JLo falls on stage is what everyone is talking about in the web. Jennifer Lopez had a bad moment as she falls on stage during her performance at AMA yesterday evening. 40-year-old Jennifer Lynn Lopez had a slight fumble while performing on her new single Louboutins, and landed hard on ground.
The Sun. night was full of excitement on Nov twenty-two, 2009. The famous American Music Awards 2009 brought more success and contentment for 19-year-old sensation Taylor Swift. It also made public that the pop King Michael Jackson still rules both the music biz and the music lovers' hearts. The night also brought some shaming moments for few. If Adam Lambert had a quizzical moment whether he slipped or it had been a part of his performance, so did our J. Lo.
A multidimensional personality Jennifer Lynn Lopez is a well known actress, a singer, and a record producer. She is sometimes called a dancer, fashion designer and a TV producer.
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Superstars TV show
Looking for some fitness inspiration? you don't need to look any further than you're own television tonight. ABC will be introducing a show called The Superstars, which will introduce the viewing public to a variety of interesting athletic challenges, as well as a variety of motivated athletes and celebrities, and a lot of hot, fit bodies. The premise of the show is based on a past ABC show known as Wide World of Sports, which involved athletes competing against each other to achieve the title of the World's Best Athlete (like American Idol, except with sports and with the entire world, rather than just one nation).
Eight teams of two will compete for the Superstar title over the next few weeks. They'll all be tested with a variety of physical challenges that will vary in type: swimming, cycling, running, kayaking, and more will be included. Each week, one team will be eliminated, so the contestants should be doing their best to keep their bodies and minds in peak condition. This show will undoubtedly involve a good amount of athletic advice and inspiration, and it's possible that you may learn something about the world of athletics just from watching it.
Some of the professional athletes participating include the famous basketball player Lisa Leslie, wide receiver Terrell Owens, and skiier Bode Miller, while some of the celebrites that will be involved include former Miss USA Ali Landry (also known as "The Doritos Girl" from the late 90's), professional ballroom dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy (best known for his work on Dancing with the Stars), and singer Julio Iglesias, Jr. (son of Julio Iglesias and brother to singer Enrique Iglesias). The show will be hosted by ESPN commentator John Saunders, defensive lineman Warren Sapp, and well-known sports journalist Jenn Brown.
The show will premiere tonight at 8:00 PM EST.
Source: Examiner.com
Transformers 2 showtimes
The long-awaited sequel to the 2007 "Transformers" film has reportedly taken 93 percent of Fandango.com's ticket sales today.
This staggering percentage means that over 500 showings of the film, which stars Shia LaBeouf, formerly of Disney Channel's "Even Stevens," are already sold out.
This also means that "Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen" might outsell the first film and it may also beat out J.J. Abrams' recent success, "Star Trek: The Future Begins."
What does this say about the tastes of America's moviegoers these days? Sadly, I think it means that people still love unrealistically hot girls, gratuitous violence and big, monstrous machines more than something as thought-provoking as Star Trek's science fiction and time travel any day.
Perhaps the longevity of the Star Trek legend will win out in the end - or maybe a J.J. Abrams sequel will give Optimus Prime and Shia LaBeouf a run for their money.
Source: Oregon Live
Jon and Kate Gosselin are Gold for TLC
Being on mag covers could be "hell" for Jon & Kate plus eight star Kate Gosselin but it is allegedly ratings gold for TLC. All of the up to date media coverage of Jon and Kate Gosselin's claimed extramarital activities powered Mon. night's premiere of the show's 5th season to record ratings. Jon & Kate And eight's fifth-season premiere averaged 9.8 million overall spectators and 4.3 million spectators in the Girls 18-49 demographic TLC targets, Broadcasting & Wire reported Tues. . Oth figures represent series highs and smash the prior numbers set by TLC's broadcast of Jon & Kate And eight's fourth-season finale in March. The fourth-season culmination -- which aired on March twenty-three just as initial tabloid reports the couple's wedding might be on the rocks appeared -- averaged 4.6 million spectators and 2.07 million spectators in the Ladies 18-49 demographic. In addition, Jon & Kate And eight's fifth-season premiere also averaged a 9.1 rating among Girls 18-34, a 3.5 rating among Men 18-34, and a 6.3 rating among Adults 1-34 -- all of which represent the highest ratings figures in TLC's history, according to Broadcasting & Wire .
california Suprme Court Uphelds prop 8
The California Supreme Court defended a ban on same-sex wedding today, ratifying a call by voters last year at a time when many state politicians have moved in an opposite direction. The choice preserves the eighteen thousand unions performed between the court's decision last May that same-sex wedding was lawful and the passage by citizens in Nov of Prop eight, which banned it.
Followers of prop 8 disagreed the weddings should be recognized. Today's opinion, penned by Chief Justice Ronald M. George for a 6-to-1 majority, announced that same-sex couples still have the legal right to civil unions, which gives them the facility to select one's life partner and enter with that person into a committed, officially recognized, and protected family relationship that enjoys all the constitutionally based situations of marriage. But the justices related the citizens had obviously voiced their will to restrict the ritual of wedding to opposite-sex couples. Justice George wrote that Offer eight failed to wholly repeal or revoke a right to such a protected relationship, but disagreed that it carves out a narrow and limited exception to these state constitutional rights, reserving the official designation of the term 'marriage' for the union of opposite-sex couples as a matter of state constitutional law. The eighteen thousand existing unions can stand, he wrote, because Offer eight failed to include language particularly claiming it was retroactive. Heated reaction to the call started right away, with protestors obstructing traffic near the court, and recommends for same-sex wedding beginning plans for another election. In L. A.
Jennifer Pizer, the Wedding Project Director for Lambda Legal, announced the decision places it to us to patch up the damage at the ballot box. One of the state's biggest gay rights groups, Equality California, sent an e-mail message to fans pleading for contributions to raise $500,000 toward a huge campaign to put an initiative on the ballot and win..
Sonia Sotomayor Nominated for Supreme Court
President Obama on Tues. selected U.S. Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the high court, the child of Puerto Rican parents who has achieved success and could now replace retiring Justice David Souter and become the 1st Hispanic and the 3rd woman ever to serve on the supreme court.
Calling Sotomayor "a provoking woman," Obama declared that he looked not only at intellect and the facility to be unprejudiced but at life experience and the facility to relate to normal Americans in selecting Sotomayor as his nominee. At a presidency meeting, Sotomayor thanked the president for "the most humbling honor" of her life. "My heart today is bursting with gratitude," she announced. If confirmed by the Senate, the 54-year-old judge would bring virtually seventeen years of expertise on the Fed bench and a record of bipartisan appeal to the supreme court. She was first allocated to Fed bench in the Southern District of Manhattan in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush and was named to the following Circuit Court of Appeals by President Bill Clinton in 1998. Obama announced Sotomayor has more experience as a judge than any of the justices had when they were designated for their positions on the supreme court. Souter is regarded as a liberal voice on the bench, and Sotomayor is predicted to keep on that trend. Still, Republicans are not predicted to put up much of a fight. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell recounted his colleagues will treat Sotomayor reasonably but need time to argue her qualifications. "We will entirely inspect her record to make sure she understands the role of a jurist in our democracy is to apply the law even-handedly, in spite of their own feelings or private or political preferences," McConnell claimed in a press release posted on his site.LA Lakers Victorious, not easy though
LA Lakers 105 Denver 103Los Angeles Lakers have barely won the first game of the NBA West Finals.
I personally thought it would be easy but Carmelo Anthony did not mak eit easy on the Angelinos to put this game away.
It seems the games are way harder this time around compared to last years finals, but in the end the Lakers show why they have championship material, staying cool under surprise.
I predict a 4-2 series. Denver will not be an easy team. I think Kobe and the Lakers are ready .
Missing Link Fissil Unveiled
Scientists have discovered an exquisitely preserved ancient primate fossil that they believe forms a crucial "missing link" between our own evolutionary branch of life and the rest of the animal kingdom.
The 47m-year-old primate – named Ida – has been hailed as the fossil equivalent of a "Rosetta Stone" for understanding the critical early stages of primate evolution.
The top-level international research team, who have studied her in secret for the past two years, believe she is the most complete and best preserved primate fossil ever uncovered. The skeleton is 95% complete and thanks to the unique location where she died, it is possible to see individual hairs covering her body and even the make-up of her final meal – a last vegetarian snack.
"This little creature is going to show us our connection with the rest of all the mammals; with cows and sheep, and elephants and anteaters," said Sir David Attenborough who is narrating a BBC documentary on the find. "The more you look at Ida, the more you can see, as it were, the primate in embryo."
"This will be the one pictured in the textbooks for the next hundred years," said Dr Jørn Hurum, the palaeontologist from Oslo University's Natural History Museum who assembled the scientific team to study the fossil. "It tells a part of our evolution that's been hidden so far. It's been hidden because the only [other] specimens are so incomplete and so broken there's nothing almost to study." The fossil has been formally named Darwinius masillae in honour of Darwin's 200th birthday year.
It has been shipped across the Atlantic for an unveiling ceremony hosted by the mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg today. There is even talk of Ida being the first non-living thing to feature on the front cover of People magazine.
She will then be transported back to Oslo, via a brief stop at the Natural History Museum in London on Tuesday, 26 May, when Attenborough will host a press conference.
Ida was originally discovered by an amateur fossil hunter in the summer of 1983 at Messel pit, a world renowned fossil site near Darmstadt in Germany. He kept it under wraps for over 20 years before deciding to sell it via a German fossil dealer called Thomas Perner. It was Perner who approached Hurum two years ago.
"My heart started beating extremely fast," said Hurum, "I knew that the dealer had a world sensation in his hands. I could not sleep for 2 nights. I was just thinking about how to get this to an official museum so that it could be described and published for science." Hurum would not reveal what the university museum paid for the fossil, but the original asking price was $1m. He did not see the fossil before buying it – just three photographs, representing a huge gamble.
But it appears to have paid off. "You need an icon or two in a museum to drag people in," said Hurum, "this is our Mona Lisa and it will be our Mona Lisa for the next 100 years."
Hurum chose Ida's nickname because the diminutive creature is at the equivalent stage of development as his six-year-old daughter. Hurum said Ida is very excited about her namesake. "She says, 'there are two Idas now, there's me I'm living and then there's the dead one.'"
"It's caught at a really very interesting moment [in the animal's life] when it fortunately has all its baby teeth and is in the process of forming all its permanent teeth," said Dr Holly Smith, an expert in primate development at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who was part of the team. "So you have more information in it than almost any fossil you could think of."
The fossil's amazing preservation means that the scientific team has managed to glean a huge amount of information from it, although this required new X-ray techniques that had not previously been applied to any other specimens.
The researchers believe it comes from the time when the primate lineage, that diversified into monkeys, apes and ultimately humans, split from a separate group that went on to become lemurs and other less well known species.
Crucially though, Ida is not on the lemur line because she lacks two key characteristics shared by lemurs – a grooming claw on her second toe and a fused set of teeth called a tooth comb. Also, a bone in her ankle called the talus is shaped like members of our branch of the primates. So the researchers believe she may be on our evolutionary line dating from just after the split with the lemurs.
According to the team's published description of the skeleton in the journal PLoS ONE, Ida was 53cm long and a juvenile around six to nine months old. The team can be sure Ida is a girl because she does not have a penis bone.
"She was at this vulnerable age where you are no longer right with your mother," said Smith, "Just as you leave weaning you are not full grown, but you are on your own."
The unprecedented preservation of Ida meant working out how she died was more like a modern day crime scene investigation than the informed guess-work that palaeontologists usually make do with. The team noticed that she had a broken wrist that had begun to partially heal. The injury did not kill her, but they speculate that it contributed to her premature demise.
"It might be that her mother dropped her once or that she fell down from a tree earlier in her life," Smith said. She survived the accident, but her climbing abilities would have been impaired. Unable to drink from water trapped by tree leaves, she would have had to venture down to the lake to drink. This would have proved to be a fateful decision.
The huge range of magnificently preserved fossils at Messel suggest that the volcanic lake was a death trap. Scientists believe that it sporadically let forth giant belches of poisonous volcanic gases that would have immediately suffocated anything in, around and even over the water. Ida would then have fallen into the water and been preserved in the sediment deep at the bottom.
• Atlantic productions' programme, Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link, will be broadcast in the UK on Tuesday, 26 May at 9pm on BBC1. Colin Tudge's book, The Link, is published on 20 May by Little Brown.
Source: Guardian UK
Good News Garage
(NECN: Anya Huneke, Burlington, VT) - A do-gooder in Vermont is doing his part to lend a helping hand. He's fixing up junky old cars and giving them to low-income families.
Hal Colston got his first taste of advocacy work in the eighth grade, growing up in York, Pennsylvania. He tried to right a wrong after his teacher, who was mad at his father for trying to desegregage an area swimming pool, mistreated him.
That was more than 40 years ago, but Colston is still on a mission. These days, he's based in Vermont and his cause is poverty.
He founded the Good News Garage in Burlington in 1996 to provide affordable transportation options to people in need. The organization repairs donated cars and matches them with low-income families.
The Good News Garage, which now has programs in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, has served thousands of people since then, including Dilli Dulal, who moved to Vermont from Bhutan in September.
For him, getting a new job was a challenge, not to mention getting to and from a job.
After eight years here, Colston decided his help was needed elsewhere. So, he founded another social service organization called NeighborKeepers, which helps people overcome poverty through community support.
His work caught the eye of talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who taped a show featuring Colston, which will air Tuesday. In his modest fashion, he sees this not as a reason to brag, but as a reason to keep going.
Source:
Necn.com
Ryan Church What Did you do?
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Clayton Kershaw celebrated with Orlando Hudson and Mark Loretta in front of the Mets' Carlos Beltran after the Dodgers scored the winning run in the 11th inning
I need to lie down,” Manuel said.
No wonder. The Mets arrived at Dodger Stadium in first place in the National League East. They left, after a 3-2 loss to the Manny Ramirez-less Dodgers in 11 innings, leaving Manuel wondering if he was managing a team sponsored by Chico’s Bail Bonds. The carnage included a season-high five errors — including two in the 11th, which led to the Dodgers’ winning run — one decisive base-running blunder by Ryan Church and countless slack jaws, head shakes and dumbfounded looks in a solemn clubhouse.
“I’ve never seen anything like that,” Carlos Beltran said.
And neither had anyone else. To be fair, Manuel said he had seen his former charges, the Chicago White Sox, commit five errors, not that he was boasting of that achievement or anything. But no, he had never seen a player completely miss tagging third base on his way home as Church did in the top of the 11th. That gaffe canceled what would have been the go-ahead run, ended the inning and breathed life into the Dodgers. Not that, on this night, they needed any extra help. The five errors were the Mets’ most since they committed six on Sept. 16, 2007, against Philadelphia.
“The guy missed third base, that’s unbelievable,” Manuel said. “I can’t explain why or how or anything, but he actually missed the base. To me, it’s just hard to miss third base. I know there are guys who miss first because they’re looking for the ball, that type of thing, but I don’t remember if I’ve ever seen a guy miss third base in a situation like that.”
Then he clarified. No, he had not. Church, for his part, said he thought he nicked the side of the bag as he rounded third, heading home on Angel Pagan’s gapper to right-center. But the third-base coach Razor Shines did not complain when the Dodgers appealed, and Manuel did not argue the call.
“I just feel terrible because touching the bag is a simple thing to do and I didn’t do it,” Church said.
Making the simple difficult since 1962 — that could be the Mets’ motto. At times this season, the Mets (21-17) have turned that act into an art form, missing cut-off men, failing to slide and running into outs. But they have played better recently, even as injuries have caused two of their stars — Jose Reyes (right calf tendinitis) and Carlos Delgado (right hip surgery) — and a valued utility player, Alex Cora (torn right thumb ligament), to miss time. In their stead, Manuel has been forced to mix and match, starting players at unfamiliar positions because he has little choice.
Which is how it came to pass that Ramon Martinez, who arrived at 6:45 p.m. — 25 minutes before the first pitch — after being recalled from Class AAA Buffalo, was playing shortstop Monday night and committed two errors. And how Pagan was getting his first major-league start in more than a year. And how Jeremy Reed, who now has a total of 16 1/3 innings of major-league experience at the position, came to be playing first base in the 11th inning.
From that post, Reed gazed out toward left-center field as Xavier Paul’s fly ball started to plummet. Pagan and Beltran converged. Beltran said he called the ball, “like, six times,” but Pagan did not move.
“Pagan was still in the middle and I couldn’t see the ball,” Beltran said. “If Pagan would have called that ball, my job is to get out of the way. Basically he stood in the middle and I just couldn’t see the ball.”
The ball dropped between them, and Mark Loretta, who had walked against Brian Stokes to lead off the inning, scooted to third. Paul zipped to second, and the Dodgers had the winning run on third. Not so fast, though. Juan Pierre was walked intentionally, loading the bases, and Rafael Furcal flied to shallow left. One out. The Mets should have — could have — escaped when Orlando Hudson followed by tapping a grounder to Reed.
Reed fielded the ball perfectly. He got into throwing position immediately. However, “looking back on it now, I probably just rushed,” he said.
His throw home sailed wide of the catcher, Ramon Castro, and Loretta scored. Dodgers 3, Mets 2. A premonition of these fill-ins being exposed that Manuel had offered a few hours before Monday’s game had come true.
“I haven’t practiced that,” Reed said. “But I should be able to do that. I pride myself — wherever he sticks me, I can make plays.”
The Mets have not hit a home run in five straight games, which would be an irrelevant piece of trivia if not for the fact that the last two nights have proven that they actually could really have used one. Their situational hitting skills must have played hooky Sunday, skipped the short flight from San Francisco and — even aware that Delgado is out indefinitely — made little effort to arrive in time for Monday’s game.
In 48 hours, Manuel has seen a dramatic shift in the tenor of his team’s offense. In winning the opening three games in San Francisco, the Mets went 19-for-47 with runners in scoring position, slapping singles and lining doubles all over the field. In losing their last two games, the Mets have gone 1-for-16 with runners in scoring position, magnifying what has been a season-long dearth of power. The Mets entered Monday with 26 homers, ahead of only Pittsburgh, Oakland and San Francisco.
“I think you need a little power here and there, I think you need that, but I think it’s dangerous to ask the group that’s not sluggers to be sluggers,” Manuel said. “I think we have to continue to preach the type of baseball that we played in San Francisco, because we have the ability to play that type of game.”
The lone bright spot for the Mets was Tim Redding, who in his debut showed that he could be a capable fifth starter. After giving up two runs in the first, Redding shut down the Dodgers, allowing just two hits over six innings in emerging with a quality start. The Mets evened the score at 2-2 in the eighth, on an infield single by Gary Sheffield. Four Mets relievers combined to hold the Dodgers scoreless until the 11th, when, as Redding said, in beautifully understated fashion, “a couple things didn’t go our way tonight.”
If only it were a couple. Then Manuel may not have needed a rest.
“It was a bad game on our part,” Manuel said. “Very bad.”Source: NY Times
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