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Jessica Stroup, one of the stars of TV?s 90210, has joined the cast of Ted,?Universal and Media Rights Capital?s comedy co-written by and being directed?by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane.
The movie centers on a man who as young boy made a Christmas wish that his?Teddy Bear would come to life and be his best friend forever. Twenty-five?years later, the bear is still at his side, but has now evolved into a?cursing, smoking, delinquent (voiced by MacFarlane) that is preventing the?man from maturing.
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Mark Wahlberg is the grown man. The movie also counts Mila Kunis, Joel?McHale, Giovanni Ribisi and Patrick Warburton among its cast.?Stroup will play Kunis? office co-worker, a woman who has slept with their?boss (McHale), a man of many fetishes.
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Producing Ted are MacFarlane, Scott Stuber and John Jacobs.
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Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild wrote the script with MacFarlane.
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Stroup, who plays Erin Silver on 90210, has done voicework in MacFarlane?s?Family Guy. Her feature credits that include Prom Night and The Informers.?Stroup is repped by ICM, 3 Arts Entertainment ?and attorney Neil ?E Meyer.
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At NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, a technician inside space shuttle Endeavour's aft section is testing the Load Control Assembly-2 (LCA-2) for replacement.
At NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, a technician inside space shuttle Endeavour's aft section is testing the Load Control Assembly-2 (LCA-2) for replacement.
NASA announced today that the space shuttle Endeavour will not launch earlier than May 16 at 8:56 a.m. ET. Last Friday, NASA scrubbed the launch because a blown fuse prevented heaters on a hydraulic system fuel line from turning on.
Endeavour's STS-134 mission has been closely watched because it will be commanded by Mark Kelly, Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford's husband, and it is also the penultimate launch of the 30-year-old shuttle program.
"This weekend, technicians will continue to repair and retest electrical circuitry that caused a postponement of Endeavour's April 29 launch attempt," NASA said in a news release.
Published: April 22, 2011
These days, everything is distributed: our teams and co-workers, our customers and clients, and even our networking efforts. You can live in San Francisco, have an assistant in New York, and serve clients in L?
Published: April 22, 2011
Find out how much your Mac knows about where your iOS devices have been
Published: April 22, 2011
The latest quarterly data from enterprise device management vendor Good Technology finds that the Verizon iPhone is popular in the enterprise, and that iPads are still huge. The Verizon iPhone has the highest?
Published: April 22, 2011
Simon Mainwaring is the author of a new book, We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World (Palgrave Macmillan). Prior to founding We First, a social branding consultancy, Simo?
Published: April 22, 2011
By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN
Doctors practicing in the U.S. are becoming increasingly conscious of the increasing costs of health care. Most consider themselves cost-conscious, and are considering the impact of the?
Published: April 22, 2011
It used to be so easy to define what a book was: a collection of printed pages bound inside a cover (hard or soft) that you could place on a shelf in your library, or in a store. Now, there are e-books, and bl?
Published: April 22, 2011
If you want your fans to see your posts and interact with them, and if you want your page to be a positive place that helps you get more business, this post is for you.How you manage your Facebook page is cri?
Published: April 21, 2011
Several days are set aside each year by various organizations to celebrate storytelling. Some of these special days are relatively new, having been marked for just the past few years. The recent vernal equinox?
Published: April 22, 2011
Here?s a good, clear story by Brian X. Chen of Wired on the facts about Apple?s CONSOLIDATED.DB file, which contains information on where iPhone and iPad users have been. It?s not a conspiracy or a terrif?
Published: April 22, 2011
Here?s an interesting infographic from Fathom on the power of storytelling that I wanted to share.
A great reminder that the creation of valuable, compelling stories on a consistent basis can maintain or change?
Published: April 22, 2011
Google?s foray into the group buying realm that was born from a failed attempt to purchase Groupon has launched for a few markets in beta.
Google?s Groupon has a slightly confusing sign in landing page- I?
Published: April 22, 2011
Back in the early days of Amazon, around 1995 or so, a friend of mine placed an order that got botched. He mailed a letter (not email, but the real kind) to Jeff Bezos and never heard back: no acknowledgement,?
Published: April 22, 2011
If you?re reading this, chances are you?re sitting down, which means you?re probably digging yourself an early grave.At least, that?s the gist of a few articles that have made the rounds recently. A?
Published: April 22, 2011
Apple is a company that spawns both rabid fans and haters.
But there?s no denying that it?s been enormously successful, and it just keeps on winning.
Part of that success, as we?ve said before, comes from the f?
Published: April 22, 2011
A few weeks ago, all eyes were on the announcement of Google +1. As many have said, +1 is a smart move for Google. It incorporates the wisdom of the masses to drive better search results.
This is ultimately goo?
Published: April 22, 2011
Google Places turned a year old this week, which is kinda like 10 years in Internet time. And, like many 10-year-olds, Google Places is getting to that stage between being a cute kid and a troublesome teenager?.
Published: April 22, 2011
With every revolution there is change. Sometimes the change is the reason for the revolution, and other times it?s an unexpected outcome. With the dawn of the iOS platform and the introduction of both the iPh?
Published: April 22, 2011
Good Technology, a company behind a BlackBerry-like enterprise messaging server, is out with their latest data report on mobile devices in the workplace, gathered from thousands of customers, including 40 of th?
Published: April 22, 2011
The WSJ?s headline?Apple, Google Collect User Data?borders on art, but the real point of note from the piece as it attempts to corral and make sense of the?
Published: April 22, 2011
Mouthwash?s antiseptic properties make it a great multipurpose solution for over a dozen household and health and beauty needs, from reducing the appearance of?
Published: April 21, 2011
A little over a year ago, I wrote about Facebook?s post-logout promotion of Facebook Mobile ? which helped to significantly increase iPhone usage (+20% in a week).Meanwhile, another giant social / mobile?
Published: April 21, 2011
Your iPhone tracks you everywhere you go, and so do most phones these days. You knew that already. The reason this is a big story now is because it turns out that for the past 10 months Apple has been keepin?
Published: April 21, 2011
Keith Smith / GeekWire:
Amazon.com?s real problem isn?t the outage, it?s the communication ? Guest Commentary: Like many companies running on Amazons Web Services, BigDoor has been affected by the AWS o?
Published: April 21, 2011
Is there a more literary game than baseball? Novelist Joseph Finder hails an entertaining new companion to America?s favorite pastime.
The writer George Plimpton once proposed what he called the Small Ball The?
Published: April 21, 2011
This post is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark as a new part of the Spark of Genius series that focuses on a new and innovative startup each day. Every Thursday, the program focuses on startups within the?
Published: April 22, 2011
It?s tough to question Hall of Fame center Robert Parish?s place in NBA history. He won three titles with the Boston Celtics dynasty of the 80s (and added a fourth as a backup with the 1997 Chicago Bulls),?
Published: April 22, 2011
One of my first ?big books? out of college was James Gleick?s Chaos: Making a New Science and it still resonates with me, though it?s been so long I think I?m due for a re-read. In any case, the next book up i?
Published: April 22, 2011
Amazon Web Services disruption issues are now into their second day as engineers work to get the last of the availability zones restored. Meanwhile, the customers affected spent the day talking with their custo?
Published: April 22, 2011
After attending the services at our church last night, I am still speechless. Good Friday commemorates perhaps the greatest mystery in the history of the world. How is it that God Himself?the Creator of th?
Published: April 22, 2011
While making the trains run on time is a good thing, making them run early is not.
If you define success as getting closer and closer to a mythical perfection, an agreed upon standard, it?s extremely difficult?
Published: April 22, 2011
The Domino Project team should go with a YES sign?if it ever considers ditching its domino symbol.
The NO sign greeted everyone entering the retirement community my husband and I lived in just out of college?.
Published: April 22, 2011
Call it Cloudgate, Cloudpocalyse or whatever you?d like, but the extended collapse of Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) is both a setback for cloud computing and an opportunity for us to figure out how to?
Published: April 22, 2011
Today?s song: MEDITATION FROM THAIS/JULES MASSENET performed by the FRITZ KREISLER. ?I baptize thee in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost,? my grandfather Allie said as he sprinkled w?
Published: April 22, 2011
The online company is saying goodbye to consumers and hello to big (paying) companies.
Published: April 22, 2011
If the walls could talk, they would tell you stories.
Published: April 22, 2011
Apple is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the supply chain for gadgets. It gives buyers what they want faster than its rivals ? and in the process, it sometimes delays the competition?s products fr?
Published: April 21, 2011
Should brands respond to all negative comments?The common held response to a question like that is usually a stern and obvious, yes! In theory, it makes perfect sense. In practice, what do you think is really?
Published: April 21, 2011
I spoke at an AMA webinar today sponsored by Curata talking about content marketing and content curation. There were a number of questions about the ?fair use? of online content when it comes to content curati?
Published: April 22, 2011
Published: April 22, 2011
Storytelling is getting into the hands of demagogues tapping into individual?s dreams for success, power, riches and happiness. Here are two examples I?ve cropped off twitter today:?
Published: April 22, 2011
On my last visit to New York, I stopped at apparel maker Bruno Cucinelli?s store in the West Village. In a city of opulent, luxury-brand outlets, this tiny outpost was perhaps one of the most ideal and idylli?
Published: April 21, 2011
Anna Lindow is the Director of Marketing Strategy and Audience Development for Bundle, a New York startup that uses data to help people better manage their finances. Connect with her on Twitter, or email her?
Published: April 21, 2011
Four months after Groupon turned down Google?s $6 billion buyout offer, the search giant appears to have built what it couldn?t buy. The company has begun rolling out Google Offers, a new discount offer ser?
Published: April 21, 2011
News.me, the much-anticipated social news reading application for the iPad, arrived in the App Store Thursday.There?s two big differences between News.me and existing competitors Flipboard and Zite: 1) It?
Published: April 21, 2011
Erin Bury is the community manager at Sprouter.com, an expert QA site for startup founders around the world. You can follow her on Twitter @ErinBury and read her blog at ErinBury.com.Less than three years ag?
Published: April 21, 2011
Spurned by daily-deal site Groupon, Google is now testing Google Offers, its own service for sending users deeply discounted offers for local businesses, starting with Portland, Oregon.
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Published: April 21, 2011
This story of how the iPhone and iPad are tracking the every movement of their users keeps growing. Now DC Policymakers Ed Markey and Al Franken have gotten into the act, calling on Steve Jobs for an answer to?
Source: http://www.greggmorris.com/curated-stories-april-22-2011
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Flood worries that prompted the U.S. government to blast open a Missouri levee to ease pressure on some towns are rippling down the Mississippi River, prompting more evacuations and unease as the Army Corps of Engineers weighs whether to purposely inundate more land with water.
The breach of southeastern Missouri's Birds Point levee was heralded by some Illinois towns along the Ohio River as a needed relief from record flooding, and the man who ordered that action says he may do the same with other Mississippi River spillways as flood prospects mount.
Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh said he understood the frustration at the corps' decision to sacrifice the levee Monday and send a wall of water over 130,000 acres of farmland the state of Missouri tried suing to save. "But this was one of the relief valves for the system," he added. "We were forced to use that valve."
That calculation to draw down the Mississippi and Ohio rivers in the nation's midsection appeared to do its job. On Tuesday night, the Ohio at Metropolis, Ill., measured 54.7 feet about the same level it had been at the time of the blast. Without that breach, the river was forecast to have steadily crept up to a crest of more than 58 feet.
In Cairo, the Ohio had dropped to 60 feet, about a foot and a half lower than it was at the time of the breach. Cairo, a town of about 2,800 residents, is at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Downstream of Cairo ? in southeast Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana ? concerns are growing as the Mississippi River continues to rise.
Memphis, where the Mississippi was at 43.8 feet Tuesday, could see a near-record crest of 48 feet on May 11, just inches lower than the record of 48.7 feet in 1937. Water from the Wolf and Loosahatchie rivers already has seeped into parts of the suburbs, and some mobile home parks were swamped.
Flood fears prompted an emergency declaration for 920,000 residents in Shelby County, where authorities blocked some suburban streets and about 220 people were staying in shelters. Emergency officials there estimate that some 5,300 homes and businesses could be affected by flooding blamed at least partly on more than 11 inches of rain that have soaked the Memphis area since April 25.
Flooding already has begun in Dyersburg, which is about 70 miles north-northeast of Memphis. Mayor John Holden said that people in parts of that city near the North Fork of the Forked Deer River should evacuate. Farther south, the lower Mississippi River was expected to crest well above flood stages in a region still dealing with the aftermath of last week's deadly tornadoes.
Forecasters say the river could break records in Mississippi set during catastrophic floods in 1927 and a decade later. Gov. Haley Barbour started warning people last week to take precautions if they live in flood-prone areas near the river, comparing the swell of water moving downriver to a pig moving through a python.
With tornados and the threat of rivers gone wild, "we're making a lot of unfortunate history here in Mississippi in April and May," said Jeff Rent, a Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman.
Because the maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is particularly flood-prone, the state plans to evacuate the most medically vulnerable inmates by next Monday, then other inmates later.
Walsh has made clear he may use other downstream "floodways" basins surrounded by levees that can be intentionally blown open to divert floodwaters to try to rein in the trouble.
Among those that could be tapped are the 58-year-old Morganza floodway in central Louisiana and the Bonnet Carre floodway about 30 miles north of New Orleans. The 4-mile-wide Morganza has been pressed into service just once, in 1973. The Bonnet Carre christened in 1932 has been opened up nine times since 1937, the most recent in 2008.
Unlike the Missouri levee, these floodways can be opened using gates designed for the purpose, not explosives that unleashed the rush of floodwater into Birds Point that damaged or destroyed as many as 100 homes and washed away crop prospects for this year. Walsh said there are no homes in the Bonnet Carre floodway and only scattered homes and farmland in the Morganza one.
On Tuesday, a group of 25 farmers sued the U.S. government in Missouri, arguing that their land near Birds Point had been taken without adequate compensation.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said farmers with crop insurance will be eligible for government reimbursements if their land was flooded. Other help will be available for livestock producers and tree farmers under the same programs designed for natural disasters. People who lost homes may also be eligible for rural housing loans.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said state leaders would push to have the Birds Point levee rebuilt and restore the farmland's productivity. Walsh acknowledged it could be late summer or early fall before the water fully drains off the land, and sediment and moisture could do lasting damage.
After Memphis, the Mississippi is expected to crest May 12 at Helena, Ark., and further south in the following days. Forecasters predict record levels at the towns of Vicksburg and Natchez, Miss.
High water already has shut down nine river casinos in northwest Mississippi's Tunica County, where about 600 residents have been evacuated from flood-prone areas on the inside of the levee, county spokesman Larry Liddell said.
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(Classical Detours meanders through stylistic byways, exploring new recordings from the fringes of classical music.)
Amjad Ali Khan performs his concerto Samaagam with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Mumbai.
If you are over 40 and a Westerner like me, your introduction to Indian classical music was probably courtesy of the Beatles. Perhaps the 1966 song "Love You To" from Revolver, or the more elaborate "Within You Without You" from Sgt. Pepper's a year later. Both feature George Harrison playing sitar. (You can see him practicing with his teacher Ravi Shankar in the 1971 documentary Raga, newly released on DVD.)
Beatles producer George Martin added symphonic strings to "Within You Without You," making it one of the first East-meets-West mashups to penetrate popular culture. Others have followed, including Shankar's own Concerto for Sitar, recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1971.
And now, 40 years later, we have a brand new concerto by another Indian master musician ? Amjad Ali Khan, widely regarded as the world's finest sarod player. His instrument is a smaller, fretless and darker-toned cousin of the sitar, and a staple of northern Indian (Hindustani) classical music. Like the sitar, it has a row of strings that vibrate in sympathy with the others used for melody and drone. Khan comes from six generations of musicians, and some have conjectured that it was one of his ancestors who actually invented the sarod.
?At age 65, Khan has performed for nearly 60 years. He's a longtime fan of European classical music ("Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky; the works!") and finally the time seemed right to compose his first concerto. He was asked to write a piece for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. With conductor David Murphy, they debuted the concerto in 2008 in Orkney, and now they've regrouped for this new recording, scheduled for release May 10.
The piece's full title is Samaagam: A Concerto for Sarod, Concertante Group and String Orchestra. In Sanskrit, samaagam refers to a confluence, or flowing together, and Khan (along with help from Murphy's insights into Indian music) has done a pretty good job of keeping true to his title.
The excerpt below, "Swar Samir," opens with calls from the brass and winds and responses from Khan's sarod. When the beat kicks in (thanks to tabla player Vineet Vyas) strings sway and slither in ways not unlike what we were introduced to all those years ago in "Within You Without You." It serves as a launching pad for a heartfelt solo by Khan.
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For his 45-minute concerto, Khan draws from at least ten different ragas ? the melodic seeds of Indian classical compositions. Even though a single piece can last hours, Khan says his concerto is like a "bouquet of ragas," with three of them figuring prominently in the final movement. Khan's beautiful solo versions of them open the disc, another pleasing East-West partnership.
If you're in the mood for more music from Asia, you can eavesdrop on our Tiny Desk Concert with pipa virtuoso Wu Man.
Psychiatry, as a profession, is often misunderstood. The stereotype includes a long couch, dim lighting and a man with a soothing voice asking, "And, how did that make you feel?" The reality is much more complicated. In Shrink Rap, psychiatrists describe what they do every day.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/05/03/135957783/shrink-rap-psychiatry-beyond-the-couch?ft=1&f=5
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Former All Things Considered host Noah Adams remembers his time on the show.
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Today, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED turns 40 and to mark this milestone, we've asked the former hosts of this program to share their memories.
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