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Three things that hurt US vs. Brazil

• Where the big problem on the U.S. back line lies now

Remember when we all sat around straining our brains to fix the gaping hole along the back line, the one at left back? Timmy Chandler came along ? and then dumped us like a cheating girlfriend. No matter, though, because Fabian Johnson rode in to the timely rescue. The Hoffenheim man has little wrong over two matches, strong in one-on-one defending, reasonably well positioned, troublesome on the attack, etc.

But there?s still a bugger of a problem back there; the trouble spot just shifted into the middle.

I?ve already written the early, brutal details about Oguchi Onyewu?s night to forget. He was a little better in the second half ? until the moment when he was late stepping forward, leaving Tim Howard stranded to stop an unchallenged shot that turned into No. 4.

Carlos Bocanegra still has something to offer, but his speed will become an increasingly liability unless Jurgen Klinsmann can find a quality partner to situate alongside him, one with a little more speed. Maybe it?s Clarence Goodson. Or maybe it can be Cameron with a little more top-level experience.

Either way, the case is being built that it just isn?t Onyewu.

• The imperfect midfield fix

The United States still has spots that are weak and vulnerable. Center back is not the only one.

The midfield mix was good enough against Scotland, but suffered severely Wednesday. Much of the trouble can be traced to Jermaine Jones, who lost too many balls, took way too long to catch the pace of the game (much faster than Saturdays) and wasn?t in the right spots, providing the requisite cover at the moments his team needed it most.

Meanwhile, Michael Bradley had another strong match. Mostly, at any rate.

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There are times when Bradley didn?t move out of the center channel to pressure (or better yet, forcefully eliminate) a Brazilian advance. It underscores a point I think we?re all learning: he?s not a defensive midfielder. Not that he can?t be serviceable there, but it?s not Bradley?s ideal positioning.

Bradley has evolved into a two-way man, and a darn good one. I know the Jose Torres backers may take issue, but Bradley is the best passer on the U.S. team. His ball into Fabian Johnson to start the U.S. goal was pinpoint perfect. Looking back over his body of work in the U.S. shirt, who can deny what he offers going forward, in arranging goals and scoring them?

The three-man arrangement looked better Saturday when Edu was the holding screener and Bradley?s starting positions were higher up the field. (Wednesday, Edu and Jones played ahead of Bradley in the triangle.)

• Too much whining, not enough ?getting on with it.?

The United States looked a little undone by the early penalty kick decision. Good call or bad, they have to get past it.

Landon Donovan was complaining too much, throwing his arms around when he needed total focus on that bunch of yellow wizards. He must have thought he was back in the L.A. Galaxy uniform; they do a lot of that stuff.

Donovan struggled to get anything going against Marcelo, among the globe?s top left backs, so some frustration may be understandable. Then again, as the most experienced U.S. man, he?s got to provide a better example.

Jones kicked into his bad old habit of lashing out temperamentally, crunching Neymar along the sideline.

Bradley has trimmed that petulant element from his game, and thankfully so. Jones, 30, may be what he is, unable to turn that stuff off at this point. It?s another reason Klinsmann would do well to keep looking for a third central midfielder.

Bottom line: this is big boy soccer, and the stakes will rise dramatically in just over a week. Things won?t always go the U.S. way, and they just have to get on with it.

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96% Moonrise Kingdom

All Critics (91) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (4) | DVD (1)

We may look back on Anderson's works as we do on the boxes of Joseph Cornell -- formal troves of frippery, studded with nostalgic private jokes, that lodge inexplicably in the heart. In Moonrise Kingdom, that lodging is already under way.

It makes you nostalgic for the pangs of young love.

What makes it an Anderson movie are the things he adds which mark all his films - the pop-cultural obsessions and excruciatingly detailed set decorations, overarching thematic concerns and little stylistic tics.

I liked this one because of its young performers, the evocative island setting (filmed in Rhode Island), Alexandre Desplat's lovely score and Robert Yeoman's slightly grainy cinematography.

The director's best film since 1998's Rushmore, it has none of the self-conscious smugness of The Life Aquatic or the empty eccentricity of The Royal Tenenbaums.

A gorgeously shot, ingeniously crafted, ?ber-Andersonian bonbon that, even in its most irritatingly whimsical moments, remains an effective deliverer of cinematic pleasure.

A gossamer fable of adolescent romance, played out with the cheekily whimsical, visually delicious style for which Anderson is famous.

Wes Anderson's most sartorially significant film yet.

At once funny and melancholic, whimsical and poignantly true.

One is at times reminded of AE Housman.

Moonrise Kingdom is a delight... stuffed full of the quirky details and gags that are Anderson's trademarks, but it also possesses an emotional undertow that will tug at those viewers in tune with its singular sensibility.

Capturing our inner children

If the deadpan sensibility of the film ultimately leaves it feeling a tad lightweight, that isn't to say that Moonrise Kingdom isn't a funny, witty and well-crafted film.

Typically quirky Wes Anderson dramedy has lots of heart.

A bittersweet and evocative period piece that's both a visual and narrative delight.

No one has an eye or sensibility like Anderson's, but this is a chilly disappointment. The unaffecting kids are meant to be the emotional center, yet the adults steal the film.

I really wanted to like this film. I respect Wes Anderson and his distinctive voice as a writer-director ('Rushmore' is one of my favorite films of the 1990s), but this latest endeavor is so precious and self-aware that it nearly smothers itself.

Those who find the director's work flawed by preciousness, however, may grow impatient well before the movie reaches the 90-minute mark.

Anderson has imagined the '60s on the East Coast as if from an Eddie Bauer catalog and Boys' Life, with the sensibility of The New Yorker.

Like many holiday locations, you wouldn't want to live there, but a mini-break from the norm can be a real tonic.

A sweet, charming and altogether delightful bit of whimsy from writer/director Wes Anderson.

I normally end up liking Wes Anderson's films, but I love this one.

The delightful Moonrise Kingdom marks a career high for offbeat auteur Wes Anderson.

Moonrise Kingdom is bewitching.

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80?s movie Review: April - Manchester's Finest

Now I don?t know if it was too busy getting naked with Madonna, relaxing with Frankie or waking George Michael up before he go-gos and crashes into another Prontaprint, but the 80s movie industry wasn?t very busy in April.

So I started with perpetual man-child Michael J Fox and Bright Lights Big City ? unfortunately not a hidden gem beneath a terrible name, like the folk band titled My Left Foot or the-porn-version-has-the-same-name A Few Good Men. Kiefer Sutherland (this time torturing people with his impossibly large hair) and MJF having parties and family issues alike is pleasant, but it?s easy to see why it?s not a stone cold classic. I blame the lack of teenage werewolves.

Then continuing with the Back to the Future theme, we had Marty McFly?s mum Lea Thompson in Casual Sex? (in fact, everyone did). Surprisingly, the name isn?t the worst thing about this film (I?ve had an inherent mistrust of punctuated movie titles since Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot). It?s either the talking head gender clich?s, the leather jacket worn by ?The Vin Man? or the fact there?s a character called ?The Vin Man?. If you?re expecting Casual Sex? to be provocative, you?ll find more sexiness depicted on standard bus stop knob graffiti.

Poor man?s Labyrinth, Legend screened next, but aside from Tim Curry?s best make up job since he was just a sweet transvestite in Rocky Horror, even Tom Cruise, man-child#2 can?t elevate it above a kid?s movie. Probably because he still can?t get into a PG movie without his parents.

Which led me onto My Beautiful Laundrette. Not being an aficionado of landmark gay cinema, I had to rely on the lure of it being Stephen Frears? (surely there?s a queen/The Queen joke in there?) first global hit. It?s also so early that its star Daniel Day-Lewis was still a cockney (?I tiddly-wink your milkshake!?).

A young Pakistani guy is given a laundrette to run by his wheeler-dealer uncle and despite being racially abused by his mates, finds time to convince old pal Day-Lewis to join him in doing up the laundrette (which as it turns out, is also a euphemism). As they struck up a romance behind the boxes of Daz, despite the subtle play between the cultures, I did snigger at the two closeted gay characters being called Johnny and ?Omo (well, Omar but everyone pronounced it Omo).

Originally made for TV but destined for greater things, it was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay ? and by handling the issues of racial tension, homosexuality and vast unemployment in Thatcher?s London with a darkly comic touch, it probably deserved the nod.

Although with vast civil unrest, it turns out London resembled the alternative 1985?s Hill Valley in BTTF. Some would say it speaks volumes about the two countries. According to the frothy Bright Lights? and Casual Sex?, Americans had cocaine and promiscuity propping up the fun at parties. Whilst our party of choice were the Tories ? even making a tale focused on a laundrette seem dirtier than the crunchy Y-fronts being washed there. So, fancy taking your brain out for a couple of hours? Try the US offerings. Rather take your chances with a dark Brit outlook? Go for Laundrette.

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Baltimore Orioles Among MLB's Biggest Surprises: From Pushover To Bully

Baltimore Orioles' Nick Markakis, right, is congratulated by teammate Adam Jones after hitting a solo home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays, Friday, May 11, 2012, in Baltimore. The Orioles won 4-3.(AP Photo/Gail Burton)

New York Times:

Matt Wieters made a comment in March that sounded so naive, it was almost charming. It was spring training, when even the lowliest teams can be optimistic. But Wieters, the catcher for the Baltimore Orioles, seemed to push the limits of the plausible.

"There's been teams that go worst to first before," he said by his locker in Sarasota, Fla. "We feel like we have the talent to do it, too."

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Union leader says NFL doesn?t deny collusion

NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith speaks as (from 2nd L) Tony Richardson, Domonique Foxworth and Charlie Batch look onduring a press conference held by the NFL Players Association at the Super Bowl XLVI Media Center in the J.W. Marriott Indianapolis on February 2, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? NFL players union chief DeMaurice Smith says his group?s claim of collusion will stand up in court.

The NFL Players Association claimed in U.S. District Court in Minnesota on Wednesday that the 32 teams had a secret salary cap in place during the uncapped 2010 season, and that it cost players at least $1 billion in wages.

?Cartels do what cartels will do when left unchecked,? Smith said Thursday outside union headquarters. ?The facts justify the complaint.?

On Wednesday, hours after the court action, the NFL issued a statement saying ?the union?s claims have absolutely no merit and we fully expect them to be dismissed.?

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello also said: ?There was no collusion. There was no agreement. These claims are totally unfounded.?

The union has spent much of the offseason challenging the league on a variety of issues ? from punishment handed down by Commissioner Roger Goodell for the alleged roles of four players in the Saints? bounties program to appeals in drug-related discipline. Now comes the court action in Minnesota, filed one day after the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys had grievances dismissed after having their salary caps reduced for this season and next.

The Redskins are losing $36 million and the Cowboys $10 million for overspending during the uncapped season ? a revelation that, in part, spurred the union?s claim of collusion.

?When we feel those rules are violated, we will, on behalf of our players, always act in their best interest,? Smith said.

?The 32 teams are defendants of the action right now. If there is evidence that is developed later on that would demonstrate that any one of those teams did not abide by the conspiracy, then my guess is those teams will make the appropriate assertions, and we?ll see where we end up.?

The complaint claims that ?conspiracy? set a $123 million salary cap for the 2010 season, when owners did not have the authority to do so.

According to the league, the CBA signed last August to end the 4 1-2 month lockout had clauses precluding the union from filing such a complaint. But NFLPA outside counsel Jeffrey Kessler disputed that Wednesday, saying a portion of those clauses was rejected by the court.

?It doesn?t sound like you?re denying the existence of collusion, does it?? Smith said.

As for the discord between the union and the league, Smith said it shouldn?t be surprising.

?We all got along, and the league locked us out,? Smith said. ?We certainly had players across history who left every bit of blood, sweat and tears on the field. And yet, the National Football League continues to fight us on a number of workers? comp cases.?

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A growing sense of optimism in housing market

Courtesy of Allison Cramer

Jacy Painter Kelly and her son, Painter, 5, cement handprints at their new home near Charlotte, N.C.

By Bill Briggs

While lugging 40 new cabinets into their nearly built home Wednesday, the Kelly family will gleefully stack another layer of chaos onto the saw-and-sales frenzy buzzing through their suburban Charlotte subdivision.

?It is a crazy-bizarre scene," said Jacy Painter Kelly, who will move into her new, four-bedroom house in Baxter Village in August along with her two young kids and husband. "Sales are insane. And the Goodyear store across the street gets a lot of business from all the nails in (residents?) tires.??

The bustle at Baxter Village is part of a quickening home-construction pulse across the nation: New-home sales edged up 3.3 percent from March to April to a seasonally adjusted 343,000-unit annual pace after a 332,000-unit rate in March, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.

That is a far cry from the 1.3 million sold at the height of the housing boom in 2005, but still represents the latest sign the battered housing market has regained a semblance of normality.

The median price of a new home sold hit $235,700 last month, up 4.9 percent from April 2011, according to Commerce statistics. A separate report Wednesday from the Federal Housing Finance Agency showed home prices also gained 1.8 percent in March after pushing 0.3 percent higher in February.

When blended with Tuesday?s report from the National Association of Realtors that existing-home sales touched a two-year high in April, analysts say evidence of a modest real estate revival seems to be mounting.?

Courtesy of Kevin Kelly

Painter Kelly, 5, vacuums construction dust at his family's new home near Charlotte, N.C.

?Things are looking good,? said Pat Newport, an economist with IHS Global Insight. ?These are still very low numbers by historical standards. But when combined with the NAR report, this tells us that something is going on. Prices are stabilizing after adjusting for inflation.

?It?s hard to get a good picture of the housing market early in the year because (warming) weather can distort the numbers. But I think the picture emerging is a good one. The housing market is getting better,? Newport added. ?We had a very good first quarter, and the numbers are telling us it was more than just good weather helping the market.?

Amid Wednesday?s fresh data dump, Newport called the FHFA release ?the really good news? because ?it showed prices are increasing pretty much across the board, in all nine census divisions.?

Newly built homes represent less than 20 percent of the U.S. housing market, but they place a far larger footprint on the overall economy. Each home built creates an average of three jobs per year and produces about $90,000 in tax revenue, according to the National Association of Home Builders.

The 3.3 percent rise in new home sales ?is line with our expectations for a continued, modest increase in home sales as buyers gain confidence in the economy and their jobs,? said David Crowe, chief economist with the NAHB.

TODAY real estate contributor Barbara Corcoran gives a peek inside five family-sized homes including a mountain oasis with covered porch in Boise, Idaho, a 1905 neoclassic home in Wilmington, Delaware with gleaming hardwood floors and a tropical retreat in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

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Cory Booker on "Meet the Press"

No offense, New Jersey?but just why should we care what Cory Booker says?

The Newark mayor, so familiar with the media spotlight, tripped when he criticized Obama ads targeting Romney's Bain days. The guy in charge of America's 67th largest city sure knows how to steal the spotlight.

This time, the attention backfired after he appeared on "Meet the Press" to weigh in on the Euro zone, Facebook's IPO, and Obama's strengths. Since then, America's most popular mayor has taken a brutal political beating from the left and unwanted affection from the right. The turmoil hints at Democrat nerves over what some perceive as a close election, and Republican eagerness to gain a foothold against a presumptive nominee accused of being elitist. One thing might be faintly reassuring, at least to Booker: His words count.

Booker Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube: Besides oodles of charisma, Booker is an exhaustive social media user: He ranks #4 among most-followed elected officials in office and #26 as Most Influential in the Twitter political arena.

He has won the hearts of New Jerseyites for his Twitter snow-shoveling service. In 2012, Booker saved a neighbor from a burning house (suffering smoke inhalation and second-degree burns) and teamed up with Gov. Chris Christie in a video that went viral.

Nor does he shun old media: He was featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary "Street Fight" and Peabody Award-winning series "Brick City" (described a real-life version of "The Wire"). The mayor emerged in a 2009 war with Conan O'Brien that showcased his ability to straddle digital and broadcast worlds:

On September 23, O'Brien joked that Newark's health care program included a one-way bus ticket out of the capitol. Don't mess with Brick City: Booker, riding on a Sundance Channel exposure, took to the Web with his mock response. The back-and-forth entailed bans from airports, then entire states (Booker from the Sunshine State, "CoCo" from the Eastern Seaboard) until?yes?Hillary Clinton brokered a detente. Hands were shook, a $100k donation was granted, and battlefield history of scrappy Web vs. big TV was made. (Dec. 21, 2009, "Host Hostilities," Yahoo! Year in Review)

The quote that launched a thousand blogs: Booker's "Meet the Press" appearance might have gone largely unnoticed, until he criticized the negative tone from both sides:

[T]his kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides. It's nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough. Stop attacking private equity, stop attacking Jeremiah Wright. This stuff has got to stop because what it does is it undermines, to me, what this country should be focused on. It's a distraction from the real issues. It's either going to be a small campaign about this crap or it's going to be a big campaign, in my opinion, about the issues that the American public cares about. (May 20, "Meet the Press")

Republicans embraced his 88 words, while Democrats both berated and defended him.

Cory Booker and the Big Bain Backfire: a sampling of comments Backlash Support (dubious and otherwise) Backlash against the backlash "...[O]n this particular instance he was just wrong." (Chief Obama strategist David Axelrod) "An urban mayor who nearly DIED saving neighbor from a fire, has earned right 2 demand integrity & courage from other leaders" (Civil rights activist Van Jones) "I would not have backed off the comments if I were Mayor Booker." (Former Tenn. Rep. Harold Ford, Jr.) "Booker appears to have damaged the Obama campaign's efforts to define Mr. Romney in the early weeks of the general-election race." (May 22, Christian Science Monitor) "Yes, doggone it. It was a shame to see Cory kind of back down from what his answer was which was so candid." (Sarah Palin) "Booker's independence from Democrats should come as little surprise." (May 21, New Jersey Ledger) "I'll tell ya, it was astounding that they have listed this guy as a surrogate when he is intending to go on television and to trash everything Obama is making the case for." ("Hardball" commentator Chris Matthews) "I Stand with Cory. Don't Let the Obama Campaign Silence Support for Job Creation." (Republican National Committee petition) "[Chris Matthews] ought to celebrate all truth-telling, even when it does involve "betraying" partisan loyalties." (May 22, The Atlantic)

Booker played quick defense. He clarified his stance on YouTube and waxed philosophical on Facebook. He repeatedly declared his Twitter loyalty.

Cory Booker #IStandWithObama

Obama "surrogate" or saboteur?: Salon, which called Booker the "surrogate from hell," imagined more fiendish motives from a man "just too smart and too smooth to screw up so epically":

More likely, Booker went on the show to help himself and to advance his own long-term political prospects. And on that score, his appearance was a success ... It wouldn't be surprising if Booker has already heard from the White House, and surely he's now in for a world of abuse from Obama supporters. But that hardly means he made a mistake, at least in terms of his own ambition. (May 20, Salon)

As Salon points out, the 43-year-old was the Obama precursor before people even knew there was an Obama. Booker, who is black with Caucasian and Native American ancestry, is laden with Ivy League degrees and carries enormous working-class cred. Then again, a Fox News editorial not only called the Obama campaign ad a "brilliant pivot point," but declared that Booker gave the president a chance to reinforce the message.

Cory Booker, the Democratic mayor of Newark, made headlines calling the ad "nauseating to the American public," and that gave Mr. Obama the perfect opportunity to attack Mr. Romney, oh so effectively ... Despite what pundits say about Mr. Booker's performance on "Meet the Press," Mayor Booker played the shill so well?he deserves an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. (May 22, Fox News)

And who's to say both scenarios are mutually exclusive? In the meantime, Booker can look fondly back at days when both sides could work together?what a difference a month can make.

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Afghans back Chicago deal, warn West to keep promises

KABUL (Reuters) - People in Afghanistan were surprisingly optimistic on Tuesday about NATO's plan to pull combat troops out of their war-ravaged nation by the end of 2014, but warned Western leaders to stick to aid and security promises.

A Chicago summit meeting of the 28-member bloc, attended also by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other world leaders, endorsed an exit strategy on Monday that calls for handing control of Afghanistan to its own security forces by the middle of next year.

But it left unanswered questions about how to prevent a slide into chaos and a Taliban resurgence after the pullout.

Despite the sense of combat fatigue in Chicago and frustration that nearly 11 years of military engagement had failed to defeat Taliban Islamists, Afghans were surprisingly upbeat. They said the agreement showed Western nations would not abandon their nation after a decade-long war and a massive aid and reconstruction effort.

"I don't think foreign nations will leave us as easily as they say. The international community has spent billions of dollars here now," said university student Tawab, speaking to Reuters at a park near a mosque in central Kabul.

"The conference has decided that some foreign forces will stay in Afghanistan, so it's like back-up support."

Housing prices in Kabul have jumped 15 percent since U.S. President Barack Obama, who declared on Monday that the 10-year war was "effectively over", visited Kabul to sign a long-term security deal with Karzai on May 2.

Donor nations have been negotiating agreements with Karzai's government committing to ongoing aid and reconstruction support, as well as government and agricultural advisers, for at least a decade beyond the two-year NATO drawdown ending in 2014.

Since a U.S-led coalition helped Afghan forces topple the Taliban government in late 2001, Afghanistan has been one of the world's largest aid recipients, with more than US$57 billion spent on development to help counter support for insurgents.

In volatile southern Helmand province, one of the most violent parts of the country and the scene of several major clashes between the Taliban and Western troops, villagers said their lives had improved.

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Ezatullah, a shopkeeper in the town of Marjah where NATO troops fought one of the bloodiest battles of the war, said a 35-km (22-mile) paved road connecting to the provincial capital Lashkar Gah had nearly been completed, cutting costs and travel time to prevent vital food supplies spoiling in the area's searing summer heat.

"And now we have a health clinic built three years ago which provides most services to people. But still people are facing problems, as it's not enough. There should be at least a clinic in every big village," he said.

Security had also improved since 15,000 U.S. and British surge troops ousted around 2,000 insurgents from the area, said Marjah resident Nisar Ahmad, draining support from the Taliban.

"Now this district is fully protected by Afghan Local Police. Almost all of our schools are open and boys and girls attend schools. But we still face a lack of electricity despite the billions of dollars spent," Ahmad said.

In the Arghandab district of neighboring Kandahar province - where U.S. troops suffered heavy casualties in 2010 - local resident Hajji Shah Mohammad Ahmadi said economic progress had been spurred by roads, schools and new health clinics.

And even in restive eastern provinces, where Western troops are still fighting to choke off insurgent supply routes across the mountainous Pakistan border in one of the last major offensives of the war, local people counted improvements.

Abdul Naser, from Chapa Dara district in Kunar, said where once there had been no roads, water canals, electricity, schools, clinics or security, now there was vehicle traffic, power generators, doctors and education.

"We got two clinics during the past months with female doctors. We have paved roads. But some projects were not well built and people still face some security threats," he said.

However, an April poll by the privately-run Tolo TV channel found just over 50 percent of Afghans though civil war would break out again after foreign troops withdrew, while 26 percent saw no change and 23 percent thought security would improve.

Still, property dealers in the capital Kabul - once convulsed by civil war but where cars have now replaced bicycles and some high-rise apartment buildings have sprung up - say business is thriving despite worries.

"People's morale and economic morale have gone up," said Mohammad Nader Faizyaar, the owner of the high-end Faisal Business Centre mall that retails everything from women's fashion accessories to furniture.

"People feel that the future of this country is stable and everyone can hopefully invest."

Sarwar Akbari, 38, a Kabul resident in the Wazir diplomatic district, said international backers had to now honor their promises not to abandon the country amid pressure on aid budgets, particularly in cash-strapped Europe. He also said they had to reach some kind of agreement with the Taliban.

"If they don't fulfill their promises, and if they don't stop neighboring countries from interfering in Afghanistan and reach a peace with the Taliban, then this conference and any others will be useless," he said.

(Additional reporting by Jack Kimball; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

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Recent surveys in both the United States and Europe have found that real estate agents are among the least-respected professionals, based in part on their perceived lack of ethics.

But a number of real estate agents in California are working hard to erase those negative stereotypes by helping local seniors.

As reported recently in the San Jose Mercury News, members of the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors have been volunteering for about 10 years with their association?s Realtor Service Volunteer Program (RSVP), which has real estate professionals assist local seniors with household errands and chores.

Some of the tasks include changing light bulbs, vacuuming floors, washing windows, and changing furnace filters.

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Tiny sensor reads palms, secures your laptop

12 hrs.

John Roach

Laptops and smartphones of the future may read our palms before they allow us to access our personal data, according to ongoing security technology under development in Japan.

The sensor under development by researchers at Fujitsu Laboratories confirms a person?s identity based on the pattern of blood vessels inside their hand.

While the palm-reading technology isn?t new (the company is already rolling out ATMs based on the concept), the sensors are now small enough ??just 16 mm square and 5 mm thick ? to be used in mobile computers.

The palm-reading technology is different than reading skin lines to determine a person?s longevity or love life, or even reading a fingerprint to determine identity.

"Fingerprints give information about the surface of the hand, but they can be hard to use under some conditions,? Takashi Morihara, a researcher at Fujitsu Laboratories, told?video news website Diginfo TV.

?Palm vein ID uses information about the inside of the hand, so it can be used consistently under any conditions."

For now, the sensors are too big to work in smartphones, but pocket-sized gadgets are the goal. For those who worry about leaving their phone at the coffee shop, that could come as good news.

-- Via Diginfo TV

John Roach is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. To learn more about him, check out his website and follow him on Twitter. For more of our Future of Technology series, watch the featured video below.

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Image: Courtesy of Hari Manoharan Stanford University/SLAC, mota.stanford.edu

The honeycomb lattice is one of nature?s favorite patterns. In the two-dimensional crystal of carbon atoms known as graph?ene, for instance, the honeycomb structure arises from bonds among the atoms. Kenjiro K. Gomes of Stanford University and his colleagues have learned to make a honeycomb material in a striking new way. They place carbon monoxide molecules at regular intervals on the surface of a copper crystal, creating an imitation graphene layer. (The added molecules appear as black dots.)

By tweaking the pattern, the researchers can investigate how variations of small-scale structure change a material?s electric properties. In the image at the left, a slightly deformed honeycomb lattice forces the electrons to behave as if they were subjected to intense magnetic fields. Such ?designer materials? may lead to the discovery of new and exotic physics.

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V010-99-W
LIFE ON THE VERTICAL
Science/Nature
46:50
Prod. Co.: Out-Yonder Productions
This film is the story of a unique population of
mountain goats in northwestern BC which, unlike
their run-of-the-rocks cousins, live beneath the
earth?s surface on the walls of Canada?s Grand
Canyon.

V043-00
LIFE UNDER MIKE
Documentary Social/Political
47:00
Prod. Co.: Guerrilla Films Inc.
A David and Goliath tale about one man, his
camera and the beginning of a revolution in
Ontario. Brimming with attitude, it rips the guts
out of the new world order Utopia.

V200-03
LIFE WITH DAD
Documentary General Subject
43:00
Prod. Co.: National Film Board/Western Centre
More men are becoming single fathers in North
America than ever before. Candid interviews and
glimpses into the lives of three men at different
stages of fatherhood provide a thought-provoking
and entertaining look at modern concepts of
masculinity, fatherhood and family.

V025-04
LIFE WITHOUT BORDERS: Home Cooking
Documentary Series
23:50
Prod. Co: Incandescent Films Inc.
In this day of fast food and faux ingredients, LIFE
WITHOUT BORDERS explores the importance
of home cooking, of natural foods, of sustenance for
the soul. Delicious, and funny.

V162-03
LIFE WITHOUT BORDERS: Show #5 People
Who Live In Saskatchewan On Purpose
Documentary Series
25:00
Prod. Co.: Incandescent Films Inc.
Some people choose to live in Saskatchewan ? what
a concept! How come they do that?

V425-02-W
LIFE?S A TWITCH
Documentary General Subject
31:00
Prod. Co.: Tina Hahn
He barks, he spits, he can?t help it. He?s also
witty, funny and brilliant. Duncan has Tourette Syndrome. Life?s a Twitch takes us on a quirky
ride into Duncan?s world. Where he polishes a
hearse for two days outside the gothic funeral
parlour that was his home. Where he ticks his
way through his doctorate defense on the nature
of ticks. And where he belts out songs that turn
his nightmare into a celebration.

V362-02
LIFECYCLES: A Story of AIDS in Malawi
Documentary Social/Political
56:30
Prod. Co.: Human Scale Productions
In a country where 200 die of AIDS every day, a
new way of life is emerging. Malawi won?t
perish, but rather must grow with the virus as a
catalyst.

V243-06
LIFELIKE
Documentary Nature/Environment
52:00
InformAction Films
?Lifelike? explores the fascinating world of
taxidermy. Funny, touching, and sometimes just
plain absurd, the film will make you think twice
about human nature and our relationship with
animals.

V038-06
LiFER
Comedy
16:45
1000 Handz Productions
Charles, a Canadian government statistician,
can?t crunch the same old numbers anymore.
Wanting to escape the inhumane world of office
politics, he breaks out of a boardroom meeting
to save a dying office plant, but instead finds
more trouble in the wilds of a city park. Just as
all hope seems lost, Mother Nature provides the
answer he really seeks?

V002-02
LIFERS: Stories from Prison
Documentary Social/Political
51:10
Prod. Co.: dimestore productions
Beginning with the roots and rise of youth
violence, travelling through deeper questions of
crime and humanity. This documentary explores
the realities of serving a life sentence in a
Canadian penitentiary through the eyes of a
young woman entering prison for the first time.

V055-96
LIFETIME, A
Commercials
00:30
Prod. Co.: Big Star Motion Pictures Ltd.
Lifetime memories from a 100-year-old uncle of
Mr. Vitale, founder of etalpasta.

V171-04
LIGHT.RAPID.TRANSIT.
Drama
15:00
LIGHT.RAPID.TRANSIT. is an anti-romance
film about a young mechanic who falls in love
with the automated woman?s voice on
Vancouver?s Skytrain system.

V267-02
LIGHTS FOR GITA
Animation
07:25
Prod. Co.: National Film Board of Canada
Eight-year-old Gita can?t wait to celebrate
Divali, the Hindu festival of lights, in her new
home, but a terrible ice storm cuts off the
power. Obviously, a Devali celebration now is
impossible! Or is it?

V014-03
LILY?S CRICKETS
Multicultural/Race Relations
45:35
Prod. Co.: Like Minded Media Ltd.
Lily is a top executive at a large computer
company. Her father dies and she must go back
to help her mother take care of the family?s
Chinese bakery. On her journey through the
past, Lily discovers complexities about her
mother?s love and unrelenting commitment to
her father.

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LINES I DRAW UPON MY BODY, THE
Experimental
05:00
Prod. Co.: (r)evolution media
The film is a deeply personal account of one
woman?s twenty-year struggle with eating
disorders. Images from her childhood and her
modelling career, as well as medical slides, are
projected onto her body as she reveals her story.

V060-02
LIPSERVICE: A Mystery
Experimental
45:00
Prod. Co.: AMF Productions
Animation meets the Dogme Manifesto in this
hand-held, hand-painted adventure of a single,
unemployed, lipless woman, who hires herself
out as a private detective.

V093-99
LISA?S JOURNEY
Documentary Social/Political
45:42
Prod. Co.: Alan Handel Productions
Lisa?s Journey is the story of a young
remarkable and rebellious Montreal woman
who left her affluent world behind to fight to save a
threatened rain forest in India. This documentary is
a highly personal journey of self discovery.

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