Hannover Biomedical Research School, as part of Hannover Medical School (MMH), invites applications for the above PhD studentships, to commence in October 2013. The three-year study programs, taught in English, are aimed at post-graduates in Medicine, Veterinary Medicine as well as those from Life Science ?elds. The PhD program ?Regenerative Sciences? is also open to students from the various disciplines of Materials Sciences. As well as working on a research project, students also attend seminars, lab and soft-skill courses, congresses and summer schools. Successful candidates will be awarded a PhD, alternatively Dr. rer. nat. Scholarships are fully funded by the DFG (Excellence Initiative), MHH and partner institutes.
We are looking for highly-motivated candidates who have an active interest in one of the ?elds associated with one or more of the programs on offer. Excellent written and spoken English skills are required. With nearly two thirds of our students coming from outside Germany, international applicants are welcome. Deadline for completed applications is April 1st, 2013. Application forms to be found on the website on www.mh-hannover.de/hbrs.html PhD ?Molecular Medicine?: The program aims to form a bridge between Science and the Clinic, in research as well as in teaching. PhD Infection Biology: Students focus on the main topics in Infection, Immunology,Microbiology, Virology and Cell Biology. PhD Regenerative Sciences: Research and teaching concentrate on Developmental Biology, Stem Cell Biology, Biology of Ageing and Degeneration, Growth Factors and Other Regenerative Agents, Cell Therapy, Tissue Engineering including Materials and Natural Sciences, and Ethical as well as Regulatory Implications.
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(Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed on Tuesday a $136.5 billion state budget for fiscal 2014 that boosts education spending and closes a $1.3 billion gap without raising taxes.
The spending plan, which would be a 1.9 percent increase, or $2.5 billion, from the current fiscal year, must be approved by state lawmakers.
The state's fiscal year begins April 1, three months earlier than most.
To close the gap, the state would save some money by keeping total spending increases below 2 percent for a third straight year, while tax collections are projected to increase by $3.5 billion, or 5.4 percent from fiscal 2013 estimates.
New York could save nearly $974 million because of government cost control efforts, including by shrinking planned spending increases for some programs and agencies, Cuomo said.
Included in that figure are some closures and consolidations of excess facilities - including an empty prison - as well as controls on hiring.
Cuomo's proposed budget would reduce spending for public safety agencies by 10 percent in fiscal 2014, mostly due to a retroactive labor contract settlement for correction officers in the current fiscal year.
Cuomo, a Democrat, also proposed shuttering what he said were the two least efficient prisons in the state. One, the Bayview Correctional Facility in Manhattan, which remains vacant after being evacuated during Sandy.
Prison closures would eliminate more than 432 beds and save $18 million in fiscal 2014 and $62 million in fiscal 2015 if the state can sell the Bayview prison, according to budget documents.
The state also hopes to save an estimated $755 million over five years as it continues consolidating back-office operations, like business services, into a central location.
In September, New York State Budget Director Robert Megna ordered state agencies to plan for "zero growth" in their budgets for fiscal 2014.
Excluded from the spending freeze were two areas that are subject to different caps on growth: school aid and Medicaid.
PLAN WOULD SPEND ON EDUCATION, SANDY RECOVERY
Some other states have also begun clawing their way out of the post-recession funk, with California Governor Jerry Brown saying on January 10 that his state's deficit is gone after years of financial troubles. He proposed increased spending on education and healthcare.
And on January 16, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick proposed raising the commonwealth's income tax rate and lowering sales taxes as part of a plan to invest nearly $2 billion in education and infrastructure. He is slated to present his budget on Wednesday.
In New York, Cuomo's budget plan would fund an array of new housing, economic and other initiatives he proposed during his annual State of the State address on January 9. And it would increase money for education by $889 million, up 4.4 percent from current levels.
It also includes $21 billion in appropriations for recovery, rebuilding and mitigation projects after Superstorm Sandy ripped into the coastline on October 29.
The state expects to receive about $30 billion of a $60 billion federal relief package that is still being finalized in the U.S. Senate, with neighboring New Jersey to get most of the rest.
Cuomo also said that the so-called "design-build" approach - a kind of public-private partnership being used to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge - should be expanded to all state agencies and authorities.
Design-build projects call for the same private firm to design and build a public project, rather than having companies bid on the different phases of construction separately, which critics say can make projects take longer and cost more to build.
And Cuomo proposed a five-year extension to the $420 million annual tax credit for the film and television production industry, beginning in calendar year 2015.
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, also a Democrat, said his office would provide a detailed analysis of Cuomo's budget in the coming weeks.
"Our budget has only stayed in balance because the state limited spending and used one-time windfalls," DiNapoli said about the current budget. "We face stubbornly slow growth in our economy, significant out-year budget gaps and a debt burden that is among the highest in the nation."
(Reporting by Hilary Russ; Editing by Richard Chang, Tiziana Barghini, and Tim Dobbyn)
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Mama tells the story of two young girls who are abandoned in the woods by their deranged father, then discovered alive five years later. Mama is produced by Pan?s Labyrinth?s Guillermo del Toro and is an assured feature-length directorial debut from Andr?s Muschietti. Mama enjoys a similar gothic horror verve to recent del Toro-produced pictures The Orphanage and Don?t Be Afraid of the Dark. In the lead as the reluctant foster parent is Jessica Chastain, currently Oscar-nominated for her role in Zero Dark Thirty. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stars in a dual role, as both the uncle and father of the missing girls. And the girls are played by Megan Charpentier and Isabelle N?lisse, both creepy and charming in equal measure.
The film opens on the back of an unseen killing spree by a banker, which leads to his driving off into the snowy wilderness with his two young daughters. Skidding off a mountain pass in his Mercedes (license plate reads ?No.1 Dad?), the father carries the girls to an abandoned cabin where he plans to end his dismal journey. But guess what, the cabin isn?t abandoned after all. It is home to Mama. So five years later, the girls are discovered in the cabin. Wild, disheveled and animal-like, but alive thanks to a supernatural guardian. Following some psychological evaluation by Dr. Dreyfuss (played by Daniel Cash), the girls are reunited with their uncle, and go to live with him and his partner.
The girls spend their time scuttling round the house, whispering into the shadows and drawing disturbing pictures of crooked figures. Gradually becoming less feral, but displaying some increasingly creepy behavior. Soon, a thought-to-be imaginary playmate named Mama begins to visit the children. There are some genuine jumpy moments in Mama as the scares build up and are delivered in style. At one point, you see the younger sister playing with one end of a sheet through an open doorway, with the other end being tugged out of view. A moment later, the older sister walks past and you know there is no one else in the room ? Mama has a few good visual tricks like this. As the relationship between Chastain and the girls develops, Mama starts to get jealous. Life in the house then takes a turn for the demented, as Mama don?t take no mess.
When the uncle is hospitalized following a Mama-induced fall, Chastain is then left alone to raise the girls and is subjected to a number of freaky occurrences. Meanwhile, the girls are being pursued for custody by an authoritarian aunt (yeah, doesn?t end well!). Whilst this is going on, Dr. Dreyfuss has been interviewing the girls and begins to track down the story of now-believed Mama. Due to some textbook poor horror movie decision-making on the part of Dr. Dreyfuss, Chastain is left to pick up the trail. She begins to unravel the mystery of Mama and as the film comes to its climax, Mama comes out of the closet and tries to steal back the girls. Though a frightening figure just out of focus or flashing past, when fully revealed, Mama is a little disappointing. Though the effects are very good, the suggestion of Mama slightly hidden away works better than the figure up close and personal. Especially when her twisted features are supposed to be conveying some semblance of emotion?is that empathy, or emotional turmoil, or does Mama just need to fart?
Though the ending is a little disappointing, overall Mama is the best horror film that?s been out for quite some time. It?s original, has plenty of scares, all the central performances are strong and decent dialogue helps keeps you captivated. It would have been fun to have Mama take part in some more mundane parenting tasks, taking the kids to softball practice and filling up the cart at Wal-Mart. But seriously, Mama?s parenting skills leave a lot to be desired.
BAMAKO, Mali French troops pressed north in Mali toward territory occupied by radical Islamists on Wednesday, launching a land assault which will put soldiers in direct combat "in 1 to 72 hours," military officials said.
French ground operations began overnight, France's military chief of staff Adm. Edouard Guillaud, said on Europe 1 television Wednesday. He stressed that French infantry units "will be fighting directly in coming hours, but I am unable to say whether it is in one hour or in 72 hours. ... Of course, we will be fighting directly."
Armored vehicles loaded with French troops were seen heading toward Niono. The natural target for the French infantry is Diabaly, located 250 miles northeast of the capital and roughly 45 miles north of Niono. French warplanes have carried out airstrikes on Diabaly since the weekend, when a column of dozens of rebel vehicles cut off the road to Diabaly and seized the town as well as its military camp.
Meanwhile, in apparent retribution for the French military operation in Mali, militants in neighboring Algeria stormed a natural gas field, partly owned by BP, and took an unknown number of foreigners hostage, including Americans.
The presence of Americans among the captives was confirmed by the U.S. State Department, but officials gave no details on the number or identities of those held hostage.
In Mali, a trickle of refugees left on foot from Diabaly, a town seized two days ago by the jihadists who have held onto it despite a punishing bombing campaign by French fighter jets. The refugees arrived in Niono town, 43 miles south of Diabaly, according to residents.
Ibrahim Komnotogo, a resident of Diabaly who heads a USAID-financed rice agriculture project, happened to be outside the town when the jihadists encircled it. He has 20 employees and contractors who he says are stuck inside the town, which has a population of 35,000. He told The Associated Press that al Qaeda-linked rebels have sealed off the roads and were preventing people from leaving. He was last able to speak to his employees on Tuesday, and had not had news of them since, after the telephone network was cut.
Komnotogo says he fears the Islamists are planning to hide within Diabaly's mud-walled neighborhoods and use the population as a human shield.
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"The jihadists have split up. They don't move around in big groups ... they are out in the streets, in fours, and fives and sixes, and they are living inside the most populated neighborhoods," he said, explaining that they had taken over the homes of people who managed to flee before the road was cut off.
French warplanes bombarded the military camp, but there have been no airstrikes inside the actual town, which begins at the eastern wall of the garrison. Residents have evacuated the neighborhood called Bordeaux, after its sister city in France, which is only 500 yards from the camp, he said. They have moved mostly into a quarter called Berlin, about 0.6 miles from the military installation.
"They are preventing the population from leaving. We have been trying to get our employees out, but they can't leave," said Komnotogo. "They have parked their pickup trucks inside the courtyards of empty homes. They have beards. And they wear boubous (a flowing robe). No one approaches them. Everyone is afraid," he said.
However some people succeeded in leaving Diabaly and later arrived in Niono, indicating that some were slipping through the rebels' noose, or that the fighters had decided to allow residents to leave.
Tidiane Diarra, one of Komnotogo's employees, who distributes water to rice growers, arrived in Niono on Wednesday. He said he had heard that the Islamists were blocking the way out of the town, but could not confirm it because he lives in a village 2.5 miles outside of Diabaly. From there, no one stopped him from leaving.
The fighters, he said, are going to be difficult for the French to weed out, because they are now traveling inside the town on motorbikes, leaving their pickup trucks parked elsewhere. They appear to be melting into the population.
The head of France's military said it is plausible that the extremists would be willing to hide behind civilians. Guillaud said the militant groups have a history of taking human shields and France would do its utmost to make sure civilians are not wrongly targeted. "When in doubt, we will not fire," he said. He added that the French continued their airstrikes overnight on Tuesday to Wednesday. Targets destroyed so far include training camps, logistical depots, command centers and armored vehicles that the jihadists had seized from Mali's government forces.
Three residents of Niono confirmed that a volley of shots rang out on Wednesday afternoon. The shots came from the direction of a neighborhood called Sahel, which has a command post used by security forces.
Mamadou Haidara, who lives in town, says that the shooting although brief, has put the town on high alert. Citizens believe the military fired warning shots to keep the Islamist rebels away from the town.
French President Francois Hollande authorized the airstrikes last Friday after the Islamists began a push southward toward the capital from the northern half of Mali that they control. They seized the Afghanistan-sized north last April in the chaos following a coup in Mali's normally-stable capital.
Six days of airstrikes have done little to erode the Islamist gains in Mali, which some in the West fear could turn the region into a launching pad for terrorist attacks. The bombardments began in the town of Konna, which the rebels occupied last Thursday. After initially saying they had stopped the rebel advance, France's defense minister on Tuesday acknowledged that Konna was still in the hands of the rebels.
The seizure of Diabaly brings the Islamists to only 250 miles from the capital. Konna, the closest point where they were known to be before, is 425 miles away.
On Tuesday, France announced it was tripling the number of troops deployed to Mali from 800 to 2,500. The offensive was to have been led by thousands of African troops pledged by Mali's neighbors, but they have yet to arrive, leaving France alone to lead the operation.
NEW YORK (AP) ? When Dr. Uma Mysorekar looks at the members of the new Congress, the Indian immigrant and practicing Hindu can see that, for the first time, there's someone who shares her ethnicity and someone who shares her faith.
To her surprise, they're two different people.
Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii is the first Hindu elected to Congress. Rep. Ami Bera of California, also a Democrat, is the third Indian-American to serve in the House.
Gabbard, however, isn't from India, where Hinduism originated and to which the vast majority of its adherents have ethnic ties.
Bera is a Unitarian. His two Indian-American predecessors in Congress, Dalip Singh Saund and Bobby Jindal, also were not practicing Hindus. The late Saund, a California Democrat elected in 1956, was Sikh. Jindal, a Republican elected to the House in 2004 and now Louisiana's governor, is Catholic.
Gabbard's presence in Congress creates an interesting moment for Hindus in the United States, a chance to celebrate a barrier broken but also a topic of discussion as they ponder how closely religion and nationality are entwined, or even should be.
Mysorekar is glad to see a practicing Hindu in the country's halls of political power, no matter her nationality.
Gabbard "is a Hindu representative, it doesn't matter where she came from," said Mysorekar, president of the Hindu Temple Society of North America, a temple in the New York borough of Queens that is one of the country's oldest.
As a non-Indian Hindu, Gabbard is most definitely an outlier.
According to an analysis issued last month from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, there are about 1 billion Hindus in the world. Of those, 94 percent are in India, and 99 percent in the larger South Asia region. The analysis, based on data from 2010, the latest available, estimated the population of Hindus in the United States at 1.79 million. Most are of Indian descent.
Hinduism encompasses a range of beliefs and practices, and there is no formal conversion practice. That acceptance of plurality in the faith, that Hindus come in many forms, would make it "hypocritical" for Indian Hindus to look askance at Gabbard for not sharing their ethnicity, said Smita Kothuri, 38, of McLean, Va.
"How can I hold it against her? I'd be untrue to my religion if I held it against her," she said.
Other Indian Hindus agreed with the sentiment.
"I don't think it makes a difference that she's not Indian," said Kinjal Dave, 17, a high school senior in Hillsborough, N.J. "I think it's the faith that matters."
The press secretary for Gabbard, a 31-year-old Iraq war veteran, declined an Associated Press request to interview Gabbard for this story, but sent along a statement Gabbard had made upon being sworn into office, for which she used a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu religious text.
"I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country," she said.
Gabbard has said she was introduced to Hinduism through her mother, and embraced it fully as a teenager. She also is the first member of Congress to be born in the U.S. territory of American Samoa.
The reception from Indians and Indian media to her electoral victory has been largely positive, although there has been at least one mistaken media report making a reference to Gabbard being Indian-American. (She and her siblings all have Indian first names.)
Having any Hindu representation in Congress breaks barriers in a country that, despite religious freedom being enshrined in the Constitution, has seen its elected officials overwhelmingly come from Christian backgrounds.
It can be an inspiration to other Hindus who are interested in public office, that their faith and most voters' unfamiliarity with it, won't prove insurmountable. "I think it instills confidence to say there's been a Hindu there," said Suhag Shukla, executive director of the Hindu American Foundation in Washington.
It's also an opportunity to introduce Hinduism as a faith to people who may have seen it as solely the purview of those who have a connection to India.
Dharmasetu Das knows all about that. Born in Massachusetts to a military family, the 55-year-old white man whose original first name was David has been practicing Hinduism for decades. Now living in San Diego, he performs weddings and other ceremonies as a Hindu pandit, or priest.
He was a teenager when he came across some books on the faith, and "I felt like this was it," he said.
He hasn't come across too many other non-Indian Hindus like himself over the years, and is happy to know he now has a compatriot in such a high-profile place like Congress.
"Just opening people's eyes," he said, "it's a great thing."
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