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Lockheed Martin Corp. named new leaders for its aeronautics business and its F-35 fighter-jet program, the Pentagon’s costliest weapons system, as the company faces Defense Department pressure to cut the plane’s costs. Read full article >> A look at the 17 nations prosecuting more than 850 pirates captured off East Africa. The overwhelming number of pirate suspects are Somali.A South Korean-born American entrepreneur, nominated to be minister of education, science and technology, withdrew on Monday, blaming political gridlock. The housing recovery appeared to continue last month.     The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium has put out the call for nominees for its annual leadership award, which recognizes innovative use of technology for delivering strong business results. Analysis of millions of tweets finds more precise use of social media which seems to contradict idea that Twitter users want to share everything with everyone• Download the data• More data journalism and data visualisations from the GuardianTwitter users are forming 'tribes', each with their own language, according to a scientific analysis of millions of tweets.The research on Twitter word usage throws up a pattern of behaviour that seems to contradict the commonly held belief that users simply want to share everything with everyone. In fact, the findings point to a more precise use of social media where users frequently include keywords in their tweets so that they engage more effectively with other members of their community or tribe. Just like our ancestors we try to join communities based on our political interests, ethnicity, work and hobbies.The largest group found in the analysis was made up of African Americans using the words 'Nigga', 'poppin' and 'chillin'. That community was one of the more close-knit, sending around 90% of messages within the group. Members also tended to shorten the ends of their words, replacing 'ing' with 'in' or 'er' with 'a'. (see the table below for a fuller tribal breakdown)Prof Vincent Jansen from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, the institution which published the Word Usage Mirrors Community Structure in the Online Social Network Twitter report with Princeton University, explained:Interestingly, just as people have varying regional accents, we also found that communities would misspell words in different ways. The Justin Bieber fans have a habit of ending words in 'ee', as in 'pleasee'.To group these users into communities, the researchers turned to algorithms from physics and network science. The algorithms worked by looking at publicly sent messages between users. In the graphic above, the top word given for each tribe is the most significant one in that community. Circles represent communities, with the area of the circle proportional to the number of users. The widths of the lines between circles represent the numbers of messages between or within community. The colours of the loops represent the proportion of messages that are within users from that group - from yellow 0% to red 100% .Dr John Bryden, also at Royal Holloway, said that his team can now work out which tribes we belong to by analysing our tweets. Given enough data, Bryden said that this can be done "with up to 80% accuracy". The research team hopes the data gathered from the project, which has been running since 2009, could offer a more accurate insight into the changing language used by different communities on Twitter. By learning these languages researchers hope new ways will emerge of engaging with Twitter tribes – rather simply using conventional Twitter features such as hashtags.Download the data• DATA: download the full spreadsheet• SOURCE: Word Usage Mirrors Community Structure in the Online Social Network TwitterNEW! Buy our book• Facts are Sacred: the power of data (on Kindle)More open dataData journalism and data visualisations from the GuardianWorld government data• Search the world's government data with our gatewayDevelopment and aid data• Search the world's global development data with our gatewayCan you do something with this data?• Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group• Contact us at [email protected]• Get the A-Z of data• More at the Datastore directory• Follow us on Twitter• Like us on FacebookTwitterSocial mediaJason Rodriguesguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday presented his cabinet with a package of diplomatic and security incentives offered by the Obama administration to extend a 90-day freeze on new building in West Bank settlements and restart stalled peace negotiations. IN MEXICO CITY The government is promising "the most spectacular celebration in history" and throwing more than $40 million on the table for parades and fireworks to commemorate the country's 200th anniversary tinnitus But on the eve of their bicentennial, many Mexicans confess they're in no mo... The General Services Administration is preparing to restart a multibillion-dollar competition to design, install, test and maintain a data network on the new Department of Homeland Security campus at St. Elizabeths. This is part of an occasional series of features profiling academic departments at MIT. For decades, many students came to MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics with one goal in mind: to be an astronaut. Starting in the 1960s and the Apollo era, sending humans into space was a national priority, and a very real possibility for many students. During this period, MIT graduated more astronauts than any other university, with the exception of the U.S. military academies. Alumni from AeroAstro, as the department is known, have participated in one-third of all U.S. space flights, collectively logging more than 10,000 hours in space. And Buzz Aldrin PhD ’63, one of the department’s stars, is among four AeroAstro graduates to have walked on the surface of the moon. Today, while some AeroAstro students still dream of becoming the next moonwalker, others are exploring new frontiers in aerospace engineering, from miniature satellite propulsion and fuel-efficient aviation to automated airplane manufacturing and unmanned spacecraft. This last field, in particular, has generated global buzz with this year’s landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars. In fact, several AeroAstro alums had front-row seats to the landing as mission engineers in NASA’s control room. During the live feed of the landing, broadcast around the world, flight director Bobak Ferdowsi SM ’03 caused an Internet sensation with his red and blue mohawk — a tribute to the American flag, and a look that seemed to say, “This isn’t your grandfather’s rocket science.” A department, reinventedIndeed, as the aerospace industry has evolved, so has AeroAstro. When the department was formally established in 1939, research and education revolved around one main question: What does it take for a vehicle to fly? Faculty and students tackled the then-new fields of propulsion, controls and aerodynamics, and flew experiments in the department’s Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel (opened in 1938), a state-of-the-art facility that the U.S. government used during World War II to test military airplanes. Following the launch of Sputnik in 1957, the department expanded its efforts to include studies in space exploration. Major discoveries made in AeroAstro’s Instrumentation Lab — now the Draper Laboratory — provided the guidance, navigation and control systems that helped shepherd the Apollo spacecraft to the moon. In the 1980s, human performance in space became a new departmental focus, propelled in part by the launch of NASA’s space shuttle program. MIT’s Man Vehicle Laboratory began to develop experiments on vestibular function, spatial disorientation and motion sickness in space, tests that were carried out on subsequent shuttle missions. SAN SALVADOR -- Drug cartel violence in Mexico is quickly spilling south into Central America and is threatening to destabilize fragile countries already rife with crime and corruption, according to the United Nations, U.S. officials and regional law enforcement agents. How Disney mounted a stealthy raid on the Wizard of Oz story, unbeknown to Warner Bros, who own rights to MGM originalThe race to re-imagine and spin off the most watched and possibly most beloved film in Hollywood history began in secrecy and with a codeword: Brick.The Walt Disney Company did not own rights to the original 1939 The Wizard of Oz movie but moved stealthily to mount an audacious raid on the story and leave a rival studio flat-footed.The result, Oz the Great and Powerful, has dominated the box office since its release last week, garnering over $80m domestically and $70m abroad, the third-biggest March opening ever, and prompting buzz about a sequel, a theme park ride and merchandising.Warner Bros, which owns the rights to the MGM-made original, had mulled three big screen spin-offs but dozed while Disney tip-toed into production with director Sam Raimi and actor James Franco, conjuring up a new franchise."I don't know if they're laughing in the offices of Disney that they got away with it but I can certainly imagine that they're pretty pleased," said Matt Patches, movies editor at the Hollywood.com news site.In the early stages Disney swore writers and producers to secrecy and used a codename lest their 3D project galvanise rival Oz productions. Hollywood's habit of bunching similar-themed movies together – for instance Robin Hood, Snow White, Truman Capote – can hurt revenue, especially for latecomers."To have a codename is very unusual. It was an indication of just how big a deal this was for Disney and how scared they were that someone would beat them out of the gate. panic away pdf feel the anxiety inside Disney," said Stephen Galloway, of The Hollywood Reporter. "It's a strange phenomenon where two or three people can have the same idea at the same time and it clicks."Once Warner Bros learned of the $235m production, its lawyers banned Disney borrowing from the 1939 musical in which Judy Garland playing Dorothy skips down the yellow brick road with a tin man, a lion and a scarecrow in search of the wizard Oz – the most watched picture in history according to the Library of Congress.Disney's version, drawn on Frank Baum's original books, is a prequel in which Franco plays a young Oz swept in a balloon into the magic realm 20 years earlier. There is no Dorothy or ruby slippers. "They treaded very carefully. They knew if they leaned too closely they could be in trouble with lawsuits so they tinkered with costumes, make-up and other details," said Patches.The result has been the biggest domestic film debut of 2013, crushing the likes of Dead Man Down, a Colin Farrell thriller, and Jack the Giant Slayer, a big budget disaster for Warner Bros.Disney, which did not respond to interview requests, was in dire need of a hit following its own big budget fiasco, John Carter, last year. It has talked up plans for an Oz theme park attraction and sequel starring Franco and Mila Kunis, Michelle Wiliams and Rachel Weisz as witches.Just as Oz himself proves more charlatan than sorcerer, however, some question the reality of Disney's apparent magic.The film has been panned by many critics. Some have accused Franco of a wooden performance, others have accused Raimi of producing a stilted story. Raimi had approached Robert Downey Jr and Johnny Depp for the title role before turning to Franco. Before its release there were reports of studio-mandated reshoots to make Franco's character more sympathetic and to expand the dialogue of a talking monkey.Audiences have been kinder than critics, giving the film a B+ CinemaScore, but Galloway said box office returns so far were not enough given the film's epic price tag."They haven't quite got away with it financially. This has not been a gigantic hit in relation to its cost." Foreign takings usually needed to outperform US box office for this type of blockbuster's profitability but so far Europeans and Asians had proved less keen than Americans, possibly because it was such an American story, said Galloway.He suggested that talk of a sequel and theme park ride could be bluster. "Don't be taken in by the spin."Warner Bros, though not quite swooping in on a broomstick, may have the last cackle. In partnership with Warner Bros, toymaker Mattel is expected to offer an extensive range of Oz-themed merchandise. "The way I see it they'll be able to piggyback on the success of Disney's movie," said Lutz Muller, chief executive of Klosters Trading Corps, a consumer products consultancy.In contrast Disney was unable to sell products linked to the original movie and stuck with a toy partner, Jakks, which had less retail reach than Mattel. "I understand that Disney is not expecting much from its Jakks tie-in," said Muller.Warner Bros has abandoned big screen Oz ambitions for now but is reportedly touting a Game of Thrones-style TV treatment with intrigue, politics and violence called Red Brick Road, based on the path that Dorothy does not take in the original film.Warner BrosWalt Disney CompanyJames FrancoRachel WeiszMichelle WilliamsRory Carrollguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Mr. Holmes led NASA’s manned spaceflight program during a period that included John Glenn’s orbit of Earth and helped set the stage for the first moon landing. During Argentina’s “Dirty War,” people thought to be enemies of the state were bundled into Ford Falcons without license plates and disappeared. Would the “war” have been less dirty if the Roman Catholic church had stood up to its perpetrators? A weekly capsule of events around the globe curated by our writers and editors.     Some of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones industrial average are still down from their peaks, reflecting a move in financial power. After graduation, Braatz went on to the California Institute of Technology, where he earned both a master’s and a PhD in chemical engineering. In addition to his research, Braatz took numerous math and math-heavy courses in electrical engineering, applied mechanics, chemical engineering and chemistry. The combination of real applications and mathematical theory revealed a field of study Braatz had not previously considered: applied mathematics. “This training was a very good background for learning how coffee shop millionaire review mathematical solutions to research problems,” Braatz says. A systems approach Soon after receiving his PhD, Braatz accepted an assistant professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). There, as an applied mathematician, he worked with researchers to tackle problems in a variety of fields: computer science, materials science, and electrical, chemical and mechanical engineering. He spent eight years on a project spurred by a talk he attended at UIUC. In that talk, a representative of Merck described a major challenge in the pharmaceutical industry: controlling the size of crystals in the manufacture of any given drug. (The size and consistency of crystals determine, in part, a drug’s properties and overall efficacy.) Braatz learned that while drug-manufacturing machinery was often monitored by sensors, much of the resulting data went unanalyzed. He pored over the sensors’ data, and developed mathematical models to gain an understanding of what the sensors reveal about each aspect of the drug-crystallization process. Over the years, his team devised an integrated series of algorithms that combined efficiently designed experiments with mathematical models to yield a desired crystal size from a given drug solution. They worked the algorithms into a system that automatically adjusts settings at each phase of the manufacturing process to produce an optimal crystal size, based on a “recipe” given by the algorithms. “Sometimes the recipes are very weird,” Braatz says. “It might be a strange path you have to follow to manufacture the right crystals.” The automated system, which has since been adopted by Merck and other pharmaceutical companies, provides a big improvement in efficiency, Braatz says, avoiding the time-consuming trial-and-error approach many drug manufacturers had relied on to design a crystallization process for a new drug. In 2010, Braatz moved to MIT, where he is exploring mathematical applications in nanotechnology and tissue engineering — in particular, models to help design new drug-releasing materials. Such materials have the potential to deliver controlled, continuous therapies, but designing them currently takes years of trial-and-error experiments. Braatz’s group is designing mathematical models to give researchers instructions, for example, on how to design materials that locally release drugs into a body’s cells at a desired rate. Braatz says approaching such a problem from a systematic perspective could potentially save years of time in the development of a biomedical material of high efficacy. “Anything is a win if you could reduce those experiments from 10 years to several years,” Braatz says. “We’re talking hundreds of millions, billions of dollars. And the effect on people’s lives, you can’t put a price tag on that.” Video: Melanie Gonick Terek Grozny will be fined 200,000 roubles (4,292 pounds) and play one match at a neutral venue after Chechnya's leader called the referee a "sellout" and a "donkey" over a loudspeaker during a recent match, a senior Russian FA official said on Wednesday. The presence of 10 Chinese heat-seeking missiles in an arms cache seized by American and Yemeni officials sets off concerns about further regional instability. PS Vita; Sony; £29.78-£31.95Reading this on mobile? Click here to viewYour character has been taken prisoner by the crazed magician Magusar. Fortunately, the skeletal cage he or she has been locked in also contains Librom, a sentient book with angry-looking eyes and a collection of bloodthirsty stories in which you control the magically charged antihero. The third-person action takes place in a series of spectacular arenas, whose detailed backdrops are artworks in themselves, framing battles with monsters that are every bit as rich. They come complete with elaborate backstories and amusingly macabre lore, each steeped in its own version of sacrifice; a theme that runs through every aspect of the game. Not to worry, though, because lost powers can be renewed with lacrima, the seepings of the book's grotesquely deformed eyes, collected by dabbing one gently with your finger on the touchscreen. A work of unhinged brilliance.GamesPS VitaNick Gillettguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds     With no fewer than 13 Tony nominations under their belt for 2003's Hairspray its no surprise that Rockwell Group has scored two more for their work on Kinky Boots and Lucky Guy. The package delivery company cited overcapacity in the global air freight market and a slowing industrial economy in the United States.     Alfredo Despaigne hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning, helping Cuba defeat two-time defending champion Japan 6-3 Wednesday to finish first in Group A of the World Baseball Classic. Can climate forecasts and campaigners convince the world’s nations that some carbon is