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    GIven its huge profits -- it pulled in $8 billion in merchandising sales alone. -- it's no surprise that "Cars" would return for a second go round. After all, a combination of animation and cars is a toy maker's dream. And Disney has made a lot of toys from this franchise.
    But it wasn't just cash that brought the computer animation studio back to the world of Lightning McQueen and Mater -- truth be told, they had a burning story to tell.
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    'Super 8' Wins Box Office With $37.1 Million Weekend

    Hollywood's summer box-office streak has cooled a bit with a $37 million opening weekend for J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg's sci-fi tale "Super 8."
    It was a healthy but unremarkable launch in a summer season whose newcomers often open with two or three times as much money. Released by Paramount Pictures, "Super 8" largely features a cast of young newcomers, the story centering on teen filmmakers and an alien entity that escapes from a wrecked train.
    "The movie was never conceived to be a blockbuster, tent-pole film opening to $60 or $70 million," said Don Harris, head of distribution for Paramount.
    Writer-director Abrams ("Star Trek," TV's "Lost") was inspired by his own youth as a Super 8 filmmaker who emulated such talents as Spielberg, a producer on "Super 8."
    When the studio scheduled "Super 8" amid such known summer quantities as "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Kung Fu Panda" sequels, "there was some concern we were sending a signal that it was a big summer blockbuster," Harris said. "What we really wanted to do was find a place where the movie could open, find its audience and hopefully play for a long time."
    "Super 8" bumped off the previous weekend's No. 1 movie, 20th Century Fox's comic-book prequel "X-Men: First Class," which slipped to second-place with $25 million. "First Class" raised its domestic total to $98.9 million.

    Disney Pixar Film Set For November 2013 Release Date

    Disney announced on Monday a new Pixar film would be released November 27, 2013, Deadline reports, though the House of Mouse withheld any information on title or plot. All they would reveal is that it will be an original story, not a sequel.
    The 3D animation studio has a full roster of upcoming releases, the next being "Cars 2," which hits theaters on Friday. They'll premiere a "Toy Story" short, "Hawaiian Vacation," about Barbie and Ken before the showing of "Cars 2," and an untitled short before Disney's November release of "The Muppets." They'll also release Spanish-language short, "La Luna" in 2011.
    In 2012, they will help out with the release of the Jerry Bruckheimer/Disney adventure film, "John Carter," and then release the studio's first film about a female hero in "Brave." Then, in 2013, a sequel to "Monsters, Inc.," titled "Monsters University" will hit theaters.
    So, where does that leave this new mystery film? Right now, "Up" director and Pixar legend Pete Docter, who has had a major drawing and story hand in nearly all of the studio's big releases, is working on an untitled mystery project, to be released in 2013.

    'Game Of Thrones Of Muppets': Yehudi Mercardo's Unlikely Mash Up

    One is a beloved classic franchise of Hollywood-centric, musical theater-singing animal puppets. The other, a new hit medieval fantasy show about killing people. So it's only a natural fit that they're mashed up together.

    Where most people would see the Muppets and the HBO hit "Game of Thrones" as entirely disparate worlds, artist and director Yehudi Mercado saw parallels. So many, in fact, that he just had to draw them.

    The initial inspiration, he told The Huffington Post, came from a conversation with his comic book writing friend, Paul Benjamin, who had done the Muppets version of King Arthur, a much cleaner, classic medieval-muppets mashup. That four book series was part of a longer line of Muppet spins on classic fairytales; there's also Muppet Robin Hood, Muppet Peter Pan, Muppet Snow White and Muppet Sherlock Holmes.

    But while he "had fun matching [Muppets] with inappropriate properties," the real aha! moment came was borne of one casual visual connection.

    "The idea of mashing-up Muppets with 'Game of Thrones' started with the Varys character (the bald eunuch), I thought he looked a lot like Dr. Bunsen Honeydew," Mercado said. "That revelation led me to Kermit the Stark and then the rest naturally fell into place. Miss Piggy as Cersei, Link Hogthrob as Jaime Lannister... I knew I had something special when I paired the barbaric Kahl Drogo with Animal. Rizzo as Joffrey was a fan suggestion. I still plan to draw Sweetums as The Hound and Robin as the little crippled Bran Stark."

    It takes some knowledge of the HBO show to fully understand his references, there's no question that the pictures speak for themselves. Check out a number of the great images below, and click over to Yehudi's Game of Thrones of Muppets website to see them all, and buy prints.

    Gay Marriage Bill Passes In New York; Governor Cuomo Signs Same Sex Marriage Bill Into Law

    Gay couples and proponents of gay rights have a reason to celebrate tonight, as the New York State Senate has passed a bill that allows same sex marriage.

    New York will be the sixth, and largest, state in the union to adopt gay marriage. Governor Cuomo signed the bill into law at 11:15pm on Friday, which means the law will take effect on July 24, 2011.

    The decision, which passed 33-29, was the culmination of weeks of contentious debate and negotiations between Governor Cuomo and the GOP-controlled Senate. After the bill passed in the Assembly, it was unclear if the bill had secured enough votes to pass in the Senate. When a few notable undecideds joined the cause --including Republican Roy McDonald who famously defended his decision, saying "fuck it, I don't care what you think. I'm trying to do the right thing" -- the scale in favor of gay marriage seemed to tip.

    Gay rights advocates are hoping the vote will galvanize the movement around the country and help it regain momentum after an almost identical bill was defeated here in 2009 and similar measures failed in 2010 in New Jersey and this year in Maryland and Rhode Island.

    "We are leaders and we join other proud states that recognize our families and the battle will now go on in other states," said Sen. Thomas Duane, a Democrat.

    Though New York is a relative latecomer in allowing gay marriage, it is considered an important prize for advocates, given the state's size and New York City's international stature and its role as the birthplace of the gay rights movement, which is considered to have started with the Stonewall riots in Greenwich Village in 1969.

    A huge street party erupted outside the Stonewall Inn Friday night, with celebrants waving rainbow flags and dancing after the historic vote. They included Sarah Ellis, who has been in a six-year relationship with her partner, Kristen Henderson, said the measure would enable them to get married in the fall. They have twin toddlers and live in Sea Cliff on Long Island.

    Dry Water

    Dry Water: "

    Dry water was discovered in 1968 and got attention for its potential use in cosmetics. Scientists at the University of Hull, U.K. rediscovered it in 2006 in order to study its structure, and Cooper’s group at the University of Liverpool has since expanded its range of potential applications.

    An unusual substance known as “dry water,” which resembles powdered sugar, could provide a new way to absorb and store carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, scientists reported at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.

    Dry water also could provide a safer way to store and transport potentially harmful industrial materials.Carter explained that the substance became known as “dry water” because it consists of 95 percent water and yet is a dry powder. Each powder particle contains a water droplet surrounded by modified silica, the stuff that makes up ordinary beach sand. The silica coating prevents the water droplets from combining and turning back into a liquid. The result is a fine powder that can slurp up gases, which chemically combine with the water molecules to form what chemists term a hydrate.

    One of the most recent involves using dry water as a storage material for gases, including carbon dioxide. In laboratory-scale research, Cooper and co-workers found that dry water absorbed over three times as much carbon dioxide as ordinary, uncombined water and silica in the same space of time. This ability to absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide gas as a hydrate could make it useful in helping to reduce global warming, the scientists suggested

    Source-Science Daily

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    Lies Quotes

    Lies Quotes: "

    When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. -Rospo Pallenberg and John Boorman

    “No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.”


    If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. -Mark Twain

    “Round numbers are always false.”- Dr Samuel Johnsonn


    “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you”

    It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.- Bono

    “The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”- Robert Louis Stevenson


    A liar should have a good memory.- Quintilian

    “Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.”

    Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.- Franklin D. Roosevelt

    “The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie”

    A lie told often enough becomes the truth.- Lenin

    A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn


    The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

    “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”

    “It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.” Arthur Calwell

    “Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence.” -Henri Frdric Amiel

    “A half-truth is a whole lie”

    A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown

    “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


    “A half-truth is a whole lie.” -Jewish Proverb


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    Pain Killer Killing You?

    Pain Killer Killing You?: "

    What Are Analgesics?

    An analgesic (also known as a painkiller) is any member of the group of drugs used to relieve pain (achieve analgesia). The word analgesic derives from Greek an- (“without”) and algos (“pain”). Analgesic drugs act in various ways on the peripheral and central nervous systems;. The pain relief induced by analgesics occurs either by blocking pain signals going to the brain or by interfering with the brain’s interpretation of the signals, without producing anesthesia or loss of consciousness. There are basically two kinds of analgesics: non-narcotics and narcotics.

    . Analgesia—condition where there is relief of pain without loss of consciousness.

    Analgesics—agents which cause analgesia.

    Narcosis—a condition of CNS depression: Narcosis, the unconsciousness induced by a narcotic drug

    Inflamation– A basic way in which the body reacts to infection, irritation or other injury, the key feature being redness, warmth, swelling and pain.

    Anti-Inflammatory drugs--

    Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, usually abbreviated to NSAIDs or NAIDs, are drugs with analgesic and antipyretic (fever-reducing) effects and which have, in higher doses, anti-inflammatory effects (reducing inflammation)

    Classification of the Anti-Inflammatory drugs—

    NSAID—non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (Aspirin)

    SAID—steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (Corticosteroids)

    SAARD—slow acting anti-rheumatic drugs

    DMARD—disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (Methotrexate)

    Basically Analgesic drugs can be divided in two type –

    A- Non-Narcotic

    B-Narcotics

    Non-Narcotic Analgesics

    Acetaminophen is the most commonly used over-the-counter, non-narcotic analgesic. Acetaminophen is a popular pain-reliever because it is both effective for mild to moderate pain relief and relatively inexpensive. It must be emphasized though that the safety of acetaminophen is tied to proper use of the drug (use according to specific prescribing instructions). If acetaminophen is not used according to the directions on the label, serious side effects and possible fatal consequences can occur. For example, taking more than 4000 mg/day or using it longterm can increase the risk of liver damage. The risk of liver damage with acetaminophen use is also increased by ingesting alcohol. Make sure you discuss with your doctor the maximum allowable dose of acetaminophen and any other guidelines for its use.

    Many people do not realize that acetaminophen is found in more than 600 over-the-counter drugs. It can be found in combination with other active ingredients in many cold, sinus, and cough medications. The cumulative effect of acetaminophen must be considered if you are talking multiple drugs which contain acetaminophen.

    How can acetaminophen damage the liver? Acetaminophen changes into metabolites which are eliminated from the body. By taking more than the recommended maximum daily dose of acetaminophen, more toxic metabolites are produced than can be eliminated.

    Narcotic Analgesics

    There are two types of narcotic analgesics: the opiates and the opioids (derivatives of opiates). Opiates are the alkaloids found in opium (a white liquid extract of unripe seeds of the poppy plant).

    Opioids are any medication which bind to opioid receptors in the central nervous system or gastointestinal tract. According to Wikipedia, there are four broad classes of opioids:


    • Endogenous opioid peptides (produced in the body: endorphins, dynorphins, enkephalins)

    • Opium alkaloids (morphine, codeine, thebaine)

    • Semi-synthetic opioids (heroin, oxycodone, hydrocodone, dihydrocodeine,

    Interesting Facts about Eyes

    Interesting Facts about Eyes: "
    The study of the iris of the eye is called iridology.
    Eyes are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain.
    The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since its cornea is similar to a human cornea.
    Eyes are composed of more than two million working parts.
    Eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
    The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.
    Research has indicated that a tie that is on too tight cam increase the risk of glaucoma in men.
    Eyes under the right conditions, can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.
    Eyes contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge.
    The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
    A human eyeball weighs an ounce
    Eyes utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain.
    It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
    The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour.
    Eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body.
    The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.
    Eyes in a normal life-span, will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you.
    The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.
    The adult eyeball measures about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Of its total surface area only one-sixth is exposed — the front portion.
    All babies are colour blind when they are born.
    Babies’ eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
    The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.
    The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest. Your eyelids need rest, the external muscles of your eyes need rest, the lubrication of your eyes requires replenishment, but your eyes themselves “never” need rest. But please rest them!
    People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
    Men are able to read fine print better than women can.
    Eyes are your most precious sense… care for them properly!
    The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand.
    The average person blinks about 12 times a minute.
    Women eyes blink nearly twice as much as men.
    Your eyes blinks over 10,000,000 times a year!
    Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs. That keeps them clean and moist. Also, if something is about to hit our eye, we will blink automatically.
    Our body has some natural protection for our eyes. Our eyelashes help to keep dirt out of our eyes. Our eyebrows are made to keep sweat from running into our eyes.
    If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
    Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight.
    In the United States, approximately 25,000 eye injuries occur that result in the person becoming totally blind.

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