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This week when I met with a talented colleague, Deanna Otten, to collaborate and design a lesson for her ESL students, we hit the jackpot!
Deanna shared a video project she was working on in which students created iMovies on an iPad to narrate stories and share experiences they had over winter break. As you will see, each of the students did a fantastic job of writing, illustrating and narrating their short stories, and Deanna put the work together to create a delightful iMovie. We both agreed that the next step would be publishing.
3 Ways to Embrace ThingLink EDU in the New Year
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Happy New Year to All!
ThingLink EDU has continued to grow in 2015 to include more than 1,000,000 edu users. Along the way we've developed some pretty great ways to use our amazing tool to transform teaching and learning. Please explore 3 Ways to Embrace ThingLink EDU in the New Year. We hope you will get inspired to try one of these ideas in the classroom this year! Read more on the ThingLink Blog for Education.
Kicking off the New Year with Design Thinking
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Over the course of the past 7 years I've been weaving a web of digital tools to support teaching and learning, and that work is documented on this blog
I began my journey into the use of digital tools for teaching and learning through blogging in March, 2009 and have thoroughly explored a substantial number of tools along the way. I've added the most flexible tools to my own digital toolkit, which has grown into a collection of tools capable of supporting powerful learning experiences. As I reflect on this learning journey, my mantra remains the same, I Blog to Learn!
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West Ridge Loop, Photo Gallery, Redwood National and State Parks, California
West Ridge Loop
Redwood National and State Parks
The West Ridge Trail joins the Friendship Ridge and James Irvine trails on a 12.8 mile loop through Redwood National Park. This challenging route sees lighter crowds and passes through miles of stunning old growth in the heart of Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.
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During summer when inland temperatures are high, fog is drawn in from the coast and captured by the forest canopy; moisture drips to the forest floor and provides a steady source of nourishment for redwoods
Western Hemlock, which are more numerous in upland forests and high points along the loop, have bark with bark high tannins which native people used for dyes and cleansing solutions
Evergreen huckleberry bushes line lengthy stretches of trail and produce edible berries in great quantity by late summer
Roosevelt Elk bulls reach sexual maturity after 3-4 years and average 700 - 1100 lbs
Fog accounts for about 40% of redwoods' moisture intake
Turkey Tail is a polypore mushroom and a saprotroph, which means it draws nutrients from decaying matter
The West Ridge Trail climbs steeply from Prairie Creek to a ridge, where it moderates along many up-down intervals toward the coast to the Friendship Ridge Trail
Redwood sorrel is a perennial herb found throughout the park that grows low to the ground and favors cool, moist and shady conditions
Fairy Rings, an almost perfect circle of redwoods, occur when several bud-collar sprouts circle a fallen parent tree
Burls develop when the tree is very young (typically in a 'bud-collar' around the base) and assume a bulbous, knobby shape shape as the tree grows
The West Ridge Loop is among the longer and more challenging routes in Redwood National Park
Redwoods are one of the world's fastest growing conifers, with seedlings sometimes growing more than a foot per year

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The Yourambulla Caves are an Indigenous rock art site located 13 kilometres south-west from the town of Hawker within the southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Yourambulla is a name that is derived from the words 'yura bila', which means two men in the language of the Andyamathana people, the traditional owners of this region. The cave paintings are made from manganese, charcoal, red ochre and white ochre. Figures include animal tracks (emu and kangaroo), hand stencils, human figures, camps and ceremonial depictions (FIGURE ONE).
FIGURE ONE: Rock art at Yourambulla Cave One.
The Yourambulla caves are one of the most accessible rock art sites within the Flinders Ranges, attracting hundreds of tourists every year. The Yourambulla Caves trail was constructed in 1995 by member of the Iga Warta Aboriginal Corporation and the Bungala Aboriginal Corporation. The project was funded by the Department of State Aboriginal Affairs, Environment Australia, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and from Commercial Minerals. The Yourambulla cave trail encompasses three rock shelter sites within a radius of one kilometre. A path has been carved allowing access, while interpretation signs are also present to enhance the visitor's experience.
There are a number of natural processes affecting the rock art at the Yourambulla caves. The rock art at Yourambulla Cave One is suffering from water damage (see FIGURE ONE). Water is seeping through a crack in the overhang and trickling over the art. The area of rock art affected by the water exposure is significantly faded compared to the rest of the site. There is also are a number of old wasp nests on the rock face at all three overhang sites. The wasp nests appear to have been destroyed but not completely removed.
The barriers around the rock shelter sites were established to protect the sites from animals and human interferences (FIGURE TWO). The barrier around Yourambulla Cave Three, in particular, is in very poor condition. The base is eroding out of the sediment (FIGURE THREE) and the top bars have been intentionally bent back. While the barriers have been successful in keeping feral goats and kangaroos out of the shelter, it has not prevented humans from drawing graffiti on the site. Graffiti is present at all three rock shelter sites. The graffiti is either in the form of imitation Aboriginal art or in the form of human figures (FIGURE FOUR). The graffiti is drawn with white chalk or scratched on the rock surface. The staircase leading to Yourambulla Cave One has some nails missing and there are cracks in the wooden planks. It is recommended that visitors are not to use the staircase until repairs have been done.
FIGURE TWO: Eroded fence port at Yourambulla Cave Three.
FIGURE THREE: Fence cage at Yourambulla Cave Three.
FIGURE FOUR: Graffiti at Yourambulla Cave Two.
There has been no management plan established for the Yourambulla Caves determining who is responsible for the long term management of the site. Pastoral leases and tourism companies develop rock art trails in the Flinders Ranges for financial gain. However, neither party really understands about the long term management and conservation issues of these sites. Neither the land owners nor the tourist groups contribute to the management of the site.
The failure of site management has resulted in a number of conservation and liability issues. The graffiti needs to be removed to prevent encouragement from the public to vandalise the site. The barrier around Yourambulla Cave Three also requires significant repair. Further, this site needs to be monitored in another few years to determine whether the area of water damage over Yourambulla Cave One is expanding or receding. The Yourambulla Caves should have a management plan detailing relevant stakeholders who should be contributing funding to the management of the site.
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DUNLAP, Calif. — A lion mauled to death a 24-year-old intern just a few weeks on the job Wednesday at an exotic animal park in the Sierra Nevada foothills of remote Central California.
Authorities said the intern, who was from Brier, was attacked and killed when she entered the male African lion's enclosure at Cat Haven about 45 miles east of Fresno. They said she died quickly of a broken neck.
Sheriff's deputies responding to an emergency call from Cat Haven found the woman inside the enclosure with the lion nearby, Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Bob Miller said.
Another park worker couldn't lure the lion into another pen, so deputies shot and killed it to safely reach the woman. But she died at the scene, Miller said.
Paul Hanson, an attorney, identified the victim as his daughter Dianna Hanson. He said he drove his daughter from her home in Brier on New Year's Day, arriving at Cat Haven Jan. 2.
"She was very excited," Hanson told The Associated Press late Wednesday. "It was just a dream job for her."
Hanson said she had been fascinated by big cats from an earlier age.
"She was absolutely fearless," he said. "I always had a premonition I would get a call like this one day."
California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Janice Mackey said she was unaware if any state regulations would prohibit an employee from entering an exotic animal's enclosure.
Cat Haven founder and executive director Dale Anderson was crying as he read a one-sentence statement about the fatal mauling at the private zoo he has operated since 1993.
Investigators were trying to determine why the intern was inside the enclosure and what might have provoked the attack, sheriff's Sgt. Greg Collins said. The facility is normally closed on Wednesdays, and only one other worker was there when the mauling happened, he said.
The lion, a 4-year-old male named Cous Cous, had been raised at Cat Haven since it was a cub, said Tanya Osegueda, a spokeswoman for Project Survival, the nonprofit that operates the animal park.
Since the 100-acre facility just west of Kings Canyon National Park opened two decades ago, it has housed numerous big cats, including tigers, leopards and other exotic species. It is permitted to house exotic animals by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and is regulated as a zoo by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Results of the last 13 USDA inspections show no violations dating back to March 2010. The most recent inspection was Feb. 4.
Despite state regulations requiring annual inspections, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife most recently inspected the facility in January 2011, when the inspector found it in "good condition" after checking animal health and features such as enclosures.
"We have to do the best we can with the resources we're provided," said department spokeswoman Jordan Traverso. "Regardless of whether it was inspected, that wouldn't have prevented this from happening."
Cat Haven's current "restricted species" permit, which expires in November, states the park was authorized to house 47 animals but had only 28. The animals must be used for scientific or educational purposes.
Actress Tippi Hedren, who founded the Shambala Preserve in Southern California, home to 53 seized or abandoned exotic pets, expressed dismay over the killing of the lion.
"It wasn't the lion's fault. It's the human's fault always," Hedren said.
Nicole Paquette, vice president of the Humane Society of the United States, said the victim of Wednesday's attack should never have been in the enclosure with the animal.
"These are big cats that are extremely dangerous, and they placed a volunteer in the actual cage with a wild animal," she said. "That should have never happened."
Officials at another big cat sanctuary, Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Fla., told The Associated Press last year that at least 21 people, including five children, have been killed and 246 mauled by exotic cats in the United States since 1990. Over that period, 254 cats escaped and 143 were killed.
In 2007, a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo was killed by police after jumping out of its enclosure and fatally mauling a 17-year-old boy and injuring two other people.
Cat Haven has housed Bengal tigers, jaguars and leopards as well as bobcats native to the area. The facility's website says it promotes conservation and preservation of wild cats in their native habitats and offers visitors tours and educational outreach.
Anderson said Project Survival would investigate to see if the intern and the other worker on-site followed the group's protocols.
"We take every precaution to ensure the safety of our staff, animals and guests," he said in a statement.
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SUMMERTOWN, Tenn. (WFLA) — You really don't want to do this. This is what every person must utter after failing to complete a tour of McKamey Manor.
Russ McKamey owns and operates the most terrifying haunted house experience in America — one you're not allowed to attend until you watch a two-hour-long video, sign a 40-page waiver, create a safe word, pass a physical, and more.
Featured on Netflix's "Haunters: Art of the Scare" and on an episode of "Dark Tourist," McKamey Manor is a see-to-believe type of attraction.
The Summertown, Tenn. horror house is so extreme, no one has ever successfully completed the experience. And yet, Russ says his new haunted show, 'Desolation,' is his most extreme haunt yet.
"Nobody's even made it to the starting clock with this new show," Russ told News Channel 8. "With the new mental game, it's much more difficult. And because of that, no one's even started the clock."
Think you have what it takes to tour the Manor? If you do, it only costs a bag of dog food– Russ has five dogs. And if you complete the tour, Russ will hand you $20,000.
So why wouldn't you want to do this?
It's not as easy as just a bag of dog food, as you've probably gathered by now. The Manor's website lists seven must-do items before the tour can begin.
- Be 21 years old or older, or 18-20 with parents approval
- Completed "Sports Physical" and doctor's letter stating you are physically and mentally cleared
- Pass a background check provided by McKamey Manor
- Be screened via Facebook, Facetime or phone
- Proof of medical insurance
- Sign a detailed 40-page waiver
- Pass a portable drug test on the day of the show
There is also a two-hour movie Russ requires you to watch before visiting the manor. The video, "And Then There Were None," is a collection of every contestant who attempted McKamey Manor between July 2017 and August 2019.
The video is basically a montage of people quitting the tour, uttering the required phrase: "You really don't want to do this."
When it comes to the actual tour, Russ has a list of warnings and rules you must follow:
Intense audio, lighting, extreme low visibility, strobe and fog effects, damp and wet conditions, phycially demanding environments, close contact with creatures (you might be touched), very real and graphic scenes of horror.
No smoking, drinking, eating, running inside, or touching of props and/or actors. McKamey Manor reserves the right to refuse admission to anyone for any reason. The guest voluntarily assumes all risks/dangers associated with participation in this event.
The Russ you will meet outside of the McKamey Manor is not the Russ you'd expect. He says he's never been drunk is his life, never smoked a cigarette, never had a cup of coffee, and he doesn't take illegal drugs or smoke marijuana.
"I'm a very straight laced conservative guy, but here I run this crazy haunted house that people think is this torture factory, fetish factory. All of these things that it's not, but people believe that based upon the films that I have made."
Russ films every tour with his video camera. He then publishes the results on his Youtube page.
Russ says he doesn't curse and doesn't allow cursing during the haunted tours. If you do, and many obviously can't help themselves, he deducts cash from your potential $20,000 prize.
"More of an inside little joke — that the manor is the most extreme haunt in the world but there's no cussing involved," he laughed.
"I've already put in well over a million dollars into the thing," Russ said. "And I don't charge any money of course to get into it. A bag of dog food is the initial price. Which is crazy. I'm not a very good business person."
You'd think Russ's favorite horror genre would be the "Saw," or "Hostel" type; 'the more blood the better.' That's not the case. Russ has an appreciation for the classics.
"My favorite genre is more like Alfred Hitchcock, old-school 1950s "Vertigo," "Rear Window," "Birds," "Psycho," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "North by Northwest," the mental ones," he said. "Because that's what the Manor really is. It's a mental game. It's really me against them."
Russ is so good at what he does, he's had people sue him over things they thought happened during the show, but didn't actually happen.
Russ doesn't just film every show for entertainment purposes; he does it to protect himself in court.
"You'd be surprised over the years how many people have claimed something happened to them inside," he said. "And I need to go back and show whoever needs to see it the raw and unedited footage, saying 'here ya go, here's the complete show.'"
How is Russ so good at playing make-believe? He says hypnosis is a great tool.
"When I use the hypnosis I can put you in a kitty pool with a couple inches of water and tell you there's a great white shark in there, and you're gonna think there's a shark in there," he said. "And so, when you have that kind of power over people, and have them do and see things that you want them to see, then they can leave here thinking it really happened, and they'll go to the authorities and say, 'oh, whatever,' and I have to come back and show the footage and say, 'it didn't go that way at all.'
"It's saved me a thousand times."
Over the years, Russ has been able to tap into the fears of everyone that's come through the manor. He says he works each show around everyone's individual fear, so it's never the same show.
Russ says a common fear people share is water.
If you think you have the guts to even attempt McKamey Manor, you can contact Russ here. I will stay behind.
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The surface of Mercury is shrinking faster than previously thought, photos from a NASA spacecraft orbiting the tiny planet reveal.
The first comprehensive survey of the surface of Mercury by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft shows that planet's crust has contracted as it cooled by as much as 4.4 miles (7 kilometers), significantly more than previous estimates. The findings clear up a long-standing clash between scientists' understanding of the heat production and loss and the contraction of Mercury.
"These new results resolved a decades-long paradox between thermal history models and estimates of Mercury's contractions," said study lead author Paul Byrne of the Carnegie Institution for Science in a statement. [Latest Photos of Mercury from NASA's MESSENGER Probe]
The incredible shrinking planet
The surface of Mercury is made up of just one continental plate covering the entire planet. Its enormous iron core, estimated to be about 2,500 miles (4,040 km) across, leaves only 260 miles (420 km) for a mantle and crust — an extremely thin skin for the solar system's smallest planet. The Earth's mantle, for comparison, is about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) thick, while the crust above it averages 25 miles (40 km) in thickness.
And as if that weren't enough for little Mercury, the tiny planet is shrinking.
Over the billions of years since its formation at the birth of the solar system, the planet has slowly cooled, a process all planets suffer if they lack an internal source of heat renewal. As the liquid iron core solidifies, it cools, and the overall volume of Mercury shrinks.
When NASA's Mariner 10 mission circled the planet in the 1970s, it captured images of surface features created by the shrinkage. The contracting planet pushed the crust up and over itself, forming scarps that can extend miles below the planet's surface. At the same time, the shrinking surface caused the crust to wrinkle up on itself, forming so-called "wrinkle ridges."
Byrne and his team used NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft to identify 5,934 ridges and scarps created by the contracting planet, ranging from 5 to 560 miles (9 to 900 km) in length. This created a substantially larger sample than those collected Mariner 10, which only imaged 45 percent of the surface. MESSENGER was able to map the entire surface.
NASA's MESSENGER probe (the name is short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) launched in 2004 and is currently in the middle of an extended mission around Mercury.
From Mariner 10 to MESSENGER
The scarps and wrinkle ridges identified by Mariner 10 allowed scientists to estimate that the planet had lost approximately 1 to 2 km, in global radius, a finding that contrasted with their understanding of the heat loss the planet suffered over time. Byrne's findings of a contraction of up to 4.4 miles (7 km) fits far more cleanly with present models.
"The discrepancy between theory and observation, a major puzzle for four decades, has finally been resolved," MESSENGER principle investigator Sean Solomon said in the same statement.
"It is wonderfully affirming to see that our theoretical understanding is at last matched by geological evidence."
Byrne's paper was published online today (Mar 16) in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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Julia Child famously said that fat carries flavor, but perhaps instead we should give thanks to 4-methylpentanoic acid. Unique combinations of such chemical compounds give foods their characteristic flavors. Science-minded chefs have gone so far as to suggest that seemingly incongruous ingredients—chocolate and blue cheese, for example—will taste great together as long as they have enough flavor compounds in common. Scientists recently put this hypothesis to the test by creating a flavor map, a variant of which we have reproduced here. Lines connect foods that have components in common; thick lines mean many components are shared. By comparing the flavor network with various recipe databases, the researchers conclude that chefs do tend to pair ingredients with shared flavor compounds—but only in Western cuisine. Dishes from a database of recipes from East Asia tend to combine ingredients with few overlapping flavors.
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Scientists link common flavor compounds across the world's favorite ingredients
This article was originally published with the title "The Flavor Connection" in Scientific American 309, 3, (September 2013)


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They say the eyes are the windows to the soul, but physiologically speaking, they're really windows to the brain.
RightEye looks through that window to detect common but often subtle vision issues resulting from concussions and other brain troubles. Its quick, portable eye-tracking station can tell in minutes whether you should see a doctor — or look into becoming a pro ball player.
It turns out there's quite a lot you can tell from how someone's eyes move. We may not notice it ourselves, but we all vary in how and how well we execute a number of basic tasks, from flicking our eyes back and forth to smoothly tracking a moving target. For instance, your eyes may over-correct, fail to line up correctly, or track up or down when moving along a straight line.
For healthy individuals, these variations fall within a safe range, just part of the ordinary differences between bodies. But certain patterns well outside the baseline can be strong indicators of things like concussions and eye muscle problems — and even Parkinson's and Autism-spectrum conditions.
RightEye tracks these movements with a custom device that looks a bit like an all-in-one desktop; it uses a Tobii eye-tracking module built into a single-purpose computer loaded with a library of simple tests. A basic EyeQ (as they call it) test takes five minutes or so, with more specialized tests adding only a few more, and results are available immediately.
To give you an idea: one test in game form has you defending a space station, destroying incoming ships by looking at them. But certain colored ships you must not destroy — meaning you have to detect them in your peripheral vision and avoid looking at them. In another test, you flick your eyes rapidly between two targets appearing on opposite sides of the screen, demonstrating accuracy and functioning saccades (micro-corrections made by your eye muscles).
Each eye is tracked independently, and their performance as a matched pair is evaluated instantly. An easy-to-understand results sheet shows their actual movements and how (if at all) they deviate from the baseline.
It's compact and can run on battery for some 8 hours, making it ideal for deployment outside hospitals or the like: anywhere from school nurse's office to the sidelines of an NFL game, even in the home.
I tested the device out myself at CES (my vision is just OK, but I want a rematch), and later chatted with Barbara Barclay, RIghtEye's President. The two most exciting applications of the technology, as judged by her enthusiasm anyway, are in identifying vision-related cognitive problems in kids and in creating a sort of eye fitness test for sporting persons.
Say a child is having trouble learning to read, or perhaps can't pay attention in class. The immediate thought these days is frequently ADD. But it's more than a little possible that it's a vision problem. A subtle difference in how the eyes track, perhaps one going off the horizontal when tracking a line of text, could easily make reading on the page or blackboard frustrating or even painful. What 3rd-grade kid would keep at it?
This isn't some groundbreaking new idea — but reliably and objectively evaluating individual eye movements was only something you could do if you went to see a specialist, perhaps after other explanations for a behavior didn't pan out. RightEye's test practically runs itself and can detect or eliminate the possibility of vision problems in minutes. Honestly, I think a kid might even find it fun.
Barclay has personal experience with this, her own daughter having had health issues that only after multiple false starts were found to have their root in a relatively simple vision problem the system indicated.
In 2016, RightEye acquired the rights to a pair of tests based on research linking eye movement patterns to Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, as well as Autism spectrum conditions. It's not a magic bullet, but again, the quick and easy nature of the tests make them ideal for routine screening.
The Autism spectrum test is for children aged only 1 to 3, and watches eye movements between images of people and images of geometric shapes. Lingering on the shapes more than the people, it turns out, is a good indicator that at the very least the kid should receive further testing.
The Parkinson's and Huntington's tests watch for the more well understood patterns that accompany the motor degeneration found in those afflictions. They can be administered to people of any age and have (using earlier eye-tracking setups) contributed to many identifications of the diseases.
On a very different, but perhaps more immediately remunerative, note, Barclay told me that the test also works as a way to find outliers on the other end: people with what amounts to super-vision.
It's entirely possible that someone could take the test and their results will show that they have faster, more accurate saccades, quicker target acquisition, and better continuous object tracking than the baseline. That's a heck of an asset to have if you're batting, fielding, goalkeeping, playing tight end — pretty much anything, really.
It's also a heck of an asset to have if you're a scout or coach. If Lopez is catching great on the left side of the field but not the right, you can look into the possibility that he's having trouble tracking the ball when looking over his left shoulder, his eyes all the way to the right.
Not only that, but you can test for effects of concussions or other traumas right there on the field if they're having trouble. Given how widespread such injuries are and the immense danger of repeated concussions, testing early and often could literally save lives.
Right now, Barclay told me, 7 MLB teams are using RightEye tech for player assessments. As for the medical side of things, she said the company currently has 200 clients. The new hardware should help boost that number.
Perhaps more importantly, it has the backing (and therefore clout) of VSP, the country's largest vision insurance company. That's both a tremendous vote of confidence and a major in — nothing gets people using a system faster than knowing it's covered by their existing insurance.


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Today's manual surgical fluid handling method, which means hand-carrying surgical fluid canisters and emptying these canisters into drains and sinks, creates a great exposure risk and is an antiquated approach to the handling of surgical fluid waste. BioDrain's STREAMWAY System is a direct-to-drain product that is a stationary system installed into each surgical room and hooked into a hospital's existing drain and vacuum system. Unlike other fluid management options, the STREAMWAY System has continuous suction and unlimited capacity. "We are experiencing a rapid upswing in awareness about our flagship technology as hospitals search for safer and more efficient ways to dispose of surgical fluids. Demonstrating the STREAMWAY System at the AORN Congress is a great opportunity to share this technology with the healthcare personnel who are on the front lines when it comes to removing surgical waste after procedures," said Josh Kornberg, Chief Executive Officer at BioDrain Medical. "These are the people who will truly understand the impact of an automated direct-to-drain system – for them it means less time and less risk of exposure to potentially dangerous materials." "The feedback we get from nurses and doctors is resoundingly positive. The STREAMWAY System improves operating room safety by offering a cleaner, safer surgical fluid disposal solution that is more reliable and less expensive than the existing manual processes," continued Mr. Kornberg. "In fact, 100 percent of our trial installations have resulted in a sale of the system, so we believe that offering AORN Congress participants the chance to interface with the technology will help thousands of healthcare leaders realize the positive impact the STREAMWAY System can have on their practices—in terms of budget, safety, ease-of-use and environmental mindfulness." For additional information about the Company, please visit: www.biodrainmedical.com. 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The time has come. As we reported last August, Le Cellier is now a 2-credit, signature dining location for dinner.
And we finally have the menu! Now we can find out what we're eating when we spend 2 Disney Dining Plan credits at Epcot's Le Cellier Steakhouse at dinner time (lunch is still 1 credit)!
The veggie entree sounds great. But what are pea tendrils? I've posted the full menu at the bottom of this post, but first, let's analyze what's different…
Menu Analysis: What's New and What's Staying?
have almost completely changed out. Remaining are the cheddar cheese soup (now priced at $9 versus the previous $6.99) and the Spicy Chicken and Chipotle Sausage with roasted corn polenta and sweet onion jam (now called "artisan" spicy chicken and chipotle sausage with roasted corn polenta and sweet onion jam, and priced at $12 instead of $9.99…that's one pricey "artisan").
The steakhouse caesar salad is still around, but this time it costs $9 instead of $6.99, and it has pretzel croutons versus the sourdough croutons it sported in the past.
I'm LOVING the addition of the artisinal cheese plate, of course. And there's honeycomb, which means I'm happy as a clam.
Entrees: The basics have stayed the same. The New York Strip is still there, but now costs $42 instead of $34.99; the salmon is now Pacific King Salmon instead of Walnut-crusted Salmon, and costs $34 versus the old $23.99; Mushroom Filet Mignon remains as the signature dish paired with mushroom risotto (yay!) at $41 versus the old $35.99; and a pork dish remains on the menu — a tenderloin for $32 versus the old chop for $23.99.
The prime rib has been replaced with a rib-eye (YAY!), and a new veggie dish — Potato-Leek and Goat Cheese Quiche — takes over for the gnocchi.
The duck has moved down to the entrees from the appetizers — this time as a roasted duck breast and leg confit instead of meatballs — and Gooseberry Cod has joined the menu along with an interesting entree of Venison medallions.
Sides: Side items remain much the same as before, only with everything going up a buck or three in price.
Mac and Cheese is still there; I wonder if it's the same as what we got in October. I'm sad to see the mushroom risotto move off of the side item menu, but I'm hoping they'll still bring out a skillet of it for me.
Cream cheese mashed potatoes have been replaced with truffle crushed potatoes, and the onion rings are gone. The sauteed spinach and creamed spinach gratinee dishes seem to have been merged into one "creamed spinach" dish.
Also, thanks to a reader email this morning (thanks Angela!), I hear the poutine is more authentic for dinner, with real cheese curds melted by gravy only — not the oven!! I can't wait to try it.
Desserts: The maple creme brulee remains on the menu (which is a decent item and now priced at 8 bucks) as does the Semifreddo (blech.). The trio of chocolate at $10 will, I'm guessing, be as forgettable as most other "trio of dessert"s in other signature dining restaurants.
I'll probably stick with the new lemon cheesecake for my dessert, but I'm not optimistic. Seriously, when a restaurant becomes a signature location do they just phone it in on desserts? Why can't we do spectacular things like 'Ohana's Bananas Foster Bread Pudding in these places? (Sorry; rare moment of frustration.)
I'm dining here in mid-March and can't wait to give a full review with photos!
What do YOU think I should order?? Let me know in the comments below!
Black and Blue
Beef Steak Tartar
with a "Hot Spring Egg" and
Pommes Gaufrette 16.00
Artisan Spicy Chicken and
Chipotle Sausage
with Roasted Corn Polenta,
Sweet Onion Jam 12.00
Grilled Jumbo
Asparagus Gratinée
with Sauce Hollandaise, Canadian
Cheddar, and crunchy Bacon 11.00
Crab and Heirloom Apple Salad
Celeriac Remoulade, Lemon Oil,
Radishes, and Micro
Celery 14.00
Steakhouse Caesar Salad
Crisp Romaine Lettuce,
Aged Parmesan, and
Pretzel Croutons 9.00
Heirloom Tomato Salad
Macerated Red Onions, Minus "8"
Vinegar, and Smokey
Blue Cheese 12.00
Assortment of Artisanal Cheese
accompanied with Chef's Selection
of Dried Fruits and Preserves 14.00
Canadian Cheddar
Cheese Soup
made with Moosehead Beer
and Bacon 9.00
"Le Cellier" Lobster
Chopped Salad
Mixed Field Greens, Haricot Verts,
Avocado, Tomatoes, and
" Lake Meadows" Egg 16.00
"Le Cellier" Mushroom Filet Mignon
8 oz. Canadian AAA Beef Tenderloin with Wild Mushroom Risotto, White Truffle Butter Sauce,
and Micro Chervil 41.00
Argyle, Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley Oregon $11.00
Grilled Bone-In Rib-Eye
16-oz Bone-In Rib-Eye with Herb-Parmesan Potato
Wedges and Maple-Pink Peppercorn Butter 42.00
Clos la Coutale, Malbec, Cahors 9.00
Canadian "Prime" New York Strip
12-oz Strip Steak with Gruyère-Yukon Gold
Potato Gratin, wilted Spinach, and
Vin Rouge Reduction 42.00
Cadaretta, Syrah, Columbia Valley 15.00
Roasted Venison Medallions
with Celery Root Mousseline, Forest Mushrooms,
and Brussels Sprouts 37.00
Zin 91, Old Vine, California 9.00
Roasted Duck Breast and Leg Confit
with Cheddar-Bread Pudding, Swiss Chard,
and House-made Pepper Jelly 30.00
Chateau des Charmes,St. David's Bench Merlot,
Niagara Peninsula 10.00
Seared Gooseberry Cod
with braised Oxtail Ravioli, Shiitake Mushroom,
Bok Choy, and fragrant Oxtail Consommé 33.00
Mission Hill, Sauvignon Blanc- Semillon, Okanagan Valley 13.00
Pacific King Salmon
with Parsnip Purée, Braised Greens,
Pickled Pearl Onions and Mustard Sauce 34.00
Helfrich, Pinot Gris, Alsace 9.00
Charred Pork Tenderloin
with Maple Polenta, Sautéed Pea Tendrils, Baby Corn,
and warm Bacon Vinaigrette 32.00
Van Duzer Estate, Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley 13.00
Potato-Leek and Goat Cheese Quiche
with melted Leeks, and Truffle Butter Sauce 23.00
King Estate, Pinot Gris, Oregon 10.00
"Poutine" Fries
Canadian Cheddar, Truffle Salt, and
Red Wine Reduction 8.00
Baked Macaroni & Cheese
with White Cheddar 7.00
Creamed Spinach
with Parmesan 7.00
Maple-glazed Rainbow Carrots
in Maple Butter 7.00
Truffle Crushed Potatoes
Yukon Gold Potatoes, Truffle Oil,
European Butter 8.00
Sautéed Mushrooms
with Herb Butter 7.00
Trio of Chocolate
Canadian Club Chocolate Mousse,
Chocolate Sorbet, and warm
Chocolate-Almond Cake 10.00
Taylor Fladgate LBV Port, Portugal 11.00
Le Cellier Mont Blanc Semifreddo
Semi-frozen White Wine Sabayon with Chilled
Fruit Soup 9.00
Robert Mondavi Fume Blanc 11.00
Maple Crème Brûlée 8.00
Canadian Coffee
Lemon Cheesecake
with a Citrus Salad and
Mandarin Orange Gelèe 9.00
Washington Hills
Late Harvest Riesling 9.00
No Sugar Added Chocolate Mousse
with Wild Berry Compote and No Sugar
Added Raspberry Sorbet 9.00
Annabelle Merlot 9.00
Seasonal Sorbet 8.00
Bandage-wrapped Cheddar
Fiscalini Farmstead of Modesto, CA, producer
of this traditional English-style Cheddar,
aged 30 months. Nutty and Creamy.
Paired with Pear Jam.
Smokey Oregon Blue
Award winning raw-milk Blue Cheese. Aged at
least 90 days in Roquefort-molded caves.
Paired with Walnut Brittle.
Woolrich Goat Brie
Woolrich Dairy from Ontario, Canada, produces
this rennet-free soft-ripened specialty.
Reminiscent of traditional farm-made, raw-milk
Brie. Paired with Honeycomb.
Petit Agour
Semi-hard French sheep's-milk cheese, aged
for 5 months. Sweet, spicy, firm in texture.
Paired with Apple-Cranberry Chutney.


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After binging on Seattle's superb doughnuts in early March [See: Top Pot, Dahlia Lounge, Frost], I arrived home with a keen interest in finding Los Angeles' choicest deep-fried morsels. While attempting to relive the past usually ends in disappointment, I had faith in my dear city. After all, with independent doughnut shops occupying every other block, there are bound to be some delicious finds, right?
The great doughnut hunt began at downtown's Nickel Diner, home to one of the city's most beloved doughnuts. The Astronomer and I brunched here with my gal pals Bex and Laurie days after pastry chef Sharlena Fong announced that she would be leaving the establishment. Even though Chef Fong was no longer in the kitchen when we dined, every sweet had her down-home and quirky stamp on them.
While The Astronomer and Laurie ordered sensible brunch items like huevos rancheros and French toast, Bex and I went hog wild over doughnuts. The infamous maple-bacon was the first to arrive. Coated in a sweet glaze and studded with bacon crumbles, the doughnut looked absolutely delectable. While I was hoping for fireworks at first bite, all I got were a few measly sparks. The icing and bacon were a winning combination, but the doughnut's texture sat awkwardly in between fluffy and cakey. A lighter and more delicate doughnut would've sealed the deal for me.
Unfortunately, the bulk of the restaurant's doughnuts are based on the same plain doughnut as the maple-bacon. As a result, I liked everything about the Nutella doughnut but the actual dough. The crisp outer layer of hazelnuts and Nutella was delightful.
The Clockwork Orange doughnut was also held back by the weak plain doughnut. Although essence of orange was apparent in the icing, it was totally lacking in the batter—a little zest would've gone a long way.
The red velvet doughnut took me by surprise with its unique texture and tangy cream cheese icing. Whereas the other doughnuts were texturally one dimensional, this one was coated in a crunchy crust of red velvet cake crumbs. Its shape reminded me of The Donut Man's strawberry doughnuts.
Nickel Diner's doughnuts are certainly interesting, but the less-than-stellar principle dough keeps each creation from reaching its full potential. Perhaps the new pastry chef will tweak the recipe now that Chef Fong is out the door. While I normally don't remark on service, it must be noted that an extremely rude manager essentially told our group to get lost after we paid the bill. There's a polite way to say just about anything; it was a shame that she couldn't be bothered to use her manners.
Anyway, what's your favorite doughnut shop in Los Angeles?
Nickel Diner
524 South Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: 213-623-8301


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EXCLUSIVE: Robert Redford will direct and star opposite Nick Nolte in the Bill Bryson adaptation A Walk In The Woods. Sources said IM Global will launch sales at Cannes.
Michael Arndt, the Oscar winning screenwriter of Little Miss Sunshine, adapted the novel A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail.
The Wildwood Enterprises comedy centres on a veteran writer who in a bid to revitalise his life heads off on the perilous Appalachian Trail with his overweight, recovering alcoholic friend. WME Global represents US rights.
Chip Diggins and Bill Holderman, who worked with Redford on Lions For Lambs, will produce.
Redford stars in JC Chandor's out of competition Cannes premiere All Is Lost.
IM Global's Croisette sales slate includes Martin Scorsese's Silence, Lee Daniels' Janis Joplin biopic Get It While You Can starring Amy Adams, Kevin Costner's reunion with director Mike Binder on the drama Black And White and the crime story Gotti starring John Travolta.
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The Wii U is not the last of the first wave of high-def consoles that began with 2005's Xbox 360 and 2006's PlayStation 3, according to Reggie Fils-Aime. It's the first of what comes next.
"This is absolutely the beginning of a new generation," Fils-Aime told me during a quick interview late Saturday night, just minutes before the official launch of Nintendo's sixth home console. "With the innovation we're bringing to bear, with the social community we're bringing to bear, [and] with the video entertainment we're bringing to bear, I think this is the start of a new generation. I think those who say otherwise are clearly trying to preserve sales on their current hardware. This is definitely the start of a new day."
Those who beg to differ may wind up caught in semantics or in an un-winnable argument about whether a Wii U, destined to be vastly out-powered by the next PlayStation and Xbox as soon as late next year, is really the beginning a new gen. But it's undeniable that Wii U is a new chapter for Nintendo and, as with any new console, a big risk.
It's a risk for Nintendo to produce an interesting, unusual machine that adds a six-inch touch screen to the standard twin-stick controller.
It's a risk for gamers who, every time there's a new piece of hardware out, have to decide whether to spend a few hundred dollars investing in its future.
Fils-Aime: "This is definitely the start of a new day."
Fils-Aime believes there are a great variety of games for people to choose from, which he thinks should compel them to pick up the console. He boasted on Saturday night of having 29 packaged games hitting stores, with a promise to get 50 games out through the end of March—the close of the console's "launch window." Among the forthcoming games announced for that window are Pikmin 3, The Wonderful 101 and Lego City Undercover. "I think we will continue to surprise the fans with announcements and information," Fils-Aime said. "I would not go so far as to say you know everything in our launch window."
It is, of course, necessary to convince gamers that the system will be around and have good game support for a long time. Nintendo's own Zelda and Mario creations are guaranteed. It's third-party games, which have shown up in abundance at launch, that are not ensured to be there in the months and years to come. Fils-Aime thinks those games will be there, now that there's a Nintendo console that supports HD graphics and complex online play and communities. The original Wii lacked those things.
But some major upcoming third-party games for the first half of 2013 are not on the Wii U release calendar. There's no BioShock Infinite and no Grand Theft Auto V, which are slated for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Fils-Aime deflected a question about those two games, which are published by Take Two, suggesting they were too far off in the future to be discussing on launch night. "We're gratified when we read comments from companies like Take Two," he said. "We're gratified when we're inspiring the world's best developers to put content on our system."
Some Wii U versions of games released on other platforms have good bonus features. Assassin's Creed III and Mass Effect 3 both put the game's map on the Wii U controller's big six-inch screen. The latter also lets players pick weapons and powers without pausing or slowing the game's action. But if Wii U versions lack elements of these games that are on other platforms, players might hesitate on getting the Nintendo console edition of the game. Who's to blame? Nintendo? The game-maker? Or is this just a matter of imperfect launch-day ports, something that's been an issue for just about every new console ever? For example, there had been rumblings—confirmed since then—that a Wii U version of Mass Effect 3 might not have the next downloadable content that the PS3/360 versions of the game will have. "We have no policy limitation on DLC or on business model for third party publishers," Fils-Aime said, implying that any DLC would be welcome on the console. A rep for Mass Effect 3 development studio Bioware did not reply yet to a request for comment about why the Wii U version won't get the game's next expansion.
On the day after Fils-Aime and I spoke, the Wii U's online services ran into problems. Its new social network, Miiverse, kept going offline. Even when it was up, Miiverse's integration into Nintendo's own games was only operating sporadically. As of this writing, things seem better again, but it's just these kinds of issues that can worry a new consumer.
On Saturday night I'd asked Fils-Aime if potential Wii U buyers should worry about the delay of the much-hyped Nintendo TVii service from launch to December. That service is supposed to integrate a user's Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime and even cable feeds into one on-demand video-viewing portal. The Nintendo president was proud to point out that Netflix was available on day one on the Wii U but shared this answer about the TVii delay. "People should not be concerned about it at all," he said. "The fact that we are now launching it in December reinforces some key truisms about Nintendo: We launch a product when it is perfect in our eyes, not just because a certain date in the calendar has come up. Probably any other company would have launched it tonight."
Fils-Aime: "We launch a product when it is perfect in our eyes, not just because a certain date in the calendar has come up."
That promise of delivering perfection reads differently after a Sunday of Miiverse service problems on the heels of a shockingly large day-one firmware update that was required to access five of the 11 Wii U features advertised on the console's box.
Fils-Aime declined to say specifically what problems had kept TVii from debuting on launch but promised the service would be high-quality when it launches.
The Wii U is an ambitious console. Nintendo is launching a new console, a new type of game controller and a complicated new online service that includes a new online store and a new social network. Things can't possibly go perfectly. It can't all be rosy. It can be, however, the start of a new era, if not for gaming then for Nintendo. Say this is the beginning of a new generation? Sure. Let's hope it's a good one and let's hope Nintendo can deliver on what they've promised.


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First things first: Pasties, pronounced PASS'-tees, are the meat and potato pies introduced to Butte by immigrant miners more than a century ago. Pasties, pronounced PASTE-tees, are the nipple-concealing patches that one might have found in the city's notorious red-light district during its heyday.
Like its racier homograph, the pasty has stuck.
The adopted Cornish and Welsh pasty has come to be identified with this blue-collar Montana city as much as native son Evel Knievel and the Berkeley Pit, the abandoned open-pit mine that once killed a flock of 342 migrating snow geese that landed in its toxic waters.
The mix of nationalities drawn to Butte during the mining boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s spurred an eclectic array of cheap eats tailored for the poor workers, from the proliferation of Chinese noodle parlors to the invention of the pork-chop sandwich.
But no culinary experience is as intertwined in the mining history of the Copper City as the simple pasty.
Its meat, onions and potatoes are enveloped in a golden-baked pie that resembles a brick in both shape and weight. They come dry, smothered or injected with gravy and even covered with chili. A shot of whiskey or a pint of beer is optional.
The perfectly cooked pasty will have tender chunks of beef, sauteed onions and diced potatoes spilling out of its flaky enclosure with the first bite. It was standard fare of the Cornish and Welsh immigrant miners, who brought the recipe with them and toted them in lunchboxes thousands of feet below the earth's surface.
Other miners saw the convenience and nourishment the packed pies provided, so they adopted them. Some added their own ingredients, such as the Finns spicing up their pasties with rutabaga, according to Montana Historical Society researcher Brian Shovers.
The boom times when Butte was the largest city between Minneapolis and Seattle are gone, but its rich history and raucous reputation draw droves each year for the Montana Folk Festival, daredevils gathering for Evel Knievel Days and the street-spilling parties of St. Patrick's Day.
No small number of visitors arrive in pursuit of an authentic Butte pasty. The city known as the Richest Hill on Earth is happy to oblige, with pasty shops dotted across the city like the giant steel head frames that mark the old mine shafts and define the skyline today.
One of the most popular spots is Joe's Pasty Shop on Grand Avenue, which has been operating since 1947. The pasty with gravy is by far the most popular choice, and one will set you back a mere $6.50 at a size that is enough to feed two people.
Another favorite is Nancy McLaughlin's Pasty Shop on the edge of town near the Berkeley Pit. Nancy's has a walk-up window for a quick pasty to go and a small dining area for those who want to savor the savory meal.
Other pasty purveyors across town include the old-time soda fountain Gamer's Cafe and Park Street Pasties.
But a visitor is best advised to pace himself when sampling Butte's gastronomic delights. As the old miner's saying still popular in Butte goes, "Tap 'er light."
If You Go...
JOE'S PASTY SHOP: 1641 Grand Ave, Butte, Mont., 406-723-9071.
NANCY McLAUGHLIN'S PASTY SHOP: 2810 Pine St., Butte, Mont., 406-782-7410.
GAMER'S CAFE: 15 W. Park St., Butte, Mont., 406-723-5453.
PARK STREET PASTIES: 800 W. Park St., 406-782-6400.


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Watch Out for These Unnecessary Marketing Tactics in Your Ads
Have you ever resisted the urge to toy with your smart phone while sitting in a meeting? Most of us have to fight this feeling when we are stuck listening to information that is uninteresting, irrelevant or redundant.
So what do you think happens when your marketing campaign is filled with recycled and unnecessary information – essentially taking on the form of a boring meeting? You lose the attention of your audience – rendering your communications ineffective.
Keep an eye out for these six things:
No 1. "And tell 'em I sent you!" Do you believe customers are going to appear at your business and say that the spokesperson told them to mention a certain name? Of course not. Don't track the success of your ads with such tactics. You'd be better off asking patrons where they heard your ads.
No. 2: "Conveniently Located at…" Convenient for whom? This is a classic case of word-filling – the misguided use of syntax that many advertisers indulge in. Instead of telling people that you have several conveniently positioned stores, simply state where they are. The customer is capable of assigning value to your locations. In the meantime, use your words to accomplish something more meaningful
No. 3: "See our ad in the…" This statement is usually followed up with something like the phonebook, newspaper or magazine. Why would you encourage a potential customer to take more time to visit another media outlet when you have their attention now? Seize the moment and tell your audience to call, click or stop in – not follow some sort of marketing maze.
No. 4: "We've been in business since…" I know that longevity is quite precious to any small business owner – it's a badge of honor in today's climate. However, does it really matter for your audience? Let's say, for instance, you run a bakery; you'd agree that customers are most concerned with taste. While your experience is a key player in this area, enjoyment is the only thing that really matters for the customer. So spend less time on your track record and dedicate more energy outlining the virtues of the actual product or service you offer.
No. 5: "We are your number one choice for…" Think of a time when an advertiser has said that they are the number three choice for something. It never happens! Virtually all marketers will say that they're number one. If this is the mantra for you and your competitors, no one really stands out. When is the last time you heard an ad from Apple that featured their dominance in the tech industry? Focus on what you do best and your audience will crown you with first place.
No. 6: "Check us out on Facebook" If your social media accounts are not updated often and/or they lack "craveable" content, please do not mention them. I have found that some small businesses feel compelled to have a presence on social media – so much so, that they direct their audience to these places prematurely. Yes, social media can be a great tool; however if you're not ready to actively manage it, you can do more harm than good. Simply wait until you are ready to furnish content that will bring your audience back over and over.
Walter Dailey is a marketing consultant and executive producer for Dailey Sound Vector, a creative services organization that specializes in radio ads and jinglesfor small to medium size businesses throughout the US and Canada. Ask Walter your questions at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Hidden among the large amount of data released regularly by the Federal Reserve is some valuable information about the terms of Small Business Administration (SBA) guaranteed loans.
I found the numbers intriguing because they show that the average SBA-guaranteed loan is smaller, of shorter "maturity/repricing interval," and carries a lower interest rate than I would have otherwise thought.
The data come from the "Survey of Terms of Business Lending," a quarterly questionnaire administered by Federal Reserve Board of Governors to 398 domestic and foreign banks operating in the United States. It asks lenders about the loans they made during the first complete week in the middle month of each quarter.
The survey, in general, is a key source of information about terms of loans made to businesses. In 2012, the data releases began to break out separately information about loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA), which is what provides the new insights into the government-guaranteed loans.
Because the survey asks banks about loans made during a particular week, the responses jump around a bit. To provide a smoother picture of SBA-guaranteed loans, I have averaged the data reported by the Fed for the last four surveys.
Here's what the numbers show:
- The average SBA-guaranteed loan amount was $276,000.
- The "weighted-average maturity/ repricing interval" was 172 days.
- The average annual interest rate on the loans was 3.91 percent.
- 42.6 percent of the loans were prime-based.
- 43.5 percent of the loans were subject to pre-payment penalties.
- 68.2 percent of the loans were secured by collateral.
- The average loan was slightly more than "moderate risk," averaging 3.22 on a scale where "3" means "moderate risk" and "4" means "acceptable risk."
Knowing this information is useful if you are looking for an SBA-guaranteed loan or are seeking to understand what's happening to the guaranteed loan market. However, you would not want to use it to draw inference about the small business credit market in general.
SBA-guaranteed loans don't make up a very big fraction of commercial and industrial loans in the United States. The Fed data shows that the average value of SBA-guaranteed loans made during each of the last four survey periods was $973 million.
This works out to 1.1 percent of $84.8 billion in commercial and industrial loans made in the average survey period. And 6.6 percent of the $14.8 billion in small (less than $1 million) commercial and industrial loans to business.
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The Brains of People With Walking Corpse Syndrome Might Actually Be Shutting Down
People with Walking Corps Syndrome, also called Cotard's syndrome, feel as though they are dead
Walking Corpse Syndrome isn't the name of a new zombie television show: it's a rare and very mysterious disorder. People with Walking Corps Syndrome, also called Cotard's syndrome, feel as though they are dead. They believe they are dead, and they go through life convinced of the fact that they have already died.
United Academics describes one case:
Graham spent his time at the graveyard. His visits would last so long that the local police would find him there, among the gravestones, and bring him back home. He had been suffering from severe depression and several months prior attempted suicide by bringing an electrical appliance into the bath. Graham believed that his brain was dead. He felt he had fried it in the bath. Now living a sort of half-life, stuck between being alive but having a dead brain, Graham's trips to the cemetery served as the closest connection he could make with death.
According to his case study, when Graham went to the doctor, he explained that "I am coming to prove that I am dead" and said that he didn't need to eat or sleep. "He acknowledged that his abilities to see, hear, think, remember and communicate proved that his mind must be alive: he could not explain how his mind could be alive if his brain was dead, but he was certain that this was the case," the case study says.
Very few people with Cotard's syndrome have been diagnosed, and even fewer studied. The syndrome is incredibly rare, and the majority of what doctors know about it are based on a handful of case studies like Graham's. Researchers recently took scans of Graham's brain, to see if there was anything unusual going on, and what they found was that large parts of his brain had shut down. Throughout large parts of the frontal cortex, Graham had extremely low rates of metabolism, sort of like it was already asleep or shut off.
One of the doctors who looked at Graham told New Scientist:
"I've been analysing PET scans for 15 years and I've never seen anyone who was on his feet, who was interacting with people, with such an abnormal scan result," says Laureys. "Graham's brain function resembles that of someone during anaesthesia or sleep. Seeing this pattern in someone who is awake is quite unique to my knowledge."
While the antidepressants that Graham takes could explain some of this metabolic shut down, it probably doesn't explain it all. And while Graham is just one patient, doctors wonder whether perhaps this slumbering of the brain might be what causes patients to feel as though they're dead.
More from Smithsonian.com:
The Allure of Brain Scans
Mapping How the Brain Thinks


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Olympic double: IOC says yes to Paris in '24, and L.A. for '28
Cities each awarded Games in history-making vote
This was one of those rare Olympic moments where everyone walked away a winner.
Paris for 2024. Los Angeles for 2028. And the International Olympic Committee for transforming an unruly bidding process to lock down its future by choosing not one, but two Summer Olympics hosts at the same time.The IOC put the rubber stamp on a pre-determined conclusion Wednesday, giving Paris the 2024 Games and LA the 2028 Games in a history-making vote.
The decision marks the first time the IOC has granted two Summer Olympics at once. It came after a year's worth of scrambling by IOC president Thomas Bach, who had only the two bidders left for the original prize, 2024, and couldn't bear to see either lose.
Both cities will host their third Olympics.
The Paris Games will come on the 100th anniversary of its last turn — a milestone that would have made the French capital the sentimental favourite had only 2024 been up for grabs.
Los Angeles moved to 2028, and those Olympics will halt a stretch of 32 years without a Summer Games in the United States. In exchange for the compromise, L.A. will grab an extra $300 million US or more that could help offset the uncertainties that lie ahead over an 11-year wait instead of seven.
Nothing dramatic
Doing away with the dramatic flair that has accompanied these events in years past, there were no secret ballots and no dramatic reveals to close out the voting.
Bach simply asked for a show of hands from the audience, and when dozens shot up from the audience, and nobody raised their hand when he asked for objections, this was deemed a unanimous decision.
A ceremony that has long sparked parties in the plazas of winning cities — and crying in those of the losers — produced more muted, but still visible, shows of emotion. Paris bid organizer Tony Estaguent choked up during the presentation before the vote.
"You can't imagine what this means to us. To all of us. It's so strong," he said.
Later, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo stood by Bach's side and dabbed away tears as the vote was announced and the IOC president handed the traditional — but now unneeded — cards to she and LA mayor Eric Garcetti. One read "Paris 2024,' and the other "Los Angeles 2028."
But there was no real drama. As if to accentuate that, the LA delegation wore sneakers to the presentation. (Were going to skip neckties, too, but changed their minds late.)
Bid chairman Casey Wasserman said the footwear "reflects who we are, and the unique brand of California-cool that we will bring to the 2028 Games."
Pure business decision
Bach asked the 94 IOC members to allow the real contests to play out at the Olympics themselves and turn the vote into a pure business decision — not a bad idea considering the news still seeping out about a bid scandal involving a Brazilian IOC member's alleged vote-selling to bring the 2016 Olympics to Rio de Janeiro.
More than that, Bach needed to ensure stability for his brand.
The public in many cities, especially those in the Western democracies that have hosted the majority of these games, is no longer eager to approve blank checks for bid committees and governments that have to come up with the millions simply to bid for the Olympics, then billions more to stage them if they win.
That reality hit hard when three of the original five bidders for 2024 — Rome, Hamburg, Germany, and Budapest, Hungary — dropped out, and the U.S. Olympic Committee had to pull the plug on its initial candidate, Boston, due to lack of public support.
"This is a solution to an awkward problem," said longtime IOC member Dick Pound of Canada. "Many of the [candidate] cities are not prepared. They say, `Let's have an Olympics,' but they haven't done the background work, checked the finances. But I guess we have to share it and say, `Have you done A, B, C, and D?"'
Will hosts deliver?
Only two candidates made it to the finish line — Paris and Los Angeles, each with a storied tradition of Olympic hosting and an apparent understanding of Bach's much-touted reform package, known as Agenda 2020. It seeks to streamline the Games, most notably by eliminating billion-dollar stadiums and infrastructure projects that have been underused, if used at all, once the Olympics leave town.
Resources in place
Paris will have the traditional seven-year time frame to answer that.
Only one totally new venue is planned — a swimming and diving arena to be built near the Stade de France, which will serve as the Olympic stadium. Roland Garros, which will host tennis and boxing, will get a privately funded expansion. In all, the projected cost of new venues and upgrades to others is $892 million.
To be sure, Paris already has much to work with. Beach volleyball will be played near the Eiffel Tower; cycling will finish at the Arc de Triomphe; equestrian will be held at the Chateau de Versailles. And what would an Olympics be without some water-quality issues? There will be pressure to clean up the River Seine, which is where open-water and triathlon will be held.
Los Angeles, meanwhile, will get an extra four years, though the city claims it doesn't need them. All the sports venues are built, save the under-construction stadium for the NFL's Rams and Chargers, which will host opening ceremonies. Los Angeles proposed a $5.3 billion budget for 2024 (to be adjusted for 2028) that included infrastructure, operational costs — everything. A big number, indeed, though it must be put into perspective:
Earlier this summer, organizers in Tokyo estimated their cost for the 2020 Games at $12.6 billion. The London Games in 2012 came in at $19 billion.


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ANCHORAGE — Aurora -- with all eight of her arms -- held tight to her dream of motherhood.
Even when most any other expectant mom would have become discouraged, not Aurora the octopus. The aging Giant Pacific, a resident of the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, embraced her maternal instinct and was rewarded this week.
Her eggs finally began hatching. The first of thousands have burst out into pearly white, tear-shaped babies with huge eyes and stubby appendages.
"Every so often, not at great speed," said center spokesman Jason Wettstein.
As of Wednesday, there were nine baby octopus in a rearing tank. Every hour, food was being dispensed through an electronic, automatic feeder. Three other tanks with thousands of eggs were set up in different locations in the center.
Aquarist Ed DeCastro noticed the first newborn Sunday.
"Initially we thought maybe it was a fluke," DeCastro said. "But it turned out there were more to follow."
Aurora began her long march toward motherhood last May when she was introduced to J-1, a long-in-the-tentacle bachelor. To the delight of aquarists, the two hit it off, flashing colors and retreating to a dark corner of the center's "Denizens of the Deep" display.
A month later, Aurora laid tens of thousands of eggs. Her sense of mothering was strong, despite the fact that her eggs didn't appear to develop and aquarists eventually believed they were sterile.
Day in and day out, she sucked in water through her mantle and sent waves of cleansing water over the eggs. She defended them against hungry sea cucumbers and starfish.
She continued to tend her eggs even after J-1, who had been removed from her tank for crankiness, died of old age in September.
Aurora didn't even give up in December when aquarists -- convinced the eggs weren't fertile -- began draining her 3,600-gallon tank. As the water went down and she was going down with it, she sprayed her eggs, now exposed and drying on a rock.
Sharp-eyed intern Meghan Kokal saved the day. Some eggs were placed in her palm and she gave them a close look, asking about the two red dots. The dots turned out to be developing eyes.
Aquarium curator Richard Hocking said the longer-than-usual wait -- it takes 6 to 8 months in the Lower 48 for Giant Pacific octopus eggs to hatch -- probably has to do with Alaska's colder water. The aquarium gets its water straight from Resurrection Bay. It was 41 degrees coming into the center Wednesday.
Hocking said the baby octopus are vulnerable, their survival uncertain.
"If we can get one I would be pretty happy with that," he said, "and we may be lucky and have more than that."
Aurora's fate, though, is sealed. Giant Pacific females usually die about the same time as their eggs hatch, mostly because they stop eating for months and spend their energy defending their eggs.
Aurora, who is probably about 4, was roughly the size of a grapefruit when she was found living inside an old tire in front of the SeaLife Center.
"This kind of means the end of her life," DeCastro said.
Aurora, now much smaller than the 37 pounds she weighed when she was involved with J-1, may last a bit longer. Aquarists have been hand-feeding her crab, squid, herring and fish.
If anything, she appears invigorated, DeCastro said.
"She is still tending the eggs," he said.
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ABRSM partners celebrating after national award win and Culture Recovery grant success
ABRSM partner, the London Music Fund is celebrating its 10th anniversary with national award success after it was named 'Outstanding Musical Initiative'.
The Fund's success in the 2021 Music & Drama Education Awards comes as Arts Council England revealed it has awarded Culture Recovery support to three other ABRSM sponsored organisations.
The National Children's Orchestra, National Youth Jazz Orchestra and National Youth Orchestra of GB are among 2,700 organisations which will share in £400 million worth of grants and loans designed to help the culture and heritage sector recover from the impact of Covid-19.
ABRSM Chief Executive Chris Cobb said: "We're really proud of the contribution that we have made to each of the four organisations over the years and of the recognition through these various announcements of the incredible impact that each has, in different ways, on the opportunity for young people to learn music and progress as musicians today.
"We congratulate them all on their success and look forward to our continued partnership in the months and years to come."
The London Music Fund was set up in 2011 to address gaps in music education provision for children and young people across our city, in particular those from low-income families.
Its vision is that every child who demonstrates significant musical ability, enthusiasm and commitment to learning an instrument is given the opportunity to develop their talent.
The nationally recognised Music and Drama Education Awards are given to organisations or projects across the country who have shown a demonstrable impact on large numbers of young musicians.
The London Music Fund's ten year impact report is available here.