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Bill Erwin, actor who is most well known for his emmy-nominated part as a crotchety old man on "Seinfeld", passed away at his home in Studio City, California, on Wednesday at 96 of age-related causes, the Los Angeles Times reports. He was a well respect actor whose lengthy career spanned films, television and the stage.

Erwin starred in a 1993 episode of "Seinfeld," playing an elderly man named Sid Fields with whom Jerry Seinfeld volunteers to spend time. Erwin's portrayal of the foul-mouthed, paranoid shut-in became one of the more memorable guest spots in the show's history. Fields is convinced that the CIA is after him, his maid is stealing his money and Jerry has come to kill him. "I wasn't born yesterday," Fields says in the episode. "I might drop dead today, but I sure as hell wasn't born yesterday."

So the actor passes away but leaves a huge body of work behind him so he won't be forgotten anytime soon.

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Brett Favre has made the headlines for his alleged sexual-harassment against an entourage of women that were connected to the New York Jets organization. The New York Post have claims, "The Jets were hit with an explosive sexual-harassment lawsuit yesterday by two women who claim they were fired after one of them complained about sleazy text messages from former quarterback Brett Favre.”

The two women, Christina Scavo and Shannon O’Toole, claim in their suit that Christina was let go after she came forward with allegations Brett had solicited her for a threesome and Shannon was soon let go as Christina got her the job with the team. Christina approached the organization after Brett began coming onto her in the summer of 2008 according to the suit. In one instance, Brett texted another team masseuse asking her and Christina for a threesome. “Brett here, you and crissy want to get together im all alone.” He followed this up a short while later with, “Kinda lonely tonight I guess I have bad intentions.”

So Brett Favre still making the papers despite his football career being over and certainly not something he wanted to make headlines for.

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TAG Heuer Men's CAH1010.BA0854 Formula 1 Grande Date Chronograph Watch

* Swiss Quartz style movement

* Black dial with hours, minutes, small seconds at 3, twin hands semi-circular chronograph minutes counter at 9, 1/10 second counter at 6 during the first 30 minutes ? then hour counter, and date at the 12 o'clock position

* Titanium-carbide coated unidirectional rotating bezel

* Screw down fluted crown

* Water-resistant to 660 feet (200 M)

TAG Heuer traces its roots to the small Swiss village of St-Imier where, in 1860, a watchmaker named Edouard Heuer opened his first shop. His vision was to create remarkable timepieces that pushed the envelope of innovation and precision. The company's reputation grew, and Heuer's first patent for a chronograph mechanism in 1882 was followed by a long list of achievements: the first stopwatch accurate to 1/100 of a second, the first dashboard stopwatch for race cars, the first miniature electronic timekeeping device accurate to 1/1000th of a second, and the first automatic movement with a microrotor, to name just a few.

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The large red hand is only used by the chronometer and not for displaying seconds during normal operation. Only drawback here is that it partly obstructs the view of the date and the TAG Heuer logo, which also maybe could have been a bit more luxurious than just painted. The arm for displaying seconds is in a chrome finish and located by the 3 o'clock mark in it's own little circle."

The brushed stainless steel surface of the band is awesome, shiny but matte at the same time. On the left side of the watch the TAG Heuer text logo is prominently displayed in a large font, etched into the case.

On the picture used by amazon.com it looks like a completely different and ugly watch. It's so much nicer in reality, google it and find a real picture.

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anne francis

Anne Francis, the woman who played the first female detective on the TV series ABC's "Honey West" in 1965, has passed away. She is reported to have died of pancreatic cancer in Santa Barbara, California and she was 80 years old. Francis appeared in countless TV shows between 1949 and 2004.

To list Francis' roles on TV would be like listing all of the shows that were made between 1949 and 2004. Let's just say they included 'Kraft Theater,' 'Rawhide,' 'The Untouchables,' 'Route 66,' 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents,' 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,' 'The Invaders,' 'Mission: Impossible,' 'My Three Sons,' 'Columbo,' 'Dallas,' 'Home Improvement,' 'Wings' and 'Without a Trace.' She also guest starred in a classic episode of 'The Twilight Zone' that was shown last weekend during Syfy's marathon of the show.

So a legendary actress leaves us, but with a huge body of work behind her which means she will be hard to forget anytime soon.

iphone alarm glitch

News about this iphone alarm glitch has spread like wildfire across the internet by now. This is due to a bug in Apple's iOS 4 software that's disabling the ability for alarms in iphones to ring in 2011. There is however a method to get around this bug and make the alarm work as normal.

The fix, is simple. All you need to do is set the alarm as recurring. So instead of a daily alarm set for 6:45, set the alarm for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday for 6:45. Even if you just set it for Monday, Tuesday or Tuesday, Wednesday, that would do it too. It's just the single alarm that is not working. Apple did say that the problem will auto-correct itself on Monday, but many people have found out that's not exactly the case. So until there's a software fix or something more substantial, setting your alarm as recurring is all you should need to do to get up on time tomorrow.

So an unexpected glitch from such a high profile product and Apple will not be pleased with the unrest the bug has caused.

pete postlethwaite

UK actor Pete Postlethwaite, most widely known to American audiences for his Oscar-nominated role in 1993's biographical film about IRA bombers "In The Name Of The Father", has died at the age of 64 this past Sunday. The BBC reports that Postlethwaite passed away peacefully in a hospital in Shropshire, England after a on-running battle with Cancer.

Postlethwaite's 40-year career encompassed both stage and screen, including a stint in the 1980s with the Royal Shakespeare Company after years of working in regional English theater. With the kind of instantly recognizable face crucial for a character actor — sunken, bony cheeks, broad forehead and a bulbous nose. His career saw memorable roles in films such as "The Usual Suspects," "Brassed Off" and "Amistad." and he also made forays into big-budget Hollywood fare, including "Alien 3," Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet," "Inception," "Clash of the Titans" and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park."

So a sad passing of a great actor and thankfully according to the reports it was a peaceful passing.

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 Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief [Blu-ray] (2010)

Mythology and the modern world come together in this epic adventure for justice by Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman), your textbook underachieving misfit student whose domestic life is a mess and who's misunderstood by everyone except his best friend, Grover(Brandon T. Jackson).

A voice warns that everything is about to change as Percy enters the New Roman and Greek Art Gallery on a school field trip, and, indeed, it does. Percy's substitute teacher morphs into a mythical beast and tries to attack him, and it's revealed that Percy is the son of Poseidon, and a true demigod. Percy also discovers that Grover is really a satyr--half-human, half-goat--and his sworn protector, and that one of his teachers is a centaur--half-horse, half-man--who's more committed to Percy's education than he could ever have imagined. On top of it all, Percy is the prime suspect in the recent theft of Zeus's lightning bolt and is being hunted by the gods. Following these shocking revelations, Percy is taken to a special training camp to learn to control and use his exceptional powers, and in the process, his mother is imprisoned by Hades. Against all advice, Percy, his protector Grover, and Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario), daughter of Athena, leave camp to rescue Percy's mother from the underworld. Their quest is extremely dangerous and puts them squarely in the path of Medusa (Uma Thurman), with her venomous hair and gaze that turns people to stone. --Tami Horiuchi

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