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Happy haps birthday Dae! Have an awesome 21st birthday =D
Happy Birthday Dae!
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Whoa, 21? You can go get drunk or something. Or something.
August birthdays for the win! Happy Birthday.
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When she sees what looks like a child tumbling from a ferry into frigid Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. When she gets the child to shore she discovers that his name is Paul, he speaks only French—and no one seems to be looking for him.
Her determination to protect Paul pulls Troy from her quiet life in a small Adirondack town into an unfamiliar world of wealth and privilege in Canada and then in Vermont. Her attachment to him—and the danger she faces when she tries to unravel the mystery of his abandonment—force her to evaluate everything she thought true about herself.
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Sara J. Henry gave us in her debut a remarkably fresh story that captured me from page 1. Even not believing some of Troy's innocence, I found her naivity refreshing. It was a good book with good characters and a wonderful story line.
She does have a second book out, "A Cold and Lonely Place". Just came out last month and also features Troy as the main character. So looking forward to it arriving at the library!
Although a debut novel, for which I might grant some leeway, I thought this novel was just 'too pat.' The characters, in my opinion, do not act the way one imagines they would. The heroine is apparently a pretty savy chic but she does some stupid things that don't seem to fit such an independent, educated person. Just not my style I suppose.
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Almost 32,000 fires have burned in the U.S. this year, destroying some 3 million acres of forest. Last year, 67,700 fires burned 9.3 million acres. According to the U.S. Forest Service, this is now par for the course, with parched seasons lasting more than two months longer than previous decades.
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McAleese Group's stock has hit a new all-time low after the NSW roads minister ordered the transport company's Cootes petrol tankers off the road again following the discovery of fresh safety breaches.
McAleese's shares slid 10¢, or 8.9 per cent, to $1.02 on Monday morning after NSW roads minister Duncan Gay said spot checks of Cootes vehicles last week had found "major defects."
"These random inspections uncovered significant failures," the minister said. "This was in addition to two incidents involving Cootes vehicles late last week which presented major defects."
The inspections come several months after one of McAleese's Cootes tankers was involved in a fatal accident on Sydney's Mona Vale road, which sparked investigations from safety regulators and the grounding of part of the Cootes fleet.
Ongoing safety concerns have worried Cootes' customers, with McAleese revealing last month it had lost key haulage contracts with oil and gas groups Shell and BP just two months after the company's stock floated on the Australian Securities Exchange at $1.47 per share.
Spot checks of Cootes vehicles in NSW last week have led to 17 vehicles ordered off the road for repairs, Minister Gay said.
"While we acknowledge there have been some improvements in the fleet, it is simply not good enough that in some cases we have seen repairs that don't meet our standards during a second or third check.
"Despite four months of ongoing work with Cootes and the parent company McAleese, I have ordered all their NSW tankers be subject to Roads and Maritime compliance checks yet again – just as we did immediately after the Mona Vale tragedy."
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Located on the mountainous east coast of Taiwan, Hualien is the capital of the region. It is also home to the islands largest port, and is a major transportation hub. One of Taiwan's biggest airports is located at Hualien. From Hualien, the two major travel spots are Taroko National Park, named after a gorge of the same name, and the more remote Yushan National Park.
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one beautiful place to see, gives a new meaning to peacefull. A brilliant get away for the weekend. Remeber if you are english speaking you are basically on your own, very little and i mean very little english spoken in this region but still a great place to visit. A must on your list. Hua-lien is much different to that of Taipei CIty, which is not as open as it may seem. If you are into lies and beeing cheated then a must stop. You will be bombarded by millions and millions of motor scooters and funk mickey mouse hair styles [more on guys than girls] and everyone is a rock star or celeb of some sort." I speak English very little", is the catch phrase, be weary of cellphone shops you will get cheated. Not on my list of a good place to visit. Good tip? (+1) Taroko Gorge is a pretty and incredibly deep gorge, that is largely unspoilt. There is a seemingly endless road that runs alongside the steep grey cliffs and at night the road is not even lit up, so it's quite a hairy journey. I stayed for only a day but I'm aware that there are a number of hiking trails and some lovely scenery in the area. We had coffee at the Grand Formosa Hotel, which was set deep into the gorge with some great views, and good cake! If you're in Taiwan, Taroko Gorge should definitely be on your places to visit. Good tip? (0) Take a day trip to Toroko Gorge. You do not have to plan this in advance. Just let the hotel know you want to go and they will arrange for a small tour to include you.
Get out of the hotel. I borrowed a bicycle from the hotel and rode along the beach behind the airport. Hualien is still a small town and reminds me a lot of how Taiwan used to be 20 years ago.
You can get to Hualien by air, but the trian ride down from Taipei is very relaxing. Good tip? (0) Recent Updates for Hua-lien
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Firewall configuration for iptables
Introduction to the iptables firewallA firewall in IT terms is a software or hardware solution which tries to block as much as possible evil network traffic, while allowing usefull traffic. Firewalls can be either implemented in existing network devices like routers, as separate devices with the sole function to protect a network or in the first layers of the networking stack on a networked computer.Important Network packets entering or leaving a networked Linux computer pass a number of tables in the kernel. Each table contains zero or more simple rules where the IP address or specific properties of a packet are checked. If a rule matches, a number of actions can be triggered. A network packet can be simply ignored, accepted, rejected or forwarded to another table with rules. Although the principle of this firewall system is simple, it is often quite difficult to setup a decent firewall which matches the need of a specific situation. This is partly because it needs understanding of the underlying structure, and partly because there is no real good documentation which explains the working in such a way that is can be easily understood by people who aren't a network administrator. There is also the problem that you can solve a firewall problem in many ways with iptables, where many solutions are not optimal because they are either not scalable, flexible or both. I will explain here the framework of the firewall settings I use on some of my networked Linux computers. Those computers are running the Linux distribution Centos 5.4. If you use a different distribution the location of files may be different, but the general concept remains the same. Functionality of the firewall in wordsMost available firewall implementations for iptables miss a decent description in words of the design concepts. They are just presented as a number of rules. This makes it difficult for people to understand the functionality and decide if it fits in their specific situation. It makes it also difficult to make changes to the firewall settings without breaking the functionality.Without additional configuration, five chains of rules are predefined in the kernel. The PREROUTING is the first chain for incoming packets. From the PREROUTING chain, packets can be either forwarded to the INPUT chain or the FORWARD chain. The INPUT chain is for packets which should be delivered locally. The FORWARD chain is only used on computers where routing is enabled. It causes packets to be forwarded to another destination than the local computer. The OUTPUT chain is used to postprocess packets which originate from the local computer and the postrouting chain brings the packets to the networking hardware for remote delivery. In our iptables firewall setup we will only concentrate on incoming traffic. Screening outbound traffic may also be needed, for example to block certain applications to connect to remote computers, but in this configuration example we see the outside world as the biggest threat. We will therefore define firewall rules which apply both to the INPUT and FORWARD chain and leave the OUTPUT chain untouched. First we will divide packets in different groups. Each group of packets deserves its own treatment.
Firewall performance in LinuxDid I tell you that the firewall implementation of Linux consists of a number of tables with rules which are parsed sequentially? If you understand this concept, you will also understand that the time needed to check a packet against all rules will increase proportional with the number of rules. This can give performance problems on heavily loaded computers where a large number of packets have to be screened per second.There are a number of ways to solve potential performance problems in the firewall. The first thing that should be done is order the rules in such a way that rules which have the highest chance to match should be in the beginning of the tables. Furthermore we should try to organize the tables for the different types of packets we have defined are processed in such a way that packets which are accepted are accepted in an early stage, while only packets which will probably blocked anyway should traverse the whole chain of tables and rules. To do this, we propose the following flow of packets through the firewall. Dropping or rejecting packets?If you don't allow an incomming packet to your server there are two ways you can react. You can either send a respons to the sending server that the packet is rejected, or you could drop the packet and give no answer at all. You will see the rejected response in many firewalls, because it is cleaner according to internet standards, but should we do it just for that reason?If you decide to not accept a packet, there is something wrong with it. Either it is a bogus packet, or it is from a source which you don't trust. Now lets try to see this in perspective. Compare the computer with your house. If you know that your house is very secure and a burglar is walking around the house looking for a way to enter it, would you then shout "The house is protected" every time he knocks on the door, or would you just say nothing and maybe call the police. Probably the latter. In computers we can do the equivalent of calling the police by writing a logfile or sending an email to an administrator address. But if you know the system is secure, you would probably just keep your mouth shut. Not responding to suspicious packets has two other advantages. A burglar knows that the house exists because it is a physical object, but a computer on the internet is only recognizable by its anonymous IP address. If you just ignore all suspicious packets the sender will not know if the computer exists or the IP address is unassigned and the attacker will probably stop after a few attempts to seek a new easier to identify victim. By dropping packets you also have the advantage that it doesn't take any significant processing power on your side, but due to the way IP protocols work, the process on the sending computer must wait until a timeout eventually signals that the connection failed. Therefore in our configuration we will only drop packets, not reject them. Loading the iptables settingsOn RedHat family Linux distributions the configuration of the system which must be loaded at startup is stored in the /etc/sysconfig directory. The file iptables contains a list of rules for the firewall. The framework of our firewall looks like# # Example fast and scalable firewall configuration with iptables # Please only implement if you fully understand the functionality # because is very easy to lockout yourself from your computer if # the script isn't adapted to your specific situation. # *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :Always - [0:0] :Allow - [0:0] :Bogus - [0:0] :Enemies - [0:0] :Friends - [0:0] -A INPUT -j Bogus -A INPUT -j Always -A INPUT -j Enemies -A INPUT -j Allow -A FORWARD -j Bogus -A FORWARD -j Always -A FORWARD -j Enemies -A FORWARD -j Allow -A Bogus -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags SYN,FIN SYN,FIN -j DROP -A Bogus -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN,RST -j DROP -A Bogus -s 169.254.0.0/16 -j DROP -A Bogus -s 172.16.0.0/12 -j DROP -A Bogus -s 192.0.2.0/24 -j DROP -A Bogus -s 192.168.0.0/16 -j DROP -A Bogus -s 10.0.0.0/8 -j DROP -A Bogus -s 127.0.0.0/8 -i ! lo -j DROP -A Always -p udp --dport 123 -j ACCEPT -A Always -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -A Always -i lo -j ACCEPT -A Friends -s 18.104.22.168 -j ACCEPT -A Friends -s 184.108.40.206/24 -j ACCEPT -A Friends -j DROP -A Enemies -m recent --name psc --update --seconds 60 -j DROP -A Enemies -i ! lo -m tcp -p tcp --dport 1433 -m recent --name psc --set -j DROP -A Enemies -i ! lo -m tcp -p tcp --dport 3306 -m recent --name psc --set -j DROP -A Enemies -i ! lo -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8086 -m recent --name psc --set -j DROP -A Enemies -i ! lo -m tcp -p tcp --dport 10000 -m recent --name psc --set -j DROP -A Enemies -s 220.127.116.11 -j DROP -A Allow -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j Friends -A Allow -p icmp --icmp-type any -m limit --limit 1/second -j ACCEPT -A Allow -p icmp --icmp-type any -j DROP -A Allow -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 22 -j Friends -A Allow -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT -A Allow -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT -A Allow -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT -A Allow -j DROP COMMITI have added a few empty lines to make the file more readable. The first block gives us the names of the chains that we will use, and the initial values of the packet and bytes counters. With these settings we reset the counters each time the firewall configuration is loaded. The default action for the three internal chains INPUT, FORWARD and OUTPUT is set to ACCEPT. This means that the packet is accepted by each of these chains, except when a rule in the chain decides otherwise. The five user defined chains do not have a default action. The firewall logic will therefore continue processing other rules when the rules inside those chains don't give a definite answer what to do with a packet. The next two blocks add four filter rules to the INPUT and FORWARD chain. Each rule causes an unconditional jump to a user defined chain. The sequence in which these commands are listed in the iptables file is important, because this will also be the sequence in which the rules will be processed in the kernel. Bogus network packetsThe Bogus group contains a handful of rules which define invalid packets. This includes packets with both the SYN and FIN flags or the SYN and RST flags, packets from specific ranges of invalid IP addresses and packets with IP adresses which belong to the virtual loopback adapter (127.x.x.x), but which are not from a local source. These are all packets crafted by hackers or atackers to confuse or intrude your system.High-priority network packetsThe second group Always contains high-priority packets which should always be accepted without much delay. In my specific situation, most servers I operate are also acting as NTP time servers. To provide accurate timing, it is necessary to have a low delay when processing networking packets of the Network Time Protocol. These packets are sent as UDP packets to port 123. For this reason these packets are directly accepted, without checking further rules. These packets might originate from an attacker, and even be part of a DDOS attack, but we accept that situation. The processing of NTP packets has such a low overhead that even when packets are coming in at a very high speed, it won't take too much CPU resources. There are also no states preserved as with the TCP protocol which could cause buffer overflows. The only thing which might happen is saturation of the network, but that would happen with a DDOS attack independent of us accepting or dropping the incoming packets.The next rule is equally important. It tells us to accept all packets of a connection which has previously been accepted as OK. Many firewall rulesets miss this particular rule, but from a performance point of view it is a very important one. Most TCP/IP protocols exchange a lot of packets over one single connection. If we effectively only test the first packet of that stream and then mark the stream as either accepted or dropped, there is just little overhead involved when processing accepted network connections. The third rule accepts all traffic to the loopback adaptor. What many firewall rulesets seem to forget is that also traffic to and from the loopback adapter is screened by the firewall. This can cause severe performance problems if the loopback adapter is for example used for connections between an Apache webserver and an SQL database. FriendsIn the next block we define our friends. As you probably have seen, the Friends chain is not called directly from the INPUT or OUTPUT chain. It is called by other rules which we will define later to accept access to specific ports from some IP addresses but not from others. The Friends ruleset is called to check the source IP address against a number of possible matches. The first rule checks if the IP address equals 18.104.22.168. If this is the case, the packet is accepted without further processing of firewall rules. It then checks against a block of IP addresses ranging from 188.8.131.52 to 22.214.171.124. If the IP address are in this range, the packet is accepted. The third rule drops all packets which do not match any of the previous IP address matches.It is obvious that the IP addresses mentioned here are just examples. You should replace them by addresses where friendly traffic to your server is normally coming from, for example the IP address of your home ADSL connection or IP addresses from other servers in your network. You are allowed to add extra rules before the -A Friends -j DROP line. EnemiesEnemies can be identified in two ways. Either by their source IP address, or by their behaviour. Unfortunately the firewall in the kernel operates at a low level in the networking hierarchy and many behavioural actions are only visible at the application level, for example password dictionary attacks on SSH servers or spam mails. But some bahaviour can be detected at the lowest networking level and one of this is port scanning. Port scanning is trying to connect to a number of TCP/IP ports of the attacked computer to search for open connections with SQL servers, control panels or other network aware applications. My experience has shown that many port scanners are looking for unprotected connections to MySQL and MSSQL servers. Because my servers only accept SQL requests from local applications, every request from the outside world is by definition an enemy. In the IP firewall I have setup rules which are triggered if requests are coming in from the network for port 1433, port 3306 and some other well known ports. Every IP address from which such a request originates is put in quarantaine for a period of 60 seconds. This is done by the --name psc --set and checking with every subsequent packet of the last set action for that IP address was less than 60 seconds ago. The Linux kernel will maintain a list of portscan IPs which can be accessed at the location /proc/net/ipt_recent/psc. I have used a 60 seconds grace time because in some occasions I might be testing something and accidentaly look like a port scanner according to the firewall. In that case I will only lockout myself for a period of one minute. But it is also possible to increase this value to for example 15 minutes or one hour.Other enemies are enemies which are known by IP address or IP address range. I have added the address 18.104.22.168 as an example, but this could also be ranges like 188.8.131.52/24. Adding and removing enemies from the firewallFriends come and go, but enemies accumulate is what Jones' motto learns us. In IT world this is a little bit different. Many enemies are temporary by nature. These are computers infected by malware, or servers with configuration flaws like open mail or web proxies. Once these problems are fixed, an enemy can turn in a friend again.Because of this, we are looking for an easy way to add and remove IP addresses or IP ranges to the iptables firewall we have created. In many iptables firewall implementations you will find on the Internet this is very difficult. You have to have a thorough understanding of the working of the firewall before you can make any changes to it. This is strange, because if your computer is under attack, you have probably something else to do than reading manuals, deciphering scripts etc. You have already seen that we have separated enemies from other rules in our firewall by storing all enemy related firewall rules in a separate chain. With two shell scripts we can add or delete rules to this chain. /usr/local/bin/addenemy #!/bin/sh iptables -L -n -v | grep -q $1 RETVAL=$? if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then echo "IP address already in blocklist: $1" exit 0 fi echo "Adding enemy $1" iptables -A Enemies -s $1 -j DROP This scripts first makes a dump of the current firewall rules and checks if the IP address or IP range matches an existing rule. If this is the case a warning is shown and the script does nothing. If no matching rule has been found, the IP address or IP range is added to the list of enemies. By checking the whole rules list against the new IP address, we have some basic protection against adding one of our own IPs to the firewall because this script will also fail if it finds the IP address or range in the Friends table. But there is no check of individual IPs against IP ranges so you still have to be careful about what you do. /usr/local/bin/delenemy #!/bin/sh echo "Deleting enemy $1" iptables -D Enemies -s $1 -j DROP This scripts deletes a rule from the Enemies table which matches the IP address or IP range.
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Why can't they figure out that it was Thursday night / Friday morning? Because Americans aren't taught or forced to THINK anymore. If they were, we wouldn't have the batch of idiots in Washington that just collected their fat paychecks and went home for the holidays while the rest of us look for jobs. »
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Luxury brand new apartment Mala Mare (56 meters squared) for 2 + 1 persons is located on the peninsula Lapad, Babin kuk in Dubrovnik in peaceful and quiet area and surrounded with Mediterranean vegetation.
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And all those anti-Muslim declarations haven't really worked." - Anne-Gaëlle Besse, French journalist In a country where all candidates are given equal coverage and where televised political advertisements are banned, the frontrunners have to share the media stage with their less popular candidates. Nevertheless, editorial analysis and judgement plays an important role in getting politicians' message across. President Nicolas Sarkozy has recently been trailing in the polls to his rival, the Socialist candidate, Francois Hollande. Sarkozy has been blamed for the country's economic difficulties, and - for someone who was elected in 2007 for his personality and policies - he is now someone who appears to have lost his charm and popularity. 'President-in-waiting' Hollande, on the other hand, has been called "the president in waiting". He is seen as an affable moderate, whose quiet manner and corporate tax-raising economic policy differ sharply from Sarkozy's glamour and free market ideals. The campaign of centrist François Bayrou - who in 2007 took nearly a fifth of the first round vote - has become somewhat marginalised, over-shadowed by the more extreme right and left wing candidates. He does, however, remain influential in terms of where his votes will go in round two. The far-right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen has been polling at 15 per cent with her policies against the "tsunami" of illegal immigration, and the "Islamisation" of France, but she hasn't managed to make as much of an impact as once predicted. The far-left candidate Jean Luc Melenchon, who has attracted voters with radical ideas - such as a "citizens' revolution" based on the ideals of the 1871 Paris Commune - is also polling at 15 per cent, in close competition with Le Pen for third place. Live Box 201242085114263235 In the final stretch before Sunday's vote, Sarkozy is under pressure, with most opinion polls showing him trailing behind Hollande, who is expected by many observers to beat the incumbent in the second round of polling on May 6. In the 2007 election, Sarkozy was much more popular in the media, talked up as a potential "hope and change" for France, ushering the country into a new era. But after five years as president, where he has presided over an economic lull, the media have become much more critical and sceptical of the man dubbed the "bling bling president". Nevertheless, Sarkozy has always found an ally in the right-leaning daily newspaper Le Figaro, which is an exception to the rule, firmly supporting the incumbent - calling a major campaign speech "rich, lyrical, and forward-looking" in an editorial comment. 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"Even the debates between candidates on TV have attracted fewer people ... and in particular, young people." - Shaima Elbialy, French journalist Liberation, another left-leaning newspaper, said the financial markets "were not scared by the left" and had anticipated a Socialist win in both the presidential and parliamentary elections. This acceptance - that if opinion polls are correct - means that on May 7, President Hollande will be the first Socialist president since 1995. Throughout the campaign, a key component of debate and scrutiny has been the economy, with both leading candidates promising to balance the budget. Hollande, however has emphasised growth, in comparison with attempts to cut deficits through the "austerity" measures of Sarkozy's administration. The economy has dominated the election, even though there was a brief moment when it looked like the debate was about to be shifted to immigration and Islam following the Toulouse shootings. It is the economy Anne-Gaëlle Besse, a French journalist in the northern town of Denain - often dubbed "the poorest city in France", said the election had forced people there to "take an interest", given the dependence of their future on the outcome of the vote. Besse said general media coverage had been based on "economics being the main issue, not security. And all those anti-Muslim declarations haven't really worked". Liberation, days after the Toulouse shootings criticised Sarkozy initially for how he had "played the Muslim card on terror, halal meat and Hijabs" to appeal to Le Pen supporters. "As we approach the 2012 presidential election, relations between Nicolas Sarkozy and the Muslim community continue to deteriorate, as Sarkozy aims to use 'the Muslim issue' as a vote grabbing exercise," said Gaelle. 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COTTONDALE | Billy Gene Sonny" Sewell, age 71, of Cottondale, died May 24, 2006 at DCH Regional Medical Center. Services will be 2 p.m. today at Memory Chapel Funeral Home with Pastors Charles Price and Jimmy Weed officiating. Burial will follow in Old Salem Baptist Church Cemetery in Cottondale with Memory Chapel Funeral Home, a Dignity Memorial Provider, directing.
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Paula Abdul Breaks Nose
AP / Kevork Djansezian, 2006
Paula Abdul has spoken out for the first time since breaking her nose
in a weekend fall, revealing she also fractured her toe.
The "American Idol" judge tripped over her pet chihuahua, Tulip, at home
on Sunday and is now nursing a series of bumps, bruises and breaks.
She tells "Extra," "I took a nasty fall … trying not to hurt my
dog. … I tore cartilage. … I bruised myself on my arm, that's nothing. … my
chest, my waist all the way down to my hip. All from my little chubby Tulip.
"I saw her … I just remember saying, 'Oh my God, I'm going to do a face
plant!' It hurt so bad!
"I screamed like a little baby would scream. I fractured my toe as well."
But brave Abdul won't be sitting out of the "Idol" finale Tuesday and Wednesday.
Fellow judge Simon Cowell says, "We'll have a huge bowl of ice just to make
sure the swelling isn't too bad."
The British music mogul admits he has yet to speak to Abdul about her mishap — because she literally can't get to the phone.
He adds, "Apparently, she can't get close to the phone because of what's on
her nose. That's what I've heard."
Underwood Breaks Her Silence About Beau Romo
AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
Country superstar Carrie Unerwood has gone public about her romance with
football star Tony Romo after asking him to be her date at the Academy of
Country Music Awards in Las Vegas last night.
The couple has been romantically linked ever since Underwood gave up her
Christmas plans to spend a special day with Romo as he played for the
Dallas Cowboys — but both stars have refused to talk about their relationship.
Quizzed about her date at last night's country celebration, the former
"American Idol" winner gushed, "We're really good friends and we hang out and we
support each other and everything that we do and it's great to have somebody
here who's got your back."
Meanwhile, Romo confessed, "We're just getting to know each other a little
better and we'll see where everything goes, but it's just nice to have somebody
at the end of the day to talk to who is going through similar things.
"She's got a great personality, so she's really easy to talk to… (and) she
loves to talk on the phone."
Underwood revealed backstage that her awards show performance would be the
first time Romo has seen his sweetheart play live.
Clarkson Fumes at Artist Rejects
Kelly Clarkson wrote her new album after turning down her label's offers to
record songs rejected by other artists.
Clarkson admits she was put under pressure by her record label to use a team
of writers and some songs already offered to other singers — but she was
determined to create My December herself.
The singer — who recently defended the LP from claims label bosses at RCA and
Sony BMG were unimpressed with her songwriting attempts — tells MTV.tv,
"Everybody always wants me to go in different directions. Obviously they're a
record label so they need to sell records. They want the formula writers and
the formula producers that do everybody else's stuff, and while I love some of
those people… and I don't mind working with that… I just don't like working
with someone that gives you a song and is like, 'Oh, I wrote this for you.' But
you find out that they've given it to every other artist and they turned it
down, you know?
"My label literally sent me a Lindsay Lohan track from her last album and
wanted me to record it for my new album. And while I like Lindsay Lohan, like
I'm cool with her and I think she sings the song well… it's already been on
an album.
"They were just sending me stuff that was like almost insulting. I'm like,
'You can't even find new songs? You don't want me to write my album but you're
sending me hand me downs?' So, I ended up writing the entire thing with the
people that I write well with."
Clarkson Scraps New Album?
Reuters / Mario Anzuoni, File
Pop star Kelly Clarkson has reportedly scrapped her new album after label
bosses weren't impressed with the record.
The 25-year-old singer suffered a scathing attack from Sony BMG chief Clive
Davis after he heard the new tracks, reports Britain's the Daily Star.
A source at the record company tells the paper, "It was an extraordinary
presentation. Clive was absolutely merciless in his criticism of Kelly.
"She's one of the biggest priorities on the label and her new songs were
The "American Idol" winner has been working on the follow up to 2005′s best
selling album Breakaway for 18 months, but has reportedly gone back to the
studio to work on new tracks.
Sanjaya to Attend D.C. Dinner
Sanjaya Malakar, who was just voted off "American Idol," could meet President Bush on Saturday. Malakar is attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington. He's a guest of People magazine.
Bush will be attending the annual dinner.
Malakar will share a table with People magazine's other guests, Valerie Bertinelli, Zac Efron of "High School Musical," comedian Eddie Izzard and Robert Kennedy Jr.
Abdul's 'Diva' Antics Not Welcomed
Reuters/Chris Pizzello
"American Idol" judge Paula Abdul reportedly threw a "diva-like" tantrum while
boarding an airplane recently, telling fellow passengers she was "too
famous" to stand in line.
Abdul was boarding a Southwest Airlines flight from San Jose to Burbank,
Calif., when she reportedly demanded to be given special treatment and
board the aircraft first.
Eyewitnesses claim the star pushed her way to the front of a line of waiting
passengers as one disgruntled commuter shouted, "You're no Sanjaya! You have to board like
everyone else."
A source tells MSNBC.com's the Scoop, "She pulled a major diva trip. The other passengers
were not amused. She asked to be let on the plane and seated first."
Abdul's spokesman has refused to comment.
Cowell Defends Himself After Eye-Rolling
Music mogul Simon Cowell has acted quickly to defend himself against reports he
rolled his eyes during an "American Idol" contestant's tribute to the students of
Virginia Tech University on the TV talent show Tuesday night.
Internet sites went crazy after the incident, with critics accusing
Cowell of being insensitive to singer Chris Robinson's message to friends
caught up in the aftermath of Monday's campus massacre.
TV cameras captured Cowell making a sarcastic gesture as Robinson said, "My
hearts and prayers go out to Virginia Tech. I have a lot of friends over
there. … Be strong."
But Cowell insists he wasn't listening to what Robinson was saying and was caught
up in conversation with fellow judge Paula Abdul.
Speaking on show host Ryan Seacrest's Los Angeles morning radio show, Cowell, who made his own tribute to the students of Virginia
Tech during "American Idol," admitted he was horrified to become a target of
nasty stories.
He said, "You get this crazy story that appears that I rolled my eyes
disrespectfully at Chris because he made the comment. … The truth was I had
switched off at that point and I was talking to Paula.
"I did wanna clear this one up because this is a very sensitive subject. The
irony was is that we did want to set the right tone on the show."
Abdul: 'Cowell and I Are Great Friends'
Reuters / Fred Prouser
"American Idol" judge Paula Abdul insists she is "great friends" with Simon Cowell, despite their fiery onscreen relationship.
But the 44-year-old singer-turned-talent adjudicator admits she tries to avoid the star when he's being overly facetious.
She tells TV Guide, "Simon and I actually get along great. We have cultivated a fun relationship. He's actually become a really good friend."
Abdul is adamant any rumors of a romance between the pair is way off the mark.
She explains, "He makes this stuff up. He said, 'Paula, people want us to hook up so bad.' I said, 'That's disgusting.' He goes, 'Paula, I know you want me,' and I go, 'Like a cold sore.'
"We have fun playing up the chemistry, but there's also times when I would cross the other side of the street so I wouldn't have to look at him."
Hudson Hits Back at Cowell
Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson has hit back at "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell,
comparing her experience on the talent show to working at Burger King.
Hudson — who was a contestant on the show in 2004 — was rejected and tipped
for failure by Cowell.
When she went onto Oscar success through her role in "Dreamgirls," Cowell
accused Hudson of failing to appreciate the "big opportunity" her appearance on
the show offered her.
But Best Supporting Actress Hudson snaps back, "If I'd been any better at my
job when I was at Burger King in my middle teens I wouldn't be here either, so
should I thank them, too?"
Lythgoe Slams 'Crazy' O'Donnell
"American Idol" boss Nigel Lythgoe has hit out at Rosie O'Donnell after she accused the show of being "racist and weightist."
O'Donnell was angry because previous contestant Frenchie Davis was axed from the talent contest for having appeared in lingerie pictures — and current contestant Antonella Barba wasn't, despite having racy photos appear on the Internet.
O'Donnell claims Davis was picked on because she is black and overweight.
But producer Lythgoe has called O'Donnell "utterly crazy."
In a call to "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest's talk show Thursday he said, "Without wishing to add to the obvious self-promotion of Ms. O'Donnell, I feel as though I must refute her absurd and ridiculous claims that 'American Idol' is racist and/or weightist.
"Ms. O'Donnell has, once again, spoken without thought or knowledge. Viewers need only look at the show tonight to realize that 'American Idol' constantly confirms to America that talent has nothing to do with weight or color.
"Look at our past contestants, Ruben (Studdard) for instance, Randy Jackson himself … these are not small people!
"Once you get into a situation where you can have a view and then put it on television … that comes with responsibility and that responsibility is you think before you open your mouth.


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I received two unknown ferns from a friend, just basically ripped out of her fern tub. They were doing ok til I put them in the bathroom, where I thought they would enjoy the constant moisture from the daily shower. However, they dried right up and they may be dead. I watered them faithfully but I would like to know if ferns have good roots enough that they might spring back. Perhaps they were just too shocked at the transplant, but they seemed to do ok for a week or so, then quickly went downhill. One, the one with bigger leaves, dropped many of its leaves. Has anyone experienced this and had a fern come back to life? How did you do it? Thanks
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Quikrete Walkmaker?
Anyone used these? I stumbled across them while looking for something else. They might work well in a garden area I was thinking of building - but wasn't sure how great the results actually are?
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I love this vehicle, and am especially content with the warranty that bmw provides. The vehicle is comfortable, and the ammenities are practical and stylish. I can see myself buying another bmw in th... Read More
X3 -3.0si - Not Bad, Not Bad At All! By HK4
Much much better than the X3-2.5, X3-3.0 and X5-3.0. Better power for its size and handling feel like a bimmer (at last!) The old engine is not sufficient for the weight - and forget about X5-3.0... ... Read More
2007 BMW X3 Reviews
The Best Car I Ever Owned. By McSkinzie
Tech connectivity requirements drove me to upgrade to a newer model, but really the 2007 BMW X3 3.0Si is a better, tighter car that is more fun to drive. The drive train is the pinnacle of a perfect ... Read More
Amazing Little Suv. By wb7603
This X3 is a pretty amazing little SUV. It has nice power for an SUV, but it's best feature is its handling - I can push through corners and maneuvers that would tear other SUVs I have owned apart. ... Read More
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