Monday 29 February 2016

Total Film: Will Leo Finally Win An Oscar With The Revenant?

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Total Film: Will Leo Finally Win An Oscar With The Revenant?

"REVENGE IS IN THE creator’s hands,” real-life frontiersman Hugh Glass is told midway through Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s extraordinary wilderness drama. It’s this feeling of vengeance that boils inside Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) throughout much of this two-and-a-half-hour epic – and little wonder. Mauled by a bear, left for dead by his men and witness to the murder of his own son, Glass’ bleak and bloody survival in this harsh 1820s terrain is motivated by one reason alone: to even the score.

That bare outline doesn’t even begin to capture the sheer wild ambition, beauty and savagery on show in The Revenant. Far more challenging than even Iñárritu’s bravura Oscar-winner Birdman, this is his Fitzcarraldo or his Apocalypse Now – man versus the elements, both on screen and off. Stories have already spread about the legendarily arduous shoot endured by cast and crew in the Canadian wilderness. Whatever hardships they went through were worth it.

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Techlife News: Could Apple Pay Create An E-Commerce Revolution?

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Techlife News: Could Apple Pay Create An E-Commerce Revolution?

The mobile payments service Apple Pay has been slowly expanding in availability since it was first announced in September 2014. So far, most attention has been on its use at contactless payment terminals in bricks and mortar stores; however, the service is also a payment option within a range of apps. What’s more, there is emerging evidence that this form of Apple Pay could, in the long term, prove a surprisingly big game-changer...

APPLE PAY: A SLEEPING GIANT IN E-COMMERCE?

A major intent of Apple Pay is to provide a much smoother and quicker alternative to cumbersome and time-consuming payment methods. Many owners of Apple Pay-compatible iPhones will be able to verify its success in this for payments at physical stores; however, traditional methods of buying online can be similarly awkward, thanks to the reams of forms that typically have to be filled in.And, of course, there’s a lot of personal information that you will be entering into those forms – which is why millions of iOS device users should appreciate the many speed and security benefits of Apple Pay that remain intact with its use within apps.

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Fast Company: How Taco Bell Nailed Its Innovative New Quesalupa

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Fast Company: How Taco Bell Nailed Its Innovative New Quesalupa

On a recent evening, Taco Bell CEO Brian Niccol was hanging out at his Newport Beach, California, home when an idea popped into his head—a menu item designed to appeal to young, ravenously hungry customers on their way home after a night of partying. Niccol, 42, was thinking about his days as an engineering student at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he had a favorite lunch spot with a simple gimmick. “We went to this place called Bagel & Deli that had all these great names for their sandwiches,” he says, sitting on a sofa in his large, comfortable corner office at Taco Bell’s Irvine, California, headquarters. “I was like, ‘Why haven’t we thought of having great names for our burritos?’ ” (Taco Bell’s current offerings tend to have monikers like “Shredded Chicken Burrito” or “Beefy 5-Layer Burrito.”) He fired off a text to Taco Bell’s chief food innovation officer, Liz Matthews, that included a name borrowed from Bagel & Deli: “the After Burner.” Niccol didn’t give many further instructions. Whatever those two words might conjure in the minds of Matthews and her crew of chefs and food scientists would be the starting point. “What’s in the burrito?” he says in his office a few days later. “I don’t know! Make it up.”

From an outsider’s perspective, the After Burner seems like a less-than-id

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In the latest issue of People magazine, know the intimate secrets of Elizabeth Taylor from a surprising new book. This issue features rare and never before seen pictures from photographer Firooz Zahedi's new book My Elizabeth. Also, Wilding shares her memories of the loving grandmother who inspired her with her work on behalf of people with HIV and her foundation, The Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation. For more on Elizabeth Taylor, grab the latest copy of People magazine. In the 'My Hunt for a serial killer' article, explore in-depth about a woman's crusade to track down the grim sleeper.

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Friday 26 February 2016

InStyle Magazine – The ultimate fashion guide

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InStyle Magazine March 2016 Shailene Woodley on cover
In the latest issue of InStyle magazine, read an exclusive interview with Shailene Woodley, in which she talks about love, gratitude & living a life of beautiful simplicity. She also reveals how after a three-week-long trip to India, she returned to the States with nothing more than "a pair of leggings, a pair of sweats, one long-sleeve shirt, and a shawl." To know more about her favorite red carpet looks, including one she picked up at Anthropologie on sale for $30, grab your latest copy of InStyle magazine now.

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ADWEEK: Inside the Relentless Marketing Push Behind Every Oscar Winner

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ADWEEK: Inside the Relentless Marketing Push Behind Every Oscar Winner

In this eventful and entertaining election year, the campaigning is not limited to Hillary and Bernie and Marco and Trump. Also out there stumping—for another high-profile and much-coveted albeit very different kind of prize—are Leo and Brie and Saoirse and Sly. And Spielberg and Pitt. And Paramount and Fox and Disney.

Even before this year’s Academy Award nominees were announced on the morning of Jan. 14 in Beverly Hills, Calif., the Hollywood publicity machine had already kicked into high gear. Early on came the film festivals, followed by public appearances, profiles by major media, the talk show circuit and eventually those ubiquitous “for your consideration” ads in the trades—all of it careful to follow the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ rules regulating Oscar campaigns.

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PC Magazine: 7 Tips For Organizing Your Digital Photos

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PC Magazine: 7 Tips For Organizing Your Digital Photos

With the holidays just past and the prime vacation months coming up, you’re already deluged with digital photos—and you’re about to get more. Good luck trying to find what you want in all the clutter. We’ve all been there. You search your computer for that lovely shot of the family gathered around the Thanksgiving table from last year to send to your mom. You swipe through pages and pages of images on your phone, looking for that picture of you and your honey to have framed as a gift. You hunt all over Facebook for that amazing picture of your dog in a Santa hat—you’re sure you shared it there at some point. But you can’t find any of them!

Don’t let this happen to you next time. These easy steps will help you organize all the photos you take, and save you the trouble of having to deal with a disorganized mess when you want to locate and share your precious memories.

DELETE THE WORST PHOTOS IMMEDIATELY

The sooner you delete bad photos, the more time you’ll save down the road, and the more efficient your photo organizing will be. Delete photos that are out of focus, badly composed, or just plain ugly while they’re still on your camera or smartphone.

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Inc. Where to Find Your Next Superstar Freelancer

Inc. Where to Find Your Next Superstar Freelancer
ABOUT A YEAR AFTER co-founding the mobile messaging service Tango in 2009, CTO Eric Setton needed more customer service help. So he turned to the then dominant freelancer platform, oDesk. “We were a tiny team, getting thousands of questions every day,” he says. Hiring freelancers helped his full-time employees dodge unappealingly repetitive work, thus improving both “service for our customers and company morale.”

No matter what sort of high-volume work or specialty one-off task you need done, there’s probably a freelancer platform that can help. Increasingly nimble technology is enabling the spread of the gig economy, allowing businesses to “access the exact right skills and people they need at the exact right time,” according to an October report by the nonprofit Freelancers Union.

ODesk, now merged with former rival Elance and renamed Upwork, is facing a growing field of competitors, but it’s still the go-to platform for Tango, which has 250 full-time employees. In addition to customer service, Tango now regularly uses freelancers for marketing design work such as presentations and email graphics—anything that could distract Setton’s full-time workers from their core goals.

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Thursday 25 February 2016

ESPN THE MAGAZINE: Larry Bird Will Die Young, Just Ask Him

Many NBA big men believe they are cursed by the very trait that brought them glory. And the emerging science around extreme size suggests they’re right.

ESPN THE MAGAZINE: Larry Bird Will Die Young, Just Ask Him


INDIANA PACERS COACH Larry Bird wasn’t even sure which play his team was running because his damn heart was kicking out again.

He wondered if anyone noticed him sweating profusely, his shirt drenched under his suit and tie, an all-too-familiar symptom whenever his heart started rattling around his chest like a basketball in an empty trash barrel. The waves of nausea and dizziness overtook him next, muddling his concentration and leaving him feeling light-headed. When the sudden arrhythmia would occur during his training sessions in his playing days long before he’d informed any medical personnel about it he would always lie down immediately and nap for several hours, because if he didn’t, he risked losing consciousness.

But on March 17, 1998, the 41-year-old coach of the Eastern Conference - contending Pacers, in the thick of a hotly contested game with the defending champion Bulls, could hardly recline and sleep it off. “Oh god,” Bird thought as he tried to steady himself on the Indiana sideline. “Please don’t let me pass out on the court.”

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GUITARIST: Def & Glory - Behind the Comeback Album

Last year, Def Leppard, Whitesnake and Black Star Riders set out on an arena-filling joint tour. Guitarist joins Phil Collen and Viv Campbell backstage to hear about the band’s comeback album, the rules of Leppard riffing and the wild old days – followed by a round-table discussion with all three bands.

GUITARIST: Def & Glory - Behind the Comeback Album


Def Leppard don’t do things by halves. It’s 16 December, and Guitarist is stood in the cavernous expanses of the Cardiff Motorpoint Arena, waiting for soundcheck, drinking in the scene. Speaker stacks dangle like forest fruits. An army of roadies scurry between the spotlights like escapees from Colditz. A mile-wide plasma screen beyond the stage plays a slideshow of the band at their all-conquering 80s peak: young, topless, straw-haired rockers who can’t quite believe their luck. Suddenly, the Leppard line-up is on stage,ripping into comeback single, Let’s Go, with a rabble-rousing abandon that belies the fact the venue is almost entirely empty. As Phil Collen and Viv Campbell strut out onto the stage’s ego-ramp to trade white-hot solos, it’s clear that almost four decades after their formation in Sheffield, they can still command a stadium like few others. An hour later, Guitarist waits for the headliners in their production office. Campbell is first to arrive, toting a cut-and-shut Custom and chuckling about that time he auditioned for Ronnie James Dio while stoned out of his box. Then comes Collen, cradling his Jackson X-Stroyer and ready to field our enquiries with trademark aitch-dropping humour. Enough rawk. Let’s talk.

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INDIA TODAY: 26/11 Attacks: The Great Headley Chase

The 26/11 scout and planner nails the role of his LeT associates and Pakistan’s ISI.

INDIA TODAY: 26/11 Attacks: The Great Headley Chase


David Coleman Headley returned to Mumbai nearly seven years after he boarded a flight to Chicago, never to return. Only this time he came back as a video signal beamed from halfway across the globe into a packed sessions courtroom in a city where he had helped plan the slaughter of 166 persons during the terror attacks of November 26, 2008.

Flanked by three US officials, the grey sweatshirt-clad 55-year-old calmly unravelled the 26/11 conspiracy before the court for a week, beginning February 8. The Indian government’s attempts to extradite Headley had come to an end when he was given a 35-year sentence for terrorist acts by a US court in 2013.

The video link, a result of his turning approver last December in the ongoing trial of 26/11 plotter Abu Jundal, was the closest India’s legal system could get to him. Headley went to work, like a needle knitting together all the missing threads of the 26/11 plot. He had soon woven a patchwork quilt of serving military personnel and hard-core terrorists, linked together by the bizarre compulsions of Pakistan’s deep state in waging unending war against India.

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TECHLIFE NEWS: Uber to Pay $28.5M to Settle Safety Ad Lawsuits

TECHLIFE NEWS: Uber to Pay $28.5M to Settle Safety Ad Lawsuits

Uber says that it will pay $28.5 million to settle two lawsuits that said the ride-hailing firm misled customers about its safety procedures and fees.

The company told a federal judge in San Francisco that it wants to settle the class-action lawsuits by paying about 25 million riders who made U.S. trips between Jan. 1, 2013, and Jan. 31, 2016.

The judge must still approve the deal.

“We are glad to put these cases behind us and we will continue to invest in new technology and great customer services so that we can help improve safety in the cities we serve,” the San Francisco-based company said in a statement Thursday.

The lawsuits attacked Uber for charging a fee of up to $2.30 per trip for what it called industry-leading background checks on would-be drivers. However, Uber didn’t do the kind of fingerprint checks required of taxi drivers.

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FAST COMPANY: How BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti Is Building A 100-Year Media Company

FAST COMPANY: How BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti Is Building A 100-Year Media Company

Ask BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti about his influences, and his answer sounds like, well, a BuzzFeed post—one titled “The Three Historical References That Explain BuzzFeed Will Make You Say WTF.” Peretti first points to a company that started more than 100 years ago, Paramount Pictures, which owned a film production studio, its own cast of talent, and its own distribution channel in the form of theaters. “That allowed them to adapt and change as the market changed,” says Peretti.

Peretti’s second fascination is with CNN—how founder Ted Turner ran a 24-hour news operation at a fraction of the cost of what the networks spent, due in part to prescient use of satellite and cable technology

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Money helps you take charge of your finances, providing trusted advice to successfully earn, plan, invest, and spend. Money provides in-depth coverage of stocks, mutual funds, the markets, the economy, and the best things money can buy - from travel and technology to home and luxury goods. The magazine also gives you advice on college savings and retirement planning.

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Wednesday 24 February 2016

Yoga Journal: The Doctor Will OM With You Now...

With a growing body of research proving yoga’s healing benefits, it’s no wonder more doctors - including those with traditional Western training - are prescribing this ancient practice to their patients. What’s behind the trend, and will it help you feel better? Yoga Journal investigates.

Yoga Journal: The Doctor Will OM With You Now...


IN A SMALL workout room with a handful of other Navy veterans, David Rachford looked out the window to watch the fringed leaves of a tall royal palm tree wave softly in the warm Southern California breeze. The soothing view eased the challenging exercise routine he was trying for the first time. It was just a simple twist, Supta Matsyendrasana (Supine Spinal Twist)—nothing like the rigorous daily training he’d done as a damage control man on aircraft carriers—but his legs refused to cooperate, due to the painful nerve damage and severe sciatica he’d suffered as a result of a career-ending back injury. As an outpatient receiving pain management treatment at the Veterans Administration West Los Angeles Medical Center, Rachford was now required to attend this weekly yoga physical-therapy class. It was the last place he’d ever expected to find himself.

“I thought yoga was for thin, bendy, liberal, hippie vegetarians and affluent housewives, not tough, macho ‘warrior’ types,” says the 44-year old, now a Web developer in Santa Barbara, California. “But at that time, I felt pretty broken. I was in a lot of pain and open to anything that might help. I was depressed and scared at the prospect of surgery, and mourning the loss of my health and my self-image of being a physically fit ‘tough guy.’”

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NYLON: Fandom Is Forever, But Today It's A Whole New Game

NYLON: Fandom Is Forever, But Today It's A Whole New Game


“If my eyebrows don’t look good I’m not posting it,” says Michael Benyamin, clad in a Balmain T-shirt (“for H&M!” he clarifies in a Jersey accent) and a black long-haired faux fur jacket, as his friend snaps a photo of us together on a dark Chinatown street. Benyamin strikes myriad poses while I stand like a stone next to him, my Instagram photo shoot game clearly beneath his. Later the best shot will get posted for a following of over 10,000 people and I will become a very tiny part of the Internet celeb’s highly curated brand. Because in taking a photo with Benyamin, I am, sort of, also taking a photo with Lady Gaga.

The 21-year-old Benyamin is better known to his followers as “Maikeeb” (or @maikeeb_kills online), one of Gaga’s most visible and popular fans. Except he’s also so much more than that: He’s a rising stylist, club kid, and fashion plate whose persona was built almost entirely on his admiration of the singer. Benyamin and his ilk are torchbearers of a new kind of fandom: devotees of celebrities who are so visible and admired that they now have fans of their own. In 2015, your love for Harry Styles or Justin Bieber can make you a star, too.

FROM FAN TO FAMOUS

For decades, the divide between fans and their idols was clear; idols made the media and fans consumed it. In the 1950s, if you wanted a picture of your favorite singer you bought a head shot or tore one from a magazine. In the ’60s and ’70s, you might have mailed letters to bands or joined official fan clubs to connect with the artists or like-minded enthusiasts. In the ’90s and early aughts you tuned in to TRL to hear from musicians in real time.

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PC Magazine: The Glove That Can Fight Parkinson's Disease

PC Magazine: The Glove That Can Fight Parkinson's Disease

During med school, Faii Ong met a 103-year-old patient covered in soup, and asked the nurses why they weren’t helping her. “There’s nothing we can do,” they responded. The medications for Parkinson’s disease, from which the patient suffered, don’t work forever, the nurses explained, and beyond a certain point they don’t help much at all.

So Ong went to work. In less than two years, he and a “crack team of engineers, designers, and medics” have gone on to win the first inaugural £10,000 F-factor prize and produce the GyroGlove: a wearable device designed to mitigate the hand tremors suffered by Parkinson’s patients.

The GyroGlove is a cordless thin-and-light wearable hand stabilizer. It’s powered by a battery, with a tiny integrated controller that drives a precession hinge and turntable, and a responsive gyroscope. The gyroscope isn’t a detector—it’s an effector. And it has to move “silently and reliably at thousands of [revolutions per minute].” With a motion disorder like Parkinson’s, the impedance of a person’s normal movements is a major detractor from quality of life. That’s why the device has to be so light, and why the gyroscope has to rotate so fast: It must be responsive in real time to the wearer’s moving hands, without encumbering movement and thus making the solution more onerous than the problem.

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ADWEEK: What's Being Done to Rein In $7 Billion in Ad Fraud?


There's plenty of blame to go around for how digital ad fraud became a monster. Here, some ways to beat it back.

ADWEEK: What's Being Done to Rein In $7 Billion in Ad Fraud?

Long a dirty little secret of the digital media business, the topic of ad fraud has been thrust front and center in discussions among agency executives, advertisers and publishers over the last three years. Bot traffic, or nonhuman digital traffic, is at its highest ever, and recent projections from the Association of National Advertisers have more than $7 billion in advertising investment wasted. A variety of organizations and companies are putting serious efforts into stanching the losses, and the ANA will make the topic a centerpiece of its annual Masters of Media Conference next month in Hollywood, Fla. Serving on a panel discussion on March 3 will be Amy Bartle, director of media and digital marketing, La Quinta Inns & Suites; Ron Amram, vp of media, Heineken USA; and Michael Tiffany, co-founder and CEO of cyber security firm White Ops, who will present findings of a study on ad fraud. The following is an edited Q&A with the panelists, along with insights from Bill Duggan, group evp of the ANA. 

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Travel + Leisure - Create unforgettable travel experiences

Travel + Leisure, published by Time Inc., connects passionate travelers to the world's most extraordinary places and curates unmatched experiences. The magazine is an indispensable guide to where to stay, what to eat, and what to do around the globe. The magazine also comes up with easy trip ideas, itineraries, and insider information every month. You can get advice from travel experts and be stunned with the magazine's award-winning photography.

Travel + Leisure - Create unforgettable travel experiences
In the latest issue of Travel+Leisure magazine, explore the best hotels of 2016. What you’ll find here is a definitive list of hotels worth putting on your bucket list—and if it’s anything like It Lists past, these are the properties that will become instant classics. Consider them opportunities to explore your favorite cities in fresh ways or new excuses to head to the last place you ever imagined.

This issue also has answers to passport-related questions you might not have known to ask, including how to gain global entry outside the U.S. and what new European travel restrictions mean for you and more.

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Tuesday 23 February 2016

NME Magazine: Kanye West - Making A Masterpiece

In 2013, Kanye West became a father. In 2014, he got married. In 2015, he announced he’d be running for President. Now he’s calling his brand-new LP “the greatest album of all time”. Larry Bartleet asks how he got there.

NME Magazine: Kanye West - Making A Masterpiece
June 15, 2013

Kanye’s fiancée Kim Kardashian gives birth to their first child, daughter North West, three days before the release of the 36-year old’s sixth album ‘Yeezus’. It’s his best yet – a brutal, revelatory and self-contradictory game-changer that debuts at Number One on the iTunes chart in 31 countries.

July 19, 2013

Angered by the presence of the press, Kanye grabs a paparazzo’s camera at LAX. The criminal charges include 250 hours of community service. The following month, in a televised interview with Kim’s mother Kris Jenner, he suggests fatherhood has changed his outlook. “With the press, it’s almost like an agenda to write me into a certain type of story… I have two people to live for – a family to live for. A whole world to live for.”

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Men's Fitness: Safaris by Sea

Why your next brave adventure into the unknown-whether it’s to paddle, swim, hike, or bike-should begin and end on a cruise ship. 

Men's Fitness: Safaris by Sea


Most vacation passenger ships use Disney musicals and endless buffets to make you forget you’re out on the open ocean.

Then there’s expedition cruising, in which the boat is simply a vehicle to get you as close to adventure as possible chasing orca pods, watching glaciers calve, even heading off on daylong hiking or mountain biking missions.

Offered by just a handful of firms, these voyages transport you on ships small enough to slip through narrow straits into pristine, “Love Boat”– free coves but cushy enough to always have a bartender or resident naturalist on hand.

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Vegetarian Times: The Rise of Vegan Beer

Vegetarian Times: The Rise of Vegan Beer

VEGAN BEER is having its moment.

Not only are more vegan craft brews showing up at vegfests like LA’s and Portland’s Vegan Beer & Food Festival and the Toronto Vegan Food and Drink Festival, but even Ireland’s 256-year-old Guinness is going animal free, due to pressure from vegetarians and vegans. Th e company announced last November that by late this year it will alter its centuries-old brewing technique to forgo a filtering process that uses fi sh byproducts.

What is vegan beer, anyway?

“Th ere’s long been a misperception that all beer is vegan,” says John Schlimm, author of The Ultimate Beer Lover’s Happy Hour (Cumberland House, 2014) and a member of the Straub Brewery family of Pennsylvania. “But people are starting to ask questions about what’s in their beer, and more specifically how it’s produced.” It is often in the making that some brews lose their animal-free status. At the filtering stage, manufacturers may use isinglass (made from fi sh bladders) and other animal products, such as egg whites and seashells.


Monday 22 February 2016

Oxygen: How Having A Gym Buddy Can Help You Build A Better Body

Building fitness connections can help you build a better body — and enrich your life.

Oxygen: How Having A Gym Buddy Can Help You Build A Better Body

As humans, we need food, water, sleep, exercise … you know, the basics. But did you know social connection ranks right up there? “We absolutely need strong connections to flourish,” says David Karp, Ph.D., professor of sociology at Boston College. Research shows that people with strong social bonds are happier, have better immunity, experience less stress and live longer. On the flip side, feeling lonely can seriously hurt your health. One study found that a lack of social ties increases the risk of premature death by 50 percent — the same as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Yikes!

We get it: Connection is key to health, but what’s the gym got to do with it? Turns out ditching the headphones and head-down mentality can improve your fitness and outlook. Not only are we happier when we’re with other people, but sweating together also releases oxytocin, a brain chemical that primes you to gel with your fellow gym-goers. Plus, research says connecting to people at the gym means more workout hours logged. “Having friends at the gym, whether it’s a favorite instructor or class regulars, provides an additional level of accountability,” adds Cherilyn Hultquist, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health, Physical Education and SportScience at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

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ADWEEK - DJ Khaled: The King Of Snapchat

Hip-hop's 'King of Snapchat' shares a message of unrelenting positivity, making true believers of 14 million followers and brands like Apple Music.

ADWEEK - DJ Khaled: The King Of Snapchat

King of Snapchat DJ Khaled wants you to know he’s up to something. Of course, if you follow him on the wildly popular mobile platform, you already know that. He takes to the app every day to share with the world exactly what he’s doing, and planning, and thinking—producing a record, paling around with hip-hop star Nas, praising Ciroc vodka, sharing inspirational life lessons—all in his particular brand of extreme magnetism crossed with blustering machismo.

As for what he’s most interested for you to know at this moment, maybe you caught his snap from last Monday when he was in the studio with artist Future, dancing along to music that those watching, however, were not allowed to hear. The text over the snap - “I wish you could [hear] this I’m working!!! [You’ll] see!”—is punctuated by his signature emoji, a gold key, signifying an alert about an upcoming project or one of Khaled’s keys to success. Later that day, a few more snaps in the same vein follow, with Khaled, in his distinctively gravelly timbre, promising that when he’s done with this album, “it’s going to be crazy.”

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Sportstar - What Virat needs, To Become A Better Lifter!

Top athletes all over the world perform Olympic lifts to improve power and explosive strength/speed and their trainers teach them correct form and technique.

Sportstar - What Virat needs, To Become A Better Lifter!


Recently, a video of Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli went viral on social media. Virat was in the gym performing an Olympic barbell snatch albeit with weights that would be more suitable to a pre-pubescent girl and not the athletic symbol of the sport in India! The form was embarrassingly poor but the video escaped scathing criticism from the strength and conditioning community because most of its Indian members are anyway part of this idol worship culture involving cricketers.

Some even raved about the video and others opined that since Virat was not a weightlifter, he was not expected to have perfect form. Point noted, but not agreed upon. Top athletes all over the world perform Olympic lifts to improve power and explosive strength/speed and their trainers teach them correct form and technique.

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Fortune Magazine: The ultimate guide to financial growth



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Fortune Magazine: The ultimate guide to financial growthIn the latest issue of Fortune magazine, know how to make a profit in the New Hollywood. The article reveals that hit sequels like Jurassic World and Star Wars: The Force Awakens helped push Hollywood’s global box office to a record $38 billion in 2015. But the industry faces troubling trends: It’s struggling to produce human-scale movies that break the action-sequel mold — and when it does make them, they often don’t make money. Also, get to know about the billionaire behind Walgreens' quest for global dominance.

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Reader's Digest India: How To Improve Your Ability To Learn

From turning down the music to snacking on fish, the latest research on how to improve your ability to learn.

Reader's Digest India: How To Improve Your Ability To Learn

Chowing down on fish can pump up your brain Millennia ago, humans were doing pretty well for themselves, but it’s when they settled around the basins of large rivers that civiliz ations really started to flourish. Think of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley: “Humans got much smarter and more sophisticated when they lived closer to rivers,” says Dr Cyrus Raji, a resident radiologist at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

So it ’s not entirely surprising that in a 2014 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Raji and his colleagues discovered consuming fish can actually enhance the physical size of the brain. Examining 260 subjects in their late 70s with no cognitive defects, the researchers found that the hippocampus—the learning centre of the brain—was 14 per cent larger in those who ate baked or broiled fish on a weekly basis than in those who did not. The omega-3 fatty acids contained in fish also improved the performance of neurons in the brain’s frontal lobe, an area that is crucial for executive functions like short-term memory and task planning.


Maxim India: Top 8 Unusual Weekend Getaways, To Celebrate Love

Romantic weekends may sound cliched, but which girl doesn’t love to be wowed on an occasion that celebrates love? Spoil yourself and your girl with some of these unusual weekend getaways.

Maxim India: Top 8 Unusual Weekend Getaways, To Celebrate Love

YUMTHANG VALLEY, SIKKIM

Known to be one of the cleanest places in the Northeast, the hill town of Gangtok is nothing short of spectacular. A short flight from Kolkata, it has some of the most stunning views of Kanchenjunga. Once in town, take a stroll on MG Marg, which also happens to be the venue for the annual Gangtok Food and Culture Festival. If being on top of the world is among your must-dos, make your way to the bi-cable Zig-back ropeway to get a bird’s-eye view of the town below. A short distance away is the breathtaking Yumthang Valley, also called the Valley of Flowers (no, we aren’t talking about the Uttarakhand one). For couples who get their play on by being out in the open or from being surrounded by nature, this experience is going to count pretty high up on the list of romantic memories.

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Fast Company - How Hudl's Mobile-Video Software Is Transforming Sports

Fast Company - How Hudl's Mobile-Video Software Is Transforming Sports

An hour before dawn on a recent winter morning, the members of the Jonesboro High School basketball squad file into a darkened classroom to watch tape from the previous night’s win over Eagle’s Landing. On paper, at least, the showing was impressive—the kind of come-from-behind, 14-point victory that catapulted Jonesboro, a public school in the outskirts of Atlanta, to back-to-back Georgia state titles in 2014 and 2015.

But the Jonesboro Cardinals’ coach, Dan Maehlman, is having trouble finding much to praise. “Do you know what it means when I say deny? Am I speaking a foreign language?” he asks, gripping his head as if it’s about to crater open. He gestures at the projector screen, where two defenders are failing to intercept a lob pass. Maehlman rewinds and replays the offending sequence. “Let me try this again for you guys: Deny means that your goddamn player does not catch the goddamn basketball.”

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Bloomberg Businessweek - Why Carriers Want To Delete WhatsApp

Facebook says its service and phone companies are allies. Some telcos disagree.

Bloomberg Businessweek - Why Carriers Want To Delete WhatsApp

Two years ago, Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at the Mobile World Congress, an annual industry gathering held in Barcelona, to reassure phone companies that Facebook is their natural ally. He’d just announced the $22 billion purchase of the WhatsApp messaging service and was touting an initiative called Internet.org, a low-bandwidth suite of basic services carriers would offer in conjunction with Facebook to get hundreds of millions of people online for the first time. He pledged to “build what is going to be a more profitable model with more subscribers for carriers.” By sticking together, the Facebook founder said, both sides could benefit handsomely.

As Zuckerberg prepares to return to Barcelona for this year’s MWC on Feb. 22, phone executives say his company looks more like a competitor than a partner. Last year, WhatsApp introduced free voice calls—something Facebook already offered—and both brands have messaging apps. These so-called over-the-top services cut into mobile carriers’ voice and texting revenue because they’re offered over the Internet. Some phone companies say Facebook and its ilk are freeloaders that rely on carriers’ network infrastructure without spending any money to support it. “WhatsApp is competing with us, not only with messaging but with voice, too,” Telefónica Chief Operating Officer José María ÁlvarezPallete said in August at a telecommunications industry event in the Spanish coastal city of Santander. “The premise should be, same services, same rules.”

 
 

Friday 19 February 2016

TIME - The world’s most trusted source for news

TIME – The world’s most trusted source for news
TIME’s signature voice and trusted content make it one of the most recognized news brands in the world. Offering incisive reporting, lively writing and world-renowned photography, TIME has been credited with bringing journalism at its best into the fabric of American life. Every issue delivers a deeper understanding of the world we live in.

TIME – The world’s most trusted source for news
In the latest longevity issue of TIME magazine, know how Alzheimer's Pill can act as a radical new drug that could change old age. The Sightlines Project report on longevity reveals that 47% of Americans over 75 take five or more prescription drugs a day. Also, 62% of Americans own a home, when compared to 67% in 2000. Scientists are studying the long-lived species for clues that may help humans. This issue also has several interesting articles such as How to be wealthy at 100, Three daily habits to change now and Long-life secrets from a clam.

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Maxim: Sin City - The Men Who Made Vegas

Maxim: Sin City - The Men Who Made Vegas

Unlike the gamblers who seeded its meteoric rise, Las Vegas has overcome the odds consistently for 70 years. Once an outpost in the desert controlled by organized crime—rumored to have removed truckloads of uncounted cash from casinos in the still of the night—today an acre of the four-mile-long Strip is worth $10 million. Tourism numbers are at all-time highs.

The roll call of men who built Las Vegas dates back to the 1940s and ’50s, when shady characters like Meyer Lansky, Moe Dalitz, and Benny Binion became infatuated with the possibilities of settling in the only legal gambling center in the country and developing a seedy adult getaway. In the 1960s, it was billionaire Howard Hughes and banker E. Parry Thomas who made things happen. Then visionaries Michael Milken, Kirk Kerkorian, and Steve Wynn raised the bar again in the 1970s. These men, who make up an A-list of gaming leaders, were as diverse and colorful as the gambling palaces they built and managed. Following are some of the extraordinary circumstances that allowed a dusty outpost in the middle of nowhere to become one of the brightest spots on Earth.

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New York magazine: Miki Agrawal's Panty Raid

Self-styled tech broad Miki Agrawal wants to disrupt the tampon industry, turn periods into a cause, and make a lot of money in underwear.
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The New York City subway is not an especially prudish place.

In addition to the unflappable readers of romance novels, there are the advertisements, which specialize in double entendre. A mattress company entices riders by promising a comfortable place to “go too far.” A plastic surgeon’s office illustrates breast enhancement with clementines transformed into grapefruits. But last fall, when a young company called Thinx that makes “period underwear”— constructed of special fabric to ensure menstrual blood doesn’t leak or stain—submitted a proposal for ads that employed grapefruit halves (and runny eggs) in an if–Georgia O’Keeffe–painted–food kind of way, the media company that evaluates ads for the MTA balked. You may have heard about this, because it was big news on the internet: “Will the New York City Subway Ban These Ads for Using the Word ‘Period’?” asked Mic in a post that was shared with righteous anger on Facebook and Twitter (“Yes @mta, let’s not suggest that women get periods”; “DEAR NY SUBWAY, THERE WILL BE BLOOD”). The MTA told the Times that this wasn’t at all the case, that the ads were still in the review process, and that “of course” they would run.

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Men's Fitness: Norman Reedus: The Walking Man

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Spend just a little time with The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus and it's obvious the modest motorcycle-riding megastar is rip-roaringly alive. That's exactly how he'd like to keep his zombie-hunting alter ego, Daryl Dixon, but will he?

IT'S A WARM FALL EVENING IN NEW YORK CITY'S WEST VILLAGE, AND ACT OR NORMAN REEDUS steps out of a vintage Mercedes convertible and onto a quiet street where an angled sun casts a pale glow across the neighborhood’s famous cobblestones. Though only a handful of pedestrians stroll and mingle about, Reedus hasn’t even shut the door behind him when a crush of bodies almost magically appears. Men, women, tourists, residents, college students, and even a few AARP-eligible old-timers all stand frozen, staring at the svelte tough guy in the black leather jacket, that unmistakable jagged hair dangling down to his collar.


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Fast Company: Microsoft's Radical Bet On A New Type Of Design Thinking

How studying underserved communities is helping the tech giant create better products. 

Fast Company: Microsoft's Radical Bet On A New Type Of Design Thinking
On one otherwise unremarkable day in May 2013, August de los Reyes fell out of bed, hurting his back. The then-42-year-old designer was just six months into his dream job at Microsoft: running design for Xbox and righting a franchise that was drifting due to mission creep. He had worked at Microsoft before, on projects such as MSN and Windows, but had returned because the world of gaming had an almost spiritual appeal to him. “I believe the universe is play,” he says. “And I believe there’s a moral imperative to play.”

At first, de los Reyes didn’t think the accident was serious. But several trips to the hospital later, he finally underwent emergency surgery. He’d broken a vertebra, his spinal cord had swelled, and, with breathtaking quickness, he was unable to walk ever again. The agonizing months adapting to his new life awakened de los Reyes to the thoughtlessness that hides all around us. He couldn’t meet friends in the usual restaurants, simply because no one had made the effort to pour a tiny concrete ramp.

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Techlife News: India Internet Ruling Blocks Facebook 'Free Basics' Program

Techlife News: India Internet Ruling Blocks Facebook 'Free Basics' Program
India’s government has essentially banned a Facebook program that sought to connect with low-income residents by offering free access to a limited version of the social network and other Internet services.

The ruling is a major setback for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who had lobbied hard for the program as part of a campaign to expand Internet access in developing countries. It’s a victory for critics who argued that Facebook’s “Free Basics” program gave an unfair advantage to some Internet services over others.

Facebook has introduced “Free Basics” in partnership with wireless carriers in dozens of emerging nations, where the company hopes to get more people online. The service provides free access to a stripped-down version of Facebook and certain other Internet sites - including some that provide essential information like weather forecasts, health education and job listings.

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Thursday 18 February 2016

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In the latest issue of India Today, cover story 'The Great Headley Chase' looks at how his revelations have nailed the role of his former associates in the LeT and Pakistan's ISI, giving India a water-tight case. In an exclusive interview, former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh opens up on a wide variety of subjects including the Modi government's flip-flops on Pakistan and the state of the economy. This issue also carries a report on Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and how he is keen to assume new identities and seek new alliances in a bid to win over poll-bound states.

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