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We have a new exclusive six-minute clip from the upcoming DVD My Mom’s New Boyfriend, which hits the DVD shelves on June 17. Click below for an extended look at Colin Hanks, Meg Ryan, Selma Blair and Antonia Banderas in action.
When an uptight federal agent’s sexually liberated mother enters into an affair with a man suspected of being involved in an international art-theft ring, it’s up to the fresh-faced agent to keep an observant eye on the couple in question in writer/director George Gallo’s lighthearted romantic comedy. Colin Hanks, Selma Blair, Antonio Banderas, and Meg Ryan star in a Millennium Films production.
The Third Degree: The Making of My Mom’s New Boyfriend featurette

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who has to be outdoors for an extended period should keep well hydrated and wear loose fitting cool clothing. The best way to deal with the heat is to spend as much time indoors, especially in air conditioning. Remember to check on elderly friends and neighbors.
The sizzling heat will be a factor in the 2008 Belmont Stakes taking place in Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., this evening. The high there is expected to reach 90 degrees for the final leg of the Triple Crown, but the humidity will make it feel even hotter.
The East Regional News story reports the peak of the heat will come Sunday and Monday. Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., will surge into the upper 90s by the beginning of the week. Parts of the Carolinas will continue to surpass the century mark into the first part of the week.
Along the northern extent of 90-degree heat, damaging storms will erupt from the central Plains to the Great Lakes. The Midwest Regional News story reports that storms will spark through the evening from Nebraska to Wisconsin. Moisture and warmth will continue to surge into the area, helping to fuel the severe storms.
According to the Severe Weather Center, the strongest storms will produce damaging winds, hail, and the potential for a tornado. Especially with recent storms, flash flooding will affect some areas.
Overnight, strong and severe storms will continue to pound the region from northern Kansas into lower Michigan. As a storm exits the eastern Rockies and heads toward the Great Lakes through Sunday, severe storms will continue to affect portions of the Midwest.
The Midwest was already a target of the nasty storms on Friday as a storm moved into southern Canada. Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis were all affected by the strong storms.
A tornado was reported in Poplar Grove, Ill., less than 2 hours to the west of Chicago. High winds and storms caused flight delays and cancellations in the city. Dozens of flights at O’Hare International Airport were canceled, while delays averaged 90 minutes. Midway International Airport reported some flights were delayed up to an hour.

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“My date can’t make it, away on a business trip. I’m a nice looking, normal guy, blond/blue, 37, corporate professional. As I am 6′3″, prefer you are at least 5′7.”
“Two sexy Californians seeking tix for Sex and the City…We are a mother and daughter from California who have never missed a single episode of Sex and the City. We desperately want to go to the premiere at Radio City Music Hall. We have the dresses for it but not the tickets. Does anyone have extra tickets they might want to part with?”

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David Cameron’s declaration that ‘Eton Rifles’ is his favourite song has prompted a furious response from Paul Weller. The truth is that politics and pop just do not mix. By Cahal Milmo and Andy McSmith
1. Paul Weller & David Cameron
In the latest proof that politics and pop do not mix, David Cameron’s attempt to show that you can be a Tory and yet be into raw protest songs has earned a scathing rejection from the singer/songwriter Paul Weller. The "Modfather" was disgusted to hear that Mr Cameron had selected the 1979 hit "The Eton Rifles", by The Jam, as his favourite track.
In the latest proof that politics and pop do not mix, David Cameron’s attempt to show that you can be a Tory and yet be into raw protest songs has earned a scathing rejection from the singer/songwriter Paul Weller. The “Modfather” was disgusted to hear that Mr Cameron had selected the 1979 hit “The Eton Rifles”, by The Jam, as his favourite track.
Mr Cameron was a 12-year-old Eton schoolboy when the song was written, and seems to have missed the point that it was a satire that ridiculed Eton boys rather than praising them.
“Which part of it didn’t he get? It wasn’t intended as a fucking jolly drinking song for the cadet corps,” Mr Weller says in this week’s issue of the New Statesman magazine. The unwanted tribute made him decide to revive the song on his current solo tour, because “it’s just as powerful now, just as relevant, as it was in 1979″.
Weller, who will be 50 this month, wrote the song after seeing television pictures of Right to Work marchers being jeered by public schoolboys as they passed through Eton en route from Liverpool to London. It was the first major hit for The Jam, reaching No 3 in the charts.

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In the Caribbean, summer is always a steal. But this year, it may be even more appealing that usual.
You know the drill: When New York temperatures rise, Caribbean hotel rates melt. Airline seats are cheaper, crowds thin out, and those same resorts that block out winter rooms for A-list Hollywood crowds are suddenly wooing mere mortals with serious discounts.
Thanks to this year’s economic blues and increased air service to the Caribbean overall, you might be able to snag an even better bargain than in years past. Look for rates 30, 40, even 50 percent cheaper than in high season — and be sure to ask when you book if other packages or savings might be available. Hint: New lodgings and those under rennovation often offer the best savings.
Here are six of my favorite stealth bargains for the coming months.
BELLS AND WHISTLES
The U.S. Virgin Island St. Thomas is famous for cruise ships and shopping bargains, but I like it for the resplendent views from the shoulders of muscular mountains — panoramas that spill down steep slopes and across the bays to neighboring islands. The view from The Ritz-Carlton, the island’s top hotel, is closer to sea level but no less stirring, and a sublime infinity pool drinks in the panorama of Turquoise Bay and nearby St. John.
Originally lavished with Italian Renaissance touches, the 180-room resort completed a $40 million renovation in 2007 that included gently updating decor and modernizing rooms while expanding the excellent spa. Bougainvillea is draped around the peach-colored buildings and lush gardens dividing them. There’s a pristine beach, tennis courts, well-maintained health club and a dive shop with an array of watersports. Four dining options range from poolside to sophisticated. And every morning there’s Shop Talk, a class coaching guests on where to find the island’s best buys in handcrafts and jewelry, and a free shuttle into town for deal-seekers.

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New Mexico News
Monday, April 7, 2008 4:59 PM MDT
Movie uncovers state story
The feature film “Spoken Word” will be filmed in Santa Fe. The film, set in Chimayo, will star Kuno Becker (Goal, From Mexico with Love, Nomad), Ruben Blades (Once Upon a Time in Mexico, All the Pretty Horses, Predator 2, The Milagro Beanfield War), and Miguel Sandoval (Bottle Shock, Nine Lives, Medium).
Santa Fe-based Luminaria Films, Karen Koch and Bill Conway will produce, with Victor Nunez (Ulee’s Gold, Ruby in Paradise) directing.
“Spoken Word, inspired by the work of local poet Joe Ray Sandoval, will uncover the heart and soul of the New Mexico we cherish,” said Koch.
Spoken Word tells the story of a touring spoken word artist who returns to Chimayo to be with his dying father. The production will be shot in and around Santa Fe through April 25.
Habitat focus of meetings
The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish has scheduled statewide Habitat Stamp Citizen’s Advisory Committee meetings for 2008.
Citizen advisors will prioritize habitat projects for 2009 and 2010 and make their recommendations at the State Game Commission meeting May 29 in Farmington. All are welcome and encouraged to attend meetings:
The group will meet April 16 at the Trades and Technologies Building, San Juan Junior College, 4601 College Blvd., Farmington.
Other meetings are set for Ruidoso, Espanola and Socorro.
The program has grown to an annual budget of $1.2 million with the support of hunters and anglers, who must purchase a $5 Habitat Stamp each year to participate in their sports on federal lands.
In the 21-year life of the program, 1,798 wildlife habitat projects have been funded at a level of more than $24 million, with the Habitat Stamp Program contributing $12.4 million and federal agencies $10.7 million in matching funds. Since 1999, other organizations have contributed $1.1 million in time and cash to the program.

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Barack Obama’s campaign has rejected the support of the New Black Panther Party, after removing an endorsement by the group from its Web site Wednesday.
Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor issued a statement rejecting the Panther backing, and told FOXNews.com: “The page in question has been removed from our campaign Web site. It’s our policy with any content generated by a group that advocates violence.”
The blogosphere was buzzing Wednesday about whether his campaign planned to remove the Panther posting, just one day after the Illinois senator delivered a speech calling for improved race relations in America.
The New Black Panthers, who inherited their name from the Black Panther Party of the 1960s, had the page on the Obama campaign’s public forums. The group’s message said it is backing Obama because he “represents ‘positive change’ for all of America. Obama will stir the ‘Melting Pot’ into a better ‘Molten America.’”
Malik Zulu Shabazz, who has led the group since 2001, told FOX News the Obama campaign’s reaction to the endorsement was understandable.
“That’s politics. That’s politics, and that’s fine,” he said.
He disputed the charge that his group advocates violence.
“That’s false. … And only constitutional self-defense will I stand by,” Shabazz said.
He praised Obama’s Tuesday speech and what he described as the candidate’s “message for reform.”
Obama spokeswoman Tiffany Edwards said before the campaign removed the endorsement that that section of the Web site “has nothing to do with us.”
“People can form their own groups,” she told FOXNews.com. “It’s not something that the campaign — it’s not something that we’ve done.”
The NBPP is identified as an extremist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a tolerance education organization. The Anti-Defamation League calls NBPP “the largest organized anti-Semitic black militant group in America. … Under Shabazz, the group continues to organize demonstrations across the country that blend inflammatory bigotry with calls for black empowerment and civil rights.”

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Deadly crane collapse…Georgia storms kill 2…Student pilot dead
NEW YORK (AP) Searchers are going through piles of rubble at the site of a construction crane collapse in Manhattan that has, according to the mayor, killed at least four people. At least 10 people were injured. The crane demolished parts of several buildings and appears to have reduced one small brick apartment to dust.
ATLANTA (AP) Officials in Atlanta insist tens of thousands of Basketball fans at two arenas were perfectly safe even though the crowds apparently weren’t warned about an approaching Tornado. The twister ravaged downtown skyscrapers and injured dozens last night.
Storms elsewhere in the state have killed at least two people.
PARKER, Ariz. (AP) The Air Force says the student pilot of an F-16 fighter jet has died in a crash in western Arizona. A spokeswoman for Luke Air Force Base says crews found the pilot’s parachute and some of his gear near the wreckage about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Five Americans are among the 11 people injured in a bomb explosion in the back garden of an Italian restaurant crowded with foreigners in Pakistan’s capital. A Turkish woman was killed in the Islamabad blast.

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Who is the best person to be President of the United States?
A woman who has the experience of visiting over 50 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. A woman who is respected worldwide for her humanitarian work, particularly on behalf of children. A woman who is known for her compassion towards
AIDS victims. A woman who was battle tested in the midst of a vast conspiracy. A woman who was humiliated in public by a cheating husband but showed strength of character by weathering the storm. A woman who has more charisma in her little finger than Obama has in his whole body. That’s why my candidate is Princess Diana.
What? You were expecting Hillary Diane Clinton? Princess Diana is obviously the better choice as she was against land mines and cluster bombs. Hillary Clinton voted against Feinstein Amdt. No. 4882, “To protect civilian lives from unexploded cluster munitions.”
Posted by Mary S., USA on March 6, 2008 10:39 PM
“America the Beautiful” and Eagles…
Alpha and Omega.
Amazing the way Peace-niks presume,
(even as Christians) that Biblical
Revelations can be deleted or trashed.
Jhinns and gins need to be re-bottled.
“Turkish Delight and Grannie Mints”

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A TOWERING construction crane crashed on to a New York residential building today, killing at least four people and injuring four others.
US media reported that some remained trapped inside the Manhattan building after the massive white crane struck it in the early afternoon, NY1 News television and The New York Times reported.
A furious neighbourhood association president, Scott Singer, told reporters that residents had complained of security violations at the construction site since January.
"We lost four persons, four innocent victims on a sunny afternoon. Enough is enough," Singer said.
New York police chief Raymond Kelly was at the scene of the accident while Mayor Michael Bloomberg was on his way there.
People at the scene told NY1 that they heard a loud explosion, smelled a strong gas odour and saw a thick yellow dust cloud.
"People were shouting: run, run!" a woman living near the building told the station.
The crane split in half at a construction site of a 25-storey building on East 51st Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, NY1 reported.
A small building was crushed while the crane also struck the top corner of another, taller building, television images showed.
Huge chunks of rubble were scattered all over the site, while the accident left a BMW crushed and several other cars damaged. Rescuers were seen removing an injured person on a stretcher.

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