Rob Carsello

From: Rob <robcarsello@gmail.com>
Date: December 15, 2010 11:13:50 AM CST
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Subject: The Morning Show

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Deb DiSandro Speaking Demo

2010-06-30T15:49:00.001-05:00

http://www.slightlyoff.com/watch-deb-in-action/

During her 17-year stint as a weekly humor columnist, Deb DiSandro discovered the
Slightly Off philosophy which lead to her success as professional speaker, author, writing
coach, etc, etc... After years of striving for perfection and failing, she
learned to let go of the “super syndrome” and found a more fun and realistic way to
achieve her goals and dreams.

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National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Welcomes Bill Gates as Keynote Speaker on the... -- WASHINGTON, June 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

2010-06-30T08:44:00.001-05:00

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-alliance-for-public-charter-...

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Untitled

2010-05-07T11:40:00.001-05:00

Your wireless microphone may have just gone into mandatory retirement. This comes thanks to a new FTC rule that is trying to eliminate harmful interference to public safety and wireless consumer services.
http://budurl.com/wirelessftc
If your model is listed on web page below, it is a 700 MHz wireless microphone and can not be used after June 12, 2010
http://budurl.com/wirelessList

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There is no I in ELEPHANT

2010-03-15T20:37:00.001-05:00

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Lost Time Due To Chile Earthquake

2010-03-07T21:00:00.001-06:00

Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California says that the earthquake in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day, 1.26 microseconds
There is a million microseconds in a second. So you lost more time reading about this than you did because of the shorter days.

http://budurl.com/9uqf

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Will Nouriel Roubini Ever Predict Right Again?

2010-03-06T06:49:00.001-06:00

The 'Great' Roubini: Wrong Again and Again

http://seekingalpha.com/article/191984-the-great-roubini-wrong-again-and-again

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Can anyone feng shui this?

2010-03-06T06:43:00.001-06:00

This is a work-in-progress layout of some new office space.

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Planners sound off about the most outrageous charges they've encountered. http://budurl.com/nbcq

2010-03-05T17:04:00.001-06:00

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Human Rights Campaign Announces Austin Gala Dinner

2010-03-05T12:51:00.001-06:00

Human Rights Campaign Announces Austin Gala Dinner Speakers Actor Scott Evans Bishop Gene Robinson HRC President Joe Solmonese

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Today in the past: March 4, 1493

2010-03-04T07:14:00.001-06:00

On March 4, 1493, Christopher Columbus arrived back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his unsuccessful attempt to discover India. He became the first European tourist to go to the Bahamas for the winter.

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Talking on Water

2010-03-04T06:15:00.001-06:00

Nutritionist Christa Orecchio explains the importance of staying hydrated.

http://budurl.com/ChristaWater

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5 years ago, Steve Fossett made his non-stop flight.

2010-03-03T12:05:00.001-06:00

On this day in 2005, Steve Fossett became the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.

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Rob Carsello speaking on a panel March 19 at NSA event

2010-03-02T13:32:00.001-06:00

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Rob Carsello speaking on a panel March 19 at NSA event

2010-03-02T13:15:00.001-06:00

March Fab Friday
Relax after St. Patrick's Day!

Friday afternoon will feature an exciting panel about understanding how bureaus and meeting planners work.

Do you want to work with a Speakers Bureau?

Do you know what you need before you call them?

Do you know what it takes to get booked by them - over and over?

THIS is YOUR opportunity!

Our panelists include:

Joyce Paschall - An experienced event planner and former MPI president

Pamela Patsavas - Freeman Event Planners

Rob Carsello - Speaker Resource Center -- a Speakers Bureau.

You will learn what you need to know before you contact a bureau and what they are looking for from a speaker. You can ask a bureau representative and meeting planners questions and get direct answers. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity - you can't miss.

March 19 - 10a.m.- 2:30p.m.
Maggiano's Restaurant, Oak Brook
Networking begins at 9:15a.m.
3 course Italian lunch included
Register Now
Bring a friend
1 week cancellation accepted

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Goliath Had Nothing On This Giant

2010-03-01T15:11:00.001-06:00

Anything you heard about a connection between the skeleton in this picture and my ancestors is not true.

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DRI Strictly Retail Seminar

2010-02-28T22:21:00.001-06:00

The Defense Research Institute (DRI) event at the Wynham Chicago next week focuses on legal and risk management issues facing retailers.
So naturally they call it the Strictly Retail Seminar. Registration is $875

Here's the impressive list of faculty http://budurl.com/DRIRetail2010

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Vampire expert on digital publishing

2010-02-28T21:42:00.001-06:00

Anne Rice: mistake to hold back e-books and try to head off this revolution by building a dam. It’s not going to work.

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Our fearless dog

2010-02-28T15:14:00.001-06:00

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Is a bit afraid of large red exercise balls

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Happy Sunday

2010-02-28T15:06:00.001-06:00

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Naming Tim Tebow keynote speaker Boosts interest in Scholarship event

2010-02-25T17:13:00.001-06:00

Former Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow
agreed to be this year's keynote speaker for the Winged Foot
Scholarship foundation. He is drawing more attention to the event that
any past speaker, including last year's, retiring Gators coach Urban
Meyer.

The Story: http://budurl.com/TimTebowWingedFoot

Last fall, Tebow befriended Boomer Hornbeck, the son of the chairman
of Winged Foot Scholarship Foundation, Bud Hornbeck. Boomer, who has
cerebral palsy and a rare brain disorder, met Florida coach Urban
Meyer and Tebow last fall. Hornbeck says that the compassion Tebow
shows Boomer helps make him a match for the Winged Foot banquet.

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Think Twice Before Cutting K-12 Music Budgets

2010-02-25T12:28:00.001-06:00

Neuroscientist to present findings linking music to everyday listening
task enhancement

By Wendy Leopold

EVANSTON, Ill. --- At a Feb. 20 press briefing at the American
Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) annual meeting, a
Northwestern University neuroscientist argued that music training has
profound effects that shape the sensory system and should be a
mainstay of K-12 education.

“Playing an instrument may help youngsters better process speech in
noisy classrooms and more accurately interpret the nuances of language
that are conveyed by subtle changes in the human voice,” says Nina
Kraus, Hugh Knowles Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology and
Communication Sciences at Northwestern University.

“Cash-strapped school districts are making a mistake when they cut
music from the K-12 curriculum,” says Kraus, director of the Auditory
Neuroscience Laboratory in Northwestern’s School of Communication.

At the AAAS meeting, Kraus presented her own research and the research
of other neuroscientists suggesting music education can be an
effective strategy in helping typically developing children as well as
children with developmental dyslexia or autism more accurately encode
speech.

“People’s hearing systems are fine-tuned by the experiences they’ve
had with sound throughout their lives,” says Kraus. “Music training is
not only beneficial for processing music stimuli. We’ve found that
years of music training may also improve how sounds are processed for
language and emotion.”

Researchers in the Kraus lab provided the first concrete evidence that
playing a musical instrument significantly enhances the brainstem’s
sensitivity to speech sounds. The findings are consistent with other
studies they have conducted revealing that anomalies in brainstem
sound encoding in some learning disabled children can be improved with
auditory training.

The Kraus lab has a unique approach for demonstrating how the nervous
system responds to the acoustic properties of speech and music sounds
with sub-millisecond precision. The fidelity with which they can
access the transformation of the sound waves into brain waves in
individual people is a powerful new development.

The neural enhancements seen in individuals with musical training is
not just an amplifying or volume knob effect,” says Kraus.
“Individuals with music training show a selective fine-tuning of
relevant aspects of auditory signals.”

By comparing brain responses to predictable versus variable sound
sequences, Kraus and her colleagues found that an effective or
well-tuned sensory system takes advantage of stimulus regularities,
such as the sound patterns that distinguish a teacher’s voice from
competing sounds in a noisy classroom.

They previously found that the ability of the nervous system to
utilize acoustic patterns correlates with reading ability and the
ability to hear speech in noise. Now they have discovered that the
effectiveness of the nervous system to utilize sound patterns is
linked to musical ability.

“Playing music engages the ability to extract relevant patterns, such
as the sound of one’s own instrument, harmonies and rhythms, from the
‘soundscape,’” Kraus says. “Not surprisingly, musicians’ nervous
systems are more effective at utilizing the patterns in music and
speech alike.”

Studies in Kraus’ laboratory indicate that music -- a high-order
cognitive process -- affects automatic processing that occurs early in
the processing stream. “The brainstem, an evolutionarily ancient part
of the brain, is modified by our experience with sound,” says Kraus.
“Now we know that music can fundamentally shape our subcortical
sensory circuitry in ways that may enhance everyday tasks, including
reading and listening in noise.”

Kraus presented a paper on “Cognitive-Sensory Interaction in the
Neural Encoding of Music and Speech” as part of a panel on
music-language interactions in the brain at the American Association
for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting in San Diego.

For more about the research of Northwestern University’s Auditory
Neuroscience Laboratory, visit the laboratory’s Web site at
www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu

Wendy Leopold is the education editor. Contact her at
w-leopold@northwestern.edu

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2010/02/kraus.html

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Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Keynote at NAJB

2010-02-24T14:29:00.001-06:00

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius will Deliver a Keynote at the National Association of Black Journalists Conference on Health Disparities

http://budurl.com/NAJBSebelius

The goal of this annual conference is to provide print, broadcast and online journalists the tools to effectively report on the impact of health care reform and health policy on underserved communities. Journalists and media professionals will leave with resources to inform and empower readers and viewers to action in their lives.

The NABJ Conference on Health Disparities Policies, Politics and Practice is March 4 to 6.

Secretary Sebelius opens the day on March 4.

Trivia Note: Kathleen Sebelius formerly governor of Kansas is the daughter of former Ohio Governor John J. Gilligan. The they are the first father/daughter governor pair in the United States.

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Good day to move ahead

2010-02-23T16:16:00.000-06:00

I decided to move ahead today, motivated by the Olympic curling events.

Who would have thought you could get ahead in life with broom skills?