LORI RACKL: Oscars host Seth MacFarlane surprises but seldom amuses

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Host Seth MacFarlane William Shatner during show 85th Annual Academy Awards February 24 2013 Hollywood California. AFP PHOTO/Robyn BECKROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty" height="228" src="http://www.suntimes.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=wT_Q6DbcGeuxc9DlJiE1D8$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYtJ9kOD2MZV30uwlBN4j06tWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&CONTENTTYPE=image/jpeg" width="320" /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #7a7878; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Host Seth MacFarlane and William Shatner during the show at the 85th Annual Academy Awards on February 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California. AFP PHOTO/Robyn BECKROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images</span><br /><br /><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="color: #3d3c3c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">A lot of song and dance but not enough actual entertainment. That’s what the Academy Awards delivered Sunday in a telecast that felt like it dragged on from the very start.</div><div class="body.textrr" style="color: #3d3c3c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Too few high points peppered the seemingly interminable opening. One of them featured William Shatner as Captain Kirk warning rookie host Seth MacFarlane about the near future’s cruel headlines skewering his performance.</div><div class="body.textrr" style="color: #3d3c3c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="body.textrr" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">MacFarlane — a wild card as emcee — wasn’t an unmitigated disaster, a la James Franco-Anne Hathaway in 2011. Instead he was mediocre, just as Captain Kirk’s prescient faux headlines predicted.</div><div class="body.textrr" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The 39-year-old creative force behind Fox’s animated series “Family Guy,” “American Dad” and “The Cleveland Show” started strong by welcoming folks to the 85th installment of the Oscars, quipping that “the quest to make Tommy Lee Jones laugh begins now.”</div><div class="body.textrr" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The quest to make the rest of us laugh all the way through turned out to be more of a mixed bag. MacFarlane occasionally pushed the envelope — and pushed buttons. He sang about lady parts in the sophomoric number “We Saw Your Boobs” and cracked a Chris Brown-Rihanna domestic abuse joke that elicited groans. But he generally came off likeable and never went so far as to alienate the ever-graying loyalists who tune into the Oscars year after year.</div><div class="body.textrr" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">With his young, male fan base (the Academy Award’s largely untapped audience), MacFarlane clearly was brought in with the mission of luring new viewers. He did a decent job straddling the line between modern and old-fashioned and was appropriately unpredictable. That alone is a refreshing change in an awards ceremony shackled to tradition. But his overall performance wasn’t riveting, memorable or just plain funny enough to salvage the bloated show that at times felt more like the Tonys than the Oscars.</div><div class="body.textrr" style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;">First-time producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan (“Smash”) packed the program with an inordinate amount of musical numbers. Some of these acts were highlights of the show, such as Shirley Bassey belting out “Goldfinger” in honor of the 50th anniversary of James Bond films. But the sheer quantity tacked on precious minutes to a show that would have felt long even if it had ended on time.</div><br /></div>

Oscars 2013 Seth MacFarlane LORI RACKL: Oscars host Seth MacFarlane surprises but seldom amuses

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Overrated and Underrated

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hola y’all! The late, great Christopher Hitchens once declared that “the four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobsters, anal sex, and picnics.” Man, that dude was pretty observant wasn’t he? Anyway, I thought I would put together a little list of things that are overrated and underrated for you guys today.<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Overrated:</b> NFL’s obsession with a player’s 40-Time. So a guy can run 40 yards in 4.3 seconds. That’s great. How ‘bout making sure he can pick up a blitz? Or better yet, hold onto the football when someone hits him. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Underrated:</b> Sour Cream and Onion Pringles. Oh sure, Nacho Cheese Doritos are the bomb, but Pringles provides us with a really quality product with great taste in a very convenient tennis ball tube. You can’t beat that. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Overrated:</b> The 80’s. Sure, everyone remembers the 80’s so fondly, but three words. Acid. Wash. Denim. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Underrated:</b> Chrissy Teigen. Everyone slobbers all over Kate Upton and her great big unnatural and somewhat scary boobs, but totally forgets about the super hawt, sweet Chrissy and her <a href="https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen" target="_blank">delightfully weird Twitter feed</a>. <o:p></o:p><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnSNRwOPkV5T_MEzx9EXU2xvp6GOtfC1UMe0cttGMCqz3OTgaWCT5qZljK8jBB0j3wx5zALsxAhab-6kXF9PmRfAeHgnKnyVAY9CmBjb3APXzcbGB-CagXk41Xb_wn8OjZZK8rDaT8060/s1600/Chrissy-Teigen-Nude-Hot-SI.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnSNRwOPkV5T_MEzx9EXU2xvp6GOtfC1UMe0cttGMCqz3OTgaWCT5qZljK8jBB0j3wx5zALsxAhab-6kXF9PmRfAeHgnKnyVAY9CmBjb3APXzcbGB-CagXk41Xb_wn8OjZZK8rDaT8060/s400/Chrissy-Teigen-Nude-Hot-SI.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Overrated:</b> Snow. Sure it’s pretty and all that, but it brings out a level of panic in people that just isn’t healthy. 90% of the people on the road become a huge threat to our wellbeing as soon as they see the first snowflake. Worse than that even is the nationwide panic that ensues anytime a major winter storm moves across the country. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Underrated:</b> PBS. Most Saturdays I leave my TV on PBS the entire afternoon. Home improvement, gardening and cooking shows beat virtually everything else on TV. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Overrated:</b> College Basketball. These kids coming out of high school today can’t play the game. They can’t dribble, pass, shoot, rebound, play defense or hit their free throws. Other than that they’re a blast to watch. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Underrated:</b> Silence. Just sitting there reading a book with no radio or TV on is one of life’s little pleasures that people forget to take advantage of. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Overrated:</b> Smartphones. There is such a thing as being “too connected” guys. You can’t get away from people if you have a smartphone. No matter where you go or what you do they can contact you in some way. Also, you are paying a ridiculous amount each month to do things on your smartphone that would be much easier and more enjoyable on that laptop sitting right next to you. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Underrated:</b> People watching. People are hilarious when they don’t realize someone is watching them. Just kicking back on a park bench or at the mall or airport or a casino and watching people as they wander aimlessly through life is just about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Overrated: </b> Home ownership. While it does provide some pros, there are so many cons to owning a home and spending all your free time trying to keep it up tops the list of cons. All that yard work isn’t exactly fun either. But what sucks most about home ownership is that you’ll NEVER get back what you put into it. You add up the principal plus the interest plus all the expenses of fixing every little thing that needs it and you’ll spend 3 or 4 times what you finally get back on a house the day you sell it. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Underrated:</b> Frozen Pizza: Frozen pizza gets a bad rap, but it can actually be pretty damn yummy. Of course, sometimes it needs a little help from you. The problem with most frozen pizzas is they need more toppings. Okay, put more topping son them! More pepperoni, maybe salami, slice up summer sausage or kielbasa and some shredded Colby and mozzarella cheese you can fancy up that .99 cent frozen pizza from Aldi nicely. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Overrated:</b> Buffets: Badly prepared food that you probably don’t really want anyway that’s been sitting around for the last hour and is either super-hot or cold? I’ll pass. Not to mention the fact that kids have probably touched everything on the food bar with their snot covered fingers. Pizza buffets are actually the worst. The only thing they put out is cheese pizzas or something with green peppers or pineapple on it. Gross.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Underrated:</b> Podcasting. Everyone should have a podcast. Wait, almost everyone does! Anyway, you can talk about anything you want. Do comedy bits. Interview interesting people and do it all without anyone trying to control your content. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Okay, that’s enough for now. We’ll revisit this from time to time in the future I’m sure. Maybe I’ll even change my mind about some of these things. Feel free to tell me what YOU think is overrated/underrated in comments. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS </a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Speaking of Podcasting and people who are underrated, we have a wild and crazy time on <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/02/24/debi-daly-uncrossed" target="_blank">IWS</a> this weekend. Our very special guest was the wildly popular and somewhat infamous Debi Daly! We talked about haters, stalkers, elite troll teams and all kinds of other fun stuff. 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Overrated and Underrated

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Not a First Half Team

I guess it's better than the other way around?<br /><br />...?<br /><br />I am looking forward to watching a game played by the University of Michigan men's basketball team where they don't start in the hole.<br /><br />It's as if they need to play a half of basketball in their practice gym before they begin the real game! Their warmup routine needs a real makeover. I don't know if the team isn't mentally prepared for the first half, or if they just work better from behind.<br /><br />It even seemed like the second half was much more of a Michigan style today. They started running up and down the floor better, their passes were sharper, and they were getting rebounds and avoiding blocked shots.Their shooting percentage improved from 48% in the first half to 54%. Three point percentage improved from 28% to 36%. Trey Burke got back on track, even becoming the seventh player in Michigan basketball history to get to 1,000 points as a sophomore with his game high 26 points.<br /><br />But what is taking them so long? Is it too much to ask for a wire-to-wire beatdown of an opposing team? As we've seen, coming back from behind doesn't work against the high ranked teams, like Indiana and Michigan State. Both of which, by the way, Michigan still needs to play a second time. Top notch teams know that they need to start strong and finish strong. Most of the time, just "finish strong" won't win games. Even a bottom feeding team will pounce on that.<br /><br /><b>In other news...</b><br /><br />The Tigers are back in business! The period of mourning is over. It feels good to have a solid DH back in business. Welcome back, Victor Martinez! (And Little Victor!) Bruce Rondon - future (or present) closer - provided a solid inning of pitching on Saturday. The big bats are back to hitting home runs. And if we could get all of our injuries out of the way now (Boesch, Santiago) that would prove useful during the season.

Not a First Half Team

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Alvarado Street Bakery Review

<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghkX7mkgrJ6mswUAIeXH7ziXNnrsYOOsCqPD4CORVUYchN0YewToSeQUKMx0cuikGGVzyMPdo7VPNLRGMroDsG4G7-DoVuHoP9PQEXJSebNnxjdTs9X0Hb0NeM1f2XiE_lNvLjP4eVn1M/s1600/alvarado+sign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghkX7mkgrJ6mswUAIeXH7ziXNnrsYOOsCqPD4CORVUYchN0YewToSeQUKMx0cuikGGVzyMPdo7VPNLRGMroDsG4G7-DoVuHoP9PQEXJSebNnxjdTs9X0Hb0NeM1f2XiE_lNvLjP4eVn1M/s320/alvarado+sign.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One thing I can never give up when eating sensible is baked goods such as breads, bagels or English muffins.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just got to have them,but in moderation of course.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most importantly is that they are not just satisfying taste wise but healthy as well.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used to eat a lot of foods that are processed, but I am more aware now of products that are made with the best ingredients such as whole grains and real products not those fillers they use in other breads.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was sent some coupons to try these wonderful products from</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.alvaradostreetbakery.com/index.php" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alvarado Street Bakery</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> for review.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Started producing whole grain organic baked good for their local community in 1979, and can be traced back to Food For The People Not For The Profit organization in the<br />San Francisco Bay Area.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1981 five brigade workers decided to form a worker cooperative and then  purchased the bakery and formed Semper Virens Bakery Food Cooperative.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which means Ever Green.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Botanical name from the areas largest treasures is </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">how the company got their name was from  ancient red wood forests. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As well as the road sign they came across as well! </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went to Whole Foods market and picked up some bread and bagels of theirs.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are sold in the frozen foods section.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>*Products*</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bagels</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">breads</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">buns</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">granola</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tortillas</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pizza bread</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>*Facts*</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">certified organic</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> no preservatives </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq05ua3yoi6pxGSfSBOOZmmaDTD1aDRIwfwJ1wMxfPWuPRGK3tnV6L2XxxaALuDoZdeQiJM0uoaJIv6aSbRxlBJZoVdjcKl2ReUurR8hqS8b3pKfof9SYVusfsLp5Khyphenhyphenbh-jPUzppEYok/s1600/Alvarado+street+bagel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq05ua3yoi6pxGSfSBOOZmmaDTD1aDRIwfwJ1wMxfPWuPRGK3tnV6L2XxxaALuDoZdeQiJM0uoaJIv6aSbRxlBJZoVdjcKl2ReUurR8hqS8b3pKfof9SYVusfsLp5Khyphenhyphenbh-jPUzppEYok/s320/Alvarado+street+bagel.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wow what a great breakfast this morning!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Made an omelet with some ham,cheese and tomato with a sprouted wheat onion poppy seed bagel with some Melt butter on it!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yum!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So delicious.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bagel was light, airy and the flavor was amazing! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First bite of the bagel I could tell that it wasn't like any ordinary old bagel it was healthier.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check them out online at the sites below!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be sure to like their Face Book page!</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.alvaradostreetbakery.com/index.php">http://www.alvaradostreetbakery.com/index.php</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/AlvaradoStreetBakery">https://www.facebook.com/AlvaradoStreetBakery</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/AlvaradoStreet">https://twitter.com/AlvaradoStreet</a></span><br /><br /><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Sold at*</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stop and Shop</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whole Foods</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Albertson's</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shop Rite</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Raley's</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Safeway</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">City Market</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Costco</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and more!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Alvarado Street Bakery Review

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Edward Gorey: The original Tim Burton Video

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h2 class="subhead" itemprop="description" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Edward Gorey is celebrated on Google's homepage with a playful doodle for what would have been his 88th birthday today. </div></h2><div class="sByline" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">By <a class="ui-author" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/About/Staff/Alicia-Pflaumer" rel="author" style="color: #205d87; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Alicia Pflaume</a></div><div class="sByline" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tPlY_7RR1h0?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe><br /><a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Edward+Gorey" style="background-color: white; color: #205d87; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_self">Edward Gorey</a> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">was an American writer and illustrator known for his unique style, love of cats, and the playful, Victorian-style characters in his work. He was born on February 22, 1925 and would have celebrated his 88th birthday on Friday. </span><a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Google+Inc." style="background-color: white; color: #205d87; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Google</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> is celebrating the artist with a collection of Gorey drawings gracing the search engines homepage today.</span><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Gorey lived in <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Chicago" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Chicago</a> as a child and he claims to be mostly a self-taught artist, he spent only one semester at the <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Art+Institute+of+Chicago" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Art Institute of Chicago</a> in 1943. He later attended <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Harvard+University" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Harvard University</a> from 1946 to 1950, where he joined ranks with other Harvard alumni and founded the Poets' Theatre in <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Cambridge+(Massachusetts)" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Cambridge, Mass</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">He lived most of his later years in his home on <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Cape+Cod" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Cape Cod</a>.</div><div class="promotion-tag" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="promotion-tag-p" style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">RECOMMENDED: <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Tech-Culture/2012/0125/Think-you-re-a-true-geek-Take-our-quiz/gadgets-break?nav=631693-csm_blog_post-promoLink" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Think you're a true geek? Take our quiz</a></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Gorey has said that he got his talent from his maternal great-grandmother, Helen St. John Garvey, who was a popular 19th century greeting card writer and artist.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Gorey wrote more than 100 books and illustrated reprints of books such as “Dracula” by <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Bram+Stoker" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Bram Stoker</a>, “The War of the Worlds” by <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/H.G.+Wells" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">H. G. Wells</a>, and a collection of whimsical poems titled “Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats” by T. S. Eliot. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">He classifies his own gothic pen and ink style as “literary nonsense.” </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Gorey’s “wicked and whimsical” animations were used to introduce the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/mystery/gorey.html" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PBS’ series “Mystery!</a>," since the series began in 1980.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Daniel+Handler" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Daniel Handler</a>, known as <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Lemony+Snicket" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Lemony Snicket</a>, told the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/arts/design/06gorey.html" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">New York Times</a> in 2011:</div><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; left: 40px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; position: relative; z-index: -1;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">“When I was first writing ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events,’ I was wandering around everywhere saying, ‘I am a complete rip-off of Edward Gorey,’ and everyone said, ‘Who’s that?’ Now, everyone says, ‘That’s right, you are a complete rip-off of Edward Gorey.’ ”</div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Mr. Handler and director <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Tim+Burton" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Tim Burton</a>, known for the film "<a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Edward+Scissorhands" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Edward Scissorhands</a>," are just two artists who owe some gratitude to Gorey for setting the stage for the Goth genre. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">But Gorey wouldn't want readers to dig into his books or his style too deeply. The New York Times article quotes Gorey’s favorite saying: “When people are finding meaning in things — beware.”</div></div>

Edward Gorey Edward Gorey: The original Tim Burton Video

Edward Gorey is celebrated on Google's homepage with a playful doodle for what would have been his 88th birthday today.  By  Alicia Pfla...

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Rapper Kenny Clutch's father: Son 'victim' of Las Vegas shooting

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Kenny Clutch. Credit: KTLA" src="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef017d41398ef3970c-640wi" /><br /><br /><div class="entry-body" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The father of "Kenny Clutch," the Oakland rapper killed on the Las Vegas Strip on Thursday, claimed his son's body in Las Vegas on Saturday and urged the public not to judge his son.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The 27-year-old, whose real name was Kenneth Cherry, was killed early Thursday when bullets fired from a black Range Rover peppered his Maserati, authorities said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">His  father, Kenneth Cherry Sr., said at a news conference Saturday that there has been much misinformation on the Internet about his son and that he did nothing wrong, <a href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/father-of-man-killed-on-strip-calls-him-a-good-kid-192760461.html" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">according to</a> the Las Vegas Review-Journal.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">"He was a victim just like any other victim," Cherry's father said, according to <a href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/father-of-man-killed-on-strip-calls-him-a-good-kid-192760461.html" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">a video</a> on the newspaper's website. "He was no different than any of you guys."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Family members in Oakland have also spoken out.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">"Right now my heart is breaking," said Pat Sims, Cherry's aunt. "This has really been a tragedy. Kenny was just a delightful kid."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-me-gunfire-on-las-vegas-strip-pictures-20130221,0,4737843.photogallery" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_self"><strong>PHOTOS: Shots fired on the Las Vegas strip</strong></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">"I can tell you this ... the world has lost a good man," Sims said. "I'm not saying he didn't have his faults, but he was very kind, especially to older people. Whatever happened in Vegas, I don't know about, but he was a very kind soul."</div></div><a href="" id="more" name="more" style="background-color: white; color: #2262cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span><div class="entry-more" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The younger Cherry's attorney, Vicki Greco, <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_22648316/kenny-clutch-rapper-from-oakland-dies-shooting-crash" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">told</a> the San Jose Mercury News that he "was into gangsta rap, but that's not who he was."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">"In my interaction with him, I can tell you that by the way he looked and what he put out there on his videos, he fit a certain stereotype," Greco said. "But I also can tell you that away from that, he was anything but that kind of stereotype. He was honest. He was loyal. He was very dependable. Sometimes he'd drop by my office just to say hello. He was a nice, nice kid."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://graphics.latimes.com/storyboard-violence-vegas/" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_self"><strong>INTERACTIVE MAP: Shooting in Las Vegas</strong></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Authorities said Cherry and the Range Rover had left the Aria resort hotel and were heading north on Las Vegas Boulevard at 4:20 a.m., a time when the casino marquees shine bright but the gambling thoroughfare is largely empty. At Harmon Avenue, people in the Range Rover opened fire on Cherry's Maserati, police said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The silver-gray sports car, which was struck several times, sped into the intersection at Flamingo Road, ramming a taxi, officials said. The taxi exploded, killing the driver and a passenger. Four other vehicles in the intersection were also involved in the crash and explosion, but police offered no details about them.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Cherry died later at a hospital.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">No arrests have been made.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">“This is something you never want to go through,” Cherry's father told KNTV. “This is the hardest thing in my life right now, because you never want your children to leave before you leave.”</div></div></div>

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"Lincoln," "Argo" in tight race as Oscars roll out red carpet

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="People look at an Oscar statue during preparations for the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 23, 2013. REUTERS-Mario Anzuoni" src="http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20130224&t=2&i=707000651&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=300&r=CBRE91N15UO00" /><br /><br /><div id="articleInfo" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="byline" style="color: #666666; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;">By Jill Serjeant</div><div style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span class="location" style="font-weight: bold;">LOS ANGELES</span> | <span class="timestamp" style="font-size: 11px; margin: 0px;">Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:05am EST</span></div></div><span id="midArticle_0" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><span class="focusParagraph" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"><div style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">(Reuters) - The Oscars rolled out the red carpet on Sunday for the movie industry's biggest night, with<a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.reuters.com/places/iran" style="color: #006e97; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Full coverage of Iran">Iran</a> hostage drama "Argo" and presidential drama "Lincoln" in a tight race for Best Picture.</div></span><span id="midArticle_1" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">With several contests too close to call, a slate of big box office hits to celebrate and an unpredictable first-time host in Seth MacFarlane, movie fans could be in for surprises when the curtain rises on the 85th annual Academy Awards.</div><span id="midArticle_2" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Before the festivities begin, nominees including Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Sally Field, Jessica Chastain, British singer Adele and "Argo" producer George Clooney, along with performers Barbra Streisand and Jennifer Hudson will parade along the 500-ft long (152 meter) red carpet before dozens of photographers and camera crews.</div><span id="midArticle_3" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Inside Hollywood's Dolby Theatre, Academy Awards history could be re-written.</div><span id="midArticle_4" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Daniel Day-Lewis as U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is considered an unstoppable force to become the first man to win three Best Actor Oscars.</div><span id="midArticle_5" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Buzz is building over a possible late upset by France's Emmanuelle Riva, 86, in the Best Actress contest that would make the star of harrowing Austrian entry "Amour" the oldest person ever to win an acting Oscar.</div><span id="midArticle_6" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"Lincoln" goes into Sunday's three-hour plus ceremony with a leading 12 nominations, including a directing nod for double Oscar winner Steven Spielberg.</div><span id="midArticle_7" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">But its front-runner Best Picture status has been dented by the six-week victory streak enjoyed at other Hollywood awards by Ben Affleck's "Argo."</div><span id="midArticle_8" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"It's been an interesting year," said Matt Atchity, editor in chief of movie review website Rotten Tomatoes.</div><span id="midArticle_9" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"I think 'Argo' probably has the best shot. It's certainly got the momentum. It has won so many top awards, and I think it's probably the movie to beat," Atchity told Reuters.</div><span id="midArticle_10" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">If "Argo" does prevail for the top prize, it will be the first movie to win Best Picture without its director even getting a nomination since "Driving Miss Daisy" in 1990.</div><span id="midArticle_11" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">ANNE HATHAWAY OSCAR BOUND</div><span id="midArticle_12" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Musical "Les Miserables," comedy "Silver Linings Playbook," shipwreck tale "Life of Pi," Osama bin laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty," slavery Western "Django Unchained," indie film "Beasts of the Southern Wild," and "Amour" round out the contenders for the best film of 2012.</div><span id="midArticle_13" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">In other categories, only Anne Hathaway is considered a sure bet to take home a golden statuette after starving herself and chopping off her long brown locks for her supporting turn as tragic heroine Fantine in "Les Miserables."</div><span id="midArticle_14" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Awards pundits says Spielberg could lose out in the director's race to Taiwan's Ang Lee for his technical and imaginative feat in filming fantastical adventure "Life of Pi" with a cast of exotic animals.</div><span id="midArticle_15" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">And the supporting actor Oscar could go to any of the five nominees - Robert De Niro ("Silver Linings Playbook"), Alan Arkin ("Argo"), Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained"), Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln") and Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master").</div><span id="midArticle_0" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">The Oscar winners are chosen in secret ballots by some 5,800 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and handed out before an audience of 3,300 guests and tens of millions more watching around the world on television.</div><span id="midArticle_1" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">After several years of nominating little-seen movies, this year's nine Best Picture contenders have pulled in more than $2 billion in tickets worldwide.</div><span id="midArticle_2" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"We are so fortunate to inherit this great group of films that are also popular at the box office ... We just lucked out and had this fantastic year in film," Academy Awards telecast co-producer Neil Meron told Reuters.</div><span id="midArticle_3" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Producers are promising a fast-paced show packed with music and big performances. But the man getting the early attention will be MacFarlane, the provocative comedian behind animated TV series "Family Guy" and an unknown quantity as Oscar host.</div><span id="midArticle_4" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"We are not going to know what works until we put it out there and see what plays in front of an audience," co-producer Craig Zadan said.</div><span id="midArticle_5" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"It's a live show and that is always unpredictable. Once the train has left the station, whatever happens, happens."</div><span id="midArticle_6" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">The Academy Awards will be broadcast live on ABC television in the United States, starting at 5 p.m. PST (0100 GMT).</div><span id="midArticle_7" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Jackie Frank)</div></div>

Argo "Lincoln," "Argo" in tight race as Oscars roll out red carpet

By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES  |  Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:05am EST (Reuters) - The Oscars rolled out the red carpet on Sunday for the movie indus...

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Oscars 2013 Preview: Winners, Losers and Upsets

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Transcript for Oscars 2013 Preview: Winners, Losers and Upsets<br /><div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;"><br />Now we turn to george to hollywood stars, the oscars tonight. One of the most interstaining things to do is to guess who will win. Especially if you help from an insider.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;">That happens to be abc's chris connelly. Good morning to you, chris. Reporter: Good morning to you guys.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;">Behind me, you see the gorgeous red-carpet staircase. How did they vote? There are so many award shows now.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;">Sally field referred to it as growing like a fungus. We'll know how oscar will decide. But we don't.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;">The oscar votes are all in. But instead of pouring over exit polls and network projections we're still able to imagine an underdog coming out on top. Does "silver lining playbook" have a chance to upset the best picture favorite "argo"?</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;">You bet. Tonight's big ceremony could feature technical oscars early for "life of pi. " I'm friends with sally field.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;">Pretty great life. Reporter: Having fun with her fellow nominees, jennifer lawrence remains the best actress favorite, yet some imagine the hard to wrapped gift for amour's emmanuelle riva? Now, what about naomi?</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;">A two-time nominee. It feels good. Reporter: Supporting actress lincoln's sally field could derail anne hathaway's dream.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;">And while robert deniro may not seem like an underdog, he can wipe that smile off of tommy lee jones. It would be easier to jackhammer abe lincoln off of mount rushmore than daniel day-lewis for taking home theaward for best actor. Hugh jackman, first-time nominee of "les miserables.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div></div><iframe height="360" id="kaltura_player_1361736719" src="http://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_wzgojcbf/uiconf_id/3775332/st_cache/35902?referer=http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/oscars-2013-preview-winners-losers-upsets-18579691&autoPlay=false&addThis.playerSize=392x221&freeWheel.siteSectionId=nws_offsite&closedCaptionActive=true&addThis.playerSize=640x360&closedCaptionsOverPlayer.fontsize=18" style="border: 0px solid #ffffff;" width="640">Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames.</iframe> <div style="font-size: x-small; margin-top: 0; text-align: left;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/video">Watch More News Videos at ABC</a> | <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/technology">Technology News</a> | <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/entertainment">Celebrity News</a></div></div>

Oscars 2013 Oscars 2013 Preview: Winners, Losers and Upsets

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Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche deliver in main event, scoring one for female athletes everywhere

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="first" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; padding: 0px;">ANAHEIM, Calif. – Nothing was more predictable, nor nearly as significant, as Ronda Rousey's arm bar victory over Liz Carmouche in the first round of their bantamweight title fight on Saturday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The fight marked a monumental moment in sports history, a time when the women stood above the men in every way.<span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-13616892738581235"><span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="clear: both; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 6px; width: 310px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/3Y0E0IBFkzybDvHlWxb6Mg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/Sports/USA_Today/20130223_jel_aj4_541-754a14ab686777760b9a95fd674f43d0" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block;" title="Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche jostle for position Saturday. (USA Today Sports)" width="310" /><span class="legend" style="color: #414141; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche jostle for position Saturday. (USA Today Sports)</span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">For one, Rousey and Carmouche saved UFC 157 after a stinker of a co-main event between Lyoto Machida and Dan Henderson. When the Rousey-Carmouche fight was announced as the main event in December, a small but very vocal portion of the UFC fan base howled in protest.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Of course, they simply showed themselves as clueless bigots because there was no doubt who everybody had come to see Saturday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">All 15,525 fans who jammed the Honda Center and paid a $1.4 million gate were there to see if Rousey could stretch her incredible run of first-round arm bars to 10 in 10 amateur and professional fights.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">When Machida won a sleep-inducing split decision in the co-main event, Rousey and Carmouche went out and put on a dynamic show that brought down the house. Rousey got a hero's welcome from the crowd from the moment she entered the arena. It hit a crescendo as she stepped into the cage, men and women, boys and girls, standing and screaming for her in a full-throated roar.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The reception made those who had angrily said they wouldn't buy a ticket or watch the show because the UFC was somehow disrespecting Machida and Henderson look awfully small.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"Imagine how this place would have been had [Machida-Henderson] been the main event," UFC president Dana White said. "Everyone would have left here [angry] and it would have ruined the show."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><strong>[Also: <a href="http://yhoo.it/13Bt9k9" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;">Ronda Rousey survives UFC debut, wins via first-round arm bar</a>]</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Rousey and Carmouche also carried the show on the promotional end. White said early estimates are that the results will be far higher than anticipated, squelching concerns in some corners that it might flop.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">They were witty, colorful and passionate in telling their stories and the public bought in.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">This was a moment comparable to the 1973 Battle of the Sexes tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. That match squashed the outdated notion that women were somehow a weaker sex and couldn't compete with men. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">King-Riggs was an exhibition though; Rousey-Carmouche was very much the real deal.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">They proved that women could compete on a show featuring men and still be the star attractions. Too often, women's sports are given secondary roles.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The majority of television, print and online coverage of sports is about men. This might be the night that nudges the pendulum closer to the center.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Rousey and Carmouche competed on a card filled with men and looked perfectly at home in the main event.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><strong>[Also: <a href="http://yhoo.it/YoFkBh" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;">Lyoto Machida ekes out split decision win over frustrated Dan Henderson</a>]</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The pressure on Rousey was enormous. She carried an unprecedented promotional load, for months filling every waking moment that she wasn't training with interviews.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Not only was there intense pressure on her to win, but it was specifically to win by first-round arm bar. Anything less would have been perceived as a disappointment.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">She's ready to hide now after running on fumes for weeks. <span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-13616892738581272"><span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="clear: both; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 6px; width: 310px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/cpGps8BlqY8PDikV6AOP5w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/Sports/USA_Today/20130223_jel_aj4_533-cffbbad3a164cf452ac99d1eb6227802" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block;" title="Ronda Rousey celebrates after defeating Liz Carmouche. (USA Today Sports)" width="310" /><span class="legend" style="color: #414141; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Ronda Rousey celebrates after defeating Liz Carmouche. (USA Today Sports)</span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"For the next week, I'm probably going to fall totally off the grid as much as I can," she said, grinning. "If I see anyone, I'm not going to talk about me at all. No more talking about me for a whole week."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Others, though, will be talking about her for a long time after Saturday's win. She survived a near-submission when Carmouche hopped onto her back early and first caught her in a rear naked choke and then a neck crank.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">It looked for a time that Rousey's unbeaten streak would end and that the former Marine, the first openly gay fighter in the UFC, would wrest the title from her.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Carmouche knew that Rousey wouldn't go quietly, and she didn't.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"Neck cranks are hard to pull off and if the person has a lot of heart, she can fight through it, which she did," Carmouche said of Rousey.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Carmouche had Rousey's teeth marks on her arm after, the result of knocking Rousey's mouthpiece out and Rousey's upper teeth coming down on her forearm.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">When the news conference ended, Rousey walked over to Carmouche and said, "Sorry, dude. Definitely not intentional," and the two combatants embraced. Both were beaming, and though Carmouche had come up a loser in her biggest fight, it seemed appropriate.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">They'd accomplished something together that was far bigger than themselves, and Rousey clearly pulled alongside fighters such as Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva as one of the UFC's biggest draws.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"Ronda is a big star, man, and people want to see her," White said afterward.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><strong>[Also: <a href="http://yhoo.it/13Bs2AI" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;">Josh Koscheck suffers upset loss to resurgent Robbie Lawler</a>]</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The duo did much more, though, for women who have been denied opportunity or not given equal access solely because of their gender. They stood up to the scrutiny and the grind and the pressure and delivered a scintillating performance.<span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-13616892738581288"><span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="clear: both; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 6px; width: 310px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/kSUZIlUzedD8khOmFP.KVQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/sports/2013-02-23/0c7ac7e8-f92d-4a95-87db-c9526a3ceb8b_rousey.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block;" title="Ronda Rousey goes for an arm bar against Liz Carmouche. (Getty)" width="310" /><span class="legend" style="color: #414141; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Ronda Rousey goes for an arm bar against Liz Carmouche. (Getty)</span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"I thought it was a great fight and I thought it lived up to all of the hype around it, the fact the place was going nuts," Rousey said. "I'm glad it was a full house. I'm honored to be part of it. It might take a while to sink in."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The ramifications of Saturday's show are potentially significant, not only for MMA but women's sports. A day after Rousey and Carmouche put on a show, Danica Patrick will start on the pole in the Daytona 500.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">It's a new world and Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche played a significant role in shaping it.</div></div>

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ANAHEIM, Calif. – Nothing was more predictable, nor nearly as significant, as Ronda Rousey's arm bar victory over Liz Carmouche in the f...

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Daytona 500 to race despite crash, safety questions

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="NASCAR driver Tony Stewart (bottom R) avoids a crash on the last lap to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series DRIVE4COPD 300 race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida February 23, 2013. REUTERS-Michael Brown" src="http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20130224&t=2&i=706984011&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=390&r=CBRE91M1TUN00" /><br /><img alt="Rescue workers attend to the injured in the stands following a last-lap incident during the NASCAR Nationwide Series DRIVE4COPD 300 race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida February 23, 2013. REUTERS-Michael Brown" src="http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20130224&t=2&i=706984010&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=390&r=CBRE91M1TMV00" /><br /><img alt="NASCAR driver Kyle Larson (32) and his Chevrolet end up in the fence during the final lap crash during the NASCAR Nationwide Series DRIVE4COPD 300 race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida February 23, 2013. REUTERS-Brian Blanco" src="http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20130224&t=2&i=706984017&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=390&r=CBRE91M1QJ200" /><br /><img alt="NASCAR drivers crash in an eleven car pile-up late in the NASCAR Nationwide Series DRIVE4COPD 300 race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida February 23, 2013. REUTERS-Pierre Ducharme" src="http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20130224&t=2&i=706984628&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=390&r=CBRE91M1PAZ00" /><br /><img alt="NASCAR driver Kyle Larson (32) and his Chevrolet end up in the fence during the final lap crash during the NASCAR Nationwide Series DRIVE4COPD 300 race at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida February 23, 2013. REUTERS-Brian Blanco" src="http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20130224&t=2&i=706984632&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=390&r=CBRE91N0E7S00" /><br /><span class="focusParagraph" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><br /><div style="font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">(Reuters) - The Daytona 500 NASCAR race will go ahead on Sunday despite a crash on Saturday that injured more than 20 fans, questions over the safety of the famous speedway and the possibility of lawsuits.</div><span id="midArticle_1" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Officials said they had repaired the fencing that was damaged after the pile-up which sent debris flying into the crowd and injuring fans on the final lap of Saturday's second-tier Nationwide race.</div><span id="midArticle_2" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Halifax Health spokesman Byron Cogdell said that seven people were treated for injuries at their facility but two who had initially been listed as critical were now in a stable condition.</div><span id="midArticle_3" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Another injured spectator was being treated at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center in Daytona Beach, but their condition was not available.</div><span id="midArticle_4" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Fourteen other fans had been treated on site at the track before being released, said Daytona International Speedway president Joei Chitwood.</div><span id="midArticle_5" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Chitwood said any fans in the affected area who were concerned about the safety of their seat position would be relocated.</div><span id="midArticle_6" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"If fans are unhappy with...their seating location or if they have any incidents, we would relocate them. We will treat that area like we do every other of the grandstand.</div><span id="midArticle_7" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"If a fan is not comfortable where they are sitting, we make every accommodation we can," he said.</div><span id="midArticle_8" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">NASCAR and the speedway could face millions of dollars' worth of claims from the injured, litigation that would likely center on the sturdiness of the safety fence that was supposed to keep fans from danger, according to several plaintiffs' lawyers.</div><span id="midArticle_9" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"Maybe the fence should have been higher; maybe there should have been more spacing between the track and spectators," said Adam Levitt, a lawyer with Grant & Eisenhofer.</div><span id="midArticle_10" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">However, lawyers also said the auto-racing business would likely point to the disclaimers that it typically displays on tickets, which are designed to exempt NASCAR from any potential injury liability. They expected NASCAR would argue that fans knew what they were getting into when signing up for the race.</div><span id="midArticle_11" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">NEW FENCING</div><span id="midArticle_12" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Both the speedway and NASCAR have said they will closely review the incident in search of any ways they could improve safety.</div><span id="midArticle_13" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Chitwood said new, 22-feet-high fencing had been put in place three years ago following a review of a crash involving Colin Edwards at Talladega in 2009.</div><span id="midArticle_14" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"If you look at our 55 years in the business, we have a pretty good safety track record. I think we are prepared today," said Chitwood.</div><span id="midArticle_15" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">However, three-times Indianapolis 500 winner Johnny Rutherford said a change might be needed.</div><span id="midArticle_0" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"Maybe a double fence, one behind the other with some space in between to stop something like this," he told reporters.</div><span id="midArticle_1" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"But there are a lot of things and NASCAR and Indy Car racing are looking at everything they can to make it safer.</div><span id="midArticle_2" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"What happened yesterday was a terrible thing because we expect (danger) that is part of it, we have to roll the dice and move on but you don't want to involve the fans," he said.</div><span id="midArticle_3" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">NASCAR's senior vice-president of racing operations Steve O'Donnell said he would tell any nervous fans that organisers were confident of their safety.</div><span id="midArticle_4" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"I would tell them that the fans are our first priority. Obviously we want everyone to be safe at an event," he told reporters.</div><span id="midArticle_5" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"We've talked to the speedway. We are confident in what's in place at today's event. Certainly still thinking about those affected but we are confident to move forward for this race," he added.</div><span id="midArticle_6" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Fans streamed into the 167,000-capacity venue on Sunday and there was little indication of concern over safety.</div><span id="midArticle_7" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"I feel safe. I think anywhere you go you run the risk of being injured but NASCAR does everything they can to protect the fans. They treat the fans like royalty here, it is amazing," said Vinny Nigro of New York City.</div><span id="midArticle_8" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Another fan, Brad Stefka from Springfield, Missouri, said that while not particularly worried he would avoid the seating closest to the track.</div><span id="midArticle_9" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">"I just won't get down low. I would imagine that everyone who comes knows there is some element of danger if the cars are going that fast, if there is going to be a serious impact," he said.</div><span id="midArticle_10" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">(Additional reporting by Casey Sullivan; Editing by Clare Fallon)</div></div>

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 02/24/2013

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://ict-in-science-education.wikispaces.com/GIS.GPS+Virtual+Field+Trips">ICTs in Science Education - GIS.GPS Virtual Field Trips</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Geocaching and GPS are important parts of today's nature-based field trips. This is a useful website for this. Of course, now many of us are using smart phones for this capability and many of these links need to be updated to reflect this, however, I believe we're going to see some very interesting gps-enabled field trip and documentation tools for this.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science">science</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/gps">gps</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.ck12.org/concept/Properties-of-Rational-Numbers#all">Properties of Rational Numbers | CK-12 Foundation</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Here is an example of resources, writing, and flashcards at ck-12. This is a fascinating resource and has free downloadable resources as well.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math">math</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ebooks">ebooks</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.ck12.org/student/">Welcome to CK-12 Foundation | CK-12 Foundation</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Free textbooks in a variety of topics on CK-12. This is promoted as "learning made simple." Do students know how to find and download alternate sources of information? Can they find and search for the topics they are currently studying? This is a valuable way to compare and research topics.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ebook">ebook</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/english">english</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/language">language</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_trends">edu_trends</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science">science</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math">math</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/literature">literature</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/history">history</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/all_teachers">all_teachers</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/elementary">elementary</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/middleschool">middleschool</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.aimath.org/textbooks/textbooklist.html">AIM Open Textbook Initiative</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Open sourced textbooks that meet the criteria of the American Institute of Mathematics Editorial board. Students can download these in PDF format.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/mathchat">mathchat</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ebook">ebook</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/math">math</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000718231">Amazon.com: Public Library Books for Kindle</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">HOw to borrow Kindle books from your local library. It often requires setup of overdrive here in the US. This is an important skills for modern students, particularly if they have a tablet device, they should know how to check out books from their local library. Don't show them how to use the card catalog, set them up on overdrive and show them how to use it.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ebook">ebook</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/library">library</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/overdrive">overdrive</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/kindle">kindle</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.techsupportalert.com/free-books-audio">135 Places For Free Audio Books Online</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Places to go for free audiobooks.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ebook">ebook</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/audiobook">audiobook</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/communication">communication</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/50-places-free-books-online.htm">672 Places for Free eBooks Online</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Wow, this is a very comprehensive blog post of places for free ebooks online.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ebook">ebook</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/free">free</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/literature">literature</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ebook.">ebook.</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/communication">communication</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://fcp13-1.flatclassroomproject.org/Rubrics">Flat Classroom Project 13-1 - Rubrics</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Collaborative Writing Rubrics - this is the rubric used for the video artifact and wikis on the Flat Classroom project. </p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/wiki">wiki</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/rubric">rubric</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/collaborative">collaborative</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/writing">writing</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='https://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. 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I'm back - I was shut down by Blogger as SPAM

Blogger took down my blog as SPAM. I had too many anonymous comments that were SPAM and their automated system thought this was a SPAM blog. It took a little work to get it back up but I finally figured out how to do it. Once I figure out how, got the required information submitted, the appeal team immediately put it back up. Whew! I missed you guys. I've had to turn on moderated comments because I have to keep those spammer anonymous comments from posting or I could be taken down again.<br /><br />A lot has happened the last few months. Most important is that I re-joined Weight Watchers again in mid-December. I've only lost 12.6 pounds which means I've made my 5%. This isn't setting any records but at least it's a start. Down to 205.<br /><br />I went to my Weight Watcher meeting yesterday and found out my leader is retiring. I actually cried. She's the best Weight Watcher leader in the world. I found out why she's quitting. It's because she makes her meetings unique and they want her to conform to their standard. Her meetings are always packed and she has three of them on Saturdays where it's almost standing room only. I think Weight Watchers should conform to her, but not everyone can be like her. She's vivacious, hysterically funny, and extremely compassionate. She's a jewel. This is her last week and next Saturday my meeting will be her last meeting. It's very sad, but my girlfriend and I agreed we'd keep going to meetings and try to find someone we like. <br /><br />I'm back at the gym and have been for several weeks. I had to take off last week because I came down with a horrible cold that knocked me flat for a solid four days. I went back to the gym yesterday and had a good workout. It felt good to move again after spending almost an entire 48 hours in bed.<br /><br />The criminal trial for my husband's assault against me is tentatively set for March 5, but most likely will be delayed. I won't know for sure until Tuesday when there's a hearing with the prosecutor and my husband's defense attorney. The divorce trial isn't until November 3. Almost a year from when I filed. Long story on that one, but it's a very messy divorce. One thing that is really positvie about all of this is that I love living alone. The late night eating has completely halted as well as my obsessive TV watching. It seems to have somehow been tied to my incredibly bad marriage.<br /><br />That's about it. I guess not that much has happened. It seems like every day when I couldn't blog, I would think, 'oh, I need to blog about that!', but I couldn't. Now that I can, I'm drawing a big, fat blank. I just wanted to let you all know I'm back.<br /><br /><strong>Spam Alert:</strong> I just went back and looked at my old posts. Wow! I got hit hard by spammers. Almost every post had 200 to 500 comments. Spam comments. When I turned on moderation you can't see any of the old comments, not even the few valid ones, but that's better than seeing hundreds of spam comments. I won't go back and clean them up. Too many. I'll just leave them not visible. It's no wonder Blogger shut me down. I don't blame them. I didn't even realize this had happened since the spammer systems were hitting on old posts, never the current day's post, so I didn't even notice it. This is something everyone needs to be aware of. Check your old posts to make sure those spammer creeps aren't hitting you. Turn on comment moderation if you have to. If you get shut down, email me and I'll give you the link to get help. It wasn't easy for me to find it so I suspect others might have a problem with it too. I mistakenly thought I just needed to hit the restore blog button and all would be good. It's not quite that easy, but it is easy once you know where to go for help.

I'm back - I was shut down by Blogger as SPAM

Blogger took down my blog as SPAM. I had too many anonymous comments that were SPAM and their automated system thought this was a SPAM blog....

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Green Ireland

<p>Here is Bones  posing besides some <a href="http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/History+and+Heritage/History/The+Postal+Service+in+Ireland/The+post+box/">Irish post boxes</a>.  Note the Royal insignia (GR) on one of the boxes - this post box has been in existence before Ireland was a free state!  It would have been painted red then.</p><p>The "P&T" stands for Posts & Telegraph.</p><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizBF-0hwDjtxqo5uz_YNYG8zoSw0Eu6m2geVtIWa0J5BqLB-acjZ32hB9-k3_Mv9ucJ9LG5QP6KPT4KeynEPTSI6-cFBahaZi3xZQZD_JwOWHYKSiBEBjaLKXHBuDwLhNUKg5KSzR4VlkF/s1600/20130224_114723.jpg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizBF-0hwDjtxqo5uz_YNYG8zoSw0Eu6m2geVtIWa0J5BqLB-acjZ32hB9-k3_Mv9ucJ9LG5QP6KPT4KeynEPTSI6-cFBahaZi3xZQZD_JwOWHYKSiBEBjaLKXHBuDwLhNUKg5KSzR4VlkF/s400/20130224_114723.jpg" /> </a> </div><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsKJVS4n84_ik0GoD9H84p1FXfRYth9xRNqqdbRwVLspUEZ_V9ZW5lbgeDZdqP3HDFj4roZssYVGoUiy2Flmt4eWibShhGtHVo2sYQ4ziWAzF-JyG-x5e_q6Vluib-88eCbJ6HhEr2Fqlg/s1600/20130224_114235.jpg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsKJVS4n84_ik0GoD9H84p1FXfRYth9xRNqqdbRwVLspUEZ_V9ZW5lbgeDZdqP3HDFj4roZssYVGoUiy2Flmt4eWibShhGtHVo2sYQ4ziWAzF-JyG-x5e_q6Vluib-88eCbJ6HhEr2Fqlg/s400/20130224_114235.jpg" /> </a> </div>

Green Ireland

Here is Bones  posing besides some Irish post boxes .  Note the Royal insignia (GR) on one of the boxes - this post box has been in existenc...

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IWS Babe of the Week: Little Debbie Cakes

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Last night on the IWS Radio Show hung out Blog Talk Radio superstar <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/debidaly1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Debi Daly</i></span></a> as she talked about her career as a troll magnet.  So, in honor of her and all the other hot Debis, Debbys, and Debbies out there we give you this week's IWS Babe of the Week, and as we all know...<br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPcYDVJd7xw11RUlBSWipYRtVKpARM0kQg95lOe6yoWCL0RVaJ5z6Tgk8XHB_UqUA7IBlTydLi4K6HMuoImugX-6HGWJW0WVcfykDO8jHlHQU-ovZjGTnAXxcVesnYm0_b7wYzhNjryTs/s1600/Little+Debbie+Cakes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPcYDVJd7xw11RUlBSWipYRtVKpARM0kQg95lOe6yoWCL0RVaJ5z6Tgk8XHB_UqUA7IBlTydLi4K6HMuoImugX-6HGWJW0WVcfykDO8jHlHQU-ovZjGTnAXxcVesnYm0_b7wYzhNjryTs/s320/Little+Debbie+Cakes.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">First out of the box <b>Debbie Gibson</b>, or does she go by Debra now?  Who cares...Shut up and sing you hottie you...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgICWWQbwfdlfVlO2ixPeUnD-ydhD1GiJ-b-NzPmu-gD_pCMYr2FYNi6Kc50Kr-3LrRiGyZLqcyPlXBd__MThR7qaWB6iFWM7YKnCXl_IaCgTYRnxF9dFZT57jiMkDRqdjgHxuVSbjTYYw/s1600/Debbie+Gibson+Hot+Sexy+Naked+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgICWWQbwfdlfVlO2ixPeUnD-ydhD1GiJ-b-NzPmu-gD_pCMYr2FYNi6Kc50Kr-3LrRiGyZLqcyPlXBd__MThR7qaWB6iFWM7YKnCXl_IaCgTYRnxF9dFZT57jiMkDRqdjgHxuVSbjTYYw/s400/Debbie+Gibson+Hot+Sexy+Naked+2.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here we have <b>Debbbie Sath</b>...I'm not sure who she is or what she does, but as long as she keeps on looking like this, who cares..?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgviAznNwBZMHwXRAi9dymUqsbSreqRPcAgNRF01hYYdIwnzsRPgI9rL65vVPdiqTZk57CklM3SNTvM4F0DHj_nbNvExzoOKpL0CzWyqorM_Kjnth1LSNvEP8n3Mi4bjpmSri8GWnIylps/s1600/Debbie+Sath+Hot+Sexy+Jeans+Naked.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgviAznNwBZMHwXRAi9dymUqsbSreqRPcAgNRF01hYYdIwnzsRPgI9rL65vVPdiqTZk57CklM3SNTvM4F0DHj_nbNvExzoOKpL0CzWyqorM_Kjnth1LSNvEP8n3Mi4bjpmSri8GWnIylps/s400/Debbie+Sath+Hot+Sexy+Jeans+Naked.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Could we have a list of hot Debbys without <b>Debbie Harry</b>?  I don't fucking think so, but if you do, you need dirt sleep...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHKcKZM4c4yOiGdls5_zxf0rBnG5W316rl5JCOxgfutwPs9mc1f6iVk2ZHtR88dFNvEFxQ4szPkvCPI0L3gypVqStkWBiyS3Yokj0XO3SRBbzmW_NAj8ZPz-nC9eCCKa3t-JysH1BdPrc/s1600/Debbie+Harry+Sexy+Hot+Blondie+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHKcKZM4c4yOiGdls5_zxf0rBnG5W316rl5JCOxgfutwPs9mc1f6iVk2ZHtR88dFNvEFxQ4szPkvCPI0L3gypVqStkWBiyS3Yokj0XO3SRBbzmW_NAj8ZPz-nC9eCCKa3t-JysH1BdPrc/s400/Debbie+Harry+Sexy+Hot+Blondie+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An American Icon...<b>Debbie Reynolds</b>.  She can sing, dance, act, be funny and cute as a button!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip6KF3_nQBeXiAGfLqGEBLgn4J0NaS2l8XKuFqFYqP_I1qEN84mgLL6eP0sMkdANTFp_357kPOsoDm3-PfK63MXte_DcClTLa9hB22XgdNqGV2lgISq428RWs1Eq37W_bvBQFzwsjSpB4/s1600/Debbie+Reynolds+Sexy+Funny+Hot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip6KF3_nQBeXiAGfLqGEBLgn4J0NaS2l8XKuFqFYqP_I1qEN84mgLL6eP0sMkdANTFp_357kPOsoDm3-PfK63MXte_DcClTLa9hB22XgdNqGV2lgISq428RWs1Eq37W_bvBQFzwsjSpB4/s400/Debbie+Reynolds+Sexy+Funny+Hot.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And lastly, the muse for last night's IWS Radio Show, <b><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/debidaly1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Debi Daly</i></span></a></b>.  Smooooookin' hot and wonderful to hang with on the radio...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi444sr2Sgl_qDtRRvCwUxLgjNhMUcssEbuURELADjbiUEz5KX2Z8LpZb8z8FGaXAV7BKh3Xjep51rhbnmzFoz5ct0fMHyNVyI7HyrSi4A2ijcCbJRt4uR2vBA2YgRjSP1cQfv3WAqojfg/s1600/Debi+Daly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi444sr2Sgl_qDtRRvCwUxLgjNhMUcssEbuURELADjbiUEz5KX2Z8LpZb8z8FGaXAV7BKh3Xjep51rhbnmzFoz5ct0fMHyNVyI7HyrSi4A2ijcCbJRt4uR2vBA2YgRjSP1cQfv3WAqojfg/s320/Debi+Daly.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And there you have it, the IWS Debbies of the Week!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you missed the aforementioned IWS show with the lovely Mizz Debi last night, you can catch all the hot mess action and hilarity below.  Debi was an awesome guest and she is welcome back anytime.  So give it a listen as she tell Jay and Matt all about the troll, hater, and stalker problems she has had over the years....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.adobe.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" height="105" id="143577" name="143577" width="210"><param name="movie" value="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf?file=http://www.blogtalkradio.com%2Fplaylist.aspx%3Fshow_id%3D4450227&autostart=false&bufferlength=5&volume=80&corner=rounded&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/flashplayercallback.aspx" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf" flashvars="file=http://www.blogtalkradio.com%2Fplaylist.aspx%3Fshow_id%3D4450227&autostart=false&shuffle=false&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/FlashPlayerCallback.aspx&width=210&height=105&volume=80&corner=rounded" width="210" height="105" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" wmode="transparent" menu="false" name="143577" id="143577" allowScriptAccess="always"></embed></object></div><div style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center; width: 220px;"><br /></div></div></div>

IWS Babe of the Week: Little Debbie Cakes

Last night on the IWS Radio Show hung out Blog Talk Radio superstar Debi Daly as she talked about her career as a troll magnet.  So, in hon...

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