Ice Cube, Josh Duhamel and Ryan Seacrest are in negotiations to join the growing cast of Garry Marshall’s ensemble comedy New Year’s Eve, The Hollywood Reporter said Thursday. The follow-up to last year’s romantic comedy Valentine’s Day, the script follows series of interconnected stories across the New York City over one evening. A host of [...]
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Josh Duhamel, Ice Cube, Ryan Seacrest Up For “New Year’s Eve†Movie
January 27th, 2011 |
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Android Ice Cream Sandwich Slated for Google I/O?
January 13th, 2011 |
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Google’s next Android build, likely called Ice Cream Sandwich, is slated for liftoff at Google I/O and launch on smartphones in the summer. What’s with the numbering scheme? – Tablets running Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating
system haven’t even launched and already the blogosphere is fraught with
speculation about the next version of Google’s Android operating system. As in,
the one after Honeycomb.
PocketLint calls it Ice Cream, numbers it Android 2.4 and say…
Vanilla Ice: “I Dumped Madonna For Being Too Sexy!â€
January 11th, 2011 |
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It took a couple of decades, but early ’90s rap sensation Vanilla Ice is finally spilling the beans on why he kicked The Material Girl to the curb all those years ago. While promoting his appearance on the UK reality series Dancing on Ice (think Dancing With the Stars meets the Ice Capades…), the biggest [...]
What would the Chinese want from Renault?
January 10th, 2011 |
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I’ve had an interesting email from someone with a theory about the Renault espionage story. The Chinese, the author tells me, are determined to become EV leaders and not find themselves in the position of playing industry catch-up, or having to work with foreign firms for technology transfer, as they have been doing with fossil-fuelled ICE automotive technology over the past few decades.
What is being sought for China, the theory goes, is something like the Project Better Place proposed system of battery swap stations (Chinese government not keen on fast charging). Better Place has an exclusive agreement with Renault and Renault is developing cars with the battery swap capability – and that’s what the Chinese are interested in. And they want to ‘leapfrog’ the ICE, taking full advantage of their huge domestic market to gain an international competitive advantage in electric vehicles and dominate the industry at a global level.
Interesting theory.
Let me add a few things to the mix. One, China imports a lot of oil and that’s surely something that rapid growth of the ICE car parc isn’t helping (as well as air quality). Two, has the ICE learning process facilitated by joint ventures with foreign carmakers largely run its course? The big players are arguably more able to stand on their own two feet now and there is also a clutch of smaller independent Chinese OEMs. A shake-out over the next few years will leave the industry still leaner and with a low-cost structure by international standards. The Chinese firms have their own brands, know how to make cars and have an understanding of the manufacturing processes so it’s about execution now. Do they need the foreign partners? Debateable perhaps, but not as much as they did in the early days.
And three, now that there is a big group of car users relatively new to car ownership, the government can play with regulations and taxes to make electric vehicles more popular when this big group comes round for replacement purchases. Could they be weaned off of ICE cars to EVs? Would a network of battery swap stations and vehicles that could take advantage of that help? Could a ‘state enterprise’ possibly play a big role in the infrastructure side of things and would that be something that might be licensed internationally to countries that are friendly to China, too?
Why Is It So Cold? Should the Big Freeze Alter Our Approach to Climate Change?
December 27th, 2010 |
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Preface: If you believe in man-made global warming, please read this essay from the beginning to the end. If you are skeptical of man-made global warming, please skip ahead to the last two sections of this essay so that you see where I’m going.Europ…
SGI Ice Cube Air Modular Data Center Offers Air Cooling
December 7th, 2010 |
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SGI is rolling out its Ice Cube Air modular data center, a solution designed to give enterprises a cost-efficient and eco-friendly way to exapnd the capacity of their facilities. – SGI is unveiling a modular data center offering that lets enterprises build capacity as needed and cool the IT environment using outside air or water from a hose rather than air conditioning units or chilled water.
SGI is showing off the Ice Cube Air on the floor of the Gartner Data Center Conferen…
NASA images reveal cosmic snowstorm post comet encounter
November 19th, 2010 |
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Images captured by NASA’s spacecraft after the recent encounter with Comet Hartley 2 revealed a cosmic snow storm created by carbon dioxide jets spewing out tons of golf-ball to basketball-sized fluffy ice particles from the peanut-shaped comet’s rocky ends. “This is the first time we’ve ever seen individual chunks of ice in the cloud around [...]
“The Vanilla Ice Project†Renewed For Second Season On DIY Network
October 27th, 2010 |
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Twenty years after Rob “Vanilla Ice” Van Winkle struck gold with his catchy rap classic, “Ice Ice Baby,” the former hip-hopster is basking in the spotlight once more. On Tuesday, The Do-It-Yourself Network (DIY) announced that it is placing an order for a second season of The Vanilla Ice Project, a home makeover series hosted [...]
“Fox & Friends†Anchors “Ice Off†[VIDEO]
October 12th, 2010 |
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Check out what happened when two FOX and Friends anchors had an “Ice Off†to Vanilla’s Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby†on the “Fair and Balanced” FOX News Channel on Monday. While we’re on the subject of Vanilla Ice, did you know that early ’90s emcee is back in a new reality show? Don’t worry, he’s [...]
Sept. 13, 1833: Imported Ice Chills, Thrills India
September 13th, 2010 |
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1833: Nearly 100 tons of ice, cut in blocks from frozen New England lakes earlier in the year, arrives in Calcutta. The first shipment of ice imported to India soon fires up a market for cold drinks in a country unaccustomed to such a chilly luxury.
The transoceanic operation, undertaken by the Tudor Ice Co., began [...]
Tadić, Dodik to visit towns together
August 26th, 2010 |
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Serbian President Boris Tadić and Republic of Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik will on Saturday visit Užice and Višegrad. Užice is a western Serbian town, while Višegrad is located in eastern RS.
Vanilla Ice Home Improvement Show “The Vanilla Ice Projectâ€
August 4th, 2010 |
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Robert Van Winkle — perhaps best remembered as early ’90s rap Vanilla Ice — has been tapped to star in a new 10-episode home-improvement series called The Vanilla Ice Project.“Over the last 15 years, Rob has taught himself the basics of home improvement through hands-on experience,” representatives for the DIY Network said in a statement [...]
Ice-T Arrested
July 20th, 2010 |
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Ice-T was arrested in New York City early Tuesday.Shortly after Tweeting about taking his dog Spartacus (who has its own Twitter account…mind you) to the vet for surgery, the Law & Order: SVU star was pulled over by NYC cops for a seat belt violation. Apparently, Ice has a suspended license and was taken into [...]
New Peppermint Ice Cloud-focused Linux OS Set to Ship
July 18th, 2010 |
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The team behind the Peppermint cloud-based flavor of Linux is at it again, this time delivering Peppermint Ice – a new version of Peppermint featuring Site Specific Browser (SSB) technology for launching web applications and cloud applications. – The team behind the Peppermint cloud-based flavor of Linux is at it again, this time delivering Peppermint Ice – a new version of Peppermint featuring a Site Specific Browser for launching Web applications and cloud applications.
Initially released in May, Peppermint is a fork of the Lubuntu Linux …
Thinning on top
June 15th, 2010 |
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Predicting the Arctic’s summer fate is not so simple
MARCH is the maximum month. In March 1979, the first year for which satellite records are available, the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean covered 16.4m square kilometres (6.4m square miles). By the time summer was gone, the ice was down to about 7.2m square kilometres. Every March since, the ice has returned to an annual maximum, but never again has it been as large as the one observed that first year. Every summer, it shrinks back down, and the minimum has for the most part been getting smaller and smaller. In 2007 it was just 4.3m square kilometres. At first, polar scientists watched the planet’s icy pulse with academic interest and justifiable pride in their new observational capabilities. Now they monitor its every hiccup as if it were a patient on life support. But that does not mean they know how to interpret what they see.
This year they noted that the Arctic ice cap had a late-winter growth spurt, reaching its maximum on March 31st, the latest date ever recorded. By the beginning of June, the ice cover—as defined by the percentage of ocean covered by at least 15% floating ice—had dropped far below what is usual for the time of year. Both observations, by themselves, sound as if they should contain meaningful information about what to expect in the rest of 2010. They don’t. …
SGI Expands ICE Cube Containerized Data Center Line
May 27th, 2010 |
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SGI, which rolled out its first ICE Cube modular data center in 2007, is expanding its offerings. Until now, the ICE Cube has only offered SGI’s half-depth Rackable servers. The upcoming Universal class of modular data center will be able to hold full-size servers and storage equipment from third-party vendors as well as from SGI. – SGI is expanding its ICE Cube
containerized data center offerings to give customers more flexibility and extend
the product’s reach into the high-performance computing space.
SGI on May 27 introduced a Universal
class of ICE Cube that can accommodate not only the company’s entire server and
sto…
SGI Unveils New Altix ICE 8400 HPC Server Blades
May 6th, 2010 |
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SGI is bringing the newest processors from Intel and AMD to its Altix ICE HPC blade servers. The Altix ICE 8400 also features an improved InfiniBand I/O architecture. Three Altix ICE 8400 servers are run on Intel Xeon 5600 chips. The other two are powered by AMDs Opteron 6100 processors.
– SGI is updating its Altix ICE blade
servers with the latest x86 processors from both Intel and Advanced Micro
Devices and a bulked-up InfiniBand network designed to increase scalability.
SGIs Altix ICE 8400,
announced May 5 and aimed at the HPC (high-performance
computing) space, can scale as h…
Kitchen Hack: 3 Easy Steps To Create Healthy Frozen Yogurt
May 3rd, 2010 |
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Editors Note: I’ve had frozen yogurt lots of times at ice cream stands and from grocery stores. I never thought to try and make it in my own freezer though because I assumed it was more than just frozen yogurt. It turns out I was wrong! Thanks, Celes, for the tip! I took mine out mid-freeze and gave it a brisk stir for a slightly creamier consistency. Delicious!
Looking for a quick snack you can whip up at home? Want some delicious after-meal dessert without feeling guilty?
If you (1) like eating ice cream (2) are lazy to make it and (3) are calorie conscious, I have the perfect solution for you. Being a calorie conscious individual, I’m particular about eating high calorie foods. Imagine my exhilaration when I found this simple kitchen hack that not only lets me prepare ice cream with absolute ease, but allows me to eat without worrying about calories. Each serving is only 100 calories. Get ready to enter ice cream haven :D.
What You Need
Just 3 things: (1) Yogurt (2) Freezer (3) Spoon (for eating later). It can’t get any easier.
Step 1: Pick your yogurt
Do you like your ice cream plain? Or do you like fruits in it? Nowadays yogurt comes with fruit variants such as blueberry, apple, peach and strawberry. I always pick the fruit variants because it gives added crunch and flavor to the ice cream. My favorites are mango and peach, strawberries and mixed berries flavor.
Brands like Yoplait, Danone and Marigold will have more than enough options for you to choose from. They are about 100 calories per cup, which makes for a delicious low calorie ice cream :) You can even have 2 if you want, though I find 1 is sufficient whether as a appetite filler or after-meal snack.
Step 2: Put it in the freezer for 2 hours
Typically yogurt is placed in the refrigerator to keep it chilled. Since we are making yogurt ice cream, we’re putting this in the freezer. Depending on the size of your container and type of yogurt, this’ll take at least 2 hours.
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Step 3: Get your delicious ice cream
Check if the yogurt has hardened into ice cream by squeezing the container. If it can be squeezed, put it back in the freezer for a while longer. If it can’t, that means it has hardened into ice cream.
If so, remove the seal. Use a spoon to poke into the ice cream. If it’s too hard, leave the yogurt at room temperature for about 15 minutes for it to soften first.
Enjoy your delicious yogurt ice cream :D. Go ahead and have one snack every day of a different flavor. Since it’s a healthy food and only 100 calorie per serving, there’s no reason to limit it in your diet. This is a kitchen hack I use almost every day and I love it.
I’m Celes and I write at The Personal Excellence Blog, where I give my best advice on achieving personal excellence. If you like this article, you might enjoy reader favorites like 101 Things To Do Before You Die and Are You Sleepwalking Your Life Away?. Get my RSS feed directly and add me on Twitter @celestinechua.
Johnny Weir “Stars On Ice Tour†Snub
March 12th, 2010 |
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Flamboyant Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir is getting the cold shoulder from organizers of the “Stars on Ice Tour.” According to a scoop from The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) on Thursday, Weir was allegedly snubbed after being deemed “not family friendly†by the tour’s sponsors.
The three-time US National Champion will not participate [...]
Ice dancers banish Canadian blues
February 24th, 2010 |
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A young pair of ice dancers lifted the host country out of its Winter Olympic gloom with a golden performance on Monday just as Canadians were questioning their team’s medal-winning capability. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who began skating together as children, brought home Canada’s first