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LeBron James offers an interview… almost naked!

LeBron James appearedin front of the lenses practically naked, with only a small towel covering his private parts, leaving little room for imagination.

Following his team’s win over the Chicago Bulls, reporters didn’t even give the King time to change into his street clothes before bombarding him with a ton of questions.

Bron didn’t seem to mind though, as he wisely answered the questions, while throwing in a few jokes here and there with his big, beaming smile.

Regardlessof King James‘ behavior, one question arises in this case: Is it really necessary for reporters to have access to the players right after they get out of the shower?

In short, let’s remember that the Lakers have practically achieved the impossible, after a catastrophic start to the season, they managed to place 8th in the Western Conference. If the team keeps it up, they could be in line for the spring waltz.

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Entertainment Gossip Ton Barbier

Pete Davidson strikes back at his critics

Former Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson had a lot to say about how his personal life is perceived by the public on the Real Ones podcast with Jon Bernthal.

Wiping away the criticism in which people think he would have too many conquests, Davidson responded that… 12 girlfriends in 10 years, according to him it’s not that many!

“I’ve been in show business for almost half my life […] In 12 years I’ve dated 10 people. I don’t think it’s that crazy!” he said.

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The man who has dated some of the biggest stars, including Ariana Grande, Kate Beckinsale and Kim Kardashian, expresses that he was taken by surprise by the amount of interest in his personal life since he’s not really on social media.

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Davidson goes on to point out that even his colleagues on Saturday Night Live were making fun of him and that he felt like a loser.

What do you think?

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Ryan Reynolds gets a hero’s welcome in Ottawa

Ryan Reynolds was once again given a hero’s welcome at the Canadian Tire Centre in Kanata by the many fans in attendance at the Ottawa Senators-Philadelphia Flyers game on March 30.

Many of these fans would love to see the actor become the owner of their favorite team!

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The actor had announced he was in Ottawa earlier in the day with a photo posted on Twitter, and his appearance at the Canadian Tire Centre a few hours later once again got the rumour mill going about him!

In addition to not hiding his interest in buying the Sens franchise, let’s remember that on March 15, Mint Mobile (valued at $1.35 billion), which the actor partly owned, was sold to T-Mobile, which would have largely filled the star’s coffers with cash.

Many fans saw the Senators acquisition as the reason for the sale of his company.

To be continued!

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Dwayne Johnson reveals big news!

Fans of Disney’s popular animated film will be thrilled to learn that the Moana characters will soon be back!

Dwayne Johnson announced the news in a video shot on a beautiful beach in Hawaii with his two daughters.

The popular Disney animated film will indeed be brought to the big screen in live-action, that is to say with real characters, like several Disney films in the past, including Beauty and the Beast, for example.

Johnson indeed seems very proud to once again share the story of his culture with the audience via the characters of Moana.

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Are you looking forward to it?

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Éphémérides (anglais)

It happened on a… April 4

2017

Alibaba becomes the world’s largest retailer according to US Securities and Exchange Commission.

1999

Jack Ma founds Chinese internet company Alibaba.

1989

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s last NBA game in Seattle.

1986

Wayne Gretzky set an NHL record with his 213th point of the season.

1983

At Cape Canaveral, the space shuttle Challenger took off on its first flight. It was the sixth flight overall for the shuttle program.

1975

Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.

1968

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39.

1964

The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.

1949

Canada and eleven nations signed a treaty to create The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

1850

City of Los Angeles incorporated.

1814

Napoleon abdicates for the first time in favour of his son.

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Éphémérides (anglais)

It happened on a… April 3

2016

Panama Papers published – 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion and the violation of international sanctions by the world’s elite in the world’s largest ever data leak.

2014

Pope Francis canonizes François de Laval, first bishop of Quebec, as a Catholic saint.

1988

Penguin Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Wayne Gretzky’s 7 year streak.

1968

“Planet of the Apes” United States wide premiere.

1960

During recording sessions at RCA studios in Nashville, Tennessee, Elvis Presley recorded ‘It’s Now Or Never’, ‘Fever’ and ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’.

1948

US President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)

1933

1st airplane flight over Mt Everest.

1930

Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup for the first time in the new Montreal Forum, beating Boston Bruins 4-3 in game 2 of a two-game series sweep.

1882

American outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford at home in St Joseph

1829

James Carrington patented the coffee mill.

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It happened on a… April 2

NASA have announced Tuesday (31 Oct) that their Mars 2020 mission Rover will have more cameras than any rover before it: a grand total of 23. A NASA statement reads: When NASA's Mars Pathfinder touched down in 1997, it had five cameras: two on a mast that popped up from the lander, and three on NASA's first rover, Sojourner. Since then, camera technology has taken a quantum leap. Photo sensors that were improved by the space program have become commercially ubiquitous. Cameras have shrunk in size, increased in quality and are now carried in every cellphone and laptop. That same evolution has returned to space. NASA's Mars 2020 mission will have more "eyes" than any rover before it: a grand total of 23, to create sweeping panoramas, reveal obstacles, study the atmosphere, and assist science instruments. They will provide dramatic views during the rover's descent to Mars and be the first to capture images of a parachute as it opens on another planet. There will even be a camera inside the rover's body, which will study samples as they're stored and left on the surface for collection by a future mission. All these cameras will be incorporated as the Mars 2020 rover is built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. They represent a steady progression since Pathfinder: after that mission, the Spirit and Opportunity rovers were designed with 10 cameras each, including on their landers; Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover has 17. "Camera technology keeps improving," said Justin Maki of JPL, Mars 2020's imaging scientist and deputy principal investigator of the Mastcam-Z instrument. "Each successive mission is able to utilize these improvements, with better performance and lower cost." That advantage represents a full circle of development, from NASA to the private sector and back. In the 1980s, JPL developed active-pixel sensors that used less power than earlier digital camera technology. These sensors were later commercialized by the Photobit Corporation, founded by former JPL researcher Eric Fossum, now at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. The cameras on 2020 will include more color and 3-D imaging than on Curiosity, said Jim Bell of Arizona State University, Tempe, principal investigator for 2020's Mastcam-Z. The "Z" stands for "zoom," which will be added to an improved version of Curiosity's high-definition Mastcam, the rover's main eyes. Mastcam-Z's stereoscopic cameras can support more 3-D images, which are ideal for examining geologic features and scouting potential samples from long distances away. Features like erosion and soil textures can be spotted at the length of a soccer field. Documenting details like these is important: They could reveal geologic clues and serve as "field notes" to contextualize samples for future scientists. "Routinely using 3-D images at high resolution could pay off in a big way," Bell said. "They're useful for both long-range and near-field science targets." The Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rovers were all designed with engineering cameras for planning drives (Navcams) and avoiding hazards (Hazcams). These produced 1-megapixel images in black and white. On the new rover, the engineering cameras have been upgraded to acquire high-resolution, 20-megapixel color images. Their lenses will also have a wider field of view. That's critical for the 2020 mission, which will try to maximize the time spent doing science and collecting samples. "Our previous Navcams would snap multiple pictures and stitch them together," said Colin McKinney of JPL, product delivery manager for the new engineering cameras. "With the wider field of view, we get the same perspective in one shot." That means less time spent panning, snapping pictures and stitching. The cameras are also able to reduce motion blur, so they can take photos while the rover is on the move. There's a challenge in all this upgrading: It means beaming more data through space. "The limiting factor in most imaging systems is the telecommunications link," Maki said. "Cameras are capable of acquiring much more data than can be sent back to Earth." To address that problem, rover cameras have gotten "smarter" over time -- especially regarding compression. On Spirit and Opportunity, the compression was done using the onboard computer; on Curiosity, much of it was done using electronics built into the camera. That allows for more 3-D imaging, color, and even high-speed video. NASA has also gotten better at using orbiting spacecraft as data relays. That concept was pioneered for rover missions with Spirit and Opportunity. The idea of using relays started as an experiment with NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, Bell said. "We were expecting to do that mission on just tens of megabits each Mars day, or sol," he said. "When we got that first Odyssey overflight, and we had about 100 megabits per sol, we realized it was a whole new ballgame." NASA plans to use existing spacecraft already in orbit at Mars -- the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN, and the European Space Agency’s Trace Gas Orbiter -- as relays for the Mars 2020 mission, which will support the cameras during the rover's first two years. When: 31 Oct 2017 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cover Images **MUST CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cover Images**

2020

Number of COVID-19 cases worldwide passes 1 million, with 1,002,159 cases and 51,485 deaths reported, according to Johns Hopkins University

2019

Canada is warming at twice the speed of the rest of the world, according to a federal report, increasing 2.3% in northern Canada.

NASA states it wants to send astronauts to Mars by 2033, and land on the Moon again in 2024.

1991

Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province as Premier of British Columbia.

1982

Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.

1980

In his first full season in the NHL, Wayne Gretzky become the youngest player to reach 50 goals at 19 years and 2 months of age.

1978

The first episode of “Dallas” aired on CBS.

1977

Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks.

Montreal Canadiens win 34th straight home game without a loss, for an NHL record.

1968

“2001 A Space Odyssey” directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.

1800

Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.

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Éphémérides (anglais)

It happened on a… April 1

2017

Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm.

2004

Google Inc. announced that it would be introducing a free e-mail service called Gmail.

1999

The Canadian territory of Nunavut was created. It was carved from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories and covered about 772,000 square miles.

1983

New York Islander Mike Bossy became the first NHL player to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons.

1978

New York Islanders right wing Mike Bossy becomes first NHL rookie to score 50 goals in a season.

1976

Apple Computer began operations.

1969

Quebec legalizes civil marriages.

1938

Nescafé introduces their flagship brand in Switzerland

The Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, NY.

1930

“The Blue Angel” starring Marlene Dietrich in her breakthrough role premieres in Germany.

1924

The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

1905

“SOS” first adopted as a morse distress signal (· · · – – – · · ·) by German government

1891

French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti.

1873

British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die.

1748

Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered by Spaniard Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.

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Donald Trump indicted, the world stopped for a minute

It is now a done deal.

While many doubted the ability of the Manhattan prosecutor to complete his case to formal charges against a former U.S. president, in this case Donald Trump, it is now a successful mission for him and his office.

Indeed, we learned late yesterday that not only Donald Trump will be indicted for his involvement in the case of payments to the adult actress Stormy Daniels, but that no less than 30 charges could be filed against him, reported CNN in the evening.

A case that we will follow with attention, like the rest of North America and the world, of course.

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We know the verdict in Gwyneth Paltrow’s case and it’s the end of a bizarre saga

It’s the end of a strange saga to say the least!

In what looked like a media circus and a grotesque Hollywood sketch at times, the civil trial of Gwyneth Paltrow, who was sued by a man who accused her of seriously injuring him during a skiing collision, ended with a favorable verdict for the star.

The jury composed of her “peers” has indeed retained her version of events, as well as that of her children and witnesses from her clan, to the detriment of the man in question, the plaintiff, Terry Sanderson.

The latter is therefore recognized as the culprit in this case of ski accident in Utah, and ordered to pay $1 symbolic to Gwyneth Paltrow.

The jury declares that “100%” of the responsibility of the case is on Sanderson, to the great relief of Paltrow.

The latter offered a few words to her accuser at the exit of the courthouse…

“I wish you well,” she reportedly whispered Sanderson, reports The Guardian and Entertainment Tonight.