Mega Millions tops $400 million with decreased jackpot odds

The MegaMillions jackpot rose to $400 million after no one matched the lucky numbers on the December 10 drawing.

In fact, no one has won the Mega Millions since the lottery game underwent a formatting change in October that significantly altered the odds of taking home the grand prize.

“It has been getting way crazier now the day of the drawings,” Beer Depot store manager Adi Dalibi said.

“Once it hits a certain amount it just goes up and up and up. Same with the PowerBall. People start making office pools and buying just a huge number of tickets.”

Source: mlive

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Demi Lovato talks about her messy life as a drug addict

Some addict-stars spend years abusing drugs before they hit bottom. For singer/songwriter Demi Lovato, it was when she was just 19, when she couldn't go 30 minutes without cocaine and even took to smuggling it on airplanes.

Now 21, Lovato opened up about her pathetic and messy life as a drug addict in an interview with Access Hollywood from the set of TheX Factor on Monday.

"I've really never talked about this stuff before … I don't know if I should be sharing this," she fretted.

Too late. Among other revelations, Lovato said her addiction made her a manipulator and a liar, able to hide her drug abuse even from trained minders.

"I couldn't go 30 minutes to an hour without cocaine and I would bring it on airplanes," she said. "I would smuggle it basically and just wait until everyone in first class would go to sleep and I would do it right there. I'd sneak to the bathroom and I'd do it. ... And that was even with somebody (with me), I had a sober companion, somebody who was watching me 24/7 and living with me (and) I was able to hide it from them as well."

Source:usatoday

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Gisele Bundchen's glam breastfeeding photo

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen shared an Instagram photo Tuesday of herself, while on the job, breastfeeding her 1-year-old daughter. Flanked by a hair and makeup team, the model appears to be serenely feeding her baby without a care in the world. A photo like this can be positive — these kinds of images help ease all-too-common stigmas that surround public breastfeeding. However, this scene also highlights how difficult it is for most moms to breastfeed in public, at work or otherwise.

There are countless examples of how public breastfeeding is stigmatized. Facebook’s policies allow depictions of violence against women and beheadings, while photos of breastfeeding were banned until recently. Last year, Time magazine kicked up controversy when a cover photo of a mother breastfeeding a toddler caused reactions of outrage, disgust and concern for the child’s well-being. Then there was the heated debate sparked by a college professor breastfeeding her sick baby in the classroom. Mothers are routinely kicked out of public places for breastfeeding.

I will never forget the conversations I had with family members about the importance of being “discreet” when breastfeeding my daughter in public. Or the fear of being scolded for exposing my breasts to feed my screaming, hungry infant in the mall. Heaven forbid we offend someone with the exposure of a body part designed to feed babies. 

Source: latimes

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American Hustle lead Golden Globes race

The searing 12 Years a Slave and the star-studded American Hustle in film, and TV's critically acclaimed Breaking Bad lead a wide field of nominees for next month's Golden Globe Awards, with Canadians Tatiana Maslany and Michael J. Fox among the competitors.

The contenders for the annual TV and film prizes were revealed Thursday by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Los Angeles, with actors Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde and Aziz Ansari announcing the nominees at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Steve McQueen's surprising slave tale 12 Years a Slave and David O. Russell's American Hustle, which revisits the FBI Abscam scandal, each earned a leading seven nominations.

Source: cbc

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Jane Birkin's daughter Kate Barry dies

British-born photographer Kate Barry, daughter of the actor and singer Jane Birkin, has died after falling from the window of her fourth-floor Paris flat.

Her body was found around 6.30pm on Wednesday on the pavement outside her home in the 16th arrondissement.

Barry, 46, was Birkin's eldest daughter and was born in London. Her father was the British composer John Barry, best known for his film music including the James Bond theme and Out of Africa. He died in 2011.

Her parents separated shortly after she was born in 1967, and Birkin moved to France where she brought up her daughter with the French singer Serge Gainsbourg, and later the film director Jacques Doillon.

Barry carved out a name for herself as a fashion photographer, but in France remained less famous than her actor half-sisters, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon. Barry once said she preferred to remain behind the scenes.

"At first, I was better known because of my family: my mother, my stepfather, my father, my sisters … now I hope I'm known a bit more for my own work," Barry said.

She was thought to have been alone in the flat, where antidepressants were reportedly found by police, who have launched an inquiry into her death. The door to her flat was locked from the inside.

Source: theguardian

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Ottawa's Shopify raises $100 M in venture capital

Ottawa startup Shopify, which makes software used by thousands of businesses to sell their products online, has raised $100 million to expand its software for retailers to use in their physical stores.

The large amount of venture capital is being put forward by five investors, led by the investment arm of OMERS, the pension fund for Ontario municipal employees.

Three Ottawa entrepreneurs launched Shopify in 2006 as an e-commerce software platform that businesses could use without having to develop their own websites.

With the new investment, Shopify plans to expand an iPad app it has developed that allows businesses to swipe credit cards and email receipts in-store, along with track sales.

At Shopify's office in Ottawa's ByWard Market, some employees sit in beanbag chairs working on laptop computers, while others take a break to play video machines or pinball. But the loft-like space is getting cramped, and Shopify plans to move in the coming months. The company has already doubled its staff this year, and with the $100 million dollars in venture capital, it sees hiring nearly another 200 people, mostly in Ottawa but also in Montreal and Toronto.

Source: cbc

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Alex Steen , Blues face strunggling Maple Leafs

The high-scoring Alexander Steen was once a first-round draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs, who could have used his help in recent games.

The St. Louis Blues winger will instead try for another successful performance against the Maple Leafs on Thursday (8 p.m. ET.)

Toronto (16-13-3) has posted one of the lowest goal-scoring averages in the league (2.09) during its 3-6-2 stretch and has a combined three goals in back-to-back losses. The Leafs outshot visiting Los Angeles 39-23 on Wednesday, but Cody Franson had the only goal in a 3-1 loss.

Toronto gave up two goals in the final 11 minutes and has been outscored 15-3 in the final periods of its last 11 games.

"They're down because we had so many opportunities, so many offensive chances," coach Randy Carlyle said. "If we continue to apply that type of work ethic, we'll win our share of games, but it's like pushing a snowball. Every time you lose, it gets bigger."

The Blues (20-6-3), meanwhile, have won two of three after Kevin Shattenkirk scored the tiebreaking goal with 3:02 remaining in Tuesday's 2-1 victory in Winnipeg.

"We outfought for three pucks just to get that opportunity, which is what happened for the whole third period, which was really impressive," coach Ken Hitchcock said. "As the game wore on, our confidence

Source: cbc 

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