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He's back! American Idol alum David Archuleta returned home earlier this month after being away for two years on his Mormon missionary trip to South America.
The season seven Idol runner-up, 23, greeted fans with a big smile and a few simple words in a video posted to his official YouTube page on Monday, March 24. "Hola! Hey, everyone," he said in the clip, titled "Words we have been waiting for..." and filmed outside what appears to be the airport. "It's Elder Archuleta here. And...I'm home. I'm home."
A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the "Something 'Bout Love" singer left for Chile in early 2012. He explained the trip in a video to fans shortly before his departure, saying he wanted to keep the details of his mission private.
"It's a decision everyone knows about, but it's a very personal thing, and I wanted to keep it that way, so I hope you guys respect that," he said at the time. "I've been able to bring you guys on this journey so far, but I hope that you guys will respect that this will be more of a personal thing, that I'm trying to focus on something else now, not my career, not trying to do music."
"I will see you all in two years," he added. "God bless. Take care."
I heard that David Archuleta was serving his mission in South America ,i wished he had served in Kenya maybe i would have got a chance to meet him,i cant imagine him being a missionary.
“Furious 7″ left all its competitors in the dust with a scorching global debut of $384 million.
The
latest installment in the “Fast and Furious” franchise kicked off in 63
international markets, as well as the U.S. and Canada. It marked
Universal Pictures’ biggest wide release ever, unspooling in 14,009
theaters around the world, including Imax and large format locations.
It
ranks as the fourth highest-grossing global opening in history behind
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” ($483.2 million), “Harry Potter
and the Half Blood Prince” ($394.4 million) and “The Avengers ($392.5
million).
The
opening breakdown was $143.6 million stateside bow and a $240.4 million
international kick-off. It’s a particularly impressive international
figure, because “Furious 7″ has yet to open in such major markets at
Russia, Japan and China.
Analysts Sunday told Variety that they expect “Furious 7″ will become the first chapter in the series to hit $1 billion.
“Why stop at a billion,” quipped Nick Carpou, Universal’s president of domestic distribution.
This story is originally from this link https://www.yahoo.com/movies/s/box-office-furious-7-debuts-384-million-globally-154720496.html
I am a huge fun of the fast and the furious and furious is doing so well it deserves it.I love all the people behind this movie they work so hard to make thi happen.And it is a great way to pat tribute to the amazing Paul Walker.
Three major media houses were turned off due to the digital migration. Nation MediaGroup, Standard Media Group and Royal Media Services wanted to migrate to digital broadcasting as self-provisioning signal distributors.They did not want to let paid-tv to be their only signal distributors.And so when the digital migration due date came they were switched off and they were off air for 19 days.They finally went digital which means the people without pay t.v or digital set boxes can not access television at all.The three media houses want to have their own digital set boxes so that when people purchase them.They will not pay to watch their television channels.The Government insists on digital migration because it is a worldwide move.But other African countries who are even more advanced than ours have said they are not yet ready for the June 17 worldwide digital migration.And they have been excused.I do not know why Kenya is so persistent.And i wonder is digital migration amust.When it means that people have to pay to watch television channels or have to buy digital set boxes.For people living from hand to mouth,is this even possible? People now have to incur unnecessary expenses.So what is with going digital and incurring more expenses.Digital migration is apparently for its benefits. Benefits of Digital Migration:
Digital TV will apparently enhance viewer experience through better picture quality Digital Television Broadcasting will offer sharper,brighter picture, and reduced interference. Viewers will also get to enjoy improved sound quality.Digital signals take up much less bandwith and therefore more channels can be broadcast. The Kenya Government’s Broadcasting Digital Migration Policy encourages more free-to-air channels for the diverse Kenyan population.The Set Top Box (STB) which will be used to receive the digital signal also has the capability to interface with devices such as a cell phone memory card or internet modem. This will
provide viewers with access to many more services and information.
Better viewing pleasure
With analogue you are only able to have standard definition television . With Digital Broadcasting High definition television is possible . High Definition Television is the premium version of digital television, offering
picture and sound quality which is much better than analog television. The reason is that it offers up to twice the vertical and horizontal resolution of a traditional analog (PAL) signal. The higher resolution picture is particularly suited to large screen television displays.This means that the benefits of HDTV are particularly noticeable on larger screen sets and when using projection equipment. HDTV will be in widescreen format and provide cinema-quality viewing with Dolby surround sound Electronic Program Guides (EPGs) Electronic Programme Guides (EPGs) are a feature of digital television broadcasting that come fitted in the Set Top Box. An Electronic Program Guide (EPGs) can be used by viewers to navigate between channels,identify the currently screening program and the next program on each channel. More sophisticated EPGs can be used to set reminders for program viewing, provide a short synopsis of the content of programs, identify programming in advance for several days, search for programs by genre, and provide access to some enhancements among others.
Better utilization of frequencies.
A digital signal carries much more data than an analogue signal. Therefore, more than one channel of television programs can be broadcast at the same time. This is known as multi-channeling. This efficient of channels reduces the number of frequencies required for the broadcasting sector. The CCK is therefore able to deploy the unused frequencies for use in other services.Yes this are many advanced benefits but are they affordable to everyone.Truth is it is not free.Digital television has its benefits but can everyone afford it?The answer is no but it is being forced onto people or you go without.With all the benefits people are not looking at the disadvantages of Digital television because it has its expenses.And when it rains even alittle the signal is lost and you do not get to watch television.Which leads me to ask the question,is Digital Migration really that neccesary for everyone.Why cant people choose for themselves and pick what suits them.
As many as two-thirds of women will experience hair thinning, according to a Harvard Medical School study.
So, if you have fine hair already or notice your hair has been thinning
as of late (it’s normal to lose roughly 100 hairs a day, but
significantly more than that isn’t typical), it might be time to make
some changes to your routine to prevent breakage and even worse, hair
loss. To keep you ahead of the thinning-hair curve, Cosmopolitan.com
talked to New York hairstylist Kevin Mancuso, creative director for Nexxus Salon Hair Care, about how to treat, prevent, and plump up skinny strands.
1. Loosen the tension. Constantly
pulling on your hair and causing tension on your strands — by putting
it into tight ponytails, excessively blow-drying it straight with a
brush, or wearing extensions without giving you hair a break every few
months — can permanently damage your hair follicles and actually cause
hair loss or traction alopecia (as it’s medically termed). Mancuso
advises his clients with thinning hair to choose looser styles rather
than tight updos all the time and to opt for a brushless blow-dry (where
you just use your fingers and the heat from the dryer) first before
styling, both of which give hair a break from styling practices that can
thin strands out even more.
2. Never skip conditioner.Not using conditioner is
one of the biggest mistakes women with fine hair make. Because your
hair is thin and often falls flat, you may instinctually avoid daily
rinse-out conditioners and even any leave-in sprays or treatments too,
thinking they’ll weigh down your hair. However, the opposite can be
true, as long as you choose a lightweight formula. Here’s why: Over
time, lack of hydration causes hair to become damaged and brittle,
causing the actual diameter of each strand to become smaller. You do
want to avoid ultra-softening conditioners formulated for extremely
damaged hair which can be too heavy, and opt for those that are “as
lightweight as possible,” Mancuso suggests. “Look for those that contain
panthenol and glycerin that moisturize and support the thickening of
your hair.” These ingredients keep fragile hair strong and responsive to
styling. (Try Dove Oxygen Moisture Conditioner and Nexxus Hydra-Light Leave In Conditioning Foam.)
4. Eat a healthy and nutritious diet. What
you eat — and how often — has a huge effect on the health of your hair.
Your body needs constant fuel in the form of essential fatty acids,
protein, B vitamins, and minerals such as zinc, iron and selenium to
grow healthy hair. But don’t expect to start to load up on nutrients
important for healthy hair and a week later see results. “It could take
anywhere from several months or longer to notice the difference in your
hair,” Stephanie Middleberg,
a dietitian in NYC, says. “Hair is built from the inside out so a
healthy body is important for healthy hair — but it will take time if
you haven’t been getting enough of those nutrients for a while.”
5. Listen to your body. Sometimes,
thinning hair is caused by medical factors, like thyroid problems,
dramatic weight loss or gain, and anemia. Even heavy menstrual cycles
can cause brittle, fragile hair from losing too much iron. “Any kind of
hormonal balance dictates how your body is working in general,” Mancuso
says. “As you get older, even in your 30s, your body is changing so you
want to be in tune to what’s happening.” If something seems up with your
system, always consult a doctor to get to the root of the problem.
6. Know your family history. Heredity
also plays a role in hair loss. You could be prone to thinning hair
just based on genetics alone. A good way to suss out whether or not you
might see signs of thinning is by scoping out your family tree — from
either the maternal or paternal side. If you see a pattern of hair loss
or balding, see a trichologist (an expert who specializes in hair and
scalp health) about what you can do to prevent the symptoms with
supplements, diet changes, or laser therapy treatment that could help
rev hair growth.
I
chose this post because hair thinning is something that is faced by
many people and it can be very frustrating and heart breaking and
knowing the cause of it is never that easy and finding a cure or
something to stop it is another headache by itself.And accepting hair
loose is never easy knowing the causes and how to prevent or reduce hair
loose is always a great thing.
Standing tall isn’t always easy—especially if you’re standing taller than the guy on your arm. But just because you literally see eye to eye (or eye to forehead) with your boyfriend or husband in bare feet doesn’t mean you should have to abstain from wearing heels. In Hollywood, there are plenty of women who measure taller than their shawtys—and look good doing it. Here, an ode to the ladies who are a head (especially in heels) above their significant others.
This story is originally from https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/an-ode-to-the-female-celebs-who-are-taller-than-115392919391.html
It is always funny to see a couple where the woman is taller than the the man but there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.Now it is interesting and funny to see these trail in celebrities,i guess celebrities are not immune to this too.
Missing
the Austin ditch in which he’d slept most nights for the last two
years, Mike Wille curled up on the front lawn of the large house his
mother had just left him via her suicide note. Her death meant that Mike
– known to fans of his street music and his homelessness blog, The Ground Score,
as Mad Mike the Hippy Bum – would soon be a millionaire. Mad Mike
worried that, given his love of drink and drugs, he could not survive
such a lifestyle shift.
At birth, Mike’s left leg was shorter than his right by an inch, with no defined calf muscle and an under-formed foot sans big toe. When I visited his mother’s former home near New Orleans
recently, he showed me a box of family papers he’d unearthed regarding
the lengthening of his leg by the famous doctor Gavriil Ilizarov, who invented the procedure.
Still, the bum leg helped Mike nurture a negative outlook that, once
he became teenager, fractured his relationship with his already volatile
parents. “My mother was a fairly erratic person. Sometimes extremely
benevolent and generous, other times scathingly cruel,” Mike told me.
“When I was in the seventh grade, she tried to kill herself in front of
me because I got a D in history and I said I didn’t care. Later we found
her passed out in the garage with the car running and my dad freaked
out, showing more emotion than I’d ever seen out of him.
“Things came to a head when I was 17 and had a fist fight with my
dad, causing him to have me arrested. This was my first time in jail,”
says Wille, who immediately moved out of his house. Mike has more
recently written exquisitely about subsequent trips to jail (most for
public intoxication) at The Ground Score:
Immediately upon entering, one of the prisoners, a skinny guy about
my age, walked up to me, looked me in the eyes, extended his hand, and
in a welcoming voice said, “Hi. My name is “John.” Now I knew I was in
luck. Not only had I stumbled upon a harmonious pod, but also one which
contained at least one smart inmate. If you ever go to jail, I recommend
doing just what he did, and greet any unfamiliar inmate coming into
your living space in exactly this way (almost any). You can learn a lot
from a guy by presenting him with the option of civility.
I gave this gentlemen amongst the despondent a firm handshake and
said, “Hey man. I’m Mike.” Over the next two nights I ate, slept,
watched TV, read a book about Marlon Brando, and talked to John. A
decent conversation is hard to find in jail, and I could tell he hadn’t
had one in a while. As for me, it had probably been even longer. In this
town, the only class of people less worthy of respect than prisoners,
are the homeless.
Thanks to his blog, Mike received fan mail from Scotland, New Zealand, Latvia and the Ukraine. To a homeless bum, this meant everything.
Wille, now 36, lived rough on the streets of Austin. Photograph: Jonathan Traviesa
Mike’s deceased mother’s house, a nicely appointed junior McMansion
45 minutes east of New Orleans, represents the first roof over Mike’s
head in four years. Mad Mike spent the last 15 years blowing back and
forth from Texas to his home state of Louisiana, surfing both couches and park benches.
Mad Mike: ‘Facebook and my blog were forums where I wasn’t judged by my financial situation.’ Photograph: Jonathan Traviesa
Mad Mike still has not told the thousands of readers who keep up with
The Ground Score that he is now a multi-millionaire; he fears they will
judge him differently.
“People talk so much about how Facebook is garbage, and just some
cheeseball thing you shouldn’t take seriously, but … Facebook and my
blog were forums where I wasn’t judged by my financial situation,” says
Mike. “In Austin, people were cold to me, people didn’t look me in the
eye. Women didn’t look me in the eye for years. Police would put me in
jail every chance they’d get. The internet was the perfect escape.”
His first computer was quickly stolen, along with his guitar during
one of his blackouts on Austin’s world-famous 6th Street. He managed to
continue writing within the two hours allotted by the public library’s
computers. “I’d post something in one hour, then go back later in day to
see how it was received. When I wanted to get more done in a day, I’d
write it all out in longhand first.”
It is tough to corroborate the stories of a homeless loner. But I’ve
shared just a few degrees of separation from Mike in real life for
enough years to believe his Ground Scoretales.“In
real life, I was a heavy drinker who rubbed people the wrong way,” said
Mike. “But I always thought that if everyone could understand what I
was thinking they might understand me and like me better. So
hitting it big on the internet validated my feelings on that.” Fans out
of nowhere also helped him live: “I’m obviously some kind of big shot
artist to these guys – but then I’d look away from the screen and
remember that I’m a pariah. It helped me to survive under those
conditions. I made light of it in my writing,” he says, “but life in the
ditch was fucking rough.”
Mike finally went against his own rule and asked his internet
followers if anyone had an extra laptop he could have. His next two
computers and a smartphone came from readers. “It was an amazing thing,
the moment I realized I would always have a computer, just so long as I
kept writing …”
A university press even reached out and offered Mike a one-book
contract – which I advised him not to take because I thought his writing
could touch more people than a university press could reach. Having
published a couple books with universities myself, I knew that route
wouldn’t lift him out of the ditch. “Hold out,” I advised him. “You
could make real money with your writing.”
Soon though, money wouldn’t be a problem for Mad Mike.
Mike replaced his mom’s furniture with thousands of dollars worth of brand new musical equipment. Photograph: Jonathan Traviesa
“Three out of five of our siblings have committed suicide. Mike’s
mother is the third,” says Danny Branighan, the arbiter of his sister’s
will, though they’d been estranged since 2001. Danny has a turbulent
relationship with his brother as well, and another sister who was so
horrified to read Mike’s blog that she cut him off, and demanded he
never write about her in even the most veiled of ways.
Danny’s most recently deceased sister had argued with her boyfriend,
told him to leave the house, then went to sleep in the garage with the
car running. “She had a will drawn up before that, but the one that she
wrote that day was considered more valid, and it held up in Louisiana
district court,” says Danny, who ever since has been giving Mad Mike
rides and amateur legal advice. He confirms Mike will inherit $1.8m in
investment money, plus his mother’s big house. “I’d have been upset if
it all hadn’t gone to Mike,” he claims.
After the loss of his mother, Mike wasn’t heard from for weeks. When he resurfaced a month later,he
told me that he was “very happy about the money, but I don’t like the
way I got it. I wish she would have given me 10% of it and had a deeper
relationship with me.”
Though still smoking weed and dabbling in other drugs – and worst of
all, ripping the filters off his Pall Mall cigarettes – Mike is
attempting to quit drinking. “I simply can’t afford to fuck this up, and
if I’m drinking, I certainly would. Either I would waste all the money
or kill myself,” he believes, pointing to his last drinking binge this
past New Year’s Eve, when Danny ended up driving alcohol poisoned Mike
to Tulane Hospital. “Abject poverty had kept my drinking reasonably
contained,” says Mike, “but with a full bank account I tend to drink
until I get sick.”
Instead, he’s indulging in music. Mad Mike immediately moved his
mom’s sofa, love seat and ottoman out of the living room and replaced it
with thousands of dollars worth of brand new, gorgeous musical
equipment: a cherry wood Les Paul guitar and a Fender Deluxe Reverb amp;
a giant, black Korg keyboard and a huge multi-channel Roland amp; a
sleek, black Fender Jazz Bass; several microphones and the six-piece
drum kit. As we sit around jamming, he tells me: “This morning off of
eBay I ordered a $2,500 Martin acoustic guitar, a standup bass, a
Deering maple Banjo, and an Irish Bouzouki Mandola.” I had to look that
last one up.
He promises that now, after he buys his first car as an adult, and
then helps Danny’s family pay off tens of thousands worth of debt, Mike
will keep the rest of the money invested. “This looks like rash
consumerism,” he recognizes, moving into the kitchen, which now serves
as his recording studio’s control room. “But I am just acquiring the
specific tools for my needs. I intend to spend the rest of my life
writing, producing artwork, and recording music. I suppose I might even
consider starting a family now that I have the resources to take care of
one.”
Wanting me to try the weed he stashed out in the guesthouse, we must
first cross his vast, verdant yard. The guesthouse is tiny but, with a
bathroom, bed and TV, inheriting it alone would have wildly changed
Mike’s life. Now, it is just another place Mike keeps weed.
I ask him if he’s worried people will treat him differently. “Oh yes,
it happened immediately,” he says. “Now people invite me into their
parlors, their guestrooms, they offer to let me sleep on their couch.
Though this also has to do with the fact that I’m not drinking…”
Despite that he’s currently embroiled in something even more
interesting than finding drugs on the ground, Mike hasn’t posted on The
Ground Scoresince he moved in here. He did tell his followers
that he’d inherited a nice house and is no longer homeless. But he fears
the word “millionaire,” will alienate his fans. “They like an
underdog,” he understands. “So I’m kind of nervous as to how they will
react.”
He admits that the house is too distracting for blogging. “But more
importantly, my family is now all really paying attention to my posts,”
he says, blowing smoke in the breeze’s face. “And what I have to write
about lately is stuff that would ... not offend them
necessarily, but … they’re from a different lifestyle than me. To be
honest I haven’t been writing because I finally care what someone
thinks.”
The original source of this post is http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/24/mad-mike-homeless-blogger-millionaire
I think this is an amazing story it is very sad but has a kind of ok ending.Things can turn out alright in the end of a very stormy life.
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