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Monday, May 7, 2012
Ask Engadget: best lens for wedding photography?
We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is coming to us from Van, who needs some help recording his sister's wedding. If you're looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.
"I'm supposed to be shooting my sister's wedding in June, with an outdoor ceremony and an indoor reception. I've got a Canon T2i (550D, non-Americans) with the kit 18-55mm lens and a 50mm f.18 prime lens. I'm looking for suggestions for an additional lens I could rent for the day, would a 200mm or a telephoto be worth it? Also, if anyone can suggest a good filter for an afternoon shoot, that'd be very welcome. Thanks!"
That's the second wedding-related query we've had this year -- there must be something in the water. We're sure plenty of you want to help Van's sister's big day go perfectly, so any photogs, camera buffs and bridezillas with an opinion, please add them below.
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Evangelista testifies at NY child-support trial
Linda Evangelista leaves Manhattan Family Court Thursday, May 3, 2012, in New York. Evangelista is demanding that ex-boyfriend Francois-Henri Pinault pay child support for their 5-year-old son. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Linda Evangelista leaves Manhattan Family Court Thursday, May 3, 2012, in New York. Evangelista is demanding that ex-boyfriend Francois-Henri Pinault pay child support for their 5-year-old son. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Linda Evangelista leaves Manhattan Family Court Thursday, May 3, 2012, in New York. Evangelista is demanding that ex-boyfriend Francois-Henri Pinault pay child support for their 5-year-old son. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Tracing her working life from picking cherries as a preteen to the cover of Vogue, supermodel Linda Evangelista told a court Friday she can still command about $100,000 to walk a runway, though her career has slowed since its 1980s and '90s heyday.
In an unusual peek into high fashion in Manhattan Family Court, Evangelista took the witness stand to begin telling her side of her child-support standoff with French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault.
But their 5-year-old boy didn't come up in Evangelista's brief testimony Friday; she's expected to continue testifying Monday.
Rather, answering questions from her lawyer, the high-flying model who once famously said she and her peers "don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day" sketched a portrait of herself as a woman whose first job ? harvesting cherries on a farm in her Canadian hometown ? paid $10 a day. She did that work at 12 to earn money for a bicycle, she said.
She worked at a convenience store and several other jobs during high school, pounded the pavement in two continents to get her start in modeling and felt pressured into getting her now-signature haircut, she said.
When she first got her famous cut in the late 1980s on advice from some fashion heavy-hitters, "I cried," and organizers canceled 16 out of some 20 fashion shows she was about to do, she recalled. But soon "I had every Vogue cover around the world ... and then people came around and decided they like the short hair."
Asked about her career now, the 46-year-old model paused. "I'm active," she said in a calm, careful voice. "I would like to work."
Indeed she does: She is on the current cover of Italian Vogue, recently did a roughly $90,000 advertising shoot, and still gets some runway requests, including a 2010 Paris show she had to turn down for a court date ? ultimately canceled ? in the custody battle, said Evangelista, dressed for court in a tailored white skirt, stylishly boxy gray linen jacket with tan collar and cuffs, and tan spike-heeled pumps.
But her lawyer, William Beslow, has said Evangelista's roughly $1.8 million-a-year income took a dive last year after a major contract with L'Oreal ended, and that's why she's asking a court to order Pinault to chip in for son Augustin's expenses. She says she spends $46,000 a month on armed bodyguards, 24-hour-a-day nannies and other care for the boy, known as Augie.
Pinault, who is CEO of luxury-brands powerhouse PPR and now the husband of actress Salma Hayek, says he has offered for years to pay Evangelista child support, but she responded with the lawsuit. His lawyer, David Aronson, has termed the possibility of a $46,000-a-month child-support bill "just ridiculous."
Pinault was grilled earlier Friday about his own spending, including the roughly $62,000 in clothes, $100,000 watch and half-share in a $250,000 sportscar he bought himself in 2010. Vacations ran him $200,000 that year; upkeep on the garden at his Paris apartment, about $45,000, he said.
His testimony pulled back a curtain on personal difficulties, as well as financial details. He said he had postponed formally recognizing Augie as his son for some months in 2007 because he and Hayek were caught up in concern about her own pregnancy with their daughter, Valentina. For a time, they were told the baby would have Down syndrome, he said.
"The situation was very, very complicated. We almost lost the baby," he testified.
Pinault, now 49, and Evangelista had dated over about four months in 2005 and 2006. He said they spent only about seven days together in all. Augie was born in October 2006.
Pinault also has two children by a previous marriage.
PPR owns Gucci, Yves St. Laurent and other high-style brands. Forbes recently estimated his family's net worth at $13 billion.
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Coe warns against politicizing London Olympics
In this frame grab from a TV advertisement released by Argentine Presidential Office, an Argentine Olympic field hockey player Fernando Zylberberg exercises in front of the Globe Tavern in Stanley, Falkland Islands. Residents of the Falkland Islands are angry over a TV commercial secretly filmed in the islands by Argentina, which calls the archipelago the Islas Malvinas and claims it was stolen from them by Britain nearly 180 years ago. (AP Photo/Argentine Presidential Office)
In this frame grab from a TV advertisement released by Argentine Presidential Office, an Argentine Olympic field hockey player Fernando Zylberberg exercises in front of the Globe Tavern in Stanley, Falkland Islands. Residents of the Falkland Islands are angry over a TV commercial secretly filmed in the islands by Argentina, which calls the archipelago the Islas Malvinas and claims it was stolen from them by Britain nearly 180 years ago. (AP Photo/Argentine Presidential Office)
LONDON (AP) ? Sebastian Coe has warned against politicizing the London Olympics, a day after the International Olympic Committee criticized an Argentine TV ad that linked the games to Argentina's dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.
Coe, who heads the local organizing committee, says the Olympics are not "a political gathering," but a "celebration of sport." The games are not about "one or two individual countries," Coe told reporters on Saturday as thousands of sports fans were descending on the Olympic Park in east London for final test events before the games begin on July 27.
He said "this is about the spirit across the Olympic family."
On Friday, the IOC denounced the ad, which reasserts Argentina's claim to the islands.
It shows field hockey captain Fernando Zylberberg training for the games by running through the islands' capital of Stanley. It says: "To compete on British soil, we train on Argentinian soil."
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US drone attack kills 8 in Pakistan
By NBC News and msnbc.com staff
Eight?suspected militants?were killed in a?U.S. drone attack Saturday in?northwest Pakistan, intelligence officials said.
A Pakistani security official on condition of anonymity told NBC News?the drone had fired four missiles and struck a compound in the forest-covered Dre Nishtar area of Shawal valley, a remote part of North Waziristan.
"Shawal is an area where militants from different countries had gathered and set up their sanctuaries,"?the official said.
He said mostly tribal militants, Punjabi Taliban, Afghans, Arabs, and Chechen and Uzbek militants have training camps in the area and often suffer losses in the drone strikes.
The strike Saturday was the second American drone operation in Pakistan this week.
Pakistan: Attacks are illegal
Pakistan's government of Pakistan condemned the attack in the strongest terms, NBC News reported.
"Pakistan has consistently maintained that these illegal attacks are a violation of its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and are in contravention of international law" a Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman said in a statement.
"It is our considered view that the strategic disadvantages of such attacks far outweigh their tactical advantages, and are therefore, totally counterproductive," he added.
Last month, a U.S. drone strike killed four suspected militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, despite the recent demand by a Pakistani parliamentary committee that such operations end.
The unmanned aircraft?can be remotely piloted from hundreds or thousands of miles away.
The U.S. campaign of drone strikes to kill militants in other countries is legal under international law, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said last week.
'National self-defense'
Brennan cited legal opinions from the administration, the U.S. Constitution and the Authorization for Use of Military Force passed by Congress after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al Qaida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense," Brennan said.
"There is nothing in international law that bans the use of remotely piloted aircraft for this purpose or that prohibits us from using lethal force against our enemies outside of an active battlefield, at least when the country involved consents or is unable or unwilling to take action against the threat," he said.
Pakistan closed its Afghan border crossings to NATO supplies last November in retaliation for American airstrikes that accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The government also kicked the U.S. out of a base used by American drones.
This article includes reporting from Reuters and The Associated Press.
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Mindless Behavior 'Definitely Unique' Among Boy Bands
'Our Mindless movement is all about being confident, just being yourself,' Battle of the Boy Bands hopefuls tell MTV News.
By Kelly Marino
Mindless Behavior
Photo: Getty Images
The first round of MTV News' Battle of the Boy Bands has officially ended, but there is still time for fans to cast their votes for their favorite heartthrob group in hopes to title them the ultimate boy band of all time.
Another group urging their biggest followers to vote for them are the guys from Mindless Behavior. But before you get mindless with your votes, here are some facts about the foursome that might help steer your mind in the right direction:
Highest Chart Achievement
Their single "Mrs. Right" featuring rapper Diggy Simmons reached #8 on the U.S. Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop charts after its 2011 release.
Defining Tune
The guys confess they would travel the world just to find the right kind of girl in the beat-popping hit "Mrs. Right," causing female hearts in every country to flutter.
Standout Video
During their pledge to search high and low for "Mrs. Right," the boys get a lesson or two in geography from their teacher, Professor LL Cool J. Directed by Brett Ratner, the video also features Mike Epps as the school janitor, who joins in on the fun during a pep rally to cheer on Diggy Simmons and the group's signature dance moves.
Debut Album
Their debut album, #1 Girl, hit the U.S. in September 2011, debuting at #7 on the Billboard 200 with 36,000 copies sold in its first week.
Biggest Competition
Despite all of their success, the boys weren't afraid to admit who they thought might be their biggest competition amid the new wave of boy bands that has exploded on the scene. "As far as other boy bands who I feel [are] our biggest competition is One Direction and the Wanted," Roc Royal told us. "That's a huge competition for us, because we all have different movements, and they come from the U.K., and they also have fans out here, which, they have a lot of fans out here, so it's crazy."
So why do the guys think they should win our Battle of the Boys Band? Well, it's simple, really: "There's a lot of boy bands in the poll, but we're definitely unique," Princeton stated. "So please vote for us."
Ray Ray chimed in: "I think we should win the title for Best Boy Band of All Time because we have a great movement. Our Mindless movement is all about being confident, just being yourself, not caring what other people think, stopping all the bullying and, one, we're really great artists. We have songs that anyone can listen to. That's why I think we should win."
"And we love all of the fans," Princeton added.
When it comes to learning the key to becoming a great boy band, the group even filled us in on a little secret the Backstreet Boys once told them while on tour together: "When we were on tour with the Backstreet Boys, the advice that they gave us was 'Stick together no matter what,' " Ray Ray shared. "They said: You might have arguments here and there, but just stick together. You have to become family although you're in a group. You have to literally become family, and you got to stick together."
Voting in round two of MTV's Battle of the Boy Bands runs until noon ET on Monday, April 30. Winners are determined by fan votes, so if your favorite band made the cut, make sure you keep voting. Tune in to AMTV and MTV Hits for their boy-band video takeovers each day and make sure to spread the word on Twitter using the hashtag #BBB and like us on Facebook for updates!
Vote for your favorite band, discuss and share on Facebook and Twitter in the MTV Battle of the Boy Bands interactive bracket!
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