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Sunday, April 7, 2013
Screen It Sunday : Mom Knows It All. ? PR Friendly New Jersey ...
I?m frequently sent information on upcoming television, DVD/Blu-ray and movie news. I?ll be compiling and sharing the best and most interesting news with you here each week.
DOC MCSTUFFINS ? Vote For Your Favorite Toy Character and A New Episode
Beginning Friday, April 12, Disney Junior invites fans to vote for their favorite ?Doc McStuffins? toy character ? Hallie, Lambie, Stuffy or Chilly ? at DisneyJunior.com/Doc or the Disney Junior Facebook page. The toy with the most votes will be revealed on-air Friday, May 3 during the premiere of the new episode ?Bronto Boo-Boos / Brontosaurus Breath? (10:00-10:30 a.m., ET/PT) on Disney Channel. The episode debut will be followed by a special ?Doc McStuffins? marathon highlighting the winning character.
New episode description:
?Bronto Boo-Boos / Brontosaurus Breath? ? Donny?s new toy dinosaur, Bronty learns an important lesson about playing with little kids who are smaller than him and the importance of brushing his teeth.
Disney?s PLANES ? Sneak Peek Now Available!!!
From above the world of ?Cars? comes ?Disney?s Planes,? an action-packed 3D animated comedy adventure featuring Dusty (voice of Dane Cook), a plane with dreams of competing as a high-flying air racer. But Dusty?s not exactly built for racing?and he happens to be afraid of heights. So he turns to a seasoned naval aviator who helps Dusty qualify to take on the defending champ of the race circuit. Dusty?s courage is put to the ultimate test as he aims to reach heights he never dreamed possible, giving a spellbound world the inspiration to soar. ?Disney?s Planes? takes off in theaters on Aug. 9, 2013.
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Disneynature?s BEARS ? Featurette Now Available!
In an epic story of breathtaking scale, Disneynature?s new True Life Adventure ?Bears? showcases a year in the life of two mother bears as they impart life lessons to their impressionable young cubs. Set against a majestic Alaskan backdrop teeming with life, their journey begins as winter comes to an end and the bears emerge from hibernation to face the bitter cold. The world outside is exciting?but risky?as the cubs? playful descent down the mountain carries with it a looming threat of avalanches. As the season changes from spring to summer, the brown bear families must work together to find food?ultimately feasting at a plentiful salmon run?while staying safe from predators, including an ever-present wolf pack. ?Bears? captures the fast-moving action and suspense of life in one of the planet?s last great wildernesses?where mothers definitely know best and their cubs? survival hinges on family togetherness. Directed by Alastair Fothergill (?Earth,? ?African Cats? and ?Chimpanzee?) and Keith Scholey (?African Cats?), ?Bears? is in theaters April 18, 2014, to celebrate Earth Day.
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Disneynature?s BEARS releases in theaters on April 18, 2014!
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
One dead, dozens injured in Illinois school bus crash
(Reuters) - A school bus taking children to an elementary school in northeastern Illinois overturned in a crash at an intersection on Friday, killing an adult and injuring three dozen people, most of them young students, authorities said.
The bus was headed to Newport Elementary School in Wadsworth when witnesses say it ran a red light and hit a Jeep Wrangler, Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran said.
"The bus windows all crashed out. It's a bad scene," Curran told a news conference.
Wadsworth is about 45 miles north of Chicago near the Illinois-Wisconsin border in Lake County.
Twelve students were taken by ambulance to area hospitals and 23 others considered to be in at least good condition were taken on another bus to a hospital, John Kavanaugh, deputy chief of the Gurnee Fire Department, told reporters.
Two people from an SUV also involved in the crash were taken to a hospital, said Kavanaugh.
A helicopter video on the WGN-TV website showed the school bus resting on its side near an intersection, partly on the road and partly on the shoulder. An SUV with heavy front-end damage was next to the bus and the Jeep, extensively damaged, was nearby.
The bus did not have seat belts but high seat backs provided some protection for the students, officials said.
(Reporting by David Bailey; Editing by Tom Brown, Gary Hill)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/one-dead-illinois-crash-involving-school-bus-two-150948205.html
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Emmert defends record during contentious briefing
NCAA President Mark Emmert speaks at a news conference Thursday, April 4, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
NCAA President Mark Emmert speaks at a news conference Thursday, April 4, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
NCAA President Mark Emmert speaks at a news conference Thursday, April 4, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
NCAA President Mark Emmert speaks at a news conference Thursday, April 4, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
ATLANTA (AP) ? NCAA President Mark Emmert spent 15 minutes documenting the progress that the organization has made under his leadership, from making sure students go to class to fighting corruption.
Then he spent the next half-hour defending his record during an often-contentious news conference Thursday that took a bit of the glow off the Final Four.
A defiant Emmert shrugged off his critics, insisting that anyone pushing for significant reform is going to rub some people the wrong way.
"The fact of the matter is that change is what we're about in the NCAA right now," he said, "and we're trying to work our way through some very, very difficult changes to make the whole notion of intercollegiate athletics strong and viable going into the second century of the NCAA and of college sport."
On his way off the podium, Emmert even took a parting shot at a reporter who has called for his dismissal.
"I know you're disappointed," the president said with a sly grin, "but I'm still here."
The NCAA has come under fire for botching the investigation into a rogue booster at Miami, and there have been complaints about the way the governing body handled other cases, such as the harsh sanctions leveled against Penn State in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
Emmert has acknowledged that investigators overstepped their authority in their zeal to collect information against Miami.
"The Miami issue had some enormous foul-ups in it," he said. "We've addressed those issues."
Still, the organization faces about a half-dozen legal challenges to the way it does business, including a federal antitrust lawsuit filed by Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania. He believes the NCAA overstepped its authority when it imposed sanctions against Penn State over its handling of the Sandusky case, based largely on a scathing internal review led by former FBI chief Louis Freeh.
"If you're not getting sued today, you're not doing anything," Emmert said. "I don't know anybody that doesn't have litigation pending, so I'm not going to apologize for the fact that we have a very litigious society and there's plenty of reasons to file suit against large organizations."
Emmert also was asked about a report from USA Today Sports that accused him of shirking responsibility for problems in previous jobs at Connecticut, LSU and Montana State. The newspaper said Emmert had a pattern of moving on to more lucrative posts before the full extent of problems at his previous posts were known. He has served as NCAA president since November 2010.
"The fact of the matter is that everywhere I've been, I've been asked by boards or other bosses to help drive change," he said. "I'm very proud of the changes that have been made at every place I've been along the way. They're all institutions that have wonderful traditions."
Emmert started his state-of-the-NCAA news conference by going into great detail about all the changes that have occurred on his watch, many of them designed to toughen academic standards while streamlining the rule book to eliminate confusing guidelines and put the focus on more heinous offenses, such as paying players or fixing grades.
"It is also the time of year when we get to focus on what we're supposed to focus on in this whole enterprise, and that's the student-athletes," he said, praising the city of Atlanta for its Final Four preparations and reveling in the unpredictability of the tournament, which included No. 15 seed Florida Gulf Coast winning two games and ninth-seeded Wichita State earning a spot in the Final Four along with Louisville, Michigan and Syracuse.
LSU athletic director Joe Alleva, who is also on the NCAA basketball committee, insisted that Emmert has the full confidence of the membership despite the recent missteps and negative publicity.
Among the cases cited in by USA Today: allegations of academic fraud in the Tigers football program in 2001-02, when Emmert was chancellor at the school and led an investigation that found five minor violations while declaring most of the claims "unfounded."
"President Emmert is an outstanding leader," said Alleva, who came to LSU after the academic fraud case. "I can tell you we currently have things in place that he put into place to make sure we don't have any of those kind of problems again. The folks at LSU think the world of Mark Emmert and the way he was a leader during his time there."
But, in his time before the media, Emmert spent nearly the entire session responding to questions about the seamier side of college athletics, everything from reports showing athletes are coping with tougher academic standards by choosing easier courses of study ? a trend known as "clustering" ? to Rutgers' firing of men's basketball coach Mike Rice after a video emerged showing him abusing players and berating them with gay slurs.
And there were plenty of questions about Emmert's own record.
"I'm proud of my reputation at every place I've been," he said. "If you want to go to my campuses, scratch around and find somebody that doesn't like some of the decisions I've made, I'm sure you can find them."
Asked if he felt like a lightning rod for everything that is wrong in college sports, Emmert said that goes with the job.
"Some of the criticisms about change or what's going on naturally get leveled at the guy at the top," he said. "If you're going to launch a change agenda, you've got to be willing to deal with the criticism. So, OK, I deal with criticism."
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North Korea: Foreign embassy staff may not be safe if there's war
In the latest threat from the isolated country, North Korea has moved two missiles towards its coastline, but they are not believed to be capable of reaching the United States. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
By Ian Johnston and Becky Bratu, NBC News
North Korea told foreign embassies Friday that it will not be able to guarantee their safety ?in the event of conflict? from April 10, the U.K. said in a statement.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Moscow was in close contact with the United States, China, South Korea and Japan over a North Korean request to consider the possibility of evacuating embassies, Russian news agencies reported.
"The proposal was made to the embassies in Pyongyang, and we are trying to clarify the situation," Interfax quoted Lavrov as saying during a visit to Uzbekistan.
He was quoted as saying: "We are in close contact with our Chinese partners as well as the Americans, the South Koreans and the Japanese."
The missiles aren't capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, however they do have a range of about 2000 miles which means they are within reach of South Korea. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
The statement from the U.K. Foreign Office said its embassy in Pyongyang ?received a communication from the North Korean government this morning saying that the North Korean government would be unable to guarantee the safety of embassies and international organizations in the country in the event of conflict from April 10th.?
A British official said the message was a general one that was sent to other embassies.
The significance of the date was unclear. However, the North told South Korean companies that operate factories in the Kaesong industrial zone to complete pulling out by April 10, Ok Sung-suk, vice president of an association that represents them, said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
'Ongoing rhetoric'
A British official, who declined to be named, said that ?we believe this is part of the ongoing rhetoric? from the North Korea regime.
On Thursday, State Department said the United States had to take necessary defensive steps in light of North Korea's escalating threats.
But it also emphasized that it could "change course" if the North stopped issuing threats.
"The moves that we have been making are designed to ensure and to reassure the American people and our allies that we can defend the United States, that we will and that we can defend our allies," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland discusses the increase of aggressive rhetoric that is being expressed on a regular basis by the North Korean government.
"It was the ratcheting up of tensions on the DPRK [the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or North Korea's official name] side that caused us to need to shore up our own defense posture,? she said.
Nuland added that while the U.S. took North Korea's "bellicose threats" seriously, the situation on the Korean Peninsula "does not need to get hotter."
"We can change course here if the DPRK will begin to come back into compliance with its international obligations, will begin to cool things down, take a pause," she added.
The North is "wrong-headed" if it thinks these threats will help them get aid from the international community and its rhetoric will only lead to further isolation of the country, Nuland said.
A U.S. intelligence officer said Thursday that North Korea was moving a medium-range missile to a site in the east of the country. The official declined to say where the Musudan missile was headed, but the North has used a site near the Russian border on the coast for its missile tests in the past.
Citing intelligence sources, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Friday that a second intermediate-range missile had been hidden on the east coast of North. NBC News was unable to independently verify the claim.
Experts say a ground war with North Korea would be devastating, with 700,000 North Korean soldiers aiming thousands of rockets and artillery at South Korea. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski reports.
South Korea's Defense Ministry declined to comment on the report, according to Reuters.
On Wednesday, North Korea's military said in a statement that ?the moment of explosion is approaching fast."
?No one can say a war will break out in Korea or not and whether it will break out today or tomorrow,? it added.
NBC News' Catherine Chomiak and Reuters contributed to this report.
Related:
Nine 'facts' about North Korea's Kim Jong Un
N. Korea's overseas apologists dismiss 'propaganda'
Full North Korea coverage from NBC News
This story was originally published on Thu Apr 4, 2013 8:27 PM EDT
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Friday, April 5, 2013
Williams sisters win their way into semis
Serena Williams returns to Mallory Burdette during the Family Circle Cup tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Friday, April 5, 2013. Williams and Burdette played their third round match on Friday since rain postponed their match on Thursday. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Serena Williams returns to Mallory Burdette during the Family Circle Cup tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Friday, April 5, 2013. Williams and Burdette played their third round match on Friday since rain postponed their match on Thursday. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Venus Williams returns to Varvara Lepchenko at the Family Circle Cup tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Friday, April 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Serena Williams returns to Mallory Burdette at the Family Circle Cup tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Friday, April 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Isha Price, Venus Williams' sister, braves the cold and off-and-on rain during Williams' match against Varvara Lepchenko at the Family Circle Cup tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Friday, April 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Varvara Lepchenko returns to Venus Williams returns at the Family Circle Cup tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Friday, April 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) ? Top-ranked Serena Williams ended a long and successful day for the Williams family as she and sister Venus both won twice Friday to reach the Family Circle Cup semifinals and set up their first sibling showdown since 2009.
Serena won her 13th straight match by defeating sixth-seeded Lucie Safarova, 6-4, 6-1. Earlier, she topped two-time NCAA doubles champ Mallory Burdette in a third-round match moved due to Thursday's 7 ?-hour rain delay.
Venus also had double duty, rallying past Varvara Lepchenko in three sets before ousting 18-year-old Madison Keys later on Billie Jean King Court.
The Williams sisters next go for a spot in the finals Saturday. They haven't met in a tournament since the 2009 Tour Championships in Qatar. Serena holds a 13-10 lead, although they're 1-1 on clay.
"For the record, we've never played two matches on the same day," Serena told the stadium crowd. "You guys had a real treat."
They surely did. The sisters were the first four matches on the stadium court ? and they only dropped one set combined.
"I was thinking it was a quadruple-header," Venus said with a laugh. "I don't know if that's ever going to happen again."
The excitement continues Saturday when the sisters go against each for a 24th time in their stellar careers at a venue where both have enjoyed championship moments.
Serena is seeking her third Family Circle title after wins in her last two appearances here in 2008 and 2012. Venus took this title in 2004 and scored the clinching points last September when the Washington Kastles took the World Team Tennis crown at Family Circle Tennis Center.
There's another side of the bracket, too. Jelena Jankovic won her 500th career match with a straight sets win over Eugenie Bouchard. Jankovic will face either No. 2 seed Caroline Wozniacki or Stephanie Voegele in the semifinals.
"In order to have 500 wins, I think you have to have a pretty long career, be pretty consistent," the 28-year-old Jankovic said.
The sisters were put in the unusual spot of doubling up when the rain postponed much of Thursday's schedule.
Venus Williiams looked her most comfortable of the week against the power-hitting Keys. Williams had needed a third set to pull out both her previous matches and it looked as though it might happen again when Keys was a point away from moving in front 4-1 in the second set.
But Williams was able to rally to win five of the final six games, securing her second semifinal berth in four tournaments this year.
Venus Williams seemed to have her first match under control, ahead 6-2 and 3-0 in the second set. Lapchenko rallied to win seven of the next eight games while a chilly drizzle fell in the middle of the second set and took a 1-0 lead in the decisive set. That's when Williams again found her game and pulled away by winning six of the final seven games.
Venus Williams returned to clay-court action at the 2012 Family Circle after an absence of about two years on the surface. A bout with the autoimmune disease Sjogren's Syndrome kept her from the game for almost six months between the 2011 U.S. Open and the 2012 Sony Open. She reached the quarterfinals here a year ago, falling to Samantha Stosur to prevent an all-Williams semi that time.
Safarova, who lost to Serena Williams, 6-0, 6-1 in the 2012 finals, led in the opening set and had a point to go up 5-2. Instead, Williams rallied back from deuce and won the final four games to take the set.
Williams big serves and power game smothered Safarova after that.
Williams served a 106 mph ace to set up match point, then chased down Safarova's drop shot to take the match ? and give herself a well-earned rest.
Burdette held her own against Serena Williams, the world's No. 1 player, and was tied at 4 in the opening set. Burdette had a chance to get to 5-all a few moments later, but Williams won the next three points to close out the set.
Williams screamed loudly and pumped her fist after taking the set.
Williams broke out again when the second set was tied at 2-all, winning the final four games.
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