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Most Cited Pacific-Basin Finance Journal Articles
The most cited articles published since 2011, extracted from Scopus.
Volatility spillovers between the Chinese and world equity marketsXiangyi Zhou | Weijin Zhang | Jie Zhang
Volume 20, Issue 2, April 2012, Pages 247-270
We propose measures of the directional volatility spillovers between the Chinese and world equity markets based on Diebold and Yilmaz's (2011b) forecast-error variance decompositions in a generalized vector autoregressive framework. It was found that the US market had dominant volatility impacts on other markets during the subprime mortgage crisis. The other markets were also very volatile, and driven by bad news, their massive volatilities were transmitted back to the US market. The volatility of the Chinese market has had a significantly positive impact on other markets since 2005. The volatility interactions among the markets of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan were more prominent than those among the Chinese, Western, and other Asian markets were. The major correction of the Chinese stock market between February and July 2007 significantly contributed to the volatility surges of other markets. Owing to the restrictions on foreign investment, the Chinese stock market was not considerably affected in terms of market volatility during the subprime mortgage crisis. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
The effect of monetary policy on real estate price growth in ChinaXiaoqing Eleanor Xu | Tao Chen
Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 62-77
Using quarterly data from 1998:Q1 to 2009:Q4 and monthly data from July 2005 to February 2010, this paper examines the impact of key monetary policy variables, including long-term benchmark bank loan rate, money supply growth, and mortgage credit policy indicator, on the real estate price growth dynamics in China. Empirical results consistently demonstrate that expansionary monetary policy tends to accelerate the subsequent home price growth, while restrictive monetary policy tends to decelerate the subsequent home price growth. These results suggest that Chinese monetary policy actions are the key driving forces behind the change of real estate price growth in China. We also show that hot money flow does not have a significant impact on the change of home price growth after controlling for the money supply growth. Finally, a bullish stock market tends to accelerate subsequent home price growth. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Enter the dragon: Interactions between Chinese, US and Asia-Pacific equity markets, 1995-2010
Volume 20, Issue 3, June 2012, Pages 521-541
This paper applies a variety of short-run and long-run time series techniques to data on a broad group of Asia-Pacific stock markets and the United States extending to 2010. Our empirical work confirms the importance of crises in affecting the persistence of equity returns in the Asia-Pacific region and offers some support for contagion effects. Post-Asian financial crisis quantile regressions yield substantial evidence of long-run linkages between the Shanghai market, the US market and many regional exchanges. Cointegration is particularly prevalent at the higher end of the distribution. Our results suggest that the enormous growth of the Shanghai market in the new millennium has been accompanied by a meaningful level of integration with other regional and world markets in spite of ongoing capital controls. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Agency cost, top executives' overconfidence, and investment-cash flow sensitivity - Evidence from listed companies in ChinaWei Huang | Fuxiu Jiang | Zhibiao Liu | Min Zhang
Volume 19, Issue 3, June 2011, Pages 261-277
Cross-border venture capital performance: Evidence from ChinaLanfang Wang | Susheng Wang
Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 71-97
This paper investigates the determinants of cross-border venture capital (VC) performance in the Chinese VC market. We focus on the impact of foreign VC firms' (VCs') human capital and domestic entrepreneurs' experience on the performance of both VC investments and portfolio companies using logit and Cox hazard models. After controlling for portfolio company quality, domestic VC industry development, domestic exit conditions and a number of other factors, little correlation was evident between VC performance and foreign VCs' human capital, such as experience, networks and reputation. In contrast, the domestic entrepreneurs' experience is crucial to VC performance. In particular, if an entrepreneur has more general experience in terms of the number of companies previously worked for or more special experience in terms of the number of companies previously served as a CEO or top manager, a portfolio company is more likely to pull off a successful exit through IPO or M&A, and the VCs are also likely to shorten their investment duration in the portfolio company. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Corporate governance and risk-taking: Evidence from Japanese firmsPascal Nguyen
Volume 19, Issue 3, June 2011, Pages 278-297
This paper examines the influence of corporate governance on the risk taking of Japanese firms. We show that family control and ownership concentration are associated with higher idiosyncratic risk, whereas bank control has the opposite effect. Considering the link between idiosyncratic risk and firm performance, the results provide an economic rationale for the higher (lower) performance of family-controlled firms (bank-controlled firms). The results also explain the higher performance of firms with concentrated ownership by relating their governance structures to the risk-taking strategies that generate greater competitive advantages. Finally, we show that the impact of governance structures on risk taking is stronger after controlling for endogeneity. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Are stock and real estate markets integrated? An empirical study of six Asian economiesTsoyu Calvin Lin | Zong Han Lin
Volume 19, Issue 5, November 2011, Pages 571-585
Rising asset prices spurred by Asia's emerging economy have drawn much attention recently. This study examines one source of growth patterns in asset prices by analyzing the integration relationship between stock markets and real estate markets in Asia. Six economies are selected for empirical analysis: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. Results show that stock markets are integrated with real estate markets in Japan, and partially integrated with real estate markets in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. This implies that these two investment vehicles are substitutable in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan, and provide diversification potential for investment portfolios in South Korea and Singapore. Examining the timing of market changes, we found the real estate market leading the stock market in some countries, and the stock market leading the real estate market in others. We conclude that stock and real estate markets show a variety of inter-relationships depending on economic and political policy environments. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Do corporate governance mechanisms matter for cash holdings and firm value?Yuanto Kusnadi
Volume 19, Issue 5, November 2011, Pages 554-570
This paper examines the relationships between firm-level corporate governance mechanisms and cash holdings; along with their combined effects on firm value for a sample of firms listed in Singapore and Malaysia. Firms with less effective governance attributes are found to be more inclined to accumulate cash than those with more effective governance. The results support the flexibility hypothesis in that an increase in agency conflicts between managers and minority shareholders leads to entrenched managers having more discretion to hoard cash reserves. In addition, the incremental value of holding excess cash is shown to be negative for firms with a single leadership structure, firms with a pyramidal ownership structure, as well as family-controlled firms. The discounts associated with these firms may reflect investors' recognition of the possibility of managerial entrenchment. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
The stock market reaction to the 2005 split share structure reform in ChinaAndrea Beltratti | Bernardo Bortolotti | Marianna Caccavaio
Volume 20, Issue 4, September 2012, Page 543
During 2005-2006, the Chinese government implemented the split share structure reform, aimed at eliminating non-tradable shares (NTS), i.e. the shares typically held by the State or by politically connected institutional investors that were issued at the early stage of financial market development. Our analysis, based on the time series of risk factors and on the cross-section of abnormal returns, confirms that the split share structure reform was particularly beneficial for small stocks, stocks characterized by historically poor returns, stocks issued by companies with low transparency and weak governance, and for less liquid stocks. Historically neglected stocks also witnessed an increase in the volume of trading and market prices. We conclude that the reform laid down the conditions for important future changes in ownership, liquidity and corporate governance in China. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.
Performance of global Islamic versus conventional share indices: International evidenceCatherine Soke Fun Ho | Nurul Afiqah Abd Rahman | Noor Hafizha Muhamad Yusuf | Zaminor Zamzamin
Volume 28, Issue , January 2014, Pages 110-121
This paper provides empirical evidence on risk-adjusted performance comparisons of share indices from Islamic and conventional markets. To ensure valid comparisons, the selected Islamic indices are matched with conventional indices. The Treasury-bill rate and the MSCI All-World index are used as risk-free rate and world benchmark, respectively. Monthly returns are analyzed and four sub-periods are examined as crisis and non-crisis periods. Findings reveal that Islamic indices outperformed their conventional counterparts during crisis periods but results are inconclusive for the non-crisis periods. This could be due to the conservative nature of Shari'ah-compliant investments offering investors superior investment alternative during crisis. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
Stealth trading: The case of the Tokyo Stock ExchangeAsli Ascioglu | Carole Comerton-Forde | Thomas H. McInish
Volume 19, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages 194-207
The stealth trading hypothesis asserts that informed traders trade strategically by breaking up their orders so as to more easily hide among the liquidity traders. Using data for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), a pure order-driven market, we find evidence that price changes are driven by small- and medium-size trades, with small trades making the greatest contribution to price change relative to their contribution to trading volume. We also find that large trades explain a greater portion of the cumulative price change on high volatility days. Hence, our results support the stealth trading hypothesis for the TSE. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
RBA monetary policy communication: The response of Australian interest rate futures to changes in RBA monetary policyLee A. Smales
Volume 20, Issue 5, November 2012, Pages 793-808
This paper examines the Australian interest rate futures market reaction to changes in Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) monetary policy. Having determined market expectations from 30-day Interbank futures, the study finds evidence that interest rate futures react strongly to target rate announcements across the maturity spectrum, with a stronger reaction evident in short maturity futures. Further, there is evidence of an asymmetric news effect whereby volatility reacts more strongly to bad news. Disaggregation of the market reaction into target- and path-surprise factors demonstrates that the change in market expectations of future target rates plays a significant role in explaining changes in yield, particularly for bond futures. There is strong evidence that monetary policy statements drive the path-factor, while the December 2007 modification in policy communication has improved the ability of the RBA to influence market expectations. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.
Do Islamic stock indexes outperform conventional stock indexes? A stochastic dominance approachOsamah Al-Khazali | Hooi Hooi Lean | Anis Samet
Volume 28, Issue , January 2014, Pages 29-46
This paper uses stochastic dominance (SD) analysis to examine whether Islamic stock indexes outperform conventional stock indexes by comparing nine Dow Jones Islamic indexes to their Dow Jones conventional counterparts: Asia Pacific, Canadian, Developed Country, Emerging Markets, European, Global, Japanese, UK, and US indexes. Over the periods of 1996-2012 and 2001-2006, we find that all conventional indexes stochastically dominate Islamic indexes at second and third orders in all markets except the European market. However, the European, US, and global Islamic stock indexes dominate conventional ones during the 2007-2012 period. The results indicate that Islamic indexes outperform their conventional peers during the recent global financial crisis. Thus, Islamic investing performs better than conventional investing during meltdown economy. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
Political connections, corporate governance and preferential bank loansYin Hua Yeh | Pei Gi Shu | Shean Bii Chiu
Volume 21, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 1079-1101
The presidential election in Taiwan during 2000 resulted in the first political changeover in more than fifty years from the ruling party, the Kuomintang (KMT), to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). In 2004, the KMT was expected to win, but eventually lost to the DPP. We use these two exogenous events to investigate three issues: how political connections are related to preferential bank loans, how the entrenched position of the ruling party affects the types of preferential bank loans and how corporate governance is related to preferential bank loans. We find that KMT-connected (DPP-connected) firms were associated with higher (lower) abnormal returns before the 2004 election. This pattern of returns was reversed after the unexpected result. Moreover, we find that political connections were positively correlated with preferential bank loans. However, the types of preferential bank loans differed between KMT-connected and DPP-connected firms due to differences in the entrenched power of the ruling party. Finally, we find that corporate governance is negatively correlated with preferential bank loans, probably because firms with good corporate governance have more alternative financial sources. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.
Matching perception with the reality-Performance of Islamic equity investmentsDawood Ashraf | Nazeeruddin Mohammad
Volume 28, Issue , January 2014, Pages 175-189
The systematic failure of the global equity markets during the recent financial crisis made investors re-evaluate their portfolio constituents. It is argued that equities that comply with the Islamic investment principles perform better than conventional equities during the declining phase of capital markets. The better performance of Islamic investments can be attributed to the Shari'ah based screening criteria that specifically forbids investment in shares of those companies that are excessively leveraged and/or engaged in lending activities. This study investigates the extent to which this claim is valid by comparing the performance of global and regional Islamic equity indices (IEIs) with conventional equity indices during the past decade. The equity indices for such analysis are preferred since it does not account for transaction costs or management skills. A logistic smooth transition autoregressive (LSTAR) model is used to investigate whether the 'down market' performance of IEIs differs from conventional indices. The LSTAR is superior to conventional ordinary least squares models since this allows for a smooth transition from the 'down market' to the 'up market' rather than an abrupt change. The empirical results indicate that IEIs, in general, perform better than conventional indices during the period 2000 to 2012. We do not find any abnormal returns associated with Islamic equity indices on a global basis, however, there is evidence of positive abnormal returns in the case of regional indices from Europe and Asia. Overall, IEIs exhibit lower systematic risk as compared with their benchmark suggesting that any excess performance from Islamic investments stems from the systematic risk that each investment assumes with respect to their benchmark during the declining phase of capital markets. The findings of this study are of interest to both academics and the general investing public since it provides evidence that IEIs are comparatively less risky than their conventional counterpart and thus provide hedging opportunities during the downfall of capital markets. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
Asset growth and stock returns: Evidence from Asian financial marketsTong Yao | Tong Yu | Ting Zhang | Shaw Chen
Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 115-139
This study examines the effect of corporate asset growth on stock returns using data on nine equity markets in Asia. For the period from 1981 to 2007, we find a pervasive negative relation between asset growth and subsequent stock returns. Such relation is weaker in markets where firms' asset growth rates are more homogeneous and persistent and in markets where firms rely more on bank financing for growth. On the other hand, corporate governance, investor protection, and legal origin do not influence the magnitude of the asset growth effect in Asian markets. © 2010.
Contrarian investment strategies work better for dually-traded stocks: Evidence from Hong KongVikash Ramiah | Ka Yeung Cheng | Julien Orriols | Tony Naughton | Terrence Hallahan
Volume , Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 140-156
We investigate the profitability of contrarian investment strategies for equities listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), which are separated into cross-listed firms and firms listed only in Hong Kong. We also investigate the relationship between stock returns and past trading volume for these equities. We report significantly higher contrarian profits for the period investigated and find that this is a persistent feature of stock returns for cross-listed companies. We also document that contrarian portfolios earn returns as high as 8.01% per month for the dually-traded companies and just 1.83% for only HKEX-listed firms. We find that volume has only a limited ability to explain contrarian profits. All extreme profits disappeared after adjusting for the Fama and French three-factor model. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
CEO gender, executive compensation and firm performance in Chinese-listed enterprisesKevin C K Lam | Paul B. McGuinness | João Paulo Vieito
Volume 21, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 1136-1159
The present study extends the international body of evidence on executive compensation by offering a novel account of the interaction of CEO gender with executive remuneration and firm performance in the Chinese market place. Examination of more than 10,000 firm-year observations, spanning the period 2000-2008, points to women making up around 4.4% of all CEOs in China's listed issuers. More tellingly, female CEO participation is on the rise and is considerably more visible in firms with private control. This result is consistent with Becker's (1957) proposition that competitive forces lessen discriminatory pressures. We surmise that the Chinese authorities' attempts to promote gender-neutral hiring policies now appear subordinate to forces unleashed by China's burgeoning private sector. Female CEOs are also more likely to emerge in firms where at least one female director is present. However, the presence of international cross-listings does not materially raise CEO compensation or the likelihood of the CEO being female. In keeping with international norms, female CEOs receive less favourable compensation terms than their male counterparts. Finally, we find only limited evidence of a CEO gender-firm performance link. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.
A long-term assessment of finance research performance among Asia-Pacific academic institutions (1990-2008)Kam C. Chan | Carl R. Chen | Tan Charlene Lee
Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 157-171
We provide a long-term assessment of finance research in the Asia-Pacific region. Similar to the earlier findings in Chan et al. (2001) and Chan et al. (2005), the Asia-Pacific academic institutions, as a group, perform very well during 1990-2008. The two quality-adjusted weighted article metrics suggest that institutions in the region exhibit an increasing trend in the absolute number of articles and the relative percentage share of global research output. The Gini coefficients, while showing that the degree of concentration of research output continues to be high, suggest that the degree of research output concentration steadily decreases over the period. During the sample period, the top five institutions are Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of New South Wales, Chinese University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The top two researchers' percentage share of total research output ranges from a low of 18.7% in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to a high of 59.8% in RMIT University. Among the top 25 institutions, a total of 14 top researchers (28%) have left their affiliated institutions as of June 1, 2009, suggesting considerable job mobility among active researchers. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
Exchange rates and FDI strategies of multinational enterprisesBong Soo Lee | Byung S. Min
Volume 19, Issue 5, November 2011, Pages 586-603
We examine the role of both the volatility and levels of exchange rates in the determination of multinational enterprises' (MNEs) investments using a unique Korean dataset. These data provide a natural laboratory due to the Korean experience of a severe financial crisis in the late nineties. We find, first, that the behavior of foreign investors in Korea has changed following the 1997 crisis. The change in foreign direct investment (FDI) in response to exchange rate volatility is robust, while that to exchange rate level is quite mixed, which is consistent with recently developed real option-based FDI theory. Second, the effect of exchange rate volatility on FDI is persistent, whereas that of misalignment of level is only temporary, suggesting that MNEs regard volatility as a more generic determinant of foreign investment than misalignment of the exchange rate level. Third, we find strong evidence of nonlinearity between uncertainty and FDI, which may shed some light on why existing literature shows mixed results on the relation between exchange rate variables and FDI. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
Corporate philanthropy: Insights from the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in ChinaFox Gao | Robert Faff | Farshid Navissi
Volume 20, Issue 3, June 2012, Pages 363-377
We explore the equity market impact of board announcements of corporate donations made in response to the May 12th 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China. Our event study uses a sample of board announcements of corporate donations from Chinese A-share listed companies. We find that donor companies providing products and/or services directly to end-consumers tend to enjoy higher abnormal stock returns, thereby documenting a link between corporate social responsibility and corporate financial performance at least for some corporate citizens. In light of the empirical results, the study suggests that corporate philanthropic involvement should be treated as a differentiated type of marketing tool to obtain social reputation and publicity, as well as a relationship cultivation mechanism with local government authorities. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
The price impact of options and futures volume in after-hours stock market tradingChuang Chang Chang | Pei Fang Hsieh | Hung Neng Lai
Volume 21, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 984-1007
We set out in this study to investigate the price impacts of options and futures trading prior to the stock market opening. Our findings indicate clustering by a high proportion of informed traders during the 'pre-open' period, with their options and futures trading volume being found to have significant influences on price changes. The evidence from our focus on this specific trading period suggests that in both the options and futures markets, institutional investors are more sophisticated than other traders. The trading behavior of these informed traders adds support to the 'stealth-trading' hypothesis, particularly in the futures market. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.
Hong and Kacperczyk (2009) argue that social norms against sin stocks influence investor behavior and corporate financial policies. This paper examines "sin" stocks in seven Pacific-Basin markets that exhibit a variety of social norms: Australia, India, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore. In doing so, we provide further evidence on the pricing of sin stocks. Consideration of measurable cultural differences between the markets suggests the price of sin is a manifestation of groupthink. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.
The profitability of candlestick charting in the Taiwan stock marketTsung Hsun Lu
Volume 26, Issue , January 2014, Pages 65-78
The purpose of this study is to examine the predictive power of candlestick charting by using the daily data for the Taiwan stocks for the period from 4 January 1992 to 31 December 2009. The main contribution of this paper is devising a four-price-level approach to categorize the single-line patterns produced by candlestick charting in a systematic manner. The findings reveal that four patterns are profitable for the Taiwan stock market after transaction costs, and a bootstrap analysis, out-of-sample, and several sub-samples are examined to confirm the robustness of the results. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.


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Oswego surgeon James I. Boles has been appointed by New York Gov. George Pataki to the SUNY Upstate Medical University Council. Boles will serve until June 20, 2004. He succeeds Margo Northrup, who has resigned from the council.
The Upstate Medical University Council is an advisory board to SUNY Upstate Medical University President Gregory L. Eastwood, M.D.
Boles is a surgeon at Oswego Hospital and serves as president of the Oswego Hospital medical staff. He also serves as a clinical assistant professor of surgery at SUNY Upstate Medical University.
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It's taken me almost three years, but I finally did it. This week I graduate from culinary school with high honors.
One of the biggest challenges I faced was going back to school after 20+ years with kids half my age. Sometimes we didn't quite share the same work-your-butt-off ethics in the kitchen (but then again, neither did I when I was 18 earning my bachelor's degree in art), which provided a fair share of frustration. Working several part time jobs to keep my schedule flexible while going to school part time, while being mom and wife, was the other challenge I faced daily. At times, I thought I was going to literally lose my mind trying to juggle everything. But keeping the big picture in clear focus helped me get through it all.
When I first began school, I wasn't sure what to expect or where I was going to take this experience. The only thing I was sure of was that I had food allergies and needed to learn as much about food as possible. Along the way, I realized I loved teaching people what I was learning, loved food writing, and loved developing and testing recipes. Once I determined a career path for myself, the rest just seemed to fall into place.
While in school, I began teaching local cooking classes, winning cooking competitions, appearing on national and local radio and television programs doing cooking demos, and writing for local publications such as The Orlando Sentinel and Edible Orlando Magazine, as well as national companies like Food Network and Martha Stewart. And thanks to my supportive family, I was able to spend last summer in Boston for a culinary externship at America's Test Kitchen.
I'm currently working as corporate chef in charge of recipe testing and menu development for Wholesome Tummies, an Orlando-based company providing healthy lunch programs for public and private schools across the country. In addition, my blog is now one of the top food blogs in the country, I've secured several freelance food writing assignments, I'm traveling the food blog circuit as a mentor and speaker, and teaching cooking classes at Williams-Sonoma and Whole Foods. I'm also working with a local production company on several food documentaries and a web-based cooking show that we'll be pitching to networks. I'm slowly cranking out a cookbook and I'm also serving on the board of directors for our local Slow Food chapter.
Despite all that I've accomplished, this morning I experienced my proudest moment. Someone walked by and said, "Good morning, Chef. How are you today?" It wasn't the first time someone has called me chef. But it was the first time I felt like I truly earned it.
Thank you to everyone that has stopped by Chef2Chef to read about my school experience and career development over the years. I hope the entries have provided insight and inspiration.
Part of the creed we agree to when graduating from culinary school is to pass on what you have learned; I strongly believe in that. Please feel free to contact me any time at Wicked Good Dinner with school, career or cooking questions — I'm always happy to help.
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Check out the latest with our traveling pro, Andy Gerst, as he video blogs while visiting TW for a local tournament.
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With 2008 about to begin, and a desire to beat his long-time fight with being overweight, Joel began searching for the right diet to begin the year with (just as so many do). "When I started, I didn't know what to start," explains Joel, "I've done several in the past with varying degrees of success. I picked out those that I thought might be the most successful. I had some criteria- be able to cheat occasionally, stick with it on a daily basis, that I have confidence in and not too off the wall." Joel also mentions that his health is important and he does take that into consideration when choosing a diet. Before starting he met with his doctor and just recently had a mid-year check-up to ensure he's being safe about it.
Each month in 2008, Joel will follow a different diet. Half-way through the year, he's lost about 43 pounds and 10% of his body fat. (Beginning stats were 234 pounds, 30% body fat) He keeps a daily journal at DozenDiets.com, displaying weight changes, body fat changes, food diary, exercise diary, cheats, successes and everything else that plays into his diet each day. Each month concludes with a summary, where he scores the diet on a 40-point scale, for ease of understanding, forgiveness of a cheat, ease of execution and results.
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Jan: Low-Calorie Diet
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Feb: South Beach Diet
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Mar: Slim-Fast (tied for first place so far)
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Apr: The Abs Diet (in last place)
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May: Weight Watchers (tied for first place so far)
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June: Advanced Mediterranean Diet
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With the 2008 year of boxing in the history books, let's get some more ESPN.com award winners in under the wire:
Trainer of the year: Really hard to go with anyone other than Freddie Roach, the mastermind behind the amazing improvement in Manny Pacquiao over the past several years. Roach has molded Pacquiao into a complete, two-handed fighter without having him lose the aggressiveness that makes him so special. From junior lightweight championship to lightweight belt to the upset conquest of Oscar De La Hoya at welterweight, Roach was there every step of the way during Pacquiao's historic year.
Roach wanted the De La Hoya fight desperately for Pacquiao and called me a few times during the uncertain period before the fight was signed just to make sure his view would get out to the public. From Day One, Roach said Pacquiao would stop De La Hoya, and his comments about De La Hoya's no longer being able to "pull the trigger" were a big part of the fight's intricate storyline.
Besides that, Roach was the star of HBO's reality series "24/7" during the buildup to the fight and showed us all where to get the best haircut in Los Angeles.
Manager of the year: Experienced managers Shelly Finkel and Cameron Dunkin could be up for the award every year. They have outstanding stables of established fighters as well as several quality prospects in the pipeline at different stages of development. But I'm going with Mike Criscio this year. He doesn't get much publicity (doesn't seek it, either) and doesn't have a huge stable. But his two big guns, light heavyweight titleholder Chad Dawson and red-hot junior middleweight prospect Alfredo Angulo, had outstanding years, and Criscio was a big part of setting them up for big business. Angulo twice fought on HBO and will be on again in February. Dawson beat former champions Glen Johnson and Antonio Tarver and will make the jump from Showtime to the bigger money of HBO in March for a two-fight deal. Promoter Gary Shaw did most of that work, but Criscio also played a vital role.
Upset of the year: There are four excellent candidates for this one, but you gotta go with Pacquiao's overwhelming eight-round destruction of De La Hoya. For months before the fight was even signed -- back when it was merely Larry Merchant's crazy idea and fodder for my blog -- there was a backlash in some quarters that the fight should never happen because De La Hoya was going to hurt and destroy the supposedly smaller man. On fight night, Pacquiao didn't just win -- he thrashed the sport's biggest star in Larry Holmes-Muhammad Ali fashion.
Three others also deserve mention:
1. Almost nobody that I know of picked Bernard Hopkins to defeat the much younger Kelly Pavlik, the middleweight champion in his prime facing the 43-year-old Hopkins, who was coming off a tight loss to Joe Calzaghe. Hopkins won the catchweight fight by virtual shutout in a masterpiece.
2. Vic Darchinyan talked a big game, but nobody believed him before his junior bantamweight unification fight with Cristian Mijares. In the prefight media poll organized by Showtime, 26 media members out of 32 picked Mijares to win. How wrong we were. Darchinyan ravaged Mijares, dropping him in the first round, beating the crap out of him and knocking him out in the ninth.
3. Lightweight Amir Khan was one of the most heralded prospects in years. The 2004 British Olympic silver medalist was supposed to be the next big thing from England. Despite Khan's shaky chin, promoter Frank Warren inexplicably allowed a match to be made with Breidis Prescott, an unknown fighter from Colombia who had racked up a 19-0 record with 17 KOs. Warren is normally a master at building his fighters. But he screwed up big-time on this one: Prescott waxed Khan, dropping him twice in brutal fashion for the knockout in just 54 seconds.
Robbery of the year: As usual, there were some terrible calls this year, but two stand out:
1. Nikolai Valuev W12 Evander Holyfield. Two judges had Valuev winning, and the third had it a draw. All three should be fired. Holyfield, at age 46, deserved his fifth title even though nobody I know thinks he should be fighting. But when a guy wins, he should get the decision, even if it is not because he fights so well, but rather because the opponent, Valuev in this case, fights so utterly terribly. Valuev, despite throwing almost no punches for 12 rounds in a miserable performance, got the nod and retained a heavyweight title.
2. Francisco Lorenzo W-DQ4 Humberto Soto. Fighting for a vacant interim junior lightweight belt, Soto kicked the crap out of Lorenzo, who had blood seemingly pouring from every orifice on his face. Soto was destroying him in the fourth and knocked him down, but hit him with a grazing shot a split second after he went to the mat. Soto shouldn't have done that, but referee Joe Cortez ruled that the grazing blow was the reason that Lorenzo, who did an Oscar-worthy acting job, could not continue and disqualified Soto. Memo to Cortez: The reason Lorenzo couldn't continue was because Soto had bashed his head in for almost every moment of the fight.
Save of the year: Mariano Rivera would be proud of the cooperation of all involved -- Showtime, Top Rank, Demetrius Hopkins and Kendall Holt -- when they salvaged a Dec. 13 card. On just a few days notice, Ricardo Torres pulled out of his rubber match with Holt, who had knocked out Torres in July in their rematch to win a junior welterweight title. Hopkins, due to box on the untelevised undercard and a worthy challenger for the title, was quickly tapped to move into the main event, and the show went off without a hitch.
Event of the year: When De La Hoya fights, it's big. Last year it was his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. that captured the public's attention. This year it was his "Dream Match" with Pacquiao that was the sport's biggest event. It was a fight that had plenty of mainstream attention starting with a national media tour that kicked off at the base of the Statue of Liberty, impressively pulled off by tour manager Kelly Swanson and the rest of the PR team. Then came HBO's excellent "24/7" series; the publicity-related involvement of Angelo Dundee, the all-time great Hall of Fame trainer and one of boxing's greatest ambassadors; and a fight week at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas that buzzed. In the end, the fight sold 1.25 million pay-per-view subscriptions, generated $70 million in domestic television revenue and raked in a live gate of almost $17 million.
Non-event of the year: Mayweather's June announcement that he was retiring was met with a collective yawn. Nobody believed for one moment that he was really done. Long break after a busy year? Sure. But a forever retirement? No chance. Mayweather was the undefeated pound-for-pound king and welterweight champ when he supposedly hung up his gloves at age 31. And if you know Mayweather and his love for spending his money, you also knew it would only be a matter of time until he returned. Sure enough, best buddy and adviser Leonard Ellerbe began laying the seeds for Mayweather's return in recent weeks, calling me to say that Mayweather would consider fighting again for the right deal. Mayweather will fight again as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow morning.
Promoter of the year: Ladies and gentlemen, we have another draw. Just like last year, Bob Arum's Top Rank and De La Hoya's Golden Boy were again the standard against which you measure all promoters. They both have deep stables and continued to co-promote big fight after big fight in the wake of the end of hostilities in boxing's nastiest cold war. They teamed to bring us, among other bouts, De La Hoya-Pacquiao, Hopkins-Pavlik and Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez II in 2008. They'll kick off 2009 with a significant welterweight title fight Jan. 24 when Antonio Margarito faces Shane Mosley.
To be sure, the companies have different strengths. Top Rank is hands-down the best when it comes to building fighters from 0-0 into world champions and attractions, with matchmaker Brad Goodman and his boss, Bruce Trampler, overseeing every move. Top Rank also keeps the cash rolling in with its array of lucrative overseas television output deals. Arum is also not afraid to go it alone, without the support of HBO or Showtime. He and his staff are more than capable of producing their own pay-per-view events, and Arum is not afraid to take a financial risk in doing so.
Golden Boy, under CEO Richard Schaefer, who has a knack for turning everything he touches into gold, is more like the Yankees in the sense that it is not afraid to spend money to sign the best talent already developed, like James Kirkland and Robert Guerrero this year. Golden Boy also brings an impressive lineup of mainstream sponsors to the business like nobody else. If boxing ever gets back on network television, it's going to be Golden Boy that spearheads it.
Interview of the year: Thank goodness the Pacquiao-David Diaz fight wasn't on a broadcast network. After Diaz was beaten to a pulp by Pacquiao over nine rounds, he was gracious enough to do an interview with HBO's Jim Lampley at the end of the pay-per-view broadcast. During his brief interview, Diaz dropped more F-bombs than he did left hooks on Pacquiao in the entire fight.
Best move of the year: When Ricky Hatton fought Mayweather last year, the unruly and rude British fans booed and jeered the American national anthem with gusto for the duration of the song in an insulting display. Back at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas to face Paulie Malignaggi in November, organizers didn't want a repeat, so there was no playing of the American or British anthem before the fight, something I can't recall before a big fight.
Comeback of the year: Heavyweight Vitali Klitschko, hands down. After almost four years in retirement and having overcome several injuries, the big guy made it into the ring in one piece and destroyed Samuel Peter to reclaim his old heavyweight belt in a stunning display.
Avert-your-eyes scene of the year: Gruesome injuries are part of boxing, unfortunately, and Jorge Barrios knows it all too well now. After Rocky Juarez dropped him in the 11th round of their junior lightweight battle, Barrios got up with as graphic and gruesome an injury as you'll ever see. The left side of his cheek was ripped open as though The Joker had sliced him across the mouth. Blood was everywhere as his cheek flopped in the wind.
Storyline beaten to death in 2008: Boxing vs. MMA. Whatever. Enough. They're different sports. They both have their place. They both have quality athletes and events. They can co-exist. Some folks might even enjoy both sports. OK? Let's move on.
Fight I most want to see in 2009: Pacquiao vs. Mayweather. It's the reigning pound-for-pound king against the one who gave up his mantle by "retiring." It will be a massive, massive promotion; it will return the Mayweather family to our TV screens via HBO's "24/7"; it will easily do 1.5 million pay-per-view buys; and, most important, it could be a really outstanding fight.
Fighters who might fight on but really met their end in 2008: Sure, maybe they won't retire, but three future Hall of Famers boxed their last fights of any true consequence this year:
1. De La Hoya. The jig is up. He's 35 and is 3-4 in his last seven fights after being pasted by Pacquiao. As the great NFL coach Bill Parcells is fond of saying, you are what your record says you are. De La Hoya may indeed fight again (and I think he will), but it won't ever be the same.
2. Roy Jones. We all thought he was done after being put to sleep by Tarver and Johnson in consecutive fights in 2004 and then being dominated and nearly knocked out again by Tarver in 2005. Jones got his second act this year by beating the shell of Felix Trinidad in January before being outgunned and outclassed by Calzaghe in November. At 39, there will be no third act.
3.Trinidad. The 35-year-old Puerto Rican icon ended a nearly three-year retirement (his second retirement, by the way) and was battered by Jones at 170 pounds, way above his best weight. I loved Trinidad as much as anyone. But come on. It's over.
I'll-never-get-that-hour-back award: You want pain? Forget about eating a left hook from a prime Mike Tyson. How about having to sit through the Wladimir Klitschko-Sultan Ibragimov heavyweight unification fight in February? I did, and I must live with the memory forever.


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What if you went into a store and, before you left, placed a product on its shelves that wasn't there before? Would that be reverse shoplifting?
No; according to the following Website, it would be "droplifting".
This practice was also described in an interview carried on BBC World Service.
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In the game of wheat genetics, Jorge Dubcovsky's laboratory at UC Davis has hit a grand slam, unveiling for the fourth time in a dozen years a gene that governs wheat vernalization, the biological process requiring cold temperatures to trigger flower formation.
Identification of the newly characterized VRN-D4 gene and its three counterpart genes is crucial for understanding the vernalization process and developing improved varieties of wheat, which provides about one-fifth of the calories and proteins that we humans consume globally.
The new study, reported online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also shows how the spring growth habit in some wheat varieties traces back to ancient wheat that grew in what is now Pakistan and India.
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High levels of saturated fat in the blood could make an individual more prone to inflammation and tissue damage, a new study suggests.
Received wisdom on the health risks of eating saturated fat has been called into question recently. This new research supports the view that excessive consumption of saturated fat can be bad for us.
Scientists from Imperial College London studied mice that have an unusually high level of saturated fat circulating in their blood. The research, published today (3 September 2015) in Cell Reports shows that the presence of saturated fats resulted in monocytes - a type of white blood cell - migrating into the tissues of vital organs.
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Researchers have identified a mutation in plants that allows them to break down TNT, an explosive that has become highly prevalent in soil in the last century, particularly at manufacturing waste sites, mines, and military conflict zones.
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In a way, cancer resembles a runaway car with a gas pedal stuck to the floor, hurling out of control. Most new targeted cancer therapies seek to fix the gas pedal itself, and thus thwart the aggressive behavior of the tumor. But for many types of cancers, the pedal simply cannot be repaired, so new alternatives are desperately needed. A team at Baylor College of Medicine has discovered a way to step on the brakes of some of the deadliest cancers.
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A new study clearly establishes a partial genetic basis underlying racial differences in slow-wave sleep, suggesting that it may be possible to develop sleep-related therapies that target specific genetic variants.
Using a panel of 1,698 ancestry informative genetic markers, the study found that greater African genetic ancestry was associated with lower amounts of slow-wave sleep in African-American adults. African ancestry explained 11 percent of the variation in slow-wave sleep after adjustment for potential confounders. Although a similar association was observed for delta power, no association with African ancestry was observed for sleep duration and efficiency.
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Preventing inflammation in obese fat tissue may hold the key to preventing or even reversing type 2 diabetes, new research has found.
Researchers from Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and the RIKEN Institute, Japan found they could 'reverse' type 2 diabetes in laboratory models by dampening the inflammatory response in fat tissue.
Dr Ajith Vasanthakumar, Dr Axel Kallies and colleagues from the institute discovered that specialised immune cells, called regulatory T cells (Tregs), played a key role in controlling inflammation in fat tissue and maintaining insulin sensitivity.
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Nina Fedoroff, molecular biologist and former Science and Technology Adviser to Condoleezza Rice and then Hillary Clinton, says that genetic modification (GM) is the most critical technology in agriculture for meeting the challenges of feeding a growing global population. Fedoroff warns of the detrimental influence of politics and misinformation on the safety of GM crops and in contrast to anti-science marketing campaigns by groups like Greenpeace and NRDC that, "GM crops are arguably the safest new crops ever introduced into the human and animal food chains."
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Could the sperm harpoon the egg to facilitate fertilization? That's the intriguing possibility raised by the University of Virginia School of Medicine's discovery that a protein within the head of the sperm forms spiky filaments, suggesting that these tiny filaments may lash together the sperm and its target.
The finding, 14 years in the making, has earned the cover of the scientific journal Andrology. It represents a significant step forward in the fine dissection of the protein architecture of the sperm's acrosomal matrix, an organelle in the sperm head, and suggests a new hypothesis concerning what happens during fertilization.
Parents go to great lengths to ensure the health and well-being of their developing offspring. The favor, however, may not always be returned.
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The presence of fetal cells in maternal tissue is known as fetal microchimerism. The term alludes to the chimeras of ancient Greek myth--composite creatures built from different animal parts, like the goat-lion-serpent depicted in an Etruscan bronze sculpture.


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1101 W Sligh Ave., Tampa, FL 33604
Zoo Pass holders (with valid ID) receive free admission to the Florida Aquarium and MOSI in September. In turn, members of the Florida Aquarium and MOSI receive free admission to the zoo.
Price: $29.95, $27.95 seniors, $22.95 ages 3-11, 2 and younger free.
Phone: (813) 935-8552
More in this neighborhood: Seminole HeightsMore dates for this event:
4801 E Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL 33617
To celebrate the Summer Olympics, MOSI has created 11 indoor versions of some favorite events that also sneak in some science lessons. There are MOSI Summer Games signs throughout the museum and a scavenger hunt of sport science facts that earn kids a medal when complete. Included with admission.
Price: $26.95, $25.95 seniors, $20.95 ages 3-12; 2 and younger free. Member discounts available. Separate pricing for IMAX-only admission. It's $15 for the zip line only, or $10 with admission. Ropes course is $10 by itself, or $7 with admission. Parking is $5.
Phone: (813) 987-6000
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The Land of Nodby J. Walker Mcspadden Edward L. Chase
Oh, a funny place is the Land of Nod,And funny the people there; The dewdrops all sprout like peas in a pod, While blossoms the doughnut fair. The griddle-cake bush runs syrup for sapThe plum-trees grow puddings so fat; Yes, the Land of Nod is the best on the map, The finest I ever was at. When Tinkie and Tess refuse to go to sleep on Christmas Eve, they catch the Sand Man on his evening rounds. The three of them fly away together on a moonbeam to the Land of Nod, where they encounter the Welsh Rabbit, the Educated Cow, King Snooze, and other extraordinary characters. This bedtime story classic features numerous enchanting illustrations from the original 1909 edition by Edward L. Chase.
Robin Hoodby J. Walker Mcspadden
Robin Hood and his merry men have been apart of American culture for generations. Their lives living in Sherwood Forest while fighting the Sheriff have graced books, comics, movies and TV. Robin and his men stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Their adventures are full of sword flights, daring escapes, romance with the beautiful Maid Marion, and the humor of Friar Tuck. After seeing the movies and the TV shows it is a delight to go back and read the original
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