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Thursday 23 June 2016

Discover The 5 Solution to a Wrinkle Free Face - ALL EXPOSED TODAY!

Various sources across the internet have exposed a HUGE celebrity secret to erase wrinkles - without botox or surgery!

How do Hollywood starlets look so radiant and youthful well into thier 40's, 50's, and even 60's? Is it always expensive botox and dangerous plastic surgery? According to various sources, the answer is NO! So if they aren't all using surgery to stay looking great, what is their secret? Keep reading, it's excitingly effective, safe, and cheap!

A high profile doctor has been giving advice to clients (rumoured to include celebrities) to look 10 to 15 years younger fast, but are scared of the potential risks of surgery or botox. Many online sources have expressed suprise over how shockingly simple, cheap, and effective his technique was! Read on...

“Countless aging celebs are reported to have admitted they avoided surgery and look 20 years younger thanks to the simple advice.”
The Best Skin Solution You’ve Never Heard Of

The wrinkle secret has been reserved for high paying celebrity clients...until now. Consumers have reported throwing away thousands of dollars on expensive anti aging products or dangerous surgical procedures that make big promises that often do far more harm than good. As a result, a few weeks ago this simple solution was shared!

This anti aging miracle was reportedly found when multiple celebrity friends and clients were constantly reaching out to a high profile doctor hoping for a solution to look younger to prolong their career without going in for surgery.

“She looked 15 years younger in literally 2 weeks!”

The doctor was reported to have been thrilled when after months and months of pain staking tests and research, his team came across 2 products that when combinedsupposedly took 10 to 20 years off women’s appearance in just a month. More shockingly it is safe, and costs next to nothing to try! The two products are BELLAVEI Youth Renew Phytoceramides and BELLAVEI Anti Aging Cream.

“This is the anti aging miracle of the decade as far as I'm concerned.”

So what is it?

2 Key Ingredients For Anti Aging:

1. Vitamin C
2. Hyaluronic Acid

These are both natural ingredients that work together to erase wrinkles and fine lines at the cellular level – below the surface of the skin – which is why they’re so effective.

Vitamin C, The Fountain of Youth:

The first piece of the anti aging puzzle discovered was Vitamin C.

"Vitamin C is the secret to cheat your age”

Vitamin C penetrates deep into damaged skin and stimulates new collagen – a protein which makes skin appear plump and firm. It's all the rage in beauty circles, much in part because of a 2009 study stating, applying non-prescription Vitamin C to your skin caused a large reduction in fine lines and wrinkles. This is why BELLAVEI Youth Renew Phytoceramides is so effective. It was one of the few products on the market that had Vitamin C in the right consistency and dosage.

Hyaluronic Acid:

He said the second piece, when combined properly with Vitamin C, can make your face look two decades younger in weeks! Hyaluronic Acid works by binding to moisture. It can hold up to 1,000 times its weight in water, making it an excellent natural skin plumper. Hyaluronic acid helps your skin repair and regenerate itself after suffering from dryness, environmental stresses, or irritation. Products you can buy over the counter with an effective concentration of Hyaluronic Acid was found in BELLAVEI Anti Aging Cream .

“What Vitamin C & Hyaluronic Acid do is get rid of all the old, dead layers of skin and help your skin generate fresh new ones. Our tests show that you can erase almost 10 to 20 years off your face in less than 14 days. But the key is to choose the creams and serums that contain the highest and purest quality ingredients, since they’re not all the same. The only two we found during our research was BELLAVEI Youth Renew Phytoceramides and BELLAVEI Anti Aging Cream. This is what my wife uses. This is what I recommend to all my celebrity clients.”

"How do I do it?"

It's actually very simple. You simply use both products before bed. BELLAVEI Youth Renew Phytoceramides and BELLAVEI Anti Aging Cream. These two products both contain high concentrations of pure Vitamin C and Hyaluronic Acid in just the right concentrations. His team is also reported to have discovered that they contain all sorts of anti-oxidants, an ingredient called Dermaxyl (also known as facelift in a jar) and Ester-C (the active anti-aging compound in Vitamin C).

“Getting older is rough for an actress. I feel like a new woman!”

Put to the Test!

As excited as we were, we wanted to find an example of real usage of these type of products. We found one test where a volunteer from the office was used. A 57 year old mother of 3 jumped at the chance to test this combo and the results were pulished online. Here is her story...

Brenda's Story & 14 Day Cell Revival Results:

"Brenda is a 57 year old mother of 3 from here in Chicago. Like most women her age, the years have started to give her unwanted lines and wrinkles. Brenda said she volunteered because she is so frustrated that nothing she has tried seems to work. She was even considered highly risky and very expensive facelift procedure. This was somewhat of a last resort for her."

The Quantum Fabric of Space-Time

Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox

A bold new idea aims to link two famously discordant descriptions of nature. In doing so, it may also reveal how space-time owes its existence to the spooky connections of quantum information.

One hundred years after Albert Einstein developed his general theory of relativity, physicists are still stuck with perhaps the biggest incompatibility problem in the universe. The smoothly warped space-time landscape that Einstein described is like a painting by Salvador Dalí — seamless, unbroken, geometric. But the quantum particles that occupy this space are more like something from Georges Seurat: pointillist, discrete, described by probabilities. At their core, the two descriptions contradict each other. Yet a bold new strain of thinking suggests that quantum correlations between specks of impressionist paint actually create not just Dalí’s landscape, but the canvases that both sit on, as well as the three-dimensional space around them. And Einstein, as he so often does, sits right in the center of it all, still turning things upside-down from beyond the grave.

Like initials carved in a tree, ER = EPR, as the new idea is known, is a shorthand that joins two ideas proposed by Einstein in 1935. One involved the paradox implied by what he called “spooky action at a distance” between quantum particles (the EPR paradox, named for its authors, Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen). The other showed how two black holes could be connected through far reaches of space through “wormholes” (ER, for Einstein-Rosen bridges). At the time that Einstein put forth these ideas — and for most of the eight decades since — they were thought to be entirely unrelated.



When Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen published their seminal paper pointing out puzzling features of what we now call entanglement, The New York Timestreated it as front-page news.

But if ER = EPR is correct, the ideas aren’t disconnected — they’re two manifestations of the same thing. And this underlying connectedness would form the foundation of all space-time. Quantum entanglement — the action at a distance that so troubled Einstein — could be creating the “spatial connectivity” that “sews space together,” according to Leonard Susskind, a physicist at Stanford University and one of the idea’s main architects. Without these connections, all of space would “atomize,” according to Juan Maldacena, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., who developed the idea together with Susskind. “In other words, the solid and reliable structure of space-time is due to the ghostly features of entanglement,” he said. What’s more, ER = EPR has the potential to address how gravity fits together with quantum mechanics.

Not everyone’s buying it, of course (nor should they; the idea is in “its infancy,” said Susskind). Joe Polchinski, a researcher at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, whose own stunning paradox about firewalls in the throats of black holes triggered the latest advances, is cautious, but intrigued. “I don’t know where it’s going,” he said, “but it’s a fun time right now.”

The Black Hole Wars

The road that led to ER = EPR is a Möbius strip of tangled twists and turns that folds back on itself, like a drawing by M.C. Escher.

A fair place to start might be quantum entanglement. If two quantum particles are entangled, they become, in effect, two parts of a single unit. What happens to one entangled particle happens to the other, no matter how far apart they are.



Andrea Kane/Institute for Advanced Study

Juan Maldacena at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.

Maldacena sometimes uses a pair of gloves as an analogy: If you come upon the right-handed glove, you instantaneously know the other is left-handed. There’s nothing spooky about that. But in the quantum version, both gloves are actually left- and right-handed (and everything in between) up until the moment you observe them. Spookier still, the left-handed glove doesn’t become left until you observe the right-handed one — at which moment both instantly gain a definite handedness.

Entanglement played a key role in Stephen Hawking’s 1974 discovery that black holes could evaporate. This, too, involved entangled pairs of particles. Throughout space, short-lived “virtual” particles of matter and anti-matter continually pop into and out of existence. Hawking realized that if one particle fell into a black hole and the other escaped, the hole would emit radiation, glowing like a dying ember. Given enough time, the hole would evaporate into nothing, raising the question of what happened to the information content of the stuff that fell into it.

But the rules of quantum mechanics forbid the complete destruction of information. (Hopelessly scrambling information is another story, which is why documents can be burned and hard drives smashed. There’s nothing in the laws of physics that prevents the information lost in a book’s smoke and ashes from being reconstructed, at least in principle.) So the question became: Would the information that originally went into the black hole just get scrambled? Or would it be truly lost? The arguments set off what Susskind called the “black hole wars,” which have generated enough stories to fill many books. (Susskind’s was subtitled “My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics.”)

Eventually Susskind — in a discovery that shocked even him — realized (with Gerard ’t Hooft) that all the information that fell down the hole was actually trapped on the black hole’s two-dimensional event horizon, the surface that marks the point of no return. The horizon encoded everything inside, like a hologram. It was as if the bits needed to re-create your house and everything in it could fit on the walls. The information wasn’t lost — it was scrambled and stored out of reach.



Susskind continued to work on the idea with Maldacena, whom Susskind calls “the master,” and others. Holography began to be used not just to understand black holes, but any region of space that can be described by its boundary. Over the past decade or so, the seemingly crazy idea that space is a kind of hologram has become rather humdrum, a tool of modern physics used in everything from cosmology to condensed matter. “One of the things that happen to scientific ideas is they often go from wild conjecture to reasonable conjecture to working tools,” Susskind said. “It’s gotten routine.”

Holography was concerned with what happens on boundaries, including black hole horizons. That left open the question of what goes on in the interiors, said Susskind, and answers to that “were all over the map.” After all, since no information could ever escape from inside a black hole’s horizon, the laws of physics prevented scientists from ever directly testing what was going on inside.

Then in 2012 Polchinski, along with Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf and James Sully, all of them at the time at Santa Barbara, came up with an insight so startling it basically said to physicists: Hold everything. We know nothing.

The so-called AMPS paper (after its authors’ initials) presented a doozy of an entanglement paradox — one so stark it implied that black holes might not, in effect, even have insides, for a “firewall” just inside the horizon would fry anyone or anything attempting to find out its secrets.

Scaling the Firewall

Here’s the heart of their argument: If a black hole’s event horizon is a smooth, seemingly ordinary place, as relativity predicts (the authors call this the “no drama” condition), the particles coming out of the black hole must be entangled with particles falling into the black hole. Yet for information not to be lost, the particles coming out of the black hole must also be entangled with particles that left long ago and are now scattered about in a fog of Hawking radiation. That’s one too many kinds of entanglements, the AMPS authors realized. One of them would have to go.

The reason is that maximum entanglements have to be monogamous, existing between just two particles. Two maximum entanglements at once — quantum polygamy — simply cannot happen, which suggests that the smooth, continuous space-time inside the throats of black holes can’t exist. A break in the entanglement at the horizon would imply a discontinuity in space, a pileup of energy: the “firewall.”

The AMPS paper became a “real trigger,” said Stephen Shenker, a physicist at Stanford, and “cast in sharp relief” just how much was not understood. Of course, physicists love such paradoxes, because they’re fertile ground for discovery.

Both Susskind and Maldacena got on it immediately. They’d been thinking about entanglement and wormholes, and both were inspired by the work of Mark Van Raamsdonk, a physicist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, who had conducted a pivotal thought experiment suggesting that entanglement and space-time are intimately related.

“Then one day,” said Susskind, “Juan sent me a very cryptic message that contained the equation ER = EPR. I instantly saw what he was getting at, and from there we went back and forth expanding the idea.”

Their investigations, which they presented in a 2013 paper, “Cool Horizons for Entangled Black Holes,” argued for a kind of entanglement they said the AMPS authors had overlooked — the one that “hooks space together,” according to Susskind. AMPS assumed that the parts of space inside and outside of the event horizon were independent. But Susskind and Maldacena suggest that, in fact, particles on either side of the border could be connected by a wormhole. The ER = EPR entanglement could “kind of get around the apparent paradox,” said Van Raamsdonk. The paper contained a graphic that some refer to half-jokingly as the “octopus picture” — with multiple wormholes leading from the inside of a black hole to Hawking radiation on the outside.



Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine

The ER = EPR idea posits that entangled particles inside and outside of a black hole’s event horizon are connected via wormholes.

In other words, there was no need for an entanglement that would create a kink in the smooth surface of the black hole’s throat. The particles still inside the hole would be directly connected to particles that left long ago. No need to pass through the horizon, no need to pass Go. The particles on the inside and the far-out ones could be considered one and the same, Maldacena explained — like me, myself and I. The complex “octopus” wormhole would link the interior of the black hole directly to particles in the long-departed cloud of Hawking radiation.

Holes in the Wormhole

No one is sure yet whether ER = EPR will solve the firewall problem. John Preskill, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, reminded readers of Quantum Frontiers, the blog for Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, that sometimes physicists rely on their “sense of smell” to sniff out which theories have promise. “At first whiff,” he wrote, “ER = EPR may smell fresh and sweet, but it will have to ripen on the shelf for a while.”

Whatever happens, the correspondence between entangled quantum particles and the geometry of smoothly warped space-time is a “big new insight,” said Shenker. It’s allowed him and his collaborator Douglas Stanford, a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study, to tackle complex problems in quantum chaos through what Shenker calls “simple geometry that even I can understand.”

To be sure, ER = EPR does not yet apply to just any kind of space, or any kind of entanglement. It takes a special type of entanglement and a special type of wormhole. “Lenny and Juan are completely aware of this,” said Marolf, who recently co-authored a paper describing wormholes with more than two ends. ER = EPR works in very specific situations, he said, but AMPS argues that the firewall presents a much broader challenge.

Like Polchinski and others, Marolf worries that ER = EPR modifies standard quantum mechanics. “A lot of people are really interested in the ER = EPR conjecture,” said Marolf. “But there’s a sense that no one but Lenny and Juan really understand what it is.” Still, “it’s an interesting time to be in the field.”

Clarification on April 27, 2015: The article has been altered to clarify that only maximally entangled particles have to have monogamous entanglements.

Part two of this series, exploring the details of how entanglement could construct space-time, will appear on Tuesday, April 28.

Monday 14 December 2015

‘Home’ Star Brian Stepanek Talks Working With Kids, Voicing Goofball Aliens And Fainting Over Miley Cyrus [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW]

The Ohio native loves working with his young co-stars and calls kids the greatest fans in the world.


Brian Stepanek
Brian Stepanek loves working with his young co-stars and calls kids the greatest fans in the world. (Photo : Rich Marchewka Photography) 
 
Brian Stepanek is no stranger to working with kids and teenagers. He directed musical theater for children and high school productions in college, landed his first major role as janitor Arwin on Disney Channel's "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" and now stars as the father of Nickelodeon's "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn."
 
"I naturally came full circle to it," Stepanek tells Headlines & Global News in an exclusive interview. "These networks are kind of like musical theater. It's the same sensibilities. Everything's a little bigger. All the turns are a little sharper. That's what I'm good at so I found myself back in the kids' world."

The 44-year-old actor also lends his voice to animated features like "Over the Hedge," "Bolt" and the new Dreamworks movie "Home," which premieres in theaters on March 27. Working on these projects, he interacts frequently with the people he considers to be the "greatest fans on the planet" - kids.

"They are so genuine and so excited to see you," he says.

Stepanek spoke with HNGN about the pride his own three children show in his work, how he got his alien character in "Home" named after him and that time he fainted meeting Hannah Montana (a.k.a. Miley Cyrus) on "The Suite Life."

Headlines & Global News: Do your kids watch your shows and movies?
 
Brian Stepanek: I never know how to answer that question. They watch it. It's very cute to see my 10-year-old be very proud of me. When we're out in public, and kids recognize me, he gets very proud. We don't talk about it a whole lot. It's totally normal to them. They just grew up with it.

When I was a kid, growing up near Cleveland, Ohio, I would have died if John Ritter walked in the room. He was my idol. My kids, they're just used to it.

HNGN: How is working with four child actors and all their energy on the set of "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?"
 
Stepanek: It is a blast. Last season, we were just starting, they were pretty green. They hadn't done a whole lot, so they were learning as we went. Everybody knew that and we built it into the schedule. There's something really fun about working with kids on set because they're wide-eyed. They're learning and we get to help teach them. It's really been a blast.

They have a very good sensibility and when they don't, if they ever miss anything and you correct them, they go, 'Oh yeah, I got it.' They hear the music.

HNGN: Working alongside kids for so long, do you feel a sense of responsibility to keep them grounded and humble?
 
Stepanek: Before shooting each episode, we always huddle up and the one thing I always say to them is, 'It's a privilege, not a right. We're all very, very lucky to be here.' I literally say that to them once a week, so they remember how lucky, all of us, are to be a regular on a TV show. It's like winning the lottery. Because they're so young, I want them to really understand how lucky they are.

Brian Stepanek
(Photo : Rich Marchewka Photography)
 
HNGN: What can fans of the show look forward when season two premieres later this year?
 
Stepanek: You'll see me in so many different hair styles. I've worn so many wigs, like I was Amish today. I've been in an '80s costume, like Jon Cryer from "Pretty in Pink."

HNGN: Speaking of "Pretty in Pink," do you notice the writers sneaking in references for parents watching the show with their kids?
 
Stepanek: Oh yes, but think about it, the writers grew up in the '80s. Their references are genius. I love going up to the writers' room because it's like walking into a looney bin. They are hilarious. There are a lot of flashbacks with the mom (Allison Munn) and dad because our history is that we used to be ice dancers. So there's an episode with me with Bon Jovi curly blonde hair. Like the old Bugs Bunny cartoons, they always refer to stuff that the adults would get.

HNGN: Do the kids understand that sometimes they're reenacting iconic scenes from TV and movie history?
 
Stepanek: They have no idea. We have to show it to them on set. We shoot on the same studio that "Happy Days" shot. We have to show them, "This was 'Happy Days.'' They don't know what "Happy Days" was.

We always encourage them to watch Lucille Ball and Dick Van Dyke because all the terms, all the performances, it's all the same. [Ball and Van Dyke] are great people to learn from, the best there ever was.

HNGN: The show also got nominated for its first Kids Choice Award. What was everyone's reaction?
 
Stepanek: Everybody was very excited. Especially in our first year, it's really an honor. That's why we do it, it's for our audience. If they tell us we're doing a good job, we're doing the right thing.

HNGN: Will you be attending the awards show?
 
Stepanek: I will be. I'm going to be a huge draw. That Jonas kid will be there but everybody will be there for me. [Note: Nick Jonas will be hosting the Kids' Choice Awards 2015.]
 
HNGN: You and Nick Jonas have both moved over to Nickelodeon after starring on Disney Channel. Wasn't "The Suite Life" airing about the same time the Jonas Brothers were hitting it big?
 
Stepanek: Yes, but what I remember most is when Miley Cyrus came on our show, as Hannah Montana. [My character Arwin] was the first to greet her on our Disney Channel show. She walked into the Tipton [Hotel] and I see her and go, 'You're Hannah Montana!' and I passed out. When I think back I'm like, "Oh my gosh! I was there the first time she appeared as Hannah Montana."

HNGN: Is it bizarre to see her now, considering everything that has transpired in the last 10 years?
 
Stepanek: Yes, she's all grown up now.

HNGN: You were originally brought in to record just the scratch tracks on "Home." How did you get that job?
 
Stepanek: Tim Johnson, the director, and I worked together on a movie called "Over the Hedge"(starring Bruce Willis and Garry Shandling). I came in early because originally it was Jim Carrey as the lead and I came in about a year and a half prior to Jim Carrey. I would come in and improvise. Things didn't work out with Jim so they brought in Bruce Willis and I would always read opposite Bruce Willis and Garry Shandling, I'd read all the other roles.

So I got to know Tim really well. Whenever he has a project, he always brings me in early to help put things to storyboard and have a voice. I came in and did a lot of the voices for the Jim Parsons character and the Steve Martin character [in "Home"] before they were even cast.

I think they cast brilliantly. Steve Martin in that role, it's such a touch of genius to have him in that role. What they did was I ended up playing another alien named Brian. Then there's this big bad alien that comes at the end of the movie called The Gorg and I'm the voice of The Gorg.

HNGN: What takes place during a scratch track recording? Do you put your own on the characters or is it straight line reading?
 
Stepanek: It's a combination. It's [the writers and director] trying to find it. Once you bring in Jim Parsons and Steve Martin, it's theirs. I was just doing preliminary stuff, whatever I could come up with and helping them try different lines and different directions so they could hear it out loud. Once they hear it out loud, they go, "Oh you know what, let's try this this way," to guide the film.

HNGN: Was your character Brian originally in the movie or did the writers add him later in production?
 
Stepanek: What's funny is these aliens are goofballs. When they come to Earth, in order to make themselves more accessible to Earthlings, they take Earthlings' names. That was much more evident in an earlier version of the movie. They were trying to figure out, because I was this alien that kept popping up with these little one-liners, and they were like, "What are we going to call him? What are we going to call him?" and then they went, "Why don't we just name him Brian?" That's how I ended up as Brian the alien.

"Home" opens in theaters on March 27. "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn" will return for season two later this year on Nickelodeon.

Brian Stepanek finds 'Home' voicing two characters in new DreamWorks film

Brian Stepanek voices multiple characters in the new DreamWorks Animation film 'Home.'
Brian Stepanek voices multiple characters in the new DreamWorks Animation film 'Home.'
Rich Marchewka Photography/Courtesy of Persona PR
If you went to see DreamWorks Animation's new film Home this past weekend, you heard the voice of actor Brian Stepanek. Brian lends his pipes to not one, but two characters in the film that stars Rihanna and Jim Parsons as a girl and the alien she befriends. We caught up with him on Tuesday to learn a bit more about voice acting in the latest family movie.

Brian's work on Home began when he was brought on to provide the scratch tracks for the film's villain, portrayed by Steve Martin. For those of you who don't speak animation, "Scratch track means temporary voices," Brian explained. "The directors bring in actors to voice characters early on in the process so that they can lay those voices over storyboards and get a feel for how the movie is playing out in a macro sense (the overall direction of the story) and in a micro sense (how are these characters relating to one another)."

He so impressed the creative team that they kept him on to handle not one, but two supporting characters, one of which they actually named Brian. Had he ever had a character named after him before. "It was the first time," he laughed. "I don’t think the name is even used in the film, but it is in the written script. The writers and director were trying to find a funny, mundane human name for this alien that kept popping up with one-liners. I don’t know how they came up with Brian!"

Home represents another example of big-name talent that you wouldn't expect to hear migrating over to the voice acting world, with Rihanna, Parsons and Jennifer Lopez toplining its cast. What's it like for a voice actor like Brian to see these major names from music and TV also working in the recording booth?

"There are people out here in Los Angeles that are truly amazing voice actors, that can do anything in terms of characters and impressions. Any time I’m in the booth with them, I am in awe of how fantastic they are. I would like to see these talented people work as much as possible," he reflected, "but I understand the audience that these huge names bring to the theater. Not to mention Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez and Jim Parsons are wonderful in this film. Oh, and that 'Steve' guy," he joked.

Who are some of those aforementioned amazing voice actors in his book?

"Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Jeff Bennett, Maurice LaMarche…these are just a few. And occasionally I get to be in the same booth with them," Brian told us. "I love watching Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels with my ten-year-old son. I would have never left the house if those were on when I was a kid."

He is one of the many voice actors who also does live-action work, such as appearing in the new Nickelodeon comedy series Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, and his recurring role on Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Do people ever connect the dots that the same guy they're seeing on screen is the one they just heard in a movie, or vice versa?

"So far, I get recognized more for The Suite Life than anything else," he said. "I think kids (now adults) are pleasantly surprised when I show up in other places like Transformers or Mom or Two and A Half Men. Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn is just getting started so it’ll be a while before that’s what I’m recognized for. I am very excited that I’m now getting recognized by two generations of kids, especially since younger kids are not only watching NRDD, but also watching The Suite Life on Netflix."

His favorite role of all time is one you probably wouldn't expect.

"Years ago back in Chicago, I played Bill Snibson in a musical called Me and My Girl. I won a Jeff Award for it and had a blast," Brian reflected. "When you get to perform a show eight times a week for ten weeks, you really fall into a groove and start to let loose. Film and TV are so much faster in terms of turnaround that I don’t often feel like I am really able to fall in to a character. Touring with The Second City out of Chicago was fun too."

"I’m in a short film called Simon Says that is making the rounds in the festival circuit right now. I’m very proud of it," he continued. "I play two characters, one of which is a pretty despicable bad guy. The film follows a lonely man, as well as the hateful voice in his head that tells him he 'can’t.' I play both characters. Shooting NRDD is keeping me pretty busy otherwise."

Is there an animated character he'd want to step behind the microphone for someday?

"I auditioned once for the voice of Jiminy Cricket. I didn’t book it but would love to play that little guy," Brian enthused. "Ironically, he’s the good voice in your head…I’ve already played the bad voice!"

Thursday 17 September 2015

Bryan Brothers Lose At U.S. Open To Leander Paes, Radek Stepanek

BRYAN BROTHERS
Mike, left, and Bob Bryan plan the next point against Leander Paes, of India, and Radek Stepanek, of the Czech Republic, during the men's doubles quarterfinals of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/David Goldman) | AP
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NEW YORK — With history on the line, the Bryan brothers finally met their match.
Trying to become only the second men's doubles team to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in a single year, Bob and Mike Bryan saw their bid end with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 loss Thursday to Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek in the U.S. Open semifinals.
"As competitors, we hate to lose and we knew what was riding on this match and the opportunity of what we could have accomplished," Bob Bryan said. "And then in one sense, it's a little bit of a relief where you get to kind of exhale for the first time in a few months."
For nearly 12 months, a span that included 28 straight wins in Grand Slam matches, seemingly every bounce and every bit of luck went the Bryans' way. It put them two wins away from joining the 1951 Aussie team of Ken McGregor and Frank Sedgman as only the second to capture the calendar Slam in men's doubles.
But on a blustery afternoon in Arthur Ashe Stadium – their third appearance there of the tournament – the 35-year-old identical twins ran into a pair of fast-handed veterans who have never backed down from them.
"You leave that door a little ajar, I will find my foot through it," said Paes, 40, who has 13 major titles of his own, seven in men's doubles and six more in mixed. "Once I get my foot through it, I got my body through it. Once I get my body through it, I get him through it."
News of the result filtered over to Melbourne, where Sedgman woke up Friday morning and was greeted by a text from his daughter telling him his spot in tennis history was safe. But the 85-year-old former champion, whose doubles partner died in 2007, said there's no denying the Bryans' greatness.
"Obviously, they will go down as one of the best ever doubles pairings," Sedgman said. "I really thought they had a good chance to break it."
Less than an hour after the Bryans lost, some good news for American doubles: Venus and Serena Williams rolled through the top-seeded defending champions, Roberta Vinci and Sara Errani, to take their spot in the semifinals.
Two more wins would give make it 14 Grand Slam doubles title for the sisters. Serena is also two wins away from a second straight singles title here.
The Bryans, meanwhile, remain stuck on 15 Grand Slam championships and must "settle" for the "Bryan Slam" – the four straight majors they won starting at Flushing Meadows last year, when they beat Paes and Stepanek in the final. At Wimbledon in July, they capped that slam, making them the first team since McGregor and Sedgman to hold all four titles at once.
"Then once we did that, we didn't really get to rest on our laurels too much," Bob Bryan said. "It's a never-ending run of history and records and there is always something on the horizon. That's what makes this sport so fun, is, there is always the next goal."
Already guaranteed of finishing first in the rankings for a record ninth time, the Bryans will take some time off and figure out what that next goal is.
They will try to set aside this loss quickly.
After losing only one point on their serve and committing not a single unforced error, the Bryans looked like they might be in for a short afternoon of work against Paes and Stepanek.
But things changed suddenly. Paes upped his game, started picking off volleys for easy winners when his partner was serving and playing dink and dunk against the Bryans the rest of the time.
"He started feeling it," Bob Bryan said. "Yes, he can get hot."
Paes' change of pace left the Bryans stuck in cement. There was no escape act to make this time, the way they did when they switched sides for their return games after losing the first set in the third round – or when they saved two set points in the first set of the quarterfinals.
"It got stickier. The holds became tougher," Mike Bryan said. "I don't remember missing a first serve in the first set, and we were reeling off those games. Then they started clawing into our service games. When you're serving down break points and deuce games, it becomes a lot tougher and the pressure mounts."
They fell behind by two breaks in the third set and actually clawed back to get one of them back. But Stepanek served out the final game at love. Instead of the match ending with the trademark "Bryan Bump," the Bryans simply hugged. On the other side of the net, Stepanek leaped into Paes' arms and then they did a nifty little side-shuffle dance in front of their chairs on the sideline.
The Stepanek-Paes team improved to 4-4 lifetime against the Bryans and added another chapter to a nice little story of their own. Stepanek was out of action after neck surgery this year following the Australian Open.
"When he got injured, I got lots of phone calls to play with other guys, but that's not what you do," Paes said. "What you do is you stand by your partner. I have tremendous belief in him, and he's really shown that belief coming good."
While they move on, the Bryans take some time to make some sense of it all. Out of answers on a Grand Slam court for the first time in a year, they started coming to grips with the opportunity that slipped away.
"Realistically, it will probably never happen," Mike Bryan said. "The margins are just so fine in doubles. There are just too many great teams out there and too much can go wrong, and a lot has to go right to be in that position.
"So, we gave it everything we had."

Dr. Oz and Team Discover $5 Solution to a Wrinkle Free Face - Diane Keaton EXPOSES IT ALL!



Diane exposed a HUGE celebrity secret to erase wrinkles - without botox or surgery!

How do Hollywood starlets look so radiant and youthful well into thier 40's, 50's, and even 60's? Is it always expensive botox and dangerous plastic surgery? According to Diane Keaton, the answer is NO! So if they aren't all using surgery to stay looking great, what is their secret? Keep reading, it's excitingly effective, safe, and cheap!
A few weeks ago on The Ellen Show, Diane shared the secret Dr. Oz has been giving celebrity clients who want to look 10 to 15 years younger fast, but are scared of the potential risks of surgery or botox. We were so suprised by how shockingly simple, cheap, and effective his technique was, we had to test it ourself and write a feature article on the results! Read on...

“Countless aging celebs admit they avoided surgery and look 20 years younger thanks to Dr. Oz's simple advice.”

The Best Skin Solution You’ve Never Heard Of


Dr Oz had always kept this wrinkle secret reserved for his high paying celebrity clients...until now. Diane said she felt like she had to let her fans know because she was tired of hearing the countless stories of her viewers throwing away thousands of dollars on expensive anti aging products or dangerous surgical procedures that make big promises that often do far more harm than good. As a result, a few weeks ago she shared the simple solution he had previously only shared with his celeb clients to everyone watching Ellen!
He actually discovered this anti aging miracle when multiple celebrity friends and clients were constantly reaching out to him hoping for a solution to look younger to prolong their career without going in for surgery.


“I looked 15 years younger in literally 2 weeks! Dr. Oz literally saved my acting career.” -Diane Keaton, 51
Diane revealed Dr. Oz was thrilled when after months and months of pain staking tests and research, his team came across 2 products that when combined literally took 10 to 20 years off women’s appearance in just a month. More shockingly it is safe, and costs next to nothing! The two products were revealed to be Tru Visage Anti Aging Formula and PurEssance Wrinkle Reducer Formula.
“This is the anti aging miracle of the decade as far as I'm concerned.” Martha Stewart, 73

So what is it?


2 Key Ingredients For Anti Aging:


1. Vitamin C
2. Hyaluronic Acid
These are both natural ingredients that work together to erase wrinkles and fine lines at the cellular level – below the surface of the skin – which is why they’re so effective.
Vitamin C, The Fountain of Youth:
The first piece of the anti aging puzzle Dr. Oz discovered was Vitamin C.
Vitamin C penetrates deep into damaged skin and stimulates new collagen – a protein which makes skin appear plump and firm. It's all the rage in beauty circles, much in part because of a 2009 study stating, applying non-prescription Vitamin C to your skin caused a 60% reduction in fine lines and wrinkles. Dr. Oz said this is why Tru Visage Anti Aging Formula is so effective. It was one of the few products on the market that had Vitamin C in the right consistency and dosage.

Hyaluronic Acid:
He said the second piece, when combined properly with Vitamin C, literally makes your face look two decades younger in weeks! Hyaluronic Acid works by binding to moisture. It can hold up to 1,000 times its weight in water, making it an excellent natural skin plumper. Hyaluronic acid helps your skin repair and regenerate itself after suffering from dryness, environmental stresses, or irritation. He said one of, if not the only products you can buy over the counter with an effective concentration of Hyaluronic Acid was found in PurEssance Wrinkle Reducer Formula .



“What Vitamin C & Hyaluronic Acid do is get rid of all the old, dead layers of skin and help your skin generate fresh new ones. Our tests show that you can erase almost 10 to 20 years off your face in less than 14 days. But the key is to choose the creams and serums that contain the highest and purest quality ingredients, since they’re not all the same. The only two we found during our research was Tru Visage Anti Aging Formula and PurEssance Wrinkle Reducer Formula. This is what my wife uses. This is what I recommend to all my celebrity clients.” - Dr. Oz


"How do I do it?"


It's acutally very simple. You simply use both products before bed. Diane states, "The trick is to combine Tru Visage Anti Aging Formula and PurEssance Wrinkle Reducer Formula. These two products both contain high concentrations of pure Vitamin C and Hyaluronic Acid in just the right concentrations. His team also discovered that they contain all sorts of anti-oxidants, an ingredient called Dermaxyl (also known as facelift in a jar) and Ester-C (the active anti-aging compound in Vitamin C).

“Getting older is rough for an actress. I feel like a new woman!” Goldie Hawn, 68

We Decided to Put it to the Test!

As excited as we were after the show and after getting a flood of letters, we wanted to try it for ourself before we wrote this feature piece praising it. We decided to take a volunteer from someone in our office. Let me introduce Brenda Wright, a 57 year old mother of 3 who jumped at the chance to test this combo. Here is her story...

Brenda's Story & 14 Day Cell Revival Results:

Brenda is a 57 year old mother of 3 from here in Chicago. Like most women her age, the years have started to give her unwanted lines and wrinkles. Brenda said she volunteered because she is so frustrated that nothing she has tried seems to work. She was even considered highly risky and very expensive facelift procedure. This was somewhat of a last resort for her.

Here are her results....



DAY 1:

After the first day of using Tru Visage Anti Aging Formula andPurEssance Wrinkle Reducer Formula together, I was surprised at how wonderful they both made my skin feel. It felt like every last pore on my face was being tightened and pulled by a gigantic vacuum cleaner.
I don't know how else to describe it! I could feel a warm tingling sensation on my cheeks, around my eyes, and on my forehead. I looked in the mirror and saw that my face looked a bit rosy - the result of revitalizing blood rushing to the surface of my skin to renew my face.
After both products were absorbed into my skin, my face looked firmer and had a beautiful glow to it.

DAY 5:

After five days of using Tru Visage Anti Aging Formula andPurEssance Wrinkle Reducer Formula, I was shocked at the drastic results.
The lines, dark spots, and wrinkles - without question - were visibly reduced in size right before my eyes!
I was astonished by the results, and literally felt 15 years younger again. It was like watching all my wrinkles and fine lines vanish right off!






DAY 14:

After 14 days, not only had all my doubts and scepticism absolutely vanished - SO DID MY WRINKLES!

The lines on my forehead, the loose, sagging skin on my neck, my crows’ feet – even the age spots on my face had COMPLETELY disappeared. I've never felt or seen anything tighten my skin with this kind of force before, no matter how expensive the product!
After the 2 weeks, my skin not only stayed that way, it actually improved every day until it became as beautiful and radiant as it was 20 years ago.By this point, all my friends and family were shocked. They couldn't believe the difference, and were convinced I was lying about not getting botox!


Pictures of Brenda Wright at day 1, day 5 & day 14. The picture at the bottom was taken after only 14 days of using Tru Visage Anti Aging Formula and PurEssance Wrinkle Reducer Formula.

The Verdict:

Using the Tru Visage Anti Aging Formula and PurEssance Wrinkle Reducer Formulacombo, removed virtually 90% of all her wrinkles and problem areas. It tightened her face and neck, removing all signs of sagging, aging, and dehydrated skin.

Will This Work For You?


There are plenty of skincare gimmicks out there, and most of them are ridiculously expensive. With so many options it’s only natural for you to be skeptical about the results, and so we don't want to promise our readers anything, we simply want to challenge you to do what Dr. Oz recommended on the show: try it for yourself!

Remember, you need to use both Tru Visage Anti Aging Formula and PurEssance Wrinkle Reducer Formula in combination for best results.

For your convenience, I have provided the links to the exact products Dr. Oz recommended. As of the writing of this article they are still offering Free Trials of both Tru Visage Anti Aging Formula and PurEssance Wrinkle Reducer Formula. Use the links below and you will get the lowest possible shipping price as well.

NCHE Athletics: Cabarrus Claims State Championship in Boys Soccer

The 2013 NCHEAC Boys Soccer State Championship was held in Winston-Salem, October 18-19 at the Sara Lee Soccer Complex. Six teams competed in the tournament and seeding of those teams was based on regular season results. The regular season consisted of two conferences, east and west, with both conferences containing three teams each. In the west conference, the teams were Asheville, Cabarrus County and Forsyth County. Fayetteville and two teams from Wake County, East Wake and Northeast Wake made up the east conference. From the regular season results, Cabarrus and Northeast Wake each earned byes into the state semi-final round of the tournament. They both had to await the winners of the games that started on Friday morning, which involved the number two and number three seeds in each conference playing against each other. Number two Asheville defeated 

number three Forsyth, 4-0, in the west match up, and in the East contest, number two East Wake defeated number three Fayetteville, 4-2. On Friday afternoon in the state semi-finals, a rematch from the 2012 state title contest saw Asheville once again prevail as they defeated Northeast Wake, 3-0. Cabarrus then defeated East Wake 8-1 to advance to the championship game on Saturday afternoon. Asheville came in as the two-time defending champion, but Cabarrus had already defeated the Trailblazers once during the season and had taken them to overtime in the other regular season contest. The Cabarrus Stallions prevailed again as they defeated the Trailblazers, 5-2, to earn their first state title. Northeast Wake defeated East Wake in the consolation contest 6-2. All-tournament team members were: from Cabarrus, Zach Bailey, Michael Carter-Barkman, Joel Levinson, Andrew Moore and tournament MVP, Brian Stepanek; from Asheville, Matthew Batchelder, Corban Crosley, Phillip Gibson and Logan Woody; from Northeast Wake, Taylor Dougherty, Luke Miller and McKenzie Smith; from East Wake, Phillip Crapo and Matthew Whitlow; Nathan Stewart (Fayetteville); and Chase Crosby (Forsyth).

Photo captions:

2013 NCHEAC Boys Soccer State Champions (Cabarrus Stallions) L-R Front row: Brian Stepanek (MVP), Parker Sorensen, Joel Levinson, Ike Easterbrook, Christian Frey, Harper Hicks, Back row: Peter Williams (Coach), Andrew Moore, Zach Bailey, Marshall Frank, Mark Gossage, Tyler DeVlieger, Michael Carter-Barkman, Samuel Barker, Joey Desloge, Stan Brockinton, Justin Sweet
Tournament MVP Brian Stepanek of Cabarrus battling against Asheville in the state title contest
 
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