The French Atkin's-Like Weight Loss Method- Dukan Diet.
The Dukan Diet has taken France by storm, selling 3.5 million copies in 14 different languages and being hailed as a life-long weight loss answer.
But many Americans have ever heard of it.
Well they will next month when the diet books make their American debut, according to the New York Times. Dr. Pierre Dukan, the diet's creator, sold the North American Rights for $1.3 million up front.
But the diet may be nothing more than a glorified Atkin's impersonator.
According to the New York Times article, the diet has become such a staple of French culture that almost any public figure that loses weight is labeled as a "Dukanniste," including Carole Middleton, the mother of Kate Middleton. There have been rumors that the princess-to-be is also on the diet in preparation for the royal wedding, according to ABC News.
Critics claim it's really nothing more than a fad. Dr. David Katz, Director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center, called it the new fad diet for 2011. According to CBS, many critics even believe the diet may be wholly unhealthy and unsustainable.
The world is still assessing the scale of destruction and human loss following in the wake of last week's giant earthquake in the Caribbean nation of Haiti, early estimates placing the death toll as high as 100,000 people.
Shocked by the horror of the quake and mindful of Haiti's pressing need for aid, charities and international organisations are ramping up their efforts in the hope of preventing further horrid losses.
Game developers are doing their bit, too, PopCap donating a day's proceeds from their PopCap store to the aid effort, while Bungie are urging players to show their support in Halo 3 by wearing a Haitian relief emblem.
For every 1000th player wearing the badge (up to 77,000 USD), Bungie will donate 100 USD to the Red Cross, with special T-shirts also being sold.
Social media developers Zynga, meanwhile, are opening a World Food Programme fund with 100 percent of the profits going to Haiti.
Here is a news about Tory on The View. Read this.
Set your DVRs now. Tory is going to be on The View this morning for “Fashion Friday,” talking about her favorite spring looks. Here, she’s behind-the-scenes with hosts Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg. Tory is wearing our special edition Japan Relief T-shirt—100% of the net proceeds of every T-shirt sold until September 15, 2011, will go to the American Red Cross to benefit the Japan earthquake and Pacific tsunami relief efforts. We’ll be pre-selling the T-shirts today at ToryBurch.com and soon in select Tory Burch boutiques.
The Situations Attempts To Roast Donald Trump On Comedy Central.
"Maybe comedy ain't my game right now." Truer words were never spoken, neither by man nor meathead.
The question is not whether Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino will be funny on the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump. (You have one of the most laughable personalities in the history of television on stage next to real comedians...whatever happens, it will be funny.) The question is whether or not The Sitch (let's face it, the man is in dire need of a diminutive) will know why people are laughing at him or not.
We were there, so we know how it went down. But instead of ruining the surprise (plus, you never know what can happen with the magic of editing), we'll just whet your appetite with this clip Comedy Central already released. This is at the end of the distinguished gentleman from New Jersey's set, when Jeffrey Ross felt moved to intervene.
NEW YORK - Perhaps the NCAA tournament selection committee confused Alabama-Birmingham with Alabama, and Virginia Commonwealth for Virginia Tech.
The two bubble teams from power conferences were passed over Sunday in favor of a pair of mid-major teams from their very own states. The Crimson Tide and Hokies were relegated to the NIT, giving the consolation tournament its deepest field in years.
Alabama and Virginia Tech were joined as No. 1 seeds by Colorado and Boston College on Sunday night, two more teams that had high hopes of playing in the NCAA tournament. They'll host first-round games Tuesday and Wednesday, with the championship game March 31 in New York City.
It's the 1928 silent film directed by Dreyer. For some reason my Shaw Digital onscreen guide is calling it Joan of Arc but that's a mistake.
TCM is showing a string of movies about Joan of Arc tonight, but this one's the gold standard - as great a movie as you'll ever see, silent or otherwise.
Watch this video of "The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 1/8".
Since “coming out” to the world as Mormon polygamists on TLC’s reality series Sister Wives, the Browns have had their share of growing pains. The biggest, they say, was adjusting to new wife Robyn. In January, the family packed up and moved from their spacious home in Utah to Nevada. In their new community outside of Las Vegas, they don’t have a church, and it’s been a challenge finding a home that can fit all 21 of them. Currently, they’re scattered among four different houses, one for each wife: Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn.
The separation is only temporary, until they can build their own polygamist-style house with separate living quarters for each sister wife. And “there have been a lot of benefits,” Janelle said about the show.
On a recent afternoon, the family lounged in a suite at their hotel across from Central Park after appearing on the Today show the day before. Meri and Christine laughed about never going outside anymore without doing their hair and makeup. Robyn, looking a little worn out, was curled up under her coat on the couch next to Christine. And Kody, in jeans and striped button-down shirt, reclined in an armchair opposite Janelle. Polygamy aside, the Brown clan looks no different from your average Mormon—or Midwestern—family. They wear jeans and T-shirts (no Temple garments required) and have modern haircuts. Their kids are allowed to watch television, surf the Internet, and play video games, and some have attended public schools. And with boyish Kody as the patriarch, the Browns are a far cry from the terrifying images broadcast during the 2008 raids on Warren Jeffs’ Yearning For Zion ranch in Texas.
CBS Sports Turns NCAA Tournament into Child’s Play.
My 9-year-old daughter isn’t exactly the biggest sports fan in the world. But I plan on making her watch the NCAA tournament with me. At least the early rounds, thanks to the tournament’s new broadcast setup. Traditionally, CBS has televised the entire tournament from start to finish which is quite an undertaking — especially during the first round of the tournament when there are a grand total of 32 different games — 16 on Thursday and 16 on Friday.
But this year, there will be four separate networks broadcasting that first round: CBS, TNT, TBS and truTV. In years prior, CBS would toggle the viewers between games, meaning they would switch from one to another if there was a blowout, or whenever something compelling was happening with a specific game. But now, the job of toggling will no longer belong to CBS execs. It’ll belong to the viewer. And that’s where my daughter will come in handy.
I’m very excited for the new setup. It’ll be way better than the old one. It was always frustrating when CBS would cutaway to another game if you were a big-time fan of one of the teams playing in the game that the network suddenly dissed without warning. In recent years, there’s been a solution for that — watching your game of choice on line. But regardless of connection speed, the feeds were usually a bit jerky. Plus, there’s no substitute to watching a game on TV.
Still, as annoying as the cutaways could be, I always thought CBS did a pretty good job with them. Thanks to them, you felt as if you’d seen every single one of the 32 games in the first round by doing nothing other than sitting on your sofa for a couple of days. Now, to get that same feeling, you’ll have to become a master of the toggle.
Let's hope Kodi Brown has a big couch -- because he's gonna round up his four wives and 16 children so the whole family can watch the premiere of "Sister Wives" together!
The Brown family has been making the rounds promoting tonight's premiere on TLC, but we're told whole family has returned to Las Vegas to watch the show.
When Celebrity Apprentice began, many had marked down contestant Lisa Rinna as one of the front runners. She’s bright, energetic and focused. But she was fired in just two episodes. And it came as a surprise, a big suprise…why?
The losing team, headed by Lisa Rinna, were sent to the boardroom to meet with the Donald. Many are thinking Dionne Warwick should have been the one to get fired, she didn’t contribute much in this last challenge. And Star Jones? She is playing for keeps. She basically manipulated Lisa into taking on the role of project manager, ensuring that her competition would be fired. And Starr Jones ploy? It worked. And those teammates of hers, they threw her under the bus.
Do you think it was Lisa’s time to go? Or should she should have stayed?
Dancing Queen, actor, host,author, owner of the boutique Belle gray mom of 2 beauties wife of Harry Hamlin.
"Plutonium's half life is 24,000 years ... anything released in Fukushima today could be around at dangerous levels for up to half a millon years."
There are four kinds of isotopes that are likeliest to be emitted by the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, as well as the other three that have been taken offline: iodine-131, cesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium-239. Iodine-131 is, in many ways, the most dangerous of the four, because it can lead to cancer — specifically thyroid cancer — in people exposed to it in the shortest time. Epidemiologists estimate that there were 6,000 to 7,000 cases of thyroid cancer that never would have occurred as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl explosion in Russia. Most of the victims were people who were children at the time of their exposure and developed the disease later.
Strontium and cesium are the next up the danger scale. While iodine tends to concentrate its damage to the thyroid, those two are not nearly so selective. "Strontium is chemicaly similar to calcium," says Dr. Ira Helfand, a board member for Physicians for Social Responsibility. "So it gets incorporated into bones and teeth and can stay there, irradiating the body, for a long time." Strontium is most commonly linked to leukemia.
Cesium works in other ways, behaving more like potassium when it's inside the body — which means it circulates everywhere and can contaminate anything. Cesium doesn't linger as long as strontium does — it gets excreted in urine over the course of months or years — but that's more than long enough to cause cancer of the liver, kidneys, pancreas and more. "Basically all of the solid tumors," says Helfand.
More troubling, cesium and strontium linger not just in the body, but in the environment. Strontium has a half-life of 29 years; cesium's is 30. A radioactive isotope is generally considered dangerous for 10 to 20 times its half life, which in these cases tops out at about 600 years.
Most worrisome of all is plutonium-239 — for a number of reasons. First of all, the vast majority of a fuel rod is made of plutonium, which means there's just more of it in play. What's more, says Helfand, "It's extraordinarily toxic." Plutonium exposure usually comes from inhalation rather than ingestion, so it's mostly associated with lung cancer. What's more, plutonium's half life is 24,000 years, which means anything released in Fukushima today could be around at dangerous levels for up to half a millon years.
EPA’S ANN ARBOR LAB HOSTS ECOCAR CHALLENGE RIDE AND DRIVE MARCH 14- MEDIA ADVISORY.
Ann Arbor, Mich. (March 11, 2011) --- EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge will celebrate the culmination of nearly three years of innovative thinking from North America’s future automotive engineers on Monday, March 14 at the first “Green Ride & Drive” at the U.S. EPA’s National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich. During the Ride & Drive, journalists can go for a spin in one of the competition’s student designed and built alternative powertrain EcoCAR vehicles. The event will also give journalists a forum to interact with many of the key stakeholders of the competition, including the masterminds behind the vehicles. Many types of vehicles will be featured, including plug-in hybrid electric, extended range electric, fuel cell plug-in hybrid electric and full function electric.
The EPA’s lab is hosting the Ride & Drive in conjunction with the competition’s Spring Workshop, during which sixteen student teams from across North America are spending two weeks at the lab refining and improving their fleet of next generation vehicles and learning from the lab's experts.
More details about the EcoCAR Ride & Drive event:
WHAT: EcoCAR Spring Workshop Ride & Drive
WHO: EcoCAR team members, EPA, GM, DOE executives
WHEN: Monday, March 14, 10:45 a.m.
WHERE: EPA National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory, 2000 Traverwood Drive,
Ann Arbor, Mich.
WHY: To learn about the EcoCAR competition and the high-profile organizations
involved in the program, for an in-depth look at the student-built EcoCARs, and
a front seat ticket to the EcoCAR Ride & Drive.
An atomic clock is a clock that uses an electronic transition frequency in the microwave optical, or ultraviolet region[2] of the electromagnetic spectrum of atoms as a frequency standard for its timekeeping element. Atomic clocks are the most accurate time and frequency standards known, and are used as primary standards for international time distribution services, to control the frequency of television broadcasts, and in global navigation satellite systems such as GPS.
The principle of operation of an atomic clock is not based on nuclear physics, but rather on atomic physics and using the microwave signal that electrons in atoms emit when they change energy levels. Early atomic clocks were based on masers at room temperature. Currently, the most accurate atomic clocks first cool the atoms to near absolute zero temperature by slowing them with lasers and probing them in atomic fountains in a microwave-filled cavity. An example of this is the NIST-F1 atomic clock, the U.S. national primary time and frequency standard.
The accuracy of an atomic clock depends on the temperature of the sample atoms—cooler atoms move more slowly, allowing longer probe times, as well as having reduced collision rates—and on the frequency and intrinsic width of the electronic transition. Higher frequencies and narrow lines increase precision.
National standards agencies maintain an accuracy of 10?9 seconds per day (approximately 1 part in 1014), and a precision set by the radio transmitter pumping the maser. These clocks collectively define a continuous and stable time scale, International Atomic Time (TAI). For civil time, another time scale is disseminated, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). UTC is derived from TAI, but approximately synchronized, by using leap seconds, to UT1, which is based on actual rotations of the earth with respect to the solar time.
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The following is the fifth in a series of celebrity roots profiles from the first season of NBC's Who Do You Think You Are? Though it's not the part of her ancestry that was featured in the show, Ms. Shields is part Irish, so this seems to be an appropriate time to share her tale, given that March is Irish-American Heritage Month. Previous profiles can be found on Lisa Kudrow, Emmitt Smith, Matthew Broderick and Spike Lee.
Brooke Shields made her showbiz debut in Ivory Soap ads at the age of eleven months. By the time she entered Princeton at eighteen to study French literature, she could already look back on a celebrated career as a model and actress. Since then, we've continued to follow the stunning six-footer on stage and screen, as well as in the pages of magazines and her memoir.
Brooke's early years may have appeared glamorous to the outside world, but few knew of her life behind the scenes. Brooke's parents, Frank Shields and Teri Schmonn, divorced by the time Brooke was six months old. As Brooke explains, they could not have been more different. Her father, Frank, was from "aristocracy, old money, and Park Avenue," while her mother, Teri, came from a family that was "working class and saving every dime." Little wonder that Brooke claims she never knew where she truly belonged and felt "split down the middle."
Her early entrance into the world of adult responsibilities coupled with her divided family forced her to become self-sufficient. Unable to connect with her divided family, Brooke focused on her career. But her perspective changed with 9/11. Brooke was performing in Cabaret on Broadway at the time. Seeing so many families lose their loved ones made her keenly aware of the importance of family.
When approached about researching her roots, she decided the time was right. She would finally look into her divided family, starting with her mother's side. Teri was raised in Newark, New Jersey, but left as soon as she could. Brooke suspected that this was partly due to her grandmother Theresa, who treated Teri unkindly. Brooke disliked her grandmother; she found her "bitter, sad, and afraid," so she was curious to find out if Theresa's past could explain the reasons behind her bitterness. Brooke's knowledge of her maternal family was slim. All she knew was that her grandmother had a younger sister named Lillian and that their maiden name was Dollinger.
At the New Jersey State Archives, Brooke found Theresa's birth certificate, which showed that her grandmother was born in 1908 to John and Ida Dollinger. But it was Theresa's sister's birth certificate that raised questions. Lillian was born in 1915, but her record indicated that she was the fourth child, not the second as expected. Who were the other siblings? More digging revealed a pair of brothers born in between the sisters: John and Edward. Sadly, John lived only one week, but what about Edward? Why had her grandmother never mentioned him?
The discovery of John and Edward was the first in a series of revelations about Theresa's life. Her mother, Ida, passed away in 1919, leaving ten-year-old Theresa to step into her shoes. As the oldest, Theresa had to cope with her mother's death while becoming a mother herself to her younger siblings. How shattering it must have been, then, when Edward died in a drowning accident in 1927. To seventeen-year-old Theresa, it must have felt like losing both a son and a brother.
Watch this video of "Who Do You Think You Are? : Brooke Shields".
Just when you thought you were all tuckered out from the adorableness of Honor Marie Warren, she goes and does something like this!
The 2-year-old tyke (and soon-to-be big sis) was spotted out in Beverly Hills with her mom Jessica Alba – and Celebuzz is loving the pink shades the little one’s rocking!It seems the paps have been on a frenzy trying to document Jessica’s ever-growing bump, and as long as the insanely adorable Honor is by her side we don’t mind!
Former McCain Campaign Chief: Sarah Palin Made 'Short List' Because Of Gender.
In a profile of the man who was responsible for vetting a running mate for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) during the 2008 presidential campaign, the former manager of the political operation is mentioned suggesting how Sarah Palin landed on the then-candidate's "short list," Ben Smith reports.
In the story featured in the latest edition of the Washingtonian on attorney A.B. Culvahouse, which is currently unavailable online, the one-time campaign manager for McCain suggests Palin made the cut because of her gender. According to an excerpt of the story relayed by Smith, McCain had requested that at least one woman be included on the list of possible contenders.
"As the clock was running out, [campaign manager Rick] Davis says McCain asked to have at least one woman on the short list. His advisers went back to the long list and plucked out Palin's name," the magazine reported.
When Palin's name was raised as a possible running mate, she reportedly joined the ranks of former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, former Florida governor Charlie Crist, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Senator Joe Lieberman, who were considered as potential picks.
While some have attributed McCain's 2008 loss to Palin's role in the campaign, Culvahouse himself said months after the election that he believed the former Alaska governor would have been prepared for the job. HuffPost's Sam Stein reported in April of 2009:
Watch the Justin Bieber Rascal Flatts “That Should Be Me” video, a powerhouse combo of the country group Rascal Flatts and teen phenom Justin Bieber.
The Rascal Flatts “Nothing Like This” special featured special guests Natasha Bedingfield and Justin Bieber.
Check out the Rascal Flatts / Justin Bieber “That Should Be Me” lyrics and music video below.
Rascal Flatts singer Gary LeVox spoke about the duet with Justin Bieber, saying that his daughters “flipped out” and that he’s “in the running for dad of the year” after working with Bieber.
LeVox added, “I’ve even got a low-grade Bieber fever!”
Rascal Flatts and Justin Bieber That Should Be Me lyrics:
“Everybody’s laughing in my mind
Rumors spreadin’ ’bout this other guy
Do you do what you did when you did with me,
Does he love you the way I can?
Did you forget all the mem’s that you made with me
Cause baby I didn’t
(Chorus)
That should be me holding your hand
That should be me making you laugh
That should be me this is so sad
That should be me that should be me
That should be me feeling your kiss
That should be me buying you gifts
This is so wrong
I can’t go on
‘Til you believe that
That should be me
That should be me
You said you needed a little time for my mistakes
It’s funny how you used that time to have me replaced
Did you think that I wouldn’t see you out at the movies
What you doin’ to me
You’re taking him where we used to go
Now if you’re tryin’ to break my heart
It’s working cause you know that
That should be me holding your hand
That should be me making you laugh
That should be me this is so sad
That should be me that should be me
That should be me feeling your kiss
That should be me buying you gifts
This is so wrong
I can’t go on
‘Till you believe
That should be me
I need to know should I fight for love
Or disarm
It’s getting harder to shield
It’s breaking my heart
Ooooh
That should be me holding your hand
That should be me making you laugh
That should be me this is so sad
That should be me that should be me
That should be me feeling your kiss
That should be me buying you gifts
This is so wrong
I can’t go on
‘Till you believe
That that should be me
(Holding your hand)
That should be me
(The one making you laugh (oh baby oh)
That should be me
That should be me
(Giving you flowers)
That should be me
(Talking for hours oh)
That should be me
That should be me
That should be me
Never should’ve let you go
I never should’ve let you go
That should be me
I never should’ve let you go
That should be me.”
While many small businesses have started using Twitter in their marketing, finding the time to do it right can be a struggle. According to recent research by R2integrated, the number-one barrier to entry into social media for businesses is lack of time and resources.
Last week some students got together in Ghent and stripped down to their underwear to draw attention to the nation's serious political problems. They certainly drew a lot of attention, but I suspect that the political message got a bit scrambled through the filter of indecent exposure.
Watch these videos:
Which do you think is more effective: underwear protests, beard-growing, free fries, or a sex ban?
