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Location for business was excellent. Interesting night life quite close by.
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Great reception very friendly staff. Great location for sky train BTS.
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Guests can enjoy the use of steam baths or make sightseeing arrangements at the tour desk. The hotel also has a business center and provides childcare and laundry services.
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Live the high life at Sivatel Bangkok, a 5-star luxurious hotel with free Wi-Fi, 2 dining options and an infinity pool. It is centrally located in Bangkok's Ploenchit area in Pathumwan district.
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The hotel staff was excellent. When my airlines lost my bag, the hotel took care of everything and made sure I got my luggage back. They also provide me with things (like a toothbrush), which I needed since I didn't have my bags.Room was spacious and comfortable.
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I came in at 1230 and rooms were available at 1400 only, hence had to wait while at the lobby bar with drinks and some snacks.
the staff were efficient, the restaurant buffet dinner good value for money, the location good
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No opend window in room or hall so there was cient of cooking in floor. It is good to open small hole in each floot to get frish air
Everything, the wonderful staff. The buffet on the 29th floor.
Great location, professional & helpful staff, beautiful rooms and the comfortable bed
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well arranged and efficient room, good breakfast, good position
I asked to book a taxi to go airport, they forgot it and when I asked for the taxi they stopped a taxi in the road. They didn't verify it was a good taxi (in bangkok it always need to verify) so going to the airport the taxi driver asked me more money and I was forced to pay just not to miss my flight
Perfect location BTS at door step. Great staff very helpful
Good location by the BTS station. Room was comfortable and quiet.
Stayed in the Premier Club which was good but breakfast was the same every day.
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Everything was fine.We arrived early in the morning but they give us the room without pay nothing for the early check -in. Very nice staff, always ready to help you in everything you need. Great position:30 seconds walk to BTS station Ploen chit.
Room without windows
Location,staff,breakfast and rooms.Clean and modern.Nice mini bar ....nice food and room service.
Extreamly poor wifi in all areas of hotel.A/C very noisy even on the lowest fan speed.
Location for business was excellent. Interesting night life quite close by.
Room and bed is quite comfortable. Nice and comfortable lounge outside with sentimental songs from the live bands
Breakfast choices of food limited
clean and modern Room facilities, great location, excellent breakfast spread, fast free wifi,
the bathrobes & the unlit Bar & coffee counter,
Location, near to BTS station, very convenient. High floors, rooms are good size, comfortable beds and modern bathroom facilities
My stay at novotel was just fabulous. The WiFi was free not paid. Excellent location. Would like to stay again.
They should include breakfast for all the guests
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nQuire-it/Sense-it – discovering sensors in your phone
7 February, 2015
The Open University, with support from Nominet Trust and UTC Sheffield have launched the nQuire-it.org website, which seem to have a great potential for running citizen science activities. The nQuire platform allows participants to create science inquiry 'missions'. It is accompanied by an Android app called Sense-it that exposed all the sensors that are integrated in a smartphone and let you see what they are doing and the values that they are showing.
The process of setting up a project on the nQuire-it site is fairly quick and you can figure it out in few clicks. Then, joining the project that you've created on the phone is also fairly simple, and the integration with Google, Facebook and Twitter accounts mean that linking the profiles is quick. Then you can get few friends to start using it, and the Sense-it app let you collect the data and then share it with other participants in the project on the nQuire website. Then participants can comment on the data, ask questions about how it was produced and up or down vote it. All these make nQuire a very suitable place for experimentation with sensors in smartphones and prototyping citizen science activities. It also provides an option for recording geographic location, and it good to see that it's disabled by default, so the project designer need to actively switch it on.
The value of "analog" user experience
26 November, 2012
I've been using 37Signals' Basecamp now for over 5 years. I'm involved in many projects with people from multiple departments and organisations. In the first large project that I run in 2007 – Mapping Change for Sustainable Communities – Basecamp was recommended to us by Nick Black (just before he co-founded CloudMade), so we've started using it. Since then, it was used for 33 projects and activities which range from coordinating writing an academic paper to running a large multidisciplinary group. In some projects it was used a lot in other it didn't work as well. As with any other information system, the use of it depends on needs and habits of different users and not only on the tool itself.
It is generally an excellent tool to organise messages, information and documents about projects and activities and act well as a repository of project related information – but project management software is not what this post is about.
I'm sure that in the scheme of things, we are a fairly small users of Basecamp. Therefore, I was somewhat surprised to receive a card from 37Signals.
I'm fairly passive user of Basecamp as far as 37Signals are concerned – I'm please with what it does, but I have not contacted them with requests or anything like that. So getting this hand-written card was a very nice touch from a company that could very easily wrote the code to send me an email with the same information – but that wouldn't be the same in terms of emotional impact.
As Sherry Turkle is noting in her recent book, the human contact is valuable and appreciated. This is important and lots of times undervalued aspect of communication and interaction – the analog channels are there and can be very effective. This blog post – and praising 37Signals for making this small effort, is an example of why it is worth doing it.
Geographical Citizen Science
5 October, 2010
The London Citizen Cyberscience Summit in early September was a stimulating event, which brought together a group of people with an interest in this area. A report from the event, with a very good description of the presentations, including a reflection piece, is available on the 'Strange Attractor' blog.
During the summit, I discussed the aspects of 'Extreme' Citizen Science, where we move from usual science to participatory research. The presentation was partly based on a paper that I wrote and that I presented during the workshop on the value of Volunteered Geographical Information in advancing science, which was run as part of the GIScience 2010 conference towards the middle of September. Details about the workshop are available on the workshop's website including a set of interesting position papers.
The presentation below covers the topics that I discussed in both workshops. Here, I provide a brief synopsis for the presentation, as it is somewhat different from the paper.
In the talk, I started by highlighting that by using different terminologies we can notice different facets of the practice of crowd data collection (VGI within the GIScience community, crowdsourcing, participatory mapping …).
The first way in which we can understand this information is in the context of Web 2.0 applications. These applications can be non-spatial (such as Wikipedia or Twitter), or implicitly spatial (such as Flickr – you need to be in a location before you can capture a photograph), or explicitly spatial , in applications that are about collecting geographical information – for example OpenStreetMap. When looking at VGI from the perspective of Web 2.0 it's possible to identify the specific reasons that it emerged and how other similar applications influence its structure and practices.
The second way to view this information is as part of geographical information produced by companies who need mapping information (such as Google or TomTom). In this case, you notice that it's about reducing the costs of labour and the need for active or passive involvement of the person who carries out the mapping.
The third, and arguably new way to view VGI is as part of Citizen Science. These activities have been going for a long time in ornithology and in meteorology. However, there are new forms of Citizen Science that rely on ICT – such as movement-activated cameras (slide 11 on the left) that are left near animal trails and are operated by volunteers, or a network of accelerometers that form a global earthquake monitoring network. Not all Citizen Science is spatial, and there are very effective examples, especially in the area of Citizen Cyberscience. So in this framing of VGI we can pay special attention to the collection of scientific information. Importantly, as in the case of spatial application, some volunteers become experts, such as Hanny van Arkel who has discovered a type of galaxy in Galaxy Zoo.
Slides 16-17 show the distribution of crowdsourced images, and emphasise the spatial distribution of information near population centres and tourist attractions. Slides 19-25 show the analysis of the data that was collected by OpenStreetMap volunteers and highlight bias towards highly populated and affluent areas.
Citizen Science is not just about the data collections. There are also cultural problems regarding the trustworthiness of the data, but slides 28-30 show that the data is self-improving as more volunteers engage in the process (in this case, mapping in OpenStreetMap). On that basis, I do question the assumption about trustworthiness of volunteers and the need to change the way we think about projects. There are emerging examples of such Citizen Science where the engagement of participants is at a higher level. For example, noise mapping activities that a community near London City Airport carried out (slides 34-39) which shows that people can engage in science and are well placed when there are opportunities, such as the ash cloud in April 2010, to collect 'background' noise. This is not possible without the help of communities.
Finally, slides 40 and 41 demonstrate that it is possible to engage non-literate users in environmental data collection.
So in summary, a limitless Citizen Science is possible – we need to create the tool for it and understand how to run such projects, as well study them.
Computers and the Renaissance of Cartography (1976)
12 June, 2010
While sorting out our departmental GIS library, I came across a small booklet titled Computers and the Renaissance of Cartography from 1976. It was written by Dr Tom Margerison, the first editor of New Scientist, and describes the activities of the Experimental Cartography Unit (ECU), which pioneered the use of computers for geographical and cartographical applications. Though Prof. David Rhind told me that the description should be taken with a pinch of salt, and that there are alternative accounts.
Interestingly, the ECU operated within the Royal College of Art to encourage new designs and innovations in map making. It was established in 1967 and operated until the late 1980s.
The booklet provides a description of the main processes of assembling maps at the ECU in the middle of the 1970s, and what is especially interesting is to see some amazing outputs of maps from that time, which, unlike the typical crude output of Symap, are beautiful and clear.
I have asked Dan Lewis, who was involved in the digitising of the CATMOG catalogue of booklets about quantitative methods in geography, to turn this booklet into PDF format so we can share it. Dan put some of the maps on his blog .
If you want to download the booklet – it is now available here.
Today is a good day to publish this booklet, following the announcement that Prof. Peter Woodsford, who was among the founders of Laser-Scan (now 1Spatial), received an MBE for his services to the geographic information industry in the Queen's birthday honours list, and it was the equipment of Laser-Scan that enabled the creation of these maps.
The end of the 'ARC/INFO driving licence' era
29 October, 2009
The discussion about the future of the GIS 'profession' has flared up in recent days – see the comments from Sean Gorman, Steven Feldman (well, citing me) and Don Meltz among others. My personal perspective is about the educational aspect of this debate.
I've been teaching GIS since 1995, and been involved in the MSc in GIS at UCL since 1998 – teaching on it since 2001. Around 1994 I was contemplating the excellent MSc in GIS programme in Edinburgh, though I opted to continue with my own mix of geography and computer science, which turned out to be great in the end – but I can say that I have been following the trends in GIS education for quite a while.
Based on this experience, I would argue that the motivation for studying an MSc in GIS over the past 20 years was to get the 'ARC/INFO driving licence'. I use ARC/INFO as a metaphor – you can replace it with any other package, but ARC/INFO was the de facto package for teaching GIS (and its predecessor ArcGIS is today), so it is suitable shorthand. What I mean by that is that for a long time GIS packages were hard to use and required a significant amount of training in order to operate successfully. Even if a fairly simple map was needed, the level of technical knowledge and the number of steps required were quite significant. So employers, who mostly wanted someone who could make them maps, recruited people who gained skills in operating the complex packages that allow the production of maps.
The 'ARC/INFO driving licence' era included an interesting dissonance – the universities were telling themselves that they were teaching the principles of GIScience but the students were mostly interested in learning how to operate a GIS at a proficient level to get a job. I've seen and talked with enough students to recognise that many of them, in their daily jobs, rarely used the spatial statistical analysis that we were teaching and they mostly worked at 'taming the beast', which GIS was.
As expected, at UCL there was always a group that was especially interested in the principles of GIScience and that continued their studies beyond the MSc. But they are never the majority of the cohort.
The model worked well for everyone – universities were teaching GIS by a combination of principles and training of specific packages and the students found jobs at the end and joined GIS departments in different organisations.
The disruption that changed this arrangement started in the late 1990s, with Oracle Spatial starting to show that GIS can be integrated in mainstream products. The whole process accelerated around 2005 with the emergence of GeoWeb, Free and Open Source GIS (FOSS GIS) and the whole range of applications that come with it. Basically, you don't need a licence any more. More and more employers (even GIS consultancies) are not recruiting from GIS education programmes – they are taking computing professionals and teaching them the GIS skills. Going through an MSc in GIS to be proficient with a tool is not necessary.
So in an era in which you don't need a licence to join the party, what is the MSc in GIS for?
The answer is that it can be the time when you focus on principles and on improving specific skills. Personally, that was my route to education. I started working in GIS software development without much more than high school education in 1988. After hearing people around me talking about registers, bugs, polygons and databases I was convinced that I must understand these principles properly. So I went for a degree that provided me with the knowledge. In the same way, I would expect that MSc programmes cater for the needs of people who gain some practical experience with operating geospatial technologies and want to learn the principles or become specialists in specific aspects of these systems.
We already see people doing the MSc while working with GIS – currently studying an MSc by distance learning or in the evening is very popular and I expect that this will continue. However, the definition of what is covered by GIS must be extended – it should include everything from Bing Maps API to PostGIS to ArcGIS.
I can also see the need for specialised courses – maybe to focus on the technical development of geospatial technologies or maybe on spatial statistical analysis for those who want to become geographical information analysts. I would also expect much more integration of GIS with other fields of study where it is taught as a tool – just look at the many MSc programmes that currently include GIS. I'm already finding myself teaching students of urban design, development planning or asset management.
All in all, I'm not going to feel sorry that the 'ARC/INFO driving licence' era is coming to its end.
UPDATE: a more detailed version of this post appeared in Cartographica, and can be accessed here or email me to receive a copy.
Terra Future 2009 – OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey
28 April, 2009
I have checked on Twitter to see how the follow-up meeting to Terra Future 2009, last Friday, went. It was a very pleasant surprise to see that the idea that I have put forward in February, that the Ordnance Survey should consider hosting OpenStreetMap and donate some data to it, was voted the best idea that came out of Terra Future 2009. With this sort of peer-review of the idea, and with the added benefit of 2 months for rethinking, I still think that it is quite a good idea.
The most important aspect of this idea is to understand that OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey can both thrive in the GeoWeb era. Despite the imaginary competition, each has a clear value to certain parts of the marketplace. There are a very clear benefits that the OpenStreetMap community can gain from working closely with the Ordnance Survey – such as some aspects of mapping that the Ordnance Survey are highly knowledgeable about, and vice versa, such as how to innovate in delivery of geographical information. A collaborative model might work after all…
I wonder how this idea will evolve now?
The implications of the ten-year lag of geotechnologies
12 April, 2009
If we take the lag of geotechnologies behind mainstream computing as a common feature of this type of technology, there are quite interesting conclusions that can be drawn in terms of developing new applications and products. For example, it can help in predicting when certain technology will be ready for wide application in the geographical field.
Here is an example: very recently, Jakob Nielsen reported that he was positively surprised with the quality of reading from the Amazon Kindle 2, and that this is leading him to withdraw his conclusion that the efficiency of reading from a computer screen is low.
I've written about the problem of computer monitor resolution and the use of small screens for urban navigation – such as the use of maps for tourism where you would like to have a map that gives you a wider context of your area than the 'tunnel vision' that is provided on today's mobile phones.
So here is my guess: in about 10 years, Kindle 10, or whatever its equivalent at that point, will be a suitable platform for delivering clever maps that can be as effective as paper maps. That means that if you are in the business of creating maps that will be used on these devices, you should start exploring how best to deliver them in about 5 years.
I can also guess that it will be more energy hungry, wasteful and way too expensive when compared to the paper tourist maps of today, but the prediction is about technology – not about what I think about its use…


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Series Is Presented Here As Two Variables--(1)--Original Data, 1920-1930 (2)--Original Data, 1930-1943 Coverage Includes Motor-Car Train-Miles Not Previously Reported. Source: NBER Derived Data By Dividing Series (Passenger Car-Miles) By (Passenger Train-Miles).
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There has been a lot of buzz surrounding the term "Web 2.0" online, although, the term itself hasn't quite made it to the dinner table yet.
Nowadays, any company jumping on the web likes to consider themselves "Web 2.0", with or without the prerequisites that constitute the 2nd Generation of the World Wide Web. O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International co-created the Web 2.0 concept two years ago and their theorem is still used today to define Web 2.0.
What does it take to be a Web 2.0 company or site? There's a bit of a checklist available which I'll mention in a second, but fundamentally, a Web 2.0 site is best described as the Social Web. People are using the Internet to interact with each other, not just visit a site and read a couple of pages.
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Naomi The Terrible Is Up To Her Old Tricks Again
It feels like it's been centuries since two-time welterweight BlackBerry boxer grand champion Naomi Campbell has injected fear into the streets by whoopin' tricks left and right. Naomi hasn't curbed her cuntiness (THANK GOD), but I thought that maybe she retired her slapping hands and was done with leaving her mark (aka her palm print) on people's faces. Well, I thought wrong, because Naomi the Terrible was back to terrorizing hos in Cuba yesterday.
A cameraman from NBC News made the mistake of following Naomi as she left her hotel in Havana. Naomi told him to get out of her face. Now, when Naomi Campbell tells you to get out of her face, you either listen or you call your mother to tell her you love her, put on a helmet and hope for the best while clutching a rosary. The cameraman kept filming and so Naomi came for his ass. I don't know what that NBC cameraman was thinking. Maybe he was thinking he could sue her ass? I don't know. But if Naomi came running toward me, I'd drop my camera and run to the nearest church. Naomi pounced on his ass and bitch slapped his camera around.
The cameraman wasn't injured and he was lucky he got away ALIVE. Naomi later called NBC News (which is owned by NBCUniversal, which owns Oxygen, the network The Face airs on) to apologize and said it was all just one, big misunderstanding!
"I am sorry for what happened. It was all a big misunderstanding. Please forgive me," Campbell said in a telephone interview on Thursday afternoon.
What Naomi means by "misunderstanding" is that she didn't want a camera filming her face for free and the cameraman didn't understand that, so she had to explain it to him in a language he may understand. The language being her favorite language: Slapanese. That's what she meant.
And here's Naomi leaving some restaurant with Kate Moss in London the other day.
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Kelly Osbourne Is Done With Fashion Police
My vote for Kelly's replacement is Giggy Vanderpump! But Kathy, Giuliana and Brad would never agree to that, because Giggy would take all the attention away from their asses, obviously.
After all the smoke and fuckery cleared from that Zendaya mess, I kind of thought if anybody was going to make their way out of the Fashion Police exit door, it would be Ghouliana Rancid. But TMZ says that Kelly Osbourne has made good on her threat to quit the show.
After Zendaya slapped at Giuliana for joking about how her dreads must smell like patchouli and weed, Kelly Osbourne squeezed herself right into the middle by going on an ALL-CAPS rant on Twitter where she threatened to quit Fashion Police over what was said. When Giuliana released another apology, Kelly calmed down on the CAPS and tweeted this: "It takes a strong women to apologize & makes a forgiving women even stronger!" But TMZ says that even though Giuliana apologized and Zendaya accepted her apology, Kelly bolted anyway.
Apparently, the producers started having problems with Kelly as soon as the first episode without Joan Rivers taped. Kelly didn't like the way the show was being produced and the producers were over her. Kelly quit today. E! queefed up this statement of words about Kelly's exit:
"Kelly Osbourne is departing E!s Fashion Police to pursue other opportunities, and we would like to thank her for her many contributions to the series over the past five years, during which time the show became a hit with viewers. Fashion Police will return, as scheduled, on Friday, March 30th at 9:00 p.m. and no decisions have been made on her replacement."
"Other opportunities." Oh shit, she's totally going to replace Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. Or maybe she's replacing Brian Williams.
E! is really pulling our dicks with that "no decisions have been made on her replacement" shit. We all know who Kelly's replacement is going to be. E! better up Fashion Police's budget, because they're going to need a few animal trainers on set since Khloe Kardashian is obviously going to replace Kelly. E! should just fire everyone on Fashion Police, change the name to Kardashian Police and have that show be nothing but Kim, Khloe and Kourtney jacking off to their red carpet photos of the week. That's what Fashion Police is eventually going to become.
And Giuliana better hide… Because if Ozzy Osbourne comes to the set to defend his daughter, who knows what he'll do when he sees Giuliana's bird-looking ass. We all know what Ozzy did to that dove…
Open Post: Hosted By Eddie Redmayne As Transgender Artist Lili Elbe
I don't know if he looks like Kelly Reilly, Jessica Chastain's younger bird-like sister or Bryce Dallas Howard after a 75 day juice cleanse? Or all of the above? Let's just say that he looks like every ginger Hollywood actress and call it a day.
Working Title tweeted this picture of brand new Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl. Lili Elbe (who kind of gives me Lady Gaga vibes) was one of the first people to get sex reassignment surgery in the 1930s. Here's a plot summary from IMDB:
Inspired by the true story of Danish artists Einar Wegener and his wife Gerda, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled, and would he mind slipping into a pair of women's shoes and stockings for a few moments so she can finish the painting on time. "Of course," he answers. "Anything at all." With that, one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the twentieth century begins.
It's currently shooting and its director is Tom Hooper who directed The King's Speech and directed Eddie in Les Miserables. It also stars Alicia Vikander as Gerda as well as Amber Heard and Ben Wishaw. IMDB says The Danish Girl is coming out in 2016, but it'll most likely come out later this year just in time for the OSCUHs!
Tom Hooper directing a movie about a transgender artist played by Eddie Redmayne… We all know where this is going. Tom Hooper + a period piece + a biopic + Eddie Redmayne as a transgender pioneer = Let's not even bother with a 45-hour-long Oscar ceremony next year, because it's obvious that this movie and Eddie Redmayne are going to get all the awards. Nobody else should even bother. Just polish off a few trophies with Leonardo DiCaprio's tears, hand them over to Tom and Eddie, and let's keep it moving. See you at the 2017 Oscars!
Here's Eddie and his Hannah Bagshawe at Heathrow a few days ago.
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There Will Be A Blade Runner Sequel Starring Harrison Ford
Nearly 33 years – THIRTY-THREE YEARS, by the way – after the release of one of the sexiest sci-fi movies every made (just me? Okay then), Variety is confirming that a sequel to Blade Runner is happening and it will star sexy salt and pepper pep-pep Harrison Ford. Don't worry, I'll wait while you finish screaming "Hollywood has OFFICIALLY run out of ideas."
Ridley Scott won't be back to direct Blade Runner 2: Electric Replicant Boogaloo, so he'll be replaced with French-Canadian director Denis Villeneuve. The script has been written by one of the original screenwriters, and Harrison Ford claims it's "the best thing (he's) ever read." Sure, Jan; that's what everybody says when there's a giant dump truck full of cash backing into their driveway. NO! I'm sure it will be as good as the original. Plus, bringing back Harrison Ford back will finally answer the question of whether or not Deckard was a human or a replicant, because I don't remember any scenes from Blade Runner featuring any old-looking replicants complaining about their hip joints or high cholesterol.
Normally a sequel getting the green light 33 years after the original would be the definition of a disaster, but this movie is going to be great for two reasons:
1. If Harrison Ford agreed to do a late-in-life version of Indiana Jones, a late-in-life version of Han Solo, and now a late-in-life version of Rick Deckard, then that means there's a very good chance he might also agree to do a late-in-life version of Jack Trainer in a sequel to Working Girl. Somebody PLEASE get working on that.
2. THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF SEAN YOUNG! Sean Young better be in the Blade Runner sequel. After all, Harrison Ford said the script was the best thing he's ever read, and he definitely wouldn't have said that if it didn't include a hue part for that A-list ball of crackpot crazy.
ScarJo Doesn't Think There's Anything Creepy Or Inappropriate About John Travolta
ScarJo is spitting at the media for taking a sweet moment at the Oscars and turning it into some creepified shit straight from the mind of Rod Serling. On Oscar night, John Travolta's hands were hungry for some lady and when he wasn't grabbing and kissing on ScarJo, he was giving Idina Menzel a palm facial. Travolta's rep already said that the weird face massage was "rehearsed," and now ScarJo is coming to his defense nearly a week later. I know, I shouldn't give ScarJo shit for waiting almost 5 days to say something. She was probably busy rinsing her head out with an Ajax and bleach solution to rid herself of the memory of John Travolta groping her like she was a giant E-meter can.
ScarJo fave this statement to the Associated Press:
"There is nothing strange, creepy or inappropriate about John Travolta. The image that is circulating is an unfortunate still-frame from a live-action encounter that was very sweet and totally welcome. That still photo does not reflect what preceded and followed if you see the moment live. Yet another way we are misguided, misinformed and sensationalized by the 24-hour news cycle. I haven't seen John in some years and it is always a pleasure to be greeted by him."
If I could box up a "gurl, please" provided by Aunt Bunny and send it to ScarJo, I would. ScarJo has let Sean Penn run his barbecued Chick-O-Stick dick up in her several times, she's been out in public with Sean Penn and to remind you again, she let Sean Penn run his barbecued Chick-O-Stick dick up in her several times. Her judgement of character can't be trusted. If she says someone isn't strange, creepy or inappropriate, they probably are strange, creepy and inappropriate.
But ScarJo does have a point. Her close encounter with the wigged kind isn't as creepy in the video:
See, not as creepy. John Travolta just runs up to ScarJo, presses his lips against her face and tries to suck out her soul through her pores. When he realizes that she's empty inside, he moves onto his next victim. Not creepy at all! Just a regular old Hollywood greeting.
And here's ScarJo with her baby and husband, who looks like an extra from Valley Girl, in L.A. yesterday:
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Madonna's Fall At The BRIT Awards Gave Her A Case Of Whiplash
When Madonna's cape pulled an En Vogue and got all "Don't Let Go" on her neck during her performance of "Living For Love" at the BRIT Awards on Wednesday, I figured the only damage done would be to her inbox. You know, after it blew up with emails from personal injury lawyers inquiring about her recent workplace slip and fall accident. I trusted that Madonna's creaky granny bones and butt organs would be protected by her rock-hard ass muscles and she'd walk away without a scratch.
As it turns out, I was totally wrong. Madonna might have fallen, and she might have been able to get up, but she suffered some whiplash on the way down. Don't worry, I'm sure there's already a meme of Madonna getting slapped by J.K. Simmons as we speak. Madonna explained the aftermath of her Grape Stomping Lady moment to The Jonathan Ross Show on Thursday (via Billboard), saying:
"I had a little bit of whiplash, I smacked the back of my head. And I had a man standing over me with a flashlight until about 3 a.m. to make sure I was compos mentis."
She also said she's sworn off capes in the future. Good call – I think if we've learned anything from this, it's that capes ain't nothing but trouble.
I still can't believe Madonna got back up and kept singing after hitting her head. Bitch is brave as hell! If I even so much as stub my toe, I'm on the ground wailing for someone to call the paramedics while mentally preparing a funeral for my toe, which will no doubt need to be amputated. Something nice, not too fancy; it's what my toe would have wanted.
Here's Madonna one day after Madonna pulled a Scarlet wearing a pair of shoes that look like she's about 2 seconds away from a repeat performance:
Prince Hot Ginge Is Probably Going To Leave The Army
The London Evening Standard says at the end of this year, Prince Hot Ginge will turn in his I QUIT THIS BITCH papers into the British Army to focus on doing charity work. Sadly, that means that PHG (or "Captain Hot Ginge" as he's know in the military) won't be promoted all the way up to the head of the Knights of the Round Table. They still have that in Britain, right?
Before Captain Hot Ginge takes his final bow as an active member of the army, he's going to serve with units in Australia for a few weeks. (Side note: When I read that part on The London Evening Standard, I read it as "serve units Down Under" and it nearly made me move to Australia STAT.) A spokeswhore for Kensington Palace wouldn't confirm that Captain Hot Ginge is retiring from the army and only had this to say:
"Prince Harry is currently focused on his work supporting the Ministry of Defence's recovery capability programme to ensure those who are wounded, injured or sick have appropriate recovery plans and the necessary support they require. It's a natural progression from the work he did organising the Invictus Games. This involves working alongside case officers in London District's personal recovery unit and visiting various recovery centres and partner agencies (such as forces charities and the NHS) around the country."
Some source says that after doing two tours of duty in Afghanistan, PHG feels like it's time to move on. He wants to travel to Africa more to do conservation stuff and work with his AIDS charity, and also wants to work more with wounded veterans. A Dlisted source who goes by the name Wishful Thinking exclusively tells me that he also wants to focus on his new charity GISODAG (Gingers In Support Of Desperate Ass Gays), which connects British ginger royals named Harry with hard-up, desperate American skinny fat gay bloggers in need.
But seriously, this is unacceptable and his resignation letter needs to be torn up immediately. If Captain Hot Ginge quits the army, we won't get as many hot pictures of him in his uniform and we'll no longer get pictures like this:
Why is he being so selfish?! Doesn't he know that what the world needs now is more picture of him kicking a ball while topless in the desert?
Kelly Clarkson Says She Will Deny Her Daughter One Of Cinema's Greatest Gifts To Humanity
File this under the No. 1 reason people probably don't want to work with Kelly Clarkson: during an interview with TIME about her new album Piece by Piece, Kelly was asked at what age she would introduce her daughter River Rose to the cinematic masterpiece that is the 2003 film From Justin to Kelly. Kelly's response SHOULD have been "As soon as possible" or "Duh, I had my OB-GYN throw an iPad up my cooch while I was pregnant so she could watch that shit in-utero". But Kelly Clarkson clearly has no appreciation for good taste and/or cargo shorts, because her answer was this:
TIME: At what age will you sit River Rose down and tell her about From Justin to Kelly?
Kelly Clarkson: Never! We don't have to show her that!TIME: You're going to pretend it doesn't exist?
Kelly Clarkson: That's what I do. So why not?TIME: It could be a cult movie classic, you just have to give it a few more years.
Kelly Clarkson: Oh my God, I hope not. I just want it to go away. I want to own all of it. I just want it to not be here.
NOOOOOOOOO KELLY CLARKSON - take it back take it back TAKE IT BACK! From Justin to Kelly is one of the finest pieces of so-bad-its-good fuckery to ever grace humanity's eyeballs. Your baby should know about From Justin to Kelly, Kelly. Your baby should know as soon as her eyes start recognizing shapes and colors. Although even then, she'll still probably be looking at Justin Guarini's hair and thinking "WTF am I even looking at?"
Leonard Nimoy Has Died
My eyebrows just frowned and I don't think they'll ever be the same again. The New York Times reports that Leonard Nimoy has been beamed up to heaven. Leonard's wife, Susan Bey Nimoy, says that he died at his home in Bel Air this morning from end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The original Spock tweeted last year that he had COPD and got it from years and years of smoking. He quit smoking almost 30 years ago, but it wasn't soon enough. He was 83.
Leonard was hospitalized for a little bit at UCLA Medical Center last week after complaining about chest pains. He was released and sent home.
Before Leonard became a pop culture icon as Spock on Star Trek, he acted in dozens of B-movies and guest starred in at least a million TV shows (I'm underestimating, probably) including Dragnet, Get Smart, The Twilight Zone and Perry Mason. Wikipedia says that after 10 years in the acting game, Leonard got the role of Spock in Star Trek. Leonard had to decide between taking Spock or a role in Peyton Place. He obviously chose right, because it made him a star and he was nominated for three Emmy awards. After the Star Trek TV show ended after 3 years (It was only on for 3 years?!), he replaced Martin Landau in Mission: Impossible and stayed with the show for 2 seasons.
When he wasn't playing Spock in most of the Star Trek movies, he continued to act in TV shows, movies and theater productions. In 2010, Leonard said that he was hanging up his Spock ears for good and said it was time for Zachary Quinto to take over the character, but he continued to play Spock and played Spock Prime in 2013′s Star Trek Into Darkness.
Leonard is survived by his wife Susan Bey Nimoy, their two children, a stepson, a brother, six grandchildren, one great grandchild and of course, his best frenemy forever William Shatner.
Rest in peace, Leonard Nimoy. You lived long and you prospered. You are now in heaven where you'll never have to perform The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins again (even though the angels are going to demand it because it's gold).
David O. Russell Got Into A Dramatic On-Set Screaming Match With His Boo Jennifer Lawrence
Why do I get the feeling that Lily Tomlin read that headline and started screaming "Don't hold back, Katniss! Whoop that trick, word-style!"
According to TMZ, things got all Hunger Games between noted asshole/director David O. Russell and America's Girlfriend/actress Jennifer Lawrence on the set of the movie Joy on Tuesday. A source on the set says they saw an argument start between David and Jennifer over a scene that progressed into a dramatic cuss-filled screaming match. Surprise surprise, David O. Russell was doing most of the screaming and swearing (I head the O in his name stands for "Oh f#@$% c*!$#").


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HavellsSylvania, the European subsidiary of Havells India, a leading electrical and power distribution equipment manufacturer, is back in black with a net profit of euro 1.3 million (Rs. 8.10 crore) in the second quarter ended Septmeber 30, 2010, against a loss of euro 10.2 million (Rs. 71 crore).
In the quarter under reference, Havells India, on a consolidated basis, posted a 6 per cent rise in its net sales at Rs. 1,401 crore against Rs. 1,319 crore. It reported a net profit of Rs. 71 crore against a loss of Rs. 14 crore. The consolidated profit includes the performance of Havells India (parent company) and its two subsidiaries (Standard Electrical and HavellsSylvania).
Addressing presspersons here on Monday, V. Jothish Kumar, Vice President, Havells India, said in 2009, Havells started restructuring of Sylvania. It closed operations which were most negative. Havells also consolidated operations of different warehouses and shifted a plant to India from Europe. It also reduced its manpower to 2,400 from 3,800. He said even though the process was too expensive, it yielded the desired results. Havells acquired Sylvania in 2007 at euro 227 million. He said the coming quarters would show a completely much better profits. "The profit in the second quarter is partial benefit of restructuring and full benefits of restructuring will accrue in 2011-12", he said.
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