Lakers take 50-41 halftime lead over Boston

Kobe Bryant scored 12 points despite foul trouble, Pau Gasol added 11 points and seven rebounds, and the Los Angeles Lakers took a 50-41 lead over the Boston Celtics at halftime of Game 1 in the NBA finals Thursday night.
The 12th finals meeting between the NBA's most entertaining rivals opened with a chippy, rough-edged first half featuring 28 fouls and 27 free throws.
Both teams seemed determined to get a physical edge early in the series, starting just 27 seconds in when Ron Artest and Paul Pierce got double technical fouls after tumbling to the court with elbows locked.
Bryant picked up two early fouls, but still led four Lakers starters who scored at least seven points.
Rajon Rondo led the Celtics with 10 points, and Pierce added nine. Rondo's latest productive offensive game included four assists and helped cover up for combined 5-for-14 shooting by Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, who picked up three fouls.
Boston and Los Angeles are meeting in the finals for the second time in three years, following the Celtics' six-game victory over the Lakers in 2008. If the first 24 minutes of the rematch are any indication, the series will be a knockdown, drag-out physical confrontation and the supposedly finesse-oriented Lakers held their ground early.
Artest's defensive showdown with Pierce, the 2008 finals MVP against his hometown team, got heated in the opening minute. Jostling for rebounding position, Artest and Pierce locked elbows while back-to-back and rolled to the court together.
After they got up aggressively, the officiating crew called double technical fouls. The collision set the tone for the first quarter, which featured 18 personal fouls and 20 free throws, 12 by Boston.
Boston had homecourt advantage in the clubs' 2008 meeting. This time, the Celtics will have to win at least once at Staples Center, where the Lakers went 8-0 in the first three rounds and have won 11 straight playoff games since last season's Western Conference finals.
While the Lakers capitalized on their size advantage for a 23-15 rebounding edge, Boston's active hands on defense resulted in numerous tipped passes and 10 turnovers by the Lakers, who played five previous playoff games with single-digit turnover totals.
After the Lakers took an early lead, the clubs played nearly five full minutes without a field goal until Jordan Farmar and Shannon Brown made driving layups to put the Lakers up 26-21 after one quarter.
Artest and Derek Fisher also had two fouls apiece in the first quarter, leaving the Lakers to open the second quarter with four reserves and starting center Andrew Bynum, whose injured right knee didn't appear to limit his movement much.
Garnett scored his first basket late in the second quarter, but Artest scored five quick points coming out of a timeout in the final three minutes. After Artest hit a 3-pointer, Fisher took the ball away from Pierce and fed Artest for a layup that put Los Angeles up 44-35.
Rondo, whose under-the-basket layups were swatted away by Lamar Odom and Gasol, hit a long jumper at the halftime buzzer.
Staples Center was packed well before the opening tip for the Lakers' third straight appearance in the NBA finals, and several thousand fans actually deigned to put on the giveaway gold T-shirts handed out by the team. The Lakers have made it to 31 of the 64 NBA finals, including 25 since moving to Los Angeles in 1963.
An entertaining jump ball occurred midway through the second quarter when 5-foot-9 Nate Robinson tied up the 7-foot Gasol. The Spaniard won the tip.

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Criminal Minds Seasons 1-5 DVD Boxset

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Category:Crime |Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Name:Criminal Minds
Season:1 2 3 4 5
TV Series Release Date:September 22, 2005
Aspect Ratio:1.78: 1
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Language:English With Removable Subtitles
Format:Support Both NTSC and PAL
Discs:36 pcs

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Leading Role: Thomas Gibson, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Mandy Patinkin, Paget Brewster, Lola GlaudiniDirector: Jeff Davis

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Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama series that premiered September 22, 2005 on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) at Quantico, Virginia. Criminal Minds differs from many criminal system procedural dramas by focusing on the criminal rather than the crime itself.
In this crime series, a crack team of FBI profilers flies from Quantico to the focal point of the criminal activity of various serial killers, to investigate the evidence on the crime scenes, compose a profile and try to prevent the next fatal strike. Top brain is the academic Jason Gideon, his more by-the-book operational right hand Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner; the still juvenile Dr. Spencer Reid is an erudite on everything except real life, Penelope Garcia a brilliant computer whiz who gets access to any database etc. As they are mobile, cooperation with local police and FBI agents is important but often poses jurisdictional and other problems, as do some witnesses and suspects.

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Euro steadies, yen dips on Japan PM resignation

The euro edged up on Wednesday after hitting a four-year low against the dollar on jitters over the euro zone's debt crisis, while Asian stocks were broadly steady despite a dip on Wall Street.
The yen weakened broadly after Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said he would resign, which fueled investor expectations that political turmoil would make the economy more dependent on the Bank of Japan's loose monetary policy.
The dollar gained just over 0.9 percent to 91.78 yen, its highest since May 20. The euro was up 0.4 percent to $1.2253 and gained 1 percent against the yen.
"Japan's political turmoil is a factor for yen selling especially for non-Japanese investors. But once Hatoyama's successor is decided temporary relief will likely prompt investors to buy back the yen to the level it was beforehand," said Jun Kato, senior investment manager at Shinkin Asset Management.
"I expect dollar/yen is likely to move around 90-92 in the coming few weeks."
Japan's Nikkei stock index .N225 rebounded from early losses to rise 0.4 percent, buoyed by the yen's broad drop.
The MSCI index of Asia Pacific ex-Japan stocks .MIAPJ0000PUS, which has been underperforming world equity markets .MIWD00000PUS so far this year, were little changed, shrugging off a dip in U.S. stocks .N on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the euro hit a new four-year on low after the European Central Bank warned that euro zone banks may face a new wave of losses, and U.S. stocks plunged as the government launched a criminal probe into BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The dollar held firm near a 15-month high on Wednesday against major currencies as investors focused on reports on the U.S. labor markets due later this week, which are expected to show a surge in employment.
Traders said euro selling pressure is likely to continue as the market grows more confident that the U.S. economy and its banking system are in much better shape than Europe's.
Spot gold fell to $1,222.56 an ounce, down 0.6 percent from a two-week high hit on Tuesday after the ECB's warnings about the threats faced by Europe's banking sector.

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Family Guy Seasons 1-8 DVD Boxset


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Category:
Animation Comedy
Name:
Family Guy
Season:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
TV Series Release Date:
31 January 1999
Aspect Ratio:
1.33: 1
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Language:
English With Removable Subtitles
Format:
Support Both NTSC and PAL
Discs:
31 pcs
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Leading Role: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis, Mike Henry, Danny Smith, Patrick Warburton, Lori AlanDirector: Seth MacFarlane
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Family Guy revolves around a less than normal family in a less than normal world. With obsurd and often spontanious events this show will keep you laughing from the it starts up untill it ends. The family Consists of 6 members Peter the father, Lois the mother, Stewie the homocidal baby, chris the son, meg the daughter and Brian the dog who is often the smartest out of all of them.
The Griffin household includes two parents Peter (Seth McFarlane) and Lois (Alex Borstein), two teenagers Chris (Seth Green) and Megan (Mila Kunis), a dog who is smarter than everyone else in the house Brian (Seth McFarlane), and a mutant baby Stewie (Seth McFarlane) who makes numerous attempts to eradicate his parents and siblings

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Battered, the Celtics Have Enough to Advance

They had met before in the paint amid smiles and well wishes when Dwight Howard allowed Nate Robinson to leap over him to win the slam dunk title at last year’s All-Star Game. They found themselves there again Friday with a real title on the line — the Eastern Conference’s — Howard and Robinson, who share two of the N.B.A.’s highest verticals, but little else. The moment showed in Robinson’s intent and deliverance. Even though the encounter resulted in only a hard foul from Howard, it also reflected Robinson’s relentlessness.
Robinson served as a catalyst, pushing the Celtics to an 18-point early lead and the mainstays Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen delivered throughout for a series-settling 96-84 blasting of the Orlando Magic in Game 6 of the conference finals.
Boston won the series, 4-2, but not without some lost teeth, muscle spasms and concussions after winning the first three games and facilitating an Orlando resurgence.
The Celtics will play in the finals for the 21st time in the franchise’s decorated history against either the Los Angeles Lakers or Phoenix Suns. The Lakers can clinch the title on Saturday night.
If the Lakers win, the finals will represent a rematch of the 2008 finals that concluded with Boston hanging a 17th championship banner.
“Beat L.A.” chants erupted from the TD Garden crowd early in the fourth quarter.
Before the season, Celtics Coach Doc Rivers placed a blank championship banner at the team’s practice facility, representing the organization’s quest for another title. It seemed like a lofty goal during the regular season, in which Boston struggled for stretches before revving in gear for the playoffs, beating the Heat, Cavaliers and the defending conference champions.
The party started early and Robinson played master of ceremonies for a dizzying eight-minute sequence.
Robinson sent the T.D. Banknorth Garden into delirium in the first half. First came a pair of 3-pointers, then he outhustled Jameer Nelson for a loose ball, drawing a flagrant-1 foul when Nelson pushed him from behind. Next, Robinson dropped in a 23-foot jumper followed by a high-arcing one-legged floater.
With the game bouncing to his frenetic rhythm, Robinson attempted his dunk over Howard.
In between, Robinson flexed, chanted, danced and screamed. The scene only needed a bow for its completion. The display is mostly new here, but it had been done in New York before Knicks Coach Mike D’Antoni soured on Robinson and benched him for 14 games, prompting his February trade to Boston.
Rivers stressed as early as the regular season that Robinson would impact a playoff game. Until Friday, though, Robinson sat plunked near the end of the bench and contributed mostly by encouraging.
Robinson had played more than 10 minutes only once in the last 16 games and Rivers did not play him at all in seven of them.
When the blur of Robinson settled and he took a seat with 3 minutes and 27 seconds left in the second quarter, Boston led by 16 points and took a 55-42 halftime lead. Robinson had detonated for 13 points. His emergence even left Rajon Rondo, who provided Boston with a healthy start with 12 first-quarter points, on the floor at the end of the bench, nursing a sore back. The Celtics never looked back.
Allen nailed two 3-pointers early in the third quarter and finished with 20 points. Pierce secured a game-high 31 points and Garnett had 10 points and 5 rebounds. Robinson added 13 points.
The loss completes a reversal for Orlando after the Magic reached the finals last season and painlessly swept their first two playoff rounds against the Charlotte Bobcats and Atlanta Hawks.
The Magic join the Cleveland Cavaliers as stranded passengers on Boston’s joy ride. Unlike Cleveland, Orlando’s core is under contract for the long term. Howard scored a team-high 28 points and earned the scorn of Boston fans for his hard fouls and the lingering sentiment for his inadvertent elbow that left Glen Davis with a concussion on Wednesday.
Davis checked in four minutes into the game for Garnett, who received his second foul by attempting to karate chop Howard’s arm free of him. On the first opportunity afforded him, Davis drove hard through the line where Howard fouled him. He followed with a layup on Boston’s next possession.
Rasheed Wallace, bothered by back spasms, entered for the first time with about a minute left in the first quarter, but was forced to leave the game in the fourth quarter.
The off-day talk also concerned the conditions of Davis and Marquis Daniels.
The Celtics’ medical staff cleared Davis to play after he warmed up and took jumpers on the court.
Daniels, Rivers said, briefly lost feeling in his hands after colliding with Orlando’s Marcin Gortat. He was also told he had a concussion and may be sidelined the rest of the postseason.

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24 (Twenty-Four) Seasons 1-8 DVD Boxset


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Category:Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Name:24 (Twenty-Four)
Season:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
TV Series Release Date:6 November 2001
Aspect Ratio:1.78: 1
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Language:English With Removable Subtitles
Format:Support Both NTSC and PAL
Discs:55 pcs

TV Series Info
Leading Role: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard, Dennis Haysbert, James Morrison, Elisha CuthbertDirector: Robert Cochran, Joel Surnow


Plot Summary
In this concept drama, each season takes place within one 24 hour period. Jack Bauer is the head of an elite team of CIA agents who uncover an assassination plot targeting Presidential nominee David Palmer. Meanwhile, Jack's strained marriage to his wife, Teri, is pushed to the brink by the sudden disappearance of their troubled teenage daughter. What will the next 24 hours hold?


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Obama Honors Jewish Americans at White House Reception

Did you hear the one about the African-American president and Jewish-American baseball legend who were in the East Room of the White House for a reception?
The president tells the audience that he and Sandy Koufax have something in common.
"We are both lefties. He can't pitch on Yom Kippur. I can't pitch."
Oy. Where's Jackie Mason when you need him?
It was a bit of Jewish humor from President Barack Obama in welcoming remarks at what he said was the first-ever White House reception observing Jewish American Heritage Month.
"This is a pretty fancy ... pretty distinguished group," he said of the invited guests, which included members of the House and Senate, two justices of the Supreme Court, Olympic athletes, entrepreneurs, Rabbinical scholars, "and Sandy Koufax." The mention of his name brought the biggest cheer at the event.
The president spoke of "the diversity of talents and accomplishments" that reflect the Jewish-American heritage dating back to pre-Revolutionary times.
"Even before we were a nation, we were a sanctuary for Jews seeking to live without the specter of violence or exile," said Mr. Obama citing "a band of 23 Jewish refugees to a place called New Amsterdam more than 350 years ago."
And in the 21st century, the president hailed the U.S. relationship with the Jewish State.
"Our bond with Israel is unbreakable," he told the reception, five days before he is to have a fence-mending round of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu.
Mr. Obama likened the U.S. pursuit of a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians to the Hebrew principle of Tikkun Olam, the obligation to repair the world.
There were no other stabs at or tributes to Jewish humor by Mr. Obama. Although his Congressional guest list at the event did include former Saturday Night Live comic - and now Senator, Al Franken.

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Lost Seasons 1-6 DVD Boxset


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Category:Adventure Drama Fantasy Mystery Thriller
Name:Lost
Season:1 2 3 4 5 6
TV Series Release Date:22 September 2004
Aspect Ratio:1.78: 1
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Language:English With Removable Subtitles
Format:Support Both NTSC and PAL
Discs:43 pcs

TV Series Info
Leading Role: Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Daniel Dae Kim, Emilie de Ravin, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O'Quinn, Naveen Andrews, Matthew Fox, Dominic Monaghan, Harold Perrineau, Michael Emerson, Henry Ian Cusick, Elizabeth Mitchell, Madison, Maggie GraceDirector: J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber, Damon Lindelof


Plot Summary
Lost is an American live-action television series. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles crashes somewhere in the South Pacific. Each episode typically features a primary storyline on the island as well as a secondary storyline from another point in a character's life, though other time-related plot devices change this formula in later episodes. The pilot episode was first broadcast on September 22, 2004, and the series concluded with its 121st and final episode airing on May 23, 2010 at the end of its sixth season.

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Seattle solves offensive problems in 3-0 exhibition win over Boca Juniors

Roger Levesque cleaned up the ricochet of Fredy Montero's free kick late in the first half and Pat Noonan and Michael Seamon both scored midway through the second half as the Seattle Sounders FC beat Argentina's Boca Juniors 3-0 in an exhibition match Wednesday.
Having scored just two home goals since a 2-0 season opening win over expansion Philadelphia, the Sounders were hoping the exhibition with the one-time South American powers might be an opportunity to solve some of their offensive woes before returning to MLS play on Saturday at Colorado.
Playing a mixture of regular starters and youngsters needing playing time, Seattle dominated possession and scoring chances against a Boca Juniors squad filled with youth and minus three players preparing for the World Cup.
Martin Palermo, the club's all-time leading scorer, midfielder Claudio Morel and defender Gary Medel are training for the World Cup with Argentina, Paraguay and Chile, respectively.
Wearing their new highlighter-yellow uniforms, Seattle had numerous scoring chances in the first half before finally converting in the 42nd minute. Montero's free kick was tipped by goalkeeper Javier Garcia, deflected off the post and bounced in front of the open net. Lesveque gently guided the free ball into the net, breaking a home scoreless streak of 308 minutes.
Seattle's last home goal was against Columbus on May 1.
The Sounders kept the pressure up in the second half. Noonan beat Gaston Sauro for possession off a pass from David Estrada, let Leandro Marin go racing past and drilled a left-footed shot into the top of the netting. Seamon scored six minutes later on an attempt from 25 yards that Garcia appeared to misplay.
The only downside for Seattle was midfielder Osvaldo Alonso appearing to aggravate a quad injury that kept him out of Seattle's last two MLS games.
This was the third international friendly for Seattle, although without the star power of last year when the Sounders welcomed Chelsea and FC Barcelona, two of the strongest clubs in the world. Seattle was shut out in both of those matches, but was able to outclass a Boca Juniors squad that has tumbled in Argentina's Primera Division and finished last season 16th before 40,122.
Lucas Viatri had the best scoring chance for Boca but his first-half header was punched over the crossbar by Seattle keeper Kasey Keller.
Boca Juniors will wrap up its U.S. tour on Saturday with a match against the Portland Timbers

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CSI Las Vegas Seasons 1-10 DVD Boxset

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Category:Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Name:CSI: Las Vegas
Season:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
TV Series Release Date:6 October 2000
Aspect Ratio:1.33: 1
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Language:English With Removable Subtitles
Format:Support Both NTSC and PAL
Discs:68 pcs
TV Series Info
Leading Role: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger,Gary Dourdan, George Eads, Paul Guilfoyle, Eric Szmanda, Robert David Hall, Jorja FoxDirector: Anthony E. Zuiker


Plot Summary
In the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, its reputation for providing instant success for those willing to try their luck draws in the hopeful and the naive. This constant influx of visitors also provides ripe targets for criminals of all varieties, confident they will never be caught. Unfortunately for them, most are proven wrong by the Las Vegas Police Department's night shift Crime Scene Investigations unit led by Gill Grissom. With almost obsessive dedication towards his quest for the facts, he and his elite team of investigators work various perplexing cases using scientific skills and equipment that are capable of finding valuable clues from the most seemingly unlikely sources. In a city of empty dreams and false fronts, Gill Grissom leads the quest for the one thing that can cut through the lies to the truth and justice, the evidence...

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Obama to send troops, bolster border security

President Barack Obama will seek $500 million for security and send up to 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border, an administration official said on Tuesday, after demands from both Republicans and Democrats for more federal resources along the frontier.
The announcement comes as the Democratic president seeks Republican support for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. immigration laws, and seeks to rally opposition to a tough new immigration law in Arizona that has caused tension in U.S. relations with Mexico, without seeming soft on illegal border crossings.
The troops will provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support, intelligence analysis, immediate support to counternarcotics enforcement and training capacity until the Customs and Border Patrol agency can recruit and train more border officers and agents, the official said.
The funds will be used to enhance technology at the border and share information and support between law enforcement agencies as they target illegal trafficking in people, drugs, weapons and money.
SPARRING WITH REPUBLICANS
Arizona's two U.S. senators, John McCain and Jon Kyl, and Governor Jan Brewer, all Republicans, have asked Obama for more federal support to secure the border.
McCain and Kyl introduced a Senate amendment to force Obama to deploy 6,000 National Guard troops to the border.
"Though this initial deployment is an important first step, the president is not sending enough troops," the senators said late Tuesday in a statement.
The administration rejected the request in a letter to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin.
"It represents an unwarranted interference with the commander-in-chief's responsibilities," wrote national security adviser James Jones and counterterrorism chief John Brennan.
Illegal immigration across the border with Mexico has been in intense focus since Arizona last month passed the law to drive 460,000 illegal immigrants out of the desert state, which straddles one of the principal corridors for human and drug smugglers heading up from Mexico.
The law requires state and local police to investigate the immigration status of people they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally.
It was a central issue last week during a state visit to Washington by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who said the law discriminated against foreign-born workers.
Mexican officials said on Tuesday they respected Obama's right to make the decision, but thought Washington should address problems originating on its side of the border.
"The Mexican government considers that the decision ... should translate into the channeling of additional resources to make efforts more effective to combat the trafficking of illegal arms and cash to Mexico," the Mexican foreign ministry said in a statement.
Mexico also urged "shared responsibility" on the fight against drug gangs along the border.
There are currently 344 U.S. National Guard troops working along the border.
U.S. officials are also concerned drug-related violence will cross the border from Mexico, where some 23,000 people have been killed since Calderon took office in late 2006 as drug gangs fight turf wars and battle federal agents and troops.
A prominent cattleman, Robert Krentz, was shot dead on his ranch in southeast Arizona in late March. Police followed tracks from the scene of the shooting to the Mexican border, but made no arrests.
Cochise County sheriff Larry Dever, whose office is investigating Krentz's death, said he doubted that many troops would make much difference, given the border's nearly 2,000-mile (3200-km) length.
"If you put 1,200 in perspective ... that's about one every two miles ... so we're woefully short of doing anything significant, unless they are all deployed in a very specific area," he told Reuters.
Obama met on Tuesday with Senate Republicans, none of whom has come out in support of his immigration plan. He pushed them to support an overhaul, which he said he wants passed this year, but did not bring up the National Guard plan.
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Medium Seasons 1-6 DVD Boxset


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Category:Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Name:Medium
Season:1 2 3 4 5 6
TV Series Release Date:3 January 2005
Aspect Ratio:1.78: 1
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Language:English With Removable Subtitles
Format:Support Both NTSC and PAL
Discs:34 pcs

TV Series Info
Leading Role: Patricia Arquette, Jake Weber, Miguel Sandoval, Sofia Vassilieva, Maria LarkDirector: Glenn Gordon Caron


Plot Summary
A former FBI profiler moves his family from Washington DC to Seattle, where he joins the Millenium Group, a mysterious organization of former law enforcement officers, committed to battling a crime wave which grows as the turn of the millenium approaches...Medium is an American supernatural and dramatic television series which premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005. Its focus is Allison DuBois (Patricia Arquette), who acts as a research medium for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorney's office. The lead character is a wife to loving husband, Joe, and the mother of three daughters who all inherited her gift, apparently passed from generation to generation. The show is based on experiences from self-proclaimed spiritual medium Allison DuBois, who claims to have worked with law enforcement agencies across the country in criminal investigations.

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Oil Hits Home, Spreading Arc of Frustration

For weeks, it was a disaster in abstraction, a threat floating somewhere out there.
Not anymore. In the last week, the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico has revealed itself to an angry and desperate public, smearing tourist beaches, washing onto the shorelines of sleepy coastal communities and oozing into marshy bays that fishermen have worked for generations. It has even announced its arrival on the Louisiana coast with a fittingly ugly symbol: brown pelicans, the state bird, dyed with crude.
More than a month has passed since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig blew up, spewing immeasurable quantities of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and frustrating all efforts to contain it. The billowing plume of undersea oil and water has thwarted the industry’s well-control efforts and driven government officials to impotent rage.
It has demonstrated the enduring laxity of federal regulation of offshore operations and has shown the government to be almost wholly at the mercy of BP, the company leasing the rig, to provide the technology, personnel and equipment to stop the bleeding well.
Senators and administration officials visiting the southern Louisiana town of Galliano lashed out again at BP on Monday, saying they were “beyond patience” with the company. The day before, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who early in the crisis vowed to “keep the boot on the neck” of BP, threatened to push the company out of the way.
But on Monday, Mr. Salazar backed off, conceding to the reality that BP and the oil companies have access to the best technology to attack the well, a mile below the surface, even though that technology has proved so far to have fallen short of its one purpose. The government’s role, he acknowledged, is largely supervisory and the primary responsibility for the spill, for legal and practical reasons, remains with the company.
“The administration has done everything we can possibly do to make sure that we push BP to stop the spill and to contain the impact,” Mr. Salazar said. “We have also been very clear that there are areas where BP and the private sector are the ones who must continue to lead the efforts with government oversight, such as the deployment of private sector technology 5,000 feet below the ocean’s surface to kill the well.”
Oil industry experts said they did not take seriously the sporadic threats by the administration that the federal government might have to wrest management of the effort to plug the well from BP. The experts said that the Interior and Energy Departments do not have engineers with more experience in deepwater drilling than those who work for BP and the array of companies that have been brought into the effort to stem the leak.
“It’s worse than politics,” said Larry Goldstein, a director of the Energy Policy Research Foundation, which is partly financed by the oil industry. “They have had the authority from Day 1. If they could have handled this situation better, they would have already.”
As the verbal warfare between officials and company executives escalated, the slick from the April 20 well blowout continued to spread in billowing rust-colored splotches in the gulf, raising urgent questions about what lay beneath.
On land, shrimpers were stuffing their catch into coolers in hopes of having some in store if the season ends altogether. Hotel owners all along the gulf were trying to persuade tourists to keep their vacation plans. But as they looked to BP and the authorities for help, or at least direction, there has only been frustration.
“I never thought it would come to this,” said Ryan Lambert, a charter boat operator in Buras, La., who spoke to the federal delegation on Monday. “My guys look to me and say ‘What do I do, boss?’ And I don’t have an answer.”
Several things have become clear over the past month. Neither BP nor the government was prepared for an oil release of this size or at this depth. The federal Minerals Management Service, charged with overseeing offshore oil development, has for too long served as a handmaiden of industry. Laws governing deepwater drilling have fallen far behind the technology and the attendant risks. And no one can estimate the extent of the economic and environmental damage, or how long it will last.
“Just under 70 miles of our coast have been hit by oil,” said Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a Republican, who criticized the disjointed response effort that he said has allowed oil to come ashore unnecessarily. “Let’s make no mistake that what is at threat here is our way of life.”
The crude has been flowing at a rate still unknown nearly a mile below the surface, escaping in quantities far greater than the small amount of oil that has been burned off, collected with booms or sucked from the broken drill pipe lying on the ocean floor.
Using conservative government and BP estimates, more than seven million gallons of oil have been released from the crippled well, nearing the size of the spill from the Exxon Valdez in 1989. Independent estimates of the gulf spill place it many times higher than the official figure, rendering the statistics about how much oil has been collected thus far nearly useless in gauging the effectiveness of the response.
For weeks BP tried without success to reactivate the seal-off valves on the dead blowout preventer, the tower of pipes designed to shut the well. Then it lowered a 40-foot steel containment chamber in an effort to funnel escaping oil to a ship on the surface, but that failed when an icy slush of gas and water stopped up the device.
In recent days, BP attached a mile-long tube into the leaking well designed to divert oil to a drill ship before it leaked into the gulf. But the company said the rate it has been able to capture has varied from day to day, between 1,360 and 3,000 barrels, far below even the most conservative estimates of how much oil was leaking.
The recriminations over the performance of BP and the Obama administration could subside if the latest effort to kill the well, now scheduled for Wednesday morning, succeeds.
In a maneuver called a “top kill,” BP is planning to pump heavy drilling fluids twice the density of water through two narrow lines into the blowout preventer to essentially plug the runaway well.
“The top kill operation is not a guarantee of success,” warned Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer, who added that it had never been tried before in deep water under high pressures.
“If the government felt there were other things to do it is clearly within the power of the government to do that,” Mr. Suttles said. “Everyone is very, very frustrated.”
Mr. Suttles said that if the top kill did work, the leak could be stopped as early as Wednesday night. Then engineers could either fill the well with cement or replace the failed blowout preventer.
Shortly after officials lambasted his company in Galliano, Tony Hayward, the chief executive of BP, invited reporters to follow as he walked along the beach at Port Fourchon, which was crowded with workers in yellow Hazmat suits picking up shovelfuls of chocolate-colored crude off the sand.
Asked about the top kill, Mr. Hayward acknowledged that it was far from a sure fix.
“We rate the probability of success between 60 percent and 70 percent,” he said. “Beyond that, there is a third and fourth and fifth option around both containment and elimination.”
Campbell Robertson reported from Louisiana, Clifford Krauss from Houston and John M. Broder from Washington.


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Gossip Girl Season 3 DVD Boxset


Detailed DVD Info
Category:Drama Comedy Romance
Name:Gossip Girl
Season: 3
TV Series Release Date:2006
Aspect Ratio:1.78: 1
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Language:English With Removable Subtitles
Format:Support Both NTSC and PAL
Discs:7 pcs

TV Series Info
Leading Role: Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Taylor Momsen, Ed Westwick, Kelly Rutherford, Matthew Settle, Kristen Bell, Jessica SzohrDirector: Stephanie Savage, Josh Schwartz


Plot Summary
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series was created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, and premiered on The CW on September 19, 2007. Each episode is narrated by the unseen blogger "Gossip Girl", voiced by Kristen Bell.
It begins with the return of Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) from a stay at a boarding school in Connecticut. Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), who creators describe as the queen at the center of their chess game, is a friend and rival of Serena's, and the Queen Bee of Constance Billard School. The story also follows Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), the bad boy of the Upper East Side, Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford), Chuck's best friend, and other characters of the turbulent Manhattan scene, Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), Nate's friend and Serena's on-again, off-again ex; Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr), Dan's best friend; and Dan's sister Jenny (Taylor Momsen).