Saturday, April 28, 2012

Waka Flocka Ready To 'Smash' Drake's Club Paradise Tour

'Why not put us all together? I salute him for that,' Flocka tells MTV News of Drizzy tapping new all-stars like French Montana and 2 Chainz.
By Rob Markman, with reporting by Michael Primo


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Waka Flocka Flame is ready to hit the club.

On May 7, Waka, J. Cole, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz and French Montana will hit the road with Drake on the next leg of the Toronto rapper's ever-evolving Club Paradise tour.

"You know, the kings of the club gotta go to the club," Flocka told MTV News earlier this week at a Brooklyn, New York photo shoot. "They told me Club Paradise is the most popping-est club in the United States right now."

The 27-city run will kick off in Concord, California, and move through amphitheaters in Las Vegas, Houston, Chicago and New York.

"I want to go out on tour with the most exciting artists right now, and I want to make sure that I have songs with all of them," Drizzy said during a conference call for the press on Tuesday. "If we start getting into it and we start really vibing, maybe the last few nights, it's a collaboration show; maybe we do all of our songs onstage together."

Right now, there are few rap artists more exciting than the energetic Waka Flocka, whose latest single, "Round of Applause," has become a strip-club staple. "He's like, 'We the new era, we the new faces of rap, we the new generation,' " the Atlanta riot-starter said of a conversation he and Drake had. "So why not put us all together? I salute him for that. You know I'm about to smash that."

Though he's the headliner, Drake doesn't look at his tourmates as opening acts. Instead, he'll treat Club Paradise as if it were an all-star music experience similar to the popular Coachella or Bamboozle festivals.

"On this tour, I encourage people to get there early, because it's more [of] a festival vibe, if anything," he said. "It's one of those days that's it's going to start during the sunlight and the sun's going to drop, it's outdoors, it's summertime ... I want people to make it a day."

Aside from Drake, who are you most excited to see on the next leg of the Club Paradise Tour? Tell us in the comments!

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Soap Dish: Brandon Barash GH Rumors!

It is Soap Dish time again my friends and this week I am a little late I know but I have a awesome topic. I am going to dish about these crazy rumors that hunky Brandon Barash is leaving General Hospital. The past couple of days Twitter has been buzzing with rumors that one of my favorite GH men was leaving, Brandon Barash. Despite the actors denies that he was not going anywhere the rumor seemed to just get worse. Thankfully this ridiculous nonsense has been squashed as of today when the shows Executive Producer Frank Valentini confirmed on Twitter that Barash and his character Johnny are not going anywhere. I don?t know where this rumor came from or who started it but I am so thrilled that it is nothing but a pack of lies. I am not only a fan of Brandon?s but I so love the character of Johnny. I mean his constant rival with Sonny is one of my favorite things about GH. Plus lets be real Barash is easy on the eyes and has amazing chemistry with any female he is put in a scene with. In fact right now I don?t know who is [...]

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

6 reasons it's the Year of Big Money in politics (The Arizona Republic)

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Unlike ?Thermonuclear? Steve Jobs, Apple CEO Tim Cook Says He?d Rather Settle Litigation

thermonuclearLooks like Tim Cook doesn't quite want to go as "thermonuclear" on rival phone makers as Apple founder Steve Jobs did. Cook didn't sound so eager to pursue patent infringement suits against Samsung, Motorola and HTC on today's quarterly earnings call. "I'd highly prefer to settle versus battle," Cook said. "But you know the key thing that's very important is that Apple doesn't become the developer to the world." He added very pointedly, "I?ve always hated litigation. We need people to invent their own stuff." His words are at odds with what iconic Apple founder Steve Jobs in Walter Isaacson's biography:

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Kendall and Kylie Jenner Seventeen Magazine?s New Fashion Contributors: Caption This Photo!

Seventeen magazine readers get ready for some fashion advice from Kendall and Kylie Jenner. Yep the Kardashian?s younger sisters have landed a monthly column with the magazine and in honor of that, the girls have been chosen as Right Celebrity?s Caption This photo contest for the week, sweet! Kendall and Kylie Jenner are following in their big sisters footsteps when it comes to fashion and soon they will be advising teens all over the world about fashion and style. I have more on the latest gig involving the Jenner girls but first let me tell you real quick about our Caption This photo contest. It is very easy, just take a look at the above pic of the two young ladies and caption it by leaving your super funny remarks in the below comments section. Then next Tuesday when a brand new hot topic and photo are posted check back to see if your witty remarks were announced as the big winner. I know that you all have something to say about the next generation of the Kardashian clan, so spill it. Ok now that we got all the deats of the contest out of the way let?s get back [...]

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George Zimmerman Released on Bail, Will Await Trial in Undisclosed Location


George Zimmerman has been released from a Florida jail at midnight this morning after posting $150,000 bond. Charged with second-degree murder, he will now be living in a secret location as he awaits trial for the death of Trayvon Martin.

Zimmerman exited the John E. Polk Correctional Facility (JEPCF) at the Seminole County Sheriff's Office fitted with an electronic monitoring device.

The GPS device, which can pinpoint an offender's whereabouts at any given time, will be monitored by the SCSO and Seminole County Probation.

Reports indicate that he may be allowed to leave the state, which is unusual in a murder case, but is arguably necessary for his own security.

At his bond hearing on Friday morning, Judge Kenneth Lester agreed to allow George Zimmerman to post a $150,000 bond and leave jail pending trial.

The prosecution had argued that Zimmerman should be denied bail or that it should be set at $1 million, but Lester disagreed on both accounts.

Bail is rarely denied altogether unless the defendant is considered dangerous or a flight risk, which he is not (especially with the ankle monitor).

Zimmerman also stunned the court Friday by taking the stand and apologizing to Trayvon Martin's family, who were sitting in the courtroom.

"I am sorry for the loss of your son. I did not know how old he was. I thought he was a little bit younger than I am," the 28-year-old said.

"I did not know if he was armed or not."

Zimmerman told police the night he shot and killed Trayvon Martin that he was acting in self-defense after Martin punched him and pounced on him.

Zimmerman told police that Martin then bashed his head into the concrete sidewalk during the altercation that took place in Sanford, Fla.

A bloody photo of George Zimmerman's head taken right after the attack surfaced last week, perhaps bolstering his self-defense claim.

Still, his actions that night remain questionable enough for the D.A. to bring second-degree murder charges in the death of Martin, 17.

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Fujifilm X-Pro1 high-ISO shots go under the loupe in mirrorless standoff with OM-D E-5 and NEX-7

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We'll soon be putting Fujifilm's new interchange able shooter through our own wringer, but in the meantime we found an apt low-light comparison with two of its non-reflex brethren. Although blogging photog Steve Huff admits the tests are "crazy" and depend on the camera's own auto-exposure choices, the results do give some food for thought. How would the pricier rangefinder-bodied X-Pro1 stack up against the Sony NEX-7 and Olympus OM-D E-M5? If we had to guess -- and we really do, given his methodology -- the noise levels on the Fuji at ISO 3200 and 6400 look to be slightly better than the Sony and smaller-sensored Olympus. If you'd like to take a stab at judging for yourself, follow the link below.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Video: WaPo: Wal-Mart Faces Criminal Investigation

The Washington Post is reporting that Wal-Mart is facing a federal criminal investigation by the Justice Department on charges that it bribed Mexican officials for years. CNBC's Eamon Javers; Tom Curran, Peckar & Abramson; and Alexandra Wrage, Trace, w...

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Can Heavy Metal in Foods, Cosmetics Spur Breast Cancer Spread?

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More Anti-Trust Woes Ahead For Apple?

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Did Caravaggio meet a grisly end - with the Vatican's complicity?

Citing documents from the Vatican Secret Archives, an Italian historian argues that 17th-century documents reveal Renaissance artist Caravaggio was assassinated by the Knights of Malta.

In one of his most graphic paintings, the rabble-rousing Renaissance artist Caravaggio?depicted his tortured face on the head of Goliath, slain and decapitated by the boy warrior David.

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An Italian historian thinks that Caravaggio may have met just such a grisly end ? at the hands of the Knights of St. John of Malta, the chivalric order founded during the Crusades.

Vincenzo Pacelli, a Caravaggio expert from the University of Naples, has unearthed documents from the Vatican Secret Archives and state archives in Rome that suggest the Knights ordered the artist to be assassinated in revenge for him attacking and wounding on one of their members during a brawl.

They then dumped his body in the sea at Palo, north of Rome, which would explain why there are no documents recording his death.

Until now, conventional wisdom said Caravaggio died either from an illness or lead poisoning from the oil paints he used.

The murder was ?commissioned and organized? by the Knights of Malta and carried out with the complicity of the Vatican, Mr. Pacelli says in his forthcoming book, "Caravaggio ? Between Art and Science."

The historian found strange discrepancies in correspondence between Cardinal Scipione Borghese, a powerful Vatican secretary of state, and Deodato Gentile, a papal ambassador, in which the painter?s place of death was cited as the island of Procida near Naples, ?a place that Caravaggio had nothing to do with,? according to Pacelli.

A document written by Caravaggio?s doctor and first biographer claimed that the painter died at the age of 38 north of Rome, but the place name was later scrubbed out and replaced by the name of a town in Tuscany.?Pacelli also found an account written 20 years after Caravaggio?s death in which an Italian archivist wrote that the artist had been ?assassinated.?

He believes it all adds up to evidence of an assassination plot by the Knights of Malta which was then covered up.

Not all experts are convinced by the new theory.?John T. Spike, a Caravaggio expert at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., is skeptical of the idea that the painter was murdered on the Knights' orders.

?The problem with the theory is that the Knights had ample opportunities to kill him sooner ? either when he was living in Malta, or when he then went to Sicily, which is very close,? says Mr. Spike. ?Why did they wait so long??

The academic sparring will continue, but more than four centuries after his death in 1610, the true fate of Caravaggio remains an enigma.

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Monday, April 23, 2012

Gwen Stefani: More Harajuku Mini for Target Collections to Come

The singer and mom of two dishes on her new designs for kids at the Milk + Bookies event on April 15.

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All Modern American Rockets and Spaceships Compared [Space]

This is a very neat graphic: all modern American rockets and spaceships compared, from XCOR's Lynx—a two-seat space transport vehicle—to NASA's next-generation Space Launch System. And of course, the classic Saturn V added for good measure. More »


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The Billion Dollar Mind Trick

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Justin Bieber Mocks Baby Mama Accuser Mariah Yeater via Twitter

Remember that pesky Justin Bieber baby rumor that was everywhere? Well the pop singer has decided to mock the young woman who accused him of fathering her child. Oh yes nothing like Twitter and a teen pop sensation to make a serious matter entertaining. On Saturday Bieber ended an hour of random tweeting with fans by mocking Mariah Yeater, who you all may or may not know as the woman who accused him of being her baby?s daddy. He Tweeted the below message to the accuser: ?Dear mariah yeeter [sic] …we have never met…so from the heart I just wanted to say…” The message also included a YouTube link to Sacha Baron Cohen?s Borat character repeating the words ?You?ll never get this?. You can see that video that I am referring to in below; it is hysterical as I am sure you guessed. Not that I am sure you need any reminding but a few months ago Yeater filed a lawsuit saying Bieber was the father of her child. The ?Baby? singer stood strong and denied that he was the father, he even took a paternity test and Mariah?s case quickly crumbled. Later the lawsuit was dropped when it became [...]

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

This Must Be One of the Most Exhilarating Experiences On Earth [Video]

Witness these people speed flying down the Mont Blanc. It takes ten minutes of pure joy and freedom to go from its summit to its base. I saw the whole video wishing I was one of them—with every cell in my body. [Thanks Jan!] More »


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Turkey becoming 'hostile state': Iraq PM

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Soccer player defects from Cuba, requests asylum in US

Soccer player defects: A Cuban national soccer player disappeared while his team was playing in an Olympic soccer tournament in Tennessee.

Yosmel De Armas is a Cuban soccer player who has defected in order to seek asylum in the United States. While in Nashville, Tennessee last month for an Olympic qualifying soccer tournament, the Cuban midfielder was absent from his national team's final game against Canada, although he played on Saturday?s 4-0 loss to El Salvador.?

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When asked why the player skipped the game, the Cuban national coach said De Armas was sick and remained at the team's hotel. However, when the team left Nashville, the promising soccer player did not accompany his teammates on their return trip to the island nation.

Although US officials refused to comment about the player?s whereabouts, it was reported that De Armas was last seen in Miami.?

"We're preparing an asylum application to file with the Department of Homeland Security," attorney Alex Solomiany said, according to Reuters.?

The Miami-based lawyer, who?described his client as "nervous," said De Armas is "alone here"?and that he was on his way to Miami at the time of the game, contrary to the coach's allegations.

A rising number of Cuban athlete defections are explained by several factors: the continuous financial hardship the populace faces in Cuba, the plethora of defection precedents that make the process look easy, and the luring prospects of a better life, all coalesce to urge young athletes to follow this path.?

"This is another case of a Cuban sportsman trying to get a decent life, to try to take control of his own career," Omar Lopez told Reuters.? Lopez is general director of the Cuban American National Foundation, a Miami-based organization of Cuban exiles who seek political change on the island.

Four years ago, seven members of the Cuban under-23 national soccer team also sought political asylum after competing against its US counterpart in Tampa, Florida.?

"Of course, my heart will be in Cuba with my family, but I want to have the freedom to better my life, to play professional soccer, to be the best I can be, and for that we had to make this sacrifice," Yenier Bermudez told the Miami Herald, according to ESPN.

Since the 2002 CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central America, and Caribbean Association Football) tournament in Los Angeles, a total of 15 Cuban soccer players abandoned their teams and requested political asylum in the United States.

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Should Gaming News Report on Anders Behring Breivik ...

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behrig Breivik killed 77 people in a horrific tragedy in Norway.??Within a day, game-centric journalism sites and blogs began covering stories about the killer because Breivik wrote a 1500 page manifesto that included recommendations on using Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as training for an inevitable war with Islam.??He also discussed using an obsession with World of Warcraft as a cover ? saying you couldn?t answer your phone because ?you were busy raiding? isn?t likely to invite any questions.???If you?re planning requires you to travel, say that you are visiting one of your WoW friends,? Breivik writes, ?or better yet, a girl from your ?guild? (who lives in another country). No further questions will be raised if you present these arguments.?

Violent events have been linked to videogames countless times in the mainstream media, usually to the dismay of gaming journalists.??While some have strong connections, such as Breivik explicitly saying he used Modern Warfare 2 to train, others have much more tenuous connections, like when the Denver Post claimed the Columbine school shooting was caused by parents revoking the shooters? videogame rights.

When video games are blamed for such events as a 19-year-old burning down a synagogue because he was ?taken over by these games that young people play now ? lots of violence, lots of meanness,? it is natural for people who love videogames to want to respond, especially those who write about games for a living.??But maybe they shouldn?t respond at all.

The more videogame outlets that report on Breivik?s World of Warcraft character, or Mark Bradford throttling a boy who killed his character in Call of Duty, the more prevalent the idea will be that videogaming is related to violence.??The more loudly the gaming community denies that there is a connection, the more inculcated that connection becomes in the media at large, and the wider the story grows.

Further, most videogame journalism isn?t reporting on violent events themselves, but rather, responding (often defensively) to mainstream media coverage finding a link between violence and videogames.??This makes the community seem self-protective and downright angry to most outsiders.??Some would even argue that it?s simply beyond the prevue of videogame journalism to report these incidents and that journalists should concentrate on predicting Gabe Newell?s next move, not analyzing crime.

On the other hand, gaming outlets are more able to address these stories ? writers who cover videogames actually understand what it means to be a ?Justicar? in World of Warcraft, as well as what light that may shed on Breviek?s personality.??And a reporter who has actually been in a WoW guild can certainly explain Breviek?s guild-mates reactions on a forum with more nuance than a reporter who?s never picked up the game in the first place.

So what?s videogame journalism supposed to do???I?m including this post as part of the problem and not naming names elsewhere (because you know who you are). Should we not say anything and simply concentrate on whether a new game is good or not???Or is gaming journalism?s only recourse to react to what is seen as an increasingly hostile mainstream media???Is the best defense saying nothing at all?

Niche journalism, while often lacking a wider perspective, does bring something unique to the great sea of media we all consume everyday ? insider perspective.? With expertise comes responsibility, including the burden of representing entire communities, whether intentionally or not.

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

'Killer Joe' Promises To Be A Bloody Good Time

Matthew McConaughey opens up about his hit man character for MTV News' Summer Movie Preview Week.
By Kara Warner


Thomas Haden Church and Matthew McConaughey in "Killer Joe"
Photo: LD Distribution

"Killer Joe" is the type of genre film you only need to know a few key details about to be intrigued.

First, Matthew McConaughey plays a crazy contract killer. Second, the plot revolves around a desperate young man (Emile Hirsch) who plots to kill his mother with help from his family (Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon), who are asked to offer up their teenage daughter (Juno Temple) as a retainer to hire the hit man. Third, the film landed an NC-17 rating for all its gratuitous violence. Bonus highbrow fact: The seemingly crazy story is based on Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts' award-winning play.

See what we mean about intriguing? When MTV News caught up with McConaughey recently, we asked him to set aside the film's outrageous factors for a moment in order to name a few of his character's redeemable qualities, aside from the killer-for-hire part.

"He keeps to himself until he has to go do his business. He's a very structured guy," McConaughey said. "Everyone understands, on the up-and-up, what his plan is and how he'll go through with it. It's a very clean business, and he doesn't want anyone else to know anything they shouldn't know that could implicate them. He's very, very clean and he's a very good businessman. He just happens to have a job that's kinda heinous and absurd."

The "Lincoln Lawyer" and "Magic Mike" said the fun of the film is in not knowing when to laugh or gasp — or both.

"It's a comedy, but everyone played it straight," McConaughey explained. "It wasn't a comedy where you played the joke. The situations are absurd. It's a bit of a hyper-reality, like in some good Tarantino films — very violent, at the same time it's very funny. It's the kind of late laugh that you go, 'I'm not supposed to be laughing, but I just found myself laughing, and is it OK for me to laugh at that? 'Cause I just did.' I like it."

It's Summer Movie Preview Week, and MTV News will be bringing you exclusive interviews, clips and photos for the most anticipated summer movies. Get ready to gorge on inside looks at "The Avengers," Robert Pattinson's "Bel Ami," Kristen Stewart's "Snow White," "The Amazing Spider-Man" and more!

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HTC One X gets software update, minor fixes reported

HTC One X owners, remember this number: 1.28.401.9. All right, you don't actually have to memorize the thing, you just have to go into the Software Updates section of your phone's settings to grab the decimal-happy upgrade for your beloved new smartphone. According to Android Central, the Android 4.0.3-based upgrade brings some "minor changes" to the smartphone, addressing some menu key and brightness issues among others. A battery life fix is also supposedly on-board for the upgrade. Let us know what other fixes you're seeing, should you take the upgrade plunge.

HTC One X gets software update, minor fixes reported originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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