Renault Twizy

Posted by admin | Autos, Celebrity Corner | Tuesday 17 May 2011 12:13 am

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It certainly stand out in the streets of the city with his position, a long, narrow and open sides, but Twizy is definitely the trend for this type of movement of cars to the safety and confidence of the car with the ease and cost of the scooter to start combining.

Twizy and fitted with a 17bhp electric motor, a top speed of around 50 mph, whereas the full charge - which is about three and half hours - it gives a range up to 62 miles. Light weight and center of gravity of the commitment to strong acceleration, secure, stable and acquisitions offer.

Both models - Urban and £ 6690 £ 7400 Technic - a function to prevent movement, and the driver airbag safety of the driver and four points for a normal three-point passenger, while the most expensive version adds wheels and metallic paint. Half of the doors to stop spraying the cabin entry, and Bluetooth communications and rear parking sensors are optional. A huge range of colors and pictures are available to help customers customize their Twizy.

At the top of the purchase price, there is a £ 40/month rental fee for batteries over a period of 36 months. The idea is that Renault has the batteries is very expensive for the owner of the car does not have to worry about replacing them or the possible means have no value if they fail.

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silvia mena

Posted by admin | Celebrity Corner | Wednesday 26 May 2010 2:25 pm

Silvia Mena sued Albert Haynesworth defensive tackle at Washington Redskins

Silvia Mena an exotic dancer sued Albert Haynesworth former Pro Bowler and defensive tackle of Washington Redskins accusing him that he impregnated her and left town announced the New York Post.

Silvia Mena, 25, claims she met Albert Haynesworth during the Super Bowl week and they spent some time together at Haynesworth’s Tennessee home. As she claims in the lawsuit the Washington Redskins defensive tackle promised to support her but instead he abandoned her after she got pregnant.

One of the best defensive players in the professional football league Albert Haynesworth have a rock solid contract with the Washington Redskins after the 2009 season and is reported to be unhappy at the Washington Redskins and lately have been some trade speculation around him.

Benicio Del Toro

Posted by admin | Celebrity Corner | Thursday 11 February 2010 1:16 pm

Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967), better known as Benicio del Toro, is a Puerto Rican actor and film producer. His awards include the Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award. He is known for his roles as Fred Fenster in The Usual Suspects, Javier Rodríguez in Traffic, Jack ‘Jackie Boy’ Rafferty in Sin City, Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Franky Four Fingers in Snatch , Che Guevara in Che, and most recently for his role as Lawrence Talbot/The Wolfman in The Wolfman. He is the third Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award.

Early life

Benicio del Toro was born and grew up in Santurce, Puerto Rico, a district of San Juan. He is the son of Gustavo Adolfo del Toro Bermúdez and Fausta Genoveva Sánchez Rivera, who were both lawyers. He is of Spanish and Italian ancestry.He has an older brother, Gustavo, who is a pediatric oncologist.Del Toro’s childhood nicknames were “Skinny Benny” and “Beno”. He was raised a Catholic[4] and attended Academia del Perpetuo Socorro (The Academy of Our Lady of Perpetual Help), a Roman Catholic school in Miramar, Puerto Rico. When he was nine years old, his mother died of hepatitis. At the age of thirteen, del Toro’s father moved his two sons to Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, where del Toro was enrolled at the Mercersburg Academy. He spent his adolescence and high school there.

After graduation, del Toro followed the advice of his father and pursued a degree in business at the University of California, San Diego.[5] Success in an elective drama course encouraged him to drop out of college and study with noted acting teachers Stella Adler and Arthur Mendoza in Los Angeles, as well as at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York.

Career

Del Toro began to surface in small television parts during the late 1980s, playing mostly thugs and drug dealers on programs like Miami Vice and the NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story. He had a cameo in Madonna’s 1987 music video clip “La Isla Bonita” as a background character (the kid sitting on the car). Work in films followed, beginning with his debut in Big Top Pee-wee and in the 007 film Licence to Kill,[5] in which 21-year-old del Toro held the distinction of being the youngest actor ever to play a Bond villain. Although both films were considered box office disappointments, del Toro continued to appear in movies like The Indian Runner (1991), China Moon (1994), Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992), Money for Nothing (1993), Fearless (1993) and Swimming with Sharks (1994).

His career gained momentum in 1995 with his breakout performance in The Usual Suspects, where he played the mumbling, wisecracking Fred Fenster.[5] The role won him an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor and established him as a character actor. This led to more strong roles in independent and major studio films, including playing Gaspare in Abel Ferrara’s The Funeral (1996) and winning a second consecutive Best Supporting Actor Independent Spirit Award for his work as Benny Dalmau in Basquiat (1996), directed by his friend, artist Julian Schnabel. Del Toro also shared the screen with Robert De Niro in the big budget thriller The Fan, in which he played Juan Primo, a charismatic Puerto Rican baseball star.

For Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the 1998 film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s famous book, he packed on more than 40 lbs. (about 18 kg) to play Dr. Gonzo (a.k.a. Oscar Zeta Acosta), Thompson’s lawyer and drug-fiend cohort.[5] The surrealistic film, directed by Terry Gilliam, has earned a cult following over the years. Returning from a two-year hiatus after Fear and Loathing, del Toro would gain a mainstream audience in 2000 with a string of performances in four high-profile films. First up was The Way of the Gun, a crime yarn that reunited him with The Usual Suspects screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie, making his directorial debut. A few months later, he stood out among a first-rate ensemble cast in Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic, a complex dissection of the North American drug wars. As Javier Rodriguez - a Mexican border cop struggling to remain honest amid the corruption and deception of illegal drug trafficking - del Toro, who spoke most of his lines in Spanish, gave a performance that dominated the film and earned him his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

His praised work swept all of the major critics awards in 2001, as well as the Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. In addition to the critical accolades, Traffic was also a success at the box office, bringing to del Toro real Hollywood clout for the first time in his career. While Traffic was still playing in theaters, two other del Toro films were released in late 2000/early 2001. He had a brief role as the diamond thief Franky Four Fingers in Guy Ritchie’s hip caper comedy Snatch, and played a mentally-challenged Native American man in The Pledge, directed by his old friend Sean Penn.[5]
Benicio del Toro depicting revolutionary Che Guevara in the 2008 film Che. Del Toro was awarded the Best Actor Award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and the 2009 Goya Award as the best Spanish Lead Actor for his role in the two-part biopic.

In 2003, del Toro appeared in two films: The Hunted, co-starring Tommy Lee Jones, and the drama 21 Grams, an acting tour-de-force, co-starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. He went on to garner another Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his work in the latter.

His most recent roles were in the film adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel Sin City, directed by Robert Rodriguez, and Things We Lost in the Fire, the English language debut of celebrated Danish director Susanne Bier. Things We Lost in the Fire co-starred Halle Berry, Alison Lohman, and John Carroll Lynch.

In 2008 Del Toro was awarded the Prix d’interpretation masculine (or Best Actor Award) for his characterization of Che Guevara in The Argentine and Guerrilla (together known as Che).[6] During his acceptance speech Del Toro dedicated his award “to the man himself, Che Guevara” along with director Steven Soderbergh.[7] Del Toro was also awarded a 2009 Goya Award as the best Spanish Lead Actor for his depiction of Che.[8] Actor Sean Penn, who won an Oscar for his role in Milk, remarked that he was surprised and disappointed that Che and Del Toro were not also up for any Academy Award nominations. During his acceptance speech for the Best Actor’s trophy at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Penn expressed his dismay stating, “The fact that there aren’t crowns on Soderbergh’s and Del Toro’s heads right now, I don’t understand … that is such a sensational movie, Che.”[9] For the final portions of the film (shown here), Del Toro shed 35 pounds to show how ill Guevara had become near the end of his life in the jungles of Bolivia.

Benicio will be in Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” with Daniel-Day Lewis and Gael Garcia Bernal, due to be released in 2010. Filming will begin late 2009 in New Zealand. The movie is about two Jesuit priests, Sebastião Rodrigues (Del Toro) and Fr. Francisco Garpe (Garcia Bernal), who travel to seventeenth century Japan (disguised as civilians) under the Shogunate regime (which has isolated itself from all foreign contact) to see how the evangelical mission is going and to find their mentor Fr. Cristóvão Ferreira (Day Lewis) who is accused of practicing apostasy. There they witness the persecution of Japanese Christians at the hands of their own government, which wishes to purge Japan of all Western influence. Eventually the priests separate and Rodrigues travels the countryside, wondering why God remains silent while His children suffer. Del Toro stars and produced also the remake of The Wolf Man.

Academy Award

In 2001, del Toro won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Traffic, becoming the fourth living Oscar winner whose winning role was a character who speaks predominantly in a foreign language (most of del Toro’s dialogue in Traffic is in Spanish). Del Toro is also the third Puerto Rican actor to win an Oscar, after Jose Ferrer and Rita Moreno.[5] The night he won his Oscar, it was the first time that two actors born in Puerto Rico were nominated in the same category. (The other actor was Joaquin Phoenix, who isn’t of Puerto Rican descent.) In his acceptance speech, del Toro thanked the people of both Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora and dedicated his award to them. In 2004, Benicio del Toro was again nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, for his performance in the film 21 Grams.

Palin takes to Web for hints of political future

Posted by admin | Celebrity Corner, Read News Online | Sunday 5 July 2009 12:59 pm

JUNEAU, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn’t wait long to give some hint of what her political life might look like after she leaves office at the end of the month.

After staying out of the public eye for most of Saturday, a day after abruptly announcing she would soon give up her job as governor, Palin indicated on a social networking site that she would take on a larger, national role, citing a “higher calling” to unite the country along conservative lines.

“I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint,” the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote in a posting on her Facebook page. Palin’s spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton, confirmed Palin wrote the entry.

Palin shocked even her closest friends on Friday when she announced she would resign July 26, more than a year before her first term ends. But the controversial hockey mom has not revealed many details of bigger plans and national agenda.

Palin instead cast herself as a victim and blasted the media, calling the response to her announcement “predictable” and out of touch.

“How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it’s about country,” the statement said. “And though it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make.”

The abruptness of her announcement and the mystery surrounding her plans have fed widespread speculation. But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims.

“To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as ‘fact’ that Governor Palin resigned because she is ‘under federal investigation’ for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation,” Van Flein said in a statement. “This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law.”

He also told the Anchorage Daily News that Palin wasn’t in any criminal legal jeopardy.

“I can say definitively I am aware of no criminal investigation whatsoever involving Sarah Palin. Zero,” he said.

The FBI reiterated that claim Saturday, telling the Los Angeles Times for a story Sunday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not investigating Palin’s activities as governor, a former mayor or in any other capacity.

“There is absolutely no truth to those rumors that we’re investigating her or getting ready to indict her,” Special Agent Eric Gonzalez, the bureau’s Alaska spokesman, said.

Palin has kept a low profile since her sudden announcement Friday at a hastily called news conference at her home in suburban Wasilla, outside Anchorage. All of her public communication since then has been on the social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, or through statements released by her office.

At the same time, Palin informed her spokesman David Murrow early Saturday that someone using the name “exgovsarahpalin” on Twitter was spreading a false rumor that there was to be a party at her suburban home in Wasilla, outside Anchorage. Palin was afraid her home would be mobbed, and security was dispatched, Murrow said.

With only a few weeks before she steps down on July 26, and Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell takes her place, the governor spent the Fourth of July weekend in the state capital, Juneau, but was only spotted briefly on the sidelines of the city’s parade.

She had been invited to ride in a convertible, as she did last year, but never told organizers whether she would attend.

Juneau parade director Jean Sztuk said officials drew up banners in case Palin showed and was willing to take part.

As the last of the parade’s clowns and marching bands headed past her, Sztuk gave up on Palin. “What governor wants to be at the end of the parade?” she asked.

Her low-profile and vague Internet messages left mounting questions about her plans for the future shrouded in mystery. Will she lay the groundwork for a 2012 presidential bid? Will she find a high-profile place in the private sector, maybe on the speech circuit? Will she drop out of the limelight and focus on her five children?

Her constituents, for one, wanted to know, especially in Juneau, where she has struggled to win over residents.

“I think she owes it to Alaskans to tell us why,” said state Sen. Dennis Egan, D-Juneau, the son of Alaska’s first governor, Bill Egan.

Egan, hosting a 50th anniversary statehood ceremony, said he was disappointed Palin decided not to finish out her term, which was scheduled to end in 2010.

“It’s sad she abandoned us at this critical time,” said Egan, who was appointed by Palin to an open seat on the last day of the legislative session in April, after a protracted battle with Senate Democrats.

Palin’s departure can’t come soon enough for Laurel Carlton, a waitress at the Capital Cafe in the Baranof Hotel, where the city’s political movers and shakers meet every morning before walking a few blocks to the Capitol.

“I think she has a game plan that’s not Alaska, and hasn’t been for awhile,” Carlton said.

She noted Palin has a book deal, and seems headed for the national stage.

“If you’re really not going to stay and do your job every day, you should leave anyway, and so the sooner the better so somebody can step in and actually do the job,” Carlton said.

And as far as Carlton is concerned, Palin doesn’t need to explain why she’s leaving.

“We don’t care. We just want her gone,” she said.

Palin, whose popularity in Alaska has waned amid ongoing ethics investigations, gave many reasons for stepping down: She didn’t want to be a lame-duck governor; she was tired of the tasteless jokes aimed at her five children, including her son Trig, who has Down syndrome; she felt she could do more in another, still-to-be-defined role.

Sen. John McCain didn’t rule out a return to politics for his former running mate, saying Saturday he believes “she will continue to play an important leadership role in the Republican Party and our nation.” He gave no other details.

Even Parnell, who plans to run for re-election after finishing out Palin’s term, said he was shocked at first when he learned of his boss’ decision.

“But then as she began to articulate her reasons, I began to understand better,” he said. “And nobody - unless they’ve been in her position and understood what she has gone through and dealt with and who she is as a person - really understands.”