Rating TV networks news ‘Idol' and Oprah Jacksonville City Council action May 24 Reggie Watts opening for Matt & Kim touring in a magazine doing more shows @ PS122 stuff! agenda Facebook posting part of murder investigation Stephen Sommers Starts 'Odd Thomas' Family Travel to an iPod Beat How Bethesda North’s ER flipped patient satisfaction It took courage get on Freedom Riders’ bus 50 CENT TO PLAY BLIND DJ Remembrances Carmichael Signings other PrepXtra notes More Frank Wisner Patton Boggs | Michael Tomasky Odd Thomas Expands SmartNode VoIP Gateway Series Pilots use Google map printouts Libya Purdue offers scholarship Maryville QB Robinette

share: digg facebook twitter Rating TV networks, news, 'Idol' and Oprah For starters, May ratings have arrived. The favorite here for local TV news across the board? ABC affiliate KSAT once again finished first with its news at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m., not to mention for its morning (5 to 7 a.m.) and noon broadcasts. Which TV networks scored best with S.A. viewers? [...] don't fret, Sarah; several viewers also have noted how great you look and sound in the morning, despite the early hour. Scotty McCreery anticlimactic, the high entertainment value of last week's two-hour finale earned big applause and ratings. Tanji Patton — yes, our former TV newscaster — remarked that she loved seeing all those great performances by According to Fox affiliate KABB, it attracted an impressive local audience, easily beating the competition, including the season enders of "The Middle" and "Modern Family." Seeing her simply sit there with her audience, share moving moments with everyday folks who opened up on her show and remind us to strive for what makes us happy was worth more than all the According to KSAT, the finale rating here was one ... These are some of the items the Jacksonville City Council considered at its meeting Tuesday: **Issue: Soccer complex expansion** What it means: The council is being asked to allot $1.5 million to add fields and other improvements to Patton Park, a popular soccer complex on Hodges Boulevard. The fields are maintained and operated by the First Coast Soccer Association on city-owned land. The money to be spent includes $500,000 previously committed by a developer. Bill No. 2011-188 Action: Approved **Issue: City pension investments** read more by Klaus Kinski Do you and your buddies ever throw on your cargo shorts and flip-flops and head out into the mean streets of Brooklyn for an epic brunch and, over some bloody mary's and eggs benedict, eventually end up... Jacksonville's City Council meets at 5 p.m. today at City Hall, 117 W. Duval St. These are some of the items the council is scheduled to consider: **Issue: Soccer complex expansion** What it means: The council is being asked to allot $1.5 million to add fields and other improvements to Patton Park, a popular soccer complex on Hodges Boulevard. The fields are maintained and operated by the First Coast Soccer Association on city-owned land. The money to be spent includes $500,000 previously committed by a developer. Bill No. 2011-188 read more Jacksonville's City Council meets at 5 p.m. today at City Hall, 117 W. Duval St. These are some of the items the council is scheduled to consider: **Issue: Soccer complex expansion** What it means: The council is being asked to allot $1.5 million to add fields and other improvements to Patton Park, a popular soccer complex on Hodges Boulevard. The fields are maintained and operated by the First Coast Soccer Association on city-owned land. The money to be spent includes $500,000 previously committed by a developer. Bill No. 2011-188 read more (The Associated Press) Police investigating the killing of an 18-year-old woman say they are looking into the social networking comments posted by a man accused in her slaying. The Charleston Gazette reports that Marcus "Swiss" McKinley was arrested Thursday in Charlotte, N.C., and charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of Ayana Patton, the mother of his child. Between_ The Mummy_ franchise, _Van Helsing_ and_ G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,_ director Stephen Sommers hasn't made a movie outside the studio blockbuster system in about 13 years. He doing just that right now, getting underway this week on an adaptation of the Dean Koontz bestseller_ Odd Thomas_, a series that's expected to spark three more novels and perhaps a film franchise. The film stars Anton Yelchin as a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities who encounters a mysterious man surrounded by dark, threatening forces. The cook's unique abilities, which include an ability to speak with the dead, help him protect his town and family. The pic also stars Addison Timlin, Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Curtis Jackson, Nico Tortorella and Patton Oswalt. Sommers is producing with Fusion Films' Howard Kaplan and John Baldecchi. Sommers said the movie is unlike any he's ever made, down to his decision to write the script without having the rights from Koontz, who has been burned enough by the movies to be wary. "My wife is mad about Dean Koontz, and I got the book from her," Sommers said. "I loved the title and read it in two days and ... Comedian Patton Oswalt on why the best parents use technology to keep their kids disconnected from the disconnected world around us. Too many patients were leaving Bethesda North Hospital's emergency room last year feeling less than impressed because of long waits. In fact, patient satisfaction rates were in the 55th percentile compared to ERs nationally. "Patients were sitting in the ER for long periods at a time, sometimes hours," said Dr. Ken Patton, an emergency medicine physician at Bethesda North, which is part of TriHealth. "Patient satisfaction trends like this: Wait less, you're happier." So the hospital... When he was 21, Ernest “Rip” Patton made out his will. He didn’t have much beyond an old set of drums he used in the jazz club gigs that helped him pay his way through college. He willed them to his parents, then climbed aboard a freedom bus bound for Jackson, Miss. Click through to see headwear from Maria Menounos, Vanessa Minnillo, Paula Patton and more! 50 Cent has signed up to play a blind DJ in director Stephen Sommers' movie adaptation of Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas.The rapper will join Anton Yelchin, Willem Dafoe and Patton Oswalt among the cast, according to Variety. Koontz's bestselling... I was drafted and inducted into the U.S. Army on Feb. 8, 1943, at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., and sent to Camp McCain in Mississippi. I was assigned to F Company, 347th Infantry Regiment, 87th Division, which fought in Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd Army in World War II. ... Maryville quarterback Patton Robinette and offensive lineman Jay Guillermo are two of 16 players from Tennessee nominated for a chance to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl on Jan. 7. More details on Wisner's possible conflict of interest, but it's the least of the challenges facing the Obama administration As I indicated yesterday, the idea that just because diplomat Frank Wisner worked for the Patton Boggs law firm, that didn't necessarily mean that he was personally involved in working on matters related to Egypt. Now comes this from Justin Elliott in Salon: > "The law firm of Frank Wisner, who was the Obama administration's special envoy to Egpyt last week, is denying that Wisner ever worked for the Egyptian government, which has been a client of the firm, Patton Boggs. > > "The denial comes after journalist Robert Fisk, writing in the UK Independent, accused Wisner of a conflict of interest because Patton Boggs has, according to its website, worked for the 'the Egyptian military, the Egyptian Economic Development Agency, and has handled arbitrations and litigation on the [Mubarak] government's behalf in Europe and the US.' > > "But Ed Newberry, managing partner at Patton Boggs, told Salon today that the firm 'represented the Egyptian government in the past – in the mid 1990s'. He said the firm also handled 'a very small legal matter' for the Egyptian embassy in ... JPK added Patton Oswalt to the credits The company introduced three models of its SmartNode VoIP platform, including an enterprise session border router. - Business and carrier-class network access, connectivity, voice over IP (VoIP) and mobile video-surveillance equipment manufacturer Patton Electronics announced the expansion of its SmartNode T1/E1/PRI line of VoIP solutions, aimed at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). Pattons IBM-certified Smar... RAF pilots who flew a daring rescue mission into the Libyan desert used a black-and-white Google Maps printout to land. Add Purdue to the small-but-growing list of colleges after Maryville High School quarterback Patton Robinette.
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