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Stig
The Stig is the name given to the racing driver character on the BBC Television show Top Gear. In the show he is cast as a mysterious "Tame Racing Driver". He is credited alongside Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May as a presenter in the end credits. The Stig's primary functions on the show are to post Power Lap times in various cars around the Top Gear Test Track in Dunsfold Park, and to train each week's celebrity guest in setting a lap time in the "Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car" feature on the show. In addition, The Stig carries out other driving and personal appearance duties when the need arises. The Stig has also appeared on some of Clarkson's motoring specials, such as Heaven and Hell, Supercar Showdown, Thriller, and Duel. The original Stig actor, Perry McCarthy revealed his identity in his autobiography in 2002. In 2003 his character, the 'Black Stig', was killed off, and replaced with the 'White Stig'. The BBC have refused to disclose the current Stig's identity, attempting to gain an injunction against the publication of the autobiography of the White Stig actor, who, in several newspapers, was named as Ben Collins, based on Collins' company records. His identity, as Ben Collins, was confirmed on 1 September 2010.
Hogwarts
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry or simply Hogwarts is a fictional boarding school of magic for witches and wizards between the ages of eleven and seventeen living in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is the primary setting for the first six books of the Harry Potter series, with each book lasting the equivalent of one school year. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, however, most of the book is set outside Hogwarts as main characters Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger do not attend their final year of school (though Rowling has stated that Hermione eventually returns to school to complete her N.E.W.T. examinations). The climactic battle of the book, and the series, however, is set at Hogwarts. Rowling has suggested that she may have inadvertently taken the name from the hogwort plant (Croton capitatus), which she had seen at Kew Gardens some time before writing the Harry Potter series, although the names 'The Hogwarts' and 'Hoggwart' appear in the 1954 Nigel Molesworth book How To Be Topp by Geoffrey Willans. Hogwarts school was voted as the 36th best Scottish educational establishment in an online ranking, outranking Edinburgh's Loretto School.
Matt Leinart
Matthew Stephen Leinart is an American football quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He played college football at Southern California, leading them to an AP national championship in 2003, a BCS national championship in 2004, and an appearance in the BCS National Championship game in 2005. Leinart earlier played quarterback in Santa Ana at Mater Dei High School. In 2004, his junior year at USC, he won the Heisman Trophy. He also won the inaugural Manning Award for college quarterbacks in the same season.
Shannon James
Shannon James is the Playboy Playmate of the Month for May 2007. Like Jillian Grace, who was Miss March 2005, James was brought to the attention of Howard Stern. One of Shannon's best friends, Lindsay Campbell, submitted several photographs of Shannon to the show, and Shannon was chosen to come in for an evaluation. She was then given the opportunity for a test shoot. At the time of her photo shoot she attended the University of Central Florida and was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. James is now taking her classes online due to her heavy modeling career. James has also appeared on Hooters billboards, their calendar (She was the cover girl for May 2008.), and in the 2007 pageant as well. Her ultimate goal is to work for E! News Live as an entertainment broadcaster.
Trans Siberian Orchestra
Trans-Siberian Orchestra (often abbreviated as TSO) is an orchestra founded in 1996 by Paul O'Neill, who brought together long-time friends Jon Oliva, Robert Kinkel, and Al Pitrelli. The band's musical style incorporates neoclassical, symphonic and progressive sorts of hard rock/metal. Trans-Siberian Orchestra has recorded and performed renditions of traditional Christmas songs, and these have been among their most popular works. They are also known for their elaborate concerts, complete with a full light show and dozens of pyrotechnics that are synchronized with their performance.
CMA Awards 2010
The 2010 CMA Award will be hosted by Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley. The Country Music Association Awards, also known as the CMA Awards, or the CMAs, and not to be confused with the ACM Awards, are voted on by business members of the Country Music Association. The first CMA awards were presented at an untelevised ceremony in Nashville's Municipal Auditorium in 1967.
Apple Announcement
As part of their QuickTime X and iPhone software systems Apple is rolling out HTTP Live Streaming is an HTTP-based media streaming communications protocol their HTTP Live Streaming is an HTTP-based media streaming communications protocol. It works by breaking the overall stream into a sequence of small HTTP-based file downloads, each download loading one short chunk of an overall potentially unbounded transport stream. As the stream is played, the client may select from a number of different alternate streams containing the same material encoded at a variety of data rates, allowing the streaming session to adapt to the available data rate. At the start of the streaming session, it downloads an extended M3U playlist containing the metadata for the various sub-streams which are available. Since its requests use only standard HTTP transactions, HTTP Live Streaming is capable of traversing any firewall or proxy server that lets through standard HTTP traffic, unlike UDP-based protocols such as RTP. This also allows a Content delivery network to easily be implemented for any given stream. Apple has documented HTTP Live Streaming as an Internet-Draft, the first stage in the process of submitting it to the IETF as a proposed Internet standard.
Brown Sugar
Brown Sugar is a 2002 romance film written by Michael Elliott and Rick Famuyiwa and directed by Rick Famuyiwa. This movie stars Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan. This film is the story of a hip-hop record executive and a magazine editor (who have been friends since childhood) becoming more than friends despite the fact that they're both involved in other relationships. The story is based on the song, "I Used to Love H.E.R.," by Common, a story of how a relationship with hip hop connects to a relationship between a man and woman. This title of the film was named after D'Angelo 1995 song of the same name. The movie was released in the US on October 11, 2002 and ran for 16 weeks, grossing $27,363,891 domestically and $952,560 in the foreign sector for a worldwide total of $28,316,452.
Fashion Police
Fashion Police was the title of a television program hosted by Joan and Melissa Rivers on the E! cable television channel in the United States in which they criticized celebrities' fashion. In 2010 Joan River will return to E! hosting the program running the day after events rather than airing live from the red carpet. Rivers will be joined by fellow E! personalities Khloe Kardashian, Giuliana Rancic and Jay Manuel.
Quints By Surprise
Jamie Grover (Kimberly J. Brown) is an only child who has always wanted out from the constant attention her parents give her. Her wish is finally granted when she finds out her mother is pregnant, but when she turns out to have quintuplets, Jamie's life changes in ways she had never imagined. She discovers she might not want the same things her parents want for her, but nonetheless, her parents focus all of their attention on her baby brothers and sisters. But when one of her brothers gets terribly ill she discovers that she really doesn't mind the babies, and that she does have the courage to let her parents know she has dreams of her own. Throughout the movie, Jamie will fool the audience to make sure they're with her. (Counts as breaking the fourth wall).