I took a few minutes to sit down with Jonah Peretti, founder of BuzzFeed, at TechCrunch Disrupt NY today. I wanted to ask him about how we, as humans, were changing due to new pressures on our brains and bodies associated with hanging out too much on sites like BuzzFeed.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/aiwqNGiCI3k/
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By Maria Golovnina
UNDISCLOSED LOCATION IN NORTH CAUCASUS, Russia (Reuters) - The parents of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects have retreated to a village in southern Russia to shelter from the spotlight and abandoned plans for now to travel to the United States, the father of the suspects told Reuters on Sunday.
Speaking in the garden of a large house, Anzor Tsarnaev said he believed he would not be allowed to see his surviving son Dzhokhar?, who was captured and has been charged in connection with the April 15 bomb blasts that killed three people and wounded 264.
"Unfortunately I can't help my child in any way. I am in touch with Dzhokhar's and my own lawyers. They told me they would let me know (what to do)," Tsarnaev said in an interview in the village where he relocated with the suspects' mother.
He agreed to the face-to-face meeting on condition that the village's location in the North Caucasus, a string of mainly Muslim provinces in southern Russia, not be disclosed.
"I am not going back to the United States. For now I am here. I am ill," said Tsarnaev, pacing nervously in the garden at sunset in the quiet village set in rolling hills and surrounded by cow pastures.
His face gaunt and tired, Tsarnaev said he suffered from high blood pressure and a heart condition.
Tsarnaev had said in the North Caucasus province of Dagestan on Thursday that he planned to travel to the United States to see Dzhokhar and bury his elder son, Tamerlan, who was killed during a manhunt four days after the bombings.
In Sunday's interview he said he had decided to move away from the family home in Dagestan to the new location because he wanted to keep a low profile.
Dressed in a black shirt and black trousers, he passionately defended his sons' innocence, saying they had nothing to do with Islamist extremists.
"I feel hopeless. We are simple people. We are trying to understand. We are attacked from all sides," he said, clutching his head in despair.
"I don't know whether I should talk or stay silent. I don't want to harm my child. ... We are used to all sorts of things here but we didn't expect this from the United States."
He and other members of the family believe a man shown on television being led naked into a police car the night of the shootout was Tamerlan, and that the blurry footage, still widely available on YouTube, proves Tamerlan was captured alive. Boston police say Tamerlan was killed in a shootout, and the man seen being led into the car was a bystander who was briefly detained.
Anzor Tsarnaev said he raised the issue with U.S. officials who visited him earlier in the week in his home in Dagestan.
"I asked them: 'I saw my child alive, he was being put into a police vehicle alive and healthy. How come media said he was killed?' They were shocked themselves," the father said.
CAUCASUS ROOTS
The Tsarnaevs are ethnic Chechens who lived in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan and in Dagestan before emigrating to the United States with their children. The parents returned to Dagestan two years ago, and Tamerlan spent the first half of 2012 there.
The suspects' mother, Zubeidat, was with Anzor Tsarnaev in the village but did not wish to speak.
"She is ill, she is shocked, she is depressed. She lost her children," Tsarnaev said. The couple are divorced but have stayed together.
Although the Tsarnaev brothers have roots in Dagestan and neighboring Chechnya, neither had spent much time there until Tamerlan returned to Dagestan last year for six months.
During his interview, Anzor Tsarnaev denied Tamerlan had any contact with militants during his stay, painting an idyllic picture of his son's visit to his ancestral homeland.
"When he came to stay here, he was a good boy. He read books, (Leo) Tolstoy, (Alexandre) Dumas and thick English language books. He would wake up late and read all day, late into the night," he said.
"Sometimes we went to the mosque. We went to see our relatives, in Dagestan, in Chechnya. We visited a lot of households, it was a nice atmosphere."
Tsarnaev said he had to force his son to return to the United States to complete his U.S. citizenship application after Tamerlan tried to convince his family to allow him to stay in Dagestan for good.
"I told him: 'No, you have to go back to obtain your U.S. citizenship'. I forced him to go back. I thought it was the right thing to do. I shouldn't have done that," he said with a pained expression on his face.
The father said he had no hope that Tamerlan's body would be released by the U.S. authorities to be buried in his homeland.
"They won't give us his body," he said, his voice breaking with emotion. "We wont be able to bury him in our land."
(Writing by Maria Golovnina)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-boston-bomb-suspects-father-abandons-plan-return-160819875.html
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Getty ImagesHere are the terms of trades completed on Saturday, April 27, the third and final day of the 2013 NFL Draft. All draft choices are 2013 selections unless otherwise noted:
The Jaguars traded a fourth-round pick (No. 98) to the Eagles. In exchange, the Eagles sent fourth- and seventh-round picks (Nos. 101, 210) to Jacksonville. With pick No. 98, the Eagles selected Southern California quarterback Matt Barkley. Three picks later, the Jaguars selected South Carolina wide receiver Ace Sanders at No. 101. With pick No. 210, the Jaguars took Appalachian State cornerback Demetrius McCray.
The Buccaneers acquired a fourth-round pick (No. 100) from Oakland. The Raiders, in turn, received fourth- and sixth-round selections (Nos. 112, 181) from Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers took Illinois defensive tackle Akeem Spence at No. 100. The Raiders selected Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson at No. 112 and UCF running back Latavius Murray at No. 181.
The Giants traded for a fourth-round pick (No. 110) belonging to Arizona. In exchange, New York sent fourth- and sixth-round selections (Nos. 116, 187) to the Cardinals. The Giants took Syracuse quarterback Ryan Nassib at No. 110. With No. 116, the Cardinals took James Madison offensive guard Earl Watford, and with No. 187, they selected Clemson running back Andre Ellington.
The Steelers acquired a fourth-round pick from Cleveland (No. 111). In return, the Browns will get the Steelers? third-round pick in 2014. The Steelers selected Syracuse safety Shamarko Thomas at No. 111.
The Packers traded for Denver?s fourth-round pick (No. 125), giving the Broncos fifth- and sixth-round picks (Nos. 146, 173) in return. The Packers selected UCLA running back Jonathan Franklin at No. 125. At No. 146, the Broncos selected Western Kentucky defensive end Quanterus Smith. At No. 173, the Broncos took Virginia Tech offensive tackle Vinston Painter.
The Seahawks acquired the Lions? fifth-round selection (No. 137). In return, the Lions received fifth- and sixth-round choices (Nos. 165, 199) from Seattle. At No. 137, the Seahawks took Alabama defensive tackle Jesse Williams. The Lions took Appalachian State punter Sam Martin at No. 165 and Notre Dame running back Theo Riddick at No. 199.
The Colts acquired the Browns? fifth-round pick (No. 139) in exchange for Indianapolis? 2014 fourth-round pick. At No. 139, the Colts selected Tennessee-Martin defensive tackle Montori Hughes.
The Falcons acquired the Bears? fifth-round selection (No. 153), sending fifth- and seventh-round picks (Nos. 163, 236) to Chicago. The Falcons selected Texas Christian defensive end / outside linebacker Stansly Maponga. The Bears took Louisiana Tech tackle Jordan Mills at No. 163 and Washington State wide receiver Marquess Wilson at No. 236.
The Rams traded back into Round Five, sending sixth- and seventh-round picks (Nos. 184, 198) to the Texans for Houston?s fifth-round pick (No. 160). The Rams took Vanderbilt running back Zac Stacy at No. 160. The Texans exercised pick No. 198 on Bowling Green defensive tackle Chris Jones. The Texans dealt selection No. 184 to Oakland (see next entry).
The Texans acquired a sixth-round pick from Oakland (No. 176). In return, Houston sent sixth- and seventh-round selections to Oakland (Nos. 184, 233). The Texans selected San Jose State offensive tackle David Quessenberry at No. 176. The Raiders used selection No. 184 on Tennessee tight end Mychal Rivera and selection No. 233 on Missouri Western State defensive end David Bass.
The Buccaneers traded running back LeGarrette Blount to the Patriots for running back / kick returner Will Demps and a seventh-round pick (No. 229). The Buccaneers traded the No. 229 pick to Minnesota (see next entry).
The Buccaneers acquired a sixth-round pick from Minnesota (No. 189). In return, the Vikings received sixth- and seventh-round picks (Nos. 196, 229). The Buccaneers took Miami (Fla.) running back Mike James at No. 189. The Vikings selected UCLA offensive guard Jeff Baca at No. 196 and Florida State defensive tackle Everett Dawkins with pick No. 229.
Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/27/draft-wrap-up-patience-is-rewarded/related/
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Lauryn Hill says she has signed with Sony to pay her overdue taxes.
Hill pleaded guilty last year to not paying federal taxes on $1.8 million earned from 2005 to 2007. The 37-year-old posted on her Tumblr blog late Thursday that she "signed a new record deal, and that I did this to pay taxes."
The total Hill owes is in dispute, but it is around $1 million. Her next sentencing date in New Jersey is May 6.
Hill also says she's working on new music. She hasn't released much music since her 1998 solo debut, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill." It has sold more than 10 million albums and won five Grammy Awards.
Hill writes that she's not only signing with Sony because of her legal woes, but also because she needs to express her creativity.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hill-says-she-signed-sony-pay-taxes-164427479.html
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Chances are you?re at this site right now to learn how to build your own passive income from home.? I commend you because I was in your shoes about 5 years ago!
Below I am going to break down what you need to do and how you can start working, beside my partner on this (Justin Lewis) and I, from home starting today (Left:Michael, Right: Justin).
Before I start, who am I?? My name is Michael Brown and I started making money online in 2007 and within 12 months, I quit my job.? I did this while working a full time job and raising my son...
In fact, I owe many thanks to Lynn Terry here at ClickNewz for kicking me in the butt early on and getting me motivated.?
I?m also a father and a husband and consider myself a strong family man first and Internet marketer second.
I now train other people to make money online as I do with my friend; Justin Lewis.? Justin started off as a student of mine and really came into his own.
Here is what I know to be undeniably true in the making money online world.
I?ll tell you first hand that to make money online it takes?
Anyone that guarantees you will make $xxxxx amount of dollars; steer clear.? Anyone promising push-button riches; steer clear.? Anyone continuously flaunting their income or success; steer clear.? Never bank your potential income on the results of someone else.
Yes, it?s easy to do once you know how but getting there takes times, practice, hands on help and good friends you can ultimately get help from and trust.
Below is what I found to work well and how I train raw beginners and people who have yet to have success making money online.
Note: some of this you may already know, but reinforce your knowledge as repetition will help breed success.
Step 1: Find A Niche
First, you?ll find a niche that you like.? I know many people say ?go for the money only.? However, I think you need to find a niche you really like, rather than just a cash cow.? As you gain experience go for the larger cash cows but, in the beginning going for things you love that have less competition is probably a smart idea.
Step 2: Research Your Niche & Audience
Knowing what is going on in your industry can help lead to a great passive online income. It simply involves looking at how competitive other sites are in your industry and what keywords and phrases are relevant to your market.
Many people skip this step simply because they don?t understand it (don?t worry in a moment I?ll show you how you can do this absolutely free with complete video and text training).
Step 3:? Create A Website Using WordPress
Next, you create a website using WordPress.? Why WordPress?? It?s free, stable, looks great and is easy enough for anybody to use.
You?ll simply build your site based around your topic.
Step 4: Add Content To Your Website
Content can be text, images, video, audio, info charts, graphs and even PDFs.? Create compelling content that your visitors will be interested in.?
Creating good content can be based on:
Step 5: Start Driving Traffic
This can be done through the search engines, forums, video and social media sites.? But, traffic is critical.? If you?re creating good content and sharing it often, the traffic will come!
Step 6:? Monetize For Income (Add Money)
Often times we are eager to make money so much we focus too much on how to monetize our niche than the previous steps? However, what we do is teach you to do the other steps first and worry about money last.
Here?s why?.
You?ll be more inclined to help your audience which will help you dramatically increase your sales and income.? Most people miss this because they simply only worry about their own pockets.? Help those in your market and it will help you succeed in making more money online.
Think of companies like Facebook, they didn?t monetize until late in the game and are now the top social network, period.
These are the things you need to do to make money on the Internet.?
But, it?s not the end!
Over the last few years I?ve been teaching people how to make money using these tactics. However, about 8 months ago I decided I wanted to make something truly amazing to help people interested in building their very own business that they can make money online with.
Justin Lewis shared this vision with me and has a knack for modernizing the training and keeping it relevant. Plus, he is a pure master at social media and that is something we wanted to make sure we taught in great detail inside the course. So Justin Lewis and I got together and started laying out the ground work for what we call Niche Optimizer.
Inside of Niche Optimizer we remove the frustration that usually comes with making money on the Internet.? Not only do we provide hands-on help every step of the way, we make it step-by-step newbie friendly?.
Here is exactly what we created & teach on the inside:
Each lesson has several sub?lessons that are organized in a step-by-step manner complete with easy to follow videos and text with image walk-throughs as well.
So if you love video and hate text, no problem!? Hate video and love text and screen shots?? We have that too.? Easy.
But, here is where the course gets really good.
After you understand the first segment of the course you can go on to our in-depth Facebook Fanpage course.
Inside this part of the course you?ll find 7 additional lessons:
Using our easy-to-follow lessons on making money on the Internet with Facebook, you?ll be master social media in no time.
After you finish this segment up you can continue onto creating an email list.? An email list not only provides traffic on a regular basis to your site, but also sales.
Email List Profits
Lesson 1:? Setting Up Your First Email List/Form
Lesson 2:? Automating Your Emails
More lessons added soon to this area.
As we continue to grow the course we?ll be adding new lessons and new training to every segment. Which you?ll get immediate access to when available.
This course also includes what I believe sets us apart from anything else on the Internet:
Weekly live events.? These are sometimes Q and A and other times just straight training.? These events are great to meet us and get hands on feedback from real industry experts.
Weekly Podcasts:? Justin and I shoot these live and then share them with you.? These are typically created based on things our members ask us or are looking for.
You can see an example here:
http://www.nicheoptimizer.com/you-are-an-expert/
These events are a great way to increase your knowledge will help you make more money online.
24/7 Support:? One of the things that online training tends to suffer from is lack of support.? Our community is extremely active.? Our members are on day and night and Justin and I are on several hours each day.
We will answer every single question that is submitted and our premium students and support team will as well.
We give you a NO-STUCK guarantee as our member.
A community is important while you?re learning to build your own online business.
We have several hundred more videos and training segments that will be coming over the next few years.? The training we provide will never become stale or out-of-date.
So rest easy, that everything we teach is always up-to-date and very useful to decreasing your learning time, increasing your success and keeping this course constantly relevant when other courses seem to fall out of date.
We also created an area where you can take the first 4 modules free and even ask us questions!? Get started by going to Niche Optimizer and click on the green button at the top labeled "Create Your Account".
We keep the atmosphere light and fun.? We want you to build a serious business online, but we also want you to enjoy yourself!
I want to thank Lynn Terry for the opportunity to share this with you today and if you have questions, please ask below.
By the way, since this is free to join, we ask that you just give us a chance to help you.? We know that even if you have prior training you?ll be pleasantly surprised by our premium training, attention to detail and understanding of exactly what you need to succeed.
Justin and I can?t wait to see you on the inside with us, but no matter what you choose to do; please keep working on your online business!? The Internet is an awesome place and we share your passion.
To your success,
Michael Brown
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* This post was written by Michael Brown and sponsored by NicheOptimizer.
Source: http://www.clicknewz.com/6830/make-money-on-the-internet-from-home/
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Smitten with Samsung's Galaxy S 4? Well, if you're looking to pick on up right now, you'd best book a red-eye flight to South Korea, where it'll go on sale in the next 24 hours. The 5-inch 1080p flagship will arrive on all three of the country's main carriers, with an unspecified global roll-out following on Friday. Meanwhile, the company has also commented on "supply chain problems" affecting its roll-out of the S 4. In a statement to Sky News, Samsung said that initial supplies of the handset may be limited "due to overwhelming global demand" and its limited stock of memory components. The pinch is already being felt in the US, as both Sprint and T-Mobile reassess their launch dates in-store.
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BANGKOK (AP) ? Thailand's film censors have banned a documentary about the country's long-running border dispute with neighboring Cambodia as a threat to national security, the filmmaker said Wednesday.
"Boundary" tells the story of the Thai-Cambodian conflict through accounts of an ex-soldier who lives near the border, as well as villagers from the two countries. It also touches on other conflicts in Thailand, including the 9-year-old insurgency in the south and the political divisiveness that led to a deadly military crackdown on protesters in 2010.
Director Nontawat Numbenchapol said the Culture Ministry's film screening office informed him that the movie's content "is a threat to national security and international relations." He said he will appeal the ban.
The border dispute has its roots in a 1962 International Court of Justice ruling that the 1,000-year-old Preah Vihear temple stands in Cambodia. Thailand's government argues that definitive boundaries have never been drawn in the area around the World Heritage-listed site.
The dispute has become a rallying point for many Thai nationalists, who don't recognize the court's ruling and say the area, including the temple, belongs to Thailand and they have pressured politicians to keep pressing the issue.
The Thai and Cambodian armies have repeatedly clashed in the disputed area in recent years, including in April 2011, when 17 soldiers and a civilian were killed and thousands near the temple were displaced.
In 2011, the court in The Hague created a demilitarized zone around the temple but troops were not withdrawn until a year later.
The court is currently hearing testimony from both sides after they asked it to clarify its original ruling.
According to Nontawat, the film and video screening subcommittee said some of the claims in the documentary, including accounts from the Cambodian side, were "groundless."
The censors also said some information presented in the film was still being deliberated by the court and had yet to be formally resolved.
Nontawat said he was stunned by the decision.
"I made this movie to create the space for people living near the border to speak their mind," he said. "Now I have to work harder not only to let people know about the border issue, but also about freedom of expression."
Thailand's censors target a wide range of political and social issues. They blur out cigarettes and alcohol on television and crack down on any perceived criticism of the monarchy.
Last year, the film board banned a Thai adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," saying it has content that causes divisiveness among the people. In 2011, the board also banned a movie called "Insects in the Backyard" about a transgender father struggling to raise two children, citing scenes it deemed immoral and pornographic.
"In the U.S., a movie like 'Bowling for Columbine,' which boldly criticized the president, can still be shown. It sparked constructive arguments and made the country more developed," Nontawat said. "In Thailand, the more you censor things, the more you make the country more outdated."
"Boundary" premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February and received financial support from international movie funds.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/thailand-bans-film-thai-cambodian-border-row-040350874.html
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By Barry Moody and Paolo Biondi
ROME (Reuters) - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Wednesday asked center-left politician Enrico Letta to form a new government, signaling the end of a damaging two-month stalemate since elections in the euro zone's third largest economy in February.
Letta, from the Democratic Party (PD), said he would start talks to form a broad-based coalition on Thursday. It is likely to go to parliament for a vote of confidence by early next week.
The prime minister designate is expected to select a group of ministers, likely to be a mixture of politicians and technocrats, under the guidance of Napolitano, whose own unprecedented re-election last weekend opened the way for an end to the crisis.
The new government will be backed primarily by Letta's center-left and the center-right People of Freedom party (PDL) led by Silvio Berlusconi, which had previously failed to reach a deal following inconclusive elections two months ago.
Rivalries between the parties as well as rifts within the PD, which fell short of a viable parliamentary majority in February's vote, could still block an accord. But formation of a government after such a long impasse would signal that Italy is finally ready to make a start on much-needed reforms.
Accepting his mandate, Letta said he would not form a government "at all costs", warning that the warring parties must make compromises or he would withdraw.
He said Italy faced an untenable situation and the government must provide answers on jobs, poverty and the crisis facing small businesses in a recession that now matches the longest since World War II.
European Union economic policies had been too focused on austerity instead of growth, he said, and Italy's parliamentary system must be reformed together with the widely criticized electoral law that has virtually guaranteed stalemate.
The bespectacled and balding Letta is an urbane moderate who speaks fluent English and at 46 would be one of Italy's youngest prime ministers, representing a generational change from the era of Berlusconi and outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti.
A staunch pro-European and a member of the now-defunct Christian Democrat party in his youth, he is likely to be welcomed by foreign governments and markets and can also work with the center-right.
He is the nephew of Berlusconi's longtime chief of staff, Gianni Letta, and has numerous political friends on all sides of parliament, which could help ease the fractious climate since the election.
MARKET RELIEF
As Letta met close aides, the names being circulated as likely future ministers suggested a government broadly in line with Monti's outgoing technocrat administration but including senior politicians such as PDL party secretary Angelino Alfano.
Bank of Italy director general Fabrizio Saccomanni was seen as a possible economy minister and Enrico Giovannini, head of statistics agency ISTAT, may take over the industry ministry. Monti himself could return as foreign minister, helping to maintain the international contacts he cultivated as premier.
Investors had already reacted with relief to the prospect of an end to the intractable crisis, with Italy's two-year borrowing costs on Wednesday tumbling to their lowest level since the start of European monetary union in 1999.
However, the country's problems are not over, with significant differences remaining between left and right over economic policy and the center-left in disarray after letting slip an election it had once seemed sure to win.
These difficulties were put into sharp focus even before Letta was chosen, when Renato Brunetta, a senior member of Berlusconi's PDL party, said they would only support a government committed to repealing, and refunding, a housing tax introduced by Monti.
The center-left agrees only to a partial reduction of the tax and many economists say cuts in the levy would leave a gaping hole in Italy's public accounts.
Letta will also have to make sure he has his own party behind him. Factional infighting forced Pier Luigi Bersani to resign as party leader last week and there is significant internal opposition to any accord with Berlusconi.
Matteo Renzi, the ambitious young mayor of Florence seen as a potential leader of the center-left, could also prove a difficult partner to integrate.
Berlusconi gave a firm promise to Napolitano that he would support a coalition government in which his party shared power with the PD but favorable opinion polls may tempt him at some point to seek new elections.
Napolitano, who reluctantly agreed to serve another term as president, has made clear, however, that he will not accept endless squabbling between the parties and has threatened to resign if they do not unite behind economic and constitutional reforms.
(Additional reporting by James Mackenzie and Steve Scherer; Editing by Giles Elgood)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/italy-president-set-announce-choice-prime-minister-054722232.html
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Rachel Cartwright teaches biology at California State University Channel Islands and is studying trends in habitat use in humpback whale mother-calf pairs in Hawaiian waters.
Friday, March 15
Within the world of whales, blue whales may be the largest and killer whales are probably the most charismatic. But when it comes to acrobatics, humpback whales lead the way.
There?s just no sight quite like a breaching humpback whale. This 40-ton whale leaps high out of the water, makes a midair roll through 180 degrees and then lands with a huge, thumping splash. It may not always be graceful, but it?s certainly impressive.
Breaching is fairly rare in feeding areas, but on the breeding grounds it?s quite common. Single whales breach, pairs breach together, and sometimes a mother, her calf and their escort will breach in an explosive sequence of leaping whales and white water.
You?d probably expect that we whale researchers would have a good explanation for such eye-catching behavior. The truth is, we don?t know why whales breach.
At least for adults, we would suspect some sort of social context or useful benefit for such a large, showy and energetic behavior. An early suggestion was that whales breach to dislodge the heavy load of barnacles that they attract while in their cool temperate feeding regions, but we now know that this is not the case; in fact, barnacles are part of the whale?s armor, used by males in dominance disputes and also perhaps as part of the defense against predators.
There have been some suggestions that breaches are some form of acoustic signal, used more frequently on windy days when surface chop drowns out more subtle sounds. But even on the very calmest days, breaching can be a frequent behavior, often coming in waves that really tempt the speculation that this is all prearranged and singularly designed to entertain researchers and whale-watchers alike.
Today is one of those days; calm, glassy waters stretch across the channel as we head out. We spot a whale breaching intermittently in the distance, and then another whale breaches close by. We select our group for the day: a mother, calf and ever-hopeful escort. We plan to conduct a focal follow, where we mirror the whales? movements in the research vessel, looking to see where and when the three rest and where they travel.
But in just a few minutes our cameras hit the decks. The escort of our focal group roars from the water beside us. The whale propels upward like a submarine surfacing from the depths, water pouring from it. We smell a bright, fishy, Alaskan aroma and then collectively whoop as the whale splashes back down in a cacophony of white water. It?s like watching fireworks.
In the past, we?ve been in the water and watched whales breach from underwater. For adults, it?s a surprisingly effortless behavior. Two good, deep flexes of the caudal muscles and the flukes propel the whale up and out of the water. When whales breach close by, it?s surprisingly quiet in the water, but the breach does produce a huge mass of bubbles, and if you?re too close to that ? well, it?s something like being briefly immersed in a washing machine on the spin cycle.
Specifically, our work focuses on calf behavior and development, and in calves breaching is frequent and often repetitive, with sequences of 10, 15 and even 20 breaches continuing over a period of travel.
All this high-energy behavior seems at odds with the otherwise energetically conservative behavior adopted by new mothers. However, as our studies progress, a possible purpose for repetitive breaching may be emerging.
One of the key adaptive traits in whales, and indeed in all marine mammals, is their ability to hold the breath and make extended dives. This facilitates foraging and reduces the costs of travel, and in many marine mammals it minimizes predation risk too.
Marine mammals employ a range of mechanisms to increase their breath-holding capacity, from decreased heart rates to redistribution of oxygenated blood supplies to key regions.
Additionally, a ubiquitous adaptive mechanism at the cellular level is the presence of myoglobin. Myoglobin is an oxygen carrier, so cells with increased amounts of myoglobin can stockpile supplies of oxygen. This maintains aerobic respiration and extends breath-holding times.
Currently, researchers are looking closely at this mechanism in Weddell seals. These elite divers consistently dive to depths of nearly a quarter of a mile and stay submerged for up to 20 minutes. They display an impressive range of behavioral and physiological adaptations that make this possible.
Among these, high levels of myoglobin seem to play a large part in the maintenance of respiration during extended dives. This research team has now also established a tenuous but potentially compelling link between exercise and the associated release of calcium in muscle tissue and regulation of myoglobin levels within the cells. Simply put, exercise may lead to increased amounts of myoglobin within cells; high myoglobin levels lead to longer dives, and for marine mammals, this is a good thing.
It may be some time before we can fully explain why an adult whale, apparently alone and undisturbed, suddenly chooses to leap above the water to execute a perfect back flip. But for young humpback whales, where spending any of the dwindling supplies of maternal energy has to be justified, it may just be that leaping out of the water in a full breach, using all the newly developing muscles of their long flanks, increases the production of myoglobin. That in turn allows young whales to dive deeper and stay longer, resting beside their mothers in the deep, blue waters of Hawaii, as they ready themselves for the challenges of the impending migration north.
For now, our young baby whale performs, executing a perfect sequence of seven, eight breaches in a row, then slips under with just a glimpse of its little fluke. For the youngest humpback whales we see in Maui waters, a dive time of 60 to 90 seconds is typical, but as the season progresses and calves mature, breath-holding time extends to three or four minutes. For a calf of only 3 to 4 months in age, this is pretty impressive.
It may seem a strange contradiction that leaping out of the water leads to an increased ability to remain submerged. But for once, maybe the T-shirt slogan is right: at least for young humpback whales, life?s a breach and then you dive.
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CORAL SPRINGS, FL ? Business Financial Services, Inc. (BFS), a leading specialty finance company since 2002, announced a new $82 million credit facility provided by Wells Fargo Capital Finance, part of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC). The new credit line, which replaces a smaller facility with another lender, bolsters the Company?s ability to serve the owners of small and medium-size businesses throughout the United States, and through affiliates in Canada and the United Kingdom.
?Business Financial Services has grown rapidly over the last 11 years by effectively serving business owners whose working capital needs are not met by traditional funding sources,? said Marc Glazer, CEO and co-founder of the Company. ?This new credit line will enable us to help even more businesses address their ongoing needs and take advantage of real opportunities. With quick funding of loans as small as $4,000 and as large as $2,000,000 that are structured to meet the needs of the borrower, we help fill a critical credit gap in the economy.?
View a video of Marc Glazer discussing small business financing solutions from Business Financial Services.
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PASADENA, Calif. ? The Bowl Championship Series will be replaced by the College Football Playoff.
The BCS conference commissioners announced the name of the new postseason system that starts in 2014 on Tuesday, the first of three days of meetings at a resort hotel in the Rose Bowl's backyard.
They also will choose the remaining three sites for the six-bowl semifinal rotation and the site of the first championship game to be held Jan. 12, 2015, this week.
The website is already up and running and allowing fans to vote on a new logo. And there also is a Twitter handle: (at)cfbplayoff. www.collegefootballplayoff.com
"It's really simple. It gets right to the point," BCS executive director Bill Hancock, who will hold the same position in the playoff system, said at a short news conference with the 10 commissioners of the FCS conferences.
"Nothing cute. Nothing fancy. We decided it would be best to call it what it is."
Premiere Sports Management in Overland Park, Kan., was hired to help come up with a name and brand the new system. A committee of commissioners handled the naming of the new system. Hancock said they ran through "in the neighborhood of three dozen" names.
Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said, "We're clearly trying to make a clear break from the BCS."
Before the news was reported, Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said he'd be happy with whatever was selected.
"I'm am not good with names ? obviously," Delany said with a smile, referring to the Big Ten's division names, Legends and Leaders, that produced so much negative feedback the conference has already decided to change them.
The new postseason format will create two national semifinals to be played New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, with the winners advancing. The six bowls in the playoff rotation will host marquee, BCS-type games on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day during the seasons they do not host a semifinal.
"I don't think you can ever go too wrong calling something what it is," Scott said. "Things that make sense tend to stand the test of time."
Three semifinal spots have already been decided: the Rose, Orange and Sugar bowls.
Four other bowls have bid for the final three spots. The clear front-runners are the Cotton, Chick-fil-A and Fiesta. The Holiday Bowl in San Diego also put in a bid, but even its organizers have acknowledged they are a long shot at best to land the game.
Those decisions will be announced Wednesday.
The coaches on the Big 12's spring teleconference were already talking about the Cotton Bowl having a spot in the rotation as if it was a done deal.
"I think it's really exciting for this region, for everybody, and I think all of the schools in this region, to have Dallas as one of those sites is great for everybody in this region, and exciting for everybody," Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. "Obviously, everybody knows what a great and quality, what an awesome stadium it is, then the location for us is an advantage, or should be."
The first semifinals will be played at the Rose and Sugar bowls.
The site of the first national championship game in the new system will also be determined at these meetings and the finalists are Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the billion dollar home of the NFL team and the Cotton Bowl, and Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., home of the Buccaneers.
Arlington is the favorite to land that first championship game, but the competition from Tampa has been serious.
"I'm glad it has," Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Tuesday. "I think it will give us a better outcome."
Also on the agenda this week for the commissioners will be the composition of the selection committee that will set the field for the playoff. They have said they would like the committee to be similar to the one that picks the teams for the NCAA basketball tournament, made up of conference commissioners and athletic directors.
Bowlsby said he expected both current and former administrators to have a spot on the committee.
"The hardest thing is making sure we're arming whoever is on the committee with the tools that it takes to differentiate among closely proximal teams," Bowlsby said. "You have to have some metrics available to differentiate between three, four, five, six and seven."
"You can't just say we like blue uniforms and not gold uniforms. You've got to arm the committee with the tools that it takes to do their job."
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(Reuters) - AcelRx Pharmaceuticals Inc said a mid-stage trial of its experimental pain drug showed that a higher dose of the therapy met the main goal of reducing acute pain in patients, but the lower dose failed to meet the goal.
Shares of the company fell 4 percent to $5.92 on Wednesday morning on the Nasdaq. However, analysts said they viewed the trial data as positive.
"The whole point of a dose-finding trial is to find the lowest efficacious dose, and they have done that at the higher dose of 30 mcg. So, I don't read a lot into the lower dose," MLV & Co analyst Ed Arce said.
Results from the trial showed that patients receiving a 30 mcg dose of the drug, administered not more than once per hour, had significantly greater pain reduction - as measured by a standard score - than those given a placebo.
Patients receiving 20 mcg of the drug, called ARX-04, did not achieve a score that differentiated it from the placebo.
ARX-04 consists of sufentanil, an opioid, in AcelRx's NanoTab technology that enables rapid absorption when the NanoTab is placed under the tongue.
There were two serious adverse events of post-surgical infection, both of which were determined by the study investigator to be unrelated to the drug, the company said.
Two patients dropped out of the study due to adverse events, with one patient's discontinuation considered unrelated to the drug, and the other considered "probably related" to the drug.
The trial tested 101 patients following a toe surgery called bunionectomy.
The specialty pharmaceutical company focuses on developing therapies for the treatment of acute and breakthrough pain.
Its product, sufentanil NanoTab, is being tested in four trials for the treatment of post-operative pain, breakthrough pain in cancer patients, pain relief for patients undergoing procedures in a physician's office and acute pain.
The lead program ARX-01, for post-operative pain, is currently in late-stage development. The remaining, ARX-02, ARX-03 - a combination of sufentanil and triazolam - and ARX-04, are in mid-stage trials.
(Reporting by Esha Dey in Bangalore; Editing by Roshni Menon)
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RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's economy grew 4.8 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, accelerating from the previous three months as agriculture recovered after bad weather, the country's planning agency said on Tuesday.
Growth was much faster than a 2.8 percent annual expansion in the final quarter of last year and the agency forecast the economy would expand by 5.8 percent in the current quarter from a year earlier.
The agency, which has forecast that Morocco's economy will expand 5.5 percent this year, said it expects cereals production of more than 7.0 million tonnes in 2013, up from 5.1 million last year when it was depressed by drought.
"The agriculture (sector activity) increased 16.4 percent in the first three month of 2013, which would push up GDP growth to 4.8 percent although the non-agricultural sector slowed by 3.3 percent from 4.4 percent last year," the planning agency said in a statement.
The government has announced it will cut investment spending this year by 15 billion dirhams, as pressures on state finances have increased.
The budget deficit reached 22.9 billion dirhams, or 2.2 percent of GDP, in the first quarter, the finance ministry said on Monday as tax receipts fell by 5.7 pct to 46.25 billion dirhams, below a target of 50 billion in the 2013 national budget.
Morocco is considering how to reform its costly system of food and energy subsidies.
Subsidies burned up more than 12 billion dirhams in the first quarter and will increase spending on subsidies to 66 billion dirhams this year, from 53 billion in 2012, if there is no reform, according to finance ministry data.
Public spending in the first quarter increased by 14.7 pct to 78.8 billion dirhams.
Morocco's trade deficit fell 5.2 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier to 44.79 billion dirhams as imports slowed.
Tourism receipts fell 1.6 percent, while remittances from the 3 million Moroccans living abroad dropped 3.8 percent.
However, foreign direct investment jumped 43.9 percent to 10.58 billion dirhams as Moroccan holding company SNI sold its interests in a dairy and a biscuit company to foreign firms for about $900 million.
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LUXOR, Egypt (AP) ? Egypt resumed hot air balloon sightseeing in the ancient city of Luxor on Sunday, weeks after a fiery accident led authorities to halt the flights.
Mohammed Ibrahim Sherif, head of the civil aviation authority, said the first hot air balloon was launched in the southern city after safety measures required by his office were implemented. He said five out of seven companies have been allowed to resume the flights.
Luxor governor Ezzat Saad, who boarded the first balloon with several British, Australian and Arab tourists, said he was pleased with the resumption, and considers the sport "one of the most important touristic aspects of the city."
Authorities suspended flights after 19 tourists were killed on Feb. 26 when their balloon caught fire and crashed in a sugar cane field. One British tourist survived, along with the balloon's pilot. Both were injured.
The tourists ? from Hong Kong, Japan, Britain, Belgium and France ? were travelling on a sunrise flight over Luxor's dramatic pharaonic sites and desert landscape.
The disaster occurred as the balloon was landing. Initial investigations suggested the fire broke out when a landing cable tore a fuel tube used to fire the burner that heats the balloon's air.
Sherif said investigations were still ongoing and may take another five weeks.
Ballooning experts say the accident was the worst in the sport's 200-year history. The second-largest disaster was in 1989, when two balloons collided over the Australian outback near the town of Alice Springs, killing 13.
Luxor has seen balloon crashes in the past. In 2009, 16 tourists were injured when their balloon struck a cellphone transmission tower. A year earlier, seven tourists were injured in a similar crash. After the 2009 accident, Egypt suspended the flights for several months and tightened safety standards.
The flights provide spectacular views of the ancient Karnak and Luxor temples, starting before sunrise and passing over green fields leading to the Valley of the Kings ? the burial site of Tutankhamun and other pharaohs.
The first hot air balloon flight in Luxor took place in 1988, flown by foreign pilots and operators, said Ahmed Abboud, head of the Egyptian union for balloon flights. The first Egyptian companies were established in 1994, he added.
The accident cast a further blow to the country's ailing tourism industry, already hobbled by two years of instability following the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, who ruled the country for almost 30 years.
In 2011, the number of tourists coming to Egypt fell to 9.8 million from 14.7 million the year before, knocking revenues 30 percent to $8.8 billion. Last year, numbers rose to just over 10 million, but most tourists head for Red Sea resorts and not Nile Valley sites like Luxor.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Tired of checking the washing machine to see if a cycle has completed, or worrying that the lights were left on at home? Apps are increasingly helping people monitor and control objects remotely on their mobile devices.
From Internet-connected washing machines and smart refrigerators to bathroom scales, gadgets that connect to the Internet are on the rise in homes, and apps are the means to monitor and control them.
By 2022, the average household with two teenage children will own roughly 50 Internet-connected devices, up from approximately 10 today, according to estimates by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This trend has been dubbed the "Internet of Things".
" are the people end of the Internet of things," said Stephen Prentice, vice president and fellow at research advisory firm Gartner.
"On one hand you've got all these devices giving out information, and on the other you have people accessing them increasingly through their tablets or mobile phones."
Home control is a popular use of the technology. A washer and dryer produced by Samsung, for instance, can be remotely controlled with an Android app to start and stop the machine, and control factors like temperature. Users can even get notifications when a load is finished.
Overhead lights called Philips Hue can be controlled with the accompanying iPhone or Android app to switch them on and off remotely, set timers, and change mood lighting.
Temperature in the home can be controlled remotely with Nest Mobile for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android, while air quality can be measured with Netatmo, a personal weather station and air quality monitor. With the iPhone or Android app, users can view information on indoor air quality, such as the level of carbon dioxide and humidity in the room, and the app suggests ideal times to ventilate.
There's even an app and gadget for plant owners. Koubachi, a plant sensor placed in the soil of a potted plant, connects to an iPhone app to send notifications when it needs watering, misting, sun or shade.
"The diversity of these devices is huge," said Prentice.
"The vast majority of the future devices of this type don't exist today -- they're new things. If you can measure it, then someone is going to have a device to do that and someone will find a use for that data," he said.
Apps and gadgets are also playing a role in monitoring and tracking health.
For weight tracking, the Withings Health Mate app for iPhone and Android automatically tracks weight by connecting to one of Paris-based company Withings' smart bathroom scales. A similar app for babies, Withings Baby Companion app for iPhone, tracks a baby's weight and compares it to others the same age.
Those who want to improve their posture can turn to the LUMOback, a device worn around the waist that connects to an iPhone app that notifies users when they're slumping, and track their posture over time.
To track calories burned, distance traveled or steps taken, there are a flurry of options available, including wristbands like the Nike+ FuelBand and Larklife, which connect to iPhone apps, and the Jawbone UP and Fitbit One, which connect to iPhone and Android apps.
However, with this new technology on the rise, Prentice is concerned that privacy laws may not yet account for the collection of personal data that these gadgets and apps may have access to, such as location.
"It's a bit of a wild west out there," said Prentice. "The regulatory environment just hasn't caught up with the technology," he said.
"At the moment it's a case of buyer beware."
(Editing by Paul Casciato)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/home-health-devices-controlled-apps-rise-094116126--finance.html
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In Slate?s Doctor Who TV Club, Mac Rogers discusses the Doctor?s travels via IM every week with the show?s bloggers and fans. This week he?s chatting about "Hide" with Phil Sandifer, who writes TARDIS Eruditorum.
Mac: So in ?Hide,? the Doctor and Clara arrive in 1974 at Caliburn House, a country manor that's been the site of hauntings?even before it was built?by the ?Caliburn ghast,? a spectral woman who always appears in the same beseeching position. There are already two investigators on site, a psychic named Emma Grayling (Jessica Raine), and Professor Alec Palmer (Dougray Scott), a former "spook" and war hero turned ghost-hunter. Was it odd or out of character that the normally nonviolent Doctor seemed so effusive about Palmer's war heroism?
Phil: Although, what is the Doctor if not a former spook and war hero turned ghost-hunter?
Mac: Emma?s the one with the psychic powers, for sure, but Alec?s the one with all the substance, all the history. During the split-scene in which the Doctor talks to Alec and Clara talks to Emma, it's a Bechdel nightmare: The Doctor and Alec talk about regret and moral reckoning and redemption ? while Clara and Emma essentially talk about boys.
Phil: Yeah. That was not the episode's finest moment.
Mac: I did love the Smith/Scott half, though. Smith portrayed the Doctor as riveted by this opportunity to listen to a man assessing his life in this way. It?s rare that we see the Doctor interact with someone he's not educating or bantering with. Alec makes an interesting contrast to Kahler Jex from "A Town Called Mercy"?he may be deciding how his debt is paid, but at least he's not hiding his debt. But I?m forgetting the ongoing Clara mystery arc!
Phil: I'm not entirely sure about Clara in general, actually. I mean, I love Jenna Louise-Coleman, but I feel like the mystery of her character is kind of eating the actual character.
Mac: Is Moffat overdetermining the companion?s character arcs, do you think? In Season 5, I felt like we got both the mystery of Amy and the character of Amy.
Phil: But notably, the character came first. ?The Eleventh Hour? is all about selling us the character of Amy, and then you get the barest hint of the mystery of Amy at the end. Here we got the mystery of Clara first, then the character. I'm not convinced it's a problem. Is Generic Companion really so bad? Unless you really think that we still need the companion as our way in to Doctor Who?and most of the way through Series 7 of an enormously popular television show I think it's a pretty tough sell that you do?I'm not sure a Generic Companion who serves as an interesting mystery isn't perfectly fine.
Mac: So we reaffirm, through Emma?s psychic powers, that Clara is an ordinary human. We have that now from both firsthand time travel observation and from psychic perception. Why give us the same non-clue a second time?
Phil: I assumed Grayling was initially hiding something from the Doctor. That her "Isn't that enough?" was "There's more, but you don't want to know it," and that there was a revelation that the Doctor now knows that we don't.
Mac: Ooohhh. I didn't pick up on that.
Phil: I assume it's going to tie back to River, since, well, that's just basic Aristotle. One thing that's interesting about Moffat's mysteries is that he tends to be really ambivalent on the question of when the Doctor figures it out. It's still not at all clear when the switch between RealAmy and FleshAmy in Season 6 happened, for instance. Which makes it very strange to play along at home, because the mystery cheats. But on the other hand, Moffat plays with a sort of scrupulous fairness: Part of why it's so ambiguous when the Amy swap happens is that if you rewatch ?The Impossible Astronaut,? it seems like the Doctor knows what's up when he asks Amy if someone is "making her say this" when she tells him he has to go to 1969. So I think there's an extent to which the mystery is designed to be speculation-proof. Clara is likely a mystery that is based around things that we can't quite tell are clues yet.
Mac: There's no doubt the pace of Doctor Who has picked up noticeably in the Moffat era, which is very much in evidence in "Hide." I like that this lets the show cover more ground, but other times I feel like we're losing chances to just hang out with the characters, get to know them a bit more.
Phil: The speed at which the premise gets set up is just breathtaking. You get a minute or two of generic ghost hunters story, drop the Doctor in, and you're off to the races. I kind of like the accelerated pace, in part because it just feels very fresh and interesting in the face of the American cable tendency toward slowness. Doctor Who is very actively going in the opposite direction?hyper-compressed storytelling.
Mac: There's almost a sense of writer Neil Cross and director Jamie Payne hurrying us through the obligatory haunted house exploration bits so they can get to the sci-fi explanation.
Phil: Well, if only because the sci-fi explanation lets you get to those gorgeous wooded sections. Which, wow. And that's quite clever too?switching from haunted house to Hound of the Baskervilles midway, which doesn't change the tone of the story but just makes the whole thing feel even bigger and more of a roller coaster. Plus, again, just stunning visuals.
Mac: No doubt, those scenes looked amazing! Moffat's definitely overseen a quantum leap in the show's visual texture.
Phil: And I love the very late reveal of the monster. I mean, the confidence the series has in its visuals these days is just mind-blowing to anyone who watched the classic series. It goes an entire episode acting like they didn't have the budget for a proper monster and were just going to get by with some CGI wooshes, and then they reveal an absolutely gorgeous design just for that moment of the Doctor being in "I'm reuniting lovers!" mode and then coming face to face with this thing.
Mac: I loved how it moved, how utterly inhuman (and non?Deep Space Nine-y) it was!
Phil: One thing I loved about ?Hide? was that it didn't quite have an ending. It feels like it wraps up at about 35-40 minutes, then suddenly acquires a whole new plot thread when the monsters are lovers, then leaves that off before quite resolving it.
Mac: It ties in to what you've been writing about how television has learned to let us fill in the gaps. We don't see the Doctor, Clara, and Emma save the creature at the end, but we've seen them pull it off once before so we don't need to see the whole process a second time?we ?auto-fill? in our minds.
The accelerated pace also made room for that quieter moment between the Doctor and Clara at the midpoint. After watching the Doctor pilot the TARDIS through ?the entire life cycle of Earth?s history,? Clara says, ?We?re all ghosts to you. We must be nothing. What can we possibly be?? The Doctor?s response is gonna have some Doctor Who fans baffled and some others angry: "You are the only mystery worth solving." That's one hell of a thing to have the Doctor?an intergalactic time traveler?say, right? We might think he just means Clara, but that's not what she asked him. She asked, "What can we possibly be?" meaning, as I take it, humans. But isn't that belied by the episode ending with him solving a mystery involving very non-humans?
Phil: I think the Doctor is clearly answering a slightly different question than Clara asked there. But I also think it's true for the Doctor?it's why despite being an intergalactic time traveler and quasi-god, he really loves late-20th/early-21st-century Britain more than anything else in the universe. This "humanity" thing keeps drawing him back in.
Mac: It seems this quasi-god has a real fascination for how much mayfly-like mortals can pack into their short lives.
Phil: One does get the sense that the Doctor does just like "people." Whatever their species. And that he's not all that invested in the differences. It fits with my overall view of Moffat's work, which is that it's about clever but fundamentally aloof people learning to exist in society with friends and family. And it?s the fundamental difference between Moffat and Russell T. Davies. Davies wrote the Doctor as a humanity fan: "I think you look like giants." Moffat writes him as someone constantly grappling with a desire for humanity.
Mac: Great example: When Clara's upset in the TARDIS, it clearly wigs the Doctor out. He doesn't know how to just step back and let the other person speak. He keeps prodding her: "Some help? Context? Cheat sheet? Something?" That?s some grappling with a desire for humanity right there.
Phil: And in that regard, Moffat's hyper-compressed storytelling fits what he's doing. If Doctor Who is going to be about a very strange man trying to understand us, its structure needs to be a bit strange and off-putting. But it's a new approach to television, and it's no surprise that Doctor Who sometimes flubs it. When it doesn't work you get "Power of Three," where this auto-fill tactic results in a very clumsy ending. When it does you get "Hide." That's the price of experimenting.
Mac: Was Clara?s line, "When are we going?" a tip of the hat to Inspector Spacetime?
Phil: It wouldn't surprise me. I still can't figure out how nobody made Matt Smith pronounce Metebelis Three correctly. (And also, how on Earth was the Doctor stupid enough to go back and get another crystal?)
Mac: Yeah, don't they have a classic series consultant on set at all times? And if not, where can one apply for that position?
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