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Friday, July 5, 2013
Thursday, July 4, 2013
All the Google Products That Google Itself Has Killed Dead
Google is responsible for giving birth to tools that have changed the entire world: Google search, Gmail, Android and so forth. It should be celebrated! However, Google is also responsible for the death of many of its own products as it re-focuses its priorities: Google Labs, Google Reader and many other less celebrated Google products. It should be charged with murder!
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Samsung sells 20 million Galaxy S 4s according to Korean Media
So, JK Shin hasn't emerged from Samsung's HQ declaring that his company has sold 20 million Galaxy S 4s, but the day (and week) is still young. Korea's news media is quoting the CEO as saying that Samsung's flagship Jay-Z player / handset has seen its sales double from the 10 million that was announced at the tail-end of May. Given that we're but a few days away from the company's next earnings estimates, we'll probably find out for certain soon enough.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Samsung
Source: iNews (Translated), Yonhap News (Translated)
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Watch Time Warner Cable programming on your Xbox 360
In March of this year, I purchased (and reviewed) the new Roku 3 because I could use it to add Time Warner Cable programming to my bedroom TV without needing to rent a cable box. ?I now have sharp, clear cable channels on that TV that supplements the over-the-air network channels I get using an [...]
Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2013/07/03/watch-time-warner-cable-programming-on-your-xbox-360/
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HTC One Mini pictured in black ahead of release
The best shots of the HTC One Mini yet, with a few more details on build materials and software
Following up quickly on leaked documents that show an impending release of larger and smaller versions of the HTC One on O2 in Germany, we now have solid images of the HTC One Mini. As you can see from the picture, the device really is just a smaller HTC One, although not drastically so because we're talking about less than a half inch difference in diagonal screen size. Based on the images we have here, the rim around the outside of the One Mini appears to be the same (or similar) plastic as is injected into the antenna slots on the back rather than metal, but we'll have to wait for an official release to see for ourselves.
The leak also pins down the specs that were rumored before: a 4.3-inch 720x1280 display, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. Those in contact with the device also say it is running Android 4.2.2, building on the fact that it is rolling out OTA for the original HTC One currently. Stick around after the break for two more images of the One Mini.
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Sphero is Amazon's Deal of the Day, on sale for $84.99
You all know Sphero, the robotic ball that is controlled via your Android phone. If you've been curious about one of these but were hesitant about the price tag, you can get it discounted today for $84.99, marked down from $129.99, as it's Amazon's Deal of the Day.
As mentioned above, Sphero is a ball that is controlled with your mobile device, Android or iOS. There are many apps that you can download from Google Play to allow you to control your Sphero in a different way or play games.
At a price of $129, many were hesitant to commit to the purchase. A $50 discount is attractive and will likely lure many more to try the robotic ball. How about you guys, at this price, are you more likely to buy a Sphero?
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
PFT: Redskins consider public opinion
Getty ImagesWe?re rolling out our own list of the Top 100 players in the NFL this month, with the first 25 names unveiled today.
Although this wasn?t our intention (the list is ordered solely based on the way our panel of NFL media members cast their votes), the first name we?re unveiling, at No. 76, happens to be a player whose presence on the list will be the subject of a great deal of debate. We?re sure plenty of you will agree, plenty will disagree, and you?ll have a lot to say in the comments.
The Bottom 25 of PFT?s Top 100 are below.
76 Tony Romo, quarterback, Cowboys
77 Doug Martin, running back, Buccaneers
78 Frank Gore, running back, 49ers
79 Carl Nicks, guard, Buccaneers
80 Maurice Jones-Drew, running back, Jaguars
81 Vernon Davis, tight end, 49ers
82 Evan Mathis, guard, Eagles
83 Alfred Morris, running back, Redskins
84 Joe Haden, cornerback, Browns
85 C.J. Spiller, running back, Bills
86 Calais Campbell, defensive end, Cardinals
87 Matthew Stafford, quarterback, Lions
88 Antonio Cromartie, cornerback, Jets
89 Jason Peters, offensive tackle, Eagles
90 Jordan Gross, offensive tackle, Panthers
91 Mike Pouncey, center, Dolphins
92 Mike Wallace, receiver, Dolphins
93 Reggie Wayne, receiver, Colts
94 Ed Reed, safety, Texans
95 Henry Melton, defensive tackle, Bears
96 Lance Briggs, linebacker, Bears
97 Steve Smith, receiver, Panthers
98 Antoine Winfield, cornerback, Seahawks
99 Max Unger, center, Seahawks
100 Matt Forte, running back, Bears
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Friday, June 28, 2013
SEO Internet Marketing Company in Charleston SC | Onwired Guest ...
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If social media isn?t a central part of your marketing strategy, you?ve already fallen behind! Engaging with customers, listening to their opinions, and replying with thoughtful messages is just one way to use social network websites. Use these great resources to build your brand name up and, with the resources that SEO Charleston SC can bring, reach more new customers than ever before.
The right SEO company will create tailored content that will make a real difference in online rankings and unique website hits. It?s time to build a long-term solution that will bring you consistent, relevant web traffic and help your business to grow. Combining quality SEO-fueled content with powerful social media marketing plans, Charleston companies can make a difference.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Video: Who Is Edward Snowden?
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Doctor goes viral online, aims to fix health care's flaws ? Health ...
Tens of thousands of people have been treated by ZDoggMD ? at least to a few laughs.
Using satire, rap and sometimes, a Michael Jackson glove, hospitalist Dr. Zubin Damania takes his alter ego, ZDoggMD, to YouTube to sing about everything from insurance paperwork to prostate cancer.
The result is hundreds of thousands of online views, and comedy that parodies pop culture ( he does an excellent Yoda impersonation) and pushes some boundaries ( bodily fluids are not off limits).
?Sometimes I stop and think: Are we getting in trouble?? Damania says of the often indelicate videos he creates with coworkers and friends. ?But the more we push it, the more positive the outcome.?
And when the opportunity arose, he decided to put his critique into action by heading up a new clinic in Las Vegas that he hopes will address the many drawbacks of the health system he noticed while treating seriously ill patients as a Stanford hospitalist.
Damania delivered a talk at the 2013 TEDMED conference in Washington in April called ?Are Zombie Doctors Taking Over America?? In it, he offered his take on the physician lifestyle right now: a hazy mix of rounds in the hospital, hours on the phone with insurance companies, tedious paperwork, and getting home late, only to worry about mistakes made somewhere along the way.
?There are so many pieces, but fundamentally the human relationship is ignored in this system,? he said.
Between his unsatisfying work experience and well-received creative outlet, Damania said he was searching for balance in his profession when his friend Tony Hsieh, the CEO of the mega shopping website, Zappos, approached him with a proposition. The Las Vegas-based entrepreneur asked him to develop and lead a health care system as part of the Downtown Project, an initiative spearheaded by Hsieh to revitalize the city.
With a push from his wife, a radiologist at Stanford, Damania accepted. He said the fragmented care in the area now makes it ripe for innovation. ?Our goal is to do it right in Vegas so that we can build and scale, and subtly disrupt what?s happening in health care,? he said.
The idea of ?disruption? is a buzzword for doctors and hospital leaders who are hoping to change the health care system. Damania said he was inspired by Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator?s Prescription, who suggests developing new ideas on the fringe of the health care system.
The Vegas project fits that idea of ?fringe? with a diverse community that includes small business owners, freelancers, artists and non-unionized workers ? and not enough primary care to serve the people who live and work there.
Damania said his new clinic is partnering with Iora Health, a company that has implemented a team-based, primary care model in Brooklyn, Atlantic City and other areas. The model will be tweaked for the needs of downtown Las Vegas.
?Zubin has a broad view, a systemic view of what needs to change in the health care system,? said Alexander Packard, CFO of Iora Health. ?He saw that we had the kind of culture that makes people feel well served.?
Under the Iora model, there are health coaches, ideally from the local community, as well as nurses and physicians, working to treat each patient. Each morning the entire staff meets in a huddle ? a meeting to discuss each patient they are scheduled to see that day. Damania calls this a ?non-hierarchical? approach, where time and money is preserved by realizing ?not everything has to be done by a doctor.?
Damania is adamant that insurance should be left out of primary care, where he said the incentives to take care of patients are often skewed by how insurance companies pay doctors for procedures. Instead, he proposes that patients pay a flat fee for primary care and have a wraparound insurance plan for emergencies or specialty care.
?We don?t use auto insurance to rotate our tires ? there would be no accountability that way,? he said.
The Downtown Project clinic will have a monthly membership fee of less than $100 that will cover all appointments and access to caregivers through both visits and e-mail or phone. Damania said he expects that some employers will elect to pay that fee for workers as part of an employee benefit plan and that he has already contracted with a very large employer in the area.
The clinic is set to open its doors in the fall of 2013, and Damania says he thinks it can help curb the cost of care through better use of primary care treatment and diagnosis. With this kind of reform, he wants to return to the career he set out to do in medical school ? being a hospitalist.
And while Damania is taking steps toward his vision, ZDoggMD is no less ambitious. After Damania?s daughter introduced her elementary school teacher to the videos ? a scary parent-teacher moment for the creator ? he?s made plans to tailor health-infused rap songs for the youngest inheritors of the health care system.
He calls it Schoolhouse Doc.
This story was produced in collaboration with USA Today. Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan health policy research and communications organization not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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Police move past barricades into Istanbul square
Riot policemen take cover behind their shields amid tear gas smoke during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in Istanbul's central Taksim Square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
Riot policemen take cover behind their shields amid tear gas smoke during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in Istanbul's central Taksim Square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
A petrol bomb explodes in front of riot policemen during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in Istanbul's central Taksim Square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
Turkish riot police charge toward protesters during clashes in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with a group of protesters occupying Istanbul's central Taksim Square this week, Deputy Prime minister Bulent Arinc said Monday, as the government sought a way out of the impasse that has led to hundreds of protests in dozens of cities. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A street food vendor wears goggles to protect himself from tear gas while standing next to his cart during clashes between Turkish riot police and protesters in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with a group of protesters occupying Istanbul's central Taksim Square this week, Deputy Prime minister Bulent Arinc said Monday, as the government sought a way out of the impasse that has led to hundreds of protests in dozens of cities. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A petrol bomb explodes in front of riot policemen during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in Istanbul's central Taksim Square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
ISTANBUL (AP) ? Hundreds of police in riot gear pushed past improvised barricades early Tuesday to reach Istanbul's central Taksim Square, firing tear gas and rubber bullets to scatter protesters who have occupied the area for more than a week.
Many of the demonstrators fled into the square's Gezi Park, where hundreds have been camping as part of the occupation aimed at stopping a development project in the park. Bulldozers immediately began dismantling some of the barricades and makeshift shelters set up on the square, although they insisted they would not move into the park.
The police clampdown on Taksim Square came on the 12th day of nationwide protests which grew from a peaceful demonstration against a redevelopment of Gezi Park into a test of the authority of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The unrest was inspired in part by some see as his increasingly authoritarian style of governing and his perceived attempts to impose a religious and conservative lifestyle in the country with secular laws.
Erdogan, a devout Muslim, says he is committed to Turkey's secular laws and denies charges of autocracy.
Three people have died ? two protesters and a policeman ? and more than 5,000 have been treated for injuries or the effects of gas during the protests. The government says 600 police officers have also been injured.
Throughout the protests, Erdogan has struck a defiant tone, vowing to press ahead with the Taksim redevelopment plans, dismissing the protesters as fringe extremists and the protests as undemocratic plots to topple his government, which was elected with 50 percent support in 2011.
He has called major pro-government rallies in Ankara and Istanbul this weekend to show that he too can get large numbers of his supporters out on the street.
The government announced late Monday that Erdogan would meet with some of the Gezi Park protesters on Wednesday, but that authorities would not allow "illegal" demonstrations to continue.
Speaking Tuesday,Erdogan maintained his position that the protests were part of a conspiracy against the government.
"They are trying to prevent Turkey's rise. (The protesters) are being used by some financial institutions, the interest rate lobby and media groups to (harm) Turkey's economy and (scare away) investments."He added: "I want everyone there to see the big picture, to understand the game that is being played and I especially invite them to evacuate (Taksim and Gezi Park). I expect that of them as their prime minister."
In Taksim, police addressed the protesters through loudspeakers, insisting they had no intention of moving into the park, but needed to clear the square and take down protest banners. They appealed for calm, saying they did not want to use tear gas.
But in his speech, Erdogan implied the park would not be allowed to be occupied for long.
"I am sorry but Gezi Park is for taking promenades, not for occupation," he said, referring to the meaning of the word Gezi, which translates as promenade.
Clashes broke out on the edge of the square between riot police and small groups of protesters throwing fireworks, firebombs and stones at the police water cannon trucks, with authorities responding with tear gas and jets of water. The vast majority of protesters, most of who remained in the park, were peaceful.
Unsuspecting commuters emerging from the square's metro station ran for cover, aided through the clouds of acrid chemicals by protesters offering them antacid solution in spray bottles to help protect them from the worst of the sting.
At least one protester was injured or overcome by gas, and was rushed on an improvised stretcher by others to a medical station set up by protesters in the park. It was unclear how serious his condition was.
A police vehicle was set alight by a firebomb, and a water cannon truck was used to extinguish the blaze.
One protester said he joined the protest in Gezi Park because his cousin was beaten by police during the initial clampdown.
"I'm here because I'm trying to defend my human rights," said the protester who gave his name as Kenan Agac. "I'm not against police but his morning they came and threw tear gas."
"If they had warned us, this wouldn't have happened," he said, gesturing towards the clashes with police a few meters (yards) away. "This was not necessary."
Istanbul Gov. Huseyin Avni Mutlu said the police operation aimed to remove the posters and banners hanging at Taksim, some of which belonged to outlawed groups, that were damaging Istanbul's international image.
He said clashes erupted with "marginal groups" that had thrown fireworks and firebombs and had set one police vehicle alight, and he reassured people holding peaceful protests at Gezi Park that they would not be touched.
"I would like to say one more time that there is no question of any (police) intervention at Gezi Park," he said, and accused those clashing with police of trying to provoke wider clashes at Taksim.
"We are maintaining our self-control. (Police) shall remain around these places to prevent (protesters) from climbing on them and surrounding them with their materials," he said.
Mutlu said a number of demonstrators were detained. He said there were no injuries during the police operation, but that some people had suffered small cuts and bruises.
But protesters were skeptical of the promise.
"Of course nobody believes the police or the governor when he says police will not interrupt the gathering in Gezi Park," said Tarsu Orzyurt. "We won't believe then anymore. We saw policemen telling us 'come to the street and don't be afraid,' then they shoot at us (with tear gas). So nobody believes them."
Demonstrators had manned the barricades and prepared for a possible intervention when they saw police massing in the area shortly after dawn Tuesday morning. But in the end, the police moved easily through the barriers, initially arriving on Taksim through a small, lightly protected side street.
Police took down large banners hung by protesters on a building on the edge of the square, leaving only a large Turkish flag in place. Next to it, they hung a picture of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the revered founder of modern Turkey 89 years ago after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Before the police action, the protests appeared to be on the wane with the smallest number of demonstrators in the past 12 days gathering in Taksim on Monday night. The protesters occupying Gezi Park had remained, however.
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Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed.
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Friday, June 7, 2013
Google?s Android 4.3 Rumored to Be Unveiled Tomorrow
Internet giant Google might be finally ready to make the long-rumored Android 4.3 Jelly Bean operating system flavor official, and could make the move as soon as tomorrow, June 6, new reports on the matter suggest.
A recent tweet from Jean-Baptiste Queru, the technical lead for Google?s Android Open Source Project, appears to suggest that, although no official confirmation on the matter has been provided as of now.
?The future will be better tomorrow,? Jean-Baptiste Queru said in the aforementioned tweet.
As briefmobile notes, Android 4.3 should be the last Jelly Bean flavor before the release of Android 5.0 key Lime Pie, which should be officially unveiled sometime in fall, as previous reports on the matter suggested.
Android 4.3 was expected to make an appearance at the Google I/O conference in May, but that did not happen.
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Friday, May 31, 2013
Dot Earth Blog: Experts Foresee No Detectable Health Impact from Fukushima Radiation
The levels of exposure to radiation following the leaks and explosions at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in 2011 were so low that they led today to this important conclusion from experts convened in Vienna by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effect of Atomic Radiation:
It is unlikely to be able to attribute any health effects in the future among the general public and the vast majority of workers.
Scientists had met all week to make final adjustments to a report on Fukushima radiation and health that will be submitted to the United Nations General Assembly later this year.
The findings are even more definitive on the lack of risk than those in a World Health Organization report on the nuclear incident in February. An Associated Press account from a news conference following the meeting describes the difference:
Wolfgang Weiss, a senior member of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, ?suggested the UNSCEAR study, carried out by 80 experts and with the involvement of five international organisations including the United Nations health agency, was based on information covering a longer period after the accident.
?So they (the WHO) didn?t have the full picture. We don?t have the full picture either but we have more than one year in addition,? he said.
Here?s more from the news release issued by the United Nations committee:
The additional exposures received by most Japanese people in the first year and subsequent years due to the radioactive releases from the accident are less than the doses received from natural background radiation (which is about 2.1 mSv per year). This is particularly the case for Japanese people living away from Fukushima, where annual doses of around 0.2 mSv from the accident are estimated, arising primarily through ingestion of radionuclides in food.
No radiation-related deaths or acute effects have been observed among nearly 25,000 workers (including TEPCO employees and contractors) involved at the accident site.
Given the small number of highly exposed workers, it is unlikely that excess cases of thyroid cancer due to radiation exposure would be detectable. Special health examinations will be given to workers with exposures above 100 mSv including annual monitoring of the thyroid, stomach, large intestine and lung for cancer as a means to monitor for potential late radiation-related health effects at the individual level.
The assessment also concluded that although the rate of exposures may have exceeded the levels for the onset of effects on plants and animals several times in the first few months following the accident, any effects are expected to be transient in nature, given their short duration. In general, the exposures on both marine and terrestrial non-human biota were too low for observable acute effects. [Read the rest.]
Of course, this is unlikely to reduce nuclear fears related to the disaster, given the deep roots of feelings about such risks. The factors shaping the large ?dread to risk ratio? are only marginally affected by evolving science.
I also don?t imagine that Nancy Grace at CNN will provide an update to viewers of her fear-mongering proclamations about danger to Americans. But hopefully the news division at CNN, at least, will report on this welcome news.
To see the impact of fears on the ground in Japan, I recommend watching ?In Japan, a Portrait of Mistrust,? a short ?Op Doc? produced for The Times on public fears of contaminated food.
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Music Review: Indie Round-Up ? Paper Bird, Bethesda, Jerry Castle ...
Paper Bird, Rooms
Here?s an unusual-sounding band that mixes Afro-pop, Andrews Sisters harmonies, unexpected rhythms, and psychedelia (as in their song ?Seaside Lullaby?), and everything sounds real, not synthesized, not Auto-tuned. In multipart harmonies the group?s multiple singers sail simple words and phrases to and fro on seas of sound that take them far from their essential meanings.
Some of the lyrics don?t make any sense whatsoever; I recommend not trying. This music is all about rhythm, harmony, and inertia. Individually the voices are modest, even on the weak side; together they build coruscating murals of colorful, un-pin-downable meaning.
The album is called Rooms to suggest that each song is like a different room in a house. It feels to me like one of those houses college kids colonize and transform into theatrical wonderlands of music, color, aroma, and fitful love, one of those places you can love to lose yourself in when you?re in the right youthful frame of mind where everything still seems possible. Listen with an open mind.
Bethesda, The Reunion
I?ve been wondering how long the appeal of the current crop of loud-acoustic (for want of a better term), sort-of-folk bands like Mumford and Songs and The Lumineers will last. This oddball sub-genre of music revels in punchy rhythmic elements and un-folk-like dynamic extremes, but if there are drums, they are not the highly processed skins of today?s rock and pop. The popularity of these bands lies, surely, in their fusion of the urgent energy of rock with acoustic-roots authenticity. But will it be a lasting evolution in taste, or a fad? History suggests the latter.
Bethesda is a drum-heavy, semi-electric exemplar of the style. They?re a wordy band, too, but Shanna Delaney?s lead vocals are so tightly threaded into the dense arrangements that on first listen my brain registered no more than a phrase here and there. The music carries a lot of drama, and on further listens I found myself wanting words to match and not hearing them.
Full of joyous shouts, sea-shanty fire, and pleasantly incongruous prettiness courtesy of Delaney?s sunny voice and Christopher Black?s warm fiddle, this energetic collection can?t fail to please fans of that Grammy-winning, en vogue dynamic-folk style.
Jerry Castle, Desperate Parade
I long ago lost what little patience I had for cookie-cutter country music clich?. You know what I mean: songs about trucks, lost love, shopping-mall Jesus. The first few bars of Jerry Castle?s new CD and the title of its last song (?Nashville Nights?) suggested that that glitzy plastic universe might be his, too. But as it turns out, the songs on Desperate Parade have a rough-edged sincerity that doesn?t feel by-the-books at all.
It?s not that there?s surprising originality in the lyrics; it?s that almost the moment Castle starts to sing, you can tell this work wasn?t furiously shined and polished to within an inch of its life. His slightly growly, refreshingly unprocessed voice, which in its lower register can sound a little like Steve Earle but other times has a smoother clarity, convinces, and the songs ? some of which he wrote alone, others with a thankfully small coterie of co-writers ? resonate with the spirit of actual human feeling, calling upon the listener?s emotions without the blatant manipulation written into typical commercial Nashville product. Even when he?s singing full voice, he sings like he?s talking to you, whether it?s an uptempo rocker like ?Precious Time,? a gentle folk-pop number like ?Calm? or ?Spiral Stairs,? a ballad like ?Say Yes,? a mid-tempo rocker like ?My Style of Crazy,? or even the tense, vaguely psychedelic ?Close to You,? one of my favorites despite its not having much meat on its bones.
You?ve probably picked up from the preceding that stylistically and compositionally this is a far more ?normal? project than the others in today?s round-up. That?s not a bad thing, of course. Now and then Castle tries too hard to fit the skin of everything that rootsy country music has done before, as in ?So Far From Heaven? and ?Nashville Nights.? The anti-jingoistic ?Star Spangled Lies? might not please some of today?s Tea Party ?patriots.?
But this is a good dose of sustenance for country music fans looking for something more earthy than what typically plays on country radio.
Jon Sobel is an Executive Editor of Blogcritics as well as lead editor of the Culture section. As a writer he contributes most often to Culture, where he reviews NYC theater; he also covers interesting music releases and writes a semi-regular round-up of reviews of independent albums. He writes the blog Park Odyssey, for which he is visiting and blogging every park in New York City?over a thousand of them. Through Oren Hope Marketing and Copywriting you can hire him to write or edit whatever marketing or journalistic materials your heart desires. By night he's a working musician: lead singer, songwriter, and bass player for Whisperado, a member of other bands as well, and a sideman.
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'The 100' Diet Claims Weight Loss by Restricting Calories From Sugar
May 30, 2013 7:08am
ABC News? Juju Chang and Taylor Behrendt report:
Low-carb diets have been popular for years, but a new low-carb diet caters specifically to carb lovers by allowing them to eat cake and cookies and other carb favorites as long as they restrict the sugar.
Jorge Cruise, who wrote the new diet book ??The 100,? which outlines how to restrict sugar, claims hundreds of people who?ve tried his diet lost an average of 18 pounds in two weeks.
Cruise met with ABC News? Juju Chang at the Trump SoHo in Manhattan to explain the science behind the approach.
?It?s all about the insulin,? he said. ?Everyone thinks weight loss is all about eat less, exercise more ? a calorie is a calorie and as much as I love equality, I?m not abiding equality when it comes to calories. Not all calories are the same.?
So on Cruise?s regimen, dieters can?t eat more than 100 sugar calories a day.
?There are new ways to have your cake and eat it too, literally ?? he said.
But it?s not that simple. Common foods that may seem healthy are loaded with hidden sugar, and reading nutrition labels can be tricky.
?So here?s the total formula, bottom line: total carbs times four,? he said. ?Total carbs times four will tell you how many sugar calories. ? Say it?s 20 total carbs in an apple. Times it by four, you?re looking at 80 sugar calories.?
For example, Cruise said, one serving of brown rice ? about one-fourth of a cup ? has 35 grams of carbs. Multiply that by four, and you?re already over your daily limit of sugar calories.
Some surprising foods ? such as whipped cream, half and half ?and red wine, which has only 14 sugar calories per glass? ? don?t pose a problem on this diet.
For people who love carbs, Cruise says they can swap out high-carb wheat flour for almond flour.
?The 100?Diet Recipes
Skinny Muffin
? cup ground flax
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoon ?cinnamon powder
1 teaspoon coconut oil
1 egg
1 packet Stevia/Truvia
Optional: ?2 tbsp. walnuts added to the mixture
Directions
Mix all ingredients in a coffee mug. Microwave for 50 seconds. Serve with butter. Complete the breakfast with coffee with some half and half. Contains no sugar calories.
Fried Chicken
2 chicken breasts
2 cups coconut flour
1 egg
Coconut oil
Directions
Preheat the coconut oil in a skillet. Slice the chicken breasts in half. In a bowl, beat the egg, then dip the chicken in egg, then in coconut flour. Fry until golden brown on each side.
Fried chicken serves four, and has no sugar calories.
Chocolate Lace Cookies
2 stick butter, softened
2/3 cup Truvia baking blend
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 cup almond flour
? cup unsweetened whey protein powder
? cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
? teaspoon salt
4 ounces dark chocolate (chopped)
1 cup chopped walnuts
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Mix all ingredients, then spoon?heaping teaspoons 2 ?inches apart on the baking sheet. Bake for 9 to 10 minutes.
Makes as many as 24 cookies, depending on how large the portions are on the cookie sheet. Contains no sugar calories.
?? Skinny Muffin recipe from ?The 100? by Jorge Cruise. Reprinted with permission by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. Other recipes Courtesy of Jorge Cruise, JorgeCruise.com.
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Ousted 'Voice' singer to Levine: 'Don't feel bad'
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Not so long ago, Judith Hill and Sarah Simmons were both strong candidates to win season four of ?The Voice.? On Tuesday night, both were axed from the hit singing competition.
Their reactions were vastly different.
?I was a little shocked,? admitted Judith after the show, ?but I think it was also a good, good lesson.?
Her blind audition was so strong that "The Voice" used it to promote the season premiere back in March. Yet she acknowledged that her version of the will.i.am and Justin Bieber song ?#thatPower? failed to connect with the voting public, even as she defended her decision to take the track in a funk direction.
?I don't think anything went wrong musically. I think that it was really one of my more exciting performances,? she said. ?I think that if a song is a lot more familiar, has a lot more pop sensibilities, I think that America tends to draw more to that than something they're not used to.?
So what lesson did Judith learn from her ?Voice? elimination? ?I think that I've learned more about America,? she explained. ?I've learned more about just how they receive music, and how to really make sure everything is something they can relate to.?
Teammate Sarah was much less surprised when her name was called. ?I just felt surrendered,? she told TODAY.com. ?You can't complain at all with this. I have no negative thing to say about it. It was an adrenaline rush and it was a taste of my dream.?
In fact, Sarah found herself calming down their coach, Adam Levine.
?He was really upset,? she explained. ?He wanted to talk to us outside (after the show).?
That discussion revolved around selecting Gotye?s ?Somebody That I Used To Know? for what became Sarah?s final performance on the ?Voice? stage. ?For the live rounds, I've basically chosen all of my songs (in) collaboration with (Adam), but for this one, he chose it for me,? she continued. ?I know he was feeling really bad that I was going home.
?I told him 'Please don't feel bad, because I've never worked so hard in my life on a freaking song.' I told him it challenged me and it stretched me.?
She left the show with high praise for her Grammy-winning coach. ?He?s amazing,? she enthused. ?I know he wants to stay in contact, which is awesome. He's a really good person. I'm really grateful to know him.?
Even ?Voice? host Carson Daly admitted to being stunned by the exits of Judith and Sarah, but he also suggested there was something to be gleaned from the development. ?I was surprised. I was surprised at Judith probably more than Sarah, because she's been just such a frontrunner from our eyes,? he admitted.
?But once we go live and we turn the power of the show over to America, there's something liberating about that. If you?re shocked about (Tuesday night's) results, then maybe there's something about America and the way they think and feel that you don't know about.?
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
'Actors Studio' host James Lipton: I was a pimp
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James Lipton.
James Lipton has interviewed countless celebrities about their jobs on his long-running Bravo series "Inside the Actors Studio." But that doesn't mean that the 86-year-old (who has also appeared on TV shows including "Arrested Development") can't trump all of them with one of his own former jobs: As a pimp in Paris in the 1950s.
As he told Parade magazine, "It was only a few years after the war. Paris was different then, still poor. Men couldn't get jobs and, in the male chauvinist Paris of that time, the women couldn't get work at all. It was perfectly respectable for them to go into 'le milieu.'?
The "underworld," literally -- but that meant prostitution. "Young women desperately needed money for various reasons," he said. "(They) were beautiful and young and extraordinary" -- and "inspected medically" each week.
He was cleared by those who ran "le milieu" ("otherwise they would have found me floating in the Seine") and ended up representing an entire bordello of ladies of the night. "I did a roaring business, and I was able to live for a year," he said. "That's how I lived. I was going through my rights of passage, no question about it. It was a great year of my life."
Lipton went on to hold many other jobs -- including writer for soap operas, including "Another World" and "Guiding Light" -- before establishing a non-credit class at the Actors Studio Drama School and starting up the TV show in 1994. It will air its 250th episode on May 29.
Still, despite his experience in 1950s Paris, Lipton says a person shouldn't pay for sex: "I think if you can't earn it on your own, then you don't deserve it."
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Music review: Ciara feat. Nicki Minaj "I'm Out" - She Knows
In a page taken directly out of The National Enquirer, the latest and smallest bit of drama emerged on the release of a song. Apparently, Ciara and Rihanna have been feuding, and a line?? yes, just one ? has stirred the pot.
But take it straight from the horse's mouth, Ms. Nicki Minaj herself (when she made it clear via Twitter), that Ciara's latest single, "I'm Out," is not an attack on Rihanna.
Nicki cleared the air with this lovely message geared to BET on the social network:
"Da&n fam, I wld expect a black channel to actually understand rap bars. Song is a male bashing song. FOH@106andpark @ciara @rihanna?
Rihanna loves Twitter drama >>
Well, now that you are caught up on the drama surrounding Ciara's most recent try at a "Goodies"-level comeback, we can actually focus on what matters??? the music.
So I made a small jab at Ciara's inability to drop a hit similar to her freshman debut, but "Body Party" did do a decent job of coming close. While I'm still not convinced this track will surpass fan's expectations, it is a sassy and fierce track. "I'm Out" appears to be actually less about Rihanna, and more about empowering women post a messy breakup.
Ciara has a "caramel" way of oozing her presence onto a track, doesn't she? She's sensual, but full of sex appeal, and brings a summer-ready single to our doorstep pre-packaged for the club. And while I'm usually ready with an artillery of insults against Minaj, she does come close to killing it on this song.
Nicki may have more time to make music given she may have an expiry date on American Idol >>
Oh, and in case you care, and want to see the famous one line that has got people creating unnecessary and predictable celebrity drama? Nicki raps:
"You gon? play me, on Instagram trying to shade me"
Rihanna reportedly made jabs at Ciara on the picture-sharing network. Wonder what started it? Ciara doesn't seem to know. Maybe Rihanna was annoyed at Ciara's latest pics on what she ate for dinner and lost it? All I know is, I can't keep up. Their feud has been thought to have stemmed from a 2011 comment Ciara made on E!'s Fashion Police, to which Rihanna retaliated with a harsh tweet.
But if you couldn't care less for celebrity gossip and care more for new music, and a possible summer hit, check out the track below!
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Get that music playlist summer ready with new music! Check out these reviews:
Robin Thicke "4 The Rest of My Life"
Kanye West "New Slaves"
Emblem3 "Chloe"
Source: http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/994963/music-review-ciara-feat-nicki-minaj-im-out
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Aqua is a major international Earth Science satellite mission centered at NASA.
Aqua is a major international Earth Science satellite mission centered at NASA. Launched on May 4, 2002, the satellite has six different Earth-observing instruments on board and is named for the large amount of information being obtained about water in the Earth system from its stream of approximately 89 Gigabytes of data a day. The water variables being measured include almost all elements of the water cycle and involve water in its liquid, solid, and vapor forms. Additional variables being measured include radiative energy fluxes, aerosols, vegetation cover on the land, phytoplankton and dissolved organic matter in the oceans, and air, land, and water temperatures. The primary science objective of the Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua mission is the study of Earth's interrelated physical processes with an emphasis on the water cycle. Primary variables of interest include: ocean evaporation, atmospheric water vapor, clouds, terrestrial snow, land ice, sea ice, sea surface temperature, precipitation, and soil moisture. Additional variables include: radiative energy fluxes, atmospheric temperatures, humidities, aerosols, land vegetation cover, and ocean productivity.
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