From Ronaldinho to Lampard. The most ridiculous transfer hearings round

This history very much reminds that happened to Pavel Pogrebnyak and Artem Dzyuboy: guys too wanted to play for native club (in their case — "Spartak"), but at first were wound on arenda, and then moved to St. Petersburg and found the happiness there. However, Smolov's career already turned slightly differently — instead of "Zenith" he chose "Krasnodar" which too applies if not for a victory, at least for medals of the championship of Russia.

In this season Fedor proved that a black strip in the past. First, for 18 matches in a premier league the forward saved up 6 heads and 5 productive passes (shares the fourth place in RFPL on this indicator), and in 315 minutes in group of League of Europe — one goal and one goal pass. Secondly, Smolov's balls are various: unlike Kokorin (four goals — three in empty, one with a penalty) Fedor hit and from difficult positions (examples — a double into gate of CSKA, solo pass and a shot in a far corner in game with "Loco"). Thirdly, thermal cards of actions of Smolov steadily cover almost all others half of a field — the forward looks for a ball not only in the center of attack, but also on the favourite left flank. Kokorin who regularly played earlier the insider, in this season is compelled to act only on an edge: other goalscorers of such level in "Dynamo" aren't present.

The fourth reason of compatibility of Fedor with "Zenith" — ambitions. Kokorina since the childhood was considered as fantastically talented junior, then received a huge salary, but soon his club turned into the ground for testing of young pupils. Alexander obviously ripened for withdrawal from "Dynamo", but looks mainly to Europe, believing that will be able to play in an English premier league or other leading championship. Smolov has a situation slightly another: in last season it began all over again, and so far restart of career can be considered successful. Therefore for Fedor "Zenith" — a step upward, in the Champions League, and for Kokorina Peter — a compromise and opportunity not to lose in money.

But if Alexander can be taken away free of charge, it is necessary to pay for Smolov. Nevertheless, the forward of "Krasnodar" agrees to a salary around two million euros, and Kokorin wants not less than three. Respectively, the three-year contract with Fedor will cost to "Zenith" 18 million euros (if information of Life78 is right), and on a salary to Alexander who will become the free agent in the summer, Petersburgers will spend about nine million for the same three years. Too it is more favorable to sign the contract for five years with Kokorin: 22 million euros against 15.
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Particles could reveal clues to how Egypt pyramid was built

An international team of researchers said Sunday they will soon begin analyzing cosmic particles collected inside Egypt's Bent Pyramid to search for clues as to how it was built and learn more about the 4,600-year-old structure.

Mehdi Tayoubi, president of the Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute, said that plates planted inside the pyramid last month have collected data on radiographic particles known as muons that rain down from the earth's atmosphere.

The particles pass through empty spaces but can be absorbed or deflected by harder surfaces. By studying particle accumulations, scientists may learn more about the construction of the pyramid, built by the Pharaoh Snefru.

"For the construction of the pyramids, there is no single theory that is 100 percent proven or checked; They are all theories and hypotheses," said Hany Helal, the institute's vice president.

"What we are trying to do with the new technology, we would like to either confirm or change or upgrade or modify the hypotheses that we have on how the pyramids were constructed," he said.

The Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, just outside Cairo, is distinguished by the bent slope of its sides. It is believed to have been ancient Egypt's first attempt to build a smooth-sided pyramid.

The Scan Pyramids project, which announced in November thermal anomalies in the 4,500 year-old Khufu Pyramid in Giza, is coupling thermal technology with muons analysis to try to unlock secrets to the construction of several ancient Egyptian pyramids.

Tayoubi said the group plans to start preparations for muons testing in a month in Khufu, the largest of the three Giza pyramids, which is known internationally as Cheops.

"Even if we find one square meter void somewhere, it will bring new questions and hypotheses and maybe it will help solve the definitive questions," said Tayoubi.

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Fewer Cruises Rocked by Gastro Illness Outbreaks

THURSDAY, Jan. 14, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Although outbreaks of illness on cruise ships tend to dominate the news when they occur, the actual number of outbreaks is small, a new U.S. government report says.

Outbreaks of diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, headache, muscle aches or fever -- called gastroenteritis -- dropped significantly on cruise ships between 2008 and 2014, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.

"Of the more than 29,000 voyages between 2008 and 2014, outbreaks occurred on only 133, which is 0.5 percent," said lead researcher Amy Freeland, an epidemiologist with CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program.

About 92 percent of outbreaks were caused by a norovirus, the leading cause of illness and outbreaks from contaminated food in the United States. Others were caused by bacteria such as E. coli, she said.

A small fraction -- just 0.18 percent -- of the nearly 74 million passengers who took a cruise between 2008 and 2014 suffered from acute gastroenteritis, Freeland said. Of approximately 28 million crew members, only 0.15 percent reported having gastroenteritis. This rate remained unchanged during the study period, the new research found.

Freeland said the cruise industry has been doing a better job of preventing and controlling outbreaks. In addition, requirements of the CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program have made a difference in reducing outbreaks by recommending which cleaning procedures and disinfectants be used on cruise ships, she said.

The report was published in the Jan. 15 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Only a small proportion of norovirus cases in the United States are from outbreaks on cruise ships, Freeland said. From 2008 to 2014, only about 15,000 cases of norovirus occurred on cruise ships -- 0.01 percent of the total number of norovirus cases in the United States during that period.

A new strain of norovirus caused an increase in the rate of gastroenteritis in 2012, Freeland said.

The best way for passengers to prevent getting gastroenteritis on a cruise is to wash their hands, especially after using the toilet and before putting anything in their mouth, Freeland said. In addition, passengers should report any symptoms.

"Often, people don't want to report feeling sick because they don't want to be isolated during their vacation," she said. "The problem with that is if there is illness onboard, crew members don't know and they can't step up their sanitation efforts."

Dr. Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, said the biggest problem on cruise ships is norovirus because it's very contagious, and a ship is a confined space.

Siegel agrees that hand washing is the key to staying healthy. "Hand wipes are not enough," he said. "You've got to wash your hands vigorously in soap and water.

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Did dinosaurs woo mates with their Cretaceous mohawks?

From the beautifully-crested Dilophosaurus to the lavishly-ornamented Pentaceratops to the flamboyantly-frilled Protoceratops, paleontologists have long debated the purpose of the elaborate, and often bizarre, ornaments sported by many prehistoric dinosaurs.

Were they used as weapons, temperature regulators, warning signals?

In fact, these attention-grabbing horns, crests, and frills were most likely used to woo mates and intimidate rivals in a peacock-like prehistoric mating show, according to a new study.

Scientists have long suspected decorative formations on dinosaurs served as sexual signals, but a new study published in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica marks the first time they have been able to link them to sexual selection.

"It's the first time we've been able to show that ornamental structures in dinosaurs may have been used to attract mates or assert social dominance, with a numerical study in any dinosaur that includes multiple different age groups," David Hone, a lecturer in zoology from Queen Mary University of London, and a lead author in the study, tells the Christian Science Monitor. "We've long suspected these kinds of ornaments showed these patterns but showing it convincingly has been very hard."

First proposed by Charles Darwin, sexual selection is a mode of natural selection in which traits, often ornamental ones, evolve as a result of members of one sex choosing their mates. It explains the emergence of extreme features, such as the peacock's plumage and the lion's mane, that are not otherwise clearly tied to an organism's survival.

For this study, scientists examined fossils and photographs of Protoceratopsspecimens, a small, horned dinosaur that lived in what is now Mongolia during the Cretaceous Period. About the size of a sheep, this prehistoric creature sported a large, bony frill that extended from the back of its head over its neck.

In past, scientists have proposed a series of explanations for the elaborate frills, bumps, and crests sported by many prehistoric animals.

The frills served as built-in thermostats, heating or cooling a creature as needed, they proposed. Or perhaps the bony horns, spikes, and plates served as defenses against aggressive predators. Were colorful crests merely a dino ID badge, identifying creatures as members of the same species, or did they act as warning signals to other dinosaurs?

While some of these uses may still be possibilities, in most situations they can be ruled out, leaving sexual signaling as the most plausible explanation, according to the study.

Researchers favor the sexual signaling hypothesis over other explanations for a number of reasons.

Because they disappeared from Earth some 66 million years ago, dinosaur behavior is difficult to reconstruct. But scientists often look to modern animals for analogies.

The ornamental features prehistoric dinosaurs flaunted are similar to those of modern animals – such as chameleons, hornbills, rhinos, and cassowaries – that use their special structures in sexual selection.

What's more, the growth rate of some of these ornamental features suggest they played a role in attracting mates.

After studying 37 Protoceratops specimens ranging from babies to adults, including actual fossils found in the Djadochta Formation in the Gobi desert, researchers noticed that the young quadrupeds were lacking the distinctive frill, which suddenly grew as the animal reached maturity, suggesting it was used for sexual attraction and selection.

"Palaeontologists have long suspected that many of the strange features we see in dinosaurs were linked to sexual display and social dominance but this is very hard to show," Dr. Hone said in a statement. "The growth pattern we see in Protoceratops matches that seen for signalling structures in numerous different living species and forms a coherent pattern from very young animals right through to large adults."

While the new study examined only Protoceratops, Hone says the conclusion can be extended to other animals. "I think we can make a decent case for quite a few dinosaurs and indeed a fair few other extinct animals, and indeed this has been much discussed in the past – this isn't a new idea – the difference here is we can confidently demonstrate it well thanks to the excellent set of data available.

"The findings may help scientists better understand the role sexual selection plays in animal diversity and evolution, says Rob Knell, an evolutionary ecologist from Queen Mary University of London.

"Biologists are increasingly realizing that sexual selection is a massively important force in shaping biodiversity both now and in the past," Dr. Knell said in a statement. "Not only does sexual selection account for most of the stranger, prettier and more impressive features that we see in the animal kingdom, it also seems to play a part in determining how new species arise, and there is increasing evidence that it also has effects on extinction rates and on the ways by which animals are able to adapt to changing environments."

This article was written by Husna Haq from Christian Science Monitor and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on the verge of divorce

The Radar Online edition quoted words of a source close to star family. As the insider assures, Jolie constantly provokes scandals and rushes to extremes - that she is jealous the spouse of each counter girl, declares that more it doesn't love because it became "thick and old".
Despite all this, Brad still wants to keep a family and desperately tries to improve the relations with the spouse. For Christmas holidays he arranged "honeymoon" and took away Jolie to Vietnam where rented a magnificent country house for two. However, as write foreign mass media, "rest turned into the real hell" because of continuous scandals. The actor was so suppressed and exhausted that decided to file documents on divorce, however, relatives and friends persuaded him to try everything to adjust once again.
As it became known, Pitt already rented a country house in Thailand where is going to go already together with the wife and children. We hope that this time everything will develop more successfully and the Hollywood couple nevertheless will be able to keep the family.
We will remind that in November of last year, after a release of the movie "French riviera" where actors played a married couple on the verge of divorce, Angelina and Brad gave interview of which assured that this cinema has no relation to their real family life and they are still happy together.
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Biathlon. World Cup. Podchufarova in mass start didn't show anything

Olga Podchufarova with two misses took only the 12th place in mass start. And after all with clean shooting quite could apply for flowers.
Repetition of an anti-record

One Russian in mass start — the sad anti-record established to the domestic women's national team in 2007 when in Holmenkollen only Ekaterina Yuryeva ran repeated today. On January 16, 2016 admirers of the most exact statistics can record in the bloknotika: we had one representative in a female mass start again. Olga Podchufarova started at the tenth number and was compelled to protect honor of the country individually. Once in this season it already managed it — in the last race of 2015 when bronze was won.

Over 22 thousand audience came to look at female race, to sustain nearly four hours and then to take pleasure the man's. The overwhelming part of fans waited for a victory of the new favourite — Laura Dalmeier, six days earlier here, on "Himgau-Arene" who won the second in a season mass start. Snow brought down is unceasing as if trying to make up for lost time at the beginning of January. The wind in places walked, and in places walked from all the German soul. Conditions for biathlon, generally, were those still. Source:mail.ru