'Rihanna 777? Tour Documentary: Review Revue | Music News ...

Remember Rihanna?s whirlwind 777 tour from a few months ago? No? Our own Robbie Daw certainly does, despite his attempts to erase it from his memory. And he was forced to relive the entire exodus/nightmare last night (May 6) when the?Rihanna 777 documentary aired?on Fox. The film (which, surprisingly, was not directed and edited by Rih), follows the Bajan superstar as she embarks on a seven-country, seven-show tour in just seven days.

As impossible and unnecessary as the journey may seem, there?s now a probably unnecessary behind-the-scenes look at how the whole thing went down. So, was the video chronicle the same sort of bizarre hellscape that the #RihannaPlane turned out to be? Here?s what some of the invited journalists and critics had to say about the doc.

::?The Hollywood Reporter?had 777 journalist Emily Zemler give her take: ?Instead of revealing the entertaining tumult that characterized the 777 Tour, the documentary crew has chastened the experience in the editing room, glossing over the rioting incident and the long hours spent waiting around for?Rihanna?to finish lingerie shopping in Paris.?

:: Contact Music?felt little connection to the star:??Rihanna fans are going to lap this up, but anyone looking to learn more about the star might want to steer clear, as the general consensus is that it?s a pile of contrived PR.?

:: SPIN?offers a gloomy outlook:??The beginning of?Rihanna 777, the?RihannaPlane documentary?that aired on Fox last night, is somewhat like the start of a movie like?Turistas. Shots outside the aircraft?s windows into the clouds indicate hope and excitement, and the passengers ? eagerly tearing open their gift bags ? are shouting and giggling and ribbing one another. But you know that by the end, everyone involved will be slaughtered and vivisected in a bloody pile.?

:: Huffington Post?highlights the singer?s performances: ?This isn?t Madonna?s ?Truth or Dare? (or even Katy Perry?s ?Part of Me?); it?s a Rihanna look-book, somehow made less interesting than the singer?s Instagram feed. The performances shown feature her live voice, which has never been Rihanna?s selling point.?

:: USA Today?felt disconnected:??While fans might find her interactions with band and crewmembers backstage interesting, those encounters aren?t particularly revealing. And by the time the trip winds up in New York, everyone involved is elated that it?s over. Even so, the film doesn?t come close to reflecting the tedium described by journalists in their dispatches from the trip.?

:: LA Times?tends to agree: ?This film doesn?t illuminate much about one of contemporary pop?s most successful artists, or even about the famously fraught tour itself. Instead, ?777? is a lightweight Rihanna hagiography, with none of the live-wire tension or creative demons that?D.A. Pennebaker?or Martin Scorsese brought to their own classic music docs ?Don?t Look Back? and ?The Last Waltz.??

Did you watch the Rihanna 777 documentary? Let us know what you thought in the comments below or by hitting us up on?Facebook?and?Twitter!

Source: http://idolator.com/7456897/rihanna-777-tour-documentary-review-revue

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Dover Reservist Battles Brain Cancer | DoDLive

Story by Tech. Sgt. Charles Walker

Sometimes a headache is just a headache. Other times it can be the sign of something much worse.

Just ask Air Force Maj. Shawn Boyle, an Individual Mobilization Augmentee reservist with the 436th Airlift Wing/Judge Advocate office.

Air Force Maj. Shawn Boyle, an Individual Mobilization Augmentee Reservist with the 436th Airlift Wing/Judge Advocate office, poses with his wife Sarah and daughter Cathleen in a recent family portrait near their home outside of Pittsburgh, Pa. Boyle was diagnosed with a slow growing form of brain cancer in February. Courtesy photo

Boyle, who lives outside of Pittsburgh, Pa., was experiencing what he thought were severe migraine headaches. Over time the headaches and the pain from them continued to grow worse. Boyle had been to the doctor several times and he was taking aspirin.

He went to the local doctor in October 2012, and they told him it was his sinuses. In early February of this year, Boyle was at the fitness center working out, when the pain from the headaches became unbearable. He was sent to a specialty doctor and that?s when he got the proper diagnosis?brain cancer.

Boyle was diagnosed with a slow-growing cancer in his brain. It is inoperable and the outlook for he and his family, wife Sarah, of 16 years and daughter Cathleen, who is 11, is going to be a rough and bumpy one.

?The doctors said unless you knew what you were looking for, when you hear about headaches in the front of the head you assume it is sinus,? Boyle said. ?The cancer is an inoperable astrocytoma. They can?t operate, but they can try to slow its growth with radiation.?

Boyle began radiation treatment last week at the John Murtha Cancer Center at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. He will undergo aggressive radiation treatment for six and a half weeks and then he will be checked again to see what his and the cancer?s reaction was to the radiation. Boyle said his doctor is telling him if the treatment goes well he can live as much as 10-to-15 years.

Boyle?s wife Sarah said it?s been a rough couple months for her and her family since getting the news in February.

?Obviously the diagnosis has been difficult,? Sarah said. ?Our sister-in-law had a brain tumor and died last year, leaving behind her two daughters. So the diagnosis was not a happy thing, it felt like a blow. But the amount of care and concern we?ve received, it?s amazing. I never expected such an outpouring, I?m truly grateful.?

Sarah, who is a family therapist with Family Services of Western Pennsylvania, said the news has been especially hard on their daughter Cathleen, who is staying with Sarah?s parents while Sarah and Shawn stay at the Fisher House near Walter Reed.

?She is very stoic, it has hit her very, very hard,? Sarah said. ?She tries very hard to protect her Dad and keep a stiff upper lip, but she has already broken down a few times. We got the school involved once we got the diagnosis and they are keeping tabs on her. Even though she is staying with my parents, the split has been very difficult.?

Shawn said that since his diagnosis, his other family, the Air Force, has stepped in to help him in ways he never would have imagined, namely his bosses Lt. Col. Scott Boehne, Staff Judge Advocate with the 436th AW and Carmel Feliciani, 436th AW/JA.

?My co-workers have been wonderful,? Shawn said. ?Ms. Feliciani has been on the phone every day seeing if I need anything. Lt. Col. Boehne has been taking care of things as well. They?ve both been really great. I can?t say enough how everyone has been treating me. It has been wonderful.?

Boehne said that he and his office have tried to do everything they could to keep Shawn stress free as he and his family begin their battle with cancer.

?We tried to do everything we could on our end so he would not worry about his status with the Air Force,? Boehne said. ?We had to learn a bit, about who are the right points of contact, but we have been working those bureaucratic hurdles. We?ve tried to shield him from stress so he could focus on treatment and recovery.?

Sarah said Thomas Krug deserves a lot of thanks for the care her husband has received so far. Krug, who is a recovery care coordinator with the Wounded Warrior Program, basically is making sure Shawn and Sarah are cared for and that their needs are met.

?He has meant everything,? Sarah said of Krug. ?In many ways, he has saved our lives. I wouldn?t know where we would be without Tom and we can?t thank him enough. The Wounded Warrior Program is just wonderful. Everybody who works for them should be thanked.?

Boyle, who began his 20-year career as an enlisted soldier in the Army, before switching to Air Force and joining the JAG Corps, began his chemotherapy last Tuesday and will continue with radiation treatment for the next six weeks.

His love for his family and the Air Force he said, means the world to him.

?Sometimes an event in your life changes so much? Boyle said. ?One minute your life can turn upside down. A lot of people step up and offer you so much love and so much hope, how do you say thank you? You can?t say thank you enough. My military family means so much to me. Me and my family, we?re holding up well. I?m just going to enjoy them as much as I can, for as long as I can.?

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Source: http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/2013/05/dover-ima-reservist-battles-brain-cancer/

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Egypt police: Men fire birdshot at PM's convoy

CAIRO (AP) ? Egyptian police officials say five men in a pick-up truck fired birdshot at the prime minister's convoy during a traffic argument, not knowing he was inside.

They say Prime Minister Hesham Kandil's three-car convoy was on a Cairo bridge late Sunday when it encountered the speeding truck, and fired warning shots in the air to get it to move.

The men fired birdshot at the convoy. They later told police they didn't realize the prime minister was inside one of the tinted-windowed cars.

The men were promptly arrested. Police said they had apparently been racing to their home neighborhood after getting into a fight with people elsewhere.

Police officials, who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak to the press, say the incident was not politically motivated.

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Hubble sees the remains of a star gone supernova

May 6, 2013 ? A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows delicate wisps of gas that make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short.

The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants from when an unstable progenitor star exploded violently as a supernova around 600 years ago. There are several types of supernovae, but for SNR 0519 the star that exploded is known to have been a white dwarf star -- a Sun-like star in the final stages of its life.

SNR 0519 is located over 150 000 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Dorado (The Dolphinfish), a constellation that also contains most of our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Because of this, this region of the sky is full of intriguing and beautiful deep sky objects.

The LMC orbits the Milky Way galaxy as a satellite and is the fourth largest in our group of galaxies, the Local Group. SNR 0519 is not alone in the LMC; the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope also came across a similar bauble a few years ago in SNR B0509-67.5, a supernova of the same type as SNR 0519 with a strikingly similar appearance.

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Go On, Get Social: 3 Reasons Your Business Needs to Join the ...

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Establishing a social media presence is a must for all businesses. But, why? Here are 3 reasons why your business needs to establish a presence on social media.

1.?? ?It Makes You Approachable

Before the internet took over much of our daily communications and interactions, most of us had local experts we would call or go visit when we had a need. For example, if we needed to sell our home, we might have called up our Realtor and perhaps met over cup of coffee. Today that meeting is often replaced by a friendly posting on Twitter or Facebook. ?Hey Jim, how?s the market? Good time to buy?? As a business, establishing a social media presence gives your customers an opportunity to see the people behind the business. It also gives your business a personality and says, ?Hey, we are here for you. Talk to us.?

2.?? ?It Keeps You Visible

Keeping your business on the forefront of your customer?s and potential customer?s minds is paramount to success in today?s day in age. It is not enough to throw an ad in the local paper and yellow pages anymore. Today?s customers often start on the web to decide when, how, and where they will purchase their goods and services. Establishing a presence on social media broadens your presence across the web. Social media sites are included in search engine rankings (think Google search). Establishing a presence on social sites inevitably boosts your SEO and ultimately directs more customers to you. Most social sites also have the option to purchase advertising which furthers your reach to your target audience.

3.?? ?It is Free!

Getting started on social media is essentially free. All of the major players (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) allow businesses to establish a business page for no cost; all you have to lose is time. Social media also gives you free access and insight into your competitor?s strategies. You can easily see what they are up to and how their customers are responding to them. If you invest your time capital wisely, your return on investment has exceptional potential. Don?t allow the opportunity to get social pass your business by. Your competitors are getting social and you should be joining the party as well.

- Audrey Howes manages Social Media and special projects for Swiftpage (www.swiftpage.com), a? leading provider of digital marketing and CRM solutions that help businesses grow. You can reach Audrey at ahowes@swiftpage.com.

Source: http://www.yola.com/blog/go-on-get-social-3-reasons-your-business-needs-to-join-the-party/

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Kutcher's company settles suit against CA DMV

FILE - This May 4, 2012 file photo shows actor Ashton Kutcher at the Barnstable Brown Derby party in Louisville, Ky. Kutcher's production company Katalyst Media has settled a lawsuit against the California Department of Motor Vehicles over a planned reality show, records filed in LA Superior Court on Friday April 26, 2013 show. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, file)

FILE - This May 4, 2012 file photo shows actor Ashton Kutcher at the Barnstable Brown Derby party in Louisville, Ky. Kutcher's production company Katalyst Media has settled a lawsuit against the California Department of Motor Vehicles over a planned reality show, records filed in LA Superior Court on Friday April 26, 2013 show. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, file)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Ashton Kutcher's production company has settled a lawsuit against the California Department of Motor Vehicles over a planned reality series focusing on the agency's offices.

Court records in Los Angeles show Kutcher's production company Katalyst Media Inc. has settled its case for undisclosed terms. The company sued the DMV in June claiming it reneged on a reality show deal worth at least $1.4 million.

The lawsuit stated the DMV backed out of the reality show on claims it was no longer in the agency's best interests, but it had already been promised to the TruTV channel.

Katalyst's attorney Michael E. Weinstein declined to comment in an email message.

The DMV wrote in a statement that the case was amicably resolved and no further comments would be issued.

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YouTube Capture for iOS updated with optional WiFi only uploads

Still completely absent from Android, the Google-made iOS only YouTube Capture video sharing app has received a minor update. Version 1.3 introduces a smorgasbord of colorless enhancements like a faster startup, an upload timer and HD previews of image enhancements. The real showstopper here is the addition of a WiFi only sharing option, which may prove useful for people trying to curtail their wireless data usage. To pull down this 28.3MB software bump, head on over to the source link below.

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