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BYU football report card: Cougars put forth complete effort in easy win over Washington State

Brigham Young Cougars linebacker Ezekiel Ansah (47) blocks a pass by Washington State Cougars quarterback Jeff Tuel (10) in Provo Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012.

Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

PROVO ? BYU looked in midseason form throughout its season-opener Thursday against Washington State, providing a lot of yards on offense while not yielding many yards on defense.

All in all, BYU exceeded most expectations by building a big lead early and holding WSU in check throughout the rest of the night en route to a 30-6 win.

Offense: The BYU offense came out humming, accounting for 24 points and 296 yards of total offense in the first half. Even with star receiver Cody Hoffman going down early with a quad injury, sophomore walk-on Skyler Ridley stepped up and scored the first touchdown of the season on a seven-yard reception from Riley Nelson.

Nelson finished the game with 25-36 passing for 285 yards and two touchdowns. Tight end Kaneakua Friel showed why he came out on top of the tight end battle with six catches for 101 yards and two touchdowns. The offense dominated in time of possession and wore down the WSU defense with long drives. The offense did stall outside the endzone on three occasions in an otherwise very efficient performance. The running game was mediocre with 123 yards gained on 41 attempts. Grade: B+

Defense: The defense came out aggressive, but maybe a bit too aggressive. Multiple personal foul penalties extended WSU drives in the first half at least as much as anything else. BYU racked up 10 penalties for a combined 112 yards with most of those going against the defense.

Jordan Johnson, making his first start at corner, had mixed results, but picked off a pass early in the second half to end a WSU scoring bid. Uona Kaveinga also accounted for an interception courtesy of a tipped pass by safety Daniel Sorensen in the first half.

Holding a Mike Leach offense to just two field goals is an enormous accomplishment along with allowing just 224 yards of total offense. Grade: A

Special Teams: The kickoff coverage shined in the first half ? consistently holding WSU short of its 25-yard line. The coverage unit did allow a long kick return to start the second half, but was bailed out by a string of WSU penalties and the Johnson interception.

Riley Stephenson connected on 3-of-4 field goals in place of the injured Justin Sorensen and had a decent effort punting the football. The punt cover unit provided a blocked punt that led to a short field and an easy score. Grade: B

Coaching: The team looked well-prepped and assignment-sound throughout the contest. Offensive coordinator Brandon Doman called a good mix of run and pass plays that led to long drives and a lot of yards. On defense BYU used unbalanced lines and creative blitz packages to keep WSU out-of-sorts and inconsistent with its attack. Grade: A-

Overall: There wasn't a lot to criticize regarding the team's performance overall. The offense looked sharp and was efficient. The defense dominated the course of play throughout. And the special teams play was solid. The Cougars left no question who was the best team on the field. Grade: A-

Email: bgurney@desnews.com

Twitter: @BrandonCGurney

Source: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865561565/BYU-football-report-card-Cougars-put-forth-complete-effort-in-easy-win-over-Washington-State.html

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Microsoft links Windows 8 apps to Azure

August 30, 2012, 10:27 AM ? Microsoft is adding mobile connectivity between Windows applications and the Windows Azure cloud platform with the introduction this week of Windows Azure Mobile Services.

The technology will enable users to connect client and mobile applications based on Windows 8 to a scalable cloud back end, said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president in the Microsoft Server and Tools Business, in a blog post. "It allows you to easily store structured data in the cloud that can span both devices and users, integrate it with user authentication, and send out updates to clients via push notifications." Windows 8 is due to ship on October 26.

[ Elsewhere in the cloud space, Zend and VMware are partnering to get PHP applications deployed to clouds. | Also, download Cloud Computing in 2012: An InfoWorld Special Report. ]

Plans call for Windows Azure Mobile Services to soon add support for Windows Phone, Apple iOS, and Google Android devices. Users can get started by signing up for a 90-day free trial of Windows Azure, whereupon they enable their account to support the Mobile Services preview.

"Once you have the mobile services preview enabled, log into the Windows Azure Portal, click the 'New' button, and choose the new 'Mobile Services' icon to create your first mobile back end," Guthrie said. Once the back end is created, users will see a quick-start page with instructions on connecting the mobile service to an existing or new Windows 8 client application. Azure users can as many as 10 mobile services in a free, multitenant hosting environment.

"When you create a Windows Azure Mobile Service, we automatically associate it with a SQL database inside Windows Azure. The Windows Azure Mobile Service backend then provides built-in support for enabling remote apps to securely store and retrieve data from it (using secure REST end-points utilizing a JSON-based ODATA format) -- without you having to write or deploy any custom server code. Built-in management support is provided within the Windows Azure portal for creating new tables, browsing data, setting indexes, and controlling access permissions," Guthrie said.

Source: http://www.itworld.com/software/292373/microsoft-links-windows-8-apps-azure

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Food Corner: Ginger & Corriander Tea (Inguru Koththamalli)

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Coriander & Ginger both have medicinal benefits. In Sri Lanka we use Coriander (koththamalli)?& ginger (Inguru) tea as a cure for common cold. This can be said as a home remedy, however most Sri Lankans are used to drink it. Even this tea is beneficial on reducing muscle pain.

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Typically coriander has cooling effect, but when it is combined with ginger, it provides a balanced heat. In this way, this coriander & ginger tea is claimed as a remedy for cold or sore throat.
We have a practice of drinking this tea specially when feel symptoms of cold. By experience, we know that we can prevent cold if drink this when the symptoms are appear.

Here is the recipe for Ginger & corriander tea.(inguru koththamalli)

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About3 inch piece of Ginger

Sugar or honey (optional)

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Peel the skin of ginger & slice into pieces.

Boil in law heat. Boil until it becomes around 2 cups.
Strain the drink to another glass (separate from coriander seeds & ginger)
Add sugar or honey as per taste.

Serve it hot.

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Below are some health benefits of Ginger & Corriander.

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Source: http://foodssrilanka.blogspot.com/2012/08/ginger-corriander-tea-inguru.html

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Georgia Screenwriter Robert Kelly | PIMP | A Time Before Sex Could ...

Robert Kelly is a former lawyer for working girls and screenwriter of?Pimp. Robert Kelly sat down with Blank Stage intern to begin several installations?chronicling?his life and his story.

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Paul Clark is currently an?intern at?Blank Stage Productions. He produces content in the form of written articles, webisodes, and podcasts for the site. His goal is to advertise upcoming projects in the film industry to show the talent we work with at Blank Stage and through Get Connected, and promote the creation of each professional?s project for financial backing.?

What is a ?pimp? by definition and how does it pertain to the screenplay?

Pimp by definition is: ?A man who solicits clients for a prostitute.??In the United States, with exceptions like the Brothels in Nevada, that term really?doesn?t apply very often. Another exception would be the street level Pimps that?work a small number of girls, but that?s bottom of the barrel, like in, ?HUSTLE?and FLOW.? Today the most successful pimps are the Madams. They own?the infamous ?Black Book? you?ve probably heard about. If they are working?with ?Call Girls,? the Madams furnish only the clients. Some Madams run a House?or Brothel and they furnish a place to work and a client for the girl, of course all?work for a percentage of the fee.?As to the screenplay, people may assume that our protagonist, Jack Kenard, is the?pimp. In reality Jack never solicited a ?Trick? in his life. There are Pimps in the?story, men and women, and I wrote about them, a very diverse group.?When I write a screenplay I write several accurate and descriptive titles. On this?project I supplied seven titles. ?PIMP? was just one of the titles and it was the?one the producer picked.

I?ve heard the tagline to the screenplay, ?It was a time before sex could kill?you.? What does that mean exactly??

Paul, you are a good example of what I meant. You?re young and you have never?lived in a time when sex couldn?t kill you. The time frame for our movie is the?seventies. The bugs, aids and the rest didn?t kick in until the eighties. So prior?to that time frame sex wouldn?t necessarily kill you.

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When did you first write PIMP and how many drafts have you been through??

I wrote PIMP in 2000 and 2001. As to drafts, I break that into two categories,?prior to Herb Ross dying, and subsequent to Herb Ross dying. Before Ross died I?wrote the original and one revision. Ross and I were on the same page, so to speak.?After he died, over the past eleven years I?ve written probably six or seven?revisions.

More about Herb Ross:?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Ross

When did you first try to produce PIMP, and who was your financial backer?

Herb Ross was the only producer that was ever attached to the project. Ross may?have been the last producer living that could fund a movie out of his own pocket.?Pryor to him, probable Joseph Levine. Ross introduced me to Levine back in the?early eighties; he produced the Graduate, cost three million, and grossed fifty?million. I guess it would be safe to call him a producer.

What obstacles have you faced in trying to get PIMP produced?

In a word, funding. But perhaps more precisely, my inability to find a bona fide?producer in Georgia. I am not a producer and I?ve never held myself out as a?producer. Ross created a list he called, ?Separating the P?s.? Phonies, Pretenders,?Parasites, there?s about eight or nine P?s on the list. That?s what I?m running into.?I?m not singling out Georgia, the P?s are all over the world. And since Ross died?eleven years ago I think I?ve talked to most of them. There just seems to be an
overabundance of P?s in Atlanta.

What are your personal feelings, in light of your career, on the subject of?prostitution and pimping?

It?s a complex problem, but get used to it, it?s here to stay. That?s why it?s the?world?s oldest profession. As to ?pimping,? I have mixed views. A Madam?performs a service for a hooker and is paid a fee. It?s a business, Quid Pro?Quo, ?Something for something.??If you go to the bus station in any major city you?ll find pimps. They are there?waiting on the girls to get off the bus. The girls that get pulled into the ?Life,? are?weak and gullible, and the pimps know this and pull them in. If you step back and?look at it, a pimp is just a con man that specializes in a specific area. I don?t want?to leave it with just men. Some of the best pimps I ever met are women; I mean?the best in the world. There?s a very good female pimp in the screenplay.

What turning points in your life led you to the creation of Pimp?

A good question but we don?t have the time for me to give you a full answer.?In short form: I live in a dark world. Some times are worse than others. I was?engaged to a singer; Cindy had been a child prodigy. I was two years older than?her father. What that woman saw in me I?ll never know. I closed my office and?was going to manage Cindy?s career. There?s an old adage, if you want to make?God laugh, tell her your plans.?A few weeks before the wedding Cindy was killed. I slipped into a deep?depression and stayed there for several years. My shrink had run out of pills.?My thinking was, maybe if I write another screenplay, I can write my way out of?the depression. I don?t know if that had anything to do with it but one morning I?walked out into the Sun and the depression was gone. So to answer your question I?guess you could say, I wrotePimp?in self-preservation.

What do you think audiences are going to enjoy most about Pimp?

It will be a mixture, and I think it will appeal to at least two generations. ?PIMP is a nonfiction film. ?It is a narrative form that employs all the techniques of fictional art but is nevertheless immaculately factual, ?e. g., 1967, In Cold Blood, 1990, GoodFellas, 2003, Monster.
The thing that all of these stories have in common is, the writer had access to the original participants. ?In PIMP, I was one of the original participants, I was there.
{Aside} Here?s a little teaser about GoodFellas. ?What part was glaringly fictional, ?and why was it necessary?
For the audience members that were adults during the era of the seventies, it will be a memory, maybe good, maybe bad. ?It has been my experience, bitter or sweet; most memories become precious as the years move on. ?For some, this film will be a memory.
For the younger audience members it will be a chance to see why this time frame is considered an era.

What is it about these characters that will draw amazing talent to the project?

In a word, complexity, it won?t be the money, that?s for damn sure!?There are forty-six speaking parts and I intend to add several more. ?The additions may not make the theatrical cut but they will definitely make the directors DVD cut.

There is a triangle of three pivotal characters. ?Jack, Alex and Niki. ?All complex in the composition of their respective personalities. ?Alex has a schizophrenia just like Jack and Niki.
{Aside} ?In actors it?s called a ?Divine schizophrenia.? ?I learned about this from Stella Adler, this might be of interest to some of the actors out there. ?{End Aside}

In laymen speak, they have multiple personalities. ?I brought this into focus with Alex. ?It?s when Alex brushes Jack?s face with her hand and tells Jack he has a nice mouth and then jerks her hand away ? - ? ?I?m sorry. ?Damn it! ?The hooker kicked in, I?m sorry.? ?Later, Niki makes the same move on Jack.
Jack, Alex and Niki are virtuosos in their world, as many of the other characters are. ?For some actors their character in Pimp will be the most complex role they?ve ever attempted to portray.
All of the characters are multidimensional and will present a challenge. ?Pimp is character driven, not cast driven. ?There are no weak characters in Pimp. ?I overheard Orson Wells say to a fellow actor, ?There are no small roles, only small actors.? ?There are no small roles in Pimp.
This is a little off point: ?Directing is 70% casting and I?ve always had a knack for putting the right talent with a given role. ??I guess because of my acting background actors are comfortable with me. ?I?ve been told I?m an actor?s director. ?My connection to the material is very strong and as such I can speak eloquently to the actors because they will know they are going to get an unfiltered, crystal clear vision to work with.
I don?t want to get all mystical on you but I wrap the talent in what I call, ?A blanket of authenticity,? and they will feel safe in the knowledge that I have in-depth knowledge of the characters and the world they live in.
The character that concerns me the most is Niki. ?We need an actor that can pass for mid to late teens with forty-five years of experience. ?We need an actor that can carry the scene, ?GRIEF.? ?This is the kind of scene Stella Adler called an, ??ACTOR KILLER.? ?Thing is, I know damn well she?s out there, as are all of the characters, and 90% of them are in Atlanta.

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Source: http://blankstageproductions.com/georgia-screenwriter-robert-kelly-pimp-a-time-before-sex-could-kill/

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Best Fitness Spas Around The Country - The District Apartments

Are you hankering for a vacation that will give you a chance to recharge your health batteries while also basking in luxurious surroundings and amenities? If so, there are many exciting spa destinations around the country that emphasize well-being, weight loss, and fitness. Here are some of the best options out there, certain to make your next getaway a bastion of relaxation and health-conscious fun:

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The Biggest Loser at Fitness Ridge: Ivins, Utah

This spa, known as the site of the popular weight-loss show The Biggest Loser, is recognized as one of the highest quality weight loss and fitness spas available. The spa serves a menu of delicious low-calorie food and offers a wide variety of indoor and outdoor fitness classes. It has the added boon of being located amid the stunning Red Rock Canyons in Utah, so you will get fit while basking in glorious views ? especially if you partake of the resort?s daily guided hike options. At Fitness Ridge, you will participate in a structured program designed to get you back on track toward a healthier lifestyle. After a good workout, you can take advantage of luxurious spa offerings like massages, body treatments, and reflexology.?

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Cal-a-Vie Spa: Vista, California

This spa in Southern California has a beautiful Mediterranean-style appearance that will captivate you from the moment you arrive. You?ll stay in a gorgeous guest villa and partake of carefully crafted programs designed to help you achieve greater balance with your health, fitness level, and mind-body-spirit connection. There are many gorgeous trails for walking, running, hiking, and biking, and there?s an 18-hole golf course. You can participate in fitness classes that range from weight training to Zumba Latin Dance, as well as relax with meditation sessions in the spa?s on-site chapel. Cal-a-Vie also offers a variety of pampering spa specialties, like hot stone foot treatments and oxygen facials.

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Copperhood Retreat and Spa: Shandaken, New York

This spa in New York State is a particularly great option if you?re passionate about engaging in outdoor activities amid stunning natural settings. Surrounded by the gorgeous Catskills, Copperhood offers you opportunities for fishing, bird watching, horseback riding, and tennis, as well as a variety of excellent winter options like snowshoeing and skiing. The spa also offers classes in fitness activities like Tai Chi, fencing, and African dance. You can work with the friendly and accommodating spa staff to help you figure out an individual program geared toward your health, fitness, and wellness goals. The philosophy that guides the programs at Copperhood is one of integration ? an emphasis on combining naturopathic and conventional approaches to health.?

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Birdwing Spa: Litchfield, Minnesota

This spa is set within a stunning 300-acre lakeside property. You?ll stay in a beautifully decorated suite in a private turn-of-the-century renovated barn that features walk-out decks and a Jacuzzi. Birdwing Spa a particularly great destination for couples seeking a romantic getaway, but it?s also wonderful for singles, and pairs or groups of friends. Whether you want to improve your health, achieve weight loss, or just relax and enjoy pampering, the spa will accommodate your needs. For those with a health emphasis, you?ll love taking advantage of the spa?s comprehensive program that offers metabolism assessment, personalized fitness programs, cooking courses, and a wide variety of fitness classes including yoga and kickboxing.?

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Canyon Ranch in The Berkshires: Lenox, Mississippi

Canyon Ranch will immerse you in a world of compelling natural beauty as you set out on a path to better health. The spa offers top-notch programs in stress management, nutrition, preventative health care, fitness, and spiritual development. There is a daily roster of indoor classes that focus on strength, endurance, and flexibility, as well as many outdoor activity options that include hikes, fun on the spa?s high-ropes challenge-course, and activities like kayaking in the warm weather and snowshoeing during the winter months. Canyon Ranch serves a rich palette of healthful cuisine and organic food culled from local farms with sustainable practices.?

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London set for Paralympics opener

29 August 2012 Last updated at 13:03 ET

Final preparations have begun for the London Paralympics opening ceremony, heralding 11 days of competition for athletes with disabilities.

Some 3,000 volunteers will take part in the event, which organisers have entitled Enlightenment.

Professor Stephen Hawking and actor Sir Ian McKellen will narrate the show, which is due to begin at 20:30 BST.

But there are doubts the Paralympic flame will arrive on time, as the torch relay is now more than two hours late.

Meanwhile, Malawi have withdrawn from the games due to lack of funding.

BBC political reporter Matthew Cole said organisers of the 24-hour long torch relay are "looking glum" about the delay to the torch relay.

A back-up flame was earlier created at City Hall, to make certain the opening ceremony could start as planned.

A spokesman for Games organisers Locog said: "Part of the flame has gone ahead to the stadium as a back-up contingency plan.

"The relay is going to continue."

The flame began its journey in Stoke Mandeville, the spiritual home of the Paralympic Games, on Tuesday night.

It will be carried by 580 torchbearers in total, and after being carried past some of London's most famous landmarks, will be used to light a scaled-down version of the Olympic cauldron.

UK Sport and the British Paralympic Association have set a minimum target of 103 medals this time from at least 12 sports, including swimming, athletics and rowing.

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The opening ceremony - which will be broadcast on Channel 4 and BBC Radio 5 live - will signal the start of 11 days of competition by more than 4,000 athletes from 165 countries, including more than 300 athletes from ParalympicsGB.

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Backstage, organisers and volunteers are busily applying final touches to props and paraphernalia - a wipe-down of a flag pole here, a lick of paint to a prop there.

The ceremony explores the twin themes of reason and rights, and we're promised a journey of discovery, led by celebrated scientist Professor Stephen Hawking and Shakespeare's character Miranda from The Tempest.

The cast includes 73 deaf and disabled professional performers and also well-known names like Sir Ian McKellen as a Prospero-type character, singer Beverley Knight and 3,250 volunteers aged 10-80 from all over the world.

Organisers say the show is about challenging perceptions. There will be athletes, flags, royals and Tom Heatherwick's cauldron as expected.

There will also be a Hadron collider and a fly-by by Aerobility - a charity that trains disabled people to become pilots - and the humble apple is also playing a key role in proceedings.

"You all need to make sure you have an apple," said artistic director Jenny Sealey ahead of the ceremony. "Because everybody, 62,000 people in the audience will also have their apple.

"We're asking people on television to make sure they have their apple. We want to stage the biggest ever apple bite."

Paralympic organisers are looking to break records before the Games have even begun!

A capacity crowd of 80,000 people will watch the ceremony in Stratford, east London, which will be opened by the Queen and watched by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

The start of the show will feature a flypast by Aerobility, a British charity that trains disabled people to become pilots.

Fifty specialist performers in the ceremony have taken part in an eight-week circus skills training programme in east London, and will take part in a high-wire act.

The show's two artistic directors have said the main themes of the ceremony will be empowerment and the challenging of perceptions of human possibility.

Prof Hawking - a world-renowned physicist who has motor neurone disease - will join Sir Ian McKellen to narrate a scientific "journey of discovery", inspired in part by Prof Hawking's own book A Brief History of Time.

The organisers have revealed that Prof Hawking will act as a guide to Miranda, a character from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, through the show.

Sir Ian will play Prospero, another character from the play.

Jenny Sealey, co-artistic director said the audience will be taken on an "exquisite journey of discovery inspired by the wonder of science".

She added: "Both Hawking and McKellen in their narrative talk about what we all need to remember: don't just look down at your feet, look at the stars, be curious."

Her fellow artistic director Bradley Hemmings said the team approached Prof Hawking towards the end of 2011.

'Prudent budget'

"We worked very closely with Prof Hawking to develop a series of messages which are very much integrated into the storytelling of the ceremony.

"We have spent time with him [Prof Hawking] in Cambridge and have been so incredibly gratified with him giving his time".

Sealey would not revealed the cost of the event, but said it had been put together on a "prudent budget".

About ?27m was spent on Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle's spectacular Olympic opener, with the remaining ?53m divided between the Paralympic opening event and the closing ceremonies for both Games.

Lord Coe, chairman of Locog, said the ceremony will be a "great showcase of the skills and excellence of disabled artists".

"The London 2012 Ceremonies are truly global events, with billions of people across the world watching the four shows. This is undoubtedly a fantastic opportunity to showcase talents to the world."

Hopes are high that ParalympicsGB will emulate the success of TeamGB, but one of the UK's most decorated Paralympians has warned the competition for medals is likely to be tougher than ever.

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, who has won 11 Paralympic gold medals, said overseas athletes will want to beat a British competitor on home soil.

"Most countries are envious of the support and funding our athletes enjoy but ParalympicsGB have been preparing well and will give everything they can to win all the medals they can," she added.

Britain finished second in the medals table at the 2008 Games in Beijing, winning 42 golds, 29 silvers and 31 bronzes. China were top with 211 medals, of which 89 were gold.

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When choosing knobs, the most important factors are: color and style. Make sure that your knobs will complement the themes and colors found in your home. Don?t fall in love with an art deco knob if your bathroom is decorated in a country motif! It is just as important to make sure that your chosen knobs compliment the cabinet and its particular finish and feel. Also make sure the knobs you have chosen are the correct size for the piece you are adding it to and that the knobs are placed in perfect symmetry. There is nothing wonderful about off-center knobs. It may draw attention, but not the kind of attention you are looking for!

Are you a little unsure about which style of knob you should choose for your bathroom or kitchen? Once you start looking you may be overwhelmed with the diversity in choices. Before you begin, know what basic style you are drawn to. After that, the sky is the limit!

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Themes can include everything from nautical, transportation, nature and culturally enlightened! Novelty knobs are a great way to add a personal touch and keep with a decorating theme. For your kitchen your can choose anything from garden fruits, to hummingbirds. For the bathroom aquatic themes are popular, utilizing shells, sea creatures and water inspired designs.

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In the world of design, there are a plethora of specialty knobs to choose from. From handcrafted, hand painted, jeweled, eclectic and artistic inspired creations, the choices are endless.

No matter what your style or preference, with a little research you are sure to find something special to suit your individual style!

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You need to buy and install several things to ensure your house stays protected against weather elements and environmental hazards. Siding denotes a barrier that is used to safeguard buildings from water, ice and sun. There are various siding options you can avail nowadays, with wood and vinyl being the most commonplace ones. Selection of siding material depends on some factors like climate of the region, monetary capacity and aesthetic sense of the house owner etc. Maintenance an also be another factor in this context.

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It's a bouncing baby boy ? er, girl ? er, beluga!

Shedd Aquarium / Brenna Hernandez

A baby beluga calf was born to mom, Mauyak, at about 2 a.m. on Aug. 27 at Shedd Aquarium.

Laura T. Coffey writes

Baby beluga in the deep blue sea,
Swim so wild and you swim so free.
Heaven above and the sea below,
And a little white whale on the go.

As we here at Animal Tracks continue to grieve, with animal lovers everywhere, over the recent death of the beluga whale that inspired Raffi?s timeless children?s song ?Baby Beluga,? we are buoyed by this news: A brand new bouncing baby beluga was born this week at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.

Is the baby a boy or a girl? Well, ummm, we?re not sure yet. Nobody is. The newborn is being allowed to bond with mom Mauyak (MAH-yak) in a secluded area at Shedd?s Abbott Oceanarium without any physical interaction with human handlers. The baby?s gender won?t be determined until the marine mammal staff thinks the time is right to do a physical examination.

Shedd Aquarium / Brenna Hernandez

"In less than 24 hours after birth, the calf achieved the first critical milestones that we look for," said Ken Ramirez, executive vice president of animal care and training at Shedd Aquarium.

In the meantime, we know these vital stats about the newborn calf:

• The baby beluga arrived on the scene at about 2 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 27.
• The calf is 4 1/2 feet long and weighs about 150 pounds.
• The new baby is the sixth beluga calf born at Shedd.
• The newborn has two older siblings also born to Mauyak: Qannik and Miki.
• Mom Mauyak?s name means ?soft snow? in Inuit. She weighs about 1,200 pounds and is about 11 feet long.
• The newborn?s dad is named Naluark (nah-LOO-ark), and he weighs 2,100 pounds.

Shedd Aquarium / Brenna Hernandez

The newborn calf is 4 1/2 feet long and weighs about 150 pounds.

So far, the calf seems to be doing well and remains under 24-hour observation by health professionals.

?In less than 24 hours after birth, the calf achieved the first critical milestones that we look for, including taking its first breath, bonding with mom and we?ve seen attempts at nursing,? Ken Ramirez, executive vice president of animal care and training at Shedd, said in a statement. ?We will continue to monitor for signs of development, including steady nursing and growth.?

Here are more stunning photos of mom and baby for your viewing pleasure:

Shedd Aquarium / Brenna Hernandez

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Construction industry job losses loom | | MacroBusiness

By Leith van Onselen

The release of Tuesday?s poor new homes sales data from the Housing Industry Association (HIA) turned attention back to Australia?s construction industry, which appears to be facing recession (if not already there). On an rolling annual basis, new home sales have hit their lowest level in more than a decade after falling for two straight years:

The news follows recent dwelling construction data, which is fast approaching Global Financial Crisis lows:

When combined with the recent cancellation of planned mining investments, it is clear that employment in the construction industry, which has already been shedding jobs, will soon take another hit:

Twitter: Leith van Onselen. Leith is the Chief Economist of Macro Investor, Australia?s independent investment newsletter covering trades, stocks, property and yield. Click for a free 21 day trial.

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Synchronized lasers measure how light changes matter: Effects of light at atomic scale probed by mixing x-ray and optical light waves

ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2012) ? Light changes matter in ways that shape our world. Photons trigger changes in proteins in the eye to enable vision; sunlight splits water into hydrogen and oxygen and creates chemicals through photosynthesis; light causes electrons to flow in the semiconductors that make up solar cells; and new devices for consumers, industry, and medicine operate with photons instead of electrons. But directly measuring how light manipulates matter on the atomic scale has never been possible, until now.

An international team of scientists led by Thornton Glover of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to mix a pulse of superbright x-rays with a pulse of lower frequency, "optical" light from an ordinary laser. By aiming the combined pulses at a diamond sample, the team was able to measure the optical manipulation of chemical bonds in the crystal directly, on the scale of individual atoms.

The researchers report their work in the August 30, 2012 issue of the journal Nature.

Mixing x-rays with light in x-ray diffraction

X-ray and optical wave-mixing is an x-ray diffraction technique similar to that long used in solving the structures of proteins and other biological molecules in crystalline form. But in contrast to conventional diffraction, wave mixing selectively probes how light reshapes the distribution of charge in a material. It does this by imposing a distinction between x?rays scattered from optically perturbed charge and x?rays scattered from unperturbed charge.

"You can think of the electrons orbiting atoms in a material as belonging to one of two groups," says Glover. "The 'active' electrons are the outer, loosely bound valence electrons that participate in chemical reactions and form chemical bonds. The 'spectator' electrons are the ones tightly wrapped around the nucleus at the atom's core."

Glover explains that "because the x-ray photon energy is large compared to the electron binding energy, in a typical scattering experiment all electrons scatter with comparable strength and are therefore more or less indistinguishable." The core-electron signal usually swamps the weaker valence-charge signal because there are many more core electrons than valence electrons.

"So x-rays can tell you where atoms are, but they usually can't reveal how the chemically important valence charge is distributed," Glover says. "However, when light is also present with the x-rays, it wiggles some portion of the chemically relevant valence charge. X-rays scatter from this optically driven charge, and in doing so the x-ray photon energy is changed."

Pulses of 8,000-electron-volt x-rays from the LCLS are synchronized with 1.55 electron-volt pulses from an optical laser, so that both strike the diamond sample at the same time and mix to form upconverted pulses of 8,001.55 electron volts. The detector first sees the diffracted x?ray pulse, and then, after the sample is gently "rocked," the slightly more energetic mixed pulse. The optical pulse exerts localized force on the chemical bonds among the carbon atoms.

The modified x-rays have a frequency (or energy) equal to the sum of the frequencies of both the original x?ray pulse and the overlapping optical pulse. The change to a slightly higher energy provides a distinct signature, which distinguishes wave-mixing from conventional x?ray diffraction.

"Conventional diffraction does not provide direct information on how the valence electrons respond to light, nor on the electric fields that arise in a material because of this response," says Glover. "But with x-ray and optical wave mixing, the energy-modified x-rays selectively probe a material's optically responsive valence charge."

Beyond the ability to directly probe atomic-scale details of how light initiates such changes as chemical reactions or phase transitions, sensitivity to valence charge creates new opportunities to track the evolution of chemical bonds or conduction electrons in a material -- something traditional x-ray diffraction does poorly. Different components of the valence charge can be probed by tuning the so-called optical pulse; higher-frequency pulses of extreme ultraviolet light, for example, probe a larger portion of valence charge.

Because mixing x-ray and optical light waves creates a new beam, which shows up as a slightly higher-energy peak on a graph of x?ray diffraction, the process is called "sum frequency generation." It was proposed almost half a century ago by Isaac Freund and Barry Levine of Bell Labs as a technique for probing the microscopic details of light's interactions with matter, by separating information about the position of atoms from the response of valence charge exposed to light.

But sum frequency generation requires intense x-ray sources unavailable until recently. SLAC's LCLS is just such a source. It's a free-electron laser (FEL) that can produce ultrashort pulses of high-energy "hard" x-rays millions of times brighter than synchrotron light sources, a hundred times a second.

"The breadth of the science impact of LCLS is still before us," says Jerome Hastings, a professor of photon science at the LCLS and an author of the Nature article. "What is clear is that it has the potential to extend nonlinear optics into the x-ray range as a useful tool. Wave mixing is an obvious choice, and this first experiment opens the door."

Diamonds are just the beginning

Glover's team chose diamond to demonstrate x-ray and optical wave mixing because diamond's structure and electronic properties are already well known. With this test bed, wave mixing has proved its ability to study light-matter interactions on the atomic scale and has opened new opportunities for research.

"The easiest kinds of diffraction experiments are with crystals, and there's lots to learn," Glover says. "For example, light can be used to alter the magnetic order in advanced materials, yet it's often unclear just what the light does, on the microscopic scale, to initiate these changes."

Looking farther ahead, Glover imagines experiments that observe the dynamic evolution of a complex system as it evolves from the moment of initial excitation by light. Photosynthesis is a prime example, in which the energy of sunlight is transferred through a network of light-harvesting proteins into chemical reaction centers with almost no loss.

"Berkeley Lab's Graham Fleming has shown that this virtually instantaneous energy transfer is intrinsically quantum mechanical," Glover says. "Quantum entanglement plays an important role, as an excited electron simultaneously samples many spatially separated sites, probing to find the most efficient energy-transfer pathway. It would be great if we could use x-ray and optical wave mixing to make real-space images of this process as it's happening, to learn more about the quantum aspects of the energy transfer."

Such experiments will require high pulse-repetition rates that free electron lasers have not yet achieved. Synchrotron light sources like Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source, although not as bright as FELs, have inherently high repetition rates and, says Glover, "may play a role in helping us assess the technical adjustments needed for high repetition-rate experiments."

Light sources with repetition rates up to a million pulses per second may someday be able to do the job. Glover says, "FELs of the future will combine high-peak brightness with high repetition rate, and this combination will open new opportunities for examining the interactions of light and matter on the atomic scale."

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LOVE, CONVENTION-STYLE

It wasn't all politics at the convention. There was time for romance, too.

RNC Production Manager Bradley Thomson, 32, proposed to Laura Bowman, 27, on the convention stage Wednesday morning. Thomson led Bowman onstage, where the screens were filled with pictures of the couple and their dog. Thomson got down on one knee, and Bowman immediately accepted.

She later said that the engagement was a surprise, although she knew something was up. "I thought there was something fishy when he said that there was a sound problem, because there never is," Bowman said.

The couple met in New York and have dated for about two years.

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Call it what you will but cruising during hurricane season is never a dull moment. Just ask the thousands of passengers who sailed out of South Florida this past week during Tropical Storm Isaac. Passengers on Royal Caribbean?s Allure of the Seas turned a week-long vacation into a forced nine days at sea, due back in on Tuesday.

Historically, cruise rates are always lower during hurricane season because the chance of disruption but they do have their perks.

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Employer-Based Health Insurance

by Doug on August 27, 2012

I had a thought about our current fish-bicycle style employer-based health insurance system where good chunk of the American public?s health insurance is tied to their place of employment. The two things aren?t really connected intuitively. There is no real reason one has to be tied to the other. And I think it results in some unintended consequences ? for example, sick people or family members are sick people are likely to stick with a job that?s otherwise unsuitable for them simply so they can keep living and stuff.

But, it does have one salient feature that?s especially resonant in the United States ? it at least gives some assurance that we are not insuring lazy people. Laziness might be the cardinal sin in the U.S. And, I do believe, we?d rather have a screwed up, expensive system of health insurance that gives us less for our dollar if it means that no one who is lazier than us gets more than us.

Which might explain why Medicaid is fairly unpopular. Even I?m guilty of it. Within the last month, I?ve grumbled to my wife about some expensive procedure received by someone with whom we?re acquainted. It was something that would possibly wipe us out financially despite being insured if we were to find ourselves in that position. But, since the recipient has Medicaid and nothing to lose, in some ways, they?re better positioned to receive medical care.

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Work From Home Jobs In NJ - Small Business Market

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While unemployment rates are beginning to improve in the U.S., turning around the economy from the recession has been challenging to say the least. There are still many that cannot find work in their chosen profession and as a result they can become desperate for work. This often leads to checking online for Work From Home Jobs In NJ, but out of this desperation people can get sucked into scams and this is where research helps.

What does working from home involve?

If you want to work from home, realize that a legitimate telecommuting job requires the same amount of work as if you were working in an office building. In other words, you cannot sit around all day and work an hour a day and expect that to ear a full time income. You must work hard and be disciplined with your time because if you do not manage your time well, you will not make much money. The basic tools you?ll need include a phone, Internet access, and and a fast computer.

Spotting an online scam

There are plenty of real Work From Home Jobs In NJ, but there are still online scams and there are quick ways to identify these. Look for signs such as:

• Sounds too good to be true ? if the company is promising that you can make a lot of money but working very little, it is most likely a scam
• If the company or website asks you to send money to them to ?cover? administrative fees, it is a scam. A real work at home job is going to pay you ? not the other way around. Never send money to a supposed ?job? asking for money.
• Avoid answering ads that pertain to a company sending checks to you to deposit in your bank account and immediately send funds to someone else. The checks they send are not real and you?ll end up owing your bank for the funds you withdrew. These scams often have ?fancy job titles?

Using online forums for guidance

Real Work From Home Jobs In NJ do exist but you have to do research on the company to ensure it?s real. There are forums that are geared toward work at home jobs and these can help you in determining if a company is legit. The more you research, the more confident you?ll feel accepting a job.

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Republicans ready to roll, but Isaac clouds tone

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? For the thousands of Republican convention-goers who've been cooling their heels in Tampa, the party is finally on. But with New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast waiting fearfully to see where a massive storm makes landfall, politics has become an awkward enterprise and no one knows what sort of party it will turn out to be.

At least for now, the Republican National Convention will go on Tuesday according to its latest script: delivering Mitt Romney the presidential nomination he fought years to achieve, calling the party to unify around him and setting the stage for the final stretch of the hotly contested campaign to unseat President Barack Obama.

Romney was coming to Tampa on Tuesday, in time to see his wife's speech in the evening, although it was kept a mystery whether he would attend the convention before his big address Thursday night.

The high campaign season opens with Romney and Obama about even in the last of the pre-convention polls, with each candidate possessing distinct and important advantages. The Democrat is the more likable or empathetic leader; the Republican is more highly regarded as the candidate who can restore the economy, the top issue for voters.

Ann Romney's convention speech was designed to speak to that divide. It was an important part of the GOP's effort to flesh out her husband and present him to the nation as more than a successful businessman and the former Republican governor of a Democratic state, Massachusetts.

Isaac, the intensifying tropical storm bordering on a hurricane, skirted Tampa, a big relief for convention organizers worried about the safety of the host city and GOP delegates. But they remain saddled with the question of how to proceed with a political festival ? one devoted both to scoring points against Obama and firing up excitement for Romney ? under the shadow of a dangerous storm crawling toward the Gulf Coast.

Organizers essentially cut Monday from the schedule, calling the convention to order just long enough to recess it, and shoehorned their four-day showcase into the remaining three days. But even that was subject to change, depending on Isaac's whims.

Republicans plainly had more at stake in their convention week ? Democrats meet next week in Charlotte, N.C. ? but the Obama campaign also had to recalibrate its tactics as Gulf residents fled their homes or hunkered down. Vice President Joe Biden was called off a Romney-bashing trip to Florida. On Monday, the president worked on preparations for the storm, declaring a state of emergency in Louisiana, speaking with governors and directing federal officials to coordinate disaster relief with state and local officials along the Gulf Coast.

That's not to say partisanship has subsided with Isaac's gathering strength. Hardly.

Obama heads to Iowa on Tuesday as the first stop on a campaign trip in which he will make a personal appeal to college voters in three university towns: Ames, Iowa; Fort Collins, Colo.; and Charlottesville, Va.

On Twitter Monday night, Obama circulated a quotation from Women's Health Magazine suggesting that Republicans would take away women's right to contraception, which the Romney campaign denies. "Crazy as it sounds, the fight to limit or even ban birth control is a key issue in the upcoming presidential election," it said.

And Republicans made clear that Obama's performance is very much fair game for the convention. Reince Priebus, the Republican chairman, may have gone beyond Romney's comfort zone on that front when he told "CBS This Morning" that "we need to prosecute the president who seems to be in love with the sound of his own voice."

The suggestion of criminal proceedings against a president, however rhetorical, was a step beyond the ordinary, and Russ Schriefer, Romney's chief convention planner, appeared to dissociate himself from the remark. "I wouldn't define it that way and I wouldn't look at it that way," he told a news conference. "What we would want to do is define what President Obama has done over the last four years, how and why he's failed, and how his leadership has really failed the American people."

In a sign of just how stage-managed these conventions have become, the never-dull New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie did something he rarely does before a speech ? wrote down a full text ? as he prepared to deliver the keynote address Tuesday night. "They want you to work off a full text and that's fine," he told MSNBC. "I think my challenge up there is gonna be to be natural and be myself."

In the same interview, Christie pounced on Todd Akin, the Senate Republican candidate in Missouri who set off sparks with his inflammatory remark that a woman's body has a way of preventing pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape." Romney is still trying to tamp down that distraction and get people thinking about the economy, not Republican abortion policy.

"In the end, these other guys don't matter," Christie said. "They're background noise ? Todd Akin in Missouri, who's a joke and should get out of the race and everybody knows it, except for him apparently."

Romney managed to stir up the pot over abortion, if briefly, when he said in a CBS interview that he opposes abortions except "in the case of rape and incest, and the health and life of the mother." Any exceptions made solely on the basis of a woman's health have drawn particularly fierce criticism from abortion foes for years, because they argue such an exception is so broad as to do nothing to limit the procedure.

But Romney's aides quickly said he wasn't, in fact, advocating an exemption for a woman's health. "He opposes abortion except for cases of rape, incest and where the life of the mother is threatened," said Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman. Still, his comment underscored his difference of opinion on the subject with his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, as well as with his own convention platform, which opposes all abortions.

With the economy seen as Romney's strong suit, and Obama's economic record considered a fat target in a time of persistent unemployment over 8 percent, Republicans, both from the stage and the floor, want to keep a laser focus on the subject.

"We've got to make the case that he is uniquely qualified in this hour," said Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., interviewed in the hall. "This week is about convincing the 10 percent of undecided voters that Romney has always been called to come out and fix broken organizations."

Even so, there were unmistakable if gentle nudges from Republicans who say it is also vital for Romney to broaden his appeal.

"This is Romney's threshold moment," Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, wrote in The Washington Post. "He must demonstrate that he would follow the example of other Republican presidents in addressing issues important to women."

An AP-GfK poll of registered voters conducted from Aug. 16-20 found Obama leading Romney 50 percent to 44 percent among women. That represented a narrowing of the gap by Romney since a survey in May, when the president led 54-39 among female voters.

Romney trailed badly among another key group. A Gallup poll taken between July 30 and Aug. 1 found Obama winning 60 percent support among Hispanic voters, and the Republican at 27 percent, little different from 64-29 earlier in the year.

Among seniors, the group most affected by a Medicare debate that has become central to the campaign, Romney led Obama by a margin of 52 percent to 42 percent in the recent AP-GfK poll. That was compared with 53-40 in May.

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Woodward reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Brian Bakst, Thomas Beaumont, Tamara Lush, Brendan Farrington and Julie Mazziotta in Florida; Steve Peoples in New Hampshire; Philip Elliott in Wisconsin and Steven Ohlemacher, Alicia A. Caldwell and Jennifer Agiesta in Washington contributed to this report.

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Player seeking game...but specific request.

Pretty simple, and very specific, I'm looking for a game to be Batman or Wolverine in. If not specifically Batman or Wolverine, than a Batman-esque character or a Wolvie-esque one, with the cape and the armor and the gadgets and the good stuff, or the claws and the metal and the antihero, you get the drill. It can be a straight up superhero game, it can be something more cyberpunkish, it can be traditional D&D where my guy is sort of stranded there, whatever. In fact that's always been part of the fun for me, playing a stranger in a strange land.

Oh, and I can't really defend how out of theme either one of them would be in some campaigns, but let me say that I have no problem with them being low powered if it's a lower level campaign. You know, a low-tech Batman or a Wolvie with bone-claws or a far weaker healing factor.

Unless, of course, the campaign is high powered to begin with. Like I said, I'm good with anything as long as I get to be Batman(Or something highly similar.).

Or Wolverine(Or something highly similar.).

So, yeah.

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High School is a living hell!

It?s bad being at the bottom of the food chain, you want to be a prep or at least associated. If not good luck with the next four years.

If you want to survive high school, you have to be cut throat. You have to make friends were you fit in and try not to make a fool of yourself. But, that's hard when your dub a certain stereotype with in seconds of walking onto campus. I don't envy you...Good luck.

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U.N. body urges G20 action on food prices, waste

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The world's top farm producers in the Group of 20 countries must agree coordinated action to ease worries about food prices, the head of the United Nations food agency said on Monday, as he and other experts bemoaned a huge global waste of food and water.

The third price surge in four years has come after drought in the United states and poor crops from Russia and the Black Sea bread basket region.

Senior figures from the G20 will discuss the food price rises this week, but any decisions on action are unlikely before a mid-September report on grain supply, officials have said.

U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation Director-General Jose Graziano Da Silva said he would not characterize the current food price rise as a crisis, but it could reach that level next year if harvests in the southern hemisphere were disappointing.

"We need coordinated action and I believe that the G20 is responsible enough for this action," da Silva told a news conference during a conference on water in the Swedish capital.

The annual World Water Week conference looks at how resources are used and the link between water and food security.

Speaking to Reuters, da Silva said any coordination should involve avoiding unilateral export bans and encouraging substitution of foods, for instance the eating of beans in Latin American and of casava in Africa.

He noted that between 85 and 95 percent of the crops most affected by the price rises, wheat and corn, came from the G20.

He said that even if wheat prices rose 10 to 20 percent that did not mean bread prices would rise by the same amount.

Da Silva noted that the food price rally was not as serious as in 2007/08, when there were violent protests in countries including Egypt, Cameroon and Haiti.

"There is no crisis," he told Reuters. "This kind of panic buying is what we need to avoid at the moment."

Da Silva and other experts at the conference said that there was also a massive waste of food in the world, an issue that needed to be resolved in order better to harness resources.

"Up to half of the food we produce never gets eaten," said Torgny Holmgren, executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute.

A quarter of the water used worldwide was used to produce more than one billion metric tons of food that nobody eats, he said.

Da Silva told the conference that one third of all food production was lost and that this was due to poor storage in developing countries, or being thrown away in rich countries.

He also said water security was a vital factor for food security and that food needed to be produced in a way that conserved water, used it more sustainably and intelligently, and helped agriculture adapt to climate change.

"We need to produce more with less," he added.

(Reporting by Patrick Lannin; Editing by William Hardy and Veronica Brown)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-food-chief-hopes-coordinated-g20-response-122143023.html

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