Prince William and Kate Middleton was an opportunity to reboot the royal family for the 21st century.

                                        Prince William and Kate Middleton


If the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton was an opportunity to reboot the royal family for the 21st century, with carefully timed press releases detailing every stitch of clothing down to the Jimmy Choo shoes on the Duchess of Cornwall’s feet, then the exquisite gown created for Ms. Middleton by Sarah Burton suggested a bride who is well suited to meet the demands of a high-definition display.

Times Topic: Kate Middleton — the Duchess of Cambridge (Royal Wedding, April 2011)The dress was, predictably, scrutinized on multiple forms of media within moments of Ms. Middleton’s appearance, and for hours afterward on television. And it was an enormous success for the bride, and a triumph for Ms. Burton, who became the creative director of the Alexander McQueen label last year after Mr. McQueen’s suicide.

The gown was a triumph not merely because it was pretty — or flawless, actually, a dress that is destined to create a global demand for long lace sleeves. This was also a significant fashion moment, because the design of the dress, the selection of its designer and even the degree of secrecy that surrounded its preparation seemed remarkably well calculated to project a specific image about Ms. Middleton. That is, she represents a new breed of the British monarchy, one that is respectful of its boundaries and traditions, but is not stuffy and off-putting to the general populace.

Ms. Middleton, now the Duchess of Cambridge, arrived at Westminster Abbey as a commoner, a fact that was pointed out on several broadcasts by commentators who noted she was already wearing a tiara — a 1936 Cartier halo lent to her by Queen Elizabeth. The tiara was supposedly a presumptuous thing to wear for a person who is not of royal blood. Well, la-di-da.

Though the dress was modern and structured by comparison, there were also echoes of the style of Prince William’s mother. The dress created by David and Elizabeth Emanuel for Lady Diana Spencer’s 1981 wedding to Prince Charles — though a poufy monstrosity — was designed with the same intention to stand out against the hugeness of the setting. Ms. Middleton’s dress, though, was as modern an approach to what befits a princess as Diana’s was a childhood cliché.

During the weeks leading up to the ceremony, the designer had been under strict instructions not to confirm her involvement, which also suggests a fairly savvy approach to managing the anticipation for what Ms. Middleton would wear. It was only when Ms. Burton, her head buried under a furry trapper hat, was recognized outside the Goring by the belt and shoes she was wearing on Thursday that it seemed likely that she was indeed the chosen designer.

Ms. Middleton, as depicted in the tabloids and in the recent Lifetime treatment of her patient romancing of Prince William, is well aware of the image she projects. She has been so careful that she has appeared boring, though that may well have been her intention, if she wished to ingratiate herself with a scandal-plagued family.

And yet, in her dress choices, she seems more sophisticated about modern life than other royals. It was a controversial, though savvy, decision for her sister and maid of honor, Pippa Middleton, to wear white, also by McQueen. When Pippa picked up the bride’s train, their matching dresses made the sisters appeared almost as one entity, distinct from the royals but still part of the family.

Leave Mona Lisa's bones in peace.

                                                          Mona Lisa

Archaeologists began searching Wednesday for the remains of the woman believed to have inspired the Mona Lisa. But one of her descendants said she should be left in peace.

A team of Italian researchers began the hunt for her skeleton beneath a convent in Florence. They hope to gather enough skull fragments to be able to reconstruct her face to determine if she was the inspiration for the portrait.

"My ancestor's remains should be left to rest in peace," said the princess, who is also an actress and winemaker. "What difference would finding her remains make to the allure of Leonardo's painting?

The princess, whose family own an estate near San Gimignano, is a descendant of two noble lines, the Strozzis and the Giucciardinis, and her blood link to Gherardini goes back 15 generations. If the researchers find the remains of a woman of about Gherardini's age - she was 63 when she died in 1542 - they plan to extract DNA from the bones and compare it with that of her children, who are buried nearby.

The team is led by Silvano Vinceti, a self-styled "Sherlock Holmes" of the art history world, who claims to have detected secret codes in the eyes of the Mona Lisa and in the landscape which forms the backdrop to the portrait.

President Obama's birth certificate has lingered in the scandal sheets for over two years now.

                                             
                                                       Birth Certificate
                                                    

                                                       Barak Obama


The issue of President Obama's birth certificate has lingered in the scandal sheets for over two years now.The constant questions over his birth certificate, or lack thereof, have haunted Obama while triggering heated debate across the country. To the likes of Donald Trump, the lack of more concrete proof that the president was born here suggests a grave conspiracy. To others, it reflects the racism and hatred of Republicans and the Tea Party. But now that the White House has finally complied by releasing a long-form certificate at last, will it end the issue, or send it into new directions?

At long last, the demands of Trump and the Tea Party were met Wednesday morning, when the White House released Obama's much debated, and much doubted, long-form certificate of birth. Now the "birthers" will race to the White House website to see it, although time will tell how many of them are really satisfied.

Trump himself took credit for the release, telling ABC News en route to New Hampshire that he was "really honored" to play a role in the debate. Even if this kills the biggest issue that Trump had in his possible presidential run, he can still brag that he did what no other birther had done - intimidate the president into releasing it.

But the birther movement could still continue. After all these years of doubting the president's citizenship, the movement may have too much momentum to dissolve so quickly. Members can say that the document was forged and Obama is still hiding something that proves he is Kenyan.

With an election year coming up, any form of mud-slinging will be used to prevent the president's re-election. However, mainstream GOP candidates may be more relieved than anyone over the document release, since they know birthers may be more of a hindrance in a general election.

But if the birthers are finally silenced before 2012, the Democrats can't use them to attack Republicans in the election, which could backfire on the president. Now that Trump no longer has his biggest weapon, he could be a long shot even if he does run, leaving more respectable candidates like Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee to have an easier time.

If the more fringe elements of the GOP base split the primary vote, it could have made a general election win easier for Obama. But will the birth certificate release make that less likely to happen, or can the birther movement regroup to maintain its power?

Nicollette Sheridan Gets Backup from Housewives

      
                                                       Nicollette Sheridan


A former executive producer of Desperate Housewives has entered testimony that supports Nicollette Sheridan's timeline of events in her wrongful termination lawsuit against ABC and creator Marc Cherry, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Lori Kirkland Baker, who worked on the ABC dramedy from May 2007 through May 2009, submitted a sworn declaration on April 9 that backs up Sheridan's claims about the order of events that lead up to her exit.

Nicollette Sheridan drops abuse claims from Desperate Housewives lawsuit

Sheridan, 47, filed a $20 million lawsuit in April 2010 claiming that Cherry hit her in the face and that she was fired from Desperate Housewives after she tried to complain to ABC, and because she is a woman.

"In fall of 2008, Mr. Cherry began talking with the writing staff, myself included, about killing off the Edie Britt character," Kirkland Baker said in her declaration, obtained by THR. "I have no recollection of any decision to kill off the Edie Britt character prior to fall of 2008."

Desperate Housewives' Nicollette Sheridan suing ABC, Marc Cherry

Around the time of the alleged slap, said Kirkland Baker, "Mr. Cherry had expressed to the writers, in my presence, increasing frustration with Ms. Sheridan." Cherry later told the writing staff he had decided to kill off Sheridan's character at the end of Season 5, according to the declaration.

Sheridan's lawyers argue in court papers that the testimony of Kirkland Baker and another writer-producer, Jeffrey Greenstein, "show that Cherry decided to kill off Edie after the September 24, 2008 assault and after she complained to Touchstone."

According to THR, ABC has countered that Kirkland Baker was not privy to Cherry's series plans. "Sheridan was obviously unhappy to lose her job as a highly-compensated star of Desperate Housewives," ABC lawyers argued. "However, she cannot state a legal claim based on the creative decisions and actions challenged in her lawsuit."

Actress Demi Lovato is set to become her Disney co-star Tiffany Thornton's bridesmaid.

                                                         Demi lavato

The two Sonny with a Chance stars have become really close after Thornton helped Lovato as she struggled through a very public meltdown in recent months, and now Lovato will get a chance to show her pal her appreciation and step in to support her on her big day.

She tells People.com, "Demi is one of my bridesmaids! We go way back. She's like a little sister to me. She's one of my closest friends."

But the two actresses are co-stars no more after Lovato recently quit the show to focus on her own physical and emotional recovery.

Thornton adds, "I'll miss Demi. I'm really proud of her. It takes a lot of guts to admit that you aren't perfect in front of the world."

Thornton announced her engagement last February

SETI Alien-Hunting Telescope Array Shut Down After Funding Slows

                                              SETI Alien-Hunting Telescope



The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array has been forced offline due to lack of funding, essentially crippling the organization's hunt for extraterrestrial communications.

In a note to supporters by SETI Institute chief executive Tom Pierson earlier this week, Pierson noted that reduced funding by both the National Science Foundation and U.C. Berkeley had put the telescope array, which searches the sky for radio transmissions, into "hibernation".

"Hibernation means that, starting this week, the equipment is unavailable for normal observations and is being maintained in a safe state by a significantly reduced staff," Pierson wrote.

Until SETI can raise additional funding, the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) will remain offline. It takes about $1.5 million per year top operate the ATA, Pierson wrote, and an additional $1 million per year to cover the additional costs of the SETI science effort. SETI referred possible donors to its donations page.

The SETI Institute is just one of a number of different efforts involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, for SETI. The ATA was designed as a collection of radio telescopes - the eventual goal being 350 antennas. Working in concert, the antennas scanned the sky, "listening" for patterns in the radio waves sent across the universe by black holes, stars, and - hopefully - alien life. The goal was to explore 100,000 or even 1 million nearby stars, according to the SETI Institute.

A separate effort, known as SETI@home, takes data collected via radio signals from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, breaks it up into chunks, and sends them over to users who have downloaded the client software and attempts to look for patterns via distributed computing.

"We also plan to develop new tools that will enable citizen scientists to help us identify the sources of radio frequency interference, and new avenues for application developers to add new visualizations and detection algorithms," Pierson added.

The SETI Institute recently launched a similar application, called SetiQuest Explorer, designed to allow citizen scientist volunteers to look for patterns in data from the ATA that might be missed by current algorithms, and help the Institute explore frequency bands that are so full of signals that its detectors get confused, the Institute said.

The problem that the SETI Institute ran into was funding, Pierson wrote. The ATA is a partnership between the SETI Institute and the Radio Astronomy Lab of the University of California, Berkeley (UCB). The SETI Institute raised funds for the Array, while the UCB's budget has funded the operations of the Array for the last five decades. The ATA is part of the Hat Creek Observatory, which has itself been funded by both National Science Foundation grants as well as budgetary support via the UCB lab.

The issue, Pierson wrote, is that the NSF funding for the Hat Creek site has been cut to a tenth of its former level. And, due to the ongoing California budget crisis, the levels of funding available have been "severely reduced," Pierson said.

Part of the Institute's early work was in conjunction with the U.S. Air Force, which provided funding so that the SETI Institute could monitor local space debris. The SETI Institute had hoped that it might next explore 1,235 so-called "Kepler worlds" where exoplanets had been identified, increasing the chances that alien communications might be discovered.

Johnny Depp to Appear in 21 Jump Street Film

                                                         Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp, the best known original cast member of the 21 Jump Street TV series, will make a cameo in its forthcoming film adaptation, ComingSoon.net reports.

Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are set to star in the movie version of the series that ran from 1987 to 1991.

Johnny Depp: Disney initially hated Pirates' Jack Sparrow

Depp played Officer Tom Hanson in the TV show, which co-starred Holly Robinson Peete (now a co-host of The Talk).

Ice Cube, Brie Larson and Rob Riggle have also been cast in the film, which is being directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs). It's due in theaters March 16, 2012.

'God Particle' Lends Further Strength to the Faithful

COMMENTARY | Researchers at the world's premier particle accelerator in Geneva made a gigantic announcement this week, claiming to have found the Higgs Boson, which has long been sought to be understood by physicists. It is also referred to as the "God Particle."

The Large Hadron Collider, which sits on the borders of France and Switzerland, evidently experienced "a bump" in its readings and the news was evidently too much for someone to keep quiet about. The rumor of the Higgs Boson find was quickly leaked.

What is the Higgs Boson?

The Higgs Boson is the particle responsible for the mass of matter which, even to me, sounds like a pretty big deal. That science has evolved so much that researchers know where to look, let alone FIND such a basic element of creation, is startling.

To better explain, imagine the Higgs Boson as a snowball as it rolls down a hill. As it gathers other particles, they mass together and become, well, mass. This makes it harder for it be stopped and harder to get going again. All thanks to the so-called Higgs Boson.

Scientists Split?

Researchers in the science world have had mixed reviews. Some are calling it a breakthrough akin to "the discovery of electricity" while others are saying that it is too soon to say anything yet and thus far "it's not the physics find of the millennium, unfortunately." Thus far, that is.

The term "God Particle" does get to me a little. How anyone -- physicist, chemist or gymnast -- could put such a monumental title on anything seems a bit naïve and vain. However, I do understand the excitement and the reverence given to the find.

If I were a man of lesser faith, it would probably bother me a little more than it does, though. I have intentionally used the word "find" in this article because that's all it is. These physicists did their job and did it well, but in the end they stumbled over this thing in the dark. In my opinion, this find is akin to walking around in your own apartment at night and banging your toe on that thing under the bed that you had been looking for before giving up and retiring for the night.

I believe that God created everything in this universe, through Jesus, and that everything was of His design. I can't explain a lot of basic stuff that I accept as "God-created" things, but I left my faith guide me. And in the end, this "find" doesn't hinder my faith at all. It strengthens it and gives it additional consecration in my eyes. The Father is so powerful and knowledgeable that his plan and design even went so far as to create this most basic particle, the eloquently named "God Particle."

They can call it what they want. I tend to see it as fitting. To me, after praying and meditating on it for a little while, that is exactly what it may be: God's most basic creation from which He made all other things. So, good job, physicists; the world applauds you, as we should,but call me when you "create" the stuff -- not "find" it.

Kristin Cavallari and Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler got engaged

                                                       Kristin Cavallari

Kristin Cavallari and Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler got engaged while on vacation in Mexico, UsMagazine.com said.

ADVERTISEMENT

Cutler proposed to Cavallari during the weekend. The couple have been dating for about eight months.

"She is so excited and completely blind-sided," an insider told the celebrity Web site Tuesday.

"They've been celebrating all weekend; Kristin told her girlfriends on Monday."

PlayStation Network: Severity of Breach Not Understood At First Says Sony

                                                      PlayStation Network

World War Z Gains Female Lead After a few years spent in development hell,

                                                        World War Z

After a few years spent in development hell, Paramount Pictures and director Marc Forster may be pushing forward with their plans to adapt Max Brooks' World War Z into a feature film. With Brad Pitt having already been locked in as the star, the trades reports that Mireille Enos is circling the role of his female counterpart. Enos has been on a roll recently, having earned her own AMC show ("The Killing") after a few years of co-starring in HBO's "Big Love."


With Forster likely beginning production as soon as possible to meet their 2012 summer release plans, the Quantum of Solace director would be tackling the project based on a screenplay by J. Michael Straczynski and Matthew Michael Carnahan, with the latter recently coming on board to perform some rewrites.


Plot Concept: Based on the Max Brooks best-selling novel about a worldwide infestation of flesh-eating zombies, Brooks -- the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft -- wrote a detailed tale in which a researcher for the U.N. Postwar Commission interviews survivors from countries all over the world, 10 years after the crisis, to gather a first-person post-mortem on a war that obliterated every country on the map. Brad Pitt has been set to play a U.N. researcher while Enos would potentially play his wife.

Emma Watson Fation Style

                                                    Emma Watson

The 'Harry Potter' star is leaving Brown University. The rep for the actress denied that Watson was "bullied out" of the Ivy League school. Instead, the rep claims Watson is pursuing a field of study not offered at Brown.

Charlie Sheen Dumped By 'Goddess' Via Text Message: Charlie Sheen was joined on stage by a number of celebrities at the Florida show

                                                 Charlie Sheen Dumped

Charlie Sheen has been dumped by his so-called "goddess" Bree Olson via text message. Sheen confirmed that he was dumped by the adult film actress during his stage show in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday evening (23rd April 2011), according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Olson and the model NATALIE KENLY had been accompanying the actor on his 18-city 'My Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour', joining him on stage for several of the sold out dates. However, Sheen revealed his relationship troubles while performing at the weekend, telling the audience that Olson was no longer considered a 'goddess' after she broke up with him via text message. Despite the split, the 45-year-old actor was praised for another entertaining performance on his current tour. During a question and answer session, Sheen was asked whether he had any words of advice for Lindsay Lohan, who was released from a Los Angeles jail on Friday (22nd April 2011) on $75,000 bail. Sheen was full of support for the troubled actress, telling the audience member, "I would hug her and let her know it's gonna be OK".

Charlie Sheen was joined on stage by a number of celebrities at the Florida show, including breakfast show host SCOTT DOOLEY, former NBA star Dennis Rodman and the comedian JEFF ROSS

Kirstie Alley Taps into Twitter’s Promotional Power for QVC: earlier today and sold out the weight loss product in less than 15 minutes

                                                         Kirstie Alley 

Dancing with the Stars’ Kirstie Alley is one celebrity who clearly gets the promotional power of Twitter.

The actress, who recently launched Kirstie Alley’s Organic Liaison Weight Loss System, appeared on QVC earlier today and sold out the weight loss product in less than 15 minutes.

Sure, Alley could have simply showed up today on the set of the shopping network and hoped for the best.

But, the savvy social marketer demonstrated over the past 48 hours the right way to use Twitter to make sure her 800,000 plus followers, aka those individuals most likely to buy her products, tuned in to the shopping network.

On Thursday, Allie kicked off her Twitter promotion for her appearance with this tweet:   “I will be on QVC this Saturday Morning around 10:30….presenting my Organic Liaison products…I’ve lost 70 lbs on them!! Woo hoo.”

Once Kirstie arrives at QVC, she makes her fans feel like they are there with her.  For example, she tweeted, “Sitting in QVC… What an enormous place!!!!!! So excited to present Organic Liaison LIVE and in my OWN words!! Woo hoo ..10:30 ish AM EST.”

Moments before appearance, Allie tweeted, “Go on QVC in approx FIVE minutes…woo hoo… Get lean with me!!!….. Together we can do this and stay lean forever!!”

In addition, Alley demonstrated a clear understanding of her target audience by sending  targeted messages via Twitter.

For example, price is clearly an issue when buying a diet system, which explains why Alley tweeted, “Think we are offering Organic Liaison at the lowest price to date!!!!! It works and it’s easy…”

QVC was offering Alley’s diet line for $138 compared to the $276 retail price.

Christina Aguilera: I'm a "Trivial Pursuit Question"

                                                   Christina Aguilera


Onward and upward for Christina Aguilera.

Although late 2010 and early 2011 were mired in difficulties -- her divorce from Jordan Bratman, her National Anthem flub, her near-fall at the Grammys and her public drunkenness arrest -- the songstress has plenty to be optimistic about.

For starters, she's still got beau Matthew Rutler at her side. Briefly chatting about her man on Tuesday's Ellen DeGeneres Show, Aguilera, 30, noted, "There is someone very lovely in my life. Yes."

VIDEO: Ooops! Christina flubs the National Anthem!

The singer -- now a musical coach on NBC's The Voice -- agreed with DeGeneres that divorce is "hard."

"It definitely is hard."

And Aguilera is able to laugh about her embarrassing gaffe at the Super Bowl in February. "I had been singing that song my entire life! I was the youngest anthem singer in my hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. I sang for the Steelers when I was.... 7 or 8 years old!"

PHOTOS: Christina's hair over the years

So what went wrong? "I took in the moment a little bit too much. Shoot me for appreciating the moment but here I am at the "Super bowl"...singing for a team and in front of the world...And then it was like, oh. That night I knew, I just made myself a Trivial Pursuit question...In 2011 what female singer, ya know, flubbed the lyrics. It's just insane. But I have a really good laugh about it and you get over things."

PHOTOS: Look back on her marriage to Jordan

Adds the mother to son Max, 3: "You get back up again and you just prove to yourself and to everyone you that much stronger."

White iPhone 4 in Stores "Within a Week" for different facilities.

                    
                                                        White iPhone 


White iPhone demands have always been high, but facing what often seemed like endless delays - customers have all but given up hope of owning a new, white iPhone 4 model.

Over the past weekend, Apple has reportedly begun preparing for the release of the much-anticipated white iPhone 4. The mobile device is expected to be in stores shortly.

The introduction of the device has been delayed by almost a year, but it is expected to launch for both Verizon and AT&T subscribers "within the next week," according to Apple Insider.

Several stores are said to have received shipment notifications for the various white iPhone 4 SKUs and have been instructed to hold those shipments in the back until further notice, Apple Insider suggests.

All indications point to an official announcement by Wednesday, April 27th.

The arrival of white models is expected to increase iPhone sales during a time of year when customers have historically held off purchasing new iPhones under the expectation of next-generation models making their debut during the summer.

Apple has allegedly decided to hold off on introducing the so-called fifth-generation models until this fall, in hopes for more sales during the holiday shopping season. According to an Apple Insider source, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, these new models will go into production in September and sport a unified Qualcomm baseband capable of serving both GSM and CDMA networks.

Those who are interested in snagging the phone on launch day may want to consider arriving early. According to Digital Trends, each Best Buy location will only have about 10 16GB models in stock initially. There's no word on the number of 32GB expected to be on hand at Best Buy, but they're expected to be in short supply.

Lisa Nicole Lopes Died 9 Years ..

Lisa Lopes: Lisa “left Eye” Lopes Died 9 Years ... 


Showbiz Spy - Apr 25 03:11pm

LISA “Left Eye” Lopes died 9 years ago today, April 25. The R&B emcee — real name Lisa Nicole Lopes — shot to fame as a member of the of the R&B threesome TLC, consisting of Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and Rozanda “Chilli” Thomas. As the hip hop half of the Grammy winning trio, Left Eye provided infectiously

Taco Bell lawsuit dropped after dismissal by plaintiff

                                                          Taco Bell


The lawsuit over the content of Taco Bell's "seasoned beef" has ground to a halt.

Skip to next paragraphRelated Sure. Or tie the knot at Taco Bell. DIY Taco Bell: more actual beef for less actual money Taco Bell meat? Beef, says firm. Filling, says suit. A California woman who sued to force Taco Bell Corp to stop calling the filling for many of its tacos and burritos "seasoned beef" because it had too little beef to be labeled as such has voluntarily dismissed her lawsuit.

Taco Bell, a unit of Yum Brands Inc, said no money had changed hands and that it was not changing its products, ingredients or advertising.

Monday's dismissal came after Taco Bell launched what its chief executive officer, Greg Creed, in an interview called a $3 million to $4 million nationwide advertising campaign to combat negative publicity from the January lawsuit.

The plaintiff, Amanda Obney, contended the beef taco filling contained less than 50 percent beef and that Taco Bell's own suppliers euphemistically called it "taco meat filling."

But Taco Bell countered that the filling is actually 88 percent beef and 12 percent "signature recipe."

"We gave them the facts, which we could have given them three months ago before this was filed, and when they saw the facts they withdrew the lawsuit," Creed said in the interview. "It's that simple."

Taco Bell dominates the market for Mexican fast food in the United States, with a 52 percent share. Yum said in February that the lawsuit had hurt sales in its 5,600 U.S. restaurants.

Dee Miles, a partner at Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles PC in Montgomery, Alabama, representing Obney, said his firm withdrew the lawsuit after Taco Bell made "changes in marketing and product disclosure."

Demi Lovato leaving `Sonny With a Chance'the Disney Channel TV series that made her a star.

                                                       Demi Lovato


LOS ANGELES – Demi Lovato is leaving "Sonny With a Chance," the Disney Channel TV series that made her a star.

In an interview with People magazine, Lovato said she didn't "think going back to 'Sonny' would be healthy for my recovery." Instead, she said she wants to focus on her music career.

The 18-year-old entered a treatment facility for three months last year to deal with what were termed emotional and physical issues.

In a statement Tuesday, Disney Channel said it respects Lovato's decision to focus on her music and "not immediately" return to acting. "Sonny" will continue airing as a spinoff titled "So Random," with the original show's cast, guest stars and musical acts, Disney said.

The company also offered its support while Lovato works to "improve her health and bounce back from adversity."

In an interview airing Friday on "Good Morning America" and "20/20," Lovato recounted developing an eating disorder as an 8-year-old who faced bullying. She later started cutting her wrists to vent her despair, she said.

"I've spoken openly about being bullied throughout the past few years, but one thing that I've never been able to feel comfortable talking about was the effects that it had on my life, afterwards," Lovato told ABC News' Robin Roberts.

"I literally didn't know why they were being so mean to me," she said. "And when I would ask them why, they would just say, `Well, you're fat.'"

While undergoing treatment at a residential facility in Illinois, Lovato said she was sustained by thoughts of her younger sister, Madison, who plays the daughter of Eva Longoria's character on ABC's "Desperate Housewives."

"A picture of my little sister ... was one of the main things that kept me going," Lovato said. "I just kept thinking, `OK, set this example for your little sister.'"

She said also wants to set an example for other young girls facing the challenges she's battling to let them know "it doesn't have to be this way."

Disney said the "Sonny" spinoff has "allowed us to save over 75 full-time jobs and of course, business for the many vendors who get work from the production."

Nutella Chief Pietro Ferrero Dies While Bicycling

                                              Nutella Chief Pietro Ferrero

Pietro Ferrero, the CEO of the Ferrero group, which oversaw the Nutella chocolate spread and Tic Tacs, died on Monday, according to reports. He was 47.

Ferrero apparently died of a heart attack while he was riding his bike in Cape Town, South Africa, during a break. Someone saw him fall from his bike and he was pronounced dead on the scene, reported Bloomberg News. At first it was reported that he died of the fall.

The Ferrero group’s website shows Ferrero’s face in contemplation and the words “sempre con noi, forever with us.”

“Italy has lost a businessman who embodied the best qualities of our industrial history -- the continual search for excellence, creativity, the determination to compete even in difficult moments to defend a brand and make it a symbol,” Italy’s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini stated, according to Bloomberg.

Company spokesperson Raoul Venturi said there were “fragmentary” details regarding the circumstances of how he died, reported the Wall Street Journal.

Related Articles
US Credit Rating Outlook Downgraded by S&P
Ferrero shared the CEO title with his brother, Giovanni, but was regarded as the top manager, according to the Journal. His sudden death puts the company, which is the largest chocolate manufacturer in Italy, in a predicament.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, 94, to become new mother?

                                                   Zsa Zsa Gabor


Zsa Zsa Gabor, a 94-year-old actress who has been in and out of hospital in recent months, may have another child, her husband says.

Zsa Zsa Gabor rushed to the hospital after spitting up blood, rep says
Frederic Prinz von Anhalt told the Agence France-Press news wire that he wants his wife to become a mother again using a surrogate mother, his sperm and an egg donor and added that he recently gave fluid samples to a Beverly Hills clinic.

"I don't know how long she's going to be with me," he said. "I would like her to see the baby, I would like her to hear the baby screaming, to touch the baby's hair. If she dies before me, then I've nothing to live for."

The idea is not sitting well with Gabor's only child, Francesca Hilton. Her father is Paris Hilton's great-grandfather and hotel magnate Conrad Hilton. He was the actress' second husband.

Francesca Hilton, a comedienne who has often voiced her disapproval of her mother's marriage to 67-year-old von Anhalt, said in a statement that she is "shocked but not surprised" that her stepfather "continually creates publicity for himself at the expense of the legacy of her mother," according to AFP.

Gabor was most recently hospitalized in March, after the death of her friend, actress Elizabeth Taylor. Von Anhalt said his wife was "inconsolable."

Gabor had one of her legs amputated in January after doctors found an infection and antibiotics failed to heal it.

She has been in and out of the hospital since she broke her hip on July 17 after she fell out of her bed while reaching to answer her telephone as she was watching "Jeopardy!."

She underwent a hip operation but has suffered several complications. During one of her hospital stays in August, she had a priest read her last rites. Gabor is partially paralyzed from a 2002 car accident and uses a wheelchair. She also reportedly had a stroke in 2005.

Gabor is reported to have been born in Budapest on Feb. 6, 1917 as Sari Gabor. She married von Anhalt in 1986. Gabor was married to Hilton, the great-grandfather of socialite Paris Hilton, from 1942 to 1947.


Gabor followed her actress sister Eva to Hollywood, where she later starred in movies herself, starting in 1952 with the films "Lovely to Look At," "We're Not Married!" and "Moulin Rouge." She also played herself in a brief scene in the 1991 Leslie Nielsen cop movie "The Naked Gun 2-1/2: The Smell of Fear," in which she parodied an incident from about a year earlier in which she was convicted of slapping a police officer during a traffic dispute. She also had a cameo in the film "A Very Brady Sequel" in 1996

Grammy Award winner Lady Gaga’s ‘Judas’ music video to be released at Easter

                                       
                                                          Lady Gaga

Grammy Award winner Lady Gaga, who disturbed the Catholic League with her recently debuted single, “Judas,” has given Christians another reason to dislike her. A video for the pop sensation’s new tune, which is told from the perspective of Mary Magdalene, will be released at Easter, reports Digital Spy.

The pop artist will portray Mary Magdalene in the promo, which the video’s co-director Laurieann Gibson described as a “new Jerusalem.”

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, has lashed out at Lady Gaga’s song, attesting that the “Monster” singer lacks talent.

“People have real talent, and then there is Lady Gaga. I find Gaga to be increasingly irrelevant,” Donohue said. “She is trying to rip off Christian idolatry to shore up her talentless, mundane and boring performances … Another ex-Catholic whose head is turned around … Is this the only way to jet up her performance?”

A screenshot of Lady GaGa dressed as Mary Magdalene was released on Monday.

Indian Director M. Night Shyamalan Going Back To Film School?

                                                    M. Night Shyamalan

M. Night Shyamalan - Fans of the Indian director M. Night Shyamalan are trying to raise $150,000 to pay for the director to go back to film school, reports Moviefone. M. Night Shyamalan gained acclaim for his Oscar nominated film 'The Sixth Sense' in 1999 but has since struggled to recapture the same level of praise. recapture the same level of praise.
Once dubbed "the next Steven Spielberg", Shyamalan followed up the 'The Sixth Sense' with 'Unbreakable' in 2000 and then 'Signs' in 2002. Both movies were well received and performed strongly at the box office. However, the director has come under fire for his recent releases, most notably 2004's 'The Village and the 2008 movie 'The Happening', which both failed to achieve critical or financial success. Chris Baker, a copywriter and movie fan, has enlisted the help of two advertising pals to raise $150,000 in order to send M. Night back to film school. As of today, a total of $520.33 has been raised but Baker admits the director "will probably be a little hurt" when he finds out about the campaign, adding, "We want to do a stunt where we present him with a giant cheque. Obviously, the guy's a multimillionaire, he'll refuse it".
Baker says if M. Night Shyamalan turns down the cash, he will hold a festival in New York where aspiring filmmakers will instead receive the money raised by the campaign.

Caroline Kilel of Kenya holds off American to win

                                                 
                                                       Caroline Kilel 

Caroline Kilel of Kenya held off a surging Desiree Davila as the two dueled on Boylston Street and Kilel won the Boston Marathon in 2:22:36.
    Davila, an Arizona State graduate, trains with the Hanson-Brooks team in Minnesota.She finished in 2:22:38 and Sharon Cherop was third (2:22:42).
    Kilel, 30, ran her personal best time. Her previous best was 2:23:25 in Frankfurt, Germany last year. She collapsed after the race and was helped into the medical tent.
   "It's a little both [disappointing and happy]," Davila said on TV after the race. "That was my perfect day out there and she was just better than me, There was nothing left in my legs."

Happy Birthday To Melissa Joan Hart

                                                   Melissa Joan Hart

Melissa Joan Hart has suggested that giving birth to her young sons Mason and Brady has changed her entire outlook on life.

The 34-year-old actress first gained fame during her teen years by starring in her own Nickelodeon sitcom Clarissa Explains It All for five seasons.

Speaking to Parade, Joan Hart revealed that she has no desire to relive the fanfare that accompanies gaining fame at a young age.

"I have a different life now," the former Dancing with the Stars contestant said.

She continued: "I'm not going out after work or going to shoot pool or going bowling on a Friday night. Now, I want to fly home to my family. So I had to accept that it's a different time in my life."

Joan Hart went on to explain that, after finishing work on her TV series Sabrina The Teenage Witch in 2003, she was initially wary about accepting another television role.

Despite some hesitation, her desire to portray a comedic character led her back to the small screen for a starring role in Melissa & Joey.

She added: "After Sabrina went down, I thought I'd want to travel into another area, like episodic or directing, but I just realised it's so much fun to be silly and do comedy and it's such a great job to have a TV show, so I worked hard to get something back on the air. My mother and I produced it and I couldn't be happier that I have a job."

Sachin Tendulker

Christina

Jenifer Lopej

Britney

Madona

Michel Jekson

Muhammad Yunus - The Social Business Model

                                                 Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus is talent, social business model.

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus' ouster from Grameen Bank has not diminished his enthusiasm for business projects to help Bangladesh's poor.

He still chairs the board of many Grameen companies, providing cellphone service, drinking water, yoghurt for malnourished children and solar power for the rural homes.

Yunus has been in Washington for a development conference this week to promote his concept of "social businesses" that aim to find commercially viable ways of tackling poverty. On Thursday, he met Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

He was ousted from the pioneering Grameen Bank in May after a dispute with Bangladesh's government.

He says difficult relations can slow business operations, but he will stay in Bangladesh.

Barak Obama

MEGAN FOX

Khloe Kardashian

Khloe Kardashian

By Mike Krumboltz, Yahoo!

Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 1:00 am PDT

The reality TV mainstay has a new show opposite husband and basketball star Lamar Odom. The show, aptly titled "Khloe and Lamar," debuts this Sunday on E! and will focus on the couple's relationship. Khloe and Lamar married in September, 2009.

Patty Duke

Early life
Duke was born Anna Marie Duke in Elmhurst, Queens, New York, the daughter of Frances (née McMahon), a cashier, and John Patrick Duke, a handyman and cab driver.[1][2][page needed] Her father was Irish American and her maternal grandmother was German.[2][page needed]

Duke experienced a childhood of hard times. Her father was an alcoholic, and her mother suffered from clinical depression and was prone to violence. When Duke was 6, her mother threw her father out; when she was 8, her mother turned Duke's care over to John and Ethel Ross, who became her managers. The Rosses recognized her talent and promoted her as a child actress.[3]

The Rosses' methods were often unscrupulous and exploitive; they consistently billed Duke as two years younger than she was, and padded her resume with some false credits.[4] It was Ethel Ross who gave the sweeping name-change order, "Anna Marie is dead, you are Patty now," hoping the change in her first name would allow her to duplicate the success of child actress Patty McCormack.[5] This act would have painful repercussions for Duke in the decades to come.[5]

Career

KIRSTIE ALLEY

Alley made her movie debut in 1982 in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, playing Vulcan officer Lieutenant Saavik. In 1989, Alley starred in Look Who's Talking which grossed over $295,000,000 worldwide.[4]

For contributions to the motion picture industry, Kirstie Alley was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.[5]

It was announced in early February 2007 that Alley would play the lead in a new Fox network sitcom entitled The Minister of Divine, based upon the British show The Vicar of Dibley, which starred Dawn French and was first broadcast by the BBC in 1994.[6] Fox, however, did not pick up its option on the series.

On March 21, 2010, Alley launched her own semi-scripted reality show, Kirstie Alley's Big Life. The show presents the story of her losing the weight she gained back since her Jenny Craig campaign. The series airs on A&E Network.[7]

In March 2010 Alley launched Organic Liaison, the first USDA certified organic weight loss product. Since starting the program on January she has lost 20 pounds.[8] In September, she reported a weight loss of over 50 pounds, Tweeting a photo of herself as proof and noting, "30 more to go !"[9]

In February 2011, Alley was announced as a contestant on season 12 of Dancing with the Stars. She is partnered with Maksim Chmerkovskiy; her first dance, a cha-cha-cha, earned the second-highest score, a 23 of 30.
Personal life

Kirstie met and dated a cousin, Bob Alley, in high school. They married in 1970, but divorced seven years later as their career paths diverged.[10] Alley was married to her second husband, Parker Stevenson (Richard Stevenson Parker, Jr.) on December 22, 1983. They divorced in 1997. The latter couple now share two children, William True and Lillie Price, whom they adopted.[11] Alley also had brief relationships with Tim Matheson of Animal House and James Wilder of Melrose Place.

In 2010 Kirstie Alley put her Encino house on the market for $6.5 million.[12]
Scientology

Alley was raised Methodist but is now a member of the Church of Scientology. At the time she became a Scientologist, Alley admitted to having had a cocaine addiction and went through Narconon, a Scientology-affiliated drug treatment program,[13] to end her dependency.[14] She has continued her Scientology training and, as of 2007, had attained the level of OT VII (Operating Thetan level 7).[15]

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/kirstie-alley

Journey In Nijum Dwip To See Deer.

Nijum Dwip is the area of Hatia Noakhali.Hatia is a Island of Bangladesh.There are about five laks people.The beauty of hatia charms all.Hatia Island around the river.There most of the people are farmer.There south site have Nijum Dwip.