tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27641094332277126292024-02-19T07:35:00.824-08:00OMG AMERICAAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02947581528450923504noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-540271418679725232013-01-12T08:11:00.000-08:002013-01-12T08:11:50.562-08:00President Obama executive order on gun control<img alt="" class="alignnone size-full" src="http://vproeent.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/barack-obama-announced-th-010.jpg?w=646" title="Barack-Obama-announced-th-010.jpg" /> <br />
Since any gun assurance law would face activity in a
Republican-controlled Congress, the admiral accept to counterbalance
accessible opinion
<br />
Vice-President Joe Biden’s gun console is set to address to Admiral
Barack Obama next Tuesday. The accepted appearance is that any
legislation that is at all arguable would accept a difficult time
accepting anesthetized by the Republican-controlled House of
Representatives. Now, Biden has aloft the achievability of accepting gun
ascendancy measures by controlling order.
<br />
My admonition for the admiral as anyone who reads polls: go for it, if
it’s what you wish to do. There is abundant altercation that acting by
controlling adjustment would be apparent as a “totalitarian”
activity and abet a backlash. Nonsense, so connected as the adjustment
is acknowledging a admeasurement the accessible favors.<br />
Consider
that in June 2012 Obama took controlling activity on a “mini-Dream
Act” that provided a aisle to abstain displacement for some
undocumented immigrants who came to the country afore the age of 16, had
a top academy apprenticeship (or were accessory school) or had served
in the military, and had no bent background. He did so administratively
because he couldn’t get a law anesthetized by Congress.<br />
There
was abundant accessible abutment afore the adjustment was signed. Back
in backward 2010, Gallup begin that 54% of Americans would vote for a
bill that would acquiesce for undocumented immigrants who were brought
to the country in their adolescence to accept a alleyway to citizenship.
A backward 2011, a Fox Poll put abutment for such a law at 63%.<br />
After
Obama fabricated the new activity instruction, the accessible
captivated to its position. 5 acclamation taken amid the June
advertisement and now begin that anywhere from 54% to 64% of Americans
still accept that adolescent undocumented immigrants should not be
beatific packing. This includes three questions that accurately
mentioned Obama’s name, and that his administering had “announced”
the activity change (in added words, the admeasurement accurately
didn’t canyon through Congress).<br />
You ability altercate that the
gun agitation is altered because the able gun rights antechamber would
be able to altercate the accessible otherwise. The blemish in that
account is that the National Rifle Association (NRA) is just not that
accepted these days: alone 42% of Americans accept a favorable
appearance of the NRA per Accessible Activity Polling, which is down
from 48% just a few weeks ago.
<br />
The admiral is aswell ambidextrous with a accessible that’s apparent
its abutment for gun ascendancy ascend college back the Sandy Hook
academy cutting in Newtown, Connecticut. I calculation 5 pollsters
(ABC/Washington Post, CBS News, Gallup, CNN/ORC, and YouGov) that asked a
catechism about whether gun ascendancy should be stricter afore and
afterwards Newtown. Afore the massacre, the weaker “stay the same”
position on gun ascendancy exhausted the stricter position by an
boilerplate of 3.8 allotment points. Afterward, stricter led by 11.4pt
– a 15.2pt turn-around.<br />
Past history suggests that the admiral
can’t delay about until he gets a Congress that is accommodating to
cooperate. Afterwards the Columbine cutting in 1999, Americans’
abutment for stricter gun laws jumped by 5-10pt. Afterwards a year or
two, the fasten had abated and appetence for stricter gun laws connected
its apathetic abatement to the boyhood position it captivated just
afore Newtown.
<br />
So what behavior should the admiral consider, as connected as he thinks courts will advocate his orders?<br />
•
He should end the “gun appearance loophole” to force humans who buy
accoutrements at a gun appearance or through clandestine sales and
online arcade to accept a accomplishments check: 92% of Americans favor
this position per Gallup, while PPP puts abutment at 76%.<br />
•
Obama should seek to ban high-capacity armament clips that accommodate
added than 10 bullets: CNN/ORC, Gallup, Pew, PPP, and YouGov all
appearance at atomic 53% of Americans in favor of this policy.<br />
•
He should seek agency to ensure that humans with poor brainy bloom
annal do not get a gun: CNN/ORC begin that 92% Americans did not wish
Americans with brainy bloom problems to be in ascendancy of a gun; PPP
took it one footfall further and apparent that 63% of Americans wish
humans to be appropriate to yield a bloom assay afore affairs a gun.<br />
•
Obama should acutely anticipate felons bedevilled of a agitated
abomination from owning a gun: 94% and 92% accept of that measure, per
PPP and CNN/ORC respectively.<br />
• He should try to accomplish
abiding that guns, even if not afresh purchased, would be registered
with a government or law administration agency: CNN/ORC finds 78% accede
with that policy.<br />
• Obama should attending to ban absolute
bullets that backfire or are advised to breach through a bullet-proof
vest: Pew begin that 56% favor this position.<br />
• Obama should try
to accomplish it added difficult to buy armament and/or accoutrements
over the internet: 69% of Americans capital to ban these practices,
according to PPP.
<br />
You’ll agenda I don’t cover an advance weapons ban. The acumen is
that pollsters are split: Gallup and Pew arresting that a majority is
against to banning advance or semi-automatic weapons, while
ABC/Washington Post, CNN/ORC, PPP, and YouGov appearance the reverse. It
seems to me that, politically speaking, an controlling adjustment would
be the amiss advance on an affair that allegedly splits the country
down the middle.
<br />
Further, the admiral would about absolutely be better-off casual any law
through Congress. It not alone looks better, but it lessens the
adventitious of any political blowback I may be underestimating. The
danger, of course, is that if a bill fails to get through Congress, it
would attending like clumsily acerb grapes again to access gun
ascendancy measures through controlling orders. It’s absolutely
accessible that the accessible would see that as controlling over-reach.<br />
Also,
I am by no agency a built-in scholar: while there are affluence of
humans arguing in favor of controlling action, others altercate that
some of these proposals, if put into activity by controlling order,
would be actionable and would be disqualified so.
<br />
That said, if the admiral is acute to accessible assessment and account
the polls, there are a amount of gun ascendancy behavior he can access
by controlling adjustment after abhorrence of a backlash. But the
assignment of Columbine is that he has a attenuated window of
opportunity, in the deathwatch of Newtown, in which to act. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-36864918329593573592013-01-12T04:50:00.001-08:002013-01-12T04:50:43.052-08:00When the U.S. printed a $100,000 bill<h4 class="headline">
The True Story of the Time the Government Printed a $100,000 Bill</h4>
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A $1 trillion-dollar coin seems like a high denomination to ask the government to print.<br /><br />Some say its weight could sink the Titanic! (This is benightedly ludicrous).<br /><br />But
one time, the U.S. government actually got 1/10000000th of the way
there — by printing a $100,000 bill. And it really helped the economy.<br /><br /><strong>The year was 1933. We were in the midst of a worldwide depression characterized by massive deflation.</strong><br />
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<strong>President Roosevelt ordered Americans to surrender any gold they held to the government.</strong><br /><br /><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1357923032206199"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><strong>The reason: no one was buying anything with cash.</strong><br /><br /><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1357923032206222"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="yom-figure yom-fig-middle" style="width: 590px;"><span class="legend"> </span></span><strong>Gold hoarding and bartering were also reducing the amount of funds flowing into the government.</strong></div>
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<span class="yom-figure yom-fig-middle" style="width: 590px;"><span class="legend"><strong>Americans agreed to surrender their gold, but it wasn't enough...</strong><br /><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1357923032206256"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="yom-figure yom-fig-middle" style="width: 590px;"><span class="legend"> </span></span>Fed Chairman Gene Black was sympathetic but wary. He advised the decision was best left up to Congress.</div>
</span><strong>...Because Roosevelt also agreed to bail out the banks. That was good news for consumers but bad news for currency control.</strong><br /><br /><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1357923032206273"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><strong>So Roosevelt proposed the Treasury take over the Federal Reserve's gold supplies.</strong><br /><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1357923032206290"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><strong>The
pluses: Once the federal government controlled all the gold, it could
better enforce its plans to devalue the dollar (thus reflating the
economy).</strong><br /><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1357923032206307"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><strong>The costs: end of Fed independence.</strong><br /><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1357923032206324"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span></span></span><strong>Congress
took up the measure in January 1933. The Democrat-controlled Senate — a
first since World War I — helped get the measure passed Jan. 31.</strong><br /><br /><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1357923032206358"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><br /><strong>The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 set a new federal exchange rate for gold at $35, but only for the purposes of foreign exchange.</strong><br /><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1357923032206375"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><br /><strong>It also allowed the Treasury to print bills to pay for the Federal Reserve's gold.</strong><br /><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1357923032206392"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><br /><strong>And one of them was worth $100,000. (It had Woodrow Wilson on the face).</strong><br /><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1357923032206409"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><br /><strong>Spoiler alert: It worked.</strong><br /><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1357923032206426"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-74654188907005868242013-01-12T04:37:00.002-08:002013-01-12T04:37:31.831-08:00America's Most Unhealthy Fast-Food<div class="title">
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Quick:
which fast-food sandwich do you think has more fat and calories, a
McDonald's Big Mac or Wendy's Asiago Ranch Chicken Club? If you guessed
the Big Mac, you'd be wrong by nearly 10 grams of fat and almost 200
calories. While it might not be super-easy to discern which fast-food
items are better for you than others, there are a few common-sense
giveaways. First of all, whenever something has more than one type of
meat (especially if advertised as "Meat Lover's" or the like), that's a
sure sign of calorie overload. Also, the more ingredients piled in, the
more calories, so maybe next time you're at Chipotle you should forego
the sour cream and cheese. And one beef patty will generally suffice.
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We took a look at the menus of the major chains, and have assembled a
roundup of the least healthy fast-food items out there. Maybe next time
you'll think twice before ordering that Baconator! <b>- Dan Myers, <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/?utm_source=yahoo%2Bshine&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=unhealthy%2Bfastfood&RM_Exclude=Welcome" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="The Daily Meal"><span>The Daily Meal</span></a></b><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-20824212682115237872013-01-12T04:22:00.000-08:002013-01-12T04:22:11.687-08:00Peru U-20 keeper makes tremendous goal-line double saveWe're alone a anniversary and a bisected into 2013, but Peru U-20
goalkeeper Angelo Campos fabricated what will be two of the best saves
of the year aural abnormal of anniversary added to advice deliver a
aftereffect adjoin Uruguay in the South America U-20 Championship. With
Uruguay up 3-2 in the 84th minute of the game, Campos came way off his
band to try and bright a continued brawl afore Uruguayan striker Gonzalo
Bueno could ability it for a scoring opportunity. Campos was exhausted
to the brawl though, and as his apostle battled with the Uruguayan for
the ball, he had to dart aback to his goal.<br />
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Bueno got a anemic attempt off from alfresco the box in an
accomplishment to yield advantage of the abandoned net, but Campos
sprinted faster than the brawl could cycle and fabricated the diving
save just afore it accomplished the line. Keeping his experience about
him, Campos again managed to ascend out of the net and accomplish a
sliding bottom save as the Uruguayan was about to yield a additional
adventitious from absolute range. The brawl again went out to assuredly
accord Campos a blow and such an amazing accomplishment to accomplish up
for initially accepting beat.
<br />
Campos' saves accepted important too, as Peru went on to account an blaster in the final account for a 3-3 draw.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-51394301903279319662013-01-12T03:50:00.003-08:002013-01-12T03:50:47.843-08:00Cost of private message to Mark Zuckerberg<img alt="Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Getty Images)" class="" id="p_13872472-header-image" src="http://l1.yimg.com/nn/fp/rsz/011113/images/smush/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-getty_uni_1357948142.jpg" title="Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Getty Images)" /> <br />
Facebook isn't charging for poking, and "liking" a photo is still chargeless on the amusing networking site.
<br />
But these days, sending a clandestine bulletin to anyone can amount
anywhere from $1 to $100 - if you're sending to anyone like Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg, that is.
<br />
"We are testing some acute amount credibility to see what works to clarify spam," said a Facebook spokeswoman.
<br />
Endure month, Facebook alien "paid messages," a affection area users
pay a $1 fee to accept their clandestine bulletin beatific to an
individual's "strict clarification inbox" instead of an abstruse "other"
inbox. Before the change, Facebook users were accustomed to forward a
clandestine bulletin chargeless to anyone they didn't apperceive or
weren't affiliated with.
<br />
"Several commentators and advisers accept acclaimed that arty a banking
amount on the sender may be the a lot of able way to abash exceptionable
letters and facilitate supply of letters that are accordant and
useful," Facebook said in a Dec. 20 statement.
<br />
Facebook told ABCNews.com that the $100 clandestine bulletin action is
an agreement not just with Zuckerberg but to those with a cogent amount
of subscribers. Remember, subscribers are humans who aren't your
accompany but can appearance the agreeable you allotment with them
because they chase you. Facebook calls these subscribers a broader
accumulation of friends.
<br />
"This analysis will accord a baby amount of humans the advantage to pay
to accept a bulletin baffled to the 'inbox' rather than the 'other'
binder of a almsman that they are not affiliated with," said Facebook.
"If you baddest austere filtering, you'll see mostly letters from
accompany in your inbox."
<br />
Since extensive 1 billion users endure October, the amusing arrangement
behemothic has been revamping its aloofness settings and alteration the
attending and feel of the Facebook acquaintance online and in adaptable
devices.<br />
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Facebook is "testing acute amount credibility to annihilate spam" with
its new messaging fee, the website said. As users become added
acquainted with the new messaging fee, they'll apprehension the amount
of letters accustomed will be bound to a best of one a week.
<br />
Facebook told ABCNews.com there's a lot of clarification accident
consistent in accepting the letters that are alone meant for you, the
user. As far as the acknowledgment to Facebook's new "paid messages"
feature, Facebook offered no comment.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-85780819780239091092013-01-12T03:49:00.000-08:002013-01-12T03:49:32.318-08:00"Toddler" is 20 Years Old, and Forever Young, Due to Baffling Medical Condition<img height="234" id="2567258" name="2567258" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/teKR.abEbjEHIWrFdSKwcg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/blogs/partner/470_2567258.jpg" title="20-year-old Brooke" width="400" /> <br />
Brooke Greenberg may be 20 years old, but she charcoal always trapped
central the physique and apperception of a toddler, due to a
abstruseness medical action that has baffled medical experts for years.
<br />
"From age one to four, Brooke changed. She got a little bit bigger,"
explained her father, Howard, during the family's actualization on
Thursday's "Katie" with Katie Couric. "But age four, four to five, she
stopped."
<br />
Since then, Brooke's acme and weight of 16 pounds and 20 inches accept
remained a constant. She wears diapers, is pushed in a stroller, gets
fed through a agriculture tube due to a too-small esophagus, and
communicates like an baby would, estimates her mother Melanie.
<br />
"Like 6 months," she explained on the show. "If she's happy, she'll cackle and laugh."
<br />
Doctors accept told Melanie and Howard, who reside in Maryland, that
there is no added accepted case like Brooke's in the world. And at
atomic one medical able believes that Brooke's action could authority
the key to the bubbler of youth.
<br />
Also on Yahoo!: A Urine Test for a Rare and Elusive Disease
<br />
"Here's a woman 20 years old who has actually chock-full aging,"
explained Dr. Eric Schadt, administrator of the Icahn Institute for
Genomics and Multi-Scale Biology at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New
York, who aswell appeared on the broadcast. He said he took an
absorption in Brooke's case afterwards years of her accepting no
analysis from added doctors, and that her case could "blow a
accomplished acreage of science advanced open."
<br />
This is absolutely why the Goldberg ancestors has fabricated the
accommodation to go accessible with their story, Howard told Yahoo!
Shine. "The acumen we are accomplishing it isn't to put my ancestors on
television," he said. "Finding out that her DNA architecture is
absolutely altered than anyone else's brought to our absorption that we
could help. So eventually, at the end of the rainbow, there will be
something that comes out of all this. I accept anybody is actuality for a
reason."
<br />
Howard and Melanie accommodate affliction to Brooke day in and day out,
and accept watched their adolescent daughter, 17-year-old Carly,
concealment her earlier sister by developing commonly over the years.
They accept they accept generally acquainted abandoned in their
struggle.
<br />
"It hasn't been easy," Melanie told Couric. "We don't accept anybody
absolutely to about-face to, to acquaint us what to expect." Doctors
accept no way to even actuate how continued Brooke may live.
<br />
Still, her parents say they yield alleviation in the actuality that
she's actuality now, and accept she does not charge to be convalescent
of anything.
<br />
"If somebody agape on the aperture appropriate now and said, 'It's a
affirmed pill. Accord this to Brooke and she'll be fixed,' able-bodied
aboriginal I would say to him, 'She's not broken.' And B, I would say,
'Thank you, but no acknowledge you," Howard said in a video filmed for
the "Katie" show.
<br />
To analysis Brooke's condition, scientists are account every individual
letter of the adolescent woman's DNA. "That would fill, like, 3,000 of
the Harry Potter books that my kids like. That's how big her genome is,"
Dr. Schadt explained, abacus that, so far, scientists accept put her
genes in bake-apple flies to see if it helps them reside longer. He
added that the Greenberg's yield alleviation in the actuality Brooke has
aswell helped with analysis into altitude including Alzheimer's,
affection ache and cancer.
<br />
"That," he said, "is a appealing amazing allowance to be able to accord to humanity." Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-86030915678499258972013-01-11T06:22:00.001-08:002013-01-11T06:22:41.449-08:00Are Rihanna and Chris Brown Off Again?<br /><div class="yom-mod yom-art-content " id="yui_3_5_1_1_1357989274723_949">
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<span class="yom-figure yom-fig-left" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " height="422" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/O8yYtL5xKlEF3YEiFtXnFQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMwMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/blogs/omgrelationships/thuglife-edited-jpg_223444.jpg" title="Chris and Rihanna. (Instagram)" width="300" /><span class="legend">Chris and Rihanna. (Instagram)</span></span>Rihanna
and Chris Brown may have spent New Year’s Eve together – and in bed –
but the rekindled romance may not have survived the first week of 2013.</div>
Over the course of three days, the “Diamonds” singer posted a bunch
of inspirational quotes on Instagram, all alluding to relationship woes.<br /><span id="more-1130"></span>On
January 6, her first one read, “I’m not a princess, I don’t need
saving. I’m a queen, I got this s--t handled,” over an image of a girl
adjusting a crown on her head.<br />
That seemed innocent enough, but the next day she added another one
that seemed to really strike a chord with her. “There comes a time in
life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it,”
began the quote. “Surround yourself with people who make you laugh,
forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you
right …” To that, Rihanna added the caption, “Bitch don’t kill my vibe.”<br />
<span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="width: 620px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " height="258" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/KeMdHgRN6qQmU3PBZLpZhw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYyMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/blogs/omgrelationships/620-RihannaChrisBrown-01082013-jpg_231608.jpg" title="Rihanna's Instagram message on January 8. (Instagram)" width="400" /><span class="legend">Rihanna's Instagram message on January 8. (Instagram)</span></span><br />
On January 8, she posted her most cryptic message of all. “I believe
in second chances, I just don’t think everyone deserves them.” Of
course, Rihanna gave Brown a second chance after he brutally beat her
the night before the Grammys in February 2009.<br />
The 24-year-old never mentions Brown by name, but coincidentally he
has deleted the photo he posted of her in bed with him on New Year’s
Eve.<br />
If Rihanna and Brown, 23, are off once again, it wouldn’t be the
first time she has used her Twitter page to comment on the status of
their relationship. On December 18, after reports that the two had
split, she tweeted, “Being single sucks. The only thing I get to do
anymore is whatever the f--k I want to do.”<br />
So does this mean Rihanna can once again start doing whatever the bleep she wants?</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-46896119146055453352013-01-11T06:20:00.001-08:002013-01-11T06:20:15.899-08:00Selena Gomez Steps Out Solo for Charity Fashion Show<br />
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<img alt="" class="editorial " height="483" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/mLtLFTlNu7QXIiq8n8HjVg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMwMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/blogs/omgcelebnews/300-Gomez-011113-jpg_123650.jpg" title="Selena Gomez (Getty Images)" width="300" />Amid letters that Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber accept breach for
good, the singer/actress may be proving that searching acceptable is the
best revenge.
</div>
<br />
Gomez abounding Vogue magazine’s back-bite for artist Alberta
Ferretti’s pre-Fall collection, an absolute aerodrome actualization
and built-in banquet for about 150 at LA’s Chateau Marmont on
Thursday.
<br />
Rocking a teal, delicate cocktail dress with a coast neckline, Gomez
accustomed aboriginal and skipped a lot of of the bashful red carpeting
alfresco the absolute hotel, opting instead to yield her prime bench in
the adapted lobby.
<br />
With abandoned a changeable abettor abaft her, Gomez sat abandoned in
the abandoned foreground row afore the actualization contently
people-watching the brand of Chelsea Handler, Kate Beckinsale and
bedmate Len Wiseman, Olivia Munn, Justin Bartha, Anna Kendrick, Rachel
Zoe and Brittany Snow.
<br />
Though the 20-year-old skipped a candlelit banquet captivated on the
hotel’s tented patio, Gomez insisted on abiding a few moments to
affectation for photos with Ferretti afore bonds into a cat-and-mouse
car.
<br />
Gomez’s endure accessible actualization came in backward November,
accessory UNICEF’s Snowflake Ball in New York. The afterward weeks
apparent close times for she and the active Bieber, 18.
<br />
“Selena will not absolve him,” a antecedent told Us Weekly of their
endure rift, which reportedly saw Gomez leave a Mexican anniversary with
the pop brilliant the day afore New Year's Eve. Work projects like
hitting the recording flat accept been application her time back the
declared rift.
<br />
Vogue's Ferretti presentation benefitted the Jordan River Foundation, accustomed in 1995 by Queen Rania of Jordan.<br />
<a href="http://omg.yahoo.com/video/justin-bieber-selena-gomez-done-172806336.html" target="_blank">See Video Here </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-79301159208249342532013-01-11T05:23:00.001-08:002013-01-11T05:23:33.657-08:00Evan S. Connell Jr. dies at 88; iconoclastic novelist, historian<div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
<img alt="Evan S. Connell Jr." border="0" height="525" src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-50ef92c0/turbine/la-afp-getty-127299.jpg-20130110/600" title="Evan S. Connell Jr." width="346" />Evan S. Connell Jr., a literary iconoclast whose writings as a
novelist, poet, essayist and historian won the admiration of critics and
a cult-like following of discerning readers with books on subjects as
eclectic as Midwestern provincialism, the medieval Crusades and Gen.
George Custer's last stand, has died. He was 88.</div>
Connell, who had been in failing health in recent years, was found
dead Thursday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. The cause "was just old
age," said his niece, Donna Waller.<br />
Called "one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers"
by novelist and critic Joyce Carol Oates, Connell wrote the bestselling
novels "Mrs. Bridge" (1959) and "Mr. Bridge" (1969), whose protagonists
were portrayed by Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman in the 1990 movie "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge."<br />
Connell was also known for
his nonfiction, which ranged across continents and centuries, examining
historical moments like Custer's ignominious defeat in the 19th century
Indian Wars in "Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn"
(1984). That book was a surprise bestseller, adapted for a television
miniseries, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize.<br />
The novels and Custer book were among the most accessible of his
works, which also included "The Alchymist's Journal" (1991), the
imagined diaries of seven pre-Renaissance alchemists, and "The Aztec
Treasure House" (2001), a collection of vividly detailed essays about
alchemists, astronomers and explorers.<br />
His last book was the short story collection "Lost in Uttar Pradesh"
(2008), which Los Angeles Times book critic David Ulin called "a vivid
metaphor" for a career that was at times brilliant, frustrating and
mysterious.<br />
Making his debut as a novelist in the same time period as Philip Roth and John Updike,
Connell earned comparisons to those writers with "Mrs. Bridge," the
story of a lonely and conventional Kansas City, Mo., housewife whose
material wealth conceals a life of quiet desperation. Wallace Stegner
pronounced it "a hell of a portrait."<br />
Like much of his other fiction, it was semi-autobiographical, set in
Connell's hometown. Born in Kansas City on Aug. 17, 1924, Connell was
the son and grandson of physicians. He was a pre-med student at
Dartmouth, which he attended from 1941 to 1943, but ultimately decided
against following in his elders' footsteps. This did not please his
father, whom Connell described as "a rather severe man."<br />
"He was concerned that I would never be able to make a living at this
kind of thing," Connell, in a 2000 interview with the Associated Press,
said of writing. "It was a justifiable concern, I think. I grew up in a
home where there was no music, no interest in any of the arts."<br />
He dropped out of Dartmouth and joined the Navy, training as an
aviator at a base near Albuquerque, where he fell in love with the
vastness of the West. After completing his military service, he studied
painting on the GI Bill and traveled, living in France during the 1950s
and writing for the Paris Review.<br />
He moved to San Francisco in 1954, and three years later Viking
published his first book, "The Anatomy Lesson and Other Stories."<br />
He initially wrote "Mrs. Bridge" rather conventionally, with about 15
chapters, but it was rejected by numerous publishers in part because it
lacked a climax. That was his intention, Connell said, because "our
lives do not reach a dramatic climax in the way that books usually do.
Most of us just go on day to day through major and minor trials and
defeats. And finally time runs out."<br />
He restructured the novel as a series of 117 vignettes, which paint a
devastating portrait of a woman puzzled by the emptiness of the small
world she inhabits. The novel was "one of the very few written since World War II
that clearly deserves to be called, as it has been, a masterpiece,"
William H. Nolte wrote in the Dictionary of Literary Biography.<br />
Connell followed the same theme and structure a decade later in the
companion novel, "Mr. Bridge." Some critics found it darker and more
satirical than the first novel because the main character, Mrs. Bridge's
joyless lawyer husband, was far less likable than his wife.<br />
Despite the success of the "Bridge" novels, Connell held a number of
odd jobs to get by. He delivered mail, read gas meters and was a
counselor at an unemployment office. In his exceedingly dark 1966 novel
"The Diary of a Rapist," the main character is working in an
unemployment office when he goes crazy.<br />
"He always wrote about what he was interested in," his niece said, "not what would make money."<br />
In 1984, three years after he told Publishers Weekly that he was
"just barely" able to support himself, his novelistic book on Custer was
released to wide acclaim and some controversy for its unflattering
portrayal of the general as a man who hungered for fame and was rendered
sterile by gonorrhea.<br />
Larry McMurtry, in a 2008 appraisal of Custer scholarship for the New
York Review of Books, said Connell's work was "one of the few
masterpieces to concern itself with the American West" and particularly
noteworthy for its descriptions of the character of the Native
Americans.<br />
Unlike Custer, Connell shied from publicity. He did not give readings
or teach college courses, hated crowds and was loath to be
photographed. He did not own a phone until he was 50 and took his
television out of the closet only for football games.<br />
A lover of women who never married, he was "a very shy man who lives
inside himself … inside his own mind," actress and singer Gale Garnett, a
longtime friend and former girlfriend, told The Times in 1991.<br />
He won a number of honors for lifetime achievement, including the
$100,000 Lannan Literary Award in 2000 and a Los Angeles Times Book
Prize in 2010.<br />
"We believe he's one of the most important postwar American writers,"
Patrick Lannan of the Lannan Foundation told the Associated Press in
2000. "To be that good in fiction, nonfiction and poetry is really …
remarkable."<br />
Connell, who left San Francisco for Santa Fe in 1989, is survived by a
sister, Barbara Zimmermann, of Houston; a nephew; and two nieces.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-38421986395390789422013-01-11T03:29:00.001-08:002013-01-11T03:29:25.912-08:00Justin Bieber sued by ex-bodyguard for assault, wages <img alt="" height="224" src="http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn-latino/entertainment/660/371/GomezandBieberMonica.JPG" width="400" /><br />
Has Justin Bieber angry violent?
<br />
A above babysitter for The Biebs sued the pop superstar Thursday
gluttonous added than $420,000 in overtime and added accomplishment and
claims he was again addled by the accompanist during an October
confrontation.
<br />
Moshe Benabou's accusation claims Bieber berated him and again punched
him in the chest afterwards a altercation about how to handle a
affiliate of the Grammy-nominated singer's entourage. Afterwards he
absolved away, Bieber accursed him, Benabou's accusation claims.
<br />
Benabou claims he was afield told that he wasn't advantaged to accept
overtime admitting alive 14 to 18 hour canicule amid March 2011 and
October 2012.
<br />
An email bulletin beatific to Bieber's arranger was not anon returned.
<br />
Benabou is gluttonous bearding amercement on the advance and array
claims and $421,261 in contributed overtime, vacation and added
allowance benefits.
<br />
"For about two years Mr. Benabou adherent himself absolutely to ensuring
Mr. Bieber's claimed safety," Benabou's attorney, Ilan Heimanson, wrote
in a statement. "Mr. Benabou deserved, as does any employee, to be
advised with respect, address and in accordance with the law.
Unfortunately, he was not. "
<br />
It hasn't been the best anniversary for Bieber. Over the weekend, TMZ
appear photos in which he appeared to be smoker marijuana, sending the
media and his admirers into a frenzy.
<br />
The "Baby" accompanist has yet to acknowledge to the photos, but he
tweeted that he is still "growing and learning," adding: "I never wish
to let any of you down".
<br />
Following the photo incident, antic website 4Chan got the byword
#CutForBieber trending on Twitter if users acquaint photos that appeared
to appearance "fans" acid themselves because Bieber had allegedly
smoked marijuana.
<br />
The accompanist aswell has yet to animadversion on the prank.
<br />
Bieber's anthology "Believe" ranked No. 6 in 2012 sales with added than 1.3 actor units sold.
<br />
In October Los Angeles prosecutors beneath to book accuse adjoin Bieber
afterwards award bereft affirmation that he punched and kicked a
columnist alfresco a cine amphitheater abreast his home in Calabasas,
Calif., a ages earlier.
<br />
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-80824375091018233502013-01-11T03:27:00.001-08:002013-01-11T03:27:42.409-08:00Why older actors resent Oscar-nominated kids<img alt="" height="215" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/FsZ9ITrkq33VWiw3RYxhcw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/blogs/en-us-blog-oscars-2013-movies/wallis-beasts630-jpg_154701.jpg" width="400" /> <br />
Isn't it admirable that a 9-year-old has accustomed an Oscar
nomination, acceptable the youngest anytime to acquire that honor? Well,
maybe not. I was at a Manhattan industry cafeteria dishing with a brace
of over-40 actresses the added day, and they were beneath agog about
the Oscar fizz surrounding Quvenzhane Wallis, age 9. The two
accomplished veterans (one an Oscar winner, the added a SAG nominee)
didn't wish to assume to be disturbing down the accomplishment of a
admirable little girl, but … both agreed, in aside tones, that this
was added accomplishment than performance. Where was the craft? However
admirable the adolescent babe was in "The Beasts of the Southern Wild,"
her scampering about the Louisiana anchorage was not an acting
accomplishment aces of an Oscar.
<br />
[ Photos: All-time youngest acting nominees ]
<br />
Experienced awning actors accept acceptable acumen to be a little
peeved. They generally attempt for years to get a break, abundant
beneath Oscar recognition. As the three of us bankrupt the amphitheater
of our altercation so as not to be overheard, I said that as absorbing
and airy as Wallis is as Hushpuppy in that Southern gothic fantasy,
acclaim administrator Benh Zeitlin for the accomplishment (he got a
choice today). The actresses seemed adequate to apprehend me, a
journalist, clear the point that was authoritative the circuit in their
world. Save those 5 important best-actress slots for acquainted the
above achievements of alive actresses -- and let's see if Wallis will
abide to accomplish in roles not tailored to her.
<br />
While Wallis gets acclaim for getting the absorbing centermost of
“Beasts” at, the role draws on her congenital charm. She’s not
addition in the way that, say, Naomi Watts did in “The Impossible”
or Lawrence, who was so altered in “Silver Linings Playbook” from
her Katniss Everdeen in “Hunger Games.”
<br />
Furthermore, Wallis’s accomplishment relied heavily on a voiceover account that was laid down afterwards the shoot.
<br />
Looking aback historically at the Awning Actors Guild Awards, which
started in 1994, adolescent stars rarely get their nominations. A
accessory has never won from the actors-only group, which boosts the
altercation that actors apperceive it takes years to advance the craft.
<br />
Certainly, if I analyze 9-year-old Wallis's achievements with those of
contenders snubbed by Oscar today -- Rachel Weisz in "Deep Blue Sea,"
Keira Knightley in "Anna Karenina," Marion Cotillard in "Rust and Bone,"
and Helen Mirren in "Hitchcock" -- I accept to accede with my two extra
friends. It doesn't assume fair. How could the Academy discount these
performances and accession up Wallis's? It seems active at best, and
absolute arresting to alive actors, to abort to accede the ability and
courage of these women who accept put themselves out there, stripping
down physically and emotionally for role afterwards role.
<br />
When the actors sit down to vote for a champ in the best-actress
category, this affect will blush their appearance of Wallis -- and it's
ambiguous that she will win the statuette. She joins a continued history
of adolescent and alien Oscar nominees. Remember Keisha Castle-Hughes
from "Whale Rider" in 2002? Others in the account cover Justin Henry
("Kramer vs. Kramer"), Haley Joel Osment ("The Sixth Sense"), Quinn
Cummings ("The Goodbye Girl"), and Mary Badham ("To Kill a
Mockingbird").
<br />
OF course, there accept been acknowledged adolescent nominees, like
Jodie Foster, Anna Paquin, and Abigail Breslin. My Academy Award-winning
antecedent remembers allurement administrator Lee Daniels what would
appear to his "Precious" brilliant Gabourey Sidibe afterwards his movie.
As it turns out, he needn't accept been concerned. Sidibe has gone on
to locations in "Tower Heist" and "Seven Psychopaths" and to a approved
role in TV's "The Big C."
<br />
It makes faculty that accomplished actresses ability be resentful, but
alone time will acquaint if Wallis is a one-hit admiration or if a
brilliant has been born.<br />
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WASHINGTON -- The better franchisee of Burger King restaurants is
paying $2.5 actor to achieve federal claims of animal harassment.
<br />
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the acceding with
Carrols Corp. covers 89 changeable advisers about the country. The
adjustment ends a 14-year accusation that was one of the a lot of
all-encompassing in the commission's history.
<br />
The EEOC declared that Carrols advisers subjected women in dozens of
restaurants to aggravation that included atrocious comments,
exceptionable touching, acknowledgment of genitalia, band searches and
rape.
<br />
The aggregation did not accept any atrocity and said in a account that
it acclimatized the case to abstain action costs. The adjustment
requires the aggregation to advance its adeptness to acknowledge to
aggravation charges.
<br />
Syracuse, N.Y.-based Carrols owns and operates added than 570 Burger King restaurants in 13 states.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-83601219109636433592013-01-11T02:56:00.000-08:002013-01-11T02:56:31.861-08:00Hathaway's standout movie performance<img alt="Anne Hathaway" class="editorial " height="224" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/nV5Bm6IiE3snr_3n8hueWA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thereelbreakdown/lesmiserables-blog630-jpg_182758.jpg" title="Anne Hathaway in &#39;Les Miserables&#39; (Photo: Universal Pictures)" width="400" /> <br />
Anne Hathaway: Alpha autograph your accepting speech. Now that I've
apparent "Les Miserables," I can affirm that "The Dark Knight Rises"
star, who plays the bedevilled factory-worker-turned-prostitute Fantine
-- and sings her tonsils off -- has hit a actual top note. In her
acknowledging turn, Hathaway sings the signature song "I Dreamed a
Dream" and brings the admirers to tears. She's like agreeable meat
tenderizer -- already the tears alpha flowing, they don't stop for the
blow of the movie.
<br />
Director Tom Hooper (who won an Oscar for "The King's Speech" two years
ago) casting Hathaway perfectly. She has brilliant ability to burn, has
the basic to attending acceptable atrophied in rags -- and articulate
talent. This is the affectionate of strong, analytical acknowledging
role that acutely array Oscars. (She'll get the Golden Globe, too!)
<br />
And here's something that I abstruse at the post-screening Q&A:
Hathaway's mother, who was in the audience, played the role of Fantine
in a Philadelphia assembly if Anne was alone seven. Hathaway appeared
onstage afterward, her hair accepting developed to an appealing, but
still short, Peter Pan-pixie. In the movie, Fantine sells her locks to
pay a debt, and Hathaway gave chastening up on camera for the role.
"When I eventually looked in the mirror I just anticipation I looked
like my gay brother," she told the by-invitation-only audience.
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>'Les Miserables' Sneaks for Stars and Industry Assembly at Alice Tully Hall
</b><br />
I saw the cine at the actual aboriginal accessible screening Friday at 3
P.M. at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. Aswell in appearance were
Hathaway, Hooper and co-stars Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried and
Samantha Barks. I brought my aggregation of experts -- my two
vocally-trained teenagers and their artist father. I accept it: I don't
accept a agreeable ear so I brought in some ringers. As the pumped-up
army abounding all the seats in the theater, I spied a man in the wings
of the stage, bubbler a canteen of baptize and pacing. I anticipation it
was a stagehand but, no, if the abode lights dimmed it angry out to be
Hooper himself, pacing nervously and peeking through the curtains to get
a attending at the audience.<br />
<br />
<b>Oscar-winning Administrator Tom Hooper Gives Thanks
</b><br />
When the tall, jeans-clad English administrator -- endure apparent
acrimonious up his Oscar for "The King's Speech" two years ago -- took
the stage, he autonomous for a absorbing humility. He told the
accommodation matinee audience: "I'm beholden that I've finished." He
accepted that he'd completed the blur at two a.m. He aswell quipped,
"I'm beholden to Victor Hugo, who can't be actuality with us." The
archetypal novel's columnist died in France in 1885.<br />
<br />
<b>The Admirers Thanked Hooper with a Continuing Ovation
</b><br />
Hooper didn't charge to anguish about the admirers reaction. The army
was as admiring as amid girls at a "One Direction" concert. They greeted
the cessation of the many, abounding agreeable numbers with acclaim and
clapped for the administrator and anniversary aerialist at the end
credits. If you tracked the applause, it seemed that Jackman, Crowe,
Hathaway, Redmayne and newcomer Barks got a little added love. Again
came the continuing ovation. Yes. And it was spontaneous.
<br />
But remember, it was ad-lib a part of a New York army of assembly anticipating a big success -- or a big failure.<br />
<br />
<b>Hathaway, Hooper, Redmayne, Seyfried and Barks reside off screen
</b><br />
Then the date lights came up on four director's chairs. The date
aggregation added more, and more, and again Columbia University
assistant Annette Insdorf alien the talent: Hooper, Redmayne, Barks, and
Hathaway -- but not Seyfried. "What affectionate of mother would I be
if I didn't acquaint my daughter, Amanda Seyfried," Hathaway abundantly
adapted the oversight, apropos to the extra who plays her child,
Cosette, on screen. It turns out that Seyfried had played the role afore
in an abecedarian assembly at fifteen.
<br />
The altercation led off with what anybody who has apparent the film's
featurette at the movies (I saw it at the Poughkeepsie Galleria afore
"Skyfall" with a agnostic army of Bond watchers) already knows: the
singing was all performed reside so that the actors could both emote and
sing. This method, in adverse to the accepted convenance of laying down
advance advanced and again lip synching on set, allows the amateur
added abandon and captures the carelessness of reside performance. The
aftereffect is abundantly acknowledged although there are times if both
Jackman and Crowe assume to be carrying songs in that chat-sing way that
recalls Rex Harrison in "My Fair Lady."
<br />
<b><br /></b>
<br />
<b>
Hugh Jackman will be nominated for best actor
</b><br />
As the advocate Jean Valjean, Jackman goes from rotten-toothed aged
captive to chichi ambassador to avoiding agent father, crumbling a
acceptable twenty years forth the way. We knew he can sing -- he starred
in "The Boy From Oz" on Broadway -- but there are times if he goes for
the affect and talks out the lyrics to the damage of the melody. And,
accuracy be told, the melodies of the songs become a little monotonous.
(My bedmate claimed Neil Diamond's "I Am, I Said" started arena in his
head.) In fact, Jackman may just be bigger than the material, and it's
accessible that my expectations were so top that I was a little
disappointed. And, in the end, he's up adjoin Daniel Day Lewis in
"Lincoln," which is still the achievement to exhausted as far as the
Oscars go.<br />
<br />
<b>Crowe can sing, but Redmayne can sing better
</b><br />
Oscar-winner Crowe has a bandage and he can sing in a rich, able
articulation as the adamant adversary Inspector Javert. We adulation him
as the villain. But sometimes his supply is a bit "yawning," an affair
of diction. The adumbration is Redmayne, as Marius the adventurous
advocate that avalanche in adulation with Cosette (Seyfried) at
aboriginal sight. He just pulls out every stop in every arena he's in.
His tortured, bawling songs of baffled adulation prove that Hooper's
charge to reside singing works. We've apparent the amateur before, a lot
of afresh in "My Anniversary with Marilyn," and I saw him on Broadway
in the ball "Red," but this is the affectionate of achievement that
makes him pop. If "Les Miserables" will get one best acknowledging
amateur choice in that race, I'm risking a bet on Redmayne.<br />
<br />
<b>'Les Miserables' will be nominated for best account -- and could acquire the a lot of nominations ever
</b><br />
"Les Miserables" will absolutely be a part of the 5 best account
nominees. As my Gold Derby aide Tom O'Neil wrote afterwards seeing the
cine this weekend: "'Les Miserables' could set two records. One would be
for a lot of nominations. Currently, that account is captivated by
'Titanic' (1997) and 'All About Eve' (1950), which becoming 14... 'Les
Miserables' could [also] set a almanac for a lot of acting bids in one
film."
<br />
Is 'Les Mis' a slam-dunk for Best Picture?
<br />
I wouldn't bet on the agreeable to win just yet. The acreage is
competitive, with "Lincoln," "Argo," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Zero
Dark Thirty" in the mix. Another analytical Oscar-race cine -- "Django
Unchained" -- will awning this anniversary in time for the New York Blur
Critics Circle to vote on the morning of December 3rd. Full disclosure:
I'm a affiliate and it's absurd that "Les Mis" will win our best
picture. It's just too boilerplate for the group, which may account "The
Master," "Zero Dark Thirty," or "Lincoln." Or the Circle may go in a
absolutely adverse administration and acme Michael Haneke's "Amour."
<br />
The takeaway: "Les Miserables" is a above contender, and a battleground
cine adjustment of the berserk accepted mega-musical that opened on
Broadway in 1987 and annoyed a countless of bussed-in tourists. That
said, accustomed the huge abundance of aptitude -- not alone in acting,
singing, staging, costuming and administering -- I would accept been
added swept abroad if it had been channeled into a agreeable I like
more, say, "A Little Night Music," "The Drowsy Chaperone," or "Promises,
Promises."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-14856850063150128702013-01-11T02:21:00.000-08:002013-01-11T02:21:15.779-08:00Man, 70, divorces 15-year-old: Scandalous marriage ends after investigation<img alt="A man, 70, divorces a 15-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia." height="299" src="http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/3d/89/1357863518_1496_Wedding_rings.jpg" title="A man, 70, divorces a 15-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia." width="400" /> <br />
A man, 70, afar a 15-year-old babe afterwards Saudi Arabia's Human
Rights Agency advised the atrocious alliance further, CNN letters Jan.
10. Dr. Hadi Al-Yam, who runs commission, said board formed on the case
afterwards the man complained to a bounded official that the helpmate he
paid $20,000 for -- to her parents -- ran aback to them. The adventure
went down afterwards an declared altercation the two had.
<br />
The man told CNN he's 70, but the agency believes he's 86. Initially,
the benedict anticipation the 15-year-old babe was absolutely 25. He
never appear his name to CNN, but acquainted the accomplished adventure
was misunderstood.
<br />
Dr. Bandar Alaiban, the commission's president, met with the girl, her
parents, and the man. The affair surrounding the arguable alliance has
been resolved. No data were mentioned, but the 70-year-old man and
15-year-old babe accept divorced.
<br />
"A annulment has taken place," Alaiban told CNN, "and the altercation has now been bound amicably."
<br />
No minimum age is set for alliance in Saudi Arabia, but religious
conservatives are blame for it. When this account fabricated headlines,
it affronted the masses over the age difference. At aboriginal it
appeared added like a auction transaction than a marriage, according to
Alaiban.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-45983575007727840072013-01-11T02:12:00.000-08:002013-01-11T02:12:59.416-08:00Images of a dead bin Laden still dangerous: U.S. lawyer<img alt="" class="lightbox07d193786aee709d381d0d7610870391" height="277" id="yui_3_5_1_21_1357974585264_254" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/GbukIYC6Uf7LHbdPmEnt4w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Y2g9MTMzNjtjcj0xO2N3PTE5Mjg7ZHg9MDtkeT0wO2ZpPXVsY3JvcDtoPTQzNztxPTg1O3c9NjMw/http://l.yimg.com/os/152/2012/04/30/AP9812240332-jpg_162535.jpg" title="" width="400" /> <br />
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty months afterwards U.S. appropriate
armament asleep Osama bin Laden, the United States told a cloister on
Thursday it is not accessible to absolution images taken afterwards the
al Qaeda leader's afterlife because they still ability advance to
violence.
<br />
A federal appeals cloister heard arguments in a accusation over whether
the government accept to absolution the images beneath the Freedom of
Advice Act, a 1966 law that guarantees accessible admission to some
government records.
<br />
President Barack Obama's administering credibility to an barring in the
law that covers abstracts classified in the absorption of civic defense.
<br />
"They'll be acclimated to aggravate tensions. They'll be acclimated to
affect castigating attacks," Justice Department advocate Robert Loeb
told the U.S. Cloister of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
<br />
Riots or added forms of abandon could abuse American soldiers as able-bodied as civilians in Afghanistan, Loeb said.
<br />
The government has 52 photographs or videos - the average has not been
appear - from the May 2011 arrest in which U.S. appropriate armament
asleep bin Laden afterwards added than a decade of searching. The images
appearance a asleep bin Laden at his admixture in Abbottabad, Pakistan,
the busline of his physique to a U.S. address and his burying at sea,
the government has said.
<br />
Some of the photographs were taken so the CIA could conduct facial
acceptance assay to affirm the body's identity, according to cloister
papers.
<br />
Two of the court's three judges, Merrick Garland and Judith Rogers,
asked questions advertence they were absorbed to adjourn to the acumen
of admiral in affidavit cloister affidavits advising adjoin release.
<br />
"They're cogent us that could aftereffect in afterlife - not just the
absolution of abstruse information, but death," Garland said. "Is that
not something we should adjourn to?"
<br />
Michael Bekesha, a advocate for Judicial Watch, a government babysitter
accumulation suing for the images, said the government bootless to
appearance the crisis of absolution the less-graphic burying images.
<br />
Judicial Watch aswell claims that CIA admiral ability not accept followed procedures if they classified the images as secret.
<br />
A accommodation from the appeals cloister is acceptable in the next few
months. A lower cloister adjudicator sided with the government in April.
<br />
The case is Judicial Watch Inc v. Department of Defense, U.S. Cloister of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, No. 12-5137.<br />
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(Reuters) - Larry Hagman, who created one of American television's a
lot of absolute villains in the conniving, amoral oilman J.R. Ewing of
"Dallas," died on Friday, the Dallas Morning News reported. He was 81.
<br />
Hagman died at a Dallas hospital of complications from his action with
throat cancer, the bi-weekly said, commendation a account from his
family. He had suffered from alarmist blight and cirrhosis of the
alarmist in the 1990s afterwards decades of drinking.
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Hagman's mother was date and cine brilliant Mary Martin and he became a
brilliant himself in 1965 on "I Dream of Jeannie," a accepted television
ball in which he played Major Anthony Nelson, an astronaut who
discovers a admirable bogie in a bottle.
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"Dallas," which fabricated its premiere on the CBS arrangement in 1978,
fabricated Hagman a superstar. The appearance bound became one of the
network's top-rated programs, congenital an all-embracing afterward and
aggressive a spin-off, imitators and a awakening in 2012.
<br />
"Dallas" was the night-time soap-opera adventure of a Texas family,
fabulously affluent from oil and cattle, and its artifice brimmed with
back-stabbing, double-dealing, ancestors feuds, violence, activity and
added bad behavior.
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In the average of it all stood Hagman's adverse J.R. Ewing - animated
clumsily in a ample cowboy hat and boots, acute how to bluff his
business competitors and bluff on his wife. He was the villain TV
admirers admired to abhor during the show's 356-episode run from 1978 to
1991.
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"I absolutely can't bethink bisected of the humans I've slept with,
stabbed in the aback or apprenticed to suicide," Hagman said of his
appearance in Time magazine.
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In his autobiography, "Hello Darlin': Tall (and Absolutely True) Tales
About My Life," Hagman wrote that J.R. originally was not to be the
focus of "Dallas" but that afflicted if he began ad-libbing on the set
to accomplish his appearance added abandoned and compelling.
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'WHO SHOT J.R.?'
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To achieve its additional season, the "Dallas" producers put calm one of
U.S. television's a lot of memorable episodes in which Ewing was
attempt by an concealed assailant. That gave admirers months to affront
over whether J.R. would survive and who had pulled the trigger. In the
show's aperture the afterward season, it was appear that J.R.'s
sister-in-law, Kristin, with whom he had been accepting an affair, was
abaft the gun.<br />
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Hagman said an all-embracing administrator offered him $250,000 to
acknowledge who had attempt J.R. and he advised giving the amiss advice
and demography the money, but in the end, "I absitively not to be so
like J.R. in absolute life."
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The acceptance of "Dallas" fabricated Hagman one of the best-paid actors
in television and becoming him a affluence that even a Ewing would
accept coveted. He absent some of it, however, in bad oil investments
afore axis to absolute estate.
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"I accept an accommodation in New York, a agronomical in Santa Fe, a
alcazar in Ojai alfresco of L.A., a bank abode in Malibu and cerebration
of affairs a abode in Santa Monica," Hagman said in a Chicago Tribune
interview.
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An adapted "Dallas" alternation began in June 2012 on the TNT
arrangement with Hagman reprising his J.R. role with aboriginal casting
associates Linda Gray, who played J.R.'s ability wife, Sue Ellen, and
Patrick Duffy, who was his brother Bobby. The appearance was to focus on
the sons of J.R. and Bobby.
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Hagman had a advanced aberrant streak. If he aboriginal met extra Lauren
Bacall, he baffled her arm because he had been told she did not like to
be affected and he was accepted for arch parades on the Malibu bank and
assuming up at a grocery abundance in a apache suit. Above his Malibu
home flew a banderole with the assumption "Vita Celebratio Est (Life Is a
Celebration)" and he lived harder for abounding years.
<br />
In 1967, bedrock artist David Crosby angry him on to LSD, which Hagman
said took abroad his abhorrence of death, and Jack Nicholson alien him
to marijuana because Nicholson anticipation he was bubbler too much.
<br />
Hagman had started bubbler as a jailbait and said he did not stop until
the moment in 1992 if his doctor told him he had cirrhosis of the
alarmist and could die aural six months. Hagman wrote that for the
accomplished 15 years he had been bubbler about four bottles of albino a
day, including while on the "Dallas" set.
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LIVER TRANSPLANT
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In July 1995, he was diagnosed with alarmist cancer, which led him to
abdicate smoking, and a ages afterwards he underwent a alarmist
transplant.
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After giving up his vices, Hagman said he did not lose his bite for life.
<br />
"It's the aforementioned old Larry Hagman," he told a reporter. "He's just a littler sober-er."
<br />
Hagman was built-in on September 21, 1931, in Weatherford, Texas, and
his ancestor was a apostle who dealt with the Texas oil barons Hagman
would afterwards appear to portray. He was still a boy if his parents
afar and he went to Los Angeles with Martin, who would become a Broadway
and Hollywood agreeable star.
<br />
Hagman eventually landed in New York to accompany acting, authoritative
his date admission there in "The Taming of the Shrew." In New York, he
affiliated Maj Axelsson in 1954 while they were in a assembly of "South
Pacific. The alliance produced two children, Heidi and Preston.
<br />
Hagman served in the Air Force, spending 5 years in Europe as the
administrator of USO shows, and on his acknowledgment to New York he
took a starring role in the daytime soap "The Edge of Night." His
advance came in 1965 if he landed the "I Dream of Jeannie" role adverse
Barbara Eden.
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In his afterwards years, Hagman became an apostle for agency transplants
and an anti-smoking campaigner. He aswell was adherent to solar energy,
cogent the New York Times he had a $750,000 solar console arrangement
at his Ojai estate, and fabricated a bartering in which he portrayed a
J.R. Ewing who had forsaken oil for solar power. He was a longtime
affiliate of the Peace and Freedom Party, a accessory advocate alignment
in California.
<br />
Hagman told the Times that afterwards afterlife he capital his charcoal
to be "spread over a acreage and accept marijuana and aureate buried and
autumn it in a brace of years and again accept a big marijuana cake,
abundant for 200 to 300 people. Humans would eat a little of Larry."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-71887660510303195652012-11-21T01:31:00.001-08:002012-11-21T01:31:07.464-08:00Couple Celebrates 80th Wedding Anniversary, Shares Secrets to Lasting Marriage<img alt="Couple Celebrates 80th Wedding Anniversary, Shares Secrets to Lasting Marriage (ABC News)" height="225" id="yui_3_5_1_21_1353489602335_189" src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/l3hQpoEDmqvdtWpjb2iX3A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Y2g9MzYwO2NyPTE7Y3c9NjQwO2R4PTA7ZHk9MDtmaT11bGNyb3A7aD0zNTU7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/gma/us.abcnews.gma.com/ht_ann_john_betar_jef_121120_wmain.jpg" title="Couple Celebrates 80th Wedding Anniversary, Shares Secrets to Lasting Marriage (ABC News)" width="400" /> <br />
On Nov. 25, 1932, FDR had just defeated Herbert Hoover, the
circadian bi-weekly amount two cents, and Ann Shawah said "I do" to John
Betar in Harrison, N.Y.
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Fast advanced through 13 presidents and 80 years to 2012: the Betars are
still appropriately married. After 5 children, 14 grandchildren and 16
abundant children, the brace from Fairfield, Conn., will bless their
80th alliance ceremony Sunday.
<br />
"We are so blessed. We are fortunate," John Betar, 101, said.
<br />
"We are actual fortunate. It can be again and repeated," Ann, 97,
echoed. "It is actual adulation and understanding. We acquire had that.
We accede it a blessing."
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Humble Beginnings
<br />
John Betar met Ann Shawah growing up in the aforementioned Syrian
association in Bridgeport, Conn. Betar immigrated to America as a
adolescent adolescent in 1921 with his brother, he explained, abutting
his ancestor who put down roots for them in Bridgeport. After accessory
grammar school, Betar began alive as a bake-apple bagman and met Ann
Shawah, the babe of Syrian immigrants, in the neighborhood.
<br />
"I fell for her appropriate away," he said. "I acclimated to acquire a
Ford Roaster and I acclimated to aces her and her accompany and drive
them to top school. Gradually she admired me and we got together."
<br />
It was hardly added complicated than that. Ann was abiding to be
affiliated to addition man, 20 years her senior, whom her parents
anticipation would be the best provider for their daughter. The
17-year-old was beneath than admiring with the adjustment and taken with
Betar, again 21. Breaking with attitude and traveling adjoin her
family's wishes, the two eloped.
<br />
"At 17, you admiration if you're authoritative the appropriate choice,"
she said. "I had developed up with him and we had acceptable times calm
and we knew ceremony added actual well. And it's angry out to be 80
years. ….God seems to acquire been with us. And we've been actual
advantageous and wonderful."
<br />
The two congenital a activity together, a home, a ancestors and lived
out their own adaptation of the American dream. Betar connected peddling
bake-apple and in 1938, opened up his own grocery store, Betar's
Market, in the south end of Bridgeport.
<br />
"We formed harder and never got annoyed of authoritative money," he said. "This is the acreage of opportunity."
<br />
Ann backward at home and aloft their children. "She was a abundant
mother," Betar said. "She aloft 5 accouchement and she was a admirable
caretaker."
<br />
Five accouchement spawned 14 grandchildren and 16 abundant children. The
brace said the after ancestors "bring new life" and ablaze into their
lives.
<br />
"Last year at [John's] 100th altogether affair ... there was
accumulation of little 2 year olds and 5 year olds and a accumulation
that's just axis 19 and 20," Ann recalled. "We had it at the bank and we
had fireworks. It was actual special. The adolescent accouchement went
out on the bank and wrote 'Happy Altogether Jiddo,' [Grandpa in Arabic],
in the sand, all forth the beach. ... How can you not feel God's
appropriate with you and absolution you?"
<br />
Along with blissful moments and acceptable memories like this one came bad times for the Betars.
<br />
"The hardest affair in our activity was accident two of our children.
That's the sad part. It's one of the affliction affair a ancestor can
face is accident a child, no amount how old they are or how adolescent
they are," Ann said.
<br />
But admitting the aggravating moments that can analysis or breach a marriage, the two acquire backward together.
<br />
"There are so abounding things in a lifetime that can accomplish you
very, actual blessed and very, actual sad, but if you can do it calm
again it's happiness," Ann said.
<br />
That's easier said than done for abounding couples today in the U.S.
area the annulment amount hovers about 40 to 50 percent. What's their
secret?
<br />
"They acquire this admirable adeptness to acquire activity as it comes,"
their babe Renee Betar said. "They acquire a way of aggravating to
attending about at the things that they do acquire -- the ancestors and
the blessings. They came from a bearing area there is such account for
ceremony added and caring."
<br />
The Betars accede themselves "fortunate." Hesitant to allotment out
admonition to newlyweds, they ceremony offered simple, allegorical
mantras to a abiding marriage.
<br />
"Get along. Compromise. Reside aural your agency and be content," Betar said, afore adding, "And let your wife be the boss."
<br />
"We don't acquire bosses," she said. Her advice: don't authority a grudge.
<br />
"You apperceive what your commitments are and you try to reside by them
and accept one another. If you don't authority a grudge, you can face
anything," Ann said.
<br />
The brace still lives apart on the bank in Fairfield and has kept
active, accusation the boundaries of aging. In their after years, Ann
apparent a hidden aptitude as an artisan and took up painting in oils
and watercolors. The two chef soup together, consistently from scratch.
(The retired bake-apple peddler-turned-grocer continues to accomplish
outings to boutique for the best aftermath and can't advice but allocate
recommendations to adolescent barter at the store, his babe reports,
saying: "Oh no, don't buy that amazon if you wish to eat it tonight.")
They absorb their canicule account and proudly befitting up with what's
traveling on in the world.
<br />
Celebrating 80 Years of Marriage
<br />
On Sunday, the brace will mark their 80th alliance ceremony with a quiet
anniversary amidst by ancestors and accompany at the St. Nicholas
Antiochian Orthodox Church in Bridgeport, area they are aboriginal
founding members.
<br />
Ann said one of her daughters ordered a block for the break and the chef
alleged back, hardly confused, to affirm that it should apprehend --
"Happy 80th Anniversary" instead of "Happy 80th Birthday."
<br />
After eighty years, Betar is still candied on his helpmate and she is still candied on him.
<br />
"He is a admirable man. He is a actual giving man to his children, to
his family, to humans that charge it. He is a actual generous, giving
man," she said. "Can you accusation me for active with him for 80
years?"
<br />
To the after ancestors of accouchement and grandchildren, the Betars
serve as role models for how to reside and adulation in life.
<br />
"I'm consistently destroyed abroad by their absurd optimism, abysmal
faculty of benevolence and modesty," said granddaughter Heather Mitchell
of Fairfield, Conn. "They are accurate beacons -- adorning humans who
afford such joy after even alive it." Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-85798686249676676622012-11-21T01:24:00.000-08:002012-11-21T01:24:14.686-08:00Leonardo DiCaprio kisses older woman in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ scene<br />
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Scandalous belief accept been bouncing about Martin Scorsese's
accessible blur "The Wolf of Wall Street" for a while now. There's a
arise arena involving some masochistic martini-drinking in which a aide
is instructed to serve 'em up until anyone passes out. There were
dueling lawsuits a part of the film's producers that accept afresh been
settled. And again there's the rumor that arch man Leonardo DiCaprio is
not alone traveling to get naked for his role, but he will aswell arise
in a agrarian sex arena with assorted humans (guys and girls!)
<br />
So why was DiCaprio spotted kissing Joanna Lumley while filming "Wolf"
in New York on Tuesday? At 66 years old, English extra Lumley is best
accepted for her role on British television alternation "Absolutely
Fabulous." (And yes, at 38, DiCaprio is closing in at 30 years her
junior.)
<br />
<br />
<br />
Joanna Lumley, left, and Leonardo DiCaprio in 'The Wolf of Wall
Street'Joanna Lumley, left, that's who! <br />
Written by Terence Winter ("The Sopranos," "Boardwalk Empire"), we would
apprehend annihilation abbreviate of a dark, ailing account in "Wolf"
-- reportedly abounding of drinking, drugs and added arm-twist behavior.
But out of context, it looks added like 1971 May-December
romance-themed ball "Harold and Maude."<br />
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The actualization is added than acceptable deceiving. "Wolf" chronicles
the acceleration and abatement of hard-partying '90s agent Jordan
Belfort (DiCaprio), who did time for abnegation to abet with law
administration if they absurd down on Wall Street bribery in a case
involving accumulated cyberbanking and organized crime.
<br />
Based on absolute activity events, we don't yet apperceive how DiCaprio
and Lumley's characters hotlink up. (Lumley's appearance is alone listed
on IMDb.com as "Patricia" - no endure name -- authoritative it
difficult to abode her in Belfort's activity story.)
<br />
A bulk of added stars are in the Scorsese flick, including, Matthew
McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Jon Favreau, Spike Jonze and even Rob Reiner.
There are aswell a lot of young, adorable ladies -- some of whom we
acerb doubtable will be authoritative out with Leo, too; including
beginning face Margot Robbie -- in case you're not into the earlier
woman thing.
<br />
Marking the fifth Scorsese blur DiCaprio has starred in, "Wolf" is due in theaters next year.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-12305024108563304672012-11-21T01:17:00.000-08:002012-11-21T01:17:05.064-08:00Ryan Gosling gets ugly for ‘Only God Forgives’<br />
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One of Hollywood's a lot of handsome arch men isn't abashed to get his
face burst in "Fight Club"-style for the beauteous affiche of his
accessible thriller, "Only God Forgives."
<br />
The blur is one of the a lot of advancing of the abounding projects that
the in-demand brilliant has in the works, as it reunites Gosling with
Nicolas Winding Refn, the administrator that guided him to band hero
cachet with endure year's beautiful neo-noir sleeper hit, "Drive."
Really, that blur had audiences cerebration they were transported aback
to the '80s and abnormality about a television appearance produced by
Michael Mann ... but, you know, way cooler.
<br />
"Drive" absolutely advantaged in the bit of the ol' ultraviolence, but
if the affiche is any indication, "Only God Forgives" will yield all of
the batterings, shootings and battle to even added active (and gruesome)
levels. The Bangkok-set abstruseness follows an English bent arbiter
(Gosling) who runs a Thai battle club as a foreground for his family's
biologic smuggling operation. He is eventually affected by his adamant
Lady MacBeth-like mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) to clue down and
annihilate the alone amenable for his brother's contempo death, who ends
up getting a retired badge administrator who calls himself The Angel of
Vengeance.
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Fans of the electronica-heavy "Drive" soundtrack will be blessed to
apperceive that the activity reunites Refn with artisan Cliff Martinez.
Actually, in an account with Empire Magazine (reported by MTV Movies),
Refn describes "Only God Forgives" as getting in the aforementioned
attitude as "Drive" beyond the board, adage it's "based on absolute
emotions, but set in a acute reality. It's a bogie tale."
<br />
Perhaps what's a lot of agitative of all is that Gosling describes
Refn's cine for "Only God Forgives" as "the strangest affair I've
anytime read." As Gosling has never been one to shy abroad from
absolutely different and sometimes camp projects (such as "Stay," "Lars
and the Absolute Girl," "Blue Valentine" and, of course, "Drive"),
that's absolutely adage something.
<br />
"Only God Forgives" is currently in post-production and is planned for a
2013 absolution (or assumption is it will chase the aisle of "Drive"
and be ancient in the fall).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-27257078098248884262012-11-20T05:28:00.000-08:002012-11-20T05:28:40.900-08:00Is this The End for Mr. Bean?<img alt="Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)" class="" id="p_13872472-header-image" src="http://l1.yimg.com/nn/fp/rsz/111912/images/smush/mr-bean-face_uni_1353367854.jpg" title="Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)" /> <br />
Is one of the world's a lot of acclaimed man-children assuredly growing up ... and adage goodbye?
<br />
It looks like Mr. Bean admirers may anon accept to allow their adulation
of hijinks, pratfalls and escapade elsewhere, as Rowan Atkinson has
appear that the time to retire the ball appearance is nigh.
<br />
It's somewhat acrid that, for Atkinson, arena a role that brings a smile
to so abounding faces has in actuality become "a little sad."
<br />
"The getting that has been a lot of commercially acknowledged for me
—- basically absolutely physical, absolutely baby —- I added feel
I'm traveling to do a lot beneath of," he told the Daily Telegraph's
Review. "Apart from the actuality that your concrete adeptness starts to
decline, I aswell anticipate anyone in their 50s getting artless
becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful."
<br />
Mr. Bean, a appearance whom Atkinson developed while belief for his
master's amount at Oxford University, fabricated his admission in the
eponymous television alternation that ran for 14 episodes from
1990-1995. He was aswell the brilliant of his own activated alternation
that ran from 2002-2004 and two affection films, "Bean" (1997) and "Mr.
Bean's Holiday" (2007).<br />
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Mr. Bean was initially declared by Atkinson as getting a "child in a
man's body," a blithely absent antic who somehow managed to cross and
affected accustomed (and sometimes added outrageous) challenges and
obstacles through a mix of chastity and accepted cluelessness. The
character, who rarely speaks, has been compared to roles played by
Charlie Chaplin and those of added bashful actors accepted for concrete
ball and theatricality.
<br />
Atkinson admits that arena the well-meaning but bumbling antic has kept
him from scoring added austere roles. He hopes to assuredly be apparent
in a altered ablaze as he prepares to accomplish his "straight play"
admission in a awakening of Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms" in
London's West End.
<br />
Well, at atomic we still accept Pee-wee Herman, as Paul Reubens doesn't
assume to anticipate there's annihilation sad about an earlier man
acting like a big kid.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-15427360054709667002012-11-20T05:25:00.001-08:002012-11-20T05:25:15.686-08:00Expiration date for Twinkies extended<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Twinkies will not die that calmly afterwards all.
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Hostess Brands Inc. and its additional better abutment will go into
arbitration to try and boldness their differences, acceptation the
aggregation will not go out of business just yet. The account came
Monday afterwards Hostess confused to cash and advertise off its assets
in defalcation cloister citation a crippling bang endure week.
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The defalcation adjudicator audition the case said Monday that the
parties haven't gone through the analytical footfall of arbitration and
asked the advocate for the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and
Grain Millers International Union, which has been on bang aback Nov. 9,
to ask his client, who wasn't present, if the abutment would accede to
participate. The adjudicator acclaimed that the bakery union, which
represents about 30 percent of Hostess workers, went on bang afterwards
abnegation the company's latest arrangement offer, even admitting it
never filed an argument to it.
<br />
"Many people, myself included, accept austere questions as to the
argumentation abaft this strike," said Adjudicator Robert Drain, who
heard the case in the U.S. Defalcation Cloister in the Southern District
of New York in White Plains, N.Y. "Not to accept gone through that
footfall leaves a huge catechism mark in this case."
<br />
Hostess and the abutment agreed to arbitration talks, which are accepted to activate the action on Tuesday.
<br />
In an account afterwards the audition on Monday, CEO Gregory Rayburn
said that the two parties will accept to accede to arrangement acceding
aural 24 hours of the Tuesday aback it is costing $1 actor a day in
aerial costs to wind down operations. But even if a arrangement acceding
is reached, it is not bright if all 33 Hostess plants will go aback to
getting operational.
<br />
"We didn't anticipate we had a runway, but the adjudicator just created a
24-hour runway," for the two parties to appear to an agreement, Rayburn
said.
<br />
Hostess, advised down by debt, administration turmoil, ascent activity
costs and the alteration tastes of America, absitively on Friday that it
no best could accomplish it through a accepted Chapter 11 defalcation
restructuring. Instead, the company, which is based in Irving, Texas,
asked the cloister for permission to advertise assets and go out of
business.
<br />
It's not the arrangement of contest that the maker of Twinkies, Ding
Dongs and Ho Ho's envisioned if it filed for defalcation in January, its
additional Chapter 11 filing in beneath than a decade. The company, who
said that it was saddled with costs accompanying to its amalgamated
workforce, had hoped to appear with stronger financials. It brought on
Rayburn as a restructuring able and was alive to renegotiate its
arrangement with activity unions.
<br />
But Rayburn wasn't able to ability a accord with the bakery union. The
company, which had been accidental $100 actor a year in alimony costs
for workers, offered workers a new arrangement that would've bargain
that to $25 actor a year, in accession to allowance cuts and a 17
percent abridgement in bloom benefits. But the bakery abutment
absitively to strike.
<br />
By that time, the aggregation had accomplished a arrangement acceding
with its better union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which
apprenticed the bakery abutment to authority a abstruse election on
whether to abide striking. Although abounding bakery workers absitively
to cantankerous blockade curve this week, Hostess said it wasn't
abundant to accumulate operations at accustomed levels.
<br />
Rayburn said that Hostess was already operating on razor attenuate
margins and that the bang was the final blow. The company's
advertisement on Friday that it would move to cash prompted humans
beyond the country to blitz to food and banal up on their admired
Hostess treats. Abounding businesses appear affairs out of Twinkies
aural hours and the absorptive chicken cakes angry up for auction online
for hundreds of dollars.
<br />
Even if Hostess goes out of business, its accepted brands will
acceptable acquisition a additional activity afterwards getting airtight
up by buyers. The aggregation says several abeyant buyers accept
bidding absorption in the brands. Although Hostess' sales accept been
crumbling in contempo years, the aggregation still does about $2.5
billion in business anniversary year. Twinkies forth brought in $68
actor so far this year. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-11995725293736058032012-11-20T05:21:00.001-08:002012-11-20T05:21:27.777-08:00Asia trip takes Obama White House into Myanmar time warp<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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YANGON (Reuters) - It will not be mistaken for a Nixon-goes-to-China affectionate of moment.
<br />
But Admiral Barack Obama's appointment to Myanmar on Monday sometimes
acquainted like a acknowledgment to an beforehand era of presidential
address - and his aides were bent to accomplish abiding that no one
absent its celebrated significance.
<br />
The cruise was anxiously choreographed to highlight what the White Abode
sees as a first-term adopted action success for a anew re-elected
admiral whose almanac on the apple date shows few triumphs so far.
<br />
There was the alert aboriginal affair with advanced Admiral Thein Sein
to accumulate him on track, battleground talks with action baton Aung
San Suu Kyi and a accent to the Burmese humans at a university steeped
in the country's agitated political history.
<br />
But there were aswell a few ad-lib locations that underscored how
aberrant it was for Obama to be feted by auspicious crowds lining the
streets of Yangon little added than a year afterwards acclimation aides
to analyze rapprochement with the long-shunned Southeast Asian country
afterwards decades of aggressive rule.
<br />
On the fly, Obama absitively to accomplish an unscheduled stop at the
Shwedagon Pagoda, breadth he, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and
their absolute associates went barefoot as allotment of Buddhist
attitude at the admired shrine.
<br />
Even Obama's Secret Service agents were larboard scurrying shoeless and
sockless, talking agilely into their radios, as they anchored the area.
<br />
The alley to Suu Kyi's beach villa, breadth she was kept beneath abode
arrest by the country's aggressive rulers for abundant of two decades
until her absolution in 2010, took Obama through a corrupt but alive
city-limits still address the marks of its British colonial past.
<br />
Strangely, Obama - in his account to reporters afterwards their affair
in which he hailed Suu Kyi for her boldness - mispronounced her name at
atomic twice. And there was addition awkward moment at the end if he
accepted and kissed the adherent Buddhist, abrogation her visibly
uncomfortable.
<br />
Obama aswell took a linguistic bound if - afterwards his talks with
Thein Sein - he referred, once, to the country as Myanmar, the name the
above cardinal band afflicted to years ago. Obama abettor Ben Rhodes
said it was done as a "diplomatic courtesy" and that U.S. government
action was still to accredit to it as Burma.
<br />
TIME WARP
<br />
At times, it acquainted like the White Abode and its sometimes-pampered columnist band had stepped into a time warp.
<br />
Cellphones and BlackBerrys usually bustling at all hours aback in
Washington went abnormally bashful for the a lot of allotment in
Myanmar, breadth sanctions that accept alone afresh been eased accept
kept adaptable telecommunications from developing actual far.
<br />
Obama's six-hour appointment - allotment of a three-country Asian bout -
had been in the planning stages for months, a cruise he would accept
taken, win or lose the November 6 election.
<br />
The actuality that he won gave him a adventitious to acclaim his success
in blame Myanmar's generals assimilate the aisle of autonomous
ameliorate as he starts to body a presidential legacy.
<br />
He went advanced admitting objections from all-embracing animal rights
groups that it was too soon, admitting a looming budgetary showdown in
Washington, admitting the access of an Israel-Hamas battle in the Gaza
Strip.
<br />
The appointment was allotment of a about-face in the U.S. cardinal focus
- the alleged "Asia pivot" - by which Washington aims to beforehand
adept and bread-and-butter relations in the region, in allotment to
adverse China's ascent influence.
<br />
But it was aswell a adventitious for Obama, America's aboriginal
atramentous admiral who has met historians and advisers to appraise the
actual ambit of his tenure, to accomplish a bit of history.
<br />
The visit, in some ways, brought Obama abounding amphitheater from his
Nobel Peace Prize accepting accent in 2009 if he batten of "repression
in Burma" in the aforementioned animation as "genocide in Darfur" and
"systematic abduction in Congo".
<br />
How big of a moment it is historically is accessible for debate.
Afterwards all, British Prime Minister David Cameron, South Korea
Admiral Lee Myung-bak and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had
already visited.
<br />
It absolutely will not rank up there with the advance that Admiral
Richard Nixon denticulate with his appointment to antipathetic China in
1972 that concluded decades of alienation amid Washington and Beijing.
<br />
But if the reforms stick, Obama can apprehend top marks for the aperture to Myanmar.
<br />
It is a country breadth autonomous processes are so new that Clinton,
during her appointment endure year, was told that assembly were
aggravating to advise themselves how to behave by watching old episodes
of "The West Wing," a fabulous U.S. television alternation about
presidential politics.
<br />
As he captivated up his trip, Obama gave his own civics lesson, cogent
an alert but affably quiet admirers at Yangon University how Congress
acts as a analysis and antithesis on his presidential power.
<br />
"As President, I cannot just appoint my will on Congress," he said. "... even admitting sometimes I ambition I could."
<br />
(Additional advertisement by Jeff Mason; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-84228715743070121132012-11-20T05:12:00.001-08:002012-11-20T05:12:31.033-08:00Jessica Biel Dons Frumpy Getup as She Gushes About Honeymoon With Justin Timberlake<br />
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<img alt="" class="editorial " height="550" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/qVW38nE5OX6aRyYPdEORUw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMwMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/blogs/omgaline/300-JessicaBiel-111912-jpg_183837.jpg" title="Jessica Biel (Jim Spellman/WireImage)" width="300" />Jessica Biel is allegedly still so focused on her contempo alliance
to Justin Timberlake that aggregate abroad — even her apparel — is
an afterthought. How do we know? The bistered beauty, who wed JT in
Italy on October 19, donned a black argent anorak and pants set by Oscar
de la Renta bigger ill-fitted for one of the "Golden Girls" than for a
admirable 30-year-old extra as she hit the red carpeting with her
"Hitchcock" co-stars Scarlett Johansson, Helen Mirren, and Toni
Collette, and others at the movie's premiere on Sunday at the Ziegfeld
Theatre in NYC. Mrs. Timberlake, who was afterwards her new pop
star-turned-actor bedmate for the evening, accessorized her sequined
architecture with Lorraine Schwartz jewels and Manolo Blahnik heels. She
pulled her hair aback into a ponytail, and, of course, wore a big
newlywed smile!
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<br />
Biel even gushed about her guy at the event. When Johansson asked about
Biel and Timberlake's honeymoon, which was a carnival in Tanzania, Biel
raved that "it was like magic," according to Us Weekly. "It was like
heaven. It was the a lot of admirable thing." (Johansson was accounted
to accept anachronous Timberlake herself afterwards co-starring in his
2007 "What Goes Around Comes Around" video," but Biel doesn't assume to
accept any harder feelings!)
<br />
The brilliant of the accessible rom-com "Playing for Keeps" is so
head-over-heels about Timberlake, whom she began dating in 2007, that
she's demography his name. "My able name will still be the same, but for
life, yes, I anticipate it sounds great," she appear to People.<br />
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Summit Entertainment's Twilight vampire alternation -- proving that
females can ammunition an accident authorization -- is traveling out in
top style.
<br />
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Allotment 2 topped the common
weekend box appointment with a abundant $340.9 actor opening, including
$141.3 actor domestically from 4,070 theaters and $199.6 actor
internationally from 61 markets.
<br />
Film Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Allotment 2
<br />
Domestically, Breaking Dawn 2 wasn't able to bout the $142.8 actor
aperture of The Twilight Saga: New Moon on the aforementioned weekend in
2009, but it did accessible advanced of the $138.1 actor grossed by The
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Allotment 1 on the aforementioned
weekend endure year, acknowledgment in allotment to abnormally able
Saturday cartage and an A CinemaScore.
<br />
Overseas, Breaking Dawn 2 opened able-bodied advanced of antecedent Twilight films in about every territory.
<br />
Directed by Bill Condon, Breaking Dawn 2 allotment Kristen Stewart,
Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner in the advance roles for a final
time.
<br />
The Twilight authorization has been a aural achievement for all involved, and put Summit Entertainment on the map.<br />
<img alt="Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Summit Entertainment's "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" - 2012" class="" id="p_13872472-header-image" src="http://l1.yimg.com/nn/fp/rsz/111812/images/smush/twilight_uni_1353265656.jpg" title="Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Summit Entertainment's "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" - 2012" /> <br />
PHOTOS: 'Breaking Dawn - Allotment 2' NYC Premiere
<br />
Breaking Dawn 2 drew added males than any antecedent appellation in the
series, who fabricated up 21 percent of those affairs tickts. Agewise,
50 percent of the admirers was 25 years and older.
<br />
Other account at the domstic box appointment included Sam Mendes'
Skyfall, which accomplished the weekend with a common absolute of $669.2
actor to become the top grossing Bond pic of all time, not accounting
for inflation.
<br />
Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig, grossed a arch $41.5 actor in its
additional weekend domestically and blame its North American absolute to
$161.3 million. Overseas, the blur has becoming a massive $507.9 actor
for ally MGM, EON Productions and Sony.
<br />
Steven Spielberg's awards adversary Lincoln aswell fabricated account as
it broadcast nationwide. The actual ball took in a able $21 actor from
1,775 theaters for a area boilerplate of $11,831. Lincoln, which opened
in a scattering of markets the antecedent weekend has taken in a
absolute of $22.4 million.
<br />
The DreamWorks film, broadcast by Disney domestically and fabricated in
affiliation with Participant Media, came in No. 3, admitting its bashful
awning count. Lincoln stars Daniel Day Lewis as the iconic president.
Fox co-financed Lincoln and is administration the blur internationally.
<br />
VIDEO: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence Banter in New 'Silver Linings Playbook' Trailer
<br />
A brace of high-profile accolade contenders debuted at the specailty box
office, David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook and Joe Wright's
Anna Karenina. Both films did solid, but not spectacular, business.
<br />
Silver Linings, from The Weinstein Co., grossed $458,430 as it opened in
16 theaters in baddest cities for a area boilerplate of $28,652. The
blur stars Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Jacki
Weaver
<br />
Anna Kareninao, starring Keira Knightley and from Focus Features, aswell
opened in 16 theaters in baddest cities, grossing $315,395 for a area
boilerplate of $19,712. The atypical yield on the archetypal atypical
has already becoming $10.8 actor overseas.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2764109433227712629.post-21860525841677260992012-11-19T00:49:00.002-08:002012-11-19T00:49:30.540-08:00Obama visits long-shunned nation<img alt="President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tour the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon November 19, 2012. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)" class="" id="p_13872472-header-image" src="http://l1.yimg.com/nn/fp/rsz/111912/images/smush/obama_myanmar_uni_1353307897.jpg" title="President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tour the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon November 19, 2012. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)" /> <br />
YANGON (Reuters) - Barack Obama became the aboriginal confined U.S.
admiral to appointment Myanmar on Monday, aggravating during a cyclone
six-hour cruise to bang a antithesis amid praising the government's
advance in afraid off aggressive aphorism and acute for added reform.
<br />
Obama, who was greeted by agog crowds in the above basic Yangon, met
Admiral Thein Sein, a above band affiliate who has spearheaded reforms
back demography appointment in March 2011, and activity baton Aung San
Suu Kyi.
<br />
The cruise is advised to highlight what the White Abode has accustomed
as a above adopted activity accomplishment -- its success in blame the
country's generals to achieve changes that accept abundant with hasty
acceleration over the accomplished year.
<br />
"I've aggregate with him the actuality that I admit this is just the
aboriginal accomplish on what will be a continued journey," Obama, with
Thein Sein at his side, told reporters afterwards talks with the Myanmar
baton at Yangon's old assembly building.<br />
<img alt="U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the University of Yangon, November 19, 2012. President Obama became the first serving U.S. president to visit Myanmar on Monday, trying during a whirlwind six-hour trip to strike a balance between praising the government's progress in shaking off military rule and pressing for more reform. REUTERS/Jason Reed" class="lightbox4bcf2921c40bc660bdb4a13305253cdc" height="300" id="yui_3_5_1_23_1353314473488_257" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/rxibuxbLuvuLtoasapKfJw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Y2g9MzAwO2NyPTE7Y3c9NDUwO2R4PTA7ZHk9MDtmaT11bGNyb3A7aD0zMDA7cT04NTt3PTQ1MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-11-19T083711Z_1_CBRE8AI0NY200_RTROPTP_2_CNEWS-US-ASIA-OBAMA-MYANMAR.JPG" title="U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the University of Yangon, November 19, 2012. President Obama became the first serving U.S. president to visit Myanmar on Monday, trying during a whirlwind six-hour trip to strike a balance between praising the government's progress in shaking off military rule and pressing for more reform. REUTERS/Jason Reed" width="450" /> <br />
"But we anticipate a activity of autonomous and bread-and-butter
ameliorate actuality in Myanmar that has been amorphous by the admiral
is one that can advance to absurd development opportunities," he added,
application the country name adopted by the government and above junta,
rather than Burma, which is acclimated in the United States.
<br />
Thein Sein, speaking in Burmese with an analyst advice his remarks,
responded that the two abandon would move forward, "based on alternate
trust, account and understanding".
<br />
"During our discussions, we aswell accomplished acceding for the
development of capitalism in Myanmar and for advance of animal rights to
be accumbent with all-embracing standards," he added.
<br />
Tens of bags of well-wishers, including accouchement bouncing American
and Burmese flags, had lined the avenue from the airport to bolt a
glimpse of the U.S. president.
<br />
"ICON OF DEMOCRACY"
<br />
Obama met adolescent Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi, who led the
attempt adjoin aggressive aphorism and is now a lawmaker, at the beach
home area she spent years beneath abode arrest.
<br />
Addressing reporters afterwards, Suu Kyi thanked Obama for acknowledging
the political ameliorate process. But, speaking so cautiously she was
almost aural at times, she cautioned that the a lot of difficult time
was "when we anticipate that success is in sight".
<br />
"Then we accept to be actual accurate that we are not absorbed by a
delusion of success and that we are alive appear 18-carat success for
our people," she said.
<br />
Obama recalled Suu Kyi's years of bondage and said she was "an figure of
capitalism who has aggressive humans not just in this country but about
the world".
<br />
"Today marks the next footfall in a new affiliate amid the United States
and Burma," he said. Before he left, the two accepted and he kissed her
on the cheek.
<br />
Earlier, Obama fabricated an unscheduled stop at the battleground
Shwedagon Pagoda, area he, Secretary of Accompaniment Hillary Clinton
and their absolute entourage, abstruse account agents included, went
barefoot up the behemothic rock staircase.
<br />
Some animal rights groups accept objected to the visit, adage Obama is
advantageous the government of the above abomination accompaniment for a
job that is incomplete.
<br />
Speaking in Thailand on the eve of his visit, Obama denied he was
traveling to activity his "endorsement" or that his cruise was
premature.
<br />
Obama's Southeast Asian trip, beneath than two weeks afterwards his
re-election, is aimed at assuming how austere he is about alive the U.S.
cardinal focus eastwards as America apprehension down wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. The alleged "Asia pivot" is aswell meant to adverse China's
ascent influence.
<br />
FREEING PRISONERS
<br />
Aides said Obama was bent to "lock in" the autonomous changes beneath
way in Myanmar but would columnist for added action, including efforts
to barrier indigenous and bigoted violence.
<br />
A chief U.S. official said Obama would advertise the resumption of U.S.
aid programmes in Myanmar during his visit, anticipating abetment of
$170 actor in budgetary 2012 and 2013, but this, too, would be abased on
added reforms.
<br />
The United States has ashen sanctions and removed a ban on a lot of
imports from Myanmar in acknowledgment to reforms already undertaken,
but it has set altitude for the abounding normalization of relations,
such as the absolution of all political detainees.
<br />
Asked if sanctions could be aerial absolutely at this stage, a chief
administering official insisted they could not. "All these things are
reversible," he said.
<br />
In a move acutely timed to appearance goodwill, the authorities in
Myanmar began to absolution dozens of political prisoners on Monday,
including Myint Aye, arguably the a lot of arresting agitator larboard
in its gulag.
<br />
Some 66 prisoners will be freed, two-thirds of them dissidents, according to activists and bastille officials.
<br />
In a accent to be accustomed at Yangon University to an admirers that
will cover several high-profile above prisoners, Obama will accent the
aphorism of law and allude to the charge to alter a architecture that
still gives a abundant role in backroom to the military, including a
division of the seats in parliament.
<br />
ETHNIC STRIFE
<br />
Violence amid majority Buddhists and the Rohingya Muslim boyhood in
western Myanmar is a top concern, and Obama's aides said he would abode
the affair anon with Myanmar's leaders.
<br />
Myanmar considers the Rohingya Muslims to be actionable immigrants from
adjoining Bangladesh and does not admit them as citizens. A Reuters
analysis into the beachcomber of bigoted assaults corrective a account
of organized attacks adjoin the Muslim community.
<br />
At atomic 167 humans were dead in two periods of abandon in Rakhine accompaniment in June and October this year.
<br />
Thein Sein, in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon endure
week, promised to accouterment the basis causes of the problem, the
United Nations said.
<br />
Despite animal rights concerns, the White Abode sees Myanmar as a
legacy-building success adventure of Obama's activity of gluttonous
assurance with U.S. enemies, a action that has fabricated little advance
with countries such as Iran and North Korea.
<br />
Obama's appointment to Myanmar, sandwiched amid stops in Thailand and
Cambodia, aswell fits the administration's action of aggravating to
allurement China's neighbors out of Beijing's orbit.<br />
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