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Pregnant Heidi Klum stays away from New York Fashion Week

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep 18 (ANI): German model Heidi Klum reportedly stayed away from the New York Fashion Week, as she could have gone into labour at any moment.

Klum, 36, who is expecting her fourth child with husband Seal, missed out on designer Ann Taylor’s collection preview on September 17.

The model had recently been unveiled as the new face of Taylor’s clothing label.

“(Klum) won’t be able to make it to the show because she is due any day now,” the Daily Express quoted a rep for Taylor as having told the New York Post. (ANI)

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UK fitness TV teaches bhangra workout class!

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 17 (ANI): A new British TV station, dedicated entirely to fitness, is offering a string of classes, including those on Bhangra.

The Fitness TV, a 24-hour station, also hosts a high heel workout class for the women who refuse to get out of their beloved stilettos. Other workouts include those based on Salsa, Hip Hop and Disco.

“Just like a personal trainer, the channel allows viewers to tailor workouts to their own levels of fitness and interests and can be easily scheduled around busy lives,” the Sun quoted a spokesman for the TV shows as saying.

“Programmes range from children’s classes including a mobility and balance workout for pre-schoolers, kids’ yoga and street dance for teenagers, while pensioners and the less mobile are offered Chairobics.

“For the more adventurous, there are boot camp-style workouts and dance-based exercise sessions for Strictly Come Dancing fans, including Bhangra, Cheerleader and 70s Disco.

“There’s even a High Heels workout for more glamorous viewers,” the spokesman added.

Fitness TV founder Luan Underwood, a former personal trainer and mum-of-two, said: “We are positioning the channel as an additional workout option, not as a replacement to gyms, fitness and wellbeing classes.

“We would like to capture the imagination of the 80 per cent of UK citizens that have never visited a gym and inspire them to do so.

“We also aim to reach people unable to visit fitness facilities, perhaps because they have young children, or time pressures that make it difficult to get to the gym for a few weeks.

“With Fitness TV, people can squeeze in a session at a time to suit them, and because the classes are constantly being updated, they’ll be more motivated to stick to them than they would an exercise DVD,” Underwood added. (ANI)

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Scarlett Johansson selling movie, music memorabilia for charity

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, September 17 (ANI): Scarlett Johansson is selling a pair of tickets to the 2010 premiere of action film Iron Man 2 and a host of movie and music memorabilia as part of an online charity auction on the website eBay.

Johansson, who plays Black Widow in the Iron Man sequel, will honour the highest bidder of the eBay.com auction with a meet-and-greet at the Los Angeles event next spring.

The highest bidder and a guest will get a chance to attend the film’s premiere.

They will also receive a complimentary session at a Beverly Hills salon to get red carpet-ready, reports Contactmusic.

The Oxfam Ambassador is also said to have listed signed copies of her latest music single Realtor, and a chair from the set of her hit movie He’s Just Not That Into You, for bidding.

All proceeds will go to Oxfam America, which seeks to find lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice around the world.

The auction runs from September 17 to 24. (ANI)

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Gardening helped Michelle Williams cope with Heath Ledger’s death

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 17 (ANI): Michelle Williams has revealed that gardening helped her cope with the death of her former fiance Heath Ledger.

The actress gave birth to the late star’s daughter Matilda, who was just 2 years old when Ledger died last year of an accidental drug overdose.

The Brokeback Mountain star, who had parted ways from Ledger months before his death, said planting new life in her garden at home helped her gain strength to deal with the grief.

“My friends never really left me alone when we came up here. One got me gardening in the spring and that’s when it all turned around,” the Daily Express quoted her as telling Vogue magazine.

“I remember being on my hands and knees. The ground was cold and muddy. I pushed back the dead leaves and saw green shoots of spring.

“Under all this decay something was growing. Caring for the garden reminded me to care for myself,” she added. (ANI)

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Scientists map melting history of Greenland’s ice sheet

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, September 17 (ANI): Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have mapped the history of the melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

Numerous drillings have been made through both Greenland’s ice sheet and small ice caps near the coast.

By analyzing every single annual layer in the kilometres long ice cores, researchers can get detailed information about the climate of the past.

But now, the Danish researcher Bo Vinther and colleagues from the Centre for Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with researchers from Canada, France and Russia, have found an entirely new way of interpreting the information from the ice core drillings.

“Ice cores from different drillings show different climate histories. This could be because they were drilled at very different places on and near Greenland, but it could also be due to changes in the elevation of the ice sheet, because the elevation itself causes different temperatures,” explained Bo Vinther about the theory.

Today, the ice sheet is more than three kilometres thick at its highest point and thinning out towards the coast.

Four of the drillings analyzed are from the central ice sheet, while two of the drillings are from small ice caps outside of the ice sheet itself.

By comparing the Oxygen-18 content in all of the annual layers from the four drillings through the ice sheet with the Oxygen-18 content of the same annual layers in the small ice caps, Bo Vinther has calculated the elevation course through 11,700 years.

Just after the ice age the elevation of the ice sheet rose slightly because when the climate transitions from ice age to warm age, there is a rapid increase in precipitation.

But at the same time, the areas lying near the coast begin to decrease in size, because the ice is melting at the edge.

When the ice melts at the edge, it slowly causes the entire ice sheet to ‘collapse’ and become lower.

The calculations show that in the course of about 3,000 years, the elevation changed and became up to 600 meters lower in the coastal areas.

But in the middle, it was a slow process, where the elevation decreased around 150 meters in the course of around 6,000 years.

It then stabilized.

The new results show the evolution of elevation of the ice sheet throughout 11,700 years and they show that the ice sheet is very sensitive to the temperature.

The results can be used to make new calculations for models predicting future consequences of climate changes. (ANI)

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Jay-Z to break Elvis Presley’s album record

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 17 (ANI): Jay-Z may soon become the solo artist with the most chart-toppers in US chart history beating King of Rock ‘n’ Roll Elvis Presley.

The rap star’s new album ‘Blueprint 3′ might as well be his 11th American number one album, which will take him past the late ‘Jailhouse Rock’ hitmaker’s record of 10 number ones.

Billboard said the 39-year-old had so far shifted 476,000 copies of the LP, the BBC News reports.

Meanwhile, the Beatles still retain their position as the most successful act on the US chart, with 19 US number one albums. (ANI)

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Attractive passers-by pose serious hazard for drivers

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 17 (ANI): A beautiful passer-by is a major distraction for male drivers, a new UK study has found.

According to a research conducted by AA Insurance, seven out of ten male drivers admit to being distracted by attractive women passer-by.

Also, a survey by the company five years ago had revealed that 66 per cent of men and 10 per cent of women were distracted by a good-looking passer-by.

“We do notice an increase in the number of minor shunts during August,” the Scotsman quoted Simon Douglas, the company’s director as saying.

The chief insists that a lot of people do not admit to being distracted by beautiful people around them.

He said: “This research suggests distractions are likely to be a factor, although most people are unlikely to admit it on a claim form – especially if they were eyeing up an attractive member of the opposite sex, perhaps showing off their tan.”

A pleasant view ranked as the top distraction for both men and women alike with 75 per cent saying a spectacular landscape would draw their attention.

A low-flying aircraft (55 per cent), billboards (52 per cent) and roadside art (30 per cent) were the other main distractions. (ANI)

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Spitzer’s call girl Ashley Dupre walks runway at NY Fashion Week

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, September 17 (ANI): Ashley Dupre, the former high-class call girl at the centre of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, walked the runway during New York Fashion Week.

The 24-year-old made the appearance at Bahar Shahpar’s fashion show, according to Jill Fehrenbacher at Ecouterre.

“It’s a rare rare thing when the tabloid world crosses into the world of eco-fashion, and one that might bring a little more attention to Bahar’s already-provocative line than would normally have been the case,” the Courier Mail quoted Fehrenbacher as saying.

Dupre was dubbed as an ‘informant’ during the scandal that saw the politician patronising a prostitution service that subsequently led to his resignation from the post of New York Governor.

Eighteen months after the storm, Dupre has been recording pop songs and wooing a record deal. (ANI)

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Now, ‘Australian Fritzl’ who raped daughter, fathered four kids emerges

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, September 17 (ANI): Lisa Neville, Australian Community Services Minister, has come under fire after huge number of bungling in the child protection services emerged, including a sex horror case of a man accused of fathering four children with his daughter.

Neville is expected to be faced with calls to resign after revelations of failed attempts by Victoria’s Department of Human Services (DHS) to conduct proper background checks on a known sexual predator before letting a child into his care.

The accused is said to have caged his daughter as a virtual prisoner, raping her almost daily from when she was 11 years old, reports the Herald Sun.

All the four kids bore by the woman, who is now under the care of authorities in a safe house, had health problems when delivered in major hospitals in Melbourne. One of the kids died soon after birth.

Their birth certificates do not hold the name of their fathers, prompting alarms as to why questions were not asked at the time.

The man denied the allegations, but was charged after DNA tests allegedly proved he was the father of her children. He is due to appear in court in November.

Comparisons have been drawn between the case and that of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who held his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years and fathered seven children with her.

Minister Lisa Neville told ABC Radio: “I was extremely appalled to see the allegations.”

“They are only allegations and are before the courts at the moment and we need to be very careful about how much detail we go into,” Neville said.

“I became aware of this from the media today and I don’t know what, or if, (there has been) any involvement of the police, the department or other agencies … over the past 30 years.

“This will be a priority to look into,” she added. (ANI)

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The pen may be mightier than the keyboard for schoolkids

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, September 17 (ANI): It may not be wrong to say that the pen is mightier than the keyboard, for a new study on schoolchildren so suggests.

Virginia Berninger, a University of Washington professor of Educational Psychology, looked at the ability of second, fourth, and sixth grade children to write the alphabet, sentences, and essays using a pen and a keyboard.

“Children consistently did better writing with a pen when they wrote essays. They wrote more and they wrote faster,” said Berninger.

The researcher further said that only for writing the alphabet was the keyboard better than the pen.

Results were mixed for sentences.

However, when using a pen, the children in the three grade levels produced longer essays and composed them at a faster pace.

The study also showed that fourth and sixth graders wrote more complete sentences when they used a pen, and that this ability was not affected by the children’s spelling skills.

The research also showed that many children don’t have a reliable idea of what a sentence is until the third or fourth grade.

“Children first have to understand what a sentence or a complete thought is before they can write one. Talking is very different from writing. We don’t talk in complete sentence. In conversation we produce units smaller and larger than sentences,” Berninger said.

She, however, added: “We need to learn more about the process of writing with a computer, and even though schools have computers they haven’t integrated them in teaching at the early grades. We need to help children become bilingual writers so they can write by both the pen and the computer. So don’t throw away your pen or your keyboard. We need them both.”

She further said: “We need more research to figure out how forming letters by a pen and selecting them by pressing a key may engage our thinking brains differently.” (ANI)

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Jim Carrey denies wedding reports

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Washington, September 17 (ANI): Jim Carrey has not tied the knot with girlfriend Jenny McCarthy in a special commitment ceremony in Malibu, his publicist has said.

Recent reports said that the couple vowed to be together forever in front of family and friends.

The lovers then purportedly headed to Las Vegas for their own version of a honeymoon, it was also said, reports Contactmusic.

But Carrey’s representative Marleah Leslie has denied the story, saying the claims are “not true”.

The couple have been dating since 2005. (ANI)

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Megan Fox’s ‘ridiculously bad’ temper

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New York, September 17 (ANI): Megan Fox, 23, has revealed how she once threatened to kill her on-off boyfriend Brian Austin Green in a fit of anger.

“My temper is ridiculously bad,” the New York Post quoted her as having told Rolling Stone magazine for its October issue.

“I’ve had to say to Brian, ‘You have to go and stop talking to me, because I’m going to kill you. I’m going to stab you with something, please leave.’

“I’d never own a gun for that reason. I wouldn’t shoot to kill. But I would shoot him in the leg, for sure,” she added. (ANI)

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Western envoys expect run-off in Afghanistan election

September 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Paris, Sep. 3 (ANI): Western envoys to Afghanistan have said that their respective governments should “be prepared for a run-off” in the Afghanistan presidential election if too many votes are ruled “irregular.”

If no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote, a run-off between the top two vote getters will be held. The latest results show that incumbent president Hamid Karzai has 47.3 percent of the vote with more than 60 percent of the ballots counted.

The meeting of German, French, British, UN, and US envoys to Afghanistan here was regarded as a show of unity and support in the midst of an Afghan mission seen as unpopular in Europe and dubbed by some US media as “Mr. Obama’s war.”

In European circles, the meeting was also seen as an effort to pressure Afghan President Karzai in the wake of some 1,000 complaints of ballot stuffing and fraud now under review, and to garner support for US efforts to target of irregular election behavior and corruption, the Christian Science Monitor reports.

Hosted by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, the gathering also included British envoy Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Germany’s Bernd Mutzelburg, US envoy Richard Holbrooke, Karl Eide of the UN, and 22 other representatives.

The Afghanistan Election Commission is now going through nearly 1,000 complaints, of which 600 have been addressed, the envoys said – predicting they would finish the process by September 17. (ANI)

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Pregnant Heidi Klum stays away from New York Fashion Week

UK fitness TV teaches bhangra workout class!

Gardening helped Michelle Williams cope with Heath Ledger’s death

Scientists map melting history of Greenland’s ice sheet

Jay-Z to break Elvis Presley’s album record

Attractive passers-by pose serious hazard for drivers

Spitzer’s call girl Ashley Dupre walks runway at NY Fashion Week

Now, ‘Australian Fritzl’ who raped daughter, fathered four kids emerges

The pen may be mightier than the keyboard for schoolkids

Jim Carrey denies wedding reports

Megan Fox’s ‘ridiculously bad’ temper

Western envoys expect run-off in Afghanistan election

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