Hold the Wedding, Levi's ex-girlfriend is prego!

Bristol Palin's friends have told RadarOnline.com that she is heartbroken after finding out that her fiance Levi Johnston may have impregnated his ex-girlfriend, Lanesia Garcia. In fact, Bristol may be having second thoughts about going through with the wedding, although a Palin family representative said, "no official decision has been made."

Earlier in the week, the National Enquirer reported that Garcia was pregnant and she and Johnston were together when he was single last year. A source says that Johnston claims the baby isn't his, but that, "Levi is one of three possible fathers who were with Lanesia during the probable week of conception."

In 2008, Garcia talked to UK's News Of The World, revealing that she and Levi were in a three-year-long relationship before her then-best friend Bristol stole him away from her. Via PopCrunch:

Here's what Lanesia said at the time: "I didn't believe it, I never dreamt she was capable of doing that to me. But when I called her she just said, 'I'm so sorry, I couldn't help it. Levi and I are together now and I think he's the man for me.' I put the phone down and have not talked to her since. I was distraught for a year -- I missed Bristol desperately but also Sarah, who was like a second mom to me. Neither of them have tried to contact me, though -- which says something about how ruthless they can be. The phrase Sarah used comparing herself to a lipstick-wearing pit bull is spot on."

Don't Ask Demi Moore how her Cleanse is going...

After doing the Master Cleanse with her husband earlier this month, Demi Moore moved immediately into another "healthier" diet.

On Monday a fan asked Demi how many days she had stuck to the Master Cleanse, which involves consuming nothing but lemon juice, cayenne pepper and maple syrup.

"Only 4 but 2day's day 13 4me on The Clean Program! http://j.mp/a6N7qm RT @MirandaMartinez day 30 of Master Cleanse! How many days did u do?" she tweeted.

The Clean Program is the creation of Dr. Alejandro Junger, who helped Giuliana Rancic and Gwyneth Paltrow lose weight. It is a 21-day regimen of smoothies, and salads for dinner are allowed.

When one of Demi's followers politely said she was not interested in the Clean Program because "healthy diet & exercise are all that's required," Demi got defensive.

"@chazzyb31 I think you need to research what it is I am doing there is no starving involved! It is all about nourishing the body!" she tweeted. And: "@ElenorRigby yeah I think she doesn't know what she is talking about!"

Later a fan asked Demi for tips on getting through the Master Cleanse, and Demi admitted there are healthier things than the severe diet she just two weeks ago declared was "all about health!!!"

Are All White Foods bad for you?

Over the last decade, white foods have gotten a bad rap. We're talking about any foods that contain white sugar or refined white flour. Also known as simple carbohydrates, these foods raise blood sugar levels faster than complex carbohydrates like whole wheat products. Most white foods are processed, excluding vegetables like cauliflower, potatoes and others. Ironically, most foods don't start out white.

Manufacturers bleach flour and sugar and heavily process these products making them a former shell of the whole foods they once were. Most white foods have been stripped of their nutritional value. They also have less fiber and vitamins than their whole wheat counterparts, which also have greater nutritional density. White foods have become so taboo there is even a "no white foods diet" that eliminates all white foods that are boxed, packaged, canned, refined, baked and processed. That means anything with flour, salt, sugar, white rice and potatoes.

According to the "no white foods diet, " these foods not only stimulate but escalate cravings for all things evil - cookies, chips, pies, donuts, etc. White foods tend to be higher in starches which break down into sugar. It's important to keep in mind that all white foods are not created equal. There are plenty of these foods that should have a permanent place on your food repertoire. Among the white foods you'll want to keep around: endives, garlic, ginger, artichokes, jicama, turnips, shallots, onions, mushrooms, white peaches, pears, potatoes and white nectarines.

Some nutritionists aren't so quick to jump on the anti-white bandwagon. Christine Avanti, author of Skinny Chicks Don't Eat Salads, maintains that white foods in moderation are okay if eaten with proteins. The balance of protein and carbs stabilizes the blood sugar and prevents the carb crash that usually occurs post white food consumption. She also points to cauliflower, potatoes, skim milk and yogurt for white foods that do a body good.

Surprise in new LOST box set on Jimmy Kimmel

What to Expect with Closing Costs on a purchase of a home

Renada, a New Yorker ready to make the switch from renter to owner, thought she'd sailed through the home buying process. She was approved for a loan, found a condominium in Hell's Kitchen and signed a purchase agreement, all in a relatively short period of time. She expected more of the same during her closing appointment. As she reviewed the closing paperwork, though, she realized that she was in unknown and unexpected territory: The list of fees associated with her purchase was dizzyingly long, and the price tag higher than she'd imagined.

"Everything came to a stop," she said. "I don't get it! There's a title fee, an escrow fee, insurance. It's too much fine print for me."

Disney Sells Miramax for a cool $660 Million

Walt Disney Co. has sold Miramax, Reuters reports. Filmyard Holdings LLC bought the film studio for more than $660 million, securing rights to Miramax hits like Shakespeare in Love and No Country for Old Men. Disney acquired Miramax for $80 million in 1993 from its founders, brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein.

'Inception' Parody clip

Everyone’s still talking about the last scene of Inception. (I guess I should put a SPOILER ALERT here for anyone who somehow hasn’t gotten around to seeing it.) Does Cobb’s personal top keep spinning? Does it fall? Is he still dreaming or back in reality?

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Jersey Shore's Baaaack!

If you’re looking for a metaphor to describe tonight’s second-season premiere of Jersey Shore, how about the SUV that The Situation and Pauly D drove into a South Carolina corn field during their road-trip to Miami? Tires spinning, covered in filth, and sinking under its own unfeasible weight, the vehicle needed not one, but two tow-trucks to drag it back to a functioning position. I’m not sure if there’s a similar service available for overexposed reality-show participants, but oh what I wouldn’t have given to see a character named Triple A round up Snooki, JWoww, Angelina, The Situation, Ronnie, Pauly D, and the super boring dude with the carefully sculpted eyebrows for either a badly needed tuneup or a trip to the scrap heap.

Yeah, I’m being harsh, but do Jersey Shore‘s pack of self-proclaimed guidos and guidettes really deserve better? My problem with tonight’s episode wasn’t the fact that every word and action from the cast was a total contrivance — that’d be like going to McDonald’s and being outraged that your Big Mac didn’t come served on fine china — but that said contrivances were so thoroughly and exhaustingly void of humor, originality, or even genuine outlandishness.

Such a short way into their celebrity life-cycle, you can practically feel the Jersey Shore kids buying into their own hype, believing they needn’t do anything beyond just showing up, of going through the motions of what they think the show’s producers think their lives should look like: “Eyebrows” declares his “60 girls in 60 days” policy with all the sexual fervor of a movie-theater concessions clerk telling you that you can upgrade to a medium combo for only fifty cents more. Angelina (who even in her dreams isn’t an eighth as bawdy-hilarious as Khloe Kardashian) goes to a salon to get a Brazilian wax, but can’t think of anything more clever to say than “The bitch of Staten Island is back and ready to f****** party!” And oh, how about Ronnie and Sammi? He calls her an unspeakable insult — hint: it rhymes with grunt — and she goes home and films a confessional saying she still loves and cares about him because, well, without a will-they-won’t-they story arc to perpetuate, she’ll just be a third banana to Snooki and JWoww. (Spoiler alert: She still is anyway!)

But I’m supposed to be writing a jaunty recap, not a self-help manual for young women with severe self-esteem issues or a screed against what’s wrong with pretty much everything ever. So let’s do an alphabetical rundown of our players and what they got up to this week:

Angelina: “I feel like in the world, everybody deserves a second shot,” she declared at the top of the show, though whether she was talking about Patrón, Jägermeister, or redemption is anyone’s guess. Our Lady of Misunderstood Intentions/Achingly Unselfaware Blathering then “surprised” her estranged cast-mates by flying to Miami and foisting herself on them for a second season. Angelina was allowed to bunk with Pauly D and The Situation on the off chance that they experienced a “slow night” with “no chicks” and a rainy forecast. (Silly me, and here I thought that’s why God invented the Wii.) Angelina, who spent most of the episode in shorts so skimpy that the pockets hung below her cuffs like sad, drooping tongues, found herself getting the icy cold shoulder from Snooki and JWoww — that is until she got into a cab with them, participated in an unintelligible but very loud verbal altercation, and then announced in her confessional: “I’m tryin’ to be classy right now.” Someone raise a “mission accomplished” banner in that young woman’s honor!

Eyebrows: Coined the word “obliviated” to describe Ronnie’s alarmingly drunken state. Otherwise seemed to exist merely to offer expository sound bites for the show’s editing team.

JWoww: Road-tripped it to Miami with Snooki, and somehow found time to change into an elegant pink sequined dress before entering the cast’s shared apartment at Metropole Hotel Apartments. (Newsflash: The hottub is gonna need a few more years before it’s safe again.) I loved the way JWoww got all puffed up when she realized Angelina was in the house, declaring “I’m not gonna let a girl be catty and get away with it and live in my house without getting her ass beat.” (Wait, if the girl is in your house and going to get her ass beat, then how come you’re also implying she got away with it? Discuss!) I couldn’t understand half of what JWoww said while attempting to scramble over the back seat of the rental car and apply a coat of smackdown to Angelina — a steady succession of bleeps will do that to one’s listening comprehension — but it sure made Sammi and Snooki laugh.

Pauly D: Implied he drunkenly hooked up with Angelina in L.A. during the Jersey Shore offseason. I’d like to see a polygraph, Mr. D.

Ronnie: I nominate Ronnie for ABC’s next Bachelor. Just think about the unique attributes he brings to the game: Able to make out with two women at the same time (handy during two-on-one dates); doesn’t discriminate against strippers (allowing for a wider casting net of bachelorettes); states the obvious with wit and panache (“I’m in Miami, bitch!” he shouted to no one in particular); and did we mention his expressive use of the c-word? But don’t take my testimonial for it, take Sammi’s: “I love him and still care about him.” Wait, is she saying she would absolutely accept his rose? But here’s my burning question about Ronnie: Why in the name of all that’s Jersey would all those unidentified women make out with the lumbering lummox — in plain view of MTV’s cameras? People aren’t that desperate to be on TV, right? Discuss!

Sammi: Oh enough about this one and her issues, already! (At least till she has a physical altercation with JWoww.)

Snooki: Okay, I know I was pushing Ronnie for Bachelor, but with the way Snooki described her relationship with her “amazing gorilla juicehead” boyfriend, it sounded like she was advocating the launch of Bumpit of Love on VH1 in the not-so-distant future. “I really don’t wanna cheat. Like seriously, I don’t want to. But y’know, if you’re gonna hand me a bottle of freakin’ SoCo [translation: Southern Comfort?], something just comes over me, and like I just go crazy,” Snooki said. Later, she got political: “I don’t go tanning-tanning anymore. Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. And I feel like he did that intentionally to us. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning because he’s pale and he would probably wanna be tan. Obama doesn’t have that problem, obviously.” What more is there to say than that, really? Actually, I should observe that Snooki’s thrice-daily bronzer looks like it comes in a container of diner syrup.

The Situation: While the late Princess Diana spent a lot of her adult life trying to raise awareness of land mines, I’m not sure she’d be exactly flattered to find that Sitchu is attempting to make the phrase happen as a code word for “thin ugly chick,” or that he’s using the term “grenade” to label “bigger ugly chicks.” Sigh. But let’s not waste the pretty and instead part ways reviewing this overly long, but truly poetic sound bite, from the Sitchu himself: “It was a crazy amount of tension. I mean, it was so thick you could probably like slice it down the middle in the air. That’s how thick it was.” Alrighty then!

What did you think of the second-season premiere of Jersey Shore? Will it be as much of a phenomenon as it was during season 1? Share your thoughts below

Kanye West Joins Twitter

In the day since Kanye West joined Twitter, he’s already become arguably the site’s single funniest user. I’m not even kidding.

Take the update he posted earlier this afternoon, just one of dozens so far: “I think Twitter was designed specifically with me in mind just my humble opinion hahhhahaaaahaaa humble hahahahhahaahaaaa.” Exactly. His context-free one-liners are Twitter at its best.

Kanye’s most fascinating tweets document the expensive objects around him. He spent a decent stretch of yesterday afternoon cracking wise about an allegedly tiny jet. Today he’s been posting photos of various regal housewares with deadpan captions. “I hate half empty water bottles so I copped these #goblets to drink out of.” “I copped this to eat cereal out of turning the crib real Kingish.” “I’m just saying… what’s your credenza game…#DON’TTALKTOME!!!” My favorite of this subgenre of Kanye tweets is the one pictured at the top of this post. “I specifically ordered persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh.”

Did he even buy any of that stuff, or is it part of the joke? Does it matter? He’s playing with the audience’s perception of him as a wealthy egomaniac while simultaneously being just that. Bragging about himself and satirizing himself, at the same time, all the time, like some sort of Schröedinger’s Rapper. When his pal Aziz Ansari started a gently mocking “#PredictingKanyeTweets” hashtag, Kanye just…retweeted him. You can’t laugh at him for being narcissistic, because he’s already right there laughing at himself. I think.

That’s only one side of what Kanye has done on Twitter to date. He’s also shouted out tons of blogs (including the Music Mix) for covering him, marveled at his follower count (255,000 and counting), and riffed on classical music (“Leonard Bernstein is the s—!!!”) and dating supermodels (“I had to learn to like small dogs and cigarettes”). It adds up to our most direct route yet to what Kanye’s thinking as he’s thinking it — like his blog at its caps-lock-ranting height, but even less filtered and a lot more light-hearted. Maybe this is something like what the show Kanye was developing with Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s Larry Charles would have been like if HBO hadn’t passed.

What do you think of Kanye West’s tweets so far? Several sites have attempted to round up his best messages, but really, you should just go follow him now and read ‘em all. There’s no telling what he’ll say next.

Jennifer Lopez in as new 'American Idol' judge!

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Jennifer Lopez has inked a deal to join American Idol‘s judging panel for its upcoming 10th season, an industry source tells People. The news dropped just hours after Ellen DeGeneres confirmed her exit from the show, despite having only served one year of a reported multi-season deal.

Lopez served as an Idol mentor on Latin night during the show’s sixth season, garnering generally positive reviews for her warm, candid style, and her ability to extract a not entirely terrible performance of “Bésame Mucho” from widely maligned contestant Sanjaya Malakar.

A Fox spokesperson declined to comment on the reported deal with Lopez. Calls and emails to Fremantle Media, American Idol spokespersons, and Lopez’s reps were not immediately returned.

Ellen Leaving 'American Idol'

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Fox announced today that Ellen DeGeneres has decided to step down from her role as a judge on American Idol. DeGeneres joined the panel in its ninth season. The network released this statement today: “A couple months ago, I let Fox and the American Idol producers know that this didn’t feel like the right fit for me,” said DeGeneres. “I told them I wouldn’t leave them in a bind and that I would hold off on doing anything until they were able to figure out where they wanted to take the panel next. It was a difficult decision to make, but my work schedule became more than I bargained for. I also realized this season that while I love discovering, supporting and nurturing young talent, it was hard for me to judge people and sometimes hurt their feelings. I loved the experience working on IDOL and I am very grateful for the year I had. I am a huge fan of the show and will continue to be.”

Fox released a statement of its own: “We love Ellen and understand and support her decision to bow out of Idol,” said Peter Rice, Chairman of Entertainment, Fox Networks Group. “We were fortunate to receive the humor, energy and love for talent that she brought to the show.” Added Idol creator Simon Fuller in a statement: “I loved Ellen’s passion for the artists and her nurturing skills. She brought honesty and optimism to our judging panel and I will miss her greatly.”

News of DeGeneres’ departure comes amid reports that former Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe is all but certain to return to the show for its 10th season and that he reportedly favors an entirely new slate of judges for the competition show to make up for the loss of Simon Cowell, who left at the end of Idol’s ninth season to launch a U.S.-based version of his popular British series The X Factor. Complicating matters could be the fact that current judge Randy Jackson is reportedly signed through next year.

On Wednesday, a source told EW that the network’s dream scenario would be to make a splashy announcement about Idol’s future at the annual Television Critics Tour session with journalists on Monday in Beverly Hills. “They’d be the talk of TCA, and the message to other networks would essentially be, ‘Follow that!’” says the source. EW also learned that despite their names surfacing as potential Cowell replacements earlier this week, both Justin Timberlake and Elton John’s meetings with Idol producers took place “a couple months ago.”

Even though she seemed committed to her new gig at Fox, it was hard to imagine DeGeneres wanting to stick around if and when Cowell bolted. In January, she told EW that “If Simon goes, I go!” when asked to comment on rumors that the irascible Brit was preparing to leave at season’s end. Meanwhile, feedback for her performance was generally mixed: Though DeGeneres offered real critiques during the Hollywood round, she came off as bland and predictable during the live shows by often telling everyone they were “great.”

Roseanne alum Sara Gilbert is officially a lesbian

This is no shocker, but Roseanne alum Sara Gilbert is officially a lesbian, it was revealed today at Television Critics Association summer press tour in Los Angeles. Gilbert’s sexuality was, for all intents and purposes, previously an open secret, like it is with so many other celebrities in Hollywood. (I’m not at liberty to publish names, but make a few guesses yourself — you probably won’t be wrong). In years past, publicists would ask that stories about Gilbert’s two children kindly didn’t mention her partner.

But hark! Today, Gilbert sat on a panel to talk about the new mother-rific riff on The View — called The Talk — that she’s executive producing and co-hosting with Julie Chen, Leah Remini, Holly Robinson Peete, Sharon Osbourne, and Marissa Jaret Winokur, and she mostly didn’t sidestep the subject. When asked if she thought it’d be easier to be out in a talk show forum rather than as a character on a scripted show, Gilbert said, “This is a whole new world for me,” and added later, “I’m not an expert on this, or I don’t analyze these things. I’m just sort of living my life. I plan to put my heart and soul into this show, and I plan to continue acting, and I don’t think it will be a problem.” Being out, that is. “I don’t ever really think of things as out or in,” Gilbert said today. “I just think I am who I am, and when topics come up that are appropriate, I’ll talk about them and share when it seems right.”

To that, I say: Bravo to Gilbert! It was a tad strange when, last week, CBS sent out the press release about the new talk show and mentioned the husbands of the rest of the hosts, but only mentioned Gilbert’s children. Gilbert cleared up why there was no mention of her girlfriend, Allison Adler, a television producer. That decision to omit Allison, Gilbert explained, “came from me. CBS would write whatever I wanted.” And she added: “I’ve been acting my whole life, and I’ve never really discussed my personal life. This is a talk show” — one focusing on motherhood and parenting, no less, which she does with someone else. “So obviously,” she continued, “I’m going to be discussing my life more, and I felt that the first place I wanted to do it wasn’t in a CBS press release. It just seemed impersonal, and I felt like I’d rather come in person and talk to you about all that stuff here.” Classy move, truly.

Gilbert shared her pet peeve about Allison — specifically, that she’s taller and looks better in clothes because of it. And there’s lots more to come in that regard, judging by the candid format of this new show. I’m excited to hear more about the way Sara and Allison raise their two adorable children, mostly because they seem like good ladies and great representatives of lesbian moms everywhere. Does the news that Sara is officially out as a lesbian shock you? Will the fact that Sara loves the ladies make you tune in — or tune out — of The Talk?

Tom Hardy: 'Of Course' He's Had Sex With Men

British magazine NOW somehow had the foresight to ask 'Inception' star Tom Hardy -- you know, that hunk everyone's been talking about, the one that's not Joseph Gordon-Levitt? -- if he'd ever engaged with sexual activities with men. The response was gold: "As a boy? Of course I have. I'm an actor for f---'s sake."

Hardy, 32, is engaged to British actress Charlotte Riley and has a 2-year-old son with a previous girlfriend. But still, he says: "I've played with everything and everyone. I love the form and the physicality, but now that I'm in my thirties, it doesn't do it for me. I'm done experimenting but there's plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life."

Referring to Hardy's "string of gay flings as a teenager," the Daily Mail notes the actor starred in Guy Ritchie's 'RocknRolla' as a gay gangster named Handsome Bob, crushing on Gerard Butler's character.

"I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine," Hardy said, elaborating on his apparent bicuriosity. "A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes."

Hardy's notable roles have included Charles Bronson, Heathcliffe in Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights' and his breakout spot in 'Star Trek Nemesis.'

"A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys."

Dead Azz Wrong!

We've all seen them - days when you are just walking and minding your own business and out of nowhere comes something that is just SO dead azz wrong! That's right I said dead AZZ wrong. Let me share some of these things with you.

I can't even say nothing...smh

..that's how many kids she got given that childbirth stomach that's hanging all out and shyt! I mean really... don't she feel the breeze whissalin cross that joint? Smh..women are SAD..


Is she fa'real though? S-H-A-Y? Seriously?? Girl bye!


OH EM GEE!!!

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY???????????




This is why we'll never progress as a people! These hoes got kit.katt & ree.ses in they dayum hair! Woooooo black women I swear foe gawd I try real hard to love y'all azzes!!! Uh uh uh

I can't!!!!!!


Lawd geezuz the lil brown baby.. I can't!! One speed bump or pothole and it's O-VAH!!

Whose son is this cuz he need to be beat!! He lookin at the cam like "What bitches?!?" CTFU!

Lawd have mercy!!! When is this shyt gonna end though?? Dayum!! Po buttafly *sad face*

Ohhhhh I want Jesus to come along and drop kick this bytch!! WTF!?! You carry dogs, lipgloss, tampons and bullshyt in ya purse not no pretty lil brown baby. Wooooooo I swear!!! Y'all know how I feel bout the lil brown babies *deep heavy laden sigh*.. my lil spirit all too pieces..

*bowed head* "Father God, I just want to say Thank You!! I'm so glad You saw fit not to give me such a burden as this! *shew* I will forever be indebted to You and I praise You all the days of my life! Your child, Durt!!"


Wooo I don't know why this cracked me up but it did!! She peeking round the corner like "boo!".. Sum'n bout her color throwing me off too..She looks baked fresh out the oven... like her liver ain't functioning right.. uh uh uh!


What in the azz??? Literally!! People be on some other shyt cuz how is this cute? And you know her crack and everythang related to it on fire from that tight azz denim! No ma'am!

WTF???

This better be photoshopped!! *still staring* I am rendered speechless!!!


Whose uncle is this? LOL!! I'm real mad he ashy as hell with that thirsty azz jheri curl!

CTFU!! Whose son is this?? And wtf is going on with the back of his head? Them lil swoop curls in the front done made my day! Wooo!! He is too much for me! I see you Dexter!

Whose lips are these? I mean the lips and gums the same color! Wtf??!! Teeth whitening my azz!

Stuck in a rut with your workouts and on a plateau?

What can you do to shake up your workout when you begin to plateau? Well here are some simple suggestions.

Method 1 – Calorie confusion. Your body is smart, but easily confused. It quickly realizes when you're giving it, say, 1,800 calories a day but is thrown off kilter when you alter your calorie intake from day to day. Many dieters purport that upping calorie intake by 300 calories for two days, dipping below that threshold for two days and continuing that cycle for several weeks will keep your body guessing and jolt it back into the fat-melting business.

Method 2 – Split workouts. Exercise does not cause a permanent uptick in metabolism, but it does cause a temporary increase each time you hit the treadmill or weight room, especially if you don't just go through the motions. Working out several times a day (two to three short, quick, intense workouts lasting anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes) not only burns the same number of calories as if you did it all at once but presumably delivers several periods of metabolic "after-burn," during which the body continues to burn calories at a higher rate even after you have stopped exercising. So instead of one after-burn period, you now have several and should theoretically burn slightly more calories.

How many more? It's hard to say. It may not add up to more than 20 to 30 calories over the course of a 24-hour period, but in the weight loss game, little changes can potentially mean a lot. They might be the few extra calories that tip the scales in your favor.

Method 3 – Change your exercise routine. In any way. If you run, cycle. If you ellipticize, walk. If you swim, dry yourself off, change your clothes and hit a step class. This is based on the same principle as calorie confusion, which is that any change is good and will get the body's fat-burning gears revved up and moving once again. One change I've found especially helpful is to emphasize strength training for a while, especially if you've recently slacked off in that area. Strength training, particularly at a high intensity, will give you a greater after-burn. Though, as with split workouts, it's unlikely to provide much in the way of permanent metabolic effect, those temporary turbo boosts may add up to some real body composition changes.

Method 4 – Fidget. If exercise and diet aren't doing it for you, aim to burn several 100 more calories throughout the day through lifestyle activities. Many people who are dedicated exercisers and watch what they eat sit at a desk all day without so much as shifting in their chairs (as I mentioned in a recent post, the average American now spends more than half the day sitting). Even if you just commit to standing for several hours a day, the calorie burn could add up. Sitting at your desk burns about 80 calories an hour, whereas standing burns about 115. Over the course of the day, that's an opportunity to expend about 175 calories. Multiply that out for an entire year, and that's 64,000 calories you didn't burn, or 18 pounds you either gained or didn't lose.

And that's just one example of how adding more movement to your lifestyle could potentially help you drop a clothing size. The old adage to park at the far end of the parking lot may seem boring but it can really work. Here are some more tips on how to add movement into your daily routine.

Method 5 – Get real. Have you really been as virtuous as you say you've been? Let's go to the videotape. Or at least the food and workout journal. If you haven't been losing ground or if you've even been gaining ground, start keeping a diary and pore over it to see what's truly going on. This will do two things for you: It will make you think twice before reaching for that second cookie, and it will help you see what typical eating and movement patterns emerge.

Desperate Housewives - Brian Austin Green to join the cast!

Maybe that’s just because in our heart of hearts, we’ll always love David Silver. (Yes, even more than Brandon and Dylan. Because who needs floppy hair and fiveheads when you’ve got a bad boy?) But we couldn’t be more excited to learn that Brian Austin Green is indeed in talks for a recurring role on Desperate Housewives. Especially when we saw the description of Green’s character: “The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum will play Keith, a new contractor and charming playboy who turns up the heat on Wisteria Lane.”

You know what that means: If we learned anything from Housewives‘ first season, it’s that the ABC series enjoys showing its blue-collar workers shirtless. (Hello Jesse Metcalfe’s underage gardener!) Not a difficult fact to digest, when you consider how foxy Green was on the tragically short-lived Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Desperate Housewives - Emily Bergl to join the cast?

First Wilhelmina Slater. Then David Silver. Now Annie O’Donnell!

A Desperate Housewives insider confirms to me exclusively that Men in Trees‘ delightfully daffy Emily Bergl (a.k.a. Annie) is a breath away from landing the recurring role of Beth, the fragile soul who married Paul (Mark Moses) while he was behind bars. In season 7, she joins him on Wisteria Lane with a juicy secret.

No one ever just comes to that block with pie, do they?

So what do you think of all the DH newbies? Are you excited to see what Vanessa Williams, Brian Austin Green, and, hopefully, Bergl bring to the table? Or are you thinking, “Well, there goes the neighborhood”? Speak your mind below.

Desperate Housewives - Bree Van De Kamp

I hear Bree has a nasty confrontation with some tired old wallpaper in the season premiere. Of course, as my friend’s therapist would say, it’s not wallpaper she’s really mad at. I think somebody better run for cover...

Desperate Housewives - Farewell Julie Mayer

Look like one resident of Wisteria Lane will not be returning next season and that's Julie Mayer.

Poor girl what a time she had last season. First she was attacked, it was discovered that she was having an affair with Angie's husband, then she lost her father when the small airplane crashed into the Lane for the midseason finale and last her mother lost the house. Oh and let us not forget the season before when it was revealed that she was having an affair with a professor at College. So it makes sense that Julie would pack it in and head for greener pastures.

A&E's 'Obsessed'

While most reality TV focuses on mindless chatter ('The Hills'), hair-pulling cat fights ('Real Housewives') and drunken debauchery ('Jersey Shore'), networks like A&E are paving the way for more educational reality shows that are actually helping Americans.

A&E has capitalized on "intervention" programming which includes unscripted docu-series like 'Hoarders,' 'Intervention' and 'Obsessed.' These shows follow real Americans whose anxieties and addictions have taken control of their lives, making them prisoners of their behaviors. As the individual's families plot a total intervention -- with the help of a TV crew -- the heart-wrenching road to recovery is all captured on film as millions of voyeurs peer into these strangers' lives while they attempt to face their demons. Viewers watch as the person struggles to face their addiction with the help of interventionists and therapy in hopes of turning their lives around. But do these shows actually work once the cameras stop rolling?

Psychologist Shana Doronn, who is a veteran therapist on 'Obsessed,' tells PopEater the road to recovery is a "lifelong process," adding that continued therapy is "is crucial ... and all the therapists strive to keep therapy going after the cameras stop."

Doronn even offered free therapy sessions -- the woman had no insurance or a job -- to one of the show's subjects because she knew the client needed it. She credits continued support as a contributing factor to the 'Obsessed' clients high recovery rates.




This recovery success appears to hold true for the network's other shows. In a recent article, The Daily Beast points out an impressive fact, noting that "of the 161 addicts that have appeared on A&E's show 'Intervention' in the past five years, 130 are sober today ... the 71 percent recovery rate is, by any standard, astonishingly high."

MTV tried tapping into a similar market with 'Gone Too Far.' DJ AM (born Adam Goldstein) spent his last few months filming the series, in which he and concerned families staged interventions for young drug abusers. Goldstein had battled a drug addiction for years and, in a tragic twist of fate, the celebrity spinner died of an accidental drug overdose before the show aired its first episode. MTV eventually aired the episodes -- perhaps as a cautionary tale that could encourage others to seek treatment.

The eye-opening tale is just another reason why Doronn is continuing her stint on A&E's 'Obsessed.'

"I've received e-mails from all over the country from people thanking me for bringing real issues to TV that are handled with such sensitivity and care," she says. "My hope is that these shows motivate people to seek help as well as provide valuable information about recovery."

'Obsessed' airs Mondays on A&E at 10PM EST

MTA mulling plan to hike cost of unlimited monthly MetroCard by $15

The MTA is considering a plan to hike the cost of an unlimited monthly MetroCard by a whopping $15, sources confirmed Monday.

If the budget proposal is adopted, riders would have to fork over $104 in January instead of the current $89 fare, but the number of rides would not be capped.

The option is one of two being considered by the MTA to raise revenue by 7.5% overall. An earlier proposal would increase the cost of a 30-day MetroCard by only $10 to $99, but would limit the number of rides to 90. The authority is expected to hold public hearings to get feedback about both plans.

Sources familiar with both the $99 plan and the $104 option - first reported by WABC-TV - noted that the $99 proposal would be of greater benefit to most commuters, since only a small percentage of unlimited card holders take more than 90 rides per month.

Hey MTA here's an idea - how about you MAKE your employees pay for their Metro Cards & Metro North Cards and stop giving it as a perk until you can get your budget under control. It's time for sacrifices and WE should not be paying for the failure of the MTA to run it business properly.

Jane Austen's Fight Club

Ok this one is really funny!

Wikileaks - Collateral Murder

We've all heard of the term Collateral Damage - this is Collateral Murder. As you can see here these people were innocents anf for the government not to acknowledge that this had happened is a travesty.

5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.

Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-sight, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.

http://www.collateralmurder.com/

Wikileaks - What do they show about the Afghan war?

For everyone who feels like we have better things to do than be over in Iraq & Afghanistan Wikileaks some damming information about the recent conflicts. U.S. officials are condemning the leak of more than 91,000 military intelligence records on the Afghan war, saying the publication could threaten the safety of American and allied troops. But while the Pentagon may be outraged, many experts are questioning whether the trove of documents actually reveals anything new or truly damaging about the nine-year-old conflict.

This weeks "WHAT IF?" episode

This one is pretty good I liked it. They should actually take a lesson from these webisodes and just cross their soaps over. Say for Murder mysteries and the like. Think about it a Murder that crosses all 3 soaps - kinda like they did with Skye Chandlers mother Rae Cummings several years back (AMC, GH, OLTL) and the Baby switch storyline over at AMC & OLTL . It's things like that that keep the shows fresh and entertaining. CBS has been doing this kind of thing with Y&R and B&B for years and look where Y&R is in the ratings. Number 1!

Point-Counter Point supports NOH8 campaign

DEXTER: Season 5 Trailer

Bad economic times bring out the Costumed Criminals

Joan Rivers Banned by Johnny Carson

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The federal government spent millions of dollars to dead people, fugitives and incarcerated felons

FORD is on the move and regaining market share and unlike it's competitors, hasn't been marred by bad press over recalls, bankruptcy or the like. Matter-a-fact FORD is posed to not only gain in market share but to return to profitability. Now those are some BOLD MOVES if any of you remember the campaign by the same name. See FORD was smart, the finally listened to the customer, shook things up, and are taking some of the fresh innovative European designs and bringing them stateside.

So as Susan Lucci once asked in those FORD commercials from the 90's - "Why aren't you driving a FORD?"

Vampires Suck

Vampires Suck Trailer

News Reporter Plows Down Young kid

Kathy Lee calls Hoda a SLUT! LOL

Got to love Kathy Lee with her glass of wine from the box...

You ARE NOT the Father!

Now this one had me going. First time I saw a person do flips and what not. LOL

Is it LOVE on the Real World?

Now watch this and ask yourself if you can make out what in the world they are saying.
Reminds me of drunk White Trash in a trailer park.

Boy Receives Bionic Hand

An 18-year-old boy is grasping a whole new set of possibilities thanks to a bionic hand. 'Today' health expert Dr. Nancy Snyderman follows the story of Michael Waldron, who was born with a congenital malformation that left him with only a thumb on his right hand. "From playing in the orchestra to starting for his high school lacrosse team, Michael has taken his birth defect and learned how to adapt," explains Snyderman.

Sounds like something out of the Bionic Man or Woman television show of the 70's.

Now, with the help of incredible new technology, Michael is adapting to having the use of all five fingers on his right hand. Footage shows Michael carefully pouring a glass of water and drinking it with his new hand. "Little things that many of us take for granted, Michael is learning for the first time," Nancy reports. Two weeks after receiving the prosthesis, Michael graduated high school, literally holding the diploma in the new hand.

Who Owns Facebook?

Facebook's ownership is becoming murkier by the minute. During a court hearing Tuesday, the company's attorney said she was "unsure" whether founder Mark Zuckerberg signed a contract that could potentially give an 84% stake in the company to a New York businessman.

If the signature on the contract is in fact that of Facebook's Zuckerberg, the ramifications could be enormous. Not only will his fortune, estimated to be in the billions, be at stake, but also that of the thousands of Facebook employees who hold stock options, venture capitalists who've poured millions into the company and Microsoft (MSFT), a large investor.

Paul Ceglia, a New York businessman, filed a lawsuit last month against Facebook and Zuckerberg, over allegations that he's owed an 84% stake in the privately held company following a business deal he struck with Zuckerberg in April 2003.

Under a work-for-hire contract that involved two separate business ventures, Ceglia hired Zuckerberg, a Harvard freshman at the time, to develop and maintain a StreetFax Database for $1,000. The second agreement called for the continued development of an existing project "that's designed to offer the students of Harvard university access to a website similar to a live functioning yearbook with the working title of 'The Face Book."'

Ceglia was to pay Zuckerberg $1,000 for a 50% stake in the project. But for every day the project went unfinished beyond the agreed Jan. 1, 2004, completion date, the contract called for an additional 1% stake to be given to Ceglia, according to the court documents. Ceglia claims that, as of February 2004, he never received his Facebook shares.

A signature appears under the name Mark Zuckerberg in the alleged contract, dated Sept. 28, 2003.

But perhaps even more bizarre is what's happening in the courtroom. When the judge asked the basic question of whether the signature was in fact Zuckerberg's, Facebook's attorney Lisa Simpson said: "whether he signed this piece of paper, we're unsure at this moment," according to a Bloomberg report.

Huh?

According to a statement by Facebook:
Our intention was to indicate that plaintiff has not produced the original of the alleged agreement for anyone, including the court. We have serious questions about the authenticity of the document and, assuming an original exists, we look forward to expressing our opinion about it once we see it.
Ceglia's attorney, Paul Argentieri, says bring it on. He says he offered to show Facebook's attorneys the original contract if they were willing to visit his offices in Hornell, N.Y. "They didn't take me up on my offer," Argentieri told DailyFinance. "They had three weeks to get ready to answer this very basic question. I was surprised by their hesitation."

In addition, Simpson, who obviously has seen a copy of the alleged contract, said in court documents:
Accordingly, by its own terms, the purported contract proffered as the sole basis for Plaintiff's claim - even assuming it is authentic - does not even provide for consideration for work done on what is inconsistently and contradictorily referred to elsewhere in the document as "The Facebook."
The contradictory terms Simpson refers to in the alleged contract relates to the $1,000 Ceglia is to pay Zuckerberg for work on "Page Book," yet further down in the contract it refers to the project as "The Face Book."

Facebook argues in its court documents that should the contract ultimately appear authentic, Ceglia's case is by no means a grand slam win for the plaintiff.


Attorneys for the social networking giant argue in court papers that Ceglia took six-and-a-half years to file a lawsuit and that this time exceeds the two-year period the courts have previously ruled in other unrelated cases for filing a lawsuit. The attorneys also argue that the plaintiff has a receipt for $1,000 but not the full $2,000 that a copy of the alleged contract calls for, which they claims results in all property rights reverting back to Zuckerberg.

Ceglia's attorney Argentieri says he will gladly explain why his client waited six- and-a-half years to file his lawsuit when the parties go to trial. He added that his client has plenty of other documents and canceled checks with Zuckerberg's signature.

Says Argentieri: "I have all the confidence in the world we can beat their legal arguments."

See full article from DailyFinance: http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/who-owns-facebook-question-grows-as-company-attorney-is-unsure/19563153/?ncid=webmail&icid=sphere_copyright

I'll Have What Whoopi's Having...

'Restore the Gulf' - Sandra Bullock and others encourage you to join the cause

Celebrities ranging from Sandra Bullock to John Goodman are urging fans to sign a petition demanding Congress deliver long-term funding to restore the Gulf Coast following the devastating BP oil spill.

"What can you offer?" Bullock asks in the PSA for Restore the Gulf. "Your voice. Speak up!"

Bullock is joined by a bevy of other stars, many of whom hail from Gulf Coast states. Dave Matthews, Harry Shearer, Blake Lively, Peyton Manning and Emeril Lagasse, among others, ask people to "Be the One" to take action to help fund the environmental recovery effort.

'The Situation' signs on for Season 3

'The Situation' signs on for Season 3

Can Lindsay Lohan Bounce Back?

Yeah perhaps if she gets away from that crazy family she's a part of.

Parody of Old Spice Commercial

'Jersey Shore' On Strike?

'Jacob' Talks about filming shirtless

Hagman: All Politicians Should Try LSD

Larry Hagman tells HLN's Joy Behar about his past use of LSD and why it should be mandatory for all politicians.

Mel Gibson can thank his soon-to-be Ex

ABC's What If Episodes Continue...

Jersey Shore's "Situation" to pen a self help book?

Next stop on the 'Jersey Shore' Book Deal Express: Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino will bust out a book titled 'Here's the Situation.' In what the New York Post dubs a self-help book, The Situation will dish tips on grooming, rocking the GTL (gym, tanning, laundry -- c'mon, folks) and, of course, maintaining those ripped abs.

Cast of 'Jersey Shore"

The second season has yet to air but the cast of "Jersey Shore" is so dissatisfied over their contract situation that they refused to shoot scenes for the upcoming third season until they get a better deal ... this according to sources connected with the show.

The cast was supposed to begin shooting "at home" scenes today for season three, but we're told JWoww, Ronnie, Sammi, Pauly D and Vinny -- who are spread out between New York and Rhode Island -- told the crews they weren't shooting without new contracts.



The Situation and Snooki are supposed to shoot tomorrow, and we're told Snooki plans to do the same. No word yet on The Situation, but as we first reported ... he's having contract issues of his own.

Sources close to the show tells TMZ the cast feels they can make more money doing appearances for two months, rather than filming the show.

A rep for MTV had no comment. My comment would be what has become common place in Hollywood when actors get to big for their britches - RECAST!