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Carolina Panthers unveil ‘more aggressive’ logo as Nike takes over NFL rights

2012-02-02T09:07:00.000+07:00

The Carolina Panthers 2011 has little resemblance to its predecessor, they are 2010, which ended with the NFL's worst 2.14.

Rookie quarterback Cam Newton record at the helm, the team improved 10.6 and shed its status as a less than impressive against the NFC.

Now the Panthers want to look the part. On Monday, the franchise launched a new version of the logo, designed to strike fear into the hearts of their NFC South rivals.

Change the logo for the first time in the Panther team in 18 years, had "seen, more aggressive contemporary," the team.

"We have one of the best logo and best known in the NFL and I wanted to be modern without losing the dramatic essence of the brand," Panthers President Danny Morrison said.

Other reforms are not enough professional sports team with the experience this year, but in Newton brings new hope for Carolina, a new look that makes sense.

Known what these changes might mean for Carolina in Jersey, but there may be many adjustments - two small children and uniform throughout the majors Nike assumed the role as the official supplier Reebok NFL uniform next time.

For now, Nike has begun on the feet and Handwara. Announcing 32 new gloves and designs special shoes for every team in the Pro Bowl on Sunday. (See pictures of the two here.)

What the team logo and uniforms need updating? And what I want to see your sports team on Sunday when the takeover is complete Swoosh?

Morgellons Disease Terrorizes Internet & Twitter For A Day

2012-01-31T11:06:00.000+07:00

You are always little bugs crawling on you and bite your skin? Are you running as a result of skin lesions or granules never seen a blue, black or red or extrusion under your skin? What about the more obvious terms, such as short-term memory loss or depression and feelings of isolation?

If you experience one or more of which may have Morgellons disease. And, officially, at this point in this article, every reader formally evaluate themselves Morgellons disease.

Except ... there is a catch: there are tiny insects that occupy the skin. In fact, if you think that any of these symptoms, all in your head.

Of course, pain and depression and fatigue may be no apparent reason - not just the disease Morgellons. At least that's what the scientists suspect.

Sajak says he and Vanna White taped ‘Wheel of Fortune’ shows after several margaritas

2012-01-30T11:00:00.000+07:00

New York - "Wheel of Fortune" is not the only one with Pat Sajak and Vanna White back in the day.

Sajak said in an interview on ESPN2 this week that a long time in the game the team showed occasionally walk into a restaurant "two or three or six" margaritas during a break in the first part of "Wheel of Fortune" ; recordings show in California. Sajak has hosted the series since 1981, White joined him a year later.

Margarita poem remember to leave after answering "yes" to questions about whether the event has received "a little drunk."

Although he joked that he had "difficulty in identifying the alphabet" to show the tape after a drink, nobody said anything to them.

It is now bigger, Sajak said he could not do that now.

Pat Sajak drunk behind the 'Wheel': Can you get a DUI for that?

2012-01-29T10:52:00.000+07:00

Pat Sajak may have seen something more than the tire spinning wheel for a host of Fortune.

In an interview with Dan Le Batard ESPN2, game show host has long recognized that he and Vanna White wing-woman used to hit the bar for a margarita break two and a half hour film series.

"Vanna and I need to go through and have two or three or six years and then in and do the latest gigs and had difficulty recognizing the alphabet," says Sajak. "They were really good to get a hold of the tape."

While the Internet to reach encoded puns as possible (and keep looking for YouTube video), one can imagine the hidden treasures of the old episodes, as seen from the perspective of the new revelation. With Confucius as a knowledge of word games and physical aging as the Ken doll, verse is a constant source of entertainment in tires since 1983. I can only imagine how much better visual experience when I knew Sajak and Vanna are w_sted _bsol_tely. Vanna might stumble on the way to the revelation of "before and after" very smart, while Sajak said the value of each participant, no, really, how much I love, really, man, I love you.

Pat Sajak, Vanna White were drunk on TV’s “Wheel”

2012-01-28T10:55:00.000+07:00

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Wheel of Fortune"

host Pat Sajak said in an interview broadcast that he and

Vanna White will host both drunk when they recorded some of the first

episodes of the series, but he is too old.

65 years of poems made the revelation that the appearance

Earlier this week in the ESPN2 cable network showed "Le Batard Y

highly questionable. "

"When I started at a much younger and perhaps

it is, we have different events, "said Sajak

in a televised interview.

Sajak explained that during the production of "The Wheel

Fortune "show, he and co-host Vanna White will be two

half-hour break, while gifts are loaded in the set

Burbank, California. Therefore, they go to the restaurants in the area

and "daisies very well," he said.

"Vanna and I went across and two or three or six

(Margaritas), and then come to make a final presentation and

to recognize the alphabet, "the poem in the program.

Further explains that the poem never mix alcohol and

hosting functions.

"Now, if I drink my bottle of wine and cork

may be permanent, I get a little more "

He said.

White Sajak and host of "Wheel of Fortune" since 1983.

Greg Kelly, son of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly off 'Good Day New York'

2012-01-27T10:43:00.001+07:00

"Good Day New York" co-anchor Greg Kelly is from the air to WNYW / Channel 5, while he dealt with allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman.

"Greg Kelly has asked for time off," said station general manager Lew Leone said in a statement Thursday.

Leone did not say how long Kelly was absent from work. But the Daily News has confirmed Steve Lacy was in the chair Kelly Friday and Monday, as Thursday.

In air partner Kelly, Rosanna Scotto, should air on Friday for the holiday weekend planned for a long time, but he refused to plan, the sources said.

It is unlikely that Kelly, the son of the police in New York, Raymond Kelly, Commissioner, is back before there was a resolution to the investigation, the sources said.

Scotto, who is associated with Kelly since 2008, learned to wake up early Call the co-presenter is not in the air. Study came to the East Side station at 05:30

"I love Greg," he said.

As the show begins at 7:00, Scotto clearly dimmer than normal air. He never mentioned the charges against Kelly.

At one point Lacy said, "We need a distraction."

Insiders - whether you love or hate - I do not believe the charges against Kelly.

"This is a travesty," says a colleague. "Greg does not hurt anyone. . . This will prove to be false and Greg was very liberating. "

Some describe him as a task master and said that sometimes gets away with it, because it was his father. But even they do not believe that the former Marine will commit a crime.

Channel 5 and MPG embroiled in trading dispute

2012-01-25T13:38:00.000+07:00

Stagnation means MPG advertising clients, including Hyundai in the country, / Kia and EDF Energy, is not currently running channel stations.

The talks between Channel 5, owned by Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell, MPG and is said to take place. But sources say the MPG advertising customers can not return to the anchor line until March at least.

Some sources suggest MPG and Channel 5, which is represented by the sales director Nick Bampton, unable to reach an agreement during the operation in the fall.

If not, the time the 2012 agreement appears to be relatively smooth with a group of institutions that trade sales fell four major television at home.

Sources close to Sky Media, Channel 4 and ITV each said they were satisfied with the provisions of the agreements reached with the media agencies.

Season 2 011 agreement is also famous for its lack of a dispute, but the narrowing of margins in early 2010 that led to the advertising of consumer goods giant Unilever and Reckitt Benckiser as from multiple broadcasters.

Channel 5 is also having problems with the means of defense in 2010 resulted in a stalemate in the first half of this year.

MPG and Channel 5 declined to comment.

Missing teenager Natalee Holloway declared dead

2012-01-23T13:53:00.002+07:00

Birmingham, Alabama (AP) - The parents of Natalee Holloway looked grim as a judge said Thursday that her daughter died, more than six years after the American teenager who disappeared during the course of a high school graduate from the Caribbean island of Aruba.

Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba on May 30, 2005. 18 years old was last seen leaving a bar in the morning with a young Dutch, Joran van der Sloot. His body was never found and the subsequent search of the girls will get tremendous media scrutiny and attention from around the world.

"We're dealing with his death during the last six years and a half," Dave Holloway said after the brief hearing. He said the judge's order to close a chapter in a long ordeal, but added: "We still have a long way to go for justice.

On Thursday, the hearing was scheduled long before Van der Sloot - Holloway suspect questioned vanished - pleaded guilty Wednesday in Peru in 2010 murder of a woman who met at a casino in Lima. Stephany Flores, 21, was killed five years to the day after Holloway, 18 years old, wealthy suburb of Birmingham, Mountain Brook, disappeared.

Some time after the death of Flores on May 30, 2010, van der Sloot told police that he killed a woman in Peru with rage after finding your laptop to your relationship with Holloway's disappearance. Police forensic experts have disputed that claim.

Dave Holloway, said in September the judge believed her daughter died and he wants to stop paying the insurance and the use of college funds $ 2,000 to help her sister.

The original Mother teenagers, objected, but his lawyer, Charlie DeBardeleben, said that after he changed his mind once you understand the purpose of her husband.

Natalee Holloway's parents divorced in 1993 and Beth Holloway sat in the back row of the courtroom, often looking at her hands in her lap, listening to the afternoon of Thursday in probate court in Birmingham.

Although Beth Holloway refused to speak to reporters, his lawyer said was a difficult time for him to witness the judge signs the order stated his daughter was dead.

"I am ready to graduate," he said DeBardeleben.

Mark White, an attorney Dave Holloway, the judge said before announcing his decision, there is no evidence that Holloway is still alive.

"Despite everything that there was no evidence found Natalee Holloway is still alive," said the judge, noting that an exhaustive search, the leaves of the international media coverage and even offered a reward of what is newly discovered.

The king decided in September that Dave Holloway will meet with the legal presumption of death of his daughter and it is for someone to prove that he did not die on graduation trips. It has set a hearing after a period of several months in case someone can present new information.

However, the researchers worked long assumed that the girl died in Aruba, which is officially classified as a case of murder investigations.

That the investigation remains open, although no recent activity, said Attorney General Taco Stein, an official from the prosecutor's office in the Dutch Caribbean island.

"The team that this research is still working as a team and together whenever they have information or items required in the case or the back to come," Stein said in a telephone interview Thursday.

Dave Holloway said he expects 24-year-van der Sloot's, awaiting trial in Lima, is a 30-year prison sentence requested by prosecutors in Peru.

"Everyone knows his personality. I think he is beyond rehabilitation, "said Holloway.

Lawyers say the parents expressed the hope that the next stop van der Sloot in Birmingham, where he faces federal charges accusing him of extorting $ 25,000 from Beth Holloway to show the location of her daughter's body.

Prosecutors said the money was paid, but was released in the presence of missing women.

"I hope to see in Birmingham," Dave Holloway said Thursday.

News Channel 5 won’t broadcast Ads from MPG clients

2012-01-21T13:35:00.000+07:00

News Channel 5 is not full of ads for MPG clients. MPG clients include Hyundai / Kia, EDF Energy, and throughout the country. Yes, after talks between News Channel 5 is owned by Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell and MPG, MPG ad clients are not in this channel. Starting from a particular source of advertising clients was shelved for MPG not always, but did not return until at least March.

News Channel 5 disagree

In the news channel 5 and the discussion MPG, News Channel 5 is represented by Nick Bampton, director of sales stations. It is said that the discussions did not comply with contractual agreements for trade in the fall. We do not know about the problem of trade as an agent, MPG has made a deal very well for the 2012 season with four television channels. Based on sources that have a relationship with Sky Media, ITV and Channel 4 has reached an agreement with MPG and said they had found a satisfactory agreement.

News Channel 5 deal

What happened to the news channel 5 and MPG is definitely not the first problem of non-identifiers disagreement. In 2001, some of these entities do not speak the same voice of the customer FNCG clients such as Reckitt Benckiser and Univel. In 2010, the News Channel 5 had the same problem with Aegis Media.

Tebow, Broncos to meet Patriots in Foxboro

2012-01-19T10:52:00.000+07:00

Tim hit Demaryius Thomas on page 80 touchdown passes on the first play of overtime to give the Broncos a 29-23 victory over the Steelers on Sunday evening. Denver won the AFC divisional playoff established a fight with the Patriots on Saturday night (7:30) at Gillette Stadium.

The meeting between the Patriots and Broncos game was a rematch of December 18 "teams in Denver, the Patriots won 41-23.

Pittsburgh returned from a 13 point halftime deficit as the Steelers, Ben Roethlisberger found Cotchery Jerrica 31 Yards with 3:56 remaining in regulation.

After the points of Steelers' next drive stalled at the Denver 35-line pages, Pittsburgh gave the ball to 24 by just over a minute remaining. Efforts to end the game in regulation ceases when the Broncos Robert Ayers 36 guests Steelers Roethlisberger was sacked as time runs out.

Steelers jumped to 6-0 lead thanks to a pair of field goals, but Tebow and the Broncos scored again with a 30-yard pass to Eddie Royal, capping a five-play, 80 Yards early in the second quarter. Denver to extend the lead to 14-6 when eight Yards Tebow ran away. The home team scored in the first half ended with two field goals by Matt Prater, making the halftime score to 20-7.

The third quarter scoring runs only one page of the Pittsburgh wide receiver Mike Wallace. Teams exchanged field goals early in the fourth quarter before taking a TD Cotchery.

Tebow finished the day going 10-for-21 for 316 Yards, Yards quarterback most anything is set in Pittsburgh this season. Denver QB also ran for 50 Yards in 10 editions kali.

Quick Strike From Tebow Helps Broncos Edge Steelers

2012-01-17T10:46:00.000+07:00

DENVER - When Tebow met overtime. And like other obstacles that stood in the way Tebow this season, overtime and the Pittsburgh Steelers had no chance.

Tim Tebow, a stature as a social phenomenon and football is built on the basis of returns for the fourth quarter, completed 20 yards to Demaryius Thomas became a 80-yard touchdown on the first play of overtime Sunday, giving the Denver Broncos a bit annoying at the Pittsburgh Steelers 29-23 in the AFC wild card game.

This is the first game because N.F.L. overtime last year established a new policy that allows a playoff game in overtime to finish with only one team has the ball if the team scored a touchdown.

Fittingly, Tebow, who defied the conventional wisdom about what a successful offensive football to look - and he heard his boss, the executive and the Broncos icon John Elway told The Denver Post last week that it was " , pull the trigger "- the rules change in the head. He pulled the trigger. Tebow and pulled another miracle.

And now, Tebow and the Broncos face the most ironic opponent: New England Patriots on Saturday night. That was the Patriots began a three-game winning streak that nearly cost the Broncos to the playoffs with him, but on Sunday Tebow announced the acquisition of human design in Denver, Josh McDaniels, who lost their jobs long before the season Tebow last became the most interesting and controversial players in the NFL

After the Patriots defeated the Broncos last month, 41-23, quarterback Tom Brady of the Patriots met Tebow at midfield. Tebow said he has seen the Broncos Patriots again.

"You can say something like that," Tebow said, smiling. "I think he is a prophet."

Tebow can play with your own reputation in the public expression of Christian faith. But nobody is laughing at Tebow as a quarterback now, not after he threw for 316 yards against top-ranked defense in the league - 31.6 per every 10 yards for completion.

So far, the success of the difficult to explain why Tebow has a mix of game fluke, luck dumbfoundingly time majestic and well. Despite the show to win five games since he became the Broncos' quarterback starting, Tebow has broken a throwing motion, the field of vision is blurred. Lacking in the losing streak the last three.

It was so bad that in the weeks before this game, there is speculation about coach John Fox will reserve Brady Quinn, who has never thrown a pass as a Bronco, if Tebow fought.

That does not happen on Sunday, and there is nothing magical. Tebow just a better quarterback, has never taken a sack or throw the interception, and take advantage of defenses that fills the line of scrimmage, daring him to beat the pace.

That's the kind of game-winning wine. Thomas hopes Tebow, who has compiled three new Tebow in the first round in 2010, hidden behind the Steelers blitzing safety devices. Then he threaded the ball to Thomas, who said another.

"First of all, thank God," Tebow said he thought as he watched Thomas run. "So I ran after him, as he can catch the coach which then came to mean, for the first time I have."

Tebow completed the celebration with a victory lap around the stadium, hitting hands with fans that some of the few people who still believe that Tebow has this kind of performance for him. Tebow acknowledged that should be firmer in the previous game and was determined to play fast and aggressive in the playoffs.

"I do not think it is first clicked," Fox said of the offense. "But it's great. Much has been achieved due to the quarterback. Much-criticized him. He came. "

Almost did not. In the first quarter, Tebow did not complete the pass and the Broncos offense has only 8 yards. But the Steelers fought well moving the ball, but the unity of the short circuit current dropping three sites. If they are made by a pair of field goals to take a 6-0 lead.

That opens the door to a work that became staples party is Tebow. By focusing on stopping the run Steelers, even with safety Ryan Clark down the sickle cell trait, Tebow finally shoot.

Heed the call made by Elway, and can be handled by a weekly referendum on its future, Tebow threw two perfect strikes - 51 yards and 30 yards - for the first touchdown for the Broncos.

Be ignored, then the objective Tebow runs up the middle. In the first half, the Broncos led, 20-6. Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger returns to known methods, too, and nearly took off in this case.

Ploddingly Steelers back, and 31 yards to Jerricho Cotchery goal with 3 minutes 48 seconds left tied the game. Steelers a chance to win too, but the veteran Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey broke the fields of business establish-term pass.

"At no time I felt comfortable," said Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin.

Tebow is a way to do it for your opponent. And maybe even coaches and teammates. There is no middle ground for this is the most polarizing players - or frustrating or fantastic. On Sunday, he was the last.

On Saturday, will play a style of the Broncos, quarterback officials hope it's more like Tebow. Tebow probably never will as Brady. On Sunday, Tebow is enough to advance.

New Year Showcase Planned for HGTV Dream Home 2012

2012-01-15T10:38:00.000+07:00

Escaparate year is scheduled for the 2012 HGTV Dream Home

New York, NY [will launch] HGTV Dream Home Giveaway 2012 will offer fans a chance to win a spectacular custom-built home in Midway, Utah, a 2012 GMC ® ® of the Earth in cash and $ 500,000. HGTV will announce in fact offer a modern western ranch house, designed to appeal to outdoor enthusiasts, while the HGTV Dream Home 2012 special on January 2 at 01:00 ET / PT.

Viewers can enter for a chance to win the HGTV dream home 2012 Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 9:00 ET through Friday, February 17, 2012 at 5:00 ET. During that time, may enter once a day http://HGTV.com/dreamhome once a day for Frontdoor.com HGTV, or more often as you wish by regular mail. Sweepstakes prize package valued at over $ 2 million, awarded to one lucky viewer in March. Until then, Internet users can view photo galleries and a virtual tour of 360 degrees at HGTV.com / DREAMHOME.

Located along the Provo River, HGTV dream home offering the latest easy access to Deer Valley and Park City great, home of the Sundance Film Festival. Located in one of the hottest outdoor adventures, 16 HGTV dream home is about 4,000 square meters, with beautiful views of the mountains. It has five decks covered sidewalks connecting, living room and outdoor hot tub and changing rooms with fishing accessories. The house has three bedrooms, four bathrooms, a dedicated entertainment room and kitchen of a gourmet chef. During the winter, the owners and guests can ski and snowboard with unsurpassed Utah powder. In addition to activities like water sports, golf, hunting, mountain biking, hiking and fishing are available throughout the year.

During January, the television special co-hosted HGTV Monica Pedersen and John Giddings (the appeal) has joined HGTV Dream Home interior designer Linda Woodrum and House Planner Jack Thomasson take viewers on a visual tour of the house.

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Steelers' Roethlisberger OK, Pouncey questionable

2012-01-13T10:30:00.000+07:00

Pittsburgh (AP) - A sprained left ankle will not stop the quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of the Steelers in the AFC wild card out Sunday game in Denver, but you can leave out from the center Maurkice Pouncey.

Pouncey is listed as questionable on the Steelers injury report and is unlikely to play after missing practice Thursday and Friday due to an increase of pain in his left ankle. Pro Bowl center, played in the regular season finale against Cleveland last week after missing two games, but complained of problems with the ankle in training on Wednesday.

Doug Legursky likely to start in place of Pouncey him as the Super Bowl last year, when down Pouncey ankle injury in the same. Legursky, who missed last week's game with Cleveland in the left shoulder injury, practiced among this week instead of Pouncey and started in the center against San Francisco and San Luis, when Pouncey could not play.

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Legursky has started three games this year right guard, left guard of five and two in the center.

"It's no different for me," he said. "I practice every week as if he could play several positions, so it's not a problem."

Roethlisberger practiced Friday and is listed as probable despite a sprained ankle that bothered him during the previous month. At first injured the ankle Dec. 8 in a win over Cleveland and then moved to St. Louis starting on Christmas Eve. The starts against the Browns last Sunday and suffered ankle acknowledged "setbacks" in the second half.

Two time winner of the Super Bowl limited in practice Wednesday, but a full go Thursday to Friday.

Linebacker James Harrison (finger) and LaMarr Woodley (hamstring strained left), defensive end Brett Keisel (groin), safety Troy Polamalu (calf) and met with Jonathan Scott (back) also appear as possible and is expected to play.

Cornerback Cortez Allen (left shoulder) and running back Mewelde Moore (right knee) out for the Broncos game. Rashard Mendenhall regular gone from the playoffs last week with a torn ACL right.

"It's part of football," said Legursky. "Every year, it is as long as you stay focused on what you have to do to do the job, it would not be a problem .."

Beyonce: Gives Birth

2012-01-11T10:19:00.000+07:00

Beyonce and their first child into this world last week.

The singer reportedly gave birth to a private wing of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York and according to the New York Daily News, Beyonce hospital on Friday to check the name of Ingrid Jackson and rented the fourth floor hospital full four more $ 1 million.

Husband, Jay-Z, is in the hands of his wife gave birth to a girl. Some babies reportedly called Blue Tam Carter.

Although there is no comment or confirmation representatives of his birth, several friends confirmed via Twitter.

"Welcome to The Blue World! We love you, "wrote Gwyneth Paltrow.

"My best wishes to my good friend Jay-Z and Beyonce," wrote Russell Simmons.

Rihanna Twitter: "Welcome to Carter's daughter! Love Aunt Rog. "

The couple revealed the pregnancy in the first Music Video Awards, the participation of Beyonce news about the black carpet and posed for photos holding her belly.

Beyonce's pregnancy absolute value added drama to present the award. According to the Associated Press, pregnant performance at the MTV Video Music Awards Twitter triggering notes-When Beyonce performs, with 8868 for second and Twitter tweet this rate is a record for this service.

Beyonce performed in tuxedo suit at the end, take a moment to open a jewelry jacket buttons and rubbed his stomach as the audience applauded. Proud Pop-Jay-Z was applauded by his wife and has a big hug from Kanye West.

But the controversy came with the announcement of pregnancy. The Beyonce pregnancy rumors expect that starts spinning when the image of the singer, after the awards ceremony, Beyonce appeared less than a bulging belly. MediaTakeOut different size of the stomach and postal records before and after pictures, despite reports that Beyonce is pregnant, she was not in the second quarter of the stomach is described in the Video Music Awards, which is not just a little more than eight weeks buntis.Undo suntinganUndo edicionesUndo editsUndo edits

Beyonce and Jay-Z's newborn daughter Blue Ivy Carter is an instant Twitter sensation

2012-01-09T10:15:00.000+07:00

Beyonce and Jay-Z is a trend on Twitter at birth.

Social networking sites are busy on Sunday with famous friends and relatives of some real hip-hop to post messages of 140 characters or less.

"The most beautiful in the world," wrote sister Beyonce, Solange Knowles, new-born nephew, Blue Tam Carter.

A few hours after entering the world of Lenox Hill Hospital in upper East Side on Saturday night, he had a lineage Princess R & B and rap entrepreneur caused a stir in the Twittersphere.

Some Twitter-odd and even create fake accounts for Tam Blue attracting more than 12,000 followers before it was taken offline.

"I will fly as you feel it," said one fake tweet linked to blue baby within the first six hours of his life.

No immediate reports of long proud parent of the child and weight.

Legitimate tweet was signed with love and wine from the list of who's celebrity friends from the parents of the baby.

As a child and collaborator Jay-Z, Rihanna feels close enough to call the aunt as a baby.

"Welcome to Carter's daughter," wrote Rihanna, with the famous father of the baby names. "Love Aunt Rog."

Fellow rap star Sean (Diddy) Combs was involved in Twitter.

"Congratulations to Jay and B! God bless you! And much more! "Published Diddy.

Music mogul Russell Simmons, he said, "Congratulations to my good friend Beyonce and Jay-Z".

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, a friend from new parents, tweeted, "Welcome to blue! We love you now. "

Celebrity tweeters yandy Smith - VH1 reality TV show "Love & Hip Hop" - give conspiracy theorists something to chew on the end of the week shows Beyonce in mock surrender.

"Awwww congratulations beautiful Bey and Jay! Even children [ha \] are here for a month now, "wrote Smith. "I think you know! U love to have a healthy baby. "Undo edits edits suntinganUndoUndoUndo edits

John Terry - The Smokers for Tobacco-Free

2012-01-04T10:26:00.001+07:00

One of my friends brought it to my notice, and the first thing I think, is blogging about it. Television! Well, if any of you smoking out there, you'll know that the King of the Golden Flake came up with a new package. Not much has changed in the field, except for the fact that the lungs are deflated in front of the pack has changed. I'm shell shocked when I saw the new picture. It is a little vague, but anyone who watched football will know that people that are not covered except for English and Chelsea captain "John Terry".

I mean, seriously, no ITC will not get another picture to put up? Forget the fact that he was not India. But when I'm not mistaken (which I most times), Terry does not smoke. So what's putting his picture on the package of cigarettes. Do not like my friend suggested, a simple google search image for a stranger topless, or perhaps sheer ignorance, or even the worst case scenario, if it's just plain wrong. Oh, and I lost the reason (not likely) that most likely, is not John Terry.

I do not believe even if someone told me that it is not JT. It just looks so much like him. I guess I still believe it was just a mistake. So someone please tell me, do you think JT will sue? And if he does, smokers beware, you can only see prices increase further the King. Terry I wont tell if you wont.

If any of you any more doubt, I guess you can check out a dent on the right shoulder. Both pics! Voila .. He him .. But the question remains .. WHY?

Regis Philbin, Demi Lovato, Adam Carolla Some of the Celebs in Chicago This Weekend

2011-12-15T13:31:00.000+07:00

Chicago - There will be many famous faces in Chicago this weekend, and our teacher Bessie output Tsionis join us to tell us that all the hot spots.

As one of our hot list is someone we all know and love, Regis Philbin will be in Naperville on Thursday night. TV host icon will sign copies of his new book, How It Has Way Wentz Concert Hall.

The Reeg, who resigned from the morning shows last month, is 80 years young, and this book shows he has no plans to stop anytime soon.

Music lovers, listen up, because we have some hot concert and hot spots in the report. First, is the trifecta, the war, Kelly Clarkson and Christina Perri mix appears Miracle on State Street. The annual holiday concert with 101.9 for Theatre performed Friday night in Chicago and will benefit Children's Hospital LaRabida.

Other radio stations takes on Chicago Theatre on Sunday evening. 93XRT launched its own holiday Florence and the Machine concert. Grammy Award candidate will interpret the success of his second album ceremony.

Demi Lovato is balancing the Rosemont Theater on Saturday night. This is something of a revival of the old Disney darling. This is their first tour since the release from rehab earlier this year. Lovato, who is openly talking about their emotional problems, are also healing through music. Her third studio album is aptly titled disturbed.

And now we all should be in the holiday season, right? Well, Adam Carolla is not, in fact, is to give stingy run for their money. Funny man comes to town Saturday night with a program standup, Adam Carolla hates the holidays. If you dare to know why he hates the holidays, you can do an antique store on Saturday night at Park West.

Comedian Adam Carolla’s Take on Occupy Movement: Millennial ‘Self-Entitled Monsters’

2011-12-12T13:24:00.000+07:00

Street occupy the movement really is? It is rooted in anger over the weakening economy and high unemployment? It is the protest against the growing gap between rich and poor in America?

It can be argued that support it.

Comedian Adam Carolla, however, seem to think it's actually a lot of complaining about "auto-worthy monster" of "all get a medal," Millennial Generation, which he defines as "** shower" , in a record nine and a half minutes it suddenly viral.

Listen here.

Although it mentions the name squatting movement, Carolla took note of the indignation against the "1 percent", he says, "they are paid more than their fair share" of taxes in California, where he made a popular podcast.

"Something has come to this country does not yet exist, envy, and this is a big problem," he said. "Now we are dealing with the first wave of participation trophies, my-own-fecal-matter-no-odor, with power ... everybody's-winner-is-there are no losers - this is the first wave of [expletive] out of a hole **. That's what we face.

"They feel ashamed," he said. "They're embarrassed for life because they are not ready to live." "

Although the record appears to have quoted from Carolla podcast was originally released in October, according to the Council, having gained traction Carolla in recent days a number of sites in the mainstream.

According to Carolla - which has its own website seen protesters occupy the quotes: ". It is now time passed and Ting *** s in the shop "- anger at the rich and successful is the price of damaging the generation of a sense of entitlement.

"Look at number 27, that workers put in an application and, guess what, I do not like your attitude ... a bath **. Get your [expletive] the feet of my desk and hit the bricks. It will not take, "said Carolla on the record. "And now, his plan is to go back and throw bricks at the window. That is their plan. That's what happened. It is the envy and shame, and no more of them.

"In the past, back in the day," he continued, "father'd run it on the sidewalk and you see someone go in a Rolls Royce and dad would say, 'There goes Mr. Jenkins. Look at it. Human beings who work hard. The man who built a business. The man who built the empire. Now look at him. He had his Rolls Royce. He got up the hill. "

"But what we do now? Now, like, "Oh! Look at it. Need a car? Why do you need a car? I drive a [expletive] Chevette. Why can not drive [expletive] car? Come and launch a [expletive] rock. "That will not help you out of the Chevette, a shower **. Get your [expletive] to operate. "

Fox 4 struggles with death of meteorologist Don Harman

2011-12-09T11:19:00.000+07:00

Fox took his life Tuesday, Wednesday news pod cast top-rated morning show in Kansas City.

The original 41-year resident of Marietta, Ohio, was found by his wife, Monica Johns, at her home in south Kansas City, shortly before 5:00 The police said the death was a suicide.

FOX 4, WDAF, celebrating Harman announced the news of the death because they want to reach 79 years of Harman's father, Gordon, Ohio. But he was away, and the 18 hours it took to find, filtered from the station and on social networks and blogs.

"I'm sitting here crying and asking why, how," one viewer wrote at 04:40 on Wednesday. "People loved our time is gone."

Harman, a graduate of Miami University of Ohio, was hired in 1999 to replace Gary Lezak. Fox 4, Lezak has opted for the popularity of its current position as chief meteorologists KSHB. However, Harman demonstrates, if any, to be a bigger success with viewers. He quickly became part of a great team spirit No. 1 ranking most of the last decade.

Fox 4 Wednesday, Harman much pain is compounded by its decision not to talk about it in the air with Harman's father has been reached.

As email and comments on Facebook rain, the station decided to record the great support - but not the reports.

At 4:45, the war neuroses Mark Alford, a close friend Harman, reading a statement.

"We know many of you out there have any questions about what happened. Thank you for your concern. He tells our friends, "says Alford.

His co-anchor Loren Halifax continued: "We ask you, however, as the family comes first. And we respect that. "

Ads are repeated on Fox News this morning 4. Ask other points of the stations in the city to delay the transmission of news too.

At noon, FOX 4 Kathy Quinn confirmed the radio station is a statement from Harman death.

"For all of us, Don and family as the news was a big surprise for all the people who worked on the Fox 4," the statement said.

The dilemma of reporting the death of Fox 4 Harman is clear, says Robert Steele, who teaches journalism ethics at DePauw University in Indiana.

"At some point, however, very difficult to retain in stories about community leaders who are very" says Steele. "It may be difficult to find a balance between telling the truth, which is a journalistic obligation, and reduce losses, which is a professional obligation."

Bryan Busby KMBC-TV is Harman's friend since they met in the early 1990, when Harman worked in Mason City, Iowa

"Hard work is having a good mix of left brain, right brain," Busby said Wednesday. "We are scientists, we are geeks, we know that mathematics. So to have a meteorologist who also has a personality - someone who can make you smile - a rare quality. And Don both. "

Cougars hire Mike Leach as football coach

2011-12-06T11:01:00.000+07:00

Even as Washington State football fight the physical battles in Utah in a snowstorm in November 19, WSU director Bill Moos mass began to discover the wonderful plan for the Pumas, which was built the warmer weather.

Moos spent more than three hours with Mike Leach on November 16 in Key West, Florida, home of Leach. And then WSU loses to Utah and stayed out of bowl contention, Moos came to a conclusion that was completed on Wednesday.

WSU hired Leach, former coach of Texas Tech with a lease renewal five years it will pay $ 2.25 million guaranteed per year, well above the school record for all coaches. Former basketball coach Tony Bennett makes $ 1,000,000 per year.

"A lot of schools wanted him," said Moos Wednesday afternoon. "He wants us."

Referring to talk later, Moos said, "I put the numbers, and has never been a bargain at any time, said," That is good. We see this success. ". "

Moos believes that by taking to launch a campaign donor to improve the facilities provided at WSU, and, when asked about Leach is expected to handle 19 Cougars is committed to recruiting, Moos gave that to a lesser extent is waiting in front of others.

"I guess (new staff) dense in most of the children," says Moos. "I'll tell you: There are many who want to come here."

Training Leach container 10 teams with the offense prolific Texas Tech (2000-09) before leaving the mess that ended with him suing the school. He stopped short of making a bonus of $ 800,000, claiming he was persecuted player, Adam James, by his administration to sit on warehouse equipment, while being treated for a concussion.

Between the recession, pending lawsuits, and some eccentric ways, Leach later became a figure radioactive to potential employers. However, Moos said Wednesday afternoon, "he and I discussed that I feel comfortable when in their legal status .."

The Times reported Leach became the target of Paul Wulff WSU dismissal, but it seems that the Pumas can be strong competition from Kansas due to a long friendship between Leach and KU Director Sheahon Zenger robust.

Asked specifically about Kansas, Moos said, "I really do not feel that we are fighting a school I know there banging on the door .. Many people like him and wanted the state of Washington, and I think that says a lot. "

There are things about WSU that might interest Leach of Kansas: He was a Western man - born in Susanville, California, and raised in Cody, Wyoming. - School is a rich history and two good midfielders in the hands of Jeff Tuel and Connor Halliday, Pac-12 is more stable than the Big 12, and Moos has a solid reputation as director of athletics-minded football.

"He was a legend in this business," Leach said in a statement released by WSU.

In the same statement, WSU President Elson Floyd said, "I asked Bill Moos to select the best football coach in the country, and I'm sure you've done just that."

Moos said he took the trouble to tell Leach first visit that "I hope my football coach (Wulff) good ending." But he said Wednesday, "I have to always have other plans. I think if we have the opportunity to Mike Leach, I have to lay the groundwork for this new era of extremes.

"To be honest, he was someone to talk to and the only person I want."

Leach contract - is also "great incentive-laden," said Moos - calls on the first purchase of $ 2 million Moos said could be reduced to $ 450,000 per year through the life of the agreement. Additionally, the update package will pay a wizard "of $ 1.8 million compared with $ 1.3 million today.

Moos is credited to move Pac-12 for the same TV revenues revenue sharing among the members of the conference, and jump from television contracts with Fox and ESPN starting next year, so important for recovery.

"We can go in this direction," he said, "or that (project) the renovation of the stadium."

Raised Mormon, attended Brigham Young and Leach thought it would be a lawyer, and obtained his law degree at Pepperdine. One of the college coaches do not play several at that level, he became interested in football and a violation passed by issues related to poor Mumme at Iowa Wesleyan in the 1980s.

"We traveled all over the country to develop the idea," says Leach in 2008, referring to the passing game. "Just what I think is filled with good."

Valdosta State coach Leach 1992-1996, and work in Kentucky and Oklahoma assistant before taking over the Texas Tech Wherever you go, there is a high-octane offense.

Off the court, was known as someone who has a natural curiosity about many things, and say what you think. In 2007, criticized the performance of the Big 12 officials in the game as "a complete farce," and when it imposed a record fine of $ 10,000 for the conference, said he did not regret saying it himself.

In a 2005 article for The New York Times Magazine, author Michael Lewis explains: "Every season, Leach was something I wanted to know and learn as much as possible about it: Geronimo, Daniel Boone, whales, chimpanzees, grizzly bear (artist) Jackson Pollock. "

He is accused of leading the points on the Texas Tech and not the mind. When in 2004 against Nebraska, the team led 42-10 entering the fourth quarter and threw 16 passes the rest of the trip - usually break - and three in a row then proceeded Technology, 70 - 10.

Moos, meanwhile, was asked what message you want to hire Leach sent WSU fans.

Mike Leach has agreement to coach Washington State

2011-12-03T10:52:00.000+07:00

Mike Leach is back on the sideline next season. Washington state reached a verbal agreement with former Texas Tech coach Paul Wulff days after the shooting.

Schools, Leach said Wednesday it has agreed in principle a five-year contract will be presented at a press conference next Tuesday.

Financial terms of the contract is not available, but according to a story by CBSSports.com, the agreement is for five years and will be the highest paid coach Leach third in the Pac-12.

In a statement given by the school, Leach said: "I always admired the tradition of the state of Washington is a growing movement of college I was very excited about what they do with the facilities and equipment .. has struggled through difficult times and it showed great promise in the future.

"I am proud to be part of the team."

Leach, 50, was fired by Texas Tech in December 2009 after a dispute over the handling of receiver Adam James. ESPN announcer Craig James's son, James Adam Leach said forced him to sit in a small room in a building during training after suffering concussion in a game.

Responding to the dismissal, Leach filed a lawsuit against the school and ESPN. Case is still pending.

In the field, Leach was a great success. His team of 84-43 and reached a bowl game in each of its 10 season.

Tommy Tuberville happen and 13-12 in two seasons, including a 5-7 mark this year, first school losing record since 1992.

Leach will have a great task to reorganize the State of Washington, who has never played in a bowl game since 2003, after the Rose Bowl appearance following the period of 1997 and 2002.

Wulff was 90-40 in four seasons the Cougars, but the team improved to 4-8 in 2011.

Stagg family may have issues with Paterno scandal

2011-11-29T10:44:00.000+07:00

Amos Alonzo Stagg name attached to the Big Ten football championship trophies can be evaluated if Joe Paterno has been found to be "involved" in the scandal grandson Jerry Sandusky as Stagg.

Hardware for the first Big Ten championship game next month - Stagg-Paterno championship trophy - not yet proven. However, Robert Stagg told CBSSports.com Tuesday that the association is concerned about the "proof of income" families are found in the case reached national headlines.

"If he [Paterno] is involved in this, he has resigned," said Stagg, a father of 54 years who worked in sales in Grand Rapids, Michigan "Unfortunately, that may be the case. "

Asked specifically if the "accessories" means do not go to the authorities if Paterno knew a crime was committed, Stagg said: "If you are aware of what's happening, you should alert authorities. You can not leave it to others to warn the authorities. It should be. This is the only thing to do. "

Stagg said Paterno is assumed to be innocent, but followed the situation closely. Sandusky, Paterno former defensive coordinator, was accused of multiple accounts of child abuse. Previous teaching assistant Mike McQueary currently assistant allegedly told in 2002, Paterno watched having sex with young 10-year-old Sandusky lockerroom shower Penn State.

Paterno said in the announcement, Tim Curley, called McQueary and a half weeks later. Sandusky were prohibited from taking the kids to soccer facility, but does not contact the authorities. Paterno has maintained his innocence through his lawyer. Curley and Gary Schultz Penn State finance official was charged with perjury.

"That's disgusting. It's horrible, "said a Stagg, Amos Alonzo Stagg large offspring. "We've learned these things from time to time to document both the Catholic Church or a few individuals. Only when you look at the involvement of the Knights [Sandusky] kind and charitable. I do not understand. "

Stagg did not specify what steps can make a family but said they are monitoring the situation. He said a team of 20 family members will travel to Indianapolis for the Big Ten championship game first on December 3. His father, Amos Alonzo Stagg III, was honored with the game. Stagg III, 84, are the same age as Paterno.

Amos Alonzo Stagg originally was a legendary coach who won 319 games in 57 years. Amos Alonzo Stagg is an innovator observed in both football and basketball. He trained at the University of Chicago for parts of five decades. The University of Chicago in the Big Ten is part of that time.

"Some [family] roots in the state of Pennsylvania," said Robert Stagg. "We were a little cheered by Joep. Still waiting for clarification on this issue. If someone goes out and what kind of let it go, leaving others to deal with, then you can feel very different ...

"We have to wait and see, but if we see more evidence that we are out I am sure we will have many discussions with the Big Ten."

Paterno is in 45 years as head coach at Penn State. Penn State joined the Big Ten in 1992.

"He had a wonderful career and sincerely hope that clears things up," said Stagg.

Students flock to Paterno’s house to offer support

2011-11-26T10:38:00.000+07:00

(CBS) It seems that NAFTA will have to rename the show "19 Kids and counting."

Star of the show, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar expecting their 20th child in April 2012, reports Entertainment Weekly.

The mother of 45 years to the "Today" was surprised to find that it depends on your age. "I think God will give us another, and very grateful for that."

Some children are typically 16-18 months away, but her last child was born in December 2009, which is the longest family disappeared without a new addition, according to MSNBC.

The Duggars said before leaving the family of God's plan, reports MSNBC.

The 19 children between the ages of 23 and 23 months. This announcement coincides with the 20 children they were to end tonight, November 8.

The Duggar family of TLC's "19 Kids and Counting" expecting baby No. 20

2011-11-23T10:14:00.000+07:00

(CBS) It seems that TLC should change the name of your program "Children 19 and counting."

Stars of the show, Bob, Jim and Michelle Duggar expecting her son, April 20, 2012, reports Entertainment Weekly.

Mother of 45 years for the "Today" that he was surprised to find that expected for their age. "I do not think God will deliver us from others, and we very grateful."

Children usually have some 16-18 months away, but his last child was born in December 2009 it was the longest of the family is lost without a new addition, according to MSNBC.

The Duggars have said before leaving their families to God's plan, reports MSNBC.

19 children of age range 23 years and 23 months. The announcement coincided with the twentieth child of the event last night, November 8.

Heavy D, Dead At 44: A Big Screen Tribute

2011-11-20T10:10:00.000+07:00

Heavy D Hip hop artist died today (November 8) at a very young age of 44 years. "Now that we found Love" singer is best known for his work on the R & B scene, but the Heavy D was born in Jamaica, is a known quantity of the screen too. In fact, his work as an actor was recently seen as the "Tower Heist", Brett Ratner directing and starring Eddie Murphy comedy, currently in theaters.

In honor of Heavy D, look back at some of the artists most impressive change in the big screen.

"Life"

It is logical that one of D's heavy initial appearance of the screen is a strong link to the final bow: He starred in the 1999 "Life", "Tower Heist" joke against future co-star Eddie Murphy. The film was produced by the producer Grazer "Heist" Brian. D starred in "Life" as well as the comedians, including Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Anthony Anderson and Bernie Mac

"Cider House California"

Strong personality and his presence lends itself easily to comedy, but is no stranger to the winner was well: Peaches played in "The Cider House Rules" were the 1999 Oscar competition of the relationship of young people in the orphanage for War II.

"Boston Public"

D is a strong presence on the small screen acting, and great. He had a recurring role in the high school drama Fox's "Boston Public" as Bob "Big Boy" Lick, love school counselor. D appeared in 13 episodes of the television series from 2000 to 2003.

"Hitch"

OK, OK, so Mr. D is not comedy, but "Now that we found love," gives the tapestry of music that Will Smith and Kevin James danced in the final scene of the wedding. As much as we could, not hate "bottlenecks." And always dig early 90's rap.

"Tower Heist"

His last appearance was brief, but memorable: Heavy D has a cameo in "Tower Heist" last week as the guardian of the courthouse. Not too fancy, but is surrounded by a great actor and former colleague in his final film effort.

CL&P to Send More Crews to Meriden Wednesday

2011-11-17T14:33:00.000+07:00

Connecticut Light and Power (CL & P) will send 12 teams in the city of Meriden to work on the restoration of power on Wednesday, the state senator. Suzie Len (R-Meriden) said on Tuesday night, from reporting companies, worked in the city on Tuesday.

The announcement came after lawmakers and city officials that CL & P had several meetings marked as "tense" in the Emergency Operations Center Meriden pm on Tuesday to discuss the city to restore one of the Meriden Administrator City of Lawrence Kendzior was publicly criticized as woefully inadequate. At 9:41 pm on Tuesday, 79 percent of Meriden are without electricity for a third full day, down from 83 percent in the afternoon.

The press was not allowed in the meeting at 6 pm, but some of those who attended to inform the press later.

CL & P officials said the group would have expected that 99 percent of the state shall have the power for Sunday, more than a week after Hurricane defeated Alfred trees and power lines on the east coast.

Meriden official noted that CL & P representatives of more than 20,000 homes and businesses without electricity in Meriden response deserve further utility, according to the state representative. Chris Donovan (D-Meriden) after the meeting. Donovan, who has a home in Meriden currently have no power, held a meeting. [Click on the video to some of Donovan's statements after the meeting.]

"It seems to be one third of customers in this area Cheshire ... and not a percentage of the crew in this area, "said Donovan, 9 cities," Cheshire Region "in Meriden. At the meeting, promised CL & P reported that at least six crew in the city on Wednesday, and possibly more if the team is likely to go elsewhere, "I want 30 crew this morning, instead of six, was 30 years," Donovan said.

CL & P has offered an explanation of why there are so few of the crew who worked in the city on Tuesday after the meeting, especially compared to a tropical storm Irene August. According to Jim Muntz, President of Northeast Utilities transmission, this is an important personal problem.

The crew from neighboring countries came to Connecticut to help with the following operating Irene, but this time, winter storms are influenced by their countries as well - so that the help must come from afar, Munz said.

The damage is also worse than tropical storms this summer, according to Tom Dorsey, Manager of Government Affairs for CL & P.

"The damage is five times greater than is caused by Irene," said Dorsey. "This is the biggest event in the history of the company."

Greek Plans for Referendum Underscore Obama Limits

2011-11-14T14:27:00.000+07:00

The prospect of a referendum surprises Greek European rescue plan illustrates the limited capacity of President Barack Obama to promote a quick solution to the crisis in the eurozone that could sweep across the Atlantic and threaten the fragile U.S. economy to recovery.

Unexpected call from Prime Minister George Papandreou for a public vote on the aid package, including austerity measures that are not popular, comes just two days before Obama joined with leaders of industrialized countries and major developing world as an economic summit in Cannes, France.

With the rotation of uncertainty and European rescue deal reached last week of the announcement raised fears Papandreou to a new level. European Consortium, which still must work to take their points, "may have been canceled by this decision," said Heather Conley, a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

"It really is a time of crisis, the stakes are not higher," he said.

While Obama has said that the U.S. became a leader in the global economy, the White House on Tuesday weighed on Europe to act quickly in light of Papandreou would ask for a referendum.

Barack Obama

FILE - In this file photo from July 24, 2008, then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, as the waves arriving at the Victory Column in Berlin .. In 2009, President Barack Obama traveled to London for the first summit of the world's top 20 economies as a global rock star _ the U.S. president as the candidate who could command a large crowd in Denver and Berlin. This week comes to Cannes, France, during the G-20 summit with the status of the star decreases, more as a key player in the band for the driver. (AP Photo / Jae C. Hong / File) Collapse

"The announcement that he (Papandreou) reinforces the idea that Europe needs to develop and quickly implement the decisions they made last week," said White House spokesman, Jay Carney. "It's still the case that Europe has the ability to overcome this crisis and they need to implement the important decisions that they made last week to offer customized solutions for this."

Euro area is a matter of urgent topic in Cannes, placing the peak of the most remarkable German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Obama was among the main message the Group of 20 nations to focus on growth in the short term and long-term debt. Throughout his presidency, Obama has put pressure on surplus countries like China, Germany and Japan to do more to promote domestic spending and to support global economic growth.

"The only major international issue for the G-20 is a continuation of the crisis in Europe," said Rob Shapiro, a former deputy Minister of Commerce in the Clinton administration and now president of Sonecon, an economic consulting firm.

For Obama, it means walking a fine line between encouraging Europeans to act quickly and express confidence that they are. Obama upset some Europeans when he declared last month that the debt crisis is not resolved "fear of the world."

But Obama combines some tools for G-20 to take any action in the European debt crisis. Government officials played any role in the United States to help finance eurozone leaders to create a firewall to prevent the spread of crisis from Greece. However, he mentioned that the International Monetary Fund, with U.S. help could be summoned to help.

A key issue in the meeting Thursday and Friday are the methods provided in China or Japan, you dip into their cash reserves and contribute to the European rescue fund. For the U.S. proposal is essentially out of the question.

Colorado voters overwhelmingly reject higher taxes

2011-11-11T14:25:00.000+07:00

Denver - Colorado proposition 103, the largest tax increase proposal for the year November election, go to the sound defeat Wednesday morning, an indication that voters still expect government to solve their economic problems by cutting spending rather than increasing revenue.

Size, which increases the state sales tax to fund education, lose by a margin of 65 percent to 35 percent to 59 percent of the area around.

Vote for the 103 plan being closely watched nationally and activists in other countries contemplating their own-initiative tax increases. Efforts to put a tax increase on the ballot in 2012 and was conducted in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho and South Dakota.

Like other states, Colorado turned sharply to the right in 2010 elections, which allowed Republicans to do the State House, two seats in Congress, and three offices throughout the state following the race for governor. He also 30 000 votes unseating incumbent Senator Michael Bennet.

Voice on Tuesday showed that voters remain conservative mood, poor sign for President Obama, who won in Colorado in 2008 and has a traditional country as an integral part of the re-election strategy. Democratic President visited the country twice since the end of September.

"If you plan 103 was lost, it is proposed that the group vote on major issues" limited government "and" no new taxes "remain dominant," said Denver pollster Floyd Ciruli.

"Whatever is done to raise important caveat, as the number of people now have half the number of people who left years from now," says Ciruli. "While the Democrats are working hard to get voters' voice is bigger and whiter. You will not have a lot of young voters, minority voters O. "

Sponsored by Democratic state Sen.. Rollie Heath, 103 proposals would increase the state sales tax from 4.63 to 5 percent and sales tax rates across states from 2.9 percent to 3 percent. The second is due to an increase in five years. The estimated $ 3000000000 raised is designated for K-12 and higher education, although critics point out that additional general fund revenue, which means it can be used for anything.

Initially regarded as a political disagreement, measures 103 appeared to accelerate in the last week of the campaign. State teacher of the two SP, where the original is left out of the race, finally agreed to support the measure and has contributed more than $ 90,000 for the campaign, according to the latest fundraising.

The campaign has raised more than $ 600,000, far above the opposition, which has collected only about $ 25,000.

Although profit fundraising, proposal 103 was always defeated by a few percent in the polls. Some Democratic leaders support the initiative - Governor John Hickenlooper Democrats remained firmly neutral - while Republicans oppose uniforms.

Referendum Will Confirm Greece in Euro: Papandreou

2011-11-08T14:23:00.000+07:00

The Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said the referendum on the European rescue plan to confirm the membership of the euro as he leave the plan to hold a vote among the signs that governments collapse.

"The referendum is a clear mandate and a strong message to Europe and out of Greece in our courses and our participation in the euro," says Minister Papandreou in Athens early today, according to a transcript of an email . The "make sure it is, of course, the most unmistakable." Cabinet agreed to support the plan.

Papandreou will travel to France today to meet European leaders were surprised by the decision to put the bailout plan and call a national vote of confidence vote in parliament. His power was weakened after a member of parliament from the socialist PASOK party deserted her, leaving her 152 deputies to 300-seat chamber, while others, Vasso Papandreou, called for the establishment of a government of national unity.

Four lawmakers have criticized the referendum plan, short of dropping out, and six members of the party requesting the prime minister to resign in a joint letter, the Athens News Agency said yesterday. The opposition parties have increased in the electoral process. After a nine-hour meeting, Papandreou get the unanimous support of his cabinet for the plan.

"Yes or No"

"Difficult conditions are not" the government of this or that, '"said Papandreou. "Difficult conditions are" yes or no to the loan agreement "," yes or no to Europe "," yes or no to the euro. "

The euro erased a 0.5 percent decline against the dollar after Papandreou of the cabinet supports the proposal. The money is $ 1.3711 per dollar at 10:44 in Tokyo, after having traded as low as $ 1.3637.

Elijah Mosialos government spokesman told reporters in Athens after a meeting of the referendum held "as soon as possible."

Papandreou decided to seek the help of the Greek electorate is a new challenge for the European Union-led bailout agreed last week involving 50 percent of Greek loan repayments and austerity measures in the country. The risk is that the rejection of the referendum result in a default base and cast doubt on Greek euro members.

"Coney Island roller coaster

"Every day in the treatment of Greece is like getting an agreement on the Coney Island roller coaster," says Charles Dallara, head of the Institute of International Finance, the BBC Newsnight program. "It took some sharp turns, unexpected, and every bit of shaking, but then settles and we need to move forward and that is what we should do in the last 36 hours or more. We remain focused on these agreements. "

Papandreou, 59, wanted to hold a referendum after the details of a rescue package approved last week second in Greece. The confidence vote in parliament, is scheduled to start now and finish later this week.

Papandreou will travel to Cannes, France today to inform the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, and other officials on developments in that country.

They will join the Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, and the European Union's monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn.

Funding clouds

New cycle of political instability questioned Greece's ability to access emergency funds to stay afloat financially. The IMF Executive Board will meet in mid-November to decide to pay its share of the redemption of the sixth part, for a total of € 8,000,000 ($ 11 billion).

The Greek authorities also outline international officials in the coming weeks how it will ensure that the seventh round of funding. Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said the government should implement the "rescue measures" to ensure 14400000000 Greece € of the Bonds maturing in March, according to Bloomberg data show "a long-term maintenance of public debt is Greece. ".

Papandreou was not supported by confidence surveys. 1.009 Most respondents on October 27, today announced a new rescue package, said the agreement should be submitted to referendum, according to results of survey on Kapa Research, published in the newspaper To Vima.

Forty-six percent said they oppose the plan to referendum. In the same survey, more than seven in 10 favor of the Greek left in the euro.

49ers reportedly test T.J. Houshmandzadeh as fill-in wide receiver

2011-11-05T14:17:00.000+07:00

T. J. Houshmandzadeh worked on Tuesday at San Francisco 49ers, seeking a replacement for the receiver Josh Morgan. A veteran of 10 NFL season with 34 years, Houshmandzadeh is a free agent in the history of the Niners coach Jim Harbaugh.

49ers wide receiver need, while Morgan nursing broken right leg. She has gone insecure, and it is beyond question that can be done for this year.

To fill, Houshmandzadeh is probably not a bad choice. Now 34, had 616 receptions for 7.091 yards and 43 touchdowns in his career. The best year is the Cincinnati Bengals, but bombed in the Seattle Seahawks after signing a five-year, $ 40 million than $ 15,000,000 guaranteed - that lasted a season. And 2010 is a backup in Baltimore Ravens, where they have a good year.

What the 2010 does not provide the exposure Houshmandzadeh Harbaugh, former NFL quarterback who was an assistant to the Ravens last season. He is now in first year with Niners and the magic of working with them.

Auditions Tuesday was the last to Houshmandzadeh, as seen by the New York Giants and New England Patriots.

With the Ravens under the supervision of Harbaugh, Houshmandzadeh caught 30 for 398 yards, while starting two games. He was playing behind Anquan Boldin and Derrick Mason in Baltimore.

"I have a good year and I dropped the ball, which is really important," Houshmandzadeh said Scout.com. Example: to thwart the fourth time that Ravens playoff loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Houshmandzadeh role may change a bit when Braylon Edwards returning from knee surgery. It must be October 30 against the Cleveland Browns, San Jose Mercury News.

Zooey Deschanel and Husband Ben Gibbard Split

2011-11-02T14:10:00.000+07:00

Zooey Deschanel is separated from her husband, Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard, after two years of marriage.

Deschanel publicist, Lauren Auslander confirmed Tuesday division, said isolation "friendly", not "third parties involved," according to The Associated Press. The split was first reported by the U.S. weekly basis.

The actor, 31, known for his appearance in the comedy "small" and "(500) Days of Summer", has recently found success in his Fox comedy "New Girl", which was collected through an entire season - even though new episodes will be maintained for the World Series and episodes of "The X-Factor".

Elsewhere he has found success with his band he and his, who has just released a Christmas album, while the latter played the national anthem at the World Series.

Gibbard, 35, has fronted indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie since 1997. In 2004 the band began to find commercial success and signed with Atlantic Records. 2008 record "narrow stairs" is his first album reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts.

Apple Can't Keep Up With Demand for iPhone Updates

2011-10-30T14:31:00.000+07:00

Apple's iPhone operating system can do many interesting things, but to ensure an easy process to upgrade apparently is not one of them.

Since the publication IOS5 on Wednesday, the first eager to upgrade their older devices have been pulling your hair out and flooded the Apple store for assistance. IPhone software is installed - to be a model 4S - really hit the stores on Friday.

See also: Apple introduces new iPhone - and the iPhone 5

Among the complaints: overwhelmed servers, applications and download time is long gone. A minority report disturbed even "brick" or iPhone frozen.

Fear "Error 3200" seems to appear many times you can enter it (yet compact) Hall of error as an explanation of Apple's Steve Jobs for iPhone users in early issues that hold the antenna of your device is not true.

As high-tech sites like Mashable reported, beleaguered Apple service representatives are advised to call the company in an attempt to fix errors, apparently caused by a large number of customers attempting to upgrade obsolete During server software. The update process took over three hours for some users.

Technology blogger Bill Palmer said the easiest solution is, of course, to get the new iPhone and relatively expensive (from $ 199) 4S with pre-installed system.

He added: "iPhone users who are struggling day by a mysterious" error message 3200 "and will not use your phone for hours during the upgrade process can be more charitable towards Apple's idea of providing a few hundred dollars to 4S as a gift to launch corrupted IOS 5 iPhone that exist. It's just a matter of time before someone creative to connect the dots and said Apple should have reduced the IOS 5 deployment to improve iPhone4S. "

Despite the inconvenience, users welcomed the new features that lead the auditor such as Walt Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal recommends a good phone as an upgrade but not essential. He liked the voice-activated control features new Siri ", an early artificial intelligence system must try to believe.

Around the same time, the iPhone was introduced, reports began circulating that Apple is preparing a plan to put movies in the cloud, which can be placed somewhere between suppliers and competitors, the Hollywood studios.

Apparently, Apple is in talks with representatives of the studio is optimistic to reach an agreement that allows consumers to purchase movies through iTunes and access it from the Apple device. This service, if made final, could start at the beginning of this year.

Bhutan wedding caps year of royal nuptials

2011-10-27T14:22:00.000+07:00

(CBS) What year is really married!

Now, 31 years young king, Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, was married to a regular television series Jetsun Pema ceremony for the country that have been waiting for this day since King attended Oxford, crowned five years ago.

Photos: royal wedding in Bhutan

Thousands of Bhutan from nearby Barrio joined the king and queen at their wedding in a garden outside the walls of the holy monastery of most countries, where the list of traditional dancers performed routines for the new couple.

The parties are only the latest in a long series of ceremonies to put 2011 in the history books as the "Year of the royal wedding."

First is the 29 April unity Prince William, second in line to the throne, and plain Kate Middleton, was given the title of Duchess of Cambridge.

Millions of people around the world watched on television as the two exchanged vows at Westminster abbey, and then left in a horse-drawn carriage for rotation of the party at Buckingham Palace in London.

William, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, is the son of Charles, Prince of Wales and the late Princess Diana.

Three months later, his cousin Zara Phillips to marry rugby star Mike Tindall on 30 July in Scotland with a reception at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, the Queen.

An accomplished rider, Phillips Queen's eldest grandson, was born the only daughter of Queen, Princess Anne.

Also in that month was a three-day wedding parade in Monaco, as the head of the kingdom, Prince Albert II, Charlene Wittstock to marry nobility, a former Olympic swimmer from South Africa.

Both exchanged vows for the first time in a private civil ceremony July 1 at the palace throne room and then on July 2 ceremonies attended by royalty, heads of state and hundreds of guests in the courtyard.

The summer also saw Prince Georg Friedrich Ferdinand of Prussia, married Princess Sofia of castle Isenburg in Potsdam, August 27, 2011.

Prince of Prussia, is the current head of the Imperial House Hohenzollern, the last ruling dynasty of the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. He is the heir to great-great-grandchildren and Wilhelm II, last German Emperor and King of Prussia, who was overthrown and, initially, went into exile in Germany's defeat in World War I. 1918.

Finally, Princess Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg old married his partner Alexander Evangelical Stadtkirche Johannsmann on June 18, 2011, in Bad Berleburg, Germany. Princess has a relationship with the royal family of Greece and Denmark.

Bride of 35 years, daughter of Princess Benedicta of Denmark, sister of Danish Queen Margrethe II.

Chris Tucker performance moved to Plachta Auditorium after low ticket sales

2011-10-24T14:14:00.000+07:00

The performance on Saturday was comedian Chris Tucker moved Plachta Warriner Hall Auditorium after selling only 1200 tickets now.

Central Michigan University Program Board decided to modify the original site planned for the CMU Events Center, but the low number of tickets sold is not sufficient to fill the available seats 5300.

Coordinator of Student Activities Damon Brown, PB adviser, said the show unfortunately had to move because of poor ticket sales. Brown said he felt it would be more appropriate Plachta Auditorium for 1,200 people who bought tickets.

"We do not sell enough tickets and must make decisions in the best interests of the whole world will be fair," Brown said. "We want to make sure it would be a good environment for Chris and for those who will show you."

Brown said he felt that the price of tickets has not played an important role in low sales, said Chris Tucker and actions in different markets in general, will cost more to attend.

"I do not think ticket prices are high by any stretch of imagination on the bench a ticket is only $ 10," Brown said. "By 1200 people with tickets will be a great show."

Damon said Plachta Auditorium was cut to show the value of tickets purchased. For example, those who bought floor seats are reserved seats near the stage.

Chris Tucker Facing Foreclosue on Mansion

2011-10-21T14:11:00.000+07:00

Actor and comedian Chris Tucker facing foreclosure on the home millions of dollars in Florida, according to court documents filed this week.

Star of "Rush Hour" trilogy's favorite comedy "Friday", bought the house across the lake area of 10,000 square meters in 2007 to U.S. $ 6 million. Purchase fort made just before the housing market has taken a steep dive this year.

SunTrust Banks reported presenting documents against the perpetrators in Lake County Circuit Court in Florida. Tucker said the bank owes more than $ 4.4 million. However, local property assessors have a home currently valued at $ 1.6 million, according to AP.

According to the Orlando Sentinel Tucker property is located at Bella Collina development, a community of about 2,000 acres with waterfront homes and estates overlooking the golf course great.

Tucker reportedly has a five-bedroom house, three fireplaces, and private spa. An open kitchen overlooking the pool, and the basement tends to resemble a pirate ship, according to the Sentinel.

Even at the end of his 2007 film "Rush Hour 3" was a huge success, with more than $ 140 million at the box office in the movie since. Earlier this year he'd go back to the way stand-up, comedy in U.S. theaters

The Associated Press contributed to this report

Why was it Tim Tebow in Denver on Sunday, and not Brady Quinn?

2011-10-18T14:26:00.000+07:00

Despite the opinion of the buyer signs the Denver area, I think it was Brady Quinn (notes) that got the call when the Denver Broncos finally were forced to judge Kyle Orton (remember). It is not. This is Tim Tebow (note).

You know now what it was like Tebow. Although the step numbers are not excessive, somehow Broncos back into the game against the Chargers. They have a chance to win on the final play, but short on funds.

I wonder what happened to Brady Quinn, though. I am not arguing for or against Tebow, or says that Quinn would have done better. You can not ask about the Broncos John Elway after Tebow was Sunday. This post is not about the benefits of a good quarterback. I wonder what happened to Quinn.

There are reports that Tebow is not even third best quarterback in the preseason list. Broncos official website, though refused to declare a winner Tebow vs. Quinn for the position of backup. Still is. Fox said last week that Tebow gives Quinn (including Orton) snaps in practice, showed no preference for either.

A youth movement is not really pure explained, either. If the decision is to play a young man and see what you have, then Quinn is as good as Tebow calls. Quinn 26; Tebow was 24. Not that Quinn was given the opportunity whenever possible to conclude that may or may not be an NFL quarterback.

I see three possible scenarios: 1) somewhere along the way, John Fox decided that Tim Tebow is a better quarterback Brady Quinn, 2) Using the bench press Orton, Fox threw in the towel at this time and plan to see both his young quarterbacks, or 3) Fox succumbed to public pressure to finally play Tebow.

I hope this is not a third option. This is not a good thing for a coach.

'Joe the Plumber' files papers to run for Congress

2011-10-16T14:08:00.000+07:00

"Joe the Plumber", who became famous during the 2008 presidential campaign, has submitted a letter to run for Congress in Ohio.

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher nominations for the 9th Congressional District of Ohio - are in the seats and redistricting pits Democrat Dennis Kucinich and Marcy Kaptur of the primary. Wurzelbacher asked to run as a Republican.

Wurzelbacher, after a plumbing contractor employee, went to Barack Obama as the candidate wins with life in Holland, Ohio, neighborhood. Wurzelbacher suggested that Obama's plan taxes will result in higher taxes for him.

The Republican candidate Senator. John McCain took the exchange and repeatedly refers to humans Dubbed as "Joe the Plumber" in the last debate against Obama.

The Arizona senator raised Wurzelbacher as a symbol of what might happen to the middle class if the Democrats get to the White House. This led to intense scrutiny Wurzelbacher, who has no plumber's license and later said that McCain "ruin my life."

Brian Urlacher knows Bears defense ‘not up to our standards’

2011-10-14T14:03:00.000+07:00

When the bear to allow 543 yards and 29 points and still win, the chorus is predictable after the game.

A''win win,''said midfielder Brian Urlacher. ''You can have all the appearances, such as. Never mind. We won.''

However, even if Urlacher can not ignore the obvious flaw in a 34-29 victory over the Carolina Panthers are on Sunday at Soldier Field. The defense may have been pretty good, but not enough.

''We know we have much work to do,''said Matt Toeaina defensive resolve.

Panthers rookie quarterback Cam Newton threw for 374 yards. Wide receiver Steve Smith had eight catches for 181 yards. DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart combined for 169 Newton yards and two goals in 26 carry (6.5 yards per carry). Panthers were 11 plays of 20 or more.

On this day, is not fatal. But even in victory, that intelligence.

''We played well enough to win. But do not meet our standards,''said Urlacher, credited with an eight-team handle high, tied with Lance Briggs. ''We have to improve each week. We know that. We just keep working and training.''

As bad as it looks on paper, have at least can find some solace in the fact that was recorded for DJ Moore interception back 19 yards and play well when they meet.

Moore says that in the right place at the right time when he was caught by a Newton pass intended Legedu Naanee led by Briggs.

''I was the recipient of a gift, more or less,''said Moore, a 54-yard interception return touchdown loss to the Redskins last season. ''They [Briggs and Urlacher] hit him and I came to try and help, and pop the ball to me.''

Security Charles has Godfey block belongs Bears Bears 29 Panthers 24-23 lead with 14:07 to go. But Newton 3-of-10 for 24 yards as the Panthers gained 28 yards on 11 plays over the next three possessions and Olindo Mare 52-yard missed field goal.

It was not until three-yard touchdown run to give Marion Barber took the lead 34-23 with 1:23 left Newton for comfort Panthers touchdown.

''Our setup is that we play better,''Urlacher said. ''That's what our coach told us the first time: to play better and faster.''

We will''mind-set to do the things we do,''said Moore. ''In the first round, first round, you know you have anger as soon as you go''

The defense has impressed but not overwhelmed by Newton, of 27-46 for 374 yards and rushed eight times for 35 yards and two touchdowns. However, it faded in the fourth quarter.

''We're behind him,''defensive end Israel Idonije said. ''This is a combination of training and the players say, enough. "These are people with talent. While everyone is playing a little more stable than it was still able to make plays. Luckily we were good enough to fold and take the rubber when necessary.''

Was Christopher Columbus on a religious crusade?

2011-10-12T13:55:00.000+07:00

Two recent books argue that the Basque explorer Christopher Columbus and da Gama which is closer to Christian crusader mercenaries and adventurers eager audience. Other historians, however, remain skeptical.

The book was published in the week before Columbus Day (Oct. 10), a statement of the reasons famous sailors looking for a direct route to trade with India to destroy Islam.

"I think historians will know about it, but not seriously," says Carol Delaney, author of Delaney, a retired anthropologist, is currently a researcher at the University of "Columbus and the quest of Jerusalem . "Brown.

Delaney book argues that Columbus wanted to find gold fund a new movement to regain Jerusalem from the Muslims, the belief that Jerusalem should be in the hands of Christians before the second coming of Jesus.

"People do not usually look at Columbus in the context of religion in his day, which is very strong," says Delaney.

Nigel Cliff, author of a new book on Portuguese contemporary Basque da Gama, Columbus, agreed that the explorers to see through the lens of religion Historians in the 19th century "change of emphasis." Tends to regard regard Columbus as a heroic figure who started the "intellectual adventure interested," while in the 20th century tended to "focus on the economy, to the exclusion of much more," he said.

Cliff said the economic benefits alone is not a medieval concept.

"Faith is a matter of burning a big push Portugal (navigational) campaign 80 years ago," says Cliff, a writer and amateur historian.

Da Gama became the first person to reach India by sailing directly from Europe around Africa in 1498, six years after Columbus discovered America for the king and queen of Spain.

Cliff was a book, "Holy War", said Da Gama is coming to East is the defining moment of the supremacy of Christianity in the Islamic world trade as part of a course of "clash of civilizations. "

However, other historians say claims new book "dare to be supported by a grant from the poor. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, a historian at the University of Notre Dame, who has written extensively about Columbus, condemned the book in The Wall Street Journal.

According to him, Cliff Delaney and "do the truth and authenticity of the sources of uncertainty, author and date are not reliable" and that the error in Columbus on his word even though it is well known fake.

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA historian who has written about da Gama da Gama said that the religion of the browser is more interested in "personal development" and ensure "meaningful, but not the only reason." Trade route that is controlled by the Portuguese nobility than the crown.

Fernandez-Armesto Cliff called the theory of "clash of civilizations" between Christianity and Islam ", a product of the imaginations of contemporary" Subrahmanyam said it was "great story for those with connection with timely events. "

According to Subrahmanyam, "no evidence whatsoever" that da Gama want to recover Jerusalem and prepare for the coming of Christ, although there is some evidence that Columbus may be their ambitions.

For example, Delaney points to the mysterious "Book of Prophecy," a compilation of biblical statements about all that seemed divine the meaning of the voyage of Columbus. The book should be drafted by Columbus himself.

Fernandez-Armesto also noted that the Spanish judge who commissioned the voyages of Columbus has long been obsessed with the idea of Jerusalem.

However, "there is no evidence that Columbus particular religion ... until he consulted with God after failure of worldly ambition, "he said. Columbus died a disappointed man because he can not find the quantity of gold and part in India he asked.

At least, the debate about the books show that Columbus remains a controversial figure, more than 500 years after he sailed the ocean blue. "Everyone seems to have a personal interest in their version of Columbus," says Delaney.

Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal organization, named after the explorer. Pat Korten, a spokesman for the Knights, said that the piety of Columbus is a "significant" reason for the name of the group.

"The Knights of Columbus was always seen as a major religious man, no doubt about it," says Korten.

Another factor is the strong anti-Catholic, when Knight was founded in 1882. When you connect better with the popular figure of Columbus, said Korten, the Knights sent the message, "We are as American as you we got here first!"

Despite the popularity of Columbus fell during the 20th century, the Knights are not "ashamed" of his name, says Korten. I have not heard the theory that Columbus would finance a crusade to recover Jerusalem.

If a wrong theory is that they spread, Subrahmanyam blaming "commercial (edit) press" not to submit their manuscripts to the same rigorous peer review and feedback of academic publishers.

Fernandez-Armesto, meanwhile, blame the writer.

"If you take refuge in other disciplines in the belief that history is easy, without bothering to do basic work," he wrote, "deserve to fail."

‘Girl Fight’: Florida beating story inspires Lifetime movie

2011-10-10T14:23:00.000+07:00

"Girl Fight" was inspired by the history of Florida, Lakeland teen-beat event that became a YouTube sensation in 2008.

But it soon became apparent that we are not in the state of Florida. There is a mountain in the movie, which opens at 21:00 am on Monday in life.

"This guy must be from Florida, but was shot in Canada," says Benita situation "Bonnie" Garvin.

"Girl Fight" is trying to tell a larger story of Victoria "Tori" Lindsay, women were attacked in Lakeland. The filmmakers have the right to life is the family of Lindsay, and then go their own way, said Garvin.

"You have a story, begins to investigate," says Garvin. "I do not agree with the requirements of the network, who embellish. Was inspired by his story, but I do not see it as a story. This story is universal. "

Garvin's family spoke with Lindsay on the phone for some time. Members of the family movies have different names, including dialogue and situations created by Garvin.

"It would be unfair for me to be based on it. I do not know them quite well, "Garvin said. "I'm really in the spirit of history, not reality. There is a sign that hit on television, and that an announcement is coming. You should play with it. TV is not intended as a documentary. If you want real life, there is no need to switch to the movie for him. "

"Girl Fight" sends a message of forgiveness, the star said. Jodelle Ferland, 16, plays Haley, who was attacked by teens. "It was a normal girl trying to fit in," said Jodelle. "How came through it [the attack] has shown great courage. He was angry about that, but he never wanted revenge. "

Anne Heche and James Tupper, who is a partner in real life, playing old Haley.

"One of the most beautiful things is the way our children can teach us something. We must be open to his wisdom, "says Anne Heche. "My character comes to understand that he receives a pardon."

This film gives the keynote address Heche Garvin, said in court about what really happened.

"We struggled in the final film," says Garvin. "Ending a mother come true in an area set aside their own anger, and suddenly I saw the children and see them as children. It was a case in which there are toughie. "

Tupper said he read the script before the study was inspired by a true story. "I was surprised," he said. "The parents of our generation to address new problems created by technology."

He described the film as a lesson, and that helps families facing problems such as violence and resolve conflicts. He said he had signed on to do "Girl Fight" because of the way it ended.

"It was a very emotional and I hope people learn from it," he said.

Heche says she does not know the history of Lakeland, good, and says the film will help people to speed.

"What may help parents understand what is happening to our children is very useful and feasible to do," he said. "I have children, too, and I want to know what to look out for. You should be aware of a parent, you should know about it, and should support your child. "

GIRL FIGHT (Lifetime) Advance Review

2011-10-09T14:20:00.000+07:00

All life is a premiere his latest film based on a teenager living on the edge, Fight Night girls. Girl fight Haley tells the story of 16 years, a learned man himself explained, is now available in the past year, would like to enjoy a little more. Enter the most popular girls, led by Alexa. Alexa Haley After some small favors, Alexa welcome to the fold. Unfortunately, not all of my friends became enemies Alexa felt the same and only requires a few comments on Facebook to change the anger that many young women seem to have.

You may remember the story behind it. The girls decide to take their revenge on Haley, Äútalking waste, the African Union to persuade them to Alexa, the protagonist in an empty house and took turns beat up while recording to be uploaded to the Internet for instant fame. Although women were arrested and charged before a movie at home has never been loaded, the prosecutor and the police finally part of the video release to the media.

Against the girl Anne Heche stars as Haley, the protagonist becomes a mother, Melissa, Jodelle Ferland and James Tupper as Haley and Haley, became father opponent, Ray. All three are superb in this film. There are times I feel frustrated with Anne Heche, star as the character became too content appearing in Haley, was the behavior changes the opponent when he started dating women. Ray's way of yelling and grounding, but Melissa seems to stop and said cheerfully, Äúoh, just bad, AU or Äúit not help the African Union, without giving an idea about how to help others to let Haley do what he wants.

The story itself is interesting and stays with you long after the film was completed. How does a group move on to another girl so soon? How to decide as fast as his legs and beat him so bad and so long as they do then this movie? The only problem with the film I repeated video playback. Sure, it is the pioneer plot. However, sometimes blinking or feel free to view. Not only was there when it happened, but then we see the party when girls are going, when you see, when parents become protagonists Haley saw it, when the detectives to do when the statement, when Haley and watches others. At some point, it is too.

That said, however, will definitely recommend this movie. The film maintains a good pace over the management to keep the viewer, the flower became the enemy as a whole. The actors are all superb, even those who play the girls said the beating. And, as I said, is something that hits you and makes you think about it later.

So set the night life for girl Fight at 09:00 ET / PT and then come back here and tell me what he thought about the film.

Curtis Painter holds his own against Bucs

2011-10-08T14:05:00.000+07:00

Maybe Reggie Wayne on something again in August when, after the Colts signed Kerry Collins out of retirement to keep Curtis Painter out of court, said: "I do not even know [Collins] is not vanilla, man, with a simple crime. So that he can come here and be a starter, I do not see it. I think this is a step backwards. "

Implication is not that Collins was not able to reserve in the absence of Peyton Manning, as a lack of familiarity with the Indy offense to make a more attractive option than a painter, who has been with the team since 2009. We have the idea that last week when the painter, with the aid of an injured Collins, is useful against the Steelers.

Against the Buccaneers on Monday more than that, there was a phone call, changing the protection and enforcement of the no-crowd, Indy is not feasible to Collins in the middle.

In his first NFL start, completed 13 of 30 for 281 Yards Passing painters, two goals, and most importantly, no interceptions. (Although it is answered, sack, which is not surprising considering he played behind a depleted offensive line. Indy rookie Anthony handles disappear leaving Ijalana Castonzo and Ben at the time game.)

In the second quarter, beaten painter Pierre Garcon on a sideline route for 87 yards and a touchdown elegant 10-0 lead. (The longest was the first career touchdown pass as Charlie Batch threw the 98-page in 1998 is more impressive is longer than a regular season goal of Peyton Manning ..)

But it became a painter. Conclude with the Colts 17-10 in the third quarter, came Garcon, this time for 59-yard quality. But it is still not enough, the Bucs the lead in the fourth quarter and dumb painter bombarded by the rest of the night. Once completed, the Indy Tampa hobbled by losing 24-17.

This is what happens when you are without your franchise quarterback and key players missing on both sides of the ball.

So no, it's not always pretty, but let's face it: Painter surpassed all expectations of people, and it is positive for the Colts team in desperate need of good news. Unfortunately there are no moral victories in the NFL, and a quarter of the way through the season, Indy is 0-4.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat Indianapolis Colts 24-17

2011-10-07T13:54:00.000+07:00

Tampa - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers waited almost eight years to play Monday Night Football Raymond James Stadium and the youngest team in the league will leave an impression.

As against the Indianapolis Colts, the Bucs showed that having a baby, pushing, shoving and fighting.

And that's what they did after the beep.

Overcoming sentenced to more than a football field, the Bucs also showed the crowd in demand and a national television audience to gain and flair for the dramatic.

Quarterback Josh Freeman reached 6 feet, 6 inches from your body to a first and fundamental, and two plays later, running back Blount LeGarrette to explode 35-yard touchdown with 3:15 left in the game to give Bucs 24-17 win over Peyton Manning-less Colts.

This is the ninth win back where the Bucs have been 10 points or more from 2008, most in the NFL during that span.

"Want to go a week and play the game of football free zone, but rarely how it goes," said Freeman. "I think we showed a lot of people around the penalty - we can not change the ball - but of any disaster, we play four quarters and the last one is kind of our cosmetics, how can we do it. "

In their first three games winning streak since 2008, the Bucs (3-1) held a first place tie in the spirit of New Orleans in the NFC South.

Colts fall to 0-4 for the first time since 1998, Manning's rookie year.

Blount, who beat stomach Colts defense, rushing for 127 yards and a touchdown.

"LeGarrette is huge, just huge for us," said Freeman. "As I said, when we get to shoot big boy, it is difficult to handle. There LeGarrette together, and he is a great athlete, it is difficult to handle. "

Freeman has gone from 287 yards and a touchdown. But what a third-year career at Kansas State in his legs almost as impressive. Before the end of his knees, he ran five times for 28 yards and a touchdown while taking a key first down.

"I do not run, but I'm a little better," said Freeman. "It is what it takes to win."

As much as Bucs win, that's not enough. Tampa Bay was convicted 14 times for 106 yards.

Colts Curtis Painter, the first NFL start for beginners Manning and Kerry Collins on injured reserve, throwing objects through 87 and 59 yards to the receiver Pierre Garcon.

But the Bucs defense came big sack artist four times - two by Michael Bennett and each by Gerald McCoy and Adrian Clayborn.

"We try to treat like any other game," cornerback Ronde Barber said. "My country had the opportunity to see some of our young people take risks. That's going to show these people a little. Clearly, without (the people) have the opportunity to shine and he and LeGarrette, it's nice to kind of threat to their backfield. Nobody wants to hit the guy at the end of the game. "

The Bucs tied it at 17-17 when Freeman hit receiver Preston Parker on a 13-yard touchdown, the first of Parker's career.

Colts have a great opportunity to lead, McCoy was sacked Painter to force an attempted 43-yard field goal that Adam Vinatieri answered with 11:38 to play.

Freeman and the Bucs are vulnerable to delay the onset and Monday was no exception. Tampa Bay entered the game after scoring an offensive in the first quarter in the opener against Detroit.

The Bucs behind 10-0 in the second quarter. They could not take advantage of a field shortly after Michael Bennett fired a painter, he got the ball and recovered a fumble at the 32 yard Indianapolis. Scoring opportunity ended when Conner Barth hit the right upright with 46 field goal attempts yards.

Freeman and the offense got a boost in the second quarter. Facing first and 20 at Tampa Bay 9, arrows Freeman hum 44 yards to Arrelious Benn. After three settlements, including one from 11 yards on third down with Mike Williams, Freeman scored the second TD on the ground of many sets of one-yard sneak.

The Bucs had a chance to tie before halftime. Operate drill two minutes, five completed Freeman use to go from Tampa Bay 29-12. But facing third and two without the timeout, Freeman was sacked by Robert Mathis with 17 seconds left. The Bucs run the field goal team on the field with time running out and Barth 37-yard attempt is good. But the Bucs have 12 people on the ground and ended the first half.

The Bucs tied it at 10 by taking the kickoff in the second half and driving Barth close enough to connect to a field goal from 46 yards.

Painter starts for the first time the NFL and looked sharp early. He completed a pass to Reggie Wayne and Dallas Clark on third down to move the chains and set of 45-yard Vinatieri field goal to lead 3-0.

This is the first Monday night football game Bucs Raymond James Stadium since 2003 and ran past them at this time.

Two former Bucs coach at home - Tony Dungy and Jon Gruden, who called games for ESPN. Former Bucs quarterback Trent Dilfer and Steve Young to host Countdown Monday night and attended by former quarterback Shaun King.

"We took it," said Barber. "I never felt we were doing, but winning this week. They have some talent on the team, we know. ... Get rid of the two big plays, and a dominant performance in our defense, that ugly. "

CC Sabathia's Walked 2011-Most Five Tigers Already

2011-10-06T13:44:00.000+07:00

CC Sabathia walked four tigers in the first two rounds. There are two double-play, do not give up any runs. It also helps that the situation is not accompanied by any request.

After giving up a double by Brandon Inge at third, Sabathia has five runs in the Austin Jackson drew a free pass after failing to establish a beat.

In case you're wondering, Sabathia has not walked more than four batters in a game in nearly two full time on April 22, 2010, Sabathia walked six athletics. He lost the match, but do not throw a complete game, going 4-2 in the round of eight for the loss of the Yankees.

He is certainly a game six, and has also been doing a lot of pitches thrown. The last (so far) resulted RBI single by Ramon Santiago after he has put sacrifice bunt.

Both Sabathia and Verlander strong in the early stages, and you have to wonder whether disruption of your work - in both tone briefly suspended by rain Game 1 - plays an important role in the bizarre.

Wild CC helps Tigers take 2-1 lead in ALDS

2011-10-05T13:40:00.000+07:00

Sabathia game playoff high with six runs and Derek Jeter with two runners attacked during the last outing in a loss of 4.5 Yankees at Detroit Tigers on Monday night that blew a hole in New York 2-1 in the best of five AL division series.

"I put us in a bad neighborhood," said Sabathia bleak. "The next time you get the ball, I'll try to go out and try to help us win."

That can not be until next year.

AL East champions are relying on the unsteady AJ Burnett in Game 4 at Comerica Park on Tuesday night. Burnett was 11-11 with an ERA of 5.15 in the regular season start was pushed out of the playoffs because Sabathia in Game 1 was interrupted by rain.

"I feel good about what AJ will do for us," manager Joe Girardi said.

Sabathia was given an early 2-0 lead, but fell short in a battle of aces, part 2.

New York scored two runs in the first off Justin Verlander close the queue before a strong MVP candidate for the next round five with a 100 mph fastball and knee-buckling breaking pitch.

"Verlander has a small number," said Alex Rodriguez. "It was always a handful."

Yankees mounted a rally for the second straight game against Jose Valverde in about the ninth inning and fell short. On Sunday, Robinson Cano grounded with runners on first and second to close setbacks.

This time Jeter attacked by two, and the captain left the course shaking his head.

"I feel good about Jeter when he was there in that situation because he has done so many times," Girardi said.

The five-time World Series champion, becoming the first player to reach 3,000 hits Yankees in July, has made a career of coming through the clutch, but can not offer the last chance.

"If I do not swing, will strike anyway," Jeter said.

A Rodriguez hit for his part, and many of his teammates are not suitable for Verlander for most of the game.

A-Rod out RBI shot to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead in the first, but ended 0 to 2, with two races and dropped to 0 for 10 in the series. MVP three times, overshadowed by a knee injury and thumb, pressing almost better than .200 the last three months of the regular season.

"My confidence is always there," says Rodriguez. "I'm ready to go."

Girardi said he was not trying to change their lineup, it seems likely that he will do what his predecessor, Joe Torre, against Detroit in Game 4 of the AIDS 2006, when the star falls Tower fell to eighth place in chronological order.

Rodriguez gave the green light to swing a 3-0 pitch to Verlander violates the eighth and beat the weak in the chair behind him. A-Rod turned and answered in the next release and waste of a field that took off at 101 mph before it prudent to take a high tone, and to attract walk-in.

Mark Teixeira has also struggled. He was 0 for 4 on Monday and 11.1 in the series.

Free pass for what was intended Sabathia.

The left-hander had no loss - Rafael Soriano after giving a young man who broke the tie in the seventh Delmon Homer - but as a $ 161 million for the fight to get the ball over the plate.

It lasted from 1 to 3 innings and provided six runs - one intentional - allowing seven hits and four runs. He had three strikeouts and threw a wild pitch, with more land or the way targeting.

"I really think he has done a lot of good pitches tonight and I think the area is a small," Girardi said. "No disrespect to anyone, but that's what I thought."

Sabathia, however, refused to make excuses about how the umpire Gerry Davis called the game.

"I've never had one to see who was calling balls and strikes," said Sabathia. "It's me get people out."

The last time Sabathia, who can opt out of his contract after this season, was lost in the playoffs is October 4, 2007, when he pitched for the Yankees against the Cleveland Indians.

Control Sabathia is so out of control that even struggled to connect with catcher Russell Martin on one of the only deliberate pitch.

"I do not take the field when I can," he said.

The Yankees plan to launch their games and an expert in Game 4, if necessary, but the rain changed the initial starting rotation after 1 ½.

Plan B put Burnett on the mound and not a root of New York is very excited about it.

Burnett signed a five-year contract for $ 82500000 Yankees during the successful season in which he spent $ 423.5 million to add two years ago, Sabathia and Teixeira.

The law has not fulfilled its part of the deal, but he has the opportunity to quickly pay dividends if you can help prevent the Yankees eliminated the Motor City.

"I'm not going out and trying to prove anything," says Burnett. "I'm going out and trying to win a game."

Amanda Knox now free in Italy

2011-10-04T13:18:00.000+07:00

Perugia, Italy - Amanda Knox was released from prison Monday, a woman is free for the first time in four years, after the Italian appeals court rejected the murder conviction brutal stabbing death of young Americans with the British after sexual assault by the drug.

Knox, 24, grieve and then read the verdict, in a stunning reversal sensational saga cause celebre in the United States the defendant and his fellow ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito of Italy also cleared of murder 21 years Meredith Kercher in 2007.

"We are very grateful to Amanda complete nightmare," said his sister, Deanna Knox, reporters outside the court. "He suffered for four years for a crime he did not commit."

Nearly 90 minutes after the sentencing, a black Mercedes carrying Knox seen leaving the prison. Expected to board a commercial flight for home on Tuesday.

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Fatal blow to the prosecution case is a court-ordered DNA tests discredited the importance of genetic evidence used to convict Knox and Sollecito in 2009. They were sentenced to 26 and 25, respectively.

As a wave of relief swept the edge of the defendant in court, the Kercher family, who flew by sentiment, seemed confused and disoriented. Meredith older sister, Stephanie, warehouses, and his mother, Arline, look straight ahead.

"We respect the judge's decision, but do not understand how the decision will radically reversed the first test," which Kerchers said in a statement. "We remain confident in the courts of Italy and hope that the truth finally came out."

The Kerchers pressed by the court to defend the criminal verdict, and the theory of resistance that a third person convicted in the case, Rudy Hermann Guede, who acted alone. Guede, was sentenced in a separate trial, is serving 16 years.

There are two options for action: that there is sufficient evidence to uphold the conviction or partner not only committed a crime. The jury of eight members of some goals, Knox and Sollecito compensation.

The ruling was echoed through the streets of this medieval village, where Knox and Kercher comes with a lot of hope for the study abroad program for four years.

Hundreds of mostly college age, young people gathered in the square outside the courtroom scoffed as spreading the word about the release. "Too bad! Too bad! "He shouted, adding that a black man is to take all the blame for the killings.

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Knox pale, terrified and clearly out of breath on arrival to the verdict shortly after 21:30

Chief Justice Claudio Pratillo Hellmann read the verdict in a court full of fresh underground journalists. Within five minutes, good luck Knox reversed.

"The Court of Appeals Perugia ... ordered the immediate release of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, "said Hellman.

Knox jury upheld the criminal conviction of defamation for accusing the bar owner Diya "Patrick" Lumumba to carry out the murder. I set a sentence of three years worth of service time. Knox in jail on November 6, 2007, five days after the murder.

After the verdict, Knox dropped his head into tears, and backed by lawyers from both sides of it.

Prosecutors said they will appeal to the country's highest criminal court, the Court of Appeals, after reading the legal reasoning, and that within 90 days.

"Tonight was the statement is false and confused", said prosecutor Giuliano Mignini news agency ANSA. "There is a serious conviction for defamation. Why is the cost? We do not know. "

"Court of Cassation set right" between the court and the appeals court, he said. Mignini said that "media pressure unprecedented" changes to a theme that played during the closing argument.

So far, nothing in Italian law prevents Knox returned home in Seattle.

In an interview earlier in the day, Kerchers expressed hope that the jury will deliberate regardless of the intense media coverage of the case.

Kercher's sister Stephanie complains that "nearly forgotten," as attention turned to Knox and its appeal. "We wanted to keep his memory alive," said his sister before the verdict.

The trial captivated audiences around the world. Knox and Sollecito, who just started dating, was convicted of Kercher murder in what the court said it began as a Sexual Assault by drugs.

Lawyers for Knox and Sollecito have been accused Guede was the killer, but prosecutors and lawyers for the Kercher family, said the bruises and the lack of defensive wounds to prove Kercher's body has more than one attacker holding a straight below.

After the verdict, the U.S. State Department has said that he appreciated the "careful consideration" the Italian judicial system occurred in the case. "Our Embassy in Rome will continue to provide appropriate consular assistance for Ms Knox and her family," said spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.

In Seattle, about a dozen supporters began hugging each other in a hotel suite in the middle.

"He is free" and "we" yell after they watch the trial on television.

The supporters also expressed their support for the Kercher family.

"This is a very sad occasion," said Tom Wright, one of the main organizers of the Friends of Amanda group, after fertilization. "They lost their daughter. Let us continue in our prayers. "

Kellanne Henry, a friend of Knox's mother, Edda Mellas, visiting family in Italy.

"This is the first night in four years (Edda) will know that their daughter was safe," said Henry, holding a crumpled tissue in her hand. "That thought is very unusual for me."

First Friday, Knox said fluent Italian court in tears that he did not kill the woman who shared an apartment with him when both were studying in Perugia. Knox often stopped to draw breath when he speaks eight-member jury in a crowded room, but managed to stay calm during a speech in 10 minutes.

"I lost a friend to the worst, most brutal, more subtle," he said. "I paid my life for things I do."

Knox said he always wanted justice for Kercher. "He has a room next to me. He died in our own apartment. If I was that night, I want to die, "Knox said. "But I do not exist."

"I do not kill. I do not rape. I do not steal. I'm not there, "he said.

In his speech to the jury, Sollecito said: "That hurt anyone, never in my life."

The charge has been delayed for an appeal when the court ordered that two independent experts using DNA evidence to link Knox and Sollecito crimes during the first test.

Since its inception, the weak point in the case of lack of motivation with the testimony of prosecution witnesses are fantastic and sometimes contradictory. So much depends on the scientific evidence collected by investigators.

Prosecutors say Knox's DNA was found on the handle of a kitchen knife believed to be the murder weapon and Kercher's DNA was found on the sheet. They say DNA Sollecito Kercher's bra closure as part of a mixture of data also includes the genetic profile of the victim.

But independent tests - ordered on the request of defense, which has always contested the results - have reached different conclusions.

Both experts found that the police investigation has been done to correct mistakes in evidence collection and testing below the level of pollution that raises doubts about the findings of DNA fingerprints in both leaf and in the grip of a bra, which was collected from the crime scene 46 days after the murder.

Prosecutors have been several hearings and a major part of closing arguments to try to deny the diagnosis, the emergence of experts and skilled, their original conclusions stand up and defend the scientific police work.

They also referred to prosecutors, the ease of Manuela called "big, rock solid evidence" that contributed to the original sentence.

"48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports Knox claims the jury in which members wept openly during his speech, on the contrary belief and that the house back. "

"I confirm that I am not guilty and should be maintained. I just want to go home, back in my life, "he told the court through tears.

Van Sant said the words brought tears Knox even in the eyes of some journalists in the room.

Minutes before, a vibrant Sollecito also addressed the court pleaded not guilty and pleaded for his release.

"Do not hurt anyone, never in my life," said Sollecito, moving as he spoke, and stopped to drink water. He said at the time of the killings in the period of his life, about defending his thesis to graduate from college and you just met Knox.

Kercher was killed this weekend were the first couple planned to spend together, "tenderness and indulgent," he said.

At the end of his 17 minute address, Sollecito removed white rubber bracelets stamped with "Free Amanda and Raffaele" who said he had been four years.

"I take it off. A lot of emotions focused on this bracelet, "he said. "Now I pay tribute to the court. It's time to take it. "

Atlanta Weather Forecast from FOX 5: September 5

2011-09-14T09:38:00.000+07:00

The rest of the summer League is still ahead of the northeast of the Depression Mississippi and Alabama, some we must together with rain rain we also runs the risk of flooding and scattered violence that may occur.

Stronger climate will close at the end of this afternoon and evening as a cold front moving South through Georgia North of interacts with the remnants of Lee. Rainfall totals could reach 4-7 "in areas north of Atlanta with 3-5″, along and South of the 20.

Because Lee and the passage of a cold front through the rain will come to an end on Tuesday morning. Cooler air expected for the rest of the week high in the top 70 years a reduction in the 80 's.

Neil Patrick Harris Serenades Gender-Swapped Adventure Time

2011-09-12T09:31:00.000+07:00

Neil Patrick Harris is the replacement of pipes geek sweet "adventure time". Excellent conversions episode Monday night, "a surreal Toon time adventure with Fiona and the cake," Earth "Ooo sobvirsivili diabetes Pendleton ward" in a world parallel gender swap.

Old adventurer Finn turns into Fionna, his Canine Companion, a magic elastic Jake transforms into a cat called cake and resident royalty Princess Bubblegum becomes Fionna's serenading sweetheart, Prince Gumball, played by Harris.

The Prince of gum will remain pink as you can tell from the above is patently super preview the clip, and he loves to watch the action babe Fionna the serious art of the sword. "Your fist touched my heart," croons him approvingly as the pisálků frown from eyeballs rushing around the romantic sunset.

At the turn of the time of the adventure is not as shaking performance Harris did Sing-a-long Blog of Dr. Horrible or the end Batman, grand: The Brave and the episode of the bold bright musical, "Chaos of the music Meister.". But it is another shining example of pop-culture reach of the NPH, who grew up in effect long enough.

Wildfire destroys nearly 500 homes in Texas

2011-09-10T09:20:00.001+07:00

Roaring fire was holding rain and hunger ranchland in the u.s. State of Texas on Monday, destroying nearly 500 houses for fast forward some blown by the wind howls from the remnants of tropical storm Lee.

At least 5,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Bastrop, about 25 miles east of Austin, and about 400 were in shelters, officials said.

Strong winds and drought tolerance of fire jump on hilly terrain, pine and cedar trees and over slightly by changing the nature of subdivisions, as well as ranchland. Blaze, as 25 000 acres along the track for about 16 miles, Texas forest service officials spent, he said.

Large plumes of smoke rose into the sky and she hung on downtown Bastrop, a town of about 6,000 people along the Colorado River. The fire was quite far from the city of Austin was not threatened, officials said.

Firefighters lined the roads outside of Bastrop and converged around the houses, as they caught fire, hoping to save them. Helicopters and planes loaded with water can be seen flying and fire. When the winds, the flames would Flare and pop over the tops of trees.

The fire destroyed in 476 households, and about 250 fire men treated the clock tractors and fire pumper trucks, said Monroe County Judge Ronnie McDonald.

Mike Fischer, Director of the County emergency management, said the fire was "nowhere near the controlled", and that he constantly increases the smaller Blaze South of the city.

T going to evacuate, but smoke rushed "then I was not a " and blacker and he was like: ' OK, time to go to the" ', ' "' Gina Thurman, Texas Workforce Commission 47, an analyst said.

"Waiting for a very frustrating thing" subject to the shelter, choking back tears, she sat by himself in curb, outside of boarding to the Catholic Church in the shadow, one of several sites in the farm. You're sitting there ", and Don 't know anything, but ', what is likely to be burned."

Rick Blakley, 54, was among 30 people who slept on camp beds in the Church. He said, he was in a State of shock and "do not to anything to be permanent" when he has finally returned home.

"I just Don 't know that my DocumentsMy will do," he said.

The new outbreak was caused by Governor Rick Perry to return home to Texas, cutting short a visit to Charleston, South Carolina, where he was Campaigning for the nomination of the Republican President. It also canceled the trip in California.

Perry fire out of thin air and a consultant to local officials. He said that the fire was routine "Surreal" comments found.

"I've seen several large fires in my life," he said. "It's like tool, look like I have ever seen, in particular because it was so close to the city. «

From December fires in Texas claimed 3.5 million hectares, an area the size of Connecticut, said Perry. The fires have destroyed houses more than 1,000, he said.

Perry said it was too early to say whether he would be absent Wednesday GOP in California.

"I have to pay attention to politics now," he said. "It is a lot of time. Is the life of the people and their assets are at risk, and that it is much more important. " "

Soil mobilization of the authorities and the air force to combat the largest of at least 63 fires that broke out in Texas since Sunday as wind of what than Tropical Storm Lee was swept Texas, which has suffered the worst drought since the 1950s.

"It still put up a lot of smoke and the frightening" Jan Amen, Texas Forest Service spokeswoman said.

Schools and activities associated with the school cancelled for Tuesday.

There are reports that no immediate damage and officials said they knew the inhabitants not stuck in the House.

On Sunday who die, but about 200 km North-East in Gladewater, the 20-year-old woman and her 18 month old daughter undeclared fast-paced by mobile home except. Fire is Monday, although it is still that a number of other large fire burning in at least four countries in Central and Northern Texas.

Said that at least two-thirds of 6,000 acres in Bastrop State Park had been consumed, Mike Cox of the Department of wildlife and parks of Texas. All non-essential workers were ordered to leave the Park.

"All I see is a wall of smoke," said Cox from the front gate of the Park. The Park is home to several historic rock and stone buildings, civil protection corps in the 1930 and 1940s.

"We are trying desperately to rescue them, Cox said." " "Fire closer and closer to that part of the Park."

It is also the home of Houston Toad, a species of 2 to 4 inches of Toad who appears on the list of endangered species since the 1970s.

Officials were unsure how the fire started Bastropu, but it turned out that two fires merged into the fire "monster", he said, "Amen."

West Austin in Travis County, Texas, at least 20 houses were lost, and 30 other people were injured in a fire. More than 1,000 houses disappeared under mandatory evacuation and 25 in the third fire in Austin area.

Texas suffered more than his fair share of devastating storms, including Hurricane IKE three years ago. States, however, would have appreciated the rain, tropical storm Lee poured on the easternmost Coast Gulf States.

Instead, Texas took the winds n Lee that the next cold front of the number of blazes in which crews responded almost 21,000 fires, because traditional fire season began early, in conjunction with.

Outdoor burning, including campfires and burning debris, prohibited in all but three counties 254 in Texas.

The Governor said that at least 40 aircraft the Texas forest service were involved-fighting Monday along with half a dozen military aircraft in Texas. From the beginning of the season, local and State Fire Firefighters responded to more than 20 900 fire more than 3.6 million hectares.

Joyce Payne, 62, and her husband Mac said they escaped from his home in Bastrop-area Sunday evening. Request response sent by the speakers on fire trucks, she said, her home since 2006 now passed.

"We had a swimming pool," said. "So bad it was ' t way pump this water back out."

She said the men told her she would cry and added: "I want to cry."

Graczyk said from Houston. Associated press photographer Erich Chlegel have contributed to this report.

Another Young Athlete Dies From Apparent Head Trauma

2011-09-08T09:13:00.000+07:00

Last week, Derek Sheely, a fullback for Frostburg State University (Maryland), lost consciousness during a typical high school in football. Less than a week later, the 22-year-old died due to head trauma suffered by the sport, according to his father, who spoke on the New York Times.

As in our "Knocked Out" cover story, the shocks can be much more disastrous for participants in youth sports, in comparison with adult athletes.

In 2004, Denver area teen Jake Snakenberg collapsed and died after hitting his head in football twice within a week. In the 2008 high school football linebacker Ryne Dougherty, coma, and died after his second serious blow to the head in a month.

Both children were later found to have succumbed to second impact syndrome, a rapid swelling of the brain in a person who has suffered a second concussion before symptoms first disappeared. At the time of writing, had not been determined Derek Sheely official cause of death.

Chris Nowinski, founder of the sports legacy Institute–of that a company invested in the study, treatment and prevention of brain injuries suffered by the athletes–says that the Agency has published a project with ten points to try and save the game of Football without diluting. This includes changes to rule a helmet-to-helmet collision, reducing the visits in practice and training for every athlete, parent and coach about concussions.

"I have real concerns over what 's age-appropriate, knowing how vulnerable developing brain is. I also have concerns over what kind of football is suitable for children, "Nowinski tells the Houston Press. "Football is an adult game that we started to let the children play and that is an experiment. I think the evidence is beginning to accrue that it wasn't a good idea. "

As of the time this article was published, Derek still ' in Facebook account according to Germantown, Maryland, Frostburg State University, and worked in the United States Department of energy.

One of Derek is the favorite quotes, close to the bottom of the page in the list was one of the Late John f. Kennedy on the change of location: "Never pray for easy lives. To pray is stronger than the men. "

Four score in Loyola women's soccer 4-2 win over Saint Louis

2011-09-06T09:11:00.000+07:00

Four women of Loyola University Maryland players–Lauren Norcia, Nichole Schiro, Kelsey Reid and Nicky Alagna–scored goals and defeated fellow Jesuit Greyhounds Saint Louis University, 4-2 on Sunday afternoon at the complex of athletic Ridley.

Norcia had two assists for a career high four points. Juniors back, had three points in it plus two years earlier at the Loyola. It was also the first Greyhound to record two assists for the game by Kelly Farrell against UMBC on 22 September 2010.

"It was great to see Lauren Norcia get involved offensively today", said coach Katherine Vettori. She did an excellent job, pushing up from the back and assist our attack… I was happy to see her get the goal and two assists. »

Didi saves a dog playing with four or more goals seven minutes after Haracic, including a range of.

Billikens (1-4-0) grabbed the early lead in the competition, Mary 0 1 Cincinnati controlled loose ball as the ninth minute of the game finished in the lower-right corner of the network.

Chrtů (1-5-0) reacted quickly, two goals in less than six minutes to lead 2-1. Norcia-first, rifling a shot from 24 yards hit the underside of the cross and entered into the back of the net for his first collegiate goal in 14 minutes. Junior Gigi Chantal Mangione and the student should have the assistance of roaming on the game.

Norcia and then on the second goal, play a long ball over the defence of St. Louis a dribble Schiro, who hit the ball over charging goalkeeper and ended in an empty net. It was the second goal at the weekend to Schiro and 26 of his career, placing her fifth career graph of Loyola.

Greyhounds finished the line without the answers to three goals in the second half when Norcia handed a perfect corner kick found the head of the Kelsey Rene, who finished the goal on the left side of the net from six yards. It was the first goal of Rene, as Hort and gave 3-1 Loyola in the 51 minute advantage.

Saint Louis tried to climb back in the League, such as the reduction of Alli Reimer Greyhound lead to 3-2, with the goal of many minutes of recovery.

Loyola added the insurance goal in the competition, along with the Commander, Europe again with Schiro in 12 minutes. The language of Okemos, Michigan, dribbled the ball beating flax bottom right two defenders of St. Louis and playing ball box Alagna Nicky Center, which, in his right foot inside the keeper Beat, and that the final Score 4-2.

Assist in providing a total of six points for the holidays and put La Schiro for fifth all-time in career points at Loyola with 61.

Four goals, greyhounds are the best for the team as the team defeated Ion year 5-0 October 16, 2009.

"Overall I was very pleased with our performance today," said Vettori. "We threw the ball around pretty well and a more rear. I was very happy, we disable the angle of preparoitujen. Didi continued also in the United States, the great work done on the network. "We still have some of the things that are working on, but this was a good effort today."

Mainers feel the effects of Va. quake

2011-08-30T15:34:00.000+07:00

Portland, Maine — Southern Maine felt the effects of the earthquake magnitude 5.9, which rocked the Virginia and its environs Tuesday afternoon.

Soon after the BDN tweeted the news, people reported feeling the quake in Portland, Brunswick and Yarmouth.

"I'm in Portland and I felt, although it was very slight," said Kyle Cronin.

"Yarmouth, feel it," Luke Thomas said on Twitter. "Thought it was a train".

Thomas, a student of the University of Maine in Yarmouth, was enjoying a day when the rumbling is occurred.

"I kind of feel the shake and I was rather surprised, at first I thought the washing machine in the basement exploded," he said. ' I asked my girlfriend, ' do you feel shaking House? ' He was like, ' Oh it must train. ' "

Thomas said that the earthquake lasted about "20 to 25 seconds."

Holly Shelburne, who works in the communications and public affairs office-Bowdoin College in Brunswick, said the University had a Facebook page, numerous responses about the earthquake.

"I was active on Twitter and Facebook at the time, and you see all people and our tweeting about earthquake alumni."

When Shelburne started to feel the quake, he thought that it was building.

By BDN columnist Matthew Gagnon is based in Washington, D.C. He was on the 14th floor of his building when he felt the quake.

"At first it felt like the wind squash encircling his type really is," and then it kind of put down for a second, really aggressive for 10 seconds., you can't see the buildings shake.

"Strange things were pretty quiet," he said. "Pumping the air out of our House was very orderly, very quickly."

Maine Natives who live in Virginia also shared their experiences Tuesday's quake.

Nadezhda Cairnie, Sangerville, Maine, native who lives in Chesterfield, Virginia, about 60 miles from the earthquake's epicentre, said the noise at first sounded like a truck, going to her house, he got louder and the ground started shaking.

"He gradually obtained larger and larger, and then you realized that it was an earthquake," she said. "You don't think that you will never have an earthquake, VA. especially big."

Kern said "it shook the whole House, everything started shaking, furniture started moving, swaying curtains". She and her daughter, Hayley, combining pristine younger children, and everyone went to bath downstairs. "It looks like it took forever to stop; it's just keep going.

Her husband Russell Cairnie, Richmond, Epicenter, about 20 miles high rise buildings in building a working in one of his accountant, why the ongoing construction in the area before the employees slowly started I thought the earthquake, he said. Earthquake grows, overhead doors for open and closed, shaking the building started and fell to the pictures of the desk, he said.

"It was quite violent," he said.

The effects of the earthquake could be felt all over the area of Hampton Roads of Virginia, including 121 miles in Newport News, Virginia

George and Kathy Wade were both in their home riverfront Ferguson Cove, within 5 kilometres above the James River Bridge, from before the event began.

"I was sitting in a Chair and my chair rocked," said Kathy Hamm Wade, Brewer native has lived in the area over the past 46 years. "I thought maybe I didn't have the legs to rest are locked in. Then I looked up and the doors of France between Florida and the kitchen swinging back and forth and the lights all sway.

"We just came off in check around the House," he added. "We do not appear to damage all."

Wade called for her husband, Maine Maritime Academy graduate and retired Vice President of the Newport News shipbuilding and docking, which was at the top, at the time.

"The whole House, I swear, swayed back and forth. George said that he thought it seemed like it was going up and down, "she added. "I feel like I was in a kind of Busch Gardens ride for a while."

Wade estimated that the effects lasted for about six or seven seconds in all.

"The newspaper daily press [Newport News] registered it 5.8 in the Hampton Roads area and one of the reasons it was half mile down the Earth happened, was so far, because there is only one," said Wade. "I know not, that I've always felt before." "Were there two in Richmond in last year."

Indicate recent wadek Son Chris Arts Academy the Maritime domain is currently the captain of the tugboat at the Hampton Roads port of Quake felt while on his boat.

"Chris texted me and he said," Wow, what a quake "and my son Nathan felt it inside the building at the shipyard where he works," said Wade. "Chris said water was swelling around his boat."

Although the earthquakes on the West Coast where the East Coast, Alice r. Kelley, research professor at the University of Maine said that the quakes are not unheard.

"It is unusual, but not from the system of things," she said. "The East Coast has the following small earthquake in moderate. It is not the kind of things in California or Japan. "

After learning of the earthquake in Virginia, Kelley examined that State quake history and found that only 10 in Virginia in the last 240 years have taken place.

Buildings in New York briefly shook. Government buildings in the city, including City Hall, were evacuated. The federal courthouse 26-story in lower Manhattan has watched hundreds of people were seen leaving the building. Judiciary officials were not letting people back in.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake had a 3.7 miles Deep. The Quake was in the mineral oils, VA. Louisa County.

Writers of Badalona Diana Bowley, Andrew Neff and Ryan McLaughlin and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Cairnie hope is the daughter of Bowley. Kathy Wade is aunt of the Neff.

Earthquake closes iconic Washington monuments -- for now

2011-08-27T15:21:00.000+07:00

The Washington Monument, and Lincoln and Jefferson public in wake of closed earthquake 5.8 today 's and remains closed until proper security assement can complete companion.

There were conflicting reports about whether late Tuesday, the Washington Monument – one of the most instantly recognizable symbols of the nation's capital, suffered no damage-. The Associated Press reported that a crack was found at the top of the monument, which is the tallest stone structure of world is higher Spire world , standing just over 555 feet high.

The National Park Service Posted another message on his website, that made no mention of such harm, but: "The complete NPS the previous building of the Washington Monument and found it to be structurally sound. The Washington Monument grounds are to be restored except for the plaza and the monument itself. In NPS, and inspect the Interior of the monument, before any decisions are taken on again by opening it to the public. "

Photos: Quake stuns eastern coast

The National Park Service temporarily closed the Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, and the old Post Office Tower as a precautionary measure after the earthquake, and these monuments can be already as Wednesday to a safe area.

For now, however, "the monument to Washington, because of its structural complexity, will remain closed until further notice, " says the NPS website. "

Whether NPS Memorial Martin Luther King, Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, the Memorial of World War II Memorial, the Vietnam and Korean War Memorial remain open, he said.

Puzzled East Coasters: An earthquake? No way

2011-08-24T15:19:00.000+07:00

MINERAL, Texas (AP) — the reputation of the territory of Georgia for a few minutes, it was a question: what rang? The answer — a rare East Coast earthquake, magnitude 5.8 — had much of a list of the most unused land is shaking.

In Washington and New York. Their brain is raw thought, soon turned to terrorism in small towns and rural areas near the epicenter and other guesses ran the gamut: a truck. The failure of aircraft or train derailment break wall sound extreme to extend nuclear reactors.

After all, there are no known deaths or serious injuries, but cracks appeared in the Washington Monument and the National Cathedral, which had three capstones, the destruction of the tower. Windows shattered and grocery stores in Virginia, where the earthquake was the Center were destroyed. In the White House and the Capitol were evacuated.

10.11-anniversary. September terrorist attacks only weeks ago, people are reeling under the psychological and emotional and poured from the tall buildings like the Empire State building in New York, sick with mental imagery and bombs.

Confirmed 60 flights, said, "I" accounting officer Caitlin Trupiano. "I wasn ' t wait to lift."

Chris Kardian his work from a remote parking at suburban Richmond vs fla epicenter opted for vs. prosaic and brands: he blamed his son's shaking in overhead in the playroom.

"Just thought that they had run out and be really loud," he said. "After about 15 seconds to didnt stop, and I thought, ' I don't have so many children in the House!" "

Most required only a few minutes, find out what it was: earthquake, U.S. Geological Survey said the Center 40 km northwest of Richmond, travel km under the surface of the Earth "and for a moment his words 12 million people."

The strongest earthquake shook buildings on the East coast of 67, to find and rattled nerves. There were reports of deaths, but officials in Washington said the fire was at least some of the violations.

United States Park Service evacuated and closed all the monuments and memorials on the National Mall. The Pentagon, the White House, Capitol and federal agencies in and around Washington was evacuated. Home direct dojeżdżających were fierce roads outside the city.

D.C. stressed-out mother of four, Marion Babcock, transport that is not from their usual 25 minutes spent two hours, have a reasonable thing for them tired, scared kids: "I treat them post traumatic stress with plenty of mint and chocolate cookie dough ice cream."

Between cell phones and social networks, news of the earthquake seemed to move faster than the temblor, himself.

Jenna Scanlon of Floral Park, N.Y., ended a phone call with a person in McLean, Virginia and announced to his colleagues in the Office, that there was an earthquake. Seconds later, 7 World Trade Center began to shake.

The damage scope — or lack of it — is also soon open was on social networks. Freeways is not collapsing, files on the walls of the Turkish people perverted picture frames, lawn chairs, broken, boblihids determination of milk Cup.

On Facebook, people joked with posts like "S & amp; p has downgraded the quake for a 2.0, "a theft in that rating agency recently lowered the federal Government's solvency. Another suggested that the New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a great man, had only "jumped in" presidential race.

5.8. magnitude quake released so much energy almost eight CT of TNT, was dropped on Hiroshima, approximately half of the Japanese during the second world war, the power of the atomic bomb.

But those who are accustomed to nature along the West Coast, could not help but strike "or two."

"Really all this excited about an earthquake of 5.8 they originated in East Coast. Breakfast we have here, "writes Dennis Miller California stay fixed on the line dividing Pleasanton feel at home."

5.8 speaking will not alarm could not be even in his sleep from him.

"We laugh," said 26-year-old San Francisco resident Stellamarie Hall, "but we certainly understand that New York and some urban areas not designed around earthquake."

The earthquake that devastated Japan has released more than 60,000 times more energy than w 's, but Tuesday was the actual damages. The majestic National Cathedral, Washington at least three of the four highest rocks on the central tower fell on, and cracks appeared in the flying buttresses on the East side of the Cathedral, the oldest part of the structure. The top of the Washington monument has a tear.

The ceiling tiles fell to the ground at Reagan National Airport. Smithsonian Gothic Castle, built in 1857, had smaller cracks, and broken glass. And shaking vigorously left a crack and holes in the ceiling in the historic Union Station when a piece of plaster fell near the main entrance.

The church tower and the Bell Tower of St. Patrick Catholic Church, Baltimore, were seriously damaged and the building was closed as a precautionary measure.

Reading, PA, inspectors closed a motorway bridge after the identification of the pillar of the cracks, but said later it would have been there before.

West Virginia, environmental regulators sent engineers to inspect dams of massive coal slurry to destroy the entire community, if they have been on the release of billions of gallons of waste water and not.

Amtrak said the train on the Northeast corridor between Baltimore and Washington, to work at low speed and crew have been inspecting stations and railway infrastructure before going back to normal.

Earryl Reevey, which three heart attacks and travelling home for the funeral of his brother, seen shock after getting off the train from Baltimore Penn Station in New York.

"Suddenly, I felt someone caught me and me-like a baby", such as three seconds, waving Long Branch, n.j. "I heard from some people who were screaming and thought we would derail You remember. And then everything went normal. "

Although people know about what happened with some Quake braced for the worst to have triggered the tsunami in the Indian Ocean and the nuclear disaster in Japan.

"I knew that it was an earthquake, but my idea first, ' Oh Oh my God, something / arrives at the power plant," said the 21-year Whitney Thacker mineral, Virginia, a town near the epicentre, where sidewalks scattered with stones fallen masonry and glass broken. "It was frightening."

Dominion Virginia power to close down its two reactors, nuclear power plants in 10 miles to the quake Epicenter, but said that there was no evidence of damage to the decades-old North Anna power station.

By the standards of the West Coast, where they are much more frequent earthquakes, earthquake of Virginia was gentle. By 1900, there were 40 of magnitude 5.8 or greater in California alone. Forty-three were in the magnitude 6.

But it tends to be an earthquake in the East more widely felt a lot of one, the wave travels "pretty happy of miles," said U.s. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough. "

More than 12 million people live close enough to the epicentre of the quake being felt shaking. Still feeling small new attack on the Americans to 4.8 in power.

The last earthquake was equal powers to hit the East Coast, in New York City in 1944. The earthquake was the largest record East Coast 7.3, which hit South Carolina in 1886.

Fear was in some places.

Michael Leman had been cutting grass from a neighbouring mineral when a brick began by a fireplace and raised a tank of large propane on one foot on the ground floor.

"I think tank is to distribute the ' he said, and I ran with life."

WA city ending search warrant hunt for cartoonist

2011-08-20T15:09:00.000+07:00

RENTON, wash. (AP) — the city of Renton is to stop any further efforts in the search warrant to force Google to reveal that the true name of the person who created the animated Internet video that ridiculed police and the city of Renton.

Jay Covington Renton President official, said Thursday that police so far have revealed any information related to additional criminal probe of what they called police just get cyberstalking case, search for the search term to force the Google name real filmmaker video which was posted on YouTube a search for the remainder of judge this week.

Covington, said Police believed that the Director is a current police officer. He said the continuation of an internal investigation.

Cartoon parody of all the officers in an unidentified law enforcement authority having sex in the duty on some employees receive the service, without the necessary qualifications. Renton police chief Kevin Milosevich, said that his officers and the city's several employees have objectives.

Mall of America marks 19 years in Bloomington

2011-08-18T14:50:00.000+07:00

BLOOMINGTON, Minn.–it is 19 years since Bloomington is home to the largest shopping centre in the United States.

He was on 11 August 1992, that Mall of America for the first time opened its doors in place of the old House, Minnesota and twins, Metropolitan Stadium.

Construction of 4.2 million square foot mall cost about $ 650 million.

When the Mall was opened more than 500 shops, 50 restaurants and nation/big indoor Park.

MOA site, more than 5,500 pairs from around the world have exchanged vows at the wedding chapel there.

Rick Perry's chances spurred by underwhelming Republican debate

2011-08-16T14:44:00.000+07:00

Possibility of Texas Governor Rick Perry became the forefront for the Republican nomination to take on Barack Obama rose Thursday after a lackluster showing other candidates in the biggest debate so far.

Perry on Thursday confirmed the Office he or she intends to announce that it will join the race Saturday at the Conference, Charleston Southern conservative in Carolina.

Perry, came too late for him to take part in a debate Thursday in Boston. It was important for the debate, leaving at the beginning of a hectic three days of the campaign in the State where the first meeting is scheduled to be held in the Republic in February.

Asked if the imminent arrival of Perry in the race, the candidates were educated, one describes him as a formidable and another welcoming him and Sarah Palin, she chose to stay. Palin is scheduled to make a public appearance in Iowa on Friday.

Pawlenty badly needs to revive its campaign doing well in Iowa straw poll on Saturday, the traditional test of potential presidential candidates. If he fails, he could see his remaining financial sponsor him in the desert.

Under pressure, his main objective was predictable, winner of the previous debate, Bachmann in New Hampshire and who is leading in the polls in Iowa. Reception of the signal to be patronising, "said Bachmann did little in his five years in Congress. "She has done some wonderful things in your life, but it is indisputable fact that the record of achievements and results is nonexistent," Pawlenty said, trying to compensate for its failure to exert influence on the New Hampshire debate and odivm dullness of tours.

But he picked the wrong candidate stepwise. Bachmann came back reiterating his record in Office as Governor of health, energy and trade. "That sounds much more like Barack Obama record," he said. Also raised his record on abortion, an issue crucial to Republicans.

After a series of personal exchanges, Pawlenty under her position as "illogical".

Romney free rest, who was delighted with his team. But Perry / her arrival could provide real competition at the next debate in California, in September.

Pawlenty jibes, there seemed to be prepared in advance, influenced hardly many skeptics. Others who failed to make much of an impression, included former Senator Rick Santorum, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich.

Jon Huntsman kicked off a debate He fought in the survey. Too close to the Centre for many conservative and also many unforgivable for Republicans, he worked on the Obama administration and the United States as Ambassador to China.

But his opening response was poor. Asked for a detailed plan for the management of the economy, he said: "the language" limply.

PGA Championship: Tiger Woods starts well, then slumps to 77

2011-08-14T14:39:00.000+07:00

Johns Creek, GA-An hour after they began, Tiger Woods at the top of the standings Thursday at the PGA Championship and considered as the Tiger of old. He never thought he would finish with his worst score ever at the opening ceremony of the big ring.

He opened with three birdies in five holes. He followed with three wagons of double trolley over the next 10 holes.

Woods, who went to the great link, next to the name of the Supreme Council, now Steve stryker 63 Championship began. This is a child in the Woods, John Daly and Jerry Pate, 57 years old, it should be noted next to the Basketball with 77.

It was his worst round in a major since Woods shot an 81 in the vicious and pelting rain windy Muirfield in the third round of British Open nine years ago. And it was no mystery to him how everything happened.

"Come down in the great start today, three under the early mechanical thoughts through these provides the holes. and I thought, ' I can keep on going "and game instincts and feelings," he said. "And it just blew my whole round. I'm not at the moment where you can do it again. «

Woods returned to competition last week and finished his first tournament since the masters away from golf until he was convinced that the. Injury to his left leg will not cause him problems.

Not to mention the tour today still lot of work.

Woods looked serious as ever when he walked in the putting green to start the heating. Then comes the 18-foot birdie putt on the opening hole, a wooden five aggressive of a blind shot pine straw on the 12th of pair five followed a bunker of a lie to 3 feet for another birdie.

He said a unit more than 300 feet in 14 air, leaving a wedge to 3 feet for another birdie.

"He's back! a fan cried ". Not quite.

Since the last round at Bay Hill in 2007 was made at least three double bogey in a round timber. He started the carnage with an iron four to 254-yard 15th hole this qu ' look t terrible until it landed, just on the right of the green space and in the pond.

Woods was in the sand, a dozen times.

He spoke about his old swing back while trying to learn new and said that this was the case Thursday.

What about this frustration, "Woods said" "."I thought I was playing well, I don ' t you have to do. As soon as I can go out and play and let it go and play only appearance-see fire, firing, I feel. And not available at that point. Get my engine models there. Start fighting and they can't find it. "

WATERLOGGED: at least Woods fared better than Japan teenager Ryo Ishikawa, considered a strong contender that came from the show last week in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone.

To/19-year-old has brought a swimsuit, six balls in the water and ends with a 15-over 85. greatly reduce the number of fields is missing so I came on the scene. It was so bad at times that Ishikawa said "stopped counting it."

The purpose of the second round? "The Birdies on every hole, all 18," he said.

Celiac Disease: Going Without Gluten

2011-08-12T14:27:00.000+07:00

Three years ago, my sister had a major influence during his senior year of high school. Even days after the symptoms of the flu, she felt tired after every meal. My parents led to different doctors that classified as acid reflux symptoms and a slow gastric emptying. He tested various medications for months.

"Finally, we went to a nutritionist who diagnosed me almost in place with Celiac disease, " Carly Fabris, now 20 years old, said.

Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease around the gluten. You had the disease spend properly gluten, found in wheat, flour, barley and rye. According to the Celiac Disease Foundation when they eat gluten, with CD on their thin intestine villi are damaged, which of them can spend the essential nutrients necessary for a healthy lifestyle.

Many confuse CD with an allergy to gluten or gluten intolerance, but it is an autoimmune disease, so it is impossible to catch up with such as allergies. Even if one of 133 people in the United States are affected by the disease, according to the CDF, it is often diagnosed or diagnosed at all.

"We just have really bad at finding until recently, so it is diagnosed less in the United States, " Kelly Dorfman, a nutritionist and diet in Maryland, who diagnosed Fabris, said. "The Europe and Australia have much better at catching than we have, unfortunately. One study found the average time until the diagnosis is here in the United States was 11 years old. "

Stone Bridge High School Spanish teacher, Heather Goodwin, he learned to live with the disease since October 2007. He had a thing for a long time, and digestive problems while traveling abroad during the summer, I thought it captured.

"Since my grandmother also has Celiac disease, I asked if it can be I tested, " Goodwin said. Dr. "The was doubtful that this was what was causing My problems, but has agreed to test me anyway. After the blood test confirmed diagnosis and Endoscopy. "

CD is difficult to diagnose because its symptoms are not always obviously gastrointestinal. There are several symptoms that indicate the CD, and not all obviously point to the autoimmune disease. According to the CDF site, classic symptoms are usually related to digestion; These are the most obvious symptoms. Most unexpected symptoms include delayed Puberty, osteoporosis and mouth ulcers, among others.

Dorfman could hear Peter Green, the head of the Celiac clinic Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, says that the main reason why many doctors hesitated to diagnose the disease, it is therefore no drugs to treat it, and it is easy to identify. Endoscopy is normally required, which involves inserting a tube down his throat and into the small intestine, while the patient is sedated.

"There are some difficult technical problems in the diagnosis of CD with an endoscopy," Dorfman said. "As the result of the disease, the samples have found consistently even if it is present. "

Often the results of the test for the disease is not critical, she added. The first time my sister was tested for the disease, it came back negative. Nevertheless, her doctor said she was positive that she had the disease.

[Dorfman] said i needed to take wheat, barley and rye from my diet, "Fabris says.

CDS can also be difficult to diagnose because it may entrust seemingly out of nowhere, as my sister. For many adults, the disease can be activated for the first time after surgery, viral infection, severe emotional, pregnancy or childbirth, according to the CDF.

The most important thing is that those who are suffering from a CD, do read all food labels and ask questions whenever they eat food before, "Dorfman says. "Those with CDS simply cannot reduce their need to completely avoid gluten. This means that all foods with wheat, rye, barley and spelt. Each label must be thoroughly examined and going out eating can be a minefield, patients are often given erroneous information, and then return later. "

Goodwin recommends Wegmans Food brand, which is clearly labeled if it is gluten-free. Loudoun County, it also has restaurants serving gluten-free entrees, including Manhattan pizzeria, Pizza works fire and Ford 's fish Shack, among others.

Goodwin proposed that, as more people with the disease talk about it, most people will know about the CD.

"At first I hid the food I carried with me, Weddings and other celebrations," he said. "Now openly foods I eat Service packs, and I hope that people ask about this, so you can train on the disease. Many people have discovered that they also have the disease after my discussions, and I'm so glad that I was able to help them. "

Matt Damon Gets Face-to-Face With Tiger in New 'We Bought a Zoo' Still

2011-08-11T14:32:00.001+07:00

The number of new images of the "We bought a zoo" were presented. Come by the United States today, two of them offer a look at the Matt Damon as Benjamin. One sees that it is faced with an older Tiger Spar, and the other has him holding a poster with the Grand opening of the Zoo features that his son failed to draw.

Other photographs provided the first look at Scarlett Johansson as Kelly foster, grew up with zoos and remained as a guard. Adding pictures is Maggie Elizabeth Jones playing an orphan girl named Rosie, who according to the Director Cameron Crowe, Kelly in his mother's side.

USA Today also released a composite group photo together with the photographs. Join Damon, Johansson and Jones with other members of the cast, he shows Thomas Haden Church as a counter to brother Benjamin, Duncan; Colin Ford as Benjamin's son, Dylan; Angus MacFadyen as Peter Coleman; Elle Fanning as Kelly's niece, Lily; and Patrick Fugit as handyman Robin with Crystal monkey.

Based on the Memoir by Benjamin Mee, this film follows journalist who decided to move his family to abandon animal Rosemoor Wildlife Park after his wife, died of cancer on the brain. His life has run away in his day dealing with the Tigers added animal work. Working with skeleton crew Eclectic and readying for the Zoo

Why it adopted a draft, director Crowe United States today, said "I like to do things that were less than an achingly personal, ' just let use the courts to do so, create it and get the actors, as well as his love and rip will be there with you." "he added," let the joy of flooding in the experience, not just ' Let's go watch more funeral parlors. ""

Damon, talked about his character. "It's a little Act of desperation for Benjamin," he said of his character motivation for his family to the Zoo. "Hey it's impulsive, but at the same time, his deceased wife celebrated this type of adventure. It's a love story about a boy who still loves his wife. "

Cards prevail over Brewers in wild 11-inning game

2011-08-10T14:16:00.000+07:00

The battle for the National League Central begun officially.

Of course, the Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals are jockeying for position at the Department for the majority in the last few months. But the intensity in a big way in one of two competitors hot and Muggy Tuesday night at Miller Park.

Eighth season-please this match, the teams have a bit of everything.

Pregame untoward insinuations of gamesmanship by beer from Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa. Timely home runs from sources that are not possible. Players from both sides were exposed to the ball and their emotions flaring. Ejection.

After 11 rounds and a resolution.

Lance Berkman bloop single to left drove Matt Holliday with decision-making Run, giving St. Louis 8-7 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers ', which lead to its removal for games in the Division. 2½

Berkman hit than its completed a tone eight at-bats against soothing-Marco Estrada, who retired to Gerald Laird and Albert Pujols to start 11. Holliday, then came first in a single field and stole second base – his first of the year – the position of the leading NL batter's home-run scoring of Berkman.

"I've seen Holliday to steal", "said Brewers Manager Ron Roenicke."It is very wisely baserunner. Choose your time, get a little bent and well done. As a base to steal their software. "

Key went a bit bitter, but deep in its crucial for the bats, but the end result was the same: a competitive win for the Cardinals. Berkman threw out just a bit out of step and Low and with the strike zone, placing it between Ryan Braun and Yuniesky Betancourt plate Holliday.

It took eight full innings to reach base mash against Cardinals Starter Jaime Garcia last-standing to him on May 6 in St. Louis. During this time, it took exactly one bread, and Corey Hart leadoff single winding paved the way to what is Run, the first two inning.

Exploding solo homer high off the scoreboard in the second for the Cardinals 2-1 by Oktay. But the heart and another one-this is a driving de Josh Wilson-back to two runs on a 3-1 cushion stretch followed by Milwaukee.

Cardinals have scores Shaun Marcum stopped until the fourth of five was the core of this defense worse than explosion.

First Wilson which was not and reel in smash Centre in Pujols head of the conversions, after walking in Holliday, Hart failed to break on the ball allowing for runners in the second and third.

Skip Schumaker followed with a powerful grounder on the Prince Fielder, first, that hung fielder and hasty home of Pujols, rather than under some at first base threw. The start is high and off line, so that Pujols on the result.

Then Yadier Molina, reason-I with a check-swing popout by Daniel Descalso take once, before his career in the right side of the double Holliday. 069 hitter in a 6-3, allowing the Cardinals to a three-run Homer for the Brewers major coup-Garcia burst.

"Yes, it is demonstrated that it certainly hurt us," Roenicke said. " ["[Pujols] to me three times-the bullet hit, we should be thrown in the third, we should be thrown in his house. ”

Milwaukee rallied back to take the lead in the fifth. Fielder drove in the first run with a single right sets the stage for Betancourt, of all people. Shortstop, who emerged from the recession of the first half of July, launched a three Run Homer in the Twins bullpen in left Center to make it 7-6.

Betancourt, Homer drew a curtain call, getting the crowd warmed up for the 39,393, that conclusion is far from the fun of the seventh inning.

Soothing of Milwaukee Takashi Saito, newly inserted for Marcum, left Rafael Furcal and Jon Jay consecutive singles to open the seventh before removing a nest of wasps hit Pujols in left wrist with a 0-1 ball.

The game loaded run the bases for the Cardinals, finally reached a settlement of the scenario. Pujols is OK, as well as the liquidation and remained in the game. But it took all three courses in the Brewers ' seventh half for St. Louis, to extract its Pound of flesh. "

It comes in the form of Braun, who just so happens to the fireballing Cardinals relievers Jason Motte encounter. Ahead in the count, 1-0, Braun was forced to return to the plate soon after Motte 98-mph fastball Posted well within.

It didn't come on the Motte his next victim, frames, Braun, directly in the left shoulder with 97light offers. It was a game, which resulted in a warning to both sides of the plate umpire Rob Drake, not to mention the hook from La Russa, who then Motte removed from the game.

"I thought I hit it," said Roenicke. "I thought I had hit him deliberately submits. «

Braun, was walking at the same time, calmly in the first after the matter and remained in the game.

Milwaukee went on a base with one, but ' could not push through work as Betancourt appeared next, Jonathan Lucroy based on choice of extreme 5-2, and pinch-hitter Mark Kotsay struck out swinging to end the seventh.

Roenicke said: "that's time, when you really need to hit. Everyone is fired up and you we should wear down and somehow, you have to get these points. «

Francisco Rodriguez got loaded in the eighth inning scored jam thiriot to counter the possibility of the late Ryan White Sox, lost and then in the 10th inning after Molina to output the animal home plate in the third after Rob Drake called off.

Nyjer Morgan, Scott McClellan off the lead were the 10th day, down By gives the Brewers runner with anything. HART developed into her second sacrifice bunt, but subsequent groundouts, Jerry Hairston, Jr. and the Braun ended the threat.

Selena Gomez at 'Harry Potter' 'Wizarding World' Without Justin Bieber

2011-08-09T14:07:00.000+07:00

In what may have been a celebration of Harry Potter birthday visited Selena Gomez the wizarding world on Friday. We own the Night tour singer visited Universal Orlando Resort.

Selena Gomez at the Harry Potter Wizarding world by Justin BieberOn Justin, her girlfriend Thursday Bieber (no they are not cracked didn) shows up to support a Selena Gomez at the concert of her joking on the Boca Raton fanai, however. He is held on a Friday when she checked out the Wizarding world of Harry Potter at universal. She did not manage to have fun without him though.

In fact, she was accompanied by Ashley Cook, Lindsey Harper and Katelyn Clampett as the Quartet attempted to Butterbeer and met conductor at Hogwarts Express. They also took on the roller coaster Hungarian Horntail Dragon challenge, which must have been a fun ride.

His visit, Selena Gomez twitteo, "First free Harry Potter day us land my girls in Orlando Florida. Have any beer of butter. [sic] "she and her friends gal looked quite Butterbeer moustache after that." What fun! It seems that she is taking some time to relax and enjoy herself between her concerts on the tour.

Did Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Break Up? Relationship is 'All Good'

2011-08-07T14:04:00.000+07:00

When news spread, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez has broken up over the text that Bieber was sent to his girlfriend report from liquid Gomez announced that two are still together.

Collect reported that Gomez broke out after the message text view Bieber that he sent to his former girlfriend, Jasmine Villegas. But in an interview, contact music, Gomez said, relations with Bieber, "all good" Although not going to get him married.

/"No, as you like It and I'm only 19!"and he asked if he would one day marry.

According to the "daily mail" Biber girlfriend attended show in Boca Raton, Florida, along with friend Sean Kingston on 30 July, on the same day, the rumor started violently.

Bieber also surprised fans, supporting Gomez on stage during her debut appearance on July 25, where he played Justin Timberlake Cry me a river with its own track, your favorite girl. Then he tweeted, "' had # greatnight and surprised people. Felt good on stage. nothing will change. # REAL. @ selenagomez u did Great tonight. proud u. "

U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn apologizes to Obama for `tar baby' reference

2011-08-06T14:01:00.000+07:00

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — U.s. Representative Doug Lamborn sent an apology to the White House Monday for comments, which he has made on Friday during an interview with radio station Denver.

The Colorado Republican said during an interview on the fiscal policies of the Obama/linked with President Barack Obama that "like touching tar baby. "

"In don 't even want to associate with him. It's like touching a tar baby, and you get it — you know, you is fixed and you is part of the problem now, and you can 't get away "Lamborn said. "I don 't want to happen to us (the Republicans), but if it is not, or not, he still gets the correct — so — blame because his policies, to four years, managed the American people. "

Although "tar baby" is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary in "something that is almost impossible to extricate itself," he also long has been recognized as a derogatory term for blacks.

Whatever the definition is too serious heat Lamborn from multiple points of view. Two leaders of the local community a black congressman Chuck immediately condemned the comments and said he should know better.

Rosemary Harris Lytle Chapter President of the NAACP, Manitou Springs connotations of "tar baby in a phrase that says" well-known too makes use of the Lamborn of excusable.

"The world no longer views (El Paso County) as the ultra conservative, ultra right wing, Tea-Party loving gay bashing, Mecca, hatred. With two words, our own vitriolic, Congressman again sealed our fate, "said Lytle " Harris.

Diane Allen-Pikes Peak area, Philips Urban League president, said that the Congressman should be more conscious he is an example of the type to.

"I don ' t think you can just toss that phrase out and not have associated with the past," said Allen-Philips. "If Barack Obama were African American, would use the same terminology? "

In an email, spokesman Lamborn Catherine Mortensen wrote, "Congressman Lamborn regrets any misunderstanding. It meant simply refer to a sticky situation or quagmire. "

Mortensen said the district nor Lamborn or Washington offices received any complaint concerning "tar baby" "comment until Denver radio host David Sirota aired clip interview Monday morning on KKZN 760 AM.

On Monday night, Lamborn 's office sent a press release that said he had "sent a personal letter to President Barack Obama apologizing for using a term some find insensitive. "the release said Lamborn is" confident that the President will accept his heartfelt apology. "

Earlier in the day, El Paso county Democratic Party Chairman Kathleen Reeker called for just such an apology, stating that congressman statement was not enough.

I am ashamed to call Doug Lamborn Federal Representative for my community, I am "I " said Ricker. "For all we can do to convince the nation that our community is not a regression, hateful, foolish man, speaks before the idea because he believes that it is politically † invincible and invulnerable. "

His comments were Ricker immediately rejected because "cheap political shots " by Eli Bremer, and the El Paso County Republican Party Chairman. Bremer said his statement was Lamborn in a particular context, and not at all was also the color of the skin of Obama as a ' '.

"It 's shameful that nobody would try and insinuate that he was being racist," Bremer said. "I think there are people who believe that is a racist term, but what is important is not how people interpret, but as it of intention. It is very unfair to take something completely out of context and try to destroy them politically because of the same. "

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Garrett maximizes Cowboys training camp schedule

2011-08-05T09:02:00.000+07:00

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IRVING, Texas — Jason Garrett is going to have the Dallas Cowboys on the practice field during training camp for nearly as much as the new rules allow.

With a lost offseason to be made up for, and with the new coach still trying to implement a tougher work ethic than his predecessor, Garrett has tentatively scheduled the Cowboys to be on the turf of the Alamodome for four hours a day on 11 of the 14 days of camp.

Starting Thursday, the Cowboys are supposed to have a walkthrough from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., then a full practice from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day of camp. The only exceptions are both Sundays, when the walkthrough will be dropped, and the final day, Aug. 10, when there will only be a walkthrough because everyone will head back to Dallas for the preseason opener against Denver the next night.

The schedule was released Monday afternoon hours after word that the NFL lockout was ending. Players will be allowed to report to team headquarters on Tuesday and must be in San Antonio on Wednesday.

All NFL teams will be scrambling to get players in football shape, and to make sure guys know each other and the playbook, so it remains to be seen how extreme Garrett's schedule compares with others.

Regardless, it'll be a big change from the way Wade Phillips ran things last year.

A lazy, cross-country training camp is among the reasons many believe the Cowboys started 1-7 last season, costing Phillips his job. Garrett took over as interim coach and demanded everyone work harder. Practices became more physical and the team went 5-3 over the second half, earning him the job for keeps.

Things could still change, but the initial camp schedule clearly sends the message that Garrett means business.

"Coming off last year, I think we're all anxious about getting started," tight end Jason Witten said Monday.

As the team's labor representative, Witten was closest to the negotiations. He's thrilled to be going from contract details to Xs and Os.

"A lot's going to happen quick," he said. "Teams are going to have a lot on their plates, handling practice, free agency, negotiations, but that's part of the process. My perspective is to go into camp, work at your craft and all that will work itself out. You're hopeful that you can get the best team in place. The people that need to handle that — Jason, the Jones family and everyone else — they've been handling that, I'm sure, and have been waiting for this moment."

The Cowboys will be breaking in a new defensive coordinator, Rob Ryan, and several more new position coaches.

As for the roster, well, that's a work in progress.

The first priority is re-signing left tackle Doug Free, who has become a free agent through the new labor deal. He could be among the most sought linemen on the market.

Teams can re-sign their own players, plus sign draft picks and undrafted players, starting Tuesday. They also will be allowed to start negotiating with players from other teams, but can't sign them until Friday.

Trades also will be allowed starting Tuesday.

On Wednesday, the Cowboys could start cutting players. Running back Marion Barber and right tackle Marc Colombo are among those who could be dropped to help get under the salary cap. However, the team might need Colombo more if they are worried about losing Free.

Dallas also is expected to try restructuring the deals of players such as Tony Romo, DeMarcus Ware and Miles Austin to help clear more cap room.

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NFL Free Agency: Ronnie Brown Could Be St. Louis Rams' Next Running Back

2011-08-04T13:52:00.000+07:00

After Reggie Bush and Darren Sproles quickly signed and links began the Rams from St. Louis, an alternative search beat Steven Jackson before him, began the team to the conventional backup options in his short trip through the NFL free agency to search. Rumor up Tuesday was Ronnie Brown, Miami Dolphins and former starter for versatility of love, buy one of the instigators NFL critical acceptance of the Wildcat offense.

Brown, his best season in the nba draft was held on the second position in 2005, 2008, when the Division ran with Ricky Williams, and 916 meters, had an average of 2.7 to move per 10 touchdown. Already at the facility, the Rams are solid rights, they are used to divide without freaking out about Brown, Steven Jackson to find a way to reduce the workload.

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Wozniacki looks to salvage summer season on hard courts

2011-08-03T15:29:00.000+07:00

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William Shakespeare's famous, opening lines to the third act of Richard III forever linked discontent and despair to winter (Now is the winter of our discontent ... ), but there's plenty of misery to go around in the summer, too, as Caroline Wozniacki has learned.

The Dane of Polish extraction did a pretty good job of staving off the critics by locking up the prestigious year-end No. 1 ranking in 2010 without winning a Grand Slam tournament (it would have been her first). She lost a very close, high-quality semifinal to Li Na at this year's Australian Open, and even though Li faltered in the final (where she lost to Kim Clijsters), she went on to win the French Open.

Li did not have to face Wozniacki at Roland Garros, which is where we get to the root of 21-year-old's problems. She won two big hard-court tournaments in the late winter (Dubai and Indian Wells) and made the final in another (Doha), adding credence to the idea that if she wasn't gaining ground, she wasn't giving it, either. Apart from any question of how you might feel about her defensive baseline style, you had to admit that short of fulfilling the Grand Slam requirement on her resume, she was showing herself a capable and worthy No. 1 player.

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Guest blog from Alvin the MasterChef contestant: Lobsters and truffles

2011-08-01T15:20:00.000+07:00

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WOW! How can you NOT talk about Monday night’s episode of MasterChef?! Talk about BOLD moves… The night starts off with a Mystery box… actually two mystery boxes. The traditional small one on each of the contestant’s station and a GIANT mystery box in front of the judges. In the words of Derrick Prince, the box in front of the judges is “coffin sized.”

Chef Ramsay reveals the contents of the giant box… LIVE lobster. I have a confession… I’m terrified of lobster. I don’t eat it, I don’t touch it, when I see them in the grocery store, I walk on the other side of the isle. I know, not very “foodie” or “chef like” of me. It’s not killing a live lobster that scares me; It’s the fact that they look like giant cockroach monsters. Now there are a few things that would encourage me to cook/eat lobster… $250,000 is one of those things. But the rules of mystery box challenges state that you can use as many or as few of the box ingredients as they desire. I would have been brainstorming a vegetarian dish!

Derrick, Alejandra, and Jennifer are in the top three. I would have picked Alejandra’s lobster with red curry and mango salsa (if I HAD to pick a lobster dish… ewww). Jennifer wins with her baked lobster and gets to the pantry to pick the ingredient for the elimination challenge.

The theme: aphrodisiacs… The options: oysters, artichoke, or black perigord TRUFFLE… Jennifer picks the only real option: truffle. After the judges reveal the ingredient to the other contestants, they give Jennifer the option to enjoy champagne and immunity as she watches from the balcony… or to cook alongside the other contestants (and risk elimination).

In a SURPRISING move, she bypasses her free ride into the top 10 and chooses to cook. (I would have taken the bottle upstairs with me) but mad respect to Jennifer for taking the road less traveled.

The road less traveled lands Jennifer in the bottom three with her undercooked coddled egg. I think she could have used some help from an immersion circulator! (Perfectly cooked eggs every time!) Although she’s in the bottom, she’s the first one sent back to her station.

Alone stands Adrien (HATE seeing him anywhere near the bottom) and Erryn. Both of these contestants definitely had a bad day in the MasterChef kitchen. In another twist, Chef Ramsay gives Adrien and Erryn the option of acknowledging that they had the worst dish of the day and gracefully bowing out of the competition.

Erryn takes that bold step forward! If you watch closely, Adrien tries to stop him but is unsuccessful. Erryn takes his apron off and leaves the MasterChef kitchen. I think it’s clear that Erryn didn’t quit… he held his head high and recognized that he had an off day. You can’t help but respect that. Having cooked with and alongside Erryn Cobb, I can say that he is wildly talented. I look forward to seeing what he culinary successes he has in the future. In the mean time, check out his new site Cobb Cooks.

Viva Top 10! Viva Team Adrien! Tune in tomorrow to see them cook for the judge’s moms! Houstonians, the only place to watch MasterChef is Swaye Bar (3730 Washington @ Yale) Come early to enjoy drink specials and bar snacks made by your favorite freak genius! As always, I’ll be live tweeting @AlvinSchultz during each episode of MasterChef!

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Blue Cross-Blue Shield consolidating Great Falls, Helena offices

2011-07-30T15:16:00.000+07:00

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Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Montana announced on Tuesday that it's consolidating its Great Falls and Helena offices.

BCBS MT president Mike Frank was in Great Falls to inform the employees of the changes.

The consolidation will impact the Great Falls office, which handles the company's government contracts.

Fifty employees currently work at the Great Falls facility, and it is anticipated that some employees will have the opportunity to relocate to Helena.

In an email to employees, Frank wrote that Blue Cross aims to bend the costs of healthcare down and maintain the company's financial strength," adding that consolidating facilities is one way to achieve that mission.

Frank issued a statement saying, "We intend to achieve this consolidation in a manner that will minimize the impact to our customers. Further and very importantly, our colleagues in the Great Falls office are being treated with respect and honesty."

Blue Cross-Blue Shield has developed a benefit package for employees who will lose their jobs.

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Tech sends Seoul shares higher after Apple results

2011-07-28T15:10:00.000+07:00

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* Techs rally after Apple results offer both hope and concern

* Auto, steel, bank issues firm; shipbuilders lose ground

* Hyundai Heavy down ahead of earnings report (Updates to mid-morning)

SEOUL, July 20 (Reuters) - Seoul shares were poised to snap a two-session loss on Wednesday on eased U.S. debt jitters, led by tech shares after Apple Inc. announced forecast-crushing quarterly results.

"Uncertainty has dissipated about U.S. debt problems, while good earnings are being reflected," Lee Seon-yeob, an analyst at Shinhan Investment Corp said.

U.S. stocks recorded their best day since March on Tuesday after strong corporate results and renewed hope for an agreement in Washington on thorny budget issues boosted investor confidence. Groundbreaking for U.S. homes scaled a six-month high in June.

"But foreigners are still hesitating to buy Seoul shares," Lee said.

The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) rose 1.05 percent to 2,152.67 points as of 0300 GMT.

Investors snapped up battered tech shares after Apple's staggering earnings triggered expectations of higher demand for components and offered a glimmer of hope for the battered tech sector.

Shares in chipmaker Samsung Electronics gained 3.8 percent, while display maker LG Display jumped 6.2 percent and battery producer Samsung SDI rose 6.1 percent.

"Tech shares are rising after their recent sharp falls and on expectations that their earnings may not be as bad as previously concerned," Lee said.

But the euphoria may be short-lived since the outlook for the tech sector is clouded by macroeconomic concerns and because Apple is emerging as a bigger threat to Korean handset makers.

"The key is whether Intel Corp's earnings to be released tomorrow morning boost tech shares... Apple's strong results mean that it is difficult for Samsung to beat Apple," said Lee Sang-jae, an analyst at Hyundai Securities.

Auto, steel and bank issues gained ground across the board.

Hyundai Motor gained 0.9 percent, while POSCO advanced 2.6 percent and KB Financial Group climbed 2.5 percent

Shares in SK Telecom rose 1.1 percent, outperforming telecom peers after the country's top mobile operator announced a buyback plan for 201.6 billion won ($190.3 million) worth of shares.

Shares in shipbuilders lost ground, with Hyundai Heavy Industries slumping 3.4 percent and Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering sliding 3.4 percent. (Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Ken Wills)

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Murdoch scandal: How are his big US media outlets covering it?

2011-07-26T14:54:00.000+07:00

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Indeed, for about a week now, the head of the scandal-besieged News Corp. has tried to send a more contrite message. But while his response seems to have shifted in Britain, the memo appears to be having a bumpy ride across the Atlantic to his flagship US holdings.

The Wall Street Journal, owned by Mr. Murdoch since 2007, ran a lead editorial on Monday that media analysts have characterized as a mixture of defiance, deflection, and denial. The editorial reads in part: “It is up to British authorities to enforce their laws.”

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Later on it says, “We also trust that readers can see through the commercial and ideological motives of our competitor-critics. The Schadenfreude is so thick you can't cut it with a chainsaw.”

Meanwhile, Fox News, another News Corp. media outlet, has served up more than 90 segments on the Murdoch scandal, which centers on phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World, a British tabloid also among the News Corp. holdings. Yet some media critics, including James Fallows of The Atlantic magazine, have found fault with Fox News’s coverage.

In an online article Saturday, Mr. Fallows pointed to a July 15 segment on “Fox & Friends” that lumped two computer hackings, targeting the Pentagon and Citibank, together with the phone hacking done by News of the World. Bob Dilenschneider, a guest on the show and public relations expert, said, “Citigroup and Bank of America – are they getting the same kind of attention for hacking that happened less than a year ago that News Corp. is getting today?”

Fallows writes: “I submit that this could not happen at any other news organization. Rather, it could not happen at a news organization. It happened at the agitprop operation known as Fox News.”

The New York Post, another key News Corp. holding in the United States, has offered a half dozen or so short stories on the phone-hacking scandal in the past two weeks. As of Monday morning, The New York Times, which is not affiliated with News Corp., had published about 100 pieces on the scandal. The Wall Street Journal had published 35.

“This is about the future of the fourth estate,” says Richard Levick, president of Levick Strategic Communications in Washington – whether the public has lost faith in the media and whether journalism will take the lead in demanding the highest standards possible. “We have The Wall Street Journal interviewing its own corporate boss [Murdoch], saying that he has handled the crisis well, with no rebuttals,” he says.

“It’s embarrassing,” says Jeff Cohen, a journalism professor at Ithaca College in New York, referring to The Wall Street Journal’s editorial. Mr. Cohen, who was a paid commentator on Fox News for five years, says that just when that newspaper ought to take the lead in full transparency and self-reflection, “all they are doing is full damage control.”

The Wall Street Journal did not return requests for a response. Fox News also declined to comment, in particular on The Atlantic article by Fallows.

Circling the wagons is certainly understandable, says Jeff Rice, who is joining the writing, rhetoric, and digital-media faculty at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. “Markets do matter,” he says in an e-mail. “To pretend otherwise is not to be honest about journalism as a business.”

However, damage control without transparency will ultimately hurt all News Corp. products, says Leonard Steinhorn, director of the Public Communication Division at American University in Washington.

The Wall Street Journal is correct in saying that politicians should tread carefully in asking for investigations that possibly could abridge press freedoms, says Mr. Steinhorn, noting a further comment in the editorial. “But if the business side of a newspaper engages in influence peddling and buying off politicians and other forms of corruption,” he says via e-mail, alluding to what has been alleged in Britain, then it is “equally dangerous” if The Wall Street Journal were “to hide those practices behind a veil of press freedom simply to exonerate its corporate owner.”

However, late on Tuesday, Murdoch sent a letter to News Corp. employees that promises a future of accountability. His team has formed “an independent Management & Standards Committee, to determine new standards that will be clearly communicated,” the letter reads.

“[W]e will emerge a stronger company,” he adds. “It will take time for us to rebuild trust and confidence, but we are determined to live up to the expectations of our stockholders, customers, colleagues and partners. We are determined to put things right.”

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Ellen Gray: Murdoch scandal has all the elements of good drama

2011-07-24T14:59:00.000+07:00

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SO MUCH television, so little time:

* Sunday's World Cup match between the U.S. women's team and Japan may have proved to ESPN that we Yanks will watch soccer - because 13.5 million Americans can't be wrong - but are we really ready for scandal, British-style?

The 24-hour news networks seemed to think so yesterday, providing wall-to-wall coverage of the testimony of a craftily clueless and occasionally cranky Rupert Murdoch and his smooth-as-silk son James before a House of Commons committee looking into the phone-hacking scandal that engulfed the now-closed British tabloid News of the World and may threaten Murdoch's media empire.

I'm not saying the Murdochs weren't good television (though I'm still trying to figure out why the best moment, when Wendi Deng sprang into action to defend her 80-year-old husband from a man with a pie, wasn't initially clear - Fox News seemed to have the best view of the attack - but by midafternoon was everywhere).

For the purpose, however, of the seemingly inevitable movie, the subsequent testimony of Rebekah Brooks was probably more useful.

Not so much for what she said, but because of how she said it.

And, let's face it, how she looked saying it.

Brooks, the 43-year-old former News of the World editor and News International chief executive who was arrested Sunday in connection with the phone-hacking scandal, is just the kind of character who'd render a movie about the scandal watchable, with a meteoric rise from humble beginnings followed by a terrible fall.

And the fact that she's an interesting-looking woman with an unruly mane of red hair doesn't actually hurt.

So for "Hacked" (or whatever they eventually call it), I propose Julianne Moore for Brooks and Michael "Dumbledore" Gambon for Rupert. Lucy Liu could probably handle Deng's moves (and vice versa).

But as for James Murdoch, any pretty boy in a suit who can stick to a script would probably do fine.

* I'm not sure who first decided that one of the big incentives - let's just call it a prize - on ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Weight-Loss Edition" (10 p.m. Mondays, 6ABC) should be skin-removal surgery, but it kind of makes me miss the days when people just went on TV to win cars or refrigerators.

OK, so maybe a fridge would send the wrong message, but what's the right message here? That someone who's upended his or her life to lose a tremendous amount of weight shouldn't expect to be physically acceptable until a surgeon's been involved?

Or that although many surgeons reportedly recommend waiting a year or two after reaching a goal weight before going under the knife, "Extreme Makeover," which this week featured a woman who'd lost more than 200 pounds in a single year, simply can't wait that long?

Or - and here's an idea - maybe losing more than a hundred pounds in a single year is too much change for anyone's body to properly absorb and what "Extreme Makeover" is doing is simply too extreme?

* In a move that would probably never fly on a network that depended on advertising dollars - and the 18- to 49-year-old viewers those dollars chase - HBO's decided to put Dick Cavett and Mel Brooks together onstage before a live audience and just let them - talk.

Actually, the pair, who've been discussing this on and off for decades, filmed the hourlong special last December. But I'm guessing that like the men doing the talking, the show's well-preserved.

"Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again" will premiere on HBO Sept. 9.

* HBO's not the only premium network going retro for a night.

As the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, Showtime's announced the Sept. 10 premiere of "The Love We Make."

A documentary from Albert Maysles ("Gimme Shelter," "Grey Gardens") and Bradley Kaplan, it follows Paul McCartney's "poignant and cathartic journey through the streets of New York City in the aftermath of the World Trade Center's destruction," according to Showtime, as well as chronicling the planning of the subsequent "Concert for New York City."

(McCartney was on a plane in New York, waiting to leave the U.S., when the World Trade Center was attacked.)

Oh, and if the focus on the former Beatle isn't retro enough, the film itself is in black and white, shot on the same 16 mm film Maysles employed in 1964 for "What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A." *

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Lil Boosie indicted on charges of smuggling codeine into prison

2011-07-22T14:37:00.000+07:00

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Maybe you've only heard of Lil Boosie in passing, or perhaps you've never heard of him at all. His songs have never earned regular local radio play, and his influence west of the Rockies is usually relegated to street rap diehards and those who read their RSS feed intravenously.

But in the South, his influence is omnipresent, crossing racial and class divides. He's a cult figure with a mass following, a high-top faded and ferocious performer perennially enduring some sort of struggle (whether it's women, diabetes or triumphing over illegal downloading to buy a candy-painted car).

From his first days as a member of C-Loc's Concentration Camp clique to being promoted as the next Trill star by Pimp C, to his classic mixtapes, to a trio of solo albums released on Asylum Records, Boosie has earned a reputation as one of the rawest rappers in the South, a region known for unfiltered flamboyant personas.

Alas, it's also a region known for the frequency with which its most popular artists are incarcerated. Over the last few years, T.I., Gucci Mane, Lil Wayne, Mystikal and Lil Boosie have been incarcerated for various indiscretions. Yet Boosie's charges trump them all.

While it's dificult to parse his current legal woes, at the moment he is facing charges ranging from ordering the murder of rivals (a charge that could get him the death penalty) to various conspiracy charges to distribute and smuggle narcotics into a federal penitiary. And on Monday, he was indicted on charges of trying to smuggle codeine into a second state prison. The indictment comes from a May 25 charge that Boosie and two local men had been attempting to smuggle in the banned substance. If convicted, it could lead to two to four years being tacked onto Boosie's prison time.

Ignoring speculation about his guilt or innocence, it's sad to watch one of the most singular voices of his generation get shut down. With his sinister amphibian croak, Boosie rapped about many of the same tropes as his peers, but he always conveyed greater anguish, sincerity and unfiltered passion. He created music to triumph over adversity, which resonated with anyone going through any sort of woe. He also stole the show on "Wipe Me Down," which remains one of the funnest songs of all time.

Recently, a bootleg mixtape compilation of his most recent work has cropped up. Downloading it is recommended. Of local interest is "California," a paean to the streets of L.A. and its most famous cash crop.

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Reps. Cooper, Wolf call for a House vote on the Gang of Six debt plan

2011-07-20T14:24:00.000+07:00

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A House Republican and a member of the New Democrat coalition are jointly calling on Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to bring the Senate’s Gang of Six deficit-reduction proposal to a House vote alongside an increase in the debt ceiling.

Reps. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) and Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) sent a letter Tuesday to Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) voicing their support for the just-released Gang of Sixproposal, which calls for $3.7 trillion in budget savings over a decade.

“We applaud this effort and ask that you provide the opportunity to vote on this proposal as part of any request for an increase in the debt ceiling before the Aug. 2 debt ceiling deadline,” Wolf and Cooper wrote.

Cooper has been involved in New Democrat discussions over the debt limit in recent days. Members of the business-friendly coalition, which comprises 43 Democrats, talked about the Gang of Six proposal at a meeting Tuesday, and its leadership, led by chairman Rep. Joe Crowley (N.Y.), released a statement supporting a “grand bargain” on deficit reduction and the debt limit. Cooper is also a member of the more conservative Blue Dog coalition.

Wolf is one of only a few House Republicans to embrace the Senate framework in the hours after it was released. A Boehner spokesman said Tuesday that while the proposal “shares many similarities” with the outline the Speaker has discussed with President Obama, it “also appears to fall short in some important areas.”

Several other House Republicans withheld comment, saying they had yet to see the details of the plan.

Obama praised the proposal in a statement, though he stopped short of a full endorsement.

“The Gang of Six plan is bitter medicine and, while not perfect, could restore our fiscal health,” Wolf and Cooper wrote. “There is never a convenient time to make tough decisions, but the longer we put off fixing the problem, the worse the medicine will be.”

“We believe this approach deserves the full and immediate attention of the House of Representatives,” they wrote.

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JoJo LeMond wastes no time bouncing back

2011-07-08T10:11:00.000+07:00

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Six weeks ago, the 20 sections owned by LeMond, his wife, Blair, and another family burned in a grassfire that decimated thousands of acres of Texas landscape. LeMond suddenly had no grazing land, no fences and "nothing to do."
LeMond got on the phone with Canadian heeler Marty Becker, who had stayed with him in Texas last fall, when LeMond was still thinking about staying on the rodeo road, and asked him if would consider being his partner for the rest of this year.
LeMond and Becker won the first round at the Sisters (Ore.) Rodeo June 9 with a time of 4.5 seconds, breaking the arena record of 4.6 set 15 years earlier by Speed Williams and Dennis Gatz, and finished second in the two-head average behind Chad Masters and Jade Corkill (9.9 seconds to 10.0). The next day, LeMond/Becker put down a time of 4.6 seconds at the Livermore (Calif.) Rodeo, and that stood up to win the event by six-tenths-of-a-second over Wrangler NFR veterans Riley and Brady Minor.
"I have always wanted to rope with Marty," LeMond said. LeMond and Becker won the rodeo in Rosenberg, Texas, and won a round in Pasadena, Texas, last fall before LeMond decided to take his hiatus, so he had $3,144 in 2011 earnings entering the June 9-12 weekend. Becker, who has recently roped with Keven Daniel and Speed Williams, is 30th in the world with $14,332 while LeMond sits 50th with $8,636.

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JoJo covers Drake's 'Marvin's Room' -- Listen to the female response here

2011-07-05T10:08:00.000+07:00

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It's not what we'd expect from 20-year-old JoJo, but her cover of Drake's "Marvin's Room" is earning plenty of buzz around the interwebs these days.

If there are any doubts that the tween sensation who won our hearts over with her hits "Leave (Get Out)" and "Too Little Too Late" is growing up, she's doing her darnedest to make them disappear. In May, JoJo released the single "Other Chick" off her third studio album, "Jumping Trains." Based on the title alone, it's easy to see the love-triangle theme, here.

In her answer to Drake's drunk-dialing confessions, she echoes his "I'm just sayin' you could do better." Read a few of her NSFW lyrics below and listen to both of the tracks. Though she's not old enough to legally drink, we're kind of into JoJo's response. How about you?

"I hear you got a new chick,
A dancer little barbie doll.
I feel so pathetic,
But you still haven't heard it all.
F*** that new girl that you like so bad.
She's not crazy like me,
I bet you like that.
I said f*** that new girl that's been in your bed,
And when you're in her,
I know I'm in your head."

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Greinke struggles, Brewers stumble in loss to Cubs

2011-07-02T09:53:00.000+07:00

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CHICAGO – The Milwaukee Brewers came to Chicago looking every bit like a contender primed to roll over one of the league's worst teams.
It's one of those games. Kosuke Fukudome had three hits and broke it open with a three-run homer, and Alfonso Soriano and Carlos Pena also went deep.
Fukudome singled and scored in the first, hit an RBI triple and scored in the second, and delivered the big blow in the sixth when he connected off reliever Daniel Herrera to make it a four-run game. "Overall, we didn't play very good baseball and they played good baseball," the Brewers' Ryan Braun said. It's a combination of us playing bad and them playing good."
Starlin Castro had three hits and the Cubs got a shot of momentum heading into their weekend series against the Yankees.
"I talked to Rickie," manager Ron Roenicke said. Greinke was far from awesome.
The Brewers got two-run homers from Braun and George Kottaras off Matt Garza in the first two innings, but the Cubs answered each time.
Herrera came in and Fukudome quickly gave the Cubs some breathing room when he drove a 1-2 pitch to the right-field seats for his third home run. Greinke simply shrugged off his rough outing.
Fukudome had a couple hits that started a rally and drove in a run. Notes: Cubs manager Mike Quade wasn't exactly shedding tears over New York's Derek Jeter missing this weekend's series. Six hits shy of 3,000, Jeter is sidelined by a strained right calf. "I'm like every other baseball guy. I don't want this guy coming here getting his 3,000th hit," Quade said. "Zach's a good guy and works hard, he's trying to manage his stuff," Roenicke said.

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Evening of gospel music closes Juneteenth weekend

2011-06-30T15:23:00.000+07:00

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A weekend of Juneteenth celebrations came to a close Sunday with an evening of praise, rejoicing and song.

More than 350 people braved the 107-degree heat and blowing dust to gather for gospel music and performances during the Unified Juneteenth Committee's Gospel Stage Show, featuring the Community Mass Choir and local gospel talent at Mae Simmons Park.

For performers like 14-year-old Jakaja Robinson, braving the heat was a worthwhile sacrifice to celebrate Juneteenth and share their spiritual message with the community, she said.

She admitted she was nervous and intimidated by the heat before she took to the outdoor stage to sing "He Wants It All."

"At first I was like 'I don't think I can do this. It's too hot,'" she said. "But I built up my confidence and did it for the glory of God."

This year's Juneteenth events were the first organized by the newly created committee and organizers and attendees said they thought the results were a success.

"They've been able to do different attractions, to bring out the young people, to bring out the old people and bring out the children because it's about unity," said Jocelyn Clay. "It's not just the black community, it's all races and that's what it's all about."

Clay said she has attended Lubbock's Juneteenth event for decades and believed this weekend's events, especially the gospel music performances, were among the best she's seen.

Clay was among dozens who danced and clapped their hands to the gospel music of such acts at the Mitchell Sisters, the Community Baptist Church Choir and a variety of other church choirs and acts.

Others in the crowd seemed content lounging in the shade, eating an assortment of barbecue or playing football in the grass near the lake.

"The atmosphere is very pleasant; it's an atmosphere of fellowship," said Latrice Godfrey, president of the commission.

Godfrey said organizers created the commission as a way to start anew the Juneteenth events of the past and revitalize the city's celebrations of the June 19 holiday.

Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of slaves in Texas at the end of the Civil War in 1865.

Godfrey said she was excited by what she thought was a surprising turnout at the weekend's events despite the unsavory heat and wind.

"I think it has been excellent," she said. "I think it means when you add a little bit of every community it makes a difference."

The Juneteenth commission's events included a Friday evening reception honoring late civic leader Eddie Richardson, a Saturday morning parade through east Lubbock and a community talent showcase featuring former American Idol contestant Jerome Bell.

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With Zach Greinke struggling, Brewers stumble in mistake-filled 12-7 loss to Cubs

2011-06-29T09:44:00.000+07:00

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Instead, the NL Central leaders dropped three of four, leaving town after a mistake-filled 12-7 loss to the Cubs on Thursday in which Zack Greinke and everyone else they sent to the mound got hit hard.
“It’s going to happen to the best teams,” manager Ron Roenicke said. Usually, you get five runs and I feel great about the ballgame. It’s one of those games. Kosuke Fukudome had three hits and broke it open with a three-run homer, and Alfonso Soriano and Carlos Pena also went deep.
“Just the way it occurred,” manager Mike Quade said. “We haven’t played great baseball, but there were a lot of plays today ... there was some execution today that I really liked to see.”
Fukudome singled and scored in the first, hit an RBI triple and scored in the second, and delivered the big blow in the sixth when he connected off reliever Daniel Herrera to make it a four-run game. “Overall, we didn’t play very good baseball and they played good baseball,” the Brewers’ Ryan Braun said. I don’t think they’ve played up to their expectations to this point. It’s a combination of us playing bad and them playing good.”
Pena put Chicago ahead 6-5 with a leadoff homer against Greinke (6-2) in the third. Soriano added a two-run shot in the seventh off Sergio Mitre, making it 11-5. Starlin Castro had three hits and the Cubs got a shot of momentum heading into their weekend series against the Yankees.
“I talked to Rickie,” manager Ron Roenicke said. Greinke was far from awesome.

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Billie Holiday ends her set with Strange Fruit

2011-06-28T15:12:00.000+07:00

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Early in 1939, a New York teacher called Abel Meeropol – aka Lewis Allan – wrote a song inspired by the lynching of two black men in the deep south. In April of that year, he went to New York's first integrated club, Cafe Society in Greenwich Village, and was introduced to the cult venue's star turn, a young Billie Holiday. Meeropol sang Holiday his song and gave her the lyrics; a week later she ended her set with it, leaving her audience stunned.

The jazz world is suspicious of Strange Fruit. It hasn't really become a jazz standard and has probably been covered by more pop stars (Robert Wyatt, the Gun Club, Jeff Buckley …) than jazz musicians. But it remains a key moment in jazz history, not least because it explicitly addressed the civil rights struggle that black jazz musicians had implicitly been a part of. Sonically, Holiday – who had learned her craft in the bands of Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson – puts in a performance that exploits fully the dynamic potential of the recently developed microphone, something that would become increasingly important for any jazz singer.

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Planning Her Own Holiday

2011-06-27T15:10:00.000+07:00

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In 1996, Madeleine Peyroux was recording her first album, "Dreamland," featuring trumpeter Marcus Printup of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra as a sideman. At the time, the LCJO was preparing for a concert of film music by Duke Ellington, including a number originally sung by Billie Holiday. The orchestra needed someone to sing Ms. Holiday's part, and Mr. Printup recommended Ms. Peyroux.

Although still an unknown quantity to the jazz world, the then-22-year-old singer-guitarist from Georgia so completely captured the essence of Lady Day with her rendition of "Saddest Tale" that she gave chills to all in attendance.

Yet when her album came out, and in subsequent appearances, jazz purists didn't know what to make of Ms. Peyroux: "Dreamland" had several numbers associated with Ms. Holiday and Bessie Smith, as well as signature songs of Patsy Cline ("Walkin' After Midnight") and Edith Piaf ("La Vie en Rose"), but Ms. Peyroux was decidedly not rendering these songs in a "jazzy" way—she wasn't swinging them as, say, Ella Fitzgerald would.

Fifteen years and five albums later—her latest, Standing on the Rooftop," was released Tuesday—Ms. Peyroux is still confounding expectations.

"I know there's various opinions about what a jazz vocalist should do," she said in a phone interview from her Brooklyn home. "But I think we've really lost the context of the original term, because it's been a long time. I don't know that it really matters any more."

Ms. Peyroux plays jazz clubs and festivals, and she occasionally sings jazz standards. She also still has a distinct tonal similarity to Ms. Holiday, a deep southern accent that almost gives her a genetic predisposition to sing jazz and blues. But I was reluctant to ask her about Ms. Holiday, as it's clearly a sore point. Every reviewer compares the two, and several jazz headliners who double as comics, like John Pizzarelli and Ann Hampton Callaway, have built comedy routines around the similarity of the two voices.

"I don't know how you can avoid sounding like your heroes," Ms. Peyroux said. "If I hear a really definitive version of a song Billie Holiday did, which often is the case, it's all the more difficult."

In truth, her sound is reminiscent of Lady Day's, but that's about it; she does not copy Ms. Holiday's arrangements and she does not have her remarkable sense of time. In fact, Ms. Peyroux rarely if ever sings in swingtime. Rhythmically she's more like a country or a folk singer—more K.D. Lang (with whom she recorded Joni Mitchell's classic "River") than Sarah Vaughan.

In many ways, Ms. Peyroux's blend of jazz, pop, country, blues and folk music has been a precursor of the formula that has sold millions of records for Norah Jones in the last decade, and the archetype for the generic, all-purpose voice that is inescapable these days, when almost every singer that comes over the loudspeaker at Starbucks offers some variation on the Peyroux-Jones sound.

"Rooftop," Ms. Peyroux's sixth album, includes eight original compositions and four fresh interpretations of songs by iconic authors, including John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the opener "Martha, My Dear," and Bob Dylan's "I Threw It All Away." Her treatment of Robert Johnson's hypnotic blues "Love in Vain" is so stark as to portend a coming apocalypse. She also covers the poet W.H. Auden with a new setting of "Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love" devised by guitarist Marc Ribot.

Ms. Peyroux describes the album as "rootsier" than anything she's done before, and other than her voice—which still sounds vaguely like Lady Day—there's no attempt to replicate the sound of a traditional jazz singer. Which is a good thing: She's doing what comes naturally, even if that means, in her case, sounding like somebody else.

"Right after 'Dreamland,' it became obvious to me that it was my journey to look for my own voice in all these things, with Billie Holiday's help," she concluded. "And not without her."

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Dave Chappelle comeback rumors swirl: don't call it a comeback?

2011-06-26T09:38:00.000+07:00

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It's been over a half-decade since Dave Chappelle said no thanks to a $50 million offer from Comedy Central and left the top-rated Chappelle's Show during it's third season for Africa. True to his word, Chappelle has stayed away from TV in the six years since his bizarre exit from Hollywood. There have been rumors floating around for years that Chappelle was planning a comeback to television. Today saw renewed interest in the subject when an online news source, The Daily, reported, "the beloved comic is planning a new TV show with a paid subscription service like Netflix, Sony’s Crackle, or Hulu, which are now competing in the original programming game." Chappelle cited struggles with Comedy Central brass over creative control on his show and if he were to make his return on a service like Netflix -- as opposed to a traditional broadcast channel -- he would, ostensibly, have free reign to do whatever he wants. A major Hollywood star making the jump from TV or the movies to Netflix isn't completely unheard of: the service has recently recruited David Fincher and Kevin Spacey for an original program called "House of Cards."
Unfortunately, like all of the other Chappelle's Show comeback rumors, this one seems to be bogus. Entertainment Weekly looked into The Daily report and was able to obtain a comment from a Dave Chappelle representative. Carla Sims, the rep, calls the rumors "absolutely untrue."

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Tayrn Chuter of Corvallis crowned Miss Montana 2011

2011-06-25T15:04:00.001+07:00

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Glendive — Taryn Chuter, 23, of Corvallis, won the title of Miss Montana and a chance to represent Montana at the Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas next January. Until then, she is Montana’s ambassador, speaking to schools and at conferences and special events. Her platform is educate and motivate: preventing childhood obesity.

Chuter won a $5,000 cash scholarship, plus $11,500 in applied scholarships and many prizes, including a silver service tea set that Mitchell Oil Field Service has been giving to Miss Eastern Montana or Miss Montana for 29 years.

Chuter tore her ACL in college track and has had a year and a half of rehab, but was still able to win the talent competition with her lyrical dance. Daughter of Page Thomas and Chris Chuter, Tayrn won the preliminary swimsuit and evening gown contests in the two previous nights’ competitions.

First runner-up was Veronika Ohlinger, of Cooke City, singing “Black Velvet.” She also won the Spirit and Leadership Award given by the production staff and $2,500.

Chantell Bury, 20, Glendive, was second runner-up, winning $2,000 in a cash scholarship. Bury was voted Miss Congeniality by fellow contestants, and voted most photogenic by Right Impressions, the official photographer for the week. Bury also won the Miss America State Community Service Award of $1,000.

Third runner-up Gillette Vaira, 24, of Lambert, was Thursday night’s evening gown winner and received the Miss America $1,000 Scholar Academic Award and the interview award.

The Miss America Scholarship Program is the largest contributor of scholarships for young women, giving out $45 million last year.

Fifteen-year-old Jalyssa Gorder, of Sidney, was crowned Miss Montana’s Outstanding Teen Friday night at the Dawson County High School auditorium in Glendive. Daughter of Shane and Lisa Gorder, she won a $1,000 scholarship and will represent Montana in Orlando, Fla., in August. Gorder performed a lyrical dance to “Jar of Hearts.” Her platform is stay active, stay fit, be healthy.

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Erin Hatley wins Miss Tennessee 2011 title

2011-06-24T15:00:00.000+07:00

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Its Erin Hatley, a gorgeous lady with a beautiful voice, dedicated to promoting volunteerism who will be representing Tennessee at the Miss America 2012 pageant, next January in Las Vegas.

Saturday night saw the crowning of Erin Hatley as Miss Tennessee 2011 by outgoing Miss Tennessee 2010, Nicole Jordan.

Erin and Nicole had been friendly rivals at the Miss Tennessee 2010 pageant, when Nicole ran as Miss Lexington and Erin reigned as Miss Walking Tall, Examiner reported.

Erin is hopeful of winning the Miss America crown after Miss America 1947 Barbara Jo Walker and Miss America 1986 Kellye Cash, both from Tennessee.

Erin studied Hospitality and Resort Management at the University of Memphis.

Madison Snipes 15, who is a hopeful entertainer, according to her Facebook page, was crowned Miss Tennessee Outstanding Teen, the report said.

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Exclusive: Keri Hilson meets MSN Celebrity

2011-06-23T09:28:00.000+07:00

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Keri Hilson rose to fame when she collaborated with Timbaland on his 2006 album Shock Value - she featured on the song The Way I Are - and has also worked with many other big names including Kanye West, Xzibit, Ne-Yo and Usher.

Not only that, but she's also penned hit songs for artists including Britney Spears, Mary J Blige and The Pussycat Dolls, and she's been nominated for numerous awards, including two Grammys. She's won her fair share of covetable gongs too, including a MOBO and a BET Award.

She released her debut solo album In A Perfect World... in 2009 to great fanfare and her second album, No Boys Allowed has also been a great success, and her songs seem to strike a chord with almost everyone. At MSN, our favourite Keri Hilson track is Knock You Down featuring Kanye West and Ne-Yo. (What's yours? Leave a message for us below!)

Not only is she a musical talent to be reckoned with and a hot favourite among other artists (remember when Cher Lloyd famously covered Keri's version of Turn My Swag On on last year's X Factor?) but she's a genuinely kind and interesting person - we can vouch for that after having shared a scone (her first ever!) with her at London's swanky Sanctum Soho Hotel.

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Rebecca Black Pulls Infamous ‘Friday’ Video From YouTube

2011-06-20T09:25:00.000+07:00

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It’s Thursday, Thursday, and Rebecca Black’s memetastic “Friday” video is no longer available on YouTube, due to a copyright claim filed by Rebecca Black apparently. It’s not clear what exactly happened to the video, which at its pre-takedown height had amassed 167,370,534 views off of the ARK Music Factory account.

Earlier this week it seemed like the video had been set up as a $2.99 YouTube Rental by ARK, and then not so much. Is this latest drama due to an attempt by ARK to capitalize on the young star’s Internet fame? I have no idea.

When asked if Rebecca Black herself had asked for the takedown, a YouTube spokesperson gave us the following statement,”YouTube takes copyright infringement very seriously. When we receive a complaint alleging that a video infringes another person or company’s copyrights, we remove that video. Users who believe that a video was removed in error can appeal the copyright takedown.”

It’s been down for less than an hour and part of me actually misses the godforsaken thing. Guess you don’t know what you got until it’s gone.

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Post Market Earning Scan: RIMM, CFI, JRJC

2011-06-17T09:04:00.000+07:00

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Analysts had forecasted earnings of $1.32 per share on revenue of $5.15 billion for the company. Shares gained 0.45 percent or 16 cents to close at $35.47.
Culp Inc. (NYSE: CFI), a leading manufacturer and distributor of textile fabrics to the furniture and upholstery industries, registered net income of $6 million, or 45 cents per diluted share in its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter, compared with net income of $5.4 million, or 41 cents per share a year earlier. Analysts had forecasted earnings of 25 cents per share for the company. Net sales during the quarter were $60.4 million, up 5.5 percent from the corresponding quarter. Shares added 3.36 percent or 25 cents to trade at $7.68.
China Finance Online CO. Ltd. (Nasdaq: JRJC), China’s online financial information and services company, reported net income of $1.4 million, or 6 cents per diluted share in its fiscal first-quarter, compared with a net income of $0.14 million, or 1 cent per diluted share a year earlier. Analysts had estimated earnings of 6 cents per share for the company. Shares were down 6.57 percent or 26 cents to trade at $3.70 in the after-hours trading.

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Bulls are NBA title favorites

2011-05-29T13:24:00.001+07:00

Thanks to spectacular performances by their respective Ds -- Chicago's defense and Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki -- both teams with home advantage are off to a 1-0 start in this year's NBA conference finals. Home teams in this position have gone on to win the series 85 percent of the time, an impressively high number that seems to set us down the path toward a Chicago Bulls-Dallas Mavericks NBA finals matchup in 2011.

However, a smart fan would be wise not to jump to conclusions this year, as each of these two Conference finals series is more closely matched than usual. The top three ranked teams in the data-driven TeamRankings. com predictive ratings are now Chicago, Miami Heat and Dallas, respectively, with the Oklahoma City Thunder ranked sixth. Chicago stands only a tenth of a point higher than Miami, though, meaning it's essentially a two-way tie for best team in the league. What's interesting, though, is that none of these teams is a juggernaut from a historical perspective.

In fact, Chicago's league-leading power rating is the second-worst rating for a No. 1-ranked team in the last seven years; the 2011 Bulls even rate as a whopping 1. 6 points worse than the 2008 Boston Celtics. If Derrick Rose and company jumped in a hot tub time machine and traveled back in time to compete for an NBA championship, throughout most of recent history, they would not be the favorites to win.

Josh Turner Surprises Scotty McCreery During Hometown Concert

2011-05-26T15:33:00.000+07:00

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An emotional day became unforgettable for Scotty McCreery on Saturday, May 14. The 17 year old kept his cool while fans screamed, cried and even proposed marriage during a media tour and promotional stops at local Garner, N.C. businesses. Taste of Country was there as the love shown by friends and family began to peel away the layers of his usually steady demeanor. The afternoon reached a fever pitch when McCreery’s hero Josh Turner walked out singing his hit song ‘Your Man.’

McCreery had just begun his “theme song” when Turner strutted out and picked up the next verse. “Oh my goodness!” McCreery shouted while waving off his band. It was the only time all afternoon he struggled to find the perfect thing to say.

“All these people are here for you,” Turner told McCreery. “I had heard you never sang this song with a band before and were a little bit nervous, so I decided I would bring a few of my guys in.” The duo picked up the song from the start, and traded verses and praise before going into Turner’s first radio hit, ‘Long Black Train.’

The high school junior showed incredible stage presence for someone who’s experience is limited at best. He was charismatic and funny, worked both sides of the audience, and even remembered to wave to the special fans in the first few rows. He hammed it up a little with Josh Turner, but never came off cornier than one would want. Amongst the songs he recreated for his fans was ‘Gone,’ ‘Letters From Home,’ and ‘The River,’ all tracks that were essential to his success thus far in the competition.

Hours earlier, during the parade leading up to the concert at Lake Benson park, fans watched as their native son buried his head in his hands and came up with rosy cheeks and watery eyes. Organizers expected 30,000 people despite the threat of storms. Fortunately, the only thing that got wet before McCreery finished was his sleeves, as he dabbed his teary eyes. Expect that scene to make the cut during this Wednesday’s episode of ‘American Idol.”

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May 21: End of the World, or End of Harold Camping's Credibility?

2011-05-24T11:49:00.000+07:00

Camping also predicted the end of the world in September 1994, so while he has experience at this, his track record is not good. These messages always managed to circulate in the past, but I didn't even know about the 1994 prediction until yesterday. Thank goodness for the Internet and social networking. I can now find out about these things much more quickly. Seriously, though, this leads me to a few observations and questions about these predictions. Like the Washington Post's Jason Boyett, I worry about impressionable children who are exposed to this message and don't know to question what they hear from adults. It's tough enough being a kid without having to worry about the end of the world too. Don't get me wrong, I believe in God, I believe that Christ is our savior, I believe God does indeed work in mysterious ways, and I believe God has a master plan. What I don't believe is that The Bible is like a puzzle book that gives you all the clues to the end of time. Being trained as a civil engineer, I'm sure Camping is a very smart man. I don't believe he is smart enough to see into the mind of God. Which leads me to the point that Camping or anyone else predicting the end of the world will immediately lead me to question their credibility and character. The cynical side of me comes out and thinks this is all about fleecing the vulnerable and gullible out of their money. Whether it's a donation for a quicker trip to heaven or funding the advertising for the end of the world "message, " such as the unemployed woman from Colorado who used her part of her savings to advertise the end on a bus stop bench, it all sounds like a scam to take advantage of someone who trusts your judgment.

Atheists throw 'Rapture party' to raise charitable funds

2011-05-21T11:33:00.000+07:00

I was tickled to hear about the Seattle atheist’s May 21 “Rapture party” [“Atheists counter prediction with ‘Rapture party, ’” NWTuesday, May 17]. I wouldn’t expect anything less from the group whose mission is in part to “encourage the public to look for credible evidence rather than superstition, dogma and the supernatural. ” But this isn’t just an event to poke fun at religious extremism, it is also a charitable fundraiser.

This is much more productive than picketing and foisting one group’s ideology onto another. This is a good reminder that “godless heathens” may indeed have souls, or at least great compassion. If the Rapture comes, the funds generated at the party will go toward “Rapture relief. ” If no one is raptured, the funds will be donated to Camp Quest, a summer camp that instructs children in critical thinking and fosters an interest in science.

This fundraiser should serve as a reminder that the kind of aggressive evangelism displayed by groups like Family Radio and Westboro Baptist Church (which really just seems like hate groups with tax-exempt statuses) are not productive. People of all creeds can find commonality under the banners of charity and volunteerism. Let’s help each other solve the problems of the here and now; the hereafter can wait.

Josh Turner Concert Turns Into California Lovefest

2011-05-19T15:28:00.000+07:00

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Josh Turner played Cupid not once, but twice at a recent concert in Stockton, Calif., when two couples got engaged during the singer's show. Love was definitely in the air, as Josh stopped in the middle of his hit, 'Would You Go With Me,' to dedicate the song to couple Jeff and Alma, who had just taken the big leap. He even invited the happy couple to the front of the Bob Hope Theater, where he and his band were performing, to let the crowd in on their big moment.

"Just remember: Stay together, all right?" the Stockton Record reports Josh saying to the happy couple, giving them a quick lecture on keeping a marriage strong. The singer knows whereof he speaks: he and wife Jennifer travel together on the road and she plays keyboards and sings backing vocals in his band, the Tonkin' Honkies.

A few minutes later on stage, Josh was handed a note from Eric Nelson, another member of the audience. He promptly opened it, read it and told the crowd with a laugh, "I'm not one to do another man's dirty work." Josh handed the microphone over to Eric so he could propose to his girlfriend of two years, Jamie Gannon. After she accepted, Josh had the entire crowd remind Eric and Jamie of his previous advice to the first couple.

"You know the rule, right? What's the rule?" As the crowd chanted 'Stay together' loudly, Josh turned to his fiddle player and jokingly asked, 'You don't have anybody you want to ask, do you? It seems to be contagious!"

The crowd at this particular show was apparently in a much better mood than the audience at a show several nights earlier. According to Josh, that night's concertgoers were more about punching and beer slinging rather than kisses and lovey-dovey marriage proposals. Josh told the audience that two girls at that show had been swinging and throwing beer at each other, "but tonight, we have just the opposite. We have people who love each other."

As the father of three healthy kids himself, Josh is always willing to lend a hand to children's causes, and he and several other artists, including Darius Rucker, Rodney Atkins, Little Big Town, and Heidi Newfield have teamed up with Nashville's Iroquois Steeplechase for a horse-themed fundraiser that will benefit the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. Josh and the other artists painted miniature wooden horses that will be auctioned off online through May 15. For more information on the auction or to make a bid, check out the Iroquois Steeplechase website.

The Iroquois Steeplechase horse race, which takes place May 14, is a longtime Music City tradition, currently in its 70th year in Nashville.

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How Much is Alanis Morissette’s Louis Vuitton Diaper Bag?

2011-05-19T11:22:00.002+07:00

Alanis Morissette was out and about with her hubby, her son and her diaper bag. And this just wasn’t any diaper bag, in fact it’s not a diaper bag at all. Alanis opted to use a very versatile tote as her diaper by the very high brand Louis Vuitton. What is she carrying and how much does one of these carryall cost? Here Alanis uses the aptly named Neverfull GM, a large flexible monogrammed canvas tote. It’s large enough to carry pretty much everything you need for an afternoon outing (with or without kids) but is sleek enough to make lugging around your stuff easy. Alanis isn’t the only celebrity mom to have her big designer bags do double duty, Jessica Alba was known to use a Large Fendi purse as a diaper bag.

Haley Reinhart sings Alanis Morissette's 'You Ought Know'

2011-05-19T11:19:00.000+07:00

The judges picked Alanis Morrisette's You Oughta Know for Haley Reinhart. "I'm digging it, " she says. "I love her, she's awesome. " But from the start of the song, it looks like we might be watching Haley in reverse this week. Where for the past two weeks, she improved dramatically between her first and last songs, she obviously struggles with this one. The band's anemic arrangement doesn't help her, but she struggles with the wordy B section, which isn't in her comfort zone, range-wise at all. Fortunately, she rescues the performance with two stellar choruses. This was almost a great choice for her -- but she and Jimmy Iovine did better than the judges. "Those were some amazing choruses by you, " Randy says, though he acknowledges that she had rhythmic problems with the verses. Yeah, and Randy has vocabulary problems with the judging. "There's nobody that can match you" in the choruses, Jennifer says. "I think we all heard the same thing in the middle parts. ".

Disney Cruise Lines Offers Fun for the Whole Family

2011-05-16T15:05:00.001+07:00

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Have you heard of the Disney Cruise Line? Here are just some of the thing they offer: live Disney shows, “meet-and-greets” with the Disney characters, children’s clubs and adults-only spots as well. None of those sound good? Okay, fine. How about first-run movies at the theater onboard?

Are your kids looking to get away from their geeky parents? Not a problem. From a Little Mermaid themed daycare to Vibe, a place where 14 to 17 year olds can chill out and listen to music, watch TV or play the latest and greatest video games, kids should be able to find whatever it is they’re looking for, regardless of their age.

I read about the Disney Cruise Line on the Telegraph, and I must say, it sounded quite impressive. I mean, the only thing missing I could think of was Zach and Cody, though as much as Disney offers? I wouldn’t be so quick to rule them out, either.

Each Disney Cruise has roughly 950 employees who represent over 60 nations and you can rest assured that you’ll be well taken care of because there’s a Disney associate for every three passengers. There are several cruise lines from which to choose. The Disney Dream might be a good choice for those of us in the U.S. as it sets sail from Florida. It also offers the AquaDuck waterslide which is billed as the first “water coaster” ever on a cruise ship. It sounds like a blast as it offers those brave enough to partake all kinds of twists and turns as it eventually extends beyond the actual ship itself (whoa) and culminates in a four-deck drop. (I’d recommend that one before lunch, for what it’s worth.)

So would my family and I enjoy such a cruise? Tough to say. I’m certain my 9-year-old would be all about it. She watches a fair amount of the Disney Channel and given all that the cruise lines offer, I bet she’d find real value in it. My wife and I?

While I’d never say never, we’re not really cruise people. We like a little more control over our vacation. Though Disney would offer us the gamut of family-friendly choices, I have a feeling we’d get cabin fever.

Having said that, I’m fully aware that there are many folks who love cruises. If you’re one of them, and you’ve got a big family vacation planned this summer, you should really consider looking into the Disney Cruise Lines. Who knows? You just might wind up having the time of your life. (Assuming you don’t get kidnapped by Captain Hook.)

To learn more, go do DisneyCruise.com. Warning, not exactly super-economical. But, again, if you’re looking to blow the bank on a big family vacation, this just might be worth looking into.

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Super rich see federal taxes drop dramatically

2011-04-18T14:11:00.000+07:00

WASHINGTON – As countless procrastinators scramble to fulfill Monday's tax filing contract, ponder this: The super rich pay way less taxes than they did several decades ago, and practically half of U. ERSUS. households pay no income taxes in any respect. The Internal Revenue Support tracks the tax returns while using 400 highest adjusted gross incomes annually. The average income about those returns in '07, the latest year with regard to IRS data, was practically $345 million. Their ordinary federal income tax amount was 17 percent, decrease from 26 percent within 1992. Over the similar period, the average federal income tax rate for those taxpayers declined to IN SEARCH OF. 3 percent from NINE. 9 percent. The prime income tax rate will be 35 percent, so just how can people who make a great deal pay so little within taxes? The nation's tax laws are full of breaks for people from every income level. You will find breaks for having youngsters, paying a mortgage, visiting college, and even regarding paying other taxes. As well as, the top rate on capital gains should be only 15 percent. There are a great number of breaks that 45 per cent of U. S. households most likely no federal income taxes for 2010, according to estimates because of the Tax Policy Center, your Washington think tank. "It's that experts claim we are using that tax code both to gather revenue, which is their primary purpose, and to deliver these spending benefits that individuals run into the situation where much more are paying no taxations, " said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow along at the center, which generated the estimate of folks that pay no income fees. The sheer volume involving credits, deductions and exemptions features both Democrats and Republicans contacting for tax laws being overhauled. House Republicans want to eliminate breaks to pay extra for lower overall rates, reducing the top end tax rate from THIRTY FIVE percent to 25 percentage. Republicans oppose raising fees, but they argue that the more efficient tax value would increase economic exercise, generating additional tax income. President Barack Obama said the other day he wants to eliminate tax breaks to lower the rates and also to reduce government borrowing. Obama's proposal would end in $1 trillion in tax increases in the next 12 years. Neither of them proposal included many particulars, putting off hard decisions about which tax fails to eliminate. In just about all, the tax code is full of a total of $1. JUST ONE trillion in credits, deductions along with exemptions, an average involving about $8, 000 each taxpayer, according to an analysis because of the National Taxpayer Advocate, an independent watchdog inside the IRS. More than half in the nation's tax revenue originated from the top 10 p'cent of earners in 3 YEARS AGO. More than 44 percent originated the top 5 per cent. Still, the wealthy gain access to much more lucrative tax breaks than individuals with lower incomes. Obama wants the wealthy paying so "the amount with taxes you pay isn't determined by what sort of accountant you can find the money for. " Eric Schoenberg pronounces to sign him " up " for paying higher fees. Schoenberg, who inherited money and features a healthy portfolio from his days for investment banker, has joined an organization of other wealthy Americans called United for any Fair Economy. Their objective: Raise taxes on wealthy people like themselves. Shoenberg, who now teaches profitable business class at Columbia Collage, said his income is often "north of half a million per year. " But 2009 was an undesirable year for investments, so his income dropped to some little over $200, 000. His federal income tax bill was more than $2, 000. "I simply mention to people, `Do you consider this is reasonable, that somebody in my personal circumstances should only end up being paying 1 percent with their income in tax? '" Schoenberg stated. Sen. Orrin Hatch involving Utah, the top Republican to the Senate Finance Committee, said she has a solution for rich folks that want to pay extra in taxes: Write a check for the IRS. There's nothing ending you. "There's still time leading to a filing deadline for them to provide Uncle Sam some more income, " Hatch said. Schoenberg stated Hatch's suggestion misses the actual point. "This voluntary idea plainly represents a mindset of which basically pretends there's no things like collective goods that most people produce, " Schoenberg stated. "Are you going to be able to let people volunteer to create the road system? Might you let them volunteer to fund education? " The law is set with tax breaks that aid narrow special interests. But most of the biggest tax breaks benefit countless American families at almost every income level, making all of them difficult for politicians to help touch. The vast tastes those who escape fed income taxes have small and medium incomes, and a lot of them pay other taxes, as well as Social Security and Medicare fees, property taxes and full price sales taxes. The share of people today paying no federal earnings tax has dropped slightly way back when two years. It had been 47 percent for 2010. The main difference intended for 2010 was the expiration of an tax break that exempted the very first $2, 400 of being out of work benefits from taxation, Williams stated. In 2009, nearly 30 million taxpayers got any tax break for spending interest on their dwelling mortgages, and nearly 36 mil taxpayers took the $1, 000-per-child taxes credit. About 41 million loved ones reduced their federal profits taxes by deducting say and local income and sales taxes using their taxable income. About 36 trillion families cut their taxations by nearly $35 thousand by deducting charitable contributions, and 28 million taxpayers saved an overall total of $24 billion due to the fact their income from Sociable Security and railroad pensions had been untaxed. "As a topic of policy, there would have been a lot of ways of saving money and actually make considerations work better, " stated Leonard Burman, a criminal court affairs professor at Syracuse College. "As a matter involving politics, it's really, definitely difficult. ".

In North, Civil War sites, events long 'forgotten'

2011-04-18T13:59:00.000+07:00

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – The gravesite of your Union Army major normal sits largely forgotten in a very small cemetery along that Massachusetts Turnpike. A little bit of the coat worn through President Abraham Lincoln whenever he was assassinated rests quietly inside a library attic in some sort of Boston suburb. It's established upon request, a extraordinary occurrence. A monument honoring among the list of first official Civil Struggle black units stands within a busy intersection while you're watching Massachusetts Statehouse, barely gaining notice from your hustle of tourists and workers who ignore each day. As the world marks the 150th anniversary from the Civil War, states within the old South — along side it that lost — will be hosting elaborate re-enactments, complex memorials, even formal galas showcasing the war's persistent legacy while in the region. But for many states inside the North — the facet that won — just scant, smaller events are planned in a place of the nation in which helped sparked the turmoil but now, historians point out, struggles to acknowledge this. "It's almost like this never happened, " claimed Annie Murphy, executive director belonging to the Framingham History Center within Framingham, Mass. "But all you've got to do is browse around and see evidence so it did. It's just men and women aren't looking here. " Massachusetts, a state that sent greater than 150, 000 men to war and was home to a few of the nation's most radical abolitionists, made a Civil War commemoration " transaction fee " just earlier this four week period. Aging monuments stand unattended, often even vandalized. Sites of major historical events regarding the war remain basically unknown and often take on the more regionally favorite American Revolution attractions. Relationship, states like Arkansas, Va, North Carolina and Missouri not merely established commissions months, otherwise years ago, but have ambitious plans for memories around well-known tourist web sites and events. In Southern area Carolina, for example, 300 Civil War re-enactors participated this morning in well-organized staged fights to mark the addition of the war. To be positive, some Northern states own Civil War events planned and now have formed commemoration commissions. Connecticut's 150th Civil War Commemoration was create in 2008 and has scheduled many events and exhibits until finally 2015. Vermont, the initial state to outlaw captivity, started a similar commission a year ago to coordinate activities statewide and also in towns. And some Massachusetts modest non-profit and historic groups making the effort to spark interest through study, planned tours and village events. But observers say those events pale matched against those in the Sth. That difference highlights Upper states' long struggle with how you can remember a war that's largely fought on Southeast soil, said Steven Mintz, some sort of Columbia University history mentor and author of "Moralists as well as Modernizers: America's Pre-Civil Struggle Reformers. " For North states like Massachusetts, Mintz said revisiting the Civil War includes revisiting their own unsolved, less than enjoyable issues like racial inequality soon after slavery. "We've spent a century including a half turning (the war) proper gigantic North-South football game where everybody was a good guy, " Mintz said. "In various other words, we depoliticized an entire meaning of the warfare. And insofar as it absolutely was captured, it was captured with the descendants of the Confederates. " Son's of Confederate Veterans, an organization open to male descendants with veterans who served inside Confederate armed forces, include 30, 000 members throughout the Old South. The Sons belonging to the Union Veterans of that Civil War has 6TH, 000 members. Kevin Tucker, Massachusetts Department Commander with the Sons of the Marriage Veterans, said some Northern descendants really don't even know they're regarding Union veterans. "I discovered after my father have some research and found that my great-great-grandfather have collected a Union type of pension, " said Tucker, regarding Wakefield. "Until then, Thought about no idea. " Recognise Simpson, 57, South Carolina commander involving Sons of Confederate Veterans, said his family suspected for generations about his great-great-grandfather's service while in the Confederacy. "I visit his gravesite on an annual basis and put a banner down, " Simpson claimed. "He is real to my opinion. " Mintz said the actual North has another element affecting its Civil Warfare memory: immigration from Italy and Eastern Europe for the turn of the Twentieth century. He said these populations, and more new immigrants, sometimes struggle to spot with that war in comparison to more contemporary ones. Next, Mintz said, after the Civil War many Northerners moved West — also to the South. History buffs with all the Framingham History Center within Framingham, Mass.,a town where occupants say "The Battle Hymn belonging to the Republic" was first sung, said they may be using the sesquicentennial to be able to bring attention to long-forgotten area Civil War sites plus personalities. Included in a planned event is really a celebration at Harmony Grove, site of a lot anti-slavery rallies where abolitionist Bill Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy with the U. S. Constitution and called it a "pact with all the Devil. " Today, only a small plaque facing a house announces the particular historic site now ornamented by industrial lots, train tracks including a motorcycle shop. Volunteers additionally hope to raise all around $1 million for Framingham's dilapidated Municipal War memorial building to help repair its cracked surfaces and leaky ceiling. The building houses any memorial honoring Framingham soldiers killed while in the war and an Us flag that flew with the Battles of Gettysburg and also Antietam. (Murphy said the flag was discovered while in the 1990s after being forgotten inside a case for 90 ages. ) Fred Wallace, your town's historian, said that more to the point, volunteers wanted to deliver attention to General George THEY WOULD. Gordon, a long-forgotten Union good guy from Framingham who appeared to be a prolific writer and organizer belonging to the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. "I do not understand how this man had been lost to history, " claimed Wallace, who has researched Gordon's life as well as being now writing a biography with him. "He was down the middle of everything. " During a freshly released afternoon, Murphy took your reporter and photographer to be able to Gordon's gravesite, which she said is included in a structured walking tour. But Murphy couldn't locate your website and a cemetery official was required to comb through maps to look for it. Murphy said putting the particular pieces together of Gordon's life is section of the fun, even if it surprises residents. "When I was told we lived in what was once a barn of Gen. Gordon's deer, " 81-year-old Ellen Shaw claimed, "I was like...Normal who? " Since then Shaw offers joined history buffs in seeking what they believe is really a marker announcing the gravesite involving Ashby, Gordon's horse in several battles. She hasn't positioned it on her residence. "I hope I find it at some point when I'm just taking walks around outside, " Shaw claimed. "Then I can declare, 'Glad to meet people. Sorry we forgot in relation to you. '".

Wealth Is What You Save, Not What You Spend

2011-04-18T13:44:00.000+07:00

Wish to be a millionaire? Don't overspend along with use debt wisely. We all may possibly not be millionaires but there are numerous financial and life-planning secrets you can easlily learn from the well-heeled. Plenty of people know that wealth within the U. S. is inside the hands of a small percentage with the total population. And, now, most of those folks that has a net worth of $1 million or maybe more have earned it by themselves. They're mostly entrepreneurs who create from high-speed networks to rubbish haulers. They dig ditches and also build houses and mature corn and make charms. They deal stamps or perhaps coins or artwork in addition to control pests and slice lawns. They also cure people and hand them over new teeth. Others will defend their neighbors and even feed them. And they are not big spenders. In reality, most of those along with big bucks live properly under their means -- give thought to Warren Buffett still moving into that modest Omaha home -- and in addition they put their money on the other hand toward investments that support them stockpile more success. "Wealth is what people accumulate, not what spent, " according to Thomas Stanley and also William Danko, the authors with the seminal tome on America's affluent "The Millionaire Next Front door, " first published around 1996. "It is seldom good fortune or inheritance or advanced degrees and even intelligence that enables folks to amass fortunes, " the actual authors wrote. "Wealth is more often caused by a lifestyle of work, perseverance, planning, and, best of all, self discipline. " Wealth is defined in most ways, though it's generally determined as being the value of everything you hold minus debts. But there's a variance between marketable assets -- things you own which is liquidated rather quickly, for instance stocks, bonds, real house -- and possessions for instance cars, clothing and household items that you simply use regularly and aren't just about guaranteed to sell. Income alone doesn't make one rich. That helps, of course, to develop wealth, but the financially independent browse their salaries as a method to an end, that's that pile of income. "The wealthy don't commit their wealth on discretionary secures, " said Pam Danziger, inventor of Unity Marketing, your consumer market-research firm specializing around luxury goods and suffers from. "They get rich by maximizing the extra worthiness of their investments. " That does not mean they don't pay off big bucks for fairly shoes or outfits, but that the majority of choose those items carefully and go shopping for value and quality. "They truly evaluate the purchase as a possible investment, not an price, " Danziger said. What they greatly though is diversify those people investments, which gives these people more flexibility to cruise out difficult times. "The millionaires clients have very, really diversified portfolios that move way beyond just carries several and bonds into hedge money, currencies, commodities and rising markets, " said Leslie Lassiter, managing director with the JPMorgan Private Wealth Administration. "There are many, many mutual funds out there that will assist you to get exposure to those varieties of asset classes, " Lassiter stated. Among the biggest variations between those flush using cash and those wishing these were is in how they buy things. Millionaires tend to work with cash for most with their purchases, including cars, residences and boats. For the common wage earner, of lessons, that's not always an alternative but it still contains this lesson: Don't check out debt to fund ones lifestyle. Most wealthy people apply debt for investment purposes so are careful not to over-leverage yourself. "A prudent use of debt is definitely an appropriate thing for any individual, " Lassiter said. They also plan perfectly and spend lots of time at it. Many are compulsive savers along with investors who often claim the journey to riches was a lot more fun than the accomplishing the goal. And there're patient, willing to invest long term and wait it available. "They stick with their investments and may have a financial prepare, " said Sanjiv Mirchandani, us president of National Financial, your subsidiary of Fidelity Purchases. Many take the long-term solution to investing because they're operating at being financial separate. When they retire, as an example, many will know exactly how much they have to live on, to share and to leave for a legacy. "The best ones really have the knowledge much liquidity they have to cover their expenses and be sure they have that much cash readily available, " Lassiter said. "That's something the person should do as good. " At the identical time, she said most have grown careful about leveraging credit card debt. "The wealthy tend to balance between each, " she said. Testimonials for accumulating wealth: Stay below your means: Individuals with high incomes who devote all that money are certainly not rich; they're just ridiculous. Plan: That means program for today, tomorrow along with 30 years after pension. Take time doing that too and spend time monitoring it daily. Use budgets and go by them. Diversify: As Lassiter stated, look for mutual resources that allow you coverage to asset classes that aren't related together. Reduce use of credit and choose from cash: It's easier, naturally, for a prosperous person to pay extra for a house in cash than it is for most folks, but credit-card debt to get luxury purchases or extravagant vacations won't ever pave a road to help riches. Have access to help cash: While the rich keep high of their wealth invested, they are able to get cash when they have it. "Have some kind of personal credit line available, like a HELOC (home-equity distinct credit) that you in no way use, " Lassiter stated. "It's a safety control device. " She suggests a new year's worth of cash to hide expenses; Danziger thinks several years worth is a much better bet. Spread cash all over: When the wealthy pulled money out of your equities markets two and 36 months ago, they opened a new bevy of bank financial records, all guaranteed up to help $250, 000 of deposits with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Bring your young ones into the mix, please remember the importance of home planning: The affluent can look at great lengths to coach their children about money and easy methods to manage it -- something every family must do. Though talking about income with children consistently ranks as the single most dreaded conversations, it's important that the heirs know where all of the bank accounts and safe-deposit cardboard boxes are -- even of which their names are at them, too -- who seem to the attorney is, the place that the will and trusts are generally filed.

Dear Wonder Woman: YOU Will Get Arrested If You Fight Crime In That Top

2011-03-31T09:50:00.000+07:00

Dear Wonder Woman:

I did always admire your invisible jet, which I knew mostly through the Superfriends cartoons.

I've seen some of your costume reboots (no pun intended). I realize that you have often been asked to embrace the ridiculous, the silly, the impractical, the spangled, the swimsuit-y, and the downright inappropriate.

Now granted, that — your latest look for your new pilot at NBC — is better than the original version we saw. You have dark blue pants instead of electric blue pants, and they gave you back your red boots. THERE IS NO SUCH POSSIBILITY. You would not run to catch a bus in that top, unless you crossed your arms over your chest the whole way there.

There was a time when nobody understood that women could be good at fighting and also hot. There was a time when functionality had to take a back seat to fashion, and this is when your star-spangled undies were invented, you see. Linda Hamilton didn't wear fishnet stockings in Terminator 2, did she? There's nothing in The Hunger Games about Katniss wearing stilettos in battle. Buffy didn't slay vampires in a tube top and I think you get my meaning. I am all for you embracing your right to be a sex bomb and a crime fighter at the same time, but that doesn't mean a strapless corset made of plastic. Not only can you not use your lasso in that outfit, you can't raise your arm to hail a taxi in that outfit. I understand that you have an invisible plane. Maybe you have an invisible Vespa because of the urban environment. Um, Hatchet-Head? Circus-Face? We can't afford to have you distracted because you're yanking up your top all the time like a poorly-fitted bridesmaid at a hastily planned wedding. If you wouldn't wear it to step class at Bally's Total Fitness, don't wear it for battle.

Bearing olive branch, Warren braves Chamber

2011-03-31T09:39:00.002+07:00

The chamber is the nation's largest and richest business lobbying group.

"The chamber has been very aggressive in opposing pretty much any policy the Obama administration has proposed," said Christian Weller, an associate professor of public policy at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.

WARREN DEFENDS FUNDING

Warren used the chamber event to attack a proposal from congressional Republicans to put the CFPB's funding through the congressional appropriations process, instead of getting funds independently as the Dodd-Frank legislation required.

CFPB funding should be independent of the appropriations process, she said, as it is for other bank regulators.

"A new restriction has been proposed to subject the consumer bureau to the yearly appropriations process. "There is no principled reason for breaking from this historical practice and for stripping the independence of the first banking agency devoted to consumer protection," said Warren, a Harvard Law School professor.

Jamie Dimon, CEO of banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co, spoke at the event later on Wednesday. Senior White House economic adviser Gene Sperling was also due to appear.