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You might be face-deep in the England match right now, but we're here to tell you that there's a life beyond it, and if you've got any sense, that life will include tuning into Big Brother at 10pm on Channel 5, once the footballing agony is over.
Last night, the housemates' feathers were somewhat ruffled by this week's shopping task, in which they were split into teams of chickens and pigs and forced to carry out a series of nasty, mucky rural chores.
If you thought sausage-making and passing eggs from mouth to mouth would quell their urges to slag each other off, you'd be mistaken – the atmosphere in the house is still at best, toxic.
There's lots to enjoy in tonight's highlights show, including a manure-carrying task in a muddied-up garden and the horrific sight of the housemates making cheese omelettes in their mouths.
Also, in what now seems to becoming a daily occurrence, there's an apology from Toya for her conduct the previous day.
But that's not all. We'll also see a boy housemate and a girl housemate TAKING A SHOWER TOGETHER!
And who is the housemate who tells Big Brother: "I thought it was going to take longer than a week and a chicken costume… to have a breakdown but it's happened."
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Toya there, who could probably start an argument in an empty house if she wanted to.
But that would mean that she was alone in the house, and therefore the winner.
That can't be allowed to happen.
It's about time we saw this lot being exposed to something that might make them nauseous - apart from Pauline's 6am exercise routine.
As my old grandmother used to say, you can't teach idiots to suck eggs. Or something.
Great to see 'entrepreneur' Steven caught out by the primary school milk joke. Maybe Marlon will give him an atomic wedgie later...
Mark is rapidly becoming my favourite housemate. Anything that deviates from his usually easy life is like being tortured.
The other day it was 'why make your own ginger biscuits or pasta sauce?' and now his head's mashed by wearing a uniform that he doesn't understand.
Uh oh - now he's got a manure shifting task to do... ace.
Danielle was surprisingly encouraging during the muck-shifting task, considering she's usually so opposed to filth.
Speaking of filth... OH MY OH EM GEE... Winston and Kimberly are sharing a shower!
This isn't going to please Steven, who's got his sights on the Playboy model. Maybe he'll try and instigate a game of kiss chase later...
Phwoooaar, Danielle's naked in the bath!
Ah, no - it was her white bikini clashing with her alabaster skin.
There's no going back once you realise she's basically a younger version of Mrs Doyle from Father Ted.
Aaaaaand, we're back we're we've been since day one, with the housemates sneakily critiquing each other behind each others' backs.
'You can't be everyone's friend,' says Toya, who is rapidly heading to a place where she'll have NO friends.
Isn't Jale lucky to have been accepted by the poisonous gang of vipers that snubbed her only a few days ago? Beautiful to see.
Should Kimberly have got in that shower with Winston? The one where they're not even naked and are being filmed and shown on TV?
Of course not! It's outrageous. Winston had a nearly-girlfriend this time last week - that woman who got evicted!
Remember? Hang on - maybe Winston doesn't remember Tamara...
Pauline is FORTY NINE. She is a singer and has lived. SHE IS FORTY NINE.
Pauline has worked with KYLIE MINOGUE and SHE IS FORTY NINE.
If Pauline tells you what to do, YOU DO WHAT PAULINE TELLS YOU TO DO.
Just trying to get my head around the fact that Kimberly is an actual Playboy model.
She's been in the Playboy Mansion, with Hugh Hefner and all the other Playboy girls.
Now look at her. It's like leaving Real Madrid and ending up playing for Dagenham & Redbridge.
Oooh, interesting conversation between Mark and Matthew about Kimberly.
They seem to have struck upon the idea that this is a game show and that some people are manipulating events in order to help them to do well. This is REVELATORY!
Has anyone ever done that before? Is it even in the rules?
That's it for another night in the house of hate, and the inhabitants continue to deliver the goods - if by 'goods' you mean 'endless torrrents of spite and bile'.
It never ceases to amaze how this lot manage to take seemingly trivial events and turn them into catastrophic incidents that send the whole house spinning into massive clouds of controversy.
The Power Housemate identity seems to have slipped out of their memories for now, and they've turned their attentions to Winston and Kimberly's shower instead.
Tonight's highlight? Pauline looking up at Winston and telling him not to let anyone get in the shower with him again, as if she was telling a six-year-old not to talk to strangers. Amazing.


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An Intermarket Approach to Tactical Risk Rotation: Using the Signaling Power of Treasuries to Generate Alpha and Enhance Asset Allocation
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February 28, 2014
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Numerous academic studies have shown that asset allocation is the single most important determinant of portfolio returns. We accept this premise but note that an optimal asset allocation strategy must still be determined based on dynamic conditions. Using the principles of intermarket analysis and the relationship between the total return of the 10-year Treasury and the 30-year Treasury, we develop one such strategy. We find that an active strategy that uses the signaling power of these Treasury bonds to position into either the stock market or Treasuries can be used to outperform a buy and hold stock portfolio on an absolute and risk-adjusted basis. We also find that the signaling power of Treasuries can be used to enhance asset allocation decisions and traditional rebalancing. The predictive behavior of Treasuries on equities is a market anomaly that has persisted over time, and has served as an anticipatory gauge of expansionary or contractionary conditions which favor stocks or bonds. Contrary to the Efficient Market Hypothesis, the information provided by relative total return Treasury movement does not appear to be priced in immediately by broad stock market averages, and therefore may be exploitable for active traders and tactical asset allocators.
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It wasn't long ago the beef industry was rocking back and forth under some false positive tests for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease and the call went out for a better system.
Now U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has announced it is changing its protocol.
Regional labs run the first rapid test, and if that test is inconclusive or positive, it is forwarded to the National Veterinary Service Laboratories in Ames, Iowa, for further testing.
On June 25, a rapid screening test resulted in a positive test for an animal in the United States.
A second inconclusive result was reported before July 1.
Both tests ended up being false positives.
But APHIS had already announced the inconclusive results and according to the Livestock Marketing Association, immediately the livestock futures market and cash market took terrific beatings.
Now APHIS is changing its protocol. If the first test is inconclusive, a second and third test will be run by the lab at the same time. If both are negative, the ruling will be it was a negative sample.
If the tests, or even one of them, come back positive or inconclusive, APHIS will announce it and send the sample on to Ames for verification.
This move is being supported by the cattle industry, because it will help them from the wild up and downs of the market when a false positive is announced.
It is also better for the general public, because now when they hear there is potential positive BSE test, it is much more likely to be the truth.
The United States consumer and the cattle industry knows what a BSE case can do in the industry and no one wants to see the day it happens again.
But it is good to know the testing procedure is still in place and now it's reliable.
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Philly In Focus, a multimedia platform dedicated to connecting the Philadelphia community through the video and interactive media of its groups, institutions and programs affiliated with Comcast, selected a TUTV, Temple University Television, video special to feature on its website.
The video was a part of TUTV's "Before I Graduate" (BIG) series, which gave Temple students the chance to accomplish their Temple Made goals. This video showcased student Elijah Goodwin fulfilling his goal of becoming Hooter T. Owl for a day. After extensive training with the real Hooter, Goodwin geared up and performed for students, faculty and fans at a men's basketball game at the Liacouras Center in February.
After generating high levels of traffic to the Philly In Focus website, the Comcast partner decided to take the video to next level. Philly In Focus showcased the special on a giant outdoor screen located in the courtyard of Commerce Square at 21st and Market Streets. The video was set to play continuously in rotation among several other videos chosen for the amount of traffic received and quality of footage.
To the recording studio!
In the series' second episode, A.J. Gallagher got to experience his BIG moment.
Gallagher, a Media Studies and Production major, has always had a passion for music and singing. His dream was to make the leap from the production side of recording music to the performance side. Thanks to TUTV, Gallagher was able to create an EP of his original songs in the Annenberg Hall recording studio. MSP Professor and Director of the Record Industry Concentration, Jack Klotz Jr., mentored Gallagher through the process and personally assisted in making his dream a reality.
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First, the bad news:
Rasheed Wallace, a key factor to the Knicks' early success in November and December, will have surgery and is out for the remainder of the regular season and possibly the first week of the playoffs.
This is the problem with investing in old players, something Glen Grunwald apparently failed to consider when he signed 5-7 players age 35 or older.
This is a young man's sport.
Woodson is no help on this matter, he believes veterans win in this league. Yes, veterans win, if and when they are healthy.
Jason Kidd, Marcus Camby, Prigioni, Rasheed Wallace, Kurt Thomas, add to the list now the newest old Knick, Kenyon Martin. This is sick.
Now, the good news:
The Knicks will advance past the first week of the playoffs. The Knicks have time to fall and re-ascend the eastern conference standings. The Knicks need only get healthy and hit their stride when the playoffs near. We are months away from the playoffs, approximately 30 games away from the playoffs.
The Knicks need to figure this out. The days of being a top defensive team are long gone. The days of wide open 3-point shots are over. Novak is not a factor, don't play him. Felton needs to regain his athleticism. Shumpert too. The Knicks need to step up and redefine how they are going to win. The Knicks don't rebound the basketball. J.R. Smith isn't the same player, nor is Stoudemire, though the latter appears to be headed in the right direction.
Melo needs to step up and be the leader of this team. That doesn't necessarily mean take more shots, rather get the team playing well together again. This has never been Melo's forte as he is a volume shooter, but if the Knicks are going to make any noise against top teams Miami, Indiana, Brooklyn, and anyone in the West, the Knicks must start and end the conversation with Melo, the MVP candidate that needs to start figuring out how to make the players around him better than what they currently are: a .500 basketball team with pipe dreams of being a championship caliber team.


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In the first presidential debate last week, Republican Mitt Romney made much of his working with Democrats in Massachusetts to pass health-care reform, a bipartisan initiative he said President Barack Obama failed to achieve in passing a very similar law on the national level.
Yes, Romney's remark was silly: Of course Democrats worked with a then-moderate Republican governor to pass an initiative that they favored! If Romney had offered to raise taxes, the Democrats of Beacon Hill would probably have gone along with that, too. Ask yourself: How did the bipartisan Romney fare when he tacked to starboard, and, say, opposed stem cell research that he deemed morally objectionable? Veto overridden, stem cell research intact.
Journalist and author Robert Draper takes a deeper look at Romney's gubernatorial tenure in this week's New York Times Magazine, and a revealing look it is. Draper argues from history that Romney is anything but a bipartisan negotiator able to work across the aisle to get things done. The relevant passages:
But for the most part, the only unconventional ideas that Romney managed to enact were those he could ratify unilaterally.
Romney's failure to master such a consensus had little to do with his party affiliation: other Republican governors in Massachusetts, like Frank Sargent and William Weld, long profited from excellent relations with their Democratic counterparts in the state Legislature. But what Sargent and Weld had that the Bain CEO lacked was experience in forming political alliances and reaching compromises.
Building grass-roots support was not part of Romney's world experience, and he made almost no effort to enlist the public in his crusade.
Instead of working with the Democrats on Beacon Hill, Romney decided to recruit a host of Republican challengers to unseat them in 2004. The tactic backfired. "He ended up losing three seats and a lot of good will in the bargain," [Massachusetts Taxpayer Foundation President Michael] Widmer said.
Moreover, Romney will not face the Massachusetts state Legislature circa 2003; he'll face a Congress full of hostile Democrats and hostile tea party Republicans. Draper's piece ends with a quote from Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador: "If Romney comes in here and feels like he has to capitulate and govern from the middle of the road, not only will it be disheartening: I predict that you will see the conservatives in the House rise up. We've been pretty quiet — everybody claims we've been rambunctious, but we've been pretty quiet. I think you'll see something different."
A government in which your political opponents refuse to compromise in any way makes uni-partisan action virtually the only way to move forward. A true leader is not one who waits to form a consensus in those circumstances; a true leader seizes the moment to do what must be done. And that — in a nutshell — is what Obama did. He shouldn't be criticized for it.


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Jeppe Schultz Christensen, of the University of South Denmark in Odense, and colleagues evaluated the effects of organic diet during pregnancy and hypospadias in a case-control study conducted in 306 mothers of boys operated on for hypospadias and 306 mothers with healthy boys.
According to the researchers, mothers who never or rarely chose any organic products had non-significant increased odds of giving birth to a boy with hypospadias (adjusted odds ratio [OR], 1.31; 95 percent confidence interval [CI], 0.78 to 2.21). However, rare choice of organic non-milk dairy products was associated with higher unadjusted odds of giving birth to a boy with hypospadias, but this association was not statistically significant after adjustments for confounders (OR, 1.36; 95 percent CI, 0.95 to 1.94). A similar association was observed for mothers rarely or never choosing organic eggs (adjusted OR, 1.28; 95 percent CI, 0.92 to 1.79).
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Fact: Trent Richardson hasn't been good since his trade to Indy. Some Colts fans are ready to give his starting job to Donald Brown. And yet, some – like Ben Muth – feel like Trent isn't the only one to blame.
Running backs are always taught to press the LOS on zone plays because it sets up big cutback opportunities. This was something Richardson was great at in college. He'd attack his land mark until the last possible second, setting up all his blocks, and then he'd squirt out the back side for a big gain. The patience was incredible for such a young kid. When he tries to do the same thing in Indy he just doesn't have as much real estate to run into before he makes a decision.
In brief, the bigger problem might be his linemen (and playcalling). T.R. is asked to run between the tackles on nearly every rushing play, and given the monotony of Indy's playcalling (reverses and flea flickers excluded) … there isn't really much for his to do. Plug in any other NFL runningback, and they struggle as well.
Maybe not as much, of course, but Mush's point is valid – it's not entirely Trent's fault. Remember, Brown pulls off better runs … because defenses aren't prepared against the run when he checks in. It's as simple as that. More variety, and Richardson will get better opportunities – and then we can properly evaluate him.


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The April explosion at the West, Texas, fertilizer plant that killed 14 people, injured about 200 others and destroyed dozens of homes was so powerful it could be felt 50 miles away, registering as a 2.1-magnitude earthquake.
The blast should continue to rumble throughout the country since the plant's owner apparently didn't disclose the dangers there, and the government agencies responsible for protecting the area also failed. Profoundly.
The regulatory failure was explainable but not excusable.
The catastrophe reveals an abdication of responsibilities by corporations and government to protect workers and communities. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms investigated and it seems likely the tragedy was an accident caused by ignorance, negligence, and greed.
Government agencies supposed to oversee such operations didn't, or couldn't, and underfunding them is no accident. Choices were made. A company's financial interests seemingly took precedence over public safety or the well-being of employees. A business played down or ignored the risks.
"It is unlikely that the owners of the West plant intended to kill anyone," said Penn State law professor Ellen Dannin. "But there was, at least, gross neglect in the siting of the plant in the midst of a town, where the company was situated - so close to the town, schools, and other infrastructure.
"There were many other red flags that cast doubt on the integrity of this company," continued Dannin, author of Taking Back the Workers' Law: How To Fight The Assault On Labor Rights. "Those flags can be found in the way they stored the ammonium nitrate, in construction of the building, and in their violation of federal law by failing to report the amounts of the chemical they had on hand."
Donald Adair's West Fertilizer Co. and its parent company Adair Grain, Inc., have a history of violations, according to Agence France Presse, which noted the company "paid more than $5,000 in fines in 2012 after being cited for mislabeled cargo tanks and inadequate transport practices, and had been cited by state authorities for a lack of permit in 2006."
In 2011, the company told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that there was no risk of fire or explosion (despite another 27 tons of toxic, flammable anhydrous ammonia there).
The EPA fined the plant in 2006, according to WFAA-TV news in Dallas, which cited evidence the facility paid a $2,300 fine then for "failing to have a risk management plan that met federal standards." That's just an outline to ensure chemical accidents don't happen and to show there are safeguards making such tragedies preventable.
Also, Adair failed to report it was storing 270 tons of ammonium nitrate - 1,350 times the amount that should alert the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that it should monitor the site, according to Reuters. Any facility holding 400 lbs. of ammonium nitrate is required to report that to DHS.
The danger was obvious. American terrorist Timothy McVeigh used the same fertilizer in 1995 to blow up the Oklahoma City federal building.
"Texas, at least, had every reason to take the hazard of fertilizer explosions seriously," reported the Society of Environmental Journalists. "An ammonium nitrate fertilizer blast in 1947 at Texas City, Texas, killed at least 581 people - the worst single industrial accident in U.S. history."
Where was the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) or its state and local counterparts? OSHA last inspected West Fertilizer in 1985, according to Bloomberg News.
OSHA is hampered by anti-regulation zealots who hamstring its authority and cut its budget. In 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled OSHA needed search warrants to inspect employers' facilities, weakening the agency's mandate. Also, lobbied by the chemical industry, Congress during the GOP Bush administration made risk management plans mandated in 1990s Clean Air Act more difficult for the public to find.
Finally, although the worldwide trend is for "privatized regulation" where companies being examined fund the examiners, in the United States, the trend is to starve agencies.
Either way, the results can be deadly.
Required to ensure each worker has safe and healthful working conditions, OSHA has two main functions: Inspecting workplaces and furthering health and safety standards. But OSHA is woefully understaffed and underfunded. With 2,200 inspectors and more than seven million workplaces where 130 million people work, it would take more than 100 years for OSHA inspectors to look over each workplace, says the AFL-CIO.
Compare that to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
"Although Americans were 270 times more likely to die in a workplace accident than a terrorist attack in 2011, the DHS' budget that year was $47 billion, while OSHA's budget was only $558 million," wrote labor journalist Mike Elk.
Besides OSHA, EPA and DHS, various agencies should have kept track of the plant. "This tragic explosion points to the need for more resources allocated to OSHA," said Tom O'Connor, director of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health. "With adequate funding for more OSHA inspectors, more potentially dangerous sites - like this fertilizer manufacturing plant - can be inspected and hazards abated."
Former OSHA official Celeste Monforton told Elk that communicating just about terrorist threats shows a system that doesn't see workplace accidents as a danger.
"A wise public protection system would look at these risks in a more integrated way," she said. "If you are looking at the hazard of ammonium nitrate, you would look at from a variety of potential ways, it could be mishandled whether it could be stolen or used in a terrorist attack or being used by a company in a way that puts the community and workers at risk."
There are businesses that are safe and also profitable, of course. But there's also a mindset that there's never enough profit and that maximizing income must finally sacrifice safety, workers' rights and product quality.
So will neighborhoods continue to unknowingly have hazardous facilities near nursing homes, schools and apartment, like at West, Texas? They will if there's no counterweight to the power of unscrupulous employers.
Writing in the Progressive Populist, former broadcast journalist and business consultant James Moore said: "Generations from now...people may find it hard to understand what we allowed to happen in order to hold down our tax burden and to let industry create jobs and find energy without government meddling."
Bill Knight is editor of The Labor Paper
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Alex Anthopoulos vividly remembers how he felt in 2009. He was an assistant general manager in Toronto and the Blue Jays were off to the best start in baseball. He allowed himself to get caught up in the excitement.
And then it all came crashing down.
Since then, he learned his lesson. Now as the general manager for the Jays, he kept his cool when his team started a woefully disappointing 10-21. He's maintained his perspective the last few weeks as Toronto worked its way back into the post season race, thanks to a franchise-tying 11-game winning streak, which ended Monday night in a 4-1 loss to Tampa Bay.
"I think what's helped me is that in 2009. … I got completely caught up," Anthopoulos said Monday night as he visited the Buffalo Bisons before their 7-1 loss to the Durham Bulls in front of 7,442 at Coca-Cola Field. "I got sucked in. And we went on a nine-game road trip, it started in Boston and we lost all nine games. … We went from the best of 30 teams to the third worst of 30 for the last third of the season.
"It was a reminder to me that I'm never going to get caught up or sucked in. Even now as we're playing well, I'm extremely comfortable in saying that we will have a stretch where we don't play well again."
While Anthopoulos has isolated himself from much of the chatter to keep his sanity, and his perspective, he has watched the Blue Jays come together, more impressed with the quality of the play than with numbers and streaks.
"As fun as it's been for the fans and obviously it's nice from our standpoint, we're not getting ahead of ourselves. … The encouraging thing is that we're playing better," he said. "That will ultimately lead to more wins."
For the Blue Jays organization, it's about riding out the inevitable ups and downs of the season and focusing on consistency. Everything else will fall into place.
"We're in the race," said shortstop Jose Reyes in the Bisons dugout before the game. "It's playing consistent baseball. Winning series. … May was bad but that can happen with any team. It's a long season."
It's been a long road back for Reyes, who was made his final appearance with the Bisons as part of his Major League Rehabilitation stint Monday night, starting at shortstop and batting in the leadoff spot.
The four-time All-Star has been on the disabled list since injuring his ankle on April 12, just 10 games into the season.
While part of the Reyes rehab is to make sure his ankle is feeling OK, it also about getting his timing back at the plate and increasing his stamina to play nine innings every day. Because once Reyes returns to the Jays, he will practically insist on playing. Every. Single. Day.
"Jose's the type, once he's back, he does not want to take a day off," Anthopoulos said. "I mean it's a fight if you want to take him out of the lineup. I remember talking to him in spring training. We have meeting with each player before the spring starts, and we said maybe with the turf and day game after night we'll be thinking about a day off and he said 'day off?' He looked at us like we had five eyeballs. 'No, I don't like any days off. I don't want any days off.'"
Reyes was expected to play in New Hampshire on Wednesday but late Monday night, the Blue Jays announced that Reyes will be activated on Wednesday and join the Toronto team in Tampa.
Ask Reyes if he's ready and, well, you get the answer you'd expect. He smiles and laughs. He feels good. He feels in shape. He's antsy to go. Reyes went 2 for 4 on Monday including driving in the Herd's only run of the game in the fifth inning.
"My concern before I came here was running," Reyes said. "And running was good … everything went fine."
His stamina to play nine innings every day?
"I don't worry about that because when I do my rehab I work hard just to get my body strong," he said. "I feel strong. No matter how many nine innings that I play. … When I get on the field, I don't like to get a day off. I just want to go every day. If I feel I can play that day, I'm gonna play."
Also of interest to Anthopoulous on his visit to Buffalo along with Andrew Tinnish (assistant general manager) and Charlie Wilson (director of minor league operations) was the work of starter Ricky Romero.
They didn't see the Romero who had back-to-back quality starts. Instead, Romero struggled giving up five runs on six hits with four walks and two strikeouts in 3∑ innings.
But before the game, Anthopoulos noted that Romero's return is going to take time, but that patience with young players often pays off. And when Romero announced that he was going to stop mucking around with his mechanics and get back to his former pitching ways, he was fully supported by his general manager.
"I like the ownership," Anthopoulos said. "I like the sense of 'Hey, I know what works for me. Because when you're struggling, you're trying to find some things. We're looking to identify problems and the solutions but we don't know exactly how to get it fixed. You never know really what the solution is.
"The player has to buy into it and the player has to be a part of it as well. The fact that … he was trying to find the answer as well, that's a great sign."
Romero gave up two runs in the third and was tagged for three of Durham's runs in a five-run fourth for the Bulls. Romero took the loss (0-2) with his ERA jumping to 7.24.
The Herd begins an eight-game road trip tonight, opening a four-game series in Lawrenceville, Ga., against the Gwinnett Braves (6:05 p.m., Radio 1520 AM). Righty Justin Germano (4-6, 5.92) is scheduled to start for the Herd against lefty Yohan Flande (3-6, 5.79). The Bisons then move to a four-game series in Charlotte before returning home on July 3.
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Travels with Keoki A Week in the Islands
Keoki and I are on our annual golf pilgrimage through the Hawaiian Islands. Right now, we are standing on the third tee box at Mauna Kea, the most spectacular and intimidating par-3 hole in the Aloha State. Hole Nos. 1 and 2 at this classic retreat are fun, get-the-kinks-out efforts, but Mauna Kea No. 3: This is where the fun begins.
Keoki and I are on our annual golf pilgrimage through the Hawaiian Islands. Right now, we are standing on the third tee box at Mauna Kea, the most spectacular and intimidating par-3 hole in the Aloha State. Hole Nos. 1 and 2 at this classic retreat are fun, get-the-kinks-out efforts, but Mauna Kea No. 3: This is where the fun begins.
Hmmm . . . 200-plus yards, Keoki says, and the wind is strong.
Hes a strapping Hawaiian lad, 6 3 tall and 225 pounds, a cousin on my fathers side, and my blood tie to these magnificent islands.
Dont want to be short, I note, staring at the churning Pacific inlet between where we stood and where the distant-looking green was placed more than 40 years ago by Robert Trent Jones and his then-apprentice son Bobby. The green and tee are really no more than lava fingers that jut into the Pacific, marking the spot where an ancient eruption of Mauna Kea Mountain stopped flowing into the sea. Today, covered by a thin layer of grass, these lava fingers comprise one of golfs most glorious holes.
The entire course is built upon similar terrain, extending from Mauna Keas foothills down to the waterfront at holes three and 11. A rocky, penal classic, the late architects philosophy of easy bogey, tough par is in clear evidence at Mauna Kea, as tiered, pushed-up greens are the norm, often sited above fairway level. Palm trees and lava formations line most fairways, so accuracy is as critical as length. It takes a very good game to score well at Mauna Kea, but it stands first among Hawaiis best.
Dont want to be short, Keoki reiterates, pulling a 3-wood from his bag and pushing a peg into the turf.
When I land in Honolulu, the first thing I do is call Keoki. Somehow, he always has the time to go neighbor island with me for a few days of golf, kayaking and kicking back, Aloha-style. Our traditional first stop: Kohala Coast, Hawaiis Big Island.
In the wide world of golf, there are no more alluring courses than those found on the Big Island. Of the more than 20 designs found here, one is located on top of a lava-spewing volcano; several are located so close to the warm Pacific waters that golfers are tempted to take a dip between shots; many are literally carved into ancient flows of brown and black lava, looking like green ribbons curling through the dark rock; others are placed on the slopes of majestic and verdant mountains.
Most Big Island vacationers opt to luxuriate along the Kona-Kohala Coast, where many of the states best full-service golf resorts are located. Among the excellent choices are Mauna Kea Resort where Keoki and I are today Mauna Lani Resort, Waikoloa and Four Seasons Hualalai.
Any choice is a good choice along this seductive coast, but for me, Mauna Kea has that special allure. The landmark Mauna Kea Beach Hotel opened in 1965. Twenty-one years later, in 1986, it was my first stop on a still-ongoing exploration of the islands, and as with all firsts, it holds a tender place in my heart. Thats why Keoki and I head here before anywhere else when we go neighbor-island hopping. We spend a few days (and more than a few dollars) splitting our time between the wide crescent of gentle beach that fronts the hotel, the two golf courses (the Hapuna Beach Prince course is adjacent) and the beachfront mai tai bar. After that, were both relaxed and ready to charge onward to Maui.
Now were sitting at dinner in Vinos at the Village Course clubhouse at Kapalua, Maui. An unassuming hot dog and hamburger stop between nines during the day, by night this restaurant breaks out of the telephone booth with some super Italian cuisine. Its fresh, creative cooking that concentrates on texture as much as flavor. Thus, the handkerchiefs of homemade pasta they just delivered to our table are not only coated with a creamy, smooth pesto, but topped with roasted almonds and pecorino cheese. The result is both crunchy and flavorful, a wonderful combination.
Keoki and I are reminiscing about our day on the Plantation Course. It is a big, windy monster of a layout, built on former pineapple fields in the foothills of the West Maui Mountains, and the most fun Ive ever had shooting 125! Its designers, Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore, did a masterful job creating holes that are both a beast to play and a true pleasure at the same time, although for me much of that pleasure comes from drinking in the wide ocean vistas in between searching for lost balls in the tall grasses that flank the fairways. And for some reason even though a map of the course does not bear me out it feels as though 15 of the 18 holes play uphill and into the wind.
The Plantation Course is where the PGA Tour holds its season-opening event, the Mercedes Championships, every January. The last few years watching on television, with winning scores between 20-under and 30-under, Ive had to wonder aloud if I was really that bad a golfer, or if the pros were really that good.
Hawaiis courses are defenseless without wind, head professional Marty Kieter said when I posed the same question to him, and the wind uncharacteristically has calmed down when the PGA is here. Those guys get all the breaks.
Tomorrow, were headed to Wailea, about an hours drive south from Kapalua, on a less windy shore of Maui. Golfers have three courses to select from at Wailea: Gold, Emerald and Blue. The Gold Course is a Robert Trent Jones Jr. design that hosts the Senior Skins Game. One can hit away on this oceanfront layout and not lose too many golf balls something that Im starting to consider at this point in my journey. But if you want a real feel-good golf experience where youll score like a champ play the Emerald Course, as pleasant a resort golf experience as there is in Hawaii. The views are superb from all of Waileas layouts, with several of the other Hawaiian Islands in clear sight.
Meanwhile, back at Vinos, theyve just served our entrees, two mahi-mahi steaks massaged in lemon butter and garlic. Eh, cuz, Keoki says, doesnt get any better than this. He speaks the truth.
The last leg of our week-long journey will be spent on Kauai, where three of our top-10 Hawaii courses (see the list below) are found: Kauai Lagoons Kiele, Princeville Prince and Poipu Bay Golf Course, where the PGA Grand Slam of Golf is played.
Jack Nicklaus declared the Kiele Course at Kauai Lagoons a masterpiece the day he declared it open in 1989 and, for once, these words were not just marketing spin. The front nine plays inland, over mango forests and through lush tropical foliage until emerging at the shoreline for the back nine of a lifetime.
Keoki and I are once again staring at the Pacific as we tee off on No. 12, which plays its way down to a green perched on a bluff above the crashing waves. No. 13 is a dramatic par-3 which asks for a tee shot from one cliff over an ocean inlet to a putting surface on another.
Kieles par-4 16th can be driven from the tee for those who like to take a chance, a feat John Daly accomplished when the Grand Slam was held here in 1991. Anything but a perfect shot, however, will have a negative consequence on the scorecard. The safe shot is to lay up at the crest of a very narrow, downhill fairway where the flagstick comes into view (it cannot be seen from the tee). The green is actually a few feet from the tidepools and lighthouse of Nawiliwili Bay. There is no more scenic stretch of holes anywhere in golf than those found from Nos. 12-16 at Kiele.
Our final conquest this trip is Princeville Prince, on the islands fabled North Shore near Hanalei Bay. Another of Robert Trent Jones Jr.s portfolio of Hawaiian designs, the Prince Course provides golfers a magnificent setting, as well as a stern test of golf. It runs along some bluffs above the Pacific, and boasts dramatic ocean or mountain views from every hole. From a playing standpoint, this course demands your best game. Youll need to display accurate driving, precise approach shots and intelligent course management here to score well. Even if you dont and believe me, my own round was far less than stellar a round on this impressive course is a cherished memory.
And for me and Keoki, thats what this trip finally became, a fond memory. Ive got this thing wired, though: Im already planning for next year.
Cuz & Keokis Top 10 Favorite Hawaii Courses
Mauna Kea (Big Island)
Kauai Lagoons, Kiele (Kauai)
Princeville Prince (Kauai)
Hualalai, Nicklaus (Big Island)
The Challenge at Manele (Lanai)
Kapalua Plantation (Maui)
Wailea Gold (Maui)
Turtle Bay, Palmer (Oahu)
Poipu Bay (Kauai)
Kaluakoi (Molokai)
Photographer and writer George Fuller has been covering golf and adventure travel for more than 15 years. His assignments have taken him throughout the United States, Asia, Polynesia, Europe and Mexico.
As an author, he has eight books to his credit, the two most recent being California Golf The Complete Guide (11th edition, 2004, Avalon Travel Publishing) and Discover Hawaiis Best Golf (second edition December 2001, Island Heritage Publishing). Others include Hawaii: Adventures In Nature, (October 1999, John Muir Publishing).
A former editor of LINKS The Best of Golf, he has contributed stories to many newspapers and magazines, including TIME, San Francisco Chronicle, Coastal Living, GOLF Magazine, Travel & Leisure Golf and others. Based in Marina Del Rey, Calif., George is a monthly travel correspondent for the PGA Tour (pgatour.com), and a Contributing Editor to The Golfer. We're very happy George is part of the Cybergolf team.
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What can fit inside a shoe box? More than you might think, and it's often enough to make a child happy, according to folks involved with Operation Christmas Child.
The worldwide children's project of Samaritan's Purse sends millions of gift-filled shoe boxes to needy children in 100 countries on six continents.
Grace Bible Church in is a collection site for the program and church members hope to send 20,000 shoe boxes this year, an increase of 3,000 from last year.
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(Mirror photo byGary M. Baranec)Cassidie, 9, Noah, 7, and Elijah, 3, Best of Altoona pack a shoe box with gifts for Grace Bible Church to send to Operation Christmas Child.
Churches from Bedford, Blair, Fayette and Huntingdon counties collect items and drop them at Grace Bible Church.
"We're hoping with more recognition we'll attract more people," said Shannon Krater, area coordinator for Operation Christmas Child.
Church members are striving to pack 11,000 boxes themselves, with the hopes that other churches, civic groups and community members will donate the remaining 9,000 boxes.
Grace Bible began participating in Operation Christmas Child about 13 years ago and interest in the program has grown through the years.
"A lot of people do it because they get to contribute and bring joy to the life of a child. It's also a great way for kids to learn to think of somebody besides themselves," Krater said.
Last year a family donated 200 boxes. Other people donated one box or a few items to include in the boxes.
Items needed for the boxes include personal hygiene items, toys, school supplies, candy, items of clothing like hats, socks or flip flops. Anything that can break, leak or melt cannot be included in the boxes, so chocolate, shampoo and liquid soaps are not ideal. Bars of soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, jump ropes, crayons, balls, toy cars and dolls are great items, Krater said.
"We always try to put a stuffed animal in every box," Krater said. "Most of these kids receiving these shoe boxes have never received a gift of any kind at all. A lot of them have not felt loved."
Along with the gift-filled shoe boxes, at least 200 pairs of shoes were donated for this year's project.
Nancicarol Troiano, a member of Grace Bible Church, helps with Operation Christmas Child and was hoping to find empty shoe boxes for the project. Instead, she found a woman who was willing to donate new shoes.
"Our church is collecting shoe boxes but this lady had actual shoes. I was all excited," Troiano said.
The donor, Catherine Shortencarrier of Northern Cambria, owns Paul's Shoe Store in Northern Cambria. She had recently moved to a smaller location and was looking to get rid of some of her old inventory.
"Rather than just keep it lying there, I said I'd like to help the needy people," she said.
Shortencarrier started working at Paul's Shoe Store in 1944 when she was 13 years old. She bought the store in 1991, and in recent years her health declined, causing her to downsize.
"It's something I always wanted to do, was pass along my good fortune to others," Shortencarrier said.
Not everyone can donate 200 pairs of shoes, but every donation counts, Krater said.
"We meet some physical needs, as well as spiritual needs," Krater said.
Anyone interested in donating shoe boxes or items for the boxes can drop off supplies at Grace Bible Church from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays.
National collection week is Nov. 14 to 21 and on Nov. 14 Grace Bible Church will be packing boxes at 6 p.m. at the church.
Anyone is welcome to help.
Operation Christmas Child started in 1993 with 28,000 shoe boxes. Since then, Samaritan's Purse, headquartered in North Carolina, has collected and delivered more than 86 million shoe boxes to 130 countries. Children who experienced the earthquake and aftermath of cholera in Haiti in 2010 and the earthquake in China in 2008 and 2009 were recipients of shoe box gifts.
For more information visit www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC.


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I've told you before about the massive data breach of the computers of the South Carolina Department of Revenue that resulted in the stealing of databases containing the Social Security numbers, credit card and bank account information of 3.8 million taxpayers and some 700,000 businesses who filed state tax returns electronically. I find the ongoing recriminations, finger pointing, head rolling, excuses being given and other fallout from the incident simply fascinating.
Naturally, one major question has been: how did it happen? The state hired Mandiant, a highly regarded information security company, both to try to determine how it happened and exactly what data has been compromised.
As to the how, Mandiant thinks it knows the answer. It's dismayingly simple — a state employee clicked on a "phishing" email.
Mandiant's Public Incident Response Report, released last week says:
"A malicious (phishing) email was sent to multiple Department of Revenue employees. At least one Department of Revenue user clicked on the embedded link, unwittingly executed malware, and became compromised. The malware likely stole the user's username and password."
The phony email was responded to on August 13, and two weeks later the hacker logged onto the user's workstation and through it onto the State's computer system. Then, for more than two months he, she or they roamed freely through multiple South Carolina computer systems and databases.
What happened over these two month of undetected access is almost a textbook example of what a hacker with enough ability can do. According to the report:
- Thirty-nine systems were accessed by the "attacker" who used at least 33 unique pieces of malicious software and utilities to perform the attack and data theft.
- The attacker installed a "back door" to allow continual access to one system.
- The attacker stole at least 8.2 gigabytes of compressed databases and files from three systems (including the taxpayer database).
- One system was used to send data out to the attacker.
- The attacker executed a utility to obtain user account passwords for all Windows user accounts.
The amount of data that was stolen in this malicious attack is being called the biggest ever. Some in the state seem to take a perverse pride in this fact. But I'm afraid the South Carolina breach is far, very far, from the largest.
Police in Greece have arrested a computer programmer for allegedly stealing the identity information of most of the country's population. The thief was found in possession of "nine million data files containing identification card data, addresses, tax ID numbers and license plate numbers", and he was found to be attempting to sell this information.
Whether he hacked databases to get this information, or had an accomplice in government, is still unclear say authorities.
The last Greek census, in 2011, puts the population at 10,787,690. So nine million individual files would seem to mean that more than 83 percent of Greeks have had their personal information stolen. But wait, the police say, many of the files contained duplicative information, so the number of individuals exposed is certainly much fewer than nine million.
But nine million files easily trumps South Carolina's 3.8 million.


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It has been a year since my review, and an update is in order. With a new phone and upgraded Bluetooth 4.0, this radio now earns 5 stars. The known bluetooth bug was inherent in the Android 2.3 platform, but is no longer a concern with my new phone, an LG F6 equipped with JB 4.1.2. Pandora also connects 99.9% of the time, the other .1% is easily corrected by cycling through the source inputs on the radio. LOVE this setup now, even though Crutchfield no longer carries this radio, there are alternative means to get one. I have absolutely no regrets buying this radio now!
Pros: Bluetooth 4.0 equipped phones shouldn't have any trouble now
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Don't drink the water in Colcord, OklahomaUPDATED 10:49 PM CDT Aug 27, 2013
Red worms invade city's water filtration system, won't go away.Video Transcript
STORY THAT HAD US SQUIRMING TODAY ...! AN OKLAHOMA TOWN, TOLD NOT TO DRINK THE WATER, BECAUSE OF A WORM CONTAMINATION. ITS ALL HAPPENING IN COLCORD, IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THESE RED WORMS HAVE INVADED THE CITY'S FILTER SYSTEM AND THEY JUST WON'T GO AWAY! "this is our problem, this is our worm" VICE MAYOR CODY GIBBY SAYS THE CITY'S WATER IS CONTAMINATED WITH WORMS. AND RIGHT NOW, THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO FIX IT. "the chlorine won't kill them, the bleach won't kill them, you can take the worms out of the filter system and put them in a straight cup of bleach and leave them in there for about four hours and they still won't die" THE TINY RED WORMS WERE FOUND IN THE MAIN FILTERS FOR THE CITY'S WATER SUPPLY. IT'S UNKNOWN WHAT THREAT COLCORD RESIDENTS MIGHT BE FACING. BUT FOR NOW, THE CITY SAYS IT'S NOT SAFE TO DRINK OR USE THE WATER FOR COOKING. "it's crazy, cause my kids are out of school, we have no water we can't even cook with it, so it's pretty bad if you can't cook with it" RACHEL MILLER HAS BEEN HAULING WATER FOR HER FAMILY. "when you go without water you kind of miss the simple things of being able to go and turn your faucet on" "it's bad, I don't even know if we can take a bath in it" THE CITY SAYS THEY HOPE TO GET PRELIMINARY TESTS TOMORROW. IN THE MEANTIME, RESIDENTS WILL HAVE TO DRINK BOTTLED WATER. AND SCHOOL WILL BE
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At the grand opening on Monday, a sea of VIPs took part in the Hawaiian blessing at Grand Wailea: A Waldorf Astoria resort's magnificent lobby area.
Then the group was escorted down the new outdoor ohia and granite staircase by Chinese lion dancers, followed by Japanese taiko drummers at the entrance, where 800 tons of rocks from Mt. Fuji are situated around the koi pond.
It was only fitting that this was a multi cultural event, as this is owner-chef Alan Wong's heritage, and it's the concept for his latest restaurant venture.
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"Amasia is a continent that would be a fusion of North America and Asia if they met in the middle of the Pacific. Since this is Hawaii, it's a concept of East Meets West. It gives you a perfect sense of place," says celebrated Chef Alan Wong about the name.
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Kona kampachi with passion fruit and purple sweet potato dice.
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Maui Cattle Co. rib-eye steak with Hamakua mushrooms and chili butter.
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Over 800 tons of rocks from Mt. Fuji greet you at the entrance.
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"My mom is from Japan and I was born in Tokyo," the award-winning Wong told me in a private interview a few days prior to the opening party. "My dad is Hawaiian-Chinese from Oahu."
Since Wong moved back to Hawaii when he was just four years old, his concept for Alan Wong's Amasia is a reinterpretation of local favorites of his youth, mixed in with his love of travel.
"In Spain they are called tapas. In Japan, it's izakaya or bar food. You know how fun it is in Hawaii to stand in your backyard with a beverage, friends all around, and you pick food off of the grill?"
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Alan Wong's Amasia fast facts:
The concept: Small tapas and family-style sharing portions make it easy to try the variety of elevated local tastes, inspired by plantation era cuisine as well as from global street food.
Must trys: Ahi meatballs with angry sauce; Bambucha (huge) pot stickers with garlic and chives, any of the sushi selections; whole garlic dungeness crab; Kurobuta pork in spicy miso mustard.
King Street favorites: Mauians won't have to travel to Oahu to get their fix of whole tomato salad, soup and sandwich, oyster shooter, kalbi short ribs, ginger-crusted onaga and pineapple shave ice.
The look: Over $3 million was spent on the former Kincha. It still looks like a Japanese tea house with private tatami rooms, sake room and the cave next to a small waterfall. The hinoki-wood bar is sanded daily.
Hours: Open daily for dinner from 5 to 10 p.m. Validated parking with stamp.
For more details: Call Amasia at 891-3954.
"That's the idea I wanted for Amasia. We've got four different areas where food comes out, from the robata room, the sushi bar, the cold prep area with sashimi and fresh salads, and from the main kitchen. Of course, I still do Hawaii Regional Cuisine. But this is my simple definition of how we cook in Hawaii today, with all the different ethnic influences."
For instance, Wong does "Spong," his own gourmet version of Spam. Get it? Spam and Wong equals Spong.
He also loves his li hing mui and puts it on cold pupu such as house-marinated olives with crack seed; and on Richard Ha's whole tomato salad, artfully presented on a pool of li hing mui dressing.
"Just like European chefs might look to Escoffier for inspiration, I like to look into our old ethnic foods that started back in the plantation times."
As someone who has already dined at Amasia twice prior to the grand opening, I can attest there are plenty of fun tastes to be tried and retried.
I'm already hooked on the food from the robata, aka "grill" or "hibachi." You must try the Hamakua mushrooms sliced thick and salted, grilled with half a lemon. And, beef tenderloin skewer with honey-mustard foie-gras coulis and moromi miso is tender and flavorful.
Sous Chef Dee Ann Tsurumaki, who was executive chef of the $8-million Felix atop the Peninsula in Hong Kong, does the robata justice at Amasia. The other chefs are all heavy hitters, too. Chef de Cuisine Chris Damskey was the protoge of Jean-Georges Vongerichten; Sushi Chef Jeff Ramsey was chef for Jose Andres, the famous Spaniard who brought tapas to America; Michelle Karr is also pastry chef at Alan Wong's King Street on Oahu, where President Obama and his family dine year after year, ever since he was a senator.
"I've also cooked at the White House on the South Lawn for his congressional luau for 2,300 people and for Obama's private parties on Oahu."
Speaking of parties, since it's graduation and wedding season, Alan Wong's Amasia is the perfect place to host a function for your family and friends.
"The size of this restaurant makes King Street look like a studio apartment," Wong says. "There are many pockets where you can have a private party. We've got what I call 'the cave' right next to a waterfall, the sake room, small tatami rooms and other fun seating areas."
For those who haven't seen it yet, you must check out the Hinoki wood bar, which is sanded to a sheen everyday. There is no varnish or oil, just a fabulous example of fine wood to the nth degree.
"We have private label sake, private label wines, and a menu of specialty cocktails," says the James Beard Award-winning chef. "The cocktails are all kitchen driven. I get involved in the creations."
Desserts, as well as the rest of the menu, change daily.
"I have an outstanding staff here and Grand Wailea's Matt Bailey has been super supportive to make all of this happen. I love Maui. I'm so glad to be here!"


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CHILDREN'S BOOKS: A Round-the-Globe Chain of Good Cheer
A young girl's smile travels the world and returns to her, imparting the value of pay-it-forward kindness.
Seven years ago, the David McKee picture book "Who Is Mrs. Green?" told the chain-reaction tale of an irritating incident that manages to spread unhappiness through an entire neighborhood. David Ezra Stein's "Because Amelia Smiled" (Candlewick, 40 pages, $16.99) inverts this idea in a lovely way, showing that a moment of joy can be equally contagious.
In the striking, densely crayoned pages of this picture book for 3- to 9-year-olds, Mr. Stein relates the amazing effects of one little girl's happy expression. "Because Amelia smiled, coming down the street," a woman who sees her smiles too. The woman remembers her grandson Lionel, who is teaching English in Mexico, and bakes cookies to send him. He shares the cookies with his class and teaches the children a song, and "because Lionel taught his class a song," we read, "one of his students, kickboxer Sensacia Golpes, decided to be a teacher, too." We see Sensacia demonstrating her techniques to a bunch of admiring kids in a plaza, a scene recorded by her cousin, who then puts the video online. In England, dancers see the video and incorporate Sensacia's moves into a ballet they perform in Israel, a show so enjoyed by a 4-year-old boy that he—well, on it goes, one person inspiring another and spreading good cheer until Amelia's smile has traveled across the globe and back again. "Because Amelia Smiled" is not a book for sardonic hipsters, but it will nicely suit parents who hope to impart the value of pay-it-forward kindness to their children.
Orit Gidali's "Nora the Mind Reader" (Enchanted Lion, 32 pages, $15.95), translated from the Hebrew by Annette Appel, also deals sweetly with unintended consequences. In this case the catalyst is words. When a boy at Nora's school tells her that she has "flamingo legs," she is hurt and furious. Luckily, Nora has an understanding mother who gives her a magic wand "for days that don't seem to be filled with any magic at all."
In Aya Gordon-Noy's visually spacious mixed-media-collage illustrations, the wand is actually a pink plastic bubble wand, the sort you dip into a soapy mixture and blow through. When Nora holds it up to her eye, she sees silvery thought-bubbles revealing that "people don't always say what they think, or say what they think they are saying."
Now Nora can perceive that a boy who says, "I don't feel like playing" is really thinking, "I don't feel like losing" and that a girl who snaps, "You ask too many questions" is in fact thinking, insecurely, "You're so smart." Armed with these insights, Nora speaks with straightforward kindness to the flamingo boy, who, it turns out, has a crush on her. There is a particularly charming bit near the end of this emotionally intelligent tale for 4- to 8-year-olds: Nora's father comes home and says, "Hi! Give me a kiss. Let's have lunch." And we see him secretly thinking, "Hi! Give me a kiss. Let's have lunch."
Of all the children who have known and loved Edward Lear's 1870 poem "The Owl and the Pussycat," who among them, I wonder, knows that Lear was the epileptic 20th child of a London banker as well as an admired landscape painter? These captivating facts can be found in the short biography that opens a new edition of Lear's most famous verses, "The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Nonsense" (Palazzo Editions, 192 pages, $14.99).
The book has a pale, soft feeling, with mostly taupe pages and with mostly earth colors in Robert Ingpen's delicate yet forceful illustrations. Along with Lear's nonsense poetry, there is a reproduction here of an autobiographical letter that the author sent a friend before he embarked on what he thought would be his final foreign voyage (it wasn't) and a fanciful discursion from Mr. Ingpen on the botany of Bong-tree Land, to which the Owl and the Pussycat, of course, "sailed away for a year and a day." Those looking for an excuse to introduce Edward Lear to a child need look no farther than this handsome edition, timed to celebrate the bicentenary of the great man's birth.
Nonsense finds a place in semi-normal family life in Matthea Harvey's "Cecil the Pet Glacier" (Schwartz & Wade, 32 pages, $14.99), a picture book illustrated by Giselle Potter that sets deadpan comedy amid glorious jujube colors. We follow events from the perspective of Cecil's reluctant owner, Ruby Small, a child who is afflicted by madcap parents and who greatly desires calm domesticity. Alas, Ruby's mother (a tiara maker) and her father (a specialist in topiaries who shapes his beard into a crocodile) have dragged poor Ruby off to Norway, where Cecil calves from an iceberg and immediately insinuates himself into her life.
Cecil, resembling the swirly top of a portion of soft-serve ice cream yet consisting of hard, sparkling ice, has "special needs." He requires weekly grooming—Mrs. Small scrubs off the gum and trash that he has picked up on his bottom—and must spend his evenings in a cooler lest he melt away. Ruby's parents adore Cecil, but Ruby gives him the cold shoulder until the fateful day when he bravely rescues one of her dolls from a rainstorm, winning the girl over with his selfless loyalty. It is a tale so cheerfully absurd that it could have been written by Lear—though he, I suspect, would have made it rhyme.


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'The VLF Story' by Stephen P. McGreevy (about my VLF field-recording travels)
Photo of gorgeous aurora over northern Manitoba, Canada, taken during Manitoba Solar-Minimum VLF Expedition, way back on 22 August 1996. Central/Northern Manitoba, Canada is the truly best place (in late summer when it is still mild weather) to see gorgeous aurora. If you wish to witness this incredible spectacle for yourself, you don't have to wait until the cold of winter to go northward to see gorgeous aurora if you head for central/northern Manitoba or Saskatchewan, Canada in late August or early September, and the VLF signals will generally be very good (even in solar-minimum periods)! The True North Strong and Free. I love the Boreal Forest region!
Stephen P. McGreevy's "Auroral Chorus II: The Music of the Magnetosphere" Album in MP3 (released 2000, Lone Pine, CA)
Stephen P. McGreevy's "August 2000 Solar-Max. Stereo Expedition to Alberta" Album in MP3 (released 2010, Lone Pine, CA)
Stephen P. McGreevy's "Electric-Enigma" Album in MP3 (released 1996, London)
Stephen P. McGreevy's "Auroral Chorus I: The Music of the Magnetosphere" Album in MP3 (released 1998, Lone Pine, CA)
Stephen P. McGreevy's "Auroral Chorus III: The Music of the Magnetosphere" Album in MP3 - Disc 1 of 2 (released 2003 - many recordings of Alberta 2000 and Saskatchewan 2001 Solar-Maximum VLF Expeditions)
Stephen P. McGreevy's "Auroral Chorus III: The Music of the Magnetosphere" Album in MP3 - Disc 2 of 2 (released 2003)
Stephen P. McGreevy's "Auroral Chorus IV: The Music of the Magnetosphere - Desert Whistlers" Album in MP3 - also contains a great amount of field recordings (echo-tank at the Reward Mine, Inyo Co., CA; freight-train recordings; storm chasing, etc. I think you will find this the most fascinating album of mine, yet!
Stephen P. McGreevy's "Auroral Chorus V: Sferics Anthology (released 2012 - Lone Pine, CA)Contains my NEWEST 2016 VLF field-recordings!
Click Photo or this link to go to Internet Archives site to listen to audio-files (MP3) of my latest Mediumwave/AM Broadcast-band DXpedition (15-21 November 2010) to north-east Oahu, Hawaii! (http://www.archive.org/details/HawaiiMediumwaveDxpeditionNovember2010).
Another glorious Hawaiian (n.e. Oahu) Sunrise 19 Nov. 2010 after a wonderful night of DXing the MW/AM BCB! (click image to go to the Internet Archives page of this DXpedition)
Listen to VLF in Tromso, Norway on this tour!
An amazing site of Thomas Ashcroft and his Radio and Video-Observing!
Aurora Borealis - 250 Miles Above the Earth from Randy Smith on Vimeo.
Fascinating Recordings - They LOVED my natural radio albums (available now as MP3 albums on Internet Archives - links above)
Excellent Live VLF-audio stream (mono) at 128 kbps from Helsinki, Finland
Live VLF-audio streams online
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Sestak Message Ran Through Clinton
WASHINGTON—The White House said Friday that it tapped former President Bill Clinton last year to try to nudge Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak out of Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate primary contest.
Mr. Sestak has said since February that he was offered a high-level job in exchange for dropping his challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter, which Mr. Sestak ended up winning. Republican critics have alleged that the approach may have broken federal law.
Amid the GOP accusations of a scandal, The Obama administration on Friday released a memo giving its most extensive description of events, which the White House counsel's office investigated beginning in February. The memo said "no impropriety occurred."
The memo said Mr. Clinton, acting at the request of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, raised with Mr. Sestak the possibility of an "uncompensated advisory board" position. That would have given Mr. Sestak a new opportunity for public service, allowed him to keep his House seat and "avoid a divisive Senate primary," the memo said.
Mr. Clinton made the approach during a phone call in June or July 2009, according to an official familiar with the matter, who provided additional details in a briefing. Mr. Sestak declined the offer, the memo said.
From WashWire
Mr. Sestak, talking to reporters Friday, used the White House's terminology in describing the offer as a "presidential board," not his earlier description of a job offer. One of the possible advisory posts the White House had in mind, according to the person familiar with the matter, was on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. Its 16 members are unpaid and may not be federal government employees, meaning that Mr. Sestak may have had to leave his House seat to accept the position.
He said Mr. Clinton called him and said, "Joe, if you stay in the House, Rahm has brought up being appointed to a presidential board."
When Mr. Sestak interrupted the former president to refuse, he said, Mr. Clinton chuckled and replied, "Joe, I knew you were going to say that." The two of them never discussed it again, Mr. Sestak added.
A spokesman for the Clinton Foundation declined to comment on Mr. Clinton's role. Mr. Sestak, a former Navy officer, had served on the White House National Security Council under Mr. Clinton.
Some Republicans say the White House may have violated Section 600 of the federal criminal code, which makes it illegal to promise anyone an appointment in exchange for political activity, or in exchange for supporting or opposing a candidate.
"It says you can't offer an appointment, and that is exactly what the memo admits they were doing," said Hans von Spakovsky, who was appointed to the Federal Election Commission by President George W. Bush and is now with the conservative Heritage Foundation. "All the admissions they made provide the elements for a violation of the statute."
The administration's defenders say that interpretation misses the point of the law, which they say was aimed at machine politicians who offered people jobs to support their candidates.
"It's not about offering someone a job to sideline them," said Richard Painter, who was chief White House ethics lawyer under Mr. Bush. "It was about the spoils system and getting people to get out there and support someone in exchange for a job."
The attorney general has the power, without White House interference, to order an investigation or to decide whether one isn't merited. In a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) last week, the Justice Department said its career prosecutors and investigators were capable of handling any criminal probe "if warranted." It rejected Mr. Issa's suggestion of a special prosecutor, but didn't say whether a Justice inquiry was being conducted. Congress also has the power to investigate, a development that seems unlikely under Democratic control.
An additional internal complication for the Obama administration is that Mr. Emanuel and Attorney General Eric Holder have clashed on major national security policy matters, most notably on Mr. Holder's decision to order a civilian trial in New York City for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Mr. Emanuel opposed the move, and White House officials have signaled that Mr. Obama is expected to overturn Mr. Holder's decision.
Another possible legal avenue for a probe could be to look into whether Mr. Emanuel's actions violated the Hatch Act, which forbids federal employees from interfering with an election's outcome. The penalties for a transgression are civil, rather than criminal.
Letter of the Law
18 U.S.C. § 600 : US Code - Section 600: Promise of employment or other benefit for political activity: Whoever, directly or indirectly, promises any employment, position, compensation, contract, appointment, or other benefit, provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of Congress, or any special consideration in obtaining any such benefit, to any person as consideration, favor, or reward for any political activity or for the support of or opposition to any candidate or any political party in connection with any general or special election to any political office, or in connection with any primary election or political convention or caucus held to select candidates for any political office, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
"If Sestak had taken the offer, not only would it have interfered with the result, it would have changed the result," said Scott Coffina, who specialized in ethics and elections in the Bush White House counsel's office.
But others say the Hatch Act was intended to prevent administration officials from pressuring subordinates into political activity. Mr. Painter says it makes little sense to interpret ethics laws too sweepingly in a world where every administration is involved in politics.
"You would make illegal a great deal of what government does," he said.
The White House said that reports that Mr. Sestak had been offered the position of Navy secretary were untrue. At the time of Mr. Clinton's conversation with Mr. Sestak, the Navy secretary job was already filled by Ray Mabus, who was nominated in March 2009, and confirmed two months later.
The White House memo said that the advisory post possibly filled by Mr. Sestak would have been related to intelligence or national security. Mr. Sestak served for 31 years in the Navy and is a former three-star admiral.
In the primary, Mr. Sestak defeated Mr. Obama's favored candidate, Mr. Specter, a former Republican who switched parties. Mr. Sestak faces Republican Pat Toomey in November.
—Corey Boles contributed to this article.


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Serena wins Brisbane title, Murray into final
BRISBANE, Australia -- Serena Williams proved the break between seasons hasn't hurt her momentum, capturing her 47th career title with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Saturday in the Brisbane International final.
Williams has won 35 of her past 36 matches, including titles at Wimbledon, the Olympics, the U.S. Open, the season-ending WTA championships and now the first event of 2013.
Defending champion Andy Murray advanced to the men's final when fifth-seeded Kei Nishikori retired with an injured left knee while trailing 6-4, 2-0 in their semifinal earlier Saturday.
The Olympic and U.S. Open champion will next meet Grigor Dimitrov, 21, who is starting to live up to his billing as a star-in-the-making by reaching his first ATP Tour final with a 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (5) victory over Marcos Baghdatis.
- At Perth, Australia, Spain defeated Serbia 2-1 to win the Hopman Cup for the fourth time.
Fernando Verdasco and Anabel Medina Garrigues won the deciding mixed doubles 6-4, 7-5 against Novak Djokovic and Ana Ivanovic.
- At Doha, Qatar, Richard Gasquet won the Qatar Open for his eight career title, coming from a set down to beat Nikolay Davydenko 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3.
Having pulled out of the Sydney tournament because of elbow trouble, Gasquet said he will be ready for the Australian Open.
The win in Qatar will give him a much-needed boost.
"I'm really happy with the way I won," he said. "I'm confident. When you're winning a tournament like that, it's perfect. I played a lot, so for sure I will be ready for Melbourne."
Davydenko, who struggled with injuries last season, called for the trainer early in the third set for treatment on his hip. In the end, Davydenko blamed his conditioning for the defeat.
"He beat me physically," he said. "He runs very well."


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I never really knew what a blessing I had growing up in the dirty, nasty streets of suburban New York. My outside job when there was snow was clearing the snow - and clearing it cleanly. There was no room for ice. No excuses.
And if there was dirty ice in the dirty part of the dirty gutter, so much the better. When we were kids, we were thrilled at any sight of snow. We were excited whenever a flake dropped.
As I got older, though, the thrill dropped off - and dropped off quickly.
My mom's enthusiasm, however, never waned. The only joy she received in the winter was when it snowed - she didn't have to scrape a drop of it. But even that joy drooped - first when she moved to Phoenix, then back east to Florida.
So this recent snowstorm was a double-drooper. When we got our share of the snow in Amarillo, we watched it come down gently at first. Then the wind picked up and things we had stacked against the wall were tossed from one end of the porch to the other. But the snowfall had fallen into a hard-bitten slab from one end to another.
My mother.
My daughter, April, has been staying with us for a while, and she's put her resistance until just a while ago, so in the meantime it became one of her major chores to drag the garbage from the porch to the Dumpster in the alley. But many times there was so much mud and frozen muddy treats that April rarely had to empty the trash can. This was one of her joys. And if it wasn't hers, she was able to persuade her boyfriend, Rudy, to help her. Helping her turned the task into Rudy's chore; and when they moved in together, the chore reverted back to me because that's the way things work.
But by the time it was Bruce-time to take out the trash, the crust was so overwhelming I could easily walk on it without breaking through.
Now I could see why my mother was frustrated whenever I tried breaking through the crust - I couldn't do it easily either.
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What are you most proud of? Whenever a plant flourishes in it's spot, I am delighted. I am usually moving plants, like most gardeners, when those flourishing plants out grow their spots or the nearby trees' canopy overtakes their sun space.
What advice would you give someone starting this project? Our agent recommends removing the grass and tilling up and amending the entire area to be the chosen for the new flower bed, but I am basically lazy and have been trying to destroy body parts involved in doing such a laborious job. I therefore use the newspaper trick and amend each spot/plant as I go along and it has worked for me, and my parents as well, over the past many many years. Don't get me wrong, my instructor/Agent is one of the smartest people in her field, but I have also reaped the benefits after using the newspaper trick, which I saw in a landscaping magazine. I also used the newspaper to develop the flower bed before I planted any plants.


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Music Midtown
Music Midtown is coming back in its 12th year with the biggest line up ever to hit a festival and an experience that is sure to make your personal top ten entertainment experiences. In 1994, producers Alex Cooley & Peter Conlon, founders of renowned concert promotion firm, Concert Southern set out to create the most unique music festival. Upon Cooley's retirement in 2004, the festival is now solely produced by Peter Conlon Presents, which is a part of the Clear Channel Entertainment family. Music Midtown is internationally recognized as one of the greatest and most unique festivals. For the past eleven years, festival goers from around the world descend upon the heart of the South to experience Music Midtown, America's largest three-day music festival. Over 100 major and emerging acts representing all genres of music perform each year on multiple outdoor stages in an enclosed 40 acre complex centered between the bustling metropolitan areas of Midtown and Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. With an amazingly low admission price, Music Midtown annually draws 300,000 revelers to Atlanta. In its twelfth year the festival promises to carry out its tradition of featuring the biggest names in music and one of the most diverse lineups of any music festival in the world. Music Midtown also works to promote the city of Atlanta while highlighting the economic and cultural importance of the event to international media.


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*Client Services Manager, Hong Kong*
To support the growth of our business in Asia Pacific, HeathWallace is
looking for a seasoned Client Services
Manager. This is a challenging regional role with the mission to develop,
plan, and deliver user-centric online
solutions for our clients in Asia Pacific. In addition to being an integral
resource for the Hong Kong office, the
role will work closely with the team in UK to deliver the appropriate
solutions to clients. This role will also be
responsible to help drive business development activities for Asia Pacific.
*Main Responsibilities*
The Client Services Manager is required to run projects, manage / develop
client relationships and help drive
business development activities:
*Account management & business consultation
- Capture and analyze business requirements from clients (existing and
prospective) and assist clients to develop and articulate their online
strategy, objectives and priorities.
- Develop appropriate methodology and approach to delivering tailored
solutions for clients utilizing HeathWallace in-house expertise and those of
our partners.
- Apply user-centered design principles to help develop client solutions.
*Project management *
- Develop project plan and co-ordinate with internal resources such as
design and development
- Manage relationship with clients on a day-to-day basis
- Lead the delivery of projects to clients ensuring integrity of solution
as well as client satisfaction
Business development *
- Help drive HeathWallace business development strategy and plans and
co-ordination with UK team as appropriate.
- Prepare proposals and presentations to existing and new clients to
support pitches and tenders.
*Experience and Skills
- 4 to 6 years of project and account management experience in new media
and/or marketing, preferably in financial services context and with agency
- Strong experience with conducting user research & user experience
analysis, and developing information architecture for internet and intranet
- Excellent knowledge of internet design and build practices, including
knowledge of web usability & accessibility.
- Good knowledge on web technologies and their application to create
business solutions.
- Exceptional presentation and writing skills.
- Financial services experience an advantage.
- Practical knowledge of Microsoft Office including Microsoft Project,
Adobe Illustrator, Visio.
- Good understanding and passion for working with the Internet and new
*Other Skills Required
- Cultural adaptability: ability to work with different culture.
- Languages: Fluent spoken and written English is required (native
level). Other languages such as Mandarin are preferred but not essential.
- Persuasiveness, resourcefulness and attention to detail.
- Highly reliable; ability to assume responsibility and accountability.
- Excellent communications and interpersonal skills.
- Desire and ability to innovate.
- Willingness and flexibility to travel.
Location: Hong Kong Salary: Negotiable
*Contact Information*
Interested candidates should send their resume/C.V. to the following email
address: maria.sit at heathwallace.com
HeathWallace is a UK-based digital design and development agency specialized
in delivering effective online
solutions for global financial services firms and other leading brands in
Europe, Asia and North America.
Since end 2004, HeathWallace has experienced a steady inflow of projects
from its international clients for
their Asia Pacific businesses. It also recognizes that there are several
other opportunities in the Asia Pacific
region for HeathWallace to pursue due to its strong track record and
specialist know-how with designing and
developing websites for leading global brands especially those in financial
As a result, HeathWallace has established a branch office in Hong Kong since
November 2006 in order to
better serve its existing clients as well as to pursue new opportunities in
the Asia Pacific region.
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As many as 20% of uveal melanoma–containing eyes historically had opaque media and more than half of such tumors were unsuspected.1,2 While many ophthalmic oncologic centers, including ours, have more than 99% accuracy of uveal melanoma diagnosis, in eyes with opaque media and extensive necrosis the correct diagnosis can sometimes be impossible to establish with ultrasonography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB).3,4 We present 5 cases that illustrate these problems.
Ultrasonography demonstrating an indeterminate lesion. We could not differentiate between a hemorrhagic process and a neoplasm.
A, Necrotic melanoma in the anterior segment (hematoxylin-eosin, original magnification ×2). B, A few identifiable melanoma cells in a posterior scleral canal (hematoxylin-eosin, original magnification ×20).
Necrotic melanoma with a small area of identifiable melanoma cells in the lower right corner of the photomicrograph (hematoxylin-eosin, original magnification ×2).
A, Necrotic melanoma in the posterior pole over the optic nerve with a few identifiable spindle B cells at the base (hematoxylin-eosin, original magnification ×2). B, Higher-power view of spindle B melanoma cells (hematoxylin-eosin, original magnification ×20).
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