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As the Cavaliers fall to 8-23 on the season, many fans are left wondering "when."
When will things start to happen, when will we see this team start taking steps in the direction of a rebuild. Though Byron Scott still thinks that the playoffs are attainable, I'm here to provide a bit of an answer to the question above. And that answer is: Whenever Carmelo Anthony is traded or re-signed.
Of the 360 players comprising active NBA rosters, there is one man who sets the stage for the rest of the 2010-11 transaction report. Below, we have the six degrees in which Anthony impacts your beloved Cleveland Cavaliers.
1) In the paralyzing expanse that is free agency within professional sports, we have seen more and more leverage shift into the hands of the players. Chief amongst such is the summer of 2010 where LeBron James ushered several teams into the offices of LRMR, where they would ultimately make a pitch for the players' services.
Following The Decision and the weeks leading up to said night, James has turned into one of the league's most villified athletes. Not helping his case with his peers via talks of contraction, James has legitimately become the poster boy of "what not to do" when it comes to handling the waining moments of one's final contractual year. As Alex Kennedy points out, Anthony has taken note of James' missteps as if he were reading a green on a playoff hole via his opponent's putt.
Alas, though Anthony has been rumored to have wishes of playing elsewhere come next season, his handling of the situation has been night and day compared to that of James. While he may ultimately be sent packing, there is no doubt that even if he were to test free agency, it would not be handled via a one-hour special on ESPN.
2) As players, agents and the front office members of the 29 other teams anxiously await the outcome, Carmelo Anthony is the giant first domino in a row of potential deals that could go down between now and the trade deadline on February 24.
League sources continue to tell WFNY that the Cavaliers are keeping a very close eye on Anthony, not to bring him to Cleveland, but to gauge where this leaves other teams. The New York Knicks continue to inquire about Anthony's services, but the New Jersey Nets appear to be presenting the most valuable package. If the Nets were to trade for Anthony, the Knicks would then set their collective sites on other assets of value – some of which currently call Cleveland home.
While this entire situation appears elliptical and opaque at present day, it's because it is. It is the product of potential fallibility of recent ESPN reports as well as the note mentioned above with Anthony and his camp keeping things very tight-lipped.
3) If Anthony is indeed traded, and either the Nuggets or his would-be suitor wish to even the deal out via a third team, fans can be certain that Cavaliers GM Chris Grant would love to be in on the action if it would ultimately make his team better in the long run.
If the Knicks were to acquire Anthony, they would be more willing to part with current small forwards Danillo Gallinari and Wilson Chandler. Sources tell WFNY that if they would acquire another point guard or post presence, the could also consider parting with Anthony Randolph – who was reportedly offered to Houston earlier this season for a first-round draft pick – or rookie guard Andy Rautins.
If the Nuggets feel that they are not getting full compensation for Anthony from the enigmatic third-party in question, the Cavaliers have several assets which could help keep Denver competitive in the near-term.
4) Relating to point No. 2, the New York Knicks continue to express interest in Ramon Sessions. Knicks GM Donnie Walsh is reportedly "not in a hurry" to make a deal at this stage, likely due to the continued complexity surrounding Anthony. Believe it or not, if he had to choose one player over the other, Sessions would be staying with the Wine and Gold.
Along these lines, Raymond Felton, Ronny Turiaf and Wilson Chandler are slated to come off the Knicks' books after the 2011-12 season when All-NBA point guard Chris Paul could be looking at free agency. As noted this past offseason, the dream scenario would be the trio of Amar'e Stoudemire with Anthony and Paul. Sorry, Ramon.
5) The pending decisions around the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) continue to swirl in the background. All front office decisions have to be make by factoring a level of uncertainty as the wheels could grind to a halt come June 30, meaning no free agency for Anthony or any of the other players who have contracts expiring at the end of this season.
In Cleveland, those players are Jamario Moon, Anthony Parker and Leon Powe; elsewhere, we have Zach Randolph, Troy Murphy, Jason Richardson and Carl Landry.
As the Cavaliers have faced in seasons past, Lake Erie is not the free agent destination of choice for many players; trading for talent becomes much more integral. But again, league executives will be tentative to make any moves before the landscape is settled with regard to Anthony.
6) As the season wears on and fans become increasingly restless, other teams throughout the league are starting to see where they fit in with their peers. Most recently, the Washington Wizards – who thought they were back in the game after acquiring John Wall with the first overall pick – have decided to test the waters with their starting frontcourt of Andray Blatche and Javale McGee. Sitting on seven wins at this point in the season will do that to you.
Other teams that could be looking to move pieces due to struggles at the one-third mark are the Sacramento Kings and Charlotte Bobcats. Teams on the cusp of the playoffs that could use an additional piece or two are Portland Trailblazers or Memphis Grizzlies. The Nuggets currently sit at the seventh seed within the Western Conference. Trading Carmelo Anthony could have a ripple effect throughout the league – one that the Cavaliers hope creates a wave which they can ultimately ride.
For now, Chris Grant and company will continue to keep (if not add to) the current level of flexibility which comprises the current Cavaliers roster. He has stated that the team is happy as presently constructed, and this is partly due to the assets which are in place. In season's past, the Cavs found themselves without much to deal in order to get better for the long term. Presently, flexibility is in their corner.
Cavs fans can rejoice: barring a cataclysmic turn of events, Alonzo Gee will not be Grant's piece of resistance.
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An eclectic batch of awards offer a considerable honor in their own right, the Oscar precursors are about to start coming at us fast and furious. Starting early next week with the Gotham Awards, Spirit Award nominations, and the National Board of Review winners, and continuing steadily for the following three weeks, awards season will quickly turn from murky to nearly crystal clear. Each announcement will bring with it shifts in buzz and a new round of speculation regarding the alleged ultimate prize of them all: Oscar. So for all of you eager in anticipation, indieWIRE figured we'd leave you this Thanksgiving holiday with a guide to seven of the biggest awards announcements that are about to go down.
November 30th: Gotham Awards
Last Year's Big Winner: "Frozen River," taking best feature and a breakthrough acting honor for Melissa Leo.
How This Year Could Shake Down: "A Serious Man" and "The Hurt Locker" seem to be the major contenders for both best feature and best ensemble (I'd suspect we see a split), and both could use this little boost in their larger-scale campaigns (particularly "Locker," which is ineligible for the Spirit Awards). The "best breakthrough performer" category should also be an interesting race to watch, with (hardly breakthrough) actors and dark horse Oscar contenders like Ben Foster ("The Messenger") and Jeremy Renner ("The Hurt Locker") both in the running.
Beyond those, a few of this year's nominees stand a chance at making much traction beyond the Gothams and perhaps Spirit Awards, but films like "Big Fan," "The Maid" and any of the nominees for "best film not playing at a theater near you" could enjoy the publicity any wins bring them.
December 1st: Spirit Award Nominations
Last Year's Big Winners: "Frozen River," "The Wrestler," "Rachel Getting Married" and "Ballast" were among the major nominees for the Spirit Awards, which announce their nominations in December but then wait to fete the winners until the day before the Academy Awards (though this year it's now the Friday night before the Oscars). In the end, "The Wrestler" won best film and best actor, while "Milk," "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and "Frozen River" each took multiple trophies as well. Many major Oscar winners and nominees were represented, from Penelope Cruz and Dustin Lance Black (honored with wins at both) to a good dozen nominees including Mickey Rourke, Melissa Leo, Richard Jenkins and Anne Hathaway.
How This Year Could Shake Down: "Precious" seems poised to sweep these nominations. Snubbed by the Gothams, it would be quite the surprise if the film didn't lead the nominations, taking notices for best feature, director, first screenplay, actress and supporting actress. Other major contenders could be the Coens's "A Serious Man" and Tom Ford's "A Single Man," while the rest seems likely to be filled in by films unlikely to make plays at Oscar. "The Hurt Locker" was actually eligible last year due to its screening at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival (and received nods for actors Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie), and "An Education" is British and therefore ineligible outside the foreign film category.
Expect the deserving likes of Cary Fukunaga's "Sin Nombre," Ramin Bahrani's "Goodbye Solo," Oren Moverman's "The Messenger" and perhaps Lynn Shelton's "Humpday" or Marc Webb's "(500) Days of Summer" to receive multiple nods. Personally, I expect the former three to join "Precious" and one of the "men" (likely the "Serious" one) in the best feature category. The acting categories should also be fun to watch, with clear Oscar possibilities like "Precious"'s Gabby Sidibe and Mo'Nique, "A Single Man"'s Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, and "Crazy Heart"'s Jeff Bridges potentially competing against underdogs like "The Messenger"'s Ben Foster, Samantha Morton, and Woody Harrelson, and full-on Oscar impossibilities like "Goodbye Solo"'s Souleymane Sy Savane and the (anti)-romantic duo of Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt from "(500) Days."
December 3rd: National Board of Review
Last Year's Big Winners: "Slumdog Millionaire" took its first major best picture award of the season here, as well as honors for adapted screenplay and breakthrough actor Dev Patel. Other major winners included Clint Eastwood (best actor for "Gran Torino"), Anne Hathaway (best actress for "Rachel Getting Married"), Josh Brolin (best supporting actor for "Milk") and Penelope Cruz (best supporting actress for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"). Their top ten list consisted of four of the five eventual best picture Oscar nominees, leaving off "The Reader."
How This Year Could Shake Down: Composed of "knowledgeable film enthusiasts, academics, filmmakers, and students in the New York metropolitan area," the NBR occasionally make strange and/or questionable choices ("The Bucket List" made their top ten list in 2007). But, the fact that they are much more mainstream in their selections than the more true-to-the-term critics awards that follow, usually provides a decent suggestion as to where awards season is heading. Their best picture winner has gone on to win Oscar's top prize two years running, and usually an acting winner or two follows suit.
While pinpointing their specific choices are a challenge, one can assume "Invictus" (they historically love them some Clint Eastwood), "An Education," "Up In The Air" and "Precious" will all be in the mix this time around, at least with a top 10 mention if not a major award. "Dreamgirls" failed to make their top ten in 2006, so it will be somewhat interesting to see how "Nine" plays out here. For the hell of it, I'll suggest this for the major categories: "Precious" takes best picture and supporting actress for Mo'Nique; "Invictus" takes best director and actor for Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman; Meryl Streep wins best actress for both "Julie & Julia" and "It's Complicated," while Stanley Tucci takes a joint best supporting actor honor for "Julie & Julia" and "The Lovely Bones."
-continue to page 2 for takes on the NY & LA Film Critics Awards, the Critics Choice Awards, and the Golden Globes-
December 13th* & 14th: Los Angeles Film Critics Awards and New York Film Critics Awards
Last Year's Big Winners: In LA, while Oscar snubees "WALL-E" and the ultra deserving Sally Hawkins took top honors for best picture and actress, eventually Oscar winners Danny Boyle, Sean Penn, Heath Ledger and Penelope Cruz all won here as well. In New York, "Milk" and "Happy-Go-Lucky" swept the awards, with the former taking picture, actor and supporting actor, and the latter taking director and actress. Sweeper Penelope Cruz was also in the mix for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
How This Year Could Shake Down: Not to suggest that LA and NY critics are at all the same entity by lumping them together (in fact, they have differed on best picture choices the past 3 years with LA opting for "Letters From Iwo Jima," "There Will Be Blood" and "WALL-E," and NY going for "United 93," "No Country For Old Men," and "Milk"), but these two critics group powerhouses do tend to at least award in a similar vein.
Early word seems to suggest "The Lovely Bones" and "Brothers" aren't happening here, while "Nine" and "Invictus"'s critical consensus remains to be seen (though I highly doubt the former would factor in with these groups). At this point, "The Hurt Locker" and "Up In The Air" seem like two most obvious best picture possibilities, though I suppose "Precious," "Bright Star," "A Serious Man," and "Inglourious Basterds," despite having their detractors, could grab considerable votes ("Slumdog Millionaire" did come into play for both crtiics groups last year, and it certainly wasn't critically beloved across the board). And I guess we never know about "Up," though it seems unlikely for the LA group to give back to back best picture honors to Pixar.
The acting winners could also provide a surprise or two, as LA in particular (which one could argue is the slightly "edgier" of the two) has in recent years tended to award deserving foreign-language performances like Luminita Gheorghiu in "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" and Vlad Ivanov in "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days." Had "A Prophet" screened for awards consideration, I would have definitely wagered on Tahar Rahim for best actor (or best picture) with the LA group, though foreign faves like "The White Ribbon," "Summer Hours" or "35 Shots of Rum" could perhaps come into play.
Anyway, here's my predictions, for what it's worth: Both groups honor Kathryn Bigelow as best director and Christoph Waltz and Mo'Nique in the supporting categories. In LA, "The Hurt Locker" takes best picture, while "A Serious Man" wins in New York. Morgan Freeman and Carey Mulligan win LA lead acting honors, while Colin Firth and Tilda Swinton (for "Julia," in a bit of a surprise... though "Antichrist"'s Charlotte Gainsbourg might be another one to look for if they go the anti-Oscar precursor route) win in New York.
*-Not officially announced, though in the past two years has been announced the day before New York.
December 14th: Broadcast Film Critics Nominations
Last Year's Big Winners: Conveniently already a top ten list, the BFCA (or "Critic's Choice") nominated "Changeling," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Dark Knight," "Doubt," "Frost/Nixon," "Milk," "The Reader," "Slumdog Millionaire," "WALL-E" and "The Wrestler" for their top ten. Save maybe "Changeling" (or maybe not), this could have easily been Oscar's top ten had there been one at the time. Overall, "Button" and "Milk" led the nominations with 8 a piece, and in the end - like the Oscars - "Slumdog" won best picture, director and screenplay.
How This Year Could Shake Down: Considerably more mainstream than NY or LA critics(and perhaps even the Oscars themselves), this group prides themselves on foreshadowing the Oscar nominations, and usually they do a pretty good job. Expect their top ten list to come close to mirroring Oscar's.
Not knowing exactly where a few films are heading makes predicting here a bit hard, but its probably almost safe to assume all four of them stand good chances of finding a place here. My guess is something obvious like "An Education," "The Hurt Locker," "Inglourious Basterds," "Invictus," "Julie & Julia," "Nine," "Precious," "A Serious Man," "Up," and "Up In The Air" end up being their top ten, though I could be really underestimating "Avatar."
In the acting categories (where there are six nods a piece), expect most of their acting nominees to crossover as well (last year only two acting nominees - Amy Adams and Michael Shannon - did not get nods here). I'll avoid predicting all four categories, but will offer my best guess for best actress, which I suspect will go a little something like this: "The Blind Side"'s Sandra Bullock, "Crazy Heart"'s Maggie Gyllenhaal, "The Last Station"'s Helen Mirren, "An Education"'s Carey Mulligan, "Precious"'s Gabby Sidibe, and "Julie & Julia"'s Meryl Streep.
December 15th: Golden Globe Nominations
Last Year's Big Winners: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Doubt" and "Frost/Nixon" led last year's nominations, which if you remember almost shut out "Milk" completely. "Button" and "Nixon" joined "Slumdog Millionaire," "The Reader" and "Revolutionary Road" in the drama film category, while "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," "Happy-Go-Lucky," "Mamma Mia!," "In Bruges" and "Burn After Reading" were the comedy/musical nominees. "Slumdog" and "Vicky" won in the end, with Mickey Rourke, Kate Winslet, Heath Ledger and Kate Winslet again grabbing acting honors.
How This Year Could Shake Down: It has been reported that despite an onslaught of competition in the drama categories, arguable comedy/musicals "Crazy Heart," "Inglourious Basterds" and "Up In The Air" are all reportedly campaigning as dramas, giving the comedy/musical categories potential to essentially become the "Nine" show. "Nine," the Coens' "A Serious Man" and maybe "Julie & Julia" seem like the only best picture contenders campaigning in that category, which will make the drama categories stacked and leave room for films like "The Hangover," "The Informant!," "(500) Days of Summer" and/or "It's Complicated" to move in on the extra space. Though I expect the possibility of 6 or 7 nominees for best drama (the Globes like to play you that way), if I had to predict just five: "An Education," "The Hurt Locker," "Invictus," "Precious," and "Up In The Air." If they go for six or seven, expect one or two of The Weinstein trio of "Inglourious Basterds," "A Single Man" and "The Road" to make it in.
Outside those categories, expect the Globes' starfuckish ways to come into play. Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep could easily see two acting nods apiece, Brad Pitt could end up here yet again for "Basterds," while the best supporting actress category should be very interesting. While I'm sure the Globes will want those "Nine" ladies well-represented, they also have the opportunity to give Mariah Carey a nomination for "Precious" (which I suspect they will) or perhaps even Betty White (for "The Proposal," though I'd guess they won't).
Overall, look for "Nine" to lead the nominations, with "Precious" and "Up In The Air" not far behind.
For a list pre-precursor Oscar predictions, click here.
"For Your Consideration" is a weekly column by indieWIRE Associate Editor Peter Knegt. Check out the previous editions:
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A few updates
|July 21, 2013
|Posted by Carrie under Best Body Bootcamp, Disney, injury
Happy Sunday everyone! Just a few quick updates: 1. ART treatment is going well. I've still got toe issues, but things are getting better. The odd thing is that it actually hurts more to walk than to run. When I walk at a fast speed, I'm pushing off with my toe behind me and […] more
Shared workout space
|July 16, 2013
|Posted by Carrie under Best Body Bootcamp, kids
I had a good thing going for about a week in my new workout situation. See my bike over there in the corner? The shelf next to the bike has all my weights. I reorganized all of this from my bedroom so that I can continue to get in morning workouts while my family is […] more
Best Body Bootcamp Update
|June 23, 2013
|Posted by Carrie under Best Body Bootcamp, Running
Best Body Bootcamp started last week – remember how much I loved it the last 2 rounds that I did? I'm happy to say that I still love it. We are supposed to do a fitness test at the beginning – and I finally got around to doing my test at the end of the […] more
Workouts these days
|June 4, 2013
|Posted by Carrie under Best Body Bootcamp, exercise, fitness, fitness videos
I'm still getting up early these days to fit in my workouts before heading to work. For some reason, getting up at 5AM instead of 4:30AM is entirely manageable. My workouts are also shorter than the 50ish minute bootcamp I was doing. I still go to sleep most nights at 10PM, but I'm not a […] more


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College football: Ranking SEC schedules
Time to critique the SEC's non-conference schedules, and college football's top league clearly is divided into three camps. Florida, Georgia and South Carolina all play two worthy opponents. Alabama, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State and Tennessee all play one worthy opponent. Auburn, Missouri, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt all play no worthy opponents. The only question is which camp does Arkansas fall in? The Razorbacks go to Rutgers.
1. Georgia: at Clemson, North Texas, Appalachian State, at Georgia Tech. At Clemson and at Georgia Tech. You'd think Georgia would try to get the rotation changed so that they get one of those traditional rivals a year at home, one on the road.
2. Florida: Toledo, at Miami, Georgia Southern, Florida State. What a fabulous schedule. Just like Georgia, even the automatic victories carry a little status. Georgia Southern and Appalachian State are traditional I-AA powers. And North Texas and Toledo are decent names.
3. South Carolina: North Carolina, at Central Florida, Coastal Carolina, Clemson. If someone wants to argue that the Gamecocks belong at No. 1, I wouldn't put up much of a fight. I went with Georgia first because the Bulldogs have two monster road games. Florida has one. But South Carolina's third-toughest game is at Central Florida. That's three losable games. Who in the heck plays three losable games?
4. LSU: TCU at Arlington, Texas; Alabama-Birmingham, Kent State, Furman. The next six SEC teams are too close to call. You could put them in a hat, pull out a name and be just as accurate. I went with LSU No. 4 because the Frogs in their backyard won't be easy, and KentState has become a decent mid-major.
5. Ole Miss: Southeast Missouri State, at Texas, Idaho, Troy. Idaho is terrible, else the Rebels would rank ahead of LSU.
6. Mississippi State: Oklahoma State at Houston, Alcorn State, Troy, Bowling Green. Troy and Bowling Green aren't awful programs, which is why the Bulldogs are a fraction ahead of Alabama.
7. Alabama: Virginia Tech at Atlanta, Colorado State, Georgia State, Chattanooga. GeorgiaState and Chattanooga would be overmatched by Sun Belt teams, much less college football's best.
8. Tennessee: Austin Peay, Western Kentucky, at Oregon, South Alabama. Going to Oregon is as good a game as a team can schedule. But Austin Peay, Western Kentucky and South Alabama are as weak a trio as a program can find.
9. Kentucky: Western Kentucky at Nashville, Miami-Ohio, Louisville, Alabama State. The Wildcats always have Louisville.
10. Arkansas: Louisiana-Lafayette, Samford, Southern Miss, at Rutgers. Actually not a bad schedule. The only knock on the Hogs is that every SEC team above them has scheduled a power – Louisville, Oregon, Virginia Tech, etc.
11. Missouri: Murray State, Toledo, at Indiana, Arkansas State. Who blames Mizzou for going light?
12. Auburn: Washington State, Arkansas State, Western Carolina, Florida Atlantic. Four home games. Not one of them worth rolling out of bed for, unless you've got a thing for Mike Leach.
13. Vanderbilt: Austin Peay, UMass at Foxboro, Mass.; Alabama-Birmingham, Wake Forest. At leastVandy's playing in an NFL stadium.
14. Texas A&M: Rice, Sam Houston State, SMU, Texas-El Paso. Who schedules for the Aggies? Texas Tech? This looks just like a Tech schedule. Play only Texas teams, but play no good ones.


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"As for me, I am pleased at getting my first win in the Maserati Trofeo. I managed to take the lead at the start and just never let go. I settled into a rhythm and carried on while keeping an eye on the fight going on behind me. I would like to thank Swiss Team for putting together such a fine car. I could have gone even faster but didn't want to push too much".
Riccardo Ragazzi (2nd Overall, 1st Trofeo): "At turn one I found myself in second behind Dromedari. I tried to catch him but it didn't take too long to realise that I was much slower than he was. I then opted to defend my position, something I was even more set on doing once the tyre wear kicked in. Ange Barde only got by because I knew that the officials had hit him with a drive through. It was a close thing with Romagnoli and Venier toward the end as we all went for the podium".
Fabio Venier (3rd Overall, 2nd Trofeo): "I was in behind Venier, Romagnoli, Ragazzi and Barde: a quartet that livened up the whole race. I tried to stay focused and make the most of any mistakes. Things got messy at a few stages and the drive through made things even more interesting. I only realised I had made the podium afterwards. I am sorry about clashing with Romagnoli right at the end but he was really close to me and, when I skidded out of a curve, this made him spin off".


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I was talking to a middle class "business man" the other day. He is hopelessly in debt, the commercial banks in the country have sucked him dry, margins of profit from his business of supplying sachets of sugar to hospitals, restaurants and major FMCG manufacturers are dropping all the time due to fierce competition and ever fluctuating prices. He basically has no money to pay rent or feed his family.
BUT he maintains an expensive gas guzzling car. He is considering selling his wife's car (a present from her father) and buying a buddy van for his business. He says he HAS to keep his fancy car BECAUSE he is judged by his buyers according to the car he drives!
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Rihanna has taken a note from some of her competition, including Justin Bieber and Beyoncé, and put together a TV documentary following her most recent tour. Rihanna 777 has been picked up by Fox for a May 6 premiere date.
Rihannas most recent album is actually called Unapologetic, which makes the title for the tour, 777, a little strange if you don't already know the backstory. The tour was a crazy publicity stunt that had the singer jet-setting across 7 countries to give 7 concerts in 7 days, with a 777 plane filled with fans and reporters in tow at every turn. Apparently, most of the reporters who were charted around for a week didnt get much access to Rihanna, but well have to wait and see if the Fenty Films production, in conjunction with Love Live and Gravité Creative, actually got some TV-worthy footage of the crazy tour event.
According to THR, Foxs bid to bring Rihannas documentary to the network may mean Rihanna is at the top of the list of potential judging talent for a singing competition show. Rihanna has done some TV work in the past, and The X Factor has a few judges spots open, now that both Britney Spears and L.A. Reid wont be back for Season 3. If the documentary does well, it could mean Rihanna will get an offer to branch out into judging. Rihannas never wanted to be a rolemodel, but luckily, thats not a requirement for judging singing competition programs. Well let you know when Rihanna 777 gets an official premiere time.
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Chap Schtick Part IIBy SOD Posted: May 6, 2005
Mum's the Word
"Ron Hale [Mike, GH], Tristan Rogers [ex-Robert, GH], Tracy Bregman [Lauren, Y&R] and her family came down. The week before, I had gone to the theater and stopped in at St. James later with a couple of friends for a bite to eat, and John Callahan [ex-Edmund, AMC] stopped in. He has a home in the desert. A couple of years ago, he had dinner with me one night, but he and James became great pals because they love to talk about wine. One of my favorite stories is when James and I first got together, I saw Victoria Principal [ex-Pam, DALLAS] in his former restaurant, and People called James. They were doing an article on where celebrities like to go in the desert, so the interviewer asked him who all comes in, and he said, 'I don't talk, that's why they come in here [laughs]."
— on the celebrity clientele at boyfriend James's restaurant, St. James, in Palm Springs, CAGoing the Distance
"That's an often-asked question and I have the same answer for everyone [laughs]. It depends on how I feel about him that day. Actually, he is a saint. He does all the cooking at home, he's a brilliant chef, he's as cool as a cucumber, he's my rock of Gilbraltar. This isn't the first time I've left home to go to work, but this will be the longest time I've left home to go work. Our relationship is solid, he's such a strong human being and secure within himself that, if anything, our relationship is even better."
— on whether long-time partner James is a saintBad Boys
"I don't know any woman, unless she's so elevated and smart and savvy, who hasn't gotten herself involved with somebody who wasn't appropriate for her, and she probably wasn't appropriate for him, either."
— on Gloria falling for the wrong kind of men in the past.Job Well Done
"I was asked to direct Equus by one of my students who was a brilliant young actor. And I said, 'Me? Direct Equus?' It's nice to be too stupid to know you can't do something. I said yes. I won awards for best show, best director and I just started working as a director because I have so much to offer."
— on directing her first playShot Down
"I was working with some guy on GH [where she played Ginny] ... He was very cute, very good and we were in the elevator and he was trying to put a shot on me. I looked at him — and this is a true story, I swear to you as the day is long. I looked at him and said, 'If you spent half as much time working on your script as you do hitting up on women, you might not be a bad actor.' And the doors of the elevator opened and I walked up onto the set.
— on her GH memoriesCount Your Blessings
"Peter Bergman [Jack, Y&R] said the other day, 'We have so much fun here because we are all still passionate about our work.' Eileen [Davidson, Ashley] is in the makeup chair reading Vogue, soap mags, she's cool as a cucumber because she's done her homework. I love being around that quality and caliber of actor, directors and producers who've done their homework and can come in and do it. The cosmos has blessed me; the good Lord has blessed me to follow my passion to theater to teaching in the desert to coming back to the No. 1 soap. It's extraordinary."
— on her Y&R co-starsDivine Discipline
"I love it when my friends call me Norma Desmond. Diva ... Am I demanding? Yes, but I only want from people what I demand of myself. When I'm directing a play, I'll say to the cast before I start the first day of rehearsals, 'I want you to know two things about me: My father is a retired Air Force general and I was raised by nuns. Let's go to work, okay?' "
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Oklahoma City Thunder: Thunder did not have Thursday's game in the bank
You wouldn't think it by the final margin of 100-88, but the Thunder's victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena was anybody's ballgame, despite the following:
*OKC's largest lead was 20 points while San Antonio's largest lead was one.
*There was one tie and just four lead changes — none after the first eight minutes.
*The Thunder nearly led wire-to-wire and trailed for a total of just 73 seconds.
What led to all the uncertainty was a series of alternating spurts from both teams.
The Thunder (55-20) would pull ahead, and the Spurs (56-20) would counter by pulling themselves back in.
"San Antonio's a really good team, so we're happy with the win," OKC reserve forward Nick Collison said afteward. "We would have loved to have kept an 18-point lead the whole game, but that's probably not going to happen against them. They're going to execute."
Spurts for OKC:
First quarter – 6-0 to start the game; 14-2 to close out the quarter to take a 29-18 lead.
Second quarter – 26-5 run that carried over from first quarter to take largest lead at 41-21.
Third quarter – 9-0 run to take 64-46 lead.
Fourth quarter – 8-0 start to take an 85-71 lead; closed out the game with a 11-2 run to win by 12.
Spurts for San Antonio:
First quarter – 10-2 run to take a 14-13 lead.
Second quarter – 23-11 run to close out the second quarter and trail 52-44 at halftime.
Third quarter – 10-2 run to close out third quarter and pull to within 77-71.
Fourth quarter – 9-0 run to narrow deficit to 87-84.
Five Thunder players scored in double-digits, lifting OKC's season record to 25-2 when such is the case.
The Thunder's biggest lift came from reserve guard Derek Fisher, who had shot just 2 for 23 (.087) from the field in his previous eight games.
Against the top-seeded Spurs, Fisher scored 17 points in just 15 minutes, shooting 6 for 8 from the floor and 5 for 7 from 3-point range.
"He was great," Collison said of the 38-year-old Fisher. "That's why you stick with your guys. That's why you stick with it as a player when you're struggling. He struggled earlier and he's really tough mentally. We want him to shoot those shots and tonight he had open looks. He was huge for us. We needed him. For the second group, that was pretty much our offense, so it was big."


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Tuesday's Times story by Simon Romero on the efforts of Houston businesses to assist in Katrina relief efforts was fairly unobjectionable -- but the version that appeared in the Times' international edition (the International Herald Tribune) contained some political raunch sure to delight European readers of a left-wing bent. Blogger Austin Bay says, "note the sharpened rhetorical daggers" in the lead sentence of the IHT version: "No one would accuse this city of being timid in the scramble to profit from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina."That bit didn't make it into the stateside edition of the Times.For more on local reaction to the Times story, see the website of Houston's local ABC station, where some found the international version "overly critical, ill-timed, and in poor taste."For more Times' bias (and the recent wave of blame-Bush Katrina bias) visit TimesWatch.
Eurobias: Houston's "Scramble to Profit" from Katrina?
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Count backward. Count 25 years backward, a quarter century — to the time the ELCA came flush-faced and wide-eyed and hopeful into being. From three separate cities of the United States, by electronic weavings, we met and sang a lusty "Gloria" together.
And on the Epiphany of 1988 I began writing this column for this magazine. I called it then — and, for the last time, I call it now — "Between us."
You and I: we've come a long way together.
I was 43. I am 69. The world is not what it was. I mean the whole world! Nor are we what we were. Nor is the church.
We rejoiced at our birth, didn't we? Three bodies had become one, and "One" surely manifested the pleadings of our Lord: "That they may be one. ... As you, Father, are in me and I am in you."
"One" would be a finer witness. "One" would gather a greater strength, could accomplish more than the "three" that had been, could perform a sacred service, judging the poor with righteousness; deciding with equity for the meek of the earth; belting our waists with faithfulness.
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I want to know, in c++, when does the initialization of objects take place?
Is it at the compile time or link time?
For ex:
extern int i;
int j=5;
//file2.cpp ( link with file1.cpp)
extern j;
int i=10;
Now, what does compiler do : according to me, it allocates storage for variables.
Now I want to know :
does it also put initialization value in that storage or is it done at link time?


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Regression to past lives and the soul state between lives uses hypnosis to tap into one's soul memories to heal emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Learn more about these therapies during a talk by Maria C. Castillo, LCSW, at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 1, at the Lewes Public Library.
Castillo is a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist who was trained and certified in past life regression therapy by Brian Weiss, MD, author of "Many Lives, Many Masters." Castillo is a contributing author to his latest book, "Miracles Happen." She was also trained and certified in life between lives therapy by the Newton Institute and Michael Newton, PhD, author of "Journey of Souls."
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(EDIT: Forgot to mention - I mean C&V VLW's)
Figured I'd give the underrated machines a go:
5. Marinoni anything (EDIT: Debatable):
I'll be perfectly honest, I've never had any hands-on experience with one. I'm placing it here purely after reading what I've heard about them - namely that every single person who has owned one says they ride particularly well, and that all of them seem to show excellent workmanship. Furthermore, they seem to be, on the average, reasonably affordable (definitely so in comparison to most Italian machines).
4. Japanese-made "Series" PDG Paramounts:
Oversized, lugged cromoly steel frames with completely functional Shimano drivetrain systems - some higher end then others. Depending on the model, one can conceivably pick one of these up for under $300. What isn't to like about that? Furthermore, if you think all Paramounts ride similar to the second-gen models (i.e., overbuilt and often "dead"), you might think differently after riding one.
3. Miyata 710:
How can you argue with a bike that comes stock with a triple-butted cromoly frame and Suntour Cyclone, and is often found on Craigslist under $250? You can't. Sure, it has that unmistakable Japanese-build look to it, no lug thinning, thick fork crown shoreline, boring dropout-to-stay treatment - but so does a high-end Team Fuji for twice the price.
2. Peugeot UO-8:
I debated on whether to consider this underrated - many of the folks here on the forum have caught onto the fact that Peugeot's high-tensile bargain 10 speed is a solid, inexpensive little frame. Furthermore, it isn't as heavy as one might think it is when upgraded with the right components (a simple Suntour FD, RD and shifters can solve the main weakness of the '70s-era UO's - the Simplex Prestiege groupset). Did I mention that they're plentiful? They might as well be the French Schwinn Continental - without the built-in boat anchor.
1. Raleigh Super Course (pre-1983):
I probably don't even need to introduce the Super Course. It was probably Raleigh's best-selling model with 531, and we all know what it is. It doesn't matter that the earlier models have stamped dropouts, and that some of the later '70s models were sloppy (like all late '70s Nottingham Raleigh products). They ride well, and you can do virtually anything with them (ask nlerner, king of Raleigh SC's). Best yet, it isn't entirely impossible to find one cheap - regardless of whether it is a first-gen SC, SC MkII, or the later third-gens. They're plentiful, reliable, versatile, and inexpensive.
(There are many others that I'm no doubt omitting. I can't think of them right now, and I'd probably be here for hours trying to figure out which belong in this list - it would end up being a top-10).


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I noticed this came out of nowhere, releasing tomorrow:
There was a lot to love in Birds of Prey. However, some of the missions were simply impossible. According to that review, this new iteration has a dynamic campaign that could potentially alleviate a lot of the impossible set-piece missions of the first game.
So far, there's no PC SKU announced (forgot how long it took Wings of Prey to come out on the PC... like 6 months or something).
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If you're a film person on the SXSW Interactive trade show floor, it's easy to leave with a complex. Film, to put it mildly, is not a priority for tech people -- and these people, easily identified by the orange lanyards attached to the all-important badges, are everywhere. (As one said when meeting a film attendee, "What's the blue one for?")
And among the endless rows of companies hawking the latest and greatest way to share, tweet, sell, upload, download and otherwise ensure you're connected within an inch of your life, there were just a handful of entrepreneurs interested in solving problems in the film space.
To be fair, the relative absence of filmcentric products among the overwhelming preponderance of geek booths doesn't necessarily mean they aren't being developed. As tech icon Robert Scoble told me, "SXSW is a terrible place to launch a product. This is spring break for Silicon Valley. It's more a reward for having launched."
There's another factor at work as well: Like many industries, Hollywood is slow to adapt to change -- tech change in particular. When agency and studio heads are still having one of their assistants type and print out their emails, it's not surprising that we aren't seeing more innovation.
So before I launch into my roundup of film tech for SXSW 2012, here's my wish for next year: I'd like to see a startup incubator entirely devoted to problem-solving for the entertainment industry. Having Interactive run in tandem with Film at SXSW is a terrific asset, but that crossover needs to become a permanent condition.
And with that, here's the contenders. Note: If the pitch contains a quote without attribution, I've taken it directly from the copy on the website.
The pitch: It's crowdsourced exhibition: Create an event, get people to sign up and show the film. As Indiewire wrote about Tugg late last month, "The most compelling elements of the Tugg model are what it could mean for indie films that do and don't have distributors. For example, will Tugg allow small cities to see indie films that would otherwise pass them by? Better yet, could the site provide a new distribution model for self-distributing filmmakers?"
The backstory: Although not part of the trade show, Tugg was embedded with SXSW through its Buzzworthy Screenings, which lets you vote for the movies that deserve an additional screening. However, the real buzzworthy winner is Tugg itself, which became a familiar talking point as the festival went on. No one's entirely sure if this will work, but there's a long line of companies - from theatrical distributors to VOD companies to film societies -- who are willing to find out.
The pitch: "JuntoBox Films is a global, collaborative film studio that unites a social media platform with a traditional film production process."
The backstory: The privately funded JuntoBox launched at SXSW last year; they've recently relaunched the site and announced Forrest Whitaker as co-chairman. In 2012, JuntoBox says it plans to invest $2.5 million in five films.
Fandango's Movies With Friends
The pitch: It's a Facebook timeline app that allows you to add clips from movies you watch and rate. "I think movies are inherently social and so now (timeline) amplifies behavior people have always done, talk about movies, go to movies together," said Nicholas Lehman, president of Digital Entertainment & Digital Networks at NBCUniversal (Fandango's corporate parent), in an interview with USA Today.
The backstory: This app wasn't part of the trade show; Facebook hosted a launch event at its Austin offices, since it was announcing nearly a dozen new timeline apps for the site. At this point, Facebook has nearly 3,000 of these opt-in apps and surely there's more to come; will this lead users to adopt Fandango's app as convenient, or reject as being part of the noise?
The pitch: "Financing and distribution are the two biggest obstacles facing most emerging filmmakers. We launched IndieFilmZ to help talented directors and producers clear these hurdles in a snap and gain instant access to a worldwide audience of film lovers and supporters."
The backstory: Filmmakers upload short films to the site and sell their films for $1.49; $1 goes to the filmmaker. While it's straightforward enough, it's hard to see how the site could gain the necessary audience. (And the design doesn't help.)
The pitch: "Moviepilot.com is a new home for upcoming movies – and a home for the movie fans around the globe who care about them."
The backstory: Berlin-based, Moviepilot lets you "subscribe" to upcoming movies to build a "personal news stream," discover new projects based on your likes and discuss them with others, Doesn't sound terribly compelling yet, but the Moviepilot crew appears to be comprised of serious tech geeks who could develop some interesting ideas.
The pitch: Milyoni.com products include Social Cinema, a Facebook-based, pay-per-view service that allows viewers to communicate with other friends and fans while watching a movie.
The backstory: The first film they released was "The Big Lebowski" and most of their content currently comes from Universal, Warner Bros. and Lionsgate. The library isn't impressive at this point -- 167 titles -- but it's also accessible to any filmmaker who has the rights to show the movie, which could make it potentially interesting if Facebook distribution takes off.
The pitch: Filmaster "recommends what you should watch tonight at your local theater, on TV or Netflix based on your unique taste in movies."
The backstory: The Poland-based company launched at SXSW last year as an iPhone app; this year, they're adding a website and Google TV interface. Currently they're only integrated with the Netflix API, but they're planning to add many more.
The pitch: "We truly believe monetization should be as easy as posting a video and slapping a price tag on it. Veam will take content creators closer to this reality."
The backstory: Upload your content and set a price; Veam creates an app -- one that doesn't require the internet to watch -- for you to distribute. They appear to be well financed; not only have they launched a "Veam Dreams scholarship contest," they also sponsored the SXSW Film awards ceremony.


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Halloween Food Crafts for a Healthy and Delicious Way to Celebrate the Season
Whoever said you couldn't play with your food likely never really knew the joy of eating. We certainly aren't suggesting tossing handfuls of spaghetti across the table at your annoying little brother, but we do think that the fall season is perfect for a little crafting-meets-snacking.
Some of our favorite seasonal treats are perfect for gathering 'round the family, getting plenty messy, sharing lots of giggles, all while making something yummy to enjoy as we gear up for Halloween. Fun and delicious treats don't have to be sugar bombs. These homemade treats are healthful and fun to eat, too!
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Zoe Saldana, Clifton Collins Jr to Receive SF Film Festival's Midnight Awards
The San Francisco Film Festival's fourth annual Midnight Awards will be presented Saturday night at the W Hotel, with Zoe Saldana (Star Trek, Avatar) and Clifton Collins Jr (Star Trek, TV's The Event) on hand to receive the honors. The awards presentation is open to the public, and will be fashioned after the format of a late-night talk show, with New York Times bestselling author Beth Lisick playing Johnny Carson and the Darren Johnston Trio providing live musical accompaniment.
Back in the New York Groove: Woody Allen Opens Tribeca
Joined by festival co-founder Robert De Niro and current leading man Larry David, Woody Allen opened the Tribeca Film Festival last Thursday with Whatever Works, a wry romantic comedy starring David and San Francisco International Film Festival honoree Evan Rachel Wood.
Evan Rachel Wood, Elijah Wood Honored at Festival
Highly-caffeinated film gurus--you'd have to have consumed a couple cappucinos to make it out that late--convened at the stylish W Hotel on Saturday night as the clock struck 12 to catch a glimpse of big-screen starlets Evan Rachel Wood and Elijah Wood. As part of the San Francisco International Film Festival's opening weekend, each was a recipient of a Midnight Award (hence the twilight hour) for their individual achievements in film.


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Leos contemplate next move with Mitchell
Those who know Khalif Mitchell say he isn't the type of player who would act in a manner detrimental to the Lions, but his throat-slashing gesture Saturday may force Mike Benevides to act. (PNG) Whatever Khalif Mitchell was doing … Continue reading
Red Deer Rebels coach Jesse Wallin talks up former Giant Matt Bellerive as a top-six forward
The Red Deer Rebels sound like they're going to give Matt Bellerive a chance to be a top-six forward. According to the blog Red Deer Round-up with Troy Gillard, Red Deer coach Jesse Wallin was telling media on hand … Continue reading
Sedins staying put for now with restrictions eased to join Modo as rentals
Henrik (above) and Daniel Sedin will remain in Vancouver even though an anti-trust ruling has opened the door for the Canucks duo to play for Modo as rentals during the NHL lockout. (Getty Images via National Hockey League).
VANCOUVER — Markus Naslund could use a couple of centres to replace the injured Samme Pahlsson (Achilles rupture) and Mattias Ritola (collarbone), but at least the manager of Modo in the Swedish Elite League is reportedly finalizing contracts for winger … Continue reading
Cattle call not as alarming to Canucks as Devellano's take on offer sheets
When Shea Weber signed an offer sheet with Philadelphia in July and it was matched by Nashville, the restricted free agent process was part of the expired CBA. But comments by Detroit senior vice-president Jimmy Devellano about that offer sheet caught Vancouver Canucks goaltender Cory Schneider by surprise. (Getty Images via National Hockey League).
VANCOUVER — Split-squad games never sounded so good or looked so appealing. On a day when the Canucks were to open their slate of seven preseason games with a pair against the Flames in Vancouver and Calgary, the on-ice activity … Continue reading
Editorial: So much for 'openness' in the Christy Clark government
Premier Christy Clark refused to explain Monday the exact reasons why she fired her chief of staff, Ken Boessenkool for an "inappropriate" incident. (Stuart Davis/PNG)
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Take the Steamworks Brew home (Video)
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NFL Monday Night Football preview: Seahawks vs. Packers
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Michael Den Tandt: Letting sleeping dogs lie is the right policy with Quebec
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Letters: Robson Square, West End bus service, seniors, Ahmadinejad, tolls, hero, bike lanes, Gulf Island ferries
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A hot cinnamon bun dripping with icing and sticky with brown sugary sweetness is one of life's great indulgences. I like making them at home from time to time, but many prefer to buy them as a treat when they're out and about. There is something to be said for buying them from a coffee shop or bakery, too. You get instant gratification and portion ... Read More »
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Pumpkin Spice Granola
Mornings are about repetition for most people. Yogurt. Cereal. Eggs. Toast. All of these are foods that require little effort to construct and not much more effort to eat, although they're definitely a satisfying way to start the day. I like to stick to the same – or similar - foods foods for breakfast, too, because it means that I don't have to think too ... Read More »
Baked Egg Cups
Baked eggs were something that did not appeal to me for a long time – not because I don't like eggs, but because the cooking method seemed somewhat unnecessary to me. It only takes a few minutes to scramble or fry some eggs; oven cooking takes longer and you need to allow for the oven to preheat, as well. Poached eggs take about the same ... Read More »
Snickerdoodle French Toast
The thing that makes the snickerdoodle cookiea snickerdoodle is the cinnamon-sugar coating that the otherwise plain sugar cookie dough is rolled in before baking. It is simple, but makes the cookie delicious and highly recognizable. With that said, you can't just add a bit of cinnamon sugar to anything and call it a snickerdoodle. The cookies are always a bit heavy on the cinnamon to ... Read More »
Steel Cut Oatmeal with Caramelized Apples
In the winter, especially when it's raining (or snowing, for that matter, though that's pretty unlikely in most of southern California) and cold, I can't think of a better way to start the day than a hot bowl of oatmeal. Ok – maybe staying in bed under the warm covers is a better way, but since we all have to get up sometime, oatmeal is ... Read More »
Mix-n-Match Applesauce Granola
Weekend mornings are often less hurried than weekday mornings, so when I get the urge to cook, I'll sometimes prepare something that I can eat for breakfast during the week. Muffins and scones will keep for a day or two, but for something that will really last all week, granola is just the thing. It keeps well, it can be made in big batches and ... Read More »
Huevos Rancheros
It looks like Cinco de Mayo (as well as the 133rd Kentucky Derby!) is e upon us, so I thought that something with a little bit of south-of-the-border flare seemed to be an appropriate gesture towards the holiday. I could have made an intense Mexican Chocolate Loaf Cake, but I opted for Huevos Rancheros instead. The name huevos rancheros means "ranch-style eggs" and the dish ... Read More »
English Muffins
I love breakfast foods and would be hard pressed to pick a favorite. Coffee cake? Oatmeal? Waffles? So, instead of picking one to elevate over the rest, I'll just add another classic to the long list of fabulous ways to start the day: homemade english muffins. Doubtless, you have had one of the griddle-cooked muffins at some time or another. An english muffin is relatively ... Read More »


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Sorry Team, Friday Night Lights Film Not Happening
Coach Taylor has hit the showers, guys, and no matter how many times we blow the whistle, he ain't coming back. Collider.com broke the news today that the Friday Night Lights feature film won't be hitting the big green — or the big screen — anytime soon.
"There's not gonna be a movie," executive producer Peter Berg tells the site, breaking all of our hearts in the process. "We talked about it, some people thought it was a good idea, some didn't; I've come to believe it's probably not a good idea and I seriously doubt it's gonna happen."
While normally we'd take a "probably not" and a little doubt, and try and keep a little hope alive anyway, if anyone can put a lid on the movie, it's Peter Berg. He wrote and directed the 2004 film that spawned the five-season TV series of the same name, on which he was the executive producer.
Back in August, Connie Britton told Ladies' Home Journal that she had a "script for a potential movie spin-off," and that it was "just a matter of finding a time when everyone" could make the movie. Meaning, she and her hair were on board. But on-screen love Kyle Chandler wasn't as gung ho about cleating up for the film.
Friday Night Lights: Where Are They Now?
During an appearance on Watch What Happens Live in October 2013, Connie said "I think it would be a great idea, but my former husband, Coach Eric Taylor…" Well, while she didn't finish the sentence, host Andy Cohen did it for her. "He thinks you did it already," the sassy TV personality said.
We'd be lying if we said this wasn't as disappointing as the time the Panthers got all the way to the championships, only to lose in the final seconds. But to be fair, it seemed a little strange that people really wanted a Friday Night Lights movie made because of the TV show, considering the TV show came about because of a movie…
Kyle feels the same, it seems, since he told MTV News in 2012, "My general attitude about Friday Night Lights is, it was a great movie with Billy Bob and it was a great TV show. They ended it at exactly the right time and in exactly the right way, as well." What Coach says, goes, but still, we never object to more of him and Mrs. Coach, on any size screen.
Are you bummed there won't be a(nother) Friday Night Lights movie? Tell us your thoughts below!
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Classes 5A-6A notebook: Deer Creek's Totsy Manning shooting for first title
Deer Creek girls basketball coach Totsy Manning has had plenty of good teams during her time coaching four different schools.
Saturday, she'll get her first shot at coaching in a championship game when her Antlers face Shawnee for the Class 5A girls title.
"I've been here (in the state tournament) lots of times, but this is the first championship game," Manning said. "It's about time."
Manning also was the head coach at Binger-Oney, El Reno and Choctaw before taking over at Deer Creek.
There is state championship history in Manning's family, though.
Her father-in-law, Henry Manning, was the longtime football coach at Del City and coached the Eagles to the 1976 Class 4A title.
Edmond Memorial controlled the basketball for all but 30 seconds of the second overtime period in their 53-50 victory over Owasso in the Class 6A semifinals.
Before senior guard Aaron Young's game winner at the buzzer, the Bulldogs held the ball for nearly two minutes on that possession alone.
Still, Owasso coach Mark Vancuren said after the game that he wouldn't be in favor of installing a shot clock for high-school games.
"I am not a proponent of the shot clock," Vancuren said. "It's chess not checkers. You go out there and play and use strategy and things at your disposal as a coach to arrive at the desired outcome.
"They got it right where they wanted it and shot it in the hole and got one more than we did."
As the top-ranked Bishop McGuinness boys tried to rally from what was virtually a game-long deficit against Chickasha in the Class 5A semifinals, the Irish made a defensive switch that proved critical.
"We're usually a zone team on defense, and we haven't played very much man this year," said senior David Love, who led all scorers with 16 points. "We tried to go into a zone press, and it was working for a little bit, but they figured out something."
The Irish took the lead for good midway through the fourth quarter, and ended up winning 50-40 to advance to Saturday's title game.
"We had to go straight man, and it's probably the third or fourth time we've ever done that this year," Love said. "It just got the tempo up, and got our momentum back. I think that's what started the comeback."
As his players streamed out of the locker room, many in tears, Edmond Santa Fe coach Paul Bass was already turning his attention toward next season.
The Wolves lose three seniors, just one a starter, going into next year.
They return leading scorer Tamara Lee and plenty of other players that helped boost Santa Fe to a 24-2 season.
Last year's state title team lost seven seniors, including four starters.
"You've got to go through losses here to get to where you want to get back to where we want to be," Bass said. "There are a lot of girls in there that are hurting, but they'll remember what this is like."
When Bixby star Stevi Parker went down with a stress fracture in her right foot in mid-January, virtually all of the attention from opposing defenses focused on Christina Devers.
Since Parkers' return for the playoffs, Devers has seen things open up offensively.
"Oh, it's helped me tremendously to have her back," Devers said. "She's such an amazing player. When she was gone, we just knew we had to win enough to keep our seed. If we could stay there without her, we knew we'd be OK when she got back."
Parker didn't have a great offensive day Friday in a 52-46 win over Tulsa Union, but she drew plenty of attention away from Devers, allowing the guard to score a game-high 31.
Bishop McGuinness senior Greg Roberts' 3-pointer with 5:54 remaining gave his team its final lead in a semifinal win over Chickasha.
Roberts finished with nine points on two treys and three late fourth-quarter free throws that helped sealed the Irish's victory.
"When you're growing up, you just dream of stepping up to that free-throw line with the game on the line," Roberts said.
The Irish didn't return any starters from last year's Class 5A championship team.
In fact, Love is the only current Irish player to have seen any minutes at all in last season's title-game win over Tulsa East Central.
"Greg is a guy that waited his turn," said Irish coach Tondrell Durham. "If all players just wait their turn, work hard, they can be in Greg's position.
"He waited his turn, and I'm happy to see that he gets a chance to play for a state championship."


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Metallica: This Monster Lives : Metallica is the world's most successful heavy metal band with ninety million albums sold worldwide. For over two and a half years acclaimed filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky followed Metallica's attempt to record their first album in four years while teetering on the brink of destruction. The documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster provided the first insider's view of Metallica, but the years of production garnered far more than can be expressed in a two-hour film. Metallica: This Monster Lives contains the stories behind the film. Weaving on-screen stories together with off-screen events, the book reveals even more intimate details of the band's fight to stay together amidst personnel changes, addiction and controversy. This is the book Metallica and film fans alike have dreamed of.
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Thread: Landis tests positive
27-07-06, 15:12 #1
It seems that Tour winner Landis has produced a positive test after stage 17 , I think ,of the Tour , if the B sample comes back positive he , the tour and cycling in general are in the shit .
27-07-06, 15:14 #2
it could be worse he could live in Lebanon
27-07-06, 15:22 #3
He's been allowed certain drugs though for his hip problem, he's been cycling in pain for the last three years.
27-07-06, 15:32 #4
Yes but this sounds like something he shouldn't have been taking . I hope he comes out clean , I thought he was awesome and the only rider who deserved to win , trouble is whenever I see somebody do a great ride these days my admiration is tempered by the fact that I wonder if they had a little help .
27-07-06, 15:42 #5Alan .......BSD, INT and ISD 'ret'Guest
where'd you hear it?Be good to read the story
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27-07-06, 15:49 #9Alan .......BSD, INT and ISD 'ret'Guest
Hope it's a mistake but I was a little surprised how well he rode that day, whilst constantly dousing himself in water, having been dead on his bike 24 hours earlier
27-07-06, 17:57 #10mtbmGuest
i hope its bollox aswell, but it rarely is
27-07-06, 18:05 #11
It doesn't really surprise me very much.It's pretty obvious that doping is still very much a part of pro cycling. I think it's sort of a cultural thing. It's always gone on, even back to the earliest days of racing when they liked a bit of cocaine and brandy to keep them going. Unfortunately they don't seem to be able to kick the habit. Cycling's image is in a bad enough state as it is and yet another scandal won't help keep sponsors in the sport.There's not many riders or teams riding these days that I can think of who I don't wonder about. You don't have to name too many people to get from a rider to someone with a big question mark over. Having said that though, testosterone is a bit of a funny one to come up. Some riders have got off the hook before by claiming that they have naturally high levels of testosterone. I think you have to have a medical certificate though.
27-07-06, 18:19 #12
Funny, pro hormone supplements like 1-testosterone are available over the counter in the US, and the benefits are minimal unless you're building muscle, what a silly thing to get caught on.
27-07-06, 18:40 #13
i was very surprised when i read that. I seriously hope its a mistake.....else pro-cyclists will be a laughing stock...
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All roadies are elitist wankers anyway, what else do you expect.
28-07-06, 07:58 #18
aren't they already? surely the spanish police saw to that".Surely it's the athletes who have been cheating who saw to that. The Spanish police are just the one's who caught the cheating stiffback fookers out I was happy that Landis had won the tour. Now I'll also be happy if he get's a life time ban as should all cheats. It's about time that cycling cleaned up it's act once and for all. Pussyfooting around the problem hasn't helped. It's just made the sport look like a joke. Caught cheating = Lifetime ban from cycling.Assistance in cheating = Lifetime ban from working in any sport."
28-07-06, 11:35 #19Steve LeightonGuest
All roadies are elitist wankers anyway..."Hmm, it's offical, I'm a wanker.But hang on, I also ride hardtail and own a full sus....Now for the serious stuff.Bit suspicious the way he came back, but wrote it off to a man fired up. The fact that it has gone public suggests that is curtains. "
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LOL, dont take it too seriously mate but roadying is poo like :-)
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Superbugs From Farms: Implications
While there are no direct studies to show the link between bacteria in insects found on pig farms and human health, according to Zurek, he says the potential risk is there.
The best strategy for operators of swine farms? Zurek says the operators should try to lower the population of the insects, both flies and cockroaches. "It's impossible to get rid of them," he says.
Superbugs From Farms: Other Views
The new research echoes those of other studies, says Abigail Salyers, PhD, professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois-Urbana, who reviewed the study for WebMD.
The concern among scientists, she says, is that once your intestinal tract becomes colonized with these bacteria, "you are like a ticking time bomb."
Later, if you get an infection following a procedure in the abdominal cavity, such as an appendix removal or a colonoscopy that accidentally perforates the colon, the worry is that the antibiotic-resistant bacteria can make treatment difficult.
"This is a theoretical concern," she tells WebMD. "There's so much talk about whether there is a risk or not, we need to do the study to find out is there a risk to human health or not [from these organisms]," she says."There is a potential problem here but it hasn't been proven."
Speaking on behalf of the National Pork Board, Paul Sundberg, DVM, PHD, tells WebMD that his organization welcomes scientifically based information and research.
However, he says, "Saying something that happens out on the farm affects something in the city is conjecture."
"Enterococci is a ubiquitous organism," he says. It would have been big news, he says, if the samples hadn't contained it.
''No one is going to say enterococci couldn't multiply on a piece of food that could have come from flies. It's within possibility, but the question is, how biologically plausible and feasible is this as a risk to human health?"


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The best oldies workout or exercise songs are happy upbeat songs from the good old days. These songs are carefree, exciting, and make you want to move. You will not have any trouble doing a workout when you're using these songs. Your exercise time will go fast, and you will be done before you know it.
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text: Home Culture North Carolina to Pay $10 Million to Victims of Forced Sterilization North Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday passed a budget that includes $10 million to pay the state's victims of forced sterilization. By: Lynette Holloway Posted: July 27 2013 8:54 AM 0 Elaine Riddick was a victim of North Carolina's eugenics program. (Courtesy of Elaine Riddick) In a landmark move by lawmakers, North Carolina on Wednesday passed a budget that includes $10 million to compensate the state's victims of forced sterilization, NBC News reports. "There were challenges, we had to better educate our members -- and then of course we had to work through the fiscal challenges -- but at the end of the day, what we've done is something truly historic," state House Speaker Thom Tillis, a Republican, told NBC News. From 1929 to 1974 North Carolina forcibly sterilized thousands of men, women and children, usually without their consent. It was part of a larger eugenics movement that believed poverty, promiscuity, and alcoholism were inherited traits, and that without them the gene pool could be improved. Elaine Riddick was raped and impregnated at 13 years old and, after giving birth to her baby boy Tony, she was sterilized against her will. Afterward, she lived for years in shame, but had something to prove. "People need to know that injustice was done towards them and they need to be compensated for that," said Riddick. Read more at NBC News. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Get what we're watching delivered to your inbox everyday! Sign up for our daily video newsletter below. Powered by Livefyre 0


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The Cruise-ship season is soon to be in full swing in Vancouver which means the city has a large influx of tourists coming and going from Canada Place. If you happen to be travelling to the city from a cruise lets us help you see the best of Vancouver in a day or so as you maybe on a whistle stop tour between sailings.
Davie Village has a wealth of great restaurants, bars and cafes to choose from and is by far one of the most colourful districts in all of Vancouver – it is also officially designated as the Gay District of Vancouver hence the stunning array of colour and the famous Rainbow Crosswalk at the intersection of Bute and Davie (which is currently being transformed into a plaza named after a Davie Village icon Jim Deva.
Stanley Park is a gorgeous wooded forest and Park that completely dominates the centre of Vancouver. At 400 Hectares it is bigger than New Yorks Central park and is home to a vast array of incredible Gardens, Sporting facilities an outdoor pool, playparks for children and the natural Fauna and Flora that make the park come alive.
In the Summer time it is a great place to take your family to explore the dense forest and you can also check out the many beaches that can be found following the Seawall that encircles the outside perimeter.
Stanley Park is also home to the world famous Vancouver Aquarium which is home to the rehabilitation of the beloved Beluga Whales
The Seawall itself is a great way to explore the majority of the city and along the way you will be able to come across some notable features of the city such as Granville Island, Science World, the Totem Poles of Stanley Park, the Inukshuk and the Vancouvers most popular beaches such as English Bay. The best way to explore the full 22km wall is by bike rentals.
English Bay Bike Rentals: http://www.englishbaybikerentals.com/
This is an excellent way to sight-see around the city and to take in all the major attractions. Big Bus have an excellent reputation and the Big Bus staff are incredibly knowledgeable and fun! They offer 1 day and 2 day passes where you can Hop on and Hop off at your leisure. Tickets can be purchased directly at the Hotel, ask the staff about discounts!
Website: http://bigbus.ca/home/
A cultural hub that lies in the heart of False Creek. Granville Island is home to Vancouver's largest Public Market which has a huge array of colourful stalls, unique homemade products and the very finest in gastronomic delights. All fresh from the ocean, the oven or the field. Try closing your eyes right now and imagine the rich aromas permeating from the lavish displays. Shimmering seafood, warm baked goods, plump fruit.
There is also plenty of dining out options, entertainment in the form of Theatre, comedy and Arts – it is also a huge hub for busking to delight the masses as they meander around the Island.
Website: http://granvilleisland.com/
Built in 1889, Capilano Suspension Bridge stretches 450 feet (137m) across and 230 feet (70m) above Capilano River and has created a whole complex within the rain forest canopy that is found located above the river half way up the mountainside towards Grouse Mountain. In the last few years the area has expanded so now we have a daring cliffwalk path that leads you out over the canyon close to the steep Granite cliffs that create the towering gorge that has been cut and eroded by the river over thousands of years. There are also treetop viewing points dotted all over the park.
Website: http://www.capbridge.com/


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After much anticipation, an image of the "new Batman" — played by Ben Affleck — has finally been released. Director Zack Snyder posted the above photo via Twitter to show how the Caped Crusader will appear in his upcoming Man of Steel sequel. It seems like the suit, and Batmobile, take inspiration from Frank Miller's graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns , and may even borrow a few plot details from the iconic publication. Although we're still waiting to see a trailer, the Man of Steel sequel is looking at a May 6, 2016 release date.
Can Affleck fill the shoes (literally) of Christian Bale? Let us know what you guys think.
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