Eden Mahoney, 1, was all smiles while out with actress mom Marcia Cross, 45, her twin sister Savannah, and a nanny in Beverly Hills, CA on Wednesday. Dad is Tom Mahoney.
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Eden is wearing Hanna Andersson Swedish Moccasins in Pale Peony ($18).
Calling itself the Micro-Fiber Militia, a group of crocheters in Chicago are following in the footsteps of groups like Knitta Please and the Knitta Crew, covering tree trunks, scaffolding, bike racks, and bus-stop poles with crocheted flowers and other colorful designs. One new group of works makes use of glow-in-the-dark yarn. Is it vandalism or graffiti of some type? The group's founder prefers to call it "artistic littering." [Methods Reporter]
J.K. Rowling sues publisher RDR Books and “feels betrayed” by Harry Potter Lexicon founder Steven Vander Ark because they intend to publish a print version of the same name. Seems Rowling was “accepting” of sites such as the HP Lexicon and others while they were thousands of dollars’ worth of excellent free marketing for her books but not so much now that they plan to publish a book that people will have to, you know, buy with money.
Rowling said she was especially irked that the site’s owner and the lexicon’s would-be publisher, RDR Books, continued to insist that her acceptance of free, fan-based Web sites justified the efforts.
“I am deeply troubled by the portrayal of my efforts to protect and preserve the copyrights I have been granted in the Harry Potter books,” she wrote in court papers filed Wednesday in a lawsuit she brought against the small Muskegon, Mich., publisher.
She said she intends to publish her own definitive Harry Potter encyclopedia.
“If RDR’s position is accepted, it will undoubtedly have a significant, negative impact on the freedoms enjoyed by genuine fans on the Internet,” she said. “Authors everywhere will be forced to protect their creations much more rigorously, which could mean denying well-meaning fans permission to pursue legitimate creative activities.”
Poppycock. Is there a copyright violation in the intended work, or is there not? If there is, then for sure there is a copyright violation in the web site, which therefore should have been shut down by legal force years ago. Something doesn’t comprise “legitimate creative activities” when free (and free marketing) on the web but amount to copyright violation only when there are royalties involved. That she would begin to object only when royalties were involved is only too human-nature obvious. And she has a somewhat overblown concept of authors’ rights if she expects to be able to trample what even she describes as “legitimate” work in the name of preventing outright copyright violation.
Is there a copyright violation? I don’t know (insert I Am Not a Lawyer boilerplate here). But on the surface it seems that if there is, then that standard would surely apply to sites like TheOneRing.net and the books I helped create based on that site. So what if Rowling plans to publish her own encyclopedia? Reference material can be copyrighted but surely not the right to create reference material. Suddenly half of academia would be out of business. Fiction utilizing the characters is different, but a publisher would have to be crazy to put any of that (mostly) swill into print for cash. And nobody really believes that upon publication of Rowling’s own encyclopedia, anybody would say “Oh, well, I already bought Vander Ark’s website in print form, so I don’t really need the definitive word from the author herself,” do they?
She added: “I find it devastating to contemplate the possibility of such a severe alteration of author-fan relations.”
Which is just a sentimental (or, in the British, treacly) way of saying “Our relations will be lovely so long as you do nothing that irritates me, whether it’s actually illegal or not.” Nice.
"We expect Republicans to follow other Republicans, and there is obviously a mixed message with what happened yesterday," Seifert said at a news conference Tuesday. "We're not taking anyone's secretary away. I'm not throwing their computers down the Capitol steps. I'm not severing their phone lines."
• Rep. Rod Hamilton, R-Mountain Lake, replaced by Rep. Dean Urdahl, R-Grove City, in the Agriculture, Rural Economies & Veterans Affairs Committee.
• Rep. Kathy Tingelstad, R-Andover, replaced by Rep. Larry Howes, R-Walker, in the Capital Investment Committee.
• Rep. Jim Abeler, R-Anoka, replaced by Rep. Matt Dean, R-Dellwood, in the Health Care and Human Services Committee.
• Heidgerken, R-Freeport, replaced by Rep. Sondra Erickson, R-Princeton, in the K-12 Finance Committee.
• Erhardt, R-Edina, replaced by Rep. Morrie Lanning, R-Moorhead, in the Property Tax Relief & Local Sales Taxes Committee.
• In addition, Rep. Neil Peterson, R-Bloomington, was removed as an assistant minority whip and replaced by Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington.
Most troubling, though, are the aftershocks emanating from the Republican Party and Pawlenty.
Within hours of the override, it became clear the party expects to punish Heidgerken and the other five House members for breaking ranks with the party and instead voting for what they believed was best for their constituents and all Minnesotans.
Heidgerken said he will lose his post as lead Republican on the House K-12 Finance Committee. News reports indicate other consequences could include others resigning similar posts, losing staff and research services, or not getting party support in re-election bids.
The Pioneer Press quoted Pawlenty as follows on this issue: "If you are going to be a team, you know, then there are going to be some team rules and team expectations, and I'll leave that up to the caucus leaders how they are going to address this further."
We expected a lot of things in the wake of this transportation bill passing — safer bridges, higher taxes and, yes, some Election Day changes. We didn't expect our governor and his political party to take such a low road in response to six votes cast for Team Minnesota, for once, instead of Team GOP.
If this phrase gets your heart racing like a sip of Sommelier-Stephen's Black Tea-Milk Chocolate Soup, then you've probably got your Tivo/DVR all set up for Wednesday night. Top Chef is in Chicago for its fourth season, and thanks to excited Second City foodies running for their laptops, we've got a good idea of what the contestants were up to while in town. This is all about spoilers without the spoil, so feel free to enjoy it just like a marathon of Top Chef: a feast without the calories.
To reach our quarterly financial goal, El needs to raise $1,000 per half hour of phone time.
In 2006, when Gov. Tim Pawlenty was seeking this board's endorsement for a second term, he was asked specifically what he'd do different if re-elected.
Coming off several very partisan sessions, he earnestly responded that he'd wished he had "kept a few pitches in the glove" when it came to partisan bickering preventing progress. Duly impressed, this board took him at his word and endorsed him.
Based on his reaction to the House overriding his transportation veto Monday, we obviously misunderstood him. He wanted to keep those pitches so he could throw high hard fastballs directly at the heads of anybody who disagreed with him.
Seriously, the immature reactions of Pawlenty and the punishments delivered by the Republican Party to six House members who broke ranks with their peers to support the override are inexcusable.
It's hard to remember a governor providing a better example of not just politically embarrassing behavior, but flat-out bullying. And remember, this state experienced four years of Jesse Ventura.
Speaking of the Republican Party, its leaders at the Capitol and statewide not only showed the same immaturity as Pawlenty, but they gave fair-minded voters ample reason to doubt their own credibility by demoting those who opposed the governor.
Just look at Central Minnesota House Republican Reps. Bud Heidgerken and Dean Urdahl. Heidgerken voted against the governor and lost his post as senior Republican on the House K-12 Finance Division. Urdahl, also a potential swing vote, backed the governor. He's now lead Republican on the House Agricultural, Rural Economies and Veterans Affairs Committee. (He replaced Rep. Rod Hamilton, R-Mountain Lake, who voted with Heidgerken.)
What else can be deduced from such moves other than the Republican Party wants key leadership spots filled not by the most qualified members, but members who put party loyalty first and all other concerns second?
Soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimović and his partner Helena welcomed their second son on Thursday, March 6 at University Hospital in southern Sweden. The couple plan to name their new son Vincent. He joins brother Maximilian, 17 months. Dr. Dag Wide-Swensson released in a statement,
The birth went fantastically well.
Source: Fox Sports
Thanks to CBB reader Anna.
Shark and Ugly Betty's Kevin Alejandro, 31, and his musician wife Leslie welcomed their first child on Friday, February 22nd in Los Angeles, CA. Kaden Michael Alejandro weighed in at 7 lbs 2 oz, and was 20 inches long.
Source: People
The British reputation as tea connoisseurs is overblown, and most locals are content to fuel up with daily mugs of builders brew drowned with milk and sugar. When Americans come to town, they tend to do the fancy tourist high-tea scenario -- which is more about the finger sandwiches than the tea. Nevertheless, a handful of boutique tea salons have popped up in recent years, determined to teach the British what a real cup of quality tea tastes like. At the following highbrow London venues, the discerning tea snob or the merely discerning can choose from hand-tied Chinese green or organic chamomile flowers come teatime. London's top specialty tea spaces range from the uber-chic to the cozy and casual, but all offer only the very best cuppa the world has to offer.
Matthew Broderick, 45, receives a little help from son James Wilkie, 5, while walking the family dog in New York City today. Mom is actress Sarah Jessica Parker.
Photos by Ramey.
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People.com has a fun little 9-question celebrity pregnancy quiz if you're looking for something to do. It gives you a hint, a photo with a blurred-out face, and four choices. We fully expect regular readers to get 9 out of 9, as we've posted all the images they used on CBB in the past!
What was your score?