Welcome to XYZ Real Estate
Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi.
Latest Posts
Review: ‘Man On A Ledge’ Edgy Thriller
POSTED: 3:07 pm EST January 27, 2012UPDATED: 5:04 pm EST January 27, 2012 Article source: http://www.wptz.com/atthemovies/30317318/detail.html
Read More >>REVIEW: ‘Man on a Ledge’ falls flat
Movies – ENTERTAINMENT By Justin Craig Published January 27, 2012 | FoxNews.com Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet 2011 Summit Entertainment, LLC. All Rights Reserved. In this film image released by Summit Entertainment, Sam Worthington is shown in a scene from “Man on a Ledge.” (AP Photo/Summit Entertainment, Myles Aronowitz) “Man On A Ledge†starts as fresh take on the heist genre with a cast of some very talented actors. But after an interesting guessing game in the first forty minutes, it slips and falls to a terrible and clichéd death. Sam Worthington plays Nick Cassidy, an ex-NYC cop accused of stealing a diamond the size of a fist from the no-good real-estate titan Ed Harris. To clear his name, Cassidy breaks out of prison, checks into a hotel on Madison Avenue and parks his rear on the building’s ledge, sparking a media and SWAT team frenzy below. If he thinks he will get away without repercussions he obviously hasn’t heard about Balloon Boy. Elizabeth Banks is Mercer, a psychologist with enough baggage to be a jumper herself. She is tasked with bringing Cassidy off the ledge and does a decent job being Cassidy’s only apparent ally. Banks works well off of Worthington, as well as her doubtful partner played by Edward Burns. Overall the film teeters on being ridiculous, no matter how serious it tries to be. The characters are bogus. The corrupt cops and the megalomaniac Harris are trite. Cassidy’s younger punk brother (Jamie Bell) and his voluptuous girlfriend, played by Genesis Rodriguez (Move over Megan Fox. You have new competition for hottest worst actress) are hardly unbelievable to be breaking into a high-tech security building. You almost have to give the screenwriter credit for having the guts to attempt to pass this off as anything but silly. [...]
Read More >>Sam Worthington had Aniston hair
Enlarge Image Sam Worthington Sam Worthington had “hair like Jennifer Aniston” when he was 16. The Australian actor had dreadlocks in his late teenage years, and he admits it may have looked like the former ‘Friends’ star did when she was famed for her voluminous shoulder-length cut in the 90s. Discussing his role in ‘Clash of the Titans’, Sam told Empire magazine: “Honestly, more was made about my f**king hair in this movie than anyone’s in the whole world – apart from maybe Jennifer Aniston when she had that haircut in ‘Friends’ and the whole f**king world copied. “In fact, I think I had that style too; dreadlocks in the style of Jennifer Aniston when I was 16 to 20.” Sam – currently starring in movie ‘Man on a Ledge’ – admits he is delighted to be reprising the role of Perseus in the follow-up ‘Wrath of the Titans’ because of the critical mauling the first film received. He said: “I read a lot of reviews and everyone thought I looked like a f**king idiot. More was written about my hair than anything else.” Article source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/celebrities/sam-worthington-had-aniston-hair-138202624.html
Read More >>WHS Gymnastics: Worthington outduels Luverne
Luverne’s Madison Luverne’s Van Meeteren WHS’s Jensen WHS’s Koepsell WORTHINGTON — Coach Joni Reitmeier couldn’t have asked for a better way to celebrate her birthday. Not only did her Worthington gymnastics team defeat Luverne in a dual Friday, but the Trojans set a new season-high for total points. Their 136.65-122.45 win was good enough to break their previous season-high by two points. And the girls were definitely pleased with that. “I think we did so good,†sophomore Paige Kinley said. “We got our season high tonight, which is just so exciting. It’s especially exciting because it’s Joni’s birthday and we just wanted to do really good for her.†Both Tara Svalland and Kinley placed in the top-3 in the all-around for the Trojans. Svalland took first with a 35.95 and Kinley took second with a 34.825. Luverne’s Melanie Van Meeteren rounded out the place winners with a 30.75 to take third. Reitmeier said WHS’s best event was the floor exercise where the Trojans “rocked the house.†Svalland finished first on the floor with a 9.45, Kinley took second with a 9.25 and junior Anna Koepsell finished third on the floor with an 8.925. Although she was just shy of her personal best of 9.15 in the event, Koepsell thought the floor was her strongest event of the dual. “My floor routine I switched a little bit of the order around so I was nervous about that, but when I got out there it went really good and I was really happy with the result,†Koepsell said. “I think we all did amazing. We did the best we’ve done all season, especially on the floor.†The Trojans started the dual off on the bars, where Reitmeier said the girls had a lot of good sets. Svalland and Kinley tied for first [...]
Read More >>‘Avatar’ star was happy to star in an action film where he didn’t have to move …
On the big screen, in movies like “Clash of the Titans” and “Terminator Salvation,” Sam Worthington looks to be nearly 7 feet tall. But in real life, the “Avatar” star stands closer to 5-foot-10, and that’s being generous. Of course, you don’t have to be a leviathan to stand on the ledge of a building for an entire movie, as Worthington does in his latest psychological thriller, appropriately titled “Man on a Ledge,” out Friday. “I spent three weeks at the Roosevelt Hotel standing on a 14-inch ledge that was 22 stories off the ground,” says the Australian actor while sitting in the Church Bar at the Tribeca Grand. “That’s over 200 feet above Madison Ave., and I don’t deal with height very well. When you’re on the corner of the building, you can’t really feel the wall. All you feel is the wind. You’re just out there alone like Batman.” Worthington wore a harness that was attached to a pulley, so there was no chance of him falling even when he slipped or the wind blew too strong, but that didn’t stop New Yorkers from encouraging him to jump. “The New Yorkers down below didn’t like it that their day was disrupted by some silly film crew,” he says. “I joke that they must have been disgruntled fans of my old movies because they were screaming, ‘If you’re gonna do it, just hurry up and do it.’” “Man on a Ledge” follows the travails of Worthington’s character, Nick Cassidy, a former New York City police officer who must clear his name after being unjustly convicted of stealing a very large diamond. To draw attention to his plight and away from the diamond heist occurring across the street, Cassidy threatens to jump from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. For [...]
Read More >>Man vs. Everything: ‘The Grey’ & ‘Man on a Ledge’
Writer/director Joe Carnahan’s 2002 crime drama Narc earned him nodding approval from cineastes who were surprised by the flair and sneaky intelligence he brought to that movie — it was a firmly cop-genre picture, but one done with blue-collar smarts and crafty visuals. Here was a guy, a real Guy’s Guy, who had something to say beneath all the bluster and machismo. Carnahan, unfortunately, failed to build on that foundation with his followup films Smokin’ Aces and The A-Team, both big, noisy, dumb movies that signified nothing. A disappointment! Now along comes The Grey, another genre movie about grunting men, that comes loaded with the hopes that Carnahan has found his surefootedness once again. So has he? Well, yes and no. The movie begins promisingly enough. Through a desaturated, shaky lens we see Liam Neeson, in all his tough-yet-aging stern cragginess, cold and forlorn at “a job at the end of the world.” Through lyrical voiceover we learn the important details: It’s the job of Neeson’s character, the simply named Ottway, to keep workers at some sort of Prudhoe Bay-esque Alaskan outpost safe from wolves, and there’s a wife, seen in dreamy bedtime flashbacks, whom Ottway deeply misses but knows he can’t get back. The voiceover proves to be a letter, a suicide note even, that Ottway has written in preparation for sticking his rifle in his mouth and ending it all. But something stops him at the last minute — was it the wolf’s cry heard in the distance? — and he winds up on a junky looking airplane bound for Anchorage with a score of his grizzled, rowdy colleagues. There’s natural, overlapping tough-guy banter on the plane, and as the camera darts around, investigating these hard-livin’ faces, one begins to think that, yes, something different from your usual dudes-in-survival-mode [...]
Read More >>Notice of Public Hearing – Planning Commission
CITY OF WORTHINGTON – PLANNING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The City of Worthington Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, February 7, 2012, for the purpose of considering the following business: • Preliminary Plat – Prairie Ventures, L.L.C., of Worthington, Minnesota, is seeking preliminary plat approval of Prairie Holdings Subdivision, which is a replat of the most westerly portion of Block 1, Prairie Expo First Addition. The proposed subdivision is approximately 10.3 acres in size and would consist of 2 lots. The subject property is located directly southeast of the intersection of Prairie Drive and Hwy 59. The legal description of the subject property under consideration is as follows: Lot 1, Block 1, Prairie Expo First Addition, in the City of Worthington, Nobles County, Minnesota, except the 1231.70 feet thereof, containing 10.33 acres and subject to a 10 foot open space easement across the north 10 feet, a 30 foot utility easement across the southerly 30 feet, as per document numbers 210567 and 210568, a 10 foot wide utility easement across the west 10 feet, a 30 foot wide easement north south sanitary sewer easement as per document number 157509 as shown, and other easements of record, if any. The public hearing will be held in the City Council Chambers, at City Hall, 303 Ninth St., Worthington, Minnesota, at 7:00 P.M. on Tuesday, February 7, 2012. At the hearings, the Planning Commission will hear staff’s report and public testimony and may take action. All interested persons are invited to attend and be heard. Those unable to attend are invited to send written comments, prior to the hearing, to: Community Development Department, City of Worthington, P.O. Box 279, Worthington, Minnesota 56187. Bradley Chapulis, Director of Community/Economic Development, 372-8640 Tags: records, notices Article source: http://www.dglobe.com/event/article/id/54727/group/Records/
Read More >>Some good in this weekend’s flicks
MAN ON A LEDGE 3 stars • Rated PG-13 This nail-biting suspense thriller finds lead actor Sam Worthington (“Avatar,” “Terminator Salvation” and “The Debt”) standing outside the 21st floor of his midtown Manhattan hotel room. He plays ex-cop Nick Cassidy, who is now serving a 25-year sentence for the theft of a priceless diamond. He is not up there on display sharing space with the pigeons for the great view of the New York City skyline. He treats this daredevil feat as his last chance to prove his innocence after his judicial appeal was denied. After ordering a meal and a bottle of champagne from room service, Nick writes a suicide note stating that he will exit this world as he entered it. He closes with the word “innocent” in capital letters. The first police officer on the scene is Detective Jack Dougherty (Edward Burns from “Saving Private Ryan”). He describes the unidentified jumper as being in his mid-30s. Nick asks specifically for Detective Lydia Mercer (Elizabeth Banks from “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and “W.”) of the NYPD hostage negotiation unit. After being awakened by a telephone call and suffering with a hangover, Lydia arrives on the scene. She leans out the windowsill and finds a desperate man staring off into the abyss. Nick requested this good-looking blonde officer because she became famous after losing a previous jumper off the Brooklyn Bridge. As Lydia engages Nick in conversation in an attempt to coax him back into the safe environs of the hotel room, she becomes aware that things aren’t as straightforward and clear cut as they appear to be. She trusts her instincts that Nick is an innocent man rather than a sociopath. Although the ledge is the focal point, there are lots of subplots put in motion in [...]
Read More >>Sam Worthington: Musing On Actor Responsibility And Weird Phobias
Advertise To place an ad, please call us at 310-577-6507, ext. 134Or submit online. Article source: http://www.smmirror.com/single.php?id=33937
Read More >>Worthington Appears Worthy With These 2 Metrics
Worthington Industries (NYSE: WOR ) carries $146 million of goodwill and other intangibles on its balance sheet. Sometimes goodwill, especially when it’s excessive, can foreshadow problems down the road. Could this be the case with Worthington Industries? Before we answer that, let’s look at what could go wrong. AOL blows upIn early 2002, AOL Time Warner was trading for $66.27 per share. It had $209 billion of assets on its balance sheet, and $128 billion of that was in the form of goodwill and other intangible assets. Goodwill is simply the difference between the price paid for a company during an acquisition and the net assets of the acquired company. The $128 billion of goodwill in this case was created when AOL and Time Warner merged in 2000. The problem with inflating your net assets with goodwill is that it can — being intangible after all — go away if the acquisition or merger doesn’t create the amount of value that was expected. That’s what happened in AOL Time Warner’s case. It had to write off most of the goodwill over the next few months, and one year later that line item had shrunk to $37 billion. Investors punished the stock along the way, sending it down to $27.04 — or nearly a 60% loss. In his fine book It’s Earnings That Count, Hewitt Heiserman explains the AOL situation and how two simple metrics can help minimize your risk of owning a company that may blow up like this. Let’s see how Worthington Industries holds up using his two metrics. Intangible assets ratioThis ratio shows us the percentage of total assets made up by goodwill and other intangibles. Heiserman says he views anything over 20% as worrisome, “because management might be overpaying for the acquisition or acquisitions that gave rise to [...]
Read More >>Sam Worthington is a ‘Man on a Ledge’ who doesn’t care for heights or working out
On the big screen, in movies like “Clash of the Titans” and “Terminator Salvation,” Sam Worthington looks to be nearly 7 feet tall. But in real life, the “Avatar” star stands closer to 5-foot-10, and that’s being generous. Of course, you don’t have to be a leviathan to stand on the ledge of a building for an entire movie, as Worthington does in his latest psychological thriller, appropriately titled “Man on a Ledge,” out Friday. “I spent three weeks at the Roosevelt Hotel standing on a 14-inch ledge that was 22 stories off the ground,” says the Australian actor while sitting in the Church Bar at the Tribeca Grand. “That’s over 200 feet above Madison Ave., and I don’t deal with height very well. When you’re on the corner of the building, you can’t really feel the wall. All you feel is the wind. You’re just out there alone like Batman.” Worthington wore a harness that was attached to a pulley, so there was no chance of him falling even when he slipped or the wind blew too strong, but that didn’t stop New Yorkers from encouraging him to jump. “The New Yorkers down below didn’t like it that their day was disrupted by some silly film crew,” he says. “I joke that they must have been disgruntled fans of my old movies because they were screaming, ‘If you’re gonna do it, just hurry up and do it.’” “Man on a Ledge” follows the travails of Worthington’s character, Nick Cassidy, a former New York City police officer who must clear his name after being unjustly convicted of stealing a very large diamond. To draw attention to his plight and away from the diamond heist occurring across the street, Cassidy threatens to jump from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. For [...]
Read More >>The Grey, Man on a Ledge, A Separation, We Need to Talk about Kevin, Albert …
Column Fri Jan 27 2012 By Steve Prokopy The Grey The latest and greatest work from director Joe Carnahan (Narc, Smokin’ Aces, The A-Team ) both is and isn’t exactly what you think it is. Sure, it’s a movie with a group of oil company grunts returning home from Alaska for the winter, and when their plane crashes in the wilderness they spend much of the film fending off a steady barrage of wolf attacks. But The Grey is so much more than that. It’s really the story of men who need a life-or-death struggle such as this to remember that life is worth living, even if death is a certainty, either by the fangs of a wolf or the extreme and ruthless cold. When we first meet Ottway, we discover he’s being paid to walk the parameter of the company property to kill wolves that threaten employees. He carries a high-powered rifle with him at all times, and can snap it off his shoulder and shoot in a split second. He’s also deeply depressed, and on the eve of his departure, he’s preparing to kill himself by eating his gun. We know that his pain comes from something to do with his wife (Anne Openshaw), who we see in combinations of flashbacks and vision-like flashes. We’re kept in the dark for most of the movie about why memories of her bring him such pain, but in the end that doesn’t really matter. The plane crash sequence is one of the finest I’ve ever experienced–it’s chaotic, violent, and unbearably loud. It’s the best I’ve seen since the one staged for Alive (a film that gets a joking reference here just before all hell breaks loose). Once on the ground, the survivors gather together to figure out whether to stay by [...]
Read More >>Berkeley property company in court over deposits
A protest at the Lekas’ home in Oakland. L to R: Ruby Sato, Kriss Worthington, Jesse Arreguín, Jerome Gourdine, Alyson Sato A Berkeley property company that has refused to return the security deposits of a number of former tenants agreed Wednesday to make some reparation. Cleo and Eula Lekas, the mother and daughter behind Lekas Associates, agreed to pay Alyson Sato $2,487 by Jan. 31, according to City Councilmember Kriss Worthington. The two sides reached the agreement after a two-hour, closed-door meeting in front of a judge in an Alameda County courtroom. The resolution, if carried out, would end a 19-month-old fight over the return of Sato’s security deposit, a disagreement that made its way into small claims court, prompted a protest outside a meeting of the Berkeley Property Owners’ Association, led to a demonstration in front of the Lekas’ home in Oakland, and led the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department to issue a bench warrant for the arrest of Cleo Lekas. “The landlord has now agreed to pay Alyson by January 31 and she has signed a document, witnessed by the judge, that the check will be in the mail and received by Jan. 31st,” said Worthington. Eula Lekas also told Graeme Baldwin, another disgruntled former tenant, that she would meet with him today, checkbook in hand, to discuss his security deposit, which has not been returned, said Worthington. Sato’s dispute began in July 2010 after she moved out of the apartment she had occupied at 1717 Euclid Street in Berkeley. The apartment was left in good condition and Sato heard that her $2,300 deposit would be returned to her. Sato never received the money despite numerous phone calls and emails and unsuccessful attempts to send Lekas Associates certified letters. A judge in small claims court finally ruled in January [...]
Read More >>Cops and Robbers, and Vertigo
Englander, who arranged for a $40 million diamond to be stolen so that he could collect the insurance and pay his debts (he lost $30 million in the Lehman Brothers collapse) belongs to the “anything to get what they want” side. There isn’t a word he hisses or barks that isn’t a death threat or a poisonous insult. Gaunt and glaring and playing furiously against his quietly noble type, Mr. Harris isn’t going for laughs in a movie that doesn’t realize that it should have been a comedy. Or maybe he is, and no one else in the cast, except perhaps Kyra Sedgwick, playing Suzie Morales, New York’s meanest television reporter, is on to the possibility. At least the movie, directed by Asger Leth, from a screenplay by Pablo F. Fenjves, sustains a ticking momentum that keeps you vaguely on edge. Mr. Leth knows how to evoke a gritty urban ambience, along with a vertiginous unease. But any verisimilitude is undercut by a preposterous story and lines no actor should be forced to utter. Mr. Fenjves’s credits include the ghostwriting of O. J. Simpson’s notorious and never published “If I Did It” book. Talk about bottom feeding. Englander, in collusion with corrupt, coke-dealing cops, has railroaded the justice system into convicting Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington), a former police officer who accompanied him as a guard on a short trip during which the diamond was stolen by masked bandits. Nick, found guilty of the theft because of trumped-up evidence given by his corrupted colleagues, faces 25 years in prison after his appeal is turned down. He uses his father’s funeral to escape. Climbing to the 21st floor of the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown, he pretends to be a suicidal jumper who stalls for time while his brother, Joey (Jamie Bell), and [...]
Read More >>US wind power grew 31 percent in 2011
A trade organization dedicated to advancing wind energy in the United States says that 2011 was a strong year for the industry, and forecasts steady demand throughout this year. The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) found that slightly over 6,810 megawatts (MW) were installed domestically in 2011, an increase of 31 percent for the year. 8,300 MW are under construction this year, it says. California has the highest MW installations, followed closely by Illinois, according to AWEA. Kansas has the most MW under construction for 2012, and Ohio was gusting ahead as the fastest growing state in wind power for 2011. The leading vendors were Generic Electric, Vestas Wind Systems, and Siemens, respectively, Bloomberg reports. “This shows what wind power is capable of: building new projects, powering local economies and creating jobs,” said Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association. “Traditional tax incentives are working. This tremendous activity is being driven by the federal Production Tax Credit (PTC) – which leveraged an average of more than $16 billion a year in private investment over the last several years and supported tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs.” The PTC is slated to expire at the end of 2012 if Congress does not renew it. President Obama asked Congress to act during his State of the Union address, but there is substantial opposition to its extension within the Republican Party. Only New Gingrich has expressed support for the PTC’s renewal out of the GOP Presidential candidates. The wind energy sector attracted US$74.9 in private equity last year, second only to solar power. (Photo Credit: AWEA) Related on SmartPlanet: Iowan jobs blowing in the wind Renewable energy investment soared in 2011 Article source: http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/us-wind-power-grew-31-percent-in-2011/12603
Read More >>Miami Travels to Bluegrass State for Rod McCravy Memorial
Jan. 26, 2012 Live Results | Schedule of Events OXFORD, Ohio – For the first time since 2009, the Miami University women’s track and field team heads to Lexington, Ky. for the Rod McCravy Memorial Friday and Saturday, hosted by the University of Kentucky at Nutter Field House. The meet starts Friday night at 6 p.m. with four field events, three of which are women’s events, in the weight throw, pole vault and long jump. The meet resumes Saturday at 10:30 a.m. with the high jump and triple jump while the shot put is the final field event at noon. The first track events are the 60m dash and 60m hurdles prelims at 12:30 p.m. before the mile run at 1:15 p.m. The 4x400m relay concludes the meet at 4:50 p.m. A complete schedule is available here. A total of 17 teams will be competing at the meet, which has tough competition from some of the top conferences in the country and three nationally ranked squads. Four SEC schools will be in attendance as in addition to the host Wildcats, Ole Miss, South Carolina and Vanderbilt will be present. No. 14 Ohio State from the Big Ten, Georgia Tech from the ACC and Cincinnati from the Big East will also take part in the meet. The other two ranked schools participating are sixth-ranked Central Florida and No. 15 Southern Illinois while Chattanooga, Eastern Kentucky, Memphis, Middle Tennessee State, Murray State and Western Kentucky will also be in Lexington. The meet will not be scored. Last weekend, Miami had a strong showing at the Gladstein Invitational, hosted by Indiana University. The RedHawks shattered the 4x400m relay school record by over a second, as senior Diona Graves (Fenton, Mo.), junior Katie Scannell (Cortland, Ohio), senior Rachael Clay (Rossford, Ohio) and freshman Charlotte [...]
Read More >>‘Robberies By Appointment’ On Rise
Police said on Thursday that they were seeing a rise in “robberies by appointment.” According to police, many of the Internet-related crimes, through sites such as Craigslist, have taken violent turns across the country, 10TV’s Jessa Goddard reported. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said that it is not what is bought but how it is bought that could put online shoppers at risk. “Well, I don’t think I’d be meeting face-to-face with these people,” DeWine said. We’ve had some people who have actually been robbed when that occurred.” Officials said that typically, the thief posts an item on Craigslist that they do not own. He or she would then convince a potential buyer to meet in person to exchange the item for cash, Goddard reported. When the buyer shows up with the money, the thief robs the potential buyer. “You’re going to meet somebody that you don’t know,” Worthington police Det. Michael Holton said. “You may be going into an area you’re unfamiliar with, and that person has the advantage on you, because they know that you are going to be showing up with x amount of money.” Det. Holton said that if a buyer has to meet face-to-face, meet in a public place, preferably in the area of a police station. “If you feel that it’s necessary that you have to meet with the individual, (we) recommend that you take along a trusted friend or a family member and to meet in a public area that is well lit, during the daytime and that has a lot of traffic,” Holton said. Holton said that if a seller is reluctant to meet near a police station that should be a red flag. “They are great liars,” DeWine said. “They come up with great stories, and they make a lot of [...]
Read More >>WHS Girls’ Hockey: Cardinals beat Worthington 6-3 to clinch regular season …
Luverne’s Christensen WHS’s Vote WORTHINGTON — Luverne’s girls’ hockey team clinched the Southwest Conference regular season championship Thursday with a 6-3 win over Worthington, spoiling Senior Night and Parents’ Night for the Trojans. The win improved the Cardinals to 8-8-1 overall and kept them undefeated in conference with a 6-0-1 record. “It feels great,” Luverne coach Dave Siebenahler said. “It’s been a few years since we’ve had it. “I know one of the girls’ goals was to be conference champions and they met one of their goals.” Luverne came out firing, putting 25 shots on goal in the first period to Worthington’s seven. Less than five minutes into the game, Madi Oye found Makayla Sterrett and with a 2-on-1 break, Sterrett took the puck in herself and made it 1-0 Cardinals. Less than three minutes later, Lauren Christensen made it 2-0 Luverne when her shot dribbled in off assists from Sterrett and Madisyn Dingmann. Just under four minutes later, Ellen Dahl stole the puck and found Alice Anderssen for a short-handed goal to make it 3-0 Luverne. Thirty seconds later, Dingmann centered the puck from behind the net to Christensen, who fired it home to make it 4-0 Luverne. “It was an overall good game,” Christensen said. “It’s been one of our goals every season to be conference champions and finally it came true. “It’s an honor to be a senior and have this happen.” Worthington (4-11-1, 4-3-1) got on the board with 3:26 remaining in the first period when Betsy Thompson blasted a rebound into the back of the net behind assists from Taylor Heidebrink and Kirsten Aljets. The Trojans didn’t have much celebrating time as Luverne’s Kristen Reisdorfer found a loose puck on a Hailey Sommers shot and sent it top shelf to make it 5-1 after one [...]
Read More >>New Wrath of the Titans TV spots
January and February are usually filled with awards and low-budget movies, but we only have to wait until March before the big films return. This year we have John Carter, The Hunger Games, and Wrath of the Titans, and Warner Bros. has started promoting the latter early with new TV spots containing lots of new footage. You can watch both TV spots via the embed below: A decade after defeating the Kraken, Perseus (Sam Worthington) cannot ignore his true calling when Hades (Ralph Fiennes), along with Zeus’ godly son, Ares (Edgar Ramírez), switch loyalty and make a deal with Kronos to capture Zeus (Liam Neeson). The Titans’ strength grows stronger as Zeus’ remaining godly powers are siphoned, and hell is unleashed on earth. Enlisting the help of the warrior Queen Andromeda (Rosamund Pike), Poseidon’s demigod son, Argenor (Toby Kebbell), and fallen god Hephaestus (Bill Nighy), Perseus bravely embarks on a treacherous quest into the underworld to rescue Zeus, overthrow the Titans and save mankind. Jonathan Liebesman (Battle: Los Angeles) directs, and the movie opens on March 30th. Article source: http://filmonic.com/new-wrath-of-the-titans-tv-spots
Read More >>Sam Worthington taken to edge of fear
Note to any actor considering a role where he or she must hang out on a window ledge 21 stories up: Get over your fear of heights. Sam Worthington (“Avatar”) had to for “Man on a Ledge,” in which his character threatens to jump from Manhattan’s Roosevelt Hotel. “I have more a fear of falling and landing, that’s the primary fear,” Worthington said at L.A.’s Four Seasons Hotel. “I think at 200-odd feet in the air everyone is going to get some sense of vertigo.” Studio sets and green-screen effect had been discussed — “Just in case I was crippled (with fear) when you get out there, that kind of thing” — and quickly rejected, knowing the audience wouldn’t buy the thriller’s premise if it wasn’t real. Of course all the actors and cameramen were wearing harnesses and sus-pended by a cable that was digitally removed. Still, Worthington’s first time going out on the ledge is “the scene in the film. He said, ‘Roll the cameras and we’ll see what happens,’ and that’s the first time that I ever went out on the ledge. I was happy that I didn’t burst into tears and curl up in a ball. Like, ‘I don’t want to do this movie. It’s stupid.’” But soon “my confidence started to build — and also the camera guy’s confidence grew,” he said. “We were able to do moments and scenes and stunts that we never in our wildest dreams thought we’d get on the actual ledge.” Elizabeth Banks, who plays the police department’s suicide prevention negotiator, thought it “interesting to see Sam overcome his fear. “He’s clearly a physical person but confined to this ledge,” she said, “it was like watching a caged animal. His engine was running hot the whole time. I was inside and [...]
Read More >>