Cascadia president Eric Murray to speak at next OneRedmond luncheon

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Dr. Eric Murray, president of Cascadia Community College

July 29, 2013 ? 12:59 PM

OneRedmond's next investor's luncheon will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 21 at Matts' Rotisserie & Oyster Lounge at 16551 N.E. 74th St. in Redmond Town Center.

The lunch will feature Dr. Eric Murray, president of Cascadia Community College. He will discuss "What do we want for our children? Education and Careers on the Eastside."

The program will explore the dilemma families face in choosing a path for their kids after high school. ?Admissions rates and qualifications of students to get into universities will be shared along with the fact that only one out of every five applicants gains admission to the university of their choice. Options and local resources for how to keep kids on the right path will also be discussed. This data is specific to the school districts on the Eastside.

The event's menu will be rotisserie chicken penne pasta with sundried tomato cream sauce, radicchio, green beans, basil and gorgonzola. Vegetarian and vegan options are also available.

Pre-registration is required due to limited space and restaurant accommodations. Attendees are also asked to specify if they have any food allergies or dietary restrictions. Cancellations with less than 24 hours notice will not be reimbursed.

To register or RSVP, click here.

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Correlation Between Subjective Evaluation of Symptoms and Objective Findings in Early Recurrent Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Head and Neck Cancer Evaluation and Findings Head and Neck Cancer Evaluation and Findings

Importance? This study addresses the value of patients? reported symptoms as markers of tumor recurrence after definitive therapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Objective? To evaluate the correlation between patients? symptoms and objective findings in the diagnosis of local and/or regional recurrences of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas in the first 2 years of follow-up.

Design? Retrospective single-institution study of a prospectively collected database.

Setting? Regional hospital.

Participants? We reviewed the clinical records of patients treated for oral cavity, oropharyngeal, laryngeal, and hypopharyngeal carcinomas between January 1, 2008, and December 31, 2009, with a minimum follow-up of 2 years.

Main Outcomes and Measures? Correlation between symptoms and oncologic status (recurrence vs remission) in the posttreatment period.

Results? Of the 101 patients included, 30 had recurrences. Pain, odynophagia, and dysphonia were independently correlated with recurrence (odds ratios, 16.07, 11.20, and 5.90, respectively; P?<?.001). New-onset symptoms had the best correlation with recurrences. Correlation was better between 6 to 12 and 18 to 21 months after therapy and in patients initially treated unimodally (P?<?.05). Primary stage and tumor site had no effect.

Conclusions and Relevance? The correlation between symptoms and oncologic status is low during substantial periods within the first 2 years of follow-up. New-onset symptoms, especially pain, odynophagia, or dysphonia, better correlate with tumor recurrence, especially in patients treated unimodally.

Source: http://archotol.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1699727

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Time Warner blackout of CBS goes into 2nd day

This image provided by CBS shows a CBS advertisement in Times Square in New York on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Three million Time Warner Cable customers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas lost access to CBS programming in a fee dispute Friday, threatening their ability to watch popular shows like "Under the Dome" or see Tiger Woods pursue his 8th win at the Bridgestone Invitational. The nation's second largest cable operator said that CBS refused to have productive negotiations, which were repeatedly extended after their previous deal expired at the end of June. (AP Photo/CBS)

This image provided by CBS shows a CBS advertisement in Times Square in New York on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Three million Time Warner Cable customers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas lost access to CBS programming in a fee dispute Friday, threatening their ability to watch popular shows like "Under the Dome" or see Tiger Woods pursue his 8th win at the Bridgestone Invitational. The nation's second largest cable operator said that CBS refused to have productive negotiations, which were repeatedly extended after their previous deal expired at the end of June. (AP Photo/CBS)

Time Warner Cable's blackout of CBS continued Saturday, and neither side indicated a resolution of their dispute over fees is imminent.

Time Warner dropped CBS Friday in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and several other cities, leaving three million customers without the network's programs. The issue is fees that the cable company pays CBS to air its programs.

Each has accused the other of making unreasonable demands. On Saturday the two sides even seemed to disagree on the status of negotiations. A Time Warner spokeswoman said Saturday afternoon that negotiations are ongoing. CBS said it expects talks to resume soon, but the decision rests with Time Warner.

Without a deal, Time Warner customers were missing Tiger Woods' attempt at his 8th win at Firestone Country Club near Akron, Ohio, in this weekend's Bridgestone Invitational. Woods held a lead of 7 strokes as he played Saturday. CBS fans also won't see programs such as "Under the Dome" or "60 Minutes."

Time Warner cut off the CBS shows as well as cable networks Showtime, TMC, Flix and Smithsonian. The cable company's customers are caught in the middle, and the stakes will only go higher. CBS will air the PGA's final major tournament starting Thursday, and its preseason National Football League coverage begins on local stations next week.

Late Friday night, Time Warner posted a message to subscribers on its website from CEO Glenn Britt saying that CBS has been "uncompromising" by making demands that are inconsistent with deals made with hundreds of other broadcasters. If Time Warner gives in to CBS' demands, he said, then other programmers will ask for more as well.

"Cable TV bills would skyrocket. You'd be mad. We'd be mad. It won't end well for anyone," Britt wrote.

Time Warner charges about $20 monthly per subscriber for broadcast channels. One industry analyst estimates that CBS got 75 cents to $1 per Time Warner subscriber in the contract that recently expired.

CBS said this is the first time it's been dropped by a cable system, and it has successfully negotiated deals with Comcast, Cablevision, Charter, DirecTV, AT&T, Verizon and other companies.

"CBS programs are among the most popular in the industry, and yet there are many cable networks - with considerably less viewership - that receive more money for their programming from Time Warner Cable than we do," CBS CEO Leslie Moonves said in July memo to employees.

The fight could be a long one with CBS trying to gain revenue from retransmission fees to buffer against cyclical swings in advertising revenue and Time Warner caught in a competitive environment that limits price increases to pay for rising programming costs.

Research firm SNL Kagan estimates retransmission fees paid to programmers will reach $3 billion industry-wide this year and double to $6 billion by 2018.

Earning revenue from pay TV subscribers is crucial to CBS's growth prospects, analysts say. Even though CBS sends its signal out over the airwaves for free to anyone with an antenna, about 85 percent of its viewers watch TV through a pay TV provider.

Time Warner spokeswoman Maureen Huff said the company is not worried about customers switching to a different TV-service provider to get CBS. Programming fee disputes are common in the industry and could happen to other providers in the future, she said, adding that the number of such disputes has risen in the last few years.

Indeed, a competitor, DirecTV, came to Time Warner's defense on Saturday, issuing a statement that praised the cable company. "In trying to protect our won customers, DirecTV has certainly had its share of these battles, so we applaud Time Warner Cable for fighting back against exorbitant programming cost increases," the statement said.

The dispute may bring some government action. In New York, the City Council announced Saturday that it would convene hearings Thursday on the spat, demanding answers from both companies. "Television service should not be dependent on the whims of a bitter corporate standoff," said the council's speaker, Christine Quinn, who is also a leading candidate for mayor.

Time Warner is fighting to hold the line on costs as it struggles to keep subscribers. It lost 191,000 cable TV subscribers in the most recent quarter, ending with 11.7 million at the end of June.

Still, both companies posted healthy quarterly earnings this week. Time Warner Cable grew its net income 6 percent to $481 million, or $1.64 per share, as revenue rose 3 percent to $5.6 billion. CBS grew net income 11 percent to $472 million, or 76 cents per share. CBS's revenue also grew 11 percent to $3.7 billion thanks in large part to the fees that are in dispute with Time Warner Cable.

The CBS stations that went dark are WCBS and WLNY in New York; KCBS and KCAL in Los Angeles; KTVT and KTXA in Dallas; WBZ and WSBK in Boston; KDKA, WPCW-CW in Pittsburgh; KCNC in Denver; WKBD-CW in Detroit and WBBM in Chicago.

About 2.5 million Time Warner Cable customers lost access to Showtime, the premium channel that carries shows such as "Dexter."

Time Warner said it would temporarily replace lost programming with shows from Starz Kids and Family.

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Krisher reported from Detroit. David B. Caruso contributed from New York.

Associated Press

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A Week With Google Glass

Last week, I was lucky enough to stumble into a pair of Google Glass(es?) These things are so new I am not entirely sure how you refer to having them in your possession. Google Glass, of course, is Google?s $1500 wearable computer shaped like a pair of eyeglasses (minus the lenses). There?s a battery and computer built into one of the stems, and a small heads-up display above the right eye. If you imagine that Google Glass is sort of like having the most useful information from your phone beamed directly into an unobtrusive corner of your eye, you start to get a sense of what this is all about.

Hey: Have a question about tech? You can talk directly to one of our nerds and get an answer right away!

You can?t walk into a store to buy Google Glass today, and the Google Glass website reports that ?applications are now closed? just in case you wanted to throw money at the computer screen to get your own pair. Eventually, they?ll be widely available, but for now, only a select few have one. Those select few include the eHow engineering team, and I managed to borrow it from them for a week to try them out for myself.

First and foremost: They utterly reek of geekiness.

There?s nothing subtle about wearing a pair of glasses that have no lenses, but sport a massive cyborg-like frame on one side. If you?re wearing a pair, people know it, as you can see in this photo, where eHow editor Rachel Horn models the Google Glass in question. And the primary way to interact with Google Glass is via voice command: To take a picture, for example, you start by snapping your head upwards as if you just woke from a power nap?? that nudges Glass and readies it to receive a command. Then you speak to it: ?OK, Glass.? After a moment, you can say the actual command, ?Take a picture.? It?s deliciously futuristic, geeky, and goofy, all at the same time.

Don?t fear that you?ll forget the possible voice commands; there?s only a half dozen or so, and they appear as a list when you say ?OK Glass.? You can take a picture, shoot a short video, send an email, perform a Google search, set a route in Google Maps, and open a Google Hangout. That?s pretty much it.

Glass depends a lot on touch as well. In addition to the half-dozen voice commands, you navigate around the Glass interface by swiping or tapping on the frame with your finger.? The Glass UI, you see, is actually organized like a timeline of cards, sort of like Google Now. Everything you do (email, photos, and so on) becomes a card that you can flip through by swiping forward and backwards with your finger. When you want to do something to a card, like email a photo, you tap it to make a selection, and then continue swiping to choose a command.

Bottom line: If you see someone talking to herself and appearing to brush her eyeglass frame, she?s either wearing Google Glass or a little crazy. Or, I suppose, both. No reason to rule out both.

A few third-party apps have started to appear for Glass. For example, you can install a to-do list that lets you dictate tasks that get turned into to-do cards in your timeline. CNN and the New York Times have apps that send news updates to your Glass, but they inundate your timeline with such an enthusiastic flood of news items that they end up being useless. Perhaps the best app I?ve found yet is a recipe tool that displays detailed prep and cooking directions so you can make dinner without fiddling with a phone, tablet, or recipe book. That, folks, is a cool and compelling experience.

But aside from that one app, I couldn?t help but feel a little disappointed with my week with Glass. It just didn?t do enough that was genuinely useful to justify a place on my head all day. (Assuming that it can last a whole day before the battery gives out, which it can?t.)

That said, eHow Tech contributor Jason Cipriani disagrees with me. He?s?had his Glass for a month, and he told me about how Google Glass is a piece of tech that completely and seamlessly fades out the way for him ? like when he pulled up navigation data while on a trip without ever looking at his phone or breaking the flow of conversation with his wife. ?The longer I use it,? he told me, ?the more I find it working itself into my daily life.?

I?m completely jazzed about the potenial of wearable tech like Google Glass, but even I ? the consummate early adopter ? will wait for version 2.What do you think? Is wearable tech like Google Glass going to take root? How soon?? Let me know your opinion in the comments or on Twitter @davejoh.

Source: http://www.ehow.com/ehow-tech/blog/a-week-with-google-glass/

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Michael Dell and Silver Lake up their offer for Dell buyout

The competition for Dell is heating up again today, as CEO Michael Dell and investment outfit Silver Lake have increased their buyout offer for the company. The new agreement raises the per share price to $13.75, provides for a special dividend of 13 cents per share, as well as an 8 cents per share dividend in the third quarter. Basically, these revised terms add, at the most, $470 million to the previous proposal that valued the company at around $24.4 billion. In order to give shareholders a chance to mull it over, the date when deciding votes will be cast has been pushed to September 12th. Plenty of time for the next counter-offer to come through, then.

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Digital to dethrone TV as king of home entertainment

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Devin Coldewey NBC News

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Microsoft's Smart Glass app takes advantage of the fact that most users will have a smartphone or tablet handy while using the TV.

It's been a long time coming, but it looks like television, the reigning champ of home entertainment for generations, may finally be displaced by our smaller, more portable digital devices. A new study suggests the dethroning should occur this year.

According to tracking firm eMarketer's data, in 2013 adults in the U.S. will spend 5 hours and 9 minutes every day on average using digital media in some form ? be it apps, streaming video, games, or browsing the Web. They will also, meanwhile, engage on average with 4 hours and 31 minutes of TV.

It's second (and third) screens that contributed to digital's growth, the company says. Although time spent on desktops and laptops dropped slightly, people spent about an hour more on average doing non-voice things on their mobiles.

It makes sense: mobile phones are our constant companions, and every minute spent checking your Instagram feed, chatting on Facebook, or watching YouTube is one less you could be watching TV. And how many times during a boring show have you checked Twitter or played a quick level of "Cut the Rope"?

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Of course, it's not a simple thing to collect or even define some of these figures, so eMarketer was careful to point out that other research companies reached different conclusions. For instance, it estimated that among all consumers, about 2 hours and 19 minutes of a person's media consumption time was online. But a Temkin Group study they cite puts the figure at 5 hours and 48 minutes. So take all these figures with a grain of salt.

That said, the trends shown are unmistakeable: People are watching the same amount of TV or slightly less, while their use of mobiles and online services is skyrocketing. Even if eMarketer's estimate that digital will overtake TV is premature, it's sure to happen soon ? or maybe it happened already.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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Nick Cannon to 'sister' Amanda Bynes: 'Call me!'

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Randee Dawn TODAY contributor

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Cissy Houston wasn't the only one penning an open letter on Wednesday. Nick Cannon, host of "America's Got Talent," released his own screed ? but this one directed at his "sister," Amanda Bynes, asking her to "Call me!"

Cannon and Bynes appeared together on Nickelodeon's "All That" in the 1990s, and it's clear he still has some affection for the actress, who has recently gotten into a number of bizarre incidents, some of which involved run-ins with the law. (On July 23 she was detained for a mental health evaluation in Los Angeles after she reportedly sparked a fire in a residential driveway.)

The note does start out directly referring to Bynes, whose actions have apparently prompted a number of people to ask Cannon what is going on with her. "I have been hit with an onslaught of questions about someone I consider family, someone I watched grow up, and someone I genuinely feel is one of the most pleasant human beings I have had the pleasure of meeting, Amanda Bynes," he writes.

But after she was taken in for a psychiatric evaluation, he said he could no longer brush off those questions with a "playful humorous manner." His note then turns more general (and yet somehow more personal; Cannon clearly knows of what he speaks) as he tries to explain the process by which a young person can get lost once the entertainment industry spotlight fades after an initial brush with fame.

"Imagine your parents, teachers, and employers NEVER telling you NO," he writes (emphasis is Cannon's). "Anything you ask for or want, the world gives you, at some point you are bound to self-destruct. I call this 'access to excess'. I?ve seen it happen to many of my friends and colleagues young and old.... It?s all a dangerous addiction. When there is no balance in your life a person will always become victim to their reality or lack thereof."

Someone who becomes that kind of victim, he adds, can end up under a different kind of public and media scrutiny, which is another issue. "It's like if you have a delicate piece of tissue under the sun, that tissue is under INTENSE heat with nowhere to escape but once you place a magnifying glass over that tissue, it?s bound to instantly burn up in flames," he writes.

He ends by circling back around to Bynes, telling her "you're not alone. I'm here for you. I understand. I care and appreciate you, because that?s what family does and that?s what family is for.... I?m here! Call me! Because I truly believe, the hand you?re helping up today may be the one you?re reaching for tomorrow."

Bynes has not yet responded on?Twitter to the note.

To read the full note, click?here.?

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/nick-cannon-pens-emotional-note-sister-amanda-bynes-call-me-6C10818018

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Transportation funding bill faces GOP opposition

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A measure awarding generous funding to road and bridge projects, community development grants and housing help for the poor is running into stiff Republican opposition in the Senate.

The bill appeared likely to fall prey Thursday to a filibuster by Republicans unhappy that the legislation breaks through budget limits required by automatic spending cuts known as budget sequestration.

"Voting for appropriations legislation that blatantly violates budget reforms already agreed to by both parties moves our country in exactly, exactly the wrong direction," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said.

Far more austere companion legislation was pulled off the House floor Wednesday because, top lawmakers said, GOP leaders lacked the votes to pass it. The House Appropriations Committee chairman, Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., said it was time to go back to the drawing board and come up with a compromise with congressional Democrats and the White House.

Taken together, the likely failure of both measures illustrates the shortcomings of the budget strategies by Republicans controlling the House and Democrats in charge of the Senate. At issue are the 12 spending bills passed each year by Congress for the day-to-day working of the government.

House GOP leaders pulled the measure from the floor after detecting opposition from both conservatives and more moderate members. Democrats were united against the bill and its steep cuts to Amtrak, transportation and housing programs, and community development grants.

"There are some folks that have a hard time voting for any appropriation bill and then there are some folks (for whom) this was probably a difficult vote ..., with Amtrak and block grants and stuff," said Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa, author of the transportation and housing measure. Aides to top Republicans like Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of California maintained that the measure was scuttled because there wasn't enough time in the House's crowded schedule.

Without a broader House-Senate budget agreement in place, the two chambers of Congress have been trying to advance starkly different versions of the 12 appropriations bills, with little success in the House and virtually none in the Senate.

The Senate measures have been drafted to reflect higher budget levels originally called for in a budget deal enacted two years ago. But that deal called for automatic spending cuts known as sequestration if lawmakers could not pass follow-up deficit cuts, and the House spending bills have been drawn to those sequestration levels, which are more than $90 billion lower ? a huge, unbridgeable difference in the approximately $1 trillion budget for daily agency operations.

Congress heads out of Washington this week for a five-week vacation, leaving the mess to be dealt with in the fall. GOP leaders had sought to set up a budget showdown this summer with the need to pass legislation increasing the government's $16.7 trillion borrowing cap. But the government's better-than-expected fiscal performance has delayed that showdown into the fall.

President Barack Obama says he won't negotiate over the debt limit like he did two years ago, a promise he repeated to his House and Senate allies in closed-door meetings on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

The situation on the House and Senate transportation measures reflects the broader dysfunction in Washington over the budget. All sides want to reverse the crippling sequestration cuts, but a partisan impasse over tax increases sought by Obama and his Democratic allies and cuts to so-called mandatory programs like Medicare and food stamps demanded by Republicans shows no signs of breaking.

Cuts in the House transportation measure were made deeper by a Republican move to cut an additional $40 billion-plus from domestic programs and transfer the money to the Pentagon. That left the transportation measure $10 billion, or about 18 percent, below the Senate's bill.

Rogers, who typically is cautious in his public statements, issued an unusually harsh blast, saying halting debate on the House measure reflected a failure of Republicans to follow up on their promises to cut spending with binding legislation.

"With this action, the House has declined to proceed on the implementation of the very budget it adopted just three months ago," Rogers said. He said the failed transportation and housing measure was the first major attempt by Republicans to pass an appropriations bill at levels consistent with the sequestration cuts and said the failure of the bill meant it was time for a new approach.

The White House said the failure of the House transportation bill laid bare the shortcomings of the GOP budget strategy.

"What we learned yesterday is substantively, people cannot accept the depth of these cuts," White House budget director Sylvia Burwell told reporters Thursday at a breakfast sponsored by the Wall St. Journal. "That level isn't a workable level."

"The House, Senate and White House must come together as soon as possible on a comprehensive compromise that repeals sequestration, takes the nation off this lurching path from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis, reduces our deficits and debt, and provides a realistic topline discretionary spending level to fund the government in a responsible ? and attainable ? way," Rogers said.

On that, at least, there was agreement.

"The collapse of the partisan transportation and housing bill in the House proves that their sequestration-on-steroids bills are unworkable, and that we are going to need a bipartisan deal to replace sequestration," said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., chief author of the Senate bill.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/transportation-funding-bill-faces-gop-opposition-072244536.html

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Goldman family responds to Simpson parole

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) ? Family members of Ron Goldman say they feel a sense of vulnerability after Nevada authorities granted O.J. Simpson parole on some charges stemming from his 2008 kidnapping and armed robbery convictions in Las Vegas.

Simpson was tried for murder and acquitted in Los Angeles for the 1994 death of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

The Goldman family said Wednesday in a statement to The Associated Press that they've experienced a reprieve and calm while Simpson has been behind bars.

They say it is unsettling to know he may regain his freedom in a few years

The ruling on Wednesday doesn't mean Simpson will leave prison. He must serve at least four more years on other sentences.

The Parole Board noted that the 66-year-old Simpson had no prior convictions..

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Humana profit rises on growth in retail, employer units

(Reuters) - Health insurer Humana Inc said on Wednesday that its second-quarter profit rose 18 percent, helped by growth in both its direct-to-customer division and the unit that markets plans to employers.

The company, which specializes in private Medicare plans for the elderly, reported net income of $420 million, or $2.63 per share, up from $356 million, or $2.16 per share, a year earlier.

Excluding 12 cents a share in costs of exiting a Puerto Rico Medicaid business for the poor, analysts were expecting earnings of $2.47, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Humana is the fourth major insurer to report second-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street estimates. UnitedHealth Group Inc , WellPoint Inc and Aetna Inc have all said their profits had benefited from reduced use of medical services by customers.

Revenue rose to $9.7 billion from $9.2 billion, below analysts' expectations of $10.3 billion.

Private Medicare, known as Medicare Advantage, accounts for about two-thirds of Humana's revenue.

The company raised its full-year earnings forecast to a range of $8.65 to $8.75 per share to reflect the second-quarter results. Analysts were expecting $8.68 per share.

Humana said it had spent 83.4 percent of premiums it took in on medical benefits, down from 83.5 percent a year earlier. It had 12.37 million medical members at the end of the quarter, and another 8.27 million people were in dental, vision and other supplemental benefit plans.

(Reporting by Caroline Humer; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)

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Facebook passes $38 initial public offering price

FILE - In this May 18, 2012 file photo provided by Facebook, Facebook founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, rings the Nasdaq opening bell from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook's stock has passed its IPO price of $38 before the market open on Wednesday, July 31, 2013. If the gains hold in the regular session, it would mark the first time the stock has risen above that mark since its rocky initial public offering in May 2012. Menlo Park-based Facebook has been on a roll since it reported stronger-than-expected earnings on July 24. Investors are upbeat about its fast-growing mobile advertising revenue. (AP Photo/Nasdaq via Facebook, Zef Nikolla, File)

FILE - In this May 18, 2012 file photo provided by Facebook, Facebook founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, rings the Nasdaq opening bell from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook's stock has passed its IPO price of $38 before the market open on Wednesday, July 31, 2013. If the gains hold in the regular session, it would mark the first time the stock has risen above that mark since its rocky initial public offering in May 2012. Menlo Park-based Facebook has been on a roll since it reported stronger-than-expected earnings on July 24. Investors are upbeat about its fast-growing mobile advertising revenue. (AP Photo/Nasdaq via Facebook, Zef Nikolla, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Facebook's stock has passed its $38 IPO price for the first time since its rocky public debut last May, crossing a symbolic hurdle that has eluded it for more than a year.

Shares of Facebook Inc. increased 1.2 percent to $38.08 in morning trading Wednesday. That's the highest the stock has traded since the company's highly anticipated initial public offering ended with a thud. The stock is up by more than 50 percent since last week.

The world's biggest online social network has been on a roll since reporting stronger-than-expected earnings on July 24. Investors are especially upbeat about its fast-growing mobile advertising revenue.

Facebook's ability to grow mobile revenue was one of the biggest concerns in the weeks leading up to its IPO last year. Investors were worried that its ad business was not migrating to mobile gadgets as quickly as its user base. Facebook urged patience.

In the April-June quarter, Facebook derived 41 percent of its ad revenue from mobile advertising, or about $656 million of $1.6 billion. That's up from zero in the spring of 2012 and from 30 percent in the January-March quarter of this year. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last week that the company has "made good progress growing our community, deepening engagement and delivering strong financial results, especially on mobile."

Still, Facebook has room to grow. Research firm eMarketer expects Facebook to increase its mobile advertising revenue more than fourfold to more than $2 billion this year. This would give the Menlo Park, Calif., company a 13 percent share of the global mobile ad market, up from about 5 percent last year.

Facebook is currently No. 2 in mobile ads, well behind Google. EMarketer estimates that Google had a 52 percent share of the global $8.8 billion mobile ad market last year. This year, the firm expects Google's share to grow to 56 percent.

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Psychotherapy via internet as good as if not better than face-to-face consultations

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Does psychotherapy via the Internet work? Clinical researchers have studied whether online psychotherapy and conventional face-to-face therapy are equally effective in experiments. Based on earlier studies, researchers assumed that the two forms of therapy were on a par. Not only was their theory confirmed, the results for online therapy even exceeded their expectations.

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India to announce steps to narrow current account deficit: Rajan

NEW DELHI | Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:19pm IST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will announce measures to help narrow the current account deficit in the next few weeks, including looking at ways of bringing in foreign investments, Chief Economic Adviser Raghuram Rajan said at a news briefing on Tuesday.

Earlier in the day, the RBI left interest rates unchanged as it supports a battered rupee but said it will roll back recent liquidity tightening measures when stability returns to the currency market.

India posted a record current account deficit of 4.8 percent of gross domestic product in the year ended in March, which has been a key source of weakness in the rupee.

The benchmark 10-year bond yield fell two basis points to 8.12 percent after Rajan's comments.

(Reporting by Rajesh Kumar Singh; Writing by Swati Bhat; Editing by Rafael Nam)

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George Washington Library Set to Open This Fall

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Presidential libraries have only been around for about 75 years.

However, there has never been one for our first chief executive.

But now, the George Washington Library is getting ready to open.

It will be at Mount Vernon on the Potomac River.

It will feature some of the president's original books as well as sell Washington's brand of whiskey.

The library will open this fall.

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When you've got a long road trip with the kids?or even attention-seeking friends?you can keep them occupied with a game console. Instructables user rochassassin installed a 19" television and Xbox in the back seat of his car, and you can too.

Although not a simple project by any means, rochassassin managed to get everything set up with a metal bar he found in the yard, some accurate measurements, a power converter, and proper wiring. If you've got a day to do that work, you can have a pretty awesome setup. An Xbox (or other modern console) doesn't just bring gaming to the backseat, but it also offers a way to play local movies or even stream from Netflix if you have a hotspot. If your passengers need something to focus on for those long trips, you should check out the full how-to over at Instructables.

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Baseball: Here's a look at the all-time Dodgers and Yankees teams

From Babe Ruth to Lou Gehrig to Sandy Koufax to Don Drysdale, when it comes to the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers it's a who's who of baseball history, Hall of Famers and World Series heroes.

Easily the two-most storied teams in baseball history and inter-league rivals dating back to their days sharing a home in New York City, when you think about the Yankees and Dodgers the history and names roll off through your head like an elegant Vin Scully sentence.

Or perhaps Mel Allen?

When it comes to the Dodgers and Yankees, even their radio and television voices are giants of the game.

With that in mind - and with the Yankees back in Los Angeles to play the Dodgers - we decided to match the greats of the greats of both franchises with the All-Time Yankees and Dodgers teams.

And if you want to know the power of it all, consider that Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio isn't a starter for the Yankees and Clayton Kershaw can't crack the starting five pitching rotation for the Dodgers.

Yet, anyway.

So here it is, the All-Time match up of All-Time baseball matchups. The All-Time Yankees and Dodgers clubs.

ALL-TIME YANKEES TEAM

LF Bob Meusel

Another member of the 1920s Murderers Row Yankees, Meusel batted fifth behind Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. In 1925, he became the second Yankee, after Ruth, to lead the AL in the following offensive categories: home runs (33), runs batted in (138) and

extra-base hits (79). Meusel batted .313 or better in seven of his first eight seasons, finishing with a .309 career average.

Backup: Rickey Henderson

CF Mickey Mantle

It's difficult putting Mantle ahead of Joe DiMaggio, but you can't overlook Mantle's 536 career home runs and the 12 World Series he played in. The 1956 American League Triple Crown winner is right there with Willie Mays as the greatest center fielder of all time.

Backup: Joe DiMaggio

RF Babe Ruth

Hands down, the greatest player of all time. Over his remarkable 22-year career, he slugged 714 home runs with a .342 batting average and a .690 career slugging percentage. Ruth hit 40 or more home runs 11 times.

Backup: Dave Winfield

1B Lou Gehrig

Not just the greatest Yankees first baseman -- quite simply the greatest first baseman of all time. Gehrig was a .340 lifetime hitter and recorded a remarkable 13 straight seasons with 100 or more RBIs and runs. Oh, and he also played in 2,130 consecutive games.

Backup: Don Mattingly

2B Tony Lazzeri

A key member of six pennant winners, Lazzeri was a five-time .300 hitter and drove in more than 100 runs seven times. Often overlooked by his high-profile teammates during the Yankees' Murderers Row teams through the 1920s, Lazzeri was a star in his own right.

Backup: Robinson Cano

3B Graig Nettles

The Yankees' longtime, and often controversial, third baseman during the Bronx Zoo era, Nettles wasn't much of a hitter for average but he was a potent home run hitter and one of the greatest fielders of his era. A seven-time All-Star and two-time World Series champion.

Backup: Alex Rodriguez

SS Derek Jeter

One of the great players of his era, Jeter has been the consistent, clutch stalwart in the Yankees infield for nearly two decades. The Yankees' longtime captain, he's been as good in the postseason as he is during the regular season -- if not better -- and was a key figure in five Yankees World Series titles. A career .313 batting average and 3,307 hits.

Backup: Phil Rizzuto

C Yogi Berra

You can't do much better than catch for 10 World Series champions, including five straight from 1949-1953. His career home run to strikeout rate -- 358 to 414 -- is one of the remarkable stats of all time. Berra is a three-time MVP and played in 15 All-Star games.

Backup: Bill Dickey

PITCHERS

Lefty Gomez: A five-time World Series champion and seven-time All-Star, Ford had a perfect 6-0 record in the Fall Classic.

Whitey Ford: Pitched in 11 World Series, won the 1961 Cy Young Award and has a 2.75 career ERA.

Ron Guidry: A three-time 20-game winner, Guidry won the 1978 Cy Young Award and has a .651 career winning percentage.

Andy Pettitte: A key part of the Yankees' most recent run of dominance, Pettitte is a five-time World Series champion and continues to be a dependable starter for the Bronx Bombers.

Red Ruffing: Pitched 15 seasons for the Yankees and strung together four consecutive 20-win seasons from 1936 to 1939.

Closer: Mariano Rivera: The greatest closer of all time. Rivera comes into tonight's game with 641 career saves and a 2.20 lifetime ERA. Just as remarkable, he has a 0.70 postseason ERA and 42 saves while winning five World Series titles. Backup: Sparky Lyle.

ALL-TIME DODGERS TEAM

LF Dusty Baker

In eight years with the Dodgers, he hit 144 home runs with 586 RBIs and also hit five home runs with 21 RBIs over 40 postseason games.

Backup: Pedro Guerrero

CF Duke Snider

A seven-time All-Star, Snider is the Dodgers' greatest power hitter of all time, slugging 389 home runs with 1,271 RBIs -- both still team records -- and completing five consecutive seasons with 40 or more home runs -- also a franchise record. Snider finished with 11 career home runs in the World Series and had two series in which he hit four home runs.

Backup: Zack Wheat

RF Carl Furillo

One of the great two-way stars in club history, Furillo was regarded as the greatest throwing right fielder of his time. But the two-time All-Star was also a career .299 hitter -- winning the 1953 batting title -- and finished with 192 home runs and 1,058 RBIs during the great Dodgers' run in the 1950s.

Backup: Babe Herman

1B Steve Garvey

An eight-time All-Star and four-time Gold Glove winner, Garvey was the anchor to the Dodgers' longtime infield through the 1970s and early 1980s. Finished with a .302 career batting average with 211 home runs and 992 RBIs. His 10 hits in the 1981 World Series were one of the subtle reasons the Dodgers prevailed over the Yankees.

Backup: Gil Hodges

2B Jackie Robinson

The 1947 Rookie of the Year and 1949 National League MVP, Robinson was a six-time All-Star and one of the game's all-time great all-around players. Finished with 137 home runs, 197 stolen bases and 734 RBIs.

Backup: Junior Gilliam

SS Pee Wee Reese

A 10-time All-Star, Reese was the common theme during the great Dodgers teams from 1941 to 1956 while chipping in with his stellar defense, hitting and baserunning. Finished with 46 hits in the World Series and had eight in 1955, when the Dodgers finally beat the Yankees.

Backup: Maury Wills

3B Ron Cey

A six-time All-Star and 1981 tri-World Series MVP, Cey finished with 228 home runs and 842 RBIs. Over a seven-year stretch from 1974 to 1980, Cey produced 25 or more home runs and 85 or more RBIs.

Backup: Pedro Guerrero

C Roy Campanella

A three-time National League Most Valuable Player and eight-time All-Star, Campanella finished with 242 home runs and 856 RBIs, and was the catcher for five pennant winners. Was one of the game's great players between 1949-57 before a car accident in 1958 left him paralyzed.

Backup: Mike Piazza

PITCHERS

Sandy Koufax

It can be argued Koufax is the greatest pitcher of all time. He compiled a 165-87 record with 2,396 strikeouts and a 2.67 ERA. He won three Cy Young Awards, was a six-time All-Star and threw four no-hitters from 1962 to 1966. Koufax was a brilliant World Series pitcher, allowing just six earned runs in seven starts with 61 strikeouts. In the process, he led the Dodgers to two World Series wins.

Don Drysdale

An eight-time All-Star and 1962 Cy Young Award winner, Drysdale went 3-0 in four World Series starts while tossing two complete games. And through most of the 1960s he averaged 40 starts per season, consistently approached 300 innings and well over 200 strikeouts.

Orel Hershiser

The 1988 National League Cy Young winner, NLCS MVP and World Series MVP, Hershiser finished his career with a 135-107 record with a 3.12 ERA and 1,456 strikeouts. And in 1988, he had one of the greatest years of all time, while winning 23 games -- including eight shutouts and 15 complete games -- and recording an astonishing 59 straight scoreless innings.

Don Newcombe

The 1956 National League MVP and Cy Young Award winner, Newcombe finished with a 123-66 record with 913 strikeouts and a 3.51 ERA. A three-time 20-game winner, Newcombe won 27 games in 1956.

Fernando Valenzuela

The 1981 Cy Young and Rookie of the Year winner, Valenzuela burst onto the scene as a 20-year-old and went on to finish with a 141-116 record with 1,759 strikeouts and a 3.31 ERA. In 1981, he went 3-1 in the postseason as the Dodgers won it all, topping the Yankees in the World Series.

Closer: Eric Gagne

A three-time All-Star and 2003 Cy Young Award winner, Gagne had one of the most storied three-year runs in baseball history by saving 152 games -- including a major-league record 84 straight at one point.

Backup: Mike Marshall

Source: http://www.dailynews.com/sports/ci_23757894/baseball-heres-look-at-all-time-dodgers-and?source=rss

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If you have a decent connection, Netflix does a pretty good job of automatically calibrating streaming options. However, for slower connections, you can choose to lower the streaming rate with a secret settings menu.

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Schierholtz's HR in 9th lifts Cubs over Giants 1-0

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Nate Schierholtz's recent power surge might not be enough to turn the Chicago Cubs season around. It sure is making the year a lot easier for the slugging outfielder to handle.

Getting a game-winning home run against his former club? Well, that's just icing on the cake.

Cheered in every at-bat this series by the crowd at AT&T Park, Schierholtz homered off ex-teammate Sergio Romo with one out in the ninth inning to lift the Cubs to a 1-0 win over the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night.

"I can't really describe it, but it felt good," Schierholtz said. "I always loved playing here. I love the fans here. I couldn't ask for a better reception."

Dropped to sixth in the Cubs' lineup after batting cleanup a night earlier in the club's first game after trading Alfonso Soriano, Schierholtz worked a full count off Romo (3-6) before hitting a towering blast into the right field stands to hand Romo his second loss in as many games.

Schierholtz played with San Francisco from 2007-2012 before getting traded to Philadelphia in exchange for Hunter Pence midway through last season. He signed with Chicago as a free agent in the offseason and had been bothered by shoulder problems earlier in the year before heating up over the past two weeks.

The home run off Romo was Schierholtz's 14th of the season and third on the team's current 10-game road trip. Seven of his 10 hits on the road trip have been for extra bases.

"It's pretty nice to watch," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said. "It's obviously huge for him to do that to his old team."

Starlin Castro added two hits for Chicago, which is 18-13 in its last 31 games.

Madison Bumgarner pitched eight shutout innings for San Francisco but left without a decision. The World Series champs have lost six of seven and are a season-high 11 games under .500.

Since May 13, the Giants have the worst record in the majors at 23-42.

"We're in a tough rut now and we know it," San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said. "We just have to keep working and trying. We couldn't even get a cheap hit and we got what we deserve."

Pedro Strop (1-0) pitched one inning for the win despite making two mental mistakes that helped the Giants load the bases with no outs in the eighth. Strop twice made late throws on sacrifice bunt attempts but got out of it when Buster Posey and Pablo Sandoval grounded into forceouts at home and Hunter Pence struck out.

"That was one of our more exciting innings of the year," Sveum said. "We were going to win it or lose it there."

Kevin Gregg worked the ninth for his 21st save to complete the five-hitter, getting pinch-hitter Tony Abreu to ground into a 3-2-3 double play after San Francisco loaded the bases with one out.

The Cubs won their second straight in this three-game set after dropping three of four to the Giants at Wrigley Field in April. Chicago scored two unearned runs in the ninth inning to beat San Francisco 3-2 on Friday.

This one went down to the wire again.

Chicago only got one runner to second base until Schierholtz's homer.

That was enough to hold off the slumping Giants, who were shut out for the ninth time this season.

Both starters were dominant but left without a decision.

Chicago rookie Chris Rusin needed just 27 pitches to get through the third inning and didn't allow a baserunner until Pence's one-out walk in the fifth. One batter later Joaquin Arias grounded a single to center to end the no-hit bid.

Rusin also worked out of a two-on, two-out jam in the sixth and got help in the seventh when first baseman Anthony Rizzo made a leaping stab of Brandon Belt's high liner to strand Pence at third base after he led off the inning with a ground-rule double.

Bumgarner was equally effective until leaving for a pinch hitter in the eighth.

The Giants' most consistent starter this season and an All-Star, Bumgarner overcame a pair of errors behind him and pitched out of a two-on, two-out jam when Andres Torres made a diving catch on Schierholtz's sinking liner in the sixth. He finished with seven strikeouts and two walks.

NOTES: The Giants committed two more errors and lead the majors with 76 this season. ... Giants RHP Ryan Vogelsong threw 45 pitches over 2 2-3 innings in his second rehabilitation outing after going on the disabled list with a fractured right hand. Vogelsong will accompany the big league club on a trip to the White House on Monday before joining Double-A Richmond for his next appearance. ... RHP Tim Lincecum (5-10, 4.73 ERA), who allowed eight runs on Monday in his first start since throwing a no-hitter, pitches for the Giants in the series finale. ... LHP Travis Wood (6-7, 2.95) goes for Chicago and is winless in four career starts against San Francisco. ... Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti rejoined the club after having elbow surgery Wednesday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/schierholtzs-hr-9th-lifts-cubs-over-giants-1-041310388.html

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LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL: Encino 11-under all-star Robinson Peete following in father Rodney's footsteps

Son of former USC, NFL quarterback is only 10, but has been instrumental in team reaching first Southern California championship series.

Former USC and NFL quarterback Rodney Peete is an assistant coach for Encino's 11-under baseball all-stars, with his son Robinson playing a significant role in the team reaching the Southern California best-of-three championship series, which begins Saturday against Allied Gardens in El Cajon. (Michael Owen Baker / Staff Photographer)

Rodney Peete remains as intensely competitive today as he was throwing touchdown passes at USC back in the 1980s.

His positive attitude and spirit is contagious and even his son's Little League team has caught the "winning fever."

The proud father of four has devoted much of his time this summer to coaching his son Robinson's 11-under Little League all-star team from Encino, which is enjoying a historic season.

Encino beat Thousand Oaks 17-0 to win the North sub-divisional baseball championship Thursday in Quartz Hill and tonight it begins a best-of-three series against Allied Gardens in El Cajon for the Southern California championship -- the furthest a team can advance at that level.

Rodney quarterbacked the Trojans to two Rose Bowls and went on to play 16 years in the NFL, retiring in 2005 after a three-year stint with the Carolina Panthers.

He was hardly a one-sport athlete, however. Peete was also an All-Pac-10 third baseman at USC and was drafted four times by Major League teams before deciding to make football his career instead.

"That was one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make," Rodney recalls. "I love both sports, I'd slipped in the (NFL) draft and the Oakland A's were actively pursuing me. At the end of the day, having an opportunity to play quarterback in the NFL was an opportunity I couldn't pass up."

Now, Rodney is imparting his knowledge of America's pastime to Robinson, the second oldest of his three sons and one of the two

10-year-olds on Encino's 11-under squad.

After hitting 15 home runs in the 9-10 age group last year, Robinson moved up to the Major (11-12) division this spring and his Cardinals lost in the championship game to the Braves, coached by 11-under all-stars manager Kevin Dicker.

"There's nothing like the feeling you get throwing a touchdown pass or winning a big game, but I get just as much joy watching my son play," Rodney said. "I wake up super early on game days and I get more excited than him sometimes."

Robinson has made an impact since joining the all-stars and Thursday's game was an example. With Rodney shouting encouragement from the first-base box, Robinson went 3 for 3 at the plate, including a solo homer to left field in the first inning and a double in the second.

He hit several tape-measure shots Friday into the parking lot during the team's final practice.

"Having my dad coaching is harder because he pushes me more but it also makes me more determined to hit home runs and win games," said Robinson, who wears No. 16 in tribute to his dad.

"It's important to him because it was his number at USC, he was born on March 16 and that's how many years he played in the NFL."

Dicker, whose son Jake plays left field, said both Rodney and Robinson are integral to the team's success.

"Robinson was in Australia for most of the District 40 tournament, but Rodney was out here every single day working with the team," Dicker said. "He's doing it for the love of the game, he's played at every level and the boys just love him. Our other coach Ryan (Stromsborg) played ball at USC as well, so I'm fortunate to have guys like that helping me."

Rodney and his wife, actress Holly Robinson Peete, are having their annual HollyRod Foundation fundraiser for autism today in Malibu, leaving Rodney with a difficult choice.

"We've been preparing for this event for months and I hate missing it because it's something that's dear to our hearts for 15 years," he said. "But Holly told me 'You're going to San Diego' so that was that."

Robinson, the team's right fielder, is glad his dad will be with him for the biggest series of his life.

"The most important thing he's taught me is never put my head down," Robinson said. "If I have a strikeout or make a bad play, don't get down. Keep playing hard until the end. It would mean a lot to win the (state) championship but we've set the record for our league and we're proud that we've made it this far."

Source: http://www.dailynews.com/ci_23741678/little-league-baseball-encino-11-under-all-star?source=rss_viewed

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Flossie: Tropical storm weakens en route to Hawaii

HONOLULU (AP) ? Weather officials say Tropical Storm Flossie is weakening as it slowly moves westward across the Pacific toward Hawaii, but is still expected to bring heavy rains and winds up to 60 mph when it reaches the state late Sunday night or early Monday morning.

The National Weather Service said Sunday that Flossie could bring flash flooding, mudslides, tornadoes and waterspouts.

The service issued a tropical storm warning for Oahu, Hawaii's most populous island with the city of Honolulu, to go along with previous warnings for the Big Island, Maui, Molokai and Lanai. The warning means the storm represents a threat to life and property.

Michael Cantin, a warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Honolulu, said Sunday that the tropical storm warnings were expanded because the storm strengthened overnight Saturday, before it began weakening Sunday.

Cantin said heavy rains are likely with winds a growing possibility, including gusts able to knock down power poles and blow away loose objects.

"These winds will be strong enough to pick up debris and throw things around," Cantin said.

The service also issued a tropical storm watch for Kauai and Niihau, a less severe notice, asking people to make a plan and pay attention to see if things get worse.

Officials warned people to cancel beach trips, finish necessary storm preparations and evacuate if asked by local officials.

Mike McCartney, chief executive of the Hawaii Tourism Authority, said Sunday afternoon that some airlines have begun to adjust flights.

"Visitors should contact their airlines and hotels to confirm their travel plans," he said.

State officials on Saturday closed trails and campgrounds on the Big Island, and warned people to avoid forest areas until Flossie clears.

"Hikers, campers or hunters should avoid trails, streams and back-country areas under these conditions," said William Aila Jr., chairman of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

It's not immediately clear which island faces the most danger, though the Big Island ? the easternmost island in the archipelago ? is likely the first in Flossie's path. Flossie's center was expected to pass near the Big Island and Maui on Monday morning and then south of Oahu several hours later on Monday evening into Tuesday morning.

Cantin said Flossie could stray from its currently projected path up to 60 miles north or south as it crosses the Hawaiian islands and end up some 100 miles away from where forecasters project it to be by the time it passes.

Cantin said the storm is likely to shift south if it gets weaker and north if it gets stronger.

The storm could drop up to 15 inches of rain to windward areas of Maui and Hawaii counties, and 6 to 10 inches in other areas, forecasters said. Up to a foot of rain could fall on windward Oahu and 4 to 8 inches in central and leeward areas. Kauai may see 2 to 4 inches of rain, with up to 6 inches on windward slopes.

Waves of 12 to 18 feet are expected for the Big Island and Maui, with surf of 10 to 15 feet on other islands.

Despite the system weakening, the current forecast keeps Flossie as a tropical storm through Wednesday.

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Oskar Garcia can be reached on Twitter at http://twitter.com/oskargarcia

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Associated Press writer Christopher Weber in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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