Showing posts with label December 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label December 2012. Show all posts

5/30/2013

Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard Share First Glimpse of Baby Daughter Lincoln: Picture

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard step out with baby daughter Lincoln in Beverly Hills on May 30.

Finally, baby Lincoln's debut! After welcoming their first child on March 28,Kristen Bell and fiance Dax Shepard were photographed for the first time stepping out with their baby girl on Thursday, May 30. 
The new parents were spotted taking little Lincoln to a doctor's appointment together in Beverly Hills. Dad Shepard, 38, carried his adorable daughter in her car seat, where she was resting comfortably under a blanket.

5/27/2013

Why worrying about food miles is missing the point

Jay Rayner in the food stocks

In November 2009, I lost my temper in front of a bank of television cameras in a way I have never done before or since. I was in Los Angeles working as a judge on the second season of the American TV series, Top Chef Masters. For the final, the three remaining competitors had been asked to cook a series of dishes that told their story: their first food experiences, where they are now, where they are going and the like. For the dish that defined where he was going, the famed Las Vegas-based chef Rick Moonen had cooked a venison dish, using meat imported from New Zealand.

Angelina Jolie's aunt Debbie Martin dies of breast cancer

Jolie with her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, left, and actor Jaqueline Bisset

Angelina Jolie's aunt has died of breast cancer less than two weeks after the Hollywood actor revealed that she had undergone a double mastectomy to avoid the disease that killed her mother at 56.

Debbie Martin, 61, died in a hospital in Escondido, near San Diego, California, according to her husband, Ron. She was the younger sister of Jolie's mother, Marcheline Bertrand, whose death from ovarian cancer in 2007 prompted the actor to have the surgery she described in a New York Times article this month.

5/24/2013

END OF THE WORLD POSTPONED

  endofworld_postponed

YUCATAN – Mayan scholars have updated their doomsday prophecy. The world will end in 2015, not 2012.Oops…. They made a mistake. There’s good news for those who were fearing the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. They counted wrong. The world is not going to end in December 2012. Instead, it’s going to end on September 3, 2015. Update your daily planners!

A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook “Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World” argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar are off. This coupled with a new book, “We Are All Going To Die In 2015″ by Fritz Barnkopf are rewriting the Mayan doomsday playbook that has been popularized in our culture over the last ten years.