The stellar cast includes Warren Clarke and Caroline Quentin as new neighbors the Botts, with Daniel Ryan (Linda Green, The Street) and Bafta-winner Rebecca Front (The Thick Of It) playing William’s parents.

William’s exasperated teachers will be played by the exceptional trio of Denis Lawson, John Sessions and Bruce Mackinnon. Narrating the series will be the voice behind the classic recordings of the Just William stories, Martin Jarvis.

Other artistes featured in the four-part series range from the distinguished Judy Parfitt and much-loved comedian Roy Hudd to brand-new stars such as Harry Melling (Harry Potter) and Bertie Carvel, lauded in Roger Michell’s revival of Rope.

Speaking today, Damian Kavanagh, Controller CBBC, said: “We are thrilled to have attracted such a wonderful blend of established stars and exciting new talent to breathe new life into these much-loved stories.

“I can’t think of anyone better than Daniel Roche to bring lovable rogue William to the attention of a new generation.”

Steven Andrew, Head of CBBC Productions, said: “If you think Ben in Outnumbered is bad, you wait until you get a glimpse of William! We are incredibly excited to be making this production and have brought together a wonderful cast to do justice to Richmal Crompton’s timeless characters and stories”.

Just William will follow the exploits of 11-year-old tearaway William Brown and his band of adventurous “outlaws”. Liking nothing better than wreaking havoc in the local woods, William embroils his pals in a series of riotous romps from a spot of photographic blackmail to kidnapping a pair of parrots.

Dedicated to dastardly doings, William does his utmost to avoid girls, especially Violet Elisabeth Bott, played by Isabella Blake-Thomas (Enid).

The series will be directed by Paul Seed (Bafta award-winning House Of Cards and A Rather English Marriage) and will have a score composed by Oscar-winning Stephen Warbeck.

Shot by Erik Wilson, the cameraman behind the highly successful TV series Murderland, and designed by Gary Williamson (Lipstick On Your Collar), Just William will be produced by John Chapman and executive produced by Gina Cronk.

The series will be on location in the Home Counties for the next five weeks and is due to transmit on BBC One and CBBC later this year.

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“People assume that if you have parity in the numbers of men and women training to become physicians, then everything else will fall into place,” said Nancy Wayne, a professor of physiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and lead author of the study. “Surprisingly, we found that wasn’t the case.”

Published in the August edition of the peer-reviewed journal Academic Medicine, the findings suggest a simple yet effective approach to cultivating female leadership in medicine and other fields.

“We’re talking about a group of smart, talented women who worked very hard to get to this point in their academic careers,” Wayne said. “Yet under typical circumstances, they do not feel comfortable in a leadership role. Our study suggests this is something that teachers have the power to change.”

With the medical school curriculum shifting away from large lectures to small, peer-led discussion groups, medical students are expected to take on leadership roles as part of the learning process.

Wayne and her colleagues performed two studies, one in 2008 and another in 2009, to identify whether leadership of classrooms’ small groups slanted toward one gender and to determine whether teacher instruction could have an effect on closing the gap.

In the 2008 study, 144 first-year medical students attended six small-group sessions in a course on reproductive physiology taught by Wayne. The class included 75 women and 69 men.

Each session featured five tables of four to five students, for a total of 30 groups during the course. Students chose their own seats. Each table presented one of five case-based problems for discussion.

Wayne gave the students 15 minutes to discuss the problem as a group. Each group was asked for a volunteer leader to guide discussion and present the group’s answers in front of the room to the rest of the class.

“We were surprised to see that significantly fewer women than men volunteered to lead the discussion groups,” Wayne said.

Although more than half of the class was female, women volunteered to lead only 10 of the 30 small groups.

In the 2009 study, the class of 81 women and 77 men was split in two, and then each half was divided into 15 groups. All 30 of the groups heard the same instructions as the class in the 2008 study.

Half of the groups, however, also received a subtle intervention. After explaining the exercise, Wayne gave a brief pep talk emphasizing the importance of exploring a leadership role in the protected environment of the classroom.

“I explained that if you’ve never volunteered to be a group leader in other situations, this is a safe setting to try it out. It doesn’t matter what your background is, what your undergraduate major was or whether you’re male or female — being a group leader is an important experience for everyone,” Wayne said.

In the first half of the class, which included 43 women and 34 men, only four women volunteered to lead among the 15 small groups.
In contrast, the half of the class that heard Wayne’s pep talk split nearly evenly between the number of female and male leaders, even though men outnumbered women 43 to 38. Many of the leaders were students volunteering for the first time.

“Our findings show that how we instruct our students can strongly influence whether we reinforce or eliminate gender bias in class leadership,” Wayne said. “Our study also demonstrates that this bias will persist unless it is consistently addressed. Targeted intervention during medical school could help reduce the gender gap that limits women’s careers.”

The authors chose the subject because of the strong link between perceived leadership ability and professional advancement in academic medicine. Wayne pointed out a correlation between female students’ discomfort with leadership early in their medical careers and the disproportionately lower number of women working in senior roles in academic medicine.

“The increase in female participation at the entry level of academic medicine has not translated into improved progress in the numbers of women who are tenured faculty, full professors, departmental chairs or deans,” she said. “When women are uneasy in leadership roles, be it in school or later in their careers, we are disenfranchising half of our population that has the potential to make significant contributions to the medical profession.”

Wayne’s co-authors included Sebastian Uijtdehaage and Michelle Vermillion. Both co-authors work for the Center for Educational Development and Research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, which provided funding to support the study.

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Nigeria’s Minister of State for Information and Communications, Labaran Maku, told reporters after the weekly cabinet meeting, presided by Vice President Namadi Sambo that the amount was part of the N500 billion (about US$3.3 billion) earmarked by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the resuscitation of ailing industries in the country.

He said that the guidelines for the execution of the N500 billion (about US$3.3 billion) had been developed.

He revealed that the CBN Governor briefed the Council on the performance of the nation’s economy in the second quarter of 2010 and that steady growth had been recorded during the period under review.

“The Council was informed that there had been a steady growth in GDP, driven largely by the non-oil sector, particularly agriculture and a moderation in inflation.

“Interbank rates and other money market rates, including lending, also moderated. The foreign exchange was substantially stable, while the recovery in the capital market continued,” he said.

Maku stated that the growth in monetary and private sector credit aggregates remained slow.

He said that the CBN Governor also informed the Council that the implementation of the banking sector reform had continued to engender confidence in the system.

He explained that credit by the rescued banks had also continued to grow, while most of them had returned to profitability.

He announced that the modality for putting into operation, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), which was signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan, on July 19, was being finalized.

He expressed optimism that the law would help to further stimulate the recovery of the financial system.

“Without the establishment of AMCON, the rescued banks would have been liquidated, if there are no viable buyers,” he said.

Maku observed that the CBN Governor’s presentation to the Council indicated that the economy was on “sustainable growth, especially the non-oil sectors led by agriculture, retail trade, services and construction.”

According to him, the Council appreciated the candor and depth of the CBN governor’s report on the economy, especially his determination to press ahead with critical reforms in spite of pressures from vested groups to derail the reforms.

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An eyewitness of the show says, “No lady on the show spared this opportunity to make fun of and crack jokes on their husbands. Among which Tanaaz Irani had not left any stone unturned to make fun of Bhaktiyaar. Though she had also supported her hubby during some discussions, she was the one to make more fun out of her hubby”.

All other ladies sitting over there had joined hands to Tanaaz and laughed out louder to Tanaaz’s response. “In the show while discussing on the topic that asks, ‘how do celebrity women, present in the show, call their respective hubbies’, everyone had their own response but our Tanaaz in her jovial style said that she won’t call her hubby by all those goody names but she calls him Jaadu…, Jaadu…, instead of calling him Jaanu (Darling)”, adds source.

Well that’s funny of her and hope Bhaktiyaar doesn’t get annoyed with his lovely wife after watching the episode!

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Speaking at a one-day National Dialogue on Safe Water forum held in the capital, Maseru on Wednesday to address some of the problems related to access to water in Lesotho, Ambassador Duynhouwer said ; “Although six out of 10 people do not have access to clean water, many initiatives are in place to ensure that water is available.”

He cited numerous projects such as the Metolong Water Scheme that will supply water for domestic and industrial use to a number of towns that include Maseru, Roma, Mazenod, Morija and Teyateyaneng by the year 2013, where more than 100,000 people will access to clean water.

In his turn, the Water Commissioner in the Ministry of Natural Resources, Emmanuel Lesoma said his Ministry was tasked with the responsibility of providing sufficient water supply to the people of Lesotho.

He however pointed out that the problem of increasing coverage of water is a challenge, adding that there is a need to raise funds for operational and maintenance of the already existing water sources.

“We are working towards increasing water coverage to 63.3 percent by the end of this year, 66 percent by next year and 70.5 percent by 2012,” he added.

Access to clean water is enshrined in Lesotho’s National Water and Sanitation Policy, which points out that the national goal, is to provide 30 liters of clean water per person per day, and to ensure that the traveling distance required to collect clean water does not exceed 150 meters.

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The 29-year old actress says that she has no uncertainties in portraying characters that have a variety of shades and her celluloid-image depends on the type of roles that she bags.

She rubbished the claims of many who said that she donned her ‘bold’ image in order to get roles. She said that her image has got nothing to do with her getting roles, since she’s comfortable with her own style.

She adds that her every approach is from the same spirit that truly represents the diverse avatars of the standard Indian girl. She also says that she never had any formal training in acting and she has put in her heart and soul in every role she has got so far.

She signs off by saying that as an actress she needs to believe in herself immensely in order to make the audience realize her acting potentials.

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With Kelley’s book, however, I now have the motivation to move from my past synchronic approach to listening (considering each track on its own terms) to a more diachronic one (embedding each track in its proper historical context).

Today’s post by Ross basically takes this same approach to a passage in Richard Strauss’ opera Salome (a rather interesting selection when one considers that Salome is the point of departure for the thrust of the principal argument in Ross’ The Rest is Noise book). He considers the hypothesis that the musical setting of Jochanaan’s curse has its origins in Richard Wagner’s first completed (and all but forgotten before CD producers realized how exhaustive their efforts could be) opera Die Feen, in which there is a curse motif with an uncanny “family resemblance” (in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s sense of that phrase). Furthermore, Ross offers a powerful warrant to affirm the claim of his hypothesis:

… when Die Feen had its belated world premiere, in Munich, in 1888, the young Richard Strauss conducted the rehearsals. “Wagner’s lion’s paw is already quite strong,” he remarked.

In other words Strauss was not only aware of this music but also highly appreciative.

This is the basic methodology of diachronic reasoning. Given a specific instance, whether in a score or in the experience of a performance, how do we establish “its proper historical context?” Basically, we need to get beyond the “thing-in-itself” (that German philosophical concept that drew so much venom from Friedrich Nietzsche) and understand the past experiences of the agent responsible for bringing that “thing” into being, so to speak. Fortunately, Ross could rely on documentary evidence to identify a specific experience that would furnish a warrant for his Salome hypothesis. Where the performance of jazz improvisation is concerned, such evidence is not always as clear-cut, which is why biographies like Kelley’s can be so valuable in informing the serious present-day listener. My fondest hope is that, now that Ross has provided a nice example of how this game is played, others will be tempted to follow that example.

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In 2008, Rucker launched a notable solo career in country music. His UMPG publishing agreement encompasses all of his writing for Learn to Live plus his future solo work, including his forthcoming solo album entitled Charleston, SC 1966 due out on October 12th.

Rucker’s platinum-selling debut album, Learn to Live (Capitol Records Nashville), has sold nearly 1.5 million copies. It hit the No. 5 spot on the Billboard 200 Top Albums chart and made the No. 1 position Billboard’s Top Country Albums. It produced three hit singles (“Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It,” “It Won’t Be Like This For Long,” and “Alright”) that reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. All of the songs were co-written by Rucker.

In 2009, Rucker won top honors from the Country Music Association (CMA) by being named “New Artist of the Year” and “Male Vocalist of the Year” at the Country Music Awards, where he also performed at the award ceremony. The singer is currently performing on the H20 tour with Brad Paisley. “Come Back Song,” the first single from his second album which is due to be released in October 2010, was recently released to radio and is already storming up the Country charts.

Rucker performed “Come Back Song” for the first time at The Darius Rucker & Friends Benefit Concert For St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The June 7 event featured performances by Radney Foster, Randy Houser, Jamey Johnson, Jake Owen and a surprise appearance by Kid Rock. It was held at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, Tennessee – and raised close to $50,000 for St. Jude’s cancer research program.

“We are so excited to add Darius Rucker to our roster of chart-topping songwriters,” commented Pat Higdon, President, Universal Music Publishing Group Nashville. “He is a great singer and a gifted songwriter and has quickly carved his own niche with Country music fans.”

Darius is managed by Doc McGhee who is known for managing legends such as KISS and Bon Jovi (UMPG also publishes the KISS catalogue and Bon Jovi). In the U.S., Darius Rucker has sold over 20 million albums – both as a solo artist and as a member of the band Hootie & the Blowfish.

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British actress Carey Mulligan will play the role of Lisbeth Salander, the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Craig will be playing the journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who will be assisted by Salander in his investigations.

The English version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will be directed by David Fincher and the script is penned by Steve Zaillian. The movie is likely to be released in theaters by in 2011.

Craig will be seen investigating the mystery of a missing girl, which leads to a string of decades-old murders. The 42-year old actor has taken up the role following the indefinite delaying of the latest James Bond movie.

The writer of the novel Larsson died in 2004, one year prior to the publishing of the first of his Millennium trilogy crime novels. In his native Sweden, the series of his books was made into film with Michael Nyqvist playing the journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Noomi Rapace playing the computer hacker Salander.

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The Kenya Coastal Development Project will also benefit from a $5 million Global Environment Facility (GEF) grant to strengthen conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal biodiversity.

“Kenyans living in the coastal provinces are among the poorest in the country, despite the province’s considerable potential for economic growth from tourism, fisheries and other investments,” said Johannes Zutt, the Country Director for Kenya in Nairobi.

The project will encourage sustainable management of tourism and fisheries in line with the government’s Vision 2030, which names tourism as an engine of growth, job creation, poverty reduction and wealth generation in the coastal region.

It will support governance reforms of fisheries management in an exclusive economic zone and promote research in near-shore fish stocks to step-up sustainable and profitable fishing practices.

The project will also improve the management and regeneration of natural resources and biodiversity of the coastal and marine environments, reflecting the environmental sustainability theme of the Bank’s Country Partnership Strategy for Kenya, which was endorsed by the Board in April 2010.

The project will also promote dialog amongst national partners and regional stakeholders, and establish a Community Village Fund to build the capacity of micro-projects through grants.

This investment is the beginning in a series planned by the government, Bank and other development partners to improve the economic viability of Kenya’s coast and increase economic opportunities for the estimated 2.5 million people in the region.

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According to the latest buzz from the industry, KJo has specially taken a flight to London at the request of Shah Rukh Khan in order to help him with the film. The sources say that SRK thinks KJO to be his lucky mascot and perhaps would want his intervention in the film.

It is also said that Shah Rukh Khan tweeted Karan Johar and requested him to come to London. The whole industry is aware of the kind of bond SRK and KJO share.

Karan is currently in London at the set of Ra.One and is shooting few touching scenes. The schedule of the film has been split into a couple of units for two days. Anubhav Sinha, will carry on shooting the chief montages and action sequences of the film, while Karan would take care of the romance and the emotional part of the film.

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