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Funny you should ask, Late Night audience member. That guest, seated alongside Will Ferrell and Rashida Jones, was officially billed as “Fred Simmons, the King of the Demo,” a martial arts instructor from Concord, NC. He was, in fact, comic actor Danny R. McBride, who you might recognize from Hot Rod, and who you can catch in upcoming releases Drillbit Taylor and Pineapple Express. (Not to be confused with the stuntman/Underworld screenwriter Danny McBride.) McBride created the role of the bumbling Simmons for The Foot Fist Way, a movie from 2006 that will finally hit theaters on April 11.This Conan appearance was an Andy Kaufmanesque attempt at viral marketing for the upcoming release. So feel free to laugh away, feeling little to no agitation or discomfort!
I knew it was fake but it still made me horribly uncomfortable. I wanted to crawl inside Will Farrell’s basketball “shorts” and hide.
If you were unable to decipher, after more than 50 seconds, that the character was a piss-take, then I fear you and wish you nothing but the best in your future. But seriously, just stay away from me.
@mtnmacgrl: Same here - it was obviously not real, but also nowhere near as funny as satire bits on Conan usually are (not really funny at all, actually). It was very confusing.
But I’m glad to at least know why he looked vaguely familiar - he was also in All the Real Girls, with the best character name ever - Bust-Ass.
I’m becoming a fan of this Danny McBride guy. Just saw some of his stuff from the upcoming “Drillbit Taylor” on You Tube a couple of days ago. Very funny. The awkward energy in this bit reminds me a little of Chris Elliot, when he used to appear on Letterman back in the 80’s.
And that’s high praise indeed!
@SteamyMcFirecrotch: It is King of the Demo. I guess ya have to see the movie.
I’d never heard of this guy. During the segment I kept wondering “Is this for real? This can’t be real.” By the end, I had good feeling that it was fake. Still a shadow of a doubt, though. It wasn’t until I started googling that I found out the truth. I’ll admit, they had me for a bit.
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BOSTON, Jan. 30 — For patients at a high risk for type 2 diabetes, the mild NSAID salsalate, a nonacetylated salicylate, may help fend off the disease, investigators here believe.
A month of inexpensive salsalate led to significant reductions in fasting glucose, glycemic response, and glycated albumin, compared with placebo, in obese nondiabetic adults, Allison B. Goldfine, M.D., of Harvard and the Joslin Diabetes Center, and colleagues reported in the February issue of Diabetes Care.
Levels of C-peptide also declined significantly (P<0.03), consistent with improved insulin sensitivity and salicylate inhibition of insulin clearance. Adiponectin increased significantly (P<0.003), and circulating levels of C-reactive protein decreased (P<0.05).
The antidiabetic effects of salicylates have been known for years. For example high-dose aspirin has improved fasting and postprandial hyperglycemia in diabetic patients. Recent studies have shown that aspirin’s hypoglycemic effects involve inhibition of NF-κB, which integrates proinflammatory signals, the authors continued.
Dr. Goldfine and colleagues randomized 20 obese nondiabetic adults to placebo or 4 g/day of salsalate for one month. Lab assessments at baseline and at the end of the study included both glycemic and inflammatory parameters.
Compared with placebo, salsalate reduced fasting glucose by 13%, glycemic response after an oral glucose challenge by 20%, and glycated albumin by 17%. Insulin levels did not change, but fasting and oral glucose tolerance test C-peptide levels decreased. Adiponectin, an adipose-derived hormone, increased by 57%. Levels of CRP decreased by an average of 34%.
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MIAMI - Power executives were still in the dark Wednesday about how a glitch at a substation triggered a blackout that cut power to millions across south Florida. The outage darkened traffic signals, forced hospitals to scramble for generators and cut off air conditioners in the afternoon heat.
Sporadic outages Tuesday spanned 300 miles of the peninsula but appeared to be concentrated in the southeast portion of the state. Communities along the southwest coast, in the Florida Keys and as far north as Daytona Beach reported interruptions.
Florida Power & Light spokeswoman Amy Brunjes said Wednesday the utility can’t say whether it will be days or weeks before the explanation for the blackout is found.
“As long as it takes to get to the cause,” Brunjes said. “We’re conducting an extensive investigation.”
While the outage cut power to 2 million to 3 million people at its peak, power was quickly restored to most parts of the state and authorities said no injuries were reported. Only about 20,000 people lacked electricity during the evening commute home.
Bob Wild, a sports marketing consultant who lives in Miami’s southern Kendall neighborhood, said he didn’t even notice the blackout, thanks to his home’s generator.
“We’re a hurricane family. We’ve been though Hurricane Andrew and everything before and since,” he said. “Our daughter called us from Washington and said she’d seen the blackouts on TV. That’s when we found
The president of Florida Power & Light said an equipment malfunction at one electrical substation should not have caused the outages.
None of the events should “have caused the kind of widespread outage that we saw,” FPL President Armando Olivera said. “That’s the part that we don’t have an answer for yet.”
At about 1 p.m. an equipment malfunction happened at a facility that transmits power in Miami, starting a sequence of events that caused power to go off in areas around the state.
A switch failed, like a short circuit, and a fire broke out at the facility, which in turn caused larger problems - disabling two power distribution lines between Miami and Daytona Beach, according to the power company.
Systems monitoring the power grid saw took action, automatically shutting down two nuclear plants at the Turkey Point facility south of Miami. It took just milliseconds, or seconds, but it was “quick,” said FPL spokesman Dick Winn. A fossil fuel plant also went off-line.
In total, the state temporarily lost the ability to generate a total of 2,500 megawatts of power. That’s about 5 percent of the total generating power Florida uses on a peak day according to Linda Campbell of the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council in Tampa, which helps oversee the state’s electricity supply.
Once that amount of megawatts was not available to the grid, FPL spokesman Randy Clerihue says the system had to shut off power until it could compensate for the losses.
It was unclear how much the shutdown of the facilities at Turkey Point contributed to the loss of power. However, Florida Power & Light’s web site says that the two nuclear power plants generate about 1,400 megawatts of power, or more than half of the capacity temporarily lost on Tuesday.
Authorities said there were no safety concerns at the nuclear plant and the outages were not related to terrorism. The outages initially affected about a fifth of Florida’s population.
Officials said Miami International Airport, the Port of Miami and the area’s rail and bus transportation were working normally, although some places briefly relied on generator power.
Several Miami-area hospitals switched to backup generators when the power went out. Students left Miami-Dade schools on time, and school buses were running.
At one Starbucks Coffee Co., employees began handing out sandwiches they feared would go bad. Nelson Suarez, 35, enjoyed the free lunch. “I can’t work anyway since all the power is out, so at least something good came out of this,” he said.
Associated Press Writers Suzette Laboy, Damian Grass, Laura Wides-Munoz and Kelli Kennedy in Miami, Travis Reed in Orlando, Brian Skoloff in Juno Beach, Mitch Stacy in Tampa and H. Josef Hebert in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.

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That could be thecatchy title of Kelvin Sampson’snext book, which would berunaway best seller if the contentsreflected the name on the cover.
But it won’t happen. Sampson’snot about to reveal the methodssome coaches use to commitmurder on the NCAA rule book,turning college basketballrecruiting into a cesspool.
That’s too bad. It would be theperfect sequel to his first book:”Kelvin Sampson: The OU Basketball Story.”
Now that he’s out of work,Sampson certainly has the time tocollaborate on it. He could pick upwhere the first one left off, writingabout his controversial departurefrom Oklahoma and his dramatic downfall at Indiana.
But to help clean up the gamethat has given him so much,Sampson would have to write thetruth about why he decided tobrazenly break the same NCAArule at IU that he violated at OU.
Yeah, I know. Sampson lost hisdream Hoosiers’ job because heallegedly lied to the NCAA and hisbosses at IU. So the naturalassumption is that he has troublewhen it comes to telling the truth.
But he could change that image.He just needs to be forthcoming
with the real reason he decided to risk it all by continuing to breakthe NCAA rule concerning thepermissible number of phone callsto potential recruits.
Ever since the incredible newsbroke that Sampson was in troubleat IU for the same reason that putOU on probation, everyone hadthe same question: Why?
How could he throw away thesecond chance he never shouldhave received from the Hoosiersafter his behavior at OU?
I think I know why. I can’t be certain, because Sampsonhasn’t spoken to me since hehad a problem with the truth-filled columns I wrote abouthis messy OU divorce.
But I know him wellenough that I’d bet the$750,000 buyout he receivedfrom IU on this theory:Sampson has insider’sknowledge that some coaches are getting away withmurder in recruiting. Giventheir blatant assault on therule book, he equated a fewimpermissible phone calls toa misdemeanor.
Yes, he broke a rule. But,according to his flawed logic,it’s OK because others aredoing much worse.
There is little question thatcheating in big-time collegehoops is widespread.
Jerry Tarkanian, the renegade coach who did most ofhis dirty work at Nevada-LasVegas, wrote this in “Runnin’Rebel,” his 2005 memoir: “Inmajor college basketball,nine out of 10 teams breakthe rules. The other one is inlast place.”
With some rules, the linebetween bending and breaking is often a fine one.
For example, some collegecoaches pay high schoolcoaches top dollar to helprun their summer camps.And it isn’t just a coincidencethat some of those prepcoaches have budding superstars on their teams that college coaches are recruitinghard.
The rules say you can’t paythe player. But, - wink, wink– they say nothing aboutpaying his high school coacha nice summer salary to supplement his modest, publicschool income.
But it’s the explosion inthe number of summer tournaments for high schoolplayers that has escalated cheating. Coaches, streetagents, hangers on andmember’s of a player’s “posse,” are just some of the finefolk who have their handsout of those events.
The high-profile summertournaments are sponsoredby shoe companies. Representatives from those firmsare always on the lookout forthe next superstar, and willdo whatever it takes monetarily to keep that player’s”people” happy.
And then there’s academicfraud. And don’t forget theunder-the-table payments toplayers once they are on acollege campus.
If some of those rumorsare true, it’s indeed a sleazybusiness. That’s why it musthave galled Sampson whenhe was called a “sleaze” bysome sportswriters afterword leaked out about hisproblems at IU.
How, Sampson must haveasked himself, can makingsome phone calls be considered as sleazy as greasingthe palms of a street agent,or committing fraud so aplayer can meet the academic requirements for admittance to a school?
NCAA investigators obviously believe they have thegoods on Sampson. But stories about coaches gettingaway with recruiting murderremain nothing more thanrumors, innuendoes andspeculation.
What the NCAA needs, isa coach to name names. Towrite a book with facts andfigures that explain whymany coaches often feelcompelled to commit misdemeanors in recruiting just tokeep up with those who arekilling the rule book.
Sampson, of course, won’tever write that book. He saidas much in the statement hereleased on the day he wasforced out at Indiana.
“I look forward,” saidSampson, “to getting backon the basketball court in thevery near future.”
Coaches who want to workagain don’t snitch. Be it amisdemeanor or murder, it’sthe unwritten code of silenceamongst the rule breakers.

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The Super Bowl was once, not so long ago, a football game. Swear it. We’ve been watching the old replays on the NFL Network, and darn it if they didn’t just used to throw the ball out there and get it started without a red-carpet entrance hosted by Ryan Seacrest.
(Ryan Seacrest meets Johnny Unitas. Now that’d be worth seeing.)
But now the Super Bowl touches everything in life, of course, including:
Your heart. In a study released Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers in Germany discovered that heart attacks and other cardiac emergencies doubled during the national team’s 2006 World Cup games. For men, the rates tripled. The clear implication: Soccer can bore people to death.
No, no, no. The study found that stress, combined with bingeing on bad food and drinking heavily, can raise the heart rate to unhealthy levels. This is particularly true for people with heart conditions.
The recommendations: Avoid tobacco smoke (no problem) and fatty foods (whatever), don’t over-exert yourself (thank heaven for the remote!), and don’t get too upset with the refs (doable unless you’re from Seattle).
This weekend, American researchers are looking into whether women physically swoon when Tom Brady removes his helmet.
Your taxes. H&R Block sends advice that “regardless of the amount, taxpayers are responsible for reporting all gambling winnings to Uncle Sam.” Our biz reporter, who sent that one
over, noted that “gambling” might apply to the Buzz readership, but “winnings” certainly doesn’t. Touché.
Your sanity. A very partial list, based on our wire services, of people who have been asked to weigh in on the big game: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Andy Williams, Jason Biggs, Gabrielle Union, Judy Tenuta, Phyllis Diller, Mamie Van Doren, Vince Neil, Dionne Warwick, Leroy Neiman.
Britney Spears was unavailable for comment.

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(February 26, 2008) - - At the stroke of midnight, hundreds of American Axle workers at two Buffalo area plants went on strike, as did thousands more at other facilities across the nation.
American Axle's contract with United Auto Workers expired at midnight. As hundreds of workers arrived at the Tonawanda and Cheektowaga plants, they did not report to their posts, but instead went to the picket line.
Some workers believe up to fifty percent of their salary and benefits could be at stake. There are about 500 American Axle workers left who will be affected.
Former American Axle employee Tony Overfield said, “It's a long fall from $28 an hour to $15. And what they're proposing, the contract that's going to come out. They want to have the wages of the people that are working here if Tonawanda stayed open, which would be equal to them firing half the people here.”
Former American Axle employee Victor Ciapa said, “I would like to see them have it not so easy for them to close huge industrial plants, and affect so many lives.”
Union leaders say tough negotiations are a sign of tough times for workers in the auto industry. They're hoping they'll reach a deal with American Axle before the Midnight deadline.
Kevin Donovan said, “They want to be in a competitive position. We want to put them in a competitive position, and we're going to work real hard to try to get there. But at the same time, you've got to try to keep the livelihoods of our members, and the standard of living for our members in shape.”
Over the past five years, 2100 American Axle workers have lost their jobs in western New York.

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1. This is the biggest MMA fight from an anticipation standpoint in quite some time. Anderson Silva is arguably the best fighter in the world right now and no one’s been able to compete with him at his weight class. Henderson has shown in the past he can fight at this weight, and he’s got the skills and experience to challenge Silva. It will be a great fight.
Posted at 12:15PM on Feb 11th 2008 by Jim Nguyen
2. Silva is a terrific fighter and will defeat Dan Henderson, who although of similar skills; Silva has the edge. Great matchup from Dana White. It should be worth the $ PPV.
Posted at 11:07PM on Feb 11th 2008 by bigflyer
4. SILVA IS NOT IN THE SAME WIEGHT CLASS AS RAMPAGE!
WHY SHOULD HE FIGHT HIM?
DON’T COUNT HENDERSON OUT OF THIS FIGHT!
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February 25, 2008 - I’ll be brief. I’m sick and my head hurts. It’s that time of year again.No, Oscar Fever is over. It’s the Road to Wrestlemania…Malaria.And I must say, that aside from John Cena and those silly “Money in the Bank” qualifying matches, I’ve got ‘Mania Malaria!Yes, John Cena managed to slip into the Main Event picture once again by beating Orton on RAW this past week. I told everyone to watch for him to eke in there somehow. He sells the most ice cream bars, you know. I think. Do they still have those WWE Ice Cream bars with the wrestlers’ pictures on them? If they do, Cena’s probably spins. Well, he’s going to begin shooting his movie soon, so he’ll be pulling double duty. And after you stop laughing because I said “duty,” you can try and think about the whirl of emotions involved in Trips versus Orton versus Cena. All are loved and hated.For different reasons. Trips is hated for keeping other wrestlers down, Orton for pooping in handbags, and Cena is hated for being…John Cena.Trips is loved for keeping other wrestlers down, Orton for standing up to Trips and HBK backstage, and Cena is loved…by wrong people.
Who to root for? Three people that make me feel nauseous with a twinge of indifference.A match for what Jim Ross makes no bones about calling “the greatest prize” in the game, the WWE title.I’m sure they’ll put on a good show, but I can only hope it’ll be good enough to get me to care. Me?I’ll be marking out during Edge versus Undertaker.
Yes, Edge gets to go into Wrestlemania the World Champion! Yes, it’s true, most of us usually equate the World Belt as a sort of “less than” title, compared to the WWE belt.But right now it’s a “cleaner” title. Reports of a happier work environment on Smackdown help me appreciate the old WCW Strap, realizing that there are no manic, out-of-control egos grasping for it.And since really there are only two main draws on Smackdown, Batista and ‘Taker, it makes sense that the two of them feuded for months and months over this belt.No need to have anyone else challenge Batista, just let him wrestle ‘Taker for three PPVs in a row. Booker T was very unhappy when he got bumped over to RAW. Most people find the move to be a promotion of sorts, but he was sad to be away from the Smackdown camaraderie and spirit. Edge and Undertaker are both pretty physically limited due to a laundry list of injuries, but they’ll both find a way to make the match supremely emotional and engaging.
Meanwhile, it’s hard for anything to compete with ‘Mania, so TNA has the lackluster task of running with their Pay Per View, Destination X around the same time.Now the upside of TNA PPV Main Events is that they have definite finishes. There is a winner. No DQ’s to save the title. The downside is that in order to keep Angle to champion for extra months, they have to resort to A-List Tag Team Main Events.Things that should be on Impact. Cage, Joe and Nash versus the Angle Alliance?Doesn’t exactly make me wanna fork over the dough. Especially the “Nash” part. Also, the only other highlighted match so far is an Elevation X match featuring Rhyno, who’s been gone with a broken jaw, and James Storm, who barely makes it onto regular Impact broadcasting. Speaking of regular Impact broadcasting…this week featured Karen Angle and A.J. Styles’ “honeymoon.”A tribute to Jay Lethal, which saw Sonjay Dutt give sad eyes over So Cal Val’s acceptance to be Lethal’s girlfriend. Looks like Dutt is in line for a little heel turn. We saw Kaz beat Rellik with that back sleeper roll up - the kind that Bret Hart used to beat Roddy Piper at ‘Mania 8.We saw Shark boy team up with Curry Man. And we saw Kurt Angle beat Booker T with an Angle Slam, after a distraction from Robert Roode.Oh, and Kip James turned on Bullet Bob and B.G.Didn’t he turn on them a month ago? I feel like he did. He’s been glowering for a long time.
Now we didn’t see Kong wrestle this week on Impact, but I did see her backhand K.O. Candice LeRae on NWA Showcase! See, as it turned out, all those NWA shows I saw were merely a “countdown” to the real show. And man…instead of coming to us from live outdoor locations, the host David Marquez came to me from in front of a bluescreen studio wall. As it turns out - Kong is the NWA Woman’s champ. It also turns out that there are really sixty or seventy NWA champions all over this world. There’s an NWA Irish Champ in Ireland. There’s an “East Jesus, Indiana” NWA Champ. There’s an NWA Taco Bell Drive Through Fourth Meal Champion. And truth be told, I’m the IGN NWA Champion. Look for me next week as I defend the gold against Eric “Extra Hummus” Goldman at the Santa Monica Pier.So, to run down the show…Mike Quackenbush retained his NWA Juniour Heavyweight Title against Cassandro the Exotic after a double count out. See Cassandro threw Mike of his game by kissing him.See, cuz they’re dudes.That was very outrageous…fifteen years ago. Shoot, just last week I hired two dudes to make out at my mom’s 60th birthday.

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By FELICIA R. LEE, The New York Times
In the shabby living room of a Chicago apartment, a frustrated young chauffeur dreams of owning a business and buying pearls for his wife. His fiery sister, a college student, dreams of becoming a doctor. His weary mother dreams of a nice home for them all, and his pregnant wife dreams of just holding on until their poverty eases.
That’s the family Lorraine Hansberry gave the world when “A Raisin in the Sun” made its Broadway debut in 1959.
Since then, reincarnations have included a 1961 film with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee, a 1989 made-for-TV movie staring Danny Glover and Esther Rolle and a highly praised 2004 Broadway production featuring Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald and Sanaa Lathan.
Now that classic play about the struggles of the Younger family will become a three-hour film special on ABC (8 p.m. Monday).
A New Audience Awaits
The film features the 2004 Broadway cast, and its producers are hoping a new generation of viewers will find relevance in Hansberry’s story, which revolves around dissension in a poor, black family over what to do with the deceased father’s $10,000 life insurance policy. The reach of broadcast TV has the potential to bring fresh eyes to the story.
“This play is saying what all the politicians are saying in this election year: It’s time for a change, and it’s time for a dream,” said Kenny Leon, who directed the play on Broadway and the ABC special. “If you look at what’s missing in our society - the strength of families, the idea that dreams come true - not so much has changed since 1959.”
In an era when most schools, jobs and neighborhoods were racially segregated and Southern blacks faced high barriers to voting, Hansberry’s play was hailed as groundbreaking. The language was searing and poetic, and the black characters were written with complex and evocative interior lives.
Through the character Beneatha, who dates an African man and hopes to live in Africa someday, “A Raisin in the Sun” anticipated the black enchantment with things African. Through the relationships between Lena and her children and son Walter Lee’s quest for manhood, it telegraphed the seismic shift in gender relations and generation gap.
The well-received 2004 revival registered one of the highest box-office draws for a nonmusical on Broadway, and both Rashad and McDonald won Tony Awards.
Many young theatergoers were no doubt enticed by the opportunity to see music mogul Combs in the role of Walter Lee. Combs said he believed the new film would find a more receptive audience than ever before as the nation becomes less racially polarized.
“Everything that’s said, everything that’s going on in this film, every color, every nationality can relate to the struggle of wanting to be somebody, wanting to have better for their family and feeling like the dreams are slipping away,” Combs said.
Lathan, who plays Beneatha, said she viewed her character as a stand-in for Hansberry. The playwright’s own middle-class family desegregated a white neighborhood in Chicago, and she, too, chafed at the restrictions placed on women.
“Lorraine was ahead of her time; Beneatha was ahead of her time,” Lathan said. “But the meaning of the word ‘classic’ is that it transcends generations and time and has a profound truth to different people at different times.”
Rashad, who plays Lena Younger, said she saw the tale as multilayered, telling the love stories of three couples as two generations fight about the meaning of money and success.
Escape To New Problems
Lena, a housekeeper and babysitter for a white family, was part of the migration of blacks to Northern cities, where they sought to escape the brutal realities of the South.
That migration brought new problems. Lena misses her husband, who died after a hard life as a laborer. Her sense of loss is more acute when her son, Walter Lee, tells her that world is divided between the haves and have-nots and that “money is life.”
“If you really look at that statement,
money is life,’ it applies to people all over the world,” Rashad said. When people think life is money, they begin to lose their freedom, no matter who or where they are.”
In one scene, Walter Lee informs his family that he will tell a representative from the “home improvement” association (John Stamos) that the family will take his money in exchange for not moving into the all-white neighborhood, where his mother had just bought a house.
Lena is outraged by that decision.
“I come from five generations of slaves and sharecroppers, and ain’t nobody, nobody in my family ever let somebody pay ‘em no money as a way of telling us that we wasn’t fit to walk the Earth,” she tells Walter Lee. “We ain’t never been that poor or dead inside.”
Paris Qualles, who adapted the play for the movie, said scenes like that will rivet new audiences.
“America is still, by and large, in denial about its racist past and the tentacles that continue forward until today,” he said. “That’s why it’s relevant.”

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