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France - Paris - Stravinsky Fountain leaf
France - Paris - Stravinsky Fountain leaf
Just about acceptably sharp (maybe, but please don't view it large;-), but sometimes there are more important things than being technically perfect. That's not to say I don't wish I'd taken another sharper shot....
Interestingly the pool in which this was taken is deliberately very shallow and that's because a large part of the adjoining IRCAM centre is built under the square. It's the shallowness which has created this effect.
1/200th sec, F5.6, 270mm, ISO800
From Wikipedia : "The Stravinsky Fountain (fr: La Fontaine Stravinsky) is a whimsical public fountain ornamented with sixteen works of sculpture,moving and spraying water, representing the works of composer Igor Stravinsky. It was created in 1983 by sculptors Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle, and is located on Place Stravinsky, next to the Centre Pompidou, in Paris."
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Amanda Knox given fresh hope following key witness's confused statement
Amanda Knox given fresh hope following key witness's confused statement
Amanda Knox has been given fresh hope in her appeal after a key prosecution witness appeared to be confused over the night he saw her at the murder scene.
Amanda Knox arrives in Perugia's court of Appeal during a session of her appeal against her murder conviction Photo: GETTY
By Nick Pisa 3:22PM GMT 26 Mar 2011
Knox, 23, is serving 26 years for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, 21, who was found partially clothed and with her throat cut in her bedroom in the house they shared.
Tramp Antonio Curatolo originally told the court in the first trial that he had seen Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 25, by the house the night Miss Kercher was murdered because he recalled "youngsters waiting for buses."
However the appeal has already heard from bus firms that no transport was provided the night the murder took place on 1st November 2007 because it was a bank holiday in Italy.
Mr Curatolo, a self confessed heroin addict who is currently serving 18 months for drug offences, told the court he had slept rough in a square close to the murder scene in Perugia for the last eight years.
He said: "I saw both defendants. They were talking in the (nearby) Piazza Grimana. I think it was Halloween night because people were dressed up.
"The following day I saw the police and some men dressed in white. Halloween I think is the 1st or 2nd November.
"I am certain I saw the defendants the night before I saw the police in the house."
This is crucial to Knox and Sollecito's appeal and his apparent confusion was instantly picked up by defence lawyer Giulia Bongiorno who is representing Sollecito, who was given 25 years.
Mr Curatolo's testimony has always been called into question by defence teams and appeal judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann allowed him to be recalled as part of the attempt to have the conviction overturned.
The tramp's conflicting evidence came just days after a leaked DNA report from two court-appointed independent forensic experts also gave hope to Knox after it emerged there was "insufficient DNA" to convict her.
However Francesco Maresca, the Kercher family's lawyer, insisted that Mr Curatolo was reliable and said: "He confirmed and repeated exactly what he had told the first trial.
"So as far as we are concerned he remains perfectly reliable."
Madison Paxton, Knox's friend, said: "It went really well for us and we are feeling really good right now. Curatolo kept referring to Halloween and he may well have seen them that night but it's irrelevant.
"If you are going to put two young people behind bars for longer than they have been alive then you need to be a very good reliable witness and he is not."
When asked how Knox was feeling Miss Paxton replied: "As the trial goes on and hope grows for her I can see her falling apart – she has been here before and knows the dangers of hoping for something that doesn't happen.
"Amanda knows this is her last chance."
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Diary: Henry Brooke gives new meaning to being off the bridle
Diary: Henry Brooke gives new meaning to being off the bridle
Great rides usually don’t get acknowledged unless the jockey wins, but Henry Brooke’s effort on Cool Baranca at Kelso warrants a special mention.
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A brief summary – the mare was still in with an each-way chance when she ran out at the last flight of hurdles – does not begin to tell the story.
Brooke, 20, is a promising 7lb claimer attached to Donald McCain’s yard with 17 winners this season. He was just moving Cool Baranca into contention when she made a howler at the fourth-last and fired the jockey over her head. She found an extra leg to save herself and, in the process of defying gravity to save himself, Brooke not only lost his irons but managed to push the bridle over the mare’s head.
Critically, however, he managed to keep hold of the bridle – if he had let go it would have probably tripped her up. An inventory at this stage of what he had – tangled bridle in his left hand and whip in his right – and what he didn’t have – irons, steering or brakes – would have made uncomfortable reading had he been able to stop and think about it. His immediate future looked bleak let alone his continued participation in the contest.
Upsides him, Graham Lee shouted “well sat” while back in the Kelso weighing room there was a division in opinion as to what his next move should be; old jockeys were muttering to themselves that he should try and pull up or even bail out, while the cavalier young guns were roaring on his futile bravery.
In the saddle – not a totally accurate description of things – Brooke, with effectively no feet and no hands, had two sharpish left-hand bends and three hurdles still to negotiate but, whether this was a good thing or not, Cool Baranca had regained not only her composure but her competitive instinct and was right back in the firing line.
Waving his whip furiously around her head with his right hand, like someone conducting Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture on speed, to get her to turn at the bend, he not only got her round both corners and over the next two flights, but kept the game mare right in contention.
However, going to the last flight – an island hurdle was always going to be a problem – she was given the gentlest of nudges by one of the other runners and Cool Baranca, who had run a lot on the Flat so probably wondered what the hurdles were doing blocking her path anyway, rather sweetly ran around it but, of her own accord, rejoined the race to the line.
By this time the heroic Brooke had given up trying to ride a finish, but the mare looks a good thing next time out – with a bridle.
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Michael Caulfield, the former chief executive of the Professional Jockeys Association who is now a sports psychologist, has not long returned from the Cricket World Cup. He was helping the ICC with the positive attitude of some of the associate nations, which included Canada, Kenya, the Netherlands, who should have beaten England, and Ireland, who famously did beat England.
According to him, it seems Ireland not only outplayed England but – and you’d half expect this from a nation well known for its blarney – they out-sledged them too. An Irish batsman who had been hitting the English bowlers to all parts of the ground, scrambled a single off an accurate yorker from our best bowler. When he got to the non-striker’s end he congratulated his adversary. “Well bowled, mate,” he said.
The English bowler, who was thoroughly frustrated by this stage, replied moodily: “You wouldn’t know what a ******* good ball was.”
“Well,” replied the Irish batsman, “I should do by now, you’ve bowled enough bad ones.”
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New Zealand and Crusaders fly-half Dan Carter's world shaken by Christchurch earthquake
New Zealand and Crusaders fly-half Dan Carter's world shaken by Christchurch earthquake
Dan Carter has revealed the full drama of how he had to flee for his own safety during the earthquake which struck Christchurch.
Shaken: All Black fly-half Dan Carter admits that his world was shaken when the earthquake hit Christchurch earlier this year Photo: AP
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When the disaster enveloped his home town in New Zealand, the world’s best rugby player, talking exclusively to Telegraph Sport, told of how his world shook, too.
The New Zealand fly-half, who arrives in London on Tuesday with his Crusaders team-mates for Sunday’s unique Super 15 game at Twickenham, has talked of the fear, the sense of helplessness and his shock at witnessing scenes which will live with him always.
Carter tells of how he was forced to move out of his damaged home and ended up joining the relief operation to help stricken neighbours. He also had to comfort his grieving fiancée, whose friend died in the disaster.
The “crazy, disturbing” time, as he calls it, all began to unfold just before 1pm exactly a month ago today for Carter and five of his teammates for the Christchurch-based Crusaders, who had just finished training and were in the changing rooms beneath the old grandstand at the club’s Rugby Park HQ.
“I was going to take a shower when, suddenly, there was violent shaking and we just had to get out there as fast as we could. You don’t have time to think but as we tried to get out of the grandstand, it was being shaken from wall to wall, throwing us from side to side and our hands and elbows got grazed,” he explained.
“Outside, we realised it had been a bad one and that we had to get home quick but it was only when I jumped into the car that I realised the extent of the devastation. It’s something I’ll never forget; the shock on people’s faces, all the traffic lights out, water gushing out in the streets, cracks in the road, traffic jams. It was a pretty scary time.
“A normal five minute ride to my house in the eastern suburbs took 45 minutes. By the time I got there, there were people coming out of their houses crying and neighbours returning home shocked. There was liquefaction, silt all over the roads, fire sirens going off everywhere, it was just like a bomb site.
“Most of the damage to my house was on the outside. Inside, pretty much everything had fallen down. Everything smashed in the pantry, wines bottles smashed, paintings had come off the wall and cracks in the walls. The water was out.”
So he went to his parents’ place in Southbridge, the little town 30 miles south of Christchurch on the Canterbury Plains where he grew up. “I flicked on TV there and saw the devastating damage. Unbelievable. Then I realised we were the lucky ones.” And that is exactly how he feels today, even as four weeks since the disaster which killed more than 180 people and injured over 2,000, a semblance of normality is at last returning. Only last week when the water supply was finally restored was he able to move back into his house which will cost several thousand dollars to properly repair.
“It’s a bit of damage but I can still live there,” shrugged Carter, with the unfussy air which Cantabrians expect from their strongest, quietest heroes like Carter and Richie McCaw.
“I feel fortunate, in that my friends and family have come through it all pretty unscathed so it’s nothing compared to what a lot of other people here are going through; the loss of loved ones, houses and properties completely destroyed .there’s a lot in a much worse position than me.”
But Christchurch’s is a small, close-knit world. “So many stories everyone seems to know someone who was affected,” Carter said. “One of the Crusaders’ board members, Philip McDonald, who everyone knew and liked died. It’s been pretty tough.”
Carter has also been comforting his fiancée, Honor Dillon, the former New Zealand ‘Black Sticks’ hockey star. “She was pretty cut up because she had hockey friends who had been stuck in one of the main buildings when it collapsed in town. Really sad. So I shot up to Auckland, where she lives, to spend some time with her.” Dillon’s former team-mate, Amanda Hooper, died, aged just 30.
Amid the chaos, Carter admitted he felt a responsibility as his nation’s most popular sportsman to do something, anything, to help. “But I wasn’t sure how; I felt a bit powerless.” So he just rolled up his sleeves to help in the relief operation.
“The day after the earthquake in our neighbourhood which was pretty badly affected, we went out with wheelbarrows and shovels, clearing up all the liquefaction and silt all around, and delivering water to those in most need.”
Didn’t the sight of New Zealand’s sporting poster boy, their answer to David Beckham, rallying to the cause cheer his neighbours? “I don’t think they were surprised but I guess seeing us giving a helping hand was a bit of a morale booster.
“As All Blacks, we are kind of held on a pedestal here in a nation of rugby fanatics. So you’ve got to make sure people know that you’re just like everybody else, you’re just human, going through the same emotional roller-coaster. Just because you’re an All Black doesn’t mean you’re not going to get your hands dirty to help out when needed.
“Actually, it was really rewarding. I didn’t know my neighbours that well, now I do because we’ve been working so closely together on a big clean up.
If there can be any positive to come out of such a disaster, it’s the real fantastic sense of community which has built up here.”
Ultimately, though, it dawned on Carter that the biggest help he could offer was by getting back on to the rugby pitch again. “The following week, our game against the Waratahs had to be moved to Nelson [near the tip of the South Island, 250 miles south of Christchurch] and it was a very emotional occasion.
“There was a minute’s silence before the boys went out and played a great game. And I felt it made a difference. Maybe only a small difference but people had something to cheer. And, honestly, I feel the best thing we can do, that we have to do, is to put the smile back on the faces of the people of Christchurch by going out there and playing good rugby.” Wherever that may be. If he wanted a measure of how his world has shifted, Carter reckons that playing a ‘home’ Super 15 fixture against South Africa’s Durban-based Sharks 12,000 miles away at Twickenham on Sunday will provide it.
“Yeah, another unique experience. It is a hell of a long way to go for one game,” he laughed, reckoning he could never imagined being back at HQ so soon after orchestrating in his customarily silky fashion the All Blacks’ familiar triumph over England last November. “But if it can raise funds for the earthquake appeal, then it’s a great idea.”
But for Carter, there is no place like home at the moment and he hopes that enough revenue can be generated from, say, a 50,000 crowd at Twickenham to enable the Crusaders, with their finances having taken a massive hit with the earthquake, to afford to be able to play their other home fixtures in small stadia back on the South Island, like Nelson or Timaru.
“This is a time when it is important we play our home games in front of our own people,” he said. “Especially now the World Cup won’t be coming to Christchurch.”
Carter had desperately hoped the Crusaders’ AMI Stadium would still have been able to stage Christchurch’s seven scheduled World Cup matches in September but major structural damage caused by the quake has made it impossible.
“Cantabrians are rugby fanatics and for us not to have any World Cup games is just more depressing news for the people here,” Carter said. “Obviously, it’s been done for the right safety reasons but it’s really sad.” All the more motivation then for the All Blacks to deliver the trophy to New Zealanders, who have had to endure a traumatic six months, what with two earthquakes in Christchurch and the Pike River tragedy in which 29 trapped miners lost their lives. “That all does add an extra significance to the World Cup to an extent. To win it would bring a lot of joy to people who’ve known tough times recently. There’s motivation to have a big year.”
Yet the eerie feeling to the start of his year continued when Carter turned on his TV to learn of the Sendai earthquake. “We feel deeply about what’s happened in Japan, it’s just so devastating, so much worse than what’s happened here in Christchurch but we can feel for what people are going through.”
And as he watched the stoic way in which the Japanese people have reacted in the teeth of the tragedy, Carter recalled his pride at how his own compatriots had responded to their own crisis.
“I’ve been really impressed by the resilience shown. New Zealanders are tough people. Complaining and moaning is not our way; you do what you can to help and then you get on with the job.”
This weekend, it will be Twickenham’s privilege to watch Carter, 12,000 miles from where his heart is, getting on with the job he does better than anyone.
Tickets for Investec Super Rugby Crusaders v Sharks at Twickenham on March 27 (4pm) can be purchased online via rfu.com/tickets or by telephone 0844 847 2492. £5 from each ticket sold will go to the Red Cross Earthquake Appeal.
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User Post: 5 Women I Want My Girl to Know
I am nothing if not a firm believer that you are the people you surround yourself with. Growing up, my mom surrounded us with a cast of characters. I learned from each and every one. As an adult, my friends are just as eclectic as the people who filled my childhood home.
My daughter will learn a lot from me. Some of it I will be proud of and some I wish she would never learn. No matter what kind of parenting job I do though, there are some things that will translate better coming from someone else. I hope, somewhere in my friend menagerie, she finds these ladies.
1. The Stalwart: This is the friend that is up for anything and down with anything. She has been around a long time and even if she doesn't make appearances too often, her presence is felt in our lives. My daughter learns from this lady what it means to be loyal. She learns unconditional love. Mostly, she learns what always brings a smile to her mom's face.
2. The Hippie: Sometimes, this is me but even I walk smack down the center of life sometimes-so as not to cause trouble. From The Hippie my girl will learn conservation. She'll try tofu and take mission trips on spring break. She may see her first concert with The Hippie and it will be in some tiny club no one knows about. My daughter will see that conscious is cool and the fire to change the world will be lit. What The Hippie can teach above all is that if you believe strong enough, you can change the world. This friend will teach my girl to be a doer and then shout from the rooftops no matter how many apples get thrown your way.
3. The Power Girl: She runs and swims and sometimes skis or lifts her body weight in Kettlebells. That's in her free time. During the day she runs companies or schools or businesses she started herself. She is energetic and passionate and certain that there is nothing any boy can do that she can't-better or faster. She is woman. My girl will hear her roar.
4. The Artist: A creative life is something I have fought my whole life because it was not practical. I want my girl to see that a life worth living isn't always about money, fame or making the trains run on time, but rather doing what you love. Writers, singers, painters, photographers, actors, whether big stage or small cafe I want my girl to see that pursuing a life with passion makes anything possible-even paying the bills.
5.The Faithful: I do not approve of zealots no matter their religion, but I do admire and aspire to people of profound faith-no matter their deity. There is power in giving yourself over to something bigger and more powerful than you. There is largeness in admitting you are small. Women of faith are a force to be reckoned with; especially when their spirit translates in quiet deeds rather than loud words. Women living their faith through the work they do on themselves and the world? They can teach my daughter everything.
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In Russia, Gates Stresses Cooperation
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—The U.S. held out the prospect of limited missile-defense cooperation with Russia, including a future deal to exchange missile-launch information, seeking to ease long-standing concerns in Moscow about a planned U.S.-led system to protect European allies.
But the information sharing proposals outlined by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in a speech at the Kuznetsov Naval Academy here put a spotlight on the gap that remains between the U.S. and Russia over the extent of possible missile-defense cooperation between the two nuclear powers.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks about Libya as he briefs reporters on board a military plane en route to St. Petersburg, Russia.
In addition to holding out the possibility of sharing launching information, Mr. Gates said missile-defense collaboration between the U.S. and Russia could include setting up a joint data-fusion center and sharing information about U.S. missile defense plans and exercises.
"We've disagreed before, and Russia still has uncertainties" about the U.S.'s so-called phased adaptive approach to missile defense in Europe, Mr. Gates said at the start of a two day visit to Russia.
The U.S. system calls for integrating sea- and land-based missiles defenses in and around North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies in Europe to help defend them against the threat of ballistic missiles, mainly from Iran.
Russia believes the system could blunt its own nuclear deterrent.
Mr. Gates, who will travel to Moscow Tuesday for high-level security talks, played down Russian concerns, saying the U.S. system poses "no challenge to the large Russian nuclear arsenal."
At a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Lisbon in November, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed uniting the missile shield being built by the 28 allies with Russia's own missile-defense system.
The U.S. and its NATO allies rebuffed Mr. Medvedev's suggestion, saying the issue should be looked at by the countries' technical experts.
Diplomats said Mr. Medvedev's proposal went way beyond what the alliance envisages, which is cooperation and information sharing between two systems rather than a single system.
The U.S. wants access to data from radar sites based on Russian territory, which could expand the European-based system's ability to identify and shoot down any incoming missiles.
But the U.S. and its NATO allies want to stay in control of the system and don't want to give Moscow the power to decide when missile defenses can be used against prospective targets, diplomats say.
Mr. Gates told reporters during the flight to Russia that cooperation between the U.S. and Russia has "come quite a distance."
"We obviously have our differences. We have our concerns with some of the human rights issues in Russia, questions of law," Mr. Gates said. "But overall, I would say there has been really extraordinary progress."
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Una giornata stupenda, iniziata con un pranzo al sacco verso mezzogiorno nell'anfiteatro morenico di Ivrea e poi.... quasi per scherzo son finito per arrivare a Cervinia...dai 20 e passa gradi della zona collinare ai 10 gradi ventosi dei 2000 metri :)
Speravo di fare qualche foto al Cervino riflesso nel piccolo Lago Blu, ma era ancora ghiacciato e ricoperto di neve...
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Il sole alto delle due di pomeriggio, il vento che soffiava e qualche sbuffo di neve sulle cime delle montagne...uno scatto stupendo, almeno secondo me!
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A wonderful day that began with a picnic lunch around noon in the moraine amphitheater of Ivrea.
An hour later I was to Cervinia ... from 20°C of the hill and countryside to the windy 10 degrees of 2000 meters ...
I was hoping to take some pictures of the Monte Cervino reflected in the small Blue Lake, but it was still frozen and covered with snow ...
Walking along the ski trails, I came across this snowman :)
The snow of the 2 PM in the sky, the wind blowing and a few puff of snow on the mountains ... a wonderful shot, at least in my opinion!
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Idol Meter: Eyeing the odds
FacebookBy Ken Barnes, Special for USA TODAY
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song choice: Choosing the right song is key to Idol success, right up there with performing it ably. Contestants can go wrong picking a song too closely identified with a previous Idol, too old or unfamiliar, too worn-out or just plain unsuited for their voices. WhatNotToSing.com is dedicated to building a database that documents which songs work (or don't work) and will join us in determining the best and worst song choices. Inspired choices get 10 points, suitable selections get 5, damaging picks receive a minus 5 or minus 10, and indifferent choices get zero.
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Performance order: Studies by WhatNotToSing.com and others have established that singing first on the show is a clear handicap, while singing last is a big plus and second-to-last a lesser but still significant plus. So show-closers get 10 points, the second-to-last contestant gets 5, the opener gets minus 5, the rest zero.
Performance quality: Buzz, judges' verdict and (especially) song choice are vital to a contestant's survival, but none of that would mean a thing without what we watch Idol for: the performance itself. It's worth anywhere from minus 10 to plus 10 points.
Exceptional circumstances: Idol is live, and the unpredictable can happen. When it does, we'll dole out anywhere from minus 10 to plus 10 points for incidents including, but not limited to, emotional shout-outs or breakdowns, sickbed performances, superstar stage lighting, forgetting lyrics, false starts, major vocal gaffes, tantrums, overt sullenness, sassing a judge, being adopted as perverse causes célèbres or anything else that might influence voting.
Judges' verdict: Respect them or not, the judges' opinions can't help but influence voters. So positive comments from Randy, Steven and Jennifer are worth up to 6 points each, while a negative comment scores as much as minus 6. If a performance receives a unanimous, three-judge, flat-out rave, 3 bonus points will be added for a total of 21.
Dial Idol: DialIdol.com, which calculates phone-voting strength from busy signals, has had a strong record of predicting eliminations over the years, though its accuracy might suffer this year as online voting is being allowed for the first time. While we monitor the situation, contestants receiving green (or safe) ratings from Dial Idol get 5 points. The lowest-rated contestant gets minus 5; the remainder, in the yellow danger zone, score zero.
Online buzz: Standout performances tend to generate high volumes of post-show online searches, so contestants who spike in Google Trends, Yahoo Buzz, Twitter's popular topics or other queries get 14, 10 or 5 points.
Outcome: Nothing spells danger for an Idol contestant more than showing up in the dreaded bottom three the previous week. Contestants score minus 5 points if they were in the bottom three or plus 20 points if they escaped. Contestants who elude elimination on their first trip to the bottom three get a one-week bounce worth 5 points.
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Aidy Boothroyd sacked as Coventry City manager
Aidy Boothroyd sacked as Coventry City manager
Coventry City have sacked their manager Aidy Boothroyd after less than 10 months in charge at the Ricoh Arena, having won on just one occasion this year.
Final straw: the decision to sack Boothroyd came after Coventry's 1-0 home defeat to Hull, the side's tenth defeat in 16 games. Photo: PA
By Sandy Macaskill 11:00AM GMT 14 Mar 2011
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The Midlands club were fourth in the Championship in early November but have won just one of their past 16 games and are now just seven points outside the relegation zone, in 19th place.
Saturday's 1-0 defeat at home to Hull City was the final straw for the board, who have replaced Boothroyd and his assistant manager Martin Pert, temporarily, with first team coach Steve Harrison, and the chief scout Andy Thorn.
They will be in joint charge for Tuesday's match at Burnley.
A Coventry City club statement read: "The board of Coventry City Football Club has relieved Aidy Boothroyd of his first team duties with immediate effect. Assistant manager Martin Pert has also been relieved of his duties.
"First team coach Steve Harrison and chief scout Andy Thorn will be placed in temporary charge of team affairs."
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15 Mart 2011 Salı
Japan Officials Report Progress at Troubled Nuclear Plant
Confusion and panic levels are rising across Japan following another blast and fire in Fukushima. WSJ's Mariko Sanchanta and Yumiko Ono separate fact from fiction in the latest nuclear reports.
TOKYO—Japanese officials appeared to have regained some control of northeast Japan's troubled nuclear power plant Tuesday afternoon, at least for now, after spikes in radiation levels that followed a new explosion at one reactor and a fire at another earlier in the day put the nation on high alert.
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Officials stressed it was too early to say the worst has been averted at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which has suffered serious problems in four of its six reactors since Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. Determining the cause of the earlier radiation leaks and checking what's happening inside the overheating reactors was difficult.
Authorities also signaled a new area of potential worry: temperature at the remaining two reactors, both not operating at the time of the earthquake and so far not the subject of concern, has risen slightly, prompting the need for close monitoring. Officials were also probing a report that boiling water had been spotted near where the fire broke out Tuesday morning, another potential worrying sign.
But the conditions at the plant appeared to have stabilized in some aspects Tuesday afternoon. While radiation levels at the plant remain elevated, they have dropped significantly from earlier in the day, ruling out the continuation of unstoppable large-scale leaks.
Radiation levels in downtown Tokyo—which had also risen earlier Tuesday, though they remained well below levels that could damage human health—also fell sharply later in the day.
Earlier Tuesday, Prime Minister Naoto Kan warned of the possibility of further increase in radiation levels, as he called on the Japanese people to "act calmly." Officials said radiation levels at the plant had surged to levels that would have impact on the human body.
A fire that had broken out at one of the reactors earlier in the day—known as reactor No. 4—has been extinguished, while the conditions at two of the three overheating units—known as the No. 1 and No. 3 reactors—have been stabilized since regaining their cooling capabilities.
Authorities also continued to pour water in the No. 2 reactor, where an explosion early Tuesday appeared to have damaged its all-important containment structure, which keeps radiation inside from leaking out. "I think we need to see how things will go at the No. 2 units for a little bit longer before we can call it stable," Mr. Edano said.
Mr. Edano also said temperatures at No. 5 and No. 6 reactors, both not operating at the time of the earthquake, have risen slightly, prompting the need for close monitoring. The No. 4 reactor was also out of operation, but officials said its spent fuel storage pond had caught fire, ignited by a hydrogen gas explosion.
Sending the nation into a near panic, the government said earlier Tuesday radiation levels on the plant ground soared, attributing it to the possibility that radioactivity was released directly into the atmosphere from the plant on fire, No.4 reactor.
Speaking at a press conference late in the afternoon, chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano said officials now suspect that those extremely high readings may have come from the debris from Monday's explosion coming to rest by the gauge.
"We don't have a situation where high-level radiation is permanently leaking out," Mr. Edano said. He cautioned it's too early for officials to lower their guard as the cause of the earlier spikes hadn't been determined for sure. Key information about the conditions inside the No. 2 reactor, with likely damage to its containment structure, also remains unavailable.
The radiation level at the plant's gate had shot up to over 11,000 microsievert per hour Monday morning, equivalent to the amount a person is exposed to in 11 years. That level has dropped to below 600—roughly equivalent to a medical X-ray—by mid-afternoon.
Earlier Tuesday, Japan's nuclear crisis showed signs of spinning out of control after officials reported a third explosion and warned of possible damage to critical container housing the No. 2 reactor. Tuesday's explosion at the No. 2 reactor for the first time raised the possibility that the key containment structure of the unit, which protects the reactor vessel and keeps dangerous radioactive materials from leaking out, had been damaged.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan then gave a brief address to the nation, saying, "The level [of radiation] seems very high, and there is still a very high risk of more radiation coming out."
"We will do our utmost to prevent further spreading of radiation leaks," he said. "I sincerely urge everyone in the nation to act calmly."
He said that anyone within 18 miles of the plant should stay indoors. Previously the government had said people living within 12 miles should evacuate.
As the fear of a disaster mounted, Tokyo shares plummeted Tuesday, pushing down the Nikkei Stock Average 11%.
Mr. Edano said the radiation levels at the nuclear plant have surged to levels that will "clearly have impact on the human body." The levels monitored at the plant as of early Tuesday morning ranged between 30 to 400 millisieverts per hour.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and other local authorities surrounding Japan's capital city said Tuesday they have detected higher-than-normal radiation levels, but the amounts aren't enough to cause immediate harm to the human body.
Tokyo said it measured a radiation level of 0.809 microsievert per hour in the Shinjuku district in the western part of the city center at around 10 a.m. local time, about 23 times higher than normal. By late in the day it had fallen to 0.0682 microsevert an hour. The usual daily average is around 0.035 microsevert an hour.
In Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, the radiation level hit as high as 0.212 microsievert per hour around 7 a.m., according to the Kanagawa Prefectural Government. But the level had fallen to around 0.1 microsievert per hour at around noon.
An official at the prefectural government said the recorded level is a fraction of the 600 microsieverts that a human body receives from one x-ray.
Exposure at the upper end of the range, at 400 millisievert, is equivalent to 40 rem. A single dose of 25 rem can cause temporary sterility in men. One hundred rems can cause radiation sickness and 500 rems likely will cause death. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission limits the exposure of U.S. nuclear workers to no more than five rem per year.
—Rebecca Smith, Phred Dvorak and Hiroyuki Kachi contributed to this article., which
Write to Yuka Hayashi at yuka.hayashi@wsj.com and Phred Dvorak at phred.dvorak@wsj.com
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Laich Scores on Crawford
Laich Scores on Crawford
WASHINGTON, DC - March 13, 2011: Washington Capitals forward Brooks Laich (#21) scores on Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford (#50) during their NHL ice hockey game at Verizon Center.
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14 Mart 2011 Pazartesi
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Olympic Skier Is a Hero to Diabetics
WHISTLER, British Columbia -- Nearly halfway through Saturday's 30-kilometer race at the 2010 Winter Olympics here, Kris Freeman was trailing the front-runner by only six seconds and dreaming of making history. Not since 1976 had an American won a medal in cross-country skiing.
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U.S. Olympic skier Kris Freeman manages his insulin while competing.
Suddenly, though, his energy faltered, and he collapsed. Lying in the snow, having hit a wall that doesn't exist for his competitors, Mr. Freeman cried out for a very particular kind of help. "Sugar," he said.
As a 29-year-old athlete with diabetes, Mr. Freeman may seem unusual. Inactivity and a poor diet, after all, are the well-publicized twin culprits behind an epidemic of diabetes in America.
But Mr. Freeman actually suffers from Type 1, or "juvenile," diabetes, a disease typically triggered early in life by an auto-immune disorder rather than by lifestyle. Even as rates of Type 2, or "adult onset," diabetes skyrocket in the U.S. because of obesity and physical sluggishness, a culture of extreme exercise is taking hold among Type 1 diabetics, replete with specialized coaches and training camps.
"The crazy perception out there is that if you have diabetes, you must have weighed 300 pounds," says Michelle Adams, a Chicago-area exercise physiologist, Type 1 diabetic and coach for an organization called Diabetes Training Camp, which supports and promotes athletics among people with diabetes. "In fact, there are thousands of Type 1 diabetics who were always active and who are now competing in half-marathons and marathons, all the way up to Ironman-distance triathlons."
Type 1 diabetics produce little or no insulin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar, requiring them to inject themselves with the substance while constantly gauging the appropriate amount. They have been rushing into endurance exercise because it can dramatically help manage their disease. But winning events—in fact, sometimes even crossing the finish line—can be difficult for competitors struggling to control their blood sugar.
For diabetic athletes, Mr. Freeman is a hero, all the more so for what happened after his blood sugar crashed on Saturday. Never mind that this setback shattered his dreams of winning an Olympic medal that day. After downing a sports drink and sugar-rich "goo pack"—rushed to him by a German coach who happened to be nearby—Mr. Freeman clambered to his skis and completed the race, finishing in 45th place. "I wasn't going to have a 'Did Not Finish' beside my name in the Olympics," Mr. Freeman said in an interview on Sunday.
Yet finishing wasn't only a matter of pride. As a Type 1 diabetic competing in an Olympics endurance event, Mr. Freeman is a pioneer—which is to say that little guidance exists on how to control a diabetic's blood sugar during such races.
In fact, when Mr. Freeman was diagnosed with diabetes nearly a decade ago, his doctors told him he almost certainly would need to stop competing. But he refused, and since then medical science has moved his way. Doctors increasingly are advising diabetics of every kind to exercise, the more the better, provided the athlete keeps a sharp eye on blood sugar and consults regularly with his or her physician.
Ms. Adams says she has heard professional endurance coaches describe diabetics as better attuned to their bodies than other athletes. "Being an athlete with Type 1 diabetes requires a level of discipline that can actually give you an edge over nondiabetics," she says.
Matthew Corcoran, a founder of Diabetes Training Camp, said in an email that athletes such as Mr. Freeman have proven that diabetics can compete at the highest level—and are now shedding light on exactly how to do so, and on how much exercise might be advisable for less-gifted diabetics.
Mr. Freeman is not the first U.S. Olympian with diabetes. The gold medalist Gary Hall Jr. is a Type 1 diabetic. He swims sprint distances that often last less than a minute. A cross-country skiing race, by contrast, can last hours, and Mr. Freeman must decide beforehand what level of insulin to supply himself at every kilometer. The appropriate amount can vary according to factors as knowable as altitude and as unknowable as the pace set by the front-running pack of skiers.
On Saturday, Mr. Freeman had anticipated a faster pace. Stopping mid-race to reprogram his insulin-delivery system is out of the question, as it would take too much time. "I'm not out here to cross the finish line," Mr. Freeman said on Sunday. "I'm out here to win a medal."
One purpose of finishing Saturday was to gather information. Had he, as he suspected, set his insulin-dosage at too high a level before the race? To test that theory, he consumed large amounts of sugar throughout the second half of the race and yet found upon finishing that his blood-sugar level was normal—an indication of excess insulin.
With this information, Mr. Freeman will dial down the amount of insulin he delivers to himself during his final event, next Sunday's 50-kilometer race. At that distance, Mr. Freeman once finished 12th in an international race, leading him to view a podium finish as possible on Sunday.
A three-time Olympian, Mr. Freeman is described by the U.S. ski team as its best distance cross-country performer since Bill Koch, whose second-place finish at the 1976 Games earned America its only medal in the sport, which is dominated by Europeans.
A New Hampshire native, Mr. Freeman joined the U.S. cross-country team in 2000, leaving the University of Vermont after his freshman year.
Cross-country skiers—widely regarded as the world's fittest athletes—often peak in their 30s, so Mr. Freeman doesn't regard Vancouver as the end of his Olympic road. Whenever he does finish, however, he intends to analyze and publicize the diabetic lessons of his career. On behalf of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co., maker of the insulin he uses, he already promotes the value of exercise for diabetics. Mr. Freeman says that about half his sponsorship income is related to diabetes products.
Any insight he could offer into how to control blood sugar during long bouts of exercise would be invaluable, says Ms. Adams, the diabetes exercise coach.
Too much insulin during exercise will rob the blood of sugar, causing collapses of the sort Mr. Freeman experienced Saturday. Too little insulin will leave the blood flooded with sugar, causing incapacitating muscle cramps and dehydration. "The idea is to mimic the blood-sugar levels of the nondiabetic person," she says. "It isn't easy, but we're learning that it's doable."
Write to Kevin Helliker at kevin.helliker@wsj.com.
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13 Mart 2011 Pazar
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How wrong I was about Harry Redknapp
How wrong I was about Harry Redknapp
Spurs' European campaign has many of us reappraising Harry Redknapp, writes Jim White.
Hands on: Harry Redknapp is adept at getting the best out of his players Photo: ACTION IMAGES
By Jim White 7:06PM GMT 11 Mar 2011
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Here's a telling statistic: on Wednesday, Harry Redknapp became the first Englishman to take his team into the quarter-finals of the Champions League (formerly the European Cup) since Terry Venables led Barcelona in 1985. For 25 years, the cup has been dominated by Italians, Dutchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, even the odd Scot – but the English have been woefully absent.
Frankly, if anyone had suggested three years ago that Redknapp would be the man to break the duck, the men in white coats would have come calling. Back then, Redknapp – or 'Arry, to give him his proper title – was almost an amusement. A jolly, friendly, easy-going fella, fond of quick quips and quicker deals, he seemed the archetypal Cockney chancer, reckoned by many to be a no more than a managerial lightweight. The former West Ham teammate of Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters and Bobby Moore seemed destined to patrol the secondary tiers of the game.
But then, in 2008, something unexpected happened to 'Arry: he won the FA Cup. Talking to the Portsmouth manager that evening, as he stood in the bowels of Wembley, it seemed a just reward for one of the game's more genial souls. But that, I thought, would be about it: English football was now so completely enamoured of foreign coaches, of professorial Frenchman and swanky Italians, that the top jobs would be closed off to a man of Redknapp's homely credentials, especially one already in his sixties.
How wrong I was. A switch from financially imploding Pompey took 'Arry to Tottenham Hotspur, who were then bottom of the Premier League. Two seasons on, his team have just knocked Milan, the seven-times champions, out of the European Cup.
What a transformation he has wrought – and he has done it by more than the application of bonhomie. Sure, his man-management is excellent. But behind the amiable facade lies a sophisticated football brain. Embracing the best of modern technology and sports science, Redknapp has a sizeable squad working on things like fitness, nutrition and preparation, leaving him free to foster team spirit and generate tactics. He has done it so successfully that this week he outwitted one of the aristocrats of the European game.
So successful has 'Arry been lately that the bookies have more or less conceded that when Fabio Capello departs, there is really only one candidate to succeed him. Imagine that: an Englishman once more coaching the England team. And a clever, switched-on, sharp-minded Englishman at that.
There is only one obstacle in the way: in July, Henry James Redknapp will appear in court, charged with two counts of cheating the public revenue during his time at Portsmouth. Lose, and his apparently unstoppable late ascent up the ladder of reputation would stall in an instant. The dream of 'Arry, St George and England would be shattered: after all, the FA would never hire the footballing equivalent of Lester Piggott.
Which leaves Redknapp a man in a hurry, keen to make his mark while he can. And what better way than to advance further in Europe's premier competition? Become the first Englishman since Joe Fagan in 1984 actually to win the European Cup, and at Wembley, too? As 'Arry would say: why not?
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The 3 colors you should be eating more of
By Brierley Wright, M.S., R.D., EatingWell Nutrition Editor
Remember ROYGBIV? I do. The mnemonic is how I learned the seven colors of a rainbow—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Nowadays I use the acronym to represent the colors of food I should be eating.
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Because nature highlights the beneficial nutrients in fruits and vegetables by giving them bright colors, eating by color is an easy way to load up on nature’s superfoods. Each color represents phytochemicals—compounds that benefit our health in different ways—which is why you should eat a colorful variety of vegetables. For example, anthocyanins and proanthocyanins—two antioxidants associated with keeping the heart healthy and the brain functioning optimally—make foods like blueberries, eggplant and cranberries blue, purple and deep red.
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The USDA 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, however, suggest paying particular attention to three colors: dark green, red and orange.
Here’s how much of each color you should aim to eat every week:
Red and orange vegetables: 5 1/2 to 6 cups each week for most adults
What counts as a “cup”? 1 large red bell pepper, 8 large strawberries, 12 baby carrots or 2 medium carrots, a sweet potato or a medium pink grapefruit.
Why they’re important: Red foods—such as tomatoes and red peppers—contain lycopene, a phytochemical that may help protect against prostate and breast cancers. Alpha and beta carotene make foods like carrots and sweet potatoes so brilliantly orange. The body converts these compounds into the active form of vitamin A, which helps keep your eyes, bones and immune system healthy. These phytochemicals also operate as antioxidants, sweeping up disease-promoting free radicals.
Must Read: 5 Red Foods You Should Be Eating
Dark green vegetables: 1 1/2 to 2 cups weekly
What counts as a “cup”? A cup of cooked greens, 2 cups raw greens or 10 broccoli florets.
Why they’re important: Dark, leafy greens (spinach, chard and arugula) are good sources of lutein and zeaxanthin, phytochemicals that accumulate in the eyes and help prevent age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in older people. They’re also rich in beta carotene. Dark green cruciferous vegetables, such as kale and broccoli, provide compounds called indoles and isothiocyanates, which may help prevent cancer by amping up the production of enzymes that clear toxins from the body.
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How many colors did you eat in your last meal?
By Brierley Wright, M.S., R.D.
Brierley's interest in nutrition and food come together in her position as nutrition editor at EatingWell. Brierley holds a master's degree in Nutrition Communication from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. A Registered Dietitian, she completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Vermont.
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