President Obama at the 2013 White House Corresdents Dinner

President Obama last night joined Conan O'Brien onstage at the Washington Hilton for the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, and gave his fifth address to the organization of journalists who cover the White House, and the President himself. In his remarks, the President poked at himself, as well as some of the news organizations and politicians in the room. He also showed a spoof promo for Steven Spielberg's followup to "LIncoln," a biopic called "Obama."

But while everyone had a good laugh during the speech, President Obama closed his speech on  a more serious note, reminding the audience of the important role the media plays in American society, especially during times of crisis like the Boston Marathon bombings and the explosion that killed so many first responders in West,Texas.  

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Will Chael Sonnen really retire

I can't quite shake the feeling the next time Chael Sonnen appears behind the desk on Fuel TV's UFC Tonight, he'll already be working his next angle.Maybe between now and whenever he returns to television, he'll decide that he could have fought through the final flurry against JonJones at the end of the first round on Saturday night, and should have been awarded the title on a default when Jones would have been ruled unable to continue due to his toe injury.Maybe he'll put a marquee light heavyweight or middleweight on blast and start firing verbal volleys.Maybe the pride of West Linn, Ore. really has it in his head he's going to give this retirement thing a whirl. But when presented with an opportunity down the road -- maybe a shot as a high-profile substitute -- he simply won't be able to refuse.With Chael P. Sonnen, you never know.

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NBA legend Michael Jordan marries model Yvette Prieto in Florida

NBA legend Michael Jordan married Cuban-American model Yvette Prieto at a Florida church Saturday – the same one where mogul Donald Trump held his nuptials in 2005.

 Jordan, 50, and Prieto, 35, were reportedly married before approximately 500 guests, including ex-New York Knick Patrick Ewing and one-time teammate Scottie Pippen, at the Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach.

 The Miami Herald reports that a black tuxedo-clad Jordan, who is now majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, shot a thumbs-up upon arrival to the between 20 and 30 starry-eyed fans who gathered for the event.

 Jordan has three children with his ex-wife, Juanita Vanoy, to whom he was married in 1989. The hoops legend and Vanoy filed for divorce in 2002, but reconciled before their final separation in 2006.

Saturday’s ceremony was reportedly followed by a massive reception at Jordan’s palatial, 37,000-square-foot house in Jupiter.  The Heraldreports that the gala affair was held under three enormous tents that spanned the length of two football fields.

 “I calculated a total under-roof space of about 600 feet long by 150 feet wide,” an unidentified worker told The Herald. “I’ve never seen anything like it. I’ve been working weddings for a while. It looks like he’s having about 2,000 people over.”

People Magazine reports that Prieto met Jordan at a Miami nightclub in 2008, and the couple have been dating since then.

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Mediterranean diet over low fat

Scientists say, you can have your wine and eat the nuts that go with it, and be healthier in the bargain. A rigorous new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine should finally put to rest any doubts about whether a Mediterranean diet -- rich in olive oil or nuts as well as fish, with a glass of wine per day also allowed -- promotes better cardiovascular health than the way most of us eat. It does.

That might not be surprising, but up to now, advice on the Mediterranean diet has been based on correlation: People in Mediterranean areas that tend to follow that way of eating experienced lower incidence of stroke and other cardiovascular problems. Could the difference have been genetic? Could people who ate that way also be doing other things that made the crucial difference? The new study, conducted in Spain, randomly assigned a large number of subjects to different eating styles, made sure they were following it and measured results -- not lab-test results but illness and death.

But what about the long-standing battle between those who believe that a very low-fat diet is the best way to fend off cardiac risk, and those who espouse a way of eating much higher in the so-called good fats? Should all of the people carefully counting their daily fat grams give up the effort and take a spoonful of medicine in the form of olive oil? (Or, as the study had it, four tablespoons a day -- close to 500 calories of fat before you've eaten a solid thing.) Here the situation is much more complicated.

The study meant to compare the two. The control group was supposed to eat a low-fat diet. The problem, as reported in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, was that those people barely reduced their fat intake, even after receiving additional coaching. That's why the article words things this way:

"We designed a randomized trial to test the efficacy of two Mediterranean diets (one supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil and another with nuts), as compared with a control diet (advice on a low-fat diet), on primary cardiovascular prevention."

The researchers could have made that clearer at the get-go: Receiving advice on a diet isn't the same as eating that way most days. So the actual comparison was between a Mediterranean diet and the standard way of eating among Spaniards (who apparently, in many ways, are not following a Mediterranean diet no matter what their geographical location happens to be).

What this study may have shown us about the difference between Mediterranean and low fat is that the former is easier to follow. There were no big problems getting subjects to ingest olive oil, wine and seafood. Low fat? Not so much.

The believers in low-fat diets could legitimately argue that the control group received too little coaching and support for their way of eating. But there's also a reality that has to be taken into account. No matter what future research shows about the value of a low-fat or very low-fat diet, when it comes to improving public health, we might need not just a healthier diet but one that large numbers of people will find sustainable over a lifetime.

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How to get Big and Beautiful Lashes

Do you want to have a beautiful lashes here are some tips.

"Use that 30-second window before your mascara dries to work the wand," says Sarah Lucero, Stila pro makeup artist. Start with curled lashes and two coats of mascara, then try one of these tricks.

To go wider and bigger:

1. Elongate your center lashes. Use the tip of your brush to stretch the middle lashes upward.

2. Next, define the bottom lash line and then emphasize the center lashes with the tip of your brush.

To Look Well Rested

Carefully coat your baby lashes (the tiny inside-corner hairs). "It brightens the whites of your eyes," says Lucero. You need very little mascara, so clean off the tip of the wand first.

To Get an Instant Eye Lift

Add an extra coat of mascara to the outermost lashes and hold the brush for a few seconds to set.

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Highlights and Analysis: Champions League Semifinals, Barcelona at Bayern Munich

Thomas Müller scored two goals and set up two others as Bayern Munich thrashed visiting Barcelona, 4-0, on Tuesday in a Champions Leaguesemifinal.

The eagerly anticipated showdown between European heavyweights, both former winners of the competition, was a complete mismatch. Bayern dominated the midfield even as it surrendered much of the possession, frustrating Barcelona’s passing game before it could get close enough to create chances. Then Bayern punished the Catalans on set pieces at the other end, dominating the air — at times simply bullying Barcelona into submission.

Barcelona had hoped to get a boost from its star Lionel Messi, who returned from a hamstring injury sustained in the quarterfinal, but the tiny Argentine — unable to find an inch of space and clearly not fit — was virtually invisible all game.

Barcelona never seemed to have a chance. Losing his marker in the 25th minute, Müller drove in a header for the opening goal. Four minutes after halftime, he headed a ball off a corner kick into the goalmouth, where Mario Gomez swept it in. The visitors were stunned, and it only got worse.

Müller set a crushing pick on a defender to free Arjen Robben to score from a tight angle in the 73rd minute, and then slid in to add his second goal in the 82nd.

By then Barcelona seemed to be praying for the end, just wanting to get out of Bavaria and hopefully turn things around at its Camp Nou stadium next week. But a four-goal deficit will be almost impossible to erase, making it highly likely now that Bayern will face the Real Madrid-Borussia Dortmund winner in the final at Wembley on May 25.

Source: nytimes

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Earth Day

It’s a bad sign when the biggest news on Earth Day is an animated Google doodle of nature, wherein a blue stream flows from a snow-covered mountain pass into a fish-filled lake surrounded by trees and fields—yet that was the best that most outlets could muster on Monday, the 43rd anniversary of the environmental holiday.

It’s sad. As climate change became a major media story in the mid-2000s, it seemed to galvanize renewed concern about environmental issues in general. Magazines, in particular, adopted the habit of publishing Greenissues in Marchand April, to mark the occasion of Earth Day. There were half a dozen in 2007 and twice as many in 2008.Time even changed its iconic red border to green for a cover that used the famous World War II photograph of soldiers raising a flagpole at Iwo Jima:

The Green issues contained some fluff, to be sure, about biking to work and switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs, but most content was substantive reporting on everything from agriculture to energy to zoology. Unfortunately, the fad was short-lived, and by 2010, they were no more.

Instead of powerful cover images, readers now get the Google doodle, which wasn’t even scientifically accurate in a number of respects, as Bad Astronomer Phil Plaitt explained at Slate. It’s not Google that deserves criticism, however, but rather all the news outlets that produced utterly innocuous Earth Day coverage.

There were a few exceptions, of course. Nicholas Lemann, the dean of Columbia Journalism School, which publishes CJR, reviewed the history of the environmental movement for The New Yorker in order to glean “political lessons” about the failure of climate-change legislation in Congress in 2009, which he called, “a humiliating defeat as unexpected as the success of Earth Day had been.”

Echoing the conclusions of two scholarly reports that came out earlier this year, Lemann suggested that while “today’s environment movement is vastly bigger, richer, and better connected than it was in 1970,” it’s also “vastly less successful” due to a focus on Beltway politics rather than broad-based, grassroots organizing.

As if to carry the torch of that argument, journalist-turned-climate activist Bill McKibben wrote an essay for Rolling Stone about “The Fossil

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