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Lee and Park sang “True Colors” together, which was featured in the film, showing off their chemistry.
“Trolls” gained popularity overseas with Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick providing the voices for Poppy and Branch.
Seventeen expressed gratitude to fans Wednesday for being named on the list of the V app’s top 10 global artists.
Each member delivered a 10-syllable message to viewers to convey gratitude for receiving the recognition.
Leader S. Coups said, “We’ll work harder and create more opportunities to spend time with Carats,” referring to the band’s fan group.
Seventeen had over 1.26 million followers as of 11 a.m. on Thursday.
Working an office really is bad for your waistline as six in ten workers barely even attempt to exercise anymore, according to new research.
With many of us forced to spend the great majority of our day sitting at a desk, it’s understandable that our fitness levels may take a hit, but a new study shows the extent to which office life can take its toll.
The survey of 1,000 office workers examined the impact of sedentary working routines on a person’s health and mentality around getting in shape and revealed sixty-one percent don’t regularly exercise.
Less than one in ten (nine percent) exercise very regularly and under a third (30 percent) manage to frequently work up a sweat.
The study by mobile personal training company GYMGUYZ also revealed that the extent to which an office job can affect a person’s attitude to exercising with 57 percent blaming their sedentary office job for a decline in their health and fitness.
That might be because of the sheer amount of time sitting at a desk – 92 percent said they regularly have days where they spend most of the day sitting down. Worryingly, six in ten (58 percent) said this is very regularly their norm.
A lack of exercise has made even the most common daily task tiring. A quarter has felt out of breath after carrying heavy bags of groceries, and seven percent have even experienced tiredness after a short walk to the store.
Nearly half credit their age for not being able to exercise as often as they would like, and a third say the older they get the more unmotivated they become.
The lack of motivation shows as one in seven confess they’ve gone over 16 months at a time without exercising.
A determined 39 percent have kept a regular exercise schedule, but 66 percent say it gets more difficult to maintain a regular exercise schedule as they get older.
Being too tired from work, little motivation and lack of time are the main reasons why exercising is not part of their regular lifestyle.
The study found that, sometimes, any excuse to avoid the gym will do, with some of the more bizarre excuses found to be their favorite show/movie was playing, not wanting to have to shower afterwards, and even the gym being too far away.
Nearly a third (31 percent) are even intimidated at the thought of even going to the gym, mainly from fears that people will judge them and they wouldn’t know what to do.
The fear and frustration have caused 38 percent to leave the gym feeling like they didn’t accomplish anything, and 36 percent leaving in frustration.
But there’s still hope as 68 percent believe they can still get themselves into their desired shape.
SAN ANDREAS - The Federal Housing Finance Agency has put a halt to a program that was helping homeowners in 22 states, including California, to finance tens of millions of dollars in energy-efficiency improvements ranging from insulation and thermal windows to solar panels.
The problem, the agency said in a statement, is that it believes financing such improvements through loans that are repaid on a home's tax assessment may pose a threat to the ability of banks to collect on mortgages.
California officials from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger down to the local level disagree and are waging a lobbying campaign that already has launched at least one bill in Congress that would overturn the federal agency's position.
"I was very disappointed," Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Merita Callaway said. "We were all ready to start participating late this summer."
Calaveras is one of a number of California counties hoping to join a consortium that would manage and finance such loans.
Other, larger local governments, such as Sonoma County, pioneered the program and have already made millions in loans.
Officials in California are already working to overturn the decision. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa, introduced HR5766 on Thursday to require the home finance agency, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to cooperate with the energy efficiency and energy generation loan programs.
The bill's 35 sponsors include Reps. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Creek, and Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton. Similarly, 50 members of Congress, including Garamendi and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, issued a letter Monday to President Barack Obama urging him to reverse the action.
By Klaas Woldring - posted Wednesday, 4 April 2007 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!
The dissatisfaction with the major parties, their policies and leaders is widespread. Up to 35 per cent of the voting population has given first preference to minor parties and Independents in recent years without this being reflected much in seats won.
Australia’s current single-member district electoral system ensures that most preferences end up with the major parties, at least in all lower houses of federal and state parliaments except perhaps Tasmania. This means that the claim that Australia is a representative democracy is a myth - and not only on this ground. ...
The unrepresentative “winner takes all” mentality is typical of that electoral system. Other major disadvantages are: pork barrelling, frequent boundary adjustments, neglect of safe seats and minority government. However, I would like to concentrate on the desirability of abolishing compulsory voting as soon as possibl...
It has turned the two-party system into a two-party tyranny of two look-alike parties.
Very few industrialised countries use compulsory voting. Australia is the only English speaking country that has compulsory voting. Some scholars of the University of Adelaide, for example, Hill, L (2002) and Louth, J & Hill, J (2005), have advocated in recent years that Australia should export its model (template) to ...
The motivation behind such ideas is that this would reverse the rather modest decline in voter turn-out in such countries. It reminds one somewhat of the export of Australia’s so-called “Pacific Solution”.
It is a non-solution. We would be exporting a dubious practice while there is an urgency to put our own house in order. Much is made of the fact that Australia has efficient Electoral Commissions and Administrations. However, the relationship between an efficient administration and the democratic quality of an electora...
Furthermore, the decline in political participation, while fairly widespread in the West, is related to many factors. It is very difficult to try to quantify these in a meaningful comparative fashion. Moreover if, say, the introduction voluntary voting in Australia resulted in a turn-out of 40-45 per cent, conceivable ...
Many have had quite enough of the political system simply because they are compelled to vote for the major party candidates many of whom are not regarded highly at all, for many reasons.
Opinion polls, which claim that 60 per cent to 70 per cent approve of compulsory voting, are based on a situation where respondents cannot make a comparison because most have no experience with voluntary voting systems. Also they cannot assess the effects of it in Australia either: comparisons with voting patterns prio...
The Adelaide scholars also make the error of assuming that compulsory voting would result in a significantly higher level of political participation, knowledge and interest. but there is no evidence of that. And in Australia this is simply untrue: knowledge of the political system, the Constitution, public policy, and ...
Dr Klaas Woldring is a former Associate Professor of Southern Cross University.
Donald Trump was on “Your World,” where he said he is “embarrassed” that the United States has become a “dumping ground” for illegal immigrants.
Trump said that Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi is the only person in Mexico that can’t come into the U.S., referencing that the Marine is still jailed in the country.
Watch the video above to hear Trump sound off on illegal immigration and more.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA (KPLC) - High school athletes are putting their college commitments in writing today.
Today is National Signing Day, the day when recruits around the country sign letters of intent to play college athletics.
Locally, several athletes have already signed letters of intent, although more are expected to do so. A few local athletes decided to take advantage of the early signing period to lock up their spot in a signing class back in December.
FULHAM will revert to their strongest available line-up for Sunday’s Barclays Premier League clash with Wolves.
Clint Dempsey, Danny Murphy, Damien Duff and Mark Schwarzer should all return after missing the 1-1 Europa League draw with CSKA Sofia with minor injuries.
Strikers Andy Johnson and Bobby Zamora are also back after being rested, but Paul Konchesky is a doubt because of a knee problem.
Amazon started shipping on Thursday its big-screen tablet, the Kindle Fire HD 8.9. The 4G LTE version of the same tablet will take another week to debut.
The LTE version of the same tablet, called the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 4G only comes with 32GB and costs $499, which includes 20GB of cloud storage as well as a $10 Amazon Appstore credit. The wireless package costs just $49.99 a year, although data usage is capped at 250MB per month, and the rate will only be available to ...
The smaller, 7-inch version of the Kindle Fire HD started shipping in September. Reviews were generally favorable, and Mashable's Lance Ulanoff said it was a great tablet for the $199 cost. Stay tuned for our review of its big brother, the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 in the coming days.
Are you interested in getting a Kindle Fire HD 8.9? Why that tablet and not one of its competitors? Share your thoughts in the comments.
A long-delayed film written by a former Bradenton-area resident has finally received a national release date.
Zombie thriller “Patient Zero” will be available on digital and video on demand Aug. 14, followed by a select theatrical release on Sep. 14, according to Variety. Bayshore High School graduate and former State College of Florida attendee Mike Le wrote the screenplay.
The film takes place after a pandemic that turns most of humanity into violent, intelligent "infected" and follows a man who can communicate with them as he pursues a cure. It stars Matt Smith (“Doctor Who”), Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones”) and Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci, and was directed by Oscar-winning “The Coun...
Made in 2015, “Patient Zero” was initially scheduled for a September 2016 release before being pushed back to February 2017, then taken off the release calendar altogether.
Le visited State College of Florida in December 2016, where he screened the Korean zombie movie “Train to Busan” and talked to students. He said he got the idea for “Patient Zero” after seeing someone at a convention dressed as a zombie taking a cigarette break, and thought about how zombies could become more developed...
Le was born in Vietnam and lived in Minnesota before moving to Florida for high school, graduating from Bayshore High in 1991. He then enrolled at State College of Florida, where he helped start the SCF Film Club and wrote movie reviews for the student newspaper, but didn’t graduate.
He moved to Los Angeles to pursue film, working at a Blockbuster. Owen Wilson came in to look for a movie and left so impressed by Le that Wilson offered him a job as his assistant the next day, starting his Hollywood career.
Le has earned acclaim for his scripts, with Variety naming him one of 10 screenwriters to watch. His “Patient Zero” script landed on the Black List, an annual list of the most well-liked scripts in Hollywood not yet made into movies at the time.
He isn’t the only Hollywood success story from Bradenton in the news lately. Former resident Rob McKittrick, who wrote and directed the 2005 restaurant comedy “Waiting…,” also wrote the comedy “Tag” that was released in theaters nationwide in June.
NORTH CASTLE, N.Y. -- The driver of the truck struck by the ex-wife of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been issued a summons for leaving the scene of an accident.
Rocco Scuiletti, of Poughkeepsie, was sideswiped Friday by Kerry Kennedy's Lexus on Interstate 684 north of New York City.
She's pleaded not guilty to a driving while drug-impaired charge. Kennedy says doctors believe the accident was caused by a seizure stemming from an old brain injury.
State police told Newsday Westchester (http://bit.ly/SJCcfl ) that Scuiletti knew he was involved in an accident and failed to report it. He faces up to a $250 fine or 15 days in jail. He couldn't be reached for comment.
Kennedy continued driving after the accident until her car became disabled.
She's the daughter of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
The Manitoba government will replace the aging Portage la Prairie overpass along Highway 1 on the west side of the city.
The bridge has been struck several times by trucks, often forcing its closure while engineers can assess the recent bout of damage. The bridge is currently only accessible in one direction, with some traffic being diverted through Portage.
Infrastructure Minister Ron Schuler says the province is in the initial stages of replacing the structure that was built in 1968 and design work will start later this year.
During its design phase, the height of the overpass and other national design standards will be taken into consideration.
Now that the Philadelphia Phillies have been crowned MLB champions, mobile production company Game Creek Video has had a chance to look back at the rain-soaked event with pride.
The Hudson, NH-based company was on-site for all three games with its Yankee Clipper truck, an HD production studio on wheels. The production went fine even though the Game 3 had to be cancelled midway through (it was resumed two days later).
According to Pat Sullivan, president at Game Creek Video, the production went exactly as planned, despite some fogged up Canon lenses on the Sony HDC-1500 cameras in use.
Sullivan said the Sony HD cameras have been known to operate well in inclement weather. He recalled a NFL game in Green Bay last year in which the temperature was 7 degrees below zero. The camera and lenses performed fine, but the pan-and-tilt systems were functioning a lot slower than normal.
At Citizen's Bank Park in Philadelphia, the company’s Yankee Clipper production unit as well as its Yankee Clipper B and FX D were used for the domestic feed of the World Series. The trucks carry 15 Sony HDC 1500 HD cameras (with Canon HD lenses) and two Sony HDC 3300 cameras. FOX also used 11 EVS HD replay system...
Another new technical element this year was placing wireless mics on players, umpires and inside the bases on the field. This was set up by CP Communications, of Elmsford, NY. Michael Davies, director of field operations for FOX Sports, said they used five Quantum audio transmitters (preferred by the players and are wa...
In Philadelphia during Game 2, Shane Victorino was selected to wear the mic, and he could be heard between innings adding perspective to the game. Game Creek’s Sullivan pointed out that this type of application might become problematic if the FCC allows unlicensed consumer devices to operate with a stadium. It’s possib...
FOX Sports’ Davies agreed. “These applications are absolutely subject to the white space debate, along with other wireless effects mics and the wireless intercoms we use in these situations,” he said. The audio elements were not carried live, but they could have been affected by interference.
For Game Creek Video, however, the biggest technical challenge might have been the uncertainty of where its trucks would be going for the World Series. Game Creek had planned to go to Boston if the Red Sox had gotten into the series. They would not have done Philadelphia.
“We haven’t had that many seven-game series in the past few years (since 2004), so it was a little unsettling. But we made the trip and it all worked out fine,” Sullivan said, noting that it took only two days to set up in Philadelphia.
That’s because Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park is among the most technically sophisticated stadiums in the country, complete with fiber-optic infrastructure and prewired camera positions that make it easy for mobile production companies like Game Creek to set up for an HD telecast.
The tightening of the credit market is another concern, but thus far it has not affected Game Creek’s ability to bring new trucks to market. Game Creek just finished its Liberty HD production truck, which hit the road in August for ABC Sports and ESPN. It includes a 1080p/60-capable system that’s ready for the bandwidt...
The Liberty’s cameras and switcher can handle 1080p, the router can handle 1080p and the truck’s wiring is 3Gb/s ready, but the demand from producers — and subsequently their content providers — is not there yet.
Game Creek worked 20 baseball games for FOX Sports in 2008 as well as NASCAR and NFL games for FOX on an ongoing basis.
Game Creek operated its Liberty HD truck on-site in Pasadena, CA.
Game Creek Video will outfit three new HD trucks due out later this year with Sony HDC-2500 HD cameras.
The ultra slow-motion system is capable of very high frame rates.
Bittree today announced that Game Creek Video, a leading provider of mobile HD and SD television production facilities, relies on Bittree's CVP0115 mini triax patchbays to bring efficiencies and convenience to camera patching and re-patching. Installed inside a Game Creek production truck, the patch panels enable video...
Australian customers' discontent with telecommunications services has risen according to the latest annual report from the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.Billing, mobile phone contracts and credit management topped the list of concerns expressed by people who complained to the TIO in the year to June 2004.
Australian customers' discontent with telecommunications services has risen according to the latest annual report from the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.
Billing, mobile phone contracts and credit management topped the list of concerns expressed by people who complained to the TIO in the year to June 2004.
The Ombudsman, John Pinnock, said that complaints about landline, mobile phone and Internet services increased by almost 8 percent, to 59,850, over the 2003 financial year.
Pinnock said one factor behind the rise in complaints was increased competition over the past year in the telecommunications industry.
"Generally, complaints reflected industry trends with a move away from landlines and towards mobile phone and Internet use," Pinnock said.
He said that the increased pressure across the industry to recover debt more quickly led to a 28.1 percent surge in complaints about landline credit management, to 5,528.
"Some of the reasons for this increase included increased selling, or factoring, of debts, and quicker action by companies in disconnecting and defaulting late-paying customers, and also a lack of flexibility in assisting those in financial hardship with payment plans," Pinnock said.

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