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Munich's hit 'Hoffmann,' far-out 'Fidelio'
In this photo dated Dec. 16, 2010 photo, soprano Anja Kampe as Leonore, left, and tenor Jonas Kaufmann as Florestan are seen during a dress rehearsal for Ludwig van Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio' in the state opera in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/dapd, Sebastian Widmann)
In this photo dated Dec. 16, 2010 photo, soprano Anja Kampe as Leonore, left, and tenor Jonas Kaufmann as Florestan are seen during a dress rehearsal for Ludwig van Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio' in the state opera in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/dapd, Sebastian Widmann)
In this photo dated Dec. 16, 2010, a general view of a dress rehearsal for Ludwig van Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio' in the state opera in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/dapd, Sebastian Widmann)
In this phoot dated Dec. 16, 2010, sopranos Anja Kampe as Leonore and Laura Tatulescu as Marzelline perform during a dress rehearsal for Ludwig van Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio' in the State Opera in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/dapd, Sebastian Widmann)
In this photo dated Dec. 16, 2010, Steven Humes as Don Fernando sings during a dress rehearsal for Ludwig van Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio' in the state opera in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/dapd, Sebastian Widmann)
MUNICH, Germany (AP) ? The Bavarian State Opera steered clear of controversy with a popular new production of Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann." But two nights after its run ended, the company made up for it, reviving Calixto Bieito's radical reimagining of Beethoven's "Fidelio."
"Hoffmann," seen Friday night, played to sold-out houses on the strength of its cast. In the title role, tenor Rolando Villazon proved his comeback from a vocal crisis is for real; soprano Diana Damrau pulled off a virtuoso feat playing all the ladies in Hoffmann's unhappy love life; and the young mezzo-soprano Angela Brower showed herself a rising star in the double role of Hoffmann's Muse and his friend Niklausse.
The efficient but unremarkable production is by Richard Jones, who plays it safe after creating a stir two seasons ago with his let's-build-a-house version of Wagner's "Lohengrin."
He uses a single set (by Giles Cadle) that starts out as the loft where the poet does his writing, and, more often, his drinking. Putting all the action in the same space has the merit of simplicity and underscores the idea that each scene is one more drunken reverie. But it robs the opera of spectacle. The workshop of the inventor Spalanzani is lacking in gee-whiz gimmickry, and for the Venice scene we get neither Grand Canal nor gondolas.
In his most strenuous role since returning to the stage in 2010, Villazon found his lyric tenor stretched almost to the breaking point but never quite. Though youthful ardor is now beyond him, he filled out the melodic line with ample, healthy-sounding tone and took most of the high notes. He even swaggered through both verses of the high-flying drinking song in the Venice scene.
It was no surprise that Damrau could sparkle with her coloratura as the mechanical doll Olympia. But she was even more impressive as the frail Antonia, singing herself to death with warm, full tone. She made less impact as the courtesan Giulietta, but blame Jones for concocting an unconvincing ending for this scene, which Offenbach left unfinished at his death.
Brower, an American who is based in Munich, has a silvery hue to her voice that gains in luster as she moves up the scale. She also has a charming stage presence that suggests a future in "trousers" roles like Octavian in Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier." The fourth principal, bass John Relyea, sang Hoffmann's four nemeses with sturdy tone, if not much personality.
The orchestra played with sweep and authority for Constantinos Carydis, the young Greek conductor who tended to favor boisterousness over delicacy.
Two nights later, the orchestra again sounded magnificent as it played the score of "Fidelio" under the experienced baton of Zubin Mehta. And the cast could hardly have been bettered, starting with soprano Anja Kampe's incandescent Leonore.
But the news in this production is the way iconoclastic Spanish director Bieito has reinterpreted ? some would say distorted ? the story of a noble wife risking her life to save her unjustly imprisoned husband.
With help from an imposing steel-and-glass labyrinth set by Rebecca Ringst, Bieito turns "Fidelio" into an existential tale in which everyone is a prisoner wandering in search of freedom.
All the characters ? and numerous extras ? clamber up, down and around the transparent, multi-level maze throughout the evening, while the action plays out much as Beethoven intended until the final scene.
That's when the governor, Don Fernando, arrives to punish wicked Don Pizarro and honor Leonore and her husband, Florestan. But in Bieito's nihilistic version, this deus-ex-machina looks like The Joker in "Batman" and shoots Florestan for sport. (He must use a blank, because Florestan recovers in time for a final embrace with his wife and a look of dazed uncertainty.)
There are other liberties. Bieito replaces the dialogue with lines by Jorge Luis Borges and Cormac McCarthy. The opera opens with the Leonore Overture No. 3; and before the final scene, four string players descend in cages to play the slow movement from Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15, which the composer labeled "Heiliger Dankgesang," or holy song of thanksgiving.
Bieito's biggest asset is Kampe, who also starred when the production premiered last year. Her soulful, worried face greets us even before the first note is played as she binds her breasts to disguise herself as a man. In both her acting and strong, vibrant singing, she conveys a tremulous mixture of hope and fear that embodies humanity never giving up.
Tenor Peter Seiffert is a worthy partner as Florestan, whether crying out in anguish or blending his heroic sound in harmony with Kampe's. Bass Stephen Milling is rock-solid as Rocco the jailer; bass-baritone Albert Dohmen sounds wonderfully menacing as Pizarro; and Anna Virovlansky reveals a melting lyric soprano as Rocco's daughter, Marzelline. Rounding out the principals are baritone Goran Juric as Don Fernando and tenor Jussi Myllys as Marzelline's suitor, Jacquino.
Bieito's take on Beethoven's only opera is certainly not designed to please everyone, and plenty of grumbling and even some booing could be heard in the house. But the evening adds up to powerful theater ? the result of a director carrying through his vision with imagination and artistic integrity.
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Jon Huntsman too sane, plain in GOP madhouse
?I?m running for (president) for Pete?s sake. I can?t have illegals.?
That dimwitted cowboy, Rick Perry, was just too slow on the draw to capitalize on the naked, unfiltered truth he managed to squeeze out of Willard ?Mitt? Romney during one of the weekly GOP vaudeville shows, otherwise known as a presidential debate.
Barack Obama won?t be that stupid.
There is a reason why Mitt Romney stays in the ?respectable? position he?s in, while Republicans continue to fall in and out of love with nuttier candidates who, at the very least, seem convinced of their lunacy.
Unlike Willard, they are all earnest whack jobs.
For the next week or so, it appears the GOP flavor of the month is the sly, bumptious Newt Gingrich.
Newt, of course, is back by default.
Actually, he?s back from the dead. Back, after his credit line at Tiffany?s, after his campaign excursion to the Greek Isles, after his staff quit ... after Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry and the Hermanator have all risen and fallen like bad bundt cakes.
The great thing about Gingrich is that malicious grin of his, so reminiscent of Sidney Greenstreet in ?The Maltese Falcon.?
I once sat up in the gallery, above the speaker?s chair when Newt still occupied it. I will never forget the way he looked out at less than a dozen congressmen in the House chamber that day and made droll faces at everyone who got up to say something.
Obviously, Newt was bored, but that couldn?t quite suppress a kind of playful mischievousness in the fat man with the silver hair. Clearly, Newt got a kick out of being King of the Hill.
Gingrich is bright enough to know he?s going nowhere, but slick enough to have plenty of fun along the way.
And when Newt flames out maybe, just maybe, it might be time for the other Mormon to step into the GOP?s fickle spotlight.
If crazy Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain can snag Newsweek covers, what?s wrong with Jon Huntsman?
The man is every bit as photogenic as Willard, but nowhere near as cloying. OK, so he accepted Obama?s invite to be ambassador to China. At least Huntsman hasn?t been running for president for the last eight years ... like our Mormon.
The day Mitt Romney began running for the White House was the day he faced House Speaker Tom Finneran, raised his right hand and swore an oath to the people of Massachusetts.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Ariz. grandfather roughed up by police in Walmart (Providence Journal)
2 key senators call for tough line with Pakistan
A Pakistani boy, bottom, shouts slogans along with other protestors during a rally to condemn NATO helicopters attacks on Pakistani troops, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO helicopters and fighter jets of firing on two army checkpoints in the country's northwest and killing 24 soldiers. Islamabad retaliated by closing the border crossings used by the international coalition to supply its troops in neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
A Pakistani boy, bottom, shouts slogans along with other protestors during a rally to condemn NATO helicopters attacks on Pakistani troops, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO helicopters and fighter jets of firing on two army checkpoints in the country's northwest and killing 24 soldiers. Islamabad retaliated by closing the border crossings used by the international coalition to supply its troops in neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Pakistani protesters burn representation of U. S. flag to condemn NATO helicopters attacks on Pakistani troops, in Multan, Pakistan on Sunday, Nov 27, 2011. Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO helicopters and fighter jets of firing on two army checkpoints in the country's northwest and killing 24 soldiers. Islamabad retaliated by closing the border crossings used by the international coalition to supply its troops in neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
Afghanistan-bound containers carrying supplies for NATO forces parked as authorities close Chaman border in Pakistan on Sunday, Nov 27, 2011. Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO helicopters and fighter jets of firing on two army checkpoints in the country's northwest and killing 24 soldiers. Islamabad retaliated by closing the border crossings used by the international coalition to supply its troops in neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
Afghanistan-bound trucks carrying supplies for NATO forces parked as authorities close border at Torkham border in Pakistan on Sunday, Nov 27, 2011. Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO helicopters and fighter jets of firing on two army checkpoints in the country's northwest and killing 24 soldiers. Islamabad retaliated by closing the border crossings used by the international coalition to supply its troops in neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf)
Afghanistan-bound containers carrying supplies for NATO forces parked as authorities close Chaman border in Pakistan on Sunday, Nov 27, 2011. Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO helicopters and fighter jets of firing on two army checkpoints in the country's northwest and killing 24 soldiers. Islamabad retaliated by closing the border crossings used by the international coalition to supply its troops in neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Senior lawmakers suggested Sunday that the U.S. take a harder line with Pakistan, after Islamabad retaliated for NATO's deadly misfire by closing parts of its border with Afghanistan and demanding the U.S. vacate a drone base.
The comments by Sens. Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, and Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, show how strained Pakistan's relationship with the U.S., and Congress specifically, has become in recent months. Lawmakers approve billions of dollars in military and civilian aid for Pakistan with the expectation that its government will help target al-Qaida operatives and push Afghan militants toward peace talks.
"There's a lot of diplomacy that has to occur and it has to be tough diplomacy in the sense that they need to understand that our support for them financially is dependent upon their cooperation with us," said Kyl, the Senate's No. 2 Republican.
Durbin, the second-ranking Senate Democrat, said Pakistan's latest move is further evidence that the U.S. must end its military involvement in the region and bring troops home.
"As difficult as it is to fight our way thru this diplomatic morass between the incompetence and maybe corruption of Afghanistan and the complicity in parts of Pakistan, our soldiers are caught right in the middle of this at a time they are trying to bring peace to the region," Durbin said.
NATO says it is investigating its likely involvement in Saturday's attack, which killed 24 Pakistani troops along the Afghan border. Afghan officials say their soldiers called for help after being fired upon from the direction of Pakistani border posts.
Outraged by the attacks and claiming they were unprovoked, Islamabad swiftly closed its border to trucks delivering supplies to coalition troops in Afghanistan and demanded the U.S. vacate within 15 days a base used by American drones.
The blockade is guaranteed to frustrate Congress, already incensed that Pakistan never tipped off the U.S. to Osama bin Laden's hideout within its borders.
While calling for tougher diplomacy with Pakistan, Kyl said he would stop short of cutting off U.S. aid entirely to Pakistan. He said that severing ties in the past has only led to an increased influence of Islamic extremists among Pakistan's military ranks.
"It's very important to maintain the relationship for the long haul," he said, without offering more specifics on how that might be done.
Durbin suggested the U.S. back out from the region from a military standpoint.
"We've got to leave it to Afghan forces," he said.
Kyl and Durbin spoke on "Fox News Sunday."
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Iceland rejects Chinese bid for resort land (AP)
REYKJAVIK, Iceland ? A Chinese entrepreneur's bid to create a vast nature retreat in Iceland was turned down by the north Atlantic island nation's government Friday, amid concern the deal would have handed a major chunk of territory to a foreign investor.
Iceland's interior ministry said it had rejected an application by the Zyongkun Group, a company controlled by Huang Nubo, a 55-year-old former Chinese government official, in part because no foreign buyer had ever bought so much land in the country.
Huang, one of China's wealthiest entrepreneurs, had sought to buy 30,639 hectares (120 square miles) of land on the north shore of Iceland in a deal which would have been worth about 1 billion Icelandic kronur ($8.8 million).
He had hoped the site in Iceland's northeast ? which would have represented about 0.3 percent of the island's land mass ? would attract about 10,000 guests a year and create scores of new jobs.
Iceland's Prime Minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir, had previously said she would welcome Huang's investment, particularly as the nation recovers from the collapse of its banking industry in 2008.
Since its financial meltdown, Iceland's economy has begun to recover ? with the International Monetary Fund predicting economic growth of 2.5 percent in 2012, far better than its struggling European neighbors.
However, the interior ministry confirmed it had ruled it could not lift the country's strict restrictions on the purchase of land by foreigners to allow the deal to go ahead.
"The ministry believes that it's not possible to look past how much land the company wanted to purchase," it said in a statement. "There is no precedent for land on this scale being sold to foreigners."
Referring to Iceland's law on land sales, the ministry said "it was considered necessary to limit foreigner's rights to property in Iceland to protect Iceland's independence" and to ensure that Icelandic people ? rather than foreign investors ? are able to benefit from the country's resources.
Some critics of the proposed deal had raised concerns that allowing Huang to purchase the land could give China a strategic toehold in the Arctic Circle, where nations are scrambling to claim natural resources and melting ice caps are expected to eventually open up new, faster global shipping lanes.
Huang previously rejected those claims, and insisted that he planned the Icelandic site to be among a chain of nature resorts in China, the United States and Scandinavia.
Halldor Johannsson, Huang's representative in Iceland, said he was surprised by the government's rebuff and claimed Icelandic law did not include limits on the size of a parcel of land an investor could purchase.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
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Players excited but cautious over tentative deal (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Players reacted with excitement and caution as word circulated on Saturday that National Basketball Association (NBA) owners were ready to lift the lockout after reaching a tentative deal to end a bitter, five-month labor dispute.
"Man I just got up not too long ago and see we have a deal! I feel like my kids on X-mas day! So juiced!! Excited for," said Miami Heat's LeBron James on his Twitter account. "Miami/South Florida let's go!!!! HEAT is gone be on FIRE."
Most players went to bed on Friday night still locked out but awoke Saturday to reports that a settlement had been reached calling for training camps and the league's free agency period to begin on December 9.
The news sparked a flurry of action on Twitter as players took to social media to express their relief and excitement.
Owners and players must still ratify the handshake deal that would see the league play a 66 game schedule starting with a triple-header on Christmas Day.
NBA commissioner David Stern said the deal would be put before the owners' labor relations committee during a teleconference later Saturday, before being passed on to the overall Board of Governors.
The players, who de-certified their union in an effort to file a variety of antitrust lawsuits against the league, could require up to 10 days to re-form their union and approve any deal.
"I'm pretty sure the vote will happen either tomorrow or Sunday, let's all pray this turns out well," said Indiana Pacers' Danny Granger on Twitter.
Before celebrating, Memphis Grizzlies forward Shane Battier said he wanted to see the details of the new agreement and thanked the fans for their patience.
"I am happy it looks like we'll get to start winning our fans back," said Battier on Twitter. "Thanks for the patience.
"Need to read new details before I pop the bubbly."
For many players, the agreement meant only one thing - it was time to go back to work.
"I think it's time to #GOBACK2WORK!!!," said Los Angeles Lakers forward Matt Barnes on Twitter.
"The lockout OVER no more peanut butter n jelly sandwiches," added Sacramento Kings Hassan Whiteside.
(Writing by Steve Keating in Toronto, editing by Rex Gowar)
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Microsoft comments on Siri, proves they still don?t get it
In an interview with Forbes, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie poopoos Apple’s Siri intelligent virtual assistant as unoriginal, and nothing Microsoft’s TellMe hasn’t been doing since the introduction of Windows Phone 7. 
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Supercommittee failure complicates election year
President Barack Obama gestures during an address on the American Jobs Act, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, at Central High School in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
President Barack Obama gestures during an address on the American Jobs Act, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, at Central High School in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The failure of Congress' supercommittee adds a new dimension to the 2012 political contests by drawing political battle lines around broad tax increases and massive spending cuts that are now scheduled to begin automatically in 2013.
President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger now must debate urgent alternatives for reducing deficits in the face of looming consequences of congressional inaction. The lines are sharply drawn. Obama supports deficit reduction that includes a mix of spending cuts and tax increases on the wealthy. Republicans have declared themselves averse to tax hikes.
An election shaping up as a referendum on Obama's stewardship of the economy will now require the candidates to offer competing forward-looking deficit-reduction plans to avoid cuts and tax hikes that neither side wants to see materialize.
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Egypt Protests: Death Toll Rises As Clashes Between Police, Protesters Continue
CAIRO -- Egyptian police clashed with anti-government protesters for a fifth day in central Cairo Wednesday as a rights group raised the overall death toll from the ongoing unrest to 38.
The clashes came one day after tens of thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square rejected a promise by Egypt's military ruler to speed up a presidential election to the first half of next year. The military previously has floated late next year or early 2013 as the likely date for the vote, the last step in the process of transferring power to a civilian government after Hosni Mubarak's ouster.
In a televised address late Tuesday, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi did not set a date for handing authority to a civilian government, but instead offered a referendum on the immediate return of the armed forces to their barracks.
The Tahrir crowd, along with protesters in a string of other cities across the nation, want Tantawi to step down immediately in favor of an interim civilian council to run the nation's affairs until elections for a new parliament and president are held.
Wednesday's street battles centered around the heavily fortified Interior Ministry, near the iconic square, with police and army troops using tear gas and rubber bullets to keep the protesters from storming the ministry, a sprawling complex that has for long been associated with the hated police and Mubarak's former regime.
The protesters say they have no wish to storm the ministry but were preventing the police and army from evicting them from Tahrir by pinning them down a safe distance away from the massive plaza.
Elnadeem Center, an Egyptian rights group known for its careful research of victims of police violence, said late Tuesday that the number of protesters killed in clashes nationwide since Saturday is 38, nine more than the Health Ministry's death toll. The clashes also have left at least 2,000 protesters wounded, mostly from gas inhalation or injuries caused by rubber bullets fired by the army and the police. The police deny using live ammunition.
Shady el-Nagar, a doctor in one of Tahrir's field hospitals, said three bodies arrived in the facility on Wednesday. All three had bullet wounds. "We don't know if these were caused by live ammunition or pellets because pellets can be deadly when fired from a short distance," he said.
The five days of clashes are the longest spate of uninterrupted violence since the 18-day uprising that toppled the former regime in February, deepening the country's economic and security woes. the unrest also threatens to cloud the country's first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections since Mubarak's February ouster, which are scheduled to begin on Nov. 28.
In his address, Tantawi rejected all criticism of the military's handling of the transitional period and sought to cast himself and the generals on the military council he heads as the nation's foremost patriots. Significantly, he made no mention of the protesters gathered in Tahrir Square or elsewhere in the country.
"Our demands are clear," said Khaled El-Sayed, a protester from the Youth Revolution Coalition and a candidate in the Nov. 28 parliamentary election. "We want the military council to step down and hand over authority to a national salvation government with full authority."
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
James Taylor, Selena Gomez join Swift onstage (AP)
NEW YORK ? Taylor Swift closed her "Speak Now World Tour" with her best friend and the man her parents named her after.
The 21-year-old brought out James Taylor and Selena Gomez at her concert Tuesday night at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Swift said her parents named her after Taylor, and the two performed his hit "Fire and Rain." Taylor also played the guitar while Swift performed her song "Fifteen."
Gomez joined the country singer earlier in the night, where the two sang a duet version of Gomez's hit tune "Who Says."
Swift's tour has featured guest appearances from Nicki Minaj to Usher to T.I. to Jason Mraz. She also performed at MSG on Monday.
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Girls feel more anger, sadness than boys when friends offend
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Girls may be sugar and spice, but "everything nice" takes a back seat when friends let them down.
In a Duke University study out Tuesday, researchers found that pre-teen girls may not be any better at friendships than boys, despite previous research suggesting otherwise. The findings suggest that when more serious violations of a friendship occur, girls struggle just as much and, in some ways, even more than boys.
The girls in this study were just as likely as boys to report that they would seek revenge against an offending friend, verbally attack the friend and threaten to end the friendship when their expectations were violated, such as telling one of their secrets to other children.
The girls also reported they were more bothered by the transgressions, felt more anger and sadness, and were more likely to think the offense meant their friend did not care about them or was trying to control them.
The study was co-authored by Julie Paquette MacEvoy, a former Duke doctoral student who's now an assistant professor at Boston College's Lynch School of Education, and Steven Asher, a professor in Duke's Department of Psychology & Neuroscience.
MacEvoy and Asher showed 267 fourth- and fifth-grade children 16 hypothetical stories in which they were asked to imagine that a friend violated a core expectation of friendship. These stories included a friend failing to hold up responsibilities in a joint school project, resulting in a bad grade for both friends, and a friend shrugging off the seriousness of another friend's sick pet, saying, "It's no big deal, it's just a pet."
For each story, the 9- to 11-year-olds from Granville County, N.C., and Providence, R.I., were asked how they would feel if the incident really happened to them, how they would interpret the friend's behavior, what they would do and how much the incident would bother them.
"Previous research suggests that girls may hold their friends to a higher standard than boys do, which led us to think that girls might have an especially hard time coping if one of their friends does something to disappoint them," MacEvoy said.
Other studies have suggested that girls are better at friendships than boys because they are more emotionally intimate in their friendships, they help their friends more, and they more readily resolve conflicts with their friends.
Yet previous studies also found that boys' friendships last just as long as those of girls, boys are just as satisfied with their friendships as girls, and boys are no lonelier than girls.
The researchers wanted to test a possible explanation for this paradox: that girls have a particularly difficult time coping when a friend disappoints them.
"Our finding that girls would be just as vengeful and aggressive toward their friends as the boys is particularly interesting because past research has consistently shown boys to react more negatively following minor conflicts with friends, such as an argument about which game to play next," Asher said. "It appears that friendship transgressions and conflicts of interest may push different buttons for boys and girls."
The study found that anger and sadness played significant roles in how boys and girls reacted to offending friends. For both genders, the more strongly they felt a friend had devalued them or was trying to control them, the more anger and sadness they felt.
The angrier they felt, the less likely they wanted to fix the relationship. But feelings of sadness actually motivated both genders toward reconciliation: The more sadness the children reported feeling, the stronger their desire was to want to solve the problem and maintain the friendship.
Sadness, the authors said, can sometimes function like "social glue" that holds relationships together.
The study has implications for how to help children maintain their friendships in a healthy way. This is especially true for girls when a friend is unreliable, doesn't provide emotional support or help, or betrays them, the researchers said.
"When we try to help children who are struggling in their friendships, we may need to focus on somewhat different issues for boys versus girls," MacEvoy said. "For girls, it may be critical to help them learn how to better cope when a friend lets them down."
The children in the study were representative of the regions in which they were located. The sample was also ethnically diverse: 49.3 percent Caucasian, 26.6 percent Latino, 21.5 percent African-American and 2.6 percent "other."
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FIFA's Blatter calls racism row 'closed'
By EILEEN NG
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -FIFA president Sepp Blatter has decided he's apologized enough for his contentious recent comments on racism in football and now considers the matter "closed."
"I can only say this item for me is closed," Blatter told a news conference at the Asian Football Confederation's headquarters in Malaysia on Wednesday. "There is no tolerance (of) racism."
Blatter had expressed regret last week for the furor caused by his claim that racist abuse does not exist on the football field and that any racial incidents could be settled by a handshake between players at the end of a match.
"I have been interpreted as such and I have made my apologies," Blatter said Wednesday. "I cannot say anything more."
Blatter went on the defensive when asked about the suggestion by Neil Warnock, manager of Premier League club Queens Park Rangers, that black players around the world should boycott their next international matches as a protest against Blatter.
Blatter's initial comments were ridiculed in Britain, where Prime Minister David Cameron joined a wave of condemnation, David Beckham described the Blatter statements "appalling" and a top official urged Blatter to resign.
Any comments that appear to diminish racism would hit a nerve in Britain, where authorities are now investigating allegations that Liverpool striker Luis Suarez and Chelsea defender John Terry racially abused black players during Premier League games.
Blatter has already conceded he used "unfortunate words" in TV interviews last week.
On Wednesday, he reiterated "there is no discrimination in my feelings, there is no racism, nothing at all."
"This matter for me is over. We go forward," he said. "There is zero tolerance (for) racism, zero tolerance (for) discrimination in all activities in the field of play and outside the field."
Blatter said he was not surprised by the British media's strong criticism of him and calls for him to stand down as head of football's world governing body, but added that he was "very much hurt by these comments because it touched me in my conscience and my determination to go against racism."
The 75-year-old Swiss, who had ruled out the possibility of resignation, has experienced a troubling year despite being re-elected to another four-year term in June.
FIFA has been caught up in a corruption scandal that resulted in a life ban from football for former FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam, the then head of the Asian Football Confederation. Blatter was re-elected unopposed after the Qatari was forced to withdraw due to allegations he tried to bribe Caribbean officials to vote for him.
Bin Hammam has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Asked whether he believes the door is closed to bin Hammam's return, Blatter said it is up to the appeals process.
"We will wait for the outcome of the next step," Blatter said on his first trip to AFC headquarters since Bin Hammam's ban.
In his opening remarks at the news conference in Kuala Lumpur, Blatter did not mention bin Hammam by name, but praised the AFC's current leadership for standing united. The AFC had agreed to follow procedure on filling bin Hammam's position despite the now exiled president wanting the position to remain vacant pending the outcome of the appeal process.
China's Zhang Jilong, the AFC's senior vice-president, has stepped in as the interim president. If bin Hammam's appeals aren't resolved by May 29 next year, the AFC will be bound by its own laws to elect a new leader.
On another issue, Blatter declined to take a clear stance on renewed calls from Asia to allow the use of Islamic headscarves for female players. FIFA banned the Islamic scarf in 2007 citing safety concerns.
Blatter said the issue could be handled by the International Football Association Board, which determines the rules of the game.
Leaders and sports officials in Islamic countries have criticized the ban, saying it discourages women from playing football. Iran's team forfeited a 2012 Olympic women's qualifier against Jordan in June because the players refused to play without the hijabs.
The AFC said in a statement that its women's committee was seeking a review of the rule in light of new equipment in the marketplace.
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For the first time in decades, football in Libya is just about, well, football.
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Ian Fletcher: Curtains for the U.S. Military Industrial Base?
I'm going to turn most of my column today over to a friend of mine, Richard McCormack of Manufacturing & Technology News, who has written an exceptionally important article.
Basically, after years of making economic decisions that we were warned were short-termist, the long term has finally arrived. The failure of the so-called super committee to agree on other spending cuts has finally brought the axe down on U.S. defense spending, and it's really going to hurt this time.
Oddly enough, I'm not talking about national security disasters in the immediate term. I'm talking about the fact that we are going to cut our defense spending to the point that our defense industrial base will start to lose capability. This, in the long run, is more important than how many tanks or planes the U.S. fields on a given day.
Every war the U.S. has won since the North defeated the South in 1865 has turned on industrial capacity. Even before then, the U.S. arguably only survived because Congress in 1801 had the foresight to finance an American copper industry in the form of a company, Revere Copper and Brass, that still exists -- and is run by Brian O'Shaughnessy, another friend of mine. (Thanks to Revere Copper, we were able to make the copper sheathing for the bottoms of our naval vessels that protected their wooden hulls from being devoured by shipworm.)
This is all no accident.
China, of course, knows exactly what it's doing. Running down U.S. industrial capacity by means of predatory trade surpluses is a quintuple play for Beijing: it makes an immediate cash profit, builds up China's productive abilities for the future, reduces a competitor's abilities, chokes off our tax revenues, and undermines our military power.
One almost has to admire the sheer elegance of their strategy. Didn't Sun Tzu say that to subdue an enemy without fighting him was the acme of skill?
Anyway, here's the excerpt:
The U.S. defense industrial base is on the verge of being irretrievably harmed if the Department of Defense budget is cut by any more than already planned, according to top executives of U.S. defense and aerospace companies. The industry is on the cusp of losing the ability to design and produce future weapons and space systems, due to $480 billion in cuts that have already been approved. "This is simply more than we can sustain," says Marion Blakey, President and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA). "Our position is no more cuts. No more. We believe that defense has been cut into the bone with the Budget Control Act" signed by President Obama on August 2, 2011. "We cannot have that continue."If the congressional super committee can't agree on a deficit reduction plan by Nov. 23, the Pentagon's budget will be automatically reduced by another $600 billion over 10 years. Such a cut would result in the loss of one million jobs in the defense sector, increase the unemployment rate by one percentage point and reduce GDP growth by 25 percent, according to AIA. "You cannot assume the defense industrial base will be there if there is no investment in R&D and no significant investment going forward in acquisitions and new programs," says Blakey.
If the Pentagon's budget is severely cut, there will be no peace dividend, say aerospace industry executives. "Not to be too black and white about it, but is a healthy industrial base critical to the security of the U.S. and the economic viability of the country?" asks Boeing CEO James Albaugh. "That is a question that the super committee has to answer."
Defense contractors are currently laying off employees and have stopped investing in R&D and new production equipment, according to industry executives. "If we had additional cuts of $600 billion over the next 10 years, I would question whether or not we have a fighting force that was capable or an industrial base left," says Albaugh. "We will wake up one morning having not addressed the indusial base issue and call for a capability and find that the contractors do not have the ability to provide the capability."
Boeing knows all about this problem. The company experienced serious problems gearing up production of its new Dreamliner 787. "One of the reasons we had issues with that airplane was the fact that we hadn't designed an airplane since the 777, and we lost the ability to do design," says Albaugh. Boeing had not been engaged in a new aircraft development program since the early 1990s. "We forgot how," says Albaugh. Without new program starts, the Department of Defense and its contractors will be engaged in sustaining equipment already in the field. This was Boeing's role between the 777 and the 787.
"Doing sustaining engineering is very different from development engineering, where you have to take the requirements, decompose those down to the smallest element of work and the smallest piece part and then you validate and verify that and build it up to the finished product," says Albaugh. "We were too busy doing sustaining engineering. For me to be a viable [defense] contractor, you have to do R&D and detailed design. You have to transition detailed design into production. You need to do production, and you need to support the products in the field. If you lose any point on that continuum, you will have a very difficult time reconstituting it. Right now, there are very few new starts and active design teams supporting our United States Department of Defense." A number of companies are building military aircraft, "but that doesn't mean they have the capability to develop a new airplane if they are called upon to do it," says Albaugh.
The defense industry is in a more difficult situation today than when the Cold War ended in 1989. When DOD's budget began to drop in the 1990s, a lot of military equipment was new: F-16, F-15, the B-1 bomber and Abrams tank. More than 700,000 military personnel retired from service. Today, the United States is fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with dealing with cyber warfare and terrorism. The country is not taking people out of uniform. Equipment is old and needs to be reset. "It's a very different time," says Albaugh. Without cuts in personnel, health care and benefits, it means that most cuts to the military will be made in R&D and procurement.
"In my mind, it's ironic right now that there is not enough talk about the industrial base," says Albaugh. "There has to be more. It really is the arsenal of freedom, and the first question we have to ask is: Is it strategic to the economic viability of our country? The answer is yes. I know the answer to that in the Pentagon is yes. I'm not sure what it is on Capitol Hill."
The industry is also different from the one described by President Eisenhower in the late 1950s, adds Blakey of AIA. "It is very fragile," she says. The industry has already consolidated from 130 major companies to only seven, notes David Hess, President of Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp. "Rather than having four or five or six suppliers that might have a technical capability, there might be one that has that capability. If they elect to pursue other markets because defense isn't viable, we will lose that capability altogether. We have shrunk to the point where there is little margin in these key technologies."
Hess says: "It's the first time in history that we haven't had a new start on any kind on a helicopter or a fixed-wing program. As that capability atrophies, it is very hard to reconstitute and get it back. This is not a discussion about the commercial viability of the companies involved here. It's really a discussion about being able to maintain the industrial base that is absolutely critical to our national security."
The issue of de-industrialization is even more pronounced in the space sector. For the first time since the space era began, the United States does not have ability to put men into orbit. The country now relies on the Russians for all manned launches, at a cost of $60 million per launch. A new launch program is still not underway. When the Apollo program was ending, the Space Shuttle program had already been funded.
"There may have been a gap in launches but there was no gap in the work on the manned space flight program," says Hess. "All the intellectual capital that was working on Apollo naturally moved to the Shuttle program. But today, we have a gap in manned U.S. launches now that the Shuttle program has ended. That is why we have seen hundreds of layoffs at Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne as well as other companies across the industry and across the country."
NASA has announced a new space launch system, but funding is not assured. "This tremendous intellectual capital that took decades to develop and took us to the moon and back, once it is dissolved it will be extremely hard to reconstitute if and when we decide to return to space," says Hess.
Funding for the Next Generation Air Transportation system is also in jeopardy. The country is still dependent on radar and radio technology deployed in the 1960s. Completing NextGen by 2025 would generate $320 billion in benefits to the U.S. economy, according to an AIA study conducted by Deloitte Touch. It would increase the number of flights by 20 percent and cut fuel burn and CO2 emissions by 12 percent. Yet, it is another aerospace program that is threatened.
AIA President Blakey says the debate over the national debt needs to take these issues into consideration. The U.S. aerospace industry is now competing with well-financed programs in Russia, China, Brazil, Canada, Europe and Japan. All are pushing to topple U.S. dominance in the sector. "It is our duty now to speak out," says Blakey.
None of this should have been hard to predict.
This is all, in fact, the ultimate fruit of what we can call the "neocon-tradiction." Since the end of the Cold War, neoconservatives have espoused simultaneous free trade and global American military predominance.
But the one tends to undermine the other, as the British learned 100 years ago. Even Adam Smith warned that the logic of free trade didn't apply to the sinews of military power.
We were warned by many people (including some wise non-neo conservatives) that this would happen. We did it anyway. There were no solid reasons to expect we would escape the consequences, just happy-talk, twisted theory, and short-term greed.
Friends, we have gotten what we deserved.
At this point in time, it probably isn't possible to avoid some defense cuts. The best we can hope for, with respect to the defense industrial base, is probably some version of the hunker-down strategy the Russian Federation has been using for some time. As recently as 1990, they had the #2 military industrial base in the world (it was the only part of the Soviet economy that worked), but they haven't been able to afford to keep it running full tilt for a very long time. As a result, they've focused on preserving capability, rather than production, by, in essence, building small numbers of very advanced hardware. As a result, they have preserved far more advanced capabilities -- which could be ramped up in future -- than any other economy their size. We won't be in straits quite as extreme as theirs, but that looks to be the direction we're headed in now.
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-fletcher/curtains-for-the-us-milit_b_1109101.html
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Happy Birthday Laugh Of The Day
A good friend of mine received this on his birthday, and sent it on to me. I thought is was just too funny, and today is my birthday, so I'm sharing it with you. Enjoy!
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Peter Thiel To The New Yorker: ?I Don?t Consider [The iPhone] To Be A Technological Breakthrough
Peter Thiel is a grump, but a special kind of grump. He is a dystopian utopian (if such a person can exist). The investor who wrote the first check for Facebook both believes in the power of technology to transform our lives, and is?perennially disappointed by it. A lengthy profile in the November 28, 2011 edition of the New Yorker (summary here) states: "his main lament is that?America?the country that invented the?modern assembly line, the skyscraper,?the airplane, and the personal computer?has lost its belief in the future." It is an argument he's made before. Last September, at Disrupt SF he made the case that innovation is dead across most of the economy (you can watch the video of the session below). But what about the iPhone? ?"I don't consider this to be a technological breakthrough," he tells the New Yorker. Technology simply isn't creating enough jobs or moving the needle in areas like transportation, health, or energy.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/l91vKmiVNNo/
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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HBT: New CBA sells amateurs down river
In the blogging game, speed often rules. Sometimes you can be too fast, however. That happened a few minutes ago when I broke down the new collective bargaining agreement. Within about five minutes of that post going live, a number of details started spilling out about the thing, and a lot of those details are making me way more skeptical of the quality of this deal than I was when I called it ?a total success.?
I think the biggest issue is that it is now becoming clear that the caps/taxes involved in tamping down amateur signing bonuses are way more harsh than had been suggested in earlier reports.
Specifically, the tax on amateur draft bonus seems downright punitive. If teams exceed the bonus limit set by Major League Baseball by more than 5%, they get hit with a 75% tax. If they exceed it by between 5 and 10%, they get a 75% tax and they lose a first round pick the next year. ?If you?re?10-15% over, it?s a 100% tax and the loss of a first and second round pick. Fifteen percent or higher a ?is 100% tax and the loss of two first-round picks.
The only thing not included is first born male children being turned over to a central league fund.
What?s more, the international signings are going to play into this as well, with any international player under the age of 23 being considered on the same basis as a draftee for tax purposes. Overall, there will be ?pools? of international signing money available to each team, with better teams being able to pay out lower dollars in international signings than worse teams and, at some point in the future, the ability of teams to trade their international money to other teams if they don?t want to use it. ?It?s unclear yet how that will work.
Let?s be really clear about something here: these changes are going to make baseball way less attractive to amateur players. ?If you?re an elite two-sport athlete you?d be frankly crazy to try baseball first before giving the NBA or NFL a shot. ?It may also serve as a de-incentive for scouts and agents and stuff to look for the next big thing in the Dominican Republic, say. ?Even more significantly, this directly impacts the low-revenue teams who rely disproportionately on the draft in order to improve quickly.
Unlike a few minutes ago I?m going to hold an ultimate verdict until I?ve had a chance to think on it some more, but man: it seems like the owners and the MLBPA banded together to stick to it to the amateurs and draftees and international free agents. ?And that seems profoundly shortsighted to me.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
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Jennifer Lopez Dresses Down, Gets Down at American Music Awards
Jennifer Lopez made like Britney Spears at last night's American Music Awards, donning a revealing, nude-colored outfit during a performance that combined hits "Until It Beats No More," "Papi" and "On the Floor" into a single fun medley.
The look resembled Britney's buzzed-about costume at the 2000 MTV VMAs, but the sound and the movements were 100% J. Lo.
Upon accepting the trophy for Favorite Latin Artist, Lopez told the crowd that "it's been a really amazing year in so many ways. It's been up and down and just exciting and overwhelming."
Sounds a lot like her performance. Take it in now:
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