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THURSDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Koshik the Asian elephant can "speak" and make himself understood to humans using five words of Korean, according to a new report.
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Researchers say Koshik's ability to imitate the five words provides new insights into the biology and evolution of complex vocal learning, an ability that is critical for human speech.
The five words spoken by the elephant can be readily understood by people who speak Korean. The words include annyong (hello), anja (sit down), aniya (no), nuo (lie down) and choah (good).
Koshik vocalizes with his trunk in his mouth, according to the study in the Nov. 1 issue of the journal Current Biology.
"Human speech basically has two important aspects, pitch and timbre," study author Angela Stoeger, of the University of Vienna in Austria, said in a journal news release. "Intriguingly, the elephant Koshik is capable of matching both pitch and timbre patterns: He accurately imitates human formants as well as the voice pitch of his trainers. This is remarkable considering the huge size, the long vocal tract and other anatomical differences between an elephant and a human."
She noted that elephants have a trunk instead of lips and while their large larynx can produce very low-pitched sounds, Koshik's can exactly match the pitch and characteristics of his human trainers' voices.
A structural analysis of the elephant's speech not only showed clear similarities to human voices, but also clear differences to the usual calls of elephants.
Koshik's unusual vocal ability may stem from when he was a juvenile and spent five years as the only elephant at a South Korean zoo. Humans were his only social contacts during this important period for elephant bonding and development.
"We suggest that Koshik started to adapt his vocalizations to his human companions to strengthen social affiliation, something that is also seen in other vocal-learning species -- and in very special cases, also across species," Stoeger said.
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It started off with an email from a man named David: "Any interest in Nick Saban's daughter, who is a sophomore at Alabama, topless?" And then some other dude sent us the pic rapidly circulating around SEC cell phones. (NSFW)
And here's the photo with the accompanying email.
My brother, a recent Auburn grad, texted me this morning. From all accounts, it seems to be legit.
Bah, that's fake — I think it's fake. But, man, these SEC cats are vicious.
Top photo via Kristen Saban's Twitter


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ITHACA, NY—Ithaca College president Tom
Rochon has announced that the college's six-year physical therapy
program in the School of
Health Sciences and Human Performance will be united on the
main campus on South Hill. The final year of the program, which has
been located in Rochester, N.Y., since 1991, will move to renovated
facilities in Ithaca beginning in the fall of 2014.
"Expanding the physical therapy program on our home campus will allow for a greater integration of the undergraduate and graduate experience for those students and faculty, in addition to advancing the principles of the campus-wide IC 20/20 initiative and Integrative Core Curriculum," said Rochon.
Classrooms and laboratories now housed in space leased since 2006 from the Colgate Rochester Crozier Divinity School will be moved to Hill Center, the adjacent Center for Health Sciences and Smiddy Hall. Since Hill Center is currently undergoing renovations, the timing was right to modify those plans to accommodate the new facilities.
The new cadaver and movement analysis labs, two key components of the PT educational program, will now also be available to undergraduate students and faculty members in physical therapy as well as in the rest of the school, furthering its reputation for delivering first-rate, hands-on health sciences education.
"We are tremendously excited by this development and the opportunities it will bring for our students and faculty to learn and teach in new facilities," said Linda Petrosino '77, M.S. '78, dean of the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance. She points out that students will continue to gain practical experience by participating in clinical affiliations at locations throughout the country.
"This decision came following a great deal of consideration and consultation," said Petrosino. "We are justifiably proud of the tradition of educational excellence we provide to our physical therapy students and the subsequent high quality of care that our graduates provide to their clients. This move will continue our ability to deliver the kinds of academic and clinical experiences our students require in order to continue being leaders in their field."
The Department of Physical Therapy offers a six-year, dual-degree program in clinical health studies and physical therapy. Students receive a bachelor of science degree in clinical health studies after four years of study and a doctor of physical therapy degree after two years of graduate study.
"We appreciate the support that the Rochester community has given to our program, and we are continually looking for ways to build upon the considerable resources — both human and structural — that our home campus can deliver," said Marisa Kelly, provost and vice president for educational affairs. "Everyone in the department, the school and the college will be able to take advantage of the knowledge base provided by our graduate students and faculty."
Moving the Rochester operations to Ithaca was one recommendation that arose out of the college-wide Effectiveness and Affordability Review that was conducted over the past year with the assistance of Huron Consulting Group. While the college has not yet finalized an overall plan of initiatives based on the Huron recommendations, this proposal was given a priority review in order to enable the necessary planning to take place.
Rochon says that although the decision will ultimately have a positive financial impact on the college budget, it is rooted first and foremost in the long-term educational benefits to the program, the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance and the college as a whole.
Ithaca College Physical Therapy Program will be United on South Hill Campus
ITHACA, NY—Ithaca College president Tom
Rochon has announced that the college's six-year physical therapy
program in the School of
Health Sciences and Human Performance will be united on the
main campus on South Hill. The final year of the program, which has
been located in Rochester, N.Y., since 1991, will move to renovated
facilities in Ithaca beginning in the fall of 2014.


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Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers has pulled out of speaking engagements and other events involving Citigroup while President Barack Obama considers whether to nominate the Harvard economist as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, the bank said in a statement.
"Mr. Summers has withdrawn from participation in all Citi events while he is under consideration to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve," Danielle Romero-Apsilos, a spokeswoman for the third-biggest U.S. lender, said in a statement e-mailed to Reuters on Saturday.
Summers, a former economic adviser to Obama, has bowed out of a keynote address on global economic challenges at a Citigroup research seminar next month, according to a Bloomberg report.
While Summers is widely thought to be Obama's preferred choice to replace Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke when his term is up in January, an unusually vitriolic public debate has erupted over that possibility in recent months.
The White House said on Friday that the president had not yet made up his mind on who should lead the U.S. central bank — a decision that traditionally has generated little interest beyond Wall Street and academia.
But since Summers emerged as a lead contender for the job this summer, his history as a consultant to large financial institutions including Citigroup has fueled debate among critics and lawmakers about his suitability for the top Fed job.
Summers has been praised as a brilliant economist and a shrewd policymaker. But his work with financial firms has critics maintaining that his relationship with Wall Street is too cozy to maintain the Fed's vaunted independence.
The central bank plays a key role in guiding the world's largest economy and has taken on new oversight responsibilities following the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Summers, who has also been paid to write a column for Reuters, was a key economic adviser to Obama in his 2008 campaign as well as during his first term. After heading the White House National Economic Council, he left the administration in 2010 to pursue a career in the private sector.
Some Democrats are not happy with Summers, who served as Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, because he backed banking deregulation in the 1990s, which they believe sowed the seeds for the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
The financial crisis led to a massive taxpayer bailout of Wall Street that continues to anger many ordinary Americans and could become another issue for Summers.
Four Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee are now expected to vote "No" if Obama nominates Summers as the next chair of the Federal Reserve, further complicating one of the most vital decisions of his second term.
Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen is also a candidate for the job.
A letter urging her nomination has been signed by 20 Senate Democrats. If nominated and confirmed, Yellen would be the first-ever woman to lead the U.S. central bank.


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Finance & Development, March 1996
- Payment System Reforms and Monetary Policy
- Stock Markets: A Spur to Economic Growth
- The Emerging East Asian Bond Market
- Adopting Indirect Instructruments of Monetary Policy
- Financial Sector Reforms in China
- The Tequila Effect and Argentina's Banking Reform
- World Economy in Transition Emerging Stock Markets in 1995: Decline Followed by Year-End Upturn
- Globalization: New Opportunities, Tough Challenges
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Performia Australia necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 55 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
We are a human resources organisation that specialises in predicting the value prospective employees will add to the business they go and work for. We provdide training to executives, busieness owners and recruiters and then license them to use our online tools to speed up the recruitment process and ensure they only hire effective and easy to manage staff.
There is an opening in the market to extend this service to the franchising industry for when they are selecting franchisees. Our system is very powerful for this exact thing and we want to make a seperate business and marketing strategy to roll this out via.
We want the look and feel to be similar to what we already have, but with its own personality.
Operators of Master Franchise businesses like McDonalds through to start up franchises.
This includes CEO's, Recruitment Managers and Franchise Development managers.
We need a logo and generic layout, feel, colour etc, that we can use for our website, brochures, business cards and letterheads etc.
It needs to feel the same as what we already have at http://www.performia.net, but have its own personality.
You can get more info from the attached draft brochure that I have been making, but I do not like the logo and not 100% on the layout or colouring.
We do not need a new Performia logo, what we need is a "Performia - Franchise Profiler" logo that would have a small "Performia", larger "Franchise Profiler" that when looked at, people would know straight away that it is part of Performia, and it is for Franchisors.
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Don't ask Alan Keyes, two-time candidate for the presidency, why his message isn't catching on - unless you want a really long answer.
You'll likely be peppered by an attack on the question itself - why it has no factual basis, why it's racist, and how he can't believe after all these years reporters still get away with asking it.
After years spent on the outer edge of the spotlight, first as a Reagan administration official and then as a Republican presidential candidate, it's true Mr. Keyes is not at the very bottom. He's doing better this cycle than Angel Joy Chavis Rocker and Sam Berry, and even the better-known Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah.
Despite his long-shot status, the optimistic Keyes is steely in his conviction that he'd be a strong moral leader and a great president.
And if you think Arizona Sen. John McCain has a temper, tread lightly around Keyes, particularly concerning questions about the viability of his candidacy.
"I get overwhelmingly positive response [with in-person campaigning]," he said during an early-morning phone conversation. "I don't know why you ask a question like that. It's racist stereotyping; it's not right. It's a definite form of racism."
Make no mistake, the Harvard PhD's fiery words are not uncontrolled, born of a struggling campaign. Rather, his anger - like his public-speaking style - seems considered and measured.
Indeed, Keyes's mastery of oratory now allows him to make much of his living on the speaker's circuit. Like other motivational speakers, such as Zig Ziglar and Jesse Jackson, Keyes is commanding in his ability to address a crowd - either in person or via his now-ended radio broadcast, "The Alan Keyes Show: America's Wake Up Call."
His speeches usually begin softly, forcing listeners to lean forward to hear. Then he slowly turns up the volume until it reaches the level of a Baptist tent revivalist, searing his words into the ears of his audience.
Defining right from wrong
The impassioned message he delivers is an absolutist mantra: anti-abortion, anti-homosexuality, and pro-family values. But for all his eloquence, detractors say, that unyielding stance is the fundamental reason he just isn't catching on.
"American politics is not about absolute things; it's about persuading people to compromise so you get the maximum number of people," says Michael Birkner, a professor at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. "The only politician to have been successful with strong ideology was Reagan, but when pressed hard he was fundamentally a rhetorical absolutist - but practically [he] was not."
The anti-abortion plank
For Keyes, ending abortion is the supporting beam of his entire campaign. As a matter of political compromise, he says he would allow abortion in cases of rape or incest - even though he believes it's a sin under any circumstance.
"If your father commits rape, does that give me the right to kill you? It is so egregiously unjust," he says of the consequences to the unborn in that case.
But this time around, Keyes has diversified his message to include a pinwheel of other socially and fiscally conservative positions.
He advocates eliminating not only the budget deficit but also all of the more than $3 trillion in debt the US owes. When it comes to campaign-finance overhaul, he suggests that all limits on contributions be eliminated but that candidates disclose far more about contributors, a view held by many of the GOP presidential candidates (Senator McCain excepted). He's against gun control, doctor-assisted suicide, and sex education in public schools.
So far, though, that expanded message has not caught on among contributors. As of early November, Keyes had $134,115 on hand, having spent $718,528 so far this year - scarcely the amount major candidates pay for rent or to pollsters. He is $82,794 in debt.
Keyes's candidacy is fueled by his belief that an attitude of permissiveness and a relaxing of societal standards are destroying the American family. These trends, he says, are producing a moral anxiety in America - one that good economic times cannot alleviate.
"If we don't have the ability to establish standards, it's destructive," Keyes says, who is a devout Roman Catholic. He cites homosexuality as an example. "If we can't say homosexuality is wrong," he asks, what about sexual exploitation of children or adulterous marriages?
To reverse what he sees as America's moral slide, Keyes would use the power of the presidential bully pulpit, lean on Hollywood about the content of movies and music, and revise government aid programs that he says encourage irresponsibility. He'd revive the debate over prayer in schools, and, of course, screen nominees for the US Supreme Court according to their views on abortion.
Keyes's anti-abortion message worked to some extent in his 1996 campaign. But this time, with a "new pragmatism" in the Republican field, his continuing emphasis on this issue makes him appealing to a smaller group - even within the most conservative of the fundamentalist voter blocs.
He came in seventh in the Iowa straw poll in August, while Gary Bauer, who is vying with him for the far right wing of the GOP, came in second.
Not only are candidates like Mr. Bauer, Steve Forbes, and Pat Buchanan vehemently anti-abortion, they have wider platforms that attract more voters.
"The problem with Keyes is he has to share his platform ... with others, and one really begins to wonder how long he can keep going," says Ryan Barilleaux, a political scientist at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
In addition to his candidacy in 1996, Keyes ran twice for a US Senate seat in Maryland, in 1988 and 1992.
He made those bids coming out of a stint in the Reagan administration, where he put his doctoral degree in government to use as US ambassador to the UN Social and Economic Council. He also served as an assistant secretary of State for international organization.
Keyes is notably lighter when discussing his personal habits and lifestyle. An admitted product of the TV generation, he watches a variety of programming, including all of the "Star Trek" spin-offs.
A struggle to be 'known'
Despite his high-level government experience, Keyes has failed so far to produce a statistically meaningful following.
"His primary constituency is that small segment of the Republican Party and an even smaller segment of the population who believe abortion is immoral," says Emmett Buell Jr., a political scientist at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
Keyes blames the media for that - and sees racism behind their noncoverage.
Many political analysts, however, see it differently. "Morrie Taylor [the Independent Party candidate in 1996] got virtually no coverage. It's not that Keyes is black; it's that he's not viable," says Mr. Buell, who followed Keyes during the '96 election cycle.
Buell has come to the conclusion that no matter how low a candidate's poll numbers, he can stay in the race if he's committed.
"This is a phenomenon that our politics has cast up today: Unless you get absolutely crushed, you have this long primary in which you can pretend to be a candidate," Buell says.
But without media attention, suggest those who've been in Keyes's position, life on the campaign trail is like sailing a ship with no wind.
"He's got to get free media or his goose in not just cooked, it's overdone," says John Anderson, who defected from the Republican Party in 1980 to wage an independent presidential campaign. Mr. Anderson enjoyed a wealth of free media after his surprisingly strong showing in the Iowa caucuses that year.
"I don't discredit him for his message or his sincerity. He has every right to get out and do what he's doing," says Anderson. "People who feel very strongly are sustained by the beliefs they espouse."
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Who exactly had it? I remember getting it in previous playthroughs, but I can't seem to get it in this one. In that case, what's the console code for it? Thanks in advance
AFAIK in Questpaket nobody have a letter with the Xardas' orders initially. You can receive this letter Spoiler:(zum lesen bitte Text markieren)from your old friend Gorn when the rebels from Okara will come to the Gotha. He found it in the rear side of the castle.
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The Associated Press
Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 | 11:55 p.m.
BOISE — You can never anticipate what sort of information you'll uncover while traipsing across the Intermountain West.
This week, I learned of Steve Wynn's fancy new jet. This is not actually his personal jet, but rather an aircraft obtained by Wynn Resorts for the express purpose of transporting high rollers to and from Wynn and Encore.
Wynn Resorts has made what I'll term the Aeronautical Purchase of the Year, a twin-engine Gulfstream G650, said to be the gold standard of private business travel. This jet was purchased in Oregon (Nike also has snapped up one of the new planes) and is the company's largest jet, ever, with an 18-passenger capacity and a full kitchen and a bar onboard.
Wynn has been a loyal Gulfstream customer for years, in part because he enjoys comfort and likes to travel fast. This craft cuts through the skies at nearly the speed of sound and is fairly economical, too, getting 7,000 miles from a single tank of gas (that's a flight from New York to Tokyo). The G650 is being used even now to fly guests to Las Vegas from Asia for New Year's Eve. The new jet might be the one to replace the 11-seat Challenger aircraft Wynn gave to Garth Brooks so that Brooks and Trisha Yearwood could fly back and forth to Las Vegas for Brooks' run at Encore Theater.
The Wynn jet is reported to be exceedingly rare, just the seventh G650 to come off the assembly line. Its base ticket price is $65 million, and it is believed Wynn Resorts is the first company in the world to own this particular aircraft. So these are high times, indeed, for Mr. Wynn, who turns 71 in January.
The high-orbiting note about our favorite resort magnate and his new aircraft is a good way to top 2012 in VegasVille. A rake of The Kats Report catches the highlights:
Still for sale — but not for a song: Despite a few rumors seeping out of the place that a buyer was lined up, Stirling Club at Turnberry Place is still listed for sale for $18 million on the Sotheby's International Realty website. The 3.5-acre parcel known as the Mansion at Turnberry Place — the lounges, spa, pool, fitness center, tennis courts, two kitchens, 10 bedrooms, 20 baths and separate staff quarters — closed in May. Stephen Siegel of the Siegel Group made a late run at buying the property, but the fortress across from LVH on Paradise Road remains locked up.
Sand Artist of the Year: Vira Syvorotkina of "Zarkana" at Aria.
Someone you see at scenes ranging from San Gennaro Feast to Plaza Showroom to Smith Center for the Performing Arts: Pia Zadora
Quick — what does Andre Agassi weigh? As of mid-November, 178.
Anyone else had this idea? A ZZ Top mini-residency at House of Blues when Carlos Santana is off?
And a quote from Santana: "You are talking to a person who played at Woodstock, who played for 550,000 people who went 'whoosh' with us. But I think that, when I close my eyes, it doesn't matter whether I'm at Woodstock or Caesars Palace or the House of Blues or a parking lot. I could be in Jerusalem or at Carnegie Hall, it doesn't matter to me."
A closing not to applaud: Ovation at Green Valley Ranch, one of the great Southern Nevada live-music venues, closed in favor of a customer resort experience option to be specified sometime next year.
After dropping 80 pounds, "The Price Is Right" host and occasional Mirage headliner Drew Carey hit what Vegas retail center to restock his wardrobe: Crystals at CityCenter.
Connect the dots with Holly: When Holly Madison returns to performing, she wants to be part of a "legitimate" musical. And she loves "Rock of Ages," which just opened at the Venetian. This partnership seems not at all unlikely.
Rant of the Year: Billie Joe Armstrong trashed Justin Bieber and Reno while busting up his guitar at the iHeart Radio Music Festival at MGM Grand. Hopefully a spin through rehab, announced two days later, has settled him down.
Neon Museum senior tour guide Justin Favela was present the night the Dunes was imploded. What did he say of the experience? "I was traumatized." Favela was 8 years old at the time, and his grandmother and mother had worked at the hotel, which was razed Oct. 27, 1993.
Musical Instrument of the Year: William Close's Earth Harp, the many-cabled instrument that stretched high across Palazzo Theater during "America's Got Talent Live."
Near-miss on a pretty interesting double-header: "AGT Live" closed in mid-November just as Season 5 champ Michael Grimm was to open a series of shows at Zebra Lounge just outside Palazzo Theater.
Something unexpected from Jane's Addiction founder Perry Farrell: He has seen Celine Dion's show at the Colosseum and says, "I thought it was pretty damn great."
Of what was Taylor Hicks referring when he said, "I knew it was going to be really entertaining." Clint Eastwood's conversation with an imaginary President Obama at the Republican National Convention, which Hicks directly preceded by singing, "Takin' it to the Streets."
Where was I nearly rammed by a girl riding a bike tricked out to look like a giant housefly? The Electric Daisy Carnival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
National Anthem Singer of the Year: "Fantasy" vocalist Lorena Peril, who performed the song before the 49ers' home opener against the Lions and also before the Juan Manuel Marquez-Manny Pacquiao bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Weirdest table-game sighting: A test run of the video panel at a Rio roulette wheel showed seven straight 19s, touching off a ripple of coverage about how this could possibly happen. Answer: It was a test run.
Where to find Liberace's legacy in 2013: The HBO biopic "Behind the Candelabra," tentatively scheduled to air in March and starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon; and in downtown Las Vegas, where pieces of the Liberace Museum collection will be displayed at an existing space to be announced.
Theater renovation to note: In preparing for the return of "Dancing With the Stars: Live," the Trop is gutting and refurbishing the famed Tiffany Theatre. It'll be a theater, no longer a traditional showroom.
What a real Jersey Boy says of the Four Seasons: From Tommy DeVito, at a fundraiser in June at Caesars Palace, ""We came from the wrong side of the tracks and brought up in really tough neighborhoods, and we were not like normal people who grew up and went to church every Sunday and stuff like that."
Bidding War of the Year: At the Keep Memory Alive Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health gala, Stations Casinos executive and UFC co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta outbid Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on a pair of Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. These were the same gloves Ali wore in his 1965 title fight against Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas. Fertitta's winning bid was $1.1 million, topping Jones' $1 million.
Name a former Vegas mayor who is not Oscar Goodman to have a restaurant named for him: Ron Lurie, whose Ron's Steakhouse celebrates its second anniversary at Arizona Charlie's in January. In September, Lurie hosted a lunch of former mayors — Goodman, Jan Laverty Jones and himself — at the restaurant.
Long-shot booking of 2013: After David Cassidy fell into a tailspin during a show at South Point Showroom, he offered to perform a show for free at the hotel to benefit a charity chosen by owner Michael Gaughan. During a performance on July 1, Cassidy lit into the audience as he was about to perform a medley of songs sung by Davey Jones, who died in February and was supposed to fill those July dates at South Point. Hotel officials say they could conceivably book Cassidy sometime in the coming year. But the energy behind, and interest in, bringing Cassidy back after his botched performance will doubtless wane as the months pass.
Keystroke of the Year: David Itkin hit "send" on a mass email to Las Vegas Philharmonic officials announcing that he would not be seeking a contract renewal after the 2012-13 season. Result? He was hastily bought out of his contract before the 2012-13 season.
Why is Jamie Hosmer deemed one of the city's great pinch-hitters: The keyboardist/vocalist for Santa Fe & the Fat City Horns filled in for Donny Osmond at the Flamingo when Osmond was out with vocal problems.
Idiot of the Year: The guy who heckled Matt Goss during Goss's appearance with Nevada Ballet Theater at Reynolds Hall in May.
During a show at Reynolds Hall with Steep Canyon Rangers, Steve Martin said there was one drawback to touring without a drummer. What was it? No pot.
Style points for an arrest: "Gigolos" co-star Steven Gantt was arrested after a routine traffic stop and booked into Clark County Detention Center on a gross lewdness charge. This was on the same night of the "Gigolos" premiere party at Vince Neil's Girls, Girls, Girls Gentlemen's Club inside Deja Vu Gentlemen's Club.
Meteoric Performer of the Year: Ex-"Viva Elvis!" performer Sherry St. Germain, who tore through the Lounge at the Palms with her Lost Vanguards band — then high-tailed it back to Canada for health issues, so-so fan support or both.
Of what did BASE Entertainment co-CEO Scott Zeiger say, ""If we were on Broadway or (London's) West End, we would be a monumental success,. Nothing in Chicago, San Francisco or Los Angeles runs for longer than three years." "Phantom — the Las Vegas Spectacular," which closed in September after a six-year run at the Venetian.
That reminds, a guy we really miss performing in VegasVille: Original "Phantom" co-lead Brent Barrett.
Funniest line of 2012 if you know the back story: "It's just a little bean. What could possibly go wrong?"
Say something positive about "Surf The Musical," please: That's easy. The band was fantastic. Adrian Zmed was a class act throughout the show's six-week run at Planet Hollywood. And kids liked it a lot.
Of what did Keith Evans once say, "It's a $9 million home you don't want to leave." The Lion Habitat at MGM Grand, which opened in July 1999, closed in late 2011 and reopened late this year as Lion Habitat Ranch near St. Rose Parkway and Las Vegas Boulevard. Evans, who was the head trainer at the MGM attraction, is in that role at the new sanctuary.
What about white tigers? Anything newsworthy there? Other than there are no productions on the Strip co-starring the big cats, no. Magician Dirk Arthur is not performing after his show closed with O'Shea's, and Rick Thomas has retired his big cats to a sanctuary in Arizona leading to his appearances at Suncoast Showroom.
Our Twinkie tributes: As Hostess announced that it was seeking bankruptcy protection, fans at Blue Man Group performances at Monte Carlo let out a huge cheer when the snack cakes were introduced into the act. Those involved in the show suspect the founding members have stockpiled thousands of boxes of Twinkies in a warehouse at a secret location so that the show never runs short. Meanwhile, Double Down Saloon (which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2012) has for several years been offering a Twinkie with a shot of its famous Ass Juice for $7.
Legendary snub: During a songwriting vacation in Austria and Italy, Frankie Moreno was turned back from performing during an open-mic night at the Vienna jazz club Zwe.
How about a great quote from Mike Tyson? "People want to know, 'What's one of your biggest regrets?' Wow, that ear-biting thing, that was a pretty big one! That's high on the scale! I should have thought that one through! If I had thought it through, it would have helped me a great deal financially!"
Best Show of 2012: Stifler at the Lounge at the Palms. A singularly remarkable evening hosted by Moreno and members of his Stratosphere band featured performances by Paul Shortino, Joey Fatone, Grimm, Hicks, Melody Sweets, Murray Sawchuck, Gordie Brown, dancer Dori Bonilla and "Absinthe" balancing artist Michal Furmanczyk. The Lounge overflowed with Vegas entertainers — even Carrot Top had trouble finding a seat — but Stifler has been mysteriously silent since. Strat officials were less than thrilled to learn that their star headliner was performing at the Palms days after the show was staged. But, good lord, was that a time.
Big event that made little splash: Jerry Lewis' appearance at Orleans Showroom in November for a PBS special to air in March may have been his last in Vegas.
Pressure on impressionists: Greg London (Riviera and Shimmer at LVH) and Jonathan Clarke (Riviera) couldn't find a grip on Vegas despite being good at behaving like famous people. Meantime, Rich Little's "Jimmy Stewart & Friends" is booked through April.
Crazy Horse, and a Crazier Horse: The beautiful, sophisticated "Crazy Horse Paris" closed at MGM Grand to make room for the uniformly ribald "Beacher's Madhouse."
Extremely cool CD just released: "Absinthe" co-star Sweets' "Burlesque in Black." Favorite song: "Shoot 'em Up."
Teller says this man is "the most knowledgeable living magician on the face of the planet." Who is he talking about? Johnny Thompson, for decades known as "The Great Tomsoni." Thompson helped Teller develop his off-Broadway show "Play Dead" and is on retainer with Penn & Teller as they continue to update their stage show at the Rio. As Teller says, "He's worked with everybody. Nobody has a better set of eyes or is a better catalyst for new ideas. … He's had every job in show business, and almost every job outside of show business."
Which feature film due for release in 2013 will remind of Criss Angel, Nathan Burton, Siegfried & Roy and the Great Tomsoni: Set in Vegas, "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," stars Jim Carrey as a magician sharing many similarities with Angel and Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi as magicians mindful of S&R. The two perform a stunt where they are hoisted over the Strip in a glass box supported by a crane. Burton did that once, years ago, with a bunch of showgirls. And, Alan Arkin plays a throwback magician who reminds of Thompson — if you know of Thompson.
Perfect Vegas match: Clint Holmes at Cabaret Jazz.
A person who won't pay to perform: Ex-"Jersey Boys" cast member Rick Faugno, who tried renting space for his headlining production at two off-Strip venues (Shimmer Cabaret and the Lounge at the Palms) before pitching that idea to focus on corporate gigs and his film career. Faugno was one of the busiest performers in town in early 2012 until he closed at the Lounge in April and dropped off the scene.
Three cool hangs on a Monday: Kelly Clinton-Holmes at Bootlegger Bistro, the crammed showcase at Tap House headed up by the terrific Mark Giovi and Santa Fe at the Lounge at the Palms.
Follow John Katsilometes on Twitter at Twitter.com/JohnnyKats. Also, follow "Kats With the Dish" at Twitter.com/KatsWiththeDish.


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Hurray, that's the poll hurray. If you're interested, you can see all the individual ballots here.
The poll came down on the AP side of the great ND debate, leaving them at #9 instead of dropping them to #12 like the coaches did. SMQB loves him some Irish so much that they of the two home losses check in at #4(!). It doesn't appear anyone budged on the Texas/USC issue, which is somewhat surprising. I had figured Texas would get a few more firsts. We did get two voters dropping the Trojans all the way to #3 after the Bush Push: EDSBS leads the charge followed by actionBERG.
Carnage at the bottom means we have four new teams: #20 WVU, #22 TCU, #23 Virginia, and #24 Fresno State.
Now on to the extracurriculars. First up are the teams which spur the most and least disagreement between voters as measured by standard deviation. Note that the standard deviation charts halt at #25 when looking for the lowest, otherwise teams that everyone agreed were terrible (say, Eastern Michigan) would all be at the top.
Deviation continues to plummet; Texas Tech continues to hover at the top of it, though this is probably the Red Raiders' last week on top of this metric, since next week they play Texas and thus finally get to demonstrate their competence--or lack thereof. Most voters have them #9 despite a shaky resume.
Our top five teams are becoming very clear, as you can see.
Ballot math: First up are "Mr. Bold" and "Mr. Numb Existence." The former goes to the voter with the ballot most divergent from the poll at large. The number you see is the average difference between a person's opinion of a team and the poll's opinion.
Mr. Bold is Warren St. John for a second time... and the reason is very clear: Louisiana State plummets out of his ballot this week, replaced by Louisiana Tech(!). Bold indeed, but probably a typo. (How can you type "Tech" when you mean "State"? Insert Blair/Miller cheap shot at New York Times here.)
In light of something that appears to be an honest mistake we'll have dual winners this week and bestow Mr. Bold upon Michigan blogger Rob in Madtown as well. Rob's one of a few voters pulling the lever for the Terps (#19), but other than that his ballot's just slightly different in a lot of ways: extra love for LSU (#5), ND (#6), BC(#9), and Oregon(#12) but little for FSU(#14) or Texas Tech(#20). He's also got Northwestern in the poll, one spot ahead of the Badgers.
Mr. Numb Existence is Texas blogger PoliBlog. Of note is that the numbers here, just like the numbers in the deviation, are coming down as the polls turn to less speculation as each week passes.
Next we have the Coulter/Krugman Award and the Straight Bangin' Award, which are again different sides of the same coin. The CKA and SBA go to the blogs with the highest and lowest bias rating, respectively. Bias rating is calculated by subtracting the blogger's vote for his own team from the poll-wide average. A high number indicates you are shameless homer. A low number indicates that you suffer from an abusive relationship with your football team.
The CK Award goes the WV Law Dog, who's got the Mountaineers at #14. Given the state of the Big East WVU is going to have to blow out the rest of said conference to get anything more than Texas Tech treatment from me.
The Straight Bangin' Award goes to Wisconsin blogger Bruce Ciskie, who interestingly enough didn't rank the Badgers last week and only has them at #23 this week, five slots behind Minnesota! The Badgers just, like, beat Minnesota. Flukily, sure, but beat 'em just the same.
Swing is essentially the total change in each ballot from last week to this week (obviously voters who didn't submit a ballot last week are not included). A high number means you are easily distracted by shiny things. A low number means that you're damn sure you're right no matter what reality says.
Swing doesn't work. Apologies; I find myself fairly busy during the season. When I can find time to fix it I will.


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Living With the Samsung Galaxy Note II
For the past few weeks, I've been carrying around a Samsung Galaxy Note II, the "phablet" that sits somewhere between a phone and a tablet. With its 5.5-inch screen, it's certainly larger than the typical phone I carry around, but I've found that the large screen makes it the device I check first for Web browsing, email, and some kinds of reading.
The first thing anyone talks about with the Galaxy Note II is its size, and at 5.9 inches tall by 3.2 inches wide by 0.37 inch thick, it is notably bigger than other phones; the Apple iPhone 5 is 4.87 inches by 2.31 inches and 0.30 inches thick and the Samsung Galaxy S III is 5.38 by 2.78 inches and 0.34 inches thick. Weight is an issue as well. The Note II weighs 6.34 ounces compared with 4.7 ounces for the S III and 3.95 ounces for the iPhone.
But it fits (barely) into my pockets, and that's what counts to me. Most of the men I showed the Galaxy Note II thought it was really neat, but most of the women thought it was too big.
This phone clearly isn't meant for everyone. For instance, it does look (and feel) a little silly pressed to your ear. Talking isn't my primary activity on a mobile phone these days, however; I more commonly use it to manage email, browse, and use apps. And that's where the device shines because the screen just makes these things look better.
The Note II looks like a bigger version of the Samsung Galaxy S III phone I tried a few months ago, but with a larger screen. Like the S III, the Note II has a 1,280-by-720 resolution AMOLED display, giving it a 16:9 aspect ratio; its screen is not only larger (5.5-inch versus of 4.8-inch), but the subpixel layout is a bit different since it doesn't use the Pentile format the S III uses. I find that both displays look quite good, and think the extra size is particularly nice for viewing videos, as well as Web browsing.
The device itself is quite fast. It runs a 1.6GHz quad-core Samsung Exynos processor and comes with 2GB of RAM 16GB of storage (a bit over 10GB available), plus it has a microSD card slot for additional storage. It supports LTE and I found it very responsive at just about everything I tried.
It still has a plastic case, which doesn't bother me, but makes it feel less modern than some other phone cases. The base device uses microUSB for connections and charging. Most importantly, it has a Wacom stylus, which Samsung calls the S-Pen, with 1,024 levels of sensitivity.
From a software perspective, the Galaxy Note II I tested ran the "Jelly Bean" version of Android (4.1.1) and generally seems quite similar to the Galaxy S III, down to Samsung's TouchWiz extensions and most of the Samsung-specific applications. I'm not at all sure TouchWiz is necessary these days, but there are some nice customizations, such popping up a special menu when you remove the S-Pen. The version I used also had a lot of AT&T applications that were mostly unnecessary.
Samsung's own applications were interesting, but they often seemed to duplicate other items in the system. It offers a Samsung account and Samsung's own Media Hub for renting or buying video content; as well as Samsung's Music Hub for streaming or buying music. Of course, being Android, it also has the Google Play stores for books, magazines, movies, TV shows, music, and apps. S-Voice, the voice-recognition system, speaks a bit like Apple's Siri but I generally think that the Google search function (Google Now) works a bit better for me.
Some of the tools really take advantage of the device, particularly those that use the S-Pen. S-Note (above) lets you take notes with the stylus, type notes from on an on-screen keyboard, add them via voice note, and insert various kinds of media. By pressing the stylus, you get more functionality. Overall, I find this to be a useful note-taking tool, though it can be a bit confusing in places. It is great to be able to write down lists and sketch a few things, but moving things around is difficult, and often bring up the wrong tool.
Paper Artist is a very nice drawing package with lots of effects that you can use on captured photos (similar to Instagram). I'm not an artist, but I find it surprisingly capable.
The product has a number of other features, such as S-Beam for transferring content to another current Samsung device. Some features don't seem to be in the U.S. version, including a method of running two applications side-by-side, so I couldn't test them.
It has an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, plus a 1.3-megapixel camera for video chats. The camera has a number of shooting modes, including a burst mode and a "best photo" option, the ability to take panoramas (above), and a variety of special effects on the image. Overall, I think the photos and video taken in good lighting look fairly good. When I took it to a concert recently, where the lighting was poor, I found the basic photos to be among the best (though still not quite as good as I would like) but wasn't nearly as happy with the videos.
One thing that makes it heavier than the Galaxy S III is a larger battery, and that does make a difference when it comes to battery life. The device's charge easily makes it through a full day for me, despite the larger screen.
Still, the feature I find particularly useful about the device—the same feature many will eschew—is its overall size. Web browsing is convenient on the big screen, and it is a great device to read email on as well. Some applications also look particularly good on the larger screen, including the New York Times and Flipboard. (These still feel like phone apps, though, not tablet-specific ones.) Essentially, you're just seeing larger fonts, but that does make a difference.
And that's really the story of the Note II. The included S-Pen is useful for note-taking and sketching (assuming you can draw). But for me, the most important thing is the bigger screen. Simply put, bigger is often better for reading. Samsung says this is the best of both phones and tablets, which seems like a bit of an exaggeration since it's not the same as a tablet, but it is certainly easier to carry one Galaxy Note II than both a phone and a tablet, and as a phone, it certainly gives you a great deal of capabilities. Not everyone will want to carry something so big, but I found it to be my go-to device in most circumstances, in large part, because the screen simply looks so good.
For more, read PCMag's full review.


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Nova Awards
From MeritBadgeDotOrg
The BSA's STEM Nova Awards program is designed to introduce and encourage further study of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) by Cub Scouts, Scouts, Venturers, and Sea Scouts. A Scout may earn all four Nova awards. The Supernova awards are designed to inspire further study. It is recommended that Cub Scouts complete at least two Nova awards before starting the requirements for the Supernova award.
Scouts may complete any STEM Nova award with a parent or unit leader's guidance. However, Supernova Awards mentors must be approved by the local council. (Note: Tiger Cubs are not eligible to participate in the STEM/Nova Awards program.)
Scouts earn the distinctive STEM Nova award patch upon completion of their first award. For each additional award earned they are recognized with a separate pi (π) device that attaches to the patch. The patch and devices represent each of the four S.T.E.M. topics — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Scouts earning the Supernova award are recognized with a medal and certificate.
If you thrive on challenge, then earning the Scout Supernova award will be right up your alley. To be eligible, you must be a First Class Scout or higher. As a prerequisite, you must first earn any three of the four Nova awards for Scouts. With your parent's and unit leader's help, you must select a council-approved mentor who is a registered Scouter. You may NOT choose your parent or your unit leader (unless the mentor is working with more than one youth).
The Venturer Supernova awards recognize superior achievement by a Venturer or Sea Scout in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). All experiments or projects should be conducted using the highest level of safety protocol and always under the supervision of a qualified, responsible adult.
Supernova Activity Topics
Each STEM field—science, technology, engineering, mathematics—offers a choice of three Supernova activity topics. These are two-part, hands-on, high-level activities created to challenge you and help you continue along your STEM journey to excellence. Part 1 involves research, preparation, set up, coordination, and/or organization. Part 2 includes elements such as analysis, reflection, experimentation, design, or invention, and culminates in a report created by you.
Report Format Options
No matter what STEM activity you choose, you will need to create a report. Reports are a regular part of the work of professionals in STEM fields, so this will be good preparation for future career demands. Notice it doesn't say write a report. You are not restricted to just writing a report, although you may choose to do so if you like. Any report will probably involve some writing, but the report itself may be created and presented in any number of ways. Use your imagination!
You may choose from any format below for your report, or you may create a combination of formats. You may create something entirely new as long as your Supernova mentor approves. The objective is for you to communicate to others in a way that helps them understand what you have learned and how you learned it.
- Oral report
- Written report
- Poster presentation
- Virtual poster (See www.Glogster.com for ideas.)
- Video production
- Multifaceted format
- Any format of your own design, with your mentor's advance approval
The report must provide sufficient detail so that someone unfamiliar with the topic can understand the content. For each format, you can incorporate a variety of ways to present your information and to use technology to create a polished presentation. For example, an oral report might include a PowerPoint presentation, or a poster presentation might include a slide show. Be creative.
A Note About Resources
The books and websites provided for each superactivity topic are presented as optional resources and are merely suggestions. In most cases, they are not crucial to the corresponding activities. The Boy Scouts of America makes no guarantee that they will be available in local public libraries, from booksellers, or online.
The resources represent examples of the types you might use to support your work on a particular activity. You may very well find alternative and/or additional resources that serve you as well or better than those presented here.
- Online STEM Orientation, Nova Counselor, and Supernova Mentor training
- Supernova Awards Mentor Information (application)
- Volume = Length × Width × Height
- Other Scouting resources
- Greater St. Louis Area Council: http://www.stlbsa.org/programs/stem/Pages/STEM.aspx
- Northeastern Pennsylvania Council: http://www.nepabsa.org/advancement/stem-nova
- Baltimore Area Council: http://www.baltimorebsa.org/stem/47522
- Patriots' Path Council (summer/day camp): http://www.camps.ppbsa.org/camps/wheeler/stem.htm and http://www.camps.ppbsa.org/camps/somers/Backwoods_Engineering_Camp.htm
- Boy Scouts of America: https://www.scouting.org/stem-nova-awards/
- US Scouting Service Project: http://usscouts.org/usscouts/advance/nova/index.asp
- Television Programs and Videos
- Magazines
- Discover Magazine
- Popular Mechanics Magazine
- Popular Science Magazine
- Science Illustrated Magazine
- Air & Space Magazine
- Popular Astronomy Magazine
- Highlights for Kids Magazine
- Astronomy Magazine
- Science News
- Science News for Kids
- Sky & Telescope Magazine
- Natural History Magazine
- Robot Magazine
- Servo Magazine
- Nuts and Volts Magazine
- Scientific American Magazine
- National Geographic Magazine
- National Geographic Kids
- Kids Discover
- OWL Kids
- Odyssey Magazine
- Government Websites
- Other Websites
- BSA: STEM Nova Awards — Scouting.org


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Weddings are complicated, expensive affairs. As a thirty-something whose friends are dropping like flies from the world of singledom, it's plain enough to see that planning a wedding takes a lot of time and mental energy for most of the happy couples involved.
One Wichita couple — of the woman-taps-foot-and-places-hands-on-hips expectantly, man-tugs-collar-and-changes-subject variety — thought they would skip the full-blown wedding hoopla. But did they do a quick Vegas wedding instead? No. They got married at a Suzuki dealership.
Jada Miller and Shane Starling went to Suzuki of Wichita together to buy a car and a truck. Their salesman, Randolph Warren, picked up on the fact that they were a couple and asked why they weren't married. Miller told Warren that Starlin wouldn't ask her, and Warren, an ordained minister, offered to perform a wedding ceremony at the dealership.
Starlin joked his way out of the awkward conversation by doing a Michael Jackson-style moonwalk away from Warren's desk, but when the couple returned to have a tire replaced, he finally relented and let Warren marry them.
They turned the showroom into a makeshift church for the ceremony, and the couple's wedding photos include that setting as well as several bewildered looking customers milling around in the background. The bride and her party wore pink t-shirts and the groom and his crew wore black ones. All had "League of Extraordinary Suzukians" printed on the front.
Most people don't associate Suzuki dealerships with marriage — or with selling a lot of cars, for that matter — but Warren does. He met his wife Ruth at Suzuki of Wichita four years ago.
This whole thing is cute and all, but it still makes me want to re-read a few choice chapters from What's the Matter with Kansas?. Also, what's more surprising: that a car dealer convinced these two people to marry, or that he talked them into buying two new Suzukis?
(Hat tip to Jayhawk Jake!)
Photo credit: Suzuki of Wichita


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Oil 'likely' headed into Loop Current -- NOAA
A thin stem of oil stretching east from BP PLC's spill is increasingly likely to enter the Loop Current, a powerful Gulf of Mexico flow that runs past the Florida Keys and up the Atlantic Seaboard, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief said today.
Stark satellite imagery released yesterday revealed that, while the large majority of oil remains bobbing off the Louisiana coast, "a tendril of light oil has been transported down toward the Loop Current," NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco said.
In fact, oil may already be entrained in the current, Lubchenco said, and NOAA is sending imagery aircraft out today to determine the extent of the oil's drift.
Once oil is in the current, it would likely reach the Florida Keys within 10 days. By month's end, the oil could reach Miami, oceanographers have also warned.
"The oil, if it gets into the Loop Current, will become very, very dilute and will be highly weathered," she said, arriving at the Keys most likely in the form of tar balls and emulsified streamers.
Any oil or dispersants pulled south to the Florida Straits could pose an environmental hazard, especially for coral reefs, said Nan Walker, the director of the Earth Scan Laboratory at Louisiana State University.
"The dispersants could kill corals," Walker said earlier this month. "Obviously, oil is not going to be good for corals. That is probably one of the biggest concerns if [the oil] was entrained."
Reflecting this spread, NOAA has expanded its fishing restrictions over a larger portion of the Gulf. The closed area is 24,241 square miles, covering some 10 percent of the Gulf's exclusive economic zone. The restrictions apply to commercial and recreational fishing, the agency said, but not transit.
It is impossible to predict how much oil will travel southward. Currently, the tendril sits in a sinuous line between the northern boundaries of the Loop Current and the southern limits of a small, counterclockwise current, known as an eddy, that could draw the oil back north.
The oil can be thought of as a stream of cars traveling on an eastward-running highway that is about to turn north, with an exit peeling off south toward the Loop Current. Scientists have little certainty about the size of the exit or how much oil will take that turn. All that is certain is that exit leads, eventually, to Florida.
Federal agencies have been monitoring the current from the spill's outset and are now preparing for potential impacts around the southern Florida coast, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Peter Neffenger said yesterday during congressional testimony. Tar balls, he said, would be a "more manageable piece" to clean up in Florida than the vast oil deposits now spreading in the Gulf.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano added that the government is treating the Loop Current "as if it's its own coastline," meaning the government will undertake prevention and response efforts as if the Loop Current were a piece of shoreline, she said.
Florida Keys in bull's-eye
The Keys would likely be the first coastline to feel the oil's effects in Florida. The current sits far off Florida's western coastline and will likely spare areas like Tampa, according to Steve Murawski, NOAA's chief science adviser for fisheries.
The Coast Guard said yesterday that 20 tar balls have already washed ashore at Fort Zachary Taylor State Park in Key West. The tar balls, which were found by park rangers, range from 3 to 8 inches in diameter. They will be sent to a laboratory for analysis to determine whether they are associated with the Deepwater Horizon spill.
The Coast Guard and NOAA will conduct shoreline surveys beginning today in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Whether or not the tar is connected to the BP spill, Lubchenco said, it is "safe to say that the tar balls washing ashore in the Florida Keys are an example of what might happen should oil become entrained in the Loop Current."
Independent oceanographers are now practically certain some of the oil will enter the current and have long warned that the unpredictable flow posed a threat (Greenwire, May 5). All four forecast models at the University of South Florida now predict that at least a portion of the oil slick's branch will migrate from the eddy into the current.
How much oil takes that path will depend on how the eddy, which has been growing stronger over recent days, evolves, said Villy Kourafalou, a Gulf of Mexico modeler at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
"Any pathways along the Loop Current strongly depend on the evolution of the eddy field," Kourafalou said. "It is clear that the north cyclone has started to entrain oil. It is not in the Loop Current main front yet. It is a high possibility that it will."
There is a possible positive sign, in that imagery yesterday from NASA seemed to indicate that a portion of the slick's eastward-facing "tail" seems to be turning northward, said Tony Sturges, an oceanographer at Florida State University.
"The only good part is that right at the end, the 'tail' appears to curve out and back away from the main flow," he said. Still, he added, the current imagery is "not a good sign."
It is less clear how oil deeper underwater and closer to the spill's main body will behave, NOAA's Murawski said. Past 1,500 meters underwater, he said, the currents drop dramatically and do not pull toward the Loop Current, at least currently.
Reporters Noelle Straub and Katie Howell contributed.
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Everyone knows that the impact of the web in the workplace is increasing. maybe you "get it" already, maybe you are still working it out. The truly wonderful thing about the social web, social business, Enterprise 2.0, or whatever you want to call it, is that it makes two important things better at once: it improves business outcomes, and it improves the working lives of everyone in business. How? It gives everyone a voice, and a chance to manifest what Nelson Mandela calls your ′spark of genius′.
This collection of ideas is designed to make the web more understandable and useful in the world of work. You can read it start to finish, or you can read the chapters individually. Browse the index and dip into topics that catch your eye. Each chapter is just the right length for a visit to the restroom...perfect for conveying the essence of an aspect of the web at work. Designed to whet your appetite to get involved, or to help you understand what other people are going on about.
Those who are successful at deploying social tools in business tend to be good at enticing people into using them too. This book does the same. It is like a commonplace book of ideas, trinkets, or nuggets to draw you in. Ideas to make you feel more capable. It will help you understand the potential of the web at work. gain traction, and engage others in the changes you are trying to bring about.


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tailcast necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 69 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
http://www.tailcast.com is a new platform for both sellers and consumers of creative products. Artists/designers/illustrators/photographers etc. can turn their creative work into products - see http://www.tailcast.com/callforart for more details and start your tailcast career today.
This competition is for 5 categories of cards (see the requirements) with prizes for first in each category. BUT.....
We also invite ALL creative people to join the revolution in creative products and join tailcast.com. Features on tailcast.com for sellers on tailcast's regular model (Call For Art programme):
- you retain copyright ownership of your content/designs
- you will earn a commission for every product that incorporates your designs
- your designs will feature in your portfolio on tailcast (use your name or create a brand, alone or with others via a collaboration)
tailcast provides the platform and tools for you to participate in the growing market for on demand and personalised products
e-commerce just launched !
Great news ! We have just launched our first products available to buy on tailcast. That means you are now able to earn from your creative content !
We now have a range of cards (greetings cards and post cards) and a great range of wall art.
See our video guides on http://www.tailcast.com.
What will you create today ?
Everyone who buys cards for any occasion/message/reason!
We think cards need to "break free" of traditional constraints where possible. Think innovative, fun or stylish, retro - in short up to you and your imagination !
Then consider the audiences (buyer and recipient) related to each of the following 5 categories (each with a $150 prize for the winner).
i) birthday - adult male (where adult doesn't mean it should be x-rated, but any design/humour should be targeted at an adult not child)
ii) birthday - adult female
iii) birthday - child (boy)
iv) birthday - child (girl)
v) Freestyle - a card design that could be used for a number of different purposes or for something specific that 'breaks the mould' - congratulations, thank you, invitation etc.
We think the best cards are ones that deliver a personalised/specific message from sender to recipient and that could be ANYTHING - so we also want designs that allow maximum flexibility and that actually permits more specific messages to an audience (maybe the kind the traditional publisher would never make a card for but people might still want to send!)
Each category will be judged independently but feel free to:
- enter all categories
- apply a design across all multiple categories if it works or enter completely different designs per category
1. Each design needs to work for all of our card dimensions – see http://www.tailcast.com/callforart/faq#size - that may be a case of designing for the largest format that can be shrunk for the others or different designs for each size/dimension - it depends on your design. For an entry to be eligible for the competition, it needs to work on all dimensions of cards or different versions produced for coverage of all dimensions.
2. Any style/format is permitted - graphic, illustration, photograph, retro, modern etc.
3. All designs should allow customisation with images and text (what we call 'themes') - see http://www.tailcast.com/callforart/guide (create themes). See also the video guides on http://www.tailcast.com for more examples. BUT don't feel you have to comply with what you see - we are looking for innovation and fresh approaches to card content/designs.
4. Designs should include ALL of the card (front, back, insides where applicable) - think of a greetings card as a 4 page book and use all of the pages !
5. For the competition winners, we will need the original files in photoshop (.psd) or illustrator (.ai). (For non-competition entries or non-winners who want to sell via tailcast on the tailcast.com standard model - see http://www.tailcast.com/callforart for details).
Please contact us on email@example.com with any questions - citing 99Designs competition where applicable.


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How to Enhance the Production Value of Your Film
Making a film that looks and sounds professional with high production values is an art and a science. As a budget-conscious filmmaker, you can enhance the production value of your film by using the tips in the following list to stretch your budget to cover the essentials and arrange some of the extras for little to no cost:
Barter for things you can't afford to pay for. "Give me this, and I'll give you a credit or show your product or location in my film!"
Use big locations. Expansive looks expensive.
Use large crowds to make your film look like a bigger production. Instead of only 3 people standing in line, have 100! (use free volunteers)
Move the camera.
Get in a high shot or two. Shooting from an apartment balcony works great.
Use an aerial shot to open up your film. If you can't afford to rent a helicopter, license stock footage to use in your film.
Make sure you get believable performances from your actors.
Get a crisp, clear recording of your actors' dialogue.
Get professional music. A great composer can do wonders on your music score.
Hire a cinematographer with a good eye. A good cinematographer can make your movie look impressive — what you see is what you get.


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Bibo paper napkin holder are practical and functional. Made of stainless steel 18/10, it has an internal spring that can be easily removed to facilitate cleaning operations. The rounded edge of the object holds the napkins firmly inside.
Designed by Valerio Sommella, Bibo is a set of tea and coffee accessories available in two versions: one for professional use and the other for home table. The common item is a small melamine tray that holds two stainless steel containers. They are minimal and elegant objects, with slightly soft shapes that arise from the careful control of curved lines. The bar set consists of a tray, a container for sugar sachets and a paper napkin. The tray provides a stable place for the two containers, facilitating the transport of the set. A central rod with a ring closure allows you to grip Bibo even with one finger of the hand. The handle's asymmetry ensures stability and a perfect balance while moving the set.
Valerio Sommella, born in 1980 and graduated cum laude from the Politecnico of Milan in 2004, began his design career working with Stefano Giovannoni. In 2007 he moved to Amsterdam where he joined Marcel Wanders' team. Since 2009, when he settled down in Milan and opened his design studio, he designs products in different fields, from furniture to consumer electronic goods and lighting both for Italian and international clients. He alternates this activity teaching at some Italian universities and design schools


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Come to Spain in March and you will be amazed by the beauty of two million blossoming cherry trees in the Jerte Valley, Region of Extremadura.
Can you imagine looking out at beautiful mountains, covered in white, but with no snow to be seen? Then stop imagining and come to Spain. This wonder of nature exists, and it is called the Jerte Valley. With the arrival of spring, this area of the Extremadura Region is unique, with more than two million cherry trees coming into blossom - a stunning display. Start getting you trip ready now because the sight is well worthwhile.
If you want to welcome the spring in style, then head for the Jerte Valley, close to Cáceres (Extremadura). If you make it you will get to witness a real natural wonder. Each year, around the second fortnight in March, the cherry trees open their flowers, covering the mountainsides in impressive swathes of white. Take an unhurried stroll on the tracks and trails between the valley's villages. What better way to leave the winter behind and delight in the new season?
Plan your trip well, because this special flowering period only lasts around 10 days, while its start and duration can vary according to the previous winter's weather. Furthermore, if you are a sports enthusiast, then the Jerte Valley is ideal. Would you like to know why? On your visit you can go on biking routes, quad biking, horse riding, hiking, fishing... you can even go paragliding. Are you up for such a complete programme? You will find all the information you need at the Jerte Valley District Tourist Office.
At this time of year, not only will you see the beauty of the landscapes. If you wish, you can also attend the Cherry Blossom Fiesta held in the valley during the second fortnight in March to celebrate this spectacular event. During the fiesta there are exhibitions, tasting sessions for typical produce, music performances and guided routes exploring the Los Infiernos Nature Reserve and the Cherry Museum.
Now is the time to plan your visit because this is a unique opportunity to enjoy one of nature's most stunning gifts, visible in Spain just once a year. We also invite you to share your experience on social media with the hashtag #SpringinSpain.
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Both Flesh and Not
By David Foster Wallace
- Release Date: 2012-11-06
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "aone of the most influential writers of his generation" (New York Times).
David Foster Wallace was beloved for his inimitable voice and wit-and, for many of his readers, admired as much for his astonishingly perceptive and inventive essays as he was for his fiction. Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time.
Never has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilation of work spanning nearly 20 years of writing. Here, Wallace turns his critical eye with equal enthusiasm toward Roger Federer and Jorge Luis Borges; Terminator 2 and The Best of the Prose Poem; the nature of being a fiction writer and the quandary of defining the essay; the best underappreciated novels and the English language's most irksome misused words; and much more.
In addition to these essays, Both Flesh and Not includes a selection from Wallace's personal vocabulary list, an assembly of unusual words and definitions that serve as a reminder of Wallace's ferocious love of language.
A sweeping, exhilarating collection of some of the author's most emotionally immediate work, Both Flesh and Not reminds us why A.O. Scott, writing in the New York Times, called David Foster Wallace "The best mind of his generation."


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FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A Colorado Marine killed in a crash in Utah last week was on his way home to surprise his little brother on the first day of school.
Lance Cpl. Brennan Ching, 20, of Fort Collins, Colorado, died Friday in a rollover crash on Interstate 70 near Salina in central Utah. He was traveling with a fellow Marine, Jesus T. Paredes, from Las Flores, California, where Ching was stationed. Paredes, of Fallbrook, California, survived and was hospitalized. His condition was unclear Wednesday.
Their pickup truck rolled after Paredes overcorrected when it went off the highway, Utah Highway Patrol spokesman Dwayne Baird said.
The Coloradoan reports that Ching called his sister Sarah Ching, 23, earlier on Friday to say he was planning to take his brother, 8-year-old Alex Vicary, to his first day of second grade.
The newspaper published a story about Ching coming home to surprise Alex last March after the little boy sent a letter to the Easter bunny asking that his brother be brought home.
Mother Sue Vicary said the two shared "a special bond," with Ching teaching Alex how to tie his shoes, taking him fishing and reading to him almost every night when he was home. She said Alex talked about his older brother every day and came up with different wishes to try to bring him home.
Alex didn't know about this brother's latest trip. After finding out he had died, Vicary said he picked up a leaf and made a wish that his brother would come back to him.
"All these times, he's believed and seen that his wishes would come true," she said. "But there's no amount of leaves he can pull to make that come true."


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich holds a 10-point lead in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination, but he would fare worse against President Barack Obama than Republican Mitt Romney, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
With the first nominating contest in Iowa less than three weeks away, Gingrich leads Romney among Republican voters nationwide by 28 percent to 18 percent, the poll found.
However, the poll raises questions about whether Gingrich — a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives who has shot to the top of Republican opinion polls in recent weeks — would be able to defeat Obama.
The poll found that if the November 2012 presidential election were held today, Obama would defeat Gingrich, 51 percent to 38 percent. By contrast, Obama would defeat Romney by a narrower margin, 48 percent to 40 percent.
Analysts say the results reflect the risk that Republicans could face if they nominate Gingrich, whose strong performances in debates have won him support among conservatives seeking an alternative to Romney.
Gingrich has a long record of making provocative statements that could alienate independent voters, such as when he recently referred to Palestinians as an "invented" people.
Even so, some conservative Republicans see him as preferable to Romney, a former Massachusetts governor who has built a more extensive campaign and fundraising operation.
"This is the Republican dilemma," said Calvin Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University. " 'Do I want to enjoy myself by voting for Gingrich ... or do I want to look toward the general election and see a winnable contest?'"
Romney has been widely viewed as the candidate to beat among Republicans.
Obama's campaign was focused squarely on an eventual race against Romney until this week, when it began taking shots at Gingrich — an acknowledgement of the former speaker's elevated standing in the Republican race.
The new poll found Texas Representative Ron Paul and Texas Governor Rick Perry tied for third place with 12 percent each, while Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann has the support of 10 percent of Republicans.
Former Utah Governor John Huntsman is next with 5 percent, followed by former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, with 4 percent. Another 4 percent picked other candidates or none at all.
The poll, taken from December 8 to December 12, shows Gingrich's remarkable comeback since a staff mutiny and criticism by fellow Republicans nearly torpedoed his campaign in June. A Reuters/Ipsos poll taken during that period showed him polling at 6 percent.
The poll also found that Obama could be making a comeback of sorts as the economy shows signs of improvement and Republican candidates bloody each other in a series of televised debates.
Obama's 8 point lead over Romney is a dramatic increase from the 1 point deficit he faced in a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken from October 31 to November 3.
Although Obama is doing better compared with Republicans, his approval rating, at 47 percent, is little changed since the beginning of the year.
Americans remain generally pessimistic, the poll found. Only 27 percent say the country is moving in the right direction, while 69 percent say it is on the wrong track, a slight improvement from the October poll.
The poll was based on telephone interviews of 1,102 adults, 443 of them registered Republicans. The margin of error for all adults is plus or minus 3 percentage points; for Republicans the margin of error is plus or minus 4.7 percentage points.
The complete poll results can be found here
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For the Smith Manoeuvre and tax minimization enthusiasts out there, you may have heard about The Cash Flow Dam (or cash damming). Cash Damming is a fancy phrase for a fairly simple concept that can help optimize your taxes if you have a mortgage and a personal small business.
What is The Cash Flow Dam?
The Cash Flow Dam is tax arrangement that allows a personal small business owner (sole proprietor/partnership) to pay down their non-deductible mortgage faster. In other words, it is a variation of the much discussed Smith Manoeuvre, without the investing, that helps convert bad debt into good debt.
How Does it Work?
Cash Damming uses a line of credit to pay for business expenses while taking the increased business cash flow to pay down a non-deductible mortgage/loan. This results in a growing tax deductible business loan, and an accelerated pay down of a non-deductible mortgage. This only works with a non-incorporated/personal/partnership small business.
For example, say you had a small business with $1,000/month in expenses and a readvanceable mortgage. The $1,000/month expense would be paid by the home equity line of credit (HELOC), and the extra $1,000 sitting in your business account now would be used to pay down your non tax deductible mortgage. The key to this strategy is that interest paid on borrowed amounts used for personal business expenses are tax deductible. In the end, you'll have a large tax deductible business loan and no mortgage.
Some of you may be thinking that this new loan just created a new monthly interest expense in addition to the existing mortgage payments. The new interest expense can be avoided by capitalizing the interest. That is, use the business line of credit to pay for itself which keeps the account tax deductible while using $0 of your own cash flow. You can read more about capitalizing the interest here (with diagram).
How is Cash Damming different than the Smith Manoeuvre?
Cash damming uses business expenses to enable the loan to be tax deductible whereas the Smith Manoeuvre uses investments. The Smith Manoeuvre is on the riskier side as it involves leveraged investing into public equities.
- Rentals – If you are a rental investor, instead of using your own cash flow to pay for expenses, cash damming would involve using a line of credit instead. This strategy will essentially allow your rentals to pay for your personal mortgage while keeping the tax man happy.
- Self Employed/Side Business – If your personal company isn't incorporated, and your monthly expenses are fairly high, then the cash flow damn can convert your non-deductible mortgage into business loan fairly quickly. The net after tax result is a much lower overall interest cost.
I'm not a tax professional. Any information in this article should be taken for its entertainment value only. A professional accountant should be consulted before implementing the strategy above.If you would like to read more articles like this, you can sign up for my free weekly money tips newsletter below (we will never spam you).


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Why Filmmakers Must Use Social Media, aka Zodiac MF Loves Collaborator/
People once hid in their office. If you knew them from hanging out at the bar you had a unique relationship. Still it was damn hard to make connections, no matter where you were on the totem pole. But now those totem poles have been burned down to the ground. The old ways are over and 1000 phoenixes rise from the ashes daily.
The fact is we've learned how to speak to each other. We may not always speak the same language but we speak. And that's fucking awesome.
My case is point is how Zodiac Motherfucker shares his love for Collaborator with writer/director Martin Donovan on Twitter:
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