25 mai 2007
Minceur...encore..à la japonaise...encore
Alors là je m'adresse aux femmes, qui avant l'été souhaitent perdre quelques kilos pris durant cet hiver rigoureux. Aux femmes qui ne savent plus où donner de la tête avec tous ces régimes made in USA : chronorégime, zerocalorie régime, stupiddiet....Ecoutez ce qui nous vient de nos confrères et consoeurs japonais...Massez vos cheveux et vous maigrirez....C'est y pas beau, ça!
Two minute tug on the rug can help you lose weight, look more beautiful
Shukan Josei (5/22)
Women can lose weight and look more beautiful simply by tugging on their pubic hair, according to Shukan Josei (5/22).
Clutching at the map of Tasmania stimulates the sex hormones, gets blood flowing toward the genitals and releases pheromones.
It's the release of pheromones that is said to give women in love their "glow" and what is being attributed for making women who try the trick appear to be more beautiful.
Women are advised to tug their pubes while they're still dry and then move the clump of hair around in a circular motion. They're also told to run their fingers through their pubic hair the same way they would do when fondling their regular hair.
Women are told not to worry about pubic hairs that fall out and to continue yanking away for about 1 to 2 minutes.
That's the theory, but does it really work? A little bit, according to physician Hideo Yamanaka.
"If the erogenous zones near the genitals are aroused, it leads to an increased emission of the female hormone estrogen, which certainly makes the skin look better," Dr. Yamanaka tells Shukan Josei. "It could also help alleviate the ill effects of menopause and irregular periods."
Dr. Yamanaka continues: "One of the effects of female hormones is to make it easier for fat to build up under the skin, which gives women a more feminine look."
So, there may be something in the claims that pulling on pubes makes women beautiful. But the doctor is more skeptical when it comes to any dietary benefits.
"I really don't know about this being any good in terms of a diet. Normally, dieting tends to limit the amount of female hormones emitted," Dr. Yamanaka tells Shukan Josei. "But if women did this while they were also on a diet, I guess there is a possibility that it could make them look both beautiful and thinner." (By Ryann Connell)
KDDI? BlackBerry? IPhone?
Dans la Jungle des téléphones multi-fonctions, KDDI société japonaise sort son smartphone pour contrer le BlackBerry. Mais attention le méchant IPhone va bientôt arriver et mettre fin à cette bataille technologique. Vilain IPhone!
KDDI Develops `Smart Phone' in Japan to Compete With BlackBerry
By Masaki Kondo
May 22 (Bloomberg) -- KDDI Corp., Japan's second-biggest wireless carrier, is developing a phone that can send e-mails and work with office documents to compete with Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry device.
``We would like to make an announcement soon'' on the release of a smart phone, Vice President Makoto Takahashi said today in a news conference in Tokyo. He didn't say which manufacturer will be making the handset.
Rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc., Softbank Corp. and Willcom Inc. already offer phones for business users as they try to stem a decline in sales from voice calls. Market leader DoCoMo offers the Blackberry and a device from Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp., while Softbank, owner of Japan's third-largest mobile network, sells handsets from High Tech and Nokia Oyj.
Softbank Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son is scheduled to attend a separate news conference today to announce new handsets. He said on Jan. 5 the company will introduce more models this year, some of which he helped design.
Tokyo-based KDDI today said it will start selling 15 handset models from next month, including seven that can receive digital television broadcasts.
Petite pause minceur....
Comment maigrir grâceà la technologie? Au Japon, c'est simple, il suffit d'envoyer une photo des plats à un expert (entendre un Professeur Nutritioniste bardé de diplômes), il vous donnera son diagnostic. Mangera? Mangera pas?
Cell phone cameras help Japanese lose weight
POSTED: 8:41 a.m. EDT, May 24, 2007
Story Highlights
• Dieters send photos of meals to nutritionists for analysis• Public health insurance offices in Japan launch trial service
• Nearly 20 million Japanese at risk for metabolic syndrome
• Officials hope cell phone cameras will help improve diet
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TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Wondering how much of a diet-buster that banana cream pie on your plate is? Some Japanese have a novel way to find out: Photograph it with your cell phone and send the image to an expert.
With cell phones ubiquitous in Japan and rising concern over expanding waistlines, health care providers have put two and two together to allow the calorie-conscious to send photos of their meals to nutritionists for analysis and recommendations.
Public health insurance offices in Osaka prefecture in western Japan have launched the service on a trial basis. About 100 cardiac patients signed up in the first year, followed by diabetes and obesity patients in the second.
"Japanese have been getting fatter, especially men in their 20s and 30s, and there is concern over what they learned about nutrition when they were younger," Osaka official Satomi Onishi said. "We're hoping that this program can help us to get a handle on the problem."
Osaka is using a system developed by Asahi Kasei Corp., a Tokyo-based chemical and medical equipment manufacturer. The system is operating at about 150 health care providers and local governments around the country, company official Naoki Yoshimura said.
Nutritionists can work with photos from one day's meals to several weeks' worth, he said. Results come back in three days. Participants also can log onto a Web site to get further dietary information and upload photos from digital cameras.
Dr. Yutaka Kimura developed a similar system at Kansai Medical University's Hirakata Hospital, also in Osaka prefecture. Five patients participate in the program, which costs $37 (4,500 yen) to join and $21 (2,500 yen) per month thereafter. Patients photograph meals over the course of three to seven days, and a nutritionist e-mails back analysis and advice.
"Patients used to fill out meal logs, but people tend to forget things or underestimate their portions," Kimura said. "Photographing meals and e-mailing them in is easier and gets more accurate results."
The battle of the bulge is a growing obsession in Japan, a country that is slowly losing its reputation for low-calorie fish-and-rice diets and slim waistlines.
As Japanese have turned to bigger portions and more meat and fried foods, obesity and related illnesses such as high blood pressure have become a rising concern.
The Health Ministry estimated last year that more than half of Japanese men and about one in five women between 40 and 70 years of age -- nearly 20 million people -- were at risk of metabolic syndrome, a term for a cluster of conditions associated with obesity, high cholesterol and increased risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
With the Health Ministry hoping to see a 25 percent reduction in the number of people at risk of metabolic syndrome by 2015, Osaka officials hope the cell phone program will help.
"Cell phones are everywhere here," Onishi said. "We're hoping they can now make it easier for people to get help improving their diet."
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
japanese stuff
Mais qu'est-ce que c'est?
Ceci est un ascenseur dans la toute nouvelle boutique swatch à Ginza....strange
Finir en sac à main
GRRRR........
Capture d'un alligator qui hantait un lac de Los Angeles depuis 2005
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Un alligator qui hantait depuis 2005 les eaux d'un lac proche de Los Angeles (Californie, ouest) a enfin été capturé jeudi après avoir échappé aux autorités à de multiples reprises, a-t-on appris auprès des pompiers.
Face book contre Myspace?
Qui va gagner? Ce nouveau venu Face book a pour objectif de détruire, réduire en miettes Myspace son adversaire....Sera-t-il à la hauteur?
Facebook Expands Into MySpace’s Territory
Noah Berger for The New York Times
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, says he wants his site to be a “social operating system” for the Internet.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 — With an ambitious strategy for expansion, Facebook is getting in MySpace’s face.
Noah Berger for The New York Times
Other Internet services are playing a role in Facebook’s expansion.
Facebook, the Internet’s second-largest social network, was originally popular on college campuses, but over the last year it has opened its dorm-room doors to all, and its membership rolls have exploded at triple-digit growth rates.
Now Facebook, based in Palo Alto, Calif., is inviting thousands of technology companies and programmers to contribute features to its service. They can even make money from the site’s users by doing so, and, at least for now, Facebook will not take a cut.
Some of the new features, demonstrated by software developers at a Facebook event here on Thursday, will allow members to recommend and listen to music, insert Amazon book reviews onto their pages, play games and join charity drives, all without leaving the site.
The result is expected to be a proliferation of new tools and activities for Facebook’s 24 million active users, who have largely been limited to making online connections, sharing photos and planning events.
The move could foster some of the chaotic creativity that is more closely associated with MySpace, its larger competitor. It could also open the door to hazards like spam, and make Facebook’s identity less clear.
But Facebook is thinking big. In the parlance of its 23-year-old chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, the company is positioning itself as a “social operating system” for the Internet. It wants to sit at the center of its users’ online lives in the same way that Windows dominates their experience on a PC — while improving its own prospects for a lucrative acquisition or an eventual public offering.
“This may be the most important development since the company got started,” said Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist who was an early investor in Facebook and one of its three board members. “But the company is taking a massive gamble. There are lots of things that can go wrong with this.”
Facebook, which is largely supported by advertising, has gained significant momentum over the last year. Since the site opened up to nonstudents eight months ago, its membership has doubled to 24 million, according to the research firm ComScore. Users now spend an average of 14 minutes on the site every time they visit, up from eight minutes last September, according to Hitwise, a traffic measuring service.
MySpace remains nearly three times the size of Facebook, with 67 million active members — up from 48 million a year ago — who spend an average of 30 minutes on the site each time they visit. It has recently focused on entering new markets like Japan and China.
The two social networks have carved out contrasting, though shifting, reputations. MySpace, owned by the News Corporation, has fostered an anarchic aura with few restrictions on creativity, while allowing users to integrate tools from other companies into their pages, like slide show displays. Recently, however, the company has blocked the efforts of several companies to advertise to MySpace users or otherwise make money through those tools.
Facebook, on the other hand, has kept its members in something of a creative straitjacket. Users could not customize their pages or add tools created by other companies.
Those restrictions helped preserve Facebook’s clean, uniform appearance and reinforced its emphasis on offering practical ways to communicate online with friends.
It has also made Facebook appealing to some groups beyond its student base. For example, Facebook is in vogue in Silicon Valley tech circles. David Belden, a 32-year-old technology worker from San Francisco, says he checks Facebook several times a day but hardly touches his MySpace account. “MySpace is so messy and there’s so much spam. It’s not worth it,” he said.
Facebook wants to keep those faithful while turbocharging its growth by harnessing some of the magic of MySpace’s openness. It is also going one step further by allowing companies that contribute features to make money on Facebook through their own advertising or commissions on sales.
“You can build a real advertising business on Facebook,” Mr. Zuckerberg said on Thursday during his speech to more than 700 developers and journalists. “If you don’t want to run ads, you can sell something. We encourage you to do both.”
In its new effort, which was to be unveiled on the site Thursday night, Facebook will be relying on the work of entrepreneurs like Ali Partovi, the chief executive of iLike, a company in Seattle that gives users the opportunity to hear and buy the music their friends are listening to.
Facebook does not have a music feature, but iLike, which along with Amazon and Microsoft was one of 65 companies that appeared at Facebook’s event, is one of several that plans to make music-related tools available on the site.
If users choose to add iLike to their Facebook pages, the software will automatically see where they live and what bands and songs they say they enjoy. It will then recommend songs and local concerts.
ILike will get a commission if the user acts on either recommendation, and it will also show its own ads. “We are truly building an entire business within Facebook,” Mr. Partovi said.
The companies now working with Facebook assert that it is facilitating a deeper level of integration in the social network than MySpace currently allows.
PicksPal, another company that will work with Facebook, lets users predict the winners in sporting events and awards them points for being correct. The points can be cashed in for prizes. If Facebook users add PicksPal to their pages, their “bets” will be sent as a short message (“George has picked Cleveland over Pittsburgh”) to everyone in their network via Facebook’s news feed, which keeps users constantly updated on their friends’ activities.
“It’s exciting to build something that works so well in their world and to really engage in what was heretofore an off-limits, walled garden,” said PicksPal’s chief executive, Tom Jessiman.
Facebook hopes that thousands of outside companies will eventually build features for its site. One inevitable drawback is that Facebook pages will no longer all look the same. To preserve some of its uniformity, the company is asking developers to stay within certain lines — for example, preventing images from blinking or music from automatically playing on a Facebook page unless clicked on.
There are other potential pitfalls for Facebook as well. Spammers and other online miscreants might crack Facebook in the same way they have infiltrated MySpace, where many profiles do not represent real people and entreaties from attractive women mask advertisements for pornographic Web sites.
Facebook might also inadvertently turn itself into a launching pad for other companies that could eclipse it — in the same way that YouTube rose to prominence because MySpace users found it an easy way to add video to their MySpace pages.
MySpace continues to face that challenge and is now acquiring the photo-sharing site PhotoBucket for $300 million, according to two people familiar with the ongoing negotiations, because so many of its users have come to rely on it to store images for their MySpace pages.
When asked about Facebook’s plans, MySpace painted them as nothing new. “From MySpace’s first day, our members have had the freedom to create the experiences they want,” the company said in a statement. “We have always offered our users a blank canvas for their creativity and self-expression.”
Nevertheless, Facebook clearly has Silicon Valley-size ambitions that are pushing it to take big risks. Last year, according to published reports, Facebook turned down a $900 million acquisition offer from Yahoo.
“Although a lot of companies continue to approach us, we are not for sale,” said Jim Breyer, a venture capitalist who invested in Facebook and is a board member.
Duo
Mannequins et chiens font-ils bon ménage? Un concours aux USA du chien le mieux dressé par son maître mannequin. Mais où va le monde?
More proof of the total American Idol–ization of Manhattan: On Monday, May 21, dozens of tarted-up stray pooches, led by makeshift male models including two Maccioni brothers and Marquee doorman Rich Thomas, pranced down an aisle at the SHVO building at 650 Sixth Avenue, “competing” for the title of “America’s Best-Dressed Dog.” The event, which was hosted by Project Runway’s Tim Gunn and predictably dubbed “Project Ruffway,” benefited Stray from the Heart, an organization dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of homeless dogs.
Acting as judge and honorary co-chair was Howard Stern’s fiancée, toothy and toothsome animal activist Beth Ostrosky. “One of the male models came up and asked if I was a judge, and I told him ‘Yes, so you better kiss my ass!’” Ms. Ostrosky said. Hey, how’s the wedding planning going? “I’m just enjoying the engagement,” she said. “There are no plans yet.”
Co-chair Lorenzo Borgese, of The Bachelor, said he recently adopted a mutt named James Bond, and is about to launch nuzzleplanet.com, a social networking site for dog lovers. “We’re all trying to find our significant other,” he said meaningfully.
Yet another co-chair was Aida Turturro, who plays Janice on The Sopranos and owns a black Lab named Buddy. “They think they’re saving the dogs, but they’re really saving the people who get to keep them,” she said of the charity. “It’s a gift from God.” She compared dog ownership to having a baby. “But without stretch marks!”
Ms. Turturro added that she was suffering from withdrawal symptoms thanks to the imminent end of her hit show. But “everything comes to an end,” she said sagely. Her immediate post-Sopranos plan is to sit by the beach, and she gave no indication about whether her character would be swimming with the fishes.
As for the dogs—well, all were adorable, but the top prize went to Rusty, a chow-chow collie in a purple embroidered coat from Fetch Fashion.
Box office USA
Shrek fait une entrée remarquée dans le box office New Yorkais juste devant Spiderman 3 (une vraie merde soit dit en passant).A noter tout de même que Paris, je t'aime (18 courts métrages sur Paris...celui des frères cohen est superbement décalé, big dédicasse au Pendé) est classé juste après Loin d'elle (très bô film soit dit en passant) pas mal!
Shrek the Third may have done all of the heavy lifting this weekend with a mind-boggling $122 million opening ($950,000, or less than one percent, of which came from Manhattan), but it’s Once, an Irish musical, that caught our eye.
Fox Searchlight picked up the film at this year’s Sundance—it won an audience award at the festival and was nominated for a grand jury prize—for a sum reportedly south of one million dollars.
Like Waitress, they’re rolling it out slowly, debuting Once in only two theaters, one in New York and another in Los Angeles.
So far, it has the strongest per-screen average in the country, and the second strongest here in the city ($35,523), outpacing both Waitress and Away From Her, despite having none of the star power.
In a city that loves a tuner, this musical love story—“what Rent should have been,” as Kyle Smith of the Post put it—should pick up steam.
Shrek the Third has confirmed what we have come to realize about Manhattan moviegoing: We love our blockbusters just as much as they do in Peoria. The jolly green giant gobbled up the big apple box office, averaging a jaw-dropping $87,000 per theater. And it’s playing at theaters all over the island—not just in Tribeca and the Upper West Side. The adults like it, too!
Spider-Man 3 and 28 Weeks Later, numbers 2 and 3, respectively, on our chart, are still going strong even though both of their box office totals saw close to a 50 percent decline.
Continuing it strong run, Waitress only dropped 2 percent. The film is averaging over $11,000 per theater making its consistency no small feat. Look for Fox Searchlight to continue to expand it into more theaters.
Manhattan Weekend Box Office: How moviegoers in the multiplexes of middle America choose to spend their ten-spot is probably a big deal in Hollywood. But here in Manhattan, the hottest movies aren't always the ones making the big bucks nationwide. Using Nielsen numbers for Manhattan theaters alone and comparing them to the performance of the national weekend box office can tell you a lot about our Blue State sensibilities. Or nothing at all! Each Monday afternoon, we will bring you the results.
Internet boom
Faisant partie de la caégorie des 28-32 ans, je connais bien Internet mais les générations futures elles naîtront avec un clavier au bout des mains, un écran dans la tête et une souris autour du cou...Voyez! je suis déjà ringarde, une souris avec un fil...donc une souris bluetooth collée sur le front, c'est mieux...
ah ça marche pas la photo! La honte je n'arrive pas à insérer une photo!
tout ça pour ça!
CANCER (June 21–July 22): Near the end of World War II, a soldier named Shoichi Yokoi was serving in the Japanese army on the island of Guam. As American troops invaded, he fled into the dense jungle and hid in an underground cave. There he stayed for the next 28 years. When he finally returned to civilization, his first words were, "It is with much embarrassment that I have returned alive." In comparing you to Yokoi, Cancerian, I am of course exaggerating. You have not been concealing yourself so literally or so thoroughly. And yet I feel a similar poignancy about the way you have kept yourself from revealing your full beauty. Please come in from out of the dark and shine the full blast of your iridescent light.