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Xbox 360 Now at 19M Units Worldwide
Rival console manufacturer Nintendo revealed yesterday that its cheaper Wii hardware has sold over 24 million units since late 2006. PlayStation creator Sony Computer Entertainment has not released any recent worldwide sales figures of its hardware.Across the fiscal quarter that spanned January 1 to March 31, 2008, Microsoft as a whole reported a revenue of $14.45 billion. Of that, $1.56 billion came from the Entertainment and Devices division, the branch responsible for the Xbox and Zune music player brands, among others.
Taking operating costs, but not taxes or other expenses, out of the sum, the entire company was left with an operating profit of $4.4 billion, with the Entertainment division responsible for $89 million of that.
During the same time period last year, the Entertainment and Devices division brought in $936 million in revenue and posted a $324 million loss. This quarter's leap was mostly attributed to the strong performance of Xbox 360 hardware, Xbox 360 and PC software, and Xbox Live services.

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From gaslit city streets to dark wooded estates, crime was rife in Victorian Britain; through a wide array of historical court records, newspaper accounts and prison books, The Victorian Criminal gives a fascinating overview of those involved in it. Within these pages may be found accounts of petty criminals and poachers, baby farmers and notorious murderers, along with stories of the development of detective forces and forensic techniques. Countless novels, plays and films are testament to an enduring fascination with the dark aspects of the time and place that gave us Sherlock Holmes, Wilkie Collins and the great works of Charles Dickens.
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I have a pink harley davidson PW I got for my daughter and i want to modify it. I was thinking of going with three 6v setup or a 24 volt conversion. just wanted to see what everyone thought would be the easiest way to go. any advice for a new modder is appriciated. i hope this is the first of many projects


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Jim Harper's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
from the i-have-opinions dept
For those of you who don't know me, I'm director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. I work mostly on privacy (including such things as anonymity and the Fourth Amendment), and also on telecom, intellectual property, government transparency (lots of that lately), and protecting the country from counter terrorism.
I'm a native of California and a lawyer. I always take it as a compliment when people who talk to me figure out the first one and have no idea about the second. On my Twitter feed, I sometimes share glimpses of the pageant that unfolds weekend nights, late, on D.C.'s buses.
I have opinions. I want less coercion in our society.
We're all agreed on opposing private violence such as rape and murder, but a lot of people indulge public violence too easily. Some people are OK with state violence visited on innocent foreign people because it might make us safer here. It won't, but no matter because the violence is remote in distance (I guess that's their thinking).
Some people are OK with economic regulation, taxation, and redistribution of wealth for a similar reason: The state violence behind it is conceptually remote. I want less of that, too—a truly peaceful society built on cooperation.
I was listening to "Screaming at a Wall" by Minor Threat when I wrote those last bits. Perhaps that's a metaphor for what I do much of the time. It's very hard to reach people with a possible insight at a moment when they're receptive to it.
What You're Dealing With When You Go to Congress
Hands down, my favorite post of the week goes after Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) for his technical ignorance. I like Louie Gohmert. I think he's funny. He's a real character. And, I mean, his name sounds like "Gomer."
But I sure wouldn't want him governing me.
The colloquy featured in the post is very similar to one I had with a senator after I testified in the Senate Commerce Committee a few years ago. 'How are my searches giving my email over to the spammers?' That kinda stuff. Oh lord.
It was a Republican doing the asking that time, too. But congressional ignorance is a bipartisan problem—sometimes on matters even more basic.
I think a lot of people believe so strongly in democracy that they apply their ideal vision of Congress when they think about what Congress and the government might do. The reality is very different.
It's not that all members of Congress are gomers. They and their staffs are very smart, very dedicated people. But they haven't got the knowledge to organize a society as large, diverse, and open as ours.
Mike says at the end that we need better politicians. There are better, but the system that runs society better than we could ourselves? It does not exist.
Don't Trust the Cloud
I hang my head in shame for all the people who have jumped on the "cloud" bandwagon, and the post expressing skepticism about Google's new "Keep" service in light of Google Reader's demise expresses an important dimension of #cloudfail.
It's absolutely true that "cloud" makes sense given the current state of technology. You don't want to run your apps and your storage on your home server, because most of you don't have one. (I don't.) And you don't want to keep up its upkeep.
But what price do you pay for throwing everything up onto that "cloud" thingy? Greater risk of third-party access and your privacy's undoing, for one thing. Cloud services also can fail. "Cloud" is a marketing term that confuses people about the fact that there are network operators and software and database managers who have duties and responsibilities to their customers.</rant>
There will come a time—give me a long enough time horizon and you know I'm right—when software will be so stable, hardware so cheap, and connectivity so replete that throwing sensitive data and documents onto someone else's servers will seem like an embarrassing mistake.
That's not the point of the post, but it allows me to stretch for that point. I'm old enough to have played games on a mainframe through a teletype machine. I made copies of letters with carbon paper! We looked up information in books! And liked it!
The technology will change the economics, and I think "cloud" will go.
A solid institution like Google yanking Reader is just one, non-devastating dimension of #cloudfail, but other undesirable things can happen with cloud services.
The Business Model Problem
Nobody beats Masnick for illustrating that there are business models that can compete with "free." He apparently has a rival in Glyn Moody, though, who wrote this week about the wave of newspapers in London reducing their prices to zero.
That is classic Techdirt. And it makes Techdirt...how shall we put it...non-beloved by the copyright-reliant folks out there.
You'll be interested to know (or maybe not) that libertarians are divided on intellectual property laws. Some regard them as a gross imposition on the natural right to say and read and write and use whatever knowledge you want to. Others regard ideas and expressions as the rightful property of their creators, rightfully defended from expropriation by government in its proper role as a preventer of rights-violations. I did my best not to tip my hand at a Cato book forum on the topic this week. Haha!
Libertarians are even divided on whether you should call it "intellectual property" or not. I think it's fine to call it that.
I make a curious distinction—too rare in discussions of these topics—between intellectual property, the myriad things produced by cognition and volition, and intellectual property law, which is the assortment of statutes that extend greater control over intellectual property to certain of its beneficiaries. We should have a name for these things: inventions, expressions, and other ideal objects. "Intellectual" modifies "property" much the way "real" does when the object you're talking about is a chunk of earth.
Intellectual property laws have a very different reason for being than property laws pertaining to physical goods. That's what matters most.
Another "That's So Techdirt!"
Mike came up with the "Streisand effect" and don't you forget it.
So I had to love the triple-Streisand featured this week. What a bunch of maroons there are out there who think they can bully legitimate commentary and other good stuff off the Web.
Don't like that I said that?! Just let me know, and I'll take it down... :-/
Honorable Mention
Thanks, Techdirt, to the shout you gave to our Wikipedia and legislative data workshop late last week.
We've been working on modeling, advocating for, and now producing better government data, starting with legislation.
In short order, we're going to start systematically reporting on notable bills in Congress on Wikipedia, building the public's capacity and demand for information about what goes on in Washington, D.C.
Our data is perfectly amenable to many uses. Let me know if you want to build something with it.


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Representatives from the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) New Jersey office, and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) participated in a series of water monitoring demonstrations on October 18 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the federal Clean Water Act and to celebrate National Water Monitoring Day.
The event, organized by the USGS, took place along both the Delaware River and the Delaware and Raritan Canal at the Scudders Falls area of the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park in Ewing Township, N.J.
Guests included DRBC Executive Director Carol R. Collier, NJDEP Chief of Staff Gary Sondermeyer, and USGS New Jersey District Chief Richard H. Kropp.
Students from the Perth Amboy (N.J.) High School Environmental Club and their teacher, Rebecca McLelland, were on hand to both observe and take part in measuring the quality of the water. They recently returned from the National Youth Watershed Summit held at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland from October 6-10 as part of the month-long "Year of Clean Water" celebration.
The Clean Water Act, enacted on October 18, 1972, set the goal of restoring and maintaining the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters. In the three decades since its passage, pollution abatement programs have yielded measurable improvements in water quality.
Lakes and streams that once were devoid of fish and other aquatic life now support numerous and varied aquatic populations. Point source discharges from municipal and industrial waste water treatment plants are being monitored and controlled.
However, the act has not resolved all of the nation's water pollution problems. Non-point source pollutants contained in storm water runoff from urban and rural landscapes alike are imposing a significantly increasing threat to the nation's waters.
A lot has been accomplished; a lot more needs to be done.
National Water Monitoring Day was coordinated by America's Clean Water Foundation and its many partners to bring together citizens from around the country to sample their rivers and streams. A major goal of the program is to create an awareness of how important it is to protect our waterways, a resource on which our lives depend.
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Air Pollution from Nitrogen Dioxide
- What is nitrogen dioxide?
- Latest air quality planning to address the standard for nitrogen dioxide
- Related webpages and publications
- Get more information on the Texas SIP and contact the TCEQ
What is nitrogen dioxide?
The sum of nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is commonly called nitrogen oxides (NOx). Other compounds, including nitrous acid and nitric acid, are part of the NOx family. NO2 is the component of greatest interest and the indicator for the larger group of NOx. NO2 forms quickly from emissions from cars, trucks and buses; power plants; and off-road equipment. In addition to contributing to the formation of ground-level ozone and fine-particle pollution, NO2 is associated with a number of adverse effects on the respiratory system.
Latest air quality planning that addresses the standard for nitrogen dioxide
Last updated: 06/10/2013
Infrastructure and Transport State Implementation Plan (SIP) Revision for the 2010 NO2National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS)
On November 14, 2012, the commission adopted the Infrastructure and Transport SIP Revision for the 2010 NO2 NAAQS (Project No. 2012-016-SIP-NR). The SIP revision meets the infrastructure and transport requirements of the Federal Clean Air Act (FCAA), §110(a)(1) and (2) under the 2010 NO2 NAAQS. This revision documents how each infrastructure and transport element is currently addressed in the Texas SIP by outlining the requirements in FCAA, §110(a)(2)(A) through (M) and the Texas statutes and rules that allow Texas to meet each requirement.
The comment period was from June 29 through August 6, 2012. The United States Environmental Agency (EPA) submitted the only comments.
2010 One-Hour NO2 NAAQS
On February 9, 2010, the EPA published a final rule in the Federal Register to strengthen the primary NAAQS for nitrogen dioxide, establishing a new one-hour standard at 100 parts per billion (ppb). The new standard focuses on short-term exposures to NO2, which are generally highest on and near major roads. Currently, no area in Texas monitors above the 100 ppb standard. The EPA retained the current annual average NO2 standard of 53 ppb. The EPA changed the monitoring network to capture both peak NO2 concentrations that occur near roadways and community-wide NO2 concentrations.
The EPA expects to decrease the number of new monitoring sites from the estimate provided in the 2010 rule. The EPA's latest monitoring placement schedule addresses delays due to funding limitations. For Texas, near-road NO2 monitors in Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW), Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (HGB), Austin-Round Rock, and San Antonio areas are scheduled to be operational by January 1, 2014 with second monitors in DFW and HGB to be operational by January 1, 2015. El Paso and Edinburg-Mission-McAllen area monitors are scheduled to be operational by January 1, 2017. Once the expanded network of NO2 monitors is fully deployed and three years of air quality data have been collected, the EPA intends to redesignate areas based on data from the new monitoring network. The 2010 NO2 NAAQS attainment date is approximately five years after the date of nonattainment designations.
On February 17, 2012, the EPA published the final NO2 designations identifying all areas in the United States as unclassifiable/attainment (77 FR 9532) . The EPA administrator signed the initial designations on January 20, 2012 and sent a letter to the governor with the announcement.
Related webpages and publications
- EPA General Page on Nitrogen Dioxide
- Primary NAAQS for Nitrogen Dioxide
- Secondary NAAQS for Nitrogen Dioxide
- Complete List of Texas SIP Revisions


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Madeleines are simple sponge cake-like cookies – so simple that you probably have all of the typical madeleine recipe ingredients in your house right now: eggs, salt, sugar, flour and butter. The only thing that you may not have is a madeleine pan.
Isn't the madeleine a snotty cookie to require her own pan? But, like a little girl in blue jeans and ratty T-shirt who puts on a princess hat and becomes royalty, the madeleine pan makes this simple cookie regal (more importantly, you can't make madeleines without it). Get one (make sure it's non-stick – it makes it so easy) for the baker on your Christmas list.
What's the Unexpected Twist in My Madeleine Recipe?
Madeleine recipes often contain vanilla extract and lemon zest. Mine are a bit… umm… different. I made mushroom madeleines! I baked up my madeleines using a little bit of dried candy cap mushrooms from Oregon Mushrooms. If you read my post on candy cap mushrooms, you'll know that candy caps are mushrooms with a maple flavor. I wanted to see if my mushroom madeleines would taste like maple madeleines – they did! The flavor wasn't particularly strong (although it did get stronger after the cookies sat overnight), but you could definitely taste a maple flavor. No one would ever guess that the madeleines contained mushrooms.
If the mushroom madeleines taste mapley, why not use maple? You could use maple (I'll tell you how in the recipe), but it sure is fun (if you are a geeky foodie) to invite your guests to eat mushroom cookies.
Madeleine Recipe
My madeleine recipe is a twist on a madeleine recipe from All Recipes.
Madeleine Recipe with An Unexpected Twist
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 C unsalted butter
- 3/4 tsp ground dried candy cap mushrooms or 1/2 tsp maple extract
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/3 C sugar
- 1/2 C all-purpose flour
- Preheat oven to 375 F.
- In a small saucepan or microwave oven, melt butter and let cool to room temperature.
- In a small mixing bowl, beat eggs, candy caps or extract, and salt until fully combined.
- Beating constantly, gradually add sugar. Continue beating for five to ten minutes at high speed until mixture is thick and pale and ribbons form in bowl when beaters are lifted.
- Sift flour into egg mixture 1/3 at a time, gently folding after each addition.
- Pour melted butter around edge of batter.
- Quickly but gently fold butter into batter.
- Divide batter evenly among the madeleine molds. I found that the easiest way to do this was to use two spoons - one to get a spoonful of batter from the bowl, and one to scrape the batter off of the spoon and into the pan. (If your madeleine pan is non stick, you do not need to grease the pan first. If your pan is not non-stick, butter the pan before filling the molds.)
- Bake 14 to 17 minutes, or until cakes are golden and the tops spring back when gently pressed with your fingertip.
- Eat the madeleines on their own, dunked in coffee or hot chocolate, or spread some frosting on them.


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Monday, March 1, 2010
An Interview with Malinda Lo
Why did you choose to retell Cinderella? What did you find compelling about it?
The short version is, I loved "Cinderella" when I was a little girl, and as I grew up, I wished that my favorite author, Robin McKinley, would retell it. She never did, so I decided to write the book that I wanted to read.
For a longer version, feel free to check out my FAQ, where I answer this question here
What was the research and writing process you used for Ash? Did you do a lot of research on the different versions of Cinderella? What literary and non-literary influences and inspirations did you draw from while writing Ash?
When I began working on Ash, I was a graduate student studying cultural anthropology, so I used a lot of that training in my research. I did read many different versions of "Cinderella" from all over the world. I also read critical analyses of fairy tales that unpacked the meaning of these stories. I especially enjoyed Marina Warner's From the Beast to the Blonde (http://www.marinawarner.com/beast.html), which delves into the storytellers behind the stories, as well as feminist criticism.
I also read a lot of folklore collected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Britain and Ireland. I'm especially indebted to the work of British folklorist Katharine Briggs. Those stories heavily influenced the kinds of fairies that are in Ash, as well as the fairy tales I tell in the book.
My other literary inspirations for Ash include Robin McKinley's Beauty, Rose Daughter, and Deerskin, three amazing fairy tale retellings; and the fairy tale retellings of Angela Carter in The Bloody Chamber (not for children!).
Of all the different versions of Cinderella you read, which one did you like the most or find the most interesting, and why?
I'm sorry to say I don't really remember liking one particular version better than any others. During my research phase, I wasn't reading them to see which ones I liked; I was reading them to see what they did differently from each other. I wanted to see which elements of the tale repeated across retellings, which ones didn't, etc.
However, I also watched a lot of Cinderella movies (there are a ton), and among these, I did really like Ever After, starring Drew Barrymore. It was sweet and kinda cheesy, but enjoyable. And I thought it did a great job of making the prince into someone interesting.
What were a few of the things that were repeated across the retellings and a few of the things that weren't?
Well, it's interesting to look at what the source of magic is in each Cinderella story. In the Disney version, which is based on Charles Perrault's retelling, the magical element comes in the form of a fairy godmother. But in the Grimms' version, it's in the form of a tree that Cinderella plants over her mother's grave. That tree, and the birds that land on its branches and ultimately peck out the eyes of the wicked stepsisters, could be seen as extensions of Cinderella's dead mother, who sort of comes back from the grave to help her daughter. In a Chinese version of the story, the magical element is in the form of a fish. So, you get the picture! Choosing how the magical element would be incorporated into Ash — in the form of Sidhean, the male fairy — was one of the first decisions I made.
As for what's not in all the versions of the story ... in some cases, Cinderella is made to perform a series of near-impossible tasks before she can go to the ball, such as pick out a hundred lentils thrown among the ashes of the fire. In other versions, she just gets to go to the ball. In one draft of Ash I did have her do some kind of impossible task, but that was cut out because it bogged the story down. The idea of impossibility was instead referenced when Sidhean gives her the medallion that enables her to call him, and he tells her, "Use this when you need something impossible."
Is there anything about Cinderella that you didn't like and made sure to change in Ash?
Well, most obviously, I wasn't really into Prince Charming. :) I think that he is the weakest part of the traditional fairy tale, actually, because he has very little personality. When I decided to retell the story, I knew that I would have to create a very believable and charming love interest, and initially I had some trouble with that character. In the first draft, Ash did fall in love with the prince, but their love was terribly unconvincing. It wasn't until a friend of mine, who read the first draft and pointed out that Ash was much more interested in this other, female character, that I realized who the true "Prince Charming" was.
And I have to say I really enjoyed developing the character of Kaisa. She was there from the first draft, but it took a few rewrites for me to really understand who she was. I think most of my favorite scenes in Ash involve her.
What are the challenges and rewards of being a woman writer of color?
One of the challenges for me is that not only am I a person of color, I'm queer. So juggling both of those minority identities can be difficult. I often feel like I'm being asked to choose between them, when in fact both are part of me, but neither of them comprise the whole.
Sometimes writers of color are expected to represent their own cultures and experiences, when that is not necessarily expected of white writers. I think that's a shame, because as writers and artists, I believe we write the stories that call to us. Sometimes that doesn't involve telling a story about being a minority, and being criticized for that can feel, well, unfair.
Of course, there are many rewards to standing up for who you are and sharing that with others. The emails and messages I've gotten from readers who identify with my book have been amazing. It's always especially wonderful when someone who is queer and Asian writes to me, and tells me that Ash made her day. Writing is all about connecting with others, and when that connection is made on such a gut level, I'm always deeply touched.
What are your favorite books by women writers of color?
A lot of the books I've loved by women writers of color are memoir or poetry. I still read through Alice Walker's Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990, every so often. Her poems can be so short, but so sharp.
And one memoir that I still remember years after reading it is M. Elaine Mar's Paper Daughter. It's about a Chinese girl who immigrates to Denver, Colorado, which is what I did, too. Her experiences of growing up in a predominantly white community really resonated with me.
This year, I've enjoyed Justina Chen Headley's North of Beautiful, a YA novel about a girl and her mother, beauty and love (and a great Chinese American boy); and Cindy Pon's Silver Phoenix, a YA fantasy set in a China-like world. So much action and fun and food!
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- a. fortis said...
Great interview, Tarie! Thanks to you & to Malinda for taking the time to be interviewed. I have ASH on my TBR pile and look forward to reading it soon!
- March 1, 2010 at 10:19 PM
- Tarie said...
So glad you enjoyed the interview, a. fortis! Malinda is really great. I hope you like ASH. =D
- March 2, 2010 at 12:44 AM
- tanita davis said...
Excellent interview. All of us on the Cybils team really enjoyed Ash and it was definitely a one-of-a-kind, lyrical and beautifully written book.
- March 2, 2010 at 6:46 AM
- Tarie said...
Thanks, Tanita. =D
- March 2, 2010 at 9:41 AM
- malinda said...
@a. fortis -- Hope you enjoy ASH. :)
@tanita davis -- So glad you liked the book!
@Tarie -- Thanks for the interview invitation!
- March 2, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- Tarie said...
Thank YOU, Malinda! I look forward to reading your next YA novel!
- March 2, 2010 at 11:05 AM
- Jessie Carty said...
fantastic interview!
- March 3, 2010 at 3:24 PM
- MissAttitude said...
Loved ash! Funny Malinda that you mention ever after is your favorite Cinderella retelling movie because I JUST read a review (Ninja Librarian blog) where she says that Ash reminded her a bit of Ever After. What a crazy coincidence =)
I can sort of understand where you are coming from about being pulled in two different directions, being a minority and queer. i think women of color are also pulled in different directions and i'm half Black, half Hispanic and I often feel pressed to be/celebrate one and not the other.
You can tell from some of the names in the book (Sidhean, Aisling) that they were influenced by British/Irish/Scottish folklore. They just have that ring to them :)
Thanks Tarie and Malinda for this interview!
- March 3, 2010 at 10:29 PM
- Vasilly said...
What a great review. I'm definitely going to have to pick up Ash now. Alice Walker's Her Blue Body Everything We Know is one of my favorite books too.
- March 3, 2010 at 11:29 PM
- Tarie said...
Jessie, thanks. =D
Ari, I love how your comments are always so thoughtful!
Vasilly, ASH is enchanting. =D
- March 3, 2010 at 11:36 PM
Tarie and Malinda, thank you sooo much for the interview. Malinda, thank you for your honesty about your struggles with outside expectations and your own identity. I haven't read ASH yet, but the book is definitely on my list.
I look forward to meeting one day. Maybe at an event today. :)
- March 6, 2010 at 5:20 AM
- Lauren said...
Thanks for the wonderful interview. Ash is such a beautiful book, and one of my favourites of recent years. I think the scenes with Kaisa are my favourites too.
It's so interesting to hear about other versions of Cinderella, and makes me realise just how few I know about. Makes me want to do some research.
- March 6, 2010 at 5:45 AM
- Tarie said...
I've been thinking... I honestly can't choose a favorite scene in ASH because I just really like anything to do with Ash herself. I really enjoyed "watching" Ash grow up and really develop as a character/person. :o)
- March 6, 2010 at 7:28 AM


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Quote from: Michael D on November 18, 2007, 01:39:57 AMI have a question puddin -- does *pulling* a camel count as "transportation" No they have to ride it >> like that to count
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Dogs are supposedly man's best friends--unless the dog's name is Wilfred. And he is really a man in a dog costume. And he likes to mess with you.
The latest teaser for Season 2 of FX's comedy "Wilfred" shows Ryan (Elijah Wood) getting advice from both a devilish and angelic version of his canine cohort Wilfred (Jason Gann). You'd think they'd be making opposite arguments--but not on this series.
"Go on, Ryan, give 'em a lick," the Wilfreds tell Ryan as he brushes his teeth.
What do they think he should like? Um, it's a dog thing. Watch the clip above, along with several others teasers from FX. (Tramps and Fetch also are great.)
"Wilfred" returns for its second season at 9 p.m. June 28 on FX, and I can't wait. It's my No. 1 most anticipated summer series, to be honest. The first season was such a riot.
I guess I shouldn't say that Wilfred isn't Ryan's best friend, because he is. I mean, there's the stuffed Bear, but he/she seems to be friendlier to Wilfred than Ryan. You see, Ryan's a little messed up; he sees Wilfred not as a dog, but as a foul-mouthed Aussie in a dog suit who likes to smoke weed, pee on things and generally get Ryan into heaps of trouble.
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In the moments leading up to 2013 CMT Music Awards , Jason Aldean needed psychological counseling and sought the assistance of therapist Kristen Bell while Vince Vaughn wanted to throw up. At least that's part of the concept behind an opening segment of the awards show that aired live Wednesday (June 5) at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CMT and CMT.com.
Aldean and Bell are co-hosting the show, and Vaughn was part of a video skit that also features Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan and Reba McEntire. The clip also featured appearances by Dr. Drew, Kelsey Grammer (reprising his role as Dr. Frasier Crane in Frasier) and Lorraine Bracco (as Dr. Jennifer Melfi of The Sopranos).
McEntire, Shelton and Bryan, who have all hosted the Academy of Country Music Awards, offered comical advice as Aldean deals with his mental anguish over hosting a major awards show.
"I guess it's because I'm hosting the CMT Awards," Aldean explains. "I don't know. It's kind of a scary proposition for a Georgia boy."
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Vaughn, who co-stars with Owen Wilson in the new film The Internship, ultimately provides the emotional support Aldean needs to host the awards show.
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Black Mirror Review – This Dystopia Rings Too Close to Home
The first two episodes of Season 3 offer shattering critiques of human identity in simulated realities
Black Mirror Season 3 is unsettling. In an unblinkered view of gritty dystopias, it exposes the crack on the surface of our realities: our obsession with technology in attempts to connect to each other. In each one-hour slice, the series portrays a hyper-reality one step away from our own, where the virtual blurs into the real and takes over.
Episode 1's (Nosedive) pastel-shaded utopia with glow-edged frames offers a world where humans are marketed, rated on 5- stars based on their interactions: a futuristic Facebook Like button. In this hyper-real virtual social network, self-worth is linked to rating, as is a person's value on the "market"/community: like Twitter followers that determine credibility and blue ticks. "Upscale folks" are rated 4.6+, in a class system of peer voting. Unlike the troll-infested internet of today, though, profanity here is taboo; people are forced to be polite for ratings. Social rejection equals losing privileges: a high rating means you get to buy first-class plane tickets and real estate in elite localities- the capitalist criteria to be "happy".
The episode charts Lacie's (Bryce Dallas Howard) slow unwinding in this reality: she dreams of social ascent to compensate for her mediocrity, and nosedives. Like the fake-ness of our online friendships, she is cloying in her "niceness", failing to replicate "authentic gestures". In her clash with Naomi (Alice Eve), she soon realises that the cost of honesty is social rejection, but like our constant need for social gratification via Facebook, she struggles to let go of her claustrophobic quest.
In her final maniacal delivery of the rehearsed bride-of-honour speech, she snaps, and speaks her mind. While the episode makes a strong argument for freedom of expression, it also mocks political correctness on social media: the sycophantic politeness we promote to avoid debating the politics of existence within capitalism. Like Pleasantville, the perfect society is revealed to be a sham, hiding class warfare.
On the other hand, Play Test (Episode 2), rooted in our current reality, shows a test-run for a game exploring human consciousness. Cooper (Wyatt Russell) signs up for a simulation where he confronts his repressed past in a 4D horror game played out in the aptly-named Shadow House.
Tracking shots of opening doors, cupboards, boxes, books symbolise penetration into his psyche and the struggle of memory against forgetting, as one simulation leads to another. His mother's unanswered phone-call looms throughout the episode: it is our modern severance from roots/reality in the age of virtual society.
The grimness of both dystopias and the tragedy of protagonists is palpable, not because they expose the isolation of human existence but also our current futile attempts via Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to be "accepted". For a cast of non-stars, both episodes have stellar performances, an abundance of key lighting and impeccable set design: from a 50s-style futuristic locale to a 19th century gothic mansion. Suspense and simulation go hand-in-hand in tightly woven narrative arcs that explore the quest for identity in virtual reality.
We are left with an overwhelming dread, an uneasy sense of familiarity echoed in each Facebook notification. Season 3 is Charlie Brooker's greatest cinematic triumph: he tears through our social-media obsessed lives to expose the barrenness beneath.
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On a recent Sunday, I was invited to partake of kosher beet dip and radishes in sage-butter sauce in the enormous Ditmas Park living room of Itta Werdiger Roth, a thirty-year-old Jewish mother and chef who hosts a monthly salon that she calls the Hester. Usually Hester events revolve around food, signature cocktails, and conversation—but that evening featured a private performance by the Bulletproof Stockings, a girl band whose lead singer sounds like a less angst-ridden version of Fiona Apple. As the night wore on, Roth's guests tossed back cocktails, swayed to the beat, and snapped iPhone pictures. They had the enthusiasm of any normal rock concert-goers, but they looked different. Almost everyone in the all-female crowd wore a long skirt and a sheitel, the wig customarily worn by Orthodox wives.
The band's keyboardist and singer, Perl Wolfe—a twenty-six-year-old divorcée raised in the Crown-Heights-based Chabad-Lubavitch group, a sect of Hasidim that follows the teachings of the late Menachem Mendel Schneerson—wore a blue dress with a vintage pattern that looked straight off a rack at Beacon's Closet; the drummer, Dalia Shusterman, a Modern Orthodox-born widow in her mid-thirties, had on dark red lipstick. They could have been typical Williamsburg denizens except that their long dresses with elbow-length sleeves conformed to the Jewish code of tznius, which means modesty. Because the musicians in Bulletproof Stockings are members of Chabad, they will not perform for mixed-gender audiences, which is in accordance with Jewish law. While not all of their songs have overtly religious themes, Wolfe told the Times of Israel that all her lyrics "are inspired by Torah and by Lubavitch's version of Hasidic faith," and a knowing ear will recognize traditional Hasidic melodic structures in the songs.
How I, a Wasp, ended up in a Chabad woman's living room listening to Wolfe belt out the Lubavitcher Moshiach anthem—a musical prayer for the coming of the Messiah—is a longer story, though one I share with other Gentiles and secular Jews who identify as spiritual seekers. My own quest has led me to a subset of devout Jewish men and women who struggle to reconcile their faith in a demanding God with their heretical embrace of creative freedom. For the Bulletproof Stockings, this marriage of faith and creativity results in them observing the rabbinical rule of kol isha, which forbids men from hearing women sing. They do not, however, attempt to restrict the larger audience that hears their music—and their work is readily made available to anyone as MP3s and in YouTube videos. This, along with their professed love of "goyishe" bands like Radiohead, earns them censure from some members of their community, as is evident by the myriad seething comments on the Lubavitch Web site CrownHeights.info, where the story from the Times of Israel was reposted: "Sadly it's the women," writes one disapproving scribe, "who have been dragging the name of Lubavitch throu [sic] the gutters."
The BPS concert wasn't my first encounter with the alternative Jewish art scene. That took place about two months ago, when I met three young filmmakers—the director Jesse Zook Mann and the producers Saul Sudin and Evan Kleinman—whose work introduced me to what they call, "the underground Jewish community." Though only Sudin grew up religious and maintains an observant lifestyle, all three found themselves drawn toward Judaism while working in the entertainment industry, and this drive to explore their heritage led to the making of their first full-length movie.
"Punk Jews," their documentary, is an hour-long film on deviance and devotion which premieres at the Manhattan Jewish Community Center on December 11th. It opens with a young man standing on a nondescript city rooftop. His curly brown payos dangle; a crocheted white kipa rimmed with Hebrew letters is perched atop his head; tzitzit (prayer fringes) stick out from beneath his button-down. Then, with arms outstretched and face uplifted towards the firmament, he starts to bellow: "Here's how you bring light into the world. You get up in the morning, and you scream GOD!"
The young man on the rooftop, Yishai Romanoff, is the twenty-six-year-old lead singer in a punk-rock group called Moshiach Oi!. The second word in the band's name alludes both to the eponymous British punk rock movement of the nineteen-seventies (associated, often incorrectly, with neo-Nazi movements) and the Yiddish "oy," which is perhaps the most concise expression of angst in the history of language. Two of the band's four musicians belong to a fringe group of Breslov Hasidim, the Na Nachs, who chant their Kabbalah-based mantra—"Na nach nachma nachman meuman"—as often as possible, to hasten the coming of the Messiah. ("Na nach nachma nachman meuman" also makes for a catchy punk chorus.)
"Punk Jews" follows the quartet from a rowdy concert at the Upper West Side's Carlebach Shul, to an impromptu street gig, to the basement of a member's home in Long Beach, Long Island. "We call this place Camp Shabbos," the guitarist Menashe "Mike" Wagner tells the camera.
Romanoff, Moshiach Oi!'s founder, was born on Long Island and grew up there in an Orthodox family. His father was a Jew by birth; his mother, a convert. He attended yeshiva, where he learned to "hate Judaism and hate Jews," he says. "The rabbis were full of themselves and always telling people what to do." His teen-age rebellion included a love affair with punk rock and a fling with drug abuse, but eventually, with the help of Mike Wagner, Romanoff ditched the drugs (but not the punk) and re-embraced his faith. He is now devoted equally to the rigorous strictures of shtetl Judaism and to the lawless ethos of punk rock. On Monday nights, for example, Moshiach Oi! records songs or writes lyrics at Camp Shabbos; on Thursdays, they meet to study the teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, the eighteenth-century Hasidic sage, at an organic food café. And, of course, starting at sundown on Fridays, they rest. Though some see their music as "sacrilegious," Romanoff scoffs at the notion, seeing it instead as the most appropriately enthusiastic way to hasten the coming of Moshiach. "You're supposed to feel it," he says when discussing prayer. "You're supposed to be on fire for it."
When I recently met with Saul Sudin—in the Boerum Hill apartment he shares with his wife, Elke, an elfin painter who makes a few cameos in the film—he told me that all the film's subjects "come from very different backgrounds," which is something of an understatement. Kal Holczler, a sex-abuse survivor from New Square, New York, a modern shtetl in Rockland County, is the founder of a nonprofit (now defunct) that taught Orthodox mothers what to do if they suspect a child is being sexually abused. Amy Harlib, also known as the Amazing Amy Yoga Yenta, is a former martial artist and contortionist who narrates her performances in Yiddish and English. The Sukkos Mob, a performance group, features Shane Baker, a Midwestern Gentile actor described in the New York Times as "one of the most prominent proponents of Yiddish theater, language and culture in New York." Y-Love, a black hip-hop artist and Yeshiva graduate who converted to Judaism as a teen-ager. In the movie, he discusses the racism endemic to Borough Park: "Moses himself couldn't get an apartment [there]," he tells Sudin.
And yet despite the disapproval they often face from their peers and neighbors, most of the film's subjects, with the exception of the performers in the Sukkos Mob, remain observant Jews. One reason that they can do so is because of the strength of the artistic Jewish subculture and the acceptance they find in that arena. While certain Jewish communities—most notably the Satmars of Williamsburg—remain vehemently opposed to any cultural fluidity, others, like Chabad Lubavitch, are increasingly open to free expression and commingling with outsiders, making it easier for groups like the Bulletproof Stockings to thrive. Another reason that these artists can remain religious and inventive might lie in the roots of Judaism itself, a faith that began with one rogue who decided to shun the mainstream of his time and live by new, strange rules. As Sudin says, "I see the Abrahamic tradition itself as being very punk."
All three of the filmmakers behind "Punk Jews" at one time played in punk bands, and this is partly what drew them to their subjects. In the vibrant scene around the edges of orthodoxy, which Sudin calls "a colorful gray area," they could feel comfortable asking questions about their faith that would be considered inappropriate, or even heretical, by a rabbi. Can you be Jewish if you don't belong to a synagogue or keep kosher? What if you spend more time listening to punk than learning Torah? It was particularly fortuitous, then, that Y-Love brought them to Chulent, the unofficial headquarters of this peripheral community.
"Chulent" is a potato-and-bean-based stew served on Shabbat, but it is also a weekly lecture-series-cum-party for anyone on the Hasidic spectrum. The filmmakers don't give its location, though it is not difficult to reach Isaac Schonfeld, the man in charge, and secure an invite. A business consultant from Borough Park, Schonfeld launched Chulent by simply allowing neighborhood misfits to convene in his electronics store late at night—and he has kept it alive for more than ten years since. He has never strayed from his observant Hasidic Jewish lifestyle but has a soft spot for those who struggle with it. When asked by the "Punk Jews" filmmakers why he does what he does, he says, "We have no agenda, but we're trying to do is provide community in a space for people to explore themselves and to explore 'the other.'" The event changes venues frequently, mostly due to noise complaints from neighbors, and on one occasion, it was readmitted to a synagogue only to be kicked out a second time.
On a recent Thursday night, acting, he said, "as a doting Jewish grandmother," Schonfeld mingled with the regulars in the cavernous Ditmas Park Jewish center that Chulent now calls home. The scene was one that could never have been replicated in an Orthodox shul, where men and women are kept separate and women are forbidden to sing. Here, hasids in sable hats rubbed shoulders with female artists wearing jeans and wool beanies. A statuesque blonde video producer for Vice Media chatted up Shulem Deen, the founder of the Web site Unpious.com, which features personal essays and journalistic pieces focussed on Hasidic culture. I recognized some familiar faces from the film, and while many people told me that they thought the community was growing, it was impossible to tell. What is clear, though, is that many are seeking to change the status quo in their old neighborhoods; one Chulent attendee wrote me a few days ago saying that he had attended a demonstration in Williamsburg protesting community support of Nechemya Weberman, a Satmar man currently on trial for allegedly sexually harassing a religious teen-ager whose parents had sent her to him for counselling.
Asked to define his level of observance, a man with a pockmarked face and ratty hair, who declined to give his name, told me, "I'm not as religious as I was yesterday." This dappled sheep is the type of congregant that Schonfeld is happy to have into his fold. "Convention is constricting," he tells the filmmakers of "Punk Jews." "Convention is anti-growth."
Kelsey Osgood is a writer who lives in New York. She has written for The Baltimore Review, The American Reader, and New York Magazine.


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Amarok 2.2 "Sunjammer" released
The Amarok team is excited to announce the release of Amarok 2.2. In three and a half months, Amarok has made a huge leap forward, gaining many new features and a lot of old features from 1.4 have returned.
Amarok 2.2 brings back support for sorting and shuffling the playlist, for an external MySQL database as well as for playing audio CDs to name a few. It brings a new video and photo applet to show media related to the current song. The layout can be modified to suit your needs thanks to dock widgets and the sidebar has been changed to be easier to navigate with bread crumbs.
Read more about all the new exciting features in the release announcement.
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By Mark Kretschmann at Thu, 2009/10/01 - 4:29pm
It works
It really works. I am now playing Bob Marley's Rebel Music. The problem is that it's not intuitive. You have to browse to local music and there you will see the songs on the CD which you can drag and drop to the playing list, a bit awkward. The devs should add a play cd module or something similar so that it can't be missed. One click on the module and your CD plays. That's how it should work on a modern desktop.
By Bobby at Sat, 2009/10/03 - 2:19pm
That's ok, sebas is probably
That's ok, sebas is probably the only person left who still buy audio CDs xD
By patcito at Thu, 2009/10/01 - 6:45pm
hahahahahaaah, my opinion
hahahahahaaah, my opinion it's the same.
yet exist person that buy audio CD, haahah
By Sebastian Machuca at Fri, 2009/10/02 - 2:22am
No Way!
No way! Lots of serous audiophiles or even just people who take their music very seriously still buy exclusively on CD's. Until there are lossless digital audio formats some people will always want a physical copy. Others like the safety of having copies if something happens to their digital collection. That being said I even though I want to have CD's of everything in my collection I would still like to have copies for my iPod or to set up long party playlists. I also sometimes use my laptop to DJ and like to be able to quickly pop in my own or someone else's CD's to compliment a mix. I will be trying this feature out for sure because Amarok is an awesome project.
By crazykiwi at Mon, 2009/10/05 - 5:46pm
"Until there are lossless
"Until there are lossless digital audio formats some people will always want a physical copy."
There are lossless digital audio formats (e.g. FLAC). The problem is that those files are bigger (of course), but bring no benefit to most customers (I for one am not able to tell FLAC/OGV/MP3 apart). If many customers would know about and demand lossless audio files, they would be distributed, and there would be really no need for CDs anymore.
By majewsky at Tue, 2009/10/06 - 9:34pm
Certainly not
Audiobooks typically come on CD and are not downloadable.
My first experience after upgrading Kubuntu and thus to Amarok 2: "How the hell do I play CDs?" I thought people were kidding when I was told I had to install some other program (kscd).
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By Benjamin Barnett at Fri, 2009/10/02 - 8:02am
Dont like v2
I think interface is very confusing, and I couldnt find option to show "player only" like in amarok 1.4.
By beli0135 at Fri, 2009/10/02 - 12:14pm
Alternative fix
There is no "show player only" feature in V2.
What you can do however, is installing a plasmoid which controls your media player. This has about the same effect.
By vdboor at Fri, 2009/10/02 - 1:50pm
Expect that I cannot keep it
Expect that I cannot keep it above the other windows, which I always did with the player window in 1.4.
By gd at Sat, 2009/10/03 - 9:39pm
Re: Expect that I cannot keep it
There are some workarounds:
In the terminal, you can try the following for more info:
By vdboor at Mon, 2009/10/05 - 7:23am
I will not use Amarok until...
... It can play my vinyl collection.
By Burp at Fri, 2009/10/02 - 5:09pm
.. and wash my dishes. I
.. and wash my dishes. I can't believe it still can't do that.
But despite of course being unwilling to use Amarok until these crucial features have been added, I did have a look and now I'm addicted. Darn Amarok developers, this app is just too cool not to use :(
The rediscover your music thing is just TOO true!
By Jos Poortvliet at Sat, 2009/10/03 - 8:02am
A great release
I thought "Amarok is back!" when I started Amarok today. It's the first 2.x release that I really like. It looks great and (almost) everthing works but there is still some room for improvement. I personally would wish a faster start up, the cover download is not working for mp3 (but it works fine for CDs) and like I wrote, the play cd function should be more intuitive. Apart from that I would say well done, Amarok is back on track.
By Bobby at Sat, 2009/10/03 - 2:48pm
Congrats! Now Spotify support plz!!! :) If it's possible...
Even though Spotify works pretty well through wine. Some form of a plugin for Amarok would well rock. Would it be possible to add Spotify support through despotify (free software cmd line implementation) or libspotify? Something like that would fit perfectly to the "Internet" menu :)
10€/month and unlimited access to 95% of the music out there (320kbps OGG stream) is not a bad deal at all and of course it's legal. I have personally turned from skeptic to believer. It's just so much more convenient and the experience is just so seamless. I think that kind of services are the future of music industry. Great quality, Reasonable pricing and it just works.
By bliblibli at Sat, 2009/10/03 - 2:58pm
Im very disappointed of Amarok 2 performance. It starts up very slowly. Amarok 1.4 started in about 4-5 seconds first time, and any of Amarok 2 series starts in about 11-12 seconds. That's a big regret to me, because i want to listen my music without having to wait 11 seconds. Please improve start up performance in Amarok 2.3. Thank you.
By Simas at Sat, 2009/10/03 - 3:23pm
I also mentioned that among a few other things. Sadyly enough it's not only Amarok but also KDE 4 itself that I personally find to start up waaayv too slowly.
By Bobby at Sat, 2009/10/03 - 6:34pm
I don't know what's
I don't know what's specifically wrong on your system, but this long startup time is just not normal. It takes about 2 seconds here.
If you send us a debug log ("amarok --debug --nofork") we'll be happy to look at it.
By Mark Kretschmann at Sat, 2009/10/03 - 9:17pm
Where do I find this file? I
Where do I find this file? I have searched the Amarok directory but it's not there.
By Bobby at Sun, 2009/10/04 - 3:33pm
The log
Here's the log when i run amarok --debug --nofork from terminal:
By Simas at Sun, 2009/10/04 - 6:13pm
won't start on opensuse 11.0 :(
Well, i tried it on opensuse 11.0, and it failed:
amarok --debug --nofork
dunno if my system is to blame or that the opensuse buildservice made an error..
By whatever noticed at Mon, 2009/10/05 - 12:03am
Missing features
Have they added labels back in? I understand that you can make Amarok 2.2 look mostly like 1.4 (which would be what I want - sorry, I want to devote my screen real estate to a compact playlist, not a bunch of useless shiny metadata), but it's not worth even trying until they have support for the music library features that I use, including labels.
By marcan at Sun, 2009/10/04 - 2:44am
Sometimes slows down system
On my system (Eee PC 901 with openSUSE 11.1 and KDE 4.3.1) Amarok (both 2.1 and 2.2) sometimes (once a day or so) slows down my system to nearly unusable. These times it generates extremely high load (like 10 or 20) while its own CPU usage is usually still between 10% and 20% or even lower. My system becomes usable again only if I kill Amarok.
Is there anyone who experienced this?
By gd at Sun, 2009/10/04 - 3:50pm


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This weekend John and I are attending Star Wars Celebration here in Orlando, so of course I have to honor the occasion the best way I know how:
...by mercilessly mocking Darth Vader cakes.
This one, for example, looks like a codfish.
Granted, I don't actually know what a codfish looks like, but I imagine it must be kind of silly and wet-looking, which makes them practically twins.
Wait - I just realized there's no "t" in "scruffy-looking nerf herder."
Ok, it fits it to a "scruffy-looking"
When I was a kid I found this nifty stone-texture spray paint at Home Depot, and proceeded to paint everything I could get my hands on, including my room's wall switches, door handles, and lamps. My parents were lucky people, y'all. Anyway, apparently this baker had the same fascination:
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Darth Droopy!
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You know what? That makes me sad.
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The ardvaark was one of the first, but other species of bird and animal have since returned to a once bare and desolate corner of Tigray in northern Ethiopia.
Decades of farmer neglect in an already harsh environment had left the land devastated by soil erosion and desertification, barely able to sustain life of any kind, whether human or animal.
But a dramatic transformation has taken place since a special venture was launched – the Tigray Project – to rehabilitate land using an ecological and community based approach that employs sustainable cultivation methods to get the best out of local resources and farmers' knowledge.
With the support of government agencies, the Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD), an Ethiopian non-governmental organisation (NGO), has worked for over a decade with farming communities to improve water and soil conservation, control previously rampant free range grazing and, crucially, to restore soil fertility through making and using compost.
"It was devastated, bare and windswept. It was basically neglect. In the 1990s, the farmers had no capital, nothing to buy anything with. Ethiopia had the lowest per capita use of chemical fertiliser in the world," said the ISD's Sue Edwards.
Initially covering just four pilot farming groups, the project has broadened out to over 60 local communities, involving hundreds of farming families.
The result has been higher yields, higher groundwater levels, better soil fertility, increased household income and a better life for women, who, as elsewhere in Africa, do much of the farm work.
Around Adi Nifas, which means "place of wind," some 40 families taking part in the local project are able to get two crops a year from land once considered amongst the worst in the area.
"All the families have benefited from the rehabilitation by becoming food secure for at least 12 months," said Edwards.
The story of this corner of Tigray prior to the project is the tale of much of sub-Saharan Africa, where the effects of climate change threaten to exacerbate the already debilitating impact of under-investment and poverty-led neglect.
Already degraded
Two thirds of sub-Saharan Africa is desert or drylands, which are areas characterised by a highly seasonal, unpredictable rainfall, water scarcity and a hot climate. Between 10 and 20 percent of the drylands are already degraded by erosion or salinisation.
Agriculture accounts for an average of 32 percent of the continent's economic output, but sub-Saharan Africa's overall per capita farm yields have been declining. In 2005, output per capita was 3 percent less than in 2000 and 12 per cent below 1975, according to various international agencies.
Thirty percent of Africans are chronically hungry, and there are similar levels of malnutrition among children under five. With the population certain to increase sharply in coming decades, poverty will grow.
Climate change will make thing worse. According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), farm yields could fall over 50 percent by 2020 due to an increasingly hotter and drier climate.
On top of this has come the current global food crisis which has seen staple food price rises of up to 80% in some countries around the world, and which will increase the misery for African countries dependent on imports.
Food supply is now Africa's most "pressing challenge," former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said recently.
"We need action to tackle the immediate food crisis in Africa and the long-term impact that climate change will have on food supplies and agriculture across the continent," Annan added.
The food crisis and sustainable development will be central issues for a major environmental conference, the IUCN World Conservation Congress, being held October 5-14 in Barcelona, Spain, which brings together governments, non-governmental organisations and individual scientists.
The four-yearly congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world's oldest and largest environmental network,
will launch a special 'Drylands and Desertification Strategy' and a 'Drylands and Livelihoods Initiative' to guide work on developing sustainable and viable solutions for these environmentally highly vulnerable areas.
"With global challenges such as climate change, energy and food security, understanding, maintaining and restoring dryland ecosystem services will be critical," the IUCN says in a document prepared for the congress.
Green revolution
The fear is that the continuing degradation of land will lead to more conflicts both within countries and between them as competition intensifies for the use of dwindling resources.
The brutal violence in the western Darfur region of Sudan, which was partly triggered by land disputes between farmers and nomads, is cited as an example of what could happen elsewhere.
For Annan, Africa's farming urgently requires a "green revolution". The Ghanaian was recently named chairman of the Nairobi-based 'Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa', which is backed by the Rockerfeller and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations.
But Caterina Wolfangel, IUCN Programme Officer for Drylands, East and Southern Africa, cautions that past attempts at green revolutions have failed to trigger significant improvements in Africa.
Efforts in the 1970s, for example, to increase yields through a highly mechanized approach to agriculture, which were highly successful in Asia, got nowhere in Africa.
This was mainly because drylands require a different approach that is more adapted to their bio-climatic and socio-economic conditions, the IUCN expert explained.
"Drylands are areas characterized by a highly seasonal, unpredictable rainfall, water scarcity and a hot climate. Most development interventions have failed to take this into consideration, resulting in unsustainable land management and degradation of critical resources such as water, vegetation cover and soil fertility," said Wolfangel.
In parts of the Sahel and other dry zones, farmers sought to produce more by increasing the area they cultivate rather than by improving yields on a sustainable basis on land already under cultivation. Given the marginal nature of the land and the fragility of the soil, this simply increased the problems.
But Wolfangel rejects the "gloom and doom" view of drylands agriculture, saying that drylands are already contributing significantly to livelihoods and national economies and have good potential to further sustainable development provided the rights steps are taken.
"Conservation and development must go hand in hand," she said, adding that it was important to overcome the perception that drylands were "wastelands" and therefore unworthy of significant public investment.
There are signs that the international community is taking heed and is looking beyond a simplistic, "one size fits all" approach to take fuller account of local conditions and knowledge. Annan has stressed the need for sustainability.
New approach
The recently released International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development, a 2,500-page report commissioned by the World Bank and the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), concluded that future initiatives had to respect the "multiple functions of agriculture."
They should embrace the "improvement of livelihoods, the enhancement of environmental services, the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity, and the contribution of agriculture to the maintenance of social and cultural traditions."
"Science and technology should be targeted towards raising yields but also protecting soils, water and forests," the authors wrote.
The FAO and others have suggested that ways should be found to put an economic value on local ecosystems so that farmers could be paid for their conservation role, thereby giving them a financial incentive to use resources in a sustainable way.
With its toolbox of low-tech solutions, the Tigray project could offer valuable lessons to others about the route to take, despite its relatively small size.
"I don't think that Adi Nifas is unique. Its success shows what all small communities can do if they get together and decide to protect their environment and support each other. The situation in much larger areas could be quickly and radically improved," Sue Edwards said.