sábado, 6 de diciembre de 2014

Nickelodeon stars: Where are they now?

Since the mid '80s, Nickelodeon has been dishing out kid-appropriate TV programming starring a bunch of young actors. But have you ever wondered what happened to those stars when they grew up? Take Nick Cannon, who started out on the network's sketch comedy show "All That" and eventually got his own self-titled spin-off show. Click to find out what he and other former Nickelodeon stars are up to today.
Since his days on Nickelodeon, Nick Cannon has grown into a super-successful rapper, DJ, actor and TV host on shows like "Wild 'N Out" and currently for "America's Got Talent." In 2014, the 34-year-old <a href="http://www.wonderwall.com/music/mariah-carey-and-nick-cannon-headed-for-divorce-3711.video">split with</a> his wife Mariah Carey though they <a href="http://www.wonderwall.com/music/mariah-carey-and-nick-cannon-headed-for-divorce-3711.video">share adorable twins</a> Moroccan and Monroe.
In 1991, Melissa Joan Hart started out on Nickelodeon's "Clarissa Explains It All," playing an average teen going through everyday ups and downs.
In 1996, Melissa Joan Hart landed a new series dubbed "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," which was a huge hit and stayed on the air until 2003. The same year the now 38-year-old married Mark Wilkerson and is currently juggling raising her three boys and starring on her latest sitcom with Joey Lawrence, "Melissa & Joey."
In 2009, youngster Ariana Grande nabbed the role of Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon show "Victorious." When that series ended she got her own spin-off called "Sam & Cat." But acting wasn't her only calling ...
Since dropping her debut album in 2013, Ariana Grande has become a pop sensation tearing up the airways with her larger-than-life voice on hit tracks like "Problems." And her love life has been on fire too. Since recently splitting with Jai Brooks, she's been getting <a href="http://www.wonderwall.com/music/finally-ariana-grande-confirms-relationship-with-big-sean-1843481.story">hot and heavy</a> with rapper Big Sean.
Britney Spears' baby sister Jamie Lynn Spears wanted to be in the biz too. She started off acting on Nickelodeon's "All That" before landing a role on the network's show "Zoey 101" in 2005.
Jamie Lynn Spears went on to star in ABC Family's "Miss Guided" before <a href="http://www.wonderwall.com/music/jamie-lynn-spears-speaks-out-about-her-teen-pregnancy-17877.gallery">getting pregnant </a>at 16 years old. After taking time to raise her beautiful daughter Maddie, she recently released a country music single dubbed "How Could I Want More." In 2014, the 23-year-old said her "<a href="http://www.wonderwall.com/music/jamie-lynn-spears-marries-jamie-watson-in-new-orleans-wedding-details-1802754.story">I dos</a>" with Jamie Watson.
Kenan Thompson debuted his comedic chops as a teenager on Nickelodeon's "All That" and in 1996, got a spin-off show with his acting sidekick Kel Mitchell on "Kenan & Kel."
Kenan Thompson, 36, continued to work alongside Kel Mitchell in the 1997 film "Good Burger." He nabbed a ton more solo film roles and in 2003 landed a groundbreaking role on "Saturday Night Live." In 2011, the sketch comedian tied the knot to model Christina Evangeline and they recently <a href="http://www.wonderwall.com/tv/kenan-thompsons-wife-christina-evangeline-gives-birth-to-baby-girl-1821521.story">welcomed a baby</a> girl.
Julia Roberts' niece Emma Roberts got her start as a youngster on Nickelodeon's series "Unfabulous" in 2004. And my oh my, how she's matured since then.
Emma Roberts went on to star in movies like "Scream 4" and "We're the Millers" alongside Jennifer Aniston. Most recently she joined the cast of the "American Horror Story" TV series. Despite having a <a href="http://www.wonderwall.com/tv/gossip-emma-roberts-arrested-on-domestic-violence-charges-after-fight-with-boyfriend-evan-peters-25729.gallery">violent public argument</a> with her actor boyfriend Evan Peters in 2013, they worked out their issues and <a href="http://www.wonderwall.com/movies/emma-roberts-engaged-27728.gallery">got engaged </a>later that year.
In 2005, 12-year-old Victoria Justice landed the lead in Nickelodeon's "Zoey 101" and went on to star in the network's musical series "Victorious" in 2010.
Since the recent end of her Nick days, Victoria Justice released the single "Gold" in 2013 and has been working on recording an album while continuing to act. The now 21-year-old <a href="http://www.wonderwall.com/music/best-dressed-2014-mtv-video-music-awards-duos-30074.gallery?photoId=145540">has been dating</a> her "Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List" co-star Pierson Fode.
Like his buddy Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell started out on Nickelodeon's sketch comedy show "All That" and went on to star in the spin-off "Kenan & Kel." We can't ever forget his deep love for orange soda.



Shot in the chest by Cleveland police – then handcuffed and fined $100

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When a man pointing a Glock pistol approached Gregory Love’s car in downtown Cleveland late one night, Love did the only sensible thing possible, he says: he put up his hands and decided to let the man have what he wanted.
But Vincent Montague shot him in the chest anyway, according to Love, before having the 29-year-old forcibly removed from his silver Range Rover and his hands fastened together behind his back.
Blood from the bullet wound seeped through Love’s white T-shirt. He grew colder, despite the warm June air. “I actually thought I was going to die,” Love told the Guardian. “I felt faint. I saw blood coming from my chest. I thought he was just going to kill me right there.”
Eighteen months later, Love recalls his alleged assailant clearly: he was wearing the uniform of the Cleveland Division of Police. The only person prosecuted following the altercation was Love, who was fined $100 for a traffic violation.
Brandon Vason, who knew Love and was in the area, walked up and remonstrated. Other police officers punched Vason in the head and threw him to the ground, Vason alleges. Then, he says, they kicked him, cuffed him, put him in the back of a patrol car, and drove him away.
Gregory Love shows his gunshot wounds in Maple Heights, Ohio.
The men, both of whom are black, are now suing the city, police chief Calvin Williams and officers involved through the federal courts, claiming civil rights violations. However, theirs was only one allegedly unreasonable use of force among a number that caused Eric Holder, the US attorney general, to sharply censure the Cleveland department this week. A damning report by his Justice Department accused city officers of being “chaotic and dangerous”.
The dossier, prompted by a series of complaints, was published only a day after the funeral of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was shot dead by a rookie Cleveland officer last month, while playing with a plastic pellet gun in a park. It has since emerged that the officer was in 2012 judged to be unfit for a suburban force, where his gun handling was viewed as “dismal”.
Holder’s 20-month federal inquiry reviewed almost 600 incidents over three years. It found that Cleveland officers “violate basic constitutional precepts in their use of deadly and less lethal force at a rate that is highly significant”. A 13-year-old boy was repeatedly punched in the face. A semi-naked hostage was shot at as he fled his captors.
Criticising the department’s use of firearms, Tasers and pepper spray, the report also accused officers of frequently using excessive force against people suffering from mental illness. Holder said the US government would use powers it received after the 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police to obtain a court order legally compelling Cleveland to change its ways.
'I saw blood coming from my chest. I thought he was just going to kill me right there'
Sherrod Brown, Ohio’s senior US senator, said the report’s findings were “troubling” and proved that “meaningful, systemic change” was required at the police headquarters. Mike Brickner, the senior policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio, agreed, but told the Guardian: “Frankly, people who live in Cleveland and have experience with the police are not necessarily surprised by it.”
Coinciding as it did with demonstrations over the killings of the unarmed African Americans Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Missouri, the department’s report on Cleveland gave some official voice to resurgent protests around the US against perceived police brutality, particularly among black Americans.
“Even if you have the best law enforcement officers, who enter the force for the best reasons, if they meet the vacuum of leadership, inadequate training and lack of accountability like we see in Cleveland, then they can not possibly do their jobs appropriately,” said Brickner.
Love, mentioned in the report under the pseudonym “Nathan”, was stopped by Montague, a five-year veteran, on 23 June last year in Cleveland’s bustling warehouse district. Love tried to turn on to a street that he said he did not realise was closed because several other cars had just turned on to it. Love said he did not know they had special valet tags and Montague refused to answer when asked why Love, too, could not proceed.
Cleveland’s police and city legal department declined to comment on the case. But in a response to the lawsuit filed to court in March, Montague said Love responded in a “belligerent, aggressive, and verbally threatening manner”. He also claimed he had noticed Love and his passenger, Dunja Biggins, speeding around earlier in the night, and that Biggins was standing through an open sunroof “generally creating a disturbance”.
Footage from a traffic camera shows Love slowly reversing his SUV back out, but then seeming to become blocked by a crowd crossing the street, which was busy as bars emptied following a Mary J Blige concert. Montague, who claimed in his response that Love was reversing in an “excessively fast and out-of-control manner”, approached the vehicle and drew his gun. The March filing said the officer acted because he concluded Love was drunk. Love’s lawyers said he was never tested and this was the first time the allegation had been made.
The lawsuit states that Love and Biggins “had their hands raised above their heads” and avoided “sudden or furtive gestures or movements”, yet Montague pointed his gun and threatened them before leaning into the driver’s window to take the keys from the ignition. Montague insists that Love’s hands were not up and that his right hand remained at his waist. A Vine video filmed by an onlooker appears to show Love raising at least one hand.
Love said he tried to explain to the officer that the ignition was on a central console rather than the steering column. “After failing to locate the keys with his hand,” the lawsuit claims, “Montague took a few steps back, pointed the muzzle of the service weapon at Greg Love and Dunja Biggins, and opened fire into the cabin of the SUV”.
Montague, by contrast, says that he “instinctively pulled back” and opened fire because as he leant in for the keys, he felt Love “reach his right hand for [Montague’s] service weapon”.
Nicholas DiCello, an attorney for Spangenberg Shibley & Liber, representing Love, said they had seen no evidence that Love reached for the weapon, and suggested that his client would have been charged with a more serious crime if he had done so.
“Oh my God, you shot him,” Biggins screamed. The bullet entered Love’s chest above his right nipple, exited his body and then lodged in one of his arms. “You just shot me!,” Love says he shouted. “I wasn’t doing nothing!”
He said Montague seemed “totally irate” and called for backup. Another officer arrived and handcuffed Love, who said he was made to stand beside the vehicle, bleeding. “I was so confused,” he recalled. “I just got shot – why am I in cuffs?”
Vason alleges that after he approached the scene, an officer punched him on the head, which appears to be supported by the surveillance footage. The officer, alleged to be Octavio Gaviria-Sanchez, is then seen pinning Vason on the street with several colleagues. The lawsuit alleges the officers kicked and struck Vason before handcuffing him and driving him away from the scene, then dumping him nearby without any charge.
In a response filed to court with two other officers, Gaviria-Sanchez said: “Vason was subject to a brief and justified detention for officer safety and safety of others due to Vason’s aggressive and unlawful actions.” The officers denied punching, kicking or striking Vason.
Gregory Love
Medics, meanwhile, told Love he might have died if the bullet had ricocheted off one of his ribs in the other direction. The 9mm shell was finally removed from his arm about six weeks later, when it was plucked out bearing traces of the fabric from his shirt. “The doctors were amazing,” he said. “I’m blessed”.
Love has been left with thick scars. He said that he takes prescription painkillers and sees a psychiatrist once a month, reduced from a peak of twice a week.
“It’s unbelievable to me that an officer of the law did this to me,” he told the Guardian. “They are the people you’re supposed to call on to get protection yet they almost took my life. It makes you lose faith.”
In reporting the shooting, local television news stations described Love as a “male suspect” and said Montague had been “forced to open fire during a traffic stop”. Jeffrey Follmer, the president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, has even said Love was shot as he “tugged” on the officer’s gun. Follmer did not respond to a request for comment.
Love was ultimately charged with making an illegal right turn, and fined $100 plus costs. Montague was suspended from work for a day, with a further two days held back barring another disciplinary issue.
“The police in Cleveland have the mindset that they are above the law,” said Love.

jueves, 4 de diciembre de 2014

Most unusual health issues





When bone tissue develops in places where muscles and tendons are supposed to be, the afflicted person can barely move. In extreme cases, a second skeleton makes the person immobile as a statue. Scientists recently isolated the gene that has afflicted 800 people worldwide with this painful condition. BING: WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS CONDITION?
While rare, people who have had strokes, seizures, head injuries or suffer fromAlzheimer’s disease are likelier than others to get this syndrome. It makes them believe that family, friends or acquaintances have shapeshifted into other people. For example, you might board a bus and become convinced the driver is actually your husband.
After a stroke, tumor or trauma, the patient might suddenly sound like he’s from France rather than Milwaukee. Multiple sclerosis and other neurological conditions can also cause this rare condition
From the Greek for “face” and “forgetting,” people with this condition might not recognize their own friends and relatives. Ablow to the head may cause this problem, or it could be inherited.


martes, 2 de diciembre de 2014

Celebrity siblings

Tyra Banks visits 'Extra' at Universal Studios Hollywood on August 20, 2014 in Universal City, California.Miley Cyrus arrives at the 2014 amfAR Inspiration Gala at Milk Studios on Wednesday, Oct. 29, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
NFL player Tiki Barber attends Cantor Fitzgerald & BGC Partners host annual charity day on 9/11 to benefit over 100 charities worldwide at Cantor Fitzgerald on September 11, 2012 in New York City.
Victoria Beckham attends the International Woolmark prize grand final during London Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2013/14 at ME Hotel on February 16, 2013 in London, England.
In this Feb. 2, 2012 file photo, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg presents the Fiscal Year 2013 preliminary budget in New York.
Model Gisele Bundchen looks on prior to the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Final match between Germany and Argentina at Maracana on July 13, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Author Deepak Chopra rings the opening bell at NASDAQ MarketSite on October 16, 2013 in New York City.
Actress Penelope Cruz arrives at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars Party in West Hollywood, California March 2, 2014. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok (UNITED STATES TAGS: ENTERTAINMENT) (OSCARS-PARTIES) - RTR3FYV9
Actor Zac Efron arrives for the film premiere of "Parkland" at the 38th Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto September 6, 2013.    REUTERS/Fred Thornhill (CANADA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT) - RTX13ATP
Dakota Fanning attends the World Premiere of 'Effie Gray' at The Curzon Mayfair on October 5, 2014 in London, England.
James Franco attends the 'Of Mice And Men' portait unveiling ceremony at Sardi's on May 21, 2014 in New York City.
Musician Lady Gaga speaks at the 2014 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at the Hilton on March 14, 2014 in Austin, Texas.
Chris Hemsworth attends the 86th Academy Awards Nominations Announcement at the AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater on January 16, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California.
Actress Scarlett Johansson arrives at the UK premiere of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" at Shepherds Bush in London March 20, 2014. REUTERS/Paul Hackett   (BRITAIN - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT) - RTR3HY67
Actress Jennifer Lawrence attends the 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past' world premiere at Jacob Javits Center on May 10, 2014 in New York City.
Singer Adam Levine of Maroon 5 performs on NBC's 'Today' at the NBC's TODAY Show on September 1, 2014 in New York, New York.
Actor Brad Pitt  introduces nominees for best original song at the 86th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California March 2, 2014.   REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES  - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT)  (OSCARS-SHOW) - RTR3FY28
Recording artist Taylor Swift performs onstage during the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on September 19, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., speaks during the Internet.org summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014.