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Tuesday, May 31, 2016
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Based on an international bestseller by author Jojo Moyes, the film tells the story of the relationship between a Will, successful young man who becomes a quadriplegic after an accident, and Louisa, the woman who is hired to care for him.
Clarke and Claflin chatted with ABC News’ Amy Robach about the film.
Bound by his character’s extensive physical limitations, Claflin could only rely on his facial expressions and the use of one hand.
"This was probably the most physically challenging thing that I’ve ever done,” he said of the role.
He also went on a 500-calorie per day diet -- combined with training -- to lose 40 pounds for the role.
“What was important to me was that the character looked quite frail and quite weak, when you first meet him post-accident,” Claflin said.
The book behind the movie was first released in 2012. It has since returned to the top of the New York Times bestseller list.
Moyes, author of the book and film’s screenplay, said of its title, "Most of us have one person in our lives who actually changes the way we think or encourages us to look outside our box and for me, this is what this story is about."
Clarke said her favorite scene was the wedding sequence, calling it “joyful.”
She added that she wanted viewers to see the film as “a really beautiful love story. Don’t take the life that you have for granted. Go out there and live it as fully as possible.”
Claflin said the final scene between the two characters had a profound emotional impact on him.
“It sort of unlocked something for me and I spent the entire day sobbing even when we weren’t actually filming,” he said.
“Me Before You” premieres on Friday.
Fact of the day: The actress and her boyfriend, Ethan DeLorenzo, both shared images of the newborn, whom they named Ode Mountain DeLorenzo Malone.
This is the first child for the couple.
"The best weekend of our lives!!!" Malone wrote. "What an incredible blessing to be chosen by this amazing, kind, gentle and beautiful soul to be his parents. Humbled and in complete awe that we get to experience the most ancient and transcendent love that exists."
"Thank you Ode Mountain DeLorenzo Malone," she concluded.
Malone, 31, announced earlier this year that she was expecting.
"I'd like to share the new shape I am becoming to hold the greatest dream of them all," she wrote at the time.
Fact of the day: Demi Lovato took to Instagram Sunday night to write a heartfelt tribute to her great-grandmother who passed away.
The death of the 23-year-old singer's great-grandmother -- whom she called "Minaw" -- comes seven months after the death of her great-grandfather, whom she called "Papa."
"Mimaw, I hope you are with Papa now," Lovato shared with her 39.6 million Instagram followers. "I hate that I can't hear your voice but I love that you are no longer in pain," she wrote. "The pain I feel is almost unbearable but because of her strength I will power through it."
Calling her great-grandmother "the world's most special person," Lovato explained that they shared a close bond, and thanked her fans for their support.
"There is an emptiness in my heart that only her spirit can fill and I pray that I will feel her by my side every single day until we meet again. I attribute my strength to her," she wrote. "I am forever grateful for the prayers, texts and fan art my Lovatics have made me. Thank you."
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Monday, May 30, 2016
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Fact of the day: Professional golfer Jason Dufner won't be Dufnering in this four-bedroom homein Auburn, AL, any longer. He's put the home he purchased for $457,000 in 2010 on the market for $539,900.
The 3,103-square-foot home features an open floor plan with formal dining room and a master suite on the main level. The master bathroom includes both a soaker tub and large walk-in shower. A large outdoor space with built-in grill provides great entertaining possibilities. Diana Ramage is the listing agent, and, like Dufner, she is a former golfer for Auburn University.
The 2013 PGA Championship winner had lived in the home with his wife,Amanda, but the couple divorced in early 2015. Amanda reportedly received a $2.5 million settlement while Dufner received this house and another he was building on 46 acres in Auburn, where he went to college. Amanda Boyd was also rumored to be involved romantically with golfer Tiger Woods.
Fellow pro golfers coined the term Dufnering in 2013 after a picture was published of the golfer slouching against a wall while visiting a school. Dufner has since slimmed down and changed his eating habits after health issues kept him away from golf in 2014. Selling this house likely fits in with his new regimen of jettisoning dead weight.
If you type "millennials are" into Google, the search engine will suggest you complete the thought with "lazy," "stupid" or "entitled." Amazing facts
Tell that to the Japanese!
An incredible 37% of millennials in Japan expect to work until they die, according to a new survey commissioned by employment services firm ManpowerGroup.
Japan, with its conservative business culture, is something of an outlier: 18% of millennials plan to work until death in runner-up China, while just 12% of Americans and Brits say the same.
But even millennials who aren't keen on the "never retire" option assume they're going to work longer than previous generations.
More than half of millennials expect to work past 65, according to the survey results, while 27% expect to work over the age of 70.
The main takeaway? "Millennials are working as hard, if not harder, than other generations," said ManpowerGroup. The project surveyed 19,000 workers between the ages of 20 and 34 across 25 countries.
A few more key stats drive home the point: 73% of millennials around the world work more than 40 hours a week, and nearly a quarter work over 50. Twenty-six percent work more than one job.
Your move, Google search algorithm.
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Friday, May 27, 2016
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Obama makes historic visit to Hiroshima. It's really a amazing facts
Obama has hailed the “great alliance” between the United States and Japan ahead of his visit to Hiroshima.
“We are reaffirming one of the greatest alliances in the world between Japan and the United States,” he told troops at a base in Iwakuni in the west of the country, AFP reports.
The US has around 47,000 personnel stationed in Japan as part of a security alliance that arose from American occupation in the aftermath of World War II.
“We can never forget that we have to honour all of those who have given everything for our freedom,” he told a crowd of uniformed men and women to huge cheers. “I am very proud of you.”
“This is an opportunity to honour the memory of all who were lost in WWII,” he said.
“It’s a testament to how even the most painful divides can be bridged. How two nations can become not just partners but the best of friends.”
Ahead of his visit to Hiroshima, Obama visited Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni to meet with members of the U.S. military, amid long-simmering resentments in Japan over the U.S. military presence in the country.
At a joint press conference late Wednesday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe railed against an alleged murder committed by an American civilian worker stationed on Okinawa, the southern Japanese island that houses a massive U.S. military presence.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016
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Fact of the day - 3 journalists disappear in Colombia within days
First, Spanish journalist Salud Hernandez went missing while working on a story in Catatumbo, a remote region in northern Colombia with a heavy guerrilla and organized crime presence.
Then Colombian TV network RCN said two of its journalists, correspondent Diego D'Pablos and cameraman Carlos Melo, disappeared in the same region while covering the disappearance of Hernandez.
RCN news director Claudia Gurisatti told CNN en Español on Tuesday that a government human rights official first confirmed the disappearance of her network's journalists.
"They called us and said that, ironically, the group of journalists who were covering what people in the area knew about Salud's disappearance had themselves been attacked. Their belongings, including their equipment, cameras, computers, communication equipment, telephones, were taken from them," Gurisatti said.
Catatumbo is an area of nearly 5,000 square kilometers (1,930 square miles) in the Norte de Santander department. Illegal crops are Catatumbo's economic engine, according to Gurisatti. In addition to drug traffickers, the Marxist guerrilla National Liberation Army, or ELN by its Spanish acronym, also has heavy presence in the area. Gurisatti said security forces are "nonexistent" there.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos told reporters in Bogota that he ordered an army commander and the director of national police to travel to the region to oversee search efforts. At one point, Santos said, five journalists were missing Monday night, but two were located shortly thereafter.
There are a number of rebel groups in the region, leading to speculation the journalists were kidnapped by a guerrilla group. Officials have so far not cast blame. "For now, our hypothesis at the prosecutor's office is that this is a disappearance. As soon as we have any real evidence that this could be a kidnapping, we will announce," said Jorge Perdomo, the national public prosecutor.
The disappearances of the three journalists, if they were in fact kidnapped, may become an obstacle for peace talks between the Colombian government and two guerrilla groups: the ELN and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Putting a halt to kidnappings was one of the conditions the government set for negotiations.
Frank Pearl, the Colombian government's negotiator with the ELN, said on his Twitter account that "If the ELN kidnapped @saludhernandezm, Diego de Pablos (sic) and Carlos Melo, they have to free them immediately."
Salud Hernandez traveled last week to the region that borders Venezuela to cover a story about illegal crops. She went missing Saturday.
"She's a woman who has traveled all of the Colombian countryside, its mountains, its landscapes and valleys ... as an average citizen would. She doesn't bring an advance or production team," Gurisatti said.
Hernandez files reports about Colombia for the Spanish daily newspaper El Mundo and is known as a fierce critic of Santos and Colombia's peace process.
Nutritionists, healthy food and public health experts are in meltdown over a report claiming that fat is good for us. Against the conventional thinking, the National Obesity Forum and a new group calling itself the Public Health Collaboration, say eating fat, including butter, cheese and meat, will help people lose weight and combat type 2 diabetes and that the official advice is plain wrong.
A furious Public Health England has come out with all guns blazing. It says this is “irresponsible and misleads the public” and most of the public health establishment agrees.
It is the latest battle in the food wars and will not be the last. It may seem obvious that we are what we eat, but scientists struggle to work out exactly what that means. Sugar, by now, is well known to be the enemy of good health. Few outside of the food and soft drinks industry argue over that any more. However, the effects of fat – and importantly, different kinds of fats – are strongly contested. The current furore demonstrates, if nothing else, how passionate the debate over nutrition can be and how difficult it is to reach any sort of simple truth.
The new report does not have the status of a paper in a scientific journal. It is a 10-point campaigning document, drafted by a group of people from several countries whose views would be said by some to be pioneering and others to be maverick. They include Dr Robert Lustig, author of Fat Chance: The Hidden Truth About Sugar, Obesity and Disease, who has been one of the leaders of the anti-sugar movement. The paper was coordinated by cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra, who has recently parted company with the UK campaigning organisation Action on Sugar. With his father, Dr Kailash Chand, deputy chairman of the British Medical Association, and Dr David Cavan, of the International Diabetes Federation, Malhotra has founded the Public Health Collaboration, which published the report on its website.
It has also published its own rival version of Public Health England’s Eatwell plate. They look very different. A third of the official Eatwell plate is taken up with “potatoes, rice, pasta and other starchy vegetables” while only small segments feature dairy products and protein. The Public Health Collaboration plate is divided in half with not a potato in sight. Half is fruit and vegetables – non-starchy carbohydrates – while the other half is fats and proteins, including bacon, meat, eggs and cheese.
The new report claims eating fat does not make you fat, saturated fat is not bad for the heart and advice to lower cholesterol is plain wrong. The authors cite studies to back up their arguments. Cutting fat intake did not reduce heart attacks or stroke among participants in the large Women’s Health Initiative study in the US or cause them to lose weight, it says. A major analysis of years of data in 2014 found cutting saturated fat did not reduce deaths, heart disease, stroke or type 2 diabetes.The fight over fats is about the quality and quantity of studies that have been done and their meaning. Dietary studies are hard to do because those taking part sometimes give in to temptation and eat things they are not supposed to and also have a tendency to forget what they have eaten or lie out of embarrassment. But the results of even the well-conducted studies are not always clear.
But Susan Jebb, professor of diet and population health at Oxford University, was one of many saying the report cherrypicks the evidence – choosing the studies that support fat against far more that do not, selecting “one trial suggesting high dairy intake reduced the risk of obesity, while ignoring a systematic review and meta-analysis of 29 trials which concluded that increasing dairy did not reduce the risk of weight gain”.
She also takes issue with the report’s advice to throw the calorie counter out of the window. “For most people in 21st-century Britain, eating freely – even if only from ‘healthy’ foods – is unlikely to lead to spontaneous weight loss. Losing weight requires some control over total energy intake, which means limiting some foods, not eating them freely. This is why losing weight is so hard,” she said.
Prof Simon Capewell, vice president for policy at the Faculty of Public Health, says the report is regrettable because it will lead to confusion and will reduce trust in food scientists and respect for Public Health England’s guidelines, which the faculty supports. Food industry marketing messages will quickly exploit the gap, he says – on which the industry spends £1bn a year.
In dairy – milk and cheese – there is still some uncertainty but they have been rehabilitated from the days when consumers were urged to avoid them. These days, the official advice is that they can be consumed in moderation.Everybody agrees that trans-fats are bad and they have been banned or phased out in many countries. Everyone agrees that olive and seed oils – also fats – are good. “But in the middle are saturated fats,” says Capewell.
“But red and processed meats and lard are unquestionably harmful,” said Capewell. “There is a vast amount of science to confirm that. That is the bit that has really upset the majority of nutrition scientists.”
Malhotra said the reaction was not surprising. “We did say the establishment had misled us,” he said. On meat, he said, they agreed with the current guidelines, which recommend no more than 1g per kilogram of a person’s bodyweight per day.
Amidst all the sound and fury and the sound of slamming plates, there is a certain amount of overlap between the two sides on the importance of fruit, vegetables, fish and olive oil. And for those of us who find it hard to follow the ins and outs of nutritional science, that looks an awful lot like the Mediterranean diet.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016
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Originating in the UK in the 1950s, the Pop Art movement created a landmark cultural and revolutionary shift in the way art was created and perceived. Pop Art got right to the point, with little or no ambiguity, in a direct and no-nonsense way.
Its use of icons, celebrities, everyday images and concepts, and cartoon characters took the art world by storm and created an immediate artistic appeal that galvanised the very core of pre-conceived concepts of art. It was funky, fresh, and fun, and was a term that applied topainting, sculptures, assemblages and collages.
Let's check out to get interesting cool random pop art facts and know more about pop art paintings, pop art artists, Roy Lichtenstein artwork, Andy Warhol pop art.
Interesting cool random pop art facts, artists, paintings
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Pop Art wasn’t called that when it was originally unleashed unto the London masses – instead, it was referred to as Propaganda Art.
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As the name suggests, Pop Art was unquestionably one of the most popular artistic movements of the contemporary art scene. Its prime modus operandi was to act as a counter movement, a rebellion against the pretentious and over-intense style of the Abstract Expressionists.
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Another of Pop Art intentions was to reflect the normality and reality of people’s everyday lives; hence its plundering of images and concepts from magazines, comics and television.
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Pop Art was born in the UK in the mid 1950s but it didn’t take long to reach the United States – by the late 50s it was already there. Its intention was to challenge everything about perceived ideas of tradition, and that visual aspects of mass media and popular culture could be considered art.
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Pop Art is primarily so effective because it extracts an image or idea from its familiar context and isolates it and associates it with other elements.
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Pop Art coincided with the Swinging 60s of London and its music scene – and resulted in a very happy and productive union. Peter Blake, for example, created cover art designs for Elvis Presley and The Beatles, and – like Andy Warhol incorporating Marilyn Monroe in his work - used actresses such as Brigitte Bardot.
Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol
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Andy Warhol motto was: “I think everybody should be a machine.” This was reflected in the way he created his prints, which looked as though they could have churned off a factory conveyor belt. American Pop Art was less subjective and referential than its British counterpart, being more aggressive and emblematic.
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Pop Art finest and most well-known exponent, And Andy Warhol, certainly predicted the future with his quote: “In the future, everybody will be famous for fifteen minutes.” If only he could see the frightening reality of what his prescient prognostication would ultimately bring.
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As well as its use of advertising, comics and mass media, Pop Art intention was to present the banal and the prosaic in unique and exciting ways, very often through the use of irony.
Masterpiece Roy Lichtenstein
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Pop art artists primarily use the vivid colours red, blue and yellow in their works – the colours representing the references to popular culture as opposed to any inner feelings or emotions of what was being shown. It’s a palette that also lent itself easily for mass reproduction, as was the case with Andy Warhol silkscreen paintings.
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Roy Lichtenstein created his own unique Pop Art style inspired by the visual immediacy of comic books. Black outlines, bold colours, and Ben-Day dots were all recreated in the spirit of comic books that were printed in the 50s and 60s.
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Pop Art is immediately recognisable from its clear lines and representations of people, objects and symbols. It took a more reverential approach towards mass culture and consumerism - as opposed to Dadaism, which was destructive, satirical and anarchic.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
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Fact of the day: Four people have died in the span of four days on Mount Everest including a Sherpa, while two others have gone missing.
This year's climbing season on the world's highest peak resumed in April after a two-year hiatus due to acatastrophic earthquake that struck Nepal in 2015 and a deadly avalanche that killed 16 Sherpas in one day in 2014.
But tragedy struck again as authorities reported four consecutive days of deaths on the famous mountain.
Everest summit reached for first time after two years
Thursday
Crew member Phurba Sherpa (no relation to the journalist of the same name) fell to his death. The 25-year-old had been working to fix a route about 150 meters near the summit when he fell, according to Mingma Sherpa, the Nepal rescue team leader who was at the Everest Base Camp.
Friday
Eric Arnold, 36, of the Netherlands died at night while heading back after a successful summit on Everest, according to Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, the owner of Seven Summit Treks. A heart attack was suspected, he said.
Arnold was a triathlete based in Rotterdam, according to his Twitter bio.
Saturday
An Australian woman Maria Strydom who was also traveling with the Seven Summit Treks started suffering altitude sickness. She had reached Camp IV, the final camp before the summit.
Strydom, 34, could not move upward anymore, and a rescue attempt to reach her failed, according to Tashi Sherpa. The finance professor at Monash Business School in Australia died Saturday before she could come back down to Camp III.
She gave an interview with the school in March detailing her ambition to climb the highest seven summits on each of the continents. She had already climbed Denali in Alaska, Aconcagua in Argentina, Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey and Kilimanjaro in Africa. She had planned to climb Everest with her husband, inspired in part by questions the couple received about their vegan diet.
Her mother, Maritha Strydom, who had been posting updates about her daughter and son-in-law's expedition, said on Facebook: "I'm just too devastated to communicate, sorry."
She posted hours later that she was "praying" for her son-in-law, who the Australian media reported was battling "against congestive heart failure."
Sunday
Subash Paul, 44, died at Base Camp II from altitude sickness, according to Wangchu Sherpa, Managing Director of Trekking Camp Nepal.
Paul was part of a team (consisting of four Indian climbers and four Sherpas) that also saw two members -- Paresh Chandra Nath and Goutam Ghosh -- go missing Saturday night.
"It is not clear what happened. We believe the weather suddenly deteriorated at some point, and the team lost direction," Wanchu Sherpa said.
An official at Nepal Tourism Department Gyanendra Shrestha said a helicopter search was not possible because they were too high up the mountain.
"We are trying to communicate with other expedition teams around that level to locate the missing climbers," Shresthra said.
The fourth climber from the team, Sunita Harizan, was rescued and is undergoing treatment at base camp.
Seema Goswami was undergoing treatment at a hospital after being airlifted from the Everest region, said Pemba Sherpa, the Seven Summit Treks manager.
Since climbing season opened on Everest, about 300 people have scaled, according to data from Everest Base Camp as of Saturday.
The risks are well-known as more than 250 people have died on the mountain. Four people have died in the span of four days on Mount Everest including a Sherpa, while two others have gone missing.
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