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Friday, March 22, 2013

Political picks: Obama taps top seeds, McConnell Is a homer

Politicians have unleashed their NCAA picks, and no Final Four has gone unturned for latent political meaning.

President Obama has carved out a niche as the nation's top political NCAA predictor, holding his annual tete-a-tete with ESPN's Andy Katz. But this year it's a Republican, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who's leading the bracketology charge with a set of picks that should probably turn some basketball-knowing heads.

Here are the NCAA brackets of three incredibly powerful people, and one person who influences the lawmakers who do the actual voting.

Marco Rubio

The Florida senator has upsets all over the place. Notre Dame (7) over Ohio State (2). Ole Miss (12) over Wisconsin (5). UNLV (5) in the Elite Eight. VCU (5) over Kansas (1)! In the Final Four, he picks his undergraduate alma mater, Florida (3), over his law school alma mater, Miami (2).

As brackets go, this one's for tournament dreamers. Unless, that is, Rubio planned to enter these picks in an NCAA pool that awards seed differential-in which case he's doing it for the money.

The bracket proves one of two things: Either Rubio is a champion of underdogs, or he's a hardcore gambler at heart.

President Obama

Nothing too exciting here. Obama's Final Four consists of two one-seeds, a two-seed, and a three-seed.

The president knows his basketball, but this bracket is distinctly lacking in verve. We could talk about why he picked Indiana-a red state that's kind of a swing state, etc.-or we could talk about how his biggest upsets are Minnesota (11) over UCLA (6), Belmont (11) over New Mexico (3), and Michigan (4) over Kansas (1). This is the bracket of a man who just wants to keep things going smoothly, not rock the boat, and keep everyone calm while he's in Israel.

In other words, Obama and Rubio have picked nearly opposite brackets. Which makes sense.

Via David Catanese, the blog Sports Grid has broken down the Obama vs. Rubio bracketological divide thusly:

Although their Final Four's look similar, with top seeds in all spots, their Sweet Sixteen's are diametrically opposed to one another (political jargon for opposite-when in Rome). Here's a simple way of looking at it. The combined seedings of Obama's Sweet Sixteen comes out to a paltry 41. That means that he's almost exclusively choosing higher seeded teams to advance. Rubio's Sweet Sixteen, on the other hand, has a total seeding number of 70, meaning he's got low seeds all over the damn place! Go figure, the liberal goes conservative and the conservative goes all whimsical.

Mitch McConnell

There's really only one thing you need to know about the Senate minority leader's bracket, which can be found at WHAS 11: He's got Western Kentucky (16) topping Kansas (1) and Villanova (9) before inexplicably losing to Virginia Commonwealth (5).

He also picked Louisville (1), where he went to college as an undergrad, to go all the way.

McConnell is the ultimate homer.

Grover Norquist

The president of Americans for Tax Reform included a preamble to his bracket, scrawled at the top: "Hey taxpayer, I chose my winners based on the lowest top marginal income tax rate in each team's home state. In case of a tie, I went with the Right to Work state. Good luck with your brackets! -Grover"

Norquist has done something few are willing to do. He's filled out a bracket based on pure ideology.

Researchers use metamaterials to observe giant photonic spin hall effect

Friday, March 22, 2013

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have once again demonstrated the incredible capabilities of metamaterials ? artificial nanoconstructs whose optical properties arise from their physical structure rather than their chemical composition. Engineering a unique two-dimensional sheet of gold nanoantennas, the researchers were able to obtain the strongest signal yet of the photonic spin Hall effect, an optical phenomenon of quantum mechanics that could play a prominent role in the future of computing.

"With metamaterial, we were able to greatly enhance a naturally weak effect to the point where it was directly observable with simple detection techniques," said Xiang Zhang, a faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division who led this research. "We also demonstrated that metamaterials not only allow us to control the propagation of light but also allos control of circular polarization. This could have profound consequences for information encoding and processing."

Zhang is the corresponding author of a paper describing this work in the journal Science. The paper is titled "Photonic Spin Hall Effect at Metasurfaces." Co-authors are Xiaobo Yin, Ziliang Ye, Jun Sun Rho and Yuan Wang.

The spin Hall effect, named in honor of physicist Edwin Hall, describes the curved path that spinning electrons follow as they move through a semiconductor. The curved movement arises from the interaction between the physical motion of the electron and its spin ? a quantized angular momentum that gives rise to magnetic moment. Think of a baseball pitcher putting spin on a ball to make it curve to the left or right.

"Light moving through a metal also displays the spin Hall effect but the photonic spin Hall effect is very weak because the spin angular momentum of photons and spin-orbit interactions are very small," says Xiaobo Yin, a member of Zhang's research group and the lead author of the Science paper. "In the past, people have managed to observe the photonic spin Hall effect by generating the process over and over again to obtain an accumulative signal, or by using highly sophisticated quantum measurements. Our metamaterial makes the photonic spin Hall effect observable even with a simple camera."

Metamaterials have garnered a lot of attention in recent years because their unique structure affords electromagnetic properties unattainable in nature. For example, a metamaterial can have a negative index of refraction, the ability to bend light backwards, unlike all materials found in nature, which bend light forward. Zhang, who holds the Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California (UC) Berkeley, where he also directs the National Science Foundation's Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center, has been at the forefront of metamaterials research. For this study, he and his group fashioned metamaterial surfaces about 30 nanometers thick (a human hair by comparison is between 50,000 and 100,000 nanometers thick). These metasurfaces were constructed from V-shaped gold nanoantennas whose geometry could be configured by adjusting the length and orientation of the arms of the Vs.

"We chose eight different antenna configurations with optimized geometry parameters to generate a linear phase gradient along the x direction," says Yin. "This enabled us to control the the propagation of the light and introduce strong photon spin-orbit interactions through rapid changes in direction. The photonic spin Hall effect depends on the curvature of the light's trajectory, so the sharper the change in propagation direction, the stronger the effect."

Since the entire metasurface sample measured only 0.3 millimeters, a 50-millimeter lens was used to project the transmission of the light through the metamaterial onto a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera for imaging. From the CCD images, the researchers determined that both the control of light propagation and the giant photonic spin Hall effect were the direct results of the designed meta-material. This finding opens up a wealth of possibilities for new technologies.

"The controllable spin-orbit interaction and momentum transfer between spin and orbital angular momentum allows us to manipulate the information encoded on the polarization of light, much like the 0 and 1 of today's electronic devices," Yin says. "But photonic devices could encode more information and provide greater information security than conventional electronic devices."

Yin says the ability to control left and right circular polarization of light in metamaterial surfaces should allow for the formation of optical elements, like highly coveted "flat lenses," or the management of light polarization without using wave plates.

"Metamaterials provide us with tremendous design freedom that will allow us to modulate the strength of the photonic spin Hall effect at different spatial locations," Yin says. "We knew the photonic spin Hall effect existed in nature but it was so hard to detect. Now, with the right metamaterials we can not only enhance this effect we can harness it for our own purposes."

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Rebuilding U.K. Tourism BRIC by BRIC | Adventure Travel News

Assistant Editor?s Note: In an article originally published by Hotel Industry Magazine,?Euromonitor International?s?Franziska Brandenburger explains why the future of the UK hotel industry lies with the BRIC nations.

2012 put the UK on the map ? and many expect the events of last year to?positively influence incoming tourism?over the next two years.

As business and?leisure travel from Europe and the US to the UK is on the decline?due to the economic climate and?turmoil in the Eurozone, companies operating in the travel and tourism industry are paying more attention to travellers from the BRIC nations.

The first half of 2012 saw sharp increases in incoming travel to the UK, especially from Thailand, South Korea, Brazil, South Africa and India, which is proof that the travel and tourism industry needs to start focusing on travellers from emerging markets. Industry experts believe that Chinese travellers are the most important inbound tourists to business from the BRICs, followed by Brazil, Russia and India.

Chinese Middle Class Fuel Spending

Discretionary spending is rising across all income levels in the BRIC markets, but it is the feted middle classes, and their growing propensity to travel, that have opened up opportunities for hotels in particular.

In particular, China?s rising levels of disposable income have spurred the growth of the Chinese middle class.

According to recent analysis by the Carlyle Group: ?By some estimates, the country?s persistent growth will bring nearly 100 million households into the middle and affluent classes. [This trend highlights] strong growth in aggregate consumption, as millions experience rising incomes and consumption shifts from the bare essentials to more discretionary items.?

Per capita annual disposable income currently sits at ?2,151, with 7.1% projected annual growth between 2012 and 2020, amongst the highest growth rates in the world.

Russia

Russia is one of Europe?s largest consumer markets with rapidly rising consumer expenditure and annual disposable income levels. Russia is also one of the world?s largest and most rapidly expanding luxury markets, driven by an increasing number of super wealthy.

This dynamic market is set to continue its solid growth. In 2012, Russian per capita annual disposable income stood at ?4,833, with it predicted to grow by 3.1% annually from 2012 to 2020. The country was hit hard during the economic and financial crisis in 2009, which means that regular Russians will search for greater bargains, while the very rich will continue their high-spending lifestyles.

Brazil

Against the backdrop of economic slowdown, Brazil?s disposable income and consumer expenditure levels have remained robust on the back of high employment and a burgeoning middle class.

Brazilians now enjoy strong purchasing power and more room for discretionary spending, with a large section of the population having moved out of poverty and low-paid labour over the 2005-2012 period. Brazil?s annual disposable income per capita stood at ?5,212 in 2012 and is set to grow by 3.7% annually over the next eight years.

Visas Hinder Travel

One hurdle constraining growth in inbound flows from the BRICs is a need for travellers from Russia, India and China to obtain a?visa to enter the UK. This really?limits the UK?s ability to compete?head to head with other European destinations.

Further planned increases in Air Passenger Duty (APD) in 2013 pose another threat and will particularly affect passengers on long-haul flights.

Industry experts believe that Brazil and India will be the BRIC countries most affected by the APD hike as these countries? tourists will most likely avoid travelling to the UK. The UK has the highest rate of air tax in the world, almost 400% more than the majority of EU countries.

The strength of sterling against the euro is also an important factor taken into account by foreign travellers when deciding whether to visit the UK. While the Chinese Yuan strengthened against the euro in 2012, the exchange rate with the pound sterling stayed relatively stable, boosting inbound flows to Europe from China.

Rising competition from other European destinations like Italy and France adds further pressure. For example, arrivals from Brazil dropped from 179,000 in 2008 to 117,000 in 2010 and, while expected to grow again, inbound tourism from Brazil is not likely to fully recover over the next five years.

UK Strategy

Implementing appropriate strategies to court these visitors will have a significant impact on arrivals and consequently the performance of well-prepared businesses.

Leading hotel chains should be looking to adapt to the specific needs and tastes of tourists from BRIC nations to benefit from this potential. Visitors from Russia and China in particular are often fascinated by the British monarchy, its traditions and etiquette, so attractions and tours related to the royal family are also expected to do well. And while London will be the key beneficiary, it is believed that, given the long-haul nature of visits, the opportunity extends beyond the capital.

Consequently, other areas of the UK that gear up appropriately will benefit, as BRIC travellers, taking longer holidays than many from closer geographies, take the time to tour around the country and make the most of their trips.

VisitBritain is particularly targeting Chinese tourists to increase visitor spending in UK hotels by ?500 million and create 14,000 new jobs by 2015. In order to achieve these targets, the UK government has increased its GREAT marketing campaign, focusing on attracting visitors from China, by ?8 million.

Clearly, the future of the UK hotel industry lies with BRICs, and many of leading hotel groups like Hilton and Starwood are introducing Chinese-friendly services to capitalise on the opportunity. These include Chinese restaurants, staff fluent in Mandarin and Chinese, as well as Chinese programmes available on TV.

Beyond BRIC

UK hoteliers should also pay attention to the second tier of emerging tourism economies, also called SLIMMA nations, which include Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico and Argentina.

In particular, visitors from Mexico, Argentina and Indonesia with growing disposable income levels could become the next powerhouses of the travel and tourism industry.

How prepared are you?

Source: http://www.adventuretravelnews.com/20396

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Monday, March 18, 2013

High court divided over Ariz. voter requirement

FILE- This March 5, 2009, file photo shows the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington. The Supreme Court will struggle this week with the validity of an Arizona law that tries to keep illegal immigrants from voting by demanding all state residents show documents proving their U.S. citizenship before registering to vote in national elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Supreme Court justices disagreed Monday over whether states can require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.

Arizona and other states told the justices the precaution is needed to keep illegal immigrants and other noncitizens from voting. But some justices asked whether states have the right to force people to document their citizenship when Congress ordered the states to accept and use federal "motor voter" registration cards that only ask registrants to swear on paper that they are U.S. citizens.

"I have a real big disconnect with how you can be saying you're accepting and using, when you're not registering people when they use it the way the federal law permits them to," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said to Arizona Attorney General Thomas C. Horne.

Said Horne: "It is the burden of the states to determine the eligibility of the voters."

This is the second voting eligibility issue the high court is tackling this session. Last month, several justices voiced deep skepticism about whether a section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a law that has helped millions of minorities exercise their right to vote, especially in areas of the Deep South, was still needed.

The court will make decisions in both later this year.

In Monday's case, the court is deciding the legality of Arizona's requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal "motor voter" registration law. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that that 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which doesn't require such documentation, trumps Arizona's Proposition 200 passed in 2004.

Arizona appealed that decision to the Supreme Court.

The case focuses on Arizona, which has tangled frequently with the federal government over immigration issues involving the Mexican border. But it has broader implications because four other states ? Alabama, Georgia, Kansas and Tennessee ? have similar requirements, and 12 other states are contemplating such legislation.

The federal "motor voter" law, enacted in 1993 to expand voter registration, requires states to offer voter registration when a resident applies for a driver's license or certain benefits. Another provision of that law ? the one at issue before the court ? requires states to allow would-be voters to fill out mail-in registration cards and swear they are citizens under penalty of perjury, but it doesn't require them to show proof. Under Proposition 200, Arizona officials require an Arizona driver's license issued after 1996, a U.S. birth certificate, a passport or other similar document, or the state will reject the federal registration application form.

Justice Antonin Scalia seemed to think that a sworn statement wasn't enough to allow people to register to vote. "If you're willing to violate the voting laws, I suppose you're willing to violate the perjury laws," he said.

But lawyer Patricia Millett, representing those challenging the law, answered that courts accept sworn statements as proof in criminal cases, some of which end in executions. Congress decided that a sworn statement with the risk of perjury was sufficient to register to vote in the federal system, she said. "This is not just a ticket into the state's own registration process so they can go, 'Thank you very much, (throw) it in the garbage can, now do what we would like you to do.' It is a registration form," Millett said.

The Arizona requirement applies only to people who seek to register using the federal mail-in form. The state has its own form and an online system to register to vote when renewing a driver's license. The appeals court ruling did not affect proof of citizenship requirements using the state forms.

Justice Samuel Alito asked if Arizona kept two different voter rolls, one for people who used the state system and one for those who use the federal. The answer was no.

That means that some people face one set of requirements to vote, and others a different set, he said. "This seems to me like a crazy system," Alito said.

Opponents of Arizona's law see it as an attack on vulnerable voter groups such as minorities, immigrants and the elderly. They say they've counted more than 31,000 potentially legal voters in Arizona who easily could have registered before Proposition 200 but were blocked initially by the law in the 20 months after it passed in 2004. They say about 20 percent of those thwarted were Latino.

But Arizona officials say they should be able to pass laws to stop illegal immigrants and other noncitizens from getting on their voting rolls. The Arizona voting law was part of a package that also denied some government benefits to illegal immigrants and required Arizonans to show identification before voting.

Checks since last fall by The Associated Press showed that in Colorado, election officials found 441 noncitizens on the voter rolls out of nearly 3.5 million voters. Florida officials found 207, or 0.001 percent of the state's 11.4 million registered voters. In North Carolina, 79 people admitted to election officials that they weren't citizens and were removed from the rolls, along with 331 others who didn't respond to repeated inquires.

Horne compared the Arizona system to an airline sending out e-tickets instead of paper tickets but asking for identification before allowing passengers to board the airplane. "That would not contradict the statement that they are accepting and using e-tickets," he said.

But Justice Elena Kagan didn't accept that analogy, saying Arizona went further. "Wouldn't it contradict it if instead of saying 'Well, we'd like you to offer identification,' saying, 'Well, we'd like you also to have a paper ticket'?" she said.

Arizona asked the federal government to add the state's citizenship eligibility requirements to the federal form but was turned away. Scalia said the state should have sued to overturn that decision. "Why didn't you do that?" said Scalia, who indicated that he would look favorably on such a challenge.

The decision not to challenge was his predecessor's, Horne said.

The case is 12-71, Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.

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Associated Press writer Jacques Billeaud contributed to this story from Phoenix.

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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Matt Lauer to Replace Alex Trebek as Host of Jeopardy?

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What Games Are: Where Did Wii U Go Wrong?

Remember that console that Nintendo launched with the tablet controller? No, not the Wii, the other one. No? Strangely most of us seem to have forgotten all about it too, and quickly. Sales are terrible and buzz about the system is almost nil. Is it salvageable at this point, or does Nintendo need to go and have a good long think about how it got to this point after riding so high.

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College mourns pregnant Pa. coach killed in crash

This undated photo provided by Seton Hill University shows women's college lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley. A tour bus carrying the Seton Hill women's lacrosse team to a game went off the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013, and crashed into a tree. Authorities said the accident killed the driver and Kristina Quigley, who was about six months pregnant, and sent others to the hospital. (AP Photo/Courtesy Seton Hill University)

Emergency and rescue crews respond to the scene of a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. Authorities say the tour bus crashed on the freeway at mile marker 227 in central Pennsylvania, and serious injuries have been reported. Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department says the crash in the eastbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was reported just before 9 a.m. Saturday. She says there are reports of multiple injuries, including that some are serious. (AP Photo/The Sentinel, Jason Malmont ) MANDATORY CREDIT

UPDATES INFORMATION ON BUS CRASH - Members of the Cumberland County Coroners Office investigate the scene of a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. Authorities say the tour bus crashed on the freeway at mile marker 227 in central Pennsylvania, and serious injuries have been reported. Lacrosse players from Seton Hill University and three coaches were among the 23 people aboard when the bus crashed at about 9 a.m., turnpike spokeswoman Renee Colborn said. It's not clear what caused the crash, but state police were investigating, said Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department. (AP Photo/The Sentinel, Jason Malmont ) MANDATORY CREDIT

UPDATES INFORMATION ON BUS CRASH - Emergency and rescue crews respond to the scene of a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. Authorities say the tour bus crashed on the freeway at mile marker 227 in central Pennsylvania, and serious injuries have been reported. Lacrosse players from Seton Hill University and three coaches were among the 23 people aboard when the bus crashed at about 9 a.m., turnpike spokeswoman Renee Colborn said. It's not clear what caused the crash, but state police were investigating, said Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department. (AP Photo/The Sentinel, Jason Malmont ) MANDATORY

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) ? A small Catholic college outside Pittsburgh mourned the loss of a women's lacrosse coach who died along with her unborn child when the team's bus crashed on the way to a game, remembering her Sunday as warm, outgoing and a natural leader.

Team members and fans at a Seton Hill University baseball game observed a minute of silence for the two crash victims. With the players in the background on a cold day, students and other mourners visited a tribute set up in front of a lacrosse net next to the baseball field that featured bouquets of flowers, stuffed animals, a lacrosse stick, a whistle and a candle sat in front of a team photo and signs reading "In memoriam - Kristina Quigley - Forever a Griffin."

Players and coaches from Seton Hill were among 23 people aboard when the bus crashed into a tree Saturday morning on the Pennsylvania Turnpike outside Harrisburg. The team was headed to an afternoon game at Millersville University, about 50 miles from the crash site in central Pennsylvania. Police are investigating the cause.

Head coach Quigley, 30, of Greensburg, died of her injuries at a hospital, Cumberland County authorities said. Quigley was about six months pregnant, and her unborn son didn't survive. The bus driver, Anthony Guaetta, 61, of Johnstown, died at the scene.

Saturday's game and a Sunday home game were canceled after the crash, and Seton Hill, a Catholic liberal arts school of about 2,500 students, said a memorial Mass was planned for Sunday night on campus. The school is also offering grief counseling to students.

Duquesne University women's lacrosse coach Mike Scerbo remembered Quigley as a warm, outgoing person who immediately impressed him when he hired her to be an assistant during the 2008 season. Quigley, a Duquesne alum, spent just one season under Scerbo before moving to South Carolina to start Erskine College's NCAA Division II program.

"In that time, I really saw how much passion she had to be a coach, and how much she enjoyed working with the kids," Scerbo said. "She was a teacher, and she wanted to help kids grow and learn, not just about the sport, but about life."

She spent three years at Erskine before taking the top job at Seton Hill for the 2012 season. She stayed in touch with Scerbo, often seeking his guidance and showing up at the Duquesne alumni game.

"She was a very happy person, very passionate about life, about her players, about her job and most importantly about her family," Scerbo said.

Quigley, a native of Baltimore, was married and had a young son, Gavin, the school said.

Two victims flown to Penn State Hershey Medical Center remained there Sunday, and no information was released about them. A woman injured in the crash was discharged Sunday afternoon from another hospital. All others aboard the bus were taken to hospitals as a precaution, but almost all were treated and released.

Police couldn't immediately say what had caused the crash. The front side of the bus, which was towed from the scene Saturday night, was shorn away, and the vehicle came to rest upright about 70 yards from the highway at the bottom of a grassy slope.

The bus operator, Mlaker Charter & Tours, of Davidsville, Pa., is up to date on its inspections, which include bus and driver safety checks, said Jennifer Kocher, a spokeswoman for the state Public Utility Commission, which regulates bus companies.

The agency's motor safety inspectors could think of no accidents or violations involving the company that would raise a red flag, she said, though complete safety records were not available Saturday.

On Tuesday, another bus carrying college lacrosse players from a Vermont team was hit by a sports car that spun out of control on a wet highway in upstate New York, sending the bus toppling onto its side, police said. One person in the car died.

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Todt reported from Philadelphia.