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Cybersecurity slowly has been getting the attention of the non-technology leaders over the last decade. But it's been the creation of the White House's cross-agency cybersecurity priority that seems to be driving that message more clearly home.
Andy Ozment, senior director in the White House's Cybersecurity Coordinator Office, said Thursday more budget folks understand why cybersecurity matters.
"We are using the cross-agency cybersecurity priority to drive improvements across our three priorities," he said, during a presentation at the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board meeting in Washington. "We are seeing improvements whether it's with agency CFOs or the Office of Management and Budget's budget folks. They have a more clear understanding and focus of cybersecurity."
Ozment said the cross-agency cybersecurity priority addresses the administration's top three priorities: strong authentication through the use of Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 smart identification cards, the Trusted Internet Connections initiative and the implementation of continuous monitoring.
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The White House in its fiscal 2013 budget request to Congress outlined 14 cross-agency priorities, ranging from job training to energy efficiency to data center consolidation.
Each has a specific goal agencies are trying to achieve. Under cybersecurity, the administration wants agencies to have implemented critical capabilities across at least 95 percent of their systems by 2014.
By getting the budget folks to recognize the importance of cybersecurity, IT folks can more easily make their cases for spending on specific areas.
Donna Dodson, deputy chief, computer security division, NIST
For instance, one hole in agency cyber programs is in the operating systems they use.
Donna Dodson, the head of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's computer security division, said many are stuck in a Microsoft Windows XP world and aren't taking advantage of the security upgrades built into Windows 7 or Windows 8.
She said many times that decision has to do with a business trade off the agency is making, and getting the budget people to understand why the investment is needed is difficult.
"Sometimes when you put some of these new systems in place, you break critical applications, and these operating systems do need to be thoroughly tested," Dodson said. "Sometimes you need to understand these are the critical applications that will break and it will not work for me, or here are the critical applications that will break, how do I fix them? Or I am going to accept that not everything I have in place today will work."
Rob Carey, the Defense Department's deputy chief information officer, said the military services are using an array of operating systems, ranging from Windows NT to Windows XP. He even recently visited a Navy base where in the classified area they were using green screens, meaning very early computers, with early versions of DOS or Unix-20-to-30 year old technology.
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Dodson said the decision to move to a new operating system only becomes more complicated because of cloud computing and mobile devices. She said NIST is trying to help out.
"With things like bring-your-own devices to work and thinking about cloud technology, we are trying to understand not just what that device needs to do, but also the back-end enterprise and what those capabilities need to be from an infrastructure standpoint whether it's cloud or something you have available in your own agency or enterprise today," Dodson said. "In addition, we are looking at technologies related to operating systems, vulnerability management, configuration management and security automation as a strong underpinning for enterprises, for clouds, for mobility that really have an effect that you can support things like continuous monitoring."
NIST also is helping with the technical pieces of the cyber cross agency priority goal in these areas.
Dodson said NIST is developing the update to the HSPD-12 standard.
"We want to give people strong tools that they can use to support both logical and physical access control using those cards," she said. "Today, we have standard reference material agencies can buy for a small fee where you get [HSPD-12] cards and some back end infrastructure so as you are building that capability for use of identity management with logical access control you have the test background in order to make it happen."
Around continuous monitoring, Dodson said NIST is further developing the standards based approach to security automation controls.
"Having those underpinnings in products and having that availability to support continuous monitoring is critical as we move forward," she said.
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Today the local council started flying the Catalan Swastika (as the Catalan Nationalist flag is known) in the middle of a roundabout in La Garriga. Not the same as the Catalan flag but one representing a political point of view. How would readers feel if a flag of a political party was hung up in front of the town hall (e.g. a democrat or republican flag instead of the stars and stripes). There is a nasty precedence in Europe.
There is a pretence that nationalism is about language but given that the schools in Catalonia teach in Catalan and only give 2 hours a week of Spanish as a foreign language this is not really what it is about. There is a very, very strong element of racism which they disguise as nationalism. Why do we get all the immigrants, they say, rather than Madrid. Hey, i say, I am an immigrant to which they reply but you are different (guess what, I have white skin).


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Battling back and forth and nearly scoring run for run, the Wilmington University baseball team got back in the win column on Tuesday as the Wildcats defeated visiting PSAC foe Millersville, 6-5, at Wilson Field.
Both teams scored three runs in the second inning and Millersville (16-15) scored single runs in the fifth and seventh to tie the game at 5-5 before the Wildcats (14-12) took the ball game with a single run in the bottom of the seventh.
Trailing 3-0 heading into the bottom of the second inning, the Wildcats found themselves with the bases loaded and two outs after two walks and a single by Jordan Johnson. BJ Janney stepped up and delivered a two-out, bases clearing double to tie the game at 3-3 after two complete.
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Nick Marick threw the last out of the seventh and shutdown Millersville with a scoreless eighth inning, getting the ball into the hands of his closer, Oncay, for the ninth.
Oncay, who hasn't allowed a run in 22 consecutive appearances dating back to the 2010 season, found himself in a minor jam with two outs. After King worked a one out walk, Stone singled to put the tying run on second with two outs. But Oncay buckled down and struck out Dan Johnson to end the threat and the ball game.
Johnson batted 3-for-4 with two runs scored to lead the Wildcats, while Janney and Harbach each added two hits. Janney led all batters with three RBI's, hitting his fourth double of the year. Lopes rounded out the Wildcats hits by going 1-for-2 with an RBI and a run scored.
Marics improved to 3-0 on the season by working out of the seventh inning jam. He threw 1.1 innings while striking one batter out and allowing one hit. Tim Racek got the nod on the mound for the Wildcats, throwing the first two innings while giving up three earned runs on five hits. Oncay recorded his conference leading seventh save of the season.
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Headstones of Aaron and Betsey Thomas will soon return to the family plot in Morningside Cemetery, Raymond Street. After several decades in the basement of the Times, 260 Washington St., Watertown, it was discovered Thursday by village resident Allen S. Beamish that the monuments belong in Section G of the cemetery, where nine other Thomas family members are buried.
Mr. Beamish told a Times reporter Thursday that after he read about the mystery in the paper earlier this week, he began digging for answers.
I had a friend when I grew up that was a Thomas, and I was thinking if this person was related, he said. I knew there was a Thomas family plot in Malone because I have a photographic memory. You can go online and check inventory and it says Aaron and Betsey Thomas are buried there.
Helpful markings on the two headstones stated Aaron died on June 4, 1869, and that his widow survived him by nearly five years, dying on April 11, 1874.
After Times staff searched for any clues about the mystery Thomas couple, a volunteer in the genealogy department at the Roswell P. Flower Memorial Library found Aaron and Betsey were a farming couple who owned a considerable amount of property in Franklin County, somewhere in or near Malone. His source: the 1860 census for Franklin County, displayed on HeritageQuest Online.
Through his own research, Mr. Beamish found matching dates and names, although Betsey was spelled Betsy through the Northern New York Tombstone Transcription Project, an online tracking system for people in cemetery plots in Franklin, Clinton and Essex counties. The project was hosted by rootsweb, an Ancestry.com online community.
The project also listed that both Aaron and Betsey have footstones at the cemetery, along with seven other relatives.
Even a last name as common as Thomas couldnt stop Mr. Beamish from solving part of the Times headstone mystery. He said hes always been fascinated with history and learning about peoples ancestors.
Im like a graveyard rabbit, he said. My mom would take us there when we were little and Id wonder what life was like back then. My mother instilled in me that it was important to learn about people before you. Its a respect thing. People now dont even respect the living.
Richard S. Allen, cemetery superintendent, said he was unaware the headstones were missing until he read it in the Times this week.
I went in the office, checked records and found they are buried in the Marvin Thomas lot, he said. Its an older section of the cemetery. In this cemetery, there are several areas that dont have markers.
He said he would check the sites today to see if they have headstones.
Morningside Cemetery is a total 46 acres, and Section G alone is four acres. Lot #33, where the Thomas family is buried, is 424-square-foot. Mr. Allen said the most recent burial was a Willis Thomas in 1919.
Mr. Beamish, Mr. Allen and John B, Johnson, Jr., the Times editor and co-publisher, have all said they have no idea how, or why, the headstones ended up in the Times basement.
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Review: iOS 7 Gives Us Insight Into the Future of Mobility
As team lead in user experience for SAP's Mobile Design Center, I recently spent time familiarizing myself with Apple's latest release of iOS 7 in order to gain better insight into how this new mobile operating system will affect users.
iOS 7 is being touted as the first major update to the look and feel of Apple products since the passing of Steve Jobs, who was known for his love of "skeuemorphic" design, in which user interface elements are designed to mimic real life.
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iOS creator and former lead design thinker Scott Forestall was also a long-time champion of skeuomorphic design. However, Apple design chief Jony Ive, who stepped forward last year to take the role of lead design thinker for product hardware as well as software environment, has long been a critic of skeuomorphic design.
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The changes to the graphic interface are immediately apparent: a thin-serifed global font, Helvetica Neue, combines with thin line icons and bright, primary colors to create a look that clearly distinguishes iOS 7 from its predecessors. The colorful, flat icons use the retina display to high advantage by creating a sparkling, eye-catching home screen. The changes aren't just cosmetic: the new gesture-controlled functions represent an advance in a gesture-based behavior that didn't exist a few short years ago and allow easier access to controls, like Notifications Center or Control Center, and faster content searching with a single swipe down on any screen.
iOS 7 … a light and playful experience, perfectly in tune with the content it is designed to support
In a keynote speech at Apple's last Worldwide Developer's Conference, Ives said: "True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absences of clutter or ornamentation, it's about bringing order to complexity."
When you look at all the new iOS 7 screens in together in a side-by-side view, you get a clear sense of what he means. The simplified design removes mental associations that might complicate one's ability to process the experience. At the same time the OS introduces dimension into the experience. Everything has been flattened into a two-dimensional layer but there are added translucent layers of functionality on top of each other, making it easy to move from one layer to the next.
The result is a light and playful experience, perfectly in tune with the content it is designed to support. The operating system minimizes the number of background brain cells required to process what you are seeing in order to allow you to more richly experience what you are feeling, substantiating Apple's claims that it's in the "experience-creating business."
And why should we expect anything less? This is the company that created the iProduct family of iTunes, iPods, iMovies, Garage Band, etc. and pioneered the concept of creating a compelling complete multi-media entertainment system for your computer.
In the same way, iOS 7 isn't supposed to be seen as another product offering but rather a way to perceive something already familiar from a different angle. It's a unique language that is easily understood and repeatable across multiple devices with varying screen resolutions and screen sizes and, above all, representative of Apple's unique brand values.
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Compare iOS 7 to Microsoft's 2012 release of the Metro user interface. There are arguable similarities found in the color palettes, font, and icon styling of the two different user interfaces. And yet there's a huge difference in how these two releases were executed on a brand level. Microsoft spent countless millions on advertising to create anticipation for Metro, which it tried to brand as a revolutionary game-changer.
It reminded me of a friend who tries to look younger then his years by wearing a baseball cap backwards on his head. Unless you can name three current pop songs that are topping the charts, have Tweeted at least 20 times that day and really know what "WWAG do," your hat had better face forwards. No matter how revolutionary and cool Metro tried to be, it was hamstrung by the fact that it lived side by side with a Windows browsing experience. And ultimately, "hip and cool" just aren't descriptors that reflect Window's long-time brand identity.
Apple, on the other hand, isn't trying to be the ultimate game changer here. Instead, they want to be the cilantro in the omelet: the ingredient that adds freshness and flavor when least expected. They don't want to dominate the experience: they want to surprise and delight you. One surprise I discovered was the new feature of a moving background image, which moves ever so slightly when you tilt your iPhone up and down. The effect makes it look like your pictures are nearly 3D, but if you want to really be impressed, set your iPhone homescreen picture as a panorama and spin around.
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That's what iOS 7 is telling me: that there are new and interesting experiences coming my way from the guys who made the iPhone and iPad. At the very least, I expect to see new advances in translucent user interfaces that communicate dimension in a nontraditional manner.
The new operating system also encourages users to stop unconsciously focusing on how they're making something happen and instead to enjoy what they're making happen. And this makes me excited about the other great leaps we'll see as the mobile landscape continues to evolve.
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The comments on this article are far more informative than the article itself. There's a line in one of teh authors replies to comment that nicely sums up my beef with the movement to "flat" design: "UX design is... moving away from the visual clues we have used in the past to inform users." Visual cues are important to users, and flat design abandons the familiar often with no replacement. Skeumorphic can certainly be overdone, but as a concept it has practical merit.
A little more critical analysis would help the credibility of your publication. Fanboy love letters like this belong on personal blogs. If it weren't for the comment section this article wouldn't have been worth reading.
Well, the Metro-Interface is simply clearer and easier to read. Way better than even iOS 7, which seems to be a bad compromise between overloaded skeuemorphic design and minimal, effective design.
How can a professional website like UXMagazine publish such a fanboy-ish take on this topic, very important to the mobile UX design industry? Microsoft is the pioneer in bringing minimalistic design approach with high emphasis on content and key app functions, transitions and animations. They're working really hard to reinvent themself risking one of their core businesses during the transformation. Android "Halo" (4.0) was highly inspired with Metro design aesthetics and Windows Phone design patterns. iOS7 is even more Metro-ish. You should give this company respect for what we have in mobile design right now. And that's very ironic to read these comments from SAP representative, the company which is not even trying to be younger.
I've had the iOS 7 beta for a few weeks now and I'd like to explain some of the reasons I really hate it.
The clean look of iOS 7 is nice in some places, but the abandonment of skeuomorphic design is so drastic that it affects usability in several areas with a lack of clear distinction between active objects and ordinary text.
I also think Apple has botched what seemed like an obvious lead to blur the line between desktop and handheld devices. Since the release of iOS 4.3 for the phone and OS X v10.7 Lion for the desktop, Apple started to blur the line between handheld devices and the desktop.
Microsoft must have liked the idea too. Windows 8 Live Tiles came out a few months later which appeared to be their attempt at blurring the line between desktop and handheld.
Apple also updated the desktop OS X to be more touch friendly like handheld devices and broadened the usability of touch oriented devices for the desktop such as the Apple Magic Trackpad and the Apple Magic Mouse.
iOS 7 throws all of this out in a giant leap backward with a departure from usability and GUI consistency across devices.
I *am* an older user, and your example of the yahoo! weather screen is harder to read and I know my husband couldn't do it (I've already HAD my cataract surgery and my eyesight is better than it has been, but I am unhappy with the lowered contrast). I'm glad he's got an android phone.
Thank you for reminding me NOT to upgrade my OS on my iPhone or iPad.
It seems to me that Apple is eschewing it's previous skeumorphic design philosophy precisely because Jobs is no longer there imposing his vision on everything. And I have to redesign 300 icons for the application my company makes because of this new design "trend"...
"The simplified design removes mental associations that might complicate one's ability to process the experience. "Wow, I completely disagree with that. Depth and texture help one recognize which things afford interaction. This is going to be difficult for older users and they've already thickened the font because it was virtually unreadable. Interactive elements take longer to perceive in the new interface resulting in pauses that weren't there before and more cognitive load required to process which things are interactive. It's going to be much more difficult for older users. Gestures are fine but they have basically stolen some of webOS's gestures but not even the best ones. Flattening the design also is bizarre now that they are on a screen allowing for more details than ever before. I understand getting out of the way of the content but interactive elements should look more interactive. Linkedin and Google are getting it more right than Apple. There is also the element of this being a trend and there will probably be some usability backlash hopefully pulling them back from where they've gone. Even great graphic designers like Erik Spiekermann have been critical of the design and typography choices. It's hard to believe so many articles have been written on this.
I think what many design critics tend to overlook is the all important driving factor in product development - "Consumer Boredom". Windows 8, iOS7, OSX, are all products that deliver necessary under-the-hood improvements, things like Flat Design or Skeuomorphic Design are driven by the fact that product companies must deliver products that "seem" to be different or else they face the dreaded consumer boredom or worse dips in stock price.
Even the sacred brand Braun has occasionally diverged from Dieter Ram's design aesthetic in order to prevent consumers from getting "bored". No matter how great or perfect the design principle, when you're dealing with a product that visually hasn't changed in years you run the risk of losing attention to upstarts. Consumer boredom happens much faster in today's cluttered, hyper disposable psyche.
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I agree this article oddly avoids specifics, but more improtantly, it cherry-picks some rudimentary points of iOS7. I've been using it in beta since launch, and we all know as designers there are horrible inconsistencies: from the nauseating icons, to the misshapen control center. A revolution in some areas? I think that's extreme, but debatable. A step back in others? Ansolutely, and more than the sad back button. They zeroed in on an attempt at structure at the expense of user interface and experience. And this is coming from a fanboy, believe me- I moved all of our companies apple (and app-centric) strong before iphone.
Useless article. He likes ios7. He doesn't really tell us why except that it has some nice layers and tilting features. There's nothing talking about the actual usefulness or efficiency of the interface design, just vague words about how pleasant it is. Personally I want a design that works well in addition to looking good. Since Android (not mentioned?!), iOS, BlackBerry and windows all look nice, let's talk about something more relevant.
Hi Brian,
I was trying to say two things: UX design is evolving into a newer form that is moving away from the visual clues we have used in the past to inform users. Interface designs, like the one Apple has presented in iOS7, are a good indicator that major enterprise leaders (like Google and Microsoft) are recognizing this and responding with proposals and ideas. To me, these ideas also point to a larger mind-shift: that design for devices is going to need to become less device-specific or brand-specific but much more focused on the utility that device can provide.
I think that's a good thing for the UX profession; it frees up the notions that things need to look a specific way and allow an exploration of function, utility and device. Yes, these are things we currently do in UX, but they are many times driven by platform. It would seem that those borders may be beginning to blur.
I hope that adds some insight.
Good coverage on the design elements of what Apple is attempting to update in their mobile OS - they've got some challenges ahead of them. They created a premium 'blue skies' platform 6 years ago (and they've done well with it). That's said, the new design 'feels' like a modern facade on a dated structure. There's nothing new or unique about what they're doing with a mobile interface (see Microsoft).
Wow. How can someone in this position and writing for such a site have any clues what "Metro" is all about and where it comes from?
This is seriously shameful. "Metro" was not released in 2012 with Windows 8. It is a design trend inside of Microsoft that goes back to Encarta Encyclopedia (google it!) and Windows Media Center (focus on content, typography and a two-dimensional list-view as the main interaction).
There is so much to learn about the concepts in these approaches and some are really forward thinking instead of just a new skin. The most important aspect about Metro is not even about the graphics but the interaction: content becomes chrome: an image of your friend is an icon to start a conversation, no boarders no decorations; you swipe your mails to sort them, no buttons or menus. Every good interface designer knows about the Zune or the Zune HD's interface. Or at least should know! Market share is irrelevant here. And it seems the author never even heard of Windows Phone launched in 2010.
The lack of knowledge is frustrating to be honest.
Hi tNo,
I was not ignoring the history of Metro, in fact I think as a legacy element in the history of Windows it speaks to real progress. I respect the work and I'm very familiar with the history behind it. That was not the point of what I was writing about however, and in order to be brief I did not describe detailed values that Metro provided to UX. I also still have my Zune player :)
" Microsoft spent countless millions on advertising to create anticipation for Metro, which it tried to brand as a revolutionary game-changer.
It reminded me of a friend who tries to look younger then his years by wearing a baseball cap backwards on his head."
This article really lacks self awareness. You knock MS for thinking they were being trend setting while you think they were clueless and out of touch... but Apple is clearly following the trend that MS started.
100% agree with you! It is quite aparent that the author is not really allowing Microsoft to have created something cool. "Because that would not be according to MS brand guidelines..."
Because apparently, if MS does it, it's bad and without meaning, but if Apple does it, they can do no wrong. I hate that kind of mentality. Thank you for stating how it really is. MS kicked into gear the "flat" design for mobile OS, and Apple is now taking the cake and running with it.
Hi QuentinH,
let me be sure to clear up that I am not denigrating Microsoft, the efforts they have made to UX design or picking a favorite UX operating system. As a contributor to UX, Microsoft has been a big influence in what can be seen, not only in iOS7, but other products as well. The issue for them, to me, is not as much design as product execution. Perhaps, if the other product aspects of the Zune and Windows Tablet had worked to better support the interface the story would be very different.
Interesting and refreshing perspective on the iOS redesign after countless blind bashings.
I too think that the problem was often, that the redesign criticism looked at iOS as a standalone product instead of taking into account the connections to the existing infrastructures and experiences in place. I am not yet sure if it will help tying it in better or just differently. One thing I am wondering about is that iOS is turning completely flat, while I did not see this change reflected in OSX yet. And I always thought that, as much as I was not a fan of most of the visual metaphors in place (aka the skeuomorphic design), it was interesting to see how consistent this experience was across devices.
I am wondering what the stylistic changes to iOS mean in regards to changing the overall experience. You have hinted at it, but all we can do at this point is probably just guess.


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Chicago's pitchers struggle late; offense problematic for New York
The Cubs have won four of their past six games, inching closer to the .500 mark despite a 3-2 loss in Friday's series opener against the Mets.
Chicago enters Saturday afternoon's contest at Wrigley Field with a 17-24 record. On the same date last year, the club was 15-23 and in the early stages of a 12-game losing streak. Manager Dale Sveum no doubt hopes this year's Cubs are headed in a different direction, but he's not looking too far ahead.
"Well, it's more of just, 'Let's worry about a series and a game at a time,' and winning the first game of a series, and you go from there," Sveum said before Friday's loss. "I think when you set your sights on something other than that day or that series, you're barking up the wrong tree.
"It's such a long season, and every game is important and every game is nine innings, so you have to win all nine innings. Obviously, we've been witness to winning a lot of eight innings and not winning the ninth inning, or even seven innings, so that's what we've got to do -- go out and concentrate on the game we're playing that day and winning that ballgame."
The Cubs, who will send Scott Feldman to the mound against Jeremy Hefner on Saturday, have had trouble late in games. They entered Friday ranked 29th in the Majors with a 4.58 ERA in the seventh inning or beyond.
But Sveum believes that will improve. The team recently got Kyuji Fujikawa back from the disabled list and made the newly signed Kevin Gregg their closer in place of Carlos Marmol. Now Chicago just needs the struggling Shawn Camp to rediscover his 2012 form.
"So far [Fujikawa has] shown the life on his fastball, so that's good," Sveum said. "Marmol's obviously pitched well in the role he's been doing, and Gregg has done everything we've asked him to do. He's been, knock on wood, perfect in save situations. [Left-hander James] Russell's obviously done a good job. We've got to get Camp going. Long guys, [Michael] Bowden, eat the innings up. Right now it's lined up as good as it has been all season, no doubt about it."
For the Mets, who improved to 16-23 with Friday's win, the problem has been offense. New York has scored three runs or fewer in 14 of its past 20 games, going 6-14 over that stretch.
Those struggles can be attributed partly to slumps from the team's two left-handed power hitters, Lucas Duda and Ike Davis. Duda is hitting .130 in May and .212 overall, while Davis is at .152 for the month and .160 overall after snapping an 0-for-24 spell on Friday.
It's the second year in a row Davis has found himself working through a brutal early-season slump.
"We've got to get him started," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "As I talked him to last week when I decided to put him back in the four-spot, I didn't know if all the bouncing around in the batting order was affecting him. He hits fifth or he hits seventh, and I put him back at fourth and said, 'Look, you came out of Spring Training as the fourth hitter with a good spring. Go back there and feel comfortable.' But certainly we've got to get him started, and we're trying everything we possibly know."
After the Mets' game in St. Louis on Thursday, Davis went to the batting cage and took extra swings before showering and getting on the bus to the airport.
"It's not because he's not working," Collins said of the slump. "If he was just taking it and saying, 'It's going to come,' I would have some issues. But yesterday proved he's doing the best he can to get ready and get going."
Mets: Hefner seeking first victory
Hefner is 0-4 with a 4.61 ERA in eight games, including seven starts. But he has pitched well over his last four outings despite not having a win to show for it.
Hefner has a 3.33 ERA during that stretch, notching three quality starts. On Monday he held the Cardinals to three runs on five hits in six innings, although he walked four and struck out two.
"Not everything is gauged on wins and losses, although winning is the most important thing -- especially in the big leagues," Hefner said afterward. "I need to keep the runs down early in the game, build some momentum and confidence for myself and the team, and hopefully, we'll come out on the winning side more often than not. Obviously, that hasn't happened this year, so maybe there's some tinkering that needs to happen."
Cubs: Feldman on a roll
Feldman is 3-3 with a 2.53 ERA in his first season with the Cubs, and has put together a string of six starts of two earned runs or fewer. He also has found himself a home at Wrigley Field, posting a 1.77 ERA in 20 1/3 innings there.
He overcame a bit of a rough start on Sunday in Washington, settling in to finish six innings. He limited the Nationals to one run on five hits, walking three and striking out six.
"He's throwing the ball wherever he wants," Sveum said. "You just hope it continues."
Worth noting
• Hefner has made one career appearance against the Cubs, throwing 1 1/3 scoreless relief innings last June 26 at Wrigley Field.
• Feldman has not faced the Mets since June 2008, when he surrendered six earned runs over five innings in a loss. John Buck and David Wright are the only Mets to have faced him in a regular-season game.
Andrew Simon is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Bumgarner eyes 4-0 start as Padres hit San Francisco
The first three starts of the season couldn't have gone much better for Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner.
They really couldn't have gone much worse for San Diego righty Edinson Volquez.
Volquez and Bumgarner take the hill on Friday night for the first of three games between the two National League West rivals at AT&T Park. Bumgarner is looking to stay hot, while Volquez is looking to get hot.
The Padres' Opening Day starter, Volquez (0-3, 11.68 ERA) has struggled this season, allowing a .356 batting average to opposing hitter. He has only made it into the fifth inning in one start and is coming off an outing that saw him allow six runs in just 3 1/3 innings against the Rockies.
"You're going to have some rough starts, and Volquez has had his right from the start," Padres manager Bud Black said. "Let's hope he can get it straightened out. Right now, his issues stem from ball-to-strike ratio, and getting ahead in the count. When you get behind, you can get in some trouble."
Meanwhile, Bumgarner sports a 1.77 ERA. Not only has he won all three of his starts, but the Giants have never trailed in any of those outings. He went 4-1 last April but has never started 4-0 in his career.
The numbers would appear to look bleak for the Padres, but things have changed a bit in San Diego since Volquez last took the mound on Saturday.
The Padres swept the Dodgers in Los Angeles, and suddenly the offense is producing, with 22 runs scored in those three games. Now they'll face a team with a penchant for surrendering big innings. The Giants have given up eight innings of three runs or more, and it has their skipper concerned.
"You look at the early go here, it's kind of been strange, the big innings we're giving up," said Giants manager Bruce Bochy. "I think we're fortunate to be [9-7]. We've had some good comebacks, but we get down a little bit more than we care to, to be honest, where we've had to make these comebacks. We've had a tough go here staying away from the crooked number. That's what beats you in a lot of games."
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• Chris Denorfia and Jesus Guzman have had plenty of success against Bumgarner. Denorfia is hitting .406 against the left-hander and Guzman is batting .391 with a .739 slugging percentage.
• Volquez has limited current Giants hitters to a .192 batting average. Among players with more than five at-bats, none are hitting above .200.
• The Giants have won each of the last two season series against the Padres.
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Technically, Mirai's getting there. Look at how quickly she's been fixing her UR issues. She's a talented jumper, more so than Kanako. Both have good speed, but I think Mirai's a little faster. Mirai also seems to have more power when entering her jumps.
In their SPs, Mirai does a 3Lz-2T, a 3F and a gorgeous 2A. Murakami does a 3T-3T, a 3F and a 2A. I don't know too much about Kanako (I think she's working on 3F-3T), but I know for sure that Mirai's trying to upgrade her combo to a 3Lz-3T, giving her the same SP layout as Yu-na. Mirai has already reached 70 points with her 3-2 combo SP. What she could do with a 3-3 might take her closer to Yu-na's scores, already giving her the edge over Kanako in the SP.
In LP, Mirai does 3Lz-2T-2T, 2A-3T, 3F, 3Lz, 3Lo-2A, 2A, 3T, giving her a BV* of 54.8 (jumps 38.6)
In LP, Kanako does 3Lz, 3F, 2S-2A, 3F-2A, 3T, 3S-2Lo-2Lo, giving her a BV* of 53.0 (jumps 36.8) (but she will probably upgrade her jump layout when she enters the senior ranks).
In general, Mirai is much stronger on toe jumps (which garner more points). Murakami's toe pick technique just seems off. Mirai doesn't have a 3S. I wonder why. Murakami doesn't have a 3Lo.
* Assuming both get FSSp4, SpSq4, FCoSp4, SlSt3 and CCoSp4.
As for mental strength, Mirai's Worlds performance was... well, awful. I'm guessing she has yet to tame her nerves, but I'm hoping she will get there. The pressure of being 1st in the SP and American hopes for three spots probably got to her. She did much better as an underdog at the Olympics. So far, Kanako has been pretty consistent, but we have yet to see what effect staggering expectations or rivalry will have. I agree that both have charisma. They're both charming. They do strike me as still a little cutesy, but I'm hoping that will change soon.
I'm impressed with what a powerful jumper Kanako is given that she 5 feet tall and stick thin.
I always seem to agree with you. Kanako's shape, even at this young age, does not seem to bode well for her future. Her hips don't lie. She's got the best smile in the sport, but I have a strong feeling that the puberty monster is gunning for her. Mirai and the Russians all the way.
Yeah...I was noticing how even though she's tiny and very thin, she does have hips and we all saw what hips did to Kimmie Meissner...goodbye 3-3 . http://www.skatingjapan.jp/gpf/image.../jr_ladies.jpg Not only is she shorter than Shelepen and Gao (who are like 5'2", 5'3" max) but her legs are also quite a bit shorter meaning she might not grow much taller, and grow wider instead and yeah, that could be problematic.
I mean Shizuka had hips and was still a great jumper but she also had better technique than Kanako and incredible speed. We'll see. If I had to predict, Kanako and Polina Shelepen will get hit hard by puberty, while Ovcharova, Gao, Kwak, and Tuktamysheva will probably survive with most of the jumps intact. Agafonova and Sotnikova are so little that it's hard to tell.
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I think at this point, Mirai is a better all-around skater. However, I do love both of them--I think their personality just shines through in their skating.
I don't think that Kanako has "problem hips" as some seem to think so.
I like all of Kanako's costumes--I think Mao should go to her designer.
What a cute video! Kanako does have nice costumes, but I'm not sure if the same designs would look good on Mao, who has a different body type (taller, longer legs, shorter torso, narrow hips, prominent shoulders). Kanako reminds me a bit of Yukari when she was younger because they are both very elegant and little.
Kanako is an absolute DOLL. Where are these "problem hips" you are referring to in your previous post? If there is a problem it might be that she has no hips at all (yet).
Her costumes are great - and Mao and Miki used to have great costumes too before they took a step back in time and became so provincial with the odd looking Russian costumes.
The problem is not so much her hips as the fact that she is only 5 feet tall at age 15 and doesn't have the longest legs. Mao was 5'3" at age 15 and was all legs so it might mean Kanako is destined to stay short forever, which shouldn't be an issue unless she gains a lot of weight, which it would be easier to do where most of it likely won't be transferred to her height. If she ends up being built like Fumie or Yukari though (which is probably likely) she should be fine. It was more of a precaution than anything, Kimmie and Caroline were really promising at that age too and then puberty causes problems. She's still adorable though
ITA about the costumes. It seems like Miki wants to hide the fact that she has a hot body with her costumes and Mao is trying to hide hickeys from her boyfriend with all those choker necklines


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A St. Mary High School coach who last week announced he is gay doesn't know if he'll be invited back to coach another season of volleyball at the Dell Rapids Catholic school. Nate Alfson, the coach of the St. Mary Cardinals volleyball team last year, published a letter he penned on Outsports.com in which he said he is a gay man and detailed many of the challenges he's faced living in silence and since coming to terms with his sexuality three years ago. "I can breathe, I can smile, and I'm not afraid to cry, and I'm not afraid to feel what I'm feeling," said Alfson, 25, who spent last week fielding interviews from dozens of news outlets, including a few national publications. In the essay, published online Aug. 5, the former Augustana College athlete described himself as a "gay, Christian athlete with a lot of different interests." Alfson knows he may have put his coaching job in jeopardy because he is employed by a private school system guided by a faith that rejects homosexuality. "I haven't yet told officials at the Catholic high school where I coach volleyball. This might be a challenge but I am confident it will work out for the best and the Earth will still keep turning regardless of the outcome. I hope it doesn't affect my opportunity to be a good role model for the athletes," Alfson wrote in the letter. Since the news broke that he was gay, Alfson said he's been in contact with officials at the school, but they haven't gave him any indication if he'll be offered the coaching job for the upcoming season. Alfson said he is unsure if he signed a multi-year contract that would include this season, which begins practice Aug. 14, or if last year's contract was for one year only. The school district knows he is willing to coach for a second year, he said. "After our loss last year, the girls cried because they've had a new coach for the last five years in a row," Alfson said. "They said 'You're not leaving too?' and I was like, 'Nope, I'll stick around and see what happens.'" The decision, he said, isn't likely to be made by Catholics in Dell Rapids. "Some of them (at St. Mary) have shared their support and they've been nothing but fantastic, but in the end it's not really on them as people and administrators. It's on the Diocese in Sioux Falls or further than that even," Alfson said. Calls to St. Mary High School athletic director and principal Brad Peters and Sioux Falls Diocese spokesperson Jerry Klein were not returned. St. Mary's Fr. John Lantsberger declined to comment. Last year the Cardinals volleyball team ended its season with a 13-15 record, the best in its history. The team advanced past the first round of the playoffs for just the second time ever. Nationwide, several Catholic school employees have lost jobs after coming out as gay. The New York Times reporting on the issue in January said Catholic school employees generally sign contracts saying they will abide by church teachings, which do not accept homosexuality. Federal law prohibits discrimination against certain classes, but the issue of sexual orientation currently is being discussed, said Laura Millett of Aberdeen, state spokeswoman for the Society for Human Resource Management. Local sportscaster Mike Henriksen, a Dell Rapids resident, said Alfson probably is the first former college athlete in South Dakota and the first coach in the state to come out as gay. "When you're the first at anything, I think that's big," he said. "Right now a kid somewhere outside of Redfield, 15, 16 years old, is wrestling with the fact he's gay. Or in Winner, or a gal in Sioux Falls. Nate is a coach and an athlete, and I think that opens a few more doors." Alfson said he hopes coming out doesn't affect St. Mary officials' decision to bring him back to coach. If he is not rehired at St. Mary, he would like to continue coaching at the high school level. His experience at St. Mary gave him a respect for high school athletes, Alfson said. "I never expected actually to be a high school coach," he said. "Only at college — that's where athletes are really good. I was completely wrong. There are some really talented athletes in the high school system, and the effect you play on an athlete when you make a connection with them is arguably one of the most rewarding things as an adult and as a coach." In his full-time job, Alfson is a program coordinator for Progress Inc. in Pipestone, Minn., which helps adults with disabilities. He first was approached about coaching volleyball by a player's mother, who had seen pictures on Facebook of him participating in a volleyball tournament. A former coach warned him the Catholic school district may have prohibitions against rehiring him, even if individual players or parents want him to return, Alfson said. "It is what it is. If it happens, I completely understand, and I can't change that right now. But I can start," he said. "The pope has got all sorts of different pushes; he's been pushing Christianity to love one another and to be kind to one another and to really understand that it is OK. I figure if the pope can do that, then most other Catholics should be able to figure it out." Volleyball isn't Alfson's only passion. The Pipestone native is also a standout player on Dell Rapids' amateur baseball team. Before this summer's season, he coached a club baseball team in the spring comprised of teenagers from Dell Rapids, St. Mary and Baltic high schools. Chad Hansen, president of the Dell Rapids Baseball Association, said all hiring decisions are done by committee, but at a glance he sees no reason not to hire Alfson back as coach of the varsity club next season. "I don't think Nate's announcement changes his coaching or baseball abilities," Hansen said. Alfson's teammate Jordan Solberg, a first baseman for PBR who also coaches Dell Rapids' American Legion team, agreed with Hansen. "He's a great coach and one of the smartest guys about baseball and knows what he's doing," he said. "It shouldn't matter at all." Responses like Solberg and Hansen's have Alfson feeling at ease after going public as the first openly gay high school coach in South Dakota. "I feel normal and I feel like myself and I don't feel anxious anymore," he said. "I don't think about it anymore and I don't have anything to hide anymore."
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A Kung Fu Master proves to Richard Ambrose that you really can break two brick blocks with just your hand and without the use of trickery.
RICHARD AMBROSE (V/O): Can a Kung Fu master really destroy a pile of breeze blocks with just his fist?
Or is it just movie trickery with specially rigged props?
Ian Armstrong is going to prove it's all for real. He's one of the few westerners to have become a Shaolin Kung Fu master. He's spent over 20 years training in this mystical art, regularly travelling to temples in Southeast Asia to perfect his techniques. Which is why you shouldn't try any of this at home.
RICHARD AMBROSE (SYNC - TO IAN): Is Shaolin Kung Fu similar to any of the, the things that we see on television at all? Like Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan?
IAN ARMSTRONG (SYNC - TO RICHARD): Most of the martial arts - and there's a huge diverse array of martial arts - most of them trace their origin back to Shaolin Kung Fu so -
RICHARD: Right so that -
IAN: - you know -
IAN: - more or less the different facets of Shaolin Kung Fu have branched out and and given rise to -
RICHARD: Right.
IAN: - many different martial arts.
RICHARD:So that was like the original form?
IAN: Yes, yes.
RICHARD: And it's all derived from there.
RICHARD (V/O)The key to Ian's incredible feats of strength has little to do with the size of his biceps.
RICHARD (SYNC): Ooo.
It's all about his ability to channel his inner energies or Chi.
IAN (SYNC - TO RICHARD): Kung Fu is about converting the Chi into what we call Geng. Geng is power, yeah?
RICHARD (OOV): Yeah.
Chi is energy. Geng is power.
RICHARD (SYNC - TO IAN): So can, can you demonstrate it?
IAN: So what I'd like you to do is put your hands over your body like this. Now these are acting as a little bit of a shield. This can be done from various ranges but I'm doing it with, without any pull back -
RICHARD: Right.
IAN: - which is the most difficult.
RICHARD: Is this effectively like a one inch punch, or?
IAN: Yes.
RICHARD: Right.
IAN: Yes - this is the, this is a no inch punch. You're gonna get a zero inch punch here. OK. So what I need to do, just relax my body and then I'm looking to channel the energy through my body into your body.
RICHARD: Oh! Eh. Is this a force of energy that I, I can harness I mean and break a block or anything like that?
IAN: Definitely. Yeah.
RICHARD: Yes?
IAN: Yeah. Although it's, it takes training. So obviously we've got to work on that one.
RICHARD: Shall we get some blocks?
IAN: Yep.
RICHARD: OK - great.
RICHARD AMBROSE(V/O): It took Ian eight years to train his you-know-what so he can draw them up into his pelvis. And ten years of Chi Geng exercises to train his skin to have the elastic properties to repel the axe. But he reckons he can teach me to chop a block in just one afternoon.
RICHARD AMBROSE (V/O): But first, to make sure the blocks were the real deal we went down to the local builders' yard to get some fresh ones.
RICHARD AMBROSE (V/O): My training started by learning the correct stances and punching techniques.
IAN ARMSTRONG (SYNC - TO RICHARD): When I do that.
IAN (SYNC): Relax. Go!
RICHARD (SYNC): Right, I'm gonna go for it. Right - go. Wow. Wow.
IAN (OOV): Do we want to do the block next?
RICHARD (SYNC): What do you think?
IAN (OOV): I think so, yeah, I think so.
Yeah? OK. OK. Shall we do two?
IAN (V/O): Yep - definitely.
RICHARD (OOV): Yeah? You're comfortable if I do two?
IAN (OOV): You're gonna hit it in the middle. Same stance, same posture as before, same technique.
RICHARD (SYNC): And open palm again.
IAN (SYNC): Open palm.
RICHARD (SYNC): OK. Fine.
IAN (SYNC): But you're gonna have to hit it a bit harder -
RICHARD (SYNC): Yes.
IAN (SYNC): - cos this one's a bit meaner.
RICHARD (SYNC): OK. Right.
IAN (OOV): Here we go. One. Confidence is growing now, isn't it? There we go.
RICHARD (SYNC): Wow - wow.
IAN (SYNC): That easy.
RICHARD (SYNC): Thank you very much. Honestly was fantastic.
IAN (SYNC): Well, well done. No that was a good break. Well done.
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Take this South American tour and discover a spellbinding blend of native cultures and international influences as you cross the continent from Santiago to Buenos Aires. Your tour begins in Santiago, Chile's Andean capital city, from which you can explore the captivating Pacific coast. You'll then visit Puerto Varas, your jumping-off point for tours of the breathtakingly beautiful lakes region, and the perfect place to interact with locals and to savor delectable deserts with a surprising German influence. Next, cross the Andes Mountains to Bariloche for a chocolate-covered taste of the Alps in the heart of Patagonia. Your tour concludes in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires, where included sightseeing, exclusive Discovery Series events, and your own wanderings will give you a fascinating glimpse of South American daily life.
Day 1Depart U.S.Fly overnight from the U.S. today.
Day 2Arrive Santiago, Chile • Chilean Family WineryYou will touch down in the Chilean capital this morning to begin your South American tour, where your Program Director will meet you and assist with the transfer to your hotel. While you wait to check into your room, take part in a guided orientation walk, giving you the lay of the land in your Santiago neighborhood.
Early this afternoon, meet your travel companions, including those who took our optional pre-trip extension to Peru: Machu Picchu, Cuzco & Lima, and your Program Director. Then, depart for a nearby family-owned winery, where you'll enjoy a tour on one of Chile's most famous exports. Here, you'll also sit down with fellow travelers for a delicious Welcome Dinner.
Day 3Santiago Highlights city tour • Chilean History discussionThis morning, enjoy a Welcome Briefing, during which you'll learn some more details of what's to come in South America, before embarking on your tour of Santiago.
Home to a third of Chile's 16 million people, Santiago rests at the confluence of the Mapocho and Maipu rivers, surrounded on all sides by Andean peaks. To be sure, it's a breathtaking setting for a capital that has witnessed a remarkable history—from settlement by conquistadores in 1541 to the Marxist, military, and finally, democratic governments of the 20th century.
This morning, pass through Providencia, a district of great tradition and strong commercial and social activity. Then begin your included city tour with a ride through the residential districts of Bellavista, and Las Condes, where you will see beautiful homes and parks. As you continue, you'll see several historic monuments and buildings, including the Palacio de la Moneda, the current seat of the government. Stop for a stroll at the city's most important plaza, the Plaza de Armas, which has been the heart of Santiago since its origin in 1541. Ringing the plaza are many important buildings that are considered national monuments. Here you see the Correo Central (main post office), Iglesia Catedral (Cathedral Church), the Municipalidad de Santiago (City Hall), and the National Historic Museum. Nearby, you find the Mercado Central (Central Market), an elegant wrought-iron structure inaugurated in 1872 as the site of a National Exhibition. Now it is the city's central market, filled with colorful stalls and seafood eateries (called marisquerias). Here, you'll enjoy an included lunch.
Tonight, enjoy a discussion on Chilean history and the country's most controversial leaders: Allende and Pinochet.
Day 4Santiago • Valparaiso tour • Graffiti Art of Valparaiso activityToday, set off to the Chilean northwest on a full-day tour to Valparaiso. Valparaiso is an important Chilean port city (and a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site), where 17 hills tower over the "basin" district. Enjoy an included visit to La Sebastiana, Pablo Neruda's home, where you'll learn about the life and legacy of this great local poet.The city's distinctive features include meandering cobblestone streets and ancient ascensores—electric cable cars that climb into hillside neighborhoods and afford splendid sea views. You'll ride one of these ascensores up the hill for one of the many views of Valparaiso, then walk through the colorful streets, known for the colorful public art on the walls. Learn more about this cultural heritage, and make your own contribution to a work in progress, during an exclusive Graffiti Art of Valparaiso Discovery Series event.
Afterwards, enjoy lunch in a local restaurant before returning to your hotel. Enjoy the evening and dinner at your leisure.
Day 5Santiago • Puerto Varas • Chilean rodeo demonstration & dinnerAfter an early breakfast, transfer to the Santiago airport for your group's flight to Puerto Montt. You'll arrive in the early afternoon, and then transfer to Puerto Varas.
After checking into your hotel, you'll enjoy a taste of everyday, family-centered Chilean life as a guest at a local horse-breeding ranch. During this exclusive Discovery Series event, you'll see how a farm family lives and works—and witness a Chilean rodeo demonstration as well. Enjoy a tasty homemade meal at the ranch in the company of these welcoming people.
Day 6Puerto Varas • Petrohue Falls • Mapuche DiscussionThis morning, gather for an exclusive Discovery Series discussion on the fascinating Mapuche people native to this area. While the Mapuche only make up about four percent of Chile's total population, their traditions surrounding the extended family and their agricultural customs have had widespread influences.
Then depart for Petrohue Falls, where you can explore the lush setting surrounding the rapids. Petrohue Falls is located just a short distance downstream from Lake Todos los Santos, and the chute-like waterfall is supported by basaltic lava. Enjoy the views of Osorno Volcano in the distance.
Later, enjoy a visit to Angelmo Fish Market with your Program Director. Walk amidst the bustling stalls and browse some of the local seafood found in the nearby Chilean lakes. Perhaps sample the local curanto stew, a mixture of meat, seafood, and vegetable, and admire an array of dried shellfish. Then you'll enjoy some time at leisure and lunch on your own in the area.
You'll also have a presentation about tomorrow's travel through the Andes, to prepare you for what promises to be a rewarding and scenic, if long, day. Enjoy a pisco sour tasting with your Program Director, then savor dinner at local restaurant.
Day 7Puerto Varas • Cross the Andes • Bariloche, ArgentinaBe prepared for an early start and a long—but very rewarding—day of travel today. You'll travel by motorcoach for about nine hours while making a passage through the Andes from Chile into Argentina. En route, you'll stop at Villa la Angostura in Argentina for lunch on your own. Despite its location in the mountains, this tiny village is warm and inviting, and you'll enjoy strolling through it after lunch.
Arrive at your hotel in Bariloche in the early evening, just in time for an included dinner.
Day 8Bariloche • Panoramic tour & visit to Campanario Hill • Local breweryToday Patagonia bids you bienvenidos as you awaken in Bariloche. Officially called San Carlos de Bariloche, this city is a curious amalgam of cultural influences. Its buildings recall the Austrian Tyrol in their design. Many of the ranches dotting the outlying Patagonian plains remain English-owned and run, worked by Chilean peons from over the border. (Film buffs: This is the territory where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid made their real-life last stand.)
Bookended by stark granite peaks and mirrored in 40-mile-long Lake Nahuel Huapi, Bariloche is, quite literally, a breath of fresh air. Discover this on a panoramic tour this morning, which includes a visit to Campanario Hill. You'll go on to take in breathtaking views of the lake. Ride a chairlift to the top of Campanario Hill for spectacular views of the mountains (if the weather is clear). The lake is studded with fir tree-covered islands. After that, you will enjoy an exclusive Discovery Series visit to a traditional brewery, where you'll have lunch and learn how this family prepares local beer.
This afternoon, enjoy time at your leisure. Dinner is on your own tonight.
Day 9Bariloche • Nazis in Patagonia discussion • Patagonian ranch visit • Optional Floating in the Limay River cruiseThis morning, enjoy an exclusive Discovery Series discussion on the Nazi presence in Patagonia during World War II. Later, you'll depart for the Patagonian steppe, where you'll be the guests on a Patagonian working ranch. You'll have the opportunity to tour the ranch and its grounds, learn about life in the windy Patagonian steppes, and enjoy a traditional lamb barbecue lunch.
The afternoon is free for your own discovery. Perhaps you will visit the Museo de la Patagonia, with its archaeological, historical and cultural displays, or enjoy a walk through the beautiful City Center. Or you can join us for an optional Floating in the Limay River cruise, to enjoy the steppe landscape and fresh air while you float along by raft.
Dinner is on your own this evening.
Day 10Bariloche • Buenos Aires • Home-Hosted DinnerAfter breakfast, you'll have some time to bid Bariloche adios before transferring to the airport for your flight to Buenos Aires. You'll arrive in the late afternoon and continue to your hotel.
The most memorable part of your visit to this charming city may well be tonight's dinner. Take a seat at the table of an Argentine family, share their evening meal, chat, learn about each other, and make new friends.
Prepare yourself for an evening seasoned with good conversation and fellowship.
After breakfast, set off on an included half-day tour of Buenos Aires. You'll see the city's elegant mixture of Spanish Colonial architecture and several traditional European styles. Visit Avenida de Mayo, which runs into Plaza de Mayo, where many buildings important to Argentine history are centered. See the Casa Rosada (Government House); the Metropolitan Cathedral; and the Cabildo, the first City Hall built during Spanish rule.
Next, you'll visit La Boca, Buenos Aires' first merchant and fishing port. You'll have time to visit the famous Caminito, an outdoor museum and art show where painters offer their tango pictures, or stroll along the renovated waterfront promenade.
Your tour passes by the beautiful Colon Theater. Built in 1908, this is one of the world's most famous opera houses, and international stars vie to perform here as they do at Milan's La Scala and Vienna's State Opera House. Continue on to the final resting place of Eva "Evita" Peron, the Duarte tomb at the Recoleta Cemetery. The cemetery is in the Recoleta district, an area of elegant homes, fashionable restaurants and shops.
Lunch is on your own. The rest of your afternoon is at leisure for you to discover Buenos Aires.
This evening, join a tango lesson and learn the basic steps of Argentina's fiery, passionate, signature dance. Before it was a dance, tango was a sound—a composite of rhythms and voices born out of the slums of Buenos Aires, where a diaspora of Europeans, Africans, and idle, discharged local soldiers congregated and sang their tales of solitude and struggle. From the music emerged the dance, and that unique and passionate mix came to encapsulate, in the opinions of many, the Argentine national character.
Interestingly though, the tango was not always the celebrated tradition it is now. Many Argentines viewed its humble origins and sensual stylings as unsavory at best—and vulgar at worst. The tango had to cross the Atlantic and become the red-hot rage of Europe before it found favor in its native land. And in recent years, it has undergone a revival, receiving an injection of modern energy from artists like Astor Piazzola and receiving broader national (and international) exposure through TV, radio, and touring tango troupes.
While your steps may not be as sure as the most seasoned tanguero, you'll learn the basics during this special lesson—certainly enough to impress the folks back home.
Now that you've learned the basics of the tango, you have the opportunity to see how it's really done. Tonight, watch some of the best tango dancers and musicians in Argentina perform at a sophisticated supper club during an optional tango show and dinner.
Day 12Buenos Aires • School visit • Argentina Today discussionFOUNDATION VISITToday, experience a change of pace from city life as you take a Discovery Series tour of the area where the Parana River empties into the Rio de la Plata on its way into the Atlantic, forming a huge delta. This exotic landscape is just half an hour from the city but seems a million miles away. Traditional houses on pilotes (stilts) are surrounded by lush subtropical vegetation, and are built on islands that are separated by a twisting maze of waterways.
Enjoy a relaxing boat ride in this scenic area, which is one of Latin America's most amazing wetland environments. You'll sail through the many islands that populate the rivers of the delta, and take in the lush, subtropical scenery and plant life. Then, enjoy an included lunch, followed by a visit to a local school (when in session) supported in part by Grand Circle Foundation, where you'll have the opportunity to get to know students and teachers there.
Later, after returning to your hotel, you will attend an exclusive Discovery Series discussion on Argentina Today, highlighting the current state of Argentina's economy and political scene.
Then toast your adventures and companions from your South American tour at tonight's Farewell Dinner at a local restaurant.
Day 13Buenos AiresAfter breakfast at the hotel together, enjoy a morning at leisure to explore Buenos Aires before lunch on your own. Tonight, fly back to the U.S. or continue on our Brazil's Iguassu Falls & Rio de Janeiro post-trip extension.