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Jang Jin's next film after last year's 박수칠 때 떠나라 (Murder, Take One) and the monster success of 웰컴 투 동막골 (Welcome To Dongmakgol) (produced by Jang) will be the gangster noir (and comedy... this is Jang Jin, remember) 거룩한 계보 (Divine Lineage). The film recently cast its leads: Jang regular Jung Jae-Young on one side, comedy mainstay Jung Joon-Ho on the other. This continues Jang's recent trend of using proven box office draws (Cha Seung-Won in 'Murder, Take One') for his films, and will surely bring back all his 'Suda family' in supporting roles. Jung forms Chungmuro's new troika of supporting actors who became stars last year, along with Hwang Jung-Min of 너는 내 운명 (You're My Sunshine) and Gam Woo-Sung of 왕의 남자 (The King and The Clown), after his latest work 'Welcome To Dongmakgol' sold over 8 Million tickets. The film marks the first project of Jang and Kang Woo-Suk's new production company, K&J Entertainment, and tells the story of a gangster who plots revenge on those who betrayed him, after escaping from prison. Shooting will start next Month, for a Chuseok release.
Remember Kwon Sang-Woo hoping 야수 (Running Wild) wouldn't become a hit only in Japan? Looks like he wasn't too far off the mark. While the film didn't completely flop at home, selling around 1.1 Million tickets, it's quite likely it'll become a huge hit in Japan. The film directed by Kim Sung-Soo received 35,000 preorders when tickets were put on sale last February 8, the best ever result for a Korean film released in Japan. Released this weekend, 'Running Wild' could pose a threat for the current record holder, the melodrama 내 머리속의 지우개 (A Moment To Remember), which sold 2.5 Million tickets (for a total intake of 3 Billion Yen), and 외출 (April Snow), which holds the second spot with 2.4 Million tickets. Distributed by Toshiba Entertainment, Kwon Sang-Woo's star power is proving crucial for the action noir. More details about the film's Japanese debut in tomorrow's box office report.
Just as news that his latest film 투사부일체 (My Boss, My Teacher) became the most successful Korean comedy of all time hit the press, Kim Sang-Joong has been cast in his next project. He will star in Lee Mu-Young's new film 아버지와 마리와 나 (Dad, Mary and I), as a legendary guitarist and songwriter with remarkable skills, who one day meets a woman called Mari. Lee, one of Park Chan-Wook's best friends, is famous for helping Park write most of his pre-vengeance trilogy films, and is responsible for the hilarious 2001 black comedy 휴머니스트 (Humanist). Shooting will start in March.
He gained fame thanks to his role in the 2002 megahit 집으로... (The Way Home) where he played an incredibly annoying kid who slowly realizes how much his grandma loved him (awwww), yet Yoo Seung-Ho's career has been far from impressive in recent years, with his spot of 'most popular child actor' taken over by Lee Jae-Eung of 살인의 추억 (Memories of Murder) and 사랑해, 말순씨 (Bravo, My Life). Yoo has been mostly working on TV, with his appearances on KBS' 불멸의 이순신 (The Immortal Lee Soon-Shin), 부모님 전상서 (My Precious Family) and MBC's 슬픈연가 (Sad Sonata), but he'll return to the big screen with his latest project 마음이... (Heart). Now what would this 'heart' of the title be? None other than the lead's puppy (awwww...). The production company actually staged an audition for the role, but since they couldn't find a fitting candidate, the choice eventually went to Yoo, even though at first his image was too 'young' for the role -- or maybe they didn't want to make the obvious choice, Park Ji-Bin. Who will Yoo's partner be? A 4 year old Labrador. For some reason, films with animals give me nightmares, as they either remind me of 25 Trillion Saturday Afternoon Disney Channel Specials, or Korean films like the 1994 Park Joong-Hoon star vehicle 꼬리치는 남자 (A Man Wagging His Tail). But then again there's some exceptions, like last year's wonderful SBS Special 내 사랑 토람 (My Lovely Toram). The film will start shooting in mid February for a Chuseok release, and is directed by first timer Park Eun-Hyung.
She hit it (relatively) big with last year's Sitcom 올드미스 다이어리 (Old Miss Diary), which will become a film in the near future, but writer Park Hae-Young is already at work on her next project. She's writing a 16 to 20 Episodes Drama for Chorok Media, tentatively entitled 상처 (Wound). The script will be completed before airing, which is nice for a traditional melodrama, since viewers' expectations tend to warp certain Drama scripts (especially towards the end, as writers sometimes fall for the viewers' requests). Park already wrote 7 Episodes, so we're just under halfway, and casting and shooting will follow shortly. 'Old Miss Diary' (Called 'Olmida' by fans) wasn't certainly a masterpiece, but it was a pretty entertaining Sitcom, and hopefully its breezy atmosphere will carry over to 'Wound' as well. The show is about the choices people make when faced with serious problems, the kind of love they tend to look for in those situations. We'll cover this project more in the coming weeks, as casting is confirmed. MBC plans to air it in late 2006.
You know I've been anxiously awaiting (...not) for Yoon Seok-Ho's latest work, the conclusion of his incredibly popular 'Four Seasons' (see, he's like Vivaldi!). His 2000 Drama 가을동화 (Autumn Fairy Tale) ignited the Korean Wave, 2002's 겨울연가 (Winter Sonata) made the trend a force to be reckoned with economically and even culturally (as Japanese housewives wet their trousers every time Yonsama pops on TV), and 2003's 여름향기 (Summer Scent)... uhh... had Son Ye-Jin in a wet t-shirt and Song Seung-Heon emoting like a Vulcan with myopia, so that must count for something. But he's ready for another, final round entitled 봄의 왈츠 (Spring Waltz), and as we reported weeks ago, the show started shooting in Austria, with newbie and former model Seo Do-Young, Korean-American heartthrob Daniel Henney and Han Hyo-Joo from several CF and Sitcoms (replacing Sung Yoo-Ri, who probably fell mysteriously ill after reading the script of the show, and dropped out at the last minute).
The show, which is set to start on KBS this March 6, marks the first foreign location shooting for Yoon, in Austrian cities like Wien, Innsbruck and more, which will at least make for nice scenery, as always with his Dramas. The HD Drama should become a huge international hit, and Henney's presence could stir the hearts of Korean viewers, for at least one episode! Now what I really am curious about is what Yoon will do after the conclusion of his 'Four Season' series. How about a SF Opera with Choi Ji-Woo playing a cyborg who can't emote, and Yonsama as the Korean version of Harry Potter, who then meet on a lonely planet and... wait, I'm giving him ideas. Better stop.
After the big controversy over her 'nude publicity' for the film 애인 (Intimate), and the excellent reaction of the press for her latest work 손님은 왕이다 (The Customer is Always Right), Sung Hyun-Ah will make her return to TV Dramas. She will star in the upcoming SBS Drama 어느날 갑자기 (One Day, Suddenly) alongside Song Seon-Mi and Lee Jong-Won, her first TV appearance since 2001's KBS Sitcom 싼둥이네 (Twins). The show is written by Park Hyun-Joo and produced by Park Young-Soo, and will start shooting next week. Airing date is set after the end of the popular Friday Drama 그 여자 (That Woman).
Waited for news like this for a while: Yang Dong-Geun is coming back to TV! Why should I be excited? Yang has long been one of the most interesting young talents on the scene, and you could say his talent emerged thanks the great 2002 MBC Drama 네 멋대로 해라 (Ruler of Your Own World). In recent years he mostly starred in films -- some good, like 와일드 카드 (Wild Card), some not so good, like 바람의 파이터 (Fighter in the Wind). The exciting thing is that his return coincides with PD Park Sung-Soo's return (the two worked together in 'Ruler of Your Own World'), one of the best PDs in Korea. They'll work on the new MBC Drama 닥터 깽 (Doctor Kang), which will start in March. This is the first Drama for Yang in over 3 years, and he'll share the lead with Han Ga-In, last seen in 신입사원 (Super Rookie). Although the script is a question mark, as it was written by Kim Gyu-Wan of 봄날 (Spring Days), Park is good enough to overcome even an average script. Yang stars as a third rate thug who's on the run from a gang, after his mother mistakenly used the gang's money. He ends up having to serve as a fake doctor, and his struggles and romantic escapades with Doctor Han Ga-In begin. The Drama will start shooting in a few weeks, after casting is completed.
18 Months after his latest appearance on TV, with the KBS Drama 오!필승 봉순영 (Oh! Feel Young), Ahn Jae-Wook returns to the small screen, in the KBS2 Drama 미스터 굿바이 (Mr. Goodbye). The show, which will start broadcasting after the end of 봄의 왕츠 (Spring Waltz) in May, is written by Seo Sook-Hyang and produced by Hwang Eui-Kyung. Ahn plays a successful Hotel manager living in New York, who has to suddenly come back to Korea for business-related problems, and meets a woman there. But of course the woman he was living with in the US comes back to haunt him, and we've got our love triangle. Another romantic comedy in the vein of Ahn's past work, the kind of roles Ahn can do in his sleep and work pretty effectively, but we'll see how this turns out. If the other two female leads are good , this could turn out pretty decent. Only problem: PD Hwang was responsible for that ugly mess 웨딩 (Wedding), so I'd lower my expectations a little (although it was mostly a problem of bad casting and acting).
Its first two episodes did pretty badly (under 10% ratings), but the new SBS Wed/Thu Drama 천국의 나무 (The Tree of Heaven) already hit the jackpot right from the beginning. Japan's Sankei Sports reports that the Drama, which concludes a 'Heaven trilogy' after 2001's 아름다운 날들 (Beautiful Days) and 2003's 천국의 계단 (Stairway To Heaven), will start airing on Japanese Satellite channel BS Asahi from April. All three shows come from PD Lee Jang-Soo, who has essentially become the 'second Yoon Seok-Ho', mostly for three reasons: 1) he's making thematically (or emotionally)-connected sequels to his most popular hit; 2) all his Dramas have a huge following in Japan, perhaps because they feature Korean Wave-friendly casts (Choi Ji-Woo and Lee Byung-Heon in the first, Again Choi and Kwon Sang-Woo in the second, Lee Wan and Park Shin-Hye from 'Stairway To Heaven' leading the third); 3) both stink up the place pretty frequently.
Now Lee is a little better than Yoon, as his 2002 SBS Drama 별을 쏘다 (Shooting Stars) is excellent, and 1995's 아스팔트 사나이 (Asphalt Man) is one of the best examples of pre-Korean Wave Trendy Drama. Yet both 'Beautiful Days' and 'Stairway To Heaven' represent some of the worst pap ever put on Korean screens, with oceans of cliches, ridiculous acting, and soundtracks so bad they might cause more mass suicides than Heaven's Gate. While the show will air on Satellite on Thursdays at 9 (prime time over there), Fuji TV already announced they'll broadcast the show as well, so Lee's latest work will get on network TV as well. The show stars Lee Wan (Kim Tae-Hee's brother), 16 year old Park Shin-Hye, and a host of Japanese actors, including Asami Reina, Uchida Asahi and Japanese-Korean actress Sonin.
The new Historical Drama 연개소문 (Yon Gae Somun) got much hotter all of a sudden. We reported a while ago that Historical Drama veterans Yoo Dong-Geun and Jeon In-Hwa would make their return to what made them stars in the first place, but shows like this live and die by their (supporting) casts. Well, now we can rest assured: the amazing Kim Gab-Soo, of 부활 (Rebirth), 해신 (Emperor of The Sea) and a million other roles, and Lee Jung-Gil (again from 'Rebirth') will star in the Lee Hwan-Kyung written Drama. Nothing surprising considering how many Historical Dramas the two starred in, but it's nice to see they keep doing what they're best at. Shooting started last January for the the new Drama, which tells the story of legendary Goguryeo General Yon Gae Somun .
After his career-making performance in 불멸의 이순신 (The Immortal Lee Soon-Shin) and his KBS Acting Award, Kim Myung-Min has become one of the hottest commodities on TV. It was only a matter of time before contracts would start pouring down, and he's finally chosen his next project. He will star in the new SBS Drama 불량가족 (Bad Family) as a gang boss. The show is written by Lee Hee-Myung, produced by Yoo In-Shik, and will start shooting from February 20. Despite the title and Kim's role, it will be a human comedy. The show, produced by CK Media Works, tells the story of a little girl who suddenly loses her parents in an accident, along with her memory. But another family takes her under their wings, and pretend to be her real family -- Kim plays her uncle here.
It's pretty clear what will happen (the girl regains her memory and finds all about her painful past), and things could get nasty, but SBS is doing OK recently, what with the success of the hilarious 마이걸 (My Girl) and the impressive resurgence of 서동요 (The Ballad of Seo Dong), so we'll have to see. I wouldn't worry too much about the young girl, as there's plenty of great child actors (especially female) acting on TV right now, but we'll have to see the rest of the cast before making any predictions. What we can do is look at the writer/Pd's duo past work: writer Lee worked on the lamentable 2003 SBS Drama 요조숙녀 (My Fair Lady) with Kim Hee-Sun and Go Soo (which was atrocious), and previously on the Drama which made Jang Na-Ra a star (for 15 Minutes), 명랑 소녀 성공기 (A Joyful Girl's Success Story). In PD Yoo's case, things look a little better, as he was responsible for last year's excellent 불량주부 (Woman of the House), and 2004's decent 폭풍 속으로 (Into The Storm). 'Bad Family' is slated to air from March 8, so we'll know the rest of the cast pretty soon.
In a week when news that Shim Eun-Ha will become a mommy soon hit (already? That was quick), something a little more shocking happened: MBC has found their first hit in several months. With the popularity of 마이걸 (My Girl), the ratings of all its competitors were alternating between the average and decent, but the real battle would start once the show concluded last week. Many people expected SBS to hold the 20%+ ratings of the Lee Da-Hae Drama for the following show, 천국의 나무 (The Tree of Heaven), but it started with an almost embarrassing 8%. Sign that people are tired of over-the-top melodramas? I don't know, but I'm not touching the new Lee Jang-Soo Drama until it's over, as 천국의 계단 (Stairway To Heaven) made me almost damn the day I started watching Korean TV Dramas. Some people expected 환금사과 (Golden Apple) to take the remaining audience and show a big improvement. Good show, but nothing particularly exciting, and the acting could be better. But even the most optimistic fans of the station, which gave us so many wonderful shows over the years, could not expect MBC to do so well with their latest show 궁 (Princess Hours).
I spoke many times of my reservations about the casting and acting of the show, not exactly what I'd call quality. But there's something about 'Princess Hours' which keeps making people come back. Starring unexperienced former singers (Yoon Eun-Hye of BabyVOX, Kim Jung-Hoon of UN), first timers in the acting game (Joo Ji-Hoon) paired with talented veterans (Kim Hye-Ja, Choi Buram, Shim Hye-Jin), the show takes advantage of MBC Art Direction's department and their talent to carve one of the most visually impressive shows of recent memory. Might be because a good portion of the show was completed before broadcast, but I haven't seen a Drama looking so good in a long time (with the exception of a few Historical Dramas), and watching this on HD must be a treat. Of course the story is mostly targeted at teenagers and is quite predictable, but all considered it's not completely devoid of charm. With impressive rates in teen demographics, 'Princess Hours' is the first MBC Drama to pass the 20% rating in months, and it went so far as 25%, ratings which 'My Girl' never hit even on its last episode. People in the Korean Media expect the 20 Episodes show to hit the low 30s soon, which would set the rating wars on fire, after two months of domination by the same two-three shows.
But this week saw the beginning of another MBC Drama, 내 인생의 스페셜 (The Special of My Life), a 10 Episodes Drama (all completed before broadcast), which will replace 늑대 (Wolf) while Han Ji-Min and Moon Jung-Hyuk heal their injuries. I didn't expect much, with Kim Seung-Woo (who's quite good in comedies, but atrocious in melodramas), Myung Se-Bin (pretty much a waste of time) and former singer Shin Sung-Woo (who hasn't show much beyond charisma so far) heading the disappointing cast. Yet, the first two episodes were a pleasant surprises, perhaps because of Sung Ji-Roo, who's always a wonder to watch. The script might be a little cliched, but it seems quite solid, and since everything is already in the can, there's no need to worry about writers copping out to please the fans. I could have done without the show exploiting the Daegu subway tragedy (still inked in many Koreans' memory, especially those who lost friends or relatives in the accident), but a good start. I don't know, I came in with low expectations, and what I got wasn't bad at all. And strangest of all things, now I actually miss 'Wolf' a lot less, if not for Eom Tae-Woong's loony character.
The really interesting thing is that three of the best TV Dramas showing at the moment all come from Kim Jong-Hak Productions: the aforementioned 'Special', SBS' 서동요 (The Ballad of Seo Dong) and KBS' 안녕하세요 하느님 (Hello, God!). The three shows, all airing during the Monday/Tuesday night slot, hold over 50% of the entire viewership, something quite unexpected, and perhaps even unprecedented in Korean TV History. Kim's production company hit some stinkers in the past, but it seems doing incredibly well now, with many interesting Historical Dramas in the making, trendy Dramas deviating a little from the usual formulae, and interesting new concepts like 'The Special of My Life'. After Olive Nine started contracting many of the most acclaimed (or popular) Drama writers in the country and the good period Kim Jong-Hak's shows are facing, the war between production companies seems to rage this year more than ever, and it can only mean good things for the future of TV Dramas.
01. 37.5% 별난여자 별난남자 (The Bizarre Bunch)
Daily Drama - KBS1 [Cast: Jung Joon, Kim Ah-Joong, Go Ju-Won]
02. 29.1% 하늘이시여 (Dear Heaven)
Weekend Drama - SBS [Cast: Yoon Jung-Hee, Lee Tae-Gon, Jo Yeon-Woo]
03. 25.2% 궁 (Princess Hours)
Wed/Thu Drama - MBC [Cast: Yoon Eun-Hye, Song Ji-Hyo, Joo Ji-Hoon]
04. 24.9% 마이걸 (My Girl)
Wed/Thu Drama - SBS [Cast: Lee Da-Hae, Lee Dong-Wook, Park Shi-Yeon]
05. 23.7% 서동요 (The Ballad of Seo Dong)
Historical Drama - SBS [Cast: Lee Bo-Young, Jo Hyun-Jae, Ryu Jin]
06. 22.9% 그여자 (That Woman)
Friday Drama - SBS [Cast: Shim Hye-Jin, Jang Dong-Jik, Oh Yoon-Ah]
07. 19.7% 들꽃 (Wild Flower)
Daily Morning Drama - SBS [Cast: Lee Ah-Hyun, Seonwoo Jae-Deok, Kim Jung-Hak]
08. 19.3% 고향역 (A Place Called Home)
Daily Drama - KBS1 [Cast: Song Ok-Sook, Park Hyung-Jae, Kim Cheol-Gi]
09. 18.7% 황금 사과 (Golden Apple)
Wed/Thu Drama - KBS2 [Cast: Park Sol-Mi, Park Ji-Bin, Jung Chan]
10. 18.7% 결혼합시다 (Let's Get Married)
Weekend Drama - MBC [Cast: Yoon Da-Hoon, Kang Sung-Yeon, Ju Hyeon]
01. 37.5% 별난여자 별난남자 (The Bizarre Bunch) - KBS
02. 31.9% 슬픔이여 안녕 (Goodbye To Sadness) - KBS
03. 29.9% 하늘이시여 (Dear Heaven) - SBS
04. 25.2% 궁 (Princess Hours) - MBC
05. 24.9% 마이걸 (My Girl) - SBS
06. 24.1% 서동요 (The Ballad of Seo Dong) - SBS
07. 23.0% 황금사과 (Golden Apple) - KBS
08. 22.9% 그여자 (That Woman) - SBS
09. 22.3% 인생이여 고마워요 (Thank You Life) - KBS
10. 19.7% 들꽃 (Wild Flower) - SBS
Star News: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Yahoo Korea: 1, 2
My Daily News: 1
Hanguk Ilbo: 1


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Surging oil prices and renewed interest in News Corp as it leaves Australian indices helped pushed the sharemarket to fresh record closing highs on Friday.
Oil prices, which jumped above $US57 a barrel amid fears oil-producing countries can't meet increasing demand, pushed oil and energy stocks higher this week.
Woodside Petroleum gained $1.33, or 5 per cent, to $24.94, Origin gained 46c, or 5 per cent, to $7.55 and Caltex gained 90c to $15.70.
News Corp shares rose on Friday despite fears institutional investors could dump as much as $US2.5 billion in stock as the company was downweighted from the ASX 200 following its relocation to Delaware.
Goldman Sachs JBWere analysts advised investors to leave the reweighting period overweight in the stock as it considered the stock "looks cheaper versus US peers".
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Rome must acknowledge the "depth of anger and hurt" provoked by the apostolic visitation of American nuns, the Vatican's number two official for religious life said in an interview on Dec. 6 with John Allen, a correspondent for The National Catholic Reporter. Archbishop Joseph Tobin, secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, called for a "strategy of reconciliation" with women religious. The archbishop said that he does not expect any "punitive" fallout from the visitation. He said that before any decisions are made resulting from it, women's communities should have a chance to know the results and to respond. Many women religious in the United States have objected to what some perceive as the secrecy of the process. Archbishop Tobin said that as a matter of "justice and charity," he will "strongly advocate" for feedback and a right of reply for women religious.
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north from the town of Ýzmit towards
the Black Sea, a great mountain rises in the
distance, its mysteries concealed behind cloudy
peaks, deep echoing gorges, and thick wild forests.
The ancient and almost forgotten road from Ýzmit
to Istanbul's eastern district of Üsküdar
leads to Kocadað, winding its way through
pine and oak forest. In the mountaindý
foothills lie many secret gardens awaiting discovery.
This was the road used for centuries by caravans
carrying goods from Asia into Europe, and by
armies on campaigns of conquest. From Istanbul
it passes Ömerli Dam and the village of
Molla Fenari near Gebze, before reaching Ýzmit.
In each season Kocadað casts a different
coloured shadow over this old road as it wends
its way through the green depths of the forest.
The mountain extends from Sevindikli to the
coastal town of Aðva, and in its foothills
nestle villages and towns which have been here
for long centuries. First among those which
visitors should not miss is the village of Kutluca,
which combines scenic beauty with ruins dating
from Roman, Genoese and Byzantine times.
inscriptions describing the accession of the
Emperor Antonious and statues discovered in
fields on the villagsr outskirts are now exhibited
in Ýzmit Museum. Tumuli in the nearby
woods and village cemetery, picturesque old
cottages and a cheese factory, and an old stone
bridge thought to have been built by the Genoese
can be seen here.
The Kocadere River flows beneath this bridge
and on through a valley thickly wooded with
evergreen boxwood trees, whose fine-grained
hard timber is carved into spoons by local people.
As the river advances towards the sea at Aðva
it flows ever more rapidly, swollen by streams
rising high on the mountain. Exploring the green
unspoilt course of this river, whose water is
as clear as an aquarium and home to numerous
fish, is a delightful way to spend the day.
If you follow the course of streams heading
for Aðva, you come to confluences where
two streams meet, and the most scenic of such
points is that between the villages of Dikenli
and Tepemanayýr. As their water volume
increases the streams begin to shape the landscape,
carving out marble blocks and hills with the
skill of a sculptor. Walking along this valley,
following ancient paths, you come to the village
of Hacýlar, where you can buy local charcoal
and eggs. Just downhill from the village is
Kemikli Cave and Sarpdere Falls.
A small stream runs through the cave, which
boasts both stalagmites and stalactites. It
is known only to local people and a few dedicated
cavers, for whom unexplored caves are an irresistible
challenge. The Sarpdere River and its waterfall
are stunningly photogenic, and the sight will
remain impressed on your memory for a long time
to come.
With its valleys, forests, waterfalls and secret
gardens, Kocadað is a natural wonderland.
As spring approaches, this is the time to explore
the beauties of this mountain, pursuing a madcap
bee intoxicated by the return of flowers and
scented breezes.
Emrah Özkok is a photographer


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Day 1: We pick you up in Whitehorse or Haines, Alaska. Check in at the lodge with a welcome drink and lunch. A short hike is planned to the nearby beaver pond and rock glacier.
Days 2 & 3: Mountain bike, hike or ATV along an old trap-line to our outpost cabin at Frederick Lake. We have a motor boat at this remote lake to explore the area. There are excellent opportunities to watch moose, black bear, grizzly bear, beaver and eagles. We stay overnight in the trapper's cabin. Your guide will help you to catch a fish and prepare it for lunch.
Day 4: Boat tour on Kathleen Lake and hike to King's throne. This is a steep hike but you will be rewarded with the most scenic and extraordinary view of Kathleen Lake, the Kathleen River system and the Shakwak Valley. As an alternative program we offer you a canoe tour Kathleen Lake to Rainbow Lake.
Days 5 & 6: After breakfast we leave the lodge by canoe and cross Dezadeash Lake. We head for Six Mile Lake, a shallow protected lake and a perfect moose habitat. Once we canoe through the lake, we enter the Dezadeash River. We set up camp on a sandy bank and enjoy a good night rest outdoors. The next day we continue to follow the Dezadeash River until we reach Champagne, a native village, where we will be picked up and brought back to Dalton Trail Lodge. As an alternative program we offer a mountain bike, hike or ATV along an old bush trail to our gold claims at Kimberly Creek. We stay overnight in a beautiful log cabin. We have a little sluice box and all the necessary tools for you. Kimberly Creek is bordering Kluane National Park and also is an excellent base camp to explore the park.
Day 7: After breakfast we take you back to Whitehorse or Haines, Alaska. Home departure.
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Hamilton Police responded to the area of Mill and Union streets in Waterdown Thursday night about 6 p.m, when a 17-year-old female driver lost control of her vehicle during a fresh snowfall, resulting in her car sliding and then flipping over onto its roof. No other vehicles were involved in the mishap and the driver, the lone occupant of a 2007 Pontiac, did not sustain any injuries.

Police closed a section of Mill Street, south of Union Street to Mountain Brow Road, until 10 p.m., Cst. Debbie McGreal-Dinning, media relations officer with the Hamilton Police Service, said Friday. Weather was a factor in the accident and no charges were laid, she added.

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4 ElementsDir/scr: Jiska Rickels. Neth. 2006. 89mins.Jiska Rickels' makes an impressive debut with feature-documentary 4 Elements, a self-consciously poetic film essay that has limited narration and little in the way of dialogue. Consisting of four self-contained segments, each representing one of the four ele
Artificial Eye founder Andi Engel diesAndi Engel, founder of UK distribution company Artificial Eye, died in Lubeck, Germany on Dec 26.Engel was born in Berlin in 1942. He and wife Pam Engel set up Artificial Eye in London in the mid-1970s and the company became the UK's leading distributor of arthouse and foreign-language films. Act Entertainment Group and Knatchbull Communications Group recently acquired Artificial Eye - including its 200-title library and two London cinemas.
Autism documentary gets late Sundance slotLauren Thierry's documentary Autism Every Day has joined the Sundance Film festival line-up as a special screening.The world premiere will screen out of competition on Jan 21 and will be followed by an autism awareness panel featuring the filmmakers and parents who appear with their children in the documentary.Autism Every Day charts the round-the-clock challenges faced by families affected by autism. Thierry produced with Eric Solomon o
Autism documentary lands late Sundance slotLauren Thierry's documentary Autism Every Day has joined the Sundance Film festival line-up as a special screening.The world premiere will screen out of competition on Jan 21 and will be followed by an autism awareness panel featuring the filmmakers and parents who appear with their children in the documentary.
Berlin competitors include Soderbergh and De NiroThe 2007 Berlinale has announced the first six films selected for this year's competition. They include Christian Petzold's Yella from Germany, marking the director's return to Berlin competition after Ghosts (Gespenster) in 2005. The new film, a world premiere, follows a young woman who tries to escape a bad marriage and her old lif
Bond and The Queen head BAFTA longlist
Bond and The Queen head BAFTA longlistCasino Royale and The Queen top the Orange British Academy Film Awards longlist with 14.
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Bridging the gap: cinema enters the digital age'This a time of huge opportunity but also of great fear,' Stephen Moore, head of features and COO of Aardman told Screen International Digital Rights conference.It may not sound like a big shift from the vague predictions over the last few years that a digital future represented threats and opportunities.But Moore's fear, shared by many at the conference in London, is not about an uncertain future but about what's happening now in
Canadian performers set strike deadlineCanadian performers guild ACTRA has set a strike deadline of 12:01am on Jan 8 if ongoing 'last-ditch' talks break down.In a statement, ACTRA national executive director and chief negotiator Stephen Waddell said: 'ACTRA wants to avoid a strike. We're going to try hard this week to negotiate a new agreement. But the producers' associations must not underestimate our determination to ensu
Cecchi Gori vows to carry on producingSitting in his 16th century Borghese Palace residence in Rome, where statues line hallways leading to frescoed rooms, Italian film producer and former Senator Vittorio Cecchi Gori shows no sign that he is suffering from the latest and perhaps most severe setback in his attempts to revive his family's film-making empire.When a Rome court declared Cecchi Gori's Finmavi holding group bankrupt in October, many saw the decision as the final nail in the coffin of the business started by
Chan launches China talent search, production outfitHong Kong star Jackie Chan is planning to unearth the nextgeneration of action stars through a TV talent contest, and is establishing a Beijing-basedproduction company to produce vehicles in which they can perform. The star spoke of his planswhile visiting China recently during a break in the filming of Rush Hour 3. Denying rumou
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Chinese fine Sohu and Shanghai store for copyright infringementChinese courts madetwo separate judgements against copyright infringers over the Christmasholidays, reflecting the increasing pressure that the country is under tocombat its high levels of piracy. On December 27, aBeijing court ruled that Beijing Sohu Internet Information Service Co, asubsidiary of NASDAQ-listed web portal Sohu.com, was guilty of copyrightinfringement when it posted digital files of movies on www.sohu.com
CJ Entertainment appoints Shin as head of internationalLeading Koreaninvestor/distributor CJ Entertainment (CJE) has appointed David Shin asexecutive vice president and head of international business, replacing MarkShaw, who recently left for a job in the US financial sector. Most recently senior vice presidentin charge of commercial development at ESPN Star Sports in Singapore
Curse continues to be blessed in Asian rolloutZhang Yimou's $45m Curse Of The Golden Flower topped the box office in China, Hong Kong and Malaysia over the Christmas holidays.Following its record-breaking opening in China over the weekend of Dec 14-17, the lavish costume drama had grossed $25
Danielle Arbid starts shoot for A Lost ManFrance's MK2 has announced the start of production on Danielle Arbid's second feature A Lost Man. The UK's Alexander Siddig and France's Melvil Poupaud star in the road movie set in the Middle East.F
DiCaprio double nominated for SAG awardsThe Screen Actors Guild hasannounced nominees for its 13th awards, with Leonardo DiCaprio nominated inboth the leading actor and supporting actor categories for Blood Diamond and TheDeparted, respectively.Babel, Dreamgirls and Little Miss Sunshine eachearned nominations in three categories, with Notes On A Scandal, The Departed, Blood Diamondand Little Children each taking two mentions.
Factory GirlDir: George Hickenlooper. US. 2006. 90mins.Sienna Miller does more than effectively capture doomed but beautiful 1960s pop art icon Edie Sedgwick with Factory Girl, George Hickenlooper's portrait of the Andy Warhol-anointed superstar that also conveys the elegant grunginess of the era.In
Finnish box-office admissions rise 12% in 2006Anunprecedented 69% increase of admissions for domestic fare in Finland boosted2006 cinema attendance to 6.8m, up 12% from 6.lm the year before, according topreliminary statistics from the Finnish Film Foundation.SixteenFinnish premieres sold 1.6m tickets (compared with 15 films selling 940,000 ticketsin 2005), controlling 23% of the market (up from 15%). Three local titlesqualify
Focus duo leave company to form production outfitDaniel Yu, chiefoperating officer of Andy Lau's Hong Kong-based Focus Films, and marketing anddistribution chief Lorna Tee, have left the company to form their ownproduction outfit. From Jan 1, 2007their roles are being filled by Simon Li, a director of Focus Films Limited,and marketing executive Sharon Cheng. Details of Yu andTee's new company will be announced later but the duo said they would continueto work
Freedom WritersDir/scr: Richard LaGravenese. US. 2006. 122 minutes.Set against a backdrop of interracial, mutually destructive gang warfare, Freedom Writers is a passionately pitched if decidedly formulaic story of idealistic uplift, inspired by a true story in which Long Beach teenagers put their angst to paper in the charged years following the 1992 Los Angeles riots.Films with hopeful mentors butting heads with cynical and otherwise hardened
Gruppo DeAgostini takes over MikadoItalian publishing giantGruppo DeAgostini has taken over local arthouse distributor Mikado from itsfounding partners Luigi Musini and Roberto Cicutto. The pair has operated thecompany for 25 years and will step aside as managers to handle the productionarm of the company.Mikado has distributedinternational films such as Zhang Yimou's Raise The Red Lantern and local hits like Ferzan Ozpetek's 2003 Facing Windows
Happily N'Ever AfterDir: Paul J. Bolger. US-Ger. 2006. 87mins.The animated subversion of fairytale conventions kick-started by Shrek continues in Happily N'Ever After, a thinly imagined, satirical retelling of the classic story of Cinderella that runs aground on the shoals of cheekiness courtesy mainly of an awkwardly forced irreverence.A wide release and some colorful marketing muscle will benefit th
Happy Feet breaks Aussie opening record for local filmMost cinemagoers probablydon't know Happy Feet is Australian,but the animated musical set in Antarctica hasbroken the record for the biggest opening week by an Australian film.Distributor Roadshowreported that the film has entered the history books with a gross of $9.66m(A$12.128m) between and including Boxing Day (Dec 26) and New Year's Day. Incoming weeks it will start challenging some of the films that are the
Hong Kong box office remains flat in 2006Hong Kong's box officeremained flat in 2006 with overall takings of $116.5m (HK$907m), a marginalincrease of 0.22% compared to the $116.3m (HK$905m) taken the previous year. At the same time, localproduction continued its steady decline although the decreases in box officeand production volumes were not as great as some in the industry had predicted.Combined box office of localproductions was down by a tiny 0.7%
International rescue: UIP's history and new reorganisation'If there is any growth in this business globally it's in international,' says Tim Bevan of the UK's Working Title Films. One company that has consistently underlined the truth in Bevan's remark over the last 25 years is United International Pictures (UIP).In late 1981, when UIP was formed in London, the Hollywood studios were still making the vast majority of their revenues at home. As UIP's president and chief operating officer Andrew Cripps recalls: 'Certainly in 1986, when I join
Korean cinemagoers to face new ticket tax in JulyKorean theaters willface a 3% tax levied on tickets starting July 1. The funds from the tax will beused to finance half of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's '$4.3m-size' FilmIndustry Mid-to-long-term Development Plan, announced in October. South Korea's National Assembly passed the Bill forthe Partial Amendment for the Promotion of Film and Video in late December,stating a tax
LA PR agency MPRM reorganises structure, makes new appointmentsLos Angeles-based mPRm Public Relations has reorganised itsoperational structure and named several key appointments.The company will now operate under the following broad practiceareas: General Entertainment, housing DVD and television; Digital Media andTechnology (DMT), which encompasses emerging and converging media; and Film& Events.mPRm has hired Anthony Sprauve as senior vice president
Leading Asian filmmakers selected for HAFLeading Asian directorsincluding South Korea'sKim Jee-woon, China's Lou Ye and Japan's Kore-eda Hirokazu are among the 25 filmmakers whohave had projects selected for this year's edition of the Hong Kong Asia FilmFinancing Forum (HAF). Kim, whose credits
London counterfeit DVD factory discoveredThe UK's Federation AgainstCopyright Theft has announced that four men have been arrested in Thamesmead,southeast London, after a counterfeit DVD factory was raided. Two Bexley Police officerstracked two men after noticing suspicious behaviour on Redbourne
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Michael Apted: master of adaptabilityMichael Apted is something of a chameleon of the film world: the 65-year-old director changes colours with remarkable facility. On the one hand, he is a member of the Hollywood establishment - a Brit who has blossomed in the studio system and currently serves as president of the Director's Guild. Alongside Stephen Frears and Mike Newell, he is also one of that generation of workaholic Brit directors who went to Oxbridge, trained at the BBC or Granada, and can seemingly turn the
Moretti steps down as Turin artistic director after two daysItalian film-maker Nanni Moretti has renounced his appointment asartistic director of the Turin Film Festival just two days after hisnomination was made public.Moretti's nomination to top the Turin fest - which is dedicated tocutting edge fare and young directors - was hailed as a positivereaction to pressures created by the splash of the Rome Film Festivalon the autumn festival calendar.But Moretti's nomination - according to the director himself- sparkedtoo many problems. 'I t
Moretti steps down as Turin artistic director after two daysItalian film-maker Nanni Moretti has renounced his appointment asartistic director of the Turin Film Festival just two days after hisnomination was made public.Moretti's nomination to top the Turin event- which is dedicated tocutting-edge fare and young directors - was hailed as a positivereaction to pressures created by the splash of the Rome Film Festivalon the autumn festival calendar.But Moretti's nomination, according to the director himself, sparkedtoo many problems. 'I th
Museum rules the waves with superb $47.3m haulThe family film Night At The Museum kicks off 2007 as the international champion after a formidable $47.3m three-day estimated haul raised the overseas tally to $58.1m after two weekends.The Fox International release has grossed close to $51m in a week following last weekend's limited launch in Asia and is on course to cross $100m within a week or so.It opened top in most of its markets. Led by a mighty $14.2m from 486 screens in the UK, $7.3m
Museum stays top in North America to cross $100mBen Stiller's cast iron holiday season credentials held firm as Fox's family film Night At The Museum stayed top and crossed $100m in its second weekend.The film added an estimated $46.7m for $125.8m and dominates the world stage following this weekend's superb $47.3m overseas haul.Sony's The Pursuit Of Happyness stayed in second place and also crossed $100m,
Museum, Eragon continue rich run for FoxAfter barely two weeks on release Fox International's Night AtThe Museum will belooking to cross $100m this weekend.The family film has amassed more than $75m so far and opens in anadditional 10, albeit minor, markets this weekend.Meanwhile the fantasy adventure Eragon, which opens in three Latin Americanmarkets including Argentina on Jan 4, now stands at $113.1m.The
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Production subsidies under scrutinyAfter a long delay, Europe finally approved the UK's tax system with considerable modifications. The UK should now join Germany with new tax offerings from January 1 but the process raises questions about subsidies.The system of tax subsidies for film has always had an identity crisis.It's been justified as supporting cinema as an art form; it's been about helping local movies find a place in a market dominated by the Hollywood machine.And of course it's been rather
Rotterdam Cinemart confident despite growing competitionCineMart, heading into its 24th year Jan 28-Feb 1, isn't the lone co-production market it used to be. Competition is now tough to line-up projects, as almost every festival worth its weight features some project market element.Tougher for CineMart, as it likes to be the first to bring a feature to buyers, financiers, and sales agents.But co-heads Marit van den Elshout and Bianca Taal have responded with a strikingly strong line-up for 2007; 48 projects from a record 520 s
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Sara Keene changes roles at Premier PRSara Keene has stepped down as one of the chief executives of Premier Public Relations to take on a role as non-executive director. She will act as a consultant to the board and will continue to run Premier's Personal Department, which handles publicity for individual celebrities including Daniel Craig, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Sam Mendes and Kenneth Branagh.Joint chief executives Ch
SBIFF lines up world premiere of The Number 23Joel Schumacher's psychological thriller The Number 23 starring Jim Carrey gets its world premiere at the 2007 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), which runs from Jan 25-Feb 4.The festival will open with George Hickenlooper's Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl starring Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce and closes with Sue Kramer's gay screwball comedy Grey Matters starring Heather Graham and Bridget Moynah
Scott Frank's The Lookout to open SXSWThe South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference & Festival will open with the world premiere of The Lookout, written and directed by Scott Frank, who was Oscar nominated for his Out Of Sight screenplay.Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Isla Fisher, Matthew Goode and Jeff Daniels star in the story of a man with a physical debilitation who becomes involved in a bank heist.After its March 9 premie
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Sohu and Shanghai store fined for copyright infringementChinese courts have made two separate judgements against copyright infringers over the holiday period, reflecting the increasing pressure that the country is under to combat its high levels of piracy. On December 27, a Beijing court ruled that Beijing Sohu Internet Information Service Co, a subsidiary of NASDAQ-listed web portal Sohu.com, was guilty of copyright infringement when it posted digital files of movies on www.sohu.com for downloading
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Will Harry Potter be up for an Italian summer in 2007'While many territories see colossal returns on films released in summertime, Italian box office returns in July and August often mirror the arid weather. A long held disagreement between local exhibitors and Hollywood distributors has depleted the summer months of primo titles while cinemas squeeze major films into the remaining three quarters of the year.This 'pile up' is responsible for myriad problems plaguing the Italian box office. Excessive competition between titles, shortened
Wolfhound (Volkodav)Dir/scr: Nikolai Lebedev. Russ. 2006. 136mins.Russia's first proper foray into Tolkien-style fantasy film-making, Nikolai Lebedev's Wolfhound proves to be something of a mixed bag. On the one hand this holiday release feels formulaic, derivative and uneven in terms of acting and pacing; on the other it has enough novelty in its distinctly Slavic demeanour, subtext and production design to pique interest from audien
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Pageant*Community Service Project~Keene Area Todays Girl Prelim. Nov. 30, 2008~
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First annual Keene Area Preliminary Todays Girl Pageant~Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008. Gotta Dance Studio in Cleburne, Tx. Registration~1:30 pm~ Pageant~2:30 pm with interviews and onstage competition beginning at 3 to 3:30pm or immediately after Interviews.
Young ladies will be competing for awards and the titles of 2008 Keene Area Todays Baby Miss( 0-3), Todays Doll(4-6), Todays Miss( 7-9), Todays Junior(10-12), Todays Teen(13-15) and Todays Girl(16-18). Todays Girl is also offering titles in each Division for Beauty and in the Optional Talent divisions, a Todays Girl Darling Title. In the older Divisions, a Talent Crown will be awarded. Competition division is determined by the contestants age the day of the pageant. The contestants will compete in Interview, Casualwear (casual wear), and Party Dress/Evening Gown for the Overall Title. Contestants may also choose to enter Beauty only (for ages 7-17). Talent is optional for the Todays Baby and Todays Doll Divisions. Optional categories for each group to enter for a chance at a trophy are:Most Photogenic, Best Casualwear, Best Party Dress/Evening Gown, Dream Girl, Overall Dream Girl 0-6yr., Overall Dream Girl 7 & up, and Overall Portfolio.
Today's Girl is an educational program for today's girl which provides guidance for the development of tomorrow's leaders. Our goal is to offer a positive environment that allows today's girls to develop poise, self-confidence and character, while developing tomorrow's leaders. Today's Girl is a scholarship based program which encourages the development of talent, academic achievement and an awareness of the need to improve their social environment through community service. To meet this quest, Todays Girl sponsors pageants wherein each girl who wins a title, must participate in community service projects in order to qualify for a State Overall Title.
The Keene Preliminary is one of the numerous Todays Girl Competitions held throughout the States of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Florida. Todays Girl has recently been accredited as one of the Presidential Points of Light Volunteer Organizations for the United States. As such, Todays Girls will do community service throughout the year and at the end of the year, may be awarded a Presidential Pin. To help our Texas girls attain their community service requirement for the State pageant, we are asking that girls and members of the audience please bring New Teddy Bears, canned foods, individually wrapped candy canes, small Christmas gifts, or personal hygeine items to the Cleburne Keene Preliminary. The Teddy Bears will be donated to Teddy Bears For Trooper's for State Trooper's across Texas. The candy canes and Christmas presents will be donated to Shepherd's Valley Cowboy Church of Cleburne to take put in Christmas stockings for children. The personal hygeine items such as soaps, shampoo's conditioners, lotions, toothbrushes, toothpaste, combs, and brushes those in need at the Beautiful Feet Homeless Mission in Fort Worth, Tx. Canned foods will be donated to Trooper's Who Care to feed the needy of Johnson County.
A Miss Hospitality award will be given to the contestant with the most spectators to cheer her on. A Miss Congeniality Award will be given to the person with the most referrals. Trophies will be awarded to the winners of the optional categories. Crowns will be awarded to the Ovearll Queen, Princess, Talent, Beauty Winner, Beauty Princess in each age division and opt. Talent winners.
Door admission charge:$3 Adults,$2 children 12 & under, or Free admission with a donation towards one of our community service projects as listed above.
The Keene Preliminary Director is Terri Dueboay. For more information or an entry form mailed to you, please contact Terri through email at [email protected]
You need not be a resident of Keene or Johnson Co to enter. Visit www.todaysgirlonline.com for a director or pageant in your area.
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Kabongo was also named All-Big 12 Honorable Mention.
The league office announced the 2011-12 Phillips 66 All-Big 12 Men's Basketball Awards teams, with Brown, the league's leading scorer, taking up a spot next to unanimous selections Thomas Robinson and Tyshawn Taylor of Kansas, and Royce White of Iowa State. Marcus Denmon was the other, non-unanimous pick to the first team.
Brown joins Lamarcus Aldridge (2006), P.J. Tucker (2006), Kevin Durant (2007), D.J. Augustin (2008), Damion James (2010) and Jordan Hamilton (2011) as recent selections to the team. Brown currently leads the Big 12 in scoring with 20.0 points per game, while leading the Longhorns in steals (40) and minute (35.3). He's second on the team in assists, with 3.8 per contest. Brown hit the 30-point mark four times this year, and went over 20 points 17 times. Only twice was he held out of double digits.
Kabongo was one of 10 selections to the honorable mention team. Kabongo paces the Longhorns in assists (5.3 per game), is second in steals (38) and third in scoring (9.8 points per game). Kabongo had at least five assists in 18 of the Longhorns' 31 games, while also scoring in double figures 18 times.
The All-Big 12 awards are selected by the league's head coaches, who are not allowed to vote for their own players.
Stay on LonghornDigest.com on Monday for our own All-Big 12 Awards.
2011-12 Phillips 66 All-Big 12 Men's Basketball Awards
Player of the Year: Thomas Robinson (Kansas)
Defensive Player of the Year: Jeff Withey (Kansas)
Newcomer of the Year: Royce White (Iowa State)
Co-Freshmen of the Year: Quincy Miller (Baylor), Le'Bryan Nash (Oklahoma State)
Sixth Man Award: Michael Dixon (Missouri)
Co-Coaches of the Year: Fred Hoiberg (Iowa State), Bill Self (Kansas)
All-Big 12 First Team
Royce White (Iowa State), Thomas Robinson (Kansas), Tyshawn Taylor (Kansas), Marcus Denmon (Missouri), J'Covan Brown (Texas>
All-Big 12 Second Team
Quincy Acy (Baylor), Pierre Jackson (Baylor), Rodney McGruder (Kansas State), Ricardo Ratliffe (Missouri), Keiton Page (Oklahoma State)
All-Big 12 Third Team
Perry Jones III (Baylor), Scott Christopherson (Iowa State), Jeff Withey (Kansas), Kim English (Missouri), Phil Pressey (Missouri)
All-Big 12 Honorable Mention
Quincy Miller (Baylor), Chris Allen (Iowa State), Melvin Ejim (Iowa State), Jamar Samuels (Kansas State), Steven Pledger (Oklahoma), Romero Osby (Oklahoma), Le'Bryan Nash (Oklahoma State), Myck Kabongo (Texas), Elston Turner (Texas A&M), David Loubeau (Texas A&M)
Big 12 All-Defensive Team
Quincy Acy (Baylor), Jeff Withey (Kansas), Jordan Henriquez (Kansas State), Rodney McGruder (Kansas State), Michael Dixon (Missouri)
Big 12 All-Rookie Team
Pierre Jackson (Baylor), Quincy Miller (Baylor), Royce White (Iowa State), Le'Bryan Nash (Oklahoma State), Myck Kabongo (Texas)


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Advantages: it is cheap
Disadvantages: takes a couple of hours to charge
This little battery-powered speaker may not look like it can do much, but we think its sound quality is tremendous considering its size. It's tiny, yet its sound is crisp and vibrant, and surprisingly well rounded. It doesn't make a meal of low frequencie ...
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Advantages: keeps your speaker from getting damaged, well made case, strong, comes with a strong carry strap
Disadvantages: price may put some people off, only available in the one colour
...know, I recently purchased a JBL speaker and I wanted a case to put it in when not in use and when travelling, if I decide to take the speaker with me when I go away to protect it from any damag ...
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Advantages: Good quality and durable, trusted brand, affordable.
Disadvantages: There are better methods of connectivity.
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I bought one of these for my girlfriend on her birthday a few months ago and she couldn't be happier.
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I remember the JVC brand from a young age. They were the manufacturers of a lot of car stereos, let me tell you. They were also probably responsible for a lot of anti-social behavior among teenagers in the nineties, too. These day ...
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I have a number of speaker cables with the Speakon style connector on them. Here we have a Konig branded 2 metre speaker cable with a male Speakon connector at either end. This is a cable designed for use with aufio equipment and ...
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Advantages: Good level of protection, Belkin branded, good fit.
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The Belkin brand is one of the trusted companies that I turn to when I am looking for cables and various other accessories for my computers and mobile phones. I didn't used to like using cases on mobile phones because they are usu ...
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Advantages: Loud and cute
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Cute little speaker
My husband has shown me how to put music on my phone so now that I know how to do it I have added loads of music to it and am using it all the time with my headphones instead of using my ipod.
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Quite a few years ago, after years of saving up money from birthdays and Christmas's, I managed to purchase myself an Apple iPod Touch 2nd generation. Having spent what seemed like an incredible amount of money (£150) on the iPod, I made the fatal mistake ...
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Advantages: A great way of connecting our iPods to a stereo, very cheap to buy
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My boyfriend buys a lot of StarTech cables, either that or he takes them from work I'm not sure which as his work is a lot kinder about things being taken home than mine where we are under threat of being reprimanded if we even take an extra pen home at t ...
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Firstly if you wish to buy the product after reading the review then you can buy it for £39.99 on amazon here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beats-Pill-Character-Speaker-Holder/dp/B00FJRPAWW/ref=sr110?ie=UTF8&qid=1436176171&sr=8-10&keywords=beats+pill+speaker ...
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My daughter was recently given a second hand iPod Nano with some accessories that had been collected and were of no use to the giver once the Nano was no longer in their possession. I was happy a case was included as the Nano is so small I was afraid my ...
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My iPod Touch is my pride and joy, all my friends and colleagues know this and at Christmas and birthdays I usually receive at least one or two accessories for it. I have lots of covers and cases for my iPod because I like to change how it looks but stil ...
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Disadvantages: The MP3 player slides around in the pocket.
The Hama MP3 player case was purchased for a non branded MP3 player that had similar dimensions to an Archos MP3 player, I bought an actual Archos case but that had a built in speaker that added weight to the case and could not be used because of the inco ...
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March 9, 2010
BALTIMORE - The 17th-ranked Loyola women's lacrosse team got back in the win column with a 15-9 victory over Delaware Tuesday afternoon in the final game schedule to be played at Diane Geppi-Aikens Field. The Greyhounds were led offensively by Grace Gavin's four goals and a hat trick by Abby Rehfuss.
The Greyhounds open play at the new Ridley Athletic Complex on Tuesday, March 17, when they host Rutgers at 7 p.m.
Loyola also got multi-goal games from Cara Filippelli, Caroline Hager, who also added an assist, and Mary Heneberry. Emily Gibson and Meg Decker both recorded a goal and two assists for three points on the day.
Delaware took a 2-0 lead with 19:19 to go in the first half, but a goal by Gibson off a Caroline Hager assist, and a free-position goal by Gavin tied the game at two.
Corrine Drost then scored her first of four goals to give the Blue Hens the lead right back at 3-2.
Just under two minutes later, Abby Rehfuss tied the game with her first goal of the day and Mary Heneberry gave the Greyhounds the lead with a free-position goal with 13:39 remaining in the half.
Scores by Courtney Aburn and Blair King then gave Delaware the advantage before a Rehfuss goal tied the game at five as both teams hit the locker room.
The two rivals traded a pair of goals before Decker gave Loyola an 8-7 lead with 21:04 to play.
Drost then tied the game at eight with her hat trick goal, but Hager and Gavin scored goals 11 seconds apart to give the Greyhounds a 10-8 lead.
After Drost cut the lead to one, the Greyhounds scored five straight goals to end the game.
Kerry Stoothoff played all 60 minutes in goal for the `Hounds and made eight saves, while Makenzi Worthington stopped seven shots in the loss.
Gavin also led the team with a game-high four draw controls, while Stoothoff and Ana Heneberry tied for a game-high four ground balls. Freshman Ashley Moulton caused a game-high three turnovers as well.
Loyola and Delaware both took 28 shots, the first time this season the Greyhounds did not have fewer attempts than their opponent. The Greyhounds held a 19-14 advantage on ground balls and an 18-8 advantage on draw controls.
`Hounds Hodgepodge: Loyola closed Diane Geppi-Aikens Field with a 173-77-2 all-time record at the facility... Loyola won 15 straight games against Delaware at DGA Field dating back to April 24, 1984... The six points by Grace Gavin gives her 150 career points, tying her for 15th all-time at Loyola with Karen Ravn... Gavin's four goals gives her 112 for her career, tying her for 17th at Loyola with Colleen Anderson... Gavin's six-point effort is the most by her since March 18, 2009, when she scored eight points on seven goals and an assist in a win versus Cornell... The hat trick by Rehfuss was her first since April 11, 2009, when she scored four goals and six points in a 17-4 win at Cincinnati.


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For guests coming by boat, walk 1 block South of the pier, and the 2 blocks East on calle Rosado Salas to 10th avenida and at the corner turn right and walk half block. You will see our front red door on the middle of the block!
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Why the heck did I wait so long???: Westerdam Cruise Review by elycelynne
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Why the heck did I wait so long???
Destination: Southern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
PRE-CRUISE: The Southwest flight from Midway to Ft. Lauderdale wasn't bad, except for the part where I overpacked, exceeded the 50 lb. weight limit and ended up having to make a $50 "charitable" donation. I used early-bird check-in and ended up with a boarding position of A22. I stayed at the Renaissance on 17th Street in Ft. Lauderdale. Decent hotel - not the greatest nor the worst. After walking around a bit I picked up some Diet Coke from the Publix in the Harbor Shops. From there I hopped on the Sun Trolley and took a scenic ride down A1A to get a look at the beach area, after which I got off right near my hotel. The front desk staff was very nice and, after asking them for a dinner recommendation, I ended up More eating some pretty good eggplant parmigiana at Bravo's, which is located across the parking lot from the hotel. EMBARKATION: This was extremely well-organized. Uniformed HAL staff were everywhere, directing us where to go and what to have ready. We did have about a half-hour wait in the boarding lounge, but the boarding process also went pretty smoothly once we were given the green light.
THE SHIP AND CABIN: Very pretty public areas and some nice Christmas decorations. I did get to experience the torn rattan balcony furniture that had been brought up in previous posts and reviews first-hand. I called guest services to see if I could swap it with some furniture from another balcony that wasn't in use, but was told that the ship was sailing at full capacity and it wasn't possible. Oh well, no big deal. There were many times when it was too windy to use my starboard balcony anyhow -- perhaps because the balconies on the upper promenade deck where my cabin was are slightly bigger and thus more exposed. I think that it probably isn't a necessity for me to have one unless I cruise to Alaska. The cabin was more than adequate. More closet space than what I was expecting (I was only one person but used both closets - go figure!) with the extra bonus of the shelves behind the third door and sufficient under-bed storage space for luggage. The shelf under the bathroom sink was a handy catch-all. I just wish I didn't have to step so high (I'm "vertically challenged") to get into the bathtub. The bed was very comfy and the air conditioning worked just fine - both which made for good sleeping.
FOOD: Very good on the whole. I didn't eat quite as much as I had anticipated. Although mostly everything was good, there weren't all that many standouts except for the chocolate croissants (addiction!). The bone-in ribeye steak at the Pinnacle Grill specialty restaurant was also very good, although there was much more meat than any one person should be able to eat in one sitting (too bad they didn't have doggie bags). The chocolate volcano cake at that same meal was also particularly good. Generally I agree with those who mention desserts as not being Holland America's strong suit, although the marble cake at afternoon tea (to which I managed to go twice) was moist and yummy. I never did make it up to the lido for late-night snacks, so I can't comment on their quality. Being a confirmed chocoholic, I was slightly disappointed that there wasn't a chocolate or dessert extravaganza during this cruise.
ENTERTAINMENT: The production shows were extremely well-done. The performers were very energetic and talented (especially the male and female lead singers), and the costumes and sets were gorgeous. I don't know if it was because it was the first week that the cast was on the ship and there was another show that was still being rehearsed, but we ended up getting a double dose of Joel Mason (tributes to Elton John and The Eagles). On the remaining nights the headliners were comedienne Julie Barr and magician/comic Greg Buss. They were both pretty good, although I was a bit disappointed that Julie didn't do her own late-night show as has been mentioned in other reviews. In addition I hung out at the piano bar and did some karaoke. I never did get to check out the Neptunes (dancing music) and only heard The Adagio Strings (classical) in passing. The one negative is that there were some entertainment staff that were out sick for the first few days, so some entertainment activities were run by substitutes and nobody bothered to inform us that there was nobody available to host The Ultimate Game Show on (I think it was) the first night, so there we were sitting in the Queen's Lounge twiddling our thumbs. I finally got up and left.
ACTIVITIES: Daytime activities are somewhat important for me since I'm not one for sunning by the pool all day, so I have to say thank goodness for trivia, or I might have been really bored. I don't know what I was hoping for, but there didn't seem to be all that much to do during the day. Of course this wasn't as much of a problem on port days.
SHORE EXCURSIONS: I probably picked all the wrong ones, but I thought they were kind of lame. My excursion in Aruba included a trip to the aloe factory, which I didn't think was that big of a deal. The trolley train in Curacao was kind of ho-hum as well. I will say that my disappointment might have been colored by the fact that my camera battery ran out in Aruba and, when I did have a working camera in Curacao, I was sitting on the wrong side of the trolley for picture taking. Half Moon Cay was gorgeous and the barbecue lunch was pretty good, too.
SERVICE: This is where Holland America shines. The Indonesian crew is VERY gracious and will just about always greet you with a smile. Except for a small miscommunication in the beginning regarding my in-cabin bathrobe, my room steward team did an excellent job. Service in the main dining room was generally good, although it could be a bit spotty. I had open seating, so there were times when the service was prompt and efficient and then there were a couple other times when dinner took more than two hours. I do have to mention that one day during breakfast in the main dining room I had asked for a chocolate croissant and the waiter told me they were all out. He must have taken note of my crestfallen expression, because a few minutes later he somehow conjured one up for me, making this chocolate croissant addict a happy camper!
DISEMBARKATION: Once again, a breeze. My flight wasn't until 1:40, so I was in one of the last groups. Things were going so smoothly that they were 15 minutes ahead of schedule. It got to the point where our cruise director, Keith, was practically begging people to leave so the ship could be officially cleared.
IN CLOSING: All in all, a good experience. I'll try to find more interesting shore excursions next time and hunt down some shade so I can hang out by the pool more than I did. I almost forgot - prior to bingo on the last day they sold chances for a drawing for a free 7-day Caribbean cruise. Guess who won? That's right, me! So I will definitely be sailing on Holland America at least one more time. Less
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I plan on upgrading to Vista ultimate before its impossible to get, then I plan on buying a new motherboard/processor/ram/new faster main drive. I wanted to change my boot drive while keeping my licenced product intact.... Would I be able to upgrade then migrate into newer hardware?
I have things like visual studio, and other expensive software that I want to continue to use without trouble.
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Great Harvest Salted Caramel Oatmeal Cookies
(Source: adapted from food.com)
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups brown sugar, packed (might cut this to 1 3/4 cups next time)
1 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
2 tablespoons molasses
1 tablespoon milk (I used buttermilk)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups rolled oats, divided
1 11 oz. package Kraft Caramel Bits
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
1. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a small bowl and mix well. Set aside.
2. Cream together the brown sugar and butter until well combined.
3. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
4. Mix in the molasses, milk and vanilla.
5. Take one cup of the rolled oats and grind them in a blender or food processor until it is the consistency of coarse flour.
6. Add the ground oats and the remaining cup of rolled oats to the butter mixture and mix well.
7. Now add the flour mixture and mix until combined.
8. Stir in the caramel bits until evenly distributed throughout the dough.9. Using a 1/4 cup scoop (my standard size ice cream scoop works well for this) or a measuring cup, scoop the dough onto ungreased cookie sheets 3 inches apart.
10. Bake for 12-13 minutes until the edges are just starting to brown.
11. Remove from oven and cool two minutes on cookie sheets.12. Remove from cookie sheets to cool completely on racks.