We’ve got (at least) 6 season finales tonight. Speaking of finales of sorts, CNET was bought by CBS for $1.8 billion. In a day where the old school dinosaurs have been shedding their digital assets, it’s pretty remarkable that CNET’s management pulled off a sale, especially for that amount, for a property that has regressed to not much more than a newsfeed, and product review site. Also, if you remember, CNET actually had original TV programming with “CNET Central” and “The Web” on the Sci Fi Channel and the USA Network. Unfortunately, CNET also gave us “The New Edge” with Ryan Seacrest as host in one of his first ever TV gigs, and for that they should never be forgiven.
8:00pm My Name Is Earl NBC - Season Finale.. 1 Hour Long! Also, Nadine Velasquez aka “Catalina” will be live-blogging at 6:00pm
8:00pm Smallville CW - Season Finale.
9:00pm Grey’s Anatomy ABC - Season Finale - NOT??
9:00pm The Office NBC - Season Finale. 1 Hour Long!
9:00pm Supernatural CW - Season Finale. Hey, Paul Lieberstein aka “Toby” will be live-blogging tonight starting at 7:00pm, you can go there early and post questions to him. TV Junkie 9:00pm Pick
9:00pm Don’t Forget the Lyrics! FOX - An entrepreneur from Los Angeles, of all places, competes.
10:00pm Lost ABC - This is the real deal tonight, I mean, “ER”? No way. Part 1 of a 3 part finale. TV Junkie Pick O’ The Night.
10:00pm ER NBC - Season Finale.
12:05am Jimmy Kimmel LIVE ABC - Josh Holloway(dude - Sawyer), Brad Williams, Dierks Bentley performs
12:35am Late Night With Conan O’Brien NBC - MGMT performs!!

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Office Supplies: NBC’s commitment to The Office is firm as a freshly botoxed forehead, but big changes are rumoured to be brewing when the season finale airs, no doubt hoping to bring buzz back to the show.
According to E! Online, one big change is clear enough from the title of the season finale: Goodbye, Toby. Jenna “Pam” Fischer had hinted someone would be leaving the show, but the E! story informs us Paul Lieberstein, who’s a writer in addition to playing Toby, isn’t leaving the show, which begs the question: Huh?
According to TVGuide.com, Amy Ryan will be making an appearance on the Office season finale as Toby’s replacement and the unfortunate object of Michael Scott’s latest crush. Maybe. Michael Ausiello of TV Guide also reports — through an on-set mole who was nameless due to breaking a confidentiality agreement (can you say leak?) — that three of the following six major plot points will inflict cliffhanger status on the start of Season 5: “An engagement, a death, an infidelity, a pregnancy, a fire and a coming out.”
The E! story reported another writer/actor — Mike Schur, who plays Dwight’s straight-out-of-Deliverance cousin — will be running next season’s Office spinoff with executive producer Greg Daniels. Set to debut after the next Super Bowl with a special episode of the original show, the spinoff will not feature Rainn Wilson’s Dwight according to fervent denials by the production, so rumours are abounding the new series will likely be built around Ed Helms, the Daily Show alumnus who plays Andy, Dwight’s nemesis/soulmate.
Fans of the show are conflicted about the spinoff. Some wouldn’t mind seeing Michael leave, others are tired of the Jim and Pam romance and want to see some sort of Mary Tyler Moore Show breakout for her character as Pam moves to Manhattan and away from Jim, who can resume his far more interesting dalliance with Karen. It all stinks of desperation to me, and I predict if neither the spinoff nor the original show can throw off sparks next season, it will be corporate buyout time for Dunder Mifflin.

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By DOUG FERGUSON – 2 days ago
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A corridor beneath the grandiose clubhouse is lined with black-and-white photographs from more than a quarter-century of winners at The Players Championship since it moved to the notorious TPC Sawgrass.
They have little in common except they beat the best field in golf and got very rich.
There is powerful Adam Scott, 23, and pea-shooter Fred Funk, 48, the youngest and oldest champions.
Hal Sutton captured this event twice, once as a svelte young man in his second year, later at age 41 with a paunch, sweat stains and five of the most famous words uttered on the 18th hole of the Stadium Course — “Be the right club today!”
Past champions feature the power of Tiger Woods, Greg Norman and Fred Couples, the accuracy off the tee of Calvin Peete, grinders like Tom Kite, Lee Janzen and Justin Leonard, the pure ball striking of Nick Price, the short game of Phil Mickelson.
“It suits good players,” Paul Goydos concluded Wednesday. “If you show up here with your best game, you have a shot to win. I don’t think anyone walks out there and says, ‘I can’t play this golf course.’”
There are a few things about The Players Championship that fall into the death-and-taxes category.
_Woods has no chance of winning because he’s not here. He had surgery on his right knee two days after the first major, giving him time to recover before the second major, making his absence a setback for the tournament debated as the fifth major.
_Every player will watch anxiously until his tee shot on the 17th hole hits the island green, if it does.
_The winner will walk away with $1.71 million, more money than any other single tournament offers on the PGA Tour.

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By: Doug From Upland
A hearing was held Friday morning, April 25, in the chambers of Judge Aurelio Munoz in Los Angeles Superior Court. The way has been opened for discovery and depositions in Paul v Clinton. They can start immediately.
Hillary will not be deposed until after the election. Don’t panic, it will be okay. Yes, of course, it was a political consideration. Disney did not release THE PATH TO 911 on DVD to protect Hillary.
Judge Aurelio Munoz, who appears rather friendly with Clinton attorney David Kendall, requested that Kendall say hello to a friend named Bill at Kendall’s firm, Connolly and Williams. Munoz went to law school with him. Isn’t that nice.
Even though Hillary will be delayed, there will be numerous witnesses who have important things to say. They include defendants former President Bill Clinton and Jim Levin, Chelsea Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, Gov. Ed Rendell, Gray Davis, Howard Wolfson, Kelly Craighead, Andrew Grossman, Patti Solis Doyle, Larry King, Barbra Streisand, Cher, Diana Ross, John Travolta, Brad Pitt, Stan Lee, Haim Saban, and many others.
Even before her testimony, the voters will learn about her obstruction of justice and the false FEC reporting. Perhaps a sitting federal judge and an assistant US Attorney will be subpoeaned. Are you listening Clinton-appointed Judge A. Howard Matz, you who pulled off the legal equivalent of the 1919 Black Sox in the David Rosen trial?
People who were never called in the Rosen trial or before the FEC will finally be grilled. Hillary turned in a false declaration to the court. It is hoped that testimony from other witnesses is going to show that. We hope that Obama people will start asking questions and making demands of her. Why isn’t Hillary coming forward to give testimony voluntarily before the Superdelegates choose? What is Hillary hiding? The primaries end in June. She has plenty of time to come forward and testify. Hillary, how is it that everyone at Stan Lee Media, including Disney execs ready to come aboard, knew about your husband’s new employment, but you didn’t know? How is that possible? Your daughter knew. You lied in your sworn declaration.

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IT WAS always going to be on a knife-edge.
Waking up to catch Man United play Barcelona, I could not help thinking about the times United have been in this position before.
On top of my mind was when United brought a 0-0 first leg scoreline to Old Trafford in the Champions League quarter final against Monaco, only to go out on away goals after being held to a 1-1 draw. One goal here never seemed likely to be enough.
That was a decade ago, and this was not Monaco 1998, but Barcelona 2008, a Barcelona team that, while struggling, had the quality to punish any team.
I was relieved to see the team sheet, though. There was plenty of experience across the pitch, from Edwin van der Sar in goal to Cristiano Ronaldo up front, but the embodiment of United’s skill and experience has to be Paul Scholes in the middle.
I never thought my first curse of the night would be because of Scholes, courtesy of one of his ‘trademark’ tackles on Messi just outside the box.
It was so close, I thought, ‘we’re done for, sure penalty one’. To my relief it was a free-kick that came to nothing. Phew! We dodged a big one there, and it was only the first minute!
The ginger terror rolled back the years in the 14th minute when he capitalised on a Zambrotta defensive mistake, zinged it with such pace and swerve that the top corner of the goal was its only destination.
It was absolutely brilliant! It was fit to win the Champions League, much less this match. I so wanted to believe this would be the match-winner. Yet the fears of 1998 remained.
Those fears were not helped when, as the game wore on, Barcelona poured on the pressure. Every second felt like an eternity as wave upon wave of Barcelona attacks threatened that fragile lead.

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In Session, formerly Court TV, is CNN’s partner for trial coverage.
DETROIT, Michigan (CNN/In Session) — A jury rejected an 18-year-old’s claim that he acted in self-defense, finding him guilty of murder in the gory stabbing, beheading and torching of a Michigan man.
The jury of eight men and four women deliberated for more than 10 hours over two days before finding Jean Pierre Orlewicz guilty of first-degree murder, felony murder and mutilation.
Jurors did not look at anyone as they filed into the courtroom. The defendant’s family remained stoic, but the father of victim Daniel Sorenson broke into sobs.
During the trial, some of the most gruesome details of Sorenson’s slaying came from the youthful-looking defendant’s own lips.
Prosecutors called Sorenson’s slaying a "thrill killing." They alleged that Orlewicz was excited by the prospect of killing someone and getting away with it.
Orlewicz, of Canton, Michigan, took the stand and admitted that he killed Sorenson, 26, but insisted that it was in self-defense. He admitted stabbing Sorenson 13 times after an extortion plan went awry and Sorenson threatened his life.
"There was not a murder," Orlewicz testified.
On November 7, Orlewicz said, he, Alexander Letkemann and Sorenson arrived at his grandfather’s house in Canton, Michigan, with the intent of robbing Adam Duwe, who had just inherited $40,000. But Orlewicz said he felt "icky" about the plan and was going to pretend Duwe couldn’t make it. That’s when Sorenson’s temper flared, Orlewicz testified.
Orlewicz said Sorenson took out a gun and threatened to kill him.
"You think this is a game?" Orlewicz recalled Sorenson screaming. "I’m going to drop you to your knees and blow your frigging brains out."
Orlewicz said Sorenson began waiving the gun around, so he grabbed a knife from a tool bench and stabbed him from behind.

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Cooking shares the connective thread of music and travel. Like a good song or a colorful postcard, recipes are shared through friends and generations. Unless you were a fan of rumaki. This sense of community explains why cooking videos have sprung up on YouTube, Chowhound and other Web sites. People are hungry to share their secrets. But can you learn to cook through YouTube? I found it somewhat difficult.
It’s not like those early morning cable TV workouts where you simply roll out a mat in your living room and count along with young women in bikinis doing calisenthics along South Beach.
Cooking through YouTube requires the viewer to step up to the plate and keep his or her eye on the ball.
“Cooking on YouTube is an emerging trend that’s heating up,” said YouTube spokesman Spencer Crooks from YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, Calif. “A vibrant community is sharing recipes and exchanging techniques. Chefs interact with the viewers where people leave comments. There’s a single place to turn for everything from knife techniques to cooking an omelet in a Ziploc bag.”
I made jambalaya for my YouTube experiment. Cajun cooking allows for improvisation, great background music (Clifton Chenier, Lil’ Band of Gold), Mountain Dew chasers and good companionship.
I used my 1984 version of Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Louisiana Kitchen cookbook as a safety template. I embellished with my own ideas and stuff I found on YouTube. This was like re-configuring the Louisiana Purchase.
I came across the three-part series “New Year’s Eve Jambalaya Cooking” on YouTube. It was not very inspiring. The kitchen appeared to be a mess and the droll woman in the background sounded like she was stoned, calling the chef “dude” and asking, “What’s going on here now?”
The worst part was that most ingredients were not introduced. The video’s saving grace: posts by viewers suggesting to add chorizo sausages, pork, blackeyed peas, kidney beans, stock, carrots/onions/ chickpeas and so on.

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The St. Charles Parish Council balked at measures that would have prevented parish contractors, employees and their spouses from serving on the two parish land use boards.
It also turned up its nose at a measure designed to keep the council better informed on administrative contracts after Parish President V.J. St. Pierre Jr. said he opposed it.
The council rejected the measure shortly after having heard a presentation about governmental ethics from U.S. Attorney Jim Letten of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
The council voted down a measure by Councilman Paul Hogan that would have made people receiving $5,000 in salary or contracts from the parish ineligible for appointment to the parish Planning and Zoning Commission.
Hogan then asked the council to defer action on an identical measure for the Zoning Board of Adjustment
Hogan said the measures were designed to insulate commissioners from political pressure.
“Who would enforce this? I don’t want to be the ethics police,” Councilman Marcus Lambert said.
Lambert, Carolyn Schexnaydre, Wendy Benedetto, Larry Cochran, Billy Raymond, Shelley Tastet and Billy Raymond voted against the measure. Dennis Nuss, Terry Authement and Hogan voted in favor.
Council members who voted against the measure seemed unsure of how many people the ban would affect.
Raymond said many of the conflicts of interest involved “uncles and cousins” rather than immediate family members.

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