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Feb
2
2012
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Kristen Bell spent a good portion of her 31st birthday in tears.
The reason? The “House of Lies” actress’ fiance, Dax Shepard, presented her with the ultimate surprise: playtime with her favorite animal.
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“The day of my birthday, we’re sitting in the living room and I hear a knock at the door. He says, ‘Your present is here. Why don’t you grab the dogs and go in the back room?’” Bell tells Ellen DeGeneres on her eponymous talk show (airing Tuesday). “I was immediately overcome and I thought, ‘There is a sloth near! There is a sloth here! It’s close! It’s gonna happen!’”
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Bell explains: “I didn’t know how to process that because my entire life had been waiting for this moment where I would get to interact — I’m serious! — with a sloth.”
The “Veronica Mars” alum assured DeGeneres, 54, that she often gets hysterical when excited. “If I’m not between a three and a seven on the emotional scale, I’m crying,” Bell said.
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What happened when Shepard, 37, presented his bride-to-be with the sloth named Melon?
“I was sitting on my bed, knowing that my sloth is here, and I start to have a full-fledged panic attack. I don’t know how to compete with all this emotion so I just kind of crawl up on the bed and I’m crying so hard,” Bell says. “Dax knocks on the door and he has a video camera and he’s like, ‘Surprise! I want you to come out into the … are you alright?!’ And he sees me basically fetal on the bed.”
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1
2012
INDIANAPOLIS ? Hear what Patriots quarterback Tom Brady told the pep rally before leaving New England for the Super Bowl? He got `em riled up by saying he hoped to come back as a winner, greeted by an even larger crowd.
Wait, don’t yawn! Sure, it’s not the most controversial comment, not even close to a foot-in-mouth moment. But it can’t be overlooked.
For this Super Bowl rematch, Brady’s tame words are about as trashy as it gets.
The Patriots (15-3) and the New York Giants (12-7) don’t have any bad things to say about each other. Even if they did, their coaches wouldn’t allow it. Bill Belichick and Tom Coughlin are long-time friends who share the same old-school philosophy when it comes to saying anything about the opposition.
Zip it. Tight.
Or else.
“Players have personalities, and they are who they are,” Coughlin said Monday, shortly after the Giants arrived from New York. “You want a certain amount of that on your football team, but you don’t want someone who puts themselves in a position to hurt your team. So there’s a standard there with how flexible you are.”
By Super Bowl standards, it’s extremely tame.
The most memorable moments leading up to the title game have been delivered by players willing to say exactly what’s on their mind. Joe Namath started it with his guarantee of a Super Bowl win, back in the days when etiquette called for players to say nothing even remotely inflammatory.
As the culture of the game changed ? more trash talk, touchdown celebrations and look-at-me moments ? the Super Bowl became the big stage for the biggest mouths. During the title game of the 2005 season, for instance, Seattle tight end Jerramy Stevens ignited a back-and-forth with Pittsburgh’s Joey Porter by suggesting Seattle was going to win. Porter shot back that Stevens was a “first-round bust” who was “soft” and would end up “on his back” a lot during the game.
The trash talk made for a lively week capped off by the Steelers getting the final word with a win.
The Giants did a little trash dressing when they played the then-undefeated Patriots in the Super Bowl four years ago, arriving in Arizona in black suits to show they were serious about ending New England’s bid for a perfect season. Eli Manning led a late touchdown drive for a 17-14 win.
When they arrived for the rematch on Monday, the Giants’ clothes were as subdued as their words ? no statements anywhere.
“Honestly, for us, that ’07 thing was kind of like us coming together as a football team,” defensive end Justin Tuck said of the “Men In Black” look. “We just said we wanted to kill a dynasty, and that’s what they were. But now, we’ve been here before and we felt as though all that is secondary.”
Their coaches have to be pleased.
Belichick is known for cracking down when one of his players spouts off. Last year, receiver Wes Welker sat out the opening series of a playoff loss to the Jets after he made several foot and toe references ? subtle digs on Jets coach Rex Ryan, the subject of foot-fetish reports in New York.
This season, Belichick muzzled longtime self-promoter Chad Ochocinco, known to do anything ? including changing his name ? to get attention when he was in Cincinnati. The receiver has been on good behavior this season after arriving from the Bengals in a trade, wanting to play in a Super Bowl rather than cover one for his social media network.
So, Ochocinco has followed the team philosophy, which receiver Deion Branch summed up on Monday.
“Do what’s right, put the team first,” Branch said. “You’re not going to jeopardize what we have going here. Look at the big picture and put the team first.”
Coughlin sees it the same way, which is why his Giants weren’t about to instigate anything when they hit town. Coughlin’s philosophy, which he had printed on T-shirts in 2007: “Talk is cheap. Play the game.”
Not even a little prodding could get them riled up. When Brady’s comments to the pep rally back home were mentioned on Monday, the Giants immediately came to his defense.
Yes, they took his side.
“Man, it was a pep rally,” Tuck said. “What was he supposed to say?”
Linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka had the same reaction when reporters gave him a chance to put a little edginess into Super Bowl week.
“I wouldn’t expect anything else,” Kiwanuka said, referring to Brady’s comment. “Now if someone wants to come out and throw some legitimist trash talk, we will talk about that.
“But it’s just that you guys need something to do for the week, I guess.”
Could be a quiet week.
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Jan
31
2012
LOS ANGELES, Jan 30 (TheWrap.com) – Jennifer Lopez now has a job presenting at the Oscars to go with her People Magazine‘s “50 Most Beautiful People” honor.
On Monday, Oscar producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer named “American Idol” judge Lopez as the latest presenter at the 84th Academy Awards. The cast of “Bridesmaids” became the first announced presenters last week.
Lopez also has a movie career to go along with recording, judging and being beautiful. Her next film will be “What to Expect When You’re Expecting”; and she has also appeared in “Out of Sight,” “Selena,” “Maid in Manhattan,” “The Back-Up Plan” and “Monster-in-Law.”
The 84th Oscars will take place on Sunday, February 26, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
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2012
ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2012) ? A meta-analysis done by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) into the relationship between alcohol consumption and heart disease provides new insight into the long-held belief that drinking a glass of red wine a day can help protect against heart disease.
“It’s complicated,” says Dr. Juergen Rehm, director of social and epidemiological research at CAMH. Dr. Rehm’s paper, co-authored by Michael Roerecke, was recently published in the journal Addiction. “While a cardioprotective association between alcohol use and ischaemic heart disease exists, it cannot be assumed for all drinkers, even at low levels of intake,” says Dr. Rehm.
Ischaemic heart disease is a common cause of illness and death in the Western world. Symptoms are angina, heart pain, and heart failure. Based on 44 studies, the analyses used 38,627 ischaemic heart disease events (including deaths) among 957,684 people.
“We see substantial variation across studies, in particular for an average consumption of one to two drinks a day,” says Dr. Rehm. The protective association may vary by gender, drinking patterns, and the specific health effects of interest. Differential risk curves were found by sex, with higher risk for morbidity and mortality in women.
Moreover, for any particular individual, the relationship between alcohol consumption and ischemic heart disease should not be isolated from other disease outcomes. Even at low levels, alcohol intake can have a detrimental effect on many other disease outcomes, including on several cancers.
“Even one drink a day increases risk of breast cancer, for example,” says Dr. Rehm. “However, with as little as one drink a day, the net effect on mortality is still beneficial. After this, the net risk increases with every drink.”
“If someone binge drinks even once a month, any health benefits from light to moderate drinking disappear.” Binge drinking is defined more than four drinks on one occasion for women, and more than five for men.
Given the complex, potentially beneficial or detrimental effects of alcohol on ischaemic heart disease in addition to the detrimental effects on other disease categories, any advice by physicians on individual drinking has to take the individual risk constellation (such as familial predisposition for certain diseases and behavior with respect to other risk factors) into consideration.
“More evidence on the overall benefit-risk ratio of average alcohol consumption in relation to ischaemic heart disease and other diseases is needed in order to inform the general public or physicians about safe or low-risk drinking levels,” the study concludes. “Findings from this study support current low-risk drinking guidelines, if these recognize lower drinking limits for women.”
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30
2012
ScienceDaily (Jan. 29, 2012) ? A study recently published in Nature Genetics has found new evidence for a link between the body clock hormone melatonin and type 2 diabetes. The study found that people who carry rare genetic mutations in the receptor for melatonin have a much higher risk of type 2 diabetes.
The findings should help scientists to more accurately assess personal diabetes risk and could lead to the development of personalised treatments.
Previous research has found that people who work night shifts have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Studies have also found that if volunteers have their sleep disrupted repeatedly for three days, they temporarily develop symptoms of diabetes.
The body’s sleep-wake cycle is controlled by the hormone melatonin, which has effects including drowsiness and lowering body temperature. In 2008, a genetic study led by Imperial College London discovered that people with common variations in the gene for MT2, a receptor for melatonin, have a slightly higher risk of type 2 diabetes.
The new study reveals that carrying any of four rare mutations in the MT2 gene increases a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes six times. The release of insulin, which regulates blood sugar levels, is known to be regulated by melatonin. The researchers suggest that mutations in the MT2 gene may disrupt the link between the body clock and insulin release, leading to abnormal control of blood sugar.
Professor Philippe Froguel, from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London, who led the study, said: “Blood sugar control is one of the many processes regulated by the body’s biological clock. This study adds to our understanding of how the gene that carries the blueprint for a key component in the clock can influence people’s risk of diabetes.
“We found very rare variants of the MT2 gene that have a much larger effect than more common variants discovered before. Although each mutation is rare, they are common in the sense that everyone has a lot of very rare mutations in their DNA. Cataloguing these mutations will enable us to much more accurately assess a person’s risk of disease based on their genetics.”
In the study, the Imperial team and their collaborators at several institutions in the UK and France examined the MT2 gene in 7,632 people to look for more unusual variants that have a bigger effect on disease risk. They found 40 variants associated with type 2 diabetes, four of which were very rare and rendered the receptor completely incapable of responding to melatonin. The scientists then confirmed the link with these four variants in an additional sample of 11,854 people.
Professor Froguel and his team analysed each mutation by testing what effect they have on the MT2 receptor in human cells in the lab. The mutations that completely prevented the receptor from working proved to have a very big effect on diabetes risk, suggesting that there is a direct link between MT2 and the disease.
The research was funded by the Wellcome Trust, the National Institute for Health Research and the Medical Research Council in the UK and the Agence National de la Recherche, the Contrat de Projets Etat-R?gion Nord-Pas-De-Calais, the Soci?t? Francophone du Diab?te, the Fondation Recherche M?dicale and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France.
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Jan
29
2012
Occupy Oakland protests turned violent Saturday as?demonstrators broke into a historic building and burned an American flag, and officers fired tear gas to disperse people throwing rocks and tearing down fencing at a convention center.
Dozens of police maintained a late-night guard around City Hall in Oakland, California, following daylong protests that resulted in 300 arrests. Earlier, Occupy Oakland demonstrators broke into the historic building and burned a U.S. flag, and officers earlier fired tear gas to disperse people throwing rocks and tearing down fencing at a convention center.
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Saturday’s protests ? the most turbulent since Oakland police forcefully dismantled an Occupy encampment in November ? came just days after the group said it planned to use a vacant building as a social center and political hub and threatened to try to shut down the port, occupy the airport and take over City Hall.
An exasperated Mayor Jean Quan, who faced heavy criticism for the police action last fall, called on the Occupy movement to “stop using Oakland as its playground.”
“People in the community and people in the Occupy movement have to stop making excuses for this behavior,” Quan said.
IN PICTURES: Occupy LA and other Occupy protests
Protesters clashed with police throughout the day, at times throwing rocks, bottles and other objects at officers. Police responded by deploying smoke, tear gas and bean bag rounds, City Administrator Deanna Santanta said.
Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan said about 300 arrests were made.
“These demonstrators stated their intention was to provoke officers and engage in illegal activity and that’s exactly what has occurred today,” Santana said.
The group assembled outside City Hall late Saturday morning and marched through the streets, disrupting traffic as they threatened to take over the vacant Henry Kaiser Convention Center.
The protesters walked to the vacant convention center, where some started tearing down perimeter fencing and “destroying construction equipment” shortly before 3 p.m., police said.
Police said they issued a dispersal order and used smoke and tear gas after some protesters pelted them with bottles, rocks, burning flares and other objects.
The number of demonstrators swelled as the day wore on, with afternoon estimates ranging from about 1,000 to 2,000 people.
A majority of the arrests came after police took scores of protesters into custody as they marched through the city’s downtown, with some entering a YMCA building, said Sgt. Jeff Thomason, a police spokesman.
Quan said that at one point, many protesters forced their way into City Hall, where they burned flags, broke an electrical box and damaged several art structures, including a recycled art exhibit created by children.
She blamed the destruction on a small “very radical, violent” splinter group within Occupy Oakland.
“This is not a situation where we had 1,000 peaceful people and a few violent people. If you look at what’s happening today in terms of destructing property, throwing at and charging the police, it’s almost like they are begging for attention and hoping that the police will make an error.”
Dozens of officers surrounded City Hall, while others swept the inside of the building looking for protesters who had broken into the building, then ran out of the building with American flags before officers arrived.
The protest group issued an email criticizing police, saying “Occupy Oakland’s building occupation, an act of constitutionally protected civil disobedience was disrupted by a brutal police response today.”
Michael Davis, 32, who is originally from Ohio and was in the Occupy movement in Cincinnati, said Saturday was a very hectic day that originally started off calm but escalated when police began using “flash bangs, tear gas, smoke grenades and bean bags.”
“What could’ve been handled differently is the way the Oakland police came at us,” Davis said. “We were peaceful.”
The national Occupy Wall Street movement, which denounces corporate excess and economic inequality, began in New York City in the fall but has been largely dormant lately.
Oakland, New York and Los Angeles were among the cities with the largest and most vocal Occupy protests early on. The demonstrations ebbed after those cities used force to move out hundreds of demonstrators who had set up tent cities.
In Oakland, the police department received heavy criticism for using force to break up earlier protests. Quan was among the critics, but on Saturday, she seemed to have changed her tune.
“Our officers have been very measured,” Quan said. “Were there some mistakes made? There may be. I would say the Oakland police and our allies, so far a small percentage of mistakes. But quite frankly, a majority of protesters who were charging the police were clearly not being peaceful.?
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Jan
29
2012
Thursday’s Republican presidential debate, the 19th in this election cycle, saw Mitt Romney tried to fend off Newt Gingrich, while Ron Paul and Rick Santorum shined.
Romney came out swinging fast and when Gingrich attacked, he hit back. Much more aggressive than in the past, he’s going all-in to win Tuesday’s Florida primary.
In that respect, he likely succeeded in blunting some of Newt’s momentum in Florida, as Gingrich was flatter Thursday than in some of the past debates he’s owned.
He had some nice zingers and applause-garnering policy proposals, but not a proverbial “knockout punch” like he delivered en route to winning in South Carolina.
Gingrich received praise for his harsh attack on debate moderator John King last week and tried to double down on his strategy of attacking the host to build support.
It backfired a bit last night. Wolf Blitzer stood his ground when Gingrich would not answer a question about his apparent truce over the issue of Romney’s tax return.
He called the question “nonsense” and suggested they talk about “issues that relate to the governing of America,” but Wolf – and later Mitt – got the better of him.
Rick Santorum, meanwhile, had probably his strongest debate performance in a year, pointedly criticizing both Gingrich and Romney on a variety of issues.
The fourth candidate running, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, would probably be called the winner of the debate if the mainstream media would take him seriously.
The 76-year-old won applause for nearly every response on monetary policy and civil liberties, his signature issues, as well as delivering some of the best lines.
Asked if he would release his medical records, given that he’d be the oldest person elected president if he were to win, Paul said he would “obviously” release it.
“Because it’s about one page, if even that long,” the libertarian said, challenging the other candidates to a 25-mile bike ride in the Texas heat to prove his point.
Gingrich went on to praise Paul’s vigor and said “he’s in great shape” and would be “quite ready to serve.” Paul even put Blitzer on notice for “age discrimination.”
Whether Thursday night changes the trajectory of the race is unclear, but none of the four prospective Obama challengers show signs of fading away anytime soon.
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Jan
28
2012
Y Combinator has just announced the newest partner to join the prestigious firm: Geoff Ralston. Ralston’s previous credentials include founding Four11, which was acquired by Yahoo back in 1997 for $96 million and served as the foundation for Yahoo Mail. Ralston spent eight years at Yahoo, eventually becoming Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer. Several years after leaving Yahoo he was named CEO of Lala, before it was acquired by Apple in 2009. Most recently he cofounded?Imagine K12, a tech incubator for education-related startups, which presented at TechCrunch Disrupt SF (you can find the incubator’s first batch of companies here).?
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Jan
28
2012
Film shows what happens when an oil-drilling team goes missing, and no one comes looking for them.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Photo: Open Road Films
In most movies where the main characters find themselves stranded after a shipwreck or a plane crash, the survivors take solace in the fact that someone must be looking for them. “The Grey” isn’t like most movies.
In the new film, which hits theaters Friday, Liam Neeson plays a member of an oil-drilling team that gets into a plane crash somewhere near the Arctic Circle during their journey home. Many die in the incident, and the remaining members soon realize that no one is coming for them. Unless you count the wolves.
Neeson told MTV News that the rougher edges of the characters in “The Grey” are what make the film something new and resonant. “They’re definitely flotsam and jetsam of society. One of them says after the mishap with the airplane that ‘Nobody’s going to care about us,’ ” Neeson said. “Nobody’s going to send out reconnaissance planes to try and find these guys because who cares? You know?”
During the course of the film, one of the characters makes reference to “Alive,” the Ethan Hawke film about a rugby team stranded in the Andes. Neeson’s co-star Frank Grillo described how their film and co-writer/director Joe Carnahan took a different road. “The element of survival is different because these are just much different men, as opposed to being civilized,” he said. “They’re not real civilized guys, and I think that’s what Joe [Carnahan] tries to show you in the beginning of the film.”
Even if the realization that no one will look for these men is devastating, Neeson believes that’s ultimately what keeps the characters going. “It’s from that sadness that they realize who they are and what they are and how they’re just a speck of dust in society,” Neeson said. “But that somehow empowers them to continue on with this crazy journey for freedom and solace and to get out of this predicament. It actually gives them strength, the fact that they’re nondescript.”
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