Although, frankly, bourbon is reason enough.
A hot, cheesy, open-faced turkey and bacon sandwich that sounds normal enough but will blow your mind. Recipe here.
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Recipe here, and more super cute Derby party ideas here.
The quintessential Derby drink is a potent mix of bourbon, sugar, and mint. Recipe here.
Are you good enough to hang in the frat castle, or are you destined for cargo shorts?
President Obama also described Sterling’s comments as an example of how “the United States continues to wrestle with the legacy of race and slavery and segregation.”
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Former basketball star and now-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats Michael Jordan has called the alleged comments from Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling "sickening and offensive" in a new statement.
"As an owner, I'm obviously disgusted that a fellow team owner could hold such sickening and offensive views," Jordan said.
Jordan added, "As a former player, I'm completely outraged. There is no room in the NBA – or anywhere else – for the kind of racism. I am appalled that this type of ignorance still exists within our country and at the highest levels of our sport."
Although he originally declined to comment, the NBA legend has joined players like LeBron James and Kobe Bryant to condemn the 81-year-old businessman, who has been accused of being the voice behind a racist diatribe in a recording originally leaked to TMZ.
"There's no room for Donald Sterling in the NBA -- there is no room for him," Heat forward James said yesterday, adding that he might sit out if he was a Clippers player.
"I have kind of wavered back and forth if I would actually sit out," James said. "If our owner would come out and say the things he said I would have to sit down with my teammates and talk to my family because at the end of the day, our family and teammates are way more important than that."
President Obama also called the comments "incredibly offensive" while speaking to reporters during a diplomatic trip to Malaysia.
"When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything," he said. You just let them talk. That's what happened here."
Obama added that Sterling's comments are an example of how "the United States continues to wrestle with the legacy of race and slavery and segregation."
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban took a different approach, angering people when he tweeted that people should focus on the playoffs and not worry about Sterling.
"Its playoff time, no reason to talk about anything in the NBA that does not relate to our Mavs. Lets Go Mavs !!" he said.
Read Jordan's full statement:
"I look at this from two perspectives -- as a current owner and as a former player. As an owner, I'm obviously disgusted that a fellow team owner could hold such sickening and offensive views. I'm confident that Adam Silver will make a full investigation and take appropriate action quickly.
As a former player, I'm completely outraged. There is no room in the NBA -- or anywhere else -- for the kind of racism and hatred that Mr. Sterling allegedly expressed. I am appalled that this type of ignorance still exists within our country and at the highest levels of our sport. In a league where the majority of players are African-American, we cannot and must not tolerate discrimination at any level. "
LINK: Extended Audio Released From Clippers Owner’s Alleged Racist Conversation
All hail the Crock Pot.
Make a big batch in either a slow cooker or dutch oven, then freeze some of the leftovers for later. Get the recipe.
Crisp spring favorites — like carrots and asparagus — are front and center. (And topped with cheese!) Get the recipe.
The pork is marinated all night, simmered all day, and topped with fresh mango and avocado. Get the recipe.
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The Mindy Project star’s Alex of Venice and fellow Tribeca film Goodbye to All That both follow one spouse in the aftermath of a marriage ending. Here’s why one works and the other doesn’t.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Chris Messina in Alex of Venice.
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There will always be movies depicting how two people get together, but a pair of films at this year's Tribeca Film Festival focus on what happens when they part. The directorial debuts Alex of Venice, from Mindy Project star Chris Messina, and Goodbye to All That, from Junebug screenwriter Angus MacLachlan, aren't just films about divorce, they're about how the end of a marriage can come as a total shock to one spouse, who thought everything was going fine.
Neither movie actually shows how the cracks in the relationship have formed over years, instead depicting what it's like when someone gets dumped out of domestic stasis and has to reevaluate his or her own life and what it means to start over. But Alex of Venice is from the perspective of the wife, whereas Goodbye to All That is from that of the husband, and the differences between them are as interesting as why one works so much better than the other.
Some actors have obvious breakout roles that change their careers forever, but Messina's been working his way to the top for decades before winning hearts as lovable grump Danny Castellano, and Alex of Venice, his first turn behind the camera, is suffused with a sense of maturity and restraint. The film centers on the title character, a young mother and dedicated environmental lawyer played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), with Messina as her unhappy husband George. But the actor-director cedes the main stage to his talented co-star, and in doing so, presents a portrait of an unusually nuanced female protagonist.
The daughter of a fading TV actor (a terrific Don Johnson), Alex got pregnant with her son Dakota (Skylar Gaertner) at age 19, and has since gone back to school, gotten her law degree, and discovered her passion, a career that frequently takes her away from home for long hours. When George abruptly leaves, confessing, "I can't be your housewife anymore," she's floored, but the film doesn't pin him with being an easy villain. She has taken his presence for granted, and in the flux that follows, she tries to juggle caring for her son, dealing with a father whose pot-fueled flakiness may be covering up a deeper problem, welcoming back a boundary-free sister (Katie Nehra, also one of the screenwriters), and heading up a legal case against a developer (Derek Luke) whose construction is having negative effects on the local wetlands.
Paul Schneider and Heather Graham in Goodbye to All That.
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Though Alex of Venice begins with a breakup, it becomes the story of how Alex learns that she's no longer the person she was when she got married, and the film gently depicts how the changes in her life force her to have a new appreciation for what she has. Winstead has a marvelous openness as Alex that makes a potentially corny scene, like the one in which she tries Ecstasy for the first time, instead a tender and lovely one, a few hours of rediscovered freedom. The thoughtfulness with which the movie portrays Alex's flaws as well as her strengths allows for a retrospective understanding of why George wanted to leave as well as why she, and they, will be OK.
There's a lot less clarity on that front in the comedy Goodbye to All That, in which Paul Schneider plays Otto, a loving North Carolina father and enthusiastic runner, who's shocked to find out at a therapy session with his wife Annie (Melanie Lynskey) that she wants a divorce. Otto, we're told, doesn't pay attention, as signaled by his constant tripping and surprise at the revelation that Annie's in therapy in the first place. And the film seems, at least sometimes, to come from Otto's subjective point of view, with all the women in his life being bewildering creatures whose motivations and desires he can never really grasp.
Schneider, best known for his romance with Zooey Deschanel in All the Real Girls and for departing Parks and Recreation after the first two seasons, makes for a likable-enough case of arrested development, but Goodbye to All That never gives us a look at Otto from the outside and at why someone would feel as distressed as Annie is when she calls an end to their marriage, with no discussion allowed from his end. Though Otto is referred to as a "mess," he mainly comes across as a nice, attractive guy who quickly, and with apparently minimal effort, manages to sleep with a succession of beautiful women, including an ex-girlfriend played by Heather Graham, a sexually confident twentysomething from OkCupid (Ashley Hinshaw), and a nutty churchgoer (Anna Camp, who deserves better).
Unlike Alex of Venice, Goodbye to All That feels more like a tale of self-affirmation than personal growth. Otto gets counsel from the ladies who pass through his life, as well as an ex from his childhood (Heather Lawless) and his boss (Amy Sedaris), but they're living lessons for him to absorb rather than actual characters — which would be less grating if the end goal didn't seem to be for Otto to learn to stand up to Annie. MacLachlan wrote some wonderfully complex women in Junebug, including the role that nabbed Amy Adams her first Oscar nomination, but Goodbye to All That seems alternately bowled over by or resentful of its women, angling its depiction of divorce into something that comes across more as blame.
I traveled to the Creature Shop for an exclusive look at what’s under the fur. Here’s what the mentors from Syfy’s Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge had to say about their creations.
I was thrilled at the opportunity to see Fraggles, but terrified I might run into one of the Skeksis from The Dark Crystal. BOTH OF THESE THINGS HAPPENED.
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This trio also serves as mentors on Syfy's reality series Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge. And with good reason! Zobel (left) is the lead fabricator and has worked on projects like Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, and Dr. Dolittle. Brooke (middle) is the Creature Shop creative supervisor, and his credits include Where the Wild Things Are, The Flintstones, and Dinosaurs. Criswell (right) is the mechanical engineer, and has put his skills to work on Critters, Pushing Daisies, and The Hangover, among others.
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"This is not a hand puppet," Criswell explained. "He’s a combination of a cable-controlled mechanism and a servo cable-controlled mechanism." His name is Scoots, and he was created as promotion for the Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge series.
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Courtney Sanford had just posted to Facebook that the hit song made her happy when she hit a truck head-on in North Carolina.
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Here’s everything you need to know about the action film Brick Mansions , the second-to-last movie the late actor made, which hits theaters on Friday.
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We're running out of Paul Walker movies. Brick Mansions, directed by Camille Delamarre and set in a dystopian Detroit where the roughest neighborhood's been walled up from the rest of the city, is the last feature the late actor completed — he died in the midst of shooting Fast & Furious 7, which will see his brothers come in to complete the film.
Though Brick Mansions is ludicrous and doesn't make a lick of sense, it's still fun, and more than that, it's a reminder of the type of role Walker has always done so well. Here's everything you need to know about the actor's penultimate movie.
Luc Besson wrote and produced both the 2004 French action film District B13 and its remake Brick Mansions. But the difference between the remake and the original is that the latter was set in a near-future version of one of the troubled suburbs outside Paris, which are known for their unrest and high levels of unemployment and poverty, and which have been home to riots. In District B13, which takes place in the now not-so-futuristic year of 2013, the most crime-ridden neighborhood has been walled off, with police checkpoints preventing anyone from leaving.
Brick Mansions moves the action to 2018 Detroit, where housing projects have been similarly sealed off and are dominated by drug-dealing gangsters, the chief of them being Tremaine (RZA). The bankrupt city, with its areas of desolation and its difficulties maintaining services, makes a decent Americanized fit for the story's broad social themes, though the remake mainly pays them lip service. And a plotline about the mayor wanting to get rid of Brick Mansions (which is also the name of the projects) in order to build a new luxury development reads as strange — Detroit doesn't exactly seem short on available real estate. Even the movie, maybe due to budget limitations, feels underpopulated.
District B13: Magnolia Home Entertainment
Both District B13 and Brick Mansions star David Belle, who is one of the founders of parkour, the holistic movement-centric training discipline that he and two others developed from military obstacle course training, and that's since turned up in bigger movies like Casino Royale and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
He's not the world's most naturally charismatic actor, but he is a man who, reprising his first leading role after a decade, still seems unencumbered by things like gravity, leaping up the sides of buildings and vaulting over stairwells, doing backflips over baddies and bouncing off walls with incredible athleticism. Belle is apparently indestructible and ageless, and even manages to counter some of Brick Mansions' hyperactive editing, in which no shot seems to run longer than half a second.
In the original film, Belle was partnered with fellow parkour practitioner and stuntman Cyril Raffaelli. But in the remake, in which he plays Lino, Belle is paired with Paul Walker, who isn't really one for using the world as his own personal obstacle course. Walker gets his own style of action sequence, automotive and otherwise, but the best scene in both the original and the remake is the opening one in which Belle first shows off his skills by eluding dozens of guys sent to take him down.
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No more FOMO for you or your favorite person with diabetes — you can eat carbs. Just be smart about it.
Whether you've just been diagnosed with diabetes or you've been managing it like a pro for years, chances are you always need new recipes to add to your repertoire. Or maybe you have a family member/friend/date who has diabetes, and want to cook dinner for them. Fear not. You don't have to cook special, "diabetic" meals. Or, despite popular myths, obsessively avoid carbs.
Many people think that if you have diabeetus (as Wilford Brimley would say) that means you can't eat carbohydrates. But, in fact, people with diabetes should get about 50% of their daily caloric intake from carbs — like anyone else looking to follow a healthy diet.
You just need to consider three things before chowing down: the type of carb, adding a protein, and portion sizes. These factors all impact blood sugar and can help keep sugars within normal range (aka glycemic control), which is the ultimate goal in diabetes management.
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Here's what's going on: When you eat carbs, your body breaks them down into sugar (aka glucose) which is used for energy. Glucose is the ideal energy source for most bodily functions, including — most important — brain power. And insulin is a hormone that takes care of keeping your blood glucose in a safe range by transporting glucose from the blood into your body's cells.
When a person has diabetes, their insulin is either not working effectively, is being produced inefficiently, or in some cases not being produced at all (depending on the type of diabetes). As a result, they have elevated levels of glucose in the blood. That's likely where the whole no-carbs-or-sugar misconception came from. "Just don't eat carbs or sugar and you'll be fine," right?
Nope. It's not a carb thing, it's an insulin thing. Your body does need some carbs to function. And, fortunately, a person with diabetes can manipulate their diet for better glycemic control by incorporating some of the recommendations below into their lifestyle.
The team dropped their warm-up jackets with the Clippers logo on the floor before the game, and donned black wristbands and socks.
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You probably had most of these Leo photos taped to your bedroom walls.
Leo manages to convincingly make us believe he is surprised -- notice his mouth is open just enough. Also, great eyebrow and mouth coordination.
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Look how his smirk is perfectly framed by two tousles of hair.
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Face says, "sorry, but I really gotta take a leak!"
Also, what fifty-something biker lent him that jacket?!
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We've all been there, Leo. We've all been there.
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Celebrate baby’s arrival with games that are cheesy, ridiculous, and sentimental — all at once.
One Charming Party / Celebrations / Every Pot and Pan
Everyone puts one of these baby-filled ice cubes in their drink. Whoever's melts first, wins!
Make a list of celebrity moms and see who can name all of their kids.
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Five star reviews, all of them. Thanks to this Quora thread .
"I want to start this off by thanking Kleenex for selling these in 36-packs. I've put it on subscription, and if they want to start selling a 72-pack, sign me up. I have three reasons for needing this much Kleenex, and their names are Liam, Samuel and Hank.
This is how it goes in this house. First the Kleenex disappears. Then the toilet paper. Then they go for fabrics. And you don't want it to get there, unless you're ready to invest in a five gallon drum of Fabreeze.
This used to be a good Christian home. But it's not about moral judgment anymore. I'm way beyond that. I'm in survival mode. If I don't supply absorbent paper products, I'm going to find my dish towels hidden in the basement, stiff as aluminum. The other day, I almost cut my hand on a sock. I am sorry to speak so frankly, but with three teenage boys, a woman has got to be practical."
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"For those of you who don't know, this is God's second novel after the Old Testament. It's a marked improvement, in my opinion. He got rid of a lot of his previous angst and scorn, and has really begun to show some of the maturity present in his later works.
That said, there is still vast room for improvement. Plot wise, there isn't really much suspense, and the story can be incredibly repetitive.
I like the whole Jesus character, but let's face it, the whole good guy martyr thing has been done before. There was no need to devote so much of the book to that guy."
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"Being a loose cannon who does not play by the rules the first thing I did was ignore the warning and smear this all over my knob and bollocks. The bollocks I knew and loved are gone now. In their place is a maroon coloured bag of agony which sends stabs of pain up my body every time it grazes against my thigh or an article of clothing. I am suffering so that you don't have to. Heed my lesson. DO NOT PUT ON KNOB AND BOLLOCKS.
(I am giving this product a 5 because despite the fact that I think my bollocks might fall off, they are now completely hairless.)"
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"My husband has never allowed me to write, as he doesn't want me touching mens pens. However when I saw this product, I decided to buy it (using my pocket money) and so far it has been fabulous! Once I had learnt to write, the feminine colour and the grip size (which was more suited to my delicate little hands) has enabled me to vent thoughts about new recipe ideas, sewing and gardening. My husband is less pleased with this product as he believes it will lead to more independence and he hates the feminine tingling sensation (along with the visions of fairies and rainbows) he gets whenever he picks it up."
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More bad news in the world of online security.
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More bad news for online security, especially if you use Internet Explorer to browse the web.
Last night, Microsoft announced that all versions of Internet Explorer have been affected by a "zero day" security flaw (a "zero day" flaw is a vulnerability that gives victims zero days of warning before attack) . According to the security company FireEye, the flaw leaves 26.25% of the browser market vulnerable to attack. This, of course, comes just weeks after the OpenSSL flaw, Heartbleed left over two-thirds of the internet vulnerable to potential attacks.
Here's how the web browser market share breaks down for Internet Explorer as of 2013, according to NetMarket Share:
Plainly speaking, the flaw allows attackers to corrupt and steal data after users are lured to fake websites, meaning anyone using Internet Explorer should be extra vigilant clicking suspicious links that might come through email or other spam sites.
Here's a description of the flaw according to Microsoft's Tech Security Center:
The vulnerability is a remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability exists in the way that Internet Explorer accesses an object in memory that has been deleted or has not been properly allocated. The vulnerability may corrupt memory in a way that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user within Internet Explorer. An attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit this vulnerability through Internet Explorer and then convince a user to view the website.
So far, Microsoft says it's only seen "limited, targeted attacks" as a result of the vulnerability, with most of the attacks coming through IE versions 9 and 11. The company hasn't released a patch for the flaw yet, but we will continue to update when one becomes available.
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Those Russian grannies are on this list. Of course those Russian grannies are on this list.
WTF because... Those feathered arms.
Best lyric: "And when she cries / Diva is an angel / When she laughs / She's a devil / She is all beauty and love".
WTF because... That saxophone.
Best lyric: "Oh... forgive, I don't need, I won't breathe / Just get away from my life".
WTF because: The men rip off the women's' skirts mid-way through the song.
Best lyric: "Don't let your indecision take you from behind / Trust your inner vision / Don't let others change your mind".
WTF because... She's a cave girl.
Best lyric: "I want you to want me as I dance / Round and round and round / Shi-di-ri-di-duy, shi-di-ri-di-da-na / Shi-di-ri-di-duy, shi-di-ri-di-da-na".
If you want to be just like Emma, you need to listen to these tunes.
Emma Watson probably listens to more than 24 songs in a year, but these are all the songs she's decided to share with the world on Twitter since 2012. So, this is what everyone should know to have the musical taste of Hermione herself.
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