What seemed like an innocent gesture had major consequences, as the Columbus High School Mighty Cardinals track team thought they won the 4×100 relay, and a chance to move on to State. The team won by 7 yards, but Derrick Hayes’ skyward point led to a disqualification. The runner was gesturing in thanks to God, but the point counted as ” excessive celebration ,” which is against the state scholastic rules. Many in the town, including the runner’s father, think it is a violation of religious freedom to outlaw the gesture, but the school insists that it is not banned because it is religious, but because it is celebratory. What do you think? Is banning a gesture thanking God a violation of religious freedom?
Everyone knows that lamb is the best meat ever. That’s a given, right? Which is why this news is so, so heartbreaking: China’s Ministry of Public Security has announced that it caught a group of meat traders selling rat , fox, and mink meat as lamb. Gross. China is famously riddled with food-related scandals, with the Ministry trying to project a proactive image in the wake of this latest one. 63 arrests were made in connection to the scandal. Needless to say you should continue to use actual lamb in your lamb recipes . How would you feel if you found out that delicious Gyro you were eating was actually made of Ratatouille (the character, not the yummy side dish)?
An eight-minute alternate ending to David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook has landed on the Internets, and though it wraps up things a little too neatly (with virtually all of the main characters), it’s fun to watch. It also yields a quick-and-dirty recipe for braciole , those seasoned skirt-steak roll-ups that Jacki Weaver always seems to be making in the movie. My Sicilian grandmother taught me to secure the steak around a hard-boiled egg before letting it slow-cook in the pasta sauce, but the recipe Weaver employs in this clip is much simpler. (And yet, Chris Tucker just can’t seem to get the hang of it.) In this MTV exclusive, Robert De Niro also reveals a key rule of etiquette that often applies in Italian-American homes from that generation: the man of the house can sample the food his wife is preparing for dinner, but, hey-yo, everyone else has to wait. [ MTV ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Fox is threatening to convert its entire operation to a pay-TV-only channel if Internet startup Aereo continues to “steal” its over-the-air television signal. News Corp., which owns Fox, said not being paid by Aereo threatens the economics of broadcast TV, which relies on both retransmission fees and advertising. Say what now? Anyone with an antenna can pick up a TV station’s signals for free. However, as we well know, cable and satellite companies typically pay stations and networks for the right to distribute their programming to subscribers. Industry-wide, those retransmission fees can add up to billions of dollars every year. Fees that Aereo is circumventing with its new business model: Aereo takes broadcast signals from the air with thousands of little antennas, recodes them for Internet use and feeds that to computers, tablets and phones. Subscriptions start at a mere $8 per month, which is much cheaper than a cable package, though the service is mostly limited to broadcast channels. Obviously, they were sued VERY fast, but last week, that industry was shaken after a federal appeals court issued a preliminary ruling siding with Aereo. The company contends that it doesn’t have to pay those fees because it uses thousands of tiny antennas to grab the signal, and a judge agreed. “This is not an ideal path we look to pursue, but we can’t sit idly by and let an entity steal our signal,” NewsCorp COO Chase Carey said in response. “But if we can’t do a fair deal, we could take the network to a subscription model.” While most people get Fox through a pay cable TV provider anyway, millions of other Americans rely on the free signal coming over their own antennas. If realized, Carey’s proposal would amount to a sea change in how Fox does business; currently, Fox sends its signal to TV stations across the country. Those stations, 27 of which it owns directly, relay Fox programming such as New Girl and Glee for free in local markets and add their own local news, etc. Carey didn’t explain how TV stations would be affected if Fox shut off the signals it sent to broadcasters and went straight over to a pay TV model. Later, the company said in a statement that any change due to the Aereo situation would occur “in collaboration with both our content partners and affiliates.” Last week, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said that Aereo could continue its service despite a legal challenge by Fox, ABC, NBC and CBS. In a split ruling, the court accepted Aereo’s position that having individual antennas meant that Aereo wasn’t retransmitting signals illegally for profit. Rather, the appeals court said that Aereo enabled its subscribers to do what they already could on their own with their own antenna and video recorder.
What does a $2 million pizza look like? Does it have gold leaf and saffron-infused white truffles? Is the cheese made from the milk of a thousand duck-billed platypuses? Is the sauce the really good Newman’s Own stuff with the garlic and basil? No! None of that! It looks like this: According to Motherboard , the pizza was purchased by Mike Lazio back in May of 2010 using an online currency called Bitcoins (BTC). 10,000 BTC to be exact. At the time, a BTC equaled about .3 cents, meaning that Lazio spent about $30 on it when he took to the Bitcoin forum to make an offer: you order me pizza in the real world, I’ll give you 10,000 BTC. It was the first time a real-world transaction had actually occurred using the virtual currency, and is believed to have sparked the intense inflation that has caused one single BTC to rise to about $234. So do the math: 10,000 BTC at $234 each means that if Lazio had kept that money instead of spending it on Pizza, he’d be sitting on an extra $2.34 million. Hopefully he enjoyed the pizza. I bet he could have found a lot of homemade pizza recipes that cost a lot less than $2.34 million to make.
Chrissy Teigan is my best friend on social media….and I even signed up to her food blog…because that’s just how tight we are….you see I write her insanity about being a gold digger cuz she’s marrying some Grammy award winning piano playing singer….and she ignores me…but once said something about loving the site…because let’s face it…everyone does….even if she ignores me every time I reach out…. I just assume it’s like we’re an old married couple who have never met..I talk, she ignores…I masturbate to other girls…but still follow her shit…cuz I feel obligated…even if her jokes aren’t that funny…and her focus should be spent on getting naked….something she finally delivered on today…..cuz she posted a pic of her mixed race ass gold digging wannabe comedian ass getting a spray tan…and sharing said spray tan with her followers…cuz she’s open about her life like that…and because she more importantly….she loves any and all attention…that’s what happens to girls who only do SI…but never make the cover of SI….they work harder on building their own brand….which is made easier when financed by some dude she groupied right. Who cares….oh right…I do….she’s lovely….
Forget who Justin Bieber may be dating. And forget any new Justin Bieber music that may be on the way. Former Lost producer Damon Lindelof only cares about one thing: the choice of headgear this singer made while abroad this week. Indeed, the following hat spawned a Twitter outburst the likes of which we’ve rarely seen yesterday. A few of the best Lindelof gems: Bieber: ‘How much for the huge yellow hat with spikes that looks painful?’ Clerk: ‘Fourteen Million Dollars.’ Bieber: ‘Sold, bitch!’ Yellow shiny spikes. I wear you golden love crown. Ooh baby baby. #BieberHatHaiku” ‘That hat is f–king ridiculous.'” — Johnny Depp, to Bieber, whilst wearing a dead peacock on his head. That hat looks like Pac Man wandered into the gay bar from Police Academy. FACT: The hat did NOT exist before the Russian Meteorite. Coincidence? GOOD LORD I HOPE SO. What do YOU think of Justin’s hat, THGers? Love it! Hate it! Yikes. No comment! View Poll »
Like countless other young Americans, Honey Boo Boo has been selling Girl Scout cookies. To her hundreds of thousands of fans online, and the chagrin of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Honey Boo Boo posted the above ad on her Facebook page, which has 701,000 likes. She also drew the organization’s ire by posting photos of stacks of boxes she sold. HBB is not selling the cookies for herself, it’s worth nothing, but for a friend. Nevertheless, to say didn’t go down well with the organization is an understatement. A rep for GSUSA in Georgia, where young Alana Thompson lives, tells TMZ they contacted her site’s administrator and explained that this is off-limits . No good deed – or massive cookie sale – goes unpunished, as they say. Using Facebook and the like “defeats the whole purpose of selling the cookies,” such as teaching the girls about setting goals, working with people, etc. The sales she’s already WILL count, but if HBB wants to help her BFF from now on, she’s gonna have to set up shop outside Walmart like everyone else. That or go door to door. Maybe June Shannon or Poodle can drive? NOTE : It’s unclear what her biggest seller was among the GSC brands. Thin Mints are the best, right? What are your favorite types of Girl Scout Cookies? NOTE #2 : They’re no GSC, but this chocolate chip cookie recipe is dope. Seriously. It’ll hold its own with Samoas and the like any day of the week.
It came down to Kristen and Brooke on last night’s finale of Top Chef: Seattle , guaranteeing viewers would witness the crowning of only the second female champion in show history. Who would win that honor? After cooking up five dishes, and doing so in front of a live audience that included nine previous winners and all the judges, the Top Chef hat was placed on…Kristen Kish! Did she deserve the title? Debate now and then head over to Food Fanatic for an extensive review of the Top Chef finale .
The hardest thing about separating the cookie from the cream in your Oreos? Learning how to build robots and make them function to complete said task. Also, keeping warm. Hands and cookies do get cold out there in the garage. Oreo Separator Nothing is worth doing if it’s not done right, though, and physicist David Neevel decided he just had to make an Oreo Separator machine (or OSM) to do the job. NOTE : This is a viral ad sponsored by Oreo. But it’s still pretty funny, right? NOTE : This chocolate chip cookie recipe is also good. Change of pace!
