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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
One and done at Oscars for MacFarlane
NEW YORK (AP) ? It looks like it's one and done at the Oscars for Seth MacFarlane.
The "Family Guy" creator was asked on his Twitter account whether he'd consider hosting the Academy Awards again and he replied: "No way. Lotta fun to have done it, though."
MacFarlane's edgy comedy proved a polarizing force on Sunday's Academy Awards, with jokes about domestic violence, women's bodies and Jews in Hollywood that offended some viewers. The Oscars did get their biggest audience in three years, however, with particular growth among young viewers.
MacFarlane's spokeswoman said Tuesday she had nothing to add to the tweet.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/one-done-oscars-macfarlane-185207358.html
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Renee Zellweger Botox Speculations Rise At The Oscars (PHOTOS)
Renee Zellweger garnered a lot of attention on the Oscar red carpet last night. But it wasn't her glimmering Carolina Herrera gown that seemed to grab people's focus, but rather her face. Specifically, its lack of movement.
That's right, the 43-year-old sparked Botox rumors with her seemingly ageless complexion at the Academy Awards. Twitter was abuzz with speculation, but our favorite commenter had to be fellow celeb Jesse Tyler Ferguson. The "Modern Family" star tweeted a very specific warning to Best Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence:
Ouch. Even though stars like Kelly Ripa, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Aniston have all admitted to trying the procedure (with mixed results), Botox remains a source of embarrassment for the Hollywood set. Plus, we always take this kind of plastic surgery guesswork with a hefty grain of salt.
Check out the photos of Renee at the Oscars and tell us: Do you think she had work done?
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
After quiet week, Jimmie Johnson makes some noise winning Daytona 500
There wasn't a whole lot of attention paid to the five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion last week. But when it counted most, Jimmie Johnson showed off his driving skills once again.
Jimmie Johnson crosses the finish line to win the Daytona 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla.
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EnlargeJimmie Johnson went two years without a title and suddenly became an afterthought at the Daytona 500.
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All the attention went to Danica Patrick and a handful of other drivers.
Not that it mattered Sunday, because look who pulled into Victory Lane.
Five-time is back. Not that he ever went away.
Johnson won his second Daytona 500 on Sunday, a year after he completed just one lap in the race and three months after falling short in his bid for a sixth Sprint Cup title. That so-called drought had made him something of a no-name during Speedweeks.
"In my mind, I didn't feel like I was under the radar," he said. "I felt like we were working hard to put the best product on the track. I guess I was quiet in the overall spectrum of things from the media side. I think people in the garage, people knew we were sitting on a lot of speed and had a very good race car."
But in winning the biggest race of the year, the No. 48 team wasn't sending a message to the competitors.
"I don't think we went anywhere; anybody in the garage area, they're wise to all that," Johnson said.
Johnson's win came on the same day that Patrick, who became the first woman in history to start a Sprint Cup race from the pole, again made history as the first woman to lead laps in the Daytona 500.
She ran inside the top 10 almost the entire race, kept pace with the field and never panicked on the track.
Her only mistakes were on pit road, where she got beat on the race back to the track, and on the final lap, when she was running third but got snookered by the veterans and faded to eighth. That's going to stick with Patrick for some time.
"I would imagine pretty much anyone would be kicking themselves about what they coulda, shoulda have done to give themselves an opportunity to win," she said. "I think that's what I was feeling today, was uncertainty as to how I was going to accomplish that."
There were several multicar crashes, but no one was hurt and none of them approached the magnitude of the wreck that injured more than two dozen fans in the grandstand at the end of the second-tier Nationwide Series race on the same track a day earlier. Daytona International Speedway workers were up until 2 a.m repairing the fence that was damaged in the accident, and track officials offered Sunday morning to move any fans who felt uneasy sitting close to the track.
Several drivers said the accident and concern for the fans stuck with them overnight and into Sunday morning, and Johnson was quick to send his thoughts from Victory Lane.
"I just want to give a big shout-out to all the fans, and I also want to send my thoughts and prayers out to everybody that was injured in the grandstands," Johnson said.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., whose father was killed in this race 12 years ago, was involved in Saturday's accident but refocused and finished second to Johnson, his Hendrick Motorsports teammate.
"Me personally, I was just really waiting to get the news on how everybody was, how all the fans were overnight, just hoping that things were going to improve," Earnhardt said, adding that he "wasn't really ready to proceed until you had some confirmation that things were looking more positive."
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Oscars Musicals Tribute: From 'Chicago' To 'Les Miserables'
Oscar-winning actors from the past decade's celebrated movie musicals perform their show-stopping numbers.
By Brett White
Hugh Jackman at the 2013 Oscars
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ASUS unveils quad-core PadFone Infinity smartphone with 5-inch HD display
PadFone InfinityASUS (2357) on Monday announced its next-generation PadFone during a press event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The PadFone Infinity, which is a smartphone that can dock into a tablet, is equipped with a 5-inch 1080p display, a 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor and a 13-megapixel rear camera. The device also includes 2GB of RAM, NFC, LTE, up to 64GB of internal storage, a 2,400 mAh battery and Android 4.2.
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The Pad portion of the phone, which ASUS calls the Infinity Station, features a 10.1-inch full HD 1,920 x 1,200-pixel display and is capable of increasing the smartphone?s battery life to 40 hours or fully recharging the docked PadFone up to three times.
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The PadFone Infinity will be offered in the U.K. for ?799 for the phone and an additional ?199 for the tablet dock. Like earlier models, the PadFone will not be available in the United States.
ASUS? press release follows below.
ASUS Announces PadFone? Infinity
LTE smartphone with 5-inch Full HD display combines with a 10.1-inch tablet dock for seamless mobile flexibilityMobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain (25th February, 2013) ? ASUS today announced PadFone? Infinity, a powerful LTE smartphone with a sleek metallic design and a 5-inch Full HD display that becomes a 10.1-inch tablet when docked to its companion PadFone? Infinity Station. PadFone? Infinity features Android 4.2 and groundbreaking mobile performance, thanks to its next-generation Qualcomm? Snapdragon? 600 quad-core processor and up to 19 hours* of 3G talk time.
?PadFone? Infinity is the latest evolution of our PadFone? line,? said Jonney Shih, ASUS Chairman. ?It combines incredible design with an uncompromised user experience derived from our Design Thinking philosophy.?
Premium design with premium performance
With a slender unibody design crafted from aerospace-grade aluminum, ASUS PadFone? Infinity is both beautiful and durable. The 5-inch screen features a 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution with an extraordinary 441 pixels-per-inch for text so crisp it looks like a printed page and wonderfully detailed high-resolution images. 64GB of storage complements the class-leading Qualcomm? Snapdragon? 600 1.7GHz quad-core processor for a smooth and responsive premium Android experience, while 100Mbit/s LTE and 42Mbit/s DC-HSPA+ ensure super-fast web browsing and downloads.
ASUS PadFone? Infinity features a high-performance 13-megapixel camera with an f/2.0 5-element lens that captures incredibly detailed images with no shutter lag. A dedicated image signal-processor enhances low-light image quality and enables PadFone? Infinity to capture up to 100 sequential photos at 8 frames-per-second, while simultaneously recording 1080p Full HD video. PadFone? Infinity can also output 1080p Full HD video via its micro-USB-compatible MyDP interface.
Share apps and mobile data instantly
The unique two-in-one nature of ASUS PadFone? removes the tedious need to synchronize data between smartphone and tablet. Data and settings on PadFone? Infinity are available instantly on PadFone? Infinity Station upon docking, and running apps are smoothly reformatted to fit the larger display. Mobile data bills are also reduced, since a single data plan can be shared between both devices.
PadFone? Infinity comes with new and exclusive ASUS apps, including SuperNote 3.1 for note taking, Story for creating stunning photo albums and ASUS Echo for voice control of PadFone? Infinity. PadFone? Infinity has up to 19 hours of 3G talk time*, which increases to up to 40 hours when docked into PadFone? Infinity Station. PadFone? Infinity Station also has sufficient battery capacity to fully recharge the docked PadFone? Infinity up to three times.
###*Specifications may vary without prior notice. Options, pricing, performance and availability dependent upon region. For more details about the products mentioned in this press release, please visit http://press.asus.com .
Availability & Pricing ? UK
The combined price of the ASUS PadFone? Infinity and Infinity Station will be around SRP ?799 (inc VAT). Exact price and availability will be announced closer to UK launch date.
This article was originally published on BGR.com
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Protest votes increase uncertainty in Italy election
ROME (Reuters) - Italians voted for a second and final day in a general election on Monday with a surge in protest votes increasing the risk of an unstable outcome that could undermine Europe's efforts to end its three-year debt crisis.
Opinion polls give the centre-left coalition led by former Industry Minister Pier Luigi Bersani a narrow lead but the race has been thrown wide open by the prospect of protest votes against austerity and corporate and political scandals.
"I'm sick of the scandals and the stealing," said Paolo Gentile, a 49-year-old Rome lawyer who said he had voted for the 5-Star Movement, an anti-establishment protest group set to make a huge impact at its first general election.
"We need some young, new people in parliament, not the old parties that are totally discredited," he said.
Most of the voters interviewed outside polling stations by Reuters on Sunday and Monday expected the next government would quickly collapse, thwarting efforts to end an economic crisis.
"I'm very pessimistic, I don't think that whoever wins will last long or be able to solve the problems of this country," said Cristiano Reale, a 43 year-old salesman in Palermo, Sicily. He said he would vote for the far left Civil Revolution group.
A bitter campaign, fought largely over economic issues, has been closely watched by financial markets, nervous about the return of the kind of debt crisis that took the whole euro zone close to disaster and brought technocrat prime minister Mario Monti to office in 2011.
Italy is the third largest economy in the 17-member bloc and the prospect of political stalemate could cause dangerous market instability.
ANTI-EURO FORCES
"There are similarities between the Italian elections and last year's ones in Greece, in that pro-euro parties are losing ground in favor of populist forces," said Mizuho chief economist Riccardo Barbieri.
"An angry and confused public opinion does not see the benefits of fiscal austerity and does not trust established political parties."
Voting ends at 3 p.m. (1400 GMT), with the first exit polls due shortly afterwards. Projections based on the vote count will be issued through the afternoon and the final result should be known late on Monday or early Tuesday.
An extremely close Senate race is expected in several battleground regions and this could delay the final result.
Italian markets were sanguine on Monday morning, with both stocks and bonds showing little change.
Many analysts believe that whatever the result, the next government will be forced to stick to Italy's fiscal commitments because of the fear of a sudden spike in borrowing costs if markets take fright.
The election result is likely to be the most fragmented in decades, with the old left-right division disrupted by the rise of 5-Star, led by fiery Genoese comic Beppe Grillo, and by Monti's decision to run at the head of a centrist bloc.
"It will be a vote of protest, maybe of revolt," said Corriere della Sera, Italy's largest newspaper, on Monday.
It noted that for the first time the winning coalition is unlikely to get more than a third of the votes, making it harder to govern and likely opening weeks of complicated negotiations.
It is unclear how Grillo's rise will influence the result, with some pollsters saying it increases the chances of a clear win for the centre-left, led by Bersani's Democratic Party (PD), because 5-Star is taking votes mainly from Berlusconi.
After the first day of voting on Sunday, about 54 percent of voters had cast their ballots, a sharp fall on the level of 62.5 percent seen at the same stage in the last election in 2008.
If the trend continues on Monday it will confirm the disillusion of voters with a discredited political class.
Bad weather, including heavy snow in some areas, is also thought to have hampered the turnout in Italy's first post-war election to be held in winter.
This could favor the centre-left, whose voters tend to be more committed than those on the right, which has strong support among older people.
"Given the lower turnout, people are betting on a victory of the centre-left," said a Milan trader.
CALL TO ARMS
The 5-Star Movement, backed by a frustrated younger generation increasingly shut out of full-time jobs, could challenge former premier Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) party as Italy's second largest political force.
"Come on, it isn't over yet," was Monday's front page headline in Il Giornale daily, owned by Berlusconi's brother, a call to arms to get out the vote.
The 76-year-old Berlusconi, has pledged sweeping tax cuts and echoed Grillo's attacks on Monti, Germany and the euro in an extraordinary media blitz that has halved the lead of the centre-left since the start of the year.
Support for Monti's centrist coalition meanwhile has faded after he led a lackluster campaign and he appears set to trail well behind the main parties.
Monti helped save Italy from a mounting debt crisis when he replaced a discredited Berlusconi in November 2011, but with the economy in its longest recession for 20 years analysts fear an electoral stalemate could delay vital moves to stimulate growth.
"I voted for the PD because a PD win is the only way to have a stable government and we need stability or we will end up like Greece," said Viola Rossi, an 80 year-old pensioner from Rome.
After drawing hundreds of thousands of supporters to its final campaign rally on Friday, Grillo has said he fears voting fraud to try to block a massive breakthrough, telling his supporters to wet the lead in the pencils they use to vote to prevent the crosses being rubbed out.
Whatever government emerges will inherit an economy that has been stagnant for much of the past two decades and problems ranging from record youth unemployment to a dysfunctional justice system and a bloated public sector.
If Bersani wins, it is far from clear that he will be able to control both houses of parliament and form a stable government capable of lasting a full five-year term.
Italy's electoral laws guarantee a strong majority in the lower house to the party or coalition that wins the biggest share of the overall national vote.
However the Senate, elected on a region-by-region basis, is more complicated and the result could turn on a handful of regions where results are too close to call, including Lombardy in the rich industrial north and the southern island of Sicily.
Many politicians and analysts believe Bersani and Monti will end up in an alliance after the vote, despite a number of spiky exchanges during the campaign and Monti's insistence that he will not join forces with Bersani's leftist allies.
As well as the national election, voters are also casting their ballots to elect new regional administrations in Lombardy, Lazio and Molise.
(Additional reporting by Stefano Bernabei, Steve Scherer and Giuseppe Fonte in Rome, Lisa Jucca in Milan and Wladimiro Pantaleone in Palermo; Editing by Barry Moody and Anna Willard)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/protest-votes-add-uncertainty-close-italy-election-070325879.html
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