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Sunday, July 14, 2013
Jay-Z Talks Rihanna?s Behavior & His Relationship with President Obama
Photo Credit: Hot 97/YouTube
By: Taren Vaughan
Jay-Z comments on Rihanna and her behavior in interview? Jay-Z and Rihanna have a good relationship as Jay is the one who helped the pop star make a name for herself in the music industry. And though Rihanna has been able to sell out lipstick within hours, draw in large crowds for shows and land on the cover of magazines, Rih?s antics have a tendency to cloud the positive things she has done. Rihanna has been called out on several occasions for showing up late to concerts and being a little too free on her Instagram account. And like everyone else, Jay-Z is aware of what has gone on with Rihanna, but says all he can do is offer her some words of wisdom.
During his interview with Angie Martinez of Hot 97, Jay-Z spoke on Rihanna and the choices she has been making when it comes to her career and personal life. And Jay says he doesn?t have any control over what Rihanna does and that the only thing he can do at this point is give her advice:
?That?s not my place . . . I can?t control the outcome of her life. I can?t intervene, I can give advice when asked and that?s it. I can provide information and then life has to play out, life has to happen.?
Jay also talked about his relationship with President Obama and his daughter?s traveling experiences.
On his relationship with President Obama and how they communicate with each other:
?I?ve spoken to him on the phone and had texts from Obama. Of course, he?s a regular guy as well. He?s very heavy into sports so a lot of his analogies end up in sports.
?I don?t know if this is breaching national security but when he was getting elected the second time, he was like, ?Hey, you know, off-courter, just give me the ball.? I said, ?Word.??
On his daughter Blue Ivy Carter and how she handles traveling:
?She?s well-traveled, her passport is insane. She travels well too, she doesn?t get like fidgety, she?s very cool. It?s what she knows.?
Peep the clip from Jay-Z?s interview with Angie Martinez below:
Source: http://urbanbellemag.com/2013/07/jay-z-comments-on-rihanna-in-interview.html
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Saturday, July 13, 2013
Pink Up: Eating to prevent breast cancer
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS)- Next time you walk into a grocery store, know the foods you put in your basket could reduce your risk of breast cancer.
A study published in the British Medical Journal said consuming fish oil can significantly lower a person?s risk of developing breast cancer by 14 percent.
"Everyone knew it's beneficial, but no one had actually documented it, so now we have data to say you know it's good for you," said Dr. Olivia Aranha, a breast cancer specialist at Saint Francis Medical Center.
But when you?re walking through the store, what are you looking to pick up?
"Typically the American diet is lacking in Omega 3s,? said Candice O?Hare, a registered dietitian at Saint Francis Medical Center.
O?Hare said one of the best sources of the Omega 3 fatty acids is fish oil. Experts said can take a supplement of about a gram a day.
"Salmon is a great source of omega 3s," said
O?Hare said you can also get the acids from oily fish like salmon, tuna, trout, or sardines; fresh, frozen, or canned. Research suggests having one to two servings per week.
"I think we're intimidated by fish. We are a society that knows a lot about poultry and beef and what foods go well with those, but fish is sometimes overwhelming and I think it's really just about looking at your diet and what can you do," said O?Hare.
O?Hare said plant sources are great like walnuts or flax seed, even oils.
"A natural form of omega 3s is going to be your canola oils, as well as your flaxseed oils, or soybean oils," said O?Hare.
And a last resort, you can get the benefits from products enhanced with Omega 3s.
"You wouldn't want to base your Omega intake off of something that's enhanced with it," said O?Hare.
Aranha said the oils prevent estrogen in the body, reducing cancer cell growth.
So next time you fix a plate, you might want to think twice, and choose the fish.
"It really is all about prevention and like I said if we could do something and bring in food components that help our health overall, it's like let?s do it," said O?Hare.
"The take home message from this study is if you're not already doing it, go ahead and start taking a fish oil supplement, a gram a day wouldn't hurt, it would have more than one benefit," said Aranha.
If you?re looking for a way to add fish into your diet, here are a few recipes.
Rainbow Salmon
Ingredients:
- heavy-duty aluminum foil
- 1 medium yellow summer squash
- 1 medium zucchini
- 3 Roma tomatoes, diced
- 1/2 cup drained Schnucks salad olives
- 1/2 cup fresh parsley leaves, coarsely chopped
- 2 tablespoons Schnucks extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon grated fresh lemon peel
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/4 pounds fresh salmon fillet, cut into 4 pieces
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 475?F. Tear two sheets (each about 18 inches long) of foil. Place one foil sheet on large cookie sheet for easier handling.
2. Trim ends from squash and zucchini. With vegetable peeler, peel squash and zucchini lengthwise into long thin ribbons until seeds appear. Transfer ribbons to center of foil sheet; top with tomatoes, olives, parsley, oil and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Place salmon pieces, skin side down, over squash mixture. Sprinkle lemon peel and remaining ? teaspoon salt over salmon.
3. Place second foil sheet over salmon; fold edges of foil together several times to seal. Bake 20 minutes or until salmon is almost opaque throughout and reaches an internal temperature of 145?F.
4. Cut an X in top of foil packet to let steam escape, then carefully pull back foil to open. Slide vegetable mixture with its juices and salmon onto warm serving platter to serve.
Each Serving: Each Serving: about 350 calories, 21 g total fat (3 g saturated), 90 mg cholesterol, 410 mg sodium, 7 g carbohydrate, 3 g fiber, 34 g protein
Thai Salmon
Ingredients:
- 1-1/4 pounds salmon fillet, cut crosswise into 4 pieces
- 1 pound fresh asparagus, trimmed
- 1 lime
- 1 large shallot, very thinly sliced (about 1/3 cup)
- 3 tablespoons sesame seed oil
- 2 tablespoons Culinaria Asian spice rub
- 1 teaspoon grated peeled fresh ginger
- 1 teaspoon Thai red curry paste?
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 450?F. For easier clean-up, line large rimmed baking pan with foil. Place salmon, skin side down, and spread asparagus in pan.
2. From lime, grate 1 teaspoon peel and squeeze 1 tablespoon juice into small bowl. Stir in shallot, oil, spice rub, ginger and curry paste. With silicone brush, spread mixture over asparagus and on top of salmon.
3. Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until salmon internal temperature reaches 145?F and asparagus is browned and tender-crisp.
Each Serving: Each serving: about 390 calories, 27 g total fat (4.5 g saturated), 80 mg cholesterol, 125 mg sodium, 8 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 31 g protein.
You can check out more at schnuckscooks.com.
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Repair Your Credit Now With These Easy Tips | III FBUK
When you have poor credit, it can be hard to find good information about credit repair. Here are some tips to rebuild your credit. Prevent credit-related stress by following the simple tips outlined here.
Getting home finance can be quite tough when your credit rating is not good. In this situation, it is a good idea to try to obtain an FHA loan, because these loans are guaranteed by the federal government. FHA loans can even work when someone lacks the funds for down payment or closing costs.
Make sure that you are never using more than 50% of your credit card?s limit. When your debt is over 50%, credit ratings usually go down. With that said, try to spread out the debt that you have or try paying it off.
! A secured credit card might be a good option for the person with a poor credit score. Most likely, a secured credit card will be easy for you to get, but you have to fund the credit account before you purchase so the bank knows that you won?t miss any payments.
You will be able to buy a house and finance it if you maintain a good credit rating. One way to help improve your credit is to pay your monthly mortgage payments on time. The more equity you have in your home, the more stability the banks see in you. This will be very helpful if the time comes where you need to take out a loan.
If you don?t want to pay too much at a time, you can avoid paying higher interest rates than you started with. There are laws that protect you from creditors that charge exorbitant interest rates. Although, in reality, you did agree in advance to pay any interest charges incurred. If you decide to sue your creditors, you should be able to have the interest rates recognized as too high.
! Keep your credit card balances below 50 percent of your credit limit. Once your balance reaches 50%, your rating starts to really dip.
Put the spending brakes on yourself by lowering your credit limit on all of your cards. This will keep you living within your budget, and will show the credit companies that you repay debts. This will allow you to get credit easier in the future.
If you are trying to repair your credit, check all of your negative reports very carefully. Even if the negative report is true, if you can locate an error in the report, it may be possible to get it removed.
Sign up with a credit union if you need to get a new credit line and are having a hard time. You may find that the credit union has more options and better rates to offer you than banks will.
! It?s easy to lower your interest rate by ensuring your credit score is high. Lower interest rates make it much easier and quicker to pay off balances.
Hopefully, this information has helped you out. While fixing your credit might seem like an uphill battle, once you follow this advice, you will have the chance to regain your credit. Just remember that repairing your credit takes time. As long as you stay determined, you?ll see how valuable the rewards can be.
Source: http://iiibfbuk.org/repair-your-credit-now-with-these-easy-tips/
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Reuters: U.S. weighs arming Syria rebels
By Arshad Mohammed, Matt Spetalnick and Dan Williams, Reuters
The United States could make a decision as early as this week on whether to arm Syrian rebels, U.S. officials said on Monday, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry put off a Middle East trip to attend meetings on the subject.
However, the U.S. government has debated for months whether to provide weaponry to the rebels in their civil war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces and has so far decided against.
One U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity stressed that while a decision on whether to start arming the rebels is possible as soon as this week, deliberations on the issue could easily take longer.
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A look back at the conflict that has overtaken the country.
Kerry put off a planned trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories to attend the White House meetings, an Obama administration source said.
What has changed in recent weeks is the tilting of the battlefield against the rebels as Lebanese Hezbollah has entered the fray on the side of Assad's forces, helping them to retake the strategic town of Qusair. .
That shift has made it less likely that a U.S. and Russian planned peace conference to bring the rebels and the government to the table would succeed in U.S. President Barack Obama's aim of a negotiated political transition to remove Assad from power.
Meanwhile, Israel's intelligence minister repeated a warning that Assad could prevail in the civil war because of backing from Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah.
Yuval Steinitz, minister for international affairs, strategy and intelligence, was asked at a briefing with foreign journalists Monday whether recent successes by Assad's forces against outgunned rebels might herald victory for the Syrian leader.
"I always thought that it might be the case that at the end of the day Assad, with a very strong Iranian and Hezbollah backing, might gain the upper hand," Steinitz said. "And I think that this is possible and I thought that this is possible already a long time ago."
Steinitz, who is not a member of Israel's security cabinet but does have access to intelligence updates as well as Netanyahu's ear, said Assad's government "might not just survive but even regain territories" from the rebels.
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Camera review: Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone
Connect smartphone reviews are written with the needs of?photographers in mind. We?focus on camera features, performance and image quality.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is the successor to the hugely successful Galaxy S3 and as such the latest model in the Korean manufacturer's Galaxy S line of flagship smartphones. The Galaxy S3 did well in our review from October 2012?and was one of the first Android-powered smartphones that could establish itself as a valid rival to Apple's iPhone both in terms of sales figures and consumer appeal.
So expectations were high among industry insiders and consumers alike when the S4 was launched in April and Samsung did not disappoint. The Galaxy S4's design is very similar to its predecessor but under the hood the new model comes with the latest hardware and software technologies.
Like many high-end devices this year, the S4's camera features a 13MP backside-illuminated CMOS sensor and a 1080p 5-inch screen. Depending on region, the phone is powered by a 1.9 GHz Qualcomm quad-core chip and the latest Android version 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. From a mobile photographer's point of view, the most interesting novelties can be found within the camera app.
The S4 comes with a number of new imaging features and modes that demonstrate that, in some situations, smartphones can be better imaging tools than traditional compact cameras. Dual-Shot allows for image-in-image effects by capturing still images and video with the front and rear cameras at the same time. Drama mode creates composite action images and Eraser mode deletes unwanted subjects from the frame. Of course all the usual software assistants such as Samsung's Beauty Face mode, HDR and Panorama are still on board, too. The latter now captures impressively large panoramas pictures that are approximately 22,000 pixels wide, a massive improvement from the S3's 6,000 pixel width.
We had a close look at all the new imaging features, the S4's image quality and the camera operation on the following pages. Read on to find out how the latest Samsung flagship smartphone did in our tests.
Key Photographic / Video Specifications
- 13-megapixel backside-illuminated sensor
- F2.2 lens
- 31mm equivalent focal length
- ISO 50-1000 (100-800 manually selectable)
- Image aspect ratio 4:3
- 2-megapixel front camera
- LED flash
- 1080p 30fps video recording
- Dual-image capture?
- Various filter and special modes
- Digital image stabilization
- 4x digital zoom
Other Specifications
- 1.9 GHz Quad-Core Processor / 1.6 GHz Octa-Core Processor (depending on region)
- Android 4.2.2
- 5-inch 1080p (441ppi) Super-Amoled screen
- 7.9mm thin
- 2GB RAM
- 16/32/64 GB storage versions, Micro-SD card support up to 64 GB
- 130g4G LTE 100Mbs down, 50Mps up
- Barometer, temperature and humidity sensors
- IR-transmitter
- 2600MAh battery, removable
Our 11-page review
We've considered every aspect of the Samsung Galaxy S4, with the photographer in mind. We examined the user interface of the native camera app and its special features. We experimented with the camera's performance when taking stills and video, and had a play with the device's many special feature modes. Click any of the links below for more information of specific functions and continue to our conclusion for a final summary of our findings.
Source: http://connect.dpreview.com/post/0586582857/samsung-galaxy-s4-camera-review
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Friday, July 12, 2013
Pentagon's paymasters hound a master sergeant
(This story is refiled to correct the photo caption to read master sergeant from staff sergeant)
By Kelly Carr and Scot J. Paltrow
(Reuters) - Four months after 25-year Air Force veteran George Koffler retired, the Defense Department demanded that he give back $4,034.67 in pay it said he hadn't deserved.
In the more than two years since, the former master sergeant has vainly sought an answer to a simple question: Why?
Even as Koffler repeatedly asked the Defense Finance and Accounting Services, or DFAS, for an explanation, the Pentagon's payroll agency arranged to garnish his pay from his new civilian job and report the alleged debt to credit agencies. The unpaid balance was eventually turned over to a private collection agency.
Koffler is among the many retired or discharged military personnel who Reuters found are suddenly dunned by DFAS for money they never owed, or for overpayments they erroneously, and unknowingly, received. And as his case illustrates, many of them struggle to get an explanation for the claimed debt.
Koffler's ordeal began in February 2011, when he opened his mail to find the DFAS debt notice. "It was kind of like a slap in the face," he says.
The notice said the debt was for most of the "special duty assignment pay" he had earned for his last five years as an Air Force first sergeant. But there was no reason given why he, in particular, didn't deserve that pay.
Koffler, who served in Bosnia, the first Persian Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as well as on humanitarian missions, had risen over the years to become a master sergeant, one of the top ranks of Air Force enlisted personnel. In 2005, he graduated from the Air Force's First Sergeant Academy.
In the Air Force, first sergeant is a specialized job open to high-ranking sergeants. Under federal law, Air Force first sergeants, during the period Koffler served, were to receive an additional $150 a month in "special duty assignment pay" to cover the job's extra workload. The duties include serving as top adviser to a commander and overseeing mission readiness and the health and well-being of airmen.
Koffler could think of nothing that would disqualify him for his first-sergeant's pay. He first called the DFAS office in St. Louis, Missouri, to ask for an explanation. The agency mailed him a multipage packet filled with accounting codes he couldn't decipher.
He next phoned pay officials at Randolph Air Force Base, outside San Antonio, Texas, and the closest base to his home in Spring, Texas. Personnel there told him to call DFAS headquarters in Indianapolis, where staff told him to call the DFAS office in St. Louis.
A frustrated Koffler then wrote a detailed letter to DFAS to dispute the debt. Koffler says he never received any response.
The 48-year-old Koffler works at a high school as an Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps instructor. For seven months, DFAS garnished his pay, taking more than $300 every two weeks, or about 15 per cent of his salary.
When Koffler and his wife were arranging to buy living-room furniture in early 2011, the salesman withdrew an offer of $1,500 in financing. The DFAS debt, it turned out, had sharply lowered Koffler's credit rating.
"You kind of feel like they left you out to dry," Koffler says.
DFAS declined to make anyone available to discuss Koffler's case, and it did not respond to questions about whether it investigated Koffler's complaints.
During his years as a first sergeant, Koffler received more than $8,000 in special-duty pay - roughly double the amount it billed him. In a written response to questions, DFAS said that with the aim of recouping the full amount from Koffler, it had already collected $4,130 through withholdings from his last two paychecks.
Koffler says he recalls no such deductions, and a Reuters examination of his monthly pay statements turned up none for the alleged debt before his retirement.
In response to a Privacy Act waiver Koffler signed, DFAS turned over documents stating that the Air Force had asked DFAS to collect the money because "the servicemember was not eligible for the special duty pay." But the documents don't say why he was deemed ineligible.
DFAS referred Reuters to the Air Force's Personnel Center, where spokesman Michael Dickerson said DFAS should have the answer. Dickerson confirmed that Koffler was a first sergeant for the five years before he retired. He said the personnel center has no responsibility for special-duty pay. He suggested that Reuters contact units Koffler served in.
Two commanders Koffler served under during his last five years in the Air Force said he had earned his special-duty pay as a first sergeant. One of them, Lieutenant Colonel William Salinger, said Koffler's performance was "absolutely spectacular."
Reuters then went to Air Force Secretary Michael Donley. His spokeswoman, Ann Stefanek, said that she checked Koffler's pay records and that "there's a possibility there is an error." She declined to provide details. She said Donley's office would not look into whether the Air Force and DFAS had erred in claiming the money back.
Stefanek declined to say whether the Air Force has any records explaining the debt, or why Donley's office would not investigate. She suggested that Koffler begin a new appeals process if he wants to contest the debt. Beyond that, she said in an email, "I don't have any additional information to provide at this time."
(Edited by John Blanton)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pentagons-paymasters-hound-master-sergeant-140653971.html
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