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Happy Holidays (and watch the cookies!)

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December can be a fun, joyous season. Families everywhere are celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. Each of these winter holidays brings many festivities and lots of yummy, delicious food. The temptation to eat and drink in excess can be hard to overcome.

Although getting your five-a-day is important for promoting good health, overindulging on anything is bad for you. Indeed, overindulgence — consuming more calories than your body requires — is one of the main factors contributing to weight gain. Many of us love sweets during the holidays, but large portions won’t do anything but add surplus calories that get converted into fat.
Cookies and Santa Claus

Consider Santa Claus. One of the benefits of being “good St. Nick” is eating all the holiday cookies left by children around the world on Christmas eve.

Lee Biosolutions, a producer of enzymes, glycoprotein hormones and related reagents for the diagnostic and life science industries, realized that, given all the houses Santa must visit, he would put on more than the usual holiday weight. They recently did the math to determine just how much Santa would weight [1].

To calculate the number of households Santa must visit, they took the world population of 6.8 billion people and divided it by the average of 2.5 people per family. Thus, Santa would visit approximately 2.7 billion households on Christmas eve. Now, this number over-estimates the number of Christians in the world who would be celebrating Christmas by about 3-fold [2]. However, many people celebrate Christmas that aren’t Christian and we’re already talking ridiculously huge numbers here, so we’re not going to argue.

To continue the calculation: assuming that every household leaves Santa two chocolate chip cookies, Kris Kringle would eat about 5.4 billion cookies (or 473 million pounds of cookies) and consume 936 billion calories, far exceeding a 2,000 calorie-a-day diet.
Giving him a belly like a “bowl full of jelly,” Santa would eat 123 billion total grams of fat. His cholesterol would off the charts with 27.5 billion grams in one night when an average person should only take in 24,455 grams in one year. And finally, keeping him awake for his trip, Santa would consume 38.5 billion grams of sugar.

Given these numbers, Santa would have or be at risk for a number of health issues, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and cancer.

This holiday season, take responsibility for your diet. Small portions of the “bad stuff” will make very little difference in your health, but going on a cookie binge very well could.
Have a happy, healthy holiday season!
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Michelle Ryan's foot fetish

Michelle Ryan Feet Video. What has two feet, is married to a coach and is probably embarrassed half to fatality right now. Yes that is right wife of the Jet’s coach Rex Ryan! Their creepy foot video has gotten millions of views in only 1 day. Michelle Ryan feet are a hit apparently.

Even if you are not a foot lover you may feel pretty curious and ultimately venture over to watch and see what’s up with the Michelle Ryan feet. Don’t feel terrible if you do because you will be joining the ranks of millions of others that most likely do not have a foot fetish either – they are just curious.

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Trix Rabbit and the Million Dollar Money Drop Question

The Million Dollar Money Drop question about the famous advertising icons like Trix Rabbit had forced us to take some history lesson on what has happened in our society.

Smokey The Bear might be the winner in the Million Dollar Money Drop question but there are other interesting thing other than the Smokey Bear alone. Off course we are already aware about Ronald McDonald but what about the Trix Rabbit? Did he ever get as famous as the other two advertising icons?

Trix Rabbit is the famous advertising icons of Trix cereal that was made by General Mills for the North American and by Nestlé for the European, South American and Asian markets. The cereal consists of fruit-flavored, sweetened, ground-corn pieces. These were originally round cereal pieces, but were later changed to puffed fruit-shaped pieces. In January 2007, Trix Cereal company General Mills returned Trix cereal to their original shape.

The Trix Rabbit itself was made by Joe Harris who debuted in a 1959 Trix television commercial. The rabbit was famous because it always tries to continually attempted to trick children into giving him a bowl of Trix cereal. He would be discovered every time; the children would tell him that he was a silly rabbit and that “Trix [were] for kids,” and take back their cereal. These ads would often end with the Trix Rabbit following up the kids’ “Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids!” slogan with “…and sometimes, for tricky rabbits!”. The Rabbit originated as a puppet before he later became animated. He did however succeed in obtaining and eating the Trix on some occasions, including twice as the result of a box top mail-in contest (1976 and 1990) entitled “Let The Rabbit Eat Trix”. The results of the vote were an overwhelming “yes”, and the rabbit was depicted in a subsequent commercial finally enjoying a taste of Trix.

It seems that somehow, the Million Dollar Money Drop quiz question has managed to take us a few years back to learn the history of the famous advertising icons in our society, like the Trix Rabbit.

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Leslie Nielsen dies at 84

Leslie Nielsen dies at 84; serious actor became a comic star - Los Angeles Times
29 November 2010 05:42

Canadian
actor Leslie Nielsen, seen in this 1996 photo with Nicollette Sheridan
at the premiere of Spy Hard, died Sunday at age 84. (Michael Caulfield/Associated Press)

Leslie Nielsen, a serious actor who became a comic star with his career-changing roles in "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" comedies, died Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84.

Nielson died of complications from pneumonia at a hospital near his home, surrounded by his wife, Barbaree, and friends, his agent, John S. Kelly, said in a statement.

In "Airplane!," the 1980 send-up of just about every disaster movie plot imaginable, Nielsen as Dr. Rumack was "an essentially serious actor taking essentially preposterous material very straight," wrote Times Arts Editor Charles Champlin in his review.

Just how preposterous was it?

As the crew and passengers became ill, Nielsen said they needed to get the sick to a hospital.

"A hospital? What is it?" a flight attendant asked.

Nielsen: "It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now."

And when Nielsen was told, "Surely you can't be serious," he answered: "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."

Nielsen followed up "Airplane!" with another goofy role delivered with deadpan conviction as Frank Drebin in the "Police Squad!" television show and "Naked Gun" movies.

It was quite a career shift for an actor who seemed perfectly cast as a handsome leading man when he came to Hollywood in the 1950s, already a veteran of live television appearances.

A typically serious early role was as the spaceship commander in "Forbidden Planet, " the 1956 science-fiction classic. "It's the reason I was never asked to do 'Star Trek' or 'Twilight Zone' for TV," he told the Toronto Star in 2002. "I carried too much baggage with me from that movie."

Nielsen played Debbie Reynolds' sweetheart in the 1957 film "Tammy and the Bachelor," was the Revolutionary War fighter Francis Marion in the Disney TV adventure series "The Swamp Fox" and had roles in such TV series as "The New Breed" and "Bracken's World."

"I just always worked," he said. "I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts. Perhaps it was my Canadian accent."

Nielsen also was captain of the doomed ocean liner in the 1972 disaster movie "The Poseidon Adventure."

All the while he "was a closet comedian," he told The Times in 1991.

Then "Airplane!" changed his career.

Producers-directors-writers Jim Abrahams and David and Jerry Zucker hired Nielsen and other veteran actors Robert Stack, Peter Graves and Lloyd Bridges, all perfectly cast to spoof their own heroic and very serious images.

"I will be forever grateful to them," Nielsen told The Times in 1991. "It is just an amazing roll of the dice. I am so lucky to be a representative of their humor."

Nielsen then was cast in "Police Squad!," which aimed to do to cop shows was "Airplane!" did to disaster movies.

It lasted all of six episodes on ABC, but Nielsen moved on as Drebin to the 1988 movie "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!," with George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson and Priscilla Presley among his co-stars. Its success led to two sequels.

"Leslie has the idea to play it maybe not straight but deadly serious," David Zucker told the L.A. Daily News in 1994. "You can take any one performance and just transfer it from a comedy to a drama. There's just no difference — that's what he can do."

Nielsen was born Feb. 11, 1926, in Regina, Saskatchewan. His father was a Royal Canadian mounted police officer and one of his brothers became a deputy prime minister of Canada.

He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force after graduating from high school and after the service studied at a Toronto radio school operated by Lorne Greene — who would become a TV star with the series "Bonanza"— before moving to New York to start working in television.

Nielsen's later movies included "All I Want for Christmas" in 1991, "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" in 1995, "Spy Hard" in 1996 and "Mr. Magoo" in 1997.

He also toured with his one-man show on the life of defense lawyer Clarence Darrow.

Nielsen had two daughters and was married three times previously, according to the Associated Press. A complete list of survivors was not available.

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Amazon.com and Apple iPad scams this Christmas

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Online holiday sales growth seen up again: comScore
28 November 2010

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden, Colorado July 23, 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

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By Alexandria Sage

SAN FRANCISCO | Nov 28, 2010 10:05am EST

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online spending this holiday is now expected to rise by 11 percent over last year, comScore said on Tuesday, marking the second time the analytics firm has raised its closely watched view.

The increased bullishness over e-commerce sales comes as retailers both on and offline ready for the key Thanksgiving weekend when holiday shoppers head to stores or to their computers in search of deals.

The new spending outlook should bring total holiday e-commerce spending to $32.4 billion, comScore said.

Cyber Monday, the day when consumers head back to work after the Thanksgiving weekend, is considered the kick-off to the online shopping season. But brick-and-mortar retailers from Wal-Mart Stores Inc to Staples Inc are focused on early deals at their online units, while Internet giant Amazon.com has already gained market share this season, analysts say.

One week ago, comScore told Reuters in an exclusive interview that it was raising its forecast from an earlier projected gain of 7 percent to a new projection of 9 percent. It noted then that the outlook might be raised further.

The new outlook announced Tuesday is based on the first 21 days of the November and December season, in which $9.01 billion has already been spent, marking a 13 percent increase over the year-ago period, comScore said.

ComScore Chairman Gian Fulgoni said the holiday e-commerce season had "gotten off to an extremely positive start."

"Despite continued high unemployment rates and other economic concerns, consumers seem to be more willing to open up their wallets this holiday season than last," Fulgoni said in a statement.

He attributed the surge of purchases to deep discounts that started earlier than in 2009, when U.S. e-commerce sales rose 4 percent during the two-month holiday period.

Online sales make up approximately 7 percent of the overall retail pie, according to comScore, and brick-and-mortar retailers are expecting a far less rosy sales outlook this year.

The National Retail Federation expects 2010 holiday retail sales -- which exclude online as well as food, vehicle and gasoline sales -- to rise a mere 2.3 percent this year to $447.1 billion.

(Reporting by Alexandria Sage; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)

McAfee warns of Apple iPad scams this Christmas
28 November 2010 12:41

McAfee is urging computer users to be wary of offers that look too good to be true this Christmas, after noting that scammers are increasingly using the iPad as a lure to obtain credit card details.

In the spam version of the scam, victims are encouraged to first buy other products in order to get a free iPad, supplying their credit card details in the process.

"Victims never receive the iPad or the other items, just the headache of reporting a stolen credit card number," said Dave Marcus, director of security research at McAfee Labs.

A variation of this attack asks victims to supply their mobile phone number, which is then subscribed to a high-cost telecoms service.

McAfee also warned of a range of other scams likely to increase in frequency over the coming month. Business travelers, for example, could be at risk if they use unsecured mobile and wireless networks such as those found in hotels, said the vendor.

"Scams continue to be big business for cyber criminals who have their sights set on capitalising on open hearts and wallets this holiday season," said Marcus.

"As people jump online to look for deals on gifts and travel, it's important to recognise the common scams to safeguard against theft during the busy season ahead."

Another attack involves bogus distress messages from friends and family who might be travelling abroad asking for money to be wired in order to help them get home.

Cyber crooks may also turn to social media to promote fake gift cards, which are nothing more than a hook for consumer information which is often sold to marketers or used for identity theft.

Another personal data harvest could be perpetrated through SMS phishing attacks which purport to come from a bank or other trusted site, and ask users to input their password and log-in information.

"Cyber crooks know that people are more vulnerable to this scam during the holiday season when they are doing more online shopping and checking bank balances frequently," said McAfee.
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Cyber Monday Deals 2010

Cyber Monday Deals 2010
28 November 2010 18:47

Amanda Lewis

Cyber Monday is the black Friday on Monday where many retailers offer discounts through their websites.

Many of the stores have already kicked started the Cyber Monday deals for 2010. There are also other retailers which are throwing perks to lure customers to make purchases online. According to Comscore, Cyber Monday is the busiest day for purchase of the year after black Friday. In 2009, Buyers spend about $890 million during the cyber Monday alone. Many of stores are offering deep discounts along with many other perks. Walmart has extended the cyber Monday deal for whole weak. The retail giant also offers free shipping for more than 150 items available on their website. The free shipping is only available until Dec 03.

Wal-Mart is offering great deals on electronics. They are offering Apple iPod Touch Bundle + Accessory Kit for $233, Xbox 360 4GB Console + Kinect + two games for $398 and most importantly Panasonic 42” Plasma TV for $478.

Amazon is rolling out great deals for Cyber Monday deals from tomorrow and the discounted prices will be offered throughout 7 days. Amazon will offer Kindle for $139 (Original price $189) . Also check out their electronics specifically on tomorrow.

Best Buy has started Cyber Monday from today. Their website features Panasonic 65” VIERA Plasma HDTV for $1,799.99 (original price $3,199), a Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 for $25 and Seagate 500 GB external hard drive for $50.

Cyber Monday Deals 2010
28 November 2010 17:23

The Internet has added a new holiday shopping tradition: these days, Thanksgiving isn't just followed by Black Friday, but by Cyber Monday, too.

Cyber Monday is Black Friday online: numerous retailers offer discounts on purchases made through their websites, offering perks like free shipping and site-wide sales in an attempt to boost spending. According to Comscore, it's working: Cyber Monday was the second highest spending day of 2009, with buyers charging nearly $890 million during the special shopping event.

We've put together a guide to finding details on Cyber Monday sales. Note that some retailers are offering one-day-only discounts, while others are offering a "Cyber Week," with seven days of sales.

    * From Wallet Pop, Cyber Monday 2010: Which Deals To Expect

    * BestCyberMondayDeals.com, a website listing retailers' "best online deals for this day."

    * Shop.org's CyberMonday.com, highlighting "the best deals from over 700 online retailers," including Avon, Sony, Toys R Us, and more.

    * On Twitter, follow @CyberMonday, @CyberMondayNews, or @BestCyberMonday. Try following specific retailers--like @WalMartSpecials--for the latest on their 2010 Cyber Monday deals.

    * Check retailers' websites for the full rundown on deals--Amazon.com, Target, Home Depot, and Best Buy are among the stores that have already listed their Cyber Monday sales.

Have other suggestions? Let us know your Cyber Monday shopping tricks in the comments below.

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Scottish referees - games to go ahead despite referee strike

Scottish games to go ahead despite referee strike
25 November 2010 19:02

GLASGOW (AFP) – All Scottish Premier League matches scheduled for this weekend will go ahead despite a planned strike by leading Scottish referees after the Scottish Football Association (SFA) reached agreement with “several European national associations”, the governing body said Thursday.

“The Scottish FA can confirm agreement has been reached with several European National Associations to ensure matches in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League and the Alba Cup final will be covered this weekend,” the SFA statement said.

It added: “Negotiations are continuing with other national associations to help ensure that some, if not all, matches in the Scottish Football League go ahead as normal.

“Clubs will be informed by 3pm today (1500GMT Thursday) whether their matches will go ahead or not in light of the Scottish Category One referees electing to persist with their withdrawal of labour.”

SFA chief executive Stewart Regan told BBC Reporting Scotland: “I’m delighted with the team of administrators who have worked tirelessly to speak to a number of associations across Europe.”

Regan added: “These are FIFA listed officials or category one referees from their own countries. So they are proper referees.

“Fans will have no worries that they are getting top officials to referee the games at the weekend.”

Scotland’s top or category one referees have chosen to strike in protest at what they say is the “intolerable pressure” placed on their personal and professional lives as a result of the fall-out from some of their recent on-field decisions.

A statement issued earlier Thursday by the referees said: “The incessant and adverse nature of recent comments on referees had placed intolerable pressures on personal and professional lives and that statements questioning honesty and integrity aimed across refereeing in general had led to an unprecedented level of abuse and genuine concerns for safety and for the ability to carry out normal family and business commitments.

“Last (Wednesday) night, all category one referees ratified their original decision (to strike this weekend).

However, their statement added: “After this weekend, the referees will return to the field and will continue dialogue with the governing body to develop well-thought through and meaningful measures in an environment of mutual respect.”

The season in Scotland so far has witnessed several high-profile refereeing controversies, notably involving Dougie McDonald’s handling of Celtic’s 2-1 win over Dundee United last month — during which he awarded Celtic what looked like a deserved penalty before overturning the decision after consulting a linesman.

McDonald was warned by the SFA referees’ committee over his failure to give an accurate report of the circumstances surrounding his rescinding of the Celtic penalty.

Referee Willie Collum meanwhile received threatening phone calls after awarding Rangers a dubious penalty during their 3-1 victory at Celtic Park.

Hoops chairman John Reid said last Thursday that McDonald should quit or be removed by the SFA after he admitted misleading Celtic manager Neil Lennon over that decision.

The SFA tried to avert a walkout by offering to ban all club officials from commenting on referees but, despite talks on Wednesday, this was not enough to prevent the strike going ahead.
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Pike River mine grief

Around the country today New Zealanders showed their support and honoured the 29 men who are presumed dead inside the Pike River mine.

On a day when words were hard to find, Dunedin spoke through its Cathedral bells - one toll for every life lost.

In Christchurch, the Cathedral was also a place to express sympathy.

At parliament, MP Te Ururoa Flavell expressed his grief in song, while other politicians queued up to sign a public condolence register.

Elsewhere around the capital, the West Coast's fallen sons were remembered at government buildings and embassies, where flags were flown at half mast.

In Auckland many teachers allowed students to spend time writing emails of support which will be sent to Greymouth schools.

Hourly prayer services provided a place of quiet contemplation for many in Auckland as NZ's biggest city held out a hand to its West Coast brothers.

"We are all sons and daughters of Greymouth today, no matter where we are in the country," said Auckland Mayor Len Brown.

A man who lost six students and a teacher in the Tongariro canyoning disaster in 2008, had words of advice.

"Closure does not come for a very, very long time and if they don't effect the recovery of bodies, that closure may never come," said Elim Christian College principal Murray Burton.

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Australia vs England Cricket Live Score

Australia vs England Live Score: Australia is facing up England in the first Test of Ashes 2010. Australia vs England (Aus vs Eng) Live match was kicked-off on Thursday.

Latest Score: 245/8 (72.4 Ovs)

The first Test of Ashes 2010 was started on Thursday between Australia and England at Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane. England won the toss and elected to bat. But, England lost their early wicket in the form of their captain, Andrew Strauss, who could not score even single run.

Australian bowlers succeeded in picking early wickets of England and collapsed England’s top order batsmen. Australian bowler, Peter Siddle took two wickets followed by Ben Hilfenhaus and Shane Watson took one wicket each.

England batsmen, Andrew Strauss (0), Jonathan Trott (29), Kevin Pietersen (43) and Paul Collingwood (4) have all lost their wickets. Alastair Cook (67) and Ian Bell (39) are in the crease.
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Gilliam Mckieth Faint

I'm A Celebrity:

Stacey Solomon in tears

as she confronts

Gillian McKeith over

her 'fainting'

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By Emily Sheridan

Her 'fainting' and poor performance in Bushtucker Trials have angered her starving I'm A Celebrity campmates.

But today, Gillian McKeith turned on one of her few allies, Stacey Solomon and left her in tears after the X Factor singer suggested the nutritionist should quit the jungle due to her many phobias.

The Essex single mum, 21, was shocked by Gillian's defensive replies when she tried to suggest her health was more important than her salary from the show.

Clash: Gillian McKeith hit back when Stacey Solomon suggested she should leave I'm A Celebrity due to her many phobias

Speaking to 'incarcerated' Gillian through the bars of the jungle gym, she said: 'You are on telly and you are fainting, you’re fainting in front of your children, no amount of money is worth that.

'If you’re so afraid and have so many phobias and are ill over it, you should go. There’s nothing keeping you here. You said it’s unbearable.'

McKeith insisted she would be 'stupid' to leave after putting up with 8-10 days already.

'No amount of money is worth that': Stacey suggested Gillian's so-called health problems in the jungle weren't worth her salary

The 51-year-old said: 'I have a television career and if I walk out on my contract I will not work in television again. That’s the way it works.'

This Morning presenter Alison Hammond disagreed: 'That’s not true Gillian, after what you’ve been through you’ll work for the rest of your life, I’m telling you now.'

 

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When Stacey said: 'Gillian, ever since you’ve been here you’ve said that you don’t want to face your fears...'

Gillian hit back: 'You’re the classic person who doesn’t understand what a fear is versus a phobia. You don’t understand phobia, it’s like taking a person who can’t swim and throwing them in 10 feet of water and saying “off you go, see if you can swim".'

'Just go back over there': Gillian told Stacey she had no understanding of phobias

However, Stacey stood her ground, replying: 'No, because that’s a chance of death. Honestly Gill, if your phobia is that intense and that bad and you’re having to get up and deal with it everyday. It’s hard for us to hear it as well.'

Gillian retorted: 'Then don’t listen... just go back over there,' prompting a visibly upset Stacey to walk away.

Ms McKeith feels so isolated from the other contestants due to her phobias that she wants to talk with former contestant Katie Price once leaving Australia.

She said: 'There’s only one person I would like to talk to when I get out of here and that’s Katie Price, because she’s the only person who understands.'

Gillian added: 'She on the other hand managed to do much, much better than I did.  She’s probably the only person that would understand how I feel right now.'

Discussing the argument with Linford Christie, Stacey said: 'It’s my fault, I shouldn’t say anything, it’s none of my business, I don’t understand.'

But the Olympian stuck by her: 'No you have a right, she’s not sick. You’re an honest person so you told her, don’t let it upset you.'

Shoulder to cry on: Linford Christie comforted Stacey, telling her Gillian 'is not sick'

Later on, the two women made peace when Gilliam lamented about how hard she was having it.

However, Stacey didn't let her off too easily, pointing out everyone in camp was going through the same hardships.

Gillian attempted to explain herself: 'You kept talking and talking and I thought "oh my God, I can’t listen to this anymore I’m too…" I haven’t slept all night.'

But Stacey replied: 'We’re all not sleeping, all eating the same, we’re all going to these Trial things.  We’re all doing it... We’re all going through the same experience.  I can’t fully understand everyday having a Trial, it must be the worst.'

Hug and make-up: Gillian later took Stacey away from camp so they could make peace

After the row, Gillian managed to overcome her fears to achieve five stars in her seventh Bushtucker Trial - Fisherman's Fiend.

She pre-empted fellow trial participant Dom Joly: 'I’m hopeless. I feel like I’m going to let you down.'

He gave his campmates his strategy before going to the trial: 'I’m going to be totally kind until she does the usual wussy stuff and then I’m like what are you doing on this show.'

Fisherman's Fiend: Gillian and Dom entered a giant lobsterpot as it was lowered into the water, with each compartment containing six boxes of stars - mixed with various aquatic creatures

When asked by Britt Ekland what he'll do if she faints again, Dom joked: 'If she does I’ll kick her.'

The Fisherman's Fiend trial saw Dom and Gillian in separate sections of a giant lobsterpot lowered into the water, with each compartment containing six boxes of stars - mixed with various aquatic creatures.

During the trial, Ant and Dec were left silent as Dom ended up providing the reassurance Gillian needed.

Calm down: Dom questioned why Gillian was screaming

A personal record: Gillian had to put her head under water to collect a star from an underwater box - the first time she claimed she had ever done so

He made her look foolish at the beginning of the task when she started screaming at the sight of a box, saying: 'Why are you screaming. It's a box.'

Gillian then informed him she was also water-phobic, adding it to her long list of phobias, she couldn't swim and have never put her head under water in her life.

After managing to conquer one her many fears and going underwater, Gillian collected five stars and was soon followed by Dom, who got all six, meaning 11 meals for camp.

Triumphant: Dom told the other contestants about Gillian after finishing the trial, saying: 'There was a huge lobster cage and it was going down and suddenly she went mental'

Relaxed: Dom successfully picked up all six stars - later revealing he didn't find it too difficult because he was an avid scuba diver

Returning triumphant to camp, Dom relayed Gillian's progress to the contestants: 'There was a huge lobster cage and it was going down and suddenly she went mental. She was screaming and I was like what are you doing.

'And then she calmed down and got one and then I said all you need is one more and she got another one and she got in the zone and got five.'

Gillian then got to miss out on the latest Kangaroo Court challenge, which saw campmates fighting for immunity for the first show elimination.

Now who's phobic: Stacey couldn't bring herself to put her hand in a jar of creepy crawlies during the Kangaroo Court challenge and watched Jenny Eclair in amazement

After each celebrity was told they would have to put their hand to the bottom of a jar of creepie crawlies, pull out a tiger worm and then feed it through a hole onto the scales, Stacey and Dom ended up refusing.

Both admitted being scared of spiders and couldn't bring themselves to touch the huge spiders in the jars, so were thrown in the jail alongside Gillian, Shaun Ryder, Sheryl Gascoyne and Lembit Opik.

This prison lark's fun: Stacey shares a joke with Shaun Ryder in the jungle jail

Comfy: Dom remarked the beds in jail were better than the ones in camp

But after a week at camp, it wasn't only Gillian getting on everyone's nerves - comedienne Jenny Eclair found she needed some time out from camp after getting frustrated with Kayla Collins' trying to tell her what to do while cooking dinner.

And Jenny wasn’t the only contestant to be angered by Kayla’s kitchen habits, as Nigel, Britt and Aggro all commented over the American’s laziness.

They feel that Kayla hasn’t been pulling her weight and Jenny admitted: ‘I’m getting very close to snapping at a certain girl, it’s one person who is a lazy, lazy girl and it’s making me furious.

‘This is when I come out at my worst, I’m not jealous of young people, we’ve all been there, but not to have any self-awareness…’

Despite Kayla stepping in to the chop the vegetables, she managed to infuriate Jenny further by telling the comedienne what to do.

Food row: Jenny Eclair became infuriated by Kayla's 'laziness' and stormed off into the jungle to calm down

Kitchen duties: Kayla did start chopping vegetables to help out but then began to tell Jenny Eclair what to do, which angered ther 50-year-old even further

Jenny quickly snapped that she was a 50-year-old woman, who was quite capable of doing the job, before storming off into the jungle to calm down.

She then told the Bush Telegraph: ‘I have no respect for what you [Kayla] do, I think you are an idiotic girl.

‘You know what, I’ve just been running around like a blue ar***d fly.’

The end of the show saw Stacey and Aggro Santos finding out they would be taking part in the task - which will be screened on Thursday instead of Wednesday because of the UEFA Champions League football match.

Gillian, Britt Ekland and Alison were excluded on medical grounds.

Cool down: Sheryl Gascoyne showers in a fuchsia swimsuit

Bikini babe: Kayla Collins showed off her Playmate figure in another bikini from her own collection

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Ireland set for nervy two weeks until budget vote

 

Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen reacts as he speaks to the media in Government Buildings Dublin November 21, 2010.

Credit: Reuters/Cathal McNaughton

By Jodie Ginsberg and Carmel Crimmins

DUBLIN | Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:23pm EST

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland begins two nervous weeks of political maneuvering on Tuesday as the government dares the opposition to block an austerity budget on which a multi-billion euro EU/IMF bailout is riding.

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen defied mounting pressure to quit on Monday, saying he would stay in office until parliament passed the budget, then call an early election.

Public anger at his handling of Ireland's economic and banking crisis has only grown since he announced the bailout, and his chances of passing the budget fell dramatically when two independent members of parliament said they were likely to withhold their support.

But Cowen said the national interest required that he press on to unveil a promised four-year austerity package on Wednesday, and a 2011 budget on December 7.

The government is expected to announce that it will cut the minimum wage, slash social welfare spending, reduce the number of public employees and add a new property tax and higher income taxes in a package intended to slash 6 billion euros off next year's budget, and 15 billion off the annual budget by 2014.

Trade unions have warned that the austerity plan could provoke civil unrest: a student demonstration over planned fee increases turned violent this month, and unions have organized a march to protest at the planned measures on November 27 in Dublin.

"DUTY TO BACK BUDGET

"We have entered into discussions with European partners on the basis that we are going to implement a budget that will have a 6 billion euro adjustment," Cowen told a news conference after emergency talks with his cabinet.

"We believe that there's a clear duty on all members of Dail Eireann (parliament) to facilitate the passage of these measures in the uniquely serious circumstances in which we find ourselves."

As EU and IMF negotiators thrash out details of the rescue package, Theresa Reidy, politics lecturer at University College Cork, said Cowen's Fianna Fail party seemed to be planning to cajole the opposition into abstaining on the budget.

"What we will see in the next fortnight is growing pressure on the opposition parties for the sake of political stability to abstain on the major votes," she said.

Both the main opposition parties, Fine Gael and Labour, who are likely to come to power in a coalition after next year's election, had demanded that an election take place before the budget, and seemed unlikely to fall in line soon, if at all.

"The taoiseach (prime minister) thinks he has a majority so let him go ahead and exercise his majority," said Fine Gael finance spokesman Michael Noonan.

"Do you seriously think he is looking for our support? I don't think so. I have no idea what's going to be in the budget ... There is a (Fine Gael) front bench meeting tomorrow and we will consider whether we will put down a vote of no confidence."

Analysts say most Irish people, who have endured two years of austerity and recession and now face four more years of cuts on foreign lenders' terms, would prefer an immediate election.

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Cambodia stampede kills at least 345

By Prak Chan Thul

PHNOM PENH | Tue Nov 23, 2010 2:11am EST

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A stampede on a bridge in Cambodia's capital killed at least 345 people when thousands panicked, pinning and trampling revelers on the last day of a festival marking the end of the rainy season.

The stampede began late on Monday on a small bridge lined with lights connecting Phnom Penh to an island where a crowd of mostly young people had gathered to celebrate the water festival and watch a concert.

Survivors said panic set in when shouts went up that several people had been electrocuted. Police said some people also shouted that the bridge was about to collapse as thousands of people were heading back to the city center.

The victims suffocated or were trampled and some survivors said they were wedged into the crowd of living and dead for hours. Police sprayed water so survivors could drink, some said.

"People were shouting that someone had been electrocuted, to run back," Touch Loch, 18, told Reuters. "I fell and people stepped on me until I passed out. When I woke I was here in hospital."

"People were crying for their fathers and mothers."

State television said at least 240 of the dead were women.

Khon Sros, 19, said from her hospital bed some people had leapt off the bridge to escape but she had been pinned in the crowd from her waist down until police pulled her out.

"One man died near me. He was weak and didn't have enough air."

Touch Theara, 38, said she had been stuck in the crowd for three hours: "I thought I was dead ... Police sprayed water at us. We were just opening our mouths to drink."

Prime Minister Hun Sen apologized for the disaster in which at least 329 people were hurt. He ordered an investigation as television footage showed relatives weeping over the bodies of the dead piled one on top of the other.

"This is the biggest tragedy in more than 31 years after the Pol Pot regime," he said, referring to the Khmer Rouge, whose agrarian revolution from 1975-1979 killed an estimated 1.7 million people in Cambodia under the command of Pol Pot.

He declared Thursday a day of mourning.

ROWS OF DEAD

Emergency crews carried lifeless bodies and laid them out in rows for identification.

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North Korea artillery

(Reuters) - North Korea on Tuesday fired dozens of artillery shells at a South Korean island, setting buildings on fire and prompting a return of fire by the South, Seoul's military and media reports said.

A witness said residents of the island of Yeonpyeong, off the west coast of the peninsula near a disputed maritime border, had been evacuated.

Yonhap news agency said four South Korean soldiers had been wounded in the shelling, the biggest attack in years.

YTN television quoted a witness as saying 60 to 70 houses were on fire after the shelling and TV footage showed plumes of smoke coming from the island. It said a South Korean fighter jet had been deployed to the west coast after the shelling.

"Houses and mountains are on fire and people are evacuating. You can't see very well because of plumes of smoke," a witness on the island told YTN.

"People are frightened to death and shelling continues as we speak," the witness said.

News of the exchange of fire sent the won tumbling in offshore markets with the 1-month won down in NDF trading.

The impact was felt internationally, with U.S. 10-year Treasury futures rising and the Japanese yen falling.

South Korea's military confirmed the exchange of firing, without providing more details.

The attack comes just as a U.S. envoy is traveling to the region after revelations that the North is moving ahead with uranium enrichment, a possible second path to manufacture material for atomic weapons.

(Reporting by Seoul bureau; Writing by Jonathan Thatcher; Editing by John Chalmers)

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Jet Slides Off Runway in Seattle

Jet Slides Off Runway in Snow-Covered Seattle

(Nov. 22) -- It's not the start to the holiday travel season that one might have hoped for.

This afternoon, a 747 cargo jet operated by Dynasty Air/Ocean Freight Co. slid off the runway at Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport during the city's first snowfall of the year, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The pilots on Flight 5321 apparently lost control of the jet upon landing, the Seattle Times reported. So far, there are no reports of any casualties.

All incoming flights have been put on hold because of ice, KING 5 News reported.

The storm, which has already dropped more than 2 inches on Seattle and sent temperatures plummeting, comes as many residents prepared to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday. But the area's major highways were turned into veritable parking lots as dozens of accidents snarled traffic on I-5 and I-405, two of the biggest highways. Factoring in the wind chill, the temperature today felt as though it was zero degrees.

Another 2 to 5 inches of snow is expected tonight, KOMO News reported.
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Jurors convict immigrant of killing Chandra Levy

GUILTY: Jurors convict immigrant of killing Chandra Levy

By Michael Doyle
mdoyle@mcclatchydc.com

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WASHINGTON — A Washington, D.C. jury on Monday convicted Salvadoran immigrant Ingmar Guandique of killing former Modesto resident Chandra Levy in 2001.

The jury of three men and nine women deliberated for a little more than three days before announcing their verdict, which caps one of the nation's longest-running and most relentlessly chronicled murder mysteries.

Speaking outside the courthouse, Levy’s mother said she’ll never be free from the pain of losing her daughter.

“I have a lifetime sentence of a lost limb missing from our family tree,” Susan Levy said after the hearing. “It’s a lifetime of a broken heart.”

The two first-degree felony murder convictions subjects Guandique to a potential sentence of 30 years to life in prison, as Washington, D.C. does not have the death penalty.

Guandique's sentencing will come later, following additional court proceedings. The fearsomely tattooed 29-year-old is already serving a prison sentence for attacking two other women in Washington's Rock Creek Park.

Rock Creek Park is where, jurors agreed, Guandique killed Levy on May 1, 2001 during an attempted robbery. Two women who survived their own 2001 attacks by Guandique helped convict him, with their compelling testimony during the trial that began Oct. 25.

"He grabbed me from behind and held a knife to my face," recounted Christy Wiegand, now a 35-year-old attorney with two children. "He brutally attacked me, and dragged me to an isolated area."

Guandique's other known surviving victim, Halle Shilling, likewise recalled how she "felt an incredible thud" when Guandique jumped her from behind while she was jogging. Shilling, now a mother of three living in Southern California, and Wiegand were both able to fight Guandique off.

Wiegand and Shilling were both also considerably bigger than the 24-year-old Levy.

In addition to the testimony by Wiegand and Shilling, prosecutors benefited from the firmly spoken recollections of prison inmate Armando Morales. A former gang member, who is still serving time on drug charges, Morales testified that Guandique confessed to him in 2006 that he had killed Levy.

"He told me he spotted her over there at the park," recalled Morales, who shared a prison cell with Guandique for six weeks. "She was alone, and she had on one of those waist pouches. He decided to rob her. He said he hid in the bushes … he ran up behind her and grabbed her from behind. He said he dragged her into the bushes.

"He said by the time he had dragged her into the bushes, she had stopped struggling," Morales added. "He said he never meant to kill her."

Susan Levy attended most of the trial. She was present Monday morning when the verdict was read.

Levy had finished graduate studies and a federal Bureau of Prisons internship when she disappeared. She was planning to take a May 5 Amtrak train back home to California's San Joaquin Valley, trial testimony revealed.

The 10 days of testimonyl shed considerable light on Levy's life and times. Witnesses told of Levy's physical fitness habits, the color of her clothing and the traces of her final Internet browsing that ended shortly before 1 p.m. on May 1, 2001.

Most intimately, Levy's semen-spotted underwear examined by the FBI confirmed that she had had a sexual relationship with then-California congressman Gary Condit. Some of Levy's final Internet searches focused on Condit and his family members, according to trial testimony.

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Asiad - Track Events - India Dominate

India dominate Asiad track events

India's Preeja Sreedharan won the 10,000m event

India gained three gold medals on the ninth day of competition at the 2010 Asian Games in China's Guangzhou city.

Long distance runner Preeja Sreedharan and steeple chaser Sudha Singh picked up golds on a day when India dominated track events.

And shooter Ronjan Sodhi picked up the first gold for India's shooting team by winning the men's double trap event.

With 33 medals, including five golds, India stood eighth in the medals table on Sunday.

Preeja Sreedharan clinched the gold in the women's 10,000m event with a burst of pace ahead of teammate Kavita Raut and Bahrain's Shitaya Habtegebrel.

Sreedharan came home in a time of 31:50:28.

"My coach said if I ran my own pace I would definitely get gold," she said. "I ran my own style and my own pace and I won. I didn't think about the other competitors."

Sudha Singh won the steeplechase holding off China's Jin Yuan and Japan's Minori Hayakari.

"I'm very excited because in the Commonwealth Games I came fifth and my burning desire was to improve my time and do better," she said.

India won six more medals on Sunday.

Kavita Raut picked up a silver in the women's 10,000m run, while star tennis player Sania Mirza and wrestlers, Ravinder Singh and Sunil Kumar Rana, claimed individual bronze medals.

Shooter Sodhi teamed up with Asher Noria and Vikram Bhatnagar to win the bronze in the double trap event, while the women's archery team comprising Dola Banerjee, Deepika Kumari and Rimil Buriuly also won a bronze.

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Harry Potter gathers $61 million on Friday

Harry Potter’s latest adventure has had quite a performance in the weekend – all the fans have rushed to the theaters, paying a little over $61 million to see the (not so) boy sorcerer’s adventures. This amount was gathered in the US and Canada.

The movie has premiered on Thursday in 3700 locations, gathering $24 million with midnight screenings. The Deathly Hallows Part 1 (the first of the two movies based on Potter’s final adventures) is on track to challenge Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight that still holds the record of the best opening (a little over $158 million).

The Harry Potter franchise has had its best opening five years ago, when the title “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” had income of almost $103 million in November 2005. Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, the last release of the franchise, has had a $77.8 million opening, gathering a total of $302 million by the end of its theatrical run in the US and Canada. The first part of the Deathly Hallows is expected to make around $400 by the end of its domestic theatrical run.

The Next Three Days, a thriller starring Russell Crowe, has also opened this weekend, but it was not such a huge success: it only had ticket sales of $2.2 million on its opening night, although it was shown on 2700 screens.

Right now, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows is fifth on the list of the all-time best openings, being beaten by Twilight: New Moon, Twilight: Eclipse, The Dark Knight and Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen.

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Katie Price takes swipe at McKeith

Katie Price has attacked Gillian McKeith's 'lack of team effort' on I'm A Celebrity...

Former I’m A Celebrity star Katie Price has taken a swipe at contestant Gillian McKeith for wimping out during the bushtucker trials, declaring: “At least I gave them a go.”

The glamour model, who was regularly picked by the public vote to endure the unpleasant challenges in last year’s series, criticised the healthy eating guru for her lack of team effort.

The 32-year-old also laid into the current line-up of contestants in the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! jungle.

Speaking at the launch of her new perfume Precious Love, Price said: “What you’ve got to remember is when you’re in the jungle it’s not about yourself. It’s about team effort. She’s not really doing team effort to me.”

The food expert had to be given oxygen by medics after fainting while locked in a crate on Monday and on Tuesday refused to eat crocodile penis.

Price, who met ex-husband Peter Andre during her first stint in the jungle, also slammed this year’s celebrity line-up for being unexciting, but hailed X Factor star Stacey Solomon as the likely winner.

Meanwhile, McKeith had never watched the programme before going into the jungle as she does not have a television, her daughter has revealed.

The 51-year-old food expert’s daughter Skylar McKeith-Magaziner, 16, admitted she had only seen clips of the show before and did not think to warn her mother about the challenges she was likely to face in Australia.

This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby asked her: “So, you didn’t really know when she said ‘there’s this show, should I do it?’ to say ‘Oh mum, you’re not very good with bugs, you’re a vegan, you won’t be able to eat anything’?”

Describing McKeith as a “really loving mum”, the teenager added: “I think she’s doing great. She’s conquering all her fears and I’m really proud of her for doing this. I couldn’t do it.”

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Britney celebrates her Glee episode

Britney Spears has celebrated her Glee episode with a pink TV-shaped cake. Skip related content

The pop princess makes a cameo as a cheerleader in Fox's hit musical TV show, which pays homage to her with performances of her songs, including Toxic and Hit Me Baby One More Time in a special episode of the new series, which aired in the US this week.

Britney, 28, stayed in to watch the show and tweeted about how much she was enjoying it, writing: "Awww Heather Morris is sooo cute! Brittany S Pearce. Ha! She was so fun to work with and was really sweet in person."

As Heather, who plays cheerleader Brittany recreated her performance of I'm A Slave 4 U from the 2001 MTV VMA's with a live snake, Britney tweeted: "I know how hard it is to dance with that snake! Nice job..."

Lea Michele, who plays Rachel, also recreated the infamous Hit Me Baby One More Time school uniform and pigtail video and Britney had a cameo in the scene as a teacher.

The singer tweeted: "Watching Baby brings back so many memories! Feels like yesterday..."

Britney was full of praise for everyone in the show, especially singing fashionista Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Jane Lynch, who plays tough cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester.

She posted a picture of a pink TV-shaped cake which congratulated her on her episode and wrote: "I loved it! Thank you guys SO much for making this happen!"

Britney's episode was a US ratings hit, drawing an estimated 13.5 million viewers - making it the second most-watched episode of the show ever.

UK fans will have to wait until January before the new series is aired on E4.

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Oscar-nominated actor Tony Curtis dies

Tony Curtis, whose good looks made him a Hollywood star well before he became an accomplished actor in movies such as "The Sweet Smell of Success" and "Some Like It Hot," died at his home in Nevada, ABC News reported on Thursday. He was 85. Skip related content

Curtis, one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1950s and one of Hollywood's busiest playboys during that time, died in bed at midnight in Henderson, Nevada, ABC said, citing his business manager and family spokesman, Preston Ahearn.

Curtis had a memorable role in the classic gladiator movie "Spartacus" in 1960 and received an Academy Award nominee for 1958's "The Defiant Ones" but his career got off to a rough start. His first starring role was in "The Prince Who Was a Thief" in 1951 and critics were appalled as Curtis, playing an Arabian prince, proclaimed in a thick New York accent, "Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder!"

Still, Universal Pictures' star-making machinery and teen fan magazines managed to make Curtis a celebrity and movie-goers loved his dark-haired sex appeal and impish grin.

Within a few years, Curtis had improved enough for Saturday Review magazine to call him "a rare phenomenon, an authentic screen personality who, through hard work, has made himself into an actor of considerable subtlety and some breadth."

Two of his most enduring performances came in "Some Like It Hot" as he teamed with Jack Lemmon -- playing cross-dressers opposite Marilyn Monroe -- and "The Sweet Smell of Success," in which he played a fawning press agent.

His Oscar nomination came for the 1959 film "The Defiant Ones," in which he played racist escaped con chained to Sidney Poitier. Other notable films included "Houdini," "Trapeze," "Operation Petticoat," "The Boston Strangler," "The Vikings" and "The Great Imposter."

Curtis made more than 140 films, mixing comedies with dramas, but part of his life was plagued by poor movies and struggles with cocaine and alcohol.

BROOKLYN BORN

Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz in New York to poor Hungarian immigrants on June 3, 1925. He quit school to join the Navy in World War Two, serving on a submarine tender, and pursued acting after his discharge.

Curtis was known to be demanding at the height of his stardom and television producer Lew Gallo called him "an impetuous child."

As fascinating to fans as his performances was Curtis' private life. He was an inveterate womanizer whose girlfriends included Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood. He was married six times, starting with actress Janet Leigh in a union he later admitted was partially motivated by publicity value. After divorcing Leigh, he married Christine Kaufman, who was 17 when they met while filming "Taras Bulba."

Curtis was once quoted as saying, "I wouldn't be seen dead with a woman old enough to be my wife." His sixth wife, Jill Vandenberg, was 45 years younger than Curtis.

Curtis' children included actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who was estranged from him for much of his life, and he admitted he was a failure as a father.

As his acting career waned, Curtis concentrated on painting and in 1989 he sold more than $1 million worth of his art in the first day of a Los Angeles exhibition.

"Painting is more meaningful to me than any performance I've ever given," he told an interviewer.

Curtis eventually moved to Las Vegas. In 1989, he released an exercise videotape for people past age 50.

He operated the Shiloh Horse Rescue and Sanctuary, a refuge for horses that were abandoned or abused, on the California-Nevada border with wife Jill.

(Editing by Bill Trott and Doina Chiacu)

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Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher

Despite rumours of infidelity, it would seem Ashton Kutcher and wife Demi Moore are as loved up as ever. A source from the set of Moore's new film The Reasonable Bunch, told People magazine that Kutcher who is rumoured to have cheated with a 21-year-old - was onset with his wife and it was business as usual.

"Demi and Ashton got here in the early hours of the morning and you could hear them laughing and carrying on from inside her trailer," the insider said.

"Demi gushes over Ashton on set. "She's on the phone with him all the time," says another source. "It's pretty lovey-dovey, lots of 'I love you, baby's. "

The couple who have been married for five years then apparently left to break a traditional Kabbalah fast with a feast at a nearby Applebee's.

Moore, 47, was overheard admitting that she was "coming off a good weekend," but that it had been a challenge. "I could never starve myself," she said. "I love food too much."

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Blue Bloods - Weekend TV Premier

Weekend TV premieres include new show 'Blue Bloods' and old favorite 'Dexter'



On Showtime's 'Dexter,' the vigilante serial killer, seen here with son Harrison, deals with the murder of his wife Rita on Sunday's season five premiere.

Premiere week comes to a close this weekend with a Friday night schedule but tough decisions for viewers on Sunday. Only one new show premieres tonight amid a competition between CBS, Fox and CW during the 8 and 9 p.m. time slots.

"Blue Bloods" makes it debut at 10 p.m. on CBS starring Tom Selleck as Frank Reagan and Donnie Wahlberg in a show that mixes family drama with crime-solving police work. Selleck is the man in charge at the NYPD and head of a law enforcement family that includes a detective, prosecutor and rookie cop.

Also beginning tonight on CBS are "Medium" at 8 p.m. and CSI: NY at 9 p.m. Those shows go up against the CW's "Smallville" and "Supernatural" and Fox's "Human Target" and "The Good Guys."

On Sunday, Showtime powerhouse "Dexter" premieres for its fifth season as the beloved serial killer/forensic scientist reacts to the season-ending murder of his wife Rita at the hands of the Trinity Killer.

Dexter also tries to escape mounting suspicion from members of his own department while struggling to handle stepchildren Cody and Astor.

"Dexter" premieres at a new 9 p.m. time slot against HBO's critically-acclaimed drama 'Boardwalk Empire'

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The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory Full Episodes and Premiere on CBS – Another cool show is premiering on CBS, September 23. The Big Bang Theory is now on its fourth season and we are sure to be given a whole new surprises this season. The Big Bang Theory will now be shown on CBS Thursday 8:00 P.M. beginning September 23.

The show is set in in Pasadena, California and is about two fictional Caltech geniuses, one an experimental physicist (Leonard Hofstadter) and the other a theoretical physicist (Sheldon Cooper), who live across the hall from an attractive blonde waitress and aspiring actress (Penny). Leonard and Sheldon’s geekiness and intellect are contrasted for comic effect with Penny’s social skills and common sense.

The Big Bang Theory is one of the highest-rated CBS show with a viewer base of about 12.83 million. This is one of the better or even best comedy series from CBS that is worth watching so it is high time that interested viewers and fans watch The Big Bang Theory

Here is a sneak peak to The Big Bang Theory Season 4 premiere.

The Big Bang Theory - Season 4, Promo 2
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