bench. That meant he came to South Africa with his head down but he has raised it back up now. He is one that, at this level, is the only one who can make the difference." England will sense vulnerability in Germany's defence. The centre-halves, Arne Friedrich and Per Mertesacker, lack pace and the England manager, Fabio Capello, will have seen how Ghana got in between and behind them. Germany may consider attack to be the best form of defence. "This is just going to be about two teams going at each other," said Klinsmann, who feels that England's greater experience will not be significant. "We have a young German team [who] are lacking experience but they are playing in a way that shows they are not thinking or worrying too much. They just go out there and play." Philipp Lahm, the right-back and captain, has said Germany are as mentally strong as ever and that it would not be a match against England without the mention of penalties. All of the scars, though, are England's. "It is more on the English side that this topic is always brought up," Klinsmann said. "But when you are on the losing side, it obviously brings more stress when you try to digest it. We haven't had to do that. I think this Germany team can prove that they are on the level of other German teams. They might not have to win the World Cup to do it but they are ready to prove they are on that level." Klinsmann was a member of a great Germany team which beat England in the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup and the 1996 European Championship. "The history of both nations is just amazing," he said. "From the 1966 final, for which the Germans still don't believe the ball was over the line, to the 1990s semi-final, which England could have won in normal time. The England fans want to change that history. That's what they can do on Sunday, so let's see." Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
| China pushing the envelope on science, and sometimes ethics Posted: 27 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT Zhao is 17. Centuries after it led the world in technological prowess -- think gunpowder, irrigation and the printed word -- China has barged back into the ranks of the great powers in science. With the brashness of a teenager, in some cases literally, China's scientists and inventors are driving a resurgence in potentially world-changing research. Unburdened by social and legal constraints common in the West, China's trailblazing scientists are also pushing the limits of ethics and principle as they create a new -- and to many, worrisome -- Wild West in the Far East. A decade ago, no one considered China a scientific competitor. Its best and brightest agreed and fled China in a massive brain drain to university research labs at Harvard, Stanford and MIT. But over the past five years, Western-educated scientists and gutsy entrepreneurs have conducted a rearguard action, battling China's hidebound bureaucracy to establish research institutes and companies. Those have lured home scores of Western-trained Chinese researchers dedicated to transforming the People's Republic of China into a scientific superpower. "They have grown so fast and so suddenly that people are still skeptical," said Rasmus Nielsen, a geneticist at the University of California at Berkeley who collaborates with Chinese counterparts. "But we should get used to it. There is competition from China now, and it's really quite drastic how things have changed." China has invested billions in improving its scientific standing. Almost every Chinese ministry has some sort of program to win a technological edge in everything from missiles to medicine. Beijing's minister of science and technology, Wan Gang, will visit the United States in early July and is expected to showcase some of China's successes. In May, for example, a supercomputer produced in China was ranked the world's second-fastest machine at an international conference in Germany. China is now in fourth place, tied with Germany, in terms of the number of supercomputers. China has jumped to second place -- up from 14th in 1995 -- behind the United States in the number of research articles published in scientific and technical journals worldwide. Backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Chinese medical researchers, partnering with a firm in the United States, beat out an Indian team last year to develop a new test for cervical cancer that costs less than $5. The goal is to test 10 million Chinese women within three years. Chinese engineers have significantly improved on Western and Soviet coal-gasification technology as part of a multibillion-dollar effort to create green Chinese energy. Action, not research "The action is here," said S. Ming Sung, the chief Asia-Pacific representative for the Clean Air Task Force, a U.S.-based nonprofit entity, and a former Shell Oil executive. "In the U.S., there are too many paper researchers. Here, they are doing things." Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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