Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/05/mila-kunis-sex-tape-tops-fan-wish-list-new-survey-finds/
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
Dior presents cruise fashions amid stars in Monaco
MONACO (AP) ? The glittering star power of Cannes migrated up the coast to Monaco for front-row seats at Dior's colorful, sexy cruise fashion show.
With the Mediterranean Sea the picturesque backdrop, Dior showcased its 2014 collection on Saturday night. It was a wet, cold and generally miserable outside the white stage, but Raf Simons' designs provided the shimmering summery lift for the evening.
Among those on hand were Oscar-winner and Dior spokeswoman Marion Cotillard, actresses Ruth Wilson and Jessica Biel, and Prince Albert of Monaco, along with his fashionable wife, Princess Charlene.
Before the show, Biel called Dior's fashions beautiful, saying she also appreciated them because they were made for real woman. If that was the case, such women are dynamic gazelles who even in their downtime have multiple agendas.
There were sheer lace cover-ups, brightly colored dresses, and jackets and coats made of wool.
In press materials provided at the show, Simons explained his inspiration to prominently feature lace in the collection.
"I never worked with lace before," he said. "It was about transforming the meaning of the material; not romantic, not historical, not old, to something light, playful, colorful and modern ? with energy."
Many of the pieces had an effervescent feel, like the metallic blended with sheer lace and a strip of a coral floral print in one dress; a wool jacket and pants were made vibrant with bright red color.
But there were other outfits that had a more traditional look, like a flowing spaghetti-strap red dress that hit mid-calf at the front but draped near the floor in the back, and the one-piece bathing suits that harkened back to old-style Hollywood glamour ? particularly a brilliant blue piece with ruching in the back.
After an enthusiastic ovation for the show, guests such as Liv Tyler were shuttled to the Oceanographic Museum nearby as Prince Albert and his wife threw a reception that showcased some of the fashions ? including Dior ? worn by his late mother, Princess Grace.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dior-presents-cruise-fashions-amid-stars-monaco-123933061.html
Sunday, May 19, 2013
IRS head grilled by Congress
Outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller apologized Friday on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service for unfairly targeting conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, but said "partisanship" was not the reason for the agency's practices.
?First and foremost, as acting commissioner, I want to apologize on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service,? Miller said before a House Ways and Means Committee hearing.
The IRS is under fire for placing heavier scrutiny on organizations with words like "tea party" or "patriots" in their name when they applied for nonprofit status between 2010 and 2012, according to a report unveiled this week by the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration.
Miller, who at the time was deputy commissioner for services and enforcement, went on to say in his brief opening statement that "foolish mistakes were made" in the handling of the applications.
?I do not believe that partisanship motivated the people that engaged in the practices described in the inspector general?s report,? Miller said. ?Foolish mistakes were made by people who were trying to be more efficient in their work.?
Sitting next to Miller at the hearing, Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George testified that in his investigation he "did not" find evidence that the agency's decisions were motivated by politics.
Lawmakers from both parties grilled Miller, questioning him about when he learned of the agency's practices, probing into why the agency singled out organizations with conservative leanings for heavier scrutiny, and asking whether the IRS disclosed private tax information to other government agencies.
Miller repeatedly denied that the IRS intentionally used political criteria to determine levels of scrutiny on groups applying for tax-exempt status.
"Generally, we provided horrible customer service here. I will admit that, we did," Miller said when questioned by Rep. Pat Tiberi, an Ohio Republican. "Horrible customer service. Whether it is politically motivated or not is a very different question."
When asked to point to specific employees within the IRS who were responsible, Miller declined. ?I don?t have names for you,? he told Texas Republican Rep. Kevin Brady.
Also at Friday's hearing, California Republican Rep. Devin Nunes questioned Miller about why he resigned from his position as a result of the IRS' practices. Earlier this week, President Barack Obama announced that Miller would step down.
"I never said I didn't do anything wrong, Mr. Nunes," Miller said. "I resigned because, as the acting commissioner, what happens in the IRS, whether I was personally involved or not, stops at my desk. So I should be held accountable for what happens. Whether I was personally involved or not are very different questions, sir."
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Google Glass Just Got Some New Glassware (Aka Apps)
While Glass is flying under the radar at I/O, Google has just announced that CNN, Elle, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Evernote are joining the "Glassware" fray. Previously, only Path and The New York Times were the only other apps available for Glass.
Most of the functionality for each new app is surprisingly full(ish) featured. After all, it's not like there's a lot of screen real estate.
Elle's "Glassware," for instance, lets readers swipe through photos from a story in the magazine or have stories read aloud to them. You can even pick a particular section to peruse or pin stories for reading later.
CNN's app lets you pick the types of alerts you want to get like sports scores or breaking news at specific times. Clips can also be read aloud to you. You can even watch videos!
Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr feeds can be curated for certain individuals so you're not inundated with EVERYTHING going on. You can even upload a photo directly to Facebook. With Twitter, if you have mobile notifications turned on for certain accounts, those will get pushed to Glass. You can even send and receive DMs.
And if you're a big Evernote user, Glass will be able to access notes that have been created from your desktop and shared to Glass.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/while-glass-is-flying-under-the-radar-at-i-o-google-ha-507598884
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Follow the Google I/O 2013 Keynote with Android Central!
What a week in mobile we're seeing. First Nokia, then BlackBerry, and today it's over to Google. Our buddies Phil Nickinson and Jerry Hildenbrand from Android Central are on the ground in San Francisco for Google I/O 2013. Today is go time, with Google's three hour long monster keynote due to kick off this morning, afternoon or evening depending on whereabouts in the world you are.
The times you'll want to know:
- 09:00 Pacific Time
- 12:00 Eastern Time
- 17:00 British Summer Time
- 18:00 Central European Time
Last year's Google I/O saw the folks from Mountain View drop Chrome for iOS into our laps, and while no-one dropped out of the sky to deliver it to us, it was still a pretty big announcement. Google makes some fantastic apps for iOS, and has really upped their game in the past 12 months so we're looking forward to see what may come our way today.
Google will be livestreaming the event, but the absolute best coverage will come from Phil and Jerry from the show floor. Be sure to follow it all on Android Central beginning later today, and over the coming days.
What would you like to see Google bring to iOS from Google I/O? Personally, I'm hoping for Google Maps for iPad and a Google Keep application. Let us know what you'd like to see in the comments below!
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
'Dancing With the Stars' reveals its final 4
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It was the end of the road to mirror ball glory for Kym Johnson and Ingo Rademacher on Tuesday.
On the night of its 300th episode, "Dancing With the Stars" revealed its season 16 finalists with little fanfare. But what was there to celebrate, really? Just earlier in the day, ABC had announced that next season, the very results show that aired Tuesday night would be a thing of the past, wrapped into a two-hour extravaganza that will take place only on Mondays. (Not that "DWTS" addressed this development.)
But the (existing) show must go on, so the ballroom bash drummed up what little drama it could with the couples it put under the spotlights of shame: "General Hospital" actor Ingo Rademacher and partner Kym Johnson, and Disney star Zendaya and pro Valentin Chmerkovskiy. Yes, Zendaya, the teen who has ruled the scoreboard since the first day of the season, was in jeopardy.
When the in-studio audience heard the news, their boos were long and loud. After all, Monday's senseless scoring had possibly contributed to her current predicament. After delivering a high-speed quickstep that wasn't quite as good as she usually is (and it certainly wasn't bad), Zendaya received a smackdown from the judges in the form of a 25-point score. That was just 1 point higher than Ingo's sloppy samba that happened to be his best dance of the season.
But the teen didn't need to worry for long. As the show prepared to the reveal the results, co-host Brooke Burke noted that the couples awaiting their fates were "not necessarily the bottom two." (You don't say!) The results were as many -- including Ingo -- had predicted: The soap star had fallen just one week shy of the finale.
"If I don?t go home ... somebody else is going to be very upset," Ingo had told the cameras after Monday's performance show.
The soap star was gracious in his exit. "This has been an amazing experience because I thought I?d be done in like, two weeks," he said after his elimination. "Kym has choreographed the most amazing routines and catered them to my two left feet."
As for the final four of Zendaya, Kellie Pickler, Aly Raisman and Jacoby Jones, "I really want to see them battle it out because I think it?s really close competition," Ingo said.
That finale battle next week will have three rounds of competition, including what host Tom Bergeron called a "supersized freestyle," as well as "all sorts of tricks."
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/dancing-stars-reveals-its-final-4-1C9928674
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Why Humans Took Up Farming: They Like To Own Stuff
Prehistoric "pantries": This illustration is based on archaeological findings in Jordan of structures built to store extra grain some 11,000-12,000 years ago.
Illustration by E. Carlson/Courtesy of Dr. Ian Kuijt/University of Notre DamePrehistoric "pantries": This illustration is based on archaeological findings in Jordan of structures built to store extra grain some 11,000-12,000 years ago.
Illustration by E. Carlson/Courtesy of Dr. Ian Kuijt/University of Notre DameFor decades, scientists have believed our ancestors took up farming some 12,000 years ago because it was a more efficient way of getting food. But a growing body of research suggests that wasn't the case at all.
"We know that the first farmers were shorter, they were more prone to disease than the hunter-gatherers," says Samuel Bowles, the director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, describing recent archaeological research.
Bowles' own work has found that the earliest farmers expended way more calories in growing food than they did in hunting and gathering it. "When you add it all up, it was not a bargain," says Bowles.
So why farm? Bowles lays out his theory in a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The reasons are complex, but they revolve around the concept of private property.
Think of these early farmers as prehistoric suburbanites of sorts. The first farmers emerged in less than a dozen spots in Asia and South America. Bowles says they were already living in small villages. They owned their houses and other objects, like jewelry, boats and a range of tools, including fishing gear.
They still hunted and foraged, but they didn't have to venture far for food: They had picked fertile places to settle down, and so food was abundant. For example, one group in what is present-day Iraq lived close to a gazelle migration route. During migration season, it was easy pickings ? they killed more animals than they could eat in one sitting. They also harvested more grain from wild plants than they knew what to do with. And so, they built "pantries" ? structures where they could store the extra food.
This granary uncovered in Jordan shows that people stored wild grain even before they were farming it.
Courtesy of Dr. Ian Kuijt/University of Notre DameThis granary uncovered in Jordan shows that people stored wild grain even before they were farming it.
Courtesy of Dr. Ian Kuijt/University of Notre DameThese societies had seen the value of owning stuff ? they were already recognizing "private property rights," says Bowles. That's a big transition from nomadic cultures, which by and large don't recognize individual property. All resources, even in modern day hunter-gatherers, are shared with everyone in the community.
But the good times didn't last forever in these prehistoric villages. In some places, the weather changed for the worse. In other places, the animals either changed their migratory route or dwindled in numbers.
At this point, Bowles says these communities had a choice: They could either return to a nomadic lifestyle, or stay put in the villages they had built and "use their knowledge of seeds and how they grow, and the possibility of domesticating animals."
Stay put, they did. And over time, they also grew in numbers. Why? Because the early farmers had one advantage over their nomadic cousins: Raising kids is much less work when one isn't constantly on the move. And so, they could and did have more children.
In other words, Bowles thinks early cultures that recognized private property gave people a reason to plant roots in one place and invent farming ? and stick with it despite its initial failures.
Bowles admits that this is just an informed theory. But to test it, he and his colleague Jung-Kyoo Choi built a mathematical model that simulated social and environmental conditions among early hunter-gatherers. In this simulation, farming evolved only in groups that recognized private property rights. What's more, in the simulations, once farming met private property, the two reinforced each other and spread through the world.
Bowles' theory offers a more nuanced explanation that ties together cultural, environmental and technological realities facing those first farmers, says Ian Kuijt, an anthropologist at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in the origins of agriculture.
But, he says, the challenge is to figure out who owned the property back then and how they ran it. "Was it owned by one individual?" Kuijt says. "Was it a mother and father and their children? ... Does it represent community or village property?"
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