You Can?t Put A Price Tag On A TechCrunch Post

We're reporters, so we hear a lot of bullshit. Lately we've been hearing that it costs $750 to get a post on TechCrunch, which we initially thought meant that one of our writers was receiving direct compensation for posts. This is what happened the last time we heard something like this. However, when we tracked the rumor through a game of tech PR telephone, we discovered that a PR firm called PRServe?had been charging startups $750 to get a post on an "A-level blog" like TechCrunch and around $400 to get on lesser blogs, or, as the industry refers to it, "placement."

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JetBlue pilot who had midair meltdown ordered released from prison

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The JetBlue Airways pilot whose behavior on a flight forced the plane to make an emergency landing in Texas was ordered conditionally released by a federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, on Friday.

U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson ruled Clayton Osbon, 49, "would not create a substantial risk of bodily injury to another person or serious damage to the property of another" if released.

Osbon pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in July to a criminal charge of interference with a flight crew and was ordered examined by psychiatrists for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. A judge ruled him not guilty by reason of insanity and Osbon was sent to the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina.

On a March 27 flight from New York City to Las Vegas, Osbon began running through the aisles of the plane screaming about Iraq, Iran and al Qaeda, yelling, "We're not going to Vegas" and "You'd better start praying now!" An FBI report says the first officer on the flight managed to lock Osbon out of the cabin while passengers subdued him and another pilot made the decision to land in Amarillo.

A psychiatrist later attributed the incident to a brief psychiatric disorder brought on by lack of sleep, according to court documents.

Robinson set out a number of conditions for Osbon's release, including a stipulation that he not board a plane without court permission. He also is prohibited from communicating with anyone who was on board the JetBlue flight. He is forbidden from purchasing alcohol, using any controlled substances and must follow the psychological care recommended by his physicians.

Osbon will be released after his lawyers and federal prosecutors agree on a date. Robinson said in her written order that neither federal prosecutors nor the government objected to his release.

Osbon could have received up to 20 years in prison or been committed to a mental health facility.

Several passengers on board the flight have sued the airline, claiming JetBlue should have known that Osbon was not fit to fly that day.

(Editing by Corrie MacLaggan, Greg McCune and Bill Trott)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jetblue-pilot-had-midair-meltdown-ordered-released-prison-182611058.html

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Ke$ha's ?Die Young? Video: Review Revue | Music News, Reviews ...

Good news, animals: The critics who weren?t totally bewildered by the occult imagery in Ke$ha?s ?Die Young? video responded to it enthusiastically! The clip, which dropped yesterday, is a bizarre hodgepodge of influences and ideas ? in particular, wolves in space! ? but reviewers liked it mostly even more than we did, since we found the video a little underwhelming, given all the hype.

But then, even for K$, it?s hard to live up to all those expectations ? so all she can do is give us a taste of her very odd imagination, and ?Die Young? certainly provides that. Head after the jump to see all the reviews.

::?The Los Angeles Times?noted, as did many critics, the occult imagery, calling it an evolution from her earlier image: ?Ke$ha?is calling her upcoming album Warrior,?so we can?t be surprised to find the pop star busting up chairs and kicking down doors in the music video for the disc?s lead single, ?Die Young.? But that hardly means that the clip, posted to?YouTube?on Thursday, fails to raise eyebrows. A fast-moving pastiche of occult imagery, Nat Geo-style wolf footage and lots (and lots!) of black leather, it presents a darker, sexier version of Ke$ha than we saw back in the party-starting ?TiK ToK? days.?

::?Entertainment Weekly?compared the clip to the film?Eyes Wide Shut, for better or for worse:??The clip for her latest?Warrior?single is a messy-good peek into the strange world Ke$ha inhabits ? a scantily clad, animalistic, almost occult club similar to the one from?Eyes Wide Shut, but with Forever 21 employees instead of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.?

::?MTV News?made much hay of the fashions of the video, and how good K$ looked sporting them: ?Whoever thought that cult leaders can only wear long robes and billowy, drapey clothing needs to broaden their horizons by checking out Ke$ha?s sexy outfits in this video. She shows off a very toned body in several skimpy ensembles. One is a black leather swimsuit-like number accessorized by a half-cowboy-chap-type adornment on one leg; another is a lacy set of white lingerie over which Ke$ha wears a furry white caplet/mini shawl on her back.?

::?Vulture, perhaps wisely, considered all of the factors in the video and compiled a list of things to avoid if trying not to die young: ?Herewith, a not-at-all-comprehensive list of situations and dangers that one should probably avoid if one is concerned with early mortality: satanic cults; skull and crossbone signs; creepy warehouses that lack a functioning door; chair-smashing; activities that require one to send a text message reading, ?We made it South of the Border?; eagles (or condors, or whatever that was); dirty mattresses; being lifted up in the air like a sacrificial lamb by a group of people who are clearly distracted; wolves.?

::?NewNowNext?had an altogether different point of reference ? Mad Max ? but also compared it to a high-fashion shoot: ?Serving us all some?Mad Max?South of the Border realness, Ke$ha and her merry, and hunky, band of misfits arrive in town via a hearse, and in no time are kicking down church doors, ransacking furniture and getting their crazy choreography on. It is a beautiful, beautiful sight to behold.?This is intercut with scenes of Ke$ha doing what she does best ? mugging for the cameras. Pouting her lips, tossing her hair and basically looking like a dirty David Yurman model. A dirty and super hot David Yurman model mind you.?

::?Billboard?also thought the Illuminati imagery was fairly explicit, but that wasn?t a problem: ?With tons of blatant Illuminati imagery and some sort of illegal orgy going on, the clip (released on Thursday, Nov. 8) takes the singer?s button-pushing ability to dizzying new heights.?As Ke$ha and her pals head to Mexico, Illuminati symbols ? the all-seeing one eye, the upside-down cross, and so, so many triangle ? pop up amongst the fun. ?We made it? SOUTH OF THE BORDER? they?ll never find us here,? reads a text, sent by Ke$ha to some unknown party apparently interested in some choreographed sexuality.?

::?MTV Buzzworthy?had even more references still, but seemed tickled by the clip?s madcap style:??Tucked away somewhere in an abandoned jungle warehouse, Cult Ke$ha HQ is decorated with a crap-ton of?satanic imagery?and other things you might only see in The Craft?sequel. Or True Blood.?Or a Wiccan documentary. Whichever. Fortunately, all of the?Warrior?singer?s fellow cult members happen to be hot male models (best cult evar!!) who spend their days doting on Ke$ha and making sure all her ?needs? are taken care of.?

What did you think of Ke$ha?s new video? Let us know on?Facebook,?Twitter?or in the comments.

Source: http://idolator.com/7263192/kesha-die-young-video-review-revue

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New technique to protect astronauts from space radiation

ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2012) ? The complexities of traveling to and working in space present challenges to astronauts that NASA scientists and engineers have been working on since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first stepped on the moon more than 43 years ago.

One of the challenges facing humans when they go outside Earth's protective atmosphere and magnetic field is space radiation. Sending astronauts farther into our solar system than ever before will require advanced instruments designed for monitoring and detecting radiation in space vehicles and habitats.

NASA is tackling this problem with a renewed focus on understanding radiation in space environments. The Advanced Neutron Spectrometer, or ANS is an instrument designed to do just this. By monitoring neutrons, the team aims to build a new tool to protect astronauts as they explore new destinations.

"Measuring neutrons in a space environment will keep astronauts safer because it will give mission managers on Earth invaluable information about the amount of radiation astronauts are being exposed to," said Mark Christl, the ANS project lead at Marshall. "The ANS can be used to detect the levels of radiation in the spacecraft or habitat so that astronauts can employ techniques to minimize their exposure."

Neutrons are difficult to detect because they are electrically neutral particles and pass through most detector systems without detection. The ANS uses a new instrument design that can significantly improve the reliability of identifying neutrons in the mixed radiation field found in deep space. This instrument design uses the gate and capture technique that slows down the neutrons and then "captures" them in an isotope of Lithium. The ANS uses special glass fibers loaded with Lithium to absorb the slowed neutrons and produce a small flash of light unique to the neutron capture process. The ANS uses custom electronics to recognize and trigger on the distinct neutron capture signal, which is then processed and analyzed to determine the radiation levels.

Scientists and engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center have been developing a prototype for the ANS instrument in close collaboration with JSC and other NASA centers and recently shared their work with the RadWorks team from Johnson and Langley Research Center. Christl and his team at Marshall developed the prototype instrument in only 11 months. They used radioactive sources and exposures to high energy protons at Indiana University Cyclotron Facility to evaluate the performance of the ANS.

"Our work thus far has been very promising," said Christl. "By working closely with JSC and other NASA centers, we've been able to make great strides on some key radiation protection issues that include the ANS prototype. Our goal is to continue this work to improve the instrument performance and our radiation monitoring capabilities for our astronauts and meet the future needs of exploring new destinations."

The ANS is being developed by RadWorks, an Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) project to address radiation detection, monitoring, and protection that will be needed for manned exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. RadWorks is a cross-agency team, led by Johnson Space Center, addressing several specific radiation related issues, including the development of ANS.

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The Ontarion - Movie Review: Stories We Tell

Tabloids, gossip and reality television indicate how much our society enjoys prying into other people?s lives. These many different manifestations of voyeurism vary in degree of credentials, as it seems we?ve grown exhausted of shows featured on Slice (formerly Life) and Much Music. For good reason, documentaries haven?t lost their credentials; a documentary is the art world?s way of capturing history, making observations and teaching others, often in an accessible fashion. Toronto has both its own documentary festival titled Hot Docs and a theatre dedicated to screening documentaries ? two great gems worthy of the one and a half hour trip into the big city from Guelph.

I spent a good chunk of the last six years living in Toronto, a set for many films that turns into a star-studded environment a few times each year with the coming of the TIFF and music festival, NXNE. While these attractions come and go, Toronto has its share of longstanding famous residents. For instance, both Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling were voted best local female and male actors respectively in Now magazine?s Best of Toronto issue. Auteur Sarah Polley, a finalist in the rat race, is madly in love with Toronto and is the true winner, in my opinion. Born and raised in the city, the thirty-three year-old got her started on the CBC program Road to Avonlea. Polley slowly built a higher-profile reputation in films like Go, Dawn of the Dead and Splice. Meanwhile, Polley has written and directed works such as Away From Her, Take This Waltz and most recently, the feature Stories We Tell. Amongst the buzz, Polley has always resided in Toronto. For the few precious years I resided in Toronto, I often saw Polley doing regular-people things around the city such as riding the streetcar or shopping at a Kensington Market grocer. With each time I crossed paths with this Canadian gem, my heart fluttered.

Polley?s latest Stories We Tell is an interesting take on a documentary-style film. I appreciate documentaries that do not coddle the audience by telling them too much; this documentary eloquently shares stories from many different people that Polley does not once acknowledge as her family, but you know from their appearance and comfortable humour that they are related.

The film?s pastiche nature weaves together a number of memories through home movies, interviews, and a very delicate story style account that was written by her father. This account was read throughout the entire film to serve as the narrative for the interviews Polley conducted and home movies she showed.

Countless reviews spoil the ending, but I won?t ruin your experience in my account here. I will, however, gush that Polley, beyond being a thoughtful and brilliant actor, director and writer, has created a simple feature that will make you think. While this documentary pries deep into the Polley family history in a revealing and invasive fashion, many intricacies of family, history and gender roles are touched upon.

The film is bookended by two lovely contemporary tunes that are dear to me. The first tune played in the film was ?Skinny Love? by Bon Iver, which caught me off guard as it wasn?t suggested in the film?s trailer. The tune that was used in the trailer and at the end of the film was the hauntingly eerie tune ?Demon Host? by Toronto artist Timber Timbre.

Source: http://www.theontarion.com/2012/11/movie-review-stories-we-tell/

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Affirmation: I Will Remain Positive. | Elev8 | Health Advice ...

Positive thinking doesn?t mean that you keep your head in the sand and ignore life?s less pleasant situations. Positive thinking just means that you approach the unpleasantness in a more positive and productive way. You think the best is going to happen, not the worst.

Read:Affirmation: Today I Am Able To Deal With Anything Calmly

Positive thinking often starts with self-talk. Self-talk is the endless stream of unspoken thoughts that run through your head every day. These automatic thoughts can be positive or negative. Some of your self-talk comes from logic and reason. Other self-talk may arise from misconceptions that you create because of lack of information.

Do you find yourself drifting off into the negative when things are hard. Stop take a deep breath and? say:

I Will Remain Positive.

Give it a try, and you quickly see how rewarding being positive can be !

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Give Yourself Permission to Suck: It?s The Only Way to Learn

You've heard the refrain before: In order to master something, you have to start first, and starting involves being bad at it for a while. Author David Kadavy reminds us that it's okay to suck at what you do, even if you're been doing it for a while. Give yourself permissions to suck?if you don't, you'll never improve.

In order to be good at anything, you have to suck first, but it's very tempting to give up and just stop when you realize you suck. You may have heard Ira Glass's advice for beginners, seen in the video above and also retold here at Zen Pencils, but the message is the same: if you think you can't do something, it's not just possible, it's probably likely that you just need to keep working to get through the barrier of suckage before you're any good. Even then, once you're good, you probably still suck a bit, and that's okay.

Kadavy explains it like this:

Most people don't give themselves permission to suck. They think that there are people who are great at things (and are notable for being great at those things), and then there is them: ordinary person ? and all of the ordinary people around them.

If they start trying to do something, their ordinary person friends try to push them down "why are you doing that?" "What a waste of time!" "Why don't you just watch sitcoms and scan Facebook with your free time, fellow ordinary person?"

Unfortunately, most people give in. They can't stand to suck.

He reminds us that there's nothing wrong with being bad at something, especially if it's part of the process you use to learn, grow, and get better. No one is ever a master at anything the first time they try it, even if they have a talent for it. At the end of the day, doing things you're not that great at?but wish you were?eventually leads you to being better at them, obviously, but more importantly it can be fun and rewarding in itself to master something you've always wanted to master.

Plus, the more frequently you make that climb from knowing nothing to knowing something, the easier it is the next time you want to try something new. So give yourself permission to suck, even if other people around you think you're wasting your time. Learning a skill, like a language, or amateur astronomy, or how to fly a helicopter, are things that are hard and take time, and you'll suck at them for a long while, but once you don't suck anymore you'll have your whole life to enjoy the benefits.

Permission to Suck | Kadavy.net

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Obama: "We've Got More Work to Do" (Voice Of America)

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Thai thriller "6ixtynin9" acquired for U.S. remake

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