Smallville season 9 episode 1 Smallville savior full episode

I can't believe I missed another Season Premiere....First Biggest Loser now Smallville season 9.

I saw this story----->Here!


Smallville season 9 episode 1 Smallville savior full episode. Going into the fall, it was widely assumed that Smallville would likely be ending at the conclusion of its current eighth season. After all, two of the central characters – Lana Lang and Lex Luthor – were gone, as the actors who portrayed them, Kristin Kreuk and Michael Rosenbaum, had left the series. Plus, eight seasons is a pretty long run for a show focusing on Clark Kent's pre-Superman days, and a number of fans felt the show's quality had dipped drastically by Season 7.

I think that the show has still got some potential...

Now however, EW.com's Michael Ausiello says the TV version of the Man of Steel could be sticking around for at least another year. Many feel the series has improved this season, and asked by one such excited fan if the show could return for Season 9, Ausiello replies, "I hear The CW will likely take the don't-fix-if-not-broke approach and keep its Thursday line-up intact next season," implying both Smallville and Supernatural will return for the 2009-2010 season.

The CW may be more keen on keeping Smallville now because The Graysons project they had in development has been scrapped. That potential series – about a young Dick Grayson before he becomes Robin – was perceived as a potential replacement for Smallville. However, with Smallville still performing for the network and The Graysons no longer happening, The CW may be thinking it's best to just stick with their proven series.

Ausiello says that a recent rumor that The CW had already renewed Supernatural for a fifth season is not true. However, considering the very respectable numbers that show is pulling in this season, it would be a surprise if it didn't come back next fall.

I think they should keep it going.  Smallville has potential to reach right into Man of Steel....spinoff.

Now I think if you want to change something bring back more shows like Listener...and any other

special powers show...


Yours Truly,


Brian
"mediamerlin"
Woodbridge

Watch Vampire Diaries Episode 3 Online:The Vampire Diaries S01E03 CW

Story viewed HERE

Watch Vampire Diaries Episode 3 Online:The Vampire Diaries S01E03 CW – Vampire Diaries episode 3 named “Friday Night Bites” aired tonight on The CW network.

The episode was written by John Dahl and directed by Barbie Kligman and Bryan M. Holdman.Nina Dobrev really shined through tonight.Here is a brief recap of what occurred.

I Watched it airing on another network...

Elena tries to ignore Bonnie’s warnings about the disturbing vibes she got from Stefan. Tyler tries to embarrass Stefan by throwing a football at him, but Stefan effortlessly catches and passes the ball back, impressing everyone with his skill. Mr. Tanner reluctantly lets Stefan join the football team. Elena invites Stefan and Bonnie to dinner, hoping that the two will bond, but the evening is disrupted by the unexpected and unwelcome arrival of Damon and Caroline. Finally, the town is shocked by an act of violence.  

My own input on the subject is that Tyler and Damon have words about each other....
specifically about Damon's humanity or not?

Yours Truly,
.
Brian"mediamerlin"Woodbridge


P.S.--->If you want to watch the Vampire Diaries Episode 3 Online,please visit the CW website,it is free.

Official Torture----Corpus Delicti

When sheldon whitehouse wrote HERE.
about
'Corpus Delicti' - a bullet-riddled body in the street, for instance.

When prosecutors are presented with it....see above.


That ordinarily is enough to justify investigation. Through investigation, the evidence may prove that there was not in fact a crime (it was a suicide or an accident) or that the fatal acts were privileged or enjoy a legal defense (self-defense or justifiable shooting by an officer of the law). But one begins by investigation.
The judicial branch (which, under Marbury v. Madison, has the ultimate duty to determine "what the law is") has determined that waterboarding is torture (see U.S. v. Lee, decided in 1984 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit). The Bush administration has admitted to waterboarding captives. The corpus delicti of that crime exists. For there to be investigation now is unexceptional.
The only exceptional thing is the parties involved: the former vice president of the United States, his counsel David Addington, Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) lawyer John Yoo and their private contractors Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell, psychologists who designed the torture program. But in America, high office does not put one outside the law. Indeed, it borders on unethical for a prosecutor to refuse to investigate the corpus delicti of a crime because of concern as to where the evidence may lead.
With the corpus delicti present, a prosecutor looks to see whether theories of criminal liability can be eliminated by evidence the investigation reveals (a suicide note in the pocket, a police officer's convincing description of a "clean shoot"). But as long as a viable theory of criminal liability remains, the investigation continues.
Hence the question: Looking only at the evidence that has become public so far, is there a viable theory of criminal liability arising out of this corpus delicti, the torture of America's captives?
There is substantial evidence of legal malpractice by lawyer Yoo. His opinions were even withdrawn under the Bush administration, and they are the subject of an unprecedented internal investigation by the Department of Justice. For one thing, the precise case on point was overlooked. The analysis is bad enough that it could be a sham. Investigation would reveal whether this was the result of incompetence, ideology or instruction.
There is substantial evidence of a back channel between Addington and Yoo. It is not yet clear what information or instructions passed along that back channel. It does appear to have sidelined regular chains of reporting, including the attorney general. Investigation would determine whether this was communication or conspiracy.
There is substantial public evidence of exceptional access provided to the private contractors. They were allowed to repeatedly interrupt and ultimately compromise one of the most productive interrogations in our fight against terrorism. As contractors, they were outside the military and government chains of command and reporting and thus were potentially a means of direct secret access between the White House and the torture chamber. Investigation would reveal whether this was abused.
There is substantial evidence that the waterboarding went outside what was approved by the OLC opinions. The opinions themselves disclosed this fact. A Senate Armed Services Committee investigation disclosed evidence of abusive interrogation techniques being used to establish a link between al-Queda and Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the 2004 presidential election. That purpose is not one for which abusive techniques were allowed. A recent Washington Post article reported that, after 83 waterboardings over four or five days, a detainee "was broken" and the team unanimously concluded that "he was cooperating," yet headquarters insisted that waterboarding continue for 30 more days. If true, this would appear to violate the OLC legal requirement "that a terrorist attack is imminent" and "the subject has actionable intelligence that can prevent, disrupt, or delay this attack," before waterboarding can take place. Investigation would determine whether these apparent violations of OLC's restrictions were in fact culpable.
None of this evidence creates a complete case, yet. But it suggests theories of criminal liability that are not foreclosed by the evidence so far. Put these elements together: actual torture under our existing laws, the possibility of actual knowledge that the OLC opinions were phony, conduct outside the restrictions even of those opinions and a possible improper motive outside of legitimate national security concerns. That's a theory of criminal liability, and it has not yet been eliminated by the evidence. From a prosecutor's perspective, the stonewalling we have seen — aggressive assertions of executive privilege, refusals to cooperate with inspectors general, cover stories that don't withstand scrutiny — raises suspicions further.
When the evidence is all in, it may prove that all the conduct surrounding American's descent into torture was proper, protected by good-faith legal defenses. But it's too early to responsibly reach that conclusion. Investigation is what allows such a conclusion to be reached.
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) is a former U.S. attorney.

When  you read this you may wonder what they are actually doing...

Words can be twisted to make sense but how?

You determine what is really going on or are they trying to blind you?

Yours Truly,

Brian"mediamerlin"Woodbridge

The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Hi-Def Event

This is amazing ...I watched wizard of OZ the first time I believe at the 40th Anniversary....or 35th?

This blog I read The la weekly.

IT REALLY WAS NO MIRACLE. WHAT HAPPENED WAS JUST THIS ..

By LIbby Molyneaux 

  The Seattle Times also had a story...

It's been 70 years since the release of The Wizard of Oz. Many of us have never seen the classic on the big screen — and here's the chance we've been waiting for. The AMC Century City 15 screens "The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Hi-Def Event." Warning: The Wicked Witch of the East may cause hi-def nightmares.

Having trouble with the photos but do you all remember what it felt like to watch that movie growing up?

Yours truly,

Brian"mediamerlin"Woodbridge

Biography of Her Majesty Queen Noor

This story about the wife of Late King Hussein of Jordan found HERE.

Her Majesty Queen Noor is an international public servant and an outspoken voice on issues of world peace and justice.

She plays an active role in promoting international exchange and understanding of Arab and Muslim culture and politics, Arab-Western relations, and conflict prevention and recovery issues such as refugees, missing persons, poverty and disarmament. She has also helped found media programs to highlight these issues. Her conflict recovery and peacebuilding work over the past decade has focused on the Middle East, the Balkans, Central and Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa.

As President and Honorary President of United World Colleges, Queen Noor and Nelson Mandela unite to foster peace and international understanding through the global education initiative.

 

Queen Noor’s work in Jordan and the larger Middle East has focused on national needs in the areas of education, conservation, sustainable development, human rights and cross-cultural understanding. She is also actively involved with international and UN organizations that address global challenges in these fields.

Since 1979, the initiatives of the Noor Al Hussein Foundation (NHF) which she chairs have transformed development thinking in Jordan and the Middle East through pioneering programs in the areas of poverty eradication and sustainable development, women’s empowerment, microfinance, health, environmental conservation, and arts as a medium for social development and cross-cultural exchange, many of which are internationally acclaimed models for the developing world. NHF provides training and assistance in implementing these best practice programs in the broader Arab and Asian regions through the Jubilee Institute, the Institute for Family Health, the Community Development Program, Tamweelcom—the Jordan Micro Credit Company (ranked the regional MFI leader and eighth best performing in the world), the Information and Research Center, the National Center for Culture and Performing Arts, and the National Music Conservatory.

Queen Noor also chairs the King Hussein Foundation and the King Hussein Foundation International (KHFI), which she founded in 1999 to build on King Hussein’s humanitarian vision and legacy in Jordan and abroad through national, regional and international programs that promote education and leadership, economic empowerment, tolerance, and cross cultural dialogue and media that enhance mutual understanding and respect among different cultures and across conflict lines.

As chair of the King Hussein Foundation, Queen Noor dedicates the Sun Microsystems Center at the Foundation’s Jubilee School for exceptional students, a pioneer in distance and computer-assisted learning.

 

KHFI awards the annual King Hussein Leadership Prize to individuals, groups or institutions that demonstrate inspiring and courageous leadership in their efforts to promote sustainable development, human rights, tolerance, equity and peace. Past recipients of the Prize are Professor Muhammed Yunus (2000), United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) (2001), Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization (2002), Mary Robinson (2003), Médecins Sans Frontières (2004), The Arab Human Development Reports, Dr. Rola Dashti, Saliha Djuderija, and OneVoice (2005), Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Seeds of Peace (2006), and green energy entrepreneur Robert Freling (2008).

In May 2007, KHFI launched its Media and Humanity Program during New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival to promote film and media projects that highlight shared values, rights and aspirations across social, economic, political and cultural divides with special emphasis on the Middle East and Muslim world. Her Majesty is also co-founder of The Alliance of Civilizations Media Fund, an unprecedented, not-for-profit initiative formed out of a partnership between private media, the United Nations, and global philanthropists to promote and support media content that enhances mutual understanding and respect within and among different societies and cultures.

Queen Noor has traveled extensively throughout the Balkans since her first humanitarian mission in 1996 after the fall of Srebrenica. She is a Commissioner of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) created through the Dayton Accords to promote reconciliation and conflict resolution through the search for, recovery, and identification of missing persons from the armed conflicts in the Balkans and more recently southeast Europe, southeast Asia, the Middle East and South America. She has supported and overseen the ICMP's groundbreaking forensic DNA identification and families/community reconciliation programs and advocated with the leaders of BiH to finalize the establishment of The Missing Persons Institute, critical to resolution of the tragedy of tens of thousands of missing and murdered in the 1990s Balkans conflicts.

She has assumed an advocacy role in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and has traveled to Central and Southeast Asia, the Balkans, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America to advocate with governments, support NGOs, and visit with landmine survivors struggling to recover and reclaim their lives. She has testified before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus appealing for humanitarian assistance and justice for hundreds of thousands of landmine victims worldwide.

Queen Noor meets with Iraqi refugees and volunteers at a healthcare services program run by the Noor Al Hussein Foundation and Jordanian Red Crescent for thousands of displaced Iraqis living in Jordan.

 

At the invitation of President Andres Pastrana and President Alvaro Uribe Velez, Queen Noor has undertaken several humanitarian missions to Colombia to try to negotiate a series of humanitarian accords with the leaders of the country’s guerilla insurgency on landmines, child soldiers and kidnappings, to promote mine awareness programs in rural and conflict areas with UNDP, to advocate against the use of anti-personnel mines especially in civilian areas, and to oversee the destruction of Columbia’s last arsenal of anti-personnel mines.

In 2004 and 2005, as an expert advisor to the United Nations, Queen Noor traveled to Central Asia to advocate for adoption and implementation of the Ottawa Treaty throughout the region and for multi-sectoral commitment to the Millennium Development Goals in Tajikistan, one of the world’s poorest countries.

A long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees, she is a board member of Refugees International and an outspoken voice for the protection of civilians in conflict and for displaced persons around the world. She has visited Pakistan to assess and promote support for Afghan refugees during the war, and is advocating for international support for more than 2.5 million Pakistanis forced to flee government-militant clashes in the northwest region, as well as nearly 5 million Iraqis displaced in Iraq and in Jordan, Syria and other countries after the 2003 Iraq conflict.

 

 

During a four day visit to Liberia, Queen Noor paid a moral-boosting visit to Jordanian peacekeeping troops and joined President Ellen Sirleaf Johnson in groundbreaking ceremonies for several new schools.

 

Queen Noor is actively involved in a number of international organizations advancing global peace-building and conflict recovery. She is a founding leader of Global Zero, an international effort to eliminate nuclear weapons worldwide, an Advisor to the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Seeds of Peace, Council of Women World Leaders, Women Waging Peace, and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and Honorary Chair of Survivor Corps.

She is also President of the United World Colleges, Trustee of the Aspen Institute, Refugees International, America Near East Refugee Aid, and Conservation International, Patron of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and Founding President and Honorary President Emeritus of BirdLife International.

 

At the invitation of President Alvaro Uribe Velez, Queen Noor has undertaken several humanitarian missions to Colombia to negotiate various peace accords and de-mining agreements with rebels.

 

In recognition of her efforts to advance development, democracy and peace, Queen Noor has been awarded numerous awards and honorary doctorates in international relations, law and humane letters.

She has published two books, Hussein of Jordan (KHF Publishing, 2000) and Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life (Miramax Books, 2003), a New York Times best seller published in 15 languages.

 

 

This women is remarkable...she has done a lot for human interests and for making life more bearable.

I commend her.

Brian"mediamerlin"Woodbridge

Emmy Awards get boost from Neil Patrick Harris

Story read at REUTERS
                                                      By Frank Scheck
 

By Frank Scheck
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Proving that he could well succeed as a critic should his current gig not work out, Jeff Probst summed up it nicely.
"Neil Patrick Harris ... this is how you host the Emmys," said the "Survivor" maven as he accepted his award for best reality host.
Jon Stewart later echoed the sentiment, noting that "these shows, they usually suck."

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Jon Stewart later echoed the sentiment, noting that "these shows, they usually suck."

Of course, as Probst well knows, the bar wasn't set too high after last year's reality show-star-hosted debacle. But Harris, in his third awards show gig in the past year, demonstrated yet again that he's the perfect man for the gig. The star of "How I Met Your Mother" did a standout job -- starting with the hilarious opening number, during which he showed his musical talent, and continuing with his mock outrage over losing to Jon Cryer. Harris was affable, charming and simultaneously self-deprecating and comically self-aggrandizing.

But it wasn't just him. Everything about the show seemed sharper, faster, punchier: the amusing introductions of the presenters, who mentioned their most embarrassing credits; John Hodgman's witty, deadpan commentary accompanying the winners on their way to the podium; even the acceptance speeches, which for the most part were amusing, moving and mercifully brief. The speech highlight probably was that of Ken Howard, who won for "Grey Gardens."

"This is very encouraging," the never-nominated veteran actor noted, before hoping that he wouldn't be "interrupted by congressmen or rappers" and thanking both his wife (celebrating her birthday) and the woman who donated him a kidney.

The evening was divided into segments according to genre (comedy, reality, movie/miniseries, variety, drama), which lent the normally random proceedings a welcome cohesiveness. Each section was prefaced by well-edited clip montages, though, thankfully unlike last year, there weren't so many as to give the show the air of a DVR on crack. Despite being forced to acknowledge on-air the contributions of such apparently minor aspects of the medium as writers, directors, movies, miniseries and cable networks, the producers still managed to keep the show at a well-paced clip; it ended a mere three minutes late. If they really had wanted to cut the running time, they should have banned all shout-outs to Lorne Michaels. Perhaps as a mea culpa, the nominated writers and directors were spotlighted via taped, generally amusing comments about the process.

Normally painful moments, such as the dreaded appearance of the accountants, were flat-out funny -- in this case thanks to a taped bit in which Harris reprised his Internet character Dr. Horrible.

The writing for the presenters was at best pedestrian. The ad-libbers were much better, among them Ricky Gervais. As he did last year, Gervais again brought down the house, this time with a bit about the comparative beauty of film and television stars. "In this room, I'm above average," he noted, taking shots at several of the stars of "The Office" in the process.

Another comic winner was Bob Newhart, scoring big laughs before awarding the drama series award. Inexplicably, the cameras cut away from Tina Fey fulfilling Newhart's claim of a promised kiss should she win.

Only a few bits fell flat, such as a strained, quickly abandoned recurring gag involving a "contest winner" repeatedly spotlighted in the worst seats in the house.

(Editing by DGoodman at Reuters)

I should have watched this but I had my mind on learning how to build my websites.

See my other blog on the links list.

Brian"mediamerlin"Woodbridge