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Chinese Fakes! Breasts, Not Cars, Stir Excitement at 2012 Beijing Auto Show

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:06:00 -0700

Chinese Fakes! Breasts, Not Cars, Stir Excitement at 2012 Beijing Auto Show

Found: The Jodie Foster Interview Girl. Meet Tabitha

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:22:00 -0700

Last week a clip of an adorable young woman interviewing Jodie Foster somehow made its way on CNN and, after that, into our famous 'Find Her' gallery. That morning Tabitha Lipkin woke up to dozens of emails from her friends exclaiming, "You're on The Chive!' Later that day Tabitha emailed me timidly, "I think I found myself."
Tabitha is a 21 year-old Broadcast Journalism major at the University of Texas and she's about as accomplished as they come for a student. She's currently holding down a combination of 6 jobs and an internship. She's the entertainment director for Texas Student Television, a licensed realtor, and one of the campus representatives for Playboy. Hell yes.
Aside from this, she'll be studying abroad in Australia this summer but not before she gets her pilots' license and goes sailing in French Polynesia.
Lastly, she loves any and all zombie games with a passion. Did I mention she's cute as hell? Anyway, she wanted me to tell y'all that she's newly addicted to the Chive and believes the Chivers are possibly the most awesome community on the internet, which is true.

The Jodie Foster Interview Girl. Meet Tabitha

Emma Roberts with a high ponytail bun for Glamour

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:05:00 -0700

Emma Roberts with a high ponytail bun for Glamour

Everything Important From Startup 2011 In 30 Seconds

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:14:00 -0700

Henry Blodget kicked off Startup 2011 with Fred Wilson in a Q&A discussion about the tech industry.

“[VCs] have a choice. They can stop raising a half a billion or a billion dollars every fucking two years, okay,” said Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson on the proposed tech bubble.

Senior Editor of Business Insider Dan Frommer led a panel, "The Art of the Pivot," with Mike Lazerow of Buddy Media, David Schofman of Coro Health, Mike Walrath of WGI, Eric Eichmann of LivingSocial and Alexis Ohanian of Hipmunk.

“I think those of us who grew up as not such great athletes know failure better. So it came naturally to me because I was always the last one picked in school sports." -- Mike Lazerow, Buddy Media

“We bought a company in Boston called BuyYourFriendADrink, which allowed us to use all that audience online and somehow get people off-line.” -- Eric Eichmann, LivingSocial

“I think the first idea was a piece of shit to begin with. To me, it’s easy to go back to your investors [to announce a pivot] when you tell them that this is what your customers are telling you to do.” -- Mike Walrath, WGI

“[Paul Graham] called us and said, ‘Listen, we liked you guys but not your idea. If you’re willing to change your idea, we’ll let you into Y Combinator. And it took us about two seconds [to say yes.]" -- Alexis Ohanian, Hipmunk

VentureBeat's Matt Marshall led a panel on "How To Make A Billion Dollars," with Mark Cenedella of TheLadders, Tony Conrad of About.me and Stu Ellman of RRE Ventures

“Don’t try to build a billion-dollar business. Try to build a business for Bill, for one customer.” -- Mark Cenedella of TheLadders

“At the beginning, I don’t think you aim for building a billion-dollar business. I’ve never bought into that.” -- Tony Conrad, About.me

“Because everything has become so modular and plug and play, you can actually start a company for a million dollars and figure out if it works.” -- Stu Ellman, RRE Ventures

Betsy Morgan of The Blaze led a panel, "Is Marketing For Companies With Crappy Products?" with Cyriac Roeding of ShopKick, Dana Kanze of Moonit, John Maloney of Tumblr and Paul Forster of Indeed

“PR is definitely marketing. But if you misuse the term of PR for bullshit, then I think it’s the wrong track.” -- Cyriac Roeding of ShopKick

“We didn’t have a budget for any paid placements or anything like that. We really had to get creative and so we reached out to a bunch of complementary, highly trafficked women’s lifestyle and entertainment properties.” -- Dana Kanze, Moonit

“If you’ve nailed your product, the user base will speak on behalf of your product.” -- John Maloney, Tumblr

Venture Capitalist Charlie O'Donnell led a panel, "How to Hire Great Talent" with MongoDB's Dwight Merriman, Alex Rainert of Foursquare and Mike Nolet of AppNexus.

"One thing I’ve found is effective is get someone to sit in your office everyday, even if it’s a contract recruiter, just working full-time for you for 90 days." -- Dwight Merriman (left), MongoDB

“We grew from 20 to a little over 100 last year...We actually have three full-time people in recruiting today, and we’re looking to hire two more recruiting people as well." -- Mike Nolet, AppNexus

"We brought in an in-house recruiter in the fall which was one of the best things we’ve ever done.” -- Alex Rainert, Foursquare

Business Insider's Editor in Chief Henry Blodget led discussions with NYC's Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne, FCC's Julius Genachowski, Ning's Gina Bianchini, EDventure's Esther Dyson, and Gilt Groupe's Kevin Ryan.

“Any time you take a human process and you put it into a technology framework, there’s going to be a learning curve.” -- Rachel Sterne, NYC

“We’ve been focusing on a series of initiatives to improve our broadband and our high speed internet infrastructure in the US, both wireless and wired. In wireless in particular, we have a chance to leapfrog countries that have leapfrogged us.” Julius Genachowski, FCC

“I think people are just overwhelmed with the number of things they are supposed to do...And for entrepreneurs the concern is: How do you get above the noise?" -- Gina Bianchini, cofounder of Ning and the founder and CEO of a new stealth startup

"We’ve got too much money going into too many deals." -- Ester Dyson, EDventure, who thinks we're in another bubble.

"I think it’s crazy to call this a bubble...A bubble is when valuations, in retrospect, were ten times too high, and that’s what happened [in 1999]. Today, that’s not the case at all. Gilt has said publicly it has between four and five hundred million dollars in revenue. So [the valuation] is roughly two times revenue. It’s hard to argue that that’s a real bubble.” -- Kevin Ryan, Gilt Groupe

Deputy Editor of Business Insider Nicholas Carlson led a panel, "What I Did Differently the Second Time Around," with Scott Heiferman of Meetup, John Borthwick of Betaworks, Chris Dixon of Hunch, and David Kidder of Clickable.

“I think people tend to attribute a lot of things to skill that were actually luck, both positively and negatively.” -- Chris Dixon, Hunch

“I think it was an anomaly that I had some success doing something I didn’t really like.” -- Scott Heiferman, Meetup

“The best startups are typically ones where you almost have to literally set yourself up for failure.” -- David Kidder, Clickable

Peter Kafka of All Things Digital led a panel, "Crazy Perks, Office Space, and Corporate Culture: Does It Matter?" with Seth Besmertik of Conductor, Brad Hargreaves of General Assembly, Steve Cheney of GroupMe and Ben Lehrer of Thrillist.

“People have an obligation to make it so that everyday when they come in, they earn the right to have that seat. That seat is valuable. But we also look at it from the other side... that we have to earn the right to keep our people in the company.” -- Seth Besmertik, Conductor

"I’m encountering more and more people especially over the last six months that have been thinking very much in terms of startups as a step in their career and as a way to get operational experience.” -- Brad Hargreaves, General Assembly

"When I moved to New York from California three years ago, if you walked into a bar and told a girl you worked at Goldman Sachs, that was like ‘the shit.’ So I went and got a job at Goldman Sachs. Now it’s cool to walk into a bar and say ‘I work for Foursquare.’" -- Steve Cheney, GroupMe

“For us, there’s a feeling of work hard and play hard - you know, there’s a bar in the office, and a jager-meister machine and a pool table and a pillow that is suggestive, sexually. But people work their butts off, and we try not to have people drinking before lunch.” -- Ben Lehrer, Thrillist

Julie Hansen, President of Business Insider, introduced the 8 startup finalists, AfterSteps, Grovo Learning, Honestly Now, ShinyAds, Quartzy, LetsGiftIt, Scayl, and UberTags.

“What are the only two things in life that absolutely certain? Death and taxes, right?” Jessica Bloomgarten presents her startup, AfterSteps.

“Grovo is Rosetta Stone for cloud software,” Jeff Fernandez of Grovo Learning presents his next.

“Ever notice how women go to the bathroom together? What are we doing? We’re talking,” Tereza Nemessanyi sets up her company, Honestly Now

“So the problem today is that all publishers generate revenue from large brand advertisers. To do so, they need a direct sales team. But what happens with the orders that are under the minimum? The smaller advertising order marketplace is about $15 billion, which much larger than the $8 billion...from larger advertisers,” Roy Pereira explains his startup, ShinyAds.

“Scientists right now use excel spreadsheets or google docs to manage their inventories...it’s extremely time-consuming, frustrating and inefficient,” Jayant Kulkarni describes the problem his company, Quartzy, solves.

“[Let’s Gift It] is the easy, fun and social way for friends family and coworkers to contribute as a group towards the purchase of a gift for someone special,” says Ryan O'Donnell about his company.

“How many of you have ever bounced a big email attachment? I know I have. Millions of us still find it too hard to share big files and folders...Scayle finally fixes [this]. So how did we do it? Simple and brilliant. We actually took out the server farm,” Bill Kallman presents his company, Scayl.

“Website tagging sucks. Tags Increase page load time...and in aggregate, it can be quite significant,” Jeremy Beiger says of the problem his company, UberTags, wants to solve.

Jonathan Teo of General Catalyst Partners looked happy with the companies he saw present, but the judges had some questions for the founders...

“This is based on the host paying, not the user of the tags paying. Why is that?” Media6Degrees' Tom Phillips asked UberTags.

“Why the focus on a narrow subset of what knowledge workers are looking for?” Venrock partner David Pakman chimed in.

“How are you building awareness?” StarVest Partner's Laura Sachar asked Honestly Now.

But in the end, Quartzy won Startup 2011. "It is focusing on a highly monetizable, untapped market. It has a chance to become a breakout business if it nails its platform," said Jonathan Teo, Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners.

Elisandra Tomacheski – Tommy Bahama Swimwear 2012

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Sat, 2 Jun 2012 23:51:00 -0700

Elisandra Tomacheski – Tommy Bahama Swimwear 2012

A Decade Later... Sixpence None the Richer Are Back

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Thu, 31 May 2012 00:24:00 -0700

The Nashville-based Grammy-nominated band Sixpence None The Richer had a platinum-selling 1998 breakout single “Kiss Me," which was the anthem of teens who were fans of "She's All That," "Dawson's Creek," "The Gilmore Girls," among others.

After a long recording hiatus, the band will return on August 7, 2012 with ‘Lost In Transition,’ its first studio album in a decade.

The title is a reference to the band’s 2004 breakup. “It’s about things that happened in our lives recently, personal events or on a musical level,” explains Matt Slocum, who founded the band with singer Leigh Nash in 1992. “We had a transition to go through. And now we have."

‘Lost In Transition’ was produced by Jim Scott (Wilco, Tom Petty, Dixie Chicks) at PLYRZ Studios in Los Angeles and was recorded live with minimal overdubbing. Unlike previous Sixpence albums, ‘Transition’ is centered on a stripped-down approach to music. It is a gorgeous mix of infectious hooks, piano, acoustic guitars, a bit of country and a newfound and beautiful simplicity to the songs.

Stunning Petra Nemcova at the Reality premiere

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Thu, 31 May 2012 00:01:00 -0700

Stunning Petra Nemcova at the Reality premiere

So The Mall Concept Entertainment Trends

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:24:00 -0700

Shopping centers or malls that have embraced the concept more attractive lifestyle and entertainment retailers. The concept is interesting because it not only captures the behavior of people to the mall for shopping.
"Trends in the mall that brings the concept of entertainment is more desirable, because the behavior of consumers to not only shopping mall, but also for entertainment.

So The Mall Concept Entertainment Trends

Paris Hilton Shopping in Sydney

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:13:00 -0700

Paris Hilton Shopping in Sydney

Marc Anthony and Shannon De Lima attend the 27th Annual Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Sports Spectacular

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Thu, 24 May 2012 07:55:00 -0700

Marc Anthony and Shannon De Lima attend the 27th Annual Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Sports Spectacular at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza hotel.

Lady Gaga Allowed Second Manila Show

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:07:00 -0700

MANILA: Lady Gaga will be allowed to hold a second concert in Manila on Tuesday night after state censors ruled her "provocative" act was within legal bounds, a city official said.

Officials who monitored the first show on Monday found no violations of the permit terms banning nudity, blasphemy, and lewd conduct, said Antonino Calixto, mayor of Pasay City, the district where the event was held.

"Admittedly, some of the statements and choreography were provocative but the content and presentation taken all together can be considered as part of an artist's expressions" that are protected by the constitution, he added.

"Therefore, the city government of Pasay sees no compelling or legal reason to disallow the second concert from proceeding," Calixto said in a statement.

Up to 20,000 fans are expected to attend the American pop phenomenon's final Manila show, the same number as were at Monday's concert.

Conservative Christians in the Catholic-majority nation have been staging street protests daily to demand a government ban on the events, alleging some of Lady Gaga's songs are blasphemous.

One senior church leader said her show amounted to "devil worship".

Lady Gaga spoke out against her local critics at Monday's concert, declaring she was "not a creature of your government" before belting out her controversial song "Judas".

Her world tour, "The Born This Way Ball", has hit the headlines on its way through Asia, with an upcoming concert in Muslim-majority Indonesia denied a police permit for fear of violence from religious hardliners.

Prominent Filipino lawyer Romulo Macalintal, one of those who sought to block the Manila concert, said he was resigned to the local government's ruling.

"They are the persons authorised by law and if that is their decision, I cannot do anything, I just leave it to God," he said. (AFP)

Lady Gaga Allowed Second Manila Show

Whitney Toyloy – Beldona Lingerie

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Wed, 23 May 2012 00:08:00 -0700

Whitney Toyloy – Beldona Lingerie

Bar Takes It Off For Maxim

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:58:00 -0700

Kardashian Sisters Pose in Lingerie

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:56:00 -0700

SpaceX makes historic launch to space

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:52:00 -0700

CAPE CANAVERAL: An unmanned rocket owned by privately held Space Exploration Technologies blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Tuesday for a mission designed to be the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.

The 178-foot (54-meter) tall Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 3:44 a.m. (0744 GMT) from a refurbished launch pad just south of where NASA launched its now-retired space shuttles.

The US space agency is counting on companies like Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, to take over flying cargo - and eventually astronauts - to the $100 billion space station, which orbits about 240 miles (390 km) above Earth.

Currently, NASA is dependent on Russia to fly crew to the station, at a cost of more than $60 million per person. Russia, Europe and Japan also cargo to the station.

If its test flight is successful, SpaceX would become the first private company to reach the space station, a microgravity research complex for biological, materials, fluid physics and other science experiments and technology demonstrations.

SpaceX, founded and operated by internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, and Orbital Sciences Corp already hold contracts worth a combined $3.5 billion to fly cargo to the station.

SpaceX also is among four firms vying to build space taxis to fly astronauts, tourists and non-NASA researchers.

Separately, NASA contributed nearly $400 million to SpaceX's $1.2 billion commercial space program, which includes development and up to three test flights of Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon capsules.

An analysis by the US Government Accountability Office shows that a similar program under a traditional NASA procurement would have cost four to 10 times as much, said NASA's Alan Lindenmoyer, who manages the agency's commercial spaceflight initiatives.

If Dragon can be successfully maneuvered and operated in orbit, it is expected to be cleared for a berthing at the space station on Friday. (Reuters)

Italy quake destroys 250mn euros cheese

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:48:00 -0700

ROME: Sunday's quake in northeastern Italy destroyed more than 300,000 wheels of Parmesan and Grana Padano, a similar cheese, with an estimated value of more than 250 million euros, an industry official said.

"The earthquake was very strong and heavily damaged the structures of many warehouses as well as thousands of tonnes" of the two cheeses, said Stefano Berni, head of a consortium that protects the Grana Padano designation.

"It's a very heavy loss, but there have been no casualties, which is a great relief at this worrying time," he told the ANSA news agency.

An initial estimate of 250 million euros ($320 million) is "very conservative," Berni said, adding that he hoped no further tremors would "further aggravate the state of the already highly damaged and fragile structures."

A wheel of the cheese can weigh up to 40 kilogrammes (90 pounds). (AFP)

'The Great Gatsby' trailer

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:46:00 -0700

St. John's Security Camera Footage

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:45:00 -0700

Eating late can too make you fat: Study

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:30:00 -0700

ISLAMABAD: It`s known that gorging on fatty food can make you fat. Now, a new study has claimed that eating late in night can also help you pile on the kilos.

In experiments on mice, a team at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California found that eating while we stay up to browse the Internet or watch a late film is likely to be contributing to rising obesity levels.

Dr Satchidananda Panda, an associate professor who led the study, said at certain times of day the liver, intestines and muscles are at peak efficiency, while at other times they are "sleeping".

"Every organ has a clock. Those metabolic cycles are critical. When mice or people eat through the day and night, it can throw off those normal metabolic cycles," Dr Panda was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.

In the study, the researchers allowed a group of mice to eat only during an eight-hour period, while a second group could graze on what they wanted all day and night.

They found that even though the two groups were eating about the same amount of calories, those who ate at set times during the day did not become obese.

The researchers explained that the mice who ate when they wanted gained weight because they disrupted their body clock -- and the same principle may apply to humans too.

At the end of their study, the mice that ate all day and night had 70 per cent more fatty deposits than the group that was time-restricted.

Noting that eating patterns have changed in recent years as people have more reasons to stay up into the night, Dr Panda suggested that restricting meal times could help to lower obesity levels.

Commenting on the study, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum said: "There`s a pattern, which you should build up from childhood, of three set meals a day.

"Anything you do to upset that opens you up to problems with the hormones that control appetite."(Online news pk)

Health benefits of olive oil

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:26:00 -0700

ISLAMABAD: Olive oil is rich in monounsaturated `good` fats and, when used daily, can bring instant and easy wellness to a family`s diet.

Olive oil is universally acknowledged as the healthiest cooking medium.

The greatest benefit of olive oil is that it fights coronary heart disease. Olive oil has the highest content of monounsaturated "good" fats (no less than 80 percent) amongst all edible oils, which reduce bad cholesterol (LDL) and triglycerides.

At only 10 percent, it has amongst the lowest percentage of saturated `bad` fats, which increase bad cholesterol. High MUFA content in olive oil has been found to prevent high cholesterol, fight heart disease, and help in the prevention of diabetes as well as cancer.

A rich source of antioxidants, especially vitamin E, olive oil helps minimize cancer risk. It also improves bone mineralization and helps calcium absorption thus preventing the onset of Osteoporosis.(Online news pk)

Women reach orgasm with oral sex while men with vaginal intercourse

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:34:00 -0700

The National Survey of Sexual Health and Behaviour (NSSHB) is one of the most comprehensive studies on these topics in almost two decades and documents the sexual experiences and condom-use behaviours of 5,865 adolescents and adults ages 14 to 94.

Men are more likely to orgasm when sex includes vaginal intercourse and women are more likely to orgasm when they engage in a variety of sex acts, the new study has revealed.. Read Full Story

Pregnant Kristin Cavallari in gorgeous black gown

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:29:00 -0700

Pregnant Kristin Cavallari in gorgeous black gown. Read more / Photos

Kelly Brook showed up to a shoot in Cannes dressed

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:27:00 -0700

Kelly Brook showed up to a shoot in Cannes dressed. Read more / Photos

Lily Donaldson at Chanel 7th Annual Tribeca Film Festival Artists Dinner

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:21:00 -0700

Lily Donaldson at Chanel 7th Annual Tribeca Film Festival Artists Dinner in New York Read more

Bar Refaeli Tops Maxim's 2012 Hot 100

noreply@blogger.com (iR) — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:21:00 -0700