M.I.A. middle finger Madonna's Super Bowl

Madonna's halftime show — which featured hip-hoppers Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. clad in cheerleader attire and pompoms, singing along to the pop star's new single, Give Me All Your Luvin'— was upstaged when M.I.A. (aka Maya Arulpragasam) extended her middle finger to the cameras. A record 111.3 million viewers saw the British rapper's brief obscene gesture during the telecast, the most-watched TV program in U.S. history, according to Nielsen figures.

The Super Bowl is such a mainstream event, "things that at a typical performance would not make anybody bat an eye become the subject of a very intense focus," says Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis.

The rapper — who was one of Google's most-searched subjects Monday — isn't commenting on the incident, but such rude moments aren't out of the norm for the music industry.

A shot of Johnny Cash giving the middle finger to photographer Jim Marshall during a 1969 performance at San Quentin Prison added to the Man in Black's mystique. But when Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift as she accepted a trophy during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, his image wasn't helped at all. "That made him look like a twit," DeCurtis says.

Usually in the world of hip-hop, foul language and gestures can be a boon for artists (see: 2 Live Crew).

"She's supposed to be controversial," DeCurtis says. "M.I.A. is certainly not on the scale of Madonna or Nicki Minaj, and it might help (her career) now that people know who she is."

Marks isn't sure whether the Paper Planes performer's errant appendage — a switch from the handgun motion she uses in the video for the new Madonna single — will help or hinder sales for her upcoming new album. (The first single was released Friday. The title? Bad Girls.)

But Chris Willman of Yahoo Music definitely sees it as a plus for M.I.A. "I don't think she's ever gotten this much attention before," he says. "That's the kind of publicity you can't buy when you have an album coming out.
"Who would have guessed that Madonna would be an afterthought in what people are talking about after the show? Madonna might be more mad than any conservative groups."

In the long run, the incident won't be as infamous as Janet Jackson's, when the singer's breast was exposed for about a second while performing with Justin Timberlake during the 2004 Super Bowl. The FCC fined CBS $550,000, but that was fine overturned by a federal appeals court.

M.I.A., known for her rebellious, brash persona and music, performed in a cheerleader outfit for a performance of Madonna's latest single, "Give Me All Your Luvin,'" on which she and Minaj -- also onstage in a pom-pom girl uniform -- are featured rappers.

Her bratty gesture recalled another malfunction of the wardrobe variety in 2004, when Janet Jackson famously flashed a nipple while performing with Justin Timberlake in the halftime show, sending the FCC and viewers into a frenzy.

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Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the release of the Nikon D800 FX-format digital SLR camera. Nikon Imaging Corp announced the much awaited Nikon D800, the newest in the line of full frame offerings from Nikon.

Feature List

Nikon FX-format CMOS sensor with 36.3 effective Megapixels
Native ISO 100 to ISO 6,400
Manipulate light to your advantage
Shoot broadcast quality video
Comprehensive high-fidelity audio recording control
Live view output on external monitors
Integrated image sensor cleaning system
EXPEED 3 image-processing engine
Advanced Scene Recognition System
Time-lapse photography
Advanced Multi-CAM 3500FX autofocus sensor module
Versatile AF-area modes
High-precision, high-durability shutter
High dynamic range (HDR)
Don’t miss a moment
3.2 inch, 921k-dot LCD monitor
Lightweight yet durable construction
High-speed CF and SD dual card slots

Advanced Multi-CAM 3500FX autofocus sensor module
Accurate AF detection is crucial for extremely high-resolution still images in every situation. The 51 sensor points in the Nikon D800’s AF sensor module work down to -2 EV (ISO 100, 20°C/68°F), the approximate physical limit of human visibility through an optical viewfinder. For even more powerful detection, you can rely on the camera’s 15 cross type sensors in the centre to detect both vertical and horizontal lines when using any AF NIKKOR lenses of f/5.6 or faster. What’s more, AF can be activated with eleven focus points in the centre with open aperture of f/8, which is a big plus when you combine a telephoto lens with a 2.0x teleconverter to shoot distant subjects.

High-precision, high-durability shutter
The Nikon D800’s shutter unit has been tested to well over 200,000 cycles of release to prove durability and precision. While the shutter unit is designed to run at a speed range of 1/8,000 to 30s, its intelligent self-diagnostic shutter monitor automatically monitors actual shutter speeds in order to correct possible variances that can occur over time.

High dynamic range (HDR)
The Nikon D800 can shoot two frames in a single shutter release, but at different exposures: one overexposed and one underexposed. The camera then instantly combines them to create an image covering a wider dynamic range. The range can be widened by up to 3 EV for different looks, all full of saturation and tonal gradation, while the smoothness of the edge where the two exposures meet can be adjusted for a more natural appearance.

The piece is pretty, but these test films generally don't tell us very much about the performance of the camera. They are too controlled (check out the behind the scenes footage to the left) and produced with the sole intention of making things look as lush and juicy as possible. Nikon has so far failed to produce a DSLR that videographers covet as much as Canon's 5D Mark II. It'll still be some time until we see how the D800 measures up to further scrutiny.

Samsung Galaxy Note For Apple users

Samsung's Galaxy Note is a larger-than-a-phone, smaller-than-a-tablet mobile device that sports a 5.3-inch, 1280x800 pixel screen, a 1.5 GHz dual core processor, 16 GB of internal memory, an SD card reader and 4G connectivity.

Setting itself apart from Apple's handset and tablet offerings, the Note utilizes a stylus as a main form of input, supplementing the finger-based scheme made popular by the original iPhone. In today's commercial, the capacitive "pen" is quite heavily referenced and is a throwback to when touch resistive screen technology ruled the PDA market.

Samsung continued its ad campaign against Apple on Sunday, showing off its Galaxy Note in while poking fun at Apple fans. The Samsung Galaxy Note is a very large smartphone, or a very small tablet, and may have trouble capturing attention in either market.

Samsung pitched another ad against its primary competitor on Sunday, showing off its Galaxy Note in a Super Bowl commercial that poked fun at Apple fans.
Returning to the setting of its Galaxy S II commercial, the ad showed a Samsung user blissfully using his new phone in front of a line of hipster-looking folks outside a suspiciously familiar white and blond-wood storefront. From there, the commercial unfolds as only a Super Bowl commercial can, working itself into a spectacle complete with a human cannonball and a soundtrack from the British glam-rock band The Darkness.

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NY Ink Video

Thursday night on "NY Ink" (Thu., 9 p.m. EST on TLC), "Megan Massacre" told the crew at Ami Jame's tattoo shop a secret about herself that she's been hiding for years. After finding out that Tila Tequila had booked an appointment to come into the shop, the team jumped online to find out more about her. James had some vague idea about her reality show "where she dated men, women, everything in between."

Online they found a lot of her modeling pictures, including the nude work she's done. This prompted Jessica to say, "I don't think people should do that ever."

Megan could have kept quiet at this point, but she didn't. "I've posed nude before," she revealed. "It's part of modeling."

The guys were already on the computer, so what did she think was going to happen. Almost immediately, her pictures started filling the screen. "Stop looking at me naked!" she shouted, but it was too late. And it's not something she's likely to live down any time soon.

"NY Ink" airs every Thursday night at 9 p.m. EST on TLC.

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ADO Failed to Load Report

Please I'm in very bad state because I have a very limited time to finish my application and tomorrow I have to take it to its owners.
It's well completed I just a have a problem in the connection string of the crystalreports because I made them by assistant I wrote the path of the file access and when I change the computer I'm sure I'll face problems ["Failed to load repport"] So please how shall I proceed ? How to set the connection path which is the path f the file Access or a way to get out of that problem who has occupied my mind during a week of research.

Please I'll keep waiting in front of the coputer untill I get the solution If you help me! And thank you very much in advance.

Standard practice is to put connection strings into your configuration file. The string can then be changed when it is deployed. If you followed that practice then you can simply edit your configuration file. If, instead, you hard coded the connection string (rather than the name of the connection string in the config file) throughout your application then you cannot change it without recompilation. If you have time then you can fix all this up to load the connection string from the config using ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["name"] where "name" is the name of the connection that is stored in the config file.

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