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Tagg the Pet Tracker Review
For most people, the four legged furry beings that live with them are not just pets, but are part of the family. That means we worry about them just like we do our children. With kids and other loved ones, we can call them on the phone when we want to check up on them. [...]
How To Build A Windows Home Server
Over the past few years our homes have become filled by devices which allow us to consume content. From each household having a main desktop PC for all the family many have expanded to have multiple PC's, or maybe a mix of desktops and laptops. A wide spread of consumers also have various portable devices, maybe the iPhone 4S or an android tablet such as the Asus Transformer... then there are TV streamers such as those from ACRyan (Playon! HD2) which all provide us with players that are capable of streaming content whether it be on the internet, or on our local network.
To store our media library we can use devices such as a NAS, Synology offer some great models like the DS212j we reviewed a few months back or a cloud based service such as Google Music but often these don't offer the storage, flexibility or upgrade path that we are used to with a traditional desktop PC and large hard drive.
For that reason many people, including this reviewer, have for some time used a home server for storage needs and my own OS of choice was the original Windows Home Server. I started my WHS experience a number of years ago with a pre-built box from Intel, their SS4200-E box which took a basic Intel Motherboard, added a Celeron CPU and enough space for four drives and a stick of memory and provided a simple entry into the WHS environment. That box, as good as it was, offered a learning experience for the OS which led me to build a custom box some time ago based on an AMD quad core CPU and various desktop parts. It ran well, serving my media on a daily basis, backing up all the systems in the house each night and generally sitting doing its thing with minimal input as all good servers should.
With the release of Windows Home Server 2011 my inner geek started to get a bit itchy, WHS V1 was a decent OS for my needs and for some months after the new OS was launched I was going to stay with the original. This was mainly because of the lack of Drive Extender in 2011 but as time went by and my disappointment with the removal of DE faded the inner geek took over and I decided to build a new box and try out the updated OS to see if it would meet my needs before possibly moving to it.
This experience would also be an opportunity to try out a few parts which were worth looking at, such as Intel's Xeon E3 series which are based on the same Sandy Bridge architecture as the current i3-i7 CPUs but with a low power rating, the E3-1220L as an example using at most 20w.
This article documents the process of choosing components for the new Windows Home Server 2011 box, from the low wattage Intel CPU, through the motherboard, PSU, memory and drives before looking at the setup process and how the OS looks and works in day to day use.
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IPhone Siri Tells Boy: ?Shut The F**k Up?
Apple's latest smartphone has proved that it is not only online bullies? you have to be wary of when using technology after an errant iPhone 4S told a young boy to "Shut the f*** up, you ugly t**t" when he tried out the handset at a Tesco superstore.
Charlie Le Quesne was checking out the new gadget's Siri voice assistant system, which answers spoken questions, at a Tesco branch in Coventry when it responded with the profanity-filled insult.
The smartphone's Siri came back with the offensive response? after the 12-year-old innocently asked it: "How many people are there in the world."
Charlie's horrified mother Kim told the Sun newspaper she was shocked by the "filth" coming out of the handset.
"I thought I must be hearing things,2 she said. "So we asked again and the same four-letter stuff blared out.
"I asked for the manager and after staff heard it they agreed to unplug it."
Apologetic store staff claimed that pranksters must have tampered with the phone's set-up but Le Quesne, a nursery worker, insisted that she could not see a funny side.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
British industry faces strikes in 2012, union leader warns
Further strikes over public sector pensions are possible as union leaders consider whether to accept the government?s revised pensions offer, he said.
?It is not a foregone conclusion that all union executives will feel that they can live with this. Bear in mind, the industrial action is only suspended. It has not been called off. We can switch the industrial action back on if it goes wrong,? he said.
The concessions granted after the one-day November strike have encouraged public sector workers to consider industrial action to defend pay and jobs as wage freezes and further staff cuts loom in 2012, Mr Sutton said.
"Local government has been on an absolute pay freeze for two years. Council leaders are warning it may be the same. Then there is the juxtaposition of those issues with huge job losses. There is to be 710,000 in the public sector in total, half of which have already gone. Next year we will have pretty well run out of those who would volunteer for redundancy so you start getting into compulsory redundancies. That is when your members start kicking back.
"This year was hard, 2012 is going to be much, much harder. November 30 was a real boost for the unions. It has given the whole union movement a lot of confidence going into next year. People will say, ?after November 30 we ended up in a better place?.
?My hope is that it will lead to more realistic negotiations, that the Government will not just think that the public sector is there for the taking. We have shown there is still spirit amongst public sector workers, that they are prepared to stand and fight.?
A spokesman for Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office Minister who led negotiations with union leaders, said: ?We have enjoyed good relations with the unions every step of the way. We will not get drawn into commenting on any speculation into what may happen in 2012.?
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As North Korea mourns, its neighbor shrugs
Adrienne Mong
All was quiet on the Demilitarized Zone on the Korean Peninsula on the Kim Jong Il's state funeral took place.
By Adrienne Mong, NBC News
SEOUL, South Korea ? As one journalist put it, it said how much we all knew about North Korea that for the better part of Wednesday morning, most of the world remained in the dark about just when ? if at all? ? the state funeral for the country's late leader Kim Jong Il had begun.?
But finally around 2 p.m in Seoul, a feed of the funeral proceedings began transmitting.?We watched online, impressed by the staging and the direction.?
Thousands of people in olive drab stood under snowfall in front of the Kumsusan Memorial Palace ? where Kim Jong Il?s body had been lying in state and where that of his father Kim Il Sung is also housed ? as a procession of vehicles drove past, including the hearse led by Kim Jong Il's son and successor, Kim Jong Un.
Under a dramatic soundtrack and the emotion-laden voice of a North Korean broadcaster, the continuous wailing of mourners could be heard.?Cameras pushed into close-ups of rows and rows of men and women in military uniform sobbing.?
As the procession wound its way through Pyongyang and the snowfall grew heavier, footage of civilians began to appear.? Dressed in thick winter coats, they craned their necks and covered their mouths as they wept.? Those in the front ? closest to the cameras ?jumped up and down with great emotion.? Occasionally, a row of soldiers appeared expressionless and stoic.
Wednesday's state funeral for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il capped more than a week of public mourning. NBC's Adrienne Mong reports.
As the video was broadcast ? and despite the "live" banner on some cable stations, it was still unclear whether the footage was being transmitted live or had been recorded earlier until one news agency confirmed it was indeed the former.
The mood in Seoul was decidedly different.
'Like father, like son'
Among a small community of North Koreans who fled their homeland years ago, there was scorn for the man they once called their "Dear Leader" and a touch of hope that his death may usher in long-awaited change.
"Kim Jong Il made three million people starve to death," said Kim Jung-geum, a reporter and radio announcer with Free North Korea Radio.? She escaped from the North eight years ago and has been living in Seoul for the past six years.
"Initially I thought, wow, now we can go home. But the feeling didn?t last even a day," said Kim Sung-min, founder of the station ?which broadcasts a one-hour shortwave radio program back into the North every day.??
"It is the third generation leadership," said Kim, who defected from North Korea?11 years ago.?"Like father, like son.? There is no hope.?There is zero per cent chance of change as Kim Jong Un inheried Kim Jong Il's system."
Adrienne Mong
The streets of Seoul suggested it was business as usual in South Korea as Kim Jong Il's state funeral was held.
His colleague was willing to be a bit more optimistic.? "The dictatorship is over," said Kim Jung-geum quietly.? "A new era will begin with 2012.? I expect that."
Both of them, however, did agree on one thing.? They remembered when North Korean founder Kim Il Sung died.
"I was so sad that I skipped two meals," recalled Kim Sung-min, who was serving in the North Korean military in a northern province at the time.? "It was as if the sun had fallen to earth."
"I cried for Kim Il Sung," said Kim Jung-geum, who was a propaganda teacher at the time.? "We had a food ration system.? People had salaries then.? So I genuinely grieved for his death."
Among South Koreans there was largely indifference.
A trio of college students said they were initially worried about the possible ramifications of Kim Jong Il?s death.? "But now I feel a lot better," said Lee Kyung-min, more keen on visiting a nearby museum than thinking about regional security. None of them were interested in the funeral proceedings.
"It was big news," said Cho Nam-hyun, a reporter for Dong-A Ilbo. "But personally, I think of it just as a head of state who died."
The indifference doesn't come as a surprise to analysts in South Korea.?
"We've been living under the gun for the past?60 years," said Dr. Hahm Chaibong, president of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies.? "You can?t count the number of crises that we've had over the years.??Be it assassinations, commando raids, downing of airplanes, terrorist bombings, and of course more recently nuclear experiments and shelling of islands."
Hahm also offered a final somber thought.
"By and large everyone has learned a lesson as far as to what to expect," he said.? "Everybody knows that there isn?t all that much to expect in terms of radical change?.? If North Korea is going to change, it's not going to because of something we do in the outside world.? They will be the ones who will be undertaking changes because they think it's necessary and because they decide it's time they do it."
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Appeals court upholds convictions in Fort Dix plot (AP)
TRENTON, N.J. ? A federal appeals panel on Wednesday upheld the convictions and sentences of five Muslim men accused of planning to attack Fort Dix or other military bases, though it threw out a charge against one defendant.
The main issue was prosecutors' use of wiretaps obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a part of the Patriot Act aimed largely at gathering foreign intelligence.
The recordings were a major piece of a 2 1/2-month trial for the five men, all Muslim immigrants who grew up in the New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia.
The men ? Mohamad Shnewer, Serdar Tatar, and brothers Dritan, Eljvir and Shain Duka ? were arrested in May 2007. In 2008, a federal jury in Camden, N.J., convicted them of conspiring to kill U.S. military personnel at Fort Dix. All but Tatar are serving life terms.
Defense lawyers said it was unconstitutional to use the recordings in a domestic criminal case and that it may have been impossible to convict the men without the evidence.
But in a unanimous ruling written by Judge Marjorie O. Rendell, a three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed. The challenged search "was conducted in objectively reasonable reliance on a duly authorized statute," and therefore admissible at trial, Rendell wrote.
Another major issue came from an error that federal prosecutors acknowledged in January: Three of the men were convicted of attempted possession of firearms in furtherance of a crime, but the law in question does not have a provision that outlaws attempted possession.
In the case of that count against Dritan and Shain Duka, the judges said defense lawyers should have raised it before the trial judge. Since they didn't, the judges said, it should not be overturned. The judges also said that there was evidence at trial that the two actually possessed weapons.
But the case of Shnewer was different. The court ruled that there was no evidence he possessed the weapons. As a result, his weapons conviction was dismissed, along with the 30-year prison term that went with it.
He is still serving a life term.
Richard Sparaco, a lawyer for Tatar, said Wednesday that he would consult with his client but expected he would file an appeal. Rocco Cipparone, who represents Shnewer, said he would likely pursue an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on the parts of the conviction that were upheld.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Iran inks oil products deal with Afghanistan
TEHRAN: Iran signed an agreement with Afghanistan on Monday to export one million tons per year of gasoil, gasoline and jet fuel to the neighbouring country starting next year, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The Islamic state, which was long dependent on imported gasoline for 30 to 40 percent of its consumption, said last year it had started exporting the fuel. The sales were confirmed to Reuters by trade sources, but they did not know at the time where the cargoes were being exported.
"Iran has exported gasoil to Afghanistan over the past years but the export of gasoline and jet fuel will begin next year," IRNA quoted Ali Reza Zeighami, managing director of the National Iranian Refining and Oil Products Distribution Company, as saying.
Zeighami said the price of the products will be determined based on International prices.
In April, trade sources said Iran had struck a deal to sell gasoline to Iraq but that the rare cargo did not mean the Islamic Republic had became a net exporter and free from its dependence on gasoline imports.
Shipping data obtained by Reuters in November showed Iran's October gasoline imports rose more than 21 percent to 63,279 barrels per day from 51,986 bpd in September.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday his country would become a major gasoline exporter by 2013, despite the West's toughest-ever sanctions on the Islamic state.
The sanctions have targeted a vulnerability caused by Iran's lack of refining capacity, and many foreign companies have been forced to withdraw from Iran's energy sector.
The United States, Britain and Canada announced new measures against Iran's energy and financial sectors last month and the European Union is considering a ban -- already in place in the United States -- on imports of Iranian oil.
The sanctions follow a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog in November linking Tehran to the development of a nuclear weapon. Iran denies this, insisting its nuclear programme is aimed at generating electricity.
Iran, the world's fifth-largest oil producer, has estimated its reserves at 150 billion barrels of oil and 33 trillion cubic meters of gas.
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Smallest-ever exoplanets found, one step closer to Earth-twin
These planets, while roughly the size of our planet Earth, are circling very close to their star, giving them fiery temperatures that are most likely too hot to support life, researchers said.
This story was updated at 1:54 p.m. ET.
Skip to next paragraphTwo planets orbiting a star 950 light-years from Earth are the smallest, most Earth-size alien worlds known, astronomers announced today (Dec. 20). One of the planets is actually smaller than Earth, scientists say.
These planets, while roughly the size of our planet Earth, are circling very close to their star, giving them fiery temperatures that are most likely too hot to support life, researchers said. The discovery, however, brings scientists one step closer to finding a?true twin of Earth?that may be habitable.
"We've crossed a threshold: For the first time, we've been able to detect planets smaller than the Earth around another star," lead researcher Fran?ois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., told SPACE.com. "We proved that Earth-size planets exist around other stars like the sun, and most importantly, we proved that humanity is able to detect them. It's the beginning of an era."
To discover the new planets, Fressin and his colleagues used?NASA's Kepler space telescope, which noticed the tiny dips in the parent star's brightness when the planets passed in front of it, blocking some of its light (this is called the transit method). The researchers then used ground-based observatories to confirm that the planets actually exist by measuring minute wobbles in the star's position caused by gravitational tugs from its planets.
"These two new planets are the first genuinely?Earth-sized?worlds that have been found orbiting a sunlike star," University of California, Santa Cruz astronomer Greg Laughlin, who was not involved in the new study, said in an email to SPACE.com. "For the past two decades, it has been clear that astronomers would eventually reach this goal, and so it's fantastic to learn that the detection has now been achieved." [Gallery: Smallest Alien Planets Ever Seen]
Chances for life
The two Earth-size planets are among five alien worlds orbiting a star called Kepler-20 that is of the same class (G-type) as our sun, and is slightly cooler.
Two of the star system's planets, Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are 0.87 times and 1.03 times the width of Earth, respectively, making them the smallest exoplanets yet known. They also appear to be rocky, and have masses less than 1.7 and 3 times Earth's mass, respectively. Scientists think that they are composed mainly of silicates and iron, much like the Earth, though they lack our planet's atmsophere.
Kepler-20e makes a circle around its star once every 6.1 days at a distance of 4.7 million miles (7.6 million kilometers) ? almost 20 times closer than Earth, which orbits the sun at around 93 million miles (150 million km).
The planet's sibling, Kepler-20f, makes a full orbit every 19.6 days, at a distance of 10.3 million miles (16.6 million km). Both planets circle closer to their star than Mercury does to the sun. [Infographic: Earth-Size Alien Planets Explained]
These snuggly orbits around their star give the newfound planets steamy temperatures of about 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit (760 degrees Celsius) and 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius) ? way too warm to support liquid water, and probably life, researchers said.
Fressin said the chance of life on either of these planets is "negligible," though the researchers can't exclude the possibility that they used to be habitable in the past, when they might have been farther from their star. There is also a slim chance that there are habitable regions on the planets in spots between their day and night sides (the planets orbit with one half constantly facing their star and the other half always in dark). But astronomers aren't holding out hope.
"The chances of liquid water and life as we know it on Kepler-20e and f are zero," Laughlin said.
Flip-flopped planets
The planetary system around Kepler-20 is an unusual one.
For one thing, scientists say the rocky planets can't have formed in their current locations.
"There's not enough rocky material that close to the host star to form five planets," Fressin said. "They didn't form here; they probably formed farther from their star and migrated in."
Furthermore, the five planets are in an odd order, with the rocky worlds alternating with their gaseous, Neptune-size siblings. That's quite different from most solar systems, including our own, which keeps the rocky terrestrial worlds in close to the sun, with the gas giants farther out.
"The architecture of that solar system is crazy," science team member David Charbonneau of Harvard University said during a Tuesday telecon announcing the finding. "This is the first time that we've seen anything like this."
Scientists will likely have to revise their theories of how planets form to fully understand the Kepler-20 system.
"How did that form?" Fressin said. "I think it's a puzzle the theorists will have to try to explain."
The star's other planets are called Kepler-20b, 20c, and 20d. Their diameters are 15,000 miles (24,000 km), 24,600 miles (40,000 km), and 22,000 miles (35,000 km), respectively, and they orbit Kepler-20 once every 3.7, 10.9, and 77.6 days.
The largest of these, Kepler-20d, weighs a little under 20 times Earth's mass, while Kepler-20c is 16.1 times as heavy as Earth, and Kepler-20b is 8.7 times our planet's mass.
Evolving effort
Scientists say finding the smallest exoplanets yet represents a significant milestone in the fast-evolving effort to learn about planets beyond the solar system.
The first alien planet was discovered in 1996, and the first planet found through the transit method came just 11 years ago. Both of those planets were roughly the size of Jupiter.
"I think we're living in special times," Fressin said. "This was unfeasible 10 years ago, and just with the quality of detectors and the quality of the treatment is it possible now."
The total tally of?known alien planets is above 700. Kepler alone has discovered 28 definite alien planets, and 2,326 planet candidates, since its launch in March 2009.
Earlier this month, the Kepler team announced another landmark find, the?first planet known to occupy the habitable zone?around its star where liquid water, and perhaps life, could exist.
That planet, called Kepler-22b, is about 2.4 times as wide as Earth.
The dream now is for astronomers to combine the two discoveries and find an Earth-size planet that's also orbiting its star in an Earth-like orbit that puts it in the habitable zone.
"The holy grail of the search for other worlds is to find an Earth analogue, a true Earth twin," Fressin said. "We just need to have these two pieces of the puzzle together."
While the newfound planets orbit with periods of 6.1 and 19.6 days, Fressin estimated the habitable zone around Kepler-20 begins at orbits that take roughly 100 days to make a circuit.
Astronomers think it's only a?matter of time before they finally find one?that's just right.
"These discoveries are a great technological step forward ? to detect small planets, in size like Earth ? but these planets are very hot and not in the habitable zone around their star," astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics wrote in an email. Kaltenegger, who studies the habitability of exoplanets, was not involved in the new study. "If we can already find these small planets with radii around Earth's now, some future ones could be in the habitable zone of their stars and THOSE future ones would be great targets to look for liquid water and signatures for life."
A paper detailing the discovery was published online in the journal Nature Dec. 20.
You can follow SPACE.com assistant managing editor Clara Moskowitz on Twitter @ClaraMoskowitz. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter?@Spacedotcom?and on?Facebook.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Ex-Miss Universe Amelia Vega to marry NBA star
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Saturday 24th December, 2011 (IANS)
Dominican singer and former Miss Universe Amelia Vega is getting married to compatriot and NBA player Al Horford.
The ceremony was expected to be held Saturday at the home of the 26-year-old singer's uncle, award-winning Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra.
The marriage will be the first for the singer and the Atlanta Hawks forward-centre, who was an All-Star in the previous two NBA seasons.
In 2003, then 18-year-old Vega became the first Dominican to win the Miss Universe crown.
After passing the title on to her successor, the Dominican national living in Miami opened two exclusive clothing stores there, hosted television programmes and this year launched her first album, 'Agua Dulce' (Fresh Water).
Horford, 25, has played his three NBA seasons with the Hawks, where he averaged 12 points per game.
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Dealing With Cancer During the Holidays
The holiday season can seem stressful, but Saint Francis Medical Center counselors say it can place an even heavier burden on people going through cancer treatments.
Claudia Krueger's battle with breast cancer began in August of 2011.
"I've been through mastectomy, with stage one reconstruction," Krueger says. "Now I'm starting on my chemo."
She says those treatments, which she receives every other week, have strong and lasting effects.
"The third day after chemo is usually your rough day," Krueger says. "These drugs can cause a lot of muscle ache and pain. You just feel very, very achey and tired."
Saint Francis Cancer Center Family and Patient Counselor Mary Ann Kalinay says can make the already hectic Christmas season even more stressful.
"People, when they're going through treatments, fatigue is the most common side effect," Kalinay says.
She says that often makes it hard for cancer patients and their families to maintain their Christmas traditions.
Krueger says she's cut back on her Christmas decorations for this year.
"It's really important to have a plan and visit with your family about what we might do different this year," Kalinay says.
She says it's also important to leave room for adjustments in the holiday schedule.
"People who are going through treatments, most of the time they don't know on a day to day basis how they're going to feel," Kalinay says.
Through that unpredictability, she says the most important thing to focus on is the love and support of family and friends. And Krueger says that's just what she's experienced.
"Everyone is more than happy to help you when you need it," Krueger says.
She says that support has meant more to her than any amount of Christmas decorations or gifts.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
No Ice Cream Sandwich For Galaxy S And Galaxy Tab, Says Samsung
Sorry Galaxy S owners -- even though your device has a near-identical spec sheet to the ICS-friendly Nexus S, Samsung has announced on their corporate blog that the company's first Galaxy device won't be getting the offical bump to Android 4.0. The original Galaxy S isn't the only one to get the snub, as the 7-inch Galaxy Tab won't be able to join in the fun either. It looks like TouchWiz deserves most of the blame here -- according to Samsung Tomorrow, neither device has enough RAM or ROM to accomodate TouchWiz and all of its Samsung-designed accoutrements without affecting the quality of use.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/DNqtlF1_z2Q/
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Video: Money in Motion, December 23, 2011
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Rebecca Black Explodes, Charlie Sheen Implodes: That Happened This Year?
From Jennifer Lopez joining 'American Idol' to Charlie Sheen's meltdown, some of the year's biggest news stories seem like distant memories.
By John Mitchell
Rebecca Black in her "Friday" video
Photo: Ark Music Factory
Every major entertainment news story has a life cycle. First it breaks and is inescapable as every detail of the event takes on an aura of significance (think the carat count on Britney Spears' engagement ring). With interest still high but new information scarce, the analysis begins. We reporters look to experts to see what it all means and to fans to find out what they think and how they feel about what's gone down. There are follow-ups and roundups as bright and shiny fresh news bits come together with what we already know to tell the whole story. Then the whole thing kind of dies as interest wanes and everybody moves on to the next big thing.
Most major stories end up feeling like little time capsules and we never forget when they happened. Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" is as tied to 2011 as Beyoncé's baby bump reveal at the Video Music Awards, but other stories — despite being absolutely everywhere for a hot minute — dangle out there in the ether untethered, feeling for one reason or another like they happened in some distant past where Kim Kardashian was a happily married lady and "Glee" hadn't jumped the shark.
Below are the huge entertainment stories from 2011 that for some reason we washed from our collective memories so thoroughly that when we were brainstorming the year here in the MTV Newsroom, we literally couldn't believe they happened this year!
Jennifer Lopez Joins "American Idol," Reigniting Her Career
The idea that Jennifer Lopez's career comeback began less than a year ago seems to defy the space-time continuum, but for all intents and purposes, La Lopez's return to the top began on January 19, 2011 (we can't believe it either), when the 10th season of "American Idol" premiered on Fox. In one fell swoop, nearly six years of box-office flops and album misfires were erased and Lopez was suddenly everywhere again!
In the spring, Lopez's single "On the Floor" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at #9 (the highest debut of her career) and went on to peak at #3. It marked her first top 10 hit since 2003's "All I Have." With about 445 million views on YouTube, the video for "On the Floor" eclipsed Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in November to become the most watched video by a female artist ever on the video-watching website.
And that's far from all. With Lopez seated at the judges' table, "Idol" posted its first season-over-season ratings gain since 2007, and her album Love? debuted at #5, her highest position on the U.S. albums chart since 2005. Film roles have even starting cropping up again and she's earned millions from her myriad endorsement deals with companies like Gillette, L'Oreal and Fiat.
Lopez also divorced husband Marc Anthony in 2011 (an event that itself seems like it happened forever ago), causing a media stir that continues to this very moment as the tabloids breathlessly catalog her exploits with new boyfriend, backup dancer Casper Smart.
Charlie Sheen's Meltdown
In record time, Charlie Sheen has gone from being at the center of an enormous, completely insane scandal to appearing at the Emmys as a dignified pop-cultural war survivor. And it all went down in 2011! Can you believe it?
In January, Sheen's top-rated comedy, "Two and a Half Men," was put on hiatus while he received treatment at his home for substance abuse. The remainder of the season was canceled the following month after Sheen made some extremely disparaging remarks about series creator Chuck Lorre, and CBS and Warner Bros. officially fired the actor from the series in early March. That was when things really went off the rails. Those interviews! The goddesses! His custody issues with troubled ex-wife Brooke Mueller. Tiger blood! "Winning." The drugs. The warlock nonsense. His disastrous "My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option" Tour.
It was a nonstop run of self-inflicted indignities that boggles the mind. But when it was over, it was over. Sheen was replaced on "Two and a Half Men" by Ashton Kutcher (is there something about that role?), and in September, he appeared at the Emmy Awards to introduce the Best Actor in a Comedy (his old category) nominees and took a moment to address his ordeal with CBS and "Two and a Half Men." "From the bottom of my heart, I wish you nothing but the best for this upcoming season. We spent eight wonderful years together and I know you will continue to make great television," he said.
And now it's back to work. Less than a year after the most public meltdown in recent memory, FX ordered 10 episodes of "Anger Management," a show based loosely on the Adam Sandler-Jack Nicholson film. A press release for the show describes it as being about "an anger management therapist [Sheen] who may need more counseling than his patients [and] wreaks havoc on the lives of his patients through his unconventional methods." Sounds about right!
The Royal Wedding
Months and months of nonstop media coverage came to a head on April 29 when Prince William married Catherine Middleton, who no matter how much the palace tries to sell her as Catherine, Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cambridge, will always be our girl Waity Katie. The royal wedding had all the makings of a fairy-tale event for the ages, and it definitely was ... probably ... over in England, where the populace actually cares about royal matters. Here in America, beyond Kate's dress and the meme-worthy supporting characters, the royal wedding just wasn't a particularly memorable event. And now, with the pre-manufactured memorabilia and ongoing headlines speculating about the possibility of a royal baby, it's like Kate and Wills have been married for years.
The mainstream media coverage was truly excessive, boring and absolutely exhausting, but the royal wedding did inspire some bits of Internet genius. We were introduced to frequent backside-revealer James Middleton as well as Grace Van Cutsem, the "Frowning Flower Girl" and Princess Beatrice's amazing and absurd hat.
Rebecca Black's "Friday"
Rebecca Black's "Friday" is so far along in its cycle as a song that it was used in Black Friday commercials this year. The song was so ubiquitous by early summer that when we saw Katy Perry in concert at the Nassau Coliseum, she sang it a cappella and the entire arena joined in. It's the sort of attention usually accorded a years-old song that everybody knows and loves. That's about half right: "Friday" certainly feels years old and everyone knows it ... it's the loving-it part that is kind of divisive.
By year's end, all the hype earned Black a spot on the list of Twitter's top trends of the year. But even though she hit the scene less than a year ago, Black already feels like a music industry veteran because, goodness, doesn't it seem like "Friday" came out in 2009 or something?
What stories from 2011 feel like they happened years and years ago? Let us know in the comments!
MTV continues our Best of 2011 coverage by looking back at the biggest pop-culture stories of the year. As we count down the newsmakers that mattered to you most, also check out our Best Artists, Best Songs, Best MTV Live Performances and Best EDM Artists of 2011.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Russia slams Kyoto Protocol (AP)
MOSCOW ? Russia supports Canada's decision to pull out of the Kyoto Protocol, says its foreign ministry, reaffirming Friday that Moscow will not take on new commitments.
Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told Friday's briefing that the treaty does not cover all major polluters, and thus cannot help solve the climate crisis.
Canada on Monday pulled out of the agreement ? initially adopted in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, to cut carbon emissions contributing to global warming. Its move dealt a blow to the treaty, which has not been formally renounced by any other country.
"This is yet another example that the 1997 Kyoto Protocol has lost its effectiveness in the context of the social and economic situation of the 21st century," Lukashevich said, adding that the document does not ensure the participation of all key emitters.
The protocol requires some industrialized countries to slash emissions, but doesn't cover the world's largest polluters, China and the United States.
Canada, Japan and Russia said last year they will not accept new Kyoto commitments.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Rihanna?s Mansion: A Total Dump!
Rihanna is only 23 years old, but it looks like she?s running on empty. One insider tells In Touch that over the past few months, her friends and advisers have become increasingly worried about the singer?s out-of-control partying. ?She?s been smoking so much that it has been hurting her voice,? the insider reports, ?and she has to work out extra because of the amount of alcohol she drinks. They?ve asked her to calm down, but if she doesn?t, her record label may soon begin making threats.?
Because she?s burning the candle at both ends, other parts of her life are falling apart, too, like the upkeep of her Beverly Hills mansion. One wouldn?t typically expect a multimillion-dollar home that?s less than two years old to be described as a ?MAJOR? fixer-upper. But that?s exactly how Rihanna?s real estate agent referred to her $4.5 million mansion ? and that might even be too generous of a description! Not only is the 8,520-square-foot house riddled with water damage, including moldy carpets and buckled hardwood floors, it appears to be a place unsuitable for a star like Rihanna to live in.
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'Dismal': 1 in 2 Americans are now poor, low income
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Juan Morena sits on a Los Angeles, Calif., sidewalk as he waits for the St. Francis Center soup kitchen to open on Sept. 13.
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By Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans ? nearly 1 in 2 ? have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income.
The latest census data depict a middle class that's shrinking as unemployment stays high and the government's safety net frays. The new numbers follow years of stagnating wages for the middle class that have hurt millions of workers and families.
"Safety net programs such as food stamps and tax credits kept poverty from rising even higher in 2010, but for many low-income families with work-related and medical expenses, they are considered too 'rich' to qualify," said Sheldon Danziger, a University of Michigan public policy professor who specializes in poverty.
"The reality is that prospects for the poor and the near poor are dismal," he said. "If Congress and the states make further cuts, we can expect the number of poor and low-income families to rise for the next several years."
Congressional Republicans and Democrats are sparring over legislation that would renew a Social Security payroll tax cut, part of a year-end political showdown over economic priorities that could also trim unemployment benefits, freeze federal pay and reduce entitlement spending.
Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, questioned whether some people classified as poor or low-income actually suffer material hardship. He said that while safety-net programs have helped many Americans, they have gone too far, citing poor people who live in decent-size homes, drive cars and own wide-screen TVs.
With nearly 14 million Americans unemployed, a new child welfare study finds one in five children are living in poverty. Nearly one in three live in homes where no parent works full-time year-round. NBC's Chris Jansing reports.
"There's no doubt the recession has thrown a lot of people out of work and incomes have fallen," Rector said. "As we come out of recession, it will be important that these programs promote self-sufficiency rather than dependence and encourage people to look for work."
Mayors in 29 cities say more than 1 in 4 people needing emergency food assistance did not receive it. Many middle-class Americans are dropping below the low-income threshold ? roughly $45,000 for a family of four ? because of pay cuts, a forced reduction of work hours or a spouse losing a job. Housing and child-care costs are consuming up to half of a family's income.
States in the South and West had the highest shares of low-income families, including Arizona, New Mexico and South Carolina, which have scaled back or eliminated aid programs for the needy. By raw numbers, such families were most numerous in California and Texas, each with more than 1 million.
The struggling Americans include Zenobia Bechtol, 18, in Austin, Texas, who earns minimum wage as a part-time pizza delivery driver. Bechtol and her 7-month-old baby were recently evicted from their bedbug-infested apartment after her boyfriend, an electrician, lost his job in the sluggish economy.
After an 18-month job search, Bechtol's boyfriend now works as a waiter and the family of three is temporarily living with her mother.
"We're paying my mom $200 a month for rent, and after diapers and formula and gas for work, we barely have enough money to spend," said Bechtol, a high school graduate who wants to go to college. "If it weren't for food stamps and other government money for families who need help, we wouldn't have been able to survive."
About 97.3 million Americans fall into a low-income category, commonly defined as those earning between 100 and 199 percent of the poverty level, based on a new supplemental measure by the Census Bureau that is designed to provide a fuller picture of poverty. Together with the 49.1 million who fall below the poverty line and are counted as poor, they number 146.4 million, or 48 percent of the U.S. population. That's up by 4 million from 2009, the earliest numbers for the newly developed poverty measure.
The new measure of poverty takes into account medical, commuting and other living costs. Doing that helped push the number of people below 200 percent of the poverty level up from 104 million, or 1 in 3 Americans, that was officially reported in September.
Broken down by age, children were most likely to be poor or low-income ? about 57 percent ? followed by seniors over 65. By race and ethnicity, Hispanics topped the list at 73 percent, followed by blacks, Asians and non-Hispanic whites.
Even by traditional measures, many working families are hurting.
Following the recession that began in late 2007, the share of working families who are low income has risen for three straight years to 31.2 percent, or 10.2 million. That proportion is the highest in at least a decade, up from 27 percent in 2002, according to a new analysis by the Working Poor Families Project and the Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit research group based in Washington.
Among low-income families, about one-third were considered poor while the remainder ? 6.9 million ? earned income just above the poverty line. Many states phase out eligibility for food stamps, Medicaid, tax credit and other government aid programs for low-income Americans as they approach 200 percent of the poverty level.
The majority of low-income families ? 62 percent ? spent more than one-third of their earnings on housing, surpassing a common guideline for what is considered affordable. By some census surveys, child-care costs consume close to another one-fifth.
Shrinking paychecks
Paychecks for low-income families are shrinking. The inflation-adjusted average earnings for the bottom 20 percent of families have fallen from $16,788 in 1979 to just under $15,000, and earnings for the next 20 percent have remained flat at $37,000. In contrast, higher-income brackets had significant wage growth since 1979, with earnings for the top 5 percent of families climbing 64 percent to more than $313,000.
A survey of 29 cities conducted by the U.S. Conference of Mayors being released Thursday points to a gloomy outlook for those on the lower end of the income scale.
Many mayors cited the challenges of meeting increased demands for food assistance, expressing particular concern about possible cuts to federal programs such as food stamps and WIC, which assists low-income pregnant women and mothers. Unemployment led the list of causes of hunger in cities, followed by poverty, low wages and high housing costs.
Across the 29 cities, about 27 percent of people needing emergency food aid did not receive it. Kansas City, Mo., Nashville, Tenn., Sacramento, Calif., and Trenton, N.J., were among the cities that pointed to increases in the cost of food and declining food donations, while Mayor Michael McGinn in Seattle cited an unexpected spike in food requests from immigrants and refugees, particularly from Somalia, Burma and Bhutan.
Among those requesting emergency food assistance, 51 percent were in families, 26 percent were employed, 19 percent were elderly and 11 percent were homeless.
"People who never thought they would need food are in need of help," said Mayor Sly James of Kansas City, Mo., who co-chairs a mayors' task force on hunger and homelessness.
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