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Angelina Jolie and the One Percent | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network
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As a result, many women overestimate their breast cancer risk, choose double mastectomies when cancer is only detected in one breast and there is no medical reason for doing so, and experience overdiagnosis, overtreatment, and an overabundance of self-surveillance. Genetic testing now blasts into the risk-focused cancer surveillance market with the joyful promise of proactive, empowered, life-saving decision-making — a promise they may help to deliver for people in the one percent. But with more than 1000 mutations already identified in the BRCA genes (and others yet to be discovered), most genetic profiles and treatment options are not so straightforward.

The value of preventive measures for people at high risk notwithstanding, risk itself is a valuable commodity. The stock for Myriad Genetics — the company that presently owns the patents on the breast cancer genes and monopolizes the market on BRCA analysis (e.g., trademarked as BRACAnalysis) — went up 3 percent the day of the op-ed to a three-year high with twice the usual trading volume. Myriad markets both to consumers directly and to physicians and other health practitioners

The Angelina Jolie case opens the door for thinking about what is at stake in the cancer wars especially for people at increased risk. Yet Angelina Jolie is in a unique and privileged position. She can get the best care, top surgeons, family help, and everything else that comes with power and wealth. For the rest of us, tough medical decisions come with other costs. But we all deserve quality information, evidence-based medicine, and access to comprehensive and coordinated health care that is free from conflicts of interest and the profit motives of commercial enterprises that are eager take advantage of our fears while selling us superficial “solutions” to our problems.

Angelina Jolie et le 1% - Scientific American
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Pour le docteur Gayle Sulik, la double masectomie d’Angelina Jolie illustre notre entrée dans un nouveau temps de l’information médicale. Bien sûr, du fait de la présence du gene BRCA1 et de ses antécédents familiaux, Angelina Jolie a plus de chances que d’autres de développer un cancer du sein (mais seulement 5 à 10 % des cancers du sein impliquent ce gène), mais seulement une femme sur 600 qui ont cette variante sur leur gène augmentent leur risque de cancer. La médecine ne propose pas de boule de (...)

#santé #adn #génétique

Tiens, une femme pour #les_acteurs_que_je_sais_jamais_leur_nom : Honor Blackman
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La Catherine Gale de The Avengers !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0mTRiZGvvw

Islamophobia on the red carpet
http://socialistworker.org/2013/02/27/islamophobia-on-the-red-carpet

When Emad, his wife and 8-year-old son Gibreel arrived in Los Angeles to attend the award ceremony, they were detained and questioned at the airport. Despite the fact that Emad had his official Oscar invitation, they were threatened with deportation by immigration officials, who apparently could not believe a Palestinian could be nominated for an Oscar.

Un personnage de Quentin Tarantino dans la réalité des Etats Unis

Chris Kyle, Author of ‘American Sniper’ Reported Killed in Texas - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/us/chris-kyle-american-sniper-author-reported-killed.html?_r=0

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... two weeks into his time in Iraq, he found himself staring through his scope into the face of an unconventional enemy. A woman with a child standing close by had pulled a grenade from beneath her clothes as several Marines approached. He hesitated, he wrote, then shot.

“It was my duty to shoot, and I don’t regret it,” he wrote. “My shots saved several Americans, whose lives were clearly worth more than that woman’s twisted soul.”

Over time, his hesitation diminished and he became proficient at his job, credited with more than 150 kills. In his book, he describes shooting a fighter wielding a rocket launcher 2,100 yards away, a very long distance for a sniper and his farthest ever.

Dans son film Inglorious Basterds Quentin Tarantino décrit un jeune soldat assez sympathique qui devient la vedette des médias sous le contrôle de Goebbels. Vu qu’Inglorious Basterds est une sorte de fable sanguinaire marqué par un sarcasme omniprésent, il me semble permis de comparer ce personnage avec le vétéran américain qui vient de se faire tuer par un camarade.

Fredrick Zoller (Daniel Brühl), (is) a German sniper whose exploits are to be celebrated in a Nazi propaganda film, Stolz der Nation (Nation’s Pride), starring as himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds

Mr. Kyle’s autobiography was published in January 2012 and became a nonfiction best seller. It turned Mr. Kyle into a celebrity, appearing on talk shows like “Late Night With Conan O’Brien.”

The sudden success of the book surprised no one more than Mr. Kyle, the son of a church deacon who was initially rejected by the Navy when he tried to join in the mid-1990s, because of pins in his arm from a rodeo injury. His first book signing drew 1,200 people. About 850,000 print and e-book editions were sold.

In an interview with The New York Times in March, Mr. Kyle — who received two Silver Stars and five Bronze medals for valor — said he had hesitated to write about his experiences. But he was persuaded to move forward after hearing that other books about members of the SEALs were in the works.

“I wanted to tell my story as a SEAL,” he said. “This is about all the hardships that everybody has to go through to get the respect and the honor.”

Allez voir le film de Tarantino, vous y découvrirez une forte ressemblance des attitudes affichés par les protagonistes et une déscription de l’explolitation des héros par la machine de propagande nazie digne des médias du pouvoir actuel.

A lire aussi : http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sniper-chris-kyle-investigation-20130203,0,4541295.story

Son assassin présumé ...

... Routh appeared to be one of the nation’s numerous unemployed veterans, and Kyle was one of the crop of Navy SEALs to leave the anonymity of military service and enter the public sphere.

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Tarantino s’intéresse indirectement aux conséquences de la violence, il décrit comment ses protagonistes utilisent des symboles afin de pouvoir vivre avec la violence qu’ils excercent. C’est également décrit dans l’autobiographie du tireur d’élite. D’après les reportages connus à cette heure un soldat risque de « déraper » s’il ne sait pas employer cette méthode - les mots et symboles idéologiques sont nécessaire afin de digérer la contradiction entre sa vie personelle humaine et la tâche inhumaine à accomplir.

His autobiography was unapologetically politically incorrect, reflecting the man: During one visit home between deployments, Kyle got a tattoo of a crusader cross on his arm.

“I wanted everyone to know I was a Christian,” Kyle wrote. “I had it put in in red, for blood. I hated the damn savages I’d been fighting. I always will. They’ve taken so much from me.”

Kyle won adulation and a spotlight and appeared on the NBC reality show “Stars Earn Stripes,” in which “celebrities are challenged to execute complicated missions inspired by real military exercises.”

Le résumé des événement est court : Ce sont toujours le petits gens qui paient avec leur vie pour le profit des grands.

Can you centre a film festival on menstruation? - The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/can-you-centre-a-film-festival-on-menstruation-crankytownca-is-trying/article7528895
#cinéma

L’emploi des femmes en Europe
http://www.laviedesidees.fr/L-emploi-des-femmes-en-Europe.html

"Qu’en est-il de l’emploi féminin dans les différents pays européens et quelles sont les évolutions récentes ? En insistant sur la diversité des situations européennes, cet essai vise à déterminer les politiques qui semblent les plus favorables à l’emploi des femmes dans une perspective de « cycle de vie », c’est-à-dire en tenant compte de la phase spécifique de l’éventuelle naissance et de l’éducation de très jeunes d’enfants."

Le Capital en prend en coup. J.R. est mort.

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L’acteur américain Larry Hagman, qui interprétait le rôle de J.R. Ewing dans la série télévisée Dallas, est mort vendredi à l’âge de 81 ans

How to sound design a character “remembering” a line of dialog without using reverb?
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/post-production-forum/786706-how-sound-design-character-remembering-line-dialog-without-using-r

I’m working on post production for a short film.
The setting is modern American street life (not sci fi).
In the last scene the main character remembers something that was said in a previous scene. For this I played back the clip of audio from the previous scene and put some reverb on it.
The director has decided she doesn’t want me to use reverb, but still “make it sound like it’s in her head”.

#mixage

S.A.R.A.H. « jAlias
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L’objectif du Projet S.A.R.A.H est d’avoir une maison intelligente connectée à l’#internet_des_objets un peu dans l’esprit de la série TV Eureka. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARAH
Le principe est de déclencher des requêtes HTTP via :
la reconnaissance vocale de phrases exprimées en XML
la reconnaissance de gestes exprimés en XML
une planification Google Calendar
la reconnaissance de QRCodes
des scripts joués périodiquements, …

#domotique via @jpencausse

Dinner with Hitler

How a brilliant starlet created a worldwide technology boom

It all started with a skin flick...

In 1933, a beautiful, young Austrian woman took off her clothes for a movie director. She ran through the woods... naked. She swam in a lake... naked. Pushing well beyond the social norms of the period, the movie also featured a simulated orgasm. To make the scene “vivid,” the director reportedly stabbed the actress with a sharp pin just offscreen.

The most popular movie in 1933 was King Kong. But everyone in Hollywood was talking about that scandalous movie with the gorgeous, young Austrian woman.

Louis B. Mayer, of the giant studio MGM, said she was the most beautiful woman in the world. The film was banned practically everywhere... which of course made it even more popular and valuable. Mussolini reportedly refused to sell his copy at any price.

The star of the film, called Ecstasy, was Hedwig Kiesler. She said the secret of her beauty was “to stand there and look stupid.” In reality, Kiesler was anything but stupid. She was a genius. She’d grown up as the
only child of a prominent Jewish banker. She was a math prodigy. She excelled at science. As she grew older, she became ruthless, using all the power her body and mind gave her.

Between the sexual roles she played, her tremendous beauty, and the power of her intellect, Kiesler would confound the men in her life... including her six husbands, two of the most ruthless dictators of the 20th century, and one of the greatest movie producers in history.

Her beauty made her rich for a time. She is said to have made - and spent - $30 million in her life. But her greatest accomplishment resulted from her intellect... And her invention continues to shape the world we live in today.

You see, this young Austrian starlet would take one of the most valuable technologies ever developed right from under Hitler’s nose. After fleeing to America, she not only became a major Hollywood star... her name sits on one of the most important patents ever granted by the U.S. Patent Office.

Today, when you use your cell phone or, over the next few years, as you experience super-fast wireless Internet access (via something called “long-term evolution” or “LTE” technology), you’ll be using an extension of
the technology a 20- year-old actress first conceived while sitting at dinner with Hitler.

At the time she made Ecstasy, Kiesler was married to one of the richest men in Austria. Friedrich Mandl was Austria’s leading arms maker. His firm would become a key supplier to the Nazis.

Mandl used his beautiful young wife as a showpiece at important business dinners with representatives of the Austrian, Italian, and German fascist forces. One of Mandl’s favorite topics at these gatherings - which included meals with Hitler and Mussolini - was the technology surrounding radio-controlled missiles and torpedoes. Wireless weapons offered far greater ranges than the wire-controlled alternatives that prevailed at the time. Kiesler sat through these dinners “looking stupid,” while absorbing everything she heard...

As a Jew, Kiesler hated the Nazis. She abhorred her husband’s business ambitions. Mandl responded to his wilful wife by imprisoning her in his castle, Schloss Schwarzenau. In 1937, she managed to escape. She drugged her maid, snuck out of the castle wearing the maid’s clothes, and sold her jewelry to finance a trip to London.

(She got out just in time. In 1938, Germany annexed Austria. The Nazis seized Mandl’s factory. He was half Jewish. Mandl fled to Brazil. Later, he became an advisor to Argentina’s iconic populist president, Juan Peron.)

In London, Kiesler arranged a meeting with Louis B. Mayer. She signed a long-term contract with him, becoming one of MGM’s biggest stars. She appeared in more than 20 films. She was a co-star to Clark Gable, Judy Garland, and even Bob Hope. Each of her first seven MGM movies was a blockbuster.

But Kiesler cared far more about fighting the Nazis than about making movies. At the height of her fame, in 1942, she developed a new kind of communications system, optimized for sending coded messages that couldn’t be “jammed.” She was building a system that would allow torpedoes and guided bombs to always reach their targets. She was building a system to kill Nazis.

By the 1940s, both the Nazis and the Allied forces were using the kind of single- frequency radio-controlled technology Kiesler’s ex-husband had been peddling. The drawback of this technology was that the enemy could find the appropriate frequency and “jam” or intercept the signal, thereby interfering with the missile’s intended path.

Kiesler’s key innovation was to “change the channel.” It was a way of encoding a message across a broad area of the wireless spectrum. If one part of the spectrum was jammed, the message would still get through on one of the other frequencies being used. The problem was, she could not figure out how to synchronize the frequency changes on both the receiver and the transmitter. To solve the problem, she turned to perhaps the world’s first techno-musician, George Anthiel.

Anthiel was an acquaintance of Kiesler who achieved some notoriety for creating intricate musical compositions. He synchronized his melodies across twelve player pianos, producing stereophonic sounds no one had ever heard before. Kiesler incorporated Anthiel’s technology for synchronizing his player pianos. Then, she was able to synchronize the frequency changes between a weapon’s receiver and its transmitter.

On August 11, 1942, U.S. Patent No. 2,292,387 was granted to Antheil and “Hedy Kiesler Markey,” which was Kiesler’s married name at the time.

Most of you won’t recognize the name Kiesler. And no one would remember the name Hedy Markey. But it’s a fair bet than anyone reading this newsletter of a certain age will remember one of the great beauties of Hollywood’s golden age - Hedy Lamarr. That’s the name Louis B. Mayer gave to his prize actress. That’s the name his movie company made famous.

Meanwhile, almost no one knows Hedwig Kiesler - aka Hedy Lamarr - was one of the great pioneers of wireless communications. Her technology was developed by the U.S. Navy, which has used it ever since.

You’re probably using Lamarr’s technology, too. Her patent sits at the foundation of “spread spectrum technology,” which you use every day when you log on to a wi- fi network or make calls with your Bluetooth-enabled phone. It lies at the heart of the massive investments being made right now in so-called fourth-generation “LTE” wireless technology. This next generation of cell phones and cell towers will provide tremendous increases to wireless network speed and quality, by spreading wireless signals across the entire available spectrum. This kind of encoding is only possible using the kind of frequency switching that Hedwig Kiesler invented.FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

14 celebrity coming out stories which shocked the world | Gay Star News
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/14-celebrity-coming-out-stories-which-shocked-world111012

14 celebrity coming out stories which shocked the world
Gay Star News takes a look at 14 men and women who have inspired thousands to be honest about their sexuality
11 October 2012 | By Joe Morgan
When Frank Ocean came out, it inspired thousands of others to do the same. We celebrate him and others for Coming Out Day.

There is real power when a celebrity is honest about their sexuality or gender identity, as it lets thousands of young gay people know they are not alone.

So to celebrate Coming Out Day (11 October), GSN has gathered together the stories of 14 celebrities who shocked the world when they were revealed who they really are.
Ellen DeGeneres

When Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian in 1997 on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, and later on her sitcom, she didn’t work for three whole years.

But soon after that, she was given a daytime talk show in 2003. With The Ellen DeGeneres Show, she has become one of the most loved personalities on our screens today.

Check out a video of the comic talking with her Oscar-nominated actress and co-star of her coming out episode Laura Dern here:

Ricky Martin

Before Ricky Martin came out in 2010, he spent 11 years of his life besieged by gay rumors.

The Puerto Rican singer was linked with TV host Rebecca de Alba as well as his ‘Nobody Wants To Be Lonely’ duet partner Christina Aguilera.

In a 2000 interview with British tabloid The Mirror, he said: ‘I don’t think I should have to tell anyone if I am gay or not, or who I’ve slept with or not.’

But in 2010, he finally admitted who he is. In a post on his official website, he said: ‘I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.’
Jessie J

British bisexual Jessie J became open about her sexuality when she broke the USA.

In a radio interview last year, she said: ‘I’ve never denied it. Whoopie doo guys, yes, I’ve dated girls and I’ve dated boys – get over it.’

Despite that, The Sun ‘outed’ her as a lesbian in April 2012. However, she called it a ‘boring, untrue story’.
Chaz Bono

Chaz Bono, the only child of Sonny and Cher, is one of the most high-profile transgender advocates in the USA.

Outed by the tabloid press in 1995 as a lesbian, Bono spent years writing about gay rights.

Between 2008-2010, he began his transition and saw his celebrity rise and rise which culminated in appearing as a contestant on one of the highest rated American TV shows Dancing On The Stars.

Check out Bono discussing his transition here:

Sally Ride

As the first American woman to fly in space, little was known about Sally Ride’s sexuality and personal life for years.

But it was only when she died of pancreatic cancer, in July this year, her obituary revealed she had been in a 27 year relationship with a woman.

On the day of her death, President Barack Obama described her as a ‘national hero and a powerful role model.’
Orlando Cruz

The first openly gay man to come out and continue competing in professional boxing, Orlando Cruz has made sport history.

In October 2012, the Puerto Rican made an announcement he wanted to be true to himself.

He said: ‘I want to try to be the best role model I can be for kids who might look into boxing as a sport and a professional career.

‘I have and will always be a proud Puerto Rican. I have always been and always will be a proud gay man.’
Cynthia Nixon

When you try to think of the one television show most straight women would most identify with, it would likely be Sex and the City.

The comic drama set in New York featured four heterosexual women finding love in the big city, and it starred Cynthia Nixon as tough businesswoman Miranda.

While Miranda met marital difficulties with partner Steve, Cynthia Nixon had found true love with a woman. Nixon and her partner activist Christine Marinoni married in May 2012.
Gareth Thomas

Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas isn’t exactly the stereotype of a gay guy, considering he is a star of one of the most macho, tough sports in the world.

But when he came out in 2010, he was the first openly gay athlete on any major sports team in the world.

Thomas says: ‘If sportspeople come out and share such a powerful story, and such a positive message, it changes the world. If someone is openly gay in sport, and being able to continue that sport, it is such a positive message for the world.’
Chely Wright

You may not have heard of Chely Wright, but she is one of the USA’s biggest country stars.

For an industry that is renowned to be Republican, and by default, homophobic, Wright has been able to forge out a successful career.

In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, she said when the TV host came out it inspired her but also terrified her.

‘I was watching it with my sister and my father who did not know I was gay.The minute you came out, my father reached for the remote control and flipped the TV off and said it was disgusting.

‘It sent me into a spiral. I made that promise again to never tell anyone in my family, or the record-buying public, that I was gay.’

But as years past, and they grew further apart, she had no choice to tell her father.

He got up on stage the next night at one of Wright’s gigs and said: ‘I’m so glad you guys came out to see my daughter, I’m really proud of her. Now kid, get back to singing.’

Check out the interview here:

Matt Bomer

Matt Bomer has played a male stripper, a detective, and is now being lined up to play female fantasy Christian in the film adaption of Fifty Shades of Grey.

And he is gay. After he came out in February 2012, he said: ‘I never really endeavored to hide anything.

‘But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.’
Lady Gaga

One of the most successful pop stars today, openly bisexual Lady Gaga is one of the most famous gay rights advocates.

While she is openly Christian, she has risked backlash by slamming the Pope for his anti-gay views.

She said: ‘What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter. It doesn’t matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope.’

Check out Gaga performing John Lennon’s Imagine at a Human Rights benefit here:

Jim Parsons

When The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons came out, it wasn’t by announcing it on the cover of a magazine.

He came out publicly in a New York Times profile interview when he was starring in Broadway in the play Harvey.

The article simply said: ‘Mr. Parsons is gay and in a 10-year relationship.’
KD Lang

Canadian born KD Lang is one of the most successful artists of all time.

Winning multiple Grammy awards, Lang came out in an interview with The Advocate in 1992.

In an interview with Canadian LGBT news website Xtra!, she said: ‘To celebrate your own uniqueness is the biggest celebration of confidence.

‘It’s a testimony to your parents and to yourself to live your life as who you are.’

‘Coming out as a lesbian was important,’ she said. ‘When you’re holding in things or not being honest, all these things affect your voice. My voice is definitely designated to who I am as a person.’
Frank Ocean

Ever since R&B star Fran Ocean came out, he has seen his career skyrocket to success.

In July, the Odd Future member published what was meant to be the notes for his album Channel Orange.

He describes meeting a man when he was 19 years old and falling in love, for real, for the first time.

Ocean says when he looked back on his previous girlfriends and the love songs he used to play for them, the lyrics were ‘written in a language’ he did not yet speak.

When it was released, Channel Orange reached the top of the US Billboard R&B Chart. It just shows that honesty really is the best policy.

Vulvomaton - regards.fr
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« De nombreuses jeunes femmes ne sont pas satisfaites de leurs corps et essayent d’en changer les détails. Alors elles subissent des opérations pour que leurs vulves soient plus “mainstream” », témoigne Beate Detlefs, présidente de K. Vonders Fond, une association danoise créée en 1975 pour améliorer la connaissance qu’ont les femmes de leur propre corps. « Nous avons remarqué qu’il était difficile de trouver des “vraies” photographies de vulves sur Internet. Le “Kussomatten” a donc été lancé pour que des Danoises de tous les âges fassent une “donation” de la photo de leur sexe. »

Le « Kussomaten », littéralement « photomaton pour vulves », a été considéré au mieux avec humour par la presse danoise, le quotidien Politiken allant jusqu’à imaginer à quoi ressemblerait un « Pikomatten », un photomaton pour sexes masculins. Il naît pourtant d’un constat sérieux : 29 % des jeunes femmes se sentent mal avec leur corps, en particulier avec leurs organes génitaux, selon une enquête réalisée par l’Association danoise pour le planning familial.

« La vulve parfaite », c’est aussi le titre d’un documentaire britannique qui se confronte au phénomène de la nymphoplastie, l’opération des organes génitaux féminins, dont la demande a doublé lors des cinq dernières années au Royaume-Uni. Les filles ayant subi une opération y témoignent vouloir un sexe « normal », « comme les autres », malgré le risque d’une perte de sensibilité.

#chirurgie

’Sexy Mom’ Tyranny: The Pressure to Look Hot After Baby | TIME Ideas | TIME.com
http://ideas.time.com/2012/07/30/the-tyranny-of-the-sexy-mom/?iid=op-main-feature

Jennifer Garner made news recently for wearing a one-piece bathing suit. Yup, in America it’s a big deal when a 40-year-old actress and mother of three does not appear in a bikini with ridiculously toned abs four months after giving birth. “Jennifer Garner Unveils Sexy Post-Baby Body in a Retro Swimsuit!”

This attitude has a trickle-down effect. A new report published this month in the journal Sex Roles revealed that many 6-to-9-year-old girls already think of themselves as sexual objects. Psychologists showed the girls two paper dolls, one dressed in tight, cleavage-revealing “sexy” clothes and the other wearing a trendy but covered-up outfit. Most girls identified the sexy doll as the one most likely to be popular and the one they wanted to look like. Interestingly, media consumption did not seem to play a role in the doll they picked. But a mother’s self-image did. Those girls with moms who reported self-objectifying tendencies, like worrying about their clothes and appearance many times a day, were more likely to pick the sexy doll.

#femmes #sexualisation_des_filles #poids #mode

Polisse (2011) | Maïwenn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jun/17/polisse-review

a convincing cinéma vérité style account of the working of Paris’s equivalent of our child protection unit

#film

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’Gentleman’s Agreement’ actress Celeste Holm dies - CNN.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/15/showbiz/celeste-holm-obit/index.html

Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm died at her home in New York on Sunday at the age of 95

All about Eve...

#broadway #hollywood

Les actrices les mieux payées doivent une bonne partie de leur fortune à des contrats pour des parfums - Three Thoughts on Forbes’ Highest-Paid Actresses List | ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/06/21/503269/highest-paid-actresses

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A lot of the money on this list wasn’t actually paid to the relevant actresses in salary for movies they made: A lot of these actresses’ incomes come from perfume contracts, endorsement deals, and residuals. That’s terrific, and it would be wonderful if more actresses, like Cameron Diaz, were getting rich backend deals. But it’s worth remembering that these actresses’ salaries aren’t as high as the overall figures quoted here.

#actrices

Petite traduction d’un récent billet d’Angry Arab :
http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2012/04/new-arab-guru-for-islamist.html

‘Abdul-‘Aziz bin Fahd est le nouveau nom à la mode dans le monde de l’extrémisme/fanatisme arabe islamiste. Il est le fils du roi Fahd qui s’est fait connaître en dépensant des millions dans le but de séduire l’actrice Yasmine Bleeth, dont il était tombé amoureux en regardant son programme télé favori, Baywatch. (Comme on le sait, Sa‘d Hariri fut le conseiller du prince en matière de plaisirs pendant des années, et avait l’habitude de lui porter sa mallette, comme me l’ont dit plusieurs témoins.) Bref, ‘Abdul-‘Aziz (l’enfant gâté du roi Fahd qui a hérité de la plupart de ses milliards) a récemment découvert la religion et le fanatisme. Il est le propriétaire de al-Wisal TV qui promeut les plus sectaires et fanatiques messages en matière de religion. Profitez bien.

Collages de stars par George Chamoun
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#photographie

Actress icon of Syrian revolt warns of sectarian warfare
http://news.yahoo.com/actress-icon-syrian-revolt-warns-sectarian-warfare-175633593.html

Fadwa Suleiman, an actress who became an icon of Syria’s revolution, is furious that her country’s peaceful protest movement has been drawn into armed conflict with the regime.

She said she is saddened to see that “the revolution is not going in the right direction, that it is becoming armed, that the opposition which wanted to resist peacefully is playing the game of the regime and that the country is heading for sectarian war”.

The Many Benefits, for Kids, of Playing Video Games | Psychology Today
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201201/the-many-benefits-kids-playing-video-games

It is always a mistake, I think, to tell kids what they must or must not do, except in those cases where you are telling them that they must do their share of the chores around the house or must not do things that hurt you or other people. Whenever we prevent our kids from playing or exploring in the ways they prefer, we place another brick in a barrier between them and us. We are saying, in essence, “I don’t trust you to control your own life.” Children are suffering today not from too much computer play or too much screen time. They are suffering from too much adult control over their lives and not enough freedom

#éducation #enfants #jeux_vidéos

command center: Esmerelda’s Imagination
http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2011/12/esmereldas-imagination.html

A friend observed that the definitive modern pastime is to complain on line. For the complainers, it’s fun, for the recipients of the complaint it can be dispiriting. As a recipient, I am pushing back—by complaining, of course.

Not so long ago, a programmer was someone who programs, but that seems to be the last thing programmers do nowadays. Today, the definition of a programmer is someone who complains unless the problem being solved has already been solved and whose solution can be expressed in a single line of code.

#programmation #go

Vu London Boulevard (2010) #film
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213648

Jusque là je n’aimais pas du tout Colin Farrell, mais dans celui-là et dans In Bruges, je le trouve assez épatant. Humour britannique à la con (un peu le même genre que In Bruges) que j’apprécie particulièrement.

Dispensable, vu sans déplaisir. Je suppose que je l’aurai oublié la semaine prochaine.

Nucléocrates, voici notre avenir :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/japans-no-go-zone/2011/11/18/gIQAiz7NcN_gallery.html
http://img2.wpdigital.net/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/11/19/Foreign/Images/JAPANZONE-09_1321729381.jpg
#nucléaire #japon #fukushima #photo

George Kuchar, Underground Filmmaker, Dies at 69 - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/movies/george-kuchar-underground-filmmaker-dies-at-69.html?_r=3

George Kuchar, a filmmaker whose campy yet ardent low-budget movies inspired underground directors like John Waters and David Lynch in the 1960s, and helped kindle the do-it-yourself moviemaking aesthetic now ubiquitous on YouTube, died on Tuesday in San Francisco. He was 69.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/09/08/arts/KUCHAR2-obit/KUCHAR2-obit-popup.jpg
#cinéma #mort