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10 Things to Know for Friday
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio takes questions from reporters on gun control, immigration and the budget during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 11, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio takes questions from reporters on gun control, immigration and the budget during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 11, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2012 file photo, drought-damaged corn is seen in a field near Nickerson, Neb. A new federal science report looking at last year's Midwestern drought says it was a freak of nature that wasn't caused by man-made global warming. The 50-page drought task force report written by dozens of scientists from five different federal agencies looked into why forecasters didn't see the more than $12 billion drought coming. The researchers concluded that it was so unusual and unpredictable that it couldn't have been forecast. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
FILE - This combination of file photos shows Brad Paisley, left, in Hollywood, Calif. on Nov. 1, 2011 and LL Cool J in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2013. Southern white men don't usually drive racial dialogue. For as long as race has riven America, they have been depicted more often as the problem than the solution. So the country music star must have been unsurprised at the days of widespread criticism of his new song ?Accidental Racist,? which details the challenges facing a ?white man from the southland? and then features LL Cool J rapping a black perspective. (Photos by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:
1. KOREA LIKELY ABLE TO LAUNCH A NUCLEAR WARHEAD
In a jarring revelation, a U.S. intelligence report says the communist nation's knowhow has advanced; Obama urges calm.
2. GANG OF EIGHT REACHES AGREEMENT ON IMMIGRATION
Senators from both sides of the aisle say they're ready to unveil a sweeping legislative package next week.
3. HOW ASSAD IS GAINING GROUND
The Syrian regime is employing air power ? its biggest advantage in the civil war ? to push back rebel advances.
4. CLIMATE CHANGE ACQUITTED IN DROUGHT
Last year's huge U.S. drought was a freak of nature that wasn't caused by man-made global warming, a federal study finds.
5. WHAT STABBING SUSPECT DREAMED ABOUT
Man accused in Texas college attack tells investigators he fantasized about cutting off people's faces and wearing them as masks.
6. LOST IN SPACE (BUT NOW PERHAPS FOUND)
Russian space fans scanning NASA images spot what may be a Soviet spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1971 ? and mysteriously stopped working.
7. WHERE SALT IS LEAVING A BAD TASTE
In Mexico, people eat nearly three times the recommended amount, and an anti-salt campaign has been launched.
8. WHO SHOULD TRY THE NEW FACEBOOK PHONE
The Home app for Android phones is ideal for people whose lives are centered on the social network, AP's Anick Jesdanun finds. Others might not feel at home.
9. COUNTRY SINGER SPARKS AN OUTCRY
Brad Paisley's new song says it's possible to be an "Accidental Racist." But many disagree.
10. SURPRISE AT THE TOP OF THE LEADERBOARD
Sergio Garcia, who's had only two top-10 finishes in 14 appearances at the Masters, shares the lead after Day 1.
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Interview with Pedasi Real Estate Agent Tedd Tennis
Tedd Tennis, manager of our Pedasi real estate office, was interviewed this month by the local paper El Pediseno. You can see the transcript below.
A native of Michigan, Tedd first visited Panama 22 years ago on holiday and has been coming back ever since. After living in Japan and Hawaii, Tedd moved to Pedasi in 2009 to chase big fish and pursue Pedasi real estate opportunities. In addition to managing the Pedasi office of Panama Equity Realty, he breeds cattle, plays guitar, and sings in the Smiley?s House Band. This month we sit down with Tedd to ask him his thoughts on the Pedasi real estate market.
EP. How?s business in Pedasi right now?
TT. The short answer is ?very good?. Our Pedasi office has done more business in the last six months than in the prior three years combined. Overall, the rise of consumer confidence globally has had a direct impact on the amount of people who are making it down to Pedasi, all with an aim to capitalize on the growth the region is seeing.
In our case, they are calling us for real estate. We?ve been here for a while now and have developed a lot of contacts with the community, so we are seeing a lot of referral business from repeat buyers, local sellers, and overseas clients looking to buy and sell.
EP. You meet a lot of people who are visiting Pedasi looking to either move here or to at least have a second home. Most of these people are actively comparing Pedasi to other areas both inside and outside of Panama. How does Pedasi/Panama stack up?
TT. Good question! There is a lot to like about Pedasi. Like many places in Panama we?ve got year-round warm weather, great beaches, and tons of natural beauty. What really sets us apart in my opinion is that the people here are small-town friendly and generally very welcoming. I?ve also noticed over the years that they take a lot of pride in having a clean, safe town. Believe me that visitors notice these things and people are really looking for that. You don?t find this sort of community too many places these days.
On the negative side, the challenges we face are distance (everything is spread out), lack of entertainment options, and construction reliability.
EP. Can you elaborate?
TT. Well, by the time people arrive in Pedasi they?ve typically driven over four hours on roads that at this point still have very poor signage. It?s a Panama thing and I?m hoping that the Ministry of Tourism will get it one day and just put signs up everywhere.?Once the folks get here there is plenty to do outside during the day, but we lack the shops, museums, galleries, golf courses and other entertainment options of bigger cities.
What I meant by the ?challenge of construction? is that we have a small (and at this point very overstretched) labor pool for construction, and have been unable to attract the big companies from Panama City and elsewhere to come down and build on a larger scale.
The good news is that I?m seeing some real progress on all three of these fronts. We have the new airport for international charters opening in Rio Hato this year. That?s only about 2.5 hours drive from Pedasi and is going to be a game changer! They?re also finishing the new 4-lane highway between Divisa and Las Tablas and of course our new small airport in Pedasi itself.
When I came here four years ago there were maybe five hotels and five restaurants between Pedasi and Playa Venao. Now we?ve got more than 20 of each, with new ones opening all the time. It?s great for both visitors and locals alike and it?s the foreigners visiting and moving here that?s driving the demand.
As for new home inventory, we?re getting more small developers like Tom Gibbs and Roy Kaduri building houses in the mid $100,000 range, which we desperately needed. Several new condo projects are already in pre-sales and that promises to add to the Pedasi inventory as well. There?s still a lot of untapped demand for finished homes that we are not meeting right now, and someone with building experience and funds could really do well.
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With Great Power Comes Great Hilarity
Julia Louis-Dreyfus in VeepPhoto by Lacey Terrell/HBO
Last year, in every episode of Veep (HBO, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET), Vice President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) delivered the saddest catchphrase on TV. She?d return to her office or seek solace after a photo op was waylaid by gaffes, and she?d ask a secretary: ?Did the president call?? He never called. That was the joke. It was the final injury piled upon insults, like watching Tom get bested by Jerry for 30 minutes, then learning he has gout.
Meyer was simply too pathetic in that first season. That might be the reason House of Cards, the Netflix series released this winter, became Washington?s political-satire-inspired-by-a-British-satire of choice. It wasn?t smarter than Veep, but its characters were allowed to win sometimes. Francis Underwood snuck all manner of crimes past a compliant media, and we loved him for it. (He actually got away with less than his British counterpart, who managed constantly, untraceably to murder people who combed his secrets.) Selina Meyer couldn?t even fake-cry on camera without the scheme getting leaked.
That?s all in the past. This season starts with Meyer stumping for candidates in the midterm, armed with a decked-out bus and hideous applause lines. (?Freedom is not me-dom?it?s we-dom!?) The president?s party loses, but some junior members of the political data team realize that Meyer?s campaign visits were candidate Viagra. ?You?re acing POTUS,? says one analyst. ?You?re Neo!?
Suddenly the White House almost needs her. She has access to the White House chief of staff, played as a loser by Kevin Dunn?the dad from the Transformers trilogy, somehow even less authoritative here. ?We all know the White House would work so much better if there wasn?t a president,? he tells Meyer. ?But there is, and we have to work around that.? Her prize for having, as the callow new adviser played by Gary Cole notes, ?traction with the swing voters?: an actual role in the administration, in foreign policy. And happily for Veep, that means she gets to commit higher-quality mishaps.
Veep creator Armando Iannucci got an Oscar nomination for In the Loop, his farce about the start of an Iraq?like war, which wrenched jokes out of a conflict that would kill tens of thousands of people. The higher the stakes, the funnier it was. Meyer?s expanded foreign-policy brief gets her Situation Room access and planning roles in military missions. When Meyer meets her daughter?s new boyfriend, an Iranian-American, the vice president can only think about the next rung. Louis-Dreyfus pulls this off with some excellent mugging and awkward conversation??Oh, you speak Farsi???before telling an aide to vet the boy and his family. She?s not pathetic anymore, and a darker farce is a funnier farce.
The whole mood of the show changes around her. House of Cards and Veep 1.0 spent a decent amount of time creating media foils who could quickly suss out whether one of the protagonists was savvy or doomed. The traditional media?s less present in this season. Local TV reporters ask predictable questions, all of them far less important than Reddit and Tumblr and the Internet meme factory. It?s true. It stings. ?What in the living fuck is this?? says Meyer when she?s handed a word cloud. ?Do people not use sentences anymore??
Veep?s supporting cast doesn?t share in the glory. The Ohio congressman who swore to bring down Meyer, played like a future murderer by Dan Bakkedahl, skulks around issuing threats to his aides. ?I?m running out of nice juice to spray on these fucks,? he says?but he doesn?t matter anymore. Jonah (Timothy Simons), the toothsome, fist-pumping White House liaison, undergoes a quick change from jerk to sycophant, in sync with Meyer?s current level of clout. ?You?re obsolete!? laughs Dan Egan (Reid Scott), the ?shit? Meyer hired last season to bump up her PR. ?You?re like an old VCR, but with a bigger mouth.?
I enjoyed the first run of Veep and didn?t particularly mind its departures from the real D.C. But Meyer?s new seriousness does wonders for the comedy. Maybe it?s playing catch-up. When Veep was pitched, America was in the last throes of its fascination with Sarah Palin. The real veep, Joe Biden, was a late-night joke whose most-watched accomplishment was out-debating Palin; the average debate-watcher probably thought he could do the same from his couch. But our vice president has won two elections now, he too has an expanded foreign-policy brief, and either he or Hillary Clinton has the advantage for the next Democratic nomination. It?s unexpected and compelling. So is Veep.
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PFT: NFL?rips 'ill-informed' Sherman? |? CB recants
Getty ImagesSeahawks cornerback Richard Sherman says he was misquoted when the Vancouver Sun reported that he said ?about half the league? takes the prescription drug Adderall. The reporter who quoted Sherman says otherwise.
Sun reporter Mike Beamish told PFT via email that he stands by what he wrote, and he provided us with a transcript of that portion of his conversation with Sherman:
Mike Beamish, Vancouver Sun: ?Let me ask you about the suspension you were handed, and you appealed it. Have you left that behind? Do people ask you about that? Do you have to explain it a lot??
Sherman: ?Not really. It was what it was. I think the league made a mistake. Obviously, they cleaned up their mistake by repealing . . . repealing? . . . taking it away. That?s what it was to me. Obviously, I didn?t do anything. But you have to go through the process to prove you didn?t do anything. Once the process played itself out, it ended up being true.?
Beamish: ?There are players who actually have to take Adderall, because people have ADD and ADHD.?
Sherman: ?There?s about half the league that takes it, and the league has to allow it.?
Beamish: ?It?s like you have a prescription, if you?re a diabetic.?
Sherman: ?Exactly.?
Beamish: ?So, are you on any medication that way??
Sherman: ?I?m not. But there are players that took it. We all got tested on the same day. There was kind of a little mix-up with that.?
Beamish: ?So, it?s not like you?re flying around all the time and you have to take it in the morning. Did it embarrass you? You seem like a
guy who?s good with people. You?re very good with public relations. Even though you were absolved of it, it still kind of hangs with you. Does it bother you that way??
Sherman: ?Not at all. In the NFL, you always have people who don?t like you for any given reason. If you do anything well . . . If you?re the president, if you?re anybody of importance or with any kind of fame or notoriety, there are going to be a lot of people who don?t like what you do, who don?t support you. And you have to embrace it. You have to almost accept that there?s going to be naysayers for everything. If everybody says ?I love you? you?re probably not doing much.?
When Sherman said ?half the league? takes Adderall, he presumably wasn?t saying that he actually knows that 50 percent of the NFL has taken it. He was saying that Adderall use is commonplace, and no big deal. That?s a point he reiterated on NFL Network on Thursday morning. And a point on which he and the league office sharply disagree.
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Plasmonics: A flexible bridge between two worlds
Apr. 10, 2013 ? A novel material shows its credentials to facilitate the integration of photonic and electronic components in practical devices.
Many devices used in everyday life -- whether they be televisions, mobile phones or barcode scanners -- are based on the manipulation of electric currents and light. At the micro- and nano-scales, however, it is typically challenging to integrate electronic components with photonic components. At these small dimensions, the wavelengths of light become long relative to the size of the device. Consequently, the light waves are barely detectable by the device, just as passing waves simply roll past thin poles in a water body.
Better integration of photonic and electronic components in nanoscale devices may now become possible, thanks to work by Khuong Phuong Ong and Hong-Son Chu from the A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing and their co-workers in Singapore and the US. From computer simulations, they have identified that the compound BiFeO3 has the potential to be used to efficiently couple light to electrical charges through light-induced electron oscillations known as plasmons. The researchers propose that this coupling could be activated, controlled and switched off, on demand, by applying an electrical field to an active plasmonic device based on this material. If such a device were realized on a very small footprint it would give scientists a versatile tool for connecting components that manipulate light or electric currents.
"The fact that, in theory, the properties of BiFeO3 [could] be [so readily controlled] by applying an electric field makes it a promising material for high-performance plasmonic devices," explains Ong. He says that they expected such favorable properties after they had calculated the behavior of the material. But when they studied the behavior of the proposed BiFeO3-based device, they found that it could outperform devices based on BaTiO3, which is one of the best materials currently used for such applications.
Like BaTiO3, BiFeO3 can be fabricated relatively easily and cheaply. The new material is therefore a particularly promising candidate for device applications. Ong, Chu and their collaborators will now explore that potential. "We will design BiFeO3 nanostructures optimized for applications such as optical devices for data communication, sensing and solar-energy conversion," says Ong.
According to Ong and Chu, an important step on the path to producing practical devices will be assessing the compatibility of BiFeO3-based structures with standard technologies, which typically use materials known as metal-oxide semiconductors. This future work will involve collaborations with experimental groups at the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering and at the National University of Singapore.
The A*STAR-affiliated researchers contributing to this research are from the Institute of High Performance Computing
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- S.H. Chu, D.J. Singh, J. Wang, E.-P. Li, K.P. Ong. High optical performance and practicality of active plasmonic devices based on rhombohedral BiFeO3. Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2012; 6 (5): 684 DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201280022
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