Over the past week, fans of Brigham Young University’s starring forward Brandon Davies have been asking themselves, “What did Brandon Davies do to get suspended?” The school released information stating that the promising basketball star was let go from the team because he violated the University’s honor code. At that point, no one knew the reason for the violation. Now, we do.
So What Did Brandon Davies Do? (more…)
OXFORD — George Clooney is on Miami University’s campus this morning to film his new movie “The Ides of March.”
Filming has moved inside the Farmer School of Business near the main entrance of the building and security is keeping onlookers away. (more…)
On the latest episode of “The Bachelor,” we get what is my very favorite of all the episodes – the hometown visits. I love seeing the contestants’ families because they are usually completely adorable or they are bat-crap crazy/scary and of course that’s funny. (more…)
This week on The Bachelor, Brad Womack visited the remaining contestant’s hometowns. He visited Chantal O’Brien’s family in Seattle, Washington and Ashley’s family in Madawaska, Maine. He also went to Austin, Texas to see Shawntel’s family, and finally to visit Emily and her little girl Rickie.
Each week, Oklahoma City viewers tune in to The Bachelor on ABC channel 5 at 7 p.m. to keep track of Brad Womack’s second journey to find love on the popular reality show. Are you one of them? (more…)
So how did you feel about “The Office” devoting at least half of an episode to scenes from Michael’s 11-years-in-the-making movie? Fun or fluff? A great callback or a waste of time? Or some combination of all that? I’m starting off with so many questions because we’re not sure either. “Threat Level Midnight” — the episode, not the movie within the episode — had moments that were a huge amount of fun, both inside Michael’s labor of love and in people’s reaction to it. But it also felt a little bit clip-showy: The callbacks to Season 2′s “The Client,” where we first learned of the film’s existence, and characters gone by were nice for fans, but as a way of building to the show’s emotional centerpiece, it certainly took the long way ’round.
Let’s start with the fun stuff, though: “Threat Level Midnight,” the movie, is every bit as “Mystery Science Theater 3000″-level amateurish as you might expect. There have been some revisions to the script since “The Client” — Agent Michael Scarn’s wife Catherine Zeta-Jones is now dead, incompetent sidekick Samuel/Dwigt is now robot butler Samuel — but the hash of movie clichés (Bond-like villain! Wise old mentor! Training montage!) as filtered through the mind of Michael Scott and shot with all the care of a home video came out about the way most of us probably envisioned.
The movie itself was mostly just lame (save for the amazing “Do the Scarn” dance scene and Toby getting his head blown off), but as with “MST3K,” the fun came in the commentary underneath. Writer B.J. Novak and director Tucker Gates very deftly cut in a bunch of talking heads about the filming, including catching up with Jan (“He finished his movie? Wow … that’s great. Good for him”) and Karen, whose one line that we saw was “Ever bang an entire bachelorette party?” and whose response to hearing about the finished product was “Why are you singling my line out, like a million years later?”
But Michael’s most important audience — Holly, who has no other connection to “Threat Level Midnight” — is nonplussed, which in the past would have sent Michael into a fit. It’s a sign of how much he loves Holly that he does more of a quiet seethe at first, and then remembers to apologize and say “I love you” after sniping at her a few minutes later. I’ve always been a fan of Michael’s personal growth moments, and him coming around to seeing his opus for the unintentional parody it is — and maybe realizing a little bit that he can make his mark without becoming a famous entertainer — was a nice way to end.
It just felt as though the episode took its sweet time to get to that moment. As we saw more and more of “TLM,” and Holly looked increasingly uncomfortable, it became clear that we were building to some sort of spat between her and Michael. The present-day meat of the story took a back seat to a trip down memory lane, even if that trip was fairly enjoyable.
Your mileage may vary on that, of course. But to have a fairly significant beat between Michael and Holly play such an obvious second fiddle to the movie screening was a little out of balance.
Other thoughts on “Threat Level Midnight”:
Moments within the movie that made me smile/chuckle/laugh out loud: The Dave Barry quip-a-day calendar pages hitting the floor; “Mop the ice”; Dwight/Samuel leaping in front of Goldenface’s bullet (Michael: “That was not scripted”); Carol’s real estate sign outside Scarn Manor; and Ryan’s Hobbit-like buddy from New York as Goldenface’s henchman.
From the talking-head portion, favorites were Darryl’s comment about wanting his daughter to see a black president, even if it’s just in a movie (“What a stupid waste of time”; also, rent Season 2 of “24,” Darryl!); Michael’s monologue about how much he admires Woody Allen for sticking to his guns … about “Antz”; and his realization that he did, in fact, let Dwight be a robot, which in turn helps him laugh at the fiasco that it is.
“Threat Level Midnight” has an official site, and it also has a trailer, which you can watch below.
source : http://www.zap2it.com/
Banyak perusahaan dan organisasi menggunakan firewall untuk memblokir pengguna dari luar atau pun penggunan dari dalam sendiri yang dianggap tidak memerlukan koneksi internet, diberi izin dapat mengakses koneksi internet mereka. Agar para kariyawan tertentu dapat mengakses koneksi internet, maka perlu untuk memasukkan pengaturan proxy di browser yang digunakan sebelum dapat terhubung ke Internet.
Proxy server (peladen proxy) adalah sebuah komputer server atau program komputer yang dapat bertindak sebagai komputer lainnya untuk melakukan request terhadap content dari Internet atau intranet.
Proxy Server bertindak sebagai gateway terhadap dunia ini Internet untuk setiap komputer klien. Proxy server tidak terlihat oleh komputer klien: seorang pengguna yang berinteraksi dengan Internet melalui sebuah proxy server tidak akan mengetahui bahwa sebuah proxy server sedang menangani request yang dilakukannya. Web server yang menerima request dari proxy server akan menginterpretasikan request-request tersebut seolah-olah request itu datang secara langsung dari komputer klien, bukan dari proxy server.
Proxy server juga dapat digunakan untuk mengamankan jaringan pribadi yang dihubungkan ke sebuah jaringan publik (seperti halnya Internet). Proxy server memiliki lebih banyak fungsi daripada router yang memiliki fitur packet filtering karena memang proxy server beroperasi pada level yang lebih tinggi dan memiliki kontrol yang lebih menyeluruh terhadap akses jaringan. Proxy server yang berfungsi sebagai sebuah “agen keamanan” untuk sebuah jaringan pribadi, umumnya dikenal sebagai firewall.
sumber : http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server
Bagi sebagian orang mungkin tutorial ini sudah banyak diketahui bahkan telah banyak beredar di internet, namun tulisan ini mencoba berbagi bagi siapa saja yang belum mengetahuinya.
People in Waco and around the nation who follow the Baylor Lady Bears basketball program have known that Brittney Griner is the best basketball player in the country for a long time now. However, as Brittney continues to work her magic for the number one ranked team in the nation – many more people have started to watch in amazement at what this young woman can really do on the basketball court. Last night, Baylor University played Texas A&M for the second time in the past few weeks. At half-time of that game, the score was tied. However, as the second half of action began – Brittney Griner put on an amazing show of talent and physical ability as she single-handedly led the Baylor Lady Bears to victory.
There are some extremely talented college players in the NCAA this year, but Brittney Griner is in a league all her own as she leads her team to victory in every single game. A few weeks ago, when the Baylor Lady Bears played Texas A&M for the first time – that game was close. However, rather than letting that near loss negatively affect her mind and attitude – Brittney Griner instead took to the court in a rematch appearance and totally dominated every other player on the basketball court. Right now, Brittney Griner is the best basketball player in the nation and I cannot wait to see her compete alongside her follow teammates as they earn their way back to Indianapolis and another national championship victory.
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Hari Valentine merupakan hari yang biasa dirayakan sebagai hari kasih sayang diseluruh dunia, dan biasanya yang tidak pernah absen dari kado yang diberikan adalah bunga dan coklat tentunya. Semuanya itu diberikan kepada orang yang sangat kita sayangi, namun untuk memberikan orang tercinta sebuah hadiah juga tidak boleh sembarangan. Ada baiknya memilih cokelat bubuk, sebab minum cokelat hangat lebih menyehatkan jantung dibandingkan mengunyah permen cokelat.
“Dalam kaitannya dengan kesehatan jantung, minum cokelat panas sama baiknya dengan segelas anggur yakni mengurangi risiko serangan jantung,” ungkap Lona Sandon, pakar diet dari University of Texas seperti dikutip dari HealthNewsDigest, Senin (14/2/2011).
Bubuk cokelat, terutama yang diproses dari cokelat hitam memiliki kandungan flavanol yang paling tingi dibanding jenis dan bentuk olahan cokelat lainnya. Flavanol merupakan salah satu senyawa yang memiliki efek melindungi jantung dari kerusakan.
Kandungan lain dari bubuk cokelat murni adalah antioksidan yang melindungi sel-sel dari kerusakan, terutama sel-sel penyusun pembuluh darah yang menuju ke jantung. Pembuluh darah yang sehat akan menjamin aliran darah lancar dan tidak mudah tersumbat.
Menurut Sandon, berbagai manfaat cokelat tersebut akan berkurang ketika bubuk cokelat sudah diolah menjadi permen cokelat atau cokelat batangan. Penambahan gula, susu dan mentega menambah kandungan kalori yang secara tidak langsung justru membahayakan jantung.
Kalori yang tinggi dapat memicu kegemukan pada orang yang jarang berolahraga. Bagi pengidap diabetes, peningkatan gula darah akibat kelebihan kalori tidak bisa ditoleransi dengan produksi insulin sehingga bisa membahayakan kesehatannya.
Selain itu, struktur lemak dalam susu dan mentega yang digunakan pada permen cokelat maupun cokelat batangan juga bisa berubah selama pengolahan sehingga menjadi lemak jahat. Lemak jahat tersebut mudah menggumpal dalam darah, lalu bisa memicu penyumbatan dan serangan jantung.
source : detik.com
People sometimes get their source of inspiration from movie show. And this time, it is from the Bachelor. At the night’s show commemorating the Valentine’s Day, the Bachelor, Brad Womack took the women on a trip to Anguilla Resort. Did you notice just how beautiful Anguilla resort is?
There are many people that get inspired to know more about Anguilla resort. So where is this place anyway?Anguilla is actually a secluded island located in the Caribbean, and the view there surely is amazing, not to mention also exotic.
On the show, Brad Womack is really having a good time basking in the sun and sandy beaches with his entire babes. He stayed at the CusinArt Resort which is one of the top three five-stars hotels there. The hotel located just perfectly in front of the beach, which is very wonderful. You can get through it by a boat from the St. Maarten.
Having to plan your second honeymoon surely is great. You can have a candle light dinner in an intimate scene with Champagne and a rose in the Torchlit dinner. There are also other variation that you can explore there. Having beach grill dinner and other themed dinner that was made especially for you, along with spa treatments and one-day car rental, and off course many more.
The Anguilla resort is surely going to be one place that you may want to visit before you die. Well, if you are thinking about going to the place, then you better save some money for about $3,580 or more. Feeling interested?
You can find out more about the resort here : http://www.cuisinartresort.com/index.php?catID=33
source : http://allaboutnews.net/
RACHEL REINVENTS HERSELF ON AN ALL-NEW “GLEE”
“Comeback” – Rachel tries to launch a comeback into the McKinley High social stratosphere with a little help from Brittany. Meanwhile, Sam starts a tribute band.
Cast: Matthew Morrison as Will Schuester; Jessalyn Gilsig as Terri Schuester; Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester; Lea Michele as Rachel Berry; Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson; Jayma Mays as Emma Pillsbury; Dianna Agron as Quinn; Chris Colfer as Kurt; Kevin McHale as Artie; Amber Riley as Mercedes; Mark Salling as Puck; Jenna Ushkowitz as Tina; Naya Rivera as Santana Lopez; Heather Morris as Brittany S. Pierce; Mike O’Malley as Burt Hummel
Guest Cast: Harry Shum as Mike Chang; Chord Overstreet as Sam Evans; Dot Marie Jones as Coach Beiste; Max Adler as Karofsky; Darren Criss as Blaine; James Earl as Azimio; Ashley Fink as Lauren Zizes
