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Jennifer Lopez “How I Met Your Mother” Guest Star
Jennifer Lopez has been confirmed to make a guest appearance in How I Met Your Mother.
The singer-actress will play Anita Appleby, a no-nonsense self-help author who teaches women how to retrain men through the power of denial. The episode is scheduled to air in March.
"We couldn’t be more excited about Jennifer Lopez joining us on How I Met Your Mother. We’re looking forward to a week of revealing outfits and sexy dance moves the likes of which this show hasn’t seen since Regis Philbin guest starred.” Executive producer and co-creator Carter Bays said in a statement on Wednesday.
The 40-year-old is also reportedly to gust star on Fox's Glee, playing the part of a cafeteria.
Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie Split: Report
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have officially decided to separate, according to reports.
The Hollywood power couple, who never married, have reportedly signed legal document in early January to share their fortune equally and custody of their kids.
Brad and Angelina fell for each other in 2004 as they filmed movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith. They have six children together – three of whom are adopted. Angelina will get full custody of the kids, but Brad will have full visitation rights, the News of the World reported.
The story that Brad and Angelina broke up were never absent from the tabloids since they were together in the past few years. The pair didn’t appear together at the Golden Globes Awards last week - even though Brad's film Inglorious Basterds was up for several awards.
Rihanna Performs “Redemption Song” on the Oprah Winfrey Show
Rihanna performed Bob Marley’s classic “Redemption Song” to raise money for Haiti during The Oprah Winfrey Show on Wednesday.
The song is currently available for download on iTunes and all proceeds will help the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
The 21-year-old singer will be performing with Jay-Z, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift, Bono and The Edge at the Friday’s “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” telethon from London.
Check out the video below of Rihanna performing “redemption song” on oprah.
Mariah Carey "Brought Her Own Golden Globes" To Golden Globes Awards
Sandra Bullock Kisses Meryl Streep for Sharing Best Actress Award
Meryl Streep (L) and Sandra Bullock had tied for Best Actress at the 15th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards held at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California on Friday (January 15).
Sandra Bullock, star of The Blind Side, shared an intimate kiss with Meryl Streep, star of Julie & Julia, as they accepted the award onstage.
"This is an honor." Bullock exclaimed after the kiss.
Later in her acceptance speech, Bullock said she and her co-winner have a lot in common, saying that she loves "food and $ex like Meryl. ... That's how similar we are. You guys just didn't notice it until now."
"Meryl is a good kisser." Bullock ended her speech by admitting.
Miley Cyrus Wearing Low Cut Dress On Date With Liam Hemsworth
Miley Cyrus took her alleged boyfriend, Australian actor Liam Hemsworth, for some sushi at the Katsuya restaurant in West Hollywood Tuesday night.
The 17-year-old pop star flashed her black bra under a low-cut shirt while stepping out the eatery with her 20-year-old beau, The Last Song co-star, as well her elder sister, Brandi and a friend.
Is this outfit too mature for a teenager?
Google to Quit China, Fans Offered Flowers, Held Light Vigil at Its Beijing Headquarters (Pictures)
David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, threatened in a blog post the search engine giant would quit the China market. Influential Chinese IT blogger Keso explicitly used Google Quits China as the title for a response to Mr Drummond's statement. Quite some of Google fans in Beijing offered followers and even held a small light vigil at Google headquarters in Beijing's Tsinghua High-tech Park upon hearing the distressed news.
The apparent reason, though as Drummond used six paragraphs of his nine-paragraphed article to explain, is what he said because Chinese hackers attacked its core infrastructure and tried to access the Gmail accounts of some Chinese human rights activists.
These were just too simple excuses. The four years of Google's existence as Google China in Beijing, was bumpy, inconvenient. It had to offer a censored Google.cn (or G.cn). Still the company was often screwed up by the Chinese government, especially in 2009 when it was accused of spreading pornographic contents not once but twice on some high profiled events.
David Drummond revealed Google is "no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn," followed by a much diplomatic toned sentence "and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all" before he finally acknowledged "We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China."
For those who are familiar with Google's situation, what David Drummond hinted can 100% certain that Google will pull out the plug from China.
In a report by Xinhua which is China's official news agency, the anonymous employee at Google Beijing Office said "No agreement will be reached with both sides refusing to give in."
Even though, some Chinese officials cast their doubts on Google's decision. "It is still hard to say whether Google will quit China or not. Nobody knows," a high-ranking official with China's State Council Information Office told to Xinhua in a telephone interview on the condition of anonymity.
Strangely enough, Guo Ke, a professor on mass communication from Shanghai International Studies University, told Xinhua it was "almost impossible" for Google to quit China. He believed "Google is just playing cat and mouse, and trying to use netizens' anger or disappointment as leverage." Nevertheless, it's true that Guo's viewpoint that Chinese Internet users are the real victims if Google quits China."
Images via Bonnae / Twitpic.com
Megan Fox Emporio Armanii Underwear Ads Campaign (Pictures)
Megan Fox is replacing Victoria Beckham as the new face of Emporio Armani Women’s Underwear and Armani Jeans collection.
“Megan is young and sexy and has a lot of spirit. Both Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans are all about a youthful attitude, making her the perfect choice for the collections….” Giorgio Armani said in a statement.
The 23-year-old has already unveiled a series of black-and-white pictures of Spring/Summer 2010 campaign for the Italian fashion label.
The ads, shot by fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott in Los Angeles, will appear on billboards and publications in February.
Nicole Scherzinger Lewis Hamilton Split
Nicole Scherzinger and Lewis Hamilton have officially broken up after 20 months of dating, reports said.
Nicole Scherzinger's boyfriend is no Lewis Hamilton any longer
The split was confirmed in a joint statement from their spokesman that read "Nicole Scherzinger and Lewis Hamilton can confirm that they have decided to go their separate ways. The two of them have decided to focus fully on their careers and will remain close friends."
Nicole, the 31-year-old Pussycat Dolls frontwoman, and Lewis, the 25-year-old Formula 1 world champion in 2008, first met at the MTV Europe Music Awards in November 2007. They started dating in May 2008.
PICTUREs: Tokina 11-16mm F2.8 AT-X 116 PRO DX Lens
Tokina 11-16mm F2.8 AT-X 116 PRO DX lens is an ultra-wide angle lens produced by the Japanese lens manufacturer Tokina Co. LTD for Canon- and Nikon-branded APS-C sized digital single-lens reflex cameras. Its price is much cheaper than that of the original lens with the same range manufactured by Canon and Nikon. Tokina 11-16mm lens is a wonderful lens (see reviews by Kenrockwell.com) for those who will make a lot of photographs on the landscape and high buildings. If seldom make super-wide angle shots, it's not recommended to buy it as this lens can seriously disproportionate a person in the picture when the angle is not right. Because as a newbie I didn't have much experience in this regard, it ruined a day of shootings when recently travelling to Malaysia's administrative capital Putrajaya. No need to say more, here are seven portraits of my Nikon F-mount Tokina 11-16mm F2.8 lens from various angles, hope they can be helpful for those photography enthusiasts who plan to purchase it.
Larger versions: Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4 & Pic 7. All images are released under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 License.
Mariah Carey Blames Her Bizarre People’s Choice Awards Acceptance Speech For Champagne
Mariah Carey accepted the Favorite R&B Artist at the 2010 People’s Choice Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. last night (January 6).
The 40-year-old singer took the opportunity to explain her previous day’s bizarre acceptance speech at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. She said the drunk speech was due to enjoying some champagne with Precious director Lee Daniels.
“We’d been sitting there celebrating this whole time, having little splashes, I hadn’t eaten, I pulled up, I didn’t want to be late so I rushed in, and that’s what it was.” the diva explained.
“If people don’t understand me and just think I’m this girl that stands by a microphone and sings ‘Hero,’ then they’re definitely not going to get me,” she added.
Check out the Mariah Carey bizarre acceptance speech at the Palm Springs Film Festival.
Thai Hatyai Bird Nest Soup (7Ps)
A few years ago,I met a professor from the food science department in a university from China and asked her something about the swiftlets bird nests products promoted in the market.
She told me although she couldn't say bird nests had no nutrition value but 100% sure that it must have been wildly exaggerated by the companies which produce the associated products or the salespersons who sell them.
Since then, I was no a believer in the products of Bird Nests. However, it is a huge industry in Southeast Asia where Indonesia, Malaysia & Thailand are all major players.
Last February when traveling to Southern Thailand's Hatyai the city is famous for bird nests, I tried my luck for the first time at a specialty products shop. As shown in the photo above, such a bowl of bird nest soup cost me a whopping 450Baht, or ~12 US dollars. Truly speaking, my feel was that the much-hyped bird nest soup is not even better than the sweet white fungus soup. So, no big deal!
Now I thought that Chinese professor could be right, read excerpts from madsci.org which was answering a reader's question What are nutrition values of bird's nest of oriental Collocalia sp.?
Oh, I probably would never buy expensive bird nests products again!
Scroll down for more pictures showing packed bird nests being sold At a Specialty Products Shop in Hatyai, Thailand
She told me although she couldn't say bird nests had no nutrition value but 100% sure that it must have been wildly exaggerated by the companies which produce the associated products or the salespersons who sell them.
Since then, I was no a believer in the products of Bird Nests. However, it is a huge industry in Southeast Asia where Indonesia, Malaysia & Thailand are all major players.
Last February when traveling to Southern Thailand's Hatyai the city is famous for bird nests, I tried my luck for the first time at a specialty products shop. As shown in the photo above, such a bowl of bird nest soup cost me a whopping 450Baht, or ~12 US dollars. Truly speaking, my feel was that the much-hyped bird nest soup is not even better than the sweet white fungus soup. So, no big deal!
Now I thought that Chinese professor could be right, read excerpts from madsci.org which was answering a reader's question What are nutrition values of bird's nest of oriental Collocalia sp.?
Chemical analyses by Massimo Marcone of the University of Guelph found that this bird's nest soup contains a protein similar to one found in eggs. He has found that this can lead to allergies. In fact, in Singapore, birds's nest soup is the leading cause of food allergies!
What you must realize is that this soup is simply hardened bird spit. Saliva is not nutritious, and bird's nest soup is no exception. It does contain some enzymes, salts, and mostly water. The saliva also contains some natural type of antibiotic. There is some research to see if the saliva can be used to control cell division. However, there really is no scientific evidence to justify any nutritional or health claims made for it.
In fact, it can be downright dangerous, as environmental contamination has turned up in bird's nest soup in Vietnam from arsenic. A Vietnamese man was poisoned from arsenic intoxication after consuming bird's nest soup! This was written up in the American Journal of Medical Sciences in April, 1999.
Oh, I probably would never buy expensive bird nests products again!
Scroll down for more pictures showing packed bird nests being sold At a Specialty Products Shop in Hatyai, Thailand
Tiger Woods Vanity Fair Cover Photo (February 2010)
The 33-year-old champion golfer is photographed shirtless and pumping iron on the new cover of VF.
The never-seen-before photo of a raw Tiger was taken by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz just weeks before his scandal that surfaced and spiraled out of control since last November.
Check out the full cover story of Tiger on vanityfair.com.
Light Bokeh Taken Using Nikon Nikkor 24-70mm/F2.8 ED IF Lens
Days ago I bought Nikon's high-end AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 ED IF lens for my photography hobby though my current skills are very poor. Tonight I tested the lens for the light bokeh pictures which were shot across the windows of my living room (see the overview below). The top image is the one I like the most. The aesthetic quality of the blur from Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8 ED lens is very entertaining.
Larger version: Picture 1, Picture 2.
All images were released under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 License
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