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Eurovision Song Contest 2013: The pure joy of the annual singing contest is ... - Mirror.co.uk

20 May 2013 15:57

It's the only occasion where you can laugh at Johnny Foreigner and not have the self-appointed comedy police or a UKIP canvasser at your door

Ryan Dolan performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest

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Song 21 of the night. Four Greek blokes in kilts are can-canning around the stage, yelling: "Alcohol! Alcohol! Alcohol is free! Alcohol! Alcohol! Alcohol is free!" Looks like the ouzo's gone down a bit too well in Malmo Arena's green room complimentary bar.

But it did explain much of the certifiably brilliant madness that went before at the Eurovision Song Contest.

Roxy Mitchell emerged from a giant disco ball. Iceland defrosted Rick Wakeman. Hungary sent Badly Sung Boy. A castrated Romanian high-pitched his way through a song called It's My Life, a potential sanitary towel advert anthem.

And Bonnie Tyler, playing the UK's youth card, attempted to avoid going from Lost In France to last in Sweden.

The result's irrelevant, though.

When it comes to Eurovision, the crazier the better. Knock it at your peril. The pure joy of the annual bring-your-own-villageidiot singing contest is that it's proudly un-PC, a celebration of national quirkiness, and the only occasion where you can laugh at Johnny Foreigner and not have the self-appointed comedy police or a UKIP canvasser at your door.

Yet yesterday evening's extravaganza was all the weaker for the acts who failed to make it through from BBC3's midweek semi-finals.

Proper men in white coats stuff it was. The main event was sadly missing a Slovenian trio of gimp-masked backing dancers, a harem of Serbian blow-up sex dolls and a Macedonian gypsy re-enacting the dying wail of a squished polecat.

BBC3 was the only place you'd see those treasures. It's fair to say, though, Eurovision isn't the only TV programme languishing in the shadow of its supposedly inferior spin-off.

Dara O'Briain's The Apprentice: You're Fired is consistently terrific, and Britain's Got More Talent is vastly more joyful and funny than its mother ship.

The ITV2 show's had a hip-hop Humpty Dumpty named Matthew, another act you need only know Simon Cowell described as "a dog playing an iPad drum kit ruining a Westlife song", and five Danish bottle boys whistling out Party Rock.

That they weren't Denmark's Eurovision entry was a missed opportunity.

But as one door closes, another opens.

Austria, Russia and Belgium were all represented in Malmo by the winners of their country's version of The Voice.

Yes, Bonnie Tyler was just keeping the seat warm.

So may I be the first to wish good luck to our next Eurovision entrant, on her first appearance in public since claiming victory for Team Tom: Leanne Mitchell, the best of British to you...

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The “Office” Finale - New Yorker (blog)

I laughed during the 'Office' finale, I cried during the 'Office' finale. And really, maybe that's all you want from a finale: closure and emotion. There have been several criticisms in next-day recaps, and they do hold up: as Willa Paskin notes, the final two seasons of the series pretty much abandoned'�and to some extent inverted'�the original themes of the show. 'The Office' was an American interpretation of Ricky Gervais's caustic British mockumentary, which was, among other things, a devastating critique of reality TV. When the American version began, it had a warmer sensibility, but it still worked with Gervais's themes, particularly the notion that life at Dunder-Mifflin was a small tragedy, a place of learned helplessness, where the employees killed time selling a product that was already defunct.

Over the years, the American 'Office' wove together two great arcs: the Jim/Pam romance and the Pinocchio-like transformation of the petty tyrant Michael Scott. If the show had ended two years ago, when Michael managed'�in large part by modelling himself on Jim'�to form an authentic relationship with a woman, and to build the family he'd always longed for, it would have been a small, humane marvel. Instead, it struggled on for two more years, throwing James Spader spaghetti at various plot walls, trying and failing to make Andy Bernard into more than Michael 2, hosting some decent plots and some O.K. jokes, but generally falling into disarray. In the final season, the show once again accomplished something fresh by placing realistic pressures on Jim and Pam's marriage, something that had never been done successfully on a sitcom. (O.K., maybe on 'Mad About You,' but not nearly as effectively.)

And yet: I laughed, I cried, I kvelled, I nodded along, I ignored doubts, I admired zingers, I marvelled at the restrained use of flashbacks. I loved seeing every love triangle (the show's specialty) solved like a math problem. And I was fascinated by how the conclusion seemed to reflect back on its own genre. In what amounted to a rebuttal to the British 'Office,' the American show's finale insisted that nine years under the PBS cameras had had entirely positive effects. Jim and Pam made a scrapbook of their love. Erin found her parents. Angela's season-long 'Pilgrim's Progress' of mortification had left no scars. Maybe this was because the new 'Office' took place in an environment where the public life was no longer a novelty. 'With today's modern surveillance technology, we are in a constant state of being watched, whether it's our government or the government of other countries, a.k.a. Google,' said Dwight, in a speech that sounded satirical but was really just an accurate assessment of the facts. 'You guys are getting filmed more than we ever were.'

There was a rock-solid 'That's what she said,' the wonderfully silly marriage customs of the Schrutes ('But why are the graves so shallow?'), and many small grace notes, like the brief shot of Phyllis looking fondly at Erin, whom she'd once thought might be the daughter she gave up for adoption. The only thing I didn't entirely buy was one speech: the final monologue of Andy Bernard. Andy got an even more intense dose of reality fame than the one supplied by PBS: his weepy singing audition became a viral meme. Miraculously, instead of fuelling his grandiosity, it knocked him into a healthy humility. He could handle hecklers; he got his dream job. I bought all that. What I couldn't buy was his nostalgia: unlike Jim and Pam, his years at the paper company were almost pure misery. He was cuckolded by Angela. His relationship with Erin soured; then he was forced to watch her fall in love in front of him. But, more importantly, he wasn't, in fact, loved by his colleagues, who became his embittered employees'�they'd hated and resented him. At best, they pitied him. Real maturity might mean accepting the sadder truth, that this had been a very difficult time. But because Andy was on the finale of a sitcom, they became 'the good old days.'

Amid so much love and growth, the episode's two sour notes were oddly refreshing. First, there was the awesomely dark resolution of the relationship between Kelly and Ryan, two super-solipsists eternally convinced that each was the star of the show. 'You gave your baby an allergic reaction just to talk to me?' she said in delight, and they began making out. When the two ditched Kelly's pediatrician husband, and left baby Drake for Nellie to adopt (or, at least, illegally kidnap to Poland), it felt like the show's roots showing through, a refreshing drop of nasty in all the nice.

Then there was Toby, a loser till the end, and the only one to answer 'Yes' when asked if his life seemed unimportant after the cameras went off. He's living in New York, 'with six roommates!''�they have to give him a month's notice before abandoning him, he notes bitterly. He never found true love. He never found a great job. He never grew wise or gained perspective or learned to dress in anything other than saggy olive-green suits. But I choose to believe that there's a happy ending for him, too, somewhere, someday, once the cameras stop. Maybe he'll finish that novel. Maybe it will become a best-seller. And maybe that version of the story, in which he rescues Pam from her neglectful fiancé, Jim, will become a hit sitcom.

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Poole: Players actually want to stay with Warriors organization - San Jose Mercury News

OAKLAND -- They were globally insignificant and, on the whole, an object of civic ridicule. There had been so much failure and futility, so much shameful history, so many years of shoddy product peddled by an infernally inept ownership.

So how could Warriors CEO Joe Lacob's brash promise -- to truly, seriously fix this franchise -- be greeted with anything but skepticism? Even optimists were withholding judgment until there was tangible proof.

And now, a mere 30 months after the Lacob-Warriors marriage was consummated with a solemn vow of superior quality and eternal commitment, we can see it and feel it.

Furthermore, the men on the roster that completed the most satisfying Warriors season in 36 years also can see it and feel it.

Traded to the Warriors last July, veteran guard Jarrett Jack was thrilled with a season that ended Thursday with a loss to San Antonio in the Western Conference semifinals.

"As soon as I walked into the locker room, I looked down at my jersey," Jack said. "There's a sense of pride that I have wearing it that I haven't had as a professional."

This is a man who has been in the league for eight years, has played for five franchises. And he's talking about the Warriors.

Center Andrew Bogut, also finishing his eighth year, was acquired by the Warriors 14 months ago in a trade that sent star guard Monta Ellis to Milwaukee. Bogut senses there has been a dramatic change in franchise

culture.

"I've been impressed with the organization since I got here," he said. "It's been sensational. Everything's first-class here. The stories heard prior to this year," he understated, "they weren't pretty stories."

The Warriors surely would, if they could, expunge the 16-year ownership of Chris Cohan. They'd wipe away such lowlights as the Don Nelson-Chris Webber spat that haunted the franchise for a decade, during which time another player, Latrell Sprewell, choked coach P.J. Carlesimo and received a one-year suspension.

The franchise under Cohan endured 12 consecutive losing seasons and hired nine different head coaches, including Nelson twice. It went Cohan's final 13 years without a representative in the All-Star game, whiffing on draft picks every step of the way, while curiously calling upon such veterans as 7-foot-7 center Manute Bol and 5-foot-3 guard Muggsy Bogues.

Cohan's Warriors were about transparent office politics, constant power struggles and subjective punishments. It was enough to almost understand why Mookie Blaylock skipped a game to go play golf.

Those Warriors were, quite simply, a joke of a sorry circus act.

"Now it's like night and day," Bogut said. "Just the way they treat us off the floor. The staff, the media, everybody has been great."

Lacob and his partners, notably the signifying entertainment executive Peter Guber, have fixed the Warriors about as much as anyone could in 21/2 years. Faithful and long-suffering fans are delighted, cynics at least mildly surprised.

Suddenly, Bay Area streets are filled with T-shirts and caps worn by previously inconspicuous fans now tumbling out into the open.

Lacob walked through the door in November 2010 promising a "new day," a franchise that would be elite, equal to the Lakers and Celtics. He brought in the legendary Jerry West as a board member and consultant and took a chance on a coach in whom he believed, Mark Jackson, who never had coached at any level.

Among those who had witnessed so many years of Warriors despair that fiascos were the norm, there was no shortage of doubt about this new owner.

We are 14 months removed from the night Warriors fans treated Lacob like an unscrupulous reprobate at Oracle. The booing that filled his ears were for many things, from his promises to make the playoffs to his affinity to make major announcements in San Francisco to his eagerness to leave Oakland and the trade of a popular player, Ellis, for a big man whose future was unclear.

Lacob was stung by the reaction but accepted it, perhaps realizing the heat pent up from the stridently unnerving Cohan years, during which the former owner became increasingly reclusive.

There is no knowing what the future holds, not for certain, but this franchise presently is alive and vibrant. The Warriors under Lacob and Guber have been repackaged and impressively re-branded.

Lacob never got much of a honeymoon. It comes now. He has earned it.

Contact Monte Poole at mpoole@bayareanewsgroup.com.

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Google's I/O experiment unites sensors, 'big data,' and the cloud - VentureBeat

Google tricked out its entire I/O conference with hundreds of sensors this week.�Today, we got a glimpse at some of the data and the work that went into making it happen.

Michael Manoochehri, with Google's cloud engineering group, explained the project from Google's perspective: It's a big experiment�designed to help Google figure out how to use its many cloud tools to collect, organize, and analyze large quantities of sensor-driven data.

Google I/O Data Sensors by the Numbers

• 400: The number of sensor modules (aka 'motes') that have been plugged in around the conference center.
• 525: The number of sensor modules that Google built for this project. The team couldn't find enough electrical outlets to plug all of them in, though.
• 3: The number of sensor modules that had been stolen after one day of the conference.
• 6: The minimum number sensors on board each mote.
• 20: The number of seconds between each packet of data sent by each mote.
• 50 million: The number of database records the project had generated�as of yesterday afternoon.
• 150 million: The total number of database records the project will have generated by the end of Google I/O today.
• A few seconds: The amount of time it takes to run queries against this huge data store using Google BigQuery

To pull off the project, Google needed some hardware-hacking experts. So it called on Kipp Bradford, a professor of engineering design and entrepreneurship at Brown University, and Alasdair Allan, a hardware hacker with Babilim Light Industries in the U.K.

The pair designed a sensor module based on the Arduino Leonardo R3 chip, a popular microprocessor used by many DIY hobbyists.�Each module, or 'mote,' carries a mix of temperature, humidity, noise, and other sensors. Some have air quality monitors that measure the amount of particulates (dust) and volatile gases (from cleaning fluids or alcoholic drinks). Some are connected to floor mats that record footsteps.

The devices send their data via a Zigbee-based mesh network back to Google Data Store, a NoSQL database running on Google's App Engine.�BigQuery, a tool for doing analysis on large datasets that is based on Google's own internal data analysis tool, 'Dremel,' allows the team to perform rapid queries on the enormous dataset (see sidebar for some of the project's metrics). The team even used the Google Maps API to display data from each sensor on a map of the conference center.

Tableau Software, which held an IPO this week and whose stock is already up 60 percent in its first day of trading, provided real-time visualizations of the data. That's a Tableau-generated chart at the top.

Bradford and Allan are editors at Make magazine and have done similar work with O'Reilly's Data Sensing Lab, albeit on a smaller scale. (O'Reilly is the publisher of Make and the organizer of the Maker Faire, coming up this weekend in San Mateo, Calif.) For O'Reilly's Strata conferences, the Data Sensing Lab build networks of about 50 such devices.

Also helping Bradford and Allan were Julie Steele, a project manager for O'Reilly, and Harry Johnson, a Stanford engineering student who laid out the project's first circuit board and acted as the project's 'sanity check,' Bradford said.

'When the first prototype came back and it worked, I breathed a huge sigh of relief,' Bradford told me.

Once the team had built several working prototypes and ironed out the kinks, Bradford send the circuit board design to Sunstone, a company in Oregon, which produced hundreds of custom circuit boards. He then arranged to have the boards and various components sent to VR Industries, a company in Rhode Island, which assembled all 525 devices. The per-unit cost was about $120, though that's with volume discounts figured in (it would cost you more than that to build one or two of these things).

After that, the team spent a nearly-sleepless week configuring and setting up all the devices.

'We basically spent the last week locked in a room at Google Boston doing integration and testing,' Allan said.

For Google, it was a chance to get its hands dirty with real-world data.

'We wanted to understand how this kind of use case could work with the Google Cloud platform,' Manoochehri said.

Did they learn anything about the conference? So far, the takeaways seem pretty obvious. For instance, in the steps-per-minute graph above, there's a big spike of activity as line up to enter the Google I/O keynote on the first day. Then activity settles down as they all sit to watch the presentation. There's a flurry of activity as people attend the first evening's party, and the noise level spikes during Billy Idol's concert. Air quality tends to go down when people are milling about, as they raise dust, and it gradually improves after they go away. Also, a cleaning crew comes through the Moscone at 4 a.m. every morning.

The company is making all the hardware, code, and data from the project available freely to the public. The goal is to make it easy for others to use the same kinds of technologies in their own data-gathering projects.

There are already lots of sensors out there. From wristband health and fitness sensors to smart thermostats like Nest to automobile sensors, we are increasingly surrounded by connected sensors. These devices are already collecting a lot of data, and soon will be collecting orders of magnitude more, Manoochehri said.

'This is a really big deal,' Manoochehri said. 'So we need to understand this use case, and test that our platform is good for this use case.

'People collect all this data, and they go, 'Oh my god, what do I do?''

This project provides an answer to that question '� provided you're willing to use Google's many cloud services.

Also, if you are looking for the best place to take a nap, check the graph below, which shows Manoohchehri's 'serenity metric,' showing a combination of low average audio noise and low noise variance. Conference rooms in the far corners of the building are your best bet. The least serene location? Apart from Google's radio-controlled blimps (which carried sensors over the crowd), the 2nd floor escalator was the least serene location.

HealthBeat 2013 is a new conference showcasing how technology is transforming health care. We'll explore how IT is driving out inefficiencies on the hospital, practice, and patient levels. Check out full event details here,�and register here.

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Memphis Grizzlies Looking Brilliant for Trading Rudy Gay - Bleacher Report

The�Memphis Grizzlies�have won eight of their last nine playoff games and romped into the conference finals with a distinct swagger.

While their stifling defense has carried them this far, they don't miss their leading scorer at all since trading him just over three months ago.

On January 30, the Grizzlies shipped Rudy Gay to the Toronto Raptors as part of a three-team deal that netted them Tayshaun Prince and Austin Daye from the Detroit Pistons, with Detroit receiving Jose Calderon from the Raptors.

A tale of two cities. I hope Rudy Gay saw Graceland before he got posted to Toronto.John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports

Essentially, the Grizz exchanged Gay for Prince and saved about $12 million in the process, according to Ed Arnold of the Memphis Business Journal. And based on the results, their front office must be staffed by geniuses.�

Princely Play

Many commentators were vexed by the trade, as the Grizzlies had been stagnant on offense even with Rudy Gay. He was their most dynamic offensive player and had led the team in points per game, field-goal attempts and minutes in 2011-12.

They were a very respectable 29-16 when Prince joined the team. Then the Grizz went 27-10 to close out the regular season.

And once the playoffs started, they ran full steam ahead through a pair of talented teams.

This postseason, they have stormed into the Western Conference Finals by losing only three games to the high-flying Los Angeles Clippers and reigning conference champions Okahoma City Thunder.��

Conventional wisdom held that the Grizzlies would struggle to score without Gay's skills as a swingman. But in fact, their defense got even better while their offense stayed consistent.

With Prince starting at the 3 instead of Gay, Memphis posted a slightly higher effective field-goal percentage while limiting opponents to an effective field-goal percentage of 2.2 percent less (per�82 games.com). Of their top-five five-man floor units, the two best included Prince in the lineup.

Who knew Tayshaun Prince still had this in him?

With Mike Conley, Tony Allen, Prince, Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol, the Grizz outscored their opponents by 12 points per 100 possessions. When Jerryd Bayless played in Allen's stead, they outscored opponents by 21 points per 100 possessions.

Gay allowed opposing small forwards to post a player efficiency rating of 18.4 against him, similar to the PER of a player like Kenneth Faried, while Prince limited opposing 3s to a PER of just 10.3, comparable to the likes of�John Salmons�(via 82games.com).�

Clearly, the addition of Prince had a ripple effect across the team, serving to make them more efficient and more dominant.�

Filling the Void

Copious credit goes to coach Lionel Hollins, who has his team playing better than any other squad in the West.

The subtraction of Gay from the rotation opened up space and opportunities for all of the Grizzlies, especially Conley and Gasol.�

Gasol took some time to find his footing after Gay's departure, averaging his worst shooting percentage of the season in February (43.9 percent).�But he went nuclear in March, tallying 17.2 points per game on 57 percent from the field, plus 7.1 boards, 4.5 dimes and 1.9 blocks.

Conley trudged through a dreadful month of December, as he averaged 11.4 points on 34 percent shooting. He began to raise his play in January, but once Gay departed, Conley became much more offensively potent and efficient.

Mike Conley with 26 points, 10 boards and nine dimes in the Game 2 win over the OKC Thunder.

The former Buckeye put up 14 points per game in February and then averaged more than 17 a night in March and April; he also shot 45 percent in March and 51 percent in April. Not to mention the fact that he's an absolute kleptomaniac, averaging 2.2 steals per game for the season.

And Zach Randolph has continued beasting just as he was at the beginning of the season.�After racking up 15.4 points and 11.2 rebounds a night during the season, he's averaging 19.7 points on 51 percent shooting through 11 playoff games.

That is not a high-percentage shot.Joe Robbins/Getty Images

Pairing his toughness in the paint and on the glass with the silky smooth flat-footed jumpers of Gasol has produced one of the finest combos on the interior in recent memory.�

Presently, the predominant sentiment across the Twitterverse takes the guise of sarcastic laments about how much the soaring Grizzlies miss Rudy Gay.

Verily, they don't miss him at all. After a torturous first-round exit last year, they're now competing for a conference title and a surprising run to the NBA Finals.�

As noted by Rob Mahoney of SI.com, jettisoning Rudy Gay has actually sped up Memphis' offense. Gay is what some refer to as a volume scorer, so he needs to see a high usage rate to be effective. Without him, gone are the iso sets, idle dribbling, slow entry passes and players being spectators.

Instead, the Grizz have attacked with their duo of talented bigs and relied heavily on the post game while also unleashing their promising young point guard as a dynamic offensive threat.

Grit and Grind

Essentially, the Grizz improved on both offense and defense since trading Rudy Gay, and they still saved $12 million, giving them crucial room to maneuver in the offseason.

Moreover, they acquired more than just a lanky, disciplined defender and a stat-sheet stuffing veteran in Tayshaun Prince. They also added an NBA champion who won his ring as part of the ragtag 2004 Detroit Pistons.

The hard-nosed Pistons weren't scared of Kobe Bryant and the mighty L.A. Lakers in 2004.Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images

That squad bears some striking similarities to this year's Memphis team. Those Pistons were led by another pair of ferocious bigs in Rasheed Wallace and Ben Wallace.�

What's the biggest factor in Memphis' success without Rudy Gay?What's the biggest factor in Memphis' success without Rudy Gay?

• Tayshaun Prince's defense.
• Marc Gasol's offense.
• Mike Conley's offense.
• No more "volume scorer" to drag down the offense.
• Lionel Hollins' coaching.
• Total votes: 1,462

They were similarly driven by their punishing defense and consistently found ways to outscore their opponents, despite lacking an elite scorer.

The Grizzlies have the league's best defensive starting lineup, highlighted by Defensive Player of the Year Marc Gasol. Wasn't it Shakespeare who wrote that defense wins championships? Or maybe it was Bear Bryant, but the adage bodes well for Memphis.

With Conley making strides by the day and Prince showing few signs of age, the only person regretting the Rudy Gay trade may be Gay. And, of course, all of the Thunder and Clippers players who'll be watching the Grizz in the conference finals from their living rooms.

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Grey's Anatomy Season 9 Finale Recap, "Perfect Storm" - BuzzSugar.com

Grey's Anatomy Season Finale Rundown: "Perfect Storm"May 17, 2013

Grey's Anatomy is known for epically dramatic season finales that bring death and destruction, and this year's episode is no different. It's not quite as gut-wrenching as the season-eight plane crash or the season-six shooter, but there are still a lot of near-deaths and the potential loss of yet another beloved character on the show.

A couple of relationships are killed off the show too (or at least they're on the rocks), while other pairs come together in the wake of the traumatic storm. There is one big bright spot in the episode: the arrival of Meredith and Derek's new son! Let's break down all the major events when you�read more.

• Meredith and Derek welcome a healthy baby boy via C-section, but of course there are complications. Meredith basically has to instruct Shane on how to operate on her, which is creepy on so many levels. She also demands that he take her off life support immediately if it comes to that (way to stress him out even further, Mer). When Shane struggles with the lights-out surgery, he calls in Bailey, who has been frazzled and shaky all throughout the episode. There's a bit of a fakeout when Bailey starts crying to Derek and Cristina, but Meredith is all good '� and Bailey Shepherd gets his name.
• Cristina is now completely sure that Owen wants kids, and there's no convincing her otherwise. They get into multiple arguments about it, and though Owen tries to assure Cristina that he only wants her, Cristina can see right through him. In the end, she doesn't even let him continue to persuade her that he doesn't want a family. Instead, she just calls the relationship right then and there. And so ends what felt like one of the longest and most drawn-out breakups in TV relationship history.
• RIP Dr. Webber? When you see him traipsing around a room that contains bother water and electrical wires, you just know it's probably not going to end well. Still, in the midst of everything else that was happening, I had forgotten that Webber was down there. It's a sweet and proper sendoff in some ways: in his final episode, he empowers Cristina to perform a surgery in complete darkness, and he goes out trying to save his friend. However, it's going to be truly taxing for Bailey to grieve knowing that her final words to her dear friend and mentor were angry ones. All that said, it's still not 100% confirmed that Richard's a goner.
• OK, so I fully thought that Jackson had died when the bus explodes; the tears were just starting to well up when he comes walking out mostly unscathed. I'm not the only one who had a strong reaction: April pretty much loses her mind when she thinks he's gone, and basically attacks him in a moment of nonverbal craziness while he's getting patched up. Once she collects herself, she finally confesses that she wants to be with him '��and then asks Jackson to give her a reason not to marry Matthew. Telling someone that you love them is grand and all, but this still feels unfair to Jackson, who has been upfront with April from the start. Nevertheless, we'll have to wait until next season to find out his answer.
• Arizona is all twitchy and uncomfortable after her tryst with Lauren but kicks back into full doctor mode when the "tiny humans" need her most. Lauren still tries to talk about the whole thing, and just when Arizona admits to Lauren that she made a mistake, Callie comes waltzing in '� and immediately figures out that Lauren is wearing Arizona's scrubs. Awkward. Callie sees right through Arizona's lame excuse, and they get into a superharsh blowout fight that comes back to the plane crash. And more importantly, it comes back to Callie cutting off Arizona's leg, which apparently Arizona may never forgive Callie for.
• Those of us who have been waiting forever for Alex and Jo to finally hook up are rewarded at long last! Despite Alex's concerns that he's "damaged goods," he can't help his feelings for Jo and decides to finally confront her about it. She tries to shut him down, saying that she'll ruin it (aww '� they're both damaged goods!) but Alex doesn't let her resist. And then: the big makeout! So, uh, are we just going to assume that Jason is going to step quietly into the background now? I hope so.

How'd you feel about the season finale?

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Fall TV Schedule 2013 - Entertainment Weekly

Look at all that yellow.

In this final 2013 fall TV schedule, we highlighted the new broadcast dramas and comedies (below). And as you might expect, after a challenging TV season that claimed the lives of so many programs, there's a lot of yellow on the new board. In fact, nearly one third of shows airing Sunday through Friday this fall (31 percent) will be freshman titles. ABC alone is launching eight new series. Plus, there's plenty of new and returning shows being held in reserve for midseason (list of midseason shows below chart).

Stand-out new projects generating early buzz at the broadcast upfronts include NBC crime thriller The Blacklist, ABC action-drama Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Fox's robot-cop drama Almost Human, CBS' Will Arnett comedy The Millers and The CW's historical soap Reign. Mouse-over titles for descriptions and links to trailers (more trailer links coming as networks release video).

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'� Fox: New dramas Gang Related, Rake, Almost Human, the return of The Following and Raising Hope, and new comedies Surviving Jack, Us & Them, and Murder Police'� NBC: New comedies About a Boy, Undateable and The Family Guide, returning comedy Community. New dramas Believe, Crisis and Crossbones, Chicago PD, The Night Shift.'� CBS: New dramas Reckless and Intelligence, with returning comedy Mike & Molly and new comedy Friends With Better Lives.'� ABC: Returning comedy Suburgatory and new comedies Mixology and Resurrection. Also new dramas Killer Women and Mind Games.'� The CW: The final season of Nikita along with new dramas Star-Crossed and The 100.

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Eminem And Big Sean Bonded Over Detroit Roots In The Studio - MTV.com

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After sharing an Instagram photo of himself posing with Eminem last month, the Internets were curious to find out what the two Detroit natives were up to. Not much was said about the session, which also included Royce da 5'9",� but it was assumed that Sean was working with them on his sophomore album Hall of Fame. In a recent appearance on "NiteCap With Peter Bailey," Sean spoke about what went down during the epic studio session.

While he didn't confirm that any of the songs they worked on would appear on his next album, Big Sean did mention how they bonded over being from the Motor City. 'It was crazy just coming from Detroit. We sat and talked for a couple of hours, even before we did anything musically. I was just telling them how much'�how crazy it is man coming from The D,' he said. 'Them was the superstars. Them was the heroes in rap music. And they showed me that you can be worldwide. Cause it was always local heroes, but obviously one of the biggest rappers in the world is from Detroit. It was a big deal there. It was an honor man, straight up.'

Sean, who partnered with Adidas last year, also spoke about the Rick Ross controversy with Reebok. 'The content for this new album has been way more mature. People are gonna see as soon as you start putting the content out. I don't think you should necessarily censor what you say if you feel like how you feel,' he explained. 'I don't think he ever censors what he says. He apologized for it. I don't think he meant it how it came across'�You gotta have a sense of what's right and what's wrong.'

Sean's album doesn't have a release date just yet but he did tell MTV News, 'I'm not trying to hype it up or talk it up but it's obviously the best work I've done and I'm excited about it."

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Novel Brain Training Device to Reconnect Brain and Paralyzed Limb After Stroke - Science Daily (press release)

May 15, 2013 '� The world's first Brain Training Device has given a ray of new hope to the recovery of survivors after stroke. Developed by researchers of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, this novel device can detect brainwave and control the movement of paralyzed limbs.

The world's first Brain Training Device has given a ray of new hope to the recovery of survivors after stroke. Developed by researchers of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)'s Interdisciplinary Division of Biomedical Engineering (BME), this novel device which can detect brainwave, and thereby control the movement of paralyzed limbs, or go even further to control a robotic hand based on its sophisticated algorithm.

The research was led by Prof. Raymond Tong Kai-yu, Professor of PolyU's Interdisciplinary Division of Biomedical Engineering, who is also the Principal Investigator of the award-winning Exoskeleton Hand Robotic Training Device or the "Hand of Hope." His team members include the BME research team (Newmen Ho, Xiaoling Hu, Ching-hang Fong, Xinxin Lou, Lawrence Chong and Nathan Lam) and the Industrial Centre team of PolyU (Robert Tam, Bun Yu, Shu-to Ng and Peter Pang).

The latest breakthrough "Brain Training Device" can be coupled with the use of the "Hand of Hope" to achieve higher degree of recovery for stroke patients. While effective motor recovery after stroke depends on early rehabilitation program and intensive voluntary practice of the paretic limbs, current rehabilitation products have not use brainwave to guide the stroke survivors to identify voluntary intention and to relearn how to reconnect to their paralyzed limb again.

Prof. Raymond Tong and his team therefore developed the Brain Training Device with a new coherence algorithm for hand function training. The new algorithm is based on frequency coherence on surface electroencephalography (EEG, brainwave) and electromyography (EMG, muscle activities) to identify voluntary intention and their connection.

"The Brain Training Device is able to guide the stroke patients to relearn the reconnection between the brain and the limb, with a new design on the EEG headset and the EMG forearm brace to transmit data for controlling a hand robotic system interfaced by a telecare software platform using iPad app." Prof. Raymond Tong explained.

The patented Brain Training System, which looks like a helmet for cyclist and can read brainwaves, also has new features to find the specific EEG electrode locations for each individual stroke patient and reduce the number of EEG electrodes, which can reduce the system cost and the preparation time for brain training, added by Prof. Tong.

To find a minimal set of electrodes to control the device with accuracy higher than 90%, five chronic stroke patients were recruited to be trained for 20 sessions in the study. The researchers found that, in general, 32 electrodes are needed to maintain accuracy higher than 90%.

The high accuracy and low number of channels needed means that the Brain Training Device is a viable tool for assistive aid and rehabilitation training. The futuristic system will be made portable and easy-to-use at hospital and home settings.

PolyU researchers have already filed patents for this Brain Training Device in both the United States and China. This project is funded by the HKSAR Government's Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF). The findings of this brain control algorithm have been published as the cover story in top international journal IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (2011.12).

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Good News for Joe the Plumber - Bloomberg

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The headquarters building of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stands in Washington, D.C.

January 28, 2013 - There's some good news on the regulatory front for the little investor. First up: Looks like the biggest players in the money market industry are backing down a bit from their ferocious opposition to proposed Securities and Exchange Commission rules designed to protect investors, Bloomberg News reports.

Why do investors in money market funds need protection, you ask? Because you can LOSE money with them. They're touted as safe, you can write checks just like a regular checking account and some folks believe -- mistakenly -- that the accounts are insured against loss like bank checking products.

Surprise, they're not. And the value of the assets in the funds floats and changes every day. Most days the spread between the fund's net asset value and the $1 a share price is pretty close and no big deal for the mutual fund company to cover regular redemptions. In times of stress (like 2008) when everyone wants their money and the company has to dump holdings to cover redemptions, things can get out of whack very quickly and suddenly there isn't enough cash to cover everyone.

Some of the proposed rules include limiting redemptions to prevent runs on the funds; making the funds companies hold more capital to cover withdrawals, and the most contentious -- letting the share price float so investors know exactly what their account is worth every day. It's unclear at this point which proposals the SEC will adopt.

The other investor news comes via the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, which oversees the state and local government bond market. Bloomberg reports that the board plans to provide benchmark yields available on its website that will help individual investors determine the fairness of prices. Little investors need that transparency because the muni bond market is incredibly opaque and it's very hard to know whether the price being quoted is high or low since there's no central exchange as there is for stocks. Investors can expect this change in the next three months, the board said.

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Daft Punk: 'We thought EDM was all made by just one guy' - NME.com

May 15, 2013 11:05

But French pair say they do have 'a lot of respect' for Skrillex

Daft Punk have claimed that EDM "lacks depth" - and also confessed that they initially thought it had all been made by just one person.

Speaking in this week's NME, which is on newsstands now or availably digitally, the French pair said they didn't listen to a lot of "electronic music".

Asked for their opinions on DJs such as Deadmau5 and Skrillex, the band's Thomas Bangalter said: "Deadmau5? No. I wouldn't listen to Deadmau5 for pleasure. Skrillex we have a lot of respect for. He's said that he saw our live show with the pyramid in 2007 and it made him want to make music, but it feels like he's not copying our formula. He might be the kid that breaks the cycle, but we don't listen to a lot of electronic music. We never did."

His bandmate Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo then added: "I don't know EDM artists or the albums. At first I thought it was all just one guy, some DJ called EDM." When asked if that was because it all sounded the same, he replied" "A little bit, yeah!" while Bangalter added: "Maybe it's just one guy called Eric David Morris."

De Homem-Christo also later compared it to "an energy drink" that's "really efficient on the body", adding: "EDM is energy only. It lacks depth. You can have energy in music and dance to it but still have soul."

Daft Punk release their long-awaited new studio album 'Random Access Memories' on May 20, but the album is currently streaming via iTunes. The LP features collaborations with the likes of Julian Casablancas, Chilly Gonzales and Giorgio Moroder and also includes the single 'Get Lucky' with Pharrell Williams, which held its place at Number One in the Official UK Singles Chart this weekend after passing 100,000 sales per week for the third week in a row.

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Robin Thicke Looks Good In Midweek Chart Figures - Noise11

At the moment it looks like a stable top three singles for this upcoming weeks chart, as Robin Thicke, Daft Punk and Passenger could potentially hold onto the 1, 2 and 3 positions respectively.

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With other possible acts holding within the Top 10 being Jason DeRulo with 'The Other Side', Bastille and 'Pompeii', Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with their new US No.1 single 'Can't Hold Us' and Paramore's 'Still into You' could still land a Top 10 placement next week.

The Voice last week almost scored it's first national Top 10 for this series when Harrison Craig debuted at No.13 with 'Home' (Michael Buble), and now that they have finished the Showdowns this week, the potential for a first Top 10 might come from the operatic Luke Kennedy and 'Time to Say Goodbye' (Andrea Bocelli, the original also potentially charting in the Top 70), and also with Celia Pavey's 'Woodstock' (Joni Mitchell) and Emma Pask's version of 'Mas Que Nada' (Sergio Mendes). Michael Stangel's rendition of the Phillip Phillips (HP-56, Jan 2013) song 'Home' could debut in the Top 20, pulling the original within the Top 40 this week too.

Lyric McFarlane's rendition of 'Let's Stay Together' (Al Green/Tina Turner) and Caterina Torres' version of 'If I Were a Boy' (Beyonce) could crack the Top 30, and musical guests from Tuesday nights show The Wanted could also land there with their new single 'Walks Like Rihanna'. And finally Danny Ross' version of 'All Along the Watchtower' (Bob Dylan/Jimi Hendrix) could make the Top 40.

Mariah Carey's '#Beautiful' debuted in the USA at #22 this week, and here it could also land a Top 30 entry, up from its early sales debut of No.71 from this week's most recent chart. Imagine Dragons could jump up with their current US Top 10 hit 'Radioactive' and new entries could come from Bliss N' Eso with 'Home is Where the Heart is', and Sheppard's self titled EP (HP-92, April 2013) featuring 'Let Me Down Easy' could bring the EP into the Top 50 for the first time.

With the announcement of the December tour for Taylor Swift, her duet with Ed Sheeran 'Everything Has Changed' (former HP-75, Oct 2012) could be back inside the Top 50 this week, and Armin van Burren's 'This is What it Feels Like' could give him his first Top 50 hit here. Keith Urban has a potential new entry with 'Little Bit of Everything', as too does Demi Lovato with 'Really Don't Care', and Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull team up for a third time on her new track 'Live it Up'.

It's been twelve years since a Baz Luhrman soundtrack has hit the top of the Australian charts, as he's done it twice before with 'Romeo & Juliet' (nine broken weeks from 19-Jan-97) and 'Moulin Rouge' (11 straight weeks from 28-May-2001), whilst his first film soundtrack for 'Strictly Ballroom' hit No.6 in the first week of September 1992 {'Australia' did not have a soundtrack that charted here}. The three above soundtracks all debuted high, then in their second week they reached their peaks, so if 'The Great Gatsby' album debuts in the Top 5, it can only go higher once the film is released here at the end of May, but there are two versions of the soundtrack for sale, so combined they could potentially debut at the top.

Current Voice contestant Emma Pask could see her 2011 album 'Some Other Spring' debut high this week, with her 2008 sets 'This Madness Called Love' and 'Emma' also possibly enter, whilst Knife Party have just released a new EP entitled 'Haunted House', which because it's a four track EP will most likely debut over on the singles chart. Vampire Weekend could see their second Top 10 entry for their third album 'Modern Vampires of the City' ('Contra' made it to No.2 in Jan 2010), and Demi Lovato could land higher than previously, as her third album 'Demi' could surpass 'Here We Go Again' (HP-40, August 2009) and 'Unbroken' (HP-20, October 2011).

The debut album for New York duo MS MR entitled 'Secondhand Rapture' could potentially debut inside the Top 20, as too Agnetha Faltskog's 'A', which would surpass her two Top 50 entries from 1983 (Wrap Your Arms Around Me, HP-49) and 2004 (My Colouring Book, HP-50) and become her fourth charted album here in Australia. Imagine Dragons could see their 'Night Visions' (HP-28) jump back up now that the set has two chart hits from it, and The Dillinger Escape Plan could see their first Top 50 entry for their fifth album 'One of us is the Killer' {their 2010 fourth album 'Option Paralysis' made it to No.53). Look out for Gloriana to possibly enter with their second album 'A Thousand Miles Left Behind', their first self-titled set made it to No.43 in February 2010.

Ahead of their new album 'Random Access Memory', Daft Punk's 2001 album 'Discovery' could return to the charts, as too could Bob Marley's 'Legend' thanks to The Voice performance of 'Waiting in Vain'. Performances on The Voice could also bring Phillip Phillips' 'The World from the Side of the Moon' and 'The Best of' Andrea Bocelli, and there could be chart entries for Natalie Maines with 'Mother' and the new 'Star Trek: Into Darkness' soundtrack could enter the Australian charts this week too.

Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com

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LinkedIn Is Trying To Ban The World's Oldest Profession - ReadWrite

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LinkedIn just rolled out a number of changes to its privacy policy and user agreement, informing its more than 200 million members through a notice on the professional network's website.

Most of the changes are simplification of the legalese. But one in particular caught our eye. According to LinkedIn, thou shalt not:

i. Even if it is legal where you are located, create profiles or provide content that promotes escort services or prostitution.

What surprised us was that this was even necessary. On a site where every action you take is tied to your professional identity, would anyone really take the risk of advertising adult services?

Apparently, yes. Prostitution, in fact, is a skill for which you can get endorsed on LinkedIn. (Many self-identified experts on the topic work in law enforcement or religious ministries, suggesting that their experience is with catching or counseling offenders rather than offering such services.)

Judging by the suggestions LinkedIn's search algorithm offers, LinkedIn members are actively looking for this kind of professional help. Search on "escorts," for example, and LinkedIn will prompt you to search instead for the following terms:

• female escorts
• independent escorts
• call girls
• hot girls
• adult entertainment
• escort services
• dubai escorts

This ban is not completely new. LinkedIn previously forbade advertising "unlawful" services. However, prostitution is legal in some European countries, and escort services fall into a legal gray area in many jurisdictions.

The clarification appears necessary, as some LinkedIn members appear to have been skirting the older terms to offer risqué business. For instance, check out this profile, which we've redacted just a bit:

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Franken wants board to monitor credit ratings firms - Minnesota Public Radio

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May 13, 2013

WASHINGTON '� U.S. Sen. Al Franken is pushing the Securities and Exchange Commission to overhaul the way it regulates the credit ratings industry.

Credit rating companies give grades to debt issued by companies and governments. Many analysts blame the three biggest credit rating companies for exacerbating the housing crisis through practices such as giving subprime mortgages excellent ratings.

Franken helped attach an amendment to the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul that required the SEC to propose alternatives to the current rating system.

The Minnesota Democrat's plan would create an independent board that would monitor the firms and direct business to the companies that have the most accurate ratings.

"I think this would restore trust in the system and if we don't do this, we're just setting ourselves up for another meltdown," Franken said.

The industry disagrees with the proposal.

Franken will press his case at a roundtable discussion Tuesday at the SEC in Washington.

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Google unifies cloud storage so you get 15GB shared across Gmail, Drive ... - VentureBeat

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Google has modified its cloud storage allocation for regular users of its services so they now share 15GB of free storage across Gmail, Drive, and Google+ Photos.

'With this new combined storage space, you won't have to worry about how much you're storing and where,' Clay Bavor, the product management director for Google Apps, wrote in a blog post. 'For example, maybe you're a heavy Gmail user but light on photos, or perhaps you were bumping up against your Drive storage limit but were only using 2GB in Gmail. Now it doesn't matter, because you can use your storage the way you want.'

Google's goal with the reallocation seems to be to simplify the purchase of cloud storage and make it more clear how much free storage you have. So if you were planning to buy more space for Gmail or more space for your Drive account, you'll do that all in one place. Google will also update its Google Drive storage page to help people better understand how their storage is allocated.

On top of making unified storage available to consumers that use Gmail, Drive, and Google+, unified storage will come to Google Apps users as well. Google Apps users will end up with 30GB of unified storage that's shared between Drive and Gmail.

The changes to Google's cloud storage will roll out to all users 'over the next couple of weeks.'

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Lil Wayne to Chicago Bulls -- Drinks on Me!! After Miami Heat Smackdown - TMZ.com

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Lil Wayne still hates the Miami Heat so much ... he hooked up the Chicago Bulls with free booze after they upset LeBron James and company -- and TMZ got a pic of their celebration.

It all went down Monday night at Excess Mondays at�Mansion nightclub in Miami where, we're told, Wayne invited a few Bulls players (who were already in the club) to party with him ... just hours after they beat the Heat 93-86.

The guys with Weezy were (left to right) -- Mack Maine (pres. of Young Money Entertainment) ... along with Bulls' Taj Gibson, Richard Hamilton, Vladimir Radmanovic and Nazr Mohammed.�

Our sources say Wayne provided the boys with bottles of vodka and told 'em he was rooting for them to knock the Heat out of the playoffs.

Wayne's beef with the Heat started back in February -- when he claimed he was tossed out of a game in Miami for rooting for the Lakers.

The Bulls have lost to the Heat twice since this pic was taken ... so pretty soon they're gonna need a few bottles of vodka for a whole different reason.

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Family Radio ministry started with a wrong turn in Oakland - San Jose Mercury News

Richard Palmquist met Harold Camping after making an illegal left turn in Oakland.

It was 1958, and Palmquist was a salesman for Sacred Records. The wrong turn brought him near a friend's house, and he stopped in for dinner.

Palmquist shared a business idea with the man and his wife.

"I told them I thought the Bay Area needed a Christian radio station, and my friend told me, 'I know exactly who you should meet,'" said Palmquist, now 91 and living in Nipomo, near Pismo Beach.

Palmquist met Camping in April of that year, and Camping -- whose East Bay construction company had just helped develop Jack London Square -- said he would put up $5,000 in seed money.

With Camping's money they printed brochures soliciting donations and raised $20,000 in loans. They bought Bay Area radio station KEIR, beginning the ministry's journey down an often turbulent road, capped off by a 2011 Rapture prediction that drew worldwide attention -- and ire.

Five years into the ministry, Palmquist was pushed out by Camping, who wanted an executive director with a "larger stature," Palmquist said.

With offices on Hegenberger Road in Oakland, the nonprofit Family Radio now reaches listeners around the world in 75 languages -- locally on 610 AM and at www.familyradio.com. It started as a station airing religious songs, hymns and Bible studies, with no commercials.

"Family Radio had been one of the

most legitimate, scandal-free religious organizations on earth," said Matt Tuter, Camping's longtime second-in-command. "Most of the people who built Family Radio are theologically conservative people."

Camping began his Judgment Day predictions in the early 1990s.

"Harold is a numbers person. As he looks at the Bible, he looks at numbers," Palmquist said of the onetime UC Berkeley engineering student. "He's one of the most ardent Bible students I've ever met.

"He was a very brilliant man. The irony in what he says is he tells listeners, 'Don't believe what I say, believe the Bible.' But the semantics get reversed, because he wants them to actually believe what he tells them the Bible says."

After his 2011 stroke, Camping felt like his place in the ministry was over, said board member Tom Evans. But at 91, Camping still comes into the Oakland headquarters almost every day.

"His mind is still sharp," Evans said, although acknowledging Camping's memory has suffered since his stroke and "he can no longer do detailed Bible study."

And Evans said Family Radio will continue after Camping is gone.

"Family Stations would continue to operate just fine without him," he said. "We believe God is the power behind Family Radio."

Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni.

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'Seeking Asian Female' Takes A Close Look At A Fetish - NPR (blog)

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Filmmaker Debbie Lum poses with Steven and Sandy, her documentary subjects, on their wedding day.

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Filmmaker Debbie Lum poses with Steven and Sandy, her documentary subjects, on their wedding day.

Susan Munroe/Seeking Asian Female

It's hard to watch Seeking Asian Female, Debbie Lum's uncomfortably close look at the phenomenon some call "yellow fever" '� when usually non-Asian men fetishize Asian women as romantic or sexual partners '� without squirming. And at first, it seems like it wasn't so easy for Lum to document the phenomenon.

"I had to fight the urge to turn around and leave," Lum says in a voiceover, right before she meets the character we know only as "Steven" for the first time. She told me this guy had one of the "worst cases of yellow fever" she has seen.

Steven, an earnest, bespectacled, white American man with an unsettling penchant for Asian females, is not exactly the most appealing of potential suitors. He has a tendency to evaluate women based on their level of "Chineseness." As he beckons Lum inside his messy apartment, he tells her with unabashed glee: "You look very Chinese, with the bangs. You know I like that." Later, Steven excitedly describes his love interest Sandy as "looking so Chinese. You can't look any more Chinese than that." What makes him an expert on looking Chinese is pretty unclear, though he doesn't seem too concerned about that.

He seems to lust after Asian women for their supposed beauty and docility. "I mean I'm an old guy, I'm 60," he tells Lum before meeting Sandy, musing about his ideal woman. "Do I want the farm girl to take care of me? Do I want... an intelligent business woman to help me grow back and forth? What do I want? ....There's this Vietnamese movie called The Scent of Green Papaya that has this servant girl who cooks these beautiful meals. Gee, would it be like that?"

Not quite.

Meet Sandy, a 30-year-old woman from the Anhui province in China. Sandy finds Steven on an online dating site and seems to be seeking a potential entryway to the U.S. and some economic stability. (She takes two separate photos of them and makes a sort of endearing, sort of creepy couples picture, much to his delight.) Steven visits her a few times in China, they hit it off and she comes to the states on a K-1 engagement visa.

Sure, Sandy takes care of him. But she's hardly the demure lady he hoped for, just as he's hardly the flashy American she might have expected. Throughout the film, a frustrated Sandy describes wanting to get out of the relationship as soon as she has enough money and schooling.

The film has a whole bunch of flashing warning signs that say this relationship Might Not Be A Good Idea. I cringed a lot. When a frustrated Sandy confesses that she'd "lose face" if she told her family and friends in China about her house-less, money-less American beau, I found myself asking, Why are you doing this?

And yet.

And yet. Over the course of the film, something remarkable happened for me. Sandy and Steven, together, started to seem like it may not be such a bad thing after all.

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Steven kisses a photo of Sandy, his bride from China.

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Steven kisses a photo of Sandy, his bride from China.

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There was something unsettling about the film, and my reaction to it. Why was I feeling sympathetic to Steven, who fetishizes Asian women? Can a relationship, borne out of something perhaps a little twisted on both sides, evolve into something genuine? Is it even fair to judge someone else's relationship? Lum, who like me is Chinese-American, told me that she began making the documentary because she was sick of dealing with men (usually non-Asian) who shared Steven's creepy fascination with Asian women. But as she made the film, Lum's thoughts changed, sort of like mine.

After Lum settled on Steven as a subject for her documentary, she thought the film would be about his relationship with Sandy. She had no idea that she'd become intimately wrapped up in their courtship: she soon found herself their designated (and reluctant) translator, and from there, the couple's de facto marriage counselor.

When Sandy finds a cache of photos of Steven's ex-girlfriend on his computer '� the ex was Chinese, natch '� she freaks out. Lum translates their fight. "I can only prove my love day by day," Steven says. (Lum refuses to translate that for him.)

"This is going to be an adjustment on both of our parts," a teary-eyed Steven tells the camera after his fight with Sandy. "This is not China, and I am not Chinese. I'm hoping for the best."

As Lum gets closer to the couple, she starts to see beneath the surface of their relationship '� that there might be genuine feelings.

"There's this whole other individual there," Lum said of Steven. "When I see couples like Steven and Sandy, I think about their stories now, as much as I think about what it reads as, or what it looks like from the outside."

Lum, by the way, is married to a white Irishman. But she says her relationship with her husband is different than Steven and Sandy's. "Steven and Sandy's is a kind of modern take on an old-fashioned arranged marriage," Lum said. "They went into it with a really pre-determined desire to be married above everything else, whereas my husband and I kind of just met."

Yet she sometimes wonders if others think of their relationship as one tinged by yellow fever.

Sandy and Steven, by the way, are still together. Sandy now speaks English fluently, Lum said.

I came to this film thinking of Steven as "an Asian fetishist" and of Sandy as "an opportunist." Having spent a little while getting to know them through Lum's lens, I saw their nuances. Parts of their relationship '� their fights, their daily interactions, their worries '� became incredibly human, completely relatable to an outsider.

Except I feel like there should be a "but."

This narrative still doesn't sit well with me. The way Steven thought about Asian women '� stripping them of their individuality, layering on pre-conceived ideals, replacing people with types '� was challenged when he met Sandy, a real person with layers of her own. They might make the relationship work, yes, and I might even want them to. But in that case, their road to happiness feels marred with potholes that still need to be examined and considered.

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Google Doodles Saul Bass - The Slatest

Here at Brow Beat, we appreciate a truly stunning movie title sequence'�and as evidenced by the many well-crafted�supercuts and video essays�and histories on the subject, we're not alone. Now, on his 93rd�birthday, Google has paid tribute to legendary title designer Saul Bass, reminding us of his long-lasting contribution to film art.

The short video imagines the Google logo through the eyes of Bass, and it's a treat to watch. As noted by YouTube commenter Gloria Pineda, the following film title sequences are referenced: Psycho, The Man with the Golden Arm, Spartacus, West Side Story, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Anatomy of a Murder, Ocean's 11, and Around the World in Eighty Days.

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Benghazi Debate Focuses on Interpretation of Early E-Mail on Attackers - New York Times

WASHINGTON '� House Republicans on Thursday intensified their criticism of the Obama administration for its handling of the assault on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, with Speaker John A. Boehner calling for the release of an e-mail that he said showed that State Department officials believed from the start that 'Islamic terrorists' were linked to the attack but have declined to say so publicly.

Mr. Boehner's demand, delivered the day after a dramatic hearing by a House committee, signaled that Republican leaders intend to continue portraying the attack as a major failure by the administration as well as a potentially effective issue against former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for president in 2016.

'The State Department would not allow our committees to keep copies of this e-mail when it was reviewed,' Mr. Boehner said. 'I would call on the president to order the State Department to release this e-mail so that the American people can see it.'

During Wednesday's hearing, Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina, read an excerpt from the e-mail, quoting what he said was a reference to the local militant group that carried out the attack, Ansar al-Shariah, as having links to 'Islamic terrorists.'

But a copy of the e-mail reviewed by The New York Times indicates that A. Elizabeth Jones, the senior State Department official who wrote it, referred to 'Islamic extremists,' not terrorists.

The distinction is important, administration officials said, because while the White House did not initially characterize the attack as terrorism, senior officials, including Ambassador Susan E. Rice, acknowledged the possibility that extremists had been involved in the assault.

Mr. Gowdy and other Republicans dismissed that as a distinction without a difference, saying that the e-mail's significance was in its timing '� the day after the attack '� and in its blunt description of what happened.

'The group that conducted the attacks '� Ansar al-Shariah '� is affiliated with Islamic extremists,' Ms. Jones, an acting assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, wrote in the e-mail, which was distributed to nine senior State Department officials, though not to Mrs. Clinton directly.

The back and forth over a single word suggests the intensity of the political fight between the administration and Republicans over Benghazi. It flared up anew on Wednesday after three State Department officials testified that they faced intimidation and punishment after questioning how the episode was handled.

'Four Americans lost their lives in this terrorist attack,' Mr. Boehner said, 'and Congress is going to continue to investigate this issue using all the resources at our disposal.'

For months, House Republicans have been pressing Mr. Boehner to take a more public stand on the matter, because it fires up the Republican base as lawmakers head into the midterm election cycle. Voters in the most conservative districts often raise the issue, giving the lawmakers fuel to bring back to the Capitol after weekends at home.

Six weeks ago, Mr. Boehner convened the heads of all the committees investigating Benghazi for a strategy session on how to keep the pressure on. Also invited was the House majority leader, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, as well as three Republican senators who have been outspoken on the attack: John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire.

Mr. Boehner's demand for the e-mail goes to one strand of the dispute: the talking points drafted by intelligence agencies for use by Ms. Rice and other administration officials in providing their initial account of what happened last Sept. 11, when the diplomatic compound came under attack and four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, were killed.

The original talking points described 'demonstrations' in Benghazi that were 'spontaneously inspired' by an online video lampooning the Prophet Muhammad. The draft identified the suspected attackers as Ansar al-Shariah, with links to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, an offshoot of Al Qaeda.

The reference to Ansar al-Shariah and Al Qaeda were later deleted from the talking points because, administration officials said, it might tip off the suspects and impede the criminal investigation. The names were replaced with the term 'extremists.'

Ms. Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, used the initial talking points in her appearance on five Sunday news programs the weekend after the attack. She was harshly criticized by Republicans for misleading the public when the White House subsequently characterized the attack as a premeditated terrorist act, not a protest gone awry.

Republicans cited the e-mail as evidence that the administration believed this to be the case all along. They noted that Ms. Jones had made no mention of a demonstration or a video featuring Muhammad. The bulk of the e-mail was devoted to a call she had with the Libyan ambassador to Washington, Ali Aujali, over the treatment of the injured Americans and the public reaction of Libya's leaders.

Democrats dismissed the e-mail as a Republican attempt to recycle an issue that Mrs. Clinton addressed last fall.

'�'Old news' is an understatement '� maybe Speaker Boehner just didn't realize that this exact same issue was already addressed last October,' said Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, which held Wednesday's hearing.

The State Department said it had expressed concerns to Mr. Boehner's office about Republicans' reading of the e-mail. A spokesman, Patrick Ventrell, said, 'One of the concerns is, the way the e-mail was read, there was a potential, inadvertent inaccuracy in the use of the word 'terrorist.'�'

A spokesman for Mr. Boehner, Brendan Buck, said the speaker had not seen the e-mail; the State Department has allowed lawmakers to view it but has not publicly released it. Mr. Boehner has cast that as a breach of Mr. Obama's promise to cooperate with Congress.

Mr. Ventrell said the State Department had provided Congress with 25,000 pages of documents related to Benghazi. Other officials pointed out that the e-mail, which is unclassified, was clearly available to members, given that they were quoting it in hearings.

None of this mollified Mr. Boehner.

'If there's clear evidence that the administration knew this event was a terrorist attack immediately, yet told the world a different story for weeks, that document needs to be made public,' Mr. Buck said.

Jennifer Steinhauer and Eric Schmitt contributed reporting.

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The Comeback Kid - Daily Beast

The redemption tour is over and Congress has a new Comeback Kid.

Scandal-laden former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford won back his old congressional seat on Tuesday night, defeating Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch by a 54 percent to 45 percent margin in a high-turnout special election.

Former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford arrives to give his victory speech on May 7, 2013, in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. (Rainier Ehrhardt/AP)

The victory shocked the national press corps, who had been predicting a Colbert-Busch victory'�with MSNBC's Chris Matthews, for example, declaring 'this is not serious' after a PPP poll found Sanford 9 points behind the Democratic nominee two weeks from Election Day.

But to be fair, even the Republican National Congressional Committee decided that Sanford was a lost cause, unceremoniously withdrawing its cash after court documents were leaked showing that Sanford had violated the terms of his divorce agreement by trespassing onto his ex-wife's property to watch the Super Bowl with their sons. There were late-inning dirty tricks on the Republican side of the aisle as well, such as the release of late 1980s mug shots of Colbert-Busch.

The national impulse to view the race as a contest between Jenny Sanford and Stephen Colbert'�Elizabeth's beloved comedian brother'�was so tempting that it distracted from the facts on the ground. Sanford's much-mocked tactic of debating a cardboard cutout of Nancy Pelosi proved an effective tool to nationalize the race for local voters, casting the contest as a decision about whether liberal Democrats should have another vote in Congress. That move, combined with the 18 percent advantage Republicans have in the coastal First District'�thanks to the rigged system of redistricting'�helped Sanford win.

Elizabeth Colbert Busch ran a confident campaign, relentlessly running as an 'independent businesswoman' who would vote her district and be a centrist voice devoted to calming hyperpartisan discord in Congress. She was rewarded with the most competitive congressional general election the First District has had since 1980. But her initial success in polls might have created an overconfidence that put her campaign on the defense, trying not to lose rather than trying to win. She agreed to only one debate and in the final day of the election kept a minimal campaign schedule while Sanford stuck to a tireless calendar, with 10 scheduled stops.

Perhaps the only truly transferable lesson here is a reinforcement of the old adage 'all politics is local' and in politics, as in sports, the best defense is a good offense.

'The Colbert Busch team ran like their party won 58-40 last November,' said Shawn Drury, political editor of South Carolina Patch.com, which provided the most detailed coverage of the campaign and hosted the sole debate (which I participated in). 'And they were stunned by the degree to which Republicans turned out for the special election.'

From the start of this unlikely campaign, Sanford has been easy to underestimate. His well-chronicled scandal, which brought 'hiking the Appalachian Trail' into the lexicon, obscured his ability to connect with low-country voters. There's a reason Sanford has never lost an election, and during the crowded GOP primaries I was struck by the way local voters called him 'Mark' rather than 'Governor''�and his evident mastery of policy details helped him stand out from the pack. For all the easy accusations of hypocrisy, Sanford had never been a social conservative Bible-thumper as much as strident fiscal conservative who was railing against the deficit and debt while arguing for entitlement reform back in the 1990s.

All this translated to Sanford outperforming polls throughout this campaign by considerable margins. Some voters were reluctant to tell pollsters they would pull the lever for as scandal-scarred a candidate as Sanford, but in the end they did.

Sanford has been granted the rarest thing in political life'�a second chance. He will have to earn this opportunity by following through on his promise to be more humble and empathetic in office. He will enter Congress with seniority and a chance to steer debates in a constructive rather than inflammatory way. No doubt some politicians'�I'm looking at you, Anthony Weiner'�will take too much comfort from Sanford's victory and be tempted to pursue their own premature redemption campaign. The takeaway isn't that scandals don't matter, but that voters can put them in perspective. Perhaps the most transferable lesson is a reinforcement of the old adage 'all politics is local' and the idea that in politics, as in sports, the best defense is a good offense.

For Sanford, the personal and political drama is not over. On Thursday, the congressman-elect is scheduled to appear in court to answer trespassing charges against his ex-wife. Then he will head back to the House of Representatives, where his career began almost 20 years ago'�older and, presumably, wiser.

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