A.N.T. Farm season two premieres on Friday June 1st. The most exciting part of this news is probably that Zendaya is guest staring in the premiere. I’m also quite excited about Vanessa Morgan in a recurring role as a supermodel that dates Cameron!
THESE A.N.T.s CAN LIFT ANYTHING HIGH SCHOOL PILES ON THEM…
SEASON TWO OF DISNEY CHANNEL’S HIT SERIES “A.N.T. FARM”
PREMIERES WITH BACK-TO-BACK EPISODES, FRIDAY, JUNE 1
– “Shake It Up” Star Zendaya Guest Stars in Season Opener –
The second season premiere of the hit comedy series “A.N.T. Farm,” starring China Anne McClain, will premiere with back-to-back episodes FRIDAY, JUNE 1 on Disney Channel. In “creative consultANT” (8:00 p.m. ET/PT), Chyna, Olive and Fletcher roll out the red carpet for teen movie sensation Sequoia Jones, played by “Shake It Up” star Zendaya, who is shadowing Chyna for a movie role, but chaos ensues when she tries to assume Chyna’s identity. Hollywood Records recording artist China Anne McClain will perform her original song, “DNA,” in the episode. In “infANT” (8:30 p.m. ET/PT), a baby, thought to be a prodigy, is left in the care of the A.N.T.s and chaos ensues as Chyna, Olive and Fletcher try to uncover the baby’s prodigal aptitude.
In 2011, “A.N.T. Farm” ranked as the #1 series across all television in Kids 6-11 and #2 in Tweens 9-14. [Source: NTI, U.S. ratings, Live + 7, 12/27/10-12/25/11.]
In addition to McClain, the series stars Sierra McCormick (“Ramona and Beezus”) as Olive Doyle, Jake Short (“Shorts,” “Dexter”) as Fletcher Quimby, Stefanie Scott (“Flipped,” “No Strings Attached”) as Lexi Reed and Carlon Jeffery (“Heroes”) as Cameron Parks.
Recurring are Finesse Mitchell (“Saturday Night Live”) and Elise Neal (“The Hughleys”) as Chyna’s parents, Darryl and Roxanne Parks; Zach Steel as Gibson, the A.N.T.s’ school counselor; Mindy Sterling as Principal Skidmore; Aedin Mincks as Angus, the computer genius; Claire Engler as Violet, a sports prodigy; Allie Deberry as Paisley, Lexi’s sidekick; and Vanessa Morgan (“My Babysitter’s a Vampire”) as supermodel Vanessa, who dates Cameron.
New episodes of “A.N.T. Farm” air FRIDAYS on Disney Channel and fans can play the new “Webster High StudANT” game, take quizzes and create A.N.T. Farm-inspired art at DisneyChannel.com. The series is a production of It’s A Laugh Productions, Inc and carries a TV-G parental guideline.
The series was created by Dan Signer (“The Suite Life on Deck,” “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody”) and is executive-produced by Signer and Stephen Engel (“The Big Bang Theory,” “Mad About You,” “Dream On”).
Attention please: DC Fans, Nickelodeon Girls, and SWAC Forum will be unavailable Saturday, February 25, 2012 from approximately 7AM until 7PM Eastern Time.
Our host company will be experiencing a power loss in the building that houses the servers. This is a one time interruption while the power supply to the building is upgraded. With any luck, the site will be back up sooner… but we’ll see how it goes.
As a valued customer, we are committed to keeping you informed about any changes in the status of your service with us. This email is to alert you regarding maintenance we will be performing on our facility. The building has informed us that “Oak Tower is scheduled to have a power outage for switch gear maintenance Saturday, February 25, 2012, from 6am to 6pm. During this time the main gear will be load tested and cleaned, the building will have no power.”. We have decided to use this time to do maintenance to our network and power equipment as well. I have been informed after discussions with the building that the maintenance may be completed before the end of the maintenance window in which case service will be restored at that time. I understand this is a inconvenience and have been assured this is a one time necessary maintenance procedure and once done will increase the reliability of the building power.
I also just realized if I post the news here, you won’t actually be able to see it when the site is down. xD So, um, if you do see this, please tell everyone else what’s going on. Thanks!
From the team at Disney Channel Fans and Nickelodeon Girls comes a new blog project saluting the hotties of the ABC Broadcast Network and ABC Family Channel. Especially the lovely Lucy Hale. <3
This new blog features many girls on the ABC network including my favorites Elisha Cuthbert and Sarah Hyland. On the ABC Family side we have the aforementioned Lucy Hale and her Pretty Little Liar costars like Miss Ashley Benson…
… and of course other sexy sweethearts like Meaghan Martin, Skyler Samuels, Vanessa Marano, Francia Raisa, Megan Park and many more.
I hope you enjoy the new site! We plan on updating it bi-weekly to tri-weekly for the time being so your best bet to stay up to date is to follow the site’s new twitter profile @MyABCGirls.
Oh, and if you want to see the rest of these new pics of Lucy Hale and Ashley Benson for Bongo’s 2012 photoshoot, you might want to click over to the new website. That’s MyABCGirls.com
The coming of the new year marks an important time for us to remember the many friends who make our lives a pleasure all year long and I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you for your friendship and support in 2011.
May the closeness of friends and the comfort of home,
renew your spirits in the New Year.
And may you have the gift of faith, the blessing of hope
and the peace of His love both now and always.
Posted on: Saturday, December 24th, 2011 in: Website
Christmas is filled with special joys,
And the very best of all
Is contemplating those dear to us,
And the memories we recall.
Here’s a great little bit of fun from last year’s Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade with Miss Debby Ryan. Enjoy and we’ll see again you again just after noon (PST) on Christmas with a special archive post.
Posted on: Thursday, November 24th, 2011 in: Website
Thanksgiving is here, so our minds have turned
To what time has taught us, to what we’ve learned:
We often focus all our thought
On shiny things we’ve shopped and bought;
We take our pleasure in material things
Forgetting the pleasure that friendship brings.
If a lot of our stuff just vanished today,
We’d see the foundation of each happy day
Is special relationships, constant and true,
And that’s when our thoughts go directly to you.
We wish you a Thanksgiving you’ll never forget,
Full of love and joy—your best one yet!
There has been talk for a long time of a group of hackers targeting celebs and spreading nude and risque photos of the girls they had hacked. His past victims have allegedly included Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus, Jessica Alba, and of course Scarlett Johansson most recently. And TMZ had reported that Mila Kunis was to have been his next target. So let me be the first to say, damn, couldn’t the FBI have arrested him next month? I mean… I know what he did was wrong, but the only reason his leaked pics were a big deal are because people want to see the pics he uncovered! And I really was hoping to see a little bit more of Selena. Oh well. xD
If convicted on all counts, the 35 year old hacker could face up to 121 years in prison!
Articles from MTV News and CNN are included below…
One month after leaked nude photos of Scarlett Johansson hit the Internet, the man who hacked the starlet has been arrested. CNN.com reported that Florida native Christopher Chaney was taken into custody after it was discovered by authorities that he had gained access to the accounts of more than 50 people including Johansson, Mila Kunis and Christina Aguilera.
The 35-year-old from Jacksonville was apprehended by the FBI on Wednesday and indicted on charges of accessing protected computers without authorization, damaging protected computers, wiretapping and aggravated identity theft.
Officials confirm that the Johansson nude photos were part of their investigation. “Unfortunately, [the suspect] was able to access nude photos of some of the celebrities and some of them were uploaded on the Internet,” U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said, adding that Chaney allegedly “also took financial information, movie scripts and conversations that the celebrities believed to be private.”
The hacker allegedly monitored social media sites the celebrities used to gain access to their passwords. He then would use public sources to scout the data he was looking for. From there, he would use contact lists of the email addresses to which he gained access to find the email addresses of other celebrities, thereby making them victims of hacking too. He also allegedly had emails automatically forwarded to him so he could continue to receive victims’ emails if the account holders changed their passwords.
“You may have selected a password that’s meaningful to you that you may disclose online with friends,” assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office Steven Martinez said. “Your pet’s name or whatever. That’s a clue to a hacker, to start there.”
Cheney was released on $10,000 bail on Wednesday and was ordered not to use any devices with Internet access or be around alcohol or other controlled substances. His next court appearance is on Friday. If convicted of the 26 counts, he faces up to 121 years in prison.
Johansson opened up to CNN about the stolen photos, which were removed from the website that originally posted them, late last month. “Just because you’re an actor or make films or whatever doesn’t mean you’re not entitled to your own personal privacy,” she said. “If that is sieged in some way, it feels unjust. It feels wrong.”
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The man accused of hacking celebrities’ online accounts — from which private images were ultimately posted on the Internet — says he became “addicted” to the intrusion and “didn’t know how to stop.”
“I deeply apologize. I know what I did was probably one of the worst invasions of privacy someone could experience,” Christopher Chaney told CNN affiliate WAWS/WTEV in Jacksonville, Florida, Wednesday.
“And these people don’t have privacy to begin with. And I was in that little sliver of privacy they do have.”
Federal authorities accuse the 35-year-old of hacking into accounts on computers and other devices belonging to more than 50 people, including movie stars Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis and singer Christina Aguilera.
Chaney was indicted on charges of accessing protected computers without authorization, damaging protected computers, wiretapping and aggravated identity theft, officials said.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Chaney was able to access nude photos of some of the celebrities and some of them were uploaded on the Internet,” U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said Wednesday.
A recently circulated nude photo of Johannsson is part of the investigation, he said.
Chaney allegedly “also took financial information, movie scripts and conversations that the celebrities believed to be private,” Birotte told reporters.
The FBI’s Los Angeles office said he was arrested as part of “Operation Hackerazzi,” which looked into computer intrusions targeting individuals associated with the entertainment industry.
In the interview with WAWS/WTEV, Chaney said the hacking “started as curiosity and it turned into just being, you know, addicted to seeing the behind-the-scenes of what’s going on with these people you see on the big screen every day.”
“It just happened and snowballed,” he said, adding that he wishes it had never begun.
Chaney said he felt “almost relieved months ago” when authorities seized his computer because “I didn’t know how to stop doing it myself. I wasn’t attempting to break into e-mails and get stuff to sell or purposely put it on the Internet. It just — I don’t know.”
Authorities allege that Chaney distributed photos of the celebrities that he obtained illegally and offered them to various celebrity blog sites. Some of the illegally obtained files, including private photographs, were ultimately posted online “as a result of Chaney’s alleged activities,” authorities said in a statement.
“I’ve had like six months to think about it,” Chaney said, “it eats at me… When you’re doing it you’re not thinking about what’s going on with who you’re doing it to.”
Chaney allegedly was able to access passwords by monitoring social media and other online sites that the celebrities used, said Steven Martinez, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office.
“You may have selected a password that’s meaningful to you that you may disclose online with friends,” Martinez said. “Your pet’s name or whatever. That’s a clue to a hacker, to start there.”
The suspect used several aliases such as “trainreqsuckswhat,” “anonygrrl,” and “jaxjaguars911,” authorities said in a news release.
Chaney also allegedly used public sources to mine data about his victims, which included both males and females, all associated with the entertainment industry, authorities said.
Authorities allege that once Chaney hacked into a celebrity’s e-mail account, he would use the contact lists to find other celebrities’ e-mail accounts. This allowed him to add new victims, authorities charge.
Chaney made his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon, and was released on a $10,000 unsecured bond with the conditions that he can’t use any computer or other device with Internet access and he can’t have any controlled substances or excessive use of alcohol, said Laura Eimiller, an FBI spokeswoman in Los Angeles.
Chaney’s next court appearance will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday for an identity hearing in the same courthouse, Eimiller said.
Chaney has been indicted on nine counts of computer hacking for gain, eight counts of aggravated identify theft, and nine counts of illegal wiretapping, Birotte said.
If convicted of the 26 counts, Chaney would face a maximum of 121 years in federal prison, Birotte said. The aggravated identity theft charge alone carries a mandatory two-year prison sentence, he added.
Chaney allegedly set his victims’ accounts to automatically forward their e-mails to his account, Birotte said. This allegedly allowed Chaney to continue to receive celebrities’ e-mails even after a password was reset, authorities said.
Martinez said authorities coined the term “hackerazzi” to describe this kind of intrusion.
“The paparazzi is always chasing them down, and now you have a virtual way of doing it by looking at posts they put on social media sites,” Martinez said.
In 2005, hackers logged into Paris Hilton’s phone and stole photos of her, according to Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at the F-Secure computer security company. Those hackers reportedly were able to break into Hilton’s phone by correctly guessing the not-so-secret answer to her security question, which was “tinkerbell,” the name of her pet Chihuahua.
In August, rapper Kreayshawn wrote on her blog that her Twitter account was hacked when naked photos of her showed up there.
In March, Vanessa Hudgens of “High School Musical” underwent a similar ordeal after photos were reportedly stolen from her Gmail account.
And in December, police in Germany alleged two young men had used computer-hacking skills to gain access to the e-mail accounts and photos of more than 50 celebrities, according to Britain’s The Telegraph, including the likes of Lady Gaga and Ke$ha.
In the wake of the latest celebrity hacking allegations, some have started to assume celebrity photo leaks are the newest front in the so-called “hacktivist” wars, waged by big-name hacking rings such as Anonymous and LulzSec. Those groups have claimed responsibility for taking down bank and government websites.
But security experts said connections between celebrity hackers and groups such as Anonymous are thin or nonexistent.
“It’s obviously to gain media exposure, right?” said Kevin Mitnick, a hacker turned security consultant and author of “Ghost in the Wires.” “It’s like everyone is trying to one-up Anonymous and one-up LulzSec. So somehow celebrities are becoming a target.”
I guess the best way to start this story is to simply tell it from the beginning. As I’m sure most of you know by now, I have an unusual work schedule. Because of this, I usually write my posts a week or more in advance and schedule them so they post on a fairly regular basis.
So last week I saw this picture on Allisyn Ashley Arm’s twitter…
… and I was like, “Holy F#&k!”
15 year old Allisyn is showing a lot of leg and quite honestly I was taken aback. You see… I kinda actually know her a little bit. I can’t really revel my sources, but I know people that are close to her and it was just very strange to see her like that.
I had a discussion with one of my close friends about it that evening. I realized a couple things that night. First, that if it felt wrong to sexualize her by reposting that pic with the usual commentary, then I probably shouldn’t do it. Of course, it wasn’t a far leap then to conclude that sexualizing ANY girl like that would be just as equally wrong… and that’s pretty much all we do here.
I mean, just because I don’t know her cute blond friend Audrey Whitby, that doesn’t mean it’s somehow more appropriate to comment on her looks than on Allisyn. Their outfits there are almost identical, after all.
Truth be told, I don’t enjoy writing for this site the way I used to. It used to be about the shows, but then we lost the screencap gallery and thing just kind of… slipped.
And then… something else happened. I can’t really go into the details, but I lost a dear friend. I may talk to her again someday 3-4 years from now, but I’m not holding my breath on that.
Anyway, that gave me some time to think. And I realized that a change has to be made. Now a site like this obviously can’t turn on a dime. It took a while to get to where we are today, and it will take a while to get back to the course I had originally planned for this site, but it has to be done.
I’ll still be posting pictures of course. But they’re going to be topical and more news worthy, like this shot of the Friends for change blue team. I’m also going to avoid the underage girls in general.
So that means this is probably the last Allisyn post for quite a while. This also means you’ll need to look elsewhere if you’re a big Bella Thorne fan or are particularly into Stefanie Scott. As for the other girls, I may occasionally comment on Selena’s mole or make a preemptive comment on Ashley’s legs, but in general I’m just gonna post the pics and let you decide for yourselves what you think.
If everyone decided to take pics with stormtroopers maybe this won’t be too hard of an adjustment. xD
Now, I will remind you that, as I said before, I write posts in advance and they aren’t always actually posted in order. So this transition will not be immediate, but you should start to notice it over the next couple weeks. I would like to thank you all for your loyal readership over the past few weeks, months, or years and I hope you enjoy the new format.
I would also like to note that this also applies to the new Nick Girls Blog. Future updates there may be a bit more sporadic as I focus on rebuilding and restructuring this blog. I will be sure to do my best to keep you updated.
One final thing, I am looking for a couple new contributors who can help me keep up with the latest news and events for Disney and Nick. In particular, I’m looking for people more familiar with Nick, but that’s not a must.
Have you ever looked to the night sky for the glowing, red mass and stared at it for hours in awe? Well, maybe not, unless that sort of thing truly intrigues you. However, I bet that you have at least noted the red mass in the sky known as Mars. This planet has drawn the attention of many for quite a while. We’ve seen it since the beginning of time; theorized of what could be there for centuries; collected rocks, dust and bacteria from it within the past few decades; and have just recently made plans to actually send man there. These facts are all rather amazing, and when out together, mind blowing when you find that creatures have lived there for longer than us humans on Earth…
…at least in the movie John Carter (played by Taylor Kitsch). This film takes place on the ever-amazing planet of Mars. The man who created the oh-so-famous story of Tarzan shall have another epic series for history, it seems, for he wrote that John Carter awoke on Mars. John was a Confederate Civil Was soldier at a time, years before the Mars incident. John was looking for work in Arizona while he was attacked by a Native American tribe. He was knocked out, and woke up on the Red Planet. To his surprise, there was life all around him. To an even larger surprise, there were 12 feet tall giants all around him.
John’s nightmares come true as he’s forced into another whirlwind of a Civil War, this time a VERY foreign one. He soon finds that the planet has been titled Barsoom by those who really matter, the native people of the planet. Martians truly do exist there… But not for long. The planet is doomed and struck to soon die. The martians are quite primitive, and lives revolve around the seemingly endless war. He’s mainly with the Tharks who look down upon him for not having their four green arms/hide, and being short to their (12 foot) standards. Soon they find him to be like a god, due to the fact that Barsoom’s lack of gravity gives him amazing abilities of speed and strength.
After attempting to use John Carter to their advantage, the Tharks lose him to the humanoids of Mars. John learns of the Princess of Helium, Dejah Thoris (played by Lynn Collins), who needs a savior, and rather soon. John quickly steps up to the plate as the role of the hero, and embarks on a quest to save all of Barsoom.
Pixar Studios was only known for it’s animated films such as Cars and all three Toy Story’s. This movie marks the historical point of it transitioning into also making live-action movies, for this is Pixar’s first. The movie’s pre-production started in 2007. Two years later, in November 2009, Pixar began filming John Carter. All photography ended July of 2010. Since July 2010 they have focussed solely on post-production, and will until it’s release on March 9, 2012.
Surprisingly, this movie was set to be filmed by Disney in the 80?s, with Tom Cruise as the main actor, and John McTiernan as the director. McTiernan then made the smart move of canceling the production, due to the lack of available effects. Disney wanted to use the film to rival Star Wars, and eventually realized that such a task was just not possible to fulfill, even for them. The rights were then given to Burroughs estate.
Again, the movie had it’s rights boughten, this time by Paramount Pictures with Robert Rodriguez set as the leading director. Rodriguez wished to use the technology originally used by him self in Sin City for the effects. There was a huge issue with the Directors Guild of America, and Rodriguez was not allowed to use such technology. Due to this, he dropped the project. Paramount Pictures then picked up Kerry Conran in his place, only to have to quit. They finally gave up once their third director, Jon Favreau quit in 2005 due to effects issues. Disney bought the rights after that, for the third time.
2007 marks the year that Disney chose Pixar as the company to Produce the John Carter series. They wanted to do the first three books, all staring John Carter as the protagonist, and create a total of three movies, if popularity of the first turned out to be enough. The SyFy Channel recently aired their version of the book in movie form, but the production was much smaller than Pixar’s (which was to be expected).
After reading about this, and spending an hour writing on just the effects issues in this movie, I’m expecting that they’ll be spectacular and not disappoint. The fact that so many directors felt that this movie deserved such amazing and time consuming effects only shows the promise in the plot.
The final director of the movie, and finished product is Andrew Stanton. He’s best known for his directing of WALL-E and Finding Nemo, also with Pixar Entertainment. Stanton holds many talents, for he also worked with Pixar as a voice actor and executive producer.
In the film, actress Lynn Collins will play Dejah Thpris, princess of Helium. She has previously posed nude for Allure…
