
Working on the weekend, Nina Dobrev was spotted on the set of her new movie ?The Perks of Being a Wallflower? in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania yesterday (May 15).
The CW cutie was joined by costar Kate Walsh as they filmed scenes, and chatted on her mobile phone during a break in shooting.
Nina recently told press she has high hopes for her character Elena in the upcoming season of ?The Vampire Diaries.?
?To be completely honest, I?d love for her to smile a bit. She needs to begin to have a real life again, because right now she?s consumed by chaos. There needs to be a light at the end of the tunnel. She needs to feel again, and have relationships again because everyone in her life has been suffering so much, it?s becoming an action sequence as opposed to this girl going through her life.?
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A few weeks ago the highly publicized atheist Christopher Hitchens wrote a letter to an annual convention of atheists justifying his position. Hitchens has based his career on being a gadfly, and he's an articulate, combative one who is widely read and noticed. Along with many others, I wondered how he would respond to the anxiety of his diagnosis of esophageal cancer. He seems to be fighting a losing battle, sadly. Death-bed conversions, which used to be common, aren't anymore, and Hitchens remains defiant in his beliefs.
Here are some expressions from his letter:
"I have found, as the enemy [death] becomes more familiar, that all the special pleading for salvation, redemption and supernatural deliverance appears even more hollow ... than it did before."
"I have found my trust better placed in two things: the skill and principle of advanced medical science and the comradeship of innumerable friends and family, all of them immune to the false consolations of religion."
"It is these forces among others which will speed the day when humanity emancipates itself from the mind-forged manacles of servility and superstition."
The argument being defended here has a long lineage among rationalists and materialists. Since we live in a scientific age, I imagine that stout atheists are driven more than anything by impatience to finish the job. When science is poised to solve every remaining mystery and technology unfolds every new convenience, why should we keep any allegiance to an outworn worldview? The key terms that Hitchens uses to describe that worldview are familiar in the rhetoric of atheism: superstition, false consolation, "mind-forged manacles of servility," "stultifying pseudo-science," and of course, the blandishments of organized religion. Against these inimical forces Hitchens, and many other atheists, amasses the forces for good that are on his side: decency, reason, skepticism, "our innate solidarity," courage, "sincere resistance to insidious nonsense," and so on.
Rhetoric is rhetoric, and in a rousing debate no one takes seriously that atheists are founts of decency and morality while sincere believers are all servile and superstitious. Can anyone seriously believe this? By calling all good things non-religious and all bad things religious, atheists have made a serious mistake. But there's a deeper mistake, I think, which is to set rational materialism on one side and belief in God on the other. The issue isn't who buys into God and who, on the other hand, is a rational human being. The two categories aren't separate; they blend quite a lot, as exemplified by the surprising number of scientists who attend church.
By making belief in God their enemy, atheists deprive themselves of what spirituality is really about: a process of inner growth. There are wisdom traditions around the world that do not use the word God (e.g., Buddhism, Vedanta) or advocate religious worship in the conventional sense. Countless people have seen through the faults of organized religion and turned instead to their own spiritual journey. Hitchens and other atheists stand at the door to that journey and slam it shut, assuring all who approach that to seek God, the soul, or higher reality is a fool's errand. How do they know? It's not as if they have inquired deeply into the great saints and sages who have successfully traveled such a journey. Hitchens dismisses every spiritual person out of hand, which means that he dismisses William Blake (the source of his phrase, "mind-forged manacles," which Blake applied to modern industrial life, not religion) in the same breath that he dismisses Bible Belt preachers.
By discounting the whole notion of spiritual awakening, atheists make a claim to false knowledge. They haven't walked the walk, yet somehow they know, with dead certainty, that Buddha, Socrates, Plato, Jesus, Confucius, Zoroaster, Saint Paul, Rumi, Kabir, the Prophet Muhammad, Rabindranath Tagore, and countless others aren't just wrong; they are stupid and blinkered compared to any everyday atheist today. I have my doubts. The atheists I've met went through a period of personal disillusion with religion, and on that basis alone they became atheists. Could anything be more subjective for a crowd that decries subjectivity? Could anything be more idiosyncratic for a group that claims to represent universal reason?
Everyone has a right to their opinions, and the kind of courage that Hitchens has exhibited in the "long argument I am currently having with the specter of death" is existentially honorable and touching. But it is equally honorable to be a spiritual seeker, and ironically, there's a convergence here. Spirituality is existential, too. It asks who we are, why we are here, and what are the highest values by which a person should live. The atheist's mistake is to hog the moral limelight, declaring that only non-believers own the truth. The truth is a process of discovery, and anyone who blocks the process and denies its validity needs to wake up before denouncing anyone else as stupid or blind.
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-atheists-mistake_b_862389.html
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16 May 2011
Adele would have been prepared to give up her music career for her ex-boyfriend, who was the inspiration behind the lyrics to her latest album '21'.
Adele would have "given up" her career for her ex-boyfriend.
The 'Someone Like You' hitmaker - whose former love was the inspiration behind her second album '21' - admitted she will never forgive herself for not making the relationship work, as she would have put aside her musical aspirations for true love.
Asked whether she would trade success for romance, she explained: "I don't think I'll ever forgive myself for not making my relationship with my ex on '21' work, because he's the love of my life.
I would still be singing in the shower, of course, but yeah - my career, my friendships, my hobbies. I would have given up trying to be the best.
"I would still be singing in the shower, of course, but yeah - my career, my friendships, my hobbies. I would have given up trying to be the best."
Adele - whose debut album '19' was also inspired by her tumultuous love life - explained she will always be looking for a copy of her ex-boyfriend in future relationships because the couple were so similar that they were "almost like twins".
She added to Out magazine: "He was my soul mate. We had everything - on every level we were totally right. We'd finish each other's sentences, and he could just pick up how I was feeling by the look in my eye, down to a T.
"We loved the same things, and hated the same things, and we were brave when the other was brave and weak when the other one was weak - almost like twins, you know - and I think that's rare when you find the full circle in one person, and I think that's what I'll always be looking for in other men."
Source: http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/Adele-39129.html
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Video interview with Jalak Jobanputra, Senior Vice President, New York City Investment Fund
Jalak Jobanputra has over 16 years experience in venture capital, media and technology, most recently with the NYC Investment Fund. She spearheaded the formation of NYCSeed in 2008, a seed fund dedicated to funding early stage tech entrepreneurs in NYC. She was previously a principal at New Venture Partners, a $300 million early stage venture fund that incubated technology at corporate labs. Prior to that, she was at Intel Capital in Silicon Valley and was on the launch team of online financial information startup Horsesmouth in 1997, during which time she first discovered the NYC sample sale scene in Nolita. You can find her at Twitter @jalak and her blog Nothing Ventured. For further information check out EZebis.
Pemo: I loved the image & symbolism of Ganesha that you used on your blog to highlight the qualities that entrepreneurs & venture capitalists need. I understand that Ganesha symbolizes prosperity & success in the world. Would you comment on what women entrepreneurs need in particular when sourcing venture capital? And also what venture capitalists need no matter what gender in regards to women entrepreneurs & startups?
Jalak: I wish I had that post in front of me. The first thing that came to mind & I think all those qualities are important. But the thick skin is key, combined with the ability to move beyond setbacks.
Women tend to really analyse things & see things from numerous different perspectives & I think that's one of the real values they bring to business & growing a business & building a team; being sensitive to the dynamics that are happening around a team or a board.
However it can also result in paralysis so I think the ability to just take criticism, not take it personally, move on especially when you're doing something innovative. You're going to have a lot more nos than yeses out there & just being prepared & not taking it personally. And going out & finding the people who are going to be supportive & perservering in that process. I think that's true of entrepreneurs & I think that's true in the vc world in terms of if you really want to be innovative, you're going to have partners & other people around you who may not see it, that you are going to have to convince a little bit more. And I think its a good quality to have that resilience.
Pemo: I note that you have also written in your blog about the Startup Visa. Would you have any advice for European Entrepreneurs who face many more obstacles in sourcing venture than US entrepreneurs? Its more conservative the whole market in the UK & Ireland which is where I'm based and also women are even more outside the box because of that conservative old boys network that happens in the UK. So I wondered if you would have any advice for European entrepreneurs in their struggle because I know you have travelled widely & had venture sourced from other countries?
Jalak: I actually did invest in the UK & the Netherlands so I do understand the lack of especially early stage funding in Europe. Luckily I think that is starting to change. You have Danny Reimer with Index Ventures who started a seed fund along the lines of some of the funds that we've seen in the US.
But I think bootstrapping becomes even more important when there are less funds that will invest at that early stage. So its about becoming more resourceful as an entrepreneur.
And this is happening here too, you just need to figure out a way to get your business some customers & traction without getting some external funding. There are startups here, I don't know what the government funding scenario is like in Europe, but there are some that have technical products that can access grants etc & use that to bootstrap. Then its really going out & networking & finding out who the funders are. I think you have money coming from all around the world now interested in finding good startups. While its still a very local business, I know there are funds in the Middle East & there are funds in Asia that are very interested in accessing some of the European markets. So I'd say think a little bit creatively on where you are finding some of those sources beyond just the traditional funds.
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Source: http://www.thenextwomen.com/2011/05/16/jalak-jobanputra-european-startups-venture
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What is going on here? Nick Jonas was spotted leaving he Arclight Cinema last night (May 15) in Los Angeles with Australia singer Delta Goodrem. Nick was leading Delta by the hand as they left the movie theater and headed to their car.
What?s the big deal? For starters Nick is 18 and Delta is 26-years-old. Delta recently split from her boyfriend of seven years, former Westlife star Brian McFadden, amidst rumors she was having an affair with a work colleague.
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Despite what it looks like, this is mostly an innocent night out between friends. Nick recorded at track for Delta?s new album back in March of this year. However, Nick has recently split from girlfriend Samantha Barks.
What do you think is going on here? Just friends, or friends with benefits? Let us know what you think by tweeting us at @socialitelife or posting to our Facebook page.
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Singer Rihanna and her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown have been exchanging messages on Twitter, which has angered her fans. See what Chris and Rihanna tweeted one another here.
Rihanna, 23, who has about five million fans following her on Twitter, added her ex Chris Brown to her group of just under 400 people she follows on the social networking site.
Chris Brown logged on to Twitter and began following Rihanna too.
But Rihanna?s fans balked at the idea the couple could be reuniting after all the drama, tweeting the singer their concerns.
?Its [expletive] twitter, not the alter!? Rihanna tweeted to their responses on Saturday. ?Calm down.?
A disappointed fan wrote:
?Ive wanted @rihanna to tweet me all my life, shes my idol, and she tweetd me somethng bad ):? iStan4Rihanna Tweeted in response.
And Rihanna was quick to apologize to the fan and others who she calls her ?Navy?.
?babygirl I?m sorry, I didn?t mean to hurt or offend u!? Just needed to make it clear to the Navy! I still Stan for u xoxo,? she Tweeted.
Does the reconnection on Twitter signal the former couple could get back together?
A source close to Rihanna revealed that the singer and Chris Brown also sent about a dozen private messages to one another on Twitter too.
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"My girlfriend was getting married and we were all about to go to Mexico," says Rudolph, 38, who costars in the new comedy with Kristen Wiig. "We had this whole trip planned; we all put money in for the place, the airplane, everything."
The hitch?
"My girlfriend got so sick that she was on antibiotics and was instructed not to fly. The bride couldn't fly. Everything was paid for, so we all had to go. So we all went without her. It was kind of pathetic and sad."
Fortunately, the bride got her happy ending ? eventually.
"She missed her bachelorette party," says Rudolph, who is expecting her third child with longtime partner Paul Thomas Anderson. "But she got married!"
• Reporting by JESSICA WEDEMEYER Vignette StoryServer 6.0 Mon May 16 07:31:00 2011
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