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In an interview with Mitt Romney in London on Wednesday, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams grilled the Republican candidate about releasing more tax returns: "People hear he's not going to release the rest of his returns and they wonder why. They wonder, is there a year there where he paid no taxes? They wonder about expensive horses and houses....what is it that is preventing you from releasing the rest of your returns?" [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
In another question designed to portray Romney as secretive, Williams quoted New York Times columnist David Brooks exclaiming: "[Romney] has an amazing personal story....He can't talk about it because it involves Mormonism. He is personally a decent guy. For some reason he's not willing to talk about it. He's a hidden man." Williams fretted: "Are you a hidden man?"
In contrast, when then-candidate Barack Obama traveled overseas in the summer of 2008, Williams sounded like an adoring fan as he gushed over the Democratic Senator's speech in Berlin: "When an American politician comes to Berlin, we've had some iconic utterances in the past. We've had 'ich bin ein.' We've had 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.' Is the phraseology that you would like remembered, 'people of Berlin, people of the world, this is our moment, this is our time'?"
On Wednesday, Williams wrapped up his interview with Romney by asking about potential vice presidential picks in the most obnoxious way possible: "So here's a Republican official familiar with your campaign selection process, told the folks at Politico you are looking for a, quote, 'incredibly boring white guy' for your vice presidential nominee. Can you confirm or deny?" Romney quipped back: "You told me you were not available." Williams replied: "Touche, Governor."
Here is a full transcript of the July 26 interview:
BRIAN WILLIAMS: An NBC News exclusive. Here in London today, our conversation with Mitt Romney about gun rights, religion, taxes and whether American voters really truly know who he is.
WILLIAMS: And now back here in London, our conversation today with Mitt Romney. He flew overnight from Reno, Nevada. From here his trip goes on to Israel and Poland. And in conjunction, with the games gearing up, it gave us an opportunity to talk with him today in one of the historic old buildings in the Tower Bridge complex. And we started by talking about the issues raised by this mass murder in Colorado, about gun violence in the U.S.
I want to ask you about the compelling news back home, and that's from Aurora, Colorado, where we were on Friday. And this is about your own record vis-a-vis what happened here. As governor you signed an assault weapons ban in Massachusetts. And you said at the time, quote, "These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people." Do you still believe that?
MITT ROMNEY: Well, I actually signed a piece of legislation, as you described, that banned assault weapons in our state. It was a continuation of prior legislation. And it was backed both by the Second Amendment advocates like myself, and those that wanted to restrict gun rights, because it was a compromise. Both sides got some things improved in the laws as they existed. And I happen to think that with regards to the Aurora, Colorado disaster, we're wise to continue the time of memorial and think of comforting the people affected. And political implications, legal implications are something which will be sorted out down the road. But I don't happen to believe America needs new gun laws. A lot of what this young man did was clearly against the law. But the fact that it was against the law did not prevent it from happening.
WILLIAMS: On to another topic, and that is your taxes. Can you say that your decision is firm, that you'll not do a walk-back between now and the convention, now and the fall election, that there will be no returns – more returns released by Mitt Romney?
ROMNEY: I'm following the same precedent that was put in place by John McCain. Two years. And by the way, hundreds of pages of returns for the Democrat operatives to go through and twist and distort and to turn into different directions and try and make a big deal out of. But you know, the American people are not real concerned about tax returns. They're concerned about who can get this economy going and create good jobs again, and I can. The President hasn't been able to do the job as he had expected to do and I know how to get it done.
WILLIAMS: But you also know what happens in the real world, Governor. People hear he's not going to release the rest of his returns and they wonder why. They wonder, is there a year there where he paid no taxes? They wonder about expensive horses and houses and what have you. So I'll ask another way, what is it that is preventing you from releasing the rest of your returns?
ROMNEY: Well, one, I've released all the information about my financial holdings. That's required by law. And then in addition, beyond the law, have released, or will finally release actually when the last year is complete, two years of full returns.
WILLIAMS: I want to read this. This happened on Meet the Press on NBC, this is David Brooks, op-ed columnist, New York Times. And I want to get your reaction to this quote. "What's relevant is who the guy is," speaking of Governor Romney, "he has an amazing personal story. His family was really an exodus story going across the west, poverty, building an empire. He can't talk about it because it involves Mormonism. He is personally a decent guy. For some reason he's not willing to talk about it. He's a hidden man." Are you a hidden man?
ROMNEY: Well, no. And as a matter of fact, I'm happy to talk about my heritage. I speak, actually, quite regularly about the fact that my dad was born in Mexico, with revolution in Mexico. My dad then, I think, aged five or six, came back to the U.S. with this family. That they went broke multiple times. His dad was a contractor. My dad didn't complete college but went on to be head of a car company and then a governor. I think it's a remarkable story. And I'm very proud of my heritage. I'm – without question I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I'm proud of that. Some call that the Mormon Church. That's fine with me. I'll talk about my experiences in the Church. There's no question they've helped shape my perspective.
WILLIAMS: I know how much you love quoting unnamed Romney advisers. So here's a Republican official familiar with your campaign selection process, told the folks at Politico you are looking for a, quote, "incredibly boring white guy" for your vice presidential nominee. Can you confirm or deny?
ROMNEY: You told me you were not available.
WILLIAMS: Touche, Governor.
ROMNEY: I can't give you anything on that front whatsoever. I can tell you I'm not going to announce it this week. While I'm overseas, I'm not going to announce my vice presidential running mate. But when the decision is made, I'll make that announcement. It's not made yet. But I can't tell you when it's going to be. That's something which we'll decide down the road.
WILLIAMS: Part of our conversation today here in London with Governor Romney. There is more on the web, including his personal stake in the games. His wife's dressage horse competing in these London summer Olympics.


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Josh Childress has no regrets.
And he's not looking for a payday or anyone's pity. Let's clear all of that up now, before we get into the meat of his story, a comeback one of sorts, in need of an appropriate ending.
His only desire is to finish what he started nearly a decade ago, when he was the sixth pick in the 2004 NBA Draft and began what was supposed to be a long and promising NBA career with the Atlanta Hawks.
No, contrary to the rumors circulating in the basketball universe, he is not ready to retire. Far from it. He has not lost an ounce of the desire that he had the day he first set foot in the league. He is simply a veteran player whose career has taken enough twists and turns the last five years you'd need motion sickness medicine to survive it.
"It's been a ride, a wild ride," said Childress, who is three weeks away from finishing up his degree at Stanford while training vigorously in Palo Alto, Calif., and contemplating his next basketball move. "It's not about the money for me. It's about having an opportunity to get back out there and play the game at the highest level. That's what is important to me."
Childress is a free agent this summer, just another seasoned veteran looking for the right training-camp fit, the right place to show that he can still play a vital role for the right team in a mutually beneficial situation.
He's just a month past his 30th birthday and is as healthy as ever, as athletic as ever, his basketball IQ remains off the charts and his body is fresh. After all, he's played just 1,485 minutes in 102 games over the past three seasons with the Phoenix Suns and Brooklyn Nets. But he's operating in a realm where the prevailing wisdom of the day changes like the wind. What's hot today is ancient history tomorrow. Fall off the NBA radar long enough and you'll fade into obscurity.
"I feel like I'm the best I've ever been right now," Childress said. "When I was with the Hawks it was a little different. I'd been there four years and really grown in that system. We all knew each other and knew each other's tendencies. And I don't think I've changed as a player since then. For a guy like me, it's always been a matter of the right fit. My time in Phoenix … it just wasn't the fit i thought it would be and they thought it would be. That's not a good or a bad thing, it's the way it is. You look around the league every year and guys are in situations that work and some that don't, and a change of scenery changes everything."
One choice alters career path
Childress made a drastic change in scenery five years ago, a move that altered the course of his career and carved out his place in NBA free-agent lore. He is far removed from that spotlight now, but five years ago he was in a much different space. He was dealing with the constraints of restricted free agency and a Hawks franchise that was in tumult as members of its ownership group were embroiled in a legal fight that overshadowed everything.
Childress' unprecedented move to bolt for Greece and a groundbreaking contract with Euroleague power, Olympiacos, landed him a deal that would pay him the equivalent of $32.5 millions over three years. That deal dwarfed the five-year, $33 million the Hawks offered only after learning that the deal from Olympiacos was on the table and legitimate option for Childress.
He accepted Olympiacos' offer — one that he could not refuse — and made a business decision no matter how controversial it might have seemed at the time. That decision, along with the five-year, $34 million deal he signed when the Hawks traded him to the Suns after he returned from his two-year stint in Greece, is one of the reasons his comeback story now isn't about getting another lucrative pay-day.
That's also what makes his current predicament so perplexing. In a league where money and championships serve as the ultimate motivators, in different order for different players at different times in their careers, Childress is someone decision-makers have had a hard time figuring out.
"We honestly haven't seen enough of him the last couple of years to know what he's got [left] and what's driving him now," an Eastern Conference executive said. "There's no doubt he was a solid payer before he went to Europe. He was one of the best sixth-men in the league and on a team that was on the rise. I watched him a little bit when he was in Europe and he played well. He didn't dominate necessarily, but he was solid. But since he came back [to the NBA] it's been a mixed bag. The Suns were a mess when he was there and they ended up amnestying him. And he only played like 14 or 15 games with the Nets before they waived him. This is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business, man. Everyone knows that."
Childress was the victim of an ill fit, some poor timing and plain bad luck in his last two NBA stops.
Stats revolution affects Childress' future
A broken ring finger on his shooting hand slowed him down in his first season with the Suns. He came back sooner than he probably should have, given his desire to prove himself after playing in Europe, and was in a system where wings were spot-up shooters and not the jacks-of-all-trades player Childress thrives at being.
He was on a non-guaranteed deal in Brooklyn was playing lights out in the preseason before a severely sprained ankle knocked him out of the rotation and opened the door for veteran Jerry Stackhouse, who promptly went on a shooting tear. Childress was slated to serve as Gerald Wallace's backup, but never got the chance. When it became clear that he wasn't going to be in the Nets' plans, he requested and was granted his release.
In the larger scope, Childress has also become a casualty of the analytics revolution that has swept through the league the past five years. High-percentage jump shooters who stretch the floor have become the new utility players who cash in most during free agency (see Kyle Korver and J.J. Redick this summer).
There's always room for a pro's pro on someone's roster, a guy who does all of the dirty work and accepts that role. But now that guy needs to be a dead-eye shooter, too. And while Childress is a career 33 percent 3-point shooter (52 percent from the floor overall), he'll never be confused for one of these shooting specialists.
But he knows there is always a place for the skills he has honed over the course of his career. He just needs the right setting to show it … again.
"You know it's really training camp, just being able to show what I can do on the court," he said. "You get on the court in that situation and do the little things I've always tried to do; hustling and rebounding, and all the stuff that helps my team win. More than anything, what I'd love is to get into a situation where I'm with somebody who actually believes in me and what I can bring to a team. I can't say that I've had that lately."
Fighting for one last chance
Between dispelling foolish rumors and having to remind executives that he was drafted ahead of guys like Andre Iguodala, Luol Deng and even his friend and former Hawks teammate, Josh Smith, for reason, this summer has been a trying process for Childress' camp.
"Without question it's frustrating," said his agent, Chris Emens. "It's frustrating that so many of the experts … it's funny how quickly things change. Josh hasn't changed as a person or a player since he got back from Greece. It's almost mind-boggling to see him go from a guy worth $6 million a year to fighting for a contract. The thing I love is that Josh wants to fight for it. It's really not about the money for him. It's about pride and proving people wrong. I've never seen him with chip on his shoulder like this."
That chip will rest squarely on that shoulder until training camp, wherever that might be. But it'll be a slow-burn for the always measured Childress. He's had offers to play elsewhere, overseas. Ironically enough, Olympiacos pursued him again, though it wasn't an offer he couldn't refuse this time.
He's focused strictly on the NBA this time around in free agency.
"I'm patient," Childress said. "I realize the situation that I'm in. I've had offers to go elsewhere. But I feel like I am a NBA player and I can still play at a high level. It's a mater of getting in a situation where I can do that."


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Xerox Corp. will administer Florida Health Choices' Insurance Marketplace, under a nine-year contract is valued at $68 million, the company announced today.
The state-run program is designed to give small business and eligible individuals more flexibility in finding affordable health insurance and other services, according to the June 26 announcement.
Xerox and its partner, CHOICE Administrators Exchange Solutions, will provide a cloud-based Web portal and online plan selection tool to give consumers and employers more information when making health insurance selections.
The solution preserves the benefits of employer-sponsored insurance and eases the administrative burden for small businesses.
Xerox also will provide eligibility determination and enrollment management services for the program, and operate a customer contact center to share information on marketplace offerings.
These services will help Florida Health Choices handle the massive amounts of information involved with the marketplace quickly, efficiently and securely, the announcement said.
"We're designing and supporting programs that increase access to health coverage for consumers," said Will Saunders, group president of Government Healthcare Solutions at Xerox.
"The solution we create in Florida will serve citizens and small business owners and help position the state as a leader in establishing a competitive and voluntary health insurance marketplace for small employers," he said.
Xerox Corp., of Norwalk, Conn., ranks No. 62 on Washington Technology's 2012 Top 100 list of the largest federal government contractors.
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It has been called the city that moved America; the city that spawned the sound of a generation. For decades, Detroit was the assembly line of the American Dream. Its auto factories produced the cars that made possible the suburban life that defined the American middle class and provided jobs and wages that lifted more families into the middle class.
Now, with its abandoned factories and vacant lots, Detroit symbolizes the deterioration of the American Dream it once fueled. So, it is only right that Detroit is one of the first stops on the road to rebuilding that dream. Today, the Congressional Progressive Caucus brings its Speak Out For Good Jobs tour to Detroit. Caucus members promise to "listen to what everyday Americans have to say and take that back to Washington with them as they continue to fight to reinvigorate the American Dream."
If so, Detroit has a story to tell; one of a city and a dream in decline.
A Dream in Decline
It's hard to pinpoint exactly when Detroit's downward slide began, but in the past 30 to 40 years it has paralleled a middle-class decline driven by stagnant wages and the offshoring of good jobs that grew America's middle class. Those jobs led African Americans in the South to migrate north, and immigrants to America's shores in pursuit of a dream that their willingness to work hard would place within reach. Those jobs and that dream, by 1950, drove Detroit's population to its peak of 1.8 million.
Today, the jobs that made Detroit the Motor City are long gone, and the dream that fueled its growth has stalled. The unemployment rate for Detroit, at 11.3%, surpasses the unemployment rate for rest of the state. The city's black unemployment rate, at 25.7%, surpasses the overall rates for the city and the state. Many of those who have jobs don't earn much. The census shows that Detroit's per capita income is nearly half the national average, and that one third of its citizens live in poverty.
Just as jobs left Detroit, so have its people. Sixty years ago, the promise of good jobs and the promise for a better life caused an influx of workers from across the country, and around the world. Now, the absence of both good jobs and much hope for their return is fueling an exodus. Michigan is the only state that has lost people in the past decade, and Detroit probably has a lot to do with that. The city lost 25% of its population in the past decade, dropping to 790,000 from 951,000 in 2001, an echo of the "white flight" of the 1960s and 1970s, as black people escape Detroit's high crime and poor services for deteriorating "second-hand" suburbs.
As a result, Detroit's vacancy rate has risen to 27.8% from the 10.3% rate reported in the 2000 census, as job loss and foreclosure crisis fueled population loss. (The city's had 55,000 foreclosures since 2005, and another wave is expected when moratoriums are lifted.) A lot-by-lot survey of the city revealed that fully a quarter of its lots are vacant.
Scrap City
Detroit has become a city of abandoned buildings, abandoned people and abandoned dreams. Its empty buildings, vacant lots and abandoned factories are sites for the adventures of urban explorers, who wander its ruins as archeologists might wander through the ruins of Pompeii, looking for clues about how the people who once occupied them might have lived, and hints about what caused the decline of this once great city. They post videos and photographs of their explorations on sites like YouTube and Flickr. Professional photographers seem to find a kind of sad beauty and mystery in Detroit's ruins, and capture that mystery in evocative imagery.
But the story of how Detroit went from being the Motor City to Scrap City is no secret. There's no mystery. The decline of Detroit isn't the result of unknown circumstances. It's what happens when manufacturing disappears, taking jobs with it. It's what happens when people and their dreams of better lives for their families and brighter futures for their children and grandchildren are abandoned.
Photos of Detroit show boarded-up and vacant homes. New York Times reporter Katharine Seelye describes this "as dramatic testimony to the crumbling industrial base of the Midwest."
The U.S. Labor Department reports that Michigan lost more than 320,000 manufacturing jobs, just between 2001-2008. Little wonder then, that without job prospects, hundreds of thousands of residents have been forced to leave.
Seelye says the massive drop-off in population is "the largest percentage drop in history for any American city with more than 100,000 residents." The only comparable flight would be the "unique situation of New Orleans," where 29% of the city evacuated after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
What's especially disheartening is knowing that Detroit's exodus was preventable. Failed manufacturing in Michigan, which has left so many without work, is the result of failed U.S. trade policy and little effort by successive administrations to ramp up America's industrial base in the face of changing global economic conditions.
Times are getting dire. What's urgently needed is for the U.S. to implement a national manufacturing strategy to bring back good-paying jobs before it's too late.
Now, parts of Scrap City — the city formerly know as the Motor City — are actually being scrapped. Last year, in a move to save Detroit by destroying Detroit, the city government used federal money to begin razing 10,000 empty residential buildings by 2013. Remaining residents aren't sad to see the derelict structures go, as they have been crime magnets in communities. There are even suggestions that much of Detroit, once razed, should be left to return to farmland. It's part of a "Managed Decline" approach that basically means giving up on a city and finding something better to do with the land, or hoping that someone else does.
As one writer put it, after watching residents clap and cry when vacant homes that have long burdened their communities finally come down, "The hope is that as more homes are demolished, the problems they bring will be demolished too."
The Road Back
It will take more than bulldozers and hope to get Detroit and its people on the road back to good jobs, stronger communities, and better lives. It will take a plan; a road map that clearly shows the way back or at last helps navigate the next leg of the journey. When the Congressional Progressive Caucus pulls into Detroit to listen to what its people have to say, they will find no lack of ideas on how to get Detroit moving in the right direction.
A post at Winning Progressive, titled "Saving Detroit," points out that question isn't how best to raze Detroit, but to invigorate it.
The question becomes how do we reinvigorate Detroit? The city's mayor and others are proposing to "down-size" the city, which essentially means getting people to move out of the least populated neighborhoods so that city services can be shut off to those areas. Others, like Hartz Farms, are proposing to use the large areas of unused land for urban farming.
While perhaps understandable given the dire situation that Detroit is in, the problem with these approaches is that they constitute essentially abandoning the idea of Detroit as a major American city. We here at Winning Progressive believe there is a better approach that focuses on reinvigorating the city by repopulating it. This can be achieved in two ways:
* Make Detroit an immigration safe haven – Immigration has always been the life blood of American cities, from the Polish, Irish, and Italian immigrants who came in the late 1800s and early 1900s to the Latino immigrants of the past couple of decades. And many more people want to come to the U.S. from other countries but either cannot get their way through our broken immigration system, or do not want to risk coming here illegally. As more people immigrate to an area, economic activity and jobs are created to provide basic goods and products to them.
* Urban Homesteading: In 1862, the government sought to encourage westward expansion through the passage of the Homestead Act, which authorized the sale of 160-acre plots of unoccupied public lands in the west for a nominal fee after someone resided in the area for five years. In Detroit today, the city government has taken possession of tens of thousands of vacant lots and thousands of other lots in the city have long been abandoned. So, why not enact an Urban Homestead Act, that combines free land with a $100,000 grant to build or restore a house on that land to any law-abiding citizen who agrees to live there for at least five years? Such a program would repopulate cities like Detroit, assist people in need, and stimulate the economy by increasing home building activity. 100,000 families could participate in such a program at a cost of $10 billion per year, which is one-seventh the amount of what the wealthiest two percent of Americans will be receiving every year if the Bush tax cuts are extended and less than one-tenth what we spent every year on the Iraq war.
Community groups already have plans will go a long way towards bringing the city back. Their plans reflect an understanding that, despite statistics like those quoted above, Detroit isn't necessarily a shrinking city, as Kaid Benfield at The Atlantic pointed out.
There has indeed been a decline in part of the region. In 1970, 1,670,144 people lived within the city limits of Detroit. By 2010, that number had declined to 713,777, an astounding apparent loss of some 57 percent of the 1970 population. Recently, much has been made the 25 percent population decline over the last decade, from 2000 (951,270) to 2010.
But the extent to which Detroit is such a tragically "shrinking city" depends on your definition of "city." The population of metropolitan Detroit-the jurisdictional inner city and its immediate suburbs-did decline from 1970 to 2010, but only from 4,490,902 to 4,296,250, a loss of only 4 percent. Big difference.
Do the math: What that means is that, while the inner city's population was declining so drastically, its suburbs added some 761,000 people, growing at the handsome rate of 27 percent. (In the most recent decade of 2000-2010, the suburbs added some 91,000 people, or between 2 and 3 percent.) Patrick Cooper-McCann writes on his blog Rethink Detroit that, far from shrinking, the physical size of metro Detroit grew by 50 percent in those 40 years. As I've written before, neither the economy nor the environment pay attention to jurisdictional lines; neither should analysts.
…Shrinking city? Really? What this tells me is that an even bigger problem for Detroit than the decline of the rust-belt economy has been that the fringe of the region has been allowed, more than in most places, to expand, not shrink, and to suck the life and hope out of the inner city. So why aren't the self-styled progressive responses to "the Detroit problem" addressing this critical aspect of the problem?
Community organizations on the ground are doing just that. Next Detroit's neighborhood stabilization initiative focuses on private and public investment in the strongest neighborhoods, to stabilize communities and stem the loss of jobs by supporting those neighborhoods with services that will attract and retain more workers. Other organizations focus on improving the lives of citizens living in the city itself. Community Development Advocates of Detroit has proposed reclassifying various neighborhoods as green zones, homestead sectors, or village hubs. Detroit Declaration focuses on developing urban farming, and encouraging fill-in housing development. Another proposal would entice more people to move to the with tax breaks and changes in zoning laws.
What Detroit needs most right now is investment in jobs and in its people. Detroit lost 323,400 jobs during the recession, and experts say that it will take more than a decade to for Detroit to recover at the current rate of growth. Only investment in creating good jobs — jobs that fuel the hopes and dreams of American families and communities — can get Detroit and its people on the road back to being a great American city, and restart the engine that once fueled its growth and greatness — the American Dream. When the Speak Out For Good Jobs tour arrives in Detroit, the Motor City will have a chance to get rolling again.


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America's tax system wasn't the only thing that went over a cliff at midnight on December 31. The Kyoto Protocol on climate change—the treaty I've called the most feckless and unserious act of international diplomacy since the Kellogg-Briand Pact—expired on December 31.
Despite all the best efforts of the worst people, there was no 11th hour rescue, no climate "grand bargain," and not even a tax increase on the top 1 percent of emitters! To the contrary, more nations announced that they would not participate in any successor treaty, starting with Russia (which only joined the first Kyoto when it looked like an opportunity to sell phantom carbon credits to western European suckers). Ukraine may follow. Canada bailed months ago.
Want to know how big a farce Kyoto was? Max Paris, the CBC's environmental unit reporter, summarizes:
The controversial and ineffective Kyoto Protocol's first stage comes to an end today, leaving the world with 58 per cent more greenhouse gases than in 1990, as opposed to the five per cent reduction its signatories sought.
Lorrie Goldstein of the Toronto Sun is even more direct:
As of today, the Kyoto protocol is a zombie treaty. It's a corpse that keeps moving, but it's dead.
Kyoto died Monday at midnight when the greenhouse gas cuts it set for 37 industrialized nations between 2008 and 2012 expired. But, just like the walking dead, it rose from the grave Tuesday because 195 countries at a UN conference in Doha, Qatar last month agreed to pretend it's still alive. They "extended" Kyoto, pending the ratification of a new treaty by 2015, to take effect in 2020.
In other words, they kicked the zombie down the road for a few more years, while agreeing to maintain the fiction among themselves that Kyoto is a "global" emissions treaty, when it actually covers only 15% of global emissions.
Notice something missing here, by the way? Any notice from much of the American media. The New York Times search engine comes up with no stories from the last seven days for the search term "Kyoto Protocol." Talk about epistemic closure. But then media coverage of climate change in general continues to plummet:
Widespread drought, super-storm Sandy, and a melting ice cap failed to revive the media's interest in climate change in 2012, with worldwide coverage continuing its three-year slide, according to a media database maintained by the nonprofit journalism site The Daily Climate.
The decline in the number of stories published on the topic — 2.4 percent fewer than 2011 — was the smallest since the United Nations climate talks collapsed in Copenhagen in 2009.
Meanwhile, Nigel Lawson (that Lord Lawson of Blaby to you and me), who served as Margaret Thatcher's finance minister, won a bet with a leading climate campaigner, as the Global Warming Policy Foundation relates:
Oliver Letwin, David Cameron's chief policy adviser, has conceded defeat in a £100 climate policy bet with Nigel Lawson which they had agreed four and a half years ago.
Towards the end of a climate debate between the two Conservative heavy-weights in the July 2008 issue of Standpoint, the following exchange took place:
Oliver Letwin: Nigel can't know whether there is going to be a successor to Kyoto.
Nigel Lawson: Well, look, there'll be an international agreement in the sense that there will be platitudes. The acid test is: will there be an agreement to have binding cutbacks for all participants on their carbon emissions? Instead of arguing about it, we could have a wager on it.
Oliver Lewtin: I'd be very happy to have a wager, and I offer you a £100 bet that before either of us is dead, whichever is the first — our estates can pay — we will see a very substantial agreement on carbon reduction.
Nigel Lawson: But I don't think I want the bet to be "in my lifetime" because I'd like to get the £100. I'm sorry it's such a modest amount you're prepared to wager — it shows how unconfident you are — but I would like to be able to collect before I die. So I think we should say "by the time Kyoto runs out", because there is meant to be no hiatus; there is meant to be a successor to Kyoto. So "by 2012 we will have the agreement" — maybe I'll die before then, of course —but 2012 is the acid test.
Oliver Letwin: On the same basis, Nigel, I'm perfectly willing to take that bet too. The reason I'm willing to take the bet is that I know that the only way it can be made to happen is if we try to make it happen and if we build up the moral authority to make it happen by taking the steps ourselves.
Oliver Letwin has now conceded that Lawson has won the bet.
Lord Lawson comments:
"I made the bet because I knew I would win. It has always been blindingly obvious that the positions of Europe, the United States and China were much too far apart for a truly global successor to Kyoto to be negotiable."
But here's another bet you can win if you can find a sucker counterparty: the UN climate circus won't fold up its tent and go away as it ought to. Good times! They'll get shelves of Green Weenies down the road.


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- Decorators treat outdoor areas the same way they do rooms inside a house
- Throw pillows are an affordable and easy way to create a cohesive decor scheme
- Citronella candles offer moderate bug control and beautiful evening ambiance
Summer afternoons in Dallas, Texas, can cook up 100-plus-degree weather and swarms of mosquitoes that seem as big as the state itself.
Luckily, that's not when Tania Griffis ventures out into her backyard.
When it comes to outdoor living, the decor blogger and her husband are looking for comfort. "I usually spend every evening and most mornings out on our swinging bed, talking with my husband or reading a great book," Griffis said.
That swinging bed, pushed by gentle breezes, guarded by gauzy mosquito netting and shaded by 50-year-old pecan and oak trees, is her idea of comfort. She designed it herself and it took her and her husband two weeks to build, stain and seal, "but it is hands down my favorite spot," she said.
Outdoor spaces offer Griffis and homemakers like her something no faux finish or well-placed mirror can best: They combine the perks of home with the beauty of nature.
Open House: Flatscreen or flowers above your mantel?
"Seeing the sun come up in the morning with a cup of coffee behind the trees and seeing it disappear in the evening with a glass of wine is wonderful," said blogger Julia Konya of her Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, patio. "We don't really use our dining room at all in the summer. The patio is it for us and we love it."
Cooking, eating, hosting parties and playing with family pets are common ways of using a home's outdoor space. Those are common ways of using indoor space as well, and home decorators use the same ideas to make living rooms or patios comfortable.
For Laurie Jones of Indianapolis, Indiana, "decorating your outdoor space should be no different than your indoor space." Her backyard includes multiple, cushioned sitting areas that are decorated with side tables, rugs and throw pillows (a particular source of controversy in our Open House bedrooms installment).
Does outdoor fabric really work?
So what happens if all this comfortable outdoor furniture is subject to Southern summertime deluges?
"When we first bought our patio furniture, I would run out to rescue the cushions every time it rained," said decor blogger Emily Cark, from Charlotte, North Carolina. Although she doesn't trust the durability of outdoor fabric, she finds that the sun dries her furniture's cushions well enough, and because she chose a light color they aren't faded. As for throw pillows, she replaces them about every year.
Fellow Charlotte blogger Erin Cook has to wipe her patio's pillows and cushions after a rainy day, and admits that while outdoor fabric can repel water, outdoor furniture still needs maintenance to avoid soggy cushions. "I regularly flip the cushions to help them dry out," she said.
Even with the extra maintenance, outdoor fabric is a tool decorators use to make the area more comfortable and inviting. As a design element, fabric can introduce color and reinforce a decor scheme. Throw pillows are the easiest and most affordable way to bring a room together, indoors or out, said Jones.
"Yes, my name is Laurie and I have a pillow addiction!" she exclaimed.
Opponents of these fluffy decorating accents need not worry: Outdoor fabric applications aren't limited to covering chairs and pillows. Sun sails, awnings, curtains and umbrellas are all ways Open House contributors brought mildew-free color and comfort to their backyards.
Green thumbs add color
"I've spent lots of time making sure I have enough plants with color," "Situation Room" producer and home decor enthusiast Jill Chappell said. "I live in a condo, so most everyone's backyards are the same. It takes a little thought and creativity to make it my own."
Home owner association or rental rules can limit even the most ambitious decorator. For instance, Chappell isn't allowed to paint her backyard fence ("Which I'd do immediately!" she said,) so plants can be a powerful decor tool.
Open House: Ever fall in love with a staircase?
She adds flare to the yard with potted and hanging plants on her porch and the stairs of her back deck. Her latest plant project is an herb garden planted in a chicken feeder she recently purchased at an antique fair.
"Simple things like this add texture and depth to a small garden and backyard," she said. Tucking succulents in with other decorating elements like lamps, rugs and even a dresser help Chappell create a cozy, room-like atmosphere on her back porch.
Those pesky pests
The threat of being eaten alive by mosquitoes is a real concern for many homeowners who want to use their backyard space, especially in the evenings.
Kelly Marzka, in Atlanta, Georgia, loves to enjoy the chirping crickets and lightning bugs when her family eats dinner on their deck at dusk. But natural bug spray and citronella candles are not always enough to battle the humid, Southern city's plentiful mosquito population.
Citronella candles are the go-to insect control method for many decorators, thanks to the glowing ambiance they add to any backyard space. Little details like clearing cobwebs away and cutting down on food waste can help keep creepy crawlers at bay, but sometimes drastic measures are called for.
"We started having our yard sprayed for mosquitoes on a monthly basis last summer," Clark said, "We can sit out on the patio and our kids can play in the yard without getting bites. It's been a great investment."
Thankfully, backyards attract wanted critters, too.
Konya's husband is an avid bird watcher, but so are their indoor cats, who dream of one day hunting and eating their feathery visitors. In order to provide the perfect outdoor situation for the whole family, Konya created a "catio."
"I built them an outdoor area and tunnels that are connected along the fence to our living room window," she said. "We love watching them enjoy the outdoors."
Are you obsessed with decorating your house? Show us your skills at CNN's Open House and your photo could be featured in next week's story. Our next focus: The kitchen.


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[Illinois] CMMB IGERT & M-CNTC Annual Symposium: The Nanodisc Platform; Exploring the Mechanism of Androgen Biosynthesis
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A brief abstract relating to Michael Gregory's work in the area:
Human Cytochrome P45017A1 (CYP17) catalyzes the 17 alpha-hydroxylation of pregnenolone and progesterone as well as the subsequent 17,20 carbon-carbon lyase chemistry of its hydroxylated products. CYP17 function plays a central role in human steroid hormone biosynthesis, and its activity is absolutely essential for the formation of androgens. Thus, inhibition of CYP17 has recently been exploited in the treatment of androgen dependent malignancies. Through application of nanotechnology and biophysical tools, we have identified novel characteristics of CYP17 chemistry that may guide development of the next generation of mechanism-based inhibitors.
Dr. Stephen G. Sligar Stephen G. Sligar received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1975. Dr. Sligar served on the faculty in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and returned to the University of Illinois in 1982 where he was the I. C. Gunsalus Professor of Biochemistry. He now holds the University of Illinois Swanlund Endowed Chair and is Director of the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology. He is also a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology and the College of Medicine. Dr. Sligar holds affiliate appointments in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Institute for Genomic Biology and The Micro and Nano Technology Laboratory on the Illinois campus. He is a Fellow of the Biophysical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Awards include a Fulbright Research Scholarship, Senior Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, an NIH Merit Award and the Bert L. and Kuggie Vallee Visiting Professorship in Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford where he was a Fellow of Queens College. He is also a Fellow in the Jerome Karle Nobel Laureate World Innovation Foundation. Dr. Sligar's research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Human Frontiers Program. Research centers on understanding the structure and mechanistic function of metalloenzymes, membrane bound receptors and transporters as well as investigations in blood coagulation and amyloid proteins and their corresponding human disease states.
Michael Gregory After spending his adolescence in the Chicago suburbs, Michael Gregory attended DePauw University where he earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 2008. Following graduation, he returned to the Chicago area and joined the R&D division of a major biopharmaceutical company where he assisted development of protein based therapies for the treatment of pulmonary disorders. In 2009, he came to the University of Illinois and is currently a biochemistry graduate student working in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Sligar. Here he is studying the steroidogenic enzyme Cytochrome P450c17 (CYP17), which catalyzes the first committed step in androgen formation. As a result of CYP17's role as gatekeeper to androgen biosynthesis it is a front line target in the fight against castration-resistant prostate cancer, which proliferates in response to androgen receptor activation. Michael hopes to integrate knowledge gleaned from rigorous biophysical characterization of CYP17 catalysis with emerging diagnostic and nanotechnologies to encourage development of next-generation therapeutics for the treatment of androgen responsive malignancies such as castration-resistant prostate cancer.
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Midwest Cancer Nanotechnology Traning Center (M-CNTC) Training the next generation of leaders who will define the new frontiers and applications of nanotechnology in cancer research It is known that more than 1.5 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer during 2010, and half a million have died (Cancer Statistics 2010, ACS). In spite of considerable effort, there has been limited success in reducing per capita deaths from cancer since 1950. This calls for a paradigm shift in the understanding, detection, and intervention of the evolution of cancer from a single cell to tumor scale.
In response to this challenge the M-CNTC has assembled a preeminent interdisciplinary team of researchers and educators across the University of Illinois and clinical collaborators in the Midwest to train the next generation of engineers, physical scientists, and biologists to address the challenge of understanding, managing, diagnosing, and treating cancer using the most recent advancements in nanotechnology.
Cellular and Molecular Mechanics and Bionanotechnology (CMMB-IGERT) Training the next generation of leaders who will define the new frontiers of cellular and molecular mechanics and bionanotechnology Critical experiments during the last decade show a fundamental link between the micro- and macro-mechanical environment (i.e., intracellular forces, local shear, gravitational force) and a variety of cell functionalities, their lineage, and phenotype. These findings pose the grand challenge: what is the underlying molecular mechanism that cells employ to transduce mechanical signals to biochemical pathways?
In response to this challenge the CMMB IGERT launched an interdisciplinary research effort with national and international collaborators.
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The past few day has rather blindsided me to be honest. I found out about the ridiculous homesteading copyright yesterday at about 11am, I was informed by you and other readers. I personally think that the claims the Drevaes family has tried to assert are ridiculous. I also feel that the copyright will soon be revoked, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has helped several people lawyer up and they have a very good track record.
The point is, I became aware of this after my posts were made, had I known about the controversy, the post would not have been made. The upshot of it all is that there have been some interesting conversations done in the comments. To delete the post would be to delete the comments and conversations.
So I invite you to continue reading the blog and would love to hear your thoughts.
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Starting in 2009, SIGGRAPH is specifically incorporating content for videogame theorists, creators, producers, and players. In previous years, the ACM SIGGRAPH Sandbox Symposium was a separate event, but it is now integrated into the main SIGGRAPH conference, living on through The Sandbox, Game Papers, and more.
The Sandbox at SIGGRAPH 2009 is a space that serves as the home base for hands-on experience with videogames. It includes:
- Workshop areas for game design, in conjunction with The Studio, featuring toolsets that allow people to play games and look at how they are designed, with instructors.
- Stations to play games that are shown in the Real-Time Rendering section of the Computer Animation Festival.
- IndieCade: An exhibit highlighting innovative, independent game design and development.
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I've been loom knitting since mid-2004. There was very little info available about this art at that time, and the same questions were
being asked over and over. I started collecting all the information I could to share with others. I've translated needle knitting techniques
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I created the Loom Knitting website as a central location for instructions and patterns. New information and patterns are being added all the time.
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Ed is a nationally recognized speaker on subjects related to accounting, assurance, and professional ethics and has been recognized as an outstanding discussion leader by the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA) each year.
Over his 29 year public accounting career, his practice experiences include providing assurance and accounting services to clients in a variety of industries including financial services, benefit plans, manufacturing, and notfor- profit entities.
Until his retirement in early 2012, Ed was a partner at Crowe Horwath LLP assigned to the firm's national technical group. His responsibilities included overseeing the development and distribution of technical guidance related to professional standards to the firm's staff and clients.
Prior to joining Crowe, Ed was a shareholder of Carter, Belcourt & Atkinson, PA based in Lakeland, Florida. He served as the firm's Chief Professional Standards Officer where he had overall responsibility for the accounting and assurance practice.
Ed is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the FICPA, assuming many leadership roles. He has served as chairman of the FICPA's Committee on Peer Review Acceptance, was a member of the PCPS Technical Issues Committee of the AICPA, and served as a member of Auditing Standards Board Technology Issues Task Force.
Ed is member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, having achieved his Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) designation in 1994. He received his Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation in 1988 from the Institute of Certified Management Accountants.
Ed currently serves on the Advisory Council of the Community Foundation of Greater Lakeland. Previously, he has served on the board of directors of Explorations V Children's Museum, including terms as president and treasurer, and on the Polk County Advisory Board of Junior Achievement. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Florida Southern College with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting.
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Just because tax season is unavoidable doesn't mean it has to be awful.
And where better to demonstrate that idea than a place with "Hope" in its name?
Hope College accounting students are helping area residents prepare their taxes and file electronically through the IRS-sponsored VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program, serving others and gaining hands-on experience in their chosen field at the same time. They are working in a computer laboratory in the college's Martha Miller Center for Global Communication every Saturday from January 26 through April 13 except for March 16 and March 23 (during spring break), each committed to providing approximately 50 hours across the duration of the program.
Last year, approximately 50 clients took advantage of the service at Hope, which is in its second year as an approved site for VITA. The college is participating as a member of the West Michigan VITA Collegiate Partnership, which features a total of 14 tax sites in Coopersville, Grand Rapids, Hastings, Holland Kalamazoo and Wyoming.
While many of the returns were simple and easily handled last year, all of the students were amazed by some of the complexities that were brought in the door. The Hope project's faculty coordinator, Herb Martin, has more than 30 years of tax experience, and he had to use reference resources to help the students with some complex situations.
"Very few tax returns are prepared, even by professionals, with 'drive-thru' service," commented Martin, an associate professor emeritus of accountancy. Returns are reviewed by two other people before final filing.
Administered by the IRS, the VITA program originated with the Tax Reform Act of 1969 as part of the increased emphasis on taxpayer education programs, according to Herbert Martin, associate professor emeritus of accountancy, who in retirement continues to coordinate Hope's participation. The VITA program offers free tax help for low- to moderate-income individuals (defined by the Earned Income Tax Credit threshold), persons with disabilities, the elderly and those having limited English proficiency.
The volunteers have all been trained and certified according to standards set by the IRS.
In order to ensure consistent treatment of taxpayers and accurate return preparation, IRS established certain requirements for participation. Link and Learn Taxes is provided for the students to link them to quality e-learning solutions. The web-based program provides courses in Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced, along with a refresher course for returning volunteers. This training prepares volunteers to provide quality tax return preparation services. This interactive course teaches the basics to accurately prepare income tax returns for individuals, and users can obtain volunteer certification along the way at their own pace.
Students make their way through lessons that include tax topics, case studies and interview simulations. Link & Learn Taxes uses pop-up windows to connect to forms, publications and other resource materials. More knowledgeable students can use the course as a refresher. Link & Learn Taxes presents tax law through a variety of adult learning strategies including graphics, real-world scenarios and interview practice. Users can review the tax law material, listen to mock interviews and complete sample tax return preparation scenarios.
IRS provides tax preparation software for its tax preparation sites free of charge. Two products are available: desktop and online. The current software is TaxWise.
"We use TaxWise Online and students get experience with tax preparation software and the software helps us by giving feedback on errors and omissions," Martin said.
The participating Hope students, all senior public-accounting majors, are Nicole George of Hamilton, Courtney Killeen of Williamston, Grace Martin of Dexter, Kyle Sutton of Farmington Hills and Michael Van Laan of Grand Rapids. In addition, senior public-accounting major Mike Kroneman of Okemos, who is a returning VITA preparer, is serving as a site coordinator.
The VITA service at Hope is funded in part by the college's CrossRoads Project, a program that helps students think in theologically creative ways about their vocation.
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Dr. David Simon was a best-selling author, Chopra Center co-founder, and pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine. More than three decades ago as an anthropology student exploring humanity's earliest communities and cultures, he was drawn to the understanding that the role of the doctor was much more than a disease technician; a true healer had to be a diagnostician, medicine man, psychotherapist, and priest – an expert navigator of the mind and spirit as well as of the physical body.
As a medical student at the University of Chicago, David began studying and practicing meditation. Soon his fellow students were asking him for instruction in meditation as a tool for coping with the stress of their rigorous study demands. "By the time that I had completed my four years of medical school, almost half of my medical colleagues had learned meditation and were practicing at least intermittently purely for the value of having a tool to quiet their mind," David recalls.
After finishing his medical degree, David completed several residencies at the University of San Diego and the University of Colorado. He began his influential career in private practice in neurology, and then served as chief of staff and medical director of the Neurological Rehabilitation Center and Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory at Sharp Cabrillo Hospital.
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As a young physician and board-certified neurologist, David continued to explore a wide variety of healing traditions, searching for alternatives to the prevailing medical model that he had found extremely disappointing and limiting since his earliest days in medical school. He later wrote, "At times I was deeply demoralized that the notion of human beings as fully conscious, spiritually aware creations had been totally lost from the medical model of life and health."
David studied the ancient wisdom traditions of India, Tibet, and China, encouraged by the way in which they combined the concept of body, mind, and spirit into a definition of a health as something more than just the absence of disease, but as a state of well-being and vitality.
David's first exposure to an Ayurvedic physician was to have a profound impact on his personal life and career. In his book The Wisdom of Healing, David describes meeting this gentle vaidya (Ayurvedic doctor), whose kind-hearted, open nature seemed to inspire the trust of his patients, who were then able to share their deepest concerns and get the most benefit from their visit. David was deeply struck by how the vaidya's own presence seemed to be the most powerful aspect of his therapy. "More than an expert on health, he seemed to be a living representative of a healthy person, balanced in body, mind, and spirit. In this man, I saw the possibility that a physician could be more than a technical master of pathology – a doctor could guide his patients to health through his actions, words, and being," David said.
Deeply drawn to the wisdom of Ayurveda, David ultimately became a recognized expert in this 5,000-year-old healing system, including its sister science, yoga. Throughout his medical career, he focused on integrating the theory and practice of these ancient healing sciences with the newer developments of modern Western medicine. He forged a model of health that integrates the multiple dimensions of a human being ― environmental, physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual.
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In 1996, David co-founded the Chopra Center for Wellbeing with his colleague and mind-body healing expert, Deepak Chopra, M.D. Together, they have expanded people's understanding of the true meaning of health, helping thousands of people throughout the world experience the healing benefits of Ayurveda, meditation, and yoga. Recognized as a leading authority in the effective and appropriate use of mind-body medicine practices, Dr. Simon's endeavors resulted in the training of thousands of physicians, nurses, and health care providers. One of the first recipients of a National Institutes of Health grant to study mind-body medical approaches to improving health care, David helped bring integrated mind-body medical programs to medical institutions, health centers, educational institutions, and health resorts throughout the world.
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David Simon was a best-selling author of many wellness books, including Free to Love, Free to Heal: Heal Your Body by Healing Your Emotions; The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga Guidebook; Return to Wholeness: Embracing Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Face of Cancer;The Wisdom of Healing; Vital Energy; and The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices. He has also co-authored many books with visionary Deepak Chopra, including The Chopra Center Herbal Handbook; Grow Younger, Live Longer; The Chopra Center Cookbook; Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives: a Holistic Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth; and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga.
David's books Vital Energy; The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga; and Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives each received a Nautilus Book Award. The Ten Commitments was the winner of the 2006 Foreword Award.
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Red Knit Cap Girl To The Rescue by Naoko Stoop
My family's introduction to Red Knit Cap Girl was purely by chance. My daughter is obsessed with the moon and my wife found a great print of a cute little red-clad girl sitting on a tree branch with a white bunny, staring up at a full moon. It is prominently displayed in a frame on her dresser. So imagine my surprise when I picked up Red Knit Cap Girl To The Rescue and saw that familiar face, along with her friend the bunny, flying along in a hang glider made from what looks to be a page from a paperback book. Needless to say, I was intrigued.
The first thing you notice when opening Red Knit Cap Girl To The Rescue is the texture of the drawings. Stoop paints on plywood and allows the wood grain to peek through, lending a natural touch to each illustration. This technique seems to work no matter what the setting is—it makes sand look grainier, the sky deeper and somehow gives the ocean a sense of organic movement. Her relatively simple (yet wonderfully satisfying) characters and sparse details make each landscape a major focus of the story.
The story itself is sweet. An adventurous girl, her woodland friends, a stranger in need and a journey across the sea. What more does a child need? Not much— unless of course you throw in a talking moon. That sealed the deal in my household.
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2013)
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No. 8 Villanova beats Marquette 73-56
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Darrun Hilliard watched intently Saturday night as the Philadelphia 76ers retired Allen Iverson's number at the Wells Fargo Center.
Less than 24 hours later, in the same arena, he tried to recreate the magic of his all-time favorite player.
Hilliard scored a career-high 26 points and No. 8 Villanova set a school record for regular-season wins with a 73-56 victory over Marquette on Sunday.
"AI was the man," Hilliard said. "That was my favorite player. Seeing him go out and be the smallest guy on the court and doing what he did with everything against him, it was something I looked up to. So it's pretty cool to be in this building."
Josh Hart added 13 points and JayVaughn Pinkston had 11 points and seven rebounds for the Wildcats (26-3, 14-2 Big East), who have won four straight and 10 of 11.
The Wildcats had never won 26 regular-season games in the 95-year history of the program. Villanova won 25 games four previous times, most recently in 2008-09, a season it reached the Final Four.
Deonte Burton scored 13 points for Marquette (17-12, 9-7) and Todd Mayo finished with 11 points and five rebounds.
"I was proud of that effort," Villanova coach Jay Wright said. "I know Marquette's a good, hungry team and they play hard. It's hard to match that level."
Playing in the home of the 76ers Hilliard almost looked like an NBA guard with the kind of show he put on for the fans. The 6-foot-6 junior guard had 18 points in first half, shot 5 for 8 from 3-point range for the game and set his career high with a dazzling drive that put the Wildcats up 66-47 with 4:58 left.
Hilliard's previous career high of 25 points came in an upset win over Syracuse last season – also at the Wells Fargo Center.
"Darrun was on fire today," Hart said. "When you have someone who's 5 for 8 from 3s, the defense is really focusing in on him so that allowed me to get open shots."
Villanova was 12 of 29 from 3-point range.
Trying to make a late push to get into the NCAA tournament for the ninth straight year, Marquette came in having won five of six, including an important two-point victory over Georgetown on Thursday.
But the Golden Eagles never threatened to upset the Wildcats, shooting just 4 for 15 from 3-point range and 16 for 25 from the free throw line. They committed 15 turnovers.
"I would say the number one disappointment is we didn't play as hard as we have to play on the road to beat a team as good as Villanova," Marquette coach Buzz Williams said.
After falling behind by 11 points at halftime, Marquette made just one field goal through the first 5 minutes of the second half to allow Villanova to open a 48-29 lead.
Villanova led by double digits the rest of the way to move one full game ahead of No. 9 Creighton for first place in the Big East.
The Wildcats' only two conference losses have come to Creighton, which fell out of first place after losing to Xavier on Saturday.
"I don't think they're going to win our league or they're eighth in the country based on one number," Williams said. "I think they're really good in each phase of the game but I also think they play for one another. I think they play incredibly hard and I think they play with great spirit."
Hilliard and Hart combined to score Villanova's first 20 points, before Pinkston and Tony Chennault scored the next nine for the Wildcats. Daniel Ochefu then forced a steal, ran ahead of the pack and had a transition dunk to cap a 17-4 run and send Villanova to a 31-18 lead with 3:18 left in the first half.
The Golden Eagles cut the deficit to six points a couple of minutes later, but Hilliard scored five straight points to close the half, hitting two free throws after Williams was called for a technical foul and drilling a 3-pointer with 2 seconds remaining.
"I thought that series was important for us," Wright said. "We were struggling a little and they were coming back."
The Wildcats led 36-25 at halftime despite foul-plagued starting guards Ryan Arcidiacono and James Bell playing just 6 and 5 minutes, respectively. Neither scored in the first half and Bell, the team's leading scorer, didn't score at all and remains six points shy of 1,000 points for his career.
"In the first half, when we were playing without James Bell and Ryan Arch, I thought our energy level actually went up," Wright said. "I thought we were actually a quicker team. And then those guys were really fresh in the second half.
"We've been trying to build our depth throughout the season and that was really important to have that first half like that."


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