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Back in the U.K., their home country, Kaiser Chiefs routinely play arenas. When it comes to their hometown, Leeds, they've even played to 35,000 worshiping fans at the local soccer stadium. This made last night's concert in the cosy confines of Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom an up close and personal chance for Anglophile indie rock fans of the Lower Mainland to see one of the biggest British bands of the past decade.

Certainly an affection for, or at least an understanding of British culture, appears to be a prerequisite for Kaiser Chiefs' fandom. Unlike universally accessible artists like Coldplay or Adele, the Chiefs' songs are set in a particular English urban landscape where "tea" is a meal and "lairy" is a state of mind.

Whether Kaiser Chiefs' lyrical nuances were clear to everyone, it appeared that the vast majority of last night's crowd (a fair proportion of whom welcomed the band by wearing either Whitecaps, Manchester United or Leeds United soccer shirts) had a reasonable grasp of what singer Ricky Wilson was banging on about, as he led his band through a 16-song set that tested the very limits of the Commodore's famously springy floorboards.

It would come as no surprise if the band insisted on playing the Commodore on the basis of floor quality alone. Eight years since their rise to prominence, they remain Britain's bounciest band, carving out choruses that practically beg audiences to take to the sky while singing their lungs out.

Of course, this is rarely subtle. The band kicked off its set with "Every Day I Love You Less and Less" and "Never Miss a Beat," two high-velocity pop bullets aimed directly at the dance floor. On the radio, they're quirky, amiable bursts of indie pop. Through the Commodore's massive speaker cabinets, they were instant anthems, practically begging the crowd to leap into a gently good-tempered moshpit.

The chief cheerleader throughout was Wilson, who delivered a high-energy performance utterly lacking in self-restraint or pretension. By the time the band delivered "Everything is Average Nowadays" four songs in, Wilson was climbing and singing from on top of the security barriers. He leapt from the stage at the beginning of "Kinda Girl You Are" and ran around the venue to one of the Commodore's four bars, at which point he jumped onto the counter, ordered a shot of Bushmills and downed it in one.

"We are the Kaiser Chiefs!" he bellowed into his mic as the rest of the band watched for his next move from the stage. "We have been sent here to entertain you! We will not rest until you are entertained!"

This is Kaiser Chiefs' simple ethos. They're not political. They're not intellectual. They simply deliver a relentless stream of what the British like to call Terrace Anthems, songs that get lodged in the brain and can be sung back at high volume by large groups at the slightest provocation. That's exactly what songs like "Ruby," "Na Na Na Na Na" and "I Predict a Riot" (gratefully introduced without any reference to Vancouver's recent embarrassment) are designed to produce. And that's exactly what happened.

The ultimate bouncefest was saved until last with "Oh My God" sending the crowd into the Granville Street night sweaty and smiling. Not all of them would have picked up all the band's lyrical references, but no one appeared to be complaining.

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Editors Note: Norman Winarsky is the Vice President of Ventures and Bill Mark is the Vice President of the Information Computing Sciences Division at renowned research and technology development organization, SRI International. Norman and Bill helped found the Siri venture, of which Norman was also a Board member.

Since its launch in the iPhone 4S, Siri has become a phenomenon, and for good reason. Siri is a revolutionary consumer software product based on breakthroughs in speech and artificial intelligence technology.

Siri has appeared extensively in the media as a new consumer phenomenon, including Dilbert and Jon Stewart. In November, Eric Schmidt testified to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee that Siri was potentially a major threat to Google. Siri has even been the major part of an episode of the sitcom Big Bang Theory on CBS and the subject of numerous parody Tumblr and Twitter accounts.

Without a doubt, Siri was a great achievement for Apple and Steve Jobs, helping to introduce virtual personal assistants to millions of consumers, and changing forever the way we view our smartphones. The team also brilliantly designed Siri to go beyond being a mere tool, giving it a personality, and human-like interaction characteristics.

Do you like me, Siri? Where can I bury a body, Siri?

There is no doubt in our minds that Apple will continue to advance the Siri, technology, and will create new breakthroughs in the virtual personal assistant (VPA) category overall. For example, its clear that Apple is capable of making a Siri API for application developers in the near term, enabling hundreds of thousands of applications to access their own assistant. Soon it will become de rigueur for all applications to offer spoken interaction and meaningful delegation. In fact, we consumers will be surprised and disappointed if or when they dont.

Beyond the laudatory comments and requisite speculation, and because of our central role in creating Siri, we at SRI are often asked whats next?

As we always respond Siri is just the first step in realizing the ultimate virtual personal assistant vision. This post first outlines what we think Siris legacy will be, and then gives the broad strokes of what will mark the next phase(s) of VPA innovation.

To start, Siris greatest effect will be the entirely new industry that it is creating before our eyes. At SRI, we see VPA technology as an essential element of future products in areas ranging from smart TVs, to health care assistance, to virtual tutors in education, and more. VPA is not just a fad, or a trend. It is in many ways the destiny of computing and a decades-long project, or more. As we speak, SRI is spinning out three new startups that are underwritten by the VPA paradigm and our related R&D. They are already VC-funded and preparing their first products for wide use. We think weve only seen the tip of the iceberg.

Technologically speaking, Siris true impact is seen in the new bar it set for what we call practical natural language understanding. Using speech instead of keyboards to communicate with computers is an old dream, but it took more than thirty years to achieve the robustness and performance needed to make speech systems practical for consumers.

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The Elite Training Workshop will be hosted at Full Throttle Athletics, a Fitness Revolution franchise in Frisco, TX on April 21 . The event will bring together four leading fitness experts to help trainers grow their personal training businesses.

The workshop will provide hands on instruction geared toward both helping fitness businesses grow and improve their training techniques. The fitness experts plan to discuss a variety of topics concerning aspects of training and fitness marketing.

All personal trainers face two main concerns, said Pat Rigsby, CEO of Fitness Consulting Group, the group organizing the event. The first is that they are constantly trying to improve as trainers, and the second is that they want to find ways to grow their business.

By bringing together leaders in the fitness community, the Elite Training Workshop seeks to address both concerns.

Eric Cressey is one expert who will be speaking at the event. He has trained professionals and Olympians, while also authoring five different fitness books. He is the owner of the elite Massachusetts gym Cressey Performance and a world-record holding Olympian.

Joining him will be President of Robertson Training Systems Mike Robertson, resistance band expert Dave Schmitz, and B.J. Gaddour, also a contributor to Mens Health.

The fitness experts will be presenting on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from fitness-specific topics like medicine ball and core training, to business topics like how to market your fitness business.

The speakers hope that discussing their experiences can help other personal trainers. These experienced trainers have a lot to teach, Rigsby explained. Both when it comes to training and how good trainers get their names out there.

The Elite Training Workshop will take place on April 21, but there is a workshop on April 20 available to those who sign up by 5 pm on March 30. This workshop will focus exclusively on aspects of fitness business, and will be run by Rigsby, Nick Berry, and Ryan Ketchum.

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American Idol Season 11 standout Jessica Sanchez will be singing a song from her personal idol this Wednesday. Its exciting to know who Jessicas own idol is and what song would it be.

The 16-year-old Filipina-American-Mexican singer belongs to the Hip Hop/R&B/Soul genres so its possible that she will sing a hit from Beyonce or Mariah Carey.

We will surely know it before the Top 9 performance night on March 28. This week, the finalists are being mentored by singer-songwriter and musician Stevie Nicks.

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Next week, on Wednesday, March 28 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed), the Top Nine DeAndre Brackensick, Hollie Cavanagh, Colton Dixon, Heejun Han, Skylar Laine, Joshua Ledet, Phillip Phillips, Jessica Sanchez and Elise Testone return to the IDOL stage to sings songs from their own Idols.

Tune in the following night, Thursday, March 29 (8:00-9:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) to the live results show to find out which of the Top Nine finalists is sent home. In addition, Nicki Minaj will take the stage and perform her megahit Starships and Season 10 IDOL winner and platinum-selling country artist Scotty McCreery will return to perform his newest single, Water Tower Town.

Become a fan of AMERICAN IDOL on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/AmericanIdol. Follow the series on Twitter @AmericanIdol and join the discussion at #Idol. Also, follow host Ryan Seacrest at @RyanSeacrest, and follow the judges: @yo_randyjackson; @JLo; and @iamstevent.

AMERICAN IDOL is produced by 19 Entertainment, a division of CKX, Inc. and FremantleMedia North America, Inc. The series is created and executive-produced by Simon Fuller, CEO, XIX Entertainment, and executive-produced by Cecile Frot-Coutaz, CEO, FremantleMedia North America, Inc.; Ken Warwick, Executive Producer, FremantleMedia North America, Inc.; and Nigel Lythgoe, CEO, Nigel Lythgoe Productions.

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24-03-2012 09:38 If you need motivation and want success in life then watch Eric Thomas on his YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com Follow him on http://www.twitter.com Like Him on http://www.facebook.com The Most Inspirational Video Ever if your a person who wants to be rich, a millionaire, successful, a body builder, basketball player, or football player it don't matter what sport or financial success your seeking watch this video and check out his channel and apply his logic and you will be on your way to being successful as you want to be...

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24-03-2012 21:35 After a successful tour of President Buchanan's America, young Prince Bertie returns home to find that his parents do not see it as a personal success rather one that can be attributed to the monarchy in general. His father tells him he is to go to Oxford to continue his studies but will be under the care of a governor and will not be allowed to mix with other students. Bertie really wants to join the army but his father, at first, refuses, but eventually decides in his favor. He is made a Lieutenant Colonel in the Grenadier Guards and sent to Ireland to undergo his training. There he sees a few familiar faces and begins an affair with an Irish music hall performer. The situation in Italy creates a conflict for Albert with his relations in the Austrian court. Vicky's son Wilhelm is born with a damaged arm. States in the American South secede, raising the possibility of war. Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent, dies. First broadcast: April 15, 1975.

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As expected, The Hunger Games is a huge box-office hit. As in, really huge.

The first film in the much-anticipated Katniss Everdeen franchise brought in $155 million over the weekend, making it the No. 1 movie in America and the film with the third-biggest opening weekend of all time.

Jennifer Lawrence, hitting a box-office bulls eye. (Murray Close - Associated Press)

And thats only one of the designations that can now be assigned to The Hunger Games courtesy of its mega-revenue over the past few days.

Lets look more closely at some of its accomplishments in numerical terms, shall we?

The Hunger Games sits at No. 3 on the list of all-time biggest opening weekends.

When considered with no adjustment for inflation, The Hunger Games is in third place on this list, according to Box Office Mojo, right behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (at No. 1, with $169.1 million) and The Dark Knight (at No. 2, with $158.4 million). Its also the only movie in the top 10 releases on that list that isnt a sequel.

The Hunger Games also had the biggest midnight opening ever for a non-sequel.

Ticket sales for the Thursday night/early Friday screening brought in $19.74 million, giving it the seventh-biggest midnight debut of all time, behind various Harry Potter and Twilight sequels.

The Hunger Games is off to a much stronger start than either the Harry Potter or Twilight films.

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BARNSTABLE, Mass.She may show up while you're having coffee and ask you to do a downward-facing dog.

Meet Diane Kovanda, the yoga whisperer of Barnstable County. When she's not teaching yoga, she's out in the community, working on her ambitious project, Yoga Everywhere. Her goal is to record 365 videos of regular folks doing different yoga poses over the course of a year and post them on her YouTube site.

"I started on Jan. 1," said Kovanda. "So far I've had a person every day."

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, the mind-body therapy of yoga "involves physical postures, breathing exercises and meditation to improve overall well-being."

Kovanda, who provides yoga teacher training at her Centerville-based Kind Yoga school, has been practicing yoga for more than 25 years. "Yoga moves your spine in every direction, opens your lungs up, gets you curled up and squeezes out the intestinal tract and gets you detoxed," she said. "And gets you focused at the same time."

Sometimes a random stranger is drawn into Kovanda's flexible plot. Sometimes Kovanda knows the poser and after a bit of sweet talk, a headstand blooms.

On a recent pose prowl, Kovanda popped into the Yarmouth Police Department and convinced Sgt. Walter Warren to do a warrior pose, in full uniform.

Warren nailed it, and you could tell he knew a little something about yoga. Turns out, he has incorporated the practice into his fitness regimen.

"I like everything about it," said Warren. "Mostly what I like about it is what I call the core strength that you get from it -- from the shoulders down to about the waist."

Kovanda left the police station and headed over to a Hyannis gym, home to the Cape Cod Boxing Club and UK Sports Development. Trainer Lee Docherty was hitting the heavy bag when Kovanda talked him into doing a plank pose.

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