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Shameless star Elliott Tittensor has been condemned by a top judge for loutish behaviour which left a young man close to death.

Mr Tittensor used his brand new BMW as a weapon against trainee plumber, Oliver Flint, and drove away, leaving him gravely injured in the road, the High Court was told.

But ever since the row over a mobile phone outside a McDonalds restaurant in Kentish Town, north London, Mr Tittensor claimed he had acted in self-defence.

Mr Justice Edis said Mr Tittensor, 25, had deliberately exaggerated the threat posed by Mr Flint during the 2010 confrontation.

Mr Flint was left brain damaged and blind in one eye after being thrown off the BMWs bonnet and says the incident wrecked his life.

Although his damages have yet to be assessed, he is claiming more than 300,000 from Mr Tittensor - who was not covered by insurance.

The actor is also likely to face legal costs running well into six figures.

The judge said that nothing Mr Flint did justified Mr Tittensor, who played Carl Gallagher in the Shameless comedy series, driving at him in a fury, so that he ended up on the bonnet.

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Shameless star Elliott Tittensor has been condemned by a top judge for loutish behaviour which left a young man close to death.

Tittensor, who played Carl Gallagher in the comedy series, used his brand new BMW as a weapon against trainee plumber Oliver Flint and drove away, leaving him gravely injured in the road.

Ever since a row over a mobile phone ended in tragedy, the actor had engaged in an orgy of self-justification, claiming he acted in self-defence.

Mr Justice Edis said Tittensor, 25, had deliberately exaggerated the threat posed by Flint during the 2010 confrontation in Kentish Town, north London.

After the incident, the actor had even resorted to inventing a claim that he believed Flint had a knife.

It was the plumber, not Tittensor, of Heywood, Lancashire, who was in grave and immediate danger of being killed as the actor swerved to throw him off his bonnet.

Flint started the row outside a McDonalds restaurant after Tittensor twice refused to let him borrow his mobile phone.

But the judge said: What followed was, I believe, a loutish shouting match in a public street between two men who were behaving badly.

Scene: Mr Flint tended to after attack

Although Flint had been threatening and intimidating - banging his fist on the BMWs bonnet - that in no way justified the actor using the car as a weapon.

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BULLHEAD CITY Inspired by a true story, the Disney movie McFarland, USA follows coach Jim White as he forms a championship-winning cross country team with a crew of unlikely runners from a predominantly Latino high school in small-town California.

It is a true story, said Felix Gonzalez, owner of Gonzos Plumbing. Its also my story. Coach White changed my life.

Gonzalez was, in his words, a troubled kid.

I was born in Compton, California, he said. I ran the streets of Los Angeles and was heading in a bad direction when my mom moved us to McFarland in 1981. Thats where everything changed for me.

Moving to a small farming town was tough for the big-city boy.

I was a bully in the seventh grade, Gonzalez said. I was picking on a kid, taking his lunch money when a man came up to me, put his hand on my shoulder and said, We dont do that at this school.

That man was Coach Jim White.

He told me he wanted me to come run with his team after school, Gonzales said. For some reason, I showed up and I ran with the team. Coach White saw something in me that day and I got a new direction.

White told the young Gonzalez that he had done as well as some of the top runners on the team.

He told me I was good at something, Gonzales said. Every assembly, Coach White would tell everyone I was the most improved runner. Not the best runner, the most improved. It taught me so much I learned I could always improve and I learned that I could succeed.

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An expert says the changing urban landscape requires a refining of dengue-control methods.

PETALING JAYA: One of the most effective ways of combating dengue is to beautify the environment with flowering plants, according an environmental health expert.

Veeramohan Supramaniam, a spokesman for the Malaysian Association of Environmental Health (MAEH), said mosquitoes would often become sluggish upon feeding on nectar, making them easy prey to bigger insects, spiders, frogs and lizards.

We have to re-establish these creatures in the urban landscape with flowering decorative plants rather than palm trees and cactii that dont flower, he told FMT in a recent interview.

He said the relevant authorities are moving towards such a change.

Veeramohan, through MAEH, has been conducting field research and epidemiological studies to learn more about the dengue threat and is engaged in advising the authorities on ways to refine the existing prevention programme, which is based on World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.

He said the WHO guidelines focused on outbreaks at residential units. He acknowledged that programmes based on those guidelines had helped contain the dengue menace, but only to some extent.

With the changing urban landscape of Malaysia, he said, the old paradigm has to be questioned and re-tested and a method taking account of new research and data should be applied.

Pioneer methods

He said a dengue outbreak was something totally preventable.

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Prolific throughout the lower 48 states, house sparrows have a 6-inch wingspan and are typically 5-6 inches long. They will often hop on tables, benches and chairs of open-air restaurants to scrounge for leftovers and dropped crumbs. The birds will look for convenient nesting sites and open trash containers. House sparrows are not tidy or clean. Their droppings are both unsightly and unsanitary, carrying such diseases as chlamydiosis, salmonellosis, Newcastle disease, toxoplasmosis and transmissible gastroenteritis. Bird droppings around restaurants can lead to health code violations. Nesting sparrows can also be disturbingly noisy. Most house sparrows strongly prefer to nest in the vents, attic vent louvers, crevices, and under eaves of buildings. Some restaurant owners have tried stuffing their dryer, attic and fan vents with screens, but when these become blocked with leaves and other debris, they can eventually create serious venting problems. Bird B Gones Sparrow Charmer & Sparrow Sky Trap Combo effectively and humanely gets rid of the sparrow problem.

Bird B Gone is the worlds largest manufacturer and distributor of bird control products, providing effective and humane solutions to a bird-free environment. The company provides advice, training and installation services for those who need help with these and other bird control measures.

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New Zealands commercial fruit and vegetable growers are asking everyone going to the World Cup Cricket match at Eden Park tomorrow to help smash an unwanted Aussie visitor for a six.

The industry that takes every opportunity to promote healthy eating is taking the unusual step of asking fans not to take fresh fruit or vegetables with them into the stadium.

This request comes in the wake of last weeks discovery of a small localised population of Queensland fruit flies in the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn.

Eden Park, the venue for Saturdays World Cup Cricket clash between Australia and New Zealand, is right on the border of the controlled area.

This means no fruit and vegetable material can be taken out of the stadium.

"We are asking cricket fans to leave their fruit and vegetables at home when they head to the stadium," Horticulture New Zealand chief executive Peter Silcock says.

"You know it must be a serious situation if we are asking people NOT to have fruit and vegetables."

Three industry groups have joined together to pay for a full page advertisement in todays New Zealand Herald to ask cricket fans not to take fruit to the ground.

"We feel it is the most pragmatic approach. It makes sense to ask people not to take food into the ground which would ultimately need to be thrown away as they were leaving," Pipfruit New Zealand chief executive Alan Pollard says.

The horticulture industry is united in its support of the Ministry for Primary Industries response to the fruit fly.

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IMAGE:Feeding experiment with different potato leaves: Detached leaves of unmodified plants were compared to plants with an altered chloroplast genome. First instar larvae were fed on these leaves for three... view more

Credit: Sher Afzal Khan, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Colorado potato beetles are a dreaded pest of potatoes all over the world. Since they do not have natural enemies in most potato producing regions, farmers try to control them with pesticides. However, this strategy is often ineffective because the pest has developed resistances against nearly all insecticides. Now, scientists from the Max Planck Institutes of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm and Chemical Ecology in Jena have shown that potato plants can be protected from herbivory using RNA interference (RNAi). They genetically modified plants to enable their chloroplasts to accumulate double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) targeted against essential beetle genes. (Science, February 2015).

RNA interference (RNAi) is a type of gene regulation that naturally occurs in eukaryotes. In plants, fungi and insects it also is used for protection against certain viruses. During infection, many viral pathogens transfer their genetic information into the host cells as double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). Replication of viral RNA leads to high amounts of dsRNA which is recognized by the host's RNAi system and chopped up into smaller RNA fragments, called siRNAs (small interfering RNAs). The cell then uses siRNAs to detect and destroy the foreign RNA.

But the RNAi mechanism can also be exploited to knock down any desired gene, by tailoring dsRNA to target the gene's messenger RNA (mRNA). When the targeted mRNA is destroyed, synthesis of the encoded protein will be diminished or blocked completely. Targeting an essential gene of a crop pest can turn dsRNA into a precise and potent insecticide.

Some crop plants have recently been engineered by modifying their nuclear genomes to produce dsRNA against certain insects. This never resulted in full protection from herbivory", says Ralph Bock of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, because the plant's own RNAi system prevents the accumulation of sufficient amounts of dsRNA. We wanted to circumvent this problem by producing dsRNA in the chloroplasts instead". These organelles, which perform photosynthesis in green plants, are descendants of formerly free-living cyanobacteria, which are prokaryotes that lack an RNAi system. Presuming that chloroplasts would accumulate high amounts of dsRNA, the scientists in Ralph Bock's group decided to generate so-called transplastomic plants. In such plants, the chloroplast genome is the target of genetic modification instead of the nuclear genome.

To test this system on a real insect pest, the scientists chose the Colorado potato beetle. This little striped beetle was introduced into Europe accidentally at the end of the 19th century. Nowadays, it is a worldwide pest and can cause massive damage in agriculture. Besides potato leaves the adult beetle and its larvae also feed on other nightshade crops, like tomato, bell pepper and tobacco. The pest is difficult to control because of the widespread occurrence of insecticide resistance. By using chloroplast transformation we generated potato plants that accumulate high amounts of long stable dsRNAs targeting essential genes in the beetle", says Ralph Bock.

The efficacy of the dsRNAs as an insecticide was tested at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena. Larvae were fed on detached potato leaves and the mortality was monitored for nine days. The leaves were taken from transplastomic dsRNA plants, conventional transgenic dsRNA plants with a modified nuclear genome, and unmodified plants. For comparison, dsRNAs targeting two different genes were tested. Transplastomic leaves producing dsRNA against the actin gene caused a mortality rate of 100% after five days of feeding", says Sher Afzal Khan from Jena. The actin gene encodes a structural protein that is essential for cell integrity. In contrast, plants with a modified nuclear genome expressed much less dsRNA and only slightly slowed down the beetles' growth.

These recent results show that changing the target of transformation from the nuclear genome to the chloroplast genome overcomes the major hurdle towards exploiting RNAi for crop protection. As many insect pests increasingly develop resistances against chemical pesticides and Bt toxins, RNAi represents a promising strategy for pest control. This technology allows for precise protection without chemicals and without production of foreign proteins in the plant.

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