Miranda Cosgrove

Miranda Taylor Cosgrove (born May 14, 1993) is an American film and television actress and pop recording artist. Cosgrove played the roles of Megan Parker in Drake & Josh and title character in iCarly. Her career started at the age of three, participating in television commercials. Cosgrove's film debut was in 2003, as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock. After years of small television appearances, Cosgrove was cast into the hit show Drake & Josh and later in iCarly. Cosgrove earns US$180,000 per episode of iCarly, making her the second highest paid child star on television.

Following the success of iCarly, a soundtrack album was released in June 2008, in which she performed four songs. Cosgrove's debut album Sparks Fly was released on April 27, 2010.

2007–present: iCarly and music career

Cosgrove kicked off 2007 by appearing in several Nickelodeon television series. The first of these appearances was in Zoey 101, which starred Jamie Lynn Spears and Victoria Justice. Cosgrove later guest starred on an episode of Unfabulous, which starred Emma Roberts. In the episode, Cosgrove guest starred as a sweet girl named Cosmina. 2007 saw the end of Drake & Josh, with the final episode airing on September 16, 2007. However, Cosgrove was already in the works of starring in her own series, titled iCarly.

Schneider tailored iCarly around the interest young people have in the internet. 

A unique part of this show is the fact that viewers may submit their own videos and also be included in the show. Cosgrove said of the audience participation aspect, "When I first heard about the idea, I thought it was so cool. If I were home and watching TV, I'd want to send in a video. By the summer of 2008, the show was the third highest rated in the 9-14 demographic. The "iCarly Saves TV" special extended episode, became the most-viewed entertainment show on cable TV in June 2008.

definitely have guys that I'm friends with that I have a crush on, and you don't want to ruin the friendship. The he album was released in April 2010, and the first single from her album, "Kissin' U", was premiered on Ryan Seacrest's radio show on March 12, 2010, and released to iTunes on March 23, 2010. 

The album, titled Sparks Fly, debuted and peaked at number 8 on the US Billboard 200 chart.

She signed with Neutrogena on February 12, 2010, as an ambassador for the well-known skincare and cosmetics company. On March 17, 2010, it was reported that Cosgrove had signed a deal, reportedly in the "low- to mid-seven-figure range" to do 26 additional episodes of iCarly. Cosgrove voiced a character in Universal Studios' 3-D computer animated feature Despicable Me, released in July 2010. In January 2011, Cosgrove revealed that her new EP would be titled High Maintenance, and also released the first single from the same. The song, titled "Dancing Crazy", was written by Max Martin, Shellback, and Avril Lavigne, and produced by Martin and Shellback. With three weeks of airplay, the song debuted at number forty on the US Billboard Adult Pop Songs.

Cosgrove was born in Los Angeles, California, to Tom, who owns a dry cleaning business, and Chris, a stay-at-home mother. At the age of three, she was discovered by a talent agent while singing and dancing at the Los Angeles restaurant Taste of L.A. Cosgrove stated that when the agent walked up to her and her mom for modeling, she had "never really thought of being an [actress]" and "was lucky". After choosing to take the offer, she appeared in television commercials for McDonald's and Mello Yello, and also modeled. At the age of seven, Cosgrove decided that "she loved doing it" and auditioned for theater and television roles.

Kym Johnson

Kym Johnson (born 4 August 1976) is an Australian former professional ballroom dancer, model, and television celebrity. She lives in Sydney NSW, Australia but is currently based in America for Dancing with the Stars.

Kym Johnson became a celebrity after appearing on Dancing with the Stars, a televised ballroom dance competition.

She appeared on Seasons 1-3 of Dancing with the Stars in Australia in 2004 and 2005. In Season 2, she and her partner, television presenter Tom Williams were the winning couple; they both then performed in the Champion of Champion series. Kym also made a cameo during the 4th Australian series Dancing with the Stars Grand Final, performing with musician Alex Lloyd.

In early 2006, she appeared on the Australian program Celebrity Survivor on behalf of the Merry Makers .

Later the same year (2006), Kym appeared on season 3 of the US Dancing with the Stars, partnering with talk show icon Jerry Springer. They proved to be very popular and were the 7th couple sent off. During the series Kym wrote a Behind the Scenes' Diary for OK! Magazine Australia.

Dance biography

Johnson began dancing at the age of two. She began ballroom dancing at 13 years old. In 1998, she and her partner, Lithuanian Tomas Atkocevicius, placed second at the Australian Dancesport Championships in the Open Amateur Modern Ballroom. They also were finalists as the U.K. Ballroom Championships at Blackpool. She retired from competitive ballroom dance in 2001, but continued dancing on stage.

Since 2001, she has appeared in a number of events and films, including:

Burn the Floor, a touring ballroom dance production.

Performing at Elton John's 50th Birthday party.

Dancing at the Blade Runner launch party

Dancing in the film Strictly Ballroom

Sienna Miller

Sienna Rose Miller (born December 28, 1981) is an English actress, model, and fashion designer, best known for her roles in Layer Cake, Alfie, Factory Girl, The Edge of Love and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

Acting

In 2001, she made her film début with South Kensington, with Rupert Everett and Elle Macpherson and later had a recurring role in the television drama series Keen Eddie. In 2004 Miller had a supporting roles in the remake Alfie with Jude Law and in Layer Cake. In 2005, Miller played the female lead opposite Heath Ledger in the period comedy drama, Casanova, followed by the role of 1960s socialite and Andy Warhol's muse Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl, which opened December 29, 2006. In 2007, Miller had a small role in Matthew Vaughn's adaption Stardust and played a starlet to Steve Buscemi's reporter in Interview, another remake. Later in 2007, she portrayed an undead bride opposite James Franco in Camille.

Personal life

Miller's relationship with Alfie co-star Jude Law was fodder for the entertainment press. On Christmas Day 2004, they became engaged. On July 8, 2005, Law issued a public apology to Miller for having an affair with the nanny of his children. After attempting to salvage their on/off relationship, Miller and Law finally separated the following November.

Miller dated Welsh actor Rhys Ifans from 2007 to June 2008. After her relationship with Ifans ended, Miller began a relationship with actor Balthazar Getty, who was separated from his wife designer Rosetta Getty (née Millington). The liaison ended in May 2009. In late 2009, Miller began dating Law again. They separated again in February 2011.

Fashion design

In 2006, it was announced that Miller would design a fashion capsule for Pepe Jeans; the project was later expanded to become a complete fashion label. Called Twenty8Twelve, it gets its name from Miller's date of birth and is financially backed by Pepe Jeans. The collection, which Miller designed with her sister Savannah, a professional fashion designer, launched in September 2007.

Humanitarian work

Miller is the Global Ambassador for International Medical Corps. She traveled with them to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in April 2009, and kept a blog about her experiences. She also visited Haiti with the group after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Miller also worked alongside Global Cool during their 2007 eco friendly campaign.

Will Wii 2 rock the gaming world?

Wii sold 172,000 units in the US during April – its lowest ever monthly total.

According to MarketWatch, sales of Nintendo's home console were down 40 per cent on March and 38 per cent on April 2010.

While the DS continues to hold up well, finishing second to the Xbox 360 in the monthly NPD charts, the 3DS had a rough time of it. The new handheld sold 194,000 units it its first full month on sale, well down on the 400,000 it managed in its debut week at the end of March.

Nintendo is widely expected to unveil its successor to the Wii, the top seller among the current generation of gaming consoles, next month at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles.

Nobody knows yet what features the system will contain or exactly when it will be released (current speculation points to next spring at the earliest). But other, bigger questions beg asking: Can the new console match the cultural impact of the original? And will it shore up Nintendo's faltering dominance in the gaming market?

At face value, a follow-up to the Wii -- the first motion-controlled gaming system, which became a breakaway hit with such nontraditional gamers as women and seniors -- would seem to be a slam dunk.

IGN readers were more interested in purchasing that Wii 2, with 39 percent saying they would buy the system, 22 percent saying no and 39 percent undecided.

The survey was conducted online, with 1,508 participants responding. For the purposes of the study, a gamer was defined as someone who played games for at least one hour per week and also spent at least one hour per week on the Internet.

Do you plan to buy a Wii 2, or is Nintendo going to have to sell you on it first? Let us know below, and remember to play nice and to keep it clean.

Merkel, IMF talks cancelled

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, has been arrested on charges of attempted rape, criminal sexual act and unlawful imprisonment, New York City police said Sunday, the Associated Press reported.

A law enforcement official said Mr. Strauss-Kahn was taken into police custody Saturday after being removed from an airplane at Kennedy Airport.

The law enforcement official said Mr. Strauss-Kahn allegedly forced a cleaning woman onto his bed and sexually assaulted her at around 1 p.m. Saturday inside his room at the Sofitel Hotel near Times Square.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn's attorney didn't immediately return phone or email messages seeking comment.

Talks between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and arrested IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, set for Sunday, have been cancelled as the International Monetary Fund will not send a replacement to Berlin, a government source said.

The charges, if true, would strike a tremendous blow to France's current politics. The Socialist Party is holding primaries this fall, but candidates have been requested to apply between June 28 and July 13.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn's decision regarding his candidacy has been much awaited as polls have constantly shown over the past few months that he would beat Mr. Sarkozy as soon as the first round. His decision was expected as soon as the end of May, a person close to him told Dow Jones Newswires.

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Strauss-Kahn lawyer says must remain calm over arrest

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, has been arrested on charges of attempted rape, criminal sexual act and unlawful imprisonment, New York City police said Sunday, the Associated Press reported.

A law enforcement official said Mr. Strauss-Kahn was taken into police custody Saturday after being removed from an airplane at Kennedy Airport.

The law enforcement official said Mr. Strauss-Kahn allegedly forced a cleaning woman onto his bed and sexually assaulted her at around 1 p.m. Saturday inside his room at the Sofitel Hotel near Times Square.

One of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's France-based lawyers said on Sunday that it was key to avoid a media frenzy over the sex assault charges against the IMF chief and wait for clarity on whether the allegations are true.

"We must wait until things settle and see if it's true or a provocation," Leon Lef Foster told reporters.

"We must be especially careful not to get into a media circus and we must wait until things are clear," he said, and said that it was important to remain calm.

Is PlayStation Move in big trouble?

Only thing Move's got left to do is wave goodbye. It died for me early with Heavy Rain: Move Edition, a game built on gesture-based controls. A perfect fi t, surely? No. It reduced control and comfort while adding nothing bar an extra thing to hold.

One stores outage's first week showed little PS3 sales impact, but that thereafter his store had seen "an increase of over 200 per cent on PS3 consoles being traded in, split almost 50/50 between those trading for cash and those taking a 360 instead."

Edge's list of sources telling the same tale continues and ranges from corporate chains to indie resellers. Not a huge surprise, but grim news, any way you spin it.

The magazine corroborates its ad hoc phone surveys with actual sales data, citing UK selling trends that shows recent spikes in Xbox 360 sales for multi-platform titles (like Call of Duty: Black Ops) and commensurate PS3 sales declines.

Sales data aside, the phone call claims may or may not be indicative of broader trends, and Edge admits the small sample's hardly scientific. What's more, they surmise it's still just online-fixated gamers jumping ship. But as we know, the PlayStation Network has (or should we say had?) some 77 million members worldwide. It's anyone's guess how many of those are fixated enough to part ways over the three-weeks-and-counting outage.

Top PS3 Downtime Solutions

So its Easter Sunday and we are all well aware of Sony’s increasingly frustrating PSN outage. Other than munching on chocolate, I am sure today was also planned as a lazy day in, served with a hot session of online gaming! With the misery story of the PSN, we thought we would try and offer some other alternatives so that your gaming day at home would not be totally ruined after all.

We spoke earlier about how gamers who also own an Xbox 360 were simply switching consoles and playing Xbox live, well this is the first tip. If you just bought Mortal Kombat 9 on the PS3 then this will be very annoying, but anyone who freely plays games on both consoles should not have too many problems playing with the 360 while we wait for service to resume. You can find regular updates on the Playstation Blog.

Attempt split-screen multiplayer, even if vs. a Kinectimal

Back in my day, the Internet was strictly for porn and downloading songs illegally through Napster. Meanwhile, videogames were played offline with local friends in a form of multiplayer called “split… screen.” Games like Mario Kart 64 and GoldenEye 007 used to rob teens and twenty-somethings of sleep on a regular basis, but unlike Call of Duty today, we were all able (read: forced) to enjoy the close-quarters competition. Being able to throw a couch pillow at a buddy who was just few feet away is a cheapshot that you just can’t execute with today’s microphone and headset combo. Now, we know that you may have shed all of your tangible friends since the dawn of social networking sites Facebook and Twitter. However, we played against a Kinectimal in Tetris and couldn’t be more pleased with the results. Everyone likes winning and this is a sure-fire way to scream Charlie Sheen’s favorite line after every round.

Go outside

Many videogames are based on the environment outside of your living room and it still exists today! So, get up and have an up-close-and-personal encounter with planet Earth and… oh no! The sun is bright! Everyone back inside and move onto the next suggestion…

Sneak into Netflix on PS3 through this workaround; feel like you’re sneaking into the movies

I’ve never snuck into the movies, but I can imagine what it’s like now that I’ve overcome the log-in obstacles that currently plague Netflix on the PS3. Booting up the dashboard widget leads you to the notorious PSN sign-in screen. Grumble, Grumble, Grumble! Same thing as online gaming, right? Well, if you press X to sign in and fail, simply press O. It’ll still load up Netflix. It’ll ask you to sign in a couple more times until you advance far enough into the movie selection screen. Don’t give up, after a couple of tries, it quits faster than an underpaid movie theater usher.

Surf the web and play Call of Duty: Black Ops offline at the same time: “Pfftt... yeah, I’m online... gaming on PS3”

Please don’t resort to playing Farmville or any other obnoxious social networking “game” that is going to clutter the newsfeed of your soon-to-be-former friends. We know that you want to tell everyone that you were online gaming this weekend and don’t want to end your streaking just because PSN is down. Instead, surf the web and play an offline game at the same time - you’ve got two hands. There’s even an awesome site we can suggest for the first half of the online + gaming equation.

Log into... dun dun dun! Xbox Live or Steam

PlayStation-loyalists aren’t going to be pleased with this suggestion as they are the most vocal in the so-called “system wars.” But Xbox Live and Steam are two great alternatives to gaming through PSN. A lot of the same games are offered on the Xbox 360 and PC/Mac including a couple of exclusives like Limbo via XBLA – my personal favorite of 2010. So long as you aren’t rebuying your PS3 games for this (hopefully) single weekend of downtime, then you’re spending your time and money wisely. There are some PS3 and PSP fans who “say” they’re so fed up with the whole ordeal that they’re buying a brand new Xbox 360 for this very reason. We think most of them are lying like the overenthusiastic Republican or Democratic voter who says if X wins, I’m moving to N country. Not a chance.

Rig up that old PS2 Network Adapter

PS2 Online is reportedly still working, according to a mix of tweets. Since this 2002-launched service was never part of the PlayStation Network, this would make sense. So, if you still haven’t traded in your old PS2 console and have Sony’s archaic PS2 Network Adapter screwed into the back of your last-gen console’s expansion slot, then you could be playing SOCOM 1, SOCOM 2, SOCOM 3 – even SOCOM 4 …as in SOCOM: Combined Assault, the real fourth installment in the SOCOM series. Be sure to tweet that you’re “playing SOCOM 4 online right now” and get every online shooter fan into a frenzy.

Laugh at Wii’s still-pitiful online support

PSN may not work this week, but in our minds, Nintendo’s online gaming strategy has never really worked for us. Without a sole identity and, instead, relying on a series of numbers, the motion-controlled console missed the boat by a mile this generation. 3DS makes it a little bit easier with a single-friend code, but if Microsoft and Sony have taught one thing, it’s that gamertags and personal IDs are the way to go. Oh and that voice chat shouldn’t be done through a room-wide speaker doodad like Wii Speak.

Try logging into PSN 80710A06 times. We hear that’s the magic number

More than 1,100 words later and is PSN back up yet? Not from what we see. We must have tried signing in 8,071,006 since our PS3 went down on April 21. That’s very close to the now infamous error message 80710A06. If only we could figure out the A part, maybe we could somehow beat the system and host the smallest CoD: Black Ops game in history. Keep trying, folks. Hopefully, PSN will be back up on Monday.

PSN Password On PS3 In United States

Sony has announced via the PlayStation Blog that PS3 firmware 3.61 is now available for the PlayStation 3.

Update sees the first step in restoring the PlayStation Network and is a mandatory update for all PlayStation 3. The new firmware requires all PSN users to change their password once PSN comes back online.

Sony Ireland confirmed through its Facebook page that "some PSN services, including online gameplay, will indeed go live later today (Sunday).

PlayStation Network  United States, here are some helpful tips for PS3 gamers in places like the UK, Ireland, India and Canada where PSN isn't back online in full. Changing your PSN password is going to be your first order of business after downloading PS3 firmware 3.61, the latest system update for the console. In fact, it's your only order of business. Sony has made changing your password a requirement as soon as you attempt to log into PSN for the first time.

"To thwart the hackers, all you have to do is follow the on-screen instructions. A notification will pop up that reads "Your password is no longer valid. You must change your password." No please or thank yous, Sony isn't messing around in this very frank message. Pressing the X button will take you past this initial box to the next screen."

Second screen is where you'll enter you new password. You do not need to remember your old password. We know, it's been three long weeks and you may have forgotten what it is. Simply type out your new password (a combination of numbers and letters) in the first dialogue box and re-enter that same password in the second dialogue box. If it meets Sony's security standards, you'll be able to press X and proceed.

If you are done successfully, the third message box will read: "Update complete." This is the message we've all been waiting for during the past 24 days of the online outage. Hitting the X button to get beyond this screen will send you back out the the XMB where you'll still be logged out, but officially signing back to the PSN is a piece of cake. 

Logging into PSN for the first time in 24 days is exactly like you remember it. The familiar sign-in opaque dialogue box appears with your user ID and new password information already saved to the system. Simply hitting the X button brings you and PSN back together for the first time since April 20.

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Things do PlayStation Network is still down

Read War and Peace. Hopefully Sony will have PSN back up by the time you finish. C`mon, after 8 days down, do you really believe the promise of partial PSN restoration by next Tuesday?

Watch the Royal Wedding. Who else is up at that hour of the night?

Dig out dad's "Dungeons and Dragons" game. Hey, analog role playing is better than nothing.

Go to a 3D movie. While you've been playing non-stop for the last 3 years, there have been some amazing tech advances. Oh, yeah, ask your friends to explain what an iPhone is.

Become a day trader. The highs and lows can be as exciting as interactive game playing, except you make (or, gulp, lose) real money rather than spend it on virtual goods.

Check your email. Sony would like to explain how it lost all your personal information, including precious gamertag ID, password, birth date, security questions and much more. Ah, best check credit card activity, too.

Update your Match.com profile -- remove MAG, SOCOM 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Visit your mom. Her door is on the other side of the bathroom.

Change your passwords from "password" -- or "123456789." Hackers have it now.

Take a shower. You need it.

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