'Genesis Death Sandwich' Discovered in Bible

Updated Thurs., Feb. 21, at 12:20 p.m. ET

Researchers using text-analysis software say they've discovered a new literary device in the first book of the Bible: the "Genesis death sandwich."

The name refers to a familiar rhetorical structure ? sandwiching bad news in between the good. In the case of Genesis, the slices of white bread are themes of life, and the slimy cold cuts in between are mentions of death.

"The structuring of life and death in Genesis appears to be something that hasn't been noticed before," researcher Gordon Rugg, a senior lecturer in Computing and Mathematics at Keele University in the United Kingdom, wrote in a Feb. 21 blog post. "We think it's a standard literary device being used on a larger scale than had been previously realized. No aliens, no secret codes, no conspiracies, but some striking images, and a great name for a band."

For their study, Rugg and his colleagues ran the King James version of the text through software known as the Search Visualizer, which plotted mentions of life in red and death in green on a single gridded page representing the whole book. Their results showed frequent mentions of life in the opening and closing verses of Genesis, while themes of death were clustered in the middle. They say the device is an example of a literary convention known as inclusio, also called bracketing, where one theme frames another.

Rugg acknowledged that it is uncertain whether or not this "death sandwich" convention was applied to the text intentionally. Nonetheless, he says it might have been used to cushion the negative messages of death, or perhaps to put life and death in stark contrast. [The 10 Weirdest Ways We Deal With the Dead]

"Whether it was a deliberate use of inclusio or a subconscious use is an open question," Rugg wrote. "We don't think that this structure is likely to be a coincidence, given the number of times the two words occur within Genesis, and given that these are themes that have long been recognized as significant within it."

Rugg and his colleagues ran other searches using the software for words not considered significant by scholars, finding no specific patterns in the book of Genesis. However, they did find the word "woman" appears overwhelmingly in the first part of Genesis, while it rarely pops up in the second half, Rugg wrote. Another term, "begat," illustrates something scholars have long recognized -- that the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John mirror the themes and structures of the Old Testament (which includes Genesis); sure enough, "begat" showed a striking cluster in the first part of Genesis, mirroring what was found in the first part of the gospel of Matthew, Rugg said.

Rugg and David Musgrave of Amridge University in Alabama presented their research at November's meeting of the Association of Schools of Oriental Research in Chicago.

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'Walking Dead' star helps 'Bust' zombie myths

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Michael Rooker plays Merle Dixon on "The Walking Dead."

By Ree Hines, TODAY contributor

Just what is the best way to kill a legion of undead baddies? Flamethrower? Shotgun? Machete? Of course, on "The Walking Dead," Daryl Dixon is pretty fond of the crossbow method.

Well, fans of the zombie genre may soon have the definitive answer thanks to the fact-finding crew from "MythBusters."

According to Entertainment Weekly, the best way to kill the (presumably fictitious) creeps will be one of the challenges Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman (or their Build Team) put to the test in an upcoming zombie-themed episode.

The gang will even get some expert help with their zombie-sleuthing. EW also confirms that Michael Rooker, who plays Daryl's mono-handed big brother, Merle, on "The Walking Dead," will make an appearance.

Joining Rooker and the "MythBusters" regulars will be a whole lot of extras. On Jan. 18, the show's official Twitter account posted a call for hundreds of zombie wannabes over the age of 18 to film some time in "late Jan/Feb" in the San Francisco Bay area.

No word yet on exactly when the episode will air, but it will be part of the next season of the "MythBusters" -- along with the highly-anticipated "Breaking Bad" episode -- which returns in the spring.

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Joe Flacco Contract Negotiations: Which Franchise Tag Will Ravens Use?

By Joel Corry, National Football Post

Once negotiations for Joe Flacco?s new contract resume, they should intensify pretty quickly because the period to designate franchise players begins on February 18 and runs through March 4. If the Baltimore Ravens and Joe Linta, Flacco?s agent, reach an impasse, the Ravens must decide whether to use a non-exclusive or an exclusive franchise tag on Flacco.

With the non-exclusive franchise tag, the Ravens must offer Flacco a one-year contract based on the average of the quarterback non-exclusive franchise numbers over the last five years and their percentage of the salary cap. According to NFL.com?s Ian Rapoport, the non-exclusive franchise number has been tentatively set at $14.642 million. This tag allows Flacco to negotiate with other NFL teams but if he signs an offer sheet with another club, the Ravens will have five days to match the offer. If the Ravens do not match, they will receive two first-round picks as compensation from the signing team.

Under the exclusive franchise tag, Flacco will receive a one-year offer from the Ravens that is the average of the top-five 2013 quarterback salaries once the restricted free agent signing period has ended (approximately April 21). For these purposes, salary means a player?s salary cap number, excluding workout bonuses and likely to be earned incentives. Flacco will not be able to negotiate with other teams.

The exclusive franchise number is currently expected to be $20.463 million but could decrease if any of the quarterbacks with the highest salaries (Tom Brady-$21.55 million, Matthew Stafford-$20.82 million, Eli Manning-$20.35 million, Peyton Manning-$20 million, and Ben Roethlisberger-$19.595 million) rework their contracts to lower their cap numbers before Flacco receives this designation. The final number should stay above $19 million since Drew Brees ($17.15 million) and Philip Rivers ($17.11 million) are next line to be included in the computations. With this tag, Flacco will initially count towards the cap at the non-exclusive franchise number. Once the exclusive number has been finalized, his cap number will increase to that figure.

Baltimore?s salary cap situation may dictate which franchise tag is applied to Flacco. The Ravens have $111,136,802 committed towards the 2013 cap, which has been reportedly set at $121.1 million, with 49 players under contract. This number doesn?t entirely capture Baltimore?s cap issues because the top-51 cap numbers count against the cap during the offseason and the Ravens have five restricted free agents, including tight end Dennis Pitta and defensive tackle Arthur Jones, that should receive restricted free agent tenders. After accounting for these tenders and Ray Lewis? retirement creating $4.35 million of cap space, the Ravens will need to clear approximately $10 million of cap room by the start of the league year (March 12) to accommodate Flacco?s tender.

If the Ravens give Flacco the non-exclusive tender, they will be fortunate that the current Collective Bargaining Agreement prohibits poison pills. A poison pill is a mechanism in a contract offer that makes it virtually impossible for the team retaining a player?s rights to match the offer on him.

Poison pills were outlawed because of the Steve Hutchinson and Nate Burleson ordeals in 2006. The Minnesota Vikings signed Hutchison, who was the Seattle Seahawks? transition player, to a seven-year, $49 million offer sheet with a provision that guaranteed his entire contract if he wasn?t the highest paid offensive lineman on the team at any point during his contract. Seattle didn?t match the offer because left tackle Walter Jones had a higher salary. The Seahawks retaliated by signing Minnesota restricted free agent wide receiver Nate Burleson to a back-loaded seven-year, $49 million offer sheet that became fully guaranteed if he played at least five games in the state of Minnesota in any season of the contract or his average salary was greater than that of the highest paid running back on the team.

Because there are limits to the creativity with offer sheets, the primary method of structuring an offer sheet that the Ravens would have extreme difficulty matching requires an astronomical 2013 cap number. Since Flacco would already count $14.642 million against Baltimore?s cap, it would take a first year cap number in excess of $20 million for this to be accomplished, which limits the number of teams that could realistically pose a threat to the Ravens.

The most logical candidate would be the Cleveland Browns since they are in dire need of a quarterback and should have at least $40 million of cap room at the start of the free agent signing period on March 12. It would be the ultimate revenge for the Browns to take away Baltimore?s most important player since the Ravens left Cleveland after the 1995 season. The Jacksonville Jaguars are in decent shape to chase Flacco because they should be around $20 million under the cap. The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs can get in position to make a run at him with a couple of roster moves. Other teams with quarterback needs, such as the Arizona Cardinals, New York Jets and Oakland Raiders, are too cap-strapped to entertain trying to sign Flacco.

Some of the teams that could pursue Flacco may be hesitant because of his stated preference to remain in Baltimore. Those teams may not want to be used by Linta to leverage a better deal from the Ravens. Additionally, a franchise player hasn?t switched teams for two first-round picks since defensive tackle Sean Gilbert signed an offer sheet with the Carolina Panthers in 1998. Since then, franchise players have been changing teams through sign and trade deals for lesser draft choice compensation.

The exclusive franchise tag would eliminate the possibility of the Ravens losing Flacco but would give Linta additional leverage in the negotiations. Regardless of where the number is set, Linta could use the average of franchising Flacco twice as a guide for his contract average on a long term deal and justification for more than the $60.5 million in guarantees that Drew Brees received. For example, if the exclusive tag remained at its current level and the Ravens applied a second franchise tag to Flacco, his franchise number in 2014 would be $24.556 million, a 20% increase over his 2013 franchise number. That could give Linta ammunition to push for a deal averaging in the neighborhood of $22.5 million per year.

It is debatable how much of a risk of losing Flacco the Ravens would face with the non-exclusive tender. Since this tender could have disastrous consequences that could set the Ravens back for years, the most prudent approach is to earmark the additional $4.5 million to $6 million of cap room that will be necessary in April and put the exclusive tag on Flacco.

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Joel Corry is a former sports agent who helped found Premier Sports & Entertainment, a sports management firm that represents professional athletes and coaches. Prior to his tenure at Premier, Joel worked for Management Plus Enterprises, which represented Shaquille O'Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon and Ronnie Lott. You can email Joel at jccorry@gmail.com

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Side-Dominant Science: Are You Left- or Right-Sided?

Are you left- or right-sided? You brain might work differently depending on which side of your body you use most. Image: George Resteck

Key concepts
Brain
Laterality
Handedness
Sidedness
Left/right dominance

Introduction
If you write with your right hand, you might also prefer to draw a picture, throw a ball or eat food with the same hand. But have you ever wondered if your right foot is also more dominant than your left foot? What about your right eye and ear?do you prefer to use them more than your left ones? In this activity you'll get to find out whether people have a sidedness?that is, whether they generally prefer to do most activities with one side of their body?and which side that is.

Background
Each person's brain is divided into two sides?the left and right hemispheres. In some cases, one hemisphere may be more active than the other during a certain activity. For example, when someone processes language, one hemisphere is usually more active than the other. Doing this or other activities, however, is not absolutely limited to using one hemisphere or the other, or even certain hemispheric parts. Different brain areas are important and work together for different activities, such as speech, hearing and sight. But if part of a hemisphere is damaged when a person is young, other parts of the brain can often take over doing whatever the damaged regions of the brain used to do.

What do the brain's hemispheres have to do with sidedness? When someone is processing language, one hemisphere is usually working harder than the other. There is also some correlation between the side(s) we use in our brain and the side we use on our body. This preference to use one side of the body over the other is known as sidedness, laterality or left/right dominance.

Materials
? Paper
? Pen or pencil
? A coin
? Paper towel tube or toilet paper tube
? A seashell or phone
? At least five volunteers

Preparation
? Have all of the materials ready so that you will be able to quickly test each volunteer.
? Prepare a small data table on a piece of paper to record your results. Going down the left side of the paper, write: "Hand," "Foot," "Eye" and "Ear." Going across the top of the paper, write your volunteers' names.

Procedure
? Ask your first volunteer to write their name on a piece of paper. Which hand do they write their name with? Record the result (writing either "Right" or "Left") in your data table in the row labeled "Hand," in the column under the volunteer's name.
? Place a coin on the floor directly in front of your first volunteer. Ask them to step onto the coin. Which foot is used to step on the coin? Record the result in your data table in the "Foot" row, under the volunteer's name.
? Give your first volunteer a paper towel tube or toilet paper tube and ask them to look at a distant object through it. Which eye do they use to look through the tube? Record the result in your data table in the "Eye" row, under the volunteer's name.
? Give your first volunteer a seashell or phone and ask them to listen to it. Which ear do they put the shell or phone up to? Record the result in your data table in the "Ear" column, under the volunteer's name.
? Repeat this process with at least four other volunteers. Be sure to record the results under the new volunteer's name each time.
? Are more of your volunteers right-handed or left-handed? What about right-footed versus left-footed, right-eyed versus left-eyed and right-eared versus left-eared? What side is the most common overall?
? How many people that are right-handed are also right-footed? (How about for lefties?) What about for the other possible combinations? Do you see a correlation?
? Extra: In this activity you only used one test to check for dominance in your volunteer's hands, feet, eyes and ears. Using additional tests would help you check and confirm your results. Can you think of other ways to test for sidedness using objects from around your home? Using other tests, are the results the same as the ones you got doing the original activity?
? Extra: If you collect additional data on your volunteers and test more volunteers, you can check your results and also test whether sidedness is linked to another factor. Does the trend in your results hold as you test more volunteers? Do you see a correlation between sidedness and other factors, like age, gender or being genetically related?
? Extra: Sometimes sidedness can run in families. Try to find volunteers from different families and then group your results by family. Do different families have similar or different percentages?

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Why the Feds Should Promote Wi-Fi Everywhere

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski

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On Monday, the Washington Post?s 1.4 million Twitter followers woke up to this good news tweet: ?Free WiFi Everywhere? That?s the Plan.?

The teaser referred to the Post?s Page 1 story reporting that the Federal Communications Commission is proposing ?to create super Wi-Fi networks across the nation so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to make calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone bill every month.?

If only this was true! Unfortunately, as Slate?s Matt Yglesias reported soon after, there is no plan for a free government super Wi-Fi network. What sounded like a plan to create free public Wi-Fi networks is in fact a less ambitious but still vital proposal to reallocate a larger share of the best public airwaves (spectrum) for free shared use without the need for a license. That?s exactly how Wi-Fi operates today?on ?unlicensed? bands of spectrum that are equally open to everyone.

There is certainly a strong case to be made that 21^st-century public infrastructure should include a minimum level of broadband connectivity almost everywhere. By leveraging existing public assets?both unlicensed spectrum and the spider web of federal, state, and local fiber optic backhaul that crisscrosses the nation?it would be relatively inexpensive to blanket most areas with a basic level of wireless connectivity.

In reality, though, the FCC is not proposing to subsidize the construction of networks. Instead, the agency wants to make enough free and high-quality unlicensed spectrum available that a far wider range of private companies, local governments, and individuals will find it economical to either offer or consume more broadband Internet services.

Mobile carriers like AT&T typically purchase licenses granting exclusive use of spectrum at auctions, which enables them to offer predictable quality of service. For example, AT&T and Verizon paid $16 billion at the first auction of TV band spectrum in 2008, acquiring nearly 80 percent of the license areas auctioned. Unlicensed, in contrast, is used free of charge but shared by an unpredictable number of other devices and networks, none of which have interference protection from the rest. And yet, as most Wi-Fi users will attest, it works remarkably well at most times and places.

There are already clear signs in the United States and abroad that if enough of this public spectrum resource is made freely available for unlicensed use, the private sector will step up and make wireless connectivity ubiquitous and affordable, at least in urban and suburban areas. Freeing up more unlicensed spectrum holds out the promise of solving the so-called ?spectrum crisis? created by exploding consumer demand for video and other high-bandwidth apps on mobile devices, while simultaneously bringing competition and innovation to a cellular market that has been rapidly trending toward a two-carrier duopoly dominated by AT&T and Verizon Wireless.

A case in point is BT Wi-Fi, a massive collection of Wi-Fi hotspots created by British Telecom, the U.K.?s leading wireline telco. Formerly called OpenZone, BT has turned 4.5 million of its wired broadband customers into open hotspots of wireless connectivity. They did this by installing Wi-Fi routers that are also transmitting broadband connections open to any other BT customer?or anyone purchasing a day pass. Where BT?s customers are located close enough together, BT Wi-Fi creates a cloud of connectivity that allows mobile device users to bypass their wireless carrier (which, like U.S. carriers, may be metering and gouging consumers for bandwidth consumption).

BT customers also have access to another 3 million hotspots across Europe, since they are part of a larger consortium organized by FON, the Spanish telecom provider that pioneered the concept.

This wave is washing up on our shores now?and it?s already reconfiguring the politics of spectrum access, as well as the future architecture of broadband networks. Although unlicensed spectrum is typically associated with home and coffee shop Wi-Fi, as well as with embattled community networks promoted by nonprofits and some municipalities, increasingly the leading broadband carriers are waking up to the cost-effectiveness of sharing public spectrum.

Five years ago, the most powerful opponents of unlicensed spectrum were AT&T and Verizon. Today, AT&T operates more than 30,000 Wi-Fi hotspots?and dozens of ?hot zones? in places like Times Square and Wrigley Field?to relieve congestion that iPhones, iPads, and other mobile devices create on its pricey and limited licensed spectrum. Verizon, meanwhile, has formed a partnership with a consortium of the largest cable companies, which have rapidly built out more than 50,000 Wi-Fi hotspots to promote ?TV Everywhere? for their wireline subscribers. As a result, the cable companies have recently become advocates for more unlicensed spectrum.

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TDNCLA: Again? How Do I Start a Company? : Life of the Law

Dear Li?l Tommy,

You got perilously close to actually talking about how to set up a company last time, without saying much of anything in particular.? Care to follow up? I?m not terribly interested in stew like that last guy, but my friend and I have a great idea for a board game and want to set up a company to start producing it.? We?re going to call it WarBoats, to try to capitalize on the inevitable Battleship movie sequel.? I?m thinking we should set up an LLC, but I don?t know how to go about it! Please help!

- Incorporator At Sea

Mr. Incorporator,

While I?ll pass for now on the merits of your concept, let alone the pronounced probability that you?ll find yourselves on the receiving end of some very fun, very convoluted legal actions courtesy of Hasbro and/or Rihanna?[i], I?m happy to help you limit your liability when that nice lady at the bus stop turns out to be a process server.? The limited liability company, or LLC to its friends, is a form of business entity that combines a ?traditional? corporation?s limitations on liability with the flexibility of a ?traditional? partnership.? Generally speaking, it?s the most popular, and probably the best, choice of entity form for most small businesses. ?And whatever that friend of your uncle who?s been a senior partner at a law firm since 1925?[ii] says, it?s hardly that novel anymore.

First, a word (or 281) on corporations.? While the very, very first corporations sprung up either (a) to mine the quarries of Bedrock and provide a fun workplace setting for Fred Flintstone?s wacky antics or (b) during the Roman Empire [iii], the history of the modern corporation probably starts with the British East India Company and its suspiciously-similarly-named competitor the Dutch East India Company.? These enterprises were established under charters granted by the state to explore far-flung lands, discover new types and sources of commodities, boldly go somewhere, and exploit the hell out of indigenous people and ecosystems in the name of profit. ?So, pretty much nothing has changed since 1602?[iv].

The defining characteristics of a corporation are that (a) it can be owned by one or more people or other entities, as its ?stockholders,? (b) it is a separate legal entity from its owner(s) having an unlimited life?[v]? i.e., it continues to exist even if the people who own all or part of it do not, and (c) that it affords its owners protection from the risks and liabilities of the business.? For example, if a corporation owns a pet store where a marmot jumps out of its tank to bite someone, the corporation?s stockholders aren?t likely to be on the hook in the resultant lawsuit just for being stockholders (naturally, it?s a different matter if one of them was training said marmot in the art of combat or otherwise contributed to the vicious rodent attack).

Nice Marmot, Inc.

You may remember that I mentioned partnerships as well.? Partnerships can be formally established, with some limitations on liability available, or they can just? sort of? well, happen?[vi] when people engage in an enterprise together; the key positive feature of partnerships is that they are ?flow-through? entities for tax purposes.? That is, partners are taxed on their share of the partnership?s income whereas a corporation must (generally) pay taxes at the corporate level as well as on any distribution?[vii] of income/profit. With an LLC, the default is that the members (the rough equivalent of stockholders or partners) are taxed as if they were partners (though you can choose to be treated as a corporation by the IRS).

There are literally millions of pages that can be and have been written on this stuff, by people far smarter and more boring than me, so let?s accept that the maker of WarBoats will be an LLC and move along.

In order to form an LLC, you need to first make the choice of where you?re going to form it.? Delaware is very popular among corporate lawyers, for a variety of reasons that have sadly little to do with the natural splendor of Cape Henlopen State Park, and has a very simple formation and maintenance process?fill out a Certificate of Formation?[viii], pay $90 and file it, remember to pay a tax of $250 each year and maintain a ?registered agent? with a physical presence in the state.? If you?re fortunate enough to not live in Delaware, you?ll probably have to register your business in your home state as well, which involves more taxes or fees and some other requirements?[ix]. Next, set out the ground rules in your ?Operating Agreement? or ?Limited Liability Company Agreement??a document which will govern how the members deal with each other and how the company is run?[x], whether by members directly or ?managers? (which you might need to specify in your formative document). (For a pretty decent example, see http://www.docracy.com/7128/llc-operating-agreement.?Docracy is a pretty solid repository of free legal documents in general.) ?You?ll be off to the regatta in no time.

You?re gonna need a bigger boat,

Li?l Tommy Hagen

?

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[i] She was so good in Battleship. Also that ?Umbrella? video? am I right?

[ii] He might actually be a vampire. Better check on that.

[iii] Far more likely.? But they probably ripped it off of an ancient Chinese or Indian culture, like literacy or noodles.

[v] Like that vampire guy from before. Seriously, stock up on garlic.

[vi] Bear in mind I?m keeping this as basic as possible. Search ?de facto business partnership? if you want to know more.

[vii] Or ?dividend,? derived from the drunkenly-slurred Old English ?divvy?id?up?den.?

[ix] Like New York?s publication requirement?a new LLC wherever formed must buy prescribed newspaper ads that no one will ever, ever, ever in a million years read, apparently to keep the newspaper industry on some sort of extremely annoying life support.

[x] Required in some jurisdictions (like NY), not in others (like DE), a good idea everywhere.

?

Li?l Tommy Hagen is a corporate attorney who?s practiced with a big law firm, in a couple of in-house positions, and as a solo advising tech startups. Nowadays, he has?a special practice; he handles one client, and by the way, admires your pictures very much.?

Note: This column is titled ?This Does Not Constitute Legal Advice? because it does not constitute legal advice. If you want that, see an attorney.

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Crazy things you never knew about Disney World

Gillian Telling , Budget Travel ? ? ? 15 hrs.

Walt Disney sure had some grand plans when it came to building the Walt Disney Resort in Orlando, Fla.

He not only wanted it to be a fun theme park, but also to include an experimental prototype community of tomorrow (EPCOT) that would be a real working futuristic city, utilizing the latest push-button technology ala "The Jetsons."

The visionary sadly died in 1966, several years before Disney World opened in 1971, and EPCOT eventually just became another theme park incorporated into the larger resort in 1982. But did you know it was once meant to actually be lived in?

Below are a few other fun facts that you might never have guessed about the Happiest Place on Earth.

1. It's huge. Like, city-huge
The size of the entire Walt Disney World resort is 40 Square miles, or the size of San Francisco. You heard me. The same size as the city of San Francisco.

2. They cut a lot of checks
It's not easy keeping the magic alive. Disney World employs 62,000 people, making it the largest single-site employer in the country.

3. It can operate as a Sunglass Hut
Every single day, more than 200 pairs of sunglasses are turned in to the Lost and Found department at Disney World. Good luck sifting through that pile if your aviators go missing over in Toon Town.

4. Talkin' turkey
Giant turkey legs were first introduced at Disney World the 90s, and became such a popular item that they were quickly introduced to the other parks. More than 1.6 million turkey drumsticks are consumed at the resort every year, and you can even buy all sorts of gear (t-shirts, hats, etc.) with pictures of turkey legs on them.

5. It's sustainable!
Who would have thought? More than 30 tons of fruits and vegetables are grown each year at EPCOT's Land Pavilion and used in the resort's restaurants and cafes.

6. Papa Oak
The Liberty Oak, which stands in Liberty Square in the Magic Kingdom, has spawned over 500 young oak trees via its harvested acorns.

7. Sleep like a princess
There's a hotel suite tucked away in Cinderella's Castle that can sleep up to six and has flat-screen TV disguised as magic mirrors. Unfortunately, you can't just make a reservation?overnight guests are winners that are chosen at random by the park each day.

8. Holy inflation
When Disney's Magic Kingdom first opened in 1971, adult admission cost $3.50. Today, it's $89.

9.Captain 'Godfather'

Captain Eo, the 3D science fiction film starring Michael Jackson that was shown at Disney Parks in the 80s and 90s, was directed by none other than Francis Ford Coppola, and produced by George Lucas. The movie returned to Disney World after Jackson's 2010 death.

10. It's eco-friendly ... sort of
Fifteen miles south of Disney World is the Disney Wilderness Preserve, which is a 12,000 acre wetlands mitigation project that Disney company bought it in the 90s. Disney provides funds for restoration and wildlife monitoring in order to offset the lands impacted by the development of Walt Disney World. Fair enough.

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Lewandowski says decision on future in summer

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updated 8:48 a.m. ET Feb. 6, 2013

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski says he will decide on his future once the season is over.

German media reports have linked Lewandowski with a move to Bundesliga rival Bayern Munich.

Lewandowski tells Sport-Bild weekly that the subject has "to cool off" and that "we'll talk after the final match of the season and we'll see."

The Poland striker says his decision will come after consulting with his agent and considering all offers.

Lewandowski has scored 13 goals this season and has another season on his contract with Dortmund.

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HTC has announced its unaudited consolidated revenue for Jan. 2013, starting the year off with a 6.4 percent fall in revenue compared to Jan. 2012. In the first month of 2013, the Taiwanese manufacturer brought in NT$15.54bn ($530m), compared to NT$16.615bn ($560m) during the same period a year ago.

The announcement follows the posting of the company's Q4 2012 results, which showed a 41 percent year-on-year fall in sales. HTC is now forecasting a difficult first quarter, with operating margins between 0.5 and 1 percent. The manufacturer will be hoping to reverse its fortunes with the launch of its first major Android phones of the year, expected to be revealed at press conferences in London and New York City on Feb. 19.

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