Jun 13
Jun 13
Dan Persons: Cinefantastique’s Here’s What’s Going On: Accident at Transformers 4 Shoot
Posted in: Today's ChiliPyro sets 100 year-old house on fire… Final Destination creator to adapt Ty Drago’s The Undertakers… Brad Pitt has bad news for the combatants of World War Z…
From the luxurious Cinefantastique Online studios in NYC, Dan Persons brings you up-to-date on what’s happening in the world of genre media.
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Jun 13
Tony Parker’s Hamstring Seems Fine But San Antonio Spurs Fade Late In NBA Finals Game 4 Loss (VIDEO)
Posted in: Today's ChiliSAN ANTONIO (AP) — Tony Parker made good on his pledge before Game 4 of the NBA Finals: He was ready to go.
He just didn’t have it in him to finish.
What began as a spectacular, told-you-so performance from the All-Star point guard ended with a scoreless second half and second-guessing about his strained right hamstring, which Parker said gradually sapped his strength as the San Antonio Spurs lost to the resurgent Miami Heat 109-93 on Thursday night.
Jun 13
* Candidates criticise inflexible stance in nuclear talks
* Alleged rigging of 2009 vote led to unrest and crackdown (Adds election starts)
By Yeganeh Torbati
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Jun 13
Dwyane Wade Lifts Miami Heat, Delivers Flash-back Effort In NBA Finals Game 4 (VIDEO/PHOTOS)
Posted in: Today's ChiliSAN ANTONIO (AP) — Trying to guard Dwyane Wade proved impossible for Tiago Splitter. Same goes for Boris Diaw.
Of course, that’s to be expected. Both are big men who, well, won’t be confused for nine-time All-Stars anytime soon.
What proved to be one of the biggest keys for the Miami Heat in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night was that it wasn’t just Splitter or Diaw who couldn’t guard Wade — but that no one else wearing San Antonio uniforms could, either.
Jun 13
By the time Melissa Atkins Wardy’s daughter celebrated her seventh birthday, the gender stereotype crusader and author of the forthcoming Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, Birth to Tween had (proudly, purposefully) yet to buy her little girl a single item featuring a Disney princess. Then Merida came along. A strong archer with serious spunk, Merida’s plotline didn’t revolve around landing a man, and her long red curls were less Ariel the Little Mermaid and more Julia Roberts-as-Erin Brockovich. The character was so different from her fellow Disney starlets – the ones who stand with their petite hands perfectly poised for bluebirds and butterflies to alight upon them; the ones who sing of their prince coming one day soon – that Wardy opened the door and invited Merida into their family’s home.
“She was brave, daring, athletic,” Wardy recalls. “She didn’t look that typical female protagonist. I thought it was a wonderful message for girls and boys. So we got Merida pajamas. We saw Brave three times. I totally bought into that brand.”
Then, about a month ago, Disney pulled what Wardy calls a “bait and switch”: As Merida was officially coroneted as a Disney princess, a makeover took her from Katniss Everdeen to Bratz Doll.
Jun 13
Mike Ragogna: A Chat with Boney James, Plus Queen V, Cameron The Public and SDG Exclusives, and Galen Hawthorne Reviews Moon Hooch
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Jun 13
Who would have thought a song sung for a dying mouse by fraggly imps could be this wonderful?
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Jun 13
By Beth Kissileff
Religion News Service
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (RNS) Fred Rogers, the man behind the long-running “Mister Rogers Neighborhood” children’s show, died 10 years ago, but his influence is still felt deeply here, the city he called home.
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Jun 13
WSJ: T-Mobile, VZW don’t directly share call data to NSA, but that might not matter
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Providing another wrinkle to the recently exploding privacy debate, a Wall Street Journal report indicates which wireless companies are providing call information to the government. According to the infamous people familiar with the matter, foreign ownership of Verizon and T-Mobile presents several obstacles including them in the program. Chief among them is that the requests are top secret and might prohibit some of the owners from being aware.
Meanwhile, Sprint and AT&T are said to have “long cooperated with the government,” although it may not really matter which provider you’re using when it comes to popping up in NSA-requested files. Last week’s leaked court order requested call logs and metadata from Verizon Business Network Services, which, along with AT&T provides the backbone most calls go through. No matter which carrier you’re on, if your call is routed along that backbone, the information about it is recorded and could be passed along.
Filed under: Wireless, Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile
Source: Wall Street Journal
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