Jim Kelly said his cancer diagnosis is scary to him and his family, but is ready to attack it with the same passion he had in leading the Buffalo Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls.

“When you hear the word cancer it actually scares the crap out of you,” Kelly told reporters at his celebrity golf tournament on Monday. “I know it not only scared me, but it scared my family. But like everything, it’s just another river to cross.”

The phrase Kelly used, “one more river to cross,” was a popular rallying cry for the Bills teams of the early 1990s.

Jim Kelly said he had been experiencing jaw pain for the last six months, and in March had a procedure to remove a cyst about the size of a nickel from his gums and nasal cavity.

Doctors diagnosed his cancer about two weeks ago, and Kelly said the prognosis is good.

“When I talked to the surgeon, and when they went over the CT scan, they knew I caught it early enough,” Kelly said. “But just like with anything, you have to wait a number of months after the surgery to make sure nothing comes back.

“I’m very confident. My faith is definitely there, and that’s probably more than anything what’s kept me going, and the support I’ve gotten from my family.”

Kelly is familiar with challenges. His son, Hunter, was born with Krabbe disease, a degenerative disorder of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Though doctors said Hunter would probably not live to his first birthday and very likely die before he turned 3, he lived to age 8.

“You have challenges, and you have to confront them head-on,” Kelly said. “This is just another one. I’ve been to the top many, many times, and I’ve been to the bottom. It’s just one of those roller coaster rides I’ve been on throughout my life, and it’s just another challenge for me. I know I’ll beat it. That’s the bottom line.”

Jim Kelly will have surgery for his cancer on June 7.

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If you’ve ever been in a long distance relationship, you will totally relate to this.

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Rep. Carolyn McCarthy announced that she has been diagnosed with a treatable form of lung cancer and will begin treatment shortly.

The Democratic Congresswoman from New York said her doctor is planning to start treatment for the lung cancer soon and that “he looks forward to my return to work after I recover.”

Carolyn McCarthy added that her cancer diagnosis won’t affect her work in Congress.

In a written statement she said:

“There will be some tough days ahead and I will have to miss activities in Washington during my treatment in New York, but I will continue to be a strong advocate for the 4th Congressional District — and I remain committed to improving Long Island’s schools, improving public health and safety, improving our economy, and protecting our seniors and veterans,” she wrote. “My capable and longtime staff will continue to support the needs of my constituents. I am a fighter, as many people know, and I am committed to beating this latest challenge in my life. I’m grateful for the support and love of my family, friends, colleagues, and staff. I look forward to a successful treatment and returning to continue the mission that I’ve started as a Member of Congress.”

McCarthy got her start in politics after her husband was killed in a mass shooting on the Long Island Rail Road in 1993 and was first elected to her Long Island district in 1996. She has become one of the most vocal proponents of gun control among the House of Representatives.

McCarthy said she still plans to run for re-election in 2014.

“She’s already filed her statement of candidacy,” said Shams Tarek, a spokesman for McCarthy.. “She’s running for re-election after she gets better. She’s going back to work after she gets better.”

Carolyn McCarthy said her staff could take over some of her work while she is receiving lung cancer treatment.

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Kate Winslet is pregnant! This will be the third child for the Titanic actress but her first with husband Ned Rocknroll.

A rep for the actress confirmed the news to People Magazine.

The rep said: “Kate and Ned are delighted with the news.”

Winslet has two children, Mia, 12, and Joe, 9, from previous marriages but has always planned on having more.

She told In Style Magazine after the birth of her son Joe: “I’m hoping to have more kids … I don’t know whether one or two. Oh, God, I would love to have more.”

Winslet won an Oscar for her role in The Reader and has seen huge commercial success with movies like Titanic but the actress says that she has always seen  herself as a mother first.

The actress said: ”My children are my life and acting is something that I just do sometimes.”

Winslet and Rocknroll, a nephew of Richard Branson, married last December during a secret ceremony in New York.

Winslet isn’t the only actress to announce some happy baby news today. Jennifer Love Hewitt Pregnant announced this morning that she was expecting her first child.

A rep for Hewitt said: “This is a wonderful time and we are looking forward to starting our family together.”

[Image Via cinemafestival / Shutterstock.com]

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Professor Geoffrey Miller of UNM is visiting NYU this summer, but he embarrassed both universities this week with a rapidly deleted tweet mocking obese grad students and insinuating that he judged students’ work on their appearance as well as the work itself — a comment that got the evolutionary psychology academic roundly mocked on Twitter and chastised by fellow academics.

In the aftermath, New York University and the University of New Mexico released statements about Geoffrey Miller’s tweet, and the professor himself made the outlandish and seemingly immediately dismissible claim that his publicly stated anti-fat views were part of a “social experiment.”

Sound familiar? Miller’s “social experiment” claim is one that’s frequently trotted out when an individual is caught engaging in terrible behavior on social media. One might think the professor’s excuse is a bit ill thought out — after all, if he was fully aware of what he had said and the implications, would he have immediately deleted the tweet and apologized?

And if not, how well considered could his social experiment really be? Could it actually be plausible he planned to say he does not respect obese grad students without having considered that such a public admission could place both the man and the institutions with which he’s affiliated in a dicey legal spot?

Geoffrey Miller wants you to think so. As for NYU? The University said in a statement:

“What Geoffrey Miller, a University of New Mexico professor who is a visiting professor at NYU, saidon Sunday on his personal Twitter account was regrettable.  Professor Miller apologized for the Tweet and deleted it. NYU considers the matter closed.”

UNM is a bit less publicly accepting of Geoffrey Miller’s fat shaming tweet, and the institution responded with a more in-depth statement, beginning:

“The Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico admin­is­tra­tion and fac­ulty were sur­prised by Dr. Geof­frey Miller’s tweet. We are deeply con­cerned about the impact of the state­ment, which in no way reflects the poli­cies or admis­sion stan­dards of UNM. We are inves­ti­gat­ing every aspect of this inci­dent and will take appro­pri­ate action.”

The statement continues:

“When UNM’s Depart­ment chair learned of the tweet, she con­tacted Pro­fes­sor Miller, who is cur­rently on unpaid leave from UNM while at NYU.  He told her that his com­ment on Twit­ter was part of a research project. We are look­ing into the valid­ity of this asser­tion, and will take appro­pri­ate mea­sures. As mem­bers of the UNM com­mu­nity, we are all respon­si­ble for demon­strat­ing good judg­ment when using social media or other com­mu­ni­ca­tions vehicles.”

It should be noted that while the word “discriminatory” is used in the YouTube video itself, the link itself describes Miller’s comments as “provocative.” A provocative statement is one thing, but potential evidence that students spending tens of thousands of dollars on a graduate degree are being deliberately held back academically due to their “hotness” is another animal entirely and one that should not be tolerated in any worthwhile institute of higher learning.

(A recent Wired profile of Miller gives some insight into what may be his frame of mind, quoting the professor:

“Today’s dating scene has become an experiment in competing strategies. Science-minded singles have new levels of self-consciousness — not just as people, but as fitness displayers, mate choosers, gene replicators and social primates. People are locked in an arms race of male sexual-escalation tactics versus female commitment-escalation tactics. ”

Sigh.)

If it’s found that Geoffrey Miller’s “research project” claim does not bear out, one might think there should be some consequences for essentially saying that a student who happens to be overweight won’t be judged by the same criteria academically as a thin counterpart with the same or lesser quality of work.

Do you think Geoffrey Miller should be disciplined at work for such an insinuation, not to mind insulting much of the schools’ student bodies?

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The Zeus malware that drains bank accounts is back — and this time it’s alive and well on Facebook.

TrendMicro recently published a chilling graph that demonstrated the resurgence of this classic Trojan virus which a Russian crime syndicate known as the Russian Business Network uses to steal money from victim’s bank accounts. The Zeus and related Trojan viruses surged in February and hit a peak in May.

Despite being six years old, the Zeus malware continues to thrive. In its current incarnation, it is taking advantage of Facebook psychology to infect millions of computers in the United States.

Eric Feinberg, founder of a group called Fans Against Kounterfeit Enterprise (FAKE), told The New York Times that they have noticed an increase in fake Facebook profile pages that encourage people to click on dangerous links that infect their computer.

One example was a group called “Bring the N.F.L. To Los Angeles.” When Feinberg asked a security lab to test some of the links posted on the page, they confirmed that they contained the Zeus malware.

Unlike some malicious viruses, the Zeus malware doesn’t try to crash your computer. Instead, it waits quietly until the victim logs into a banking site and then harvests the log-in information so that the crime syndicate can drain the bank account.

In an added twist, some versions can replace the genuine bank Web site with a lookalike page that asks you for Social Security numbers and other financial information. If you’ve recently been warned by your credit card company or bank not to answer those questions — as I have — well, now you know why. Even though your bank account may have already been drained by the criminals, they can squeeze additional value from the malware by selling your Social Security number and other information on the black market.

Feinberg has complained that Facebook isn’t doing enough to fight the Zeus malware. Facebook has fired back that it does actively scan for malware. They also noted that users are free to sign up for services that scan and remove malware from devices.

Feinberg would prefer that fake profiles not be posted on Facebook in the first place. However, any move Facebook would make to fight fakes would also make it more difficult for legitimate people to quickly open new accounts.

What more do you think Facebook can or should do to fight the Zeus malware bank account draining Trojan virus?

[photo by Chad McDermott via Shutterstock]

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Vine was “Rickrolled” and possibly broken by a 16-year-old. Will Smidlein, of Cleveland, managed to Rickroll the Twitter application when he bypassed the six-second time limit on videos.

To be “Rickrolled” is to be tricked into watching the video for Rick Astley’s 80s pop hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.” The term has somewhat morphed to include images that feature or allude to the lyrics, leaving people with an ear worm that won’t … give up.

As reported by CNN, Smidlein uploaded the entire video of Astley’s infamous song, a total of 3 minutes 33 seconds. At that point Vine had been Rickrolled and appeared to stop working.

Realizing what happened, Smidlein tweeted “I think I Broke Vine.”

Smidlein reportedly received an e-mail from a Twitter engineer, asking him to remove the video. Smidlein states that he did not intend to cause any serious issues. He posted several apologies for the Vine Rickrolling ruckus:

“Honestly, it was just for my friends and the people who follow me on Twitter and Vine … Sorry, Twitter/Vine engineers … I tried to keep it quiet, but the internet never forgets.”

At some point after the full-length video was posted, Twitter broke down briefly. It has not been confirmed whether the Rick Astley video caused the problem.

Some other famous appearances of people being Rickrolled are outlined by KnowYourMeme.com. In 2008 the song was performed live and played on loud speakers by protesters against the Church of Scientology.

On April 1, 2008, as an April Fool prank, all featured YouTube videos were redirected to Rick Astley’s music video.

The New York Mets surprised an entire stadium of fans with the song during their home opener on April 4, 2008.

On Thanksgiving Day 2008, Astley appeared on a float in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, lip-syncing “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Astley effectively Rickrolled everyone along the parade route and everyone watching the parade on TV.

The latest victim, Vine, was Rickrolled by a 16-year-old with just enough technical knowledge to exploit a loophole and a great sense of humor.

[Image via Wikipedia]

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A woman that somewhat resembled Lil’ Kim took the stage this weekend at Hot 97′s annual Summer Jam at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. After a few moments of confusion, event organizers confirmed that it was actually Lil’ Kim, and not an impersonator, dancing on the stage.

Lil’ Kim was a surprise guest at the annual concert but it wasn’t her performance that got people talking. Nope, it was the singer’s light complexion and the possibility that she may have had plastic surgery.

This isn’t the first time that the singer’s appearance has been under scrutiny.

Some people believe that the singer, real name Kimberly Denise Jones, has had a nose job, botox injections, and has had her skin lightened.

Celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn said earlier this year:

“Her face appears contoured and has a waxy sheen …. It appears that she’s undergone injection of fillers as well.”

Lil’ Kim’s rep, however, denied the rumors and said that the singer has not had any work done. The singer’s rep said that the rumors “fictitious, malicious and despicable.”

Do you think Lil’ Kim has had work done? The photo at the top of this article was taken at the BET Awards back in 2003. The photos below were taken this weekend at the Hot 97 concert.

I miss the old LIL KIM…..Queen Bee surprised fans last night when she took the stage w FABOLOUS #JeniHasTheLowDown twitter.com/Flow935/status…

— FLOW 93-5 (@Flow935) June 3, 2013

[Image Via Instagram / Featureflash / Shutterstock.com]

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Blizzard has introduced Spawning into StarCraft 2.

Spawning is something Blizzard has done with their games for quite a while, and some have wondered why it took this long for the feature to come to their ultra-popular real-time strategy game.

You may be asking what Spawning is at this point, so here’s a quick overview: You currently own StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty, but you’re now playing online against people who own the new Heart of the Swarm expansion that gives you upgrades to every race and new solo missions as the Zerg. Spawning allows you to temporarily upgrade to Heart of the Swarm so you can take part in the battles with the new units and such.

The way Blizzard sees it, Spawning will allow new gamers using the Starter Editions and seasoned players using only StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty to see what they’re missing with StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, and the experience could lead to more sales of the expansion if they have fun with it.

Starting today up until the end of Sunday, all three races are available in StarCraft 2: Starter Edition. Then every once in a while, there will be promotions where you can switch races if you want. So if you have a hankering to play with Pylons (Protoss building unit), you can use those promotions to take advantage.

Production director Chris Sigaty explains why the feature is just now coming to StarCraft 2:

“I think priorities. This was something we talked about in the past but never really had a good vision for it. We were working on important features for the core game as we did Heart of the Swarm. … Then Heart of The Swarm drops with a whole bunch of great stuff, including things that make life easier for players to find each other … it just felt like the right time now that we’ve finally had a little bit of air to breathe into this feature.”

What do you think of Blizzard finally adding Spawning to StarCraft 2?

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In a recent 500-page report an Argentine prosecutor asserts that over the last several decades Iran and Hezbollah have been involved in terrorist activities in Latin America.

The accusation comes on the heels of an ongoing investigation by Alberto Nisman, special prosecutor in Argentina, focusing on the bombing of the 1994 AMIA (Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association) building, in a Jewish neighborhood of Buenos Ares.

The attack claimed the lives of 85 people, the worst bombing incident in Argentine history. Several prosecutions have been made in the nearly 20 years since the attack, however none have been successful.

Prosecutor Nisman’s report claims that Iran has been actively involved in intelligence activities and covert operations in Latin America since the 1980s. The report explains that these actions have, at times, been carried out and overseen directly by Iranian officials. At other times, Iran has used the militant Islamic group, Hezbollah.

Hezbollah, a radical Shi’ite Muslim group founded in opposition to Israel and Zionism in the Middle East has since become well-known as Iran’s foreign terrorist arm, currently making headlines for their support of Syrian President Assad’s regime and their presence in Lebanon.

Nisman’s report suggests that Iran and Hezbollah operations may have been carried out in countries including but not limited to Brazil, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Suriname, Paraguay and Chile. A good deal of these operations, says the report, have been moves aimed at accumulating financial resources, primarily in the form of drug trafficking.

Iran denies any involvement in the 1994 AMIA bombing and an other accusations linking Iran and Hezbollah to the 1992 bombing of an Israeli embassy in Buenos Ares. Iran has gone so far as to publicly denounce Nisman’s allegations, reportedly calling him a “Zionist.”

While it may not yet be certain what the extent of Iran and Hezbollah’s terrorist operations in Latin America are – or whether their intentions are more than financial – their growing presence in Latin America has begun to draw the attention of regional governments and law enforcement organizations.

[Image via Sadik Gulec / Shutterstock.com]

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The premise of the film “Now You See Me” (2013) is novel and enticing: What if four magicians became bank robbers? And what if they used every means of obfuscation at their disposal to evade the police?

“Now You See Me” evokes great caper films of the past, starting with its cheeky title. Four professional Las Vegas magicians are mysteriously summoned to a meeting one day, and it’s not clear who has invited them. These four performers represent four different magic specialties. Jesse Eisenberg‘s J. Daniel Atlas is a magician who creates massive spectacles. Woody Harrelson’s Merritt McKinney is a mind-reader. Dave Franco’s Jack Wilder is a sleight-of-hand master. Finally, Isla Fisher’s Henley Reeves is an escape artist.

The purpose of this meeting is soon revealed. First, though, the movie jumps ahead in time about a year, and we discover that the four magicians have become a group act billed as the Four Horsemen. The Horsemen are sponsored by a vindictive insurance company owner named Arthur Tressler. Tressler, played by Michael Caine, may or may not be the person who called the magicians to that meeting a year prior. In any event, one night the Horsemen purport to magically transport a member of their Vegas audience into a Parisian bank vault. They appear to do just that, and the crowd is both astonished and impressed. But that bank in Paris, it turns out, is robbed that very night, robbed of millions. Could the Four Horsemen be involved?

Enter Mark Ruffalo, whom you may remember as the Hulk from “The Avengers” (2012). Ruffalo’s FBI agent Dylan Rhodes reaches Hulk-like levels of anger when he’s stuck investigating this super-bizarre crime. He interrogates one Horseman at a time, and finds himself getting nowhere. Especially entertaining is the way McKinney reads Rhodes’s mind rather than answer his questions.

There’s no evidence to detain any of the magicians, and so the authorities are compelled to let them go. At this point the movie shifts gears somewhat, and becomes more of a cops-chasing-crooks flick, though it remains highly unconventional throughout. Anyway, Rhodes teams up with overeager Interpol agent Alma Dray, portrayed by Mélanie Laurent. Dray is a fan of – and a semi-believer in – magic. Her soulfulness makes her a great foil to Rhodes’s gruff pragmatism. Meanwhile, the four magicians go on a robbery spree.

Yes, that’s right, a robbery spree. Excited by the possibilities inherent in a life of crime, they start robbing banks as a kind of hobby. In these heists they use mirrors, holograms and many other tricks of their trade. The robberies seem to get more elaborate as the film wears on, and “wears” is the right word: What starts out as comical becomes much less so as the onscreen events grow more and more preposterous.

Fortunately, however, Morgan Freeman shows up. His slightly detached performance steadies the film in its later stages. Freeman plays disillusioned illusionist Thaddeus Bradley, a former magician who has betrayed his colleagues by selling their secrets. Arthur Tressler ends up paying Bradley to chase after the Horsemen and find a way to reveal the details of their crimes to the public. Tressler’s seeking revenge because the Horsemen robbed his bank account.

So are the Horsemen apprehended in the end? Did Tressler actually mastermind the original bank robbery, or did someone else organize that crime? Those questions won’t be answered in this review. “Now You See Me” is too full of engaging twists to spoil its surprises here. Suffice it to say, while this movie might be far-fetched, and is certainly not a classic, it definitely has some exciting things up its sleeve.

Final Score: 3.8/5

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Britney Spears is back in the studio working on her new album.

The singer, who has been working on a song called “Ooh La La” for the new Smurfs movie, tweeted today that she was back in the studio working on a song “for all my boys.” The singer didn’t give any other details but she’s probably working with William Orbit and Naughty Boy.

The two producers had an interesting an exchange on Twitter today and dropped a few hints about their involvement in Spears’ new album.

Naughty Boy wrote: “@WilliamOrbit it’s about to get toxic! can’t wait to get started sir!”

Orbit added: “@NaughtyBoyMusic Ooops, she’s gonna do it again!!!”

A leaked demo version of the song “Ooh La La” was leaked on the internet last month and Spears may be in the studio putting some finishing touches on the track. Or, she could be diving into some new material for her eighth album. After all, Will.i.am, the executive producer for the new album, did say that recording would start sometime this month.

Will.i.am said that he’s hoping to make this Britney Spears’ most personal album to date.

The producer said: “I wanted to just go to lunch for two months, which is totally different from how you typically do it. I said, ‘Let’s talk about what you’re excited about. Let’s talk about things you’ve done in you career, what you’re happy about. Let’s talk about spending time with your kids, let’s talk about your breakup. Let’s talk about how now you’re single, how independent you might feel … I’m really excited about that and honored that she trusts me. I don’t want to let her down.”

#Recording a song 4 All My Boys

— Britney Spears (@britneyspears) June 4, 2013

It’s unclear when the new album will be released but you’ll be able to hear new Britney Spears music on June 16.

I heard an early demo of #OohLaLa smurfed its way onto the internet today The real version will be at radio and iTunes June 16th

— Britney Spears (@britneyspears) May 17, 2013

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Country superstar Carrie Underwood will pay tribute to the victims of the recent Oklahoma tornado disaster when she appears at the CMT Music Awards.

The country songstress says she will perform her new single “See You Again” but will recast it as a somber memorial to the victims of the natural disaster. The song will be performed alongside two dozen choir members from Nashville’s Christ Church.

As Carrie Underwood offers her Oklahoma tornado tribute fans will be asked to donate to the American Red Cross.

The tornadoes in Oklahoma are responsible for killing dozens of people in the state over the last two weeks. Immediately following the tornado disaster country music stars lined up to help. The biggest show of support to date arrived by way of country singer Blake Shelton. Blake and a group of his country singing friends televised a concert to raise money for disaster relief.

Carrie Underwood also recently donated $1 million to the Red Cross to help with efforts in Oklahoma.

The state holds a special place in Underwood’s heart as the singer grew up in Checotah, a town 115 miles east of Oklahoma City.

Speaking about the disaster Carrier Underwood says:

“The people in Oklahoma are really great. Tornado season is something that we’re all used to but you can never fully prepare for it. It takes what it wants and it knocks down what it wants and there’s nothing you can do about it except just try to be prepared. They’re just wonderful people and they’re going to rebuild and they’re going to bounce back stronger than ever.”

The CMTs air on Wednesday at 8PM from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.

Will you be watching Carrie Underwood during the CMTs and donating to her efforts for the American Red Cross?

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Allegations of the use of sarin gas in chemical weapon attacks in Syria have been confirmed by testers, announced French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius Tuesday. Samples were taken to France as reports of chemical weapon use have come out of Syria in recent months.

Fabius made the announcement at a meeting Tuesday with an United Nations task force assigned to assessing whether claims of chemical weapon use were accurate:

“France now has the certainty that the sarin gas was used in Syria several times and in a localized manner.”

Much remains to be clarified, however, including when and where the chemical weapons may have been used and whose forces used them on the battlefield – Syrian rebels or Loyalist forces. Both sides have accused each other of using the weapons.

It was reported that Jay Carney, the White House Press Secretary, stated that the US is working with France and other allies to determine the answers to these questions:

“We need to expand the evidence we have. We need to make it reviewable; we need to have it corroborated before we make any decisions based on the clear violation that use of chemical weapons would represent.”

The confirmation of sarin gas attacks in Syria is significant as President Obama and other allied leaders have stated that chemical weapons use in the ongoing conflict to be a “red line” for intervention – once crossed, UN or NATO forces may be obligated to send military forces to Syria.

Chemical weapons have, since their first widespread use in Europe during World War I, been banned by all major wartime conventions and prohibited by most militaries. Sarin gas exposure has become identifiable by painful chemical burns on the victim’s skin and if inhaled, severe lung scarring.

Reports of chemical weapon use in the form of sarin gas attacks in Syria has been confirmed; will it prompt a more aggressive response to the conflict from Western powers?

[Image via 2lights.net / Shutterstock.com]

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Kristen Stewart has chosen, not one but two indies as her next projects. The dramas Camp X-Ray and Sils Maria are both scheduled to start filming this summer.

If it seems like she has taken a long break, she has. After appearing in the last part of the super popular Twilight saga, Breaking Dawn: Part 2 in 2012 she has not worked.

Collider is reporting that Camp X-Ray is a political drama in which Stewart plays a young woman who joins the military to escape small-town life only to find herself deployed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

There she starts a friendship with a captive and is abused by the Muslim prisoners in her charge. Peter Sattler (The Game Plan) wrote the script and is making his directorial feature film debut.

Stewart has also joined Sils Maria, a film which “explores middle age and that introspective period where one questions how they have spent their life so far and what they have accomplished.”

Stewart plays the assistant to Juliette Binoche (An Open Heart), an actress who becomes obsessed with a fellow actress played by Chloë Grace Moretz (Carrie).

Filming for both movies begins this summer. Stewart was supposed to start working on the film Focus alongside Ben Affleck (Argo), but he has left the project to pursue other directorial endeavors. Stewart left as well.

Stewart is also attached to the sequel of Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman. However, the film does not have a director at the moment, since Rupert Sanders left, when he and Kristen became involved in an extra marital affair.

The actress, who has been acting since she was very young, seems to be happy taking her time and working for non-franchise movies at the moment.

Recently, she has been in the news for her relationship problems. It will be good to hear how Kristen Stewart’s next projects move along.

[Image via Featureflash / Shutterstock.com]

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You may think that God’s bathtub is located somewhere between the pearly gates and cloud nine but according to a group of researchers its actually located in Australia.

Researchers from the University of Adelaide have found a lake that has never been affected by man’s influence. The lake has not been affected by climate change and appears to be in the same chemical state that it was more than 7,000 years ago.

The lake, named Blue Lake, is so pristine that the researchers are calling it God’s bathtub.

Dr. Cameron Barr said: “It’s like God’s bathtub … It is beautiful. It is absolutely beautiful. It appears that Blue Lake has been an important climate ‘refuge’ for the freshwater biota of the region, and is in the same condition now as it was 7,500 years ago.”

According to the AAP, Barr and his team were studying several lakes in Australia that have dried up due to climate change when they stumbled upon Blue Lake. The team studied the lake’s water quality, fossil pollen and algae. They also compared the lake to historical photos taken over the last 117 years. The researchers determined that the lake has been virtually unchanged since God’s last bath more than 7,500 years ago.

Barr explained that the lake has been able to maintain such a high level of purity because the water in the lake is constantly changed. Yahoo News reports that the lake drains into a swamp and is refreshed by an aquafier.

Barr said: “Because it’s constantly being updated it doesn’t suffer from the vagaries of the climate in so far as it doesn’t evaporate and become more saline … It doesn’t fill up and become fresher. It just remains constant … This place seems to be quite unique in that it shows such an amount of stability. So in that sense it’s a refuge for freshwater biota away from those variable environments. We would argue that it’s likely to be a freshwater refuge for some time in the future if managed properly.”

The study on God’s Bathtub was published in the journal Freshwater Biology.

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A woman found a frog in a bag of salad she bought from a grocery store, and she thinks she may have accidentally ingested part of the amphibian.

Almo Rubio bought the bag of Fresh Express Spinach and Tomatoes from her local Super Target store, but didn’t find the frog in the salad until she had almost finished the bag. Rubio had already eaten the salad for several days when she made the discovery.

She started to mix one last salad when she noticed something that felt out of place.

“It felt sticky, and slimy,” added Rubio, and upon closer inspection she said she “couldn’t believe what I was seeing.”

“I picked it up, and it ended up being a frog“, she said.

To make matters worse, the frog in the salad was missing a leg. Rubio figures she must have eaten it.

She returned the bag to Target, where the store kept it as evidence. The store would give her a full refund for the frog salad and said they planned to address the matter with Chiquita, which made the salad.

This is not the first instance of a frog being found in salad. Last year a woman in Minneola, Florida, noticed something out of place in the bag of Marketside greens she bought at Walmart.

The woman opened the bag to take a look, finding a small frog — only this one was still alive. She took a video, posted on the WFTV9 website, that showed the frog with its heart still beating, clearly alive somehow inside the sealed plastic.

On top of the Florida incident, two different UK residents found frogs in their salad in September 2012 alone — a dead one in a bag of salad from Tesco and a still living frog in a salad from Waitrose.

Chiquita said it was sorry for the frog that Rubio found in her salad.

“We take this complaint very seriously, and we are launching an investigation into what happened,” said Abbye Lakin, a Chiquita representative.

It didn’t take Rubio long to hear back from Chiquita directly. They send her an apology along with eight coupons to buy salad.

Rubio said she won’t by buying any more bags after the frog salad incident, but plans to keep the coupons as souvenirs.

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Have you ever wanted to try a real Krusty Burger? What about a “Flaming Moe?” Well, your dreams are about to come true. Universal Orlando has added a few Simpsons landmarks to its Springfield area.

Diners will now be able to choose between Simpsons favorites like Moe’s Tavern and Krusty Burger. They’ll also be able to grab a chicken sandwich at Cletus’ Chickn Shack or a cup of tea at Lisa’s Teahouse Of Horror.

Mark Woodbury, president of Universal Creative, in a statement:

“This will be a must-see experience for Simpsons’ fans all over the world … For the first time ever, they’re going to be able to enter a world that they’ve only seen on television,  and we’re really excited to bring that world to life.”

Denise Sirkot, president of  Worldwide Brand and Gracie Films, said that Krusty and Sideshow Bob would also be on hand to greet people at the new restaurant.

Sirkot said: “It has been an honor to bring the world of the Simpsons to life in such a letter-perfect way. Truly, this is the Krustyest place on earth.”

According to CF News, Krusty Burger’s menu will include a few items from the show like the Krusty Burger and the Clogger Burger. But let’s hope that they don’t stick too close to the items on the show…

The Clogger: If you can find a greasier sandwich, you’re in Mexico.

Here’s a look at some of the new restaurants in Springfield.

Do you want to try a Krusty Burger?

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Gallup offered up reasons this week for why its polls on the 2012 election were so disastrously wrong, showing Mitt Romney with a small but comfortable lead when all others put Barack Obama ahead.

The polling firm saw a hit to its reputation when its predictions of the 2012 presidential election ended up so wrong, and offered a bit of an apology on Tuesday. The organization’s daily tracking poll showed Romney consistently in the lead, including a 1-point edge in the final poll. Obama would win by 4 percentage points.

On Tuesday, Gallup offered up a 17-page report detailing four reasons why the polls were so off. The main issues were misidentification of likely voters, underrepresentation of regions, problems with weighting for voters of different ethnicities, and the use of a non-standard sampling method.

“None of these factors are large, in and of themselves,” said Gallup Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport, “in the sense that they are not moving the numbers 10 points, 5 points.”

But each moved the polls slightly toward Romeny, Gallup noted, enough of a factor that the pollster says “they made a significant difference in our overall estimate of who was going to win the presidential election last fall.”

In announcing the review a few weeks ago, Newport said Gallup had been doing presidential polling since 1936, and when polls are off like in 2012 “we take it very seriously.”

Gallup’s errors were compounded by the rise of polling analyst Nate Silver, whose blog FiveThirtyEight aggregated polls to create a more full picture of the electorate.

Utilizing data from hundreds of polls, Silver used a mathematical formula that showed the opposite of Gallup’s poll — President Obama holding a small but stead lead over Mitt Romney.

Newport has hinted that after the mistakes of 2012, Gallup could include polling informed by other sources in the future, including “non-probability data, administrative data, social media data.”

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The highly anticipated Hollywood remake of the comic book hero “Man of Steel” will hold its world premiere in New York City next Monday, June 10th. Warner Brothers will host the red carpet events at the Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

It is expected that all the stars of the film will be present including Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Kevin Costner and Diane Lane. Of course, director Zack Snyder is also expected to attend.

The studio has unleashed its PR machine on the last stretch before the movie opens on June 14th, with some pre-screenings, courtesy of Walmart, on June 13.

Henry Cavill is about to be introduced to the world at large when he suits up in the red cape. Previously, he has been known to television audiences in the Showtime series, The Tudors and when he starred as the human Theseus in the Greek mythology film Immortals in 2011.

This is a very strong cast which also includes Aussie Russell Crowe (The Man with the Iron Fists) who plays the superhero’s real father Jor-El, Michael Shannon (Machine Gun Preacher) as the evil General Zod, Antje Traue (Nobel’s Last Will) as Faora and Laurence Fishburne (Have a Little Faith) as Perry White.

The European premiere was also announced for Wednesday, June 12th at Leicester Square in London. This is a tickets only event, but the public may view the stars arriving at the red carpet between 5:15 amd 6:15 GMT.

Tickets for the event are very hard to come by, but that does not mean that fans won’t be lining up all around to catch a glimpse of the new Superman.

Director Zack Snyder promises that this will be a completely different Superman, one for the 21st century. The film not only has top notch stars, but the team of screenplay writers Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer, from The Dark Knight is tops in the industry.

Man of Steel soars into theaters worldwide next weekend.

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