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Candice Crawford
Candice Loren Crawford (born December 16, 1986) is an American beauty queen. She is best known for winning the Miss Missouri USA competition in 2008. She later competed in the Miss USA pageant of which she did not win.
Private Life
Born in Lubbock, Texas and then raised in Dallas, Texas, Candice is the younger sister of the actor Chace Crawford, from the television show Gossip Girl.ed in the Miss Texas Teen USA 2003 and 2005 pageants, placing third runner-up in both competitions.
After high school, Candice enrolled at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, where she is currently studying journalism and business. While at Columbia, Missouri, Candice worked with the local NBC affiliate KOMU-TV as a reporter. During college, Candice also worked for Dallas, Texas CBS affiliate KTVT, as a reporter covering the Dallas Cowboys on the CBS show, The Blitz. She is also an active member of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women and serves as the chapter's Vice President of Event Planning. Candice currently serves as a volunteer writer for sports blog Midwest Sports Fans.
Career
She competed in the Miss Texas Teen USA 2003 and 2005 pageants, placing third runner-up in both competitions.
Crawford competed in the Miss Missouri USA 2007 pageant in November 2006 and placed first runner-up to Amber Seyer. She then competed the following year and won the 2008 title. She represented Missouri in the Miss USA 2008 pageant held in Las Vegas, Nevada in April 2008. She was the first Miss Missouri USA to place in the nationally televised pageant since Shandi Finnessey won the title in 2004.(wiki)
Whitney Houston To Perform On "Good Morning America"
Shannon Moore - Celebrity News Service Reporter
New York, NY (CNS) - Whitney Houston is working her way towards a comeback. It was recently announced that the former pop diva will be performing a free show for fans in September.
Houston will be showing up to ABC's "Good Morning America" to perform for the Autumn concert series. The concert will most likely include her new single "I Didn't Know My Own Strength," along with other songs from her much-anticipated comeback album. The album is titled "I Look To You" and is scheduled for release on September 1.
"Good Morning America" has not yet released the exact date or location of the concert, so stayed tuned for more details once they are known.
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Ernests Gulbis bio and photo and video
Ernests Gulbis (pronounced , born August 30, 1988) is a Latvian professional tennis player. As of August 24, 2009, he is ranked 95th in the world in men's singles. In 2008, Gulbis won his first ATP Tour doubles title in Houston, teaming with Rainer Schuettler. His career highlights also include a quarterfinal appearance at the 2008 French Open, where he lost to Novak Djokovic, and a 4th round appearance at the 2007 US Open, upsetting two seeds along the way.
Gulbis was formerly coached by Karl Heinz Wetter but is now coached by Nikola Pilić, the former professional Croatian tennis player and Croatian and German Davis Cup captain, and began training at the Niki Pilic Tennis Academy in Germany at the age of 12.
Personal life
Gulbis comes from a very wealthy family. He first started playing tennis with his grandmother and considers basketball, football and hockey as his favourite sports. His father, Ainārs, is an investment businessman while his mother, Milēna, a theater actress. The second of five children, Gulbis has two sisters: Elina (23) studying Law in London, England, half-sister Laura (14) who attends Saddlebrook Tennis Academy in Florida, a younger half-brother named Kristaps(16) who also attends Saddlebrook as an aspiring professional golfer, is reported to be interested in building model cars and planes, and a half-sister called Monika (10) who also plays tennis and is from his mother Milena's second marriage to Gintars Kavacis. Gulbis comes from a sporting family and his grandfather, Alvils, was one of the starting five players on ASK Rīga, the Soviet Union basketball team that won the European Championships.His other grandfather, Uldis Pūcītis, was a popular actor and film director.
Gulbis can speak Latvian, Russian, English and a little German.
Tennis career
The highlights of his career up to 2006 include reaching the final of the Oberstaufen Challenger in July 2006, where he lost to Michal Tabara; reaching the final of the Tampere Challenger, also in July 2006, where he lost to Florian Mayer; reaching the semi-finals of ATP St. Petersburg Open as a wildcard in October, where he lost to Mario Ančić; and winning the Eckental Challenger in November, where he defeated Philipp Petzschner. In the 2008 US Open second round, Gulbis played a grueling 4 setter against Andy Roddick, yet lost. Later when interviewed, it was discovered that both he and his American opponent shared a birthday the moment the match rolled past midnight and into the early hours of the next day, August 30.
2007
Gulbis started his season as a qualifier in the Sydney Medibank International, losing in the first round to Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus. He was subsequently defeated in the first qualifying round of the Australian Open.
Gulbis was relatively successful on the Challenger circuit in 2007. He reached the quarterfinals in Bergamo (l. to Fabrice Santoro) and the semifinals in Heilbronn (l. to Michaël Llodra). Gulbis won his second Challenger title by triumphing over the local favorite, Édouard Roger-Vasselin, at the Besançon Challenger in France, enabling him to break into the ATP Top 100 for the first time in his career. In his next tournament, the Sarajevo Challenger, Gulbis emerged victorious in both the singles and doubles events.
In the first week of October, he won the Mons Challenger in Belgium (d. Kristof Vliegen) as the top seed, breaking into the ATP Top 50 for the first time in his career and surpassing Juan Martín del Potro as the highest-ranked player born in 1988. This win also meant a fourth, consecutive title, which drew some attention to him by tennis pundits.
Grand Slam debut
Gulbis announced his arrival on the Grand Slam stage in the 2007 French Open by defeating the British veteran, Tim Henman in straight sets to advance to the second round. It was heralded by the British Davis Cup captain, John Lloyd, as "... a brilliant performance from Gulbis, that is just pure and utter talent."[6] Gulbis' run was halted in the second round by Spaniard Álbert Montañés, with a 1–6, 2–6, 6–1, 6–7(3) defeat, in a rain-interrupted match.
At Wimbledon, his second Grand Slam participation, Gulbis again was drawn to face Marcos Baghdatis in the first round. He succeeded in winning the first set off the tenth-seeded Cypriot before succumbing in four sets. Gulbis debuted in Grand Slam doubles by teaming up with Ivan Ljubičić, with whom he had reached the semi-finals of the 2007 Ordina Open.
At the 2007 U.S. Open, Gulbis upset the No. 30 seed, Potito Starace, in the first round and the No. 8 seed, Tommy Robredo, in the third round, winning by a convincing score of 6–1, 6–3, 6–2. In that match, Gulbis broke Robredo six times and had 39 winners to Robredo's seven. Gulbis' fine run was finally halted by former world Number 1, Carlos Moyà, to whom he lost in four sets.
2008
At the first round of the 2008 Australian Open, Gulbis lost to Marat Safin 0–6, 4–6, 6–7. He reached the second round of the 2008 Pacific Life Open, where he lost a tight match to former Grand Slam finalist David Nalbandian with the score of 6–4, 4–6, 7–64. At one point he was up a break in the third set, having served out the previous game with 4 aces, but he eventually lost the match in the tiebreak. In the first round of the 2008 Miami Masters, he defeated Dominik Hrbatý, but in the second round met Nikolay Davydenko. After winning the first set 6-3, he lost the following two sets in tiebreaks.
His biggest result to date occurred when he reached the quarterfinals of the 2008 French Open. Through the tournament he beat Simon Greul, seventh seed James Blake, Nicolas Lapentti and home-favourite Michaël Llodra.In the quarterfinals he lost to the third seed Novak Djokovic in a tight match with the score line 5-7, 63-7, 5-7.
In his next tournament, he reached the third round of the 2008 Queen's Club Championships, beating Kristof Vliegen and 12th seed Andreas Seppi. He lost to 6th seed Andy Murray 7-5, 1-6, 4-6.
In the first round at Wimbledon, Gulbis defeated 6'10" American John Isner, but he lost in the 2nd round to the 2nd seed and eventual champion Rafael Nadal with a score line of 5-7, 6-2, 7-62, 6-3. Other than Roger Federer, he was the only player to take a set off the eventual champion. In a post match interview, Nadal noted how difficult the return game against Gulbis' serve was, and that he felt Ernests was going to run away with the match if it wasn't for a rain delay that transpired.
Gulbis defeated Jarkko Nieminen, Arnaud Clément, and James Blake at the 2008 Cincinnati Masters but lost in the quarterfinal to #3 seed Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-4.
At the US Open, Gulbis defeated Thomas Johansson in the first round before losing to Andy Roddick in the second, (3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 7-5). Coincidently, it was his and Andy's birthday on the day they played.
2009
Gulbis began the year strongly by defeating former training partner Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the Brisbane International tournament before falling in the second round to Paul-Henri Mathieu 3-6, 4-6. He lost in the second round of 2009 Australian Open to Igor Andreev in 5 sets after beating Albert Montañés in the first round in straight sets.
Gulbis was seeded 3rd heading into the 2009 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, but was defeated in the 1st round by former World No. 8 Marcos Baghdatis. It was the fourth time he was drawn to face Baghdatis in the first round of a tournament.
Gulbis had a comparatively poor clay court season, failing to go deep in any of the tournaments preceding the French Open. Gulbis failed to defend his quarterfinal appearance at the French Open, causing his ranking to drop to 67th, the lowest it had been since the summer of 2007.
At the 2009 Wimbledon Championships, Gulbis, unseeded, defeated Italian Riccardo Ghedin 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 in the first round before falling to third seeded Andy Murray of Great Britain 2-6, 5-7, 3-6.
Gulbis played in the Indianapolis Tennis Championships in singles and doubles. He lost to Mark Gicquel of France in the first round. However he entered in the doubles draw with Russian Dmitry Tursunov and won the Championship. They played number one seed Ashley Fisher and Jordan Kerr of Australia and won 6-4, 3-6, in the final.
Gulbis lost to second seed Andy Murray 5-7 3-6 5-7 at the US Open.
Davis Cup
Gulbis has played in three Davis Cup ties for Latvia this year, winning all seven of the rubbers in which he participated (4 singles; 3 doubles with Deniss Pavlovs). His participation in the tie against Monaco in September helped Latvia to qualify for the Europe/Africa Zone Group I tier of Davis Cup for the first time in its history.
Playing style
Gulbis primarily employs an offensive baseline playing style, although is fairly comfortable playing from all court positions. Gulbis' most consistent shot is his forehand, which has been likened to that of American James Blake's for its rapid pace and relatively flat execution; his forehand is taken with a medium swing and with high levels of wrist action, which attributes to the explosive nature of the shot. His arsenal of forehand shots is nearly complete, and thus can be extremely disruptive and turn a defensive position into an offensive one. His running forehand has a slice action, but consistently lands extremely deep in the court, allowing for adequate recoil time to regain court position. Gulbis also has a particularly excellent array of finesse shots, including the high lob and drop shot, both of which he can strike from any position, including from deep in the court. His drop shot in particular has been noted as one of his more effective shots, as the power and depth of his groundstrokes push his opponents far behind the baseline, which makes the drop shot more effective. Gulbis' primary weakness is his consistency, which has been known to break down during tough situations. Gulbis' foot speed is only moderate, although his return of serve is varied and dangerous, particularly on second serves and, due to his height, kick serves. In his televised matches in 2007 and early 2008 his serve would have been described as moderate, but has recently vastly improved in speed and variety, having served out several games with no returns against the incredible returners David Nalbandian and Rafael Nadal.
Despite having prodigious talent for his age, Gulbis can be prone to nervousness when down in a set or match, which can cause tight matches to be more mentally straining on him. Similarly to Marat Safin, Gulbis' playing style is extremely tactical and aggressive, and relies more on making winners than drawing errors, which can sometimes lead to a very high unforced error count. Gulbis excels on all surfaces. Despite playing a style more attuned to fast surfaces, his strong showing at the French Open is attributed to his powerful and flat strokes which can play through clay.
Lottery winner Callie Rogers: I'm so bored I've got a job -Daily Mail-
WHEN 16-year-old Callie Rogers won £1.9m on the lottery, she gave up her job in a supermarket and spent her days planning exotic holidays and splashing out on designer clothes.
She spent tens of thousands on gifts for family and friends safe in the knowledge she need never work again. But eight weeks after giving birth to a son, Kian, she has decided she is bored and has gone back to work.
Callie, now 18, is earning £4.85 an hour - just above the minimum wage for her age - as a part-time receptionist at a friend's signwriting firm in Whitehaven, Cumbria. Her father and stepmother, who have fallen out with her several times since her win, have agreed to look after the baby during the day.
'She was getting fed up doing nothing all day except shop,' said a friend. 'So she thought going back to work was the perfect solution. It's not that she needs the money, she just wants to get out of the house.'
Callie shares her four-bedroom home in Workington with jobless boyfriend Nicky Lawson, 24. Her friends dismiss claims made by Lawson earlier this year that Callie has only £400,000 left after squandering the rest and say she is not under pressure to return to work.
'Even after Kian came along she felt unfulfilled,' said one. 'Most people think she is mad but for Callie the thought of going back to work is the most exciting thing she has done in months.'
Sean Cully, one of the partners in the signwriting firm First Images, said last night: 'It's a great compliment that Callie wants to work for us when she has all that money. She is well liked and has been getting on well with the job.'
Callie's life has turned into something of a soap opera since she became Britain's second-youngest lottery winner, scooping £1,875,000 in June 2003. At the time she was earning £3.60 an hour working as a checkout girl.
The most recent drama centred around the paternity of her son. She split up with Lawson whilst heavily pregnant after he claimed he was not the father and allegedly siphoned money from her bank account.
Their fairy-tale wedding was cancelled and he was charged with theft and deception to the tune of £53,000 but Callie later dropped the charges. Lawson repaid her by trying to sell his story of their 15-month relationship to newspapers.
Callie was seeing 25-year-old Gary Fidler at the time of her win, but dumped him two weeks later when he tried to rekindle a relationship with an ex-girlfriend. He allegedly demanded £20,000 to compensate him for giving up his job in a factory.
Her next boyfriend, mechanic Simon Winthorpe, disappeared with a £7,000 car and £3,000 she had given him to be her chauffeur, after barely a fortnight.
LEAH LUST PHOTO and VIDEO
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ABOUT LEAH LUST
A former Floridian biology teacher, 31-year-old Tiffany Shepherd is going with the name Leah Lust regarding her new pornography career. Tiffany Shepherd was a teacher at Port St. Lucie High School prior to pose bikini pictures that made her fired from her job.
Tiffany Shepherd was forced to change her career, then she landed a new career and became porn star who is going with the name Leah Lust. She lost custody of two of her three children to her ex-husband after turning to a porn star. She sent 2,500 resumes especially some to the prisons for not to join any other teaching job.
Tiffany Shepherd told to Page2live.com, “It doesn’t make me proud. Honestly, I hate to do so.” Bing an educated woman, I never expected to do so. I have been forced to do so like no way left for me think anymore.
Leah Lust is the screen name of Tiffany Shepherd who has already stared in five featured films. ‘My first sex teacher’ is a porn film in which Leah Lust portrayed the character of a teacher who tries to get her job back.
Leah Lust says, “The work is very professional.” Everyone who join here is tested for venereal diseases and AIDS. I am quite fine, all of them take care of me and I am now satisfied.
Fort Pierce fishing charter’s owner, Gil Coombes is the one who is responsible for Tiffany Shepherd to become Leah Lust. Actually, she was working as bikini mate at Fort Pierce fishing charter, but Gil Coombes took her into the porn industry. Captain Gil Coombes and his wife, Kat, also own a porn Web cam studio, “KLC productions.” Tiffany Shepherd aka Leah Lust has already appeared in some ‘KLC productions’ videos.
Tiffany Shepherd has not confirmed that how much she is making after becoming Leah Lust. However, she has mentioned that some of the porn actresses easily make $5,000 per scene.
Los Angeles Times reports, now the porn industry is not doing so well. There is too much competition as the free X-rated content is available abundantly all over the Internet.
Here are the pictures of Tiffany Shepherd aka Leah Lust.
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