Vicksburg Native Earns Spot on Houston Texans Cheer Squad

As Stacy Hester stood in the tunnel at Houston’s Reliant Stadium, awaiting her cue to emerge, a million thoughts raced through her head.

What dance steps go with what routine? Is my costume all right? Do I look good?

Mostly, though, one simple word kept coming back into the mind of the rookie Houston Texans cheerleader.

Wow.

“I was freaking out. To perform in Reliant Stadium, which holds more than 70,000 fans, it’s kind of like a deer in the headlights,” Hester said with a laugh. “It’s a phenomenal feeling. That first time, I was nervous. It was definitely scary.”

When Hester walked out of the tunnel for the Aug. 9 preseason game between the Texans and Denver Broncos, it was the culmination of years of hard work and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.

The Vicksburg native started dancing when she was 5, at Ms. Atwater’s School of Dance. The family moved to Houston a few years later, in 1993. Hester’s grandparents, Hazel Bell, Marie and Doug Hester Sr., still live in Vicksburg. Her other grandfather, Henry Bell, has since passed away.
After moving to Houston, Stacy Hester continued to show an interest in dancing, She attended several schools for the performing arts, including one in New York.

“As a mother, you put your little girls in dance. And she just ate it up,” said Stacy’s mother, Emily Hester.

Eventually, Stacy turned her attention to cheerleading. She was the captain of the squad at Houston’s Madison High School — the same high school Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young starred at — and made the squad at Lamar University. All the while, she kept an eye on the NFL.

In 2004, as an 18-year-old fresh out of high school, she tried out for the Texans’ squad. As the hours passed, and the original group of nearly 1,000 women was whittled down to about 100, Stacy was still among them. She made it to the final round of cuts before dropping out.

“It hurt my feelings. But I was only 18, so I remained positive. I figured maybe I was too young,” Hester said.

Disappointed, but not broken, Stacy went on to Lamar and excelled on the school’s football and basketball cheerleading and dance teams. She also took another stab at the pro ranks, trying out for the NBA’s Houston Rockets in 2006. By choice, she didn’t stick around long. Her status as a full-time student would have eventually disqualified her anyway, but the basketball team’s dance-heavy style also turned her off. She preferred football cheerleading, which is more a mix of dance and traditional routines.

“They have more games than us. Every team has a different style. I looked at the coach and the team, and the camaraderie, and it just took the fun out of it for me,” Hester said. “It just didn’t feel right. I left after the second round and didn’t even think about it. It was the best decision I ever made.”

Hester graduated from Lamar this spring with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism, and took a job with a television station in Houston. In April, four years after her first go-round, she decided to try out for the Texans again.

Nearly 1,000 women turned out again for the auditions, with 34 eventually making the cut. Hester’s earlier experience with the tryouts helped her breeze through the early rounds.

“The first time I went in when I was 18, it was intimidating. I didn’t know I was supposed to have a costume or anything. I was just there in sweats,” Hester said with a laugh. “I was prepared for four years. My mom made a costume, I had boots, everything.”

After the first cuts were made the second and third rounds focused on different routines and dance styles. A crew from Fox Sports Net followed Hester through the process for a TV special, ratcheting up the pressure.

“It’s kind of cool,” she said. “These people are following me around and you don’t know if you’re going to make it or not.”

Hester made it to the final round of cuts again, but this time the story had a happy ending. She made the squad.

And even before she walked onto the field at Reliant Stadium for the first time, Hester was already taking her first steps into a bigger world. She was asked to model for the Texans Cheerleaders swimsuit calendar, and has stayed busy making appearances for the team, as well as practicing for the season. The squad practices 20 to 25 hours a week. The team also requires its cheerleaders to have a full-time job or be a full-time student.

The money is OK — “It’s good for our maintenance, and it’s good for gas,” Hester said — but the chance to live out her childhood dream meant even more.

“Every day I wake up, and I have posters framed already, and it’s like, ‘Wow, it’s me,’” she said. “People go bananas over this. It keeps me humbled. I’m always like, ‘I’m still Stacy.’ I’ve been a cheerleader for so long, it’s the same thing I’ve always done. I’m just a cheerleader on a different level now.”

While she’s enjoying her status among the cheerleading elite, Hester doesn’t plan on doing it forever. She’ll try out again next season — the audition process begins anew for everyone, veterand and rookies, each spring — but doesn’t see herself dancing along the sidelines more than a few years. Her future, she said, is in broadcasting and she hopes to focus on that career, which will likely take her away from Houston and the Texans.

“I see myself doing it for three years at the max. A season is so much work,” she said. “That’s another dream, to be in TV reporting. Journalism is my passion, too, and I know I’m going to have to move to a small town and work my way up.”

Moore Ready To Hit National Stage

While most of us are concerning ourselves with Friday Night Lights, Benton native Lauren Moore is getting ready for the Sunday Spotlight. Moore, after a big-time dance career at Murray State University, is ready to begin her career as a St. Louis Rams cheerleader.

That’s the National Football League St. Louis Rams, by the way, and she can’t be happier.

“It’s been a lot of fun so far,” Moore said. “It’s been a good experience. I performed in two preseason games and the season opener is next week.”Moore’s first NFL game will be against the defending Super Bowl champs, the New York Giants. But she can’t daydream about the sellout crowd and the number of eyes that will be on her as she performs at the Dome. Her schedule is too full.

Right now, Moore is becoming as skilled at juggling as she is dancing. A management trainee at Enterprise in Carbondale, Moore has to drive to St. Louis every Tuesday and Thursday for practices that last from 7-10 p.m. Then there are the promotional events the cheerleaders take part in every week.

“I just started a new job ad I had to adjust to new co-workers and to new responsibilities,” she said. “And when I started with the Rams, I had to adjust to new team members and new experiences.

“It’s a lot, sometimes, to work all day, then drive to St. Louis to practice and then drive home,” Moore said.

Some of the promotions Moore has performed at include: Several charity golf tournaments, an NFL Draft Day event, the 4th of July Fair in St. Louis, and a clinic at the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center in East St. Louis.

“We do a lot of promotion for the team and a lot of charity work,” Moore said. “I really didn’t know how much we would do until we started, but I absolutely love it.”

When the game begins, look for Moore on the sidelines and on the field.

“We are on the sidelines the entire game,” she said. “We get to perform on the field before the game and we are always on the field during the game.”

Moore said the routines are different than the ones she performed at MSU.

“It’s more entertainment-style dance,” she said. “The dances aren’t as technical as they were in college. We are looking for crowd appeal — everything is visual.”

Probably the most visual task Moore will take part in wasn’t near the dome in St. Louis. Moore and her team recently got back from a week-long trip to Cancun, where they posed for shots that will be featured in a calendar, with proceeds almost entirely going to charity.

“We were in Cancun for a week and we were treated like celebrities,” she said. “It was great.”

The photo shoot was filmed by Fox Sports Midwest and will be shown September 13 at 3 p.m.

But, aside from all the charity events, photo shoots and promotional appearances, Moore is just glad to still be dancing.

“If I can, I would love to keep involved in dance,” Moore said. “Weather it’s coaching or teaching I’d like to keep dance in my life. I’ve always had my mind set on this, I just never realized what an honor it is. When we go out in the community we realize it.

“Right now, I just want to see where this takes me,” she continued. “After this season I will see where I’m at and if I can continue to make it work out I will.”

Eagles Cheerleaders

E-A-G-L- well, anyone who has been to a bar or attended a Philly sports game is more than familiar with the most popular chant in Philadelphia, but only 38 girls can say they get paid to profess their love of the Birds in public.

Though knowledge of football rules is more of a bonus, "bleeding green" is mandatory to be an Eagles cheerleader.

"We look for women that encompass all of the qualities of a cheerleader. That includes being passionate about the Philadelphia Eagles and being an Eagles fan," said Barbara Zaun, Director of Cheerleading.

"I'm a huge Eagles fan and always have been," said Jamie Steinberger, 23, a third-year veteran of the Eagles cheerleading squad. "I've got the best seat in the stadium. Cheering for my favorite football team and having a front-row seat, it's worth the practice all year."



Steinberger, a Glen Mills resident, recently graduated from West Chester University with a kinesiology degree and is working toward a master's degree in psychology.

Cheering for the Birds is a part-time gig, and most cheerleaders either attend universities as full-time students or hold other jobs.

Cheerleaders are paid hourly for every rehearsal, appearance, game, or photo-shoot, and monthly salaries normally range from $700 to $1,000, depending on the amount of appearances, Zaun said.

"The cheerleaders also enjoy additional benefits throughout the year, such as an all-expense trip to the calendar shoot location, which this year was in the Dominican Republic," said Zaun.

Danni-Lynn Bell, a new addition to the squad, said she's looking forward to seeing the games in person, rather than from her living room.

"I watch at home with my dad and his friends all the time. We've always been fans," said Bell, a 21-year-old Media resident.

Bell is joined on the squad by her sisters, 18-year-old rookie Paige, and 23-year-old Nikki, who cheered for the Eagles last year.

"I can't wait for the first game to see how many people there are and how big and overwhelming it will be," said Danni-Lynn, a fashion merchandising major at West Chester University. "The other girls try to tell us stories about what it will be like, but I think I can't understand the experience until I'm out there."

Danni-Lynn and Paige got an idea of what a regular-season game is like when they cheered at the preseason game against the Carolina Panthers Aug. 14.

"It poured that night but the fans were good about it ... you would think so many would have left because of the thunderstorm and pouring rain and lightning, but so many stayed and were so excited about it," said Danni-Lynn. "Even though it was a preseason, the fans care ... It's great to know they're so dedicated."

The Bell sisters, all Strath Haven High School graduates, got a glimpse of former classmate Dan Connor's NFL debut at the preseason game.

The Penn State graduate was a third-round pick for the Panthers last April and made a pair of tackles in the fourth quarter of the preseason game.

"I watched his plays and he did an incredible job," said Paige, who was a freshman at Strath Haven when Connor was a senior. "It was really cool to cheer for him in high school and cheer at NFL game with him. I wasn't cheering for his team, but it was cool to be in the same place as him."

"It was pretty funny," said Nikki. "We were wishing him well, but at same time we want to win."

While she doesn't have any blood relatives on the squad, Steinberger said the close friendships she's made with her fellow cheerleaders is one reason she keeps coming back. "We get along a lot better than people realize," said Steinberger. "Being around the girls, you make close friends. It's a great experience."

How do dogs perceive time?

Most dogs are never late for a meal -- they know exactly where to be at the same time every day. They also know when to expect their owner home and, like clockwork, place themselves patiently at the door for that arrival. When you witness this behavior, you assume dogs have a sophisticated understanding of time. But what is time really like for a dog?








Does a dog understand the passing of time in the same way a human does?

They say a human year is equivalent to about seven dog years. But what does this common theory tell us about a dog's perception of time? Actually, very little. The idea of "dog years" comes from the life expectancy of dogs compared to humans. So it wouldn't be correct to apply this idea to the concept of time perception.

To understand how dogs perceive time, we first need to understand how humans perceive time. Arguably, each person experiences the passing of time in different ways at different times. Albert Einstein once explained the principle of relativity by saying, "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity" [source: Shapiro].

Even though the experience of time is relative for every individual, all humans think about time in similar ways. For instance, our memories are inextricably tied to how we understand the passing of time. Our ability to remember events in a particular order plays a large part in our perception of time. We're also able to predict things. Though we don't all claim to be psychic, each of us counts on certain events in the future -- even as simple as assuming that the sun will come up tomorrow. These abilities have important implications -- for instance, memory and prediction allow us to have a sense of continuity, personal history and self-awareness.

Do dogs and other animals have these same abilities? If you climbed inside a dog's mind, would you be presented with the memory of eating a raw hide bone earlier this morning? Read the next page to find out what it would feel like to be a dog.

Former sprinter released from prison

SAN ANTONIO (AP)—Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones was released Friday from federal prison after completing most of her six-month sentence for lying about her steroid use.

Jones left a halfway house in San Antonio around 8 a.m., said LaTanya Robinson, a community corrections manager for the federal Bureau of Prisons. Jones, who has a house in Austin, will remain on probation.

Jones’ attorney did not immediately respond to a call or e-mail from The Associated Press requesting comment.

The sprinter admitted last October that she used a designer steroid known as “the clear” from September 2000 to July 2001. The drug was linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, the lab that became the center of a steroids scandal that touched numerous professional athletes, including baseball star Barry Bonds.

Her admission of drug use in 2007 came after years of denials.

In 2004, she sued the founder of BALCO for defamation after he said she used steroids. The lawsuit was settled the following year, long before she told the truth in a federal courtroom.

Jones gave back the three gold medals and two bronze medals she won at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney before the International Olympic Committee officially wiped her name from the record books in December.

EIGHT LIES OF A MOTHER - Inspiring one- its touched my heart

~EIGHT LIES OF A MOTHER~ 1.The story began when I was a child; I was born as a son of a poor family. Even for eating, we often got lack of food. Whenever the time for eating, mother often gave me her portion of rice. While she was removing her rice into my bowl, she would say "Eat this rice, son. I'm not hungry". That was Mother's First Lie 2.When I was getting to grow up, the persevering mother gave her spare time for fishing in a river near our house, she hoped that from the fishes she got, she could gave me a little bit nutritious food for my growth. After fishing, she would cook the fishes to be a fresh fish soup, which raised my appetite. While I was eating the soup, mother would sit beside me and eat the rest meat of fish, which was still on the bone of the fish I ate. My heart was touched when I saw it. I then used my chopstick and gave the other fish to her. But she immediately refused it and said "Eat this fish, son. I don't really like fish." That was Mother's Second Lie. 3.Then, when I was in Junior High School, to fund my study, mother went to an economic enterprise to bring some used-matches boxes that would be stuck in. It gave her some money for covering our needs. As the winter came, I woke up from my sleep and looked at my mother who was still awoke, supported by a little candlelight and within her perseverance she continued the work of sticking some used-matches box. I said, "Mother, go to sleep, it's late, tomorrow morning you still have to go for work. " Mother smiled and said "Go to sleep, dear. I'm not tired." That was Mother's Third Lie. 4.At the time of final term, mother asked for a leave from her work in order to accompany me. While the daytime was coming and the heat of the sun was starting to shine, the strong and persevering mother waited for me under the heat of the sun's shine for several hours. As the bell rang, which indicated that the final exam had finished, mother immediately welcomed me and poured me a glass of tea that she had prepared before in a cold bottle. The very thick tea was not as thick as my mother's love, which was much thicker. Seeing my mother covering with perspiration, I at once gave her my glass and asked her to drink too. Mother said "Drink, son. I'm not thirsty!". That was Mother's Fourth Lie. 5.After the death of my father because of illness, my poor mother had to play her role as a single parent. By held on her former job, she had to fund our needs alone. Our family's life was more complicated. No days without sufferance. Seeing our family's condition that was getting worse, there was a nice uncle who lived near my house came to help us, either in a big problem and a small problem. Our other neighbors who lived next to us saw that our family's life was so unfortunate, they often advised my mother to marry again. But mother, who was stubborn, didn't care to their advice, she said "I don't need love." That was Mother's Fifth Lie. 6.After I had finished my study and then got a job, it was the time for my old mother to retire. But she didn't want to; she was sincere to go to the marketplace every morning, just to sell some vegetable for fulfilling her needs. I, who worked in the other city, often sent her some money to help her in fulfilling her needs, but she was stubborn for not accepting the money. She even sent the money back to me. She said "I have enough money." That was Mother's Sixth Lie. 7.After graduated from Bachelor Degree, I then continued my study to Master Degree. I took the degree, which was funded by a company through a scholarship program, from a famous University in America . I finally worked in the company. Within a quite high salary, I intended to take my mother to enjoy her life in America . But my lovely mother didn't want to bother her son, she said to me "I'm not used to." That was Mother's Seventh Lie. 8.After entering her old age, mother got a flank cancer and had to be hospitalized. I, who lived in miles away and across the ocean, directly went home to visit my dearest mother. She lied down in weakness on her bed after having an operation. Mother, who looked so old, was staring at me in deep yearn. She tried to spread her smile on her face; even it looked so stiff because of the disease she held out. It was clear enough to see how the disease broke my mother's body, thus she looked so weak and thin. I stared at my mother within tears flowing on my face. My heart was hurt, so hurt, seeing my mother on that condition. But mother, with her strength, said "Don't cry, my dear. I'm not in pain." That was Mother's Eight Lie. After saying her eighth lie, She closed her eyes forever!

Burj Dubai

Burj Dubai (Arabic: برج دبي‎ "Dubai Tower") is a skyscraper under construction in the Business Bay district of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure on Earth, despite being incomplete. Construction began on September 21, 2004 and is expected to be completed and ready for occupation in September 2009.^[1]

The building is part of the 2 km² (0.8 sq mi) development called "Downtown Dubai", at the "First Interchange" (aka "Defence Roundabout") along Sheikh Zayed Road at Doha Street. The tower's architect is Adrian Smith^[4] who worked with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) until 2006.^[5] The architecture and engineering firm SOM is in charge of the project.^[4] The primary builders are Samsung Engineering & Construction and Besix along with Arabtec.^[6] Turner Construction Company was chosen as the construction manager.^[7]

The total budget for the Burj Dubai project is about US$4.1 billion^[8] and for the entire new 'Downtown Dubai', US$20 billion. Mohamed Ali Alabbar, the CEO of Emaar Properties, speaking at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 8th World Congress, said that the price of office space at Burj Dubai had reached $4,000 per sq ft and that the Armani Residences, also in Burj Dubai, were selling for $3,500 per sq ft.^[9]

Height

Current height

As of September 1, 2008, Burj Dubai had reached a height of 688 m (2,257 ft), with 160 completed floors.^[10] Although fan websites report that the tower has risen higher since that time^[11], no official height increase has been reported. The Burj Dubai is now the tallest building, tallest freestanding structure and tallest man-made structure of any kind ever built on the planet.

Timeline of events

• September 21, 2004
  Emaar contractors begin construction of Burj Dubai.
• February 2007
  Burj Dubai surpasses the Sears Tower as the building with the most floors.
• May 13, 2007
  Burj Dubai sets record for vertical concrete pumping on any building at 452 m (1,483 ft), surpassing the 449.2 m (1,474 ft) to which concrete was pumped during the construction of Taipei 101.^[12]
• July 21, 2007
  Burj Dubai surpasses Taipei 101 which stands at a height of 509.2 m (1,671 ft) and was the tallest building on Earth. ^[13]
• August 12, 2007
  Burj Dubai surpassed the height of the Sears Tower antenna which stands at a height of 527.3 m (1,730 ft).
• September 3, 2007
  Burj Dubai becomes the second-tallest freestanding structure, surpassing the 540 m (1,772 ft) Ostankino Tower in Moscow.
• September 12, 2007
  At 555.3 m (1,822 ft), Burj Dubai becomes the world's tallest freestanding structure on land, surpassing CN Tower in Toronto.^[14]
• April 7, 2008
  Emaar announces that Burj Dubai, at 629 m (2,064 ft), has surpassed the KVLY-TV Mast to become the tallest man-made structure on earth.^[15]
• June 17, 2008
  Emaar announces that Burj Dubai's height is over 636 m (2,087 ft) and that its final height will not be given until September 2009 when it is completed.^[16]
• September 1, 2008
  Emaar announces that Burj Dubai's height is over 688 m (2,257 ft),^[10] making it the tallest man-made structure ever built.

Current records

Burj Dubai in March 2008

• Tallest structure: 688 m (2,257 ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast - 628.8 m (2,063 ft))
• Tallest freestanding structure: 688 m (2,257 ft) (previously CN Tower - 553.3 m (1,815 ft))
• Building with most floors: 164 (previously Sears Tower / World Trade Center - 110)^[17]
• Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building): 601 m (1,972 ft) (previously Taipei 101 - 449.2 m (1,474 ft))
• Highest vertical concrete pumping (for any construction): 601 m (1,972 ft) (previously Riva del Garda Hydroelectric Power Plant - 532 m (1,745 ft)^[18])

Note: Additional records for tallest skyscraper are considered unofficial. On July 20, 2007, the head of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), Antony Wood, said "We will not classify it as a building until it is complete, clad and at least partially open for business to avoid things like the Ryungyong [sic] project. Taipei 101 is thus officially the world's tallest until that happens."^[19]

Projected height

The projected final height of Burj Dubai is officially being kept a secret due to competition from other buildings under construction or proposed; however, figures released by a contractor on the project have suggested a height of around 818 m (2,684 ft).^[20] Based on this height, the total number of habitable floors is expected to be around 162. However, Burj Dubai's construction manager, Greg Sang, has said only that the final height would be greater than 700 m (2,297 ft), and that it would be the world's tallest free-standing structure when completed.<sup>[21]

Comparison</sup>

90210

This long-running drama dealt with the experiences of a group of young people in Beverly Hills, CA as they navigated high school, college and ultimately the real world. The series focused on their travails as they tried to maintain their friendship while dealing with romances, family and personal crises, tragedies and countless drug addictions.



Beverly Hills, 90210 began airing on SoapNet on January 20, 2005 with a marathon, followed by the series premiere on January 21st at 5PM EST.

FOX Broadcast History



October 1990 - May 1992: Thursdays 9:00 PM



July 1992 - May 2000: Wednesdays 8:00 PM





Awards and Nominations



Emmy Awards



1995, Nominated, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Milton Berle as Saul Howard in episode "Sentenced to Life"



Golden Globe Awards



1995, Nominated, Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series-Drama, for Jason Priestley



1993, Nominated, Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series-Drama, for Jason Priestley



1996, Nominated, Best TV Series-Drama



1992, Nominated, Best TV Series-Drama



Young Artist Awards



1999, Nominated, Best Performance in a TV Drama Series-Guest Starring Young Actress, for Danielle Keaton



1994, Nominated, Best Youth Actress Guest Starring in a Television Show, for Sabrina Wiener



1993, Won!, Favorite Young Ensemble Cast in a Television Series



1993, Won!, Best Young Actress Recurring in a Television Series, for Dana Barron



1993, Nominated, Best Young Actor Recurring in a Television Series, for Cory Tyler



1992, Won!, Best Young Actor Co-Starring in a Television Series, for Brian Austin Green



1992, Won!, Best Young Actress Co-Starring in a Television Series, for Jennie Garth



1992, Won!, Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast in a Television Series



1992, Nominated, Best Young Actress Co-Starring in a Television Series, for Tori Spelling



1992, Nominated, Best Young Actress Starring in a Television Series, for Shannen Doherty



1991, Won!, Best Young Actor Supporting or Re-Occuring Role for a TV Series, for Douglas Emerson



1991, Nominated, Best New Family Television Comedy Series



1991, Nominated, Best Young Actor Supporting or Re-Occuring Role for a TV Series, for Brian Austin Green



1991, Nominated, Best Young Actress Starring in a New Television Series, for Shannen Doherty



1991, Nominated, Best Young Actress Supporting or Re-Occuring Role for a TV Series, for Jennie Garth



1991, Nominated, Best Young Actress Supporting or Re-Occuring Role for a TV Series, for Tori Spelling



Cast

Tiffani Thiessen
Role: Valerie Malone (episodes 113 - 249)

Tiffani-Amber Thiessen was born on January 23, 1974 in Long Beach, California. Her father, Frank, was a park designer and her mother, Robyn, was a homemaker. Tiffani grew up in Long Beach with her parents and two brothers, Todd and Schuyler. Tiffani was 8 when her uncle convinced her to try... Read More

Tori Spelling
Role: Donna Marie Martin

Victoria Davey "Tori" Spelling is a best known for her role as Donna Martin in the 1990s teen soap opera Beverly Hills 90210 . Tori is the daughter of Candy and Aaron Spelling, a famed television producer. Tori grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from Harvard-Westlake School. Tori got her... Read More

Kathleen Robertson
Role: Clare Arnold (Seasons 6 - 7, recurring previously)

Has worked with stars including: Julia Roberts (Runaway Bride) Richard Gere (Runaway Bride) Sean Penn (I Am Sam) Michelle Pfeiffer (I Am Sam) Dianne Weist (I Am Sam) Lara Flynn Boyle (Speaking Of Sex) Bill Murray (Speaking Of Sex) James Woods (Scary Movie 2) Tim Curry (Scary Movie 2) Minnie... Read More

Joe E. Tata Role: Nat Bussichio (Episodes 145 - 281, 289, 292 - 296, recurring otherwise)
James Eckhouse Role: Jim Walsh (Seasons 1 - 5)
Douglas Emerson Role: Scott Scanlon (Season 1)
Mark D. Espinoza Role: Jesse Vasquez (Season 5, recurring previously) Mark Damon Espinoza is a graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City. He has been involved in eight productions with the Tony-awards-winning Goodman Theatre in Chicago. He also performed as a solo artist with the International Theatre of Frankfurt in Germany and as a special... Read More
	Gabrielle Carteris Role: Andrea Zuckerman (Seasons 1 - 5)
Carol Potter Role: Cindy Walsh (Seasons 1 - 5) She has a counceling practice and has apperead in a big number of soap operas. She was born on May 21, 1948 in New York.
Vincent Young Role: Noah Hunter (seasons 8 - 10) Vincent Young is the son of Vincent and Mary Young, raised in Delran, New Jersey. He got his breakthrough in 1997 when he was cast as Noah Hunter on the long-running Fox series "Beverly Hills, 90210". Vincent attend Gloucester County College Sewell in New Jersey. After he dropped out of... Read More
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More Photos	Luke Perry Role: Dylan Michael McKay (Episodes 2 - 154, 249 - 296) Luke started his acting career on the daytime soap opera Loving. He was out of work alot after Loving and worked selling shoes or chaufferring people around. His mother is Ann Perry Bennett and his father is Coy Luther Perry II. His parents divorced when he was six. His mother married... Read More
More Photos	Shannen Doherty Role: Brenda Walsh (Seasons 1 - 4) Shannen Doherty was born on April 12, 1971 in Memphis, Tennessee to Tom, a bank worker, and Rosa, a beautician. In 1978, when Shannen was only 7, the Doherty family moved to Los Angeles and Shannen immediately announced her dreams to become an actress. Success began early, with guest spots on TV... Read More
More Photos	Jennie Garth Role: Kelly Marlene Taylor Jennifer Eve Garth was born to John and Carolyn, on April 3rd, 1972. She was born in Urbana, Illionis and grew up just outside Urbana on a 25 acre horse ranch. Her parents had 3 kids each from prior marriages so she grew up with all her older half siblings; Johnny, Chuck, Lisa, Cammie, Wendy, and... Read More
More Photos	Hilary Swank Role: Carly Reynolds (Episodes 210 - 226) Like the characters she plays in her movies, Hilary Swank has survived every challenge life has thrown her way. Through all of her struggles -- parents' separation, poverty, homelessness, public divorce -- she has remained steadfast with her dream of becoming a successful actress. With already... Read More

More Photos	Jason Priestley Role: Brandon Walsh (Episodes 1 - 247) Jason Priestley is a TV series and movie actor and a director. He is best known for his role in Beverly Hills 90210 as Brandon Walsh. He was also a regular on Tru Calling , and he joined Love Monkey in 2006. His movies include Nobody's Child (1986), Calendar Girl (1993), Cold... Read More
More Photos	Brian Austin Green Role: David Silver Brian Green was born on July 15th 1973 (Van Nuys, California) to parents Joyce and George Green. He has a step-brother Keith and step-sister Lorelei. Brian's father was a country & western artist and used to frequently take him along to gigs and soon got him interested in the world of music. His... Read More
More Photos	Ian Ziering Role: Steve Sanders Ian is best known for playing the role of Steve on the 90's hit show Beverly Hills, 90210. Ian has 2 older brothers, Jeffery and Barry, both live in New Jersey. He attended William Patterson College-New Jersey 1982-1986. He performed in "Oklahoma" in 1985 at the same. Ian started his career... Read More
More Photos	Lindsay Price Role: Janet Sosna-Sanders (Seasons 9 - 10, recurring previously) Lindsay started acting at the age of eight with a guest role on Finder of Lost Loves . After that she had several guest roles. In 1991 she had a recurring role on All My Children for 2 years. After that she appeared on a recurring base in The Bold and the Beautiful as Michael Lai from... Read More
Daniel Cosgrove Role: Matt Durning (Episodes 246 - 296) Before joining the cast of In Justice as Jon Lemonick in 2006, Daniel Cosgrove was known to daytime fans as Bill Lewis in the long-running daytime drama, Guiding Light . He subsequently returned to the series in 2007. In November 1996, when he took the role of Scott Chandler on ABC's All... Read More
Jamie Walters Role: Ray Pruit (Episodes 145 - 157, recurring otherwise) Jamie is a native of Marblehead, a little town in Boston. Besides being an actor he is also a musician and currently (1997) has two records wich are "Jamie Walters" and "Ride". After doing a TV commercial for Levi's 501 Jeans he starred in "Shout" along with John Travolta. After that he went on... Read More

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NAME MEANINGS

Instructions : What you do is find out what each letter of your name means.

Then connect all the meanings and it describes YOU. ( Is'nt it GREAT !!)

If you have double or triple letters, just count the meaning once.

For Example : EKTA

E = You are a very exciting person.

K = You like to try new things.

T = You have an attitude, a big one.

A = You can be very quiet when you have something on your mind.

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A = You can be very quiet when you have something on your mind.

B = You are always cautious when it comes to meeting newpeople .

C = You definitely have a partier side in you, don't be shy to show it.

D = You have trouble trusting people.

E = You are a very exciting person.

F = Everyone loves you.

G = You have excellent ways of viewing people.

H = You are not judgmental.

I = You are always smiling and making others smile.

J = Jealously

K = You like to try new things.

L = Love is something you deeply believe in.

M = Success comes easily to you.

N = You like to work, but you always want a break.

O = You are very open-minded.

P = You are very friendly and understanding.

Q = You are a hypocrite.

R = You are a social butterfly.

S = You are very broad-minded.

T = You have an attitude, a big one.

U = You feel like you have to equal up to people's standards.

V = You have a very good physique and looks.

W = You like your privacy.

X = You never let people tell you what to do.

Y = You cause a lot of trouble.

Z = You're always fighting with someone.

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Google challenges Microsoft with new browser

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Google plans to launch Tuesday its own Internet browser, opening up a new challenge in cyberspace to Microsoft and its dominant Internet Explorer.

The California-based Web search leader said the new browser, called Google Chrome, would "add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web."

"We realized ... we needed to completely rethink the browser," Google's Sundar Pichai said in a blog post.

The application can be downloaded for free in more than 100 countries and its code will be open source so no rights will have to be paid by anyone using or adapting the software.

Chrome is Google's latest weapon in its bid to become the leader in all Internet areas. The latest major browser war was won by Microsoft when it won the battle for dominance in the 1990s against Netscape Navigator.

The move comes amid growth in browser market share by Firefox, a project of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, which ironically get a large portion of its funding from Google.

According to estimates by the research firm Net Applications, Internet Explorer is used by 74 percent of computer users worldwide compared with 18 percent for Firefox.

News of the browser leaked out Monday when Google release a comic book describing the advantages of Chrome.

"We hit 'send' a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we've now made the comic publicly available," said Pichai.

"This is a straight shot over the bow of Microsoft, which has tightly integrated its Live Search offering into its dominant Internet Explorer browser (and which, surprise, is in turn tightly integrated into Windows)," said Mark Hendrickson in a posting on the technology website TechCrunch.

"It also makes for an awkward relationship with Mozilla, whose Firefox browser Google basically funds."

Henry Blodget of Silicon Valley Insider said: "Microsoft has seen this movie before. This time, it won't like the ending."

Blodget said Google is attempting to drive more people to Google search and other applications and away from Microsoft.

"If you're thinking about Chrome as just another Web browser, you're missing the larger point," he said.

"In a couple of years, you won't be downloading Google's 'browser.' You'll be downloading Google's software -- or, rather, you'll be clicking on a series of Google icons that come pre-installed. Specifically, you'll be working within a Google software environment that works sort of like Windows."

Developers should skip Google's Chrome, and jump straight to WebKit

For Web applications, the framework's the thing, and the browser framework that will win the day is WebKit

TAGS: Application development, Web 2.0

Inside every browser is the core of the ideal client-side application environment, incorporating everything that I'd estimate half of commercial applications need. There's the best dynamic, object-oriented, loosely typed programming language, bar none (JavaScript), transparently bound to an idiot simple yet extensible presentation layer (DHTML, CSS, XML, DOM, SVG...). Browser-based apps don't require specialized development tools, or any tools at all. All that keeps your browser from being the perfect client app environment is speed, stability, strict adherence to standards, and offline capabilities. That is not too much to ask; it's all within reach, right now. It's a matter of adjusting our priorities and perspective.

Forget about trying to make projects fit browsers and focus on higher objectives. We want a cross-platform, cross-architecture development platform that can take an app from behavior-accurate prototype to full functionality in stages and with minimal skill. We want applications that can be QA'd in situ at the operational level, patched remotely, and updated automatically. We need to adapt to specifications that are altered while the project is underway. Code has to be ultimately reusable, and we need the capability to easily reach out to legacy back-ends. We never want to hear our support staff tell a user "we can't reproduce that problem." If we have to let a developer go, we want to know that he can't lock up his code on the way out, and that anyone of comparable skill can take over and be up to speed in a couple of days.

Now, knowing what we want, we can think about how to achieve all of this, and now we can come back to the browser. If we could achieve the ideal, a browser's got everything a development project would love to have but can't dream of putting in the schedule. The trouble is that browsers are designed for surfing, not as application platforms. Think about it. If you were cranking up a new client development project, would you issue a statement of objectives that it must look like a Web site, take twenty seconds to paint a window, offer no feedback when you click a button, skip reporting the progress of transactions, refuse to run unless you're connected to a network, and force users to re-enter form data if there's a hiccup in delivery? It's telling that the first thing an erstwhile Web application does is free itself from the trappings of a browser: It removes the navigation bar, the menu (when it can -- OS X doesn't allow it) and the status bar, redirects the right mouse button away from the default context menu and makes it impossible to resize the window. If you use the browser, the standard is to work like hell to hide it, and to solve performance problems by embedding Java or ActiveX objects.

It reads like a no-win deal until you realize that you don't need a fat, clunky browser. You don't need to host a browser in an application window. Just take the framework shared by multiple commercial browsers and bake it right into your project. That's WebKit. At a total cost of nothing and with free lifetime updates, it's as sweet a deal as you'll find, and unlike many open source projects that you'd love to use but which vary in the quality of support, documentation, and maintenance, WebKit is driven by companies like Apple, Nokia, and most recently, Google, that rely on it for commerce. The Iris Browser from Touch Mobile, which uses WebKit, is the first worthwhile free alternative to Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile devices, and it's the best first pass I've seen yet on borrowing iPhone's touch interface. Even though it's most frequently seen in browsers, WebKit is a lot more than a browser in a can. It advances the state of the art faster and farther than is required for a browser.

The best example of this is WebKit's new tokenizing JavaScript engine, SquirrelFish. The latency associated with the retrieval of most Web pages makes the speed of JavaScript execution a minor issue, but JavaScript's poor performance takes it out of contention as an application language. It's not a hard problem to solve; there is no shortage of engineers skilled at making interpreted languages run faster. There just wasn't the will to do it for JavaScript until some people realized that JavaScript is a serious language in need of a serious implementation. SquirrelFish takes two vital first steps toward elevating WebKit's JavaScript to first-class status: Mapping bulky JavaScript to more efficient, partially digested ("compiled") bytecode, and using a register model instead of a stack model.

The stack model stuffs all of the data passed between functions into a single pool of memory. It is the duty of every function that uses the stack to leave it precisely as it found it lest other function calls get the wrong data passed to them. Functions have to pull data from the stack to make local copies for their use, and to return data to the calling function they must shove the results back onto the stack. Stack-based interpreters are easy to write, but hard to optimize. Register-based interpreters use a direct reference (in loose terms, pointers) to data needed to call a function. Just this one change from a stack-based interpreter to a register-based virtual machine delivers performance gains of 1.5x to more than 3x depending on the operation, and that's how WebKit without SquirrelFish compares to WebKit with SquirrelFish. It borders on unfair to compare WebKit (Safari 3.1) performance to Firefox, but it does highlight the difference between a JavaScript for applications and a JavaScript for surfing.

It's not that no one thought of making a bytecode JavaScript, any more than it's a new idea to put smoothly scaled and animated vector graphics in a browser (SVG). No one cared to do it because the day-to-day surfing experience wouldn't be enhanced by it. WebKit has higher aspirations than surfing, and there is more advanced science in WebKit than its JavaScript interpreter. The whole framework is shifting into ever higher gears in performance, standards compliance, completeness, and stability. WebKit is a framework that brings the benefits of a browser to all applications, across platforms, even ones that don't use the network. It doesn't hurt that WebKit is free and open source, that a Safari-workalike browser is included in the distribution, and that it uses middleware (HTTP) and object representation standards (XML) that bind it to all back-ends. Get WebKit and be proud to use browser technology in serious applications.

Posted by Tom Yager on September 3, 2008 03:00 AM

Google New Browser - Crome

oogle introduced a Web browser today, a piece of software that the company has secretly had in the works for two years.

"There have been a lot of advances in the browser space," said Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management in a news conference earlier today as he showed off the software, called Chrome, and its features. "[But] we believe that browsers should evolve a lot more to keep pace with how the Web is evolving."

One feature that Google is pitching as compelling for the new browser is the way it can let people surf the Web with multiple tabs open, even after one tab has frozen or even crashed. Ever have to restart your browser software after one tab got stuck loading a site? Chrome, says Google, doesn't do that.

Google also touts the browser as having "one box for everything" -- meaning that there's only one box users need to go to to type in Web navigation or search commands. If a user frequently visits Amazon.com, the browser will remember that user's habits and offer to open up the e-tailer's Web sites as soon as he or she types in a letter or two.

An "Incognito" mode will let users surf the Web in a private mode that prevents information from being saved to the computer.

Pichai said that Chrome is "kind of an ironic name" for the browser. The name, it turns out, refers to the window frames, menus and toolbars that browser users are accustomed to seeing as they surf the Web every day. Google's intention with the project was to keep such distractions as unobtrusive as possible. "The goal was to make people forget they are using a browser," he said.

To explain to techies its arguments for why Chrome is an improvement on other browsers, Google has published a comic book online that drills into the some pretty dry aspects of the new browser's software and why it's an improvement on the competition.

Tech industry analyst Roger Kay said this morning that he sees Google's move into this area as partly a defensive play. The search engine giant wants to provide users with Web surfing software that it knows will work well with its other products and services, he said. That way, Google is in a better position to protect its business if Microsoft comes up with more ways to integrate its Internet Explorer browser with its own search service, for example.

Chrome is available for download here. This beta version of the software is only for Windows computers; Mac and Linux versions are on the way.
By Mike Musgrove