'Twilight' star Kellan Lutz defends Gisele (AP)

INDIANAPOLIS ? "Twlight" star Kellan Lutz sympathizes with Gisele Bundchen.

Earlier in the week, some criticized the supermodel and wife of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady after an email she reportedly sent to friends and family encouraging them to pray for her husband's success in the Super Bowl game against the New York Giants was leaked.

"I found that very endearing," Lutz said about the email. "Very sweet to have a wife do that for her husband and give that positive energy. I think we all need that in the world. To listen to the news broadcasters ... be negative towards that, I think it is really (bad)."

The die-hard football fan, who just attended the Pro Bowl, kicked off Super Bowl weekend by attending a Friday night party hosted by Audi. Lutz, who has been to Super Bowl weekend before, said he wants the Patriots to win Sunday.

"They have a great team. Solid team," he said. "I fell in love with Tom Brady. Met him once. Really great guy and they have a really solid team. Even if Tom isn't playing, their team is solid."

The actor may be known for his rock solid body, but says it dwarfs in comparison to the NFL players.

"All of these guys are definitely big guys," Lutz said with a smile. "I feel small. It is a weird feeling because in Hollywood you work with actors who are small. I love sports. I love football."

Other attendees at the Audi party included director Spike Lee, football great Jim Brown, Sherri Shepherd of ABC's "The View," and "Glee" star Matthew Morrison.

Morrison said he's rooting for a Giants win: "I lived in New York for 13 years." He also said he was enjoying the energy in the city: "They're real die-hard football fans here."

Audi wasn't the only party in Indianapolis on Friday night. There were several celebrity soirees, including one thrown by Playboy, where Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers hung out in the VIP area as lingerie-clad acrobats dangled from ropes from the ceiling.

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AP Music Editor Nekesa Mumbi Moody contributed to this report.

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Alicia Quarles is the AP's Global Entertainment and Lifestyles editor. Follow her on Twitter (at)aliciaquarles

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Adult Social Network: Pleasuring Business or the Business of ...

An adult social network could serve you in two ways. You can use it to find pleasurable entertainment and establish intimate contacts around the world. On the other hand, you can also use your adult social network to expand your online business.

Either which way, an adult social network site would enable you to mix business and pleasure in the most entertaining fashion. You can therefore avoid the monotony and drabness of online business while at the same time getting productive while entertaining yourself.

An adult social network is part of the bigger social media on the Internet. Social networking sites are exploding today on the Internet. These sites can attract millions of Internet users across all demographics and social status.

It is not surprising to see lots of social networking sites today boasting of more than a million active users. In fact, some social networks have hundreds of thousands daily user engagements. This is a large number which could be a very fertile market sector for any online business.

Adult social network caters to a very specific niche within the social networking world. It targets not just plain adults but those who are looking for a different kind of fun and pleasure from the Internet.

Within the adult social network niche however, you can also create more categories to further deepen your target market.

First, there are adult social networks you can categorize as an outright porn network. These sites feature adult and restricted materials, one night stand dating services, chat facilities that can surely boggle your mind, and other equally exciting web services.
If you are into the extreme side of online adult business, then these adult networks could be a very lucrative niche.

Then there are other adult social network sites that can be categorized as plain sexy. Usually, these sites are characterized more as a dating and intimate friend finder network. These sites are the most popular kind of adult social networking. The populations of these networks are comparable to the popular social networking sites.

Both categories of can offer extremely profitable business opportunities. Because of the size and loyalty of its membership, an adult social network can provide you with a dedicated captured market. This means booming business activity for your online venture.

Take note however, that the techniques of online marketing for adult social network sites could be a little different. In these sites, you need to establish your sexiness and playfulness in order to expand your own personal network.
You must also be prepared to create a very enticing and juicy profile to attract other members. If you are a bit queasy about these things then you may not prosper in adult social networking. That?s why you also need to be a bit aggressive in promoting your profile to establish your presence in the social network.

Adult networks provide lots of opportunities for doing business in the adult industry. Being creative, sexy, and aggressive on an adult social network will not only expand your personal contacts, it will also help in expanding your online business.

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Remodeling Index Positive For Home Improvement Stocks | Real ...

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The macro environment for home improvement stocks continues to be favorable. ??Credit standards have eased somewhat over the past few months and with the Federal Reserves new ?operation twist? program, it has driven down interest rates even further. ?This has created a much more favorable backdrop for home owners wishing to refinance. ??It appears for owners who are refinancing, some of the dollars that are being saved in a such a deal are being reinvested in their homes. ?Home improvement retailers in recent quarters have all told the same story, that people are shying away from big projects and instead are spending money on smaller ticket items to improve their home. ??
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To monitor the health of the home improvement area we have found that the BuildFax Remodeling Index (BFRI) serves as an excellent guide. ??This is an index that is based on residential construction permits filed with local building departments across the country. ??The index tracks the number of properties permitted each month across a set of building departments they have found to be representative. ??The only caveat here is that this index tends to be seasonal, as remodeling activity falls off during the winter months. ?In the first chart, we compare a combination of Home Depot (HD), Lowes (LOW), and Valspar (VAL) against the BFRI without any seasonal adjustment. ?The falloff during winter months is quite visible. ?

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Albuquerque Mortgage Broker on Tour | Albuquerque Real Estate ...

synchronicity ?(?s?nkr??n?s?t?)
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	an apparently meaningful coincidence in time of two or more similar or identical events that are causally unrelated
[C20: coined by Carl Jung from synchronic ?+ -ity ]

I recently went on Realtor Tour in Albuquerque, New Mexico.? This one tour ? previewing a half dozen or so homes on the market with the Listing Brokers spun off into 6 different arrays.

1)? I have a borrower looking to purchase a triplex in Albuquerque, and we saw one on tour, I sent her the specs.

2)?? I have multiple mortgage clients in the under $200k price range, but they may have limited their searches without giving these homes consideration, and based on my say so will go have a look.

3) Found a house that was eco- friendly which may work for some parents who are co-signing for their college age daughter on a home purchase.

4)? I have Realtors with Buyers looking for hot properties in this area in this price range who did not have time to go on tour that I have sent links to,

5)? I have Investor friends who should at least be made aware that prices in this area have dipped to the point where they should be taking more serious looks at purchasing now.

6)? And let?s not forget my own education and edification.? I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico too ? I need to know what property values are doing, what is available in inventory and stay current ? it?s part of my job.

Here?s why this works for me ? I am a natural networker ? my passion is to help others and I love to see them succeed.? By using 2 hours of workday time to preview these homes, I can have a ripple effect on at least 6 different potential purchasers ? and in the end, it is all returned to me, because I am asked to coordinate the financing that goes along with the real estate.? Sounds like a win-win-win to me.

Check back next Thursday for more Albuquerque Mortgage info from Melinda Potcher and as always, feel free to contact me with your Albuquerque Mortgage questions.

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Mac Miller Takes Us Backstage For Pittsburgh Homecoming

'Last night was like my first real Pittsburgh show where I'm somebody now,' MC told MTV News back in December.
By Rob Markman

Mac Miller in Pittsburgh
Photo: MTV News

Mac Miller wasn't always this popular, and his concerts weren't always quite so packed.

"I performed for five people at a 'hood-ass club, and no one looked at me," Mac recalled of one of his earliest shows as a teen in Pittsburgh. "They were like, 'Who's this little-ass white kid?' "

How times have changed. On December 9, the Blue Slide Park MC returned to his hometown to perform a pair of sold-out shows at Stage AE, with a gang of hits and a #1 album under his belt and a legion of new fans.

A year prior, in December 2010, he opened for Rostrum Records labelmate and buddy Wiz Khalifa at the same venue, but for Mac, things didn't go so well.

"I was opening for Wiz at Stage AE, like, the same exact show, his homecoming," Mac remembered. "I actually had just came off my first little tour. I did, like, a two-week run, and I lost my voice on it. So I did both those Pittsburgh shows with no voice, and I sounded like sh--."

Mac Miller returns to Pittsburgh's Blue Slide Park.

Mac's voice wasn't a problem during his concerts in December. Before the first show, anxious concertgoers chanted, "We want Mac, we want Mac," as the now 20-year old MC made his way from his backstage dressing room to the stage, where he led a prayer circle with his Most Dope crew right before the curtains opened. Miller ran through crowd favorites like "Best Day Ever," "Knock, Knock," "Donald Trump" and "Party on Fifth Ave."

The crowd jumped-up, pumped their fists and sang along all night throughout both shows — then again that's the standard for a Mac Miller concert. But even the slow and personal "Missed Calls" from his BSP album got a nice reaction, which to the young MC proved that his music is really connecting with his audience.

"I'm like the fun rapper, right? Me, Mac Miller, the symbol of fun, but when I do 'Missed Calls,' it's like cool, good music," he told MTV News backstage after his December 9 show. "It's dope to see that vibe in the room of people just enjoying a song that's not about fun, that's not a party anthem, that's just a song about some real sh-- that I made about a relationship."

It's his favorite song on the album, by the way.

Wiz Khalifa motivates Pittsburgh's up-and-coming artists.

For Mac, going back to the 'Burgh was a high like no other. "Last night was like my first real Pittsburgh show where I'm somebody now," he said December 10 as he took MTV News on a tour through his beloved Blue Slide Park. "I just wanted to say 'Pittsburgh' over and over again — not to get the crowd hyped, but to able to say that, man. I was home. I'm home, and there's 3,000 people rockin' with me."

Stick with MTV News all week as Mac Miller takes us back to the 'Burgh and spotlights the city's vibrant hip-hop scene. Then tune into RapFix Live" today at 4 p.m. on MTV.com for exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from Mac's hometown shows.

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'Shore' baby on the way? Forget about it!

Despite rumors to the contrary, a rep for Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi insists the reality star isn't pregnant.

By Gina Serpe and Marc Malkin, E! Online

Lesson for the kids: always practice safe smooshing.

That, supposedly, is something that Jersey Shore guidette Snooki failed to do, as Star magazine is breathlessly reporting that the reality starlet is pregnant!

The 24-year-old certainly seems to be in a stable relationship with her boyfriend of a year, Jionni LaValle, but is Snooki really mother material?

Forget GTL--this news is more like OMG! That is, if it's true. So is Snooki readying herself for a Shore leave and expecting a bambino of her own? This rumor is...

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So false!

Snooki's rep tells E! News that there is no truth to the rumors and that the MTV star is not pregnant.

The tabloid seemed to pin the rumor on the fact that Snooki was telling friends she had a "big announcement" coming soon. Well, it seems like her baby may have been simply of the professional variety, possibly to do with her "Jersey Shore" spinoff with pal JWoww.

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Just this week, it emerged that the Hoboken mayor rejected the production company's request for a permit to film in the city. Talk about a baby.

So there's no baby on the way for now, but the reality star has said she wants to be a mom one day. Do you think the party-loving Princess of Poughkeepsie is cut out for diaper duty and everything else that comes with it? Share your thoughts on our Facebook page.

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In lab, Pannexin1 restores tight binding of cells that is lost in cancer

Monday, January 30, 2012

First there is the tumor and then there's the horrible question of whether the cancerous cells will spread. Scientists increasingly believe that the structural properties of the tumor itself, such as how tightly the tumor cells are packed together, play a decisive role in the progression of the disease. In a new study, researchers show that the protein Pannexin1, known to have tumor-suppressive properties, plays an important role in keeping the cells within a tissue closely packed together, an effect that may be lost with cancer.

"In healthy tissues, the recently discovered protein Pannexin1 may be playing an important role in upholding the mechanical integrity of the tissue," said first author and Brown University M.D./Ph.D. student Brian Bao. "When we develop cancer, we lose Pannexin1 and we lose this integrity."

The results appeared in advance online in the Journal of Biological Chemistry on Jan. 20.

To conduct their research, the group at Brown University and the University of British Columbia employed a "3-D Petri dish" technology that allows investigators to watch closely how cells interact with each other, without scientists having to worry about additional interactions with surrounding scaffolding or the culture plate itself. How readily the cells form large multicellular structures therefore reflects their interactions with each other, not their in vitro surroundings.

Bao's advisor, Jeffrey Morgan, associate professor of medical science, developed the 3-D Petri dish technology. Morgan is the paper's senior author.

Cancer cells converge

Starting with rat "C6" glioma (brain tumor) cells that do not express Pannexin1, the researchers left some unaltered and engineered others to express Pannexin1. After putting the different cells into the 3-D Petri dishes and watching them interact for 24 hours, they saw that the Pannexin1 cells were able to form large multicellular tissues much faster and more tightly than the unaltered cancer cells.

To confirm that Pannexin1 was indeed causing these changes, Bao and his colleagues treated their samples with the drugs Probenecid and Carbenoxolone, which are well known inhibitors of Pannexin1. They saw that sure enough, the drugs negated Pannexin1's accelerating effect.

Then the team was ready to achieve the the study's main aim, Bao said, namely to determine how Pannexin1 was able to drive these cells to clump together faster and tighter. They found that Pannexin1 sets off a chain reaction involving the energy-carrying molecule ATP and specific receptors for it.

When all experiments were done, Bao, Morgan, and their collaborators had found that as soon as the cells touched each other, Pannexin1 channels were stimulated to open and release ATP. The ATP then bound to cell surface receptors, kicking off intracellular calcium waves that ultimately remodeled the network of a structural protein called actin. This remodeling increases the forces between the cells, driving them to bind together more tightly.

Figuring out that sequence, and Pannexin1's role in it, is perhaps the study's biggest contribution to cancer research, Bao said.

"Using their single-cell systems, others have been able to carefully study individual pieces of this cascade," he said. "We came from a different perspective. Because the strength of our assay is that we can look at gross multicellular behavior in 3-D, we could ask, 'Does this actually manifest into something tangible on the multicellular level?'"

Having gained this understanding of Pannexin1's role in the mechanics of tumors, Bao is now engaged in research to answer the obvious next questions: Does Pannexin1 affect the tumor's ability to spread and invade? When cancerous cells regain Pannexin1 expression, are they less likely to spread and leave the tumor?

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