Scared of spiders? Maybe score Australia off your bucket list.
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“Whatever happened to predictability?” See who you get, dude.
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These films opened the door for other cultures to relate to a favorite.
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“This was really a fantasy,” said director Otto Perminger. “The all-black world shown in these films doesn't exist, at least not in the United States. We used the musical-fantasy quality to convey something of the needs and aspirations of colored people.”
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Show us what you got when the beat drops!
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Because other cities have no idea what a snow day really is.
What it usually means: A mind-altering drug that can take you on a spiritual journey.
What it means in Chicago: A mind-altering stretch of road called Lake Shore Drive which may or may not take you anywhere depending on the time of day.
What it usually means: School is cancelled because it's so snowy that cars might crash, oh no!
What it means in Chicago: School is cancelled because it's so snowy that cars might not even start.
What it usually means: Spring.
What it means in Chicago: Spring… J/K STILL WINTER HAHAHAHA all your new flowers are now dead.
What it usually means: Fall.
What it means in Chicago: The month that contains the two weeks out of the year where it isn't too cold, too hot, or too rainy to eat on restaurant patios AND the month where everyone drinks away the sorrows of another failed Cubs season.
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That is, more than you already do.
1. Travel can help improve your problem-solving skills.
2. One out of eight jobs in the U.S. depends on travel and tourism.
3. Taking a vacation can lower your risk of heart disease.
4. Studies show that money spent on travel makes you happier than money spent on material goods.
5. Benefits of travel are almost immediate. After only a day or two, 89% of people experience significant drops in stress.
6. Travel has been shown to help aid those suffering from depression.
7. And travel has been shown to promote overall brain health.
8. Couples who travel together have reported increased feelings of intimacy.
9. The U.S. is the only developed country in the world without a single legally required paid vacation day or holiday.
10. Austrian citizens are said to have the most vacation time of any country. Austria guarantees workers a legal minimum of 22 paid vacation days and 13 paid holidays each year.
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11. Travel can make you more creative.
12. Travel can also make you smarter.
13. France is the most visited country in the world.
14. And the most visited city in the world, as of 2013 data, is Bangkok.
15. Honolulu is the only place in the U.S. that has a royal palace.
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This is the second time the troubled megabank has failed the Fed’s dividend and buyback process.
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The Federal Reserve has given Citi, America's third largest banks by assets, a significant black eye by rejecting its plans to return capital to shareholders in the form of dividend and buybacks. The bank had a $1.2 billion buyback program and a dividend of a penny per share in 2013.
Citi said in a statement that it had asked permission for $6.4 billion in buybacks through the first quarter of 2015 and a quarterly dividend of five cents per share. The Fed instead allowed it to continue its current buyback and dividend plans.
In after-hours trading, Citi's stock is down more than 5% to $47.45.
The Fed said that it rejected Citi's plans for qualitative reasons, namely that the bank's plan “reflected a number of deficiencies in its capital planning practices.” It also added that its decision to reject reflects the higher standards it applies to the biggest banks. The central bank said that large banks like Citi, whose failure would potentially drag down the entire economy or require a massive bailout, have “significantly heightened supervisory expectations,” when it comes to winning approval for buybacks and dividends.
Specifically, the Fed criticized Citi's “ability to project revenue” in a scenario where the economy suffered a significant downturn, or to estimate how “its full range of business activities and exposures” would be affected by a stressed financial environment.
“We will continue to work closely with the Fed to better understand their
concerns so that we can bring our capital planning process in line with their expectations and meet their standards on a qualitative basis as well,” Citi CEO Michael Corbat said in a statement. “We clearly are being challenged to meet the highest standards in the CCAR process.”
The Fed's judgement is a damning one that provides another piece of evidence for ciritics of Citi who say that its far-flung divisions, from credit cards, to investment banking, to corporate lending all over the world, are too much for any management team.
This isn't the first time Citi has failed the Fed's capital return approval process, known as CCAR. Two years ago, the bank's plans were rejected by the Fed. The embarrassment reportedly helped lead to then CEO Vikram Pandit's 2012 ouster. Some board members felt that he wasn't able to form a good relationship with the bank's regulators.
Four other banks had their capital return plans rejected by the Federal Reserve: the American branches of HSBC, RBS, and Santader, along with Zions, the Utah-based bank that was the sole bank to fail the Federal Reserve's stress tests released last week.
“With each year we have seen broad improvement in the industry's ability to assess its capital needs under stress and continuing improvements to the risk-measurement and -management practices that support good capital planning,” Federal Reserve governor Daniel Tarullo said in a statement. “However, both the firms and supervisors have more work to do as we continue to raise expectations for the quality of risk management in the nation's largest banks.”
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What’s that, you say? It’s Manatee Appreciation Day ?? Well shoot, let’s talk about cute sea cows!
Manatees have a membrane which can be drawn across the eyeball for protection, which is why their eyes can look “flat” in some instances.
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They never had a chance…
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Amazing America is premiering April 3 on the Sportsman Channel.
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You’re welcome, bored people and procrastinators.
It's a black worm-ish thing that you wiggle back and forth and, if you wiggle it enough, it has a mini-rave. It's actually pretty fun.
Warning — contains flashing images.
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It's a pug licking your computer screen. Everyone needs this in their day.
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You pick up cats and bounce them. You can also make it rain more cats.
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You agitate a pink/red blob with your mouse and it makes blubbery sounds.
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Possibly the first of many leaks.
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These grainy photos, first posted to The Verge, might just be our first glimpse at Apple's next iPhone.
This afternoon, Apple blogger Sonny Dickson — who has been right before on Apple leaks — posted four “teaser” photos to Twitter, suggesting that the images could very well be leaked shots of the iPhone 6. If real, they appear to show a slimmer and longer grey back casing.
According to Dickson's blog he's “not 100% sure this is the real back housing,” but since he's been right before, there's some reason to believe this is the first of many shots we'll see leading up to next fall.
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