This Bad Lip Reading of Game of Thrones</em> Is Hilarious

Remember when Littlefinger leaned over to Sansa during a jousting scene in Game of Thrones and whispered, “How do you feel about people who go, ‘Hadouken’?” No? That’s probably because it never actually happened, unless of course you’re watching the Bad Lip Reading spoof of the show.

You may have seen previous Bad Lip Reading spoofs of Twilight and Michael Buble’s “Haven’t Met You Yet,” where the audio tracks were removed and replaced with far, far funnier ones. Yes, they’re hilarious, but it’s time for them to step aside. Because Game of Thrones Bad Lip Reading video is here, and it is the best one yet.

The video recasts the denziens of Westeros (and Essos) as employees at Medieval Land Fun Time World, a medieval theme park where we get to see all manner of shenanigans: Littlefinger questioning Ned Stark about Pokemon fandom; Varys discussing the oeuvre of Kanye West; and a bluesy freestyle about Darth Vader performed by Tyrion, who as usual completely steals the show. Sure, you’ve seen Tyrion slap Joffrey in the face. But have you seen him slap Joffrey in the face … over Nilla Wafers? If not, can you really be sure that you’ve lived?

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Hillary Clinton Accepts First Founder's Award at Elton John AIDS Benefit

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Hillary Clinton at Tuesday night's event

Hillary Clinton accepted the Elton John AIDS Foundation's first-ever Founder's Award at the organization's annual benefit in New York on Tuesday night.

Although she was honored by the accolade, Clinton echoed a theme expressed by many of the stars in attendance: that there's much more work to be done to combat the disease.

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"We still have so far to go," the former secretary of state said in her acceptance speech. "There are so many challenges that confront us. If we are to continue to build on the progress, and yes, there has been progress, then we have to continue to advocate and demand for governments, international organizations, foundations, all of us, to be persistent…and ensure that we don't falter."

"If we're going to beat AIDS, we have to reach out to everyone," she added.

Elton John also received an award at Tuesday's gala, from the Harvard AIDS Initiative.

"I really hope that all of you will join me in being equally stubborn when it comes to ending AIDS because that is what will be required to end this epidemic," he told the well-heeled crowd at Cipriani Wall Street in lower Manhattan. "We're going to have to stubbornly insist on full funding for all proven methods of preventing HIV infection…Treatment for everyone. Treatment for all…We're going to have to keep yelling and screaming about the way our country treats racial and sexual minorities and, of course, the poor. We're going to have to be downright stubborn, not just this year, not next year, not the next, but for many years to come."

Indeed, John vowed to be stubborn about AIDS for the next 20 years if necessary, but he said he doesn't think it will take that long to achieve an AIDS-free generation and world.

Nevertheless, John added, "We have so much more work to do and we'll be there until the bitter end."

STORY: Hillary Clinton to Get Elton John Foundation Honor

Other honorees at the event, which raised $3.45 million, included Food Network star Sandra Lee, John's longtime agent Howard Rose and mogul Ron Perelman, who prompted cheers from the crowd when he referred to Clinton as "the next president of the United States." Clinton looked nonchalant when the camera cut to her, but after Perelman continued to sing her praises and said the highly rumored candidate has his vote, Clinton could be seen mouthing "Oh my God," as if she couldn't believe all of the attention.

Matt Lauer was a last-minute substitute host at the event after Anderson Cooper had to go to Washington to cover the debt-ceiling crisis, which Lauer joked "sounded like a lame-ass excuse."

Earlier, The Hollywood Reporter asked Lauer what the entertainment industry could do to continue to raise awareness of AIDS and combat the disease.

"Talk, talk, talk, spread the word, get out there, come to events like this and raise money," Lauer said. "I mean, when you stop and think about what Elton has done in 20 years…a lot of it is something you can't put a price tag on, it's just a discussion and getting out there and putting his reputation on line and spreading the word that way."

STORY: Elton John to Pen Book on AIDS Epidemic

Tony-winning actress Judith Light echoed Lauer's call for a continued dialogue on the issue.

"We did and we do so much in terms of the awareness, and I don't think it's just the entertainment industry that has to do something, I think it's about those of us who are committed to this issue and have been committed to this issue for a long time, talking to other people and finding ways, just like Elton has, to make it a prominent issue again, to say to people, 'This is not over,' " she said.

The former Who's the Boss star, who's performed on Broadway for the past few years, told us that she recently starred in a pilot for Amazon, making her just the latest actor to join the Internet revolution.

Meanwhile, fellow Broadway alum Jeremy Jordan, who left his starring role in Newsies after he joined the second-season cast of NBC's now-canceled Smash, said he misses the stage and hopes to "come back as soon as possible." In fact, he's doing a weeklong Stephen Sondheim show in November called A Bed and a Chair.

"It's only a week, and it's not Broadway, but it will be nice to come back to New York for a hot sec," he said.

Other celebs in attendance included Billy Joel, Alec Baldwin, Allison Williams, Courtney Love, Lisa Marie Presley and rock band Heart, who performed at the end of the night.

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6 ways social media can boost your business

October 16, 2013

If your company isn't fully taking advantage of social media, it might be missing out on opportunities to connect with customers, gain market share, and bring needed talent into the organization.

Experts say virtually every type of business can benefit from using social media as a business tool.

"We really are seeing interest and the potential for business value across the board," says Jeffrey Mann, research vice president at Gartner. "No one is immune, although it will be easier for some than others."

The most likely to see value, Mann says, are knowledge-based and highly collaborative industries, such as media, education, consulting, and high technology; industries or organizations that aren't hamstrung by regulation; and organizations with younger employees who are accustomed to working with social media.

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Famous Scotland Volcano Has Only One 'Heart'

The land of the rings brings hundreds of pilgrims to a windswept corner of western Scotland every year.

A journey around Ardnamurchan volcano's well-worn trails is an annual rite of passage for geology students in Europe. Regular tourists also brave the remote trek to the national geopark, which protects 1 billion years of Earth's history.

Ardnamurchan's fame comes from an 83-year-old study that launched volcano science in Europe. The study, a meticulous geologic map of ringlike structures preserved in the Ardnamurchan volcanic rocks, revealed the volcano's hidden source: a series of three magma chambers.

Now, it's time to rewrite history, scientists say.

Instead of three magma pulses, just one big push birthed Ardnamurchan volcano, according to a study published Oct. 8 in the journal Scientific Reports.

"What we see is one big magma chamber. There's not three distinct places," said Steffi Burchardt, lead study author and a geoscientist at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. "It is much more like we see magma chambers today."

Ardnamurchan is one of four extinct volcanoes on Scotland's northwest coast that mark the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean starting 60 million years ago. As Greenland drifted away, the first floods of magma arrived from a hotspot that now sits under Iceland. In epochs since, glaciers ground away the tops of the volcanoes, leaving their hearts exposed.

Nearly a century ago, British geologists mapped hundreds of thin, cone-shaped intrusions at Ardnamurchan. The intrusions are magma that pushed into underground cracks and cooled beneath the surface. They're like guiding arrows, arranged in a ring, narrowing down toward their source. [The 10 Biggest Volcanic Eruptions in History]

The original mappers, James Richey and Herbert Thomas, concluded that three distinct magma chambers fed Ardnamurchan volcano, because the "cone sheets," as the intrusions are called, converged at three different spots.

But when Burchardt and her colleagues brought Ardnamurchan's geologic map into the modern age, inputting the precisely mapped structures into a 3D computer model, they encountered a surprise.

Instead of three meeting sites, the cone sheets focused on a single, saucer-shaped chamber where the roiling molten rock once awaited its release. The chamber lies about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) below the current surface and was up to 6 km (4 miles) long when active.

The size and alignment of the magma chamber created by the computer model matches with recent geophysical surveys of the volcano, as well as displacements in sedimentary rocks, Burchardt said. (The covering rocks were shoved and deformed as the magma pushed its way upward.)

Burchardt said that since the 1930 study, knowledge of how volcanoes form has advanced tremendously. "They were among the scientists who laid the foundation of modern volcanology," she said. "I guess if they had all the knowledge we had today, they may have seen Ardnamurchan differently."

"The mountain is a real icon, so people have a bit of respect for it," Burchardt told LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet. "Maybe this is the reason why scientists haven't dared touch it for a long time."

Email Becky Oskin or follow her @beckyoskin. Follow us @OAPlanet, Facebook & Google+. Original article on LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet.

Copyright 2013 LiveScience, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Moelis taps Morgan Stanley healthcare banker

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Moelis & Co, an independent investment bank, has tapped a former Morgan Stanley healthcare banker to advise medical technology companies, Moelis said on Tuesday.

Jon Hammack, who was responsible for the medical technology group at Morgan Stanley , will join Moelis November 11. Previously, Hammack worked in the healthcare banking groups at Credit Suisse and Bank of America .

At Moelis, Hammack joins a four-person team that covers services, life sciences, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.

"We expect to see significant activity in the medical technology space as companies better position themselves for growth and adapt to the evolving healthcare landscape," said Rick Leaman, managing partner at Moelis.

(Reporting by Jessica Toonkel)

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EU seeks carbon tax for all flights over Europe

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission wants to impose carbon emission charges for all flights using Europe's airspace.

Wednesday's proposal by the 28-nation bloc's executive arm would force airlines to buy carbon emission permits for all flights within Europe but also for the parts of intercontinental flights that use the bloc's airspace.

That means, for example, that a U.S. airline flying from New York to Frankfurt would have to buy pollution rights under the EU emission trading system for the part of the route within Europe's airspace.

The proposal still requires approval from the European Parliament and the bloc's member states. The Commission hopes it will enter into force next year.

The legislation would apply until 2020 when a recently agreed international airline carbon emissions tax scheme comes into force.

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A Company's Tweets Can Help Make It Creditworthy

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Courtesy of Kabbage

For many online and other small businesses, getting a loan or a big cash advance is tough. Banks and other traditional lenders are often leery of those without years of financial statements and solid credit scores.

But some lenders and other financial services companies are beginning to assess credit risk differently — using criteria you might not expect.

Jeffrey Grossman is an acupuncturist in Bellingham, Wash. He's also a small businessman. He creates media marketing materials for other acupuncturists hoping to expand their practice.

Over the years, Grossman has borrowed money from family and from bank lines of credit, but recently, he needed a quick infusion of extra cash. He turned to a company called Kabbage, an online financing firm for small businesses.

He found the concept interesting, but the application also made him skeptical. "They wanted all this information about QuickBooks [accounting software] and UPS accounts and all this stuff," he says.

Such details, says Kathryn Petralia, a co-founder of Kabbage, allows the company to "effectively build a financial statement." The firm provides financing to small businesses — such as online merchants — that banks typically don't lend to. Petralia says Kabbage uses real-time and verifiable data from things like UPS shipments, eBay and PayPal accounts to assess creditworthiness.

"We can see historical data and current data, and we can see tomorrow's data. And we are looking at information that could be as detailed as what people are actually buying from you," Petralia says.

And she says that can be more useful than static financial documents that banks and other traditional lenders typically rely on.

“ Are customers saying that you are doing a good job? Are consumers complaining about you?

- Christine Pratt, financial services analyst

"If you see that the customer's business is changing over time — they're selling different products, they're changing their price points, transaction volume is going up or down — you get a lot more visibility and insight into that business than a pure financial statement's going to give you," Petralia says.

To be clear, small businesses that get money from Kabbage give the company permission to view their online accounts. Christine Pratt, a senior financial services analyst at Aite Group, says Kabbage's use of this real-time transaction data is smart. She also likes the fact that Kabbage looks at companies' social media pages.

"Are customers saying that you are doing a good job? Are consumers complaining about you?" Pratt says.

Kabbage looks at a small business' Twitter account and its Facebook page. The company knows the information there isn't foolproof but says it can add insight into how a company is relating to its customers — and at the margins it can be helpful.

"They use that information to be able to look ahead, to see whether or not your business not only is doing very well right now but can also sustain that business and grow," Pratt says.

She says the use of social and real-time data is growing. Some traditional lenders are starting to embrace it, and Amazon is quietly mining its own data to find retailers it wants to make loans to.

Back in Bellingham, Grossman, the small businessman, decided to take the plunge and gave Kabbage access to some of his online accounts.

"I think we were funded probably within like minutes," he says.

But he has words of caution to would-be borrowers: The company's fees can be steep.

"I don't want to say you're doing business with the devil, but sometimes when you're a small business, if the banks aren't able to give you the money and if you need some cash flow, you kind of have to bite the bullet and do it," he says.

Grossman was approved for up to $25,000 and says the funds he got have helped him grow his business and for that he remains grateful.

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