Wednesday 28 March 2012

Clueless star Alicia Silverstone feeds her son like a bird


CELEBRITIES have a tendency to be a little on the quirky side, but is "Clueless" star Alicia Silverstone's method of feeding her 11-month-old son Bear Blu clever or clueless?

The actress and animal rights activist posted a video herself feeding her son breakfast on her popular health food website The Kind Life over the weekend.

"I fed Bear the mochi and a tiny bit of veggies from the soup ... from my mouth to his. It's his favourite ... and mine," Silverstone wrote. "He literally crawls across the room to attack my mouth if I'm eating. This video was taken about a month or two ago when he was a bit wobbly. Now he is grabbing my mouth to get the food!"

The video shows the actress taking a spoonful of food, chewing it, and then passing it open-mouthed to her little one.

Which may not be such a great idea, some medical and nutrition experts say.

"There are those who think that a mum chewing a baby's food provides helpful enzymes from her mouth but it doesn't seem like a hygienic practice. Various viruses and bacteria, but especially herpes virus, may be passed from mother to baby," Dr. Jennifer Landa, chief medical officer of BodyLogicMD told FOXNews.com.

"These microbes present a challenge that the infant's immune system may not be ready for. So the practice is questionable for safety, and then, there's a certain ick factor here that needs to be considered," Landa added.


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Sunday 25 March 2012

When keeping it real...goes wrong! man jailed after calling 911 on his wife over Facebook


A Wesley Chapel man is serving jail time — all because he wanted to check his Facebook page.
Problem was his wife wouldn't leave him alone. The Tampa Bay Times reports 57-year-old Doyle Hardwick gave his wife beer in hopes she would go to sleep.

But 54-year-old Julie Hardwick didn't want to go to bed. According to Pasco County arrest reports, she wanted to sit by her husband and look at his Facebook page. So he called 911.
The responding deputy says both Hardwicks were calm when he arrived.

Hardwick was arrested, pleaded no contest to misusing 911 and was sentenced to 60 days in jail. When he didn't show up, a warrant was issued. On Tuesday he turned himself in.
Authorities say Hardwick was on similar charges in 2010.

5 Things That Can Apparently Give A Women The BIG O

A new study says women can orgasm from “weight lifting, climbing poles or ropes, yoga, and biking and spinning classes.” From photo copiers to Peppermint Patties, here are some other things that aren't sex that can allegedly make you climax


1. Photo copiers


A woman named Sarah Carmen claims she has over 200 orgasms a day, triggered by events as mundane as "the rumble of the train, the purr of a hairdryer, or the rhythmic drone of a photo-copier."




2. Stress

For the sake of this exercise, I polled some female friends about whether they'd experienced these alleged noncoital orgasms. One said she has, a number of times: "If I get very very stressed and upset I will spontaneously have an orgasm without touching myself at all."

3. Riding horses

So claim ladies in a British Cosmopolitan forum.


4. York Peppermint Patties

A writer for Nerve said that biting into a Peppermint Patty gave her the sensation that she was "coming like a racehorse."


5. Thinking

In her book "Bonk," sex writer and researcher Mary Roach interviewed a number of women who said they could get themselves to climax simply by "thinking."

Tuesday 20 March 2012

Battle over ‘Bully’ rating heats up!!!


A battle over film ratings continued to escalate Thursday, as a chorus of filmmakers and lawmakers called on the Motion Picture Assn. of America to replace the “R” given to the teen-bullying documentary “Bully” with a less severe PG-13.
Hoping to defuse the controversy, the MPAA's chief, former U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd,  held a screening and panel discussion at the group’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., that featured the movie's director, distributor and subject. But the event turned into a forum for further criticism, with panelists and audience members charging that the MPAA was failing in its mission to guide parents and protect children.

"[People] believe in the system, but the system is letting them down,” said director Lee Hirsch, addressing Dodd. “We need leadership and your faith … to overturn” this ruling.

“Bully,” which will be released by the Weinstein Co. in Los Angeles on March 30, centers on five families whose children have been victims of bullying. The fly-on-the-wall film does not contain an abundance of explicit content; however, in one scene,  one teen hurls harsh profanities at another child.
That prompted the R rating, which means that moviegoers under age 17 must be accompanied by an adult. The Weinstein Co. and subjects of the film say that the requirement to see the movie with an adult will deter many teens from going.
But the MPAA has held firm, saying that without a new edit of the film there is no provision for invalidating the rating.

In an interview, Dodd added that even if there was, he couldn’t ignore a perceptual issue. “I’m stuck,” he said. “If we change the ruling in this case, I’ll have 10 other filmmakers lined up saying they shouldn’t be given the R. And who are we to say why this film should be different than the others?”
The MPAA takes the position that it does not make qualitative judgments -- that is, it does not wade into the content of a film but merely uses a set of objective criteria to determine a rating. As long as the profanity-laden scene remains, Dodd said, the MPAA’s hands are tied.

The issue has turned into a hot-button issue for activists -- and a major publicity headache for the MPAA. After the group's ratings board denied a Weinstein Co. appeal, grass-roots organizers and the Weinstein Co. publicity machine went into overdrive. As Weinstein Co. issued statements about the unfairness of the ruling--they argue, among other things, that the scene comes in the context of a documentary and is there for authenticity's sake--a Michigan teenager who was a victim of bullying started an online petition to change the rating.

The petition soon came to the attention of Weinstein Co. chief Harvey Weinstein, who at this year’s Oscar ceremony alerted celebrities such as Meryl Streep. The actress signed the document, as have  Drew Brees, Ellen DeGenres and Justin Bieber. The number of signees now exceeds 300,000. (Many signatures also trigger personal emails to the MPAA; at least one official at the group has seen his in-box flooded with more than 200,000 such messages.)

The rating controversy has touched off a debate about the practices of an industry trade group that self-polices its content, prompting calls for more transparency and flexibility. “Why can’t [the movie] get a PG-13 with an ‘E’ for ‘Exception’ next to it?” Weinstein said in an interview at a D.C. hotel before he appeared on the panel Thursday. “There’s nothing stopping them from looking at this and doing something about it.”

Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Lakewood), who is part of a group of more than two dozen lawmakers drafting a letter to Dodd asking for the decision to be overturned, told The Times that she saw an irony in the MPAA’s ruling.

“This is a movie that’s all about protecting kids, and the fact that they would offer a rating that won’t let kids see it seems really counterintuitive,” she said.

Meanwhile, Weinstein and Hirsch have said they won’t edit the scene. To do so, they said, would be to dilute its impact, a position echoed by the film’s subjects.

“Our reality is not censored,” Kelby Johnson, a teen who appears in the film, said as she stood up to speak from the audience at the panel. “Since when did curse words become more important than children’s lives?"

As panelists and victims pressed Dodd, he sought to steer the subject back to the issues raised by the film. “I don’t want [the ratings issue] to step all over what Lee crafted,” the MPAA chief said.

But Hirsch remained steadfast. “The R is stepping over it, and that’s the problem,” he said.

The discussion grew sufficiently intense that Weinstein, who has a longstanding relationship with Dodd, came to his defense. “I just want people to understand that the senator is a good man,” Weinstein said. If he had a vote on the appeals board, Weinstein added, “I have a feeling...he would have voted our way.”

Weinstein said that he wants to use the film as a lever to help pass the Safe Schools Improvement Act, an anti-bullying bill that has been stalled on Capitol Hill for several years.
The issue may yet gain steam in Congress in other ways: a mock hearing about both bullying and the rating is in the early stages of development, according to a congressional source who asked not to be identified because plans for it were not yet firm.

Weinstein said in an interview that if the MPAA didn’t lower the film to a PG-13 he would choose to release the movie without a rating, a risky move because, while it means teens could go by themselves, many theater chains shy away from showing unrated films in the first place. (The head of AMC, one of the nation's largest chains, has suggested that he would show it even if it was unrated.)

Parents who appear in the film also have criticized the MPAA’s decision. David Long, whose son Tyler hanged himself as a result of bullying, said that he was at a loss to explain the MPAA’s policy that multiple four-letters word net an R, but a single instance rates only a PG-13.

“If it can be said once, what's the difference between one and six?” he said on the panel, as he implored Dodd to change the rating so that schools will be more willing to show it. “I mean, [the obscenity] is already out there.”

Lawmakers say they see another false distinction, particularly when it comes to violent movies such as the upcoming “Hunger Games,” which did not get an R.

“The hypocrisy is that the very movies that contribute to violence can be seen by teenagers because they get a PG-13,” Rep. Hansen Clarke (D-Mich) told The Times. “And the one film that actually teaches them to respect others is given an R.”

Sunday 18 March 2012

Canada warns gay travelers of Russian law banning 'homosexual propaganda'



OTTAWA - Canada is warning gay and lesbian travelers bound for Russia's historic St. Petersburg to be wary after the city enacted a new law banning what it calls homosexual propaganda.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has told the House of Commons he is deeply concerned by the legislation, which he says runs counter to core Canadian values of freedom of speech, human rights and the rule of law.
The warning comes after the governor of St. Petersburg signed a law that makes it a criminal offence to publicize acts of sodomy, bisexualism or lesbianism.
The city says the law, which comes into effect Saturday, is designed to protect children.
But gay rights groups see it as part of a backlash led by some politicians and the Russian Orthodox Church.
St. Petersburg is the fourth Russian city to be enact such a law.
Baird said Canada has lodged an official protest, as well as warning travellers.
"Canada's ambassador has written to the Russian government to express our deep concern and, yes, we have at his request, put a travel advisory on our website," Baird said.
Scenic, historic and cosmopolitan, St. Petersburg is one of Russia's — if not one of the world's — top travel destinations.
Canada's new travel advisory has been amended to read: "Homosexuality is legal, though some still strongly disapprove of it. Canadians are advised to avoid displaying affection in public, as homosexuals can be targets of violence."
The advisory states that the new law prohibits "propagandizing homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality and transsexuality among minors, and prohibiting public actions propagandizing pedophilia."
Among other things, the advisory warns travellers against "displays or conspicuous behaviour," which could lead to arrest or a fine.
Baird said he will consider amending travel advisories to other destinations to deal with specific threats to gay and lesbian travellers.
"We'll certainly look at that," said Baird. "Obviously one of the core responsibilities I have as Canada's foreign minister is to promote Canadian values around the world, and I will continue to do this."

Wednesday 14 March 2012

What if there was a formula that could calculate whether or not a couple was destined for "happily ever after," before they were even married? Divorce Formula: Hollywood Divorces Dissected


It's no surprise that the Hollywood set doesn't have the best track record when it comes to "till death do us part." It seems that a week doesn't go by without a Tinseltown couple calling it quits, and the attendant media firestorm, desperate pleas for privacy and speculation as to who will walk away with what.
But with the odds stacked against them -- according to the International Business Times, celebrity marriages have a 35 percent success rate -- what if there was a formula that could calculate whether or not a couple was destined for "happily ever after," before they were even married?
In 2006, the Sundem/Tierney Unified Celebrity Theory -- a mathematical equation to determine the length of a celebrity marriage -- was published. The equation, created by "Brain Trust" author Garth Sundem wasbased on a number of factors, including "the celebrities' ages, the length of their courtship, their previous marital history, and their fame." But when unions began crumpling far sooner than their predicted end dates (Kenny Chesney and Renee Zellweger were married for only 291 days while they had a 100 percent probability of making it through the year) or were still going strong after their calculated expirations (happily coupled Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's predicted relationship success rate was less than 12 percent), the equation was revisited.
Now, instead of predicting marriage D-Days based on a variable of Google hits, the formula includes a figure that divides a celebrity's New York Times mentions by the amount of times their name appears in The National Enquirer -- a much needed-update that accounts for the ebb and flow of fame.
"This is a major improvement in the equation," Sundem told the Times. "It turns out that overall fame doesn't matter as much as the flavor of the fame. It's tabloid fame that dooms you. Sure, Katie Holmes had about 160 Enquirer hits, but she had more than twice as many NYT hits. A high NYT/ENQ ratio also explains why Chelsea Clinton and Kate Middleton have better chances than the Kardashian sisters."
So are Hollywood couples aware that the fate of their relationships may lie in a simple game of division? Kelly Ripa certainly is. The "Live! With Kelly" host and her husband, Mark Consuelos, charted the longevity of their own marriage on Tuesday's show. The couple calculated that they have a 93 percent chance of staying together for the next five years, 49 percent for the next 10 years and 38 percent for the next 20 years.
"The way we stack up against the celebrity couples, we are, like, long in the tooth," Ripa told her audience. "I'm proud of that."
Forget the writing on the wall; when it comes to calculating celebrities' romantic longevity, the writing looks a lot like your kid's math homework.

Celebrity Divorce Formula: Hollywood Divorces Dissected

Tuesday 13 March 2012

Man Fatally Shot Over Condom Prices


The price of condoms is too damn high.

Michael Haynes II made this complaint over the weekend when purchasing prophylactics at a BP gas station on the Detroit's west side. Displeased with the price of the condoms and arguing he could get them for less elsewhere, Haynes allegedly asked to return the box or get a better deal at the counter.

When the store clerk would not accept a return or lower the price, the irate patron began shoving items from shelves, prompting the cashier to come out of his office shooting, the station's assistant manager told the Detroit Free Press. 

According to the local CBS affiliate, the cashier meant to fire a warning shot over the condom commotion, but the bullet struck the customer in the shoulder. The Free Press reported that the man left the store and a friend drove him to Sinai-Grace Hospital, where he died from the wound.

The city's Local 4 reported that police officers are still reviewing the surveillance footage and have the cashier in custody. 

Detroit police spokeswoman Sgt. Erin Stephens told The Huffington Post that she was uncertain whether there was any surveillance footage, but that the investigation of the "verbal altercation" was ongoing and that any charges would be filed at a later date at the discretion of the Wayne Country prosecutors.

According Local 4 reporter Dave Klein, a protest appeared to be brewing at the BP station on Monday afternoon, raising the possibility of having to close early.

'American Idol' Contestant Shovels B.S. To Get Sympathy Vote



Jermaine Jones -- the 6'8" gentle giant on "American Idol" -- has big problems with the truth, because he fabricated a sob story to "A.I." producers to win the hearts and minds of the American people.

"A.I." sources told TMZ ... last week, after appearing on the show ... Jermaine came to them and said his dad called him from out of the blue, claiming pops abandoned him and his mom 10 years ago.  Jermaine told producers he was extremely upset that his dad suddenly reappeared in his life now that he was famous and potentially rich. Jermaine said his dad was "a lousy father" and wanted nothing to do with him.

Well TMZ spoke with Jermaine's dad, Kevin Jones, who says the sob story is absurd  -- that he has had an ongoing relationship with the young man through the years and even had dinner with him on both Wednesday and Thursday night of last week. 

Kevin also says his son was not telling the truth about getting a phone call from out of the blue -- Kevin says he was actually in the audience last week supporting his child.

We spoke with production people on "Idol" who tell us they are "shocked" Jermaine concocted the story and it seems like it was all a ploy to get some traction on the show.

We could not reach Jermaine for comment.

Monday 12 March 2012

Celebrity Trash And Bash - Aubrey O'Day, lets her dogs rub their butts all over the table at a popular L.A. eatery



Aubrey O'Day, lead of Puff Daddy's ex. group Danity Kane

Aubrey O'Day pose for PlayBoy






Aubrey O'Day's decision to let her dogs rub their butts all over the table at a popular L.A. eatery last week has triggered a Health Dept. investigation ... TMZ has learned ... because, quite frankly, it's disgusting. 

TMZ broke the story ... the "Celebrity Apprentice" star let her puppys wag their naked asses all over her table at Toast for several minutes ... before finally putting the poochies on the ground.

Gross. 

Now, a rep for the L.A. Public Health Dept. tells TMZ ... a health inspector has visited the restaurant to remind employees about pet guidelines ... specifically the one that reads, "Pets shall not be allowed on chairs, seats, benches and tables."

The rep adds, "The Health Dept would like people to enjoy eating with their pets ... but we also want people to be respectful to other people." 

We're told the staff was quite receptive to the official ... and no citations or warnings were issued. 

A rep for Toast tells us the restaurant will be "extremely vigilant" about future potential anal infractions. 

Whitney Houston's daughter hears mom talk to her

Whitney Houston's daughter on Sunday said she still hears her mom encouraging her "keep moving, keep going," and the pop star's sister-in-law revealed new details of the day Houston died in their first public interviews since the singer's death.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, 19, told talk show host Oprah Winfrey that she was "doing okay ... I'm doing as good as I possibly can" since her mother was found lifeless in the bathtub of her room at the Beverly Hills Hilton hotel on February 11, the eve of the music industry's Grammy Awards.

"I can hear her voice, you know, and spirit talking to me, telling me, you know, 'keep moving baby. I'm right here. I got you' ... she's always with me. I can always feel her," Bobbi Kristina Brown told Winfrey.

"I feel her pass through me all the time," said Brown, whose father is singer Bobby Brown.

Houston and Brown's only daughter said she feels her mom's presence in the house they shared in Atlanta. The "lights turn on and off, and I go 'mom, what're you doing?' ... I can still laugh with her. I can sit there and I can still talk with her."

Houston was 48-years-old when she died. She rose to fame in the 1980s and enjoyed a long career that peaked with her 1992 hit "I Will Always Love You" from the movie "The Bodyguard."

WTF NEWS - Designer makes shoes from horses' hooves



A German designer has created a bizarre new range of shoes - from dead animal parts.
Iris Schieferstein, 45, spends months creating high heel horse hooves, stilettos from snake skins and sandals sculpted from doves.
Ms Schieferstein, who designed a pair of horse hooves for Lady Gaga, sells the shoes for up to £3,900.
She collects the dead animals from her local butcher in Berlin, then spends a week stripping out the meat and bones from the animal's feet before the skin is sent to a tanner to be preserved.
The sculptor then sets the skin - complete with fur still in place - around a shoe model before doing any needlework to add insoles and lining.
She said: "I love horses and I love shoes so I thought this would be perfect. Horses have a beautiful walk and I wanted to recreate that with my footwear.
"Creating the shoes is ugly work, taking the meat out is not nice, like any taxidermy. When I began working with dead animals I would pick them up from the street.
"But they are protected by the government in Germany, and so after ten years they tried to put me in prison. Now I use my butcher.
"Once the shoes are made I wear them to make sure they work, although they would not be suitable to wear around the house."

Florida Teen Tries to Rob Porn Store With Gun, Gets Talked Into Filling Out a Job Application Instead

Cody Conner, 17, walked into an adult novelty store in Debary with a loaded gun and intended to stick-up the cashier. Instead, the employee talked Conner out of the robbery, and actually convinced the kid to fill out a job application.

Of course Conner won't be getting the job. The employee turned over the application, with all of Conner's personal information on it, over to police.

The incident occurred at Cupid's Corner store, which promises on its website that it sells "everything for your erotic desires."

Conner demanded cash from the female employee, but she told him, "don't do this, it's not worth it."

She managed to talk to Conner for 20 minutes, and got him to remove the bullets from the gun. According to WESH, she told him the store might have a job opening, and got him to fill out an application.

The employee and would-be robber then hugged and even smoked a cigarette together.

After Conner left however, the employee walked next door and called 911. Authorities used the job application information to track down Conner. He was arrested and charged with armed robbery. Though, he told the police that the gun he used was only armed with BBs.

Sunday 11 March 2012

What if it was u

A couple was invited to a masked costume Halloween party. The wife got
a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone.
He, being a devoted husband, protested, but she argued and said she
was going to take some aspirin and go to bed, and there was no need
for his good time to be spoiled by not going.
so he took his Batman costume (mask) and away he went.
The wife, after sleeping soundly for about an hour, awakened without
pain, and, as it was still early,
decided to go to the party.
In as much as her husband did not know what her
costume was, she thought she would have some fun by
watching her husband to see how he acted when she was
not with him
She put on a Goldilocks costume (mask). So she joined
the party and soon spotted her husband enjoying
himself on the dance floor, dancing with every nice
woman he cuddled and occasionally giving a little kiss
here and there.
His wife went up to him and being a rather seductive
woman herself, his husband left his new partner
devoted his time to her. She let him go as far as he
wished, naturally, since he was her husband.
After some more drinking he finally whispered a little
proposition in her ear and she agreed, so off they
went to one of the cars and had quick s3x in the back
seat.
She slipped away before unmasking herself or her
husband and went home and put her costume (mask) away
and got into bed, wondering what kind of explanation
he would make up for his outrageous behaviour.
She was sitting up reading when he came in, so she
asked what kind of time he had.
“Oh, the same old thing. You know I never have a good
time when you’re not there. ”
Then she asked, “Did you dance much?”
He replied, “I tell you, I never even danced one
dance. When I got there, I met Pete, Bill Brown and
some other guys, so we went into the spare room and
played darts all evening.”
“You must have looked really silly wearing that Batman
costume playing darts all night!” She said with
unashamed sarcasm.
To which the husband replied, “Actually, I gave my
Batman costume to your Dad who seemed to have had a
jolly good time on the dance floor. Am told that he
was seen by Frank taking a prostitute in a Goldilocks
outfit out for a few minutes. Don’t ask me what they
did; you know your dad still wants to behave like a
kid.”
What would
You do if you were her.

Alaska's Loch Ness Monster Is Latest Alleged Sea Serpent Sighting


It has a horse-like head at the end of a long neck, with big eyes and humps on its back. It undulates above the surface for just a moment before diving back underwater -- leaving even the most seasoned sailors scratching their heads.
It sounds like any of the thousands of sea serpent stories, from Scotland's Loch Ness Monster to Lake Champlain's Champ. But this time there's video.
A remarkable piece of footage purportedly shot by a fisherman in Bristol Bay shows what many people believe is Alaska's version of the Loch Ness Monster.

The Cadborosaurus, like most sea serpents reported around the world, is categorized by scientists under the heading of cryptozoology, the study of animals not yet recognized by mainstream science, like the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot.
While Caddy has been written off by some as a shark, eel or whale, Leblond disagrees.
"It must be a mammal or a reptile, since it oscillates up and down in a vertical plain, which eliminates sideways-oscillating fish," he said.
Whether Caddy or its Scottish cousin, Nessie, are relatives or even real, remains to be seen -- at least until more compelling visual evidence is presented. Or one of these beasts is actually captured.