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NEW YORK — Wielding silence as deftly as he harnessed speech, British playwright Harold Pinter wrote plays that have the precision of musical scores. Much of the joy in encountering these extravagantly minimalist works in performance is noticing where the stresses have been placed and interpretive liberties taken.
"Betrayal," first produced in London in 1978, is the Pinter play that has lately been drawing the starriest interpreters. In Ian Rickson's 2011 West End revival, Kristin Scott Thomas was like an icy cinder, coolly burning her way to the heart of this drama that lays bare the gamesmanship of marital infidelity.
In the current Broadway revival, which is as sleek and luxurious as an Aston Martin (and as jaw-droppingly expensive, with premium seats fetching over $400), the men dominate the action. Daniel Craig, the latest James Bond heartthrob who has helped make this Mike Nichols production a box-office record-breaker even before its official opening Sunday at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, puts his 007 sang-froid to expert use.
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Craig plays Robert, a cool customer who discovers that his wife, Emma (played by Craig's real-life wife, Oscar winner Rachel Weisz), is having an affair with his best friend, Jerry (Rafe Spall). Rather than throw a fit and risk acknowledging that he's been hurt, Robert decides to play his cards close to his vest — the better to outmaneuver opponents whose erotic objective is to keep him in the dark.
Divided into nine scenes, "Betrayal" is constructed like a psychological puzzle. The play begins in 1977 after the affair between Emma and Jerry has ended and concludes in 1968 just as it's about to ignite.
Nichols' staging maintains a heightened focus. Ian MacNeil's sets, which fly in and out with the fluidity of memory, intimately frame the action. Projections fill us in on the shifting chronology, and the melancholy strains of James Murphy's original music foster an elegiac mood.
Much like the characters themselves, the audience is actively engaged in trying to figure out who knows what at each juncture of the story. It's a tricky business, made even trickier because in Pinter's hyper-masculine world nothing is weaker than showing emotion.
Intense feelings, of course, can't be erased, though they can be disguised. Yet Pinter, a comic playwright with a taste for shadowy menace, was acutely aware of the threadbare nature of our charades. Imperturbability is the mask that inevitably falls off.
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What gives Nichols' handsome production its frisson is the way the men flamboyantly betray their stiff upper lips. London gentlemen in the book business, they epitomize urbane sophistication yet can't completely hide their caveman hearts.
In Craig's portrayal, Robert's fury comes into view like a shark fin skimming the surface of the water. The more he controls his wrath, the more dangerous it becomes. When he makes love to his wife after a visit from Jerry, who has no idea that Robert is in on their secret, he descends on her like she were his prey.
Spall, whose performance is the most thrilling in the cast, reveals the narcissism of Jerry's romantic fervor. He seduces not because he's helplessly in love but because he has an itch to control.
If Emma's character is hard to judge here, it's partly because the production treats her like a figment of the male imagination. Ann Roth's costumes turn her into a fantasy object whenever possible. She flounces about in an Italian country maiden get-up at one point and swoons around in a long-flowing hippie frock in the final scene.
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For much of Weisz's performance, Emma's eyes are frosted glass. Yet the character's inscrutability isn't a particularly powerful stance. Unlike Craig's Robert, who appears opaque for the same reason an invading soldier dresses in camouflage, Weisz's Emma, perpetually in retreat, seems to be acting more in defense than offense.
Her portrayal zeros in on the disappointment that is motivating Emma's secrecy. This sought-after object of desire understands that she is in fact the odd man out.
In Nichols' reading of the play, there is the suggestion that the men might prefer to be with each other. The homoeroticism of the production isn't explicit until the last scene, but it retroactively adds weight to a remark Robert makes to his wife earlier in the play after finding out about her affair with Jerry: "To be honest, I've always liked him rather more than I've liked you. Maybe I should have had an affair with him myself."
One of the play's best scenes, set in an Italian restaurant in which Robert takes out his frustration on Jerry by blowing up at the waiter (Stephen DeRosa), strongly implies that Robert is more heartbroken over Jerry than Emma. Craig exposes the sadness beneath Robert's displaced anger while Spall throws into relief Jerry's self-protective bewilderment.
Nichols takes risks with his interpretation but maintains the necessary ambiguity of the situation. His production would have been stronger, however, if he had allowed Weisz's Emma to play hardball with the boys. Kristin Scott Thomas would have given Craig and Spall a real match.
But this "Betrayal" is a decidedly male affair, and Craig and Spall live up to the expectations that have surrounded this most anticipated production of the New York fall season. Whether the work justifies such exorbitant ticket prices is another story.
Broadway shouldn't become the playground of the 1 percent, and a Hollywood franchise star who doesn't need the money (and happens to be a superb stage actor) shouldn't allow this to be done in his name.


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I caught both of these films the past week, Colombiana at the theater and Taken on blu-ray. The former was directed by Olivier Megaton, the latter by Pierre Morel, but it's the scenarist as auteur who interests me. Although both were co-written by Robert Mark Kamen, I mean the other scenarist who also served as the producer, Luc Besson. If there's something like pure cinema, Besson specializes in pure entertainment. He's unconcerned with any realworld attachment to his cinematic diegeses. His heroes exist in a hermetic reality where all the laws of physics are on their side, cooperating with whatever stunt they're performing, ensuring their success. The only moral code is to be the one performing the violence, not receiving it. This recently resulted in a protest from Colombian-Americans regarding the Besson-world Colombia, filled only with really bad drug dealers killing a couple of really bad drug dealers who happen to love their daughter. Loving little girls is about the only good act in Besson morality, no matter what else one might do for a living (cf. The Professional or Wasabi). Typically that love is expressed through teaching the girl how to perform violence (La Femme Nikita), or to use your professional killing skills to protect her (again, The Professional). In other words, love is violence.
The present examples are no exception: Taken is about a retired black ops hatchetman for the US going on a rampage through France to rescue his kidnapped daughter from Albanian slave-traders. Colombiana is about the aforementioned daughter from Bolota escaping to Chicago where she meets up with her assassin uncle, who trains her to be a hired killer -- the purpose of which is to eventually exact revenge on the people who killed her parents. Besson, of course, loves assassins, particularly of the young, lithe, winsome and female variety. But that's not what really sets his cornball action tales apart; it's his little flourishes of perversity that I'm calling the Besson Touch.

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The Munich Residenz (Germany), that served as the seat of government and residence of the Bavarian dukes, electors and kings from 1508 to 1918, hosts ten courts. The one in this panorama, named Kaiserhof (Emperor's Court), was accessible only on major ceremonial occasions.
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Munich is the capital of the German state of Bavaria and is Germany's third largest city, located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Black and gold - the colors of the Holy Roman Empire - have been the city's official colors since the time of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor.


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Could you tweak your looks?
"Am I the last woman my age to try facial fillers?" I ask.
"There may be one other, but she's in Wyoming," jokes Patricia Wexler, MD, a Manhattan dermatologist with a clientele for whom maintenance does not refer to cars. The good doctor has offered her services to illustrate the difference an expertly administered injection here and there can make.
Hey, didn't I see those syringes in Zero Dark Thirty? The shots hurt, even with numbing cream. But a second after each poke, I recover.
I'd expected the filler to be shot into the obvious crevices, but Restylane is injected at my face's periphery, then massaged into place to create an interior scaffold. The whole shebang, including Botox in my neck and a laser zap to reduce bruising, takes 30 minutes.
Restylane's effect is immediate, like facial Spanx. The Botox takes a week or so to do its thing. I pass a mirror and… good Lord, I'd know that woman anywhere, although I haven't seen her since 2005. I could get used to this.
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Spurs frustrated by Lazio
Andre Villas-Boas cut a furious figure in the Tottenham dugout as his team had three goals ruled out in their 0-0 draw with Lazio in the Europa League.
The Italian giants came to White Hart Lane on the back of a five-match winning streak, but they were outplayed for large parts of the Group J clash, which Villas-Boas clearly feels his side should have won.
The Portuguese manager, who earned his first win as Spurs boss on Sunday, was livid at referee Ovidiu Alin Hategan for disallowing Steven Caulker's goal deep into the second half.
The centre-back leapt high to head home Gareth Bale's corner but the Romanian official ruled he had pushed his marker in the lead-up to the goal, a ruling which caused Villas-Boas to fling his arms up in the air in an angry manner.
He had already seen Clint Dempsey's header ruled out for a marginal offside and Bale also had a strike chalked off after latching on to the impressive American's through-ball.
Sandro and Bale both missed close-range headers and Villas-Boas will probably look back at this as a missed opportunity ahead of what is expected to be a tough trip to Panathinaikos next month.
Lazio could have stolen the game at the end through Stefano Mauri and came within a whisker of going ahead in the first half when Alvaro Gonzalez beat Hugo Lloris but saw his shot rattle the woodwork.
Aaron Lennon, captain for the night, Gareth Bale and Caulker all impressed while a clean sheet for debutant Lloris is another plus point.
Lazio had no answer to the pace of Bale and Lennon, who were dominating the flanks.
Andre Dias was booked for hacking down Bale after 61 minutes and Gonzalez saw yellow a few minutes later when he took Lennon out after the winger had given him the slip.


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How Do You Begin A Kitchen Remodel in Elmira, California?
You may choose to remodel your kitchen in Elmira, California at any time, and there are quite a few things you must manage when working on improving your home in Elmira, California. Your home will look beautiful when the kitchen is finished, and you will feel much better about the styling of the kitchen when you have hired a proper contractor to help you. There are quite a few things to consider when you with the begin a kitchen remodel that will manage cost and design:
You may cover a number of people who will help you with the design of the kitchen in Elmira, California, and they will show you how to stay on a budget. You will create a gorgeous kitchen that you may be proud of, and you may ask the companies near you for help with a number of items that you may not know how to handle. You may have a small kitchen blown up into something larger, and you may have a larger kitchen remodeled in CA to be as functional as possible.
The procedure for changing the room will help you ensure that it looks the way you wished, and you may ask the company for an estimate that details all the things they plan to do on the room. There are many things that may be completed for the room that you will quite enjoy, and you will find that you may read a sketch that will show you precisely what the work will look like. You may ask them to change the design using a program that has been made for interior design, and you will find that there are many things you may change until the work begins.
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How Do You Plan The Interior Design Of A Kitchen in Elmira, California?
The cost of a kitchen remodel in CA is controlled by the design you place inside the room. You may add a number of different things to the room that will help you make it look perfect, and you may continue to add items to the room that will look beautiful. The colors and layout of the room will help you manage a new style, and you may look over pics of floor plans that you will enjoy having in your home in Elmira, California.
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You must check reviews online of a number of designs that you are looking for, and you will find that it is much easier to avoid mistakes that are made when people choose the improper design for the room. You may choose a room that looks much different from what you would have imagined, and you may select a room style that will entice everyone who comes over.
There is a high return on investment that you may receive from the kitchen in CA, and you must begin looking at a number of things that will make the home far more valuable. You are searching for selling points for the home in Elmira, California that you will quite enjoy, and you may show them off when you are selling the house or simply bringing people over to show them all the work you have done.
It is quite a lot of fun to look over a number of different cabinets and options that will look beautiful in the home. You may not have a plan for the room, but you ma be given one by the people who are working on the space.
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Clerical Work For The Kitchen Remodel in Elmira, California
You need a number of different clerical items completed for your kitchen remodel, and you will notice that they do everything for you before the kitchen is remodeled in Elmira, California. You must have many things done to ensure that the work is completed, and you will find that the kitchen goes forward only after you have created a contract, gotten your permits and handled many other small clerical needs.
The work in your kitchen will begin when you have someone handle all paperwork and permits. They will apply for all the work that must be done, and they may complete a number of applications when zoning for your home or completing a special permit job. Someone who wishes to ensure that they are working on the kitchen properly will find that it is much easier to have the contractor to help in Elmira, California.
The contractor will work with the code enforcement office when there are questions, and there are many people who may come to the house for the inspection in Elmira, California. The kitchen will look lovely once it has been completed, and the contractor will inspect your home when they are working on your home. You may choose a number of things to be done in the house that you may need a permit for. The contractor will do their own inspection to ensure that they have not missed anything. They will avoid mistakes on the job that may be caught by the code enforcement department, and they will walk the inspector through the process of checking the house.
You may not realize the certain things that will inspected, and you may choose the designs that you may use for the room. There are many different things that you may do when you are remodeling your room in Elmira, California, and you will learn how to remodel the room. The room will be quite beautiful when it has been completed, and you will feel much better about the room once it is finished.
You may have an estimate done for the amount of work that has been done in the room, and you may have a valuation done that will help you save quite a lot of money when you sell. The money that you retain from the sale of the house will come back to you quite a lot when you have finished the remodel of the kitchen in California. The kitchen will be a point of beauty and light in the house that will help you entertain people, and you will dazzle every person who wishes to come to your house in Elmira, California.
There are many people who will come to your home to be entertained when they are in your kitchen in CA, and you may use the kitchen as a place to host parties or cook meals for your family. They will be quite pleased with the style of the room, and they may sit down in the bar that you have created at your countertop. Each change you make the room will add value to the home in Elmira, California, and you will impress every person who comes over. They will want to have a beautiful kitchen that mirrors your own.


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dadofgage needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 121 designs submitted by 40 freelance designers.
This logo is going to be used for my company's new product that is called CrossFire TRM which is targeted toward police departments and sheriff's offices.
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This logo is going to be used for my company's new product that is called CrossFire TRM which is targeted toward police departments and sheriff's offices.
This software is being used to manage training records for police officers and to provide online training.
We are looking for something visually appealing, not too 'busy', but definitely eye catching.
- Note the correct spelling: CrossFire TRM - the 'TRM' part does not necessarily need to be on the same line as the 'CrossFire' as long as it looks appropriate for the design
- Color scheme:we are open to ideas
- Logo should be provided in an editable, layered PSD (Photoshop) file - the layers MUST be editable.
- We want to have the logo designed with multiple formats in mind -meaning a logo that can be used on the web, but translates easily overto a t-shirt, embroidered shirt, etc.
- We are open to any and all ideas - PLEASE BE CREATIVEAll work must be presented in a layered Photoshop file (PSD format)with any fonts readily identified for us (meaning, please use freefonts or include the fonts in the zip file provided to me at the end ofthe contest).
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Just because you are born and raised in Brooklyn doesn't mean you have to pledge your allegiance to the hometown team, the Nets.
Sometimes the ties that bind go beyond the borough limits. For Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and NBA blogger extraordinaire Damaris Lewis that means never cutting ties with her beloved New York Knicks.
Yes, she has love for the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Miami Heat and all seven of her teams (it's a League Pass thing, trust us). But the nearly 6-foot fashion model, dancer and member of Prince's famous New Power Generation band joined us on Episode 108 of the Hang Time Podcast, doing whatever she could to school us on the art of being a true basketball fan.
That's much easier to do when you have a captive audience (as you might imagine, everyone but Rick Fox was on best behavior). And don't let the beautiful face and runaway fashion fool you, Damaris knows the game! She weighs in on Kevin Durant and the Thunder, LeBron James and the Heat, Dwight Howard, Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers the wise old men in San Antonio and a whole lot more.
We also discuss the Derrick Rose toughness saga in Chicago as well as check in on Braggin' Rights. Check out all of that and Damaris Lewis as she drops knowledge on Episode 108 f the Hang Time Podcast.
As always, we welcome your feedback. You can follow the entire crew, including the Hang Time Podcast, co-hosts Sekou Smith of NBA.com, Lang Whitaker of SLAM Magazine and Rick Fox of NBA TV, as well as our new super producer Gregg (just like Popovich) Waigand and the best engineer in the business, Jarell "I Heart Peyton Manning" Wall.
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Microsoft, facing a February 15 deadline for bringing its server protocol documentation into compliance with the European Commission's ruling, is already complaining that its rights are being trampled on by the Commission. The newest controversy comes one week before the hearing at which Microsoft could be fined up to €2 million per day (backdated to December 15, 2005) for submitting documentation that an independent Monitoring Trustee called "frustrating, time-consuming and ultimately fruitless."
Microsoft has recently requested to see correspondence between the Commission and the Monitoring Trustee, who is British professor Neil Barrett. Barrett issued a scathing report about Microsoft's progress on the documentation and claimed that it was almost unusable in its current form. Microsoft was given until February 15 to correct and polish the documents, but they seem to be more interested in whether the Commission influenced Barrett's report in any way, and they want to see all documents between the two parties. In a letter sent to the Commission last week, Microsoft claimed that group was trying to have things both ways—claiming that Barret is an independent expert on the one hand (whose opinion is unbiased), while simultaneously claiming that he is the Commission's expert (and therefore does not have to release any correspondence).
"The commission cannot simultaneously claim that a trustee is its own expert, with whom all exchanges are 'internal,' and that he is an independent source of authority," the letter said.
Of course, that's not the way it looks to the Commission. An independent hearing officer looked into the matter and concluded that the desired correspondence was "irrelevant for Microsoft's right of defense." The Commission apparently wants to see Microsoft contest the contents of the report, if it can, rather than looking into the way in which the report was produced. They also claim that a decision made back in October (which Microsoft did not contest), made Barrett's contacts with the Commission confidential.
Microsoft is crying foul. Horacio Gutierrez, one of Microsoft's European lawyers, mounted his rhetorical high horse and claimed that a great injustice was being done to his company.
"Today we are less than a week away from the deadline for filing our response, so I suppose it is now official and they are indeed riding roughshod over our defense rights."
Of course, it's entirely possible that this is simply a new delaying tactic. Microsoft has already had the proceedings moved back once, and last week they again asked for more time (the request was refused). A couple weeks ago, they decided to release some of the source code for Windows in an attempt to appease the Commission, but the Commission was having none of it. Fixing the documentation may indeed be a time-consuming task, but with an appeal of the original antitrust ruling set for April, Microsoft may be playing for time. If they can convince the European Court of First Instance to overturn the ruling against them, the entire documentation issue would no longer matter. Next week should bring more clarity to the case—and quite possibly a €60 million fine for Microsoft.


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NE: "As part of its send-off festivities, Nintendo Power compiled a list of the top 285 Nintendo games of all time. The magazine specifically chose the number since 285 issues were produced since its inception in 1988."
Majora's Mask and twilight princess in the 30's!!!
i can't say i agree, but i'll at least respect their opinion.
There's no way I'd put Super Mario Galaxy at number 3. Ahead of ALL those awesome games. Nah.
Also, Pokemon Red & Blue number 204?!
Oh, I thought it was how many games Mario has been in. :P
Just kidding, but he HAS been in 244 games, so not quite 285.
The real list -
1.Ocarina of time
2.Super Mario Bros
3. Mario 64
4. Pokemon Red . blue . yellow
5. Smash bros (can't decide which one)
6. The legend of Zelda
8. Mario Galaxy
9. Metroid Prime 1
10. Skyward Sword
My list :)
In terms of raw gameplay, I would've sure thought Galaxy 2 would've beaten out the first one...
Awesome that Astro Boy is at 38! Even though it's a licensed anime game, it is a great game!
Surprised that Ninja Five-O even made it...
I think Earthbound should've been higher.
This list has some I guess "lesser" known titles and that's cool to see. I think most, if not all the games on this list are great.


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This is a completely finished Freeze Tag map. It also has something new in it, a Ranged BETA. I plan on perfecting the Ranged BETA.
I also am going to add a 'Warped' mode with weird triggers such as:
1. The Jump Trigger by pressing 'ESC'.
2. Hidden teleports within the map.
3. Speed boosts and such for not being frozen after so many rounds.
If anybody tests this map, I would love to here of bugs.
I would also love some suggestions for my 'Warped' mode.


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Two Hope College athletic facilities have gained national recognition from the American Sports Builders Association (ASBA).
The Ray & Sue Smith Stadium and the Vande Poel-Heeringa Stadium Courts at the Etheridge Tennis Complex both have been selected category winners in the ASBA's annual awards program, which helps promote the highest standards of construction by recognizing excellence in design, construction and renovation in the sports facility industry.
The Ray & Sue Smith Stadium, Hope's home for football, topped the Single Field category, while the Vande Poel-Heeringa Stadium Courts won the Outdoor Tennis category. Both projects will compete for the ASBA Facility of the Year award that will be announced in December. The ASBA is a national, non-profit organization for builders, designers and suppliers of materials for tennis courts, running tracks, synthetic turf fields, and indoor and outdoor synthetic sports surfaces.
Greg Maybury, Hope's director of operations and chief sustainability officer, called the ASBA awards "great recognition for all the players who put time into helping design and making sure each of the facilities will function the way they need to for both the coaches and the athletes."
Architectural design for Vande Poel-Heeringa Stadium Courts was by GMB Architects and Engineers of Holland, in consultation with Alex Levitsky of Global Sports and Tennis Design Group of Fair Haven, N.Y. The construction manager was GDK Construction of Holland.
GMB Architects were the design architects for the renovations to Ray & Sue Smith Stadium.
"What I like about the dual awards for tennis and football is when you stand at our athletic complex and look at the football facility next to the tennis facility, it really completes that whole side of campus," Maybury said. "From the top of the spectator area on the east side of the football stadium, you can oversee the tennis courts, baseball field, indoor tennis and the football field. It really sets a nice stage for Hope athletics."
The 5,322-seat Ray & Sue Smith Stadium will be dedicated on September 14 during Hope's first home football game of the 2013 season, also the annual Community Day. The college purchased the former Holland Municipal Stadium from the city of Holland in 2012 and renovated it. Artificial turf replaced the grass field prior to the 2012 season. Smith is Hope's all-time winningest football coach with a 148-69-9 record that included nine Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) championships. Smith is one of two MIAA coaches to win nine league championships.
The 12-court, outdoor Vande Poel-Heeringa Stadium opened in 2012 and are located east of Ray & Sue Smith Stadium. The facility, which also includes elevated seating for spectators, is designed for competition, instruction and casual play alike. The Vande Poel-Heeringa Stadium Courts were made possible through many generous gifts, including from the families of former Hope doubles partners Earle Vande Poel '35 and George Heeringa '36, for whom the facility is named.


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It's a pretty great feeling when your favorite sports teams seem to be making all the right moves. As Buffalo sports fans we've certainly dealt with a lot of stomach-roiling management over the years and it's nice to feel like things are finally going well for both the Sabres and the Bills management-wise.
As for the Bills we had to put up with some horrible coaching ever since the Marv Levy days. Wade Phillips, Gregg Williams, Mike Mularkey, Dick Jauron and a brief look at Perry Fewell. Fewell didn't have enough tenure for us to know much about him but the rest … ugh.
Chan Gailey is such a breath of fresh air form those guys – especially from Dick Jauron. It's ridiculous to think back on the fact that he fired his offensive coordinator and had Alex Van Pelt install a no-huddle offense mere weeks from the start of the regular season. "Hey build me an awesome offense quickly. It's easy, right? Hey, you've got Trent Edwards so don't complain." Er, yeah.
Mismanagement. We'd dealt with it for over a decade.
Now the Sabres have fans thinking that it's possible they could pick up any player in the NHL. Rick Nash? Certainly possible. One source said they had $100 million offers in on both Parise and Suter. They're willing to spend money and do anything – absolutely ANYTHING – that is necessary to make the team better.
The Bills got Mario freaking Williams to come to Buffalo. They're signing great talent at every position and appear to be on the cusp of better-than-average-ness (I won't say greatness because it's been too damn long since we could say that and I don't want to jinx it.)
There's a disturbance in the force. Great players are being attracted to Western New York. Maybe it's the prevalence of chicken wings across the country. Perhaps it's a decades-long plot finally coming to fruition where scientists figured out a way to inject hot sauce with a mind-controlling substance that calls atheletes home to the wing mecca that is Buffalo.
Whatever the reason for it, it's awesome. The Bills and Sabres may not reach their expectations this season but it's still a great feeling to know that the organizations are willing to do the right things. That they're willing to spend money and be aggressive. That they don't just follow someone else's script, but instead blaze trails with their own gameplans.
Another thought is that I used to give bad coaches the benefit of the doubt. After a year of guys like Williams/Mularkey/Jauron I'm usually like, "chill people, let's give them a couple of years and see what they can do when they've established their system". I used to think that 3 years was what it took for a new coaching regime to get their things going.
That's bull. A new coach's presence should be felt immediately. The team might not start winning right away, but you should be able to see their affect on the team. We saw that early on with Chan Gailey. He was willing to switch from Trent Edwards to Fitzpatrick within weeks of the regular season starting. He recognized that Edwards' brain didn't work at the game speed required at the NFL level while Fitzy's did. Chan pulled the trigger and reversed his decision while other coaches (*couch*Jauron*cough*) just stay stuck in the mire of the decision they made in the past.
Thank goodness for Chan, Nix, Lindy, Darcy and perhaps most of all the Pegula clan. They may not make ALL the right moves, but you can't be perfect. At least they're sticking to their blueprint for success and being unabashedly aggressive about it. I love it. And it bodes well for an exciting 2012-2013 for both franchises.
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The 15 Tastiest Ways to Make the Most of Blueberry Season!
You know the saying, good things come in small packages? I'm quite sure it's referring to blueberries. So small, yet bursting with so much sweet flavor when they're ripe and in season. Which coincidentally is right now.
Sadly, like all good things, blueberry season will soon be coming to an end. Yes, you can find blueberries all year long, but nothing compares to the plump, sweet berries of early and mid-summer.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Marissa Hudley's (Charlotte, N.C., Harding University )12 second half points and six rebounds helped the Royals pick up a Conference Carolinas victory over Coker College Tuesday night.
The Royals (13-11/12-7 CC) started off slow, but were able to change gears after taking the lead with a Hudley field goal at the 11:26 point in the first half, 14-13. From there Queens went on a 13-2 run in the next five minutes.
Coker (9-15/8-11) was able to slow the Royals down just before the half with a few free throws and cut the lead to 11, 36-25, to finish out the first stanza.
Queens' offense continued to roll in the second half extending the lead to 16 five minutes in. From the span of 15:13 to 12:25, neither team could make the ball drop through the basket until Erin Goldner (Matthews, N.C., Piedmont) broke the scoring draught with a made free throw.
Another two minutes past without any baskets made. The slowdown in offense allowed Coker to mount a comeback, outscoring the Royals 8-1 and pulling them within eight points with 8:29 to play.
In the last 8:29 the Queens defense only gave up two field goals. The Cobras got to the charity stripe twice, hitting one of four attempts.
Queens' strong defense pulled out the 67-46 win.
Hudley led all scorers with 22, scoring 10 in the first half and 12 in the second. Goldner scored 14, 10 of which came in the second half and pulled down seven total boards.
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Latir Peak Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Latir Peak Wilderness (map) in 1980 and it now has a total of 20,420 acres. All of this wilderness is located in New Mexico and is managed by the Forest Service.
DescriptionThis remote area has deep forest cover interrupted only by pleasant meadows and alpine tundra on the northern portion's Latir Mesa. With three peaks exceeding 12,500 feet in elevation, including a portion of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, this Wilderness showcases the very finest of New Mexico's high country. An abundance of southern Rocky Mountain wildlife takes advantage of the region's riches, including mule deer, black bears, badgers, beavers, bobcats, coyotes, ferrets, foxes, mountain lions, marmots, martens, and muskrats. Heart Lake, named for its romantic shape, is the source of Cabresto Creek. The Lake Fork Trail is the most popular of the main trails. It begins at Cabresto Lake and continues five miles to Heart Lake, which is 11,520 feet above sea level. More ambitious hikers can head five miles past Heart Lake to enter the magnificent country of Latir Peak and the alpine mesas. Two other trails, Midnight and Bull Creek, run west and receive much less use.
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- Mix the strawberries in the blender.
- Stir the gelatin into the cold water, and heat slowly in a saucepan over medium-low heat until the gelatin is totally dissolved.
- Stir together the strawberries and the gelatin mixture and add the frozen apple juice concentrate.
- Spray a 9 x 12-inch pan with cooking spray. Pour the mixture into the pan and chill until firm.
- To unmold, turn the pan upside down onto a cookie sheet.
- Using alphabet letter shaped cookie cutters, cut Super Letters out of the gelatin.
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Man Dies When 'Zorbing' Thrill-Ride in Russia Goes Wrong
(MOSCOW) -- What was supposed to be an alpine thrill-ride turned tragic when a giant plastic ball carrying two men rolled off course at a Russian ski resort and flew another kilometer down the mountain, crashing into a frozen lake.
The "zorbing" ball bounced off a snow embankment and skipped over the other side, continuing to roll down towards a deep gorge. An individual at the bottom attempted to chase it but was unable to catch up.
Denis Burakov, 27, died en route to the hospital after a six hour rescue. He suffered fractured vertebrae, three broken ribs, contusions of the heart and lungs, and multiple bruises.
The other man, Vladimir Shcherbov, 33, remains hospitalized with serious bruises and lacerations on his body, according to a statement issued by investigators.
The accident took place on Jan. 3 at Mussa-Achitaro Mountain in the region of Karachay-Cherkessia in Russia's North Caucasus. It was captured on video that was posted to YouTube.
Zorbing is an extreme sport that began in New Zealand in the 1990s. Participants roll down a slope in a large, specially designed plastic orb.
Authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the accident and plan to question the attraction's organizers.
According to the Moscow News, the organizers had just set up the attraction and were operating without a license and fled the scene. If they are found guilty, they face up to six years in prison for failing to comply with safety regulations.
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Jack Wilshere :
The outstanding English player of his generation was one of the few Gunners players who did not shrink in the face of a superb Bayern Munich display on Tuesday
In his flash post-match interview minutes after the final whistle, Jack Wilshere's face was the big give-away. He said the right things, of course. Arsenal are still in with a shout of qualifying for the quarter-finals despite a "tough" assignment in Munich, the first-leg defeat was the fault of the players not the manager and Arsene Wenger's track record is unquestionable.
It was sensible and coherent stuff. He has been well trained to deal with the media, has Jack. Behind closed doors, he is a feisty and emotional individual who is not afraid to speak his mind, as one or two of his colleagues have discovered during frank dressing-room inquests this season.
In front of the camera or with a load of dictaphones pressed under his nose, Wilshere is more guarded. He knows where the boundaries lie.
Yet after being on the receiving end of a Munich-made masterclass in which he was the only Arsenal player to rise to the occasion, Wilshere's hangdog expression spoke volumes for his feelings.
The disappointment, frustration and regret was etched on his face as clearly as the gulf in class between Arsenal and Bayern Munich had been on the pitch he had just vacated.
Credit to Wilshere for fronting up off the pitch, just as he had fronted up on it.
While nearly all of his team-mates wilted in the face of a Bayern performance shimmering with authority and class, Wilshere refused to yield.
When his team were left teetering on the brink of a Champions League exit after going 2-0 down after 20 minutes, he took personal responsibility for dragging Arsenal back into the tie.
Positioned in a playmaker role behind the front three of Theo Walcott, Lukas Podolski and Santi Cazorla, Wilshere made a series of surging runs as he looked to commit Bayern's superbly organised back-line and create opportunities for his team-mates.
His touch was always precise, his passing quick and tidy and his appreciation of space outstanding.
After the break he was at the heart of the mini-fightback, and was equally as comfortable for the last 20 minutes when a double substitution prompted Wenger to move him back into a deeper role alongside Mikel Arteta.
|"I don't think it's anything to do with the manager. I think the players will take responsibility. We're man enough to take it."
Mario Mandzukic all but sealed Arsenal's exit from the competition by stealing in front of Bacary Sagna to meet a drilled cross with a looping finish almost in slow motion. Once again, it was Wilshere who rallied the team and did more than anyone else in red and white to reduce the visitors' advantage.
There would not have been a soul at the Emirates who was more heartbroken at the 3-1 defeat than Wilshere.
He said the right things, of course. "I don't think it's anything to do with the manager. He puts us on the pitch, it's down to us to perform.
"Players will take responsibility. The boss has been here for 16 years and he's been doing a great job, so you can't question him."
Wilshere is the fans' favourite not merely because he is the best player in the team and has an association with the club that goes back to when he started out at the academy aged nine, but for his passion and a commitment that can occasionally veer into over-zealous territory.
As they swallow their disappointment today, the question nagging away at many Arsenal worshippers is this: at what point will Wilshere look around the dressing room or the training ground and feel that his ambitions cannot be fulfilled in N5?
It will not have been lost on those same supporters that, while Theo Walcott's contract talks dragged on interminably, the No.10 swiftly dampened speculation about his own future by penning an £85,000-a-week deal that runs until 2018.
Aged 21, Wilshere is the outstanding English player of his generation. He is the beacon of hope for club and country.
For most players, this would be a weight around the neck. But, as Roy Hodgson noted earlier in February, Wilshere does not appear affected one jot by this expectation. Indeed, he seems to thrive on it.
Arsenal are confident that Wilshere will not be seduced by the many attractive offers that are likely to come his way in the next few years. He looks like he could comfortably hold his own in a Barcelona or Bayern team but unlike, say, Cesc Fabregas, his bond with Arsenal runs deeper than being assimilated into the club in his late teens and a lengthy spell in the first team.
Like Steven Gerrard at Liverpool a decade ago, he is the talisman and standard-bearer of the team, even when that side clearly operates outside of the elite at home and abroad.
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that, when compared with the marquee clubs, Arsenal cannot be regarded as anything other than second-rate as they pay the price for a chronic lack of investment in the team.
Yet, Arsenal will build their team around a core of British players as they move into a new phase of amalgamating youth with experience, led by Wilshere and supplemented by Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Aaron Ramsey, Kieran Gibbs and Carl Jenkinson. The most influential of the sextet is likely to inherit the club captaincy within the next 18 months, possibly even as early as this summer.
At this point in his career, the opportunity to lead from the front at the club he loves should be enough to fulfill Wilshere.
Does he deserve better than to be surrounded by more mediocrity than perhaps at any point in Wenger's reign? Possibly. And, maybe, in a few years' time, if Arsenal are still not genuine trophy challengers, he will have his own version of Gerrard's Chelsea quandary.
At that point, Wilshere might shrug his shoulders with resignation and decide that he has given his all and it is time to move on.
|Wilshere vs Oscar
|Wilshere vs David Luiz
|Wilshere vs Adriano
|Wilshere vs Carrick
|Wilshere vs Lahm
|Messi can't steal the ball from Wilshere !
|But , Wilshere surely can ! ^_^
|Brazil haunted by Wilshere Superb Performance
|Man United can't contain Wilshere Performance
* Jack Wilshere backing on Arsene Wenger
"I don't think it's anything to do with the manager," he told ITV after the match at the Emirates Stadium.
"He can put us on the pitch and motivate us but we have to do it on the pitch and at the moment we're starting badly and we're getting punished for it.
"I think the players will take responsibility. We're man enough to take it. He's been here for 16 years and he's done a great job, so for me you can't question him."
Wilshere refused to give up on Arsenal's chances of progressing to the quarter-finals despite the significant deficit they will need to overturn at the Allianz Arena.
"The players are man enough to take [responsibility] and we'll take it on the chin and move on to the weekend and the away leg," he continued.
"We have to get a few goals there, we know we need at least three goals, and we've got the players to do it. We just have to start better."
* Dani Alves on Jack Wilshere :
"He is a great player who we have met playing against Arsenal and without doubt he can reach the height of the players we have here at Barcelona like Xavi and Iniesta," Alves told reporters.
"He has a lot of quality and a great personality. If I was given the chance to choose, he is a player that I would sign for Barcelona."
Barcelona should raid Arsenal once more to sign talismanic midfielder Jack Wilshere, according to Dani Alves.
* Schweinsteiger heralds Arsenal's Jack Wilshere as one of Europe's best
"I don't think one player makes the team but in his position he [Wilshere] is one of the best there is, he is a difficult player.
"He is very dynamic, he has a very good left foot and he has a really good eye for the way he views the players around him. Those are his strong qualities.
"He is very dynamic, he has a very good left foot and he has a really good eye for the way he views the players around him. Those are his strong qualities.


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Since the 18th century, during the days of the Inconfidência Mineira - an independence conspiracy against the domination of the Portuguese crown - the state of Minas Gerais gambled with the idea of instating a new capital to replace Ouro Preto. Once Brazil declared its independence (1822) and became a republic in 1889, the stage was set for a new capital to be chosen. Among several contestants, the small avillage of Curral del-Rei achieved the right to host the Cidade de Minas, officially inaugurated in 1897 and whose name was eventually changed in 1906 to Belo Horizonte (Portuguese for 'beautiful horizon').
Engineer Aarao Reis, an admirer of Paris and Washington, D.C., was responsible for putting the urban planning for the new state capital together. What his project did not contemplate, though, was the fast-paced development through which Belo Horizonte would go after a period of stagnation in the first decades of the 20th century. Soon the city expanded beyond its original limits and new neighbourhoods had to be planned and developed - the most notorious of them the Pampulha, an area of wide avenues and many squares and parks designed in the 1940s by Brazil's premier architect Oscar Niemeyer.
Today Belo Horizonte - or Beagá, as the city is famously known, after the sound of initials BH in Portuguese - is the sixth-most populous city in Brazil with just over 2.4 million residents, while its metropolitan area comprising a total 34 cities ranks third in the country, behind Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
From the beauty of its green areas to the careful city-planning; from the wide array of cultural activities to the nature wonders of the Serra do Curral surrounding it, Belo Horizonte has several reasons for being constantly appointed as one of the Latin American metropolises that provides the best qualify of life.
The number one question when someone meets a belo-horizontino is often the same: Atletico Mineiro or Cruzeiro? The city is in love with football and lives under a constant atmosphere of rivalry between two of the top contenders in Brazilian football: Clube Atlético Mineiro, the Galo (Rooster), and Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, also known as the Raposa (Fox). América Futebol Clube, the Coelho (Rabbit), is also a traditional state rival and has had its successful surges over the years.
Atlético Mineiro was the winner of the maiden edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro in 1971, and has been graced by the talents of Reinaldo, Toninho Cerezo and Eder, among others, while Cruzeiro's silverware collection goes from one Brasileiro in 2003 to four Copa do Brasil titles, two Copa Libertadores crowns (1976 and 1997). The Raposa were the first stage in the career of such big names as Tostao and Ronaldo.
The ultimate stage for the Atlético vs. Cruzeiro derbies and for the big matches held in the state of Minas Gerais is Governor Magalhaes Pinto stadium, famously known as the Mineirão; a 72,000-seater that has once housed over 100,000 fans and is one of the best and most charismatic football grounds in Brazil that has gone through modernisation work to turn it into a comfortable 58,000-seater.


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Ice cream sandwiches have gotten a lot of love lately. People are updating the old concept to include all kinds of fancy ice cream flavors and swapping out the classic chocolate cookies for everything from oatmeal to peanut butter to snicker doodles. And while there's nothing wrong with that, especially when it's done right, I have a personal soft spot for the treat that comes from the ice cream truck.
A good ice cream sandwich is as much about texture as it is about flavor. As a unit, the sandwich needs to be soft enough to eat easily while staying structurally intact. Luckily these are the things that our Chocoholic columnist, Yvonne, kept in mind with this recipe. The result? Old school ice cream sandwiches, all the way.
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Donald F. Julien
Donald F. Julien was born in Bergenfield, New Jersey on August 11, 1922 to Florence and Fred Julien. He passed away peacefully on August 5th, 2012 due to natural causes, six days shy of his 90th birthday.
He was truly one-of-a-kind and a friend to all. His charm was enchanting and his jovial spirit contagious. Known for great stories about his carefree childhood, dating girls and being a male cheerleader for the football team in high school. Don loved the big band music, especially the Glenn Miller Orchestra. He joined the Air Force during the start of World War II, where he served as rank of sergeant in the Philippines. In 1958, Don and his family moved West, settling in Costa Mesa, CA. In 1962, Don became a State Farm Insurance agent and stayed in business for the rest of his life. State Farm considers him a beloved and legendary agent. Don and his wife, Carol, cherished their life in Newport Beach enjoying great friends and family.
Mr. Julien was preceded in death by his parents and loving sister, Betty.
Don is survived by his wife of 36 years, Carol; children: Nancy Dugas (Bill);
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Jonathan Haidt is everywhere these days, giving interviews and TED talks, promoting his working papers in the media, writing for the websites yourmorals.org and civilpolitics.org, and publishing The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (New York: Pantheon Books, 2012). A moral psychologist by training, Haidt has successfully cleared the jump to public intellectual, now dispensing didactic advice to Americans about what ails their politics. The Righteous Mind reflects those aspirations, not just summing up his own original research on the psychological foundations of political ideology for a general audience, but also shoehorning in some surprising interpretations of moral philosophy and conjuring out of the whole stew some advice for American politicos (and what could be more important than that?).
Did you know that moral philosophers do not believe in intuition? Did you know that David Hume thought that reason was weak and ineffectual against the tide of passions? Did you know that Bentham and Kant were probably on the autism spectrum, and that that fact explains their moral philosophies? Did you know that Kant was a philosophical rationalist, and that philosophical rationalists think that morality is all about justice and fairness? Philosophical rationalists also think that children learn about morality through experience, just like Lawrence Kohlberg, Haidt's nemesis in moral psychology — and totally not like Hume.(*)
If you did not know these things, which might especially be the case if you are a moral philosopher, Haidt is here to enlighten you. As he helpfully informs us, he took a couple of philosophy courses as an undergraduate, before he realized that it was all bunkum.
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At first glance, there is little to be optimistic about in the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization annual hunger report. Some 37 million people were dropped from the ranks of the hungry during the early 1990s. But the report claims the trend was reversed in the second half of the decade when 18 million were added to the roll call of the chronically malnourished. With this sobering news, the World Food Summit's 1996 goal of halving the world's undernourished by 2015 is unattainable.
But the raw numbers hide a significant amount of hope. Some developing countries have turned the corner and their citizens are better fed and more economically secure. Hartwig de Haen wants such security for all.
Following the Nov. 25 release of the report, de Haen, FAO assistant director-general in the Economic and Social Department, spoke with Farm Press on how fighting world hunger benefits industrialized nations, the AIDS devastation in farming communities around the world, and his views on Western agriculture subsidies. He stressed several times that when addressing "the West" he was speaking about modernized, industrialized nations collectively — not just the United States. Among the questions and answers:
FP: Could you give us a brief summary of the latest FAO report on world hunger? According to the statistics I've seen, there was actually a setback in fighting world hunger. Is that an accurate assessment?
de Haen: It is an accurate assessment if we look at total numbers. But behind the numbers, there is good news and not-so-good news.
Let me begin with the good news. About 19 developing countries have managed to reduce chronic hunger by more than 80 million people during the 1990s. This includes big countries like China and Brazil, but also smaller ones like Vietnam, Thailand and Ghana.
Secondly, if we look over the decade of the 90s, developing countries have managed to reduce the number of the hungry by 20 million.
Third, 22 countries have succeeded in turning a poor trend into a positive direction. In the first half of the 1990s, these countries saw an increase in their hungry. After 1996 — which coincided with the World Food Summit — these countries reduced the number of their hungry. Included in this category are Bangladesh and Haiti.
However, there are facts and developments that are rightly cause for concern. First, according to our estimates, 842 million people are chronically — chronically! — undernourished. On top of those, there are the problems caused by conflicts and food emergencies due to natural disasters. Of these 842 million, almost 800 million live in developing nations. There are about 10 million in rich, industrialized countries and some 34 million in countries in transition like those in central and Eastern Europe (formerly of the Soviet Union).
Two large countries have contributed to the aggregate number of chronically malnourished being on the increase: India and the Democratic Republic of Congo. These two have very different situations causing this.
India, in general, has successful agricultural policies and has maintained the percentage of their undernourished — it hasn't gone up. But the population growth has more than off-set the good policies.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, citizens are faced with military conflicts and disruptions. This is well known.
If we take these two countries out of the total, then the aggregate total shifts down remarkably.
FP: Are there common bonds between the countries that are doing better?
de Haen: This is true, indeed. These countries have much fewer conflicts and higher political stability.
Secondly, countries that reduced hunger have had significantly higher economic growth. To put a number on it, 2.6 percent average annual growth in these countries compared to but a half percent annual growth in countries where hunger is on the rise.
Third, the economic growth of these successful countries is based on agriculture. These countries are investing in water and other things that benefit agriculture. Their GDP growth in agriculture was 2.6 percent per anum whereas countries with rising hunger had less than half that percentage.
Another factor is that successful countries clearly had a higher index of social development. This is seen in nutrition programs at village level and where they have social safety nets. Vietnam is a good example of this as is Thailand. These countries have programs that provide their hungry and suffering with immediate access to food and education of many kinds.
This social safety net component is very important in our view. There is more and more evidence that you can't just say "hunger will go away when poverty is reduced." Hunger is also the cause of poverty and therefore hunger must be reduced first and then poverty will go away. Direct measures helping the undernourished means they become more productive, boosts them into the labor market and allows children to focus better on their studies. These are very important components of overall success.
FP: I understand there is also a link between food emergency situations and high rates of disease and AIDS.
de Haen: You are completely right. The symptoms of HIV/AIDS can be slowed if the sick are properly nourished. Better nutrition can prevent infection. People who aren't hungry will be less likely to resort to risky desperation. Nourished women are less obliged to seek other means of garnering food for their families — including selling their bodies, migrating to city slums and so on. Better nutrition contributes to people not being exposed to AIDS.
Secondly, nutrition can contribute to keeping those who are exposed to realizing symptoms. A proper diet makes the body stronger.
We have calculated and projected that until 2020, AIDS will have reduced the agricultural labor force in most southern African nations. Already, some two-thirds of the farms in these countries have lost labor force due to AIDS. Often, the middle generation has perished. In some villages, only children and the elderly are left.
Under these circumstances, labor becomes a bottleneck in fighting hunger. Knowledge of how to farm is also being lost. This has led to entire rural institutional breakdown. We're trying to introduce programs to help cope with this. But we're still in the midst of a disaster — we must still find a way to feed these people first.
I believe those who are alive have a right to eat and be helped.
FP: On the abandoned African fields… most Americans, living in the lap of luxury by comparison, find it hard to understand the scope of the problem. I assume you have traveled to such devastated areas. Can you put a face to what you've seen on these farms?
de Haen: I have seen unforgettable things. I have visited with an elderly woman who was surrounded by seven grandchildren all between the ages of six months and 11 years. This poor grandmother was the only adult left alive in the family — AIDS had devastated them. All the parents of these children had died. These eight had nothing and were simply trying to survive. The children had to work to eat and the grandmother not only had the burden of caring for these children, but also worried because she was unwell and at risk of dying herself. Can you imagine her despair?
This sad sight is repeated all over Africa. Without external help there is absolutely no hope that the situation can be put right. It is dramatically tragic. We must help the suffering.
FP: Can you comment on how you view Western government programs relating to agriculture?
de Haen: I want to address the agricultural policies of not only the U.S. and the EU but also those of Japan and other Asian countries known to provide major support to agriculture. In the (industrialized) countries, direct subsidies to farmers amount to $235 billion every year. The money spent on research and things like that are questioned by no one.
But a considerable amount goes to programs that lead to more production. That affects world markets and means lower prices.
You will recall that, at the WTO meetings in Cancun, some western African countries drew attention to cotton. I think the contribution of farmers in rich countries — and I'm not speaking of the United States in particular — where production-related subsidies are in evidence, should be to lessen pressure on politicians to continue these types of subsidies.
It would benefit the world if decoupled payments were the norm instead. This would mean funds going directly to the farmers or rural communities. The WTO has a mechanism — the "green box" — that is accepted as transfer that is less, or minimally decoupled with production incentives.
Farmers (from the developed world) would do their colleagues in poorer countries a tremendous favor if they'd accept a different form of agricultural policy; a policy where payments aren't coupled with production. That would be a huge service because we must understand that amongst the poorest and most undernourished in the world, many are farmers. These poor often make less than $1 per day — to us, this is unimaginable. For them, a good price on the market and less competition from imports is vital for their independence and survival.
FP: Can you also comment on drought and explain the term "virtual water."
de Haen: When we speak of virtual water, we are talking about how imports of food can be a way of saving water in drought-stricken countries. North Africa is a huge grain importer. They import from the U.S., from Europe and Eastern Europe. This region has an extreme lack of water. We have calculated that if they didn't import grain, it would take a year's worth of the Nile's flow to produce the grain currently being imported. So, one way to look at these imports is to say they're actually saving water.
As your readers know, water is vital for growing crops. But many countries still aren't using their water resources well in growing crops. Many regions in Africa have less than 4 percent of their cropland under irrigation.
Conversely, China is at 50 percent irrigation. The success in China and other Asian nations in terms of stability and positive agricultural growth is partly explained by better water management.
FP: You are asking Western farmers to accept major changes in subsidies and pricing structure. What do you think are the chances they will accept this? Many feel any such attempts are simply a grab at money in their pockets. It's a difficult sell, surely.
de Haen: There is a need for a movement to change the form of agricultural support without taking money from farmers' pockets. In such a system, no reduction of farmer income will happen — just a more efficient system in getting it to them. Mainly, that means not insisting farmers increase production in order to benefit from subsidies. Direct payments or payments in compensation for environmental services, support for social security systems, Extension services, and rural infrastructure can still be done but won't depend on tons of wheat or maize sold.
Such a decoupling means Western farmers could work without losing benefits but would still help those in developing nations.
FP: How are you getting this message out?
de Haen: It's difficult because there is a fear among larger farmers that they would lose ground. They fear there would be a redistribution of wealth within their own agricultural community. How this is resolved within each country is that country's business.
But I want to appeal to farmers to understand that, in a sense of solidarity, there are fellow farmers in other parts of the world who need a fair and even playing field to survive. They need these changes not to buy unneeded equipment, not to build a mansion — but to supply basic needs for their families: eating, clothing, perhaps sending their child to school. We in the West are not alone and our actions here affect the poverty stricken across the ocean.
FP: So, after putting together this report, do you feel more hope or more despair?
de Haen: It's a mixed feeling. I'm encouraged because so many countries have improved their situation. But I'm not optimistic without limits. It's undeniable: on balance, the total numbers of the hungry have increased.
If the model of successful countries makes its way through communications — such as this report — into underdeveloped nations, then my optimism will rise. I believe what's important to understand is the benefits of a less-hungry world are for all — rich and poor alike. Less hunger means less political instability around the world and more trade and purchasing power. These are worthy goals.
(Editor's note: to see the FAO world hunger report, visit www.fao.org.)
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Twenty-seven new sites have recently been added to the internationally recognised World Heritage List, including three sites in the Pacific: Chief Roi Mata's Domain (Vanuatu), the Kuk Early Agricultural Site (Papua New Guinea) and the Lagoons of New Caledonia (France).
By adding these sites to the list, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has recognised these sites as places of outstanding natural and cultural heritage value. Inscription of sites on the World Heritage List is a major drawcard for tourism, and allows governments to access financial and technical support to ensure the long-term protection of these precious places.
The Lagoons of New Caledonia are one of eight new natural heritage sites that have been added to the World Heritage List, following IUCN's recommendations.
"These eight stunning natural sites are amongst the best of what nature has to offer," says David Sheppard, Head of IUCN's Protected Areas Programme. "Each site has been carefully inspected by IUCN and thoroughly deserves a place on the prestigious World Heritage List."
The Lagoons of New Caledonia comprise six marine clusters that represent the main diversity of coral reefs and associated ecosystems in the French Pacific Ocean archipelago of New Caledonia and one of the three most extensive reef systems in the world. The lagoons feature an exceptional diversity of coral and fish species and a continuum of habitats from mangroves to seagrasses with the world's most diverse concentration of reef structures. The Lagoons of New Caledonia display intact ecosystems, with healthy populations of large predators and a great number and diversity of big fish. They provide habitat to a number of threatened fish, turtles and marine mammals, including the third largest population of dugongs in the world. These Lagoons are of exceptional natural beauty and contain reefs of varying age from living reefs to ancient fossil reefs, providing an important source of information on the natural history of Oceania.
Chief Roi Mata's Domain is the first site to be inscribed in Vanuatu. It consists of three early 17th century AD sites on the islands of Efate, Lelepa and Artok associated with the life and death of the last paramount chief, or Roi Mata, of what is now Central Vanuatu. The property includes Roi Mata's residence, the site of his death and Roi Mata's mass burial site. It is closely associated with the oral traditions surrounding the chief and the moral values he espoused. The site reflects the convergence between oral tradition and archaeology and bears witness to the persistence of Roi Mata's social reforms and conflict resolution, still relevant to the people of the region.
Kuk Early Agricultural Site consists of 116 ha of swamps in the southern highlands of New Guinea 1,500 metres above sea-level. Archaeological excavation has revealed the landscape to be one of wetland reclamation worked almost continuously for 7,000, and possibly for 10,000 years. It contains well-preserved archaeological remains demonstrating the technological leap which transformed plant exploitation to agriculture around 6,500 years ago. It is an excellent example of transformation of agricultural practices over time, from cultivation mounds to draining the wetlands through the digging of ditches with wooden tools. Kuk is one of the few places in the world where archaeological evidence suggests independent agricultural development and changes in agricultural practice over such a long period of time.
About IUCN's World Heritage work
IUCN undertakes technical evaluations of the natural values of the sites nominated for inscription on the World Heritage List and has evaluated several hundred nominated sites. Further information on IUCN's World Heritage work is available at http://cms.iucn.org/about/union/commissions/wcpa/index.cfm.
Additionally, each year IUCN reports to the World Heritage Centre on the conservation status of certain natural and mixed World Heritage sites under threat. IUCN's assessments on what is happening in World Heritage sites are derived from a variety of sources: IUCN members, indigenous peoples groups, the scientific community, experts from IUCN commissions and concerned individuals and organizations.


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On the Water: Finding Fluke by Firelight
Driving the rolling Hither Hills to or from Montauk these days and gazing south, the sight of the great Atlantic's horizon broken nearshore by two, three, five small draggers spells fluke.
Tom Jordan of the Gone Fishing Marina on East Lake Drive in Montauk, where pinhookers (commercial rod-and-reel fishermen) tie up side by side with sports, confirmed that fluke, summer flounder, were gliding along the bottom, and while anglers were catching them with fair regularity in recent days, "the water's still too cold," meaning the main body of the summer migration has not arrived yet.
Everything else is here, he said, "porgies, striped bass, bluefish," and, as Tom Cusimano, the captain of the Sea Wife IV, said from the deck of his charter boat on Sunday afternoon, "Cod!"
"We had a good day, fish up to 30 pounds." The cod were still around in numbers that had him willing to wait for the fluke to arrive in larger numbers. Nor was he happy about New York's share of the coastwide quota.
The new three-fish-over-20.5-inches-per-day bag and minimum size limit was an improvement over last season's two-at-21-inch travesty, but a slap in the face, he said, when you figure that New Jersey's state allotment is eight fluke per day with an even smaller minimum size of 18 inches. Rhode Island anglers have been given seven fish per day at 18.5 inches. "They're the same fish we're catching," Cusimano complained.
He and Montauk's charter and party boat fishermen are of one mind that the regulatory disparity drives suburban anglers to bordering states with more liberal limits.
Fluke have rounded Montauk Point and invaded Gardiner's Bay. Harvey Bennett of the Tackle Shop in Amagansett said the first reports have come from "firelighters," those who participate in that early spring tradition known as firelighting, wherein a small boat, a car-battery-powered light, a couple of spears, as many six-packs, and a small boat drifting in shallow water can result in fun lasting into the early morning hours.
A bayman was seen bailing bunker, menhaden, from the net box of his pound trap on Sunday. Not worth much to the trapper, so he was returning them to Gardiner's Bay. From there, the oily fish once rendered at Promised Land into oil and meal by the megaton will do their part to draw the larger striped bass to within casting range.
Speaking of firelighting, squid, the other bass and bluefish attraction, have made their annual showing in Fort Pond Bay. Lights at night, a pail, light rod, and a squid jig add up to inky fun and calamari fra diavolo.
Bluefish and small stripers have been found in the Accabonac Harbor mouth, and if casters are finding them there, the Napeague Harbor's west channel would be a safe bet as well as Three Mile Harbor's many coastal contours.
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|Dewit, Pierre - University Of Wageningen
|Van Der Burgt, Ate - University Of Wageningen
|Okmen, Bilal - University Of Wageningen
|Datema, Erwin - University Of Wageningen
|Cox, Murray - Massey University
|Ganley, Austen - Massey University
|Aerts, Andrea - Joint Genome Institute
|Sun, Hui - Joint Genome Institute
|Goodwin, Stephen - Steve
Submitted to: PLoS Genetics
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 9/19/2012
Publication Date: 11/29/2012
Citation: Dewit, P., Van Der Burgt, A., Okmen, B., Datema, E., Cox, M.P., Ganley, A.R., Aerts, A., Sun, H., Goodwin, S.B. 2012. The genomes of the fungal plant pathogens Cladosporium fulvum and Dothistroma septosporum reveal adaptation to different hosts and lifestyles but also signatures of common ancestry. PLoS Genetics. 8(11): e1003088. DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003088.
Interpretive Summary: The plant-pathogenic fungi Cladosporium fulvum and Dothistroma septosporum are very closely related but have very different lifestyles and hosts. The tomato pathogen C. fulvum obtains nutrients from living cells, while D. septosporum kills host cells before extracting nutrients from pine needles. How the two lifestyles evolved and the mechanisms of their pathogenicity are not known. To address these questions, the genomes of both pathogens were sequenced and compared. More than 70% of the genes were similar in both fungi, but the genome size of C. fulvum was almost twice that of D. septosporum, mainly due to a huge amplification of movable genetic elements called transposons in the genome of the tomato pathogen. Repeat-rich areas of the C. fulvum genome were enriched for species-specific genes including those for secreted proteins that might be involved with host interactions. Surprisingly, genes corresponding to those in C. fulvum that are involved in host-pathogen interactions also are present in D. septosporum. Two of those from the pine pathogen were recognized by tomato resistance genes to cause a hypersensitive type of resistance response. Although C. fulvum obtains nutrients from living cells, it has an enzyme catalog that is more similar to those of fungi that kill host cells before extracting nutrients and also contains a gene cluster for a toxin in D. septosporum. This information will be useful to fungal geneticists and evolutionary biologists to better understand the genetics and evolution of host specificity and lifestyle type. Plant pathologists and breeders may be able to use this information to design better strategies for disease management, particularly to explore the idea that tomato resistance genes might be useful in pine.
Technical Abstract: We sequenced and compared the genomes of Dothideomycete fungal plant pathogens Cladosporium fulvum and Dothistroma septosporum that are related phylogenetically, but have different lifestyles and infect different hosts. C. fulvum is a biotroph that infects tomato, while D. septosporum is a hemibiotroph infecting pine. The genomes of these fungi share 70% of their genes but differ significantly in size (C. fulvum, 61.1 Mb; D. septosporum, 31.2 Mb), mainly due to repeat content (47.8% versus 3.2%). Repeat-rich areas, which have expanded in C. fulvum mainly due to LINE retrotransposons and in D. septosporum to helitron-like elements, were enriched for species-specific genes including those encoding secreted proteins. Impressively, homologs of the previously cloned effector genes from C. fulvum are not only present in D. septosporum but two of them (Ecp2 and Avr4) are recognized by tomato Cf-Ecp2 and Cf-4 resistance proteins, respectively, and cause a Cf-mediated hypersensitive response. Although a biotroph, C. fulvum has a carbohydrate-degrading enzyme catalog that is more similar to that of a necrotroph; it has a larger pectinolytic gene arsenal than D. septosporum but many genes are not expressed in planta. Surprisingly, both fungi grow well on different complex carbohydrate substrates including lignin. Strikingly, some gene clusters encoding secondary metabolites (SM) including dothistromin toxin, well studied in D. septosporum, are conserved in C. fulvum. However, overall the two species have different expression profiles of SM genes; whilst EST data show that SM genes of D. septosporum are expressed during needle infection, their expression in planta is low for C. fulvum and some are pseudogenized, which might relate to their present different lifestyles.