Simon Cowell and Lauren Silverman: Will They Stay Together?

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Ford can't escape Han Solo, Indiana Jones

SAN DIEGO (AP) ? It's been years since Harrison Ford played towering film characters Indiana Jones and Han Solo, but the questions still come ? especially at Comic-Con.

Ford made his second appearance at the all-things-geek gathering Thursday to promote his new film "Ender's Game." It might as well have been the 1980s, though, as far as fans were concerned. Given the chance to ask questions about the new film, they instead peppered the 71-year-old star with questions about characters he long ago left behind.

One fan asked, "light sabers aside," what might happen if Solo, the Millennium Falcon pilot from "Star Wars," met Jones, the adventure-addicted archaeologist.

"Hi, how are you?" Ford asked before shaking his head, taking off his glasses and rubbing his eyes in a marvelous moment of comedic timing.

Another questioner, a man from Brazil who said he dreamed of being the whip-wielding, fedora-featuring Jones as a kid, asked if Solo would make a good soldier for Col. Hyrum Graff, the character Ford plays in "Ender's Game."

"You know, you and I have a lot in common. I used to dream about being Indiana Jones when I was younger. Not so much anymore," Ford said, pausing while the audience laughed. "I don't think Han Solo would be good as a soldier in anybody's army. I think he's what we call now an independent contractor."

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NCAA ends ties with video game franchise

NEW YORK ? Hang on to NCAA Football 2014, all you video game fans. It will be a collector?s edition.

The NCAA said Wednesday it will no longer allow Electronic Arts Inc. to use its logo starting next year. The move ends a lucrative business deal with the gaming industry giant and comes as the NCAA fights a high-profile lawsuit that says the governing body owes billions of dollars to former players for allowing their likenesses to be used for free.

The NCAA said it won?t seek a new contract with EA Sports, which manufactures the popular game, beyond the current one that expires in June 2014. However, that won?t stop EA Sports from producing a college football video game depicting powerhouse schools like Alabama, Ohio State and Oregon, and the Redwood City, Calif.-based company made that clear.

?EA Sports will continue to develop and publish college football games, but we will no longer include the NCAA names and marks,? said Andrew Wilson, executive vice president. ?Our relationship with the Collegiate Licensing Co. is strong and we are already working on a new game for next generation consoles which will launch next year.?

The company reported $3.8 billion in net revenue during its last fiscal year and, aside from its NCAA Football franchise, is well known for Madden NFL, FIFA Soccer and other games.

EA Sports first began making an NCAA Football game in 1998.

Todd Mitchell, senior analyst with New York-based Brean Capital, LLC, said losing the NCAA brand isn?t likely to hurt EA Sports. He estimated NCAA Football accounts for only about 5 percent of EA Sports? revenue, or about $125 million.

?It?s nice to have the brand, but it?s more about the characters,? he said.

It could not immediately be determined exactly how much of what EA makes from NCAA football goes back to the NCAA and its members in licensing deals.

Analyst Colin Sebastian of R.W. Baird said EA likely expected to lose its NCAA partnership.

?I?m sure they have thought about this because of this pending litigation and the worst case scenarios,? Sebastian said. ?I don?t expect it to have a significant impact on their business.?

NCAA Football allows participants to play as any major college football team, though unlike in its professional sports games, the names of players and coaches are not used. The similarities between the avatars in the game and actual college athletes are at the root of a legal fight that could alter the way the NCAA does business in the future.

The NCAA is in the midst of a long court battle that started with a lawsuit filed by former UCLA basketball star Ed O?Bannon after he was shown a video game with an avatar playing for the Bruins that played a lot like him.

The anti-trust lawsuit also names EA and the Collegiate Licensing Company that handles trademark licensing for dozens of schools, the NCAA and various conferences. The suit has expanded to include several former athletes who claim the NCAA and EA Sports used their names and likenesses without compensation and demand the NCAA find a way to give players a cut of the billions of dollars earned from live broadcasts, memorabilia sales and video games.

?We are confident in our legal position regarding the use of our trademarks in video games,? the NCAA said. ?But given the current business climate and costs of litigation, we determined participating in this game is not in the best interests of the NCAA.?

Still, the NCAA said its members can seek arrangements with video game makers if they wish.

Michael Hausfeld, the lead attorney on the O?Bannon case, said the NCAA cutting ties with EA could provide greater freedom for EA to make deals with conferences, schools and even players.

?No longer would EA have to pretend the avatars are not the likenesses of the real players,? he said.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rgsports/~3/sm4DUaMwMwM/ncaa-football-game-sports-video.html.csp

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Bearing witness to the phenomenon of symmetric cell division

[unable to retrieve full-text content]For more than 125 years, scientists have been peering through microscopes, carefully watching cells divide. Until now, however, none has actually seen how cells manage to divide precisely into two equally-sized daughter cells during mitosis. Such perfect division depends on the position of the mitotic spindle (chromosomes, microtubules, and spindle poles) within the cell, and it?s now clear that human cells employ two specific mechanisms during the portion of division known as anaphase to correct mitotic spindle positioning.

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Too Many 'Spider-Man' Villains? Marc Webb Tells Fans Not To Worry

'If you touch him, it's like the voltage of a thousand third rails,' director Marc Webb said.
By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

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House GOP Resisting Pressure to Rush an Immigration Bill

WASHINGTON ? House Republicans are facing increased pressure from the White House and members of the Senate to act on immigration reform but it appears leadership doesn?t intend to address the issue any time soon.

Lawmakers who attended a meeting of the GOP caucus last week said leadership is still formulating its answer to the nation?s immigration problem and probably won?t have any defined plan until after the August recess. It?s possible, however, that immigration-related measures that already have passed the House Judiciary Committee dealing with enforcement and border security could be placed on the agenda sooner rather than later.

?My job is to do everything I can to facilitate a process for solving this problem,? said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). ?And that?s what I?m going to continue to do.?

Boehner already has made clear that he doesn?t intend to stage a vote on the ?flawed legislation rushed through the Senate? and won?t hold a vote on any bill that doesn?t carry the support of the chamber?s GOP lawmakers.

In a statement, Boehner, House Republican Leader Eric Cantor, and several pre-eminent officials in the Republican caucus expressed their intention to take a ?step-by-step, common-sense approach to fixing what has long been a broken system.? The group added that the public doesn?t trust the Democrats or support ?a single, massive, Obamacare-like bill.?

President Obama, they said, ?has also demonstrated he is willing to unilaterally delay or ignore significant portions of laws he himself has signed, raising concerns among Americans that this administration cannot be trusted to deliver on its promises to secure the border and enforce laws as part of a single, massive bill like the one passed by the Senate.?

For its part, the White House, which remained relatively quiet during the intense negotiations that resulted in the Senate immigration bill, is slowly building up pressure in an effort to force the House to take action.

Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney said the White House will ?continue to work with other lawmakers in the House and the Senate as this issue continues to develop.?

?The president will engage, as he has all along, and he will make clear his support for and his insistence upon comprehensive immigration reform because it?s the right thing for our economy and it?s the right thing for our people,? Carney said. ?How that manifests itself, what events he may hold, we?ll have to see, because we?re going to make those judgments as this issue ripens over the next weeks and months.?

Asked about the expectation that the House won?t address the issue until after the August recess, Carney responded, ?We have said all along that the Congress should address this deliberately but quickly.?

?There has been obviously a great amount of time spent over the years, certainly since the middle of the last decade, on this issue,? he said. ?A lot of work has been done.?A lot of work was done to produce the bipartisan Senate bill, and now work is being done in the House.?So we believe that the House can and should act quickly.?We don?t control the House so we obviously have to work with the House, as the Senate does, as they move through this issue.?

The Senate bill, the first major immigration legislation addressed by the upper chamber since 1986, passed in a bipartisan vote of 68-32. It offers illegal immigrants who have resided in the U.S. since Dec. 13, 2011, an opportunity to seek provisional legal status that allows them to work but renders them ineligible for federal benefits. They must pay a penalty, taxes and a processing fee and can only apply for permanent status after 10 years. A new visa program for low-skilled workers would also be developed.

It also hikes border patrol ranks by 20,000 ? almost doubling the contingent at a cost of $30 billion ? and adds 350 miles of border fencing. It spends $4.5 billion on technical innovations intended to provide security personnel with full situational awareness along the southern border. And it implements an entry-exit visa program to keep tabs on visitors who overextend their stay as well as the so-called e-verify program to make employers aware of a potential worker?s immigration status.

The House is unlikely to pass anything akin to the Senate measure. A significant segment of the controlling Republican caucus opposes any provision that they maintain provides amnesty to the estimated undocumented workers who already reside within the nation?s borders. And they don?t feel the border security steps contained in the Senate bill are sufficient.

Source: http://pjmedia.com/blog/house-gop-resisting-pressure-to-rush-an-immigration-bill/

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Sports Stars And Hollywood Elite Walk The Red Carpet For 2013 ESPYS

There was plenty of star power on the red carpet Wednesday night (July 17) as some of the biggest names in the sports and entertainment worlds arrived at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles for the ESPY awards.

Basketball MVP LeBron James, "Mad Men's" Jon Hamm and pop star Selena Gomez were among the eclectic group to walk the red carpet.

"It is an evening of celebrating what we've accomplished throughout our careers and this past year," explained tennis champion Maria Sharapova. "It is so rare, that we never get the chance to sit down in one room and get to see the the video montages of the plays and the beautiful moments of all the different athletes, present and receive awards for their accomplishments. It is all very special."

The ESPYs, in their 21st year, are given out by ESPN to the best athletes, plays, teams and moments in sports, and are attended annually not just by top athletes but Hollywood stars.

"I just met Gabrielle Union and she was with Dwayne Wade." said an excited Gabrielle Douglas, the gold medal winning gymnast. "I love them both and that was my first time meeting her and she is amazing."

This year's ESPYS were hosted by actor Jon Hamm with stars Ben Affleck, Kevin Bacon, Don Cheadle, Selena Gomez and Sharapova acting as presenters. The show also featured a musical performance by the band Vintage Trouble.

The Miami Heat were the big winners of the night as they were honored as the year's Best Team for the second consecutive year. While star LeBron James won for Best Championship Performance, Best NBA Player and Best Male Athlete. This marks the second consecutive year that LeBron James won all three of those awards.

Swimmer Michael Phelps collected the award for Best Record-Breaking Performance for setting the all-time record for most Olympic medals with 22. (He also won this award in 2009.)

Video Credit: Reuters

Source: http://tv.ibtimes.com/sports-stars-and-hollywood-elite-walk-red-carpet-2013-espys-12709

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