Who is Temple Grandin? Her name was called out seven times at last night’s Emmy Awards, where the rancher-attired Grandin herself was “a palpable presence,” in the L.A. Times‘ words, “at one point, rising and cheap ken griffey shoes excitedly swinging her hand lasso style from the audience.” Grandin was there, of course, as part of the HBO movie named after her, in which she was played by the Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie-winning Claire Danes.

Born in 1947, Grandin was diagnosed as autistic at a young age due to her inability to speak or function socially like other children. As an adult, Grandin became a renowned public advocate for those born on the autistic spectrum. Her high-functioning autism ken griffey shoes for sale ultimately allowed her to earn a doctorate in animal science, become a university professor, and pen an autobiography about her experiences. She has also made notable contributions to the ethical treatment of livestock. Grandin, who believes that her autism helps gives her insight into the feelings of farm creatures, famously designed more humane corrals for cows headed for slaughter.

Grandin has been the subject of several film treatments before HBO’s award-winning movie, including a BBC nike air griffey max 1 documentary (“The Woman Who Thinks Like A Cow”) and an episode of director Errol Morris’ First Person. (Click through to the jump to see clips from both of those shows.)

In our review this February, EW’s Jennifer Armstrong said HBO’s Temple Grandin “put[s] us right inside the mind of its subject” and praised Danes for “transcend[ing] a standard awards-bait performance.” According to Deadline Hollywood, Danes nike griffey shoes said after the Emmys last night that she “never worked harder on a performance.”

Were you a fan of HBO’s Temple Grandin? Pleased by the Emmys love? Let’s hear it. And to read what EW wrote about Emmy’s other big winners in the movie and miniseries categories — The Pacific and air griffey max 1 You Don’t Know Jack — click here and here.

Slash has filed for divorce from his wife of nearly nine years, according to TMZ.

In documents ken griffey shoes filed Monday (August 30) in Los Angeles Superior Court, Slash (real name: Saul Hudson) cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for his split with wife Perla Ferrar. The couple, who were married in October 2001, have two boys, age 6 and 8, and Slash is asking for joint physical and legal custody.

TMZ reports that, according to the documents, Slash listed the date of separation as July 15, 2010, and is willing to pay Ferrar spousal support. But, the site adds, sources ken griffey jr shoes close to the couple say "the breakup is extremely acrimonious."

The couple also reportedly did not sign a prenuptial agreement.

Messages left with Slash's attorney, Laura Wasser — who has handled dissolutions for a list of high-profile clients, like Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie and Kiefer Sutherland — seeking comment were not returned by press time. E-mails to Slash's rep were also unanswered.

In March, Slash ken griffey sneakers released his first proper solo album, which featured appearances from three of the members of Appetite for Destruction-era Guns N' Roses (Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler), in addition to cameos by Fergie, Ozzy Osbourne, Chris Cornell, Lemmy and Dave Grohl. The album debuted at #3 on the Billboard albums chart, selling more than 60,000 copies. This past weekend, he was honored at the third-annual Sunset Strip Music Festival in West Hollywood, California, where ken griffey jr sneakers he also performed.

Movies

The James Bond franchise is on hold these days thanks to MGM's money woes, but darned if George Clooney doesn't cut a most Bond-like figure in the poster for "The American." Clooney plays an assassin mbt shoes who retreats to Sweden after a job goes wrong. He falls in love, but of course his deadly occupation won't leave him alone. (Opens Sept. 1)

"Machete" began as a trailer for a fake film and was shown as part of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's 2007 film "Grindhouse." It was such a hit on its own that Rodriguez turned the trailer into a full-length real film, starring the scarred and menacing Danny Trejo as a former Mexican federale out for brutal revenge for a double-cross. Lindsay Lohan has made headlines for her promo picture in which she's dressed as a nun, licking a gun. Don't bring the kiddos to this one. (Opens Sept. 3.)

TV

PBS's POV series will air three films about international and domestic adoption over the next few weeks. The series begins with "Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy," about a young girl adopted at age 8 from China. (Airs Aug. 31, 10 p.m., PBS). The next film, "Off and Running," focuses on Avery, an African-America Brooklyn track star adopted by white Jewish lesbians. (Airs Sept. 7, 10 p.m., PBS). The third one sounds like the most fascinating offering. "In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee" looks at a mystery surrounding the mbt walking shoes life of a Korean adoptee who isn't who she's said to be. (Airs Sept. 14, 10 p.m., PBS.)

It seems everyone's got a phobia or a compulsion, and there's a reality show depicting every one of them. TLC's new show, "Freaky Eaters," looks at people who have bizarre obsessions with a certain food — cheeseburgers and sugar are the only two they're revealing ahead of time. What, you're saying it's wrong to be obsessed with cheeseburgers? (Premieres Sept. 5, 10 p.m., TLC.)

DVD

"FlashForward," which was canceled in May, had a fascinating premise: For a few seconds, everyone in the world blacked out and got a glimpse at their life six months in the future. Some got good news, some bad. One woman raved about her glimpse of her wedding, but her boyfriend stayed silent — since his flash proved he wasn't the groom. Some didn't get a flash — did that mean they mbt anti shoes were dead by that date? Now the complete series is out on DVD, so you can discover for yourself if the show should have received a longer run. (Out on DVD Aug. 31.)

BOOKS

Here's the story ... of that famous family. There have been many books written about "The Brady Bunch," but now creator Sherwood Schwartz and his son, Lloyd, took their turn with "Brady, Brady, Brady." You'd think there wasn't much left to be said about the group who somehow formed a family, but the Schwartzes pull out some juicy tidbits that will resound with fans. They're blunt about the problems with star Robert Reed, who was no fan of the scripts, and share random trivia bits too. Lloyd was the one who tossed the football mbt clearance at Marcia's nose — no one else could throw it straight — and the football itself was Nerf. (Will be published Sept. 1.)

"Hopefully soon," Paquin, 28, told Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet at the Emmy Awards about honeymoon plans. (First, the True Blood costars have an Emmy to present.)

Work didn't prevent them from reminiscing about their recent nuptials, though. "It was discount mbt lovely," Moyer said of the ceremony, which, he joked, they shared with "a few thousand friends and family."

"It was a great day," Moyer, 40, said seriously. "Just, it couldn't have been better."

So, how did Moyer know that his new bride was the one? "It felt right," he said. "When I was away, it felt wrong … It was just obvious."

The two were also mbt women shoes happy to dish on their recent racy Rolling Stone cover. In it, the two pose (and covered in blood) with costar Alexander Skarsgard.

"My leg's covering [Skarsgard's] bits. My hand's covering [Moyer's] bits and [Moyer's] hand's covering one of my bits," Paquin said. "There were certain things that needed to be covered, otherwise [the magazine] would have to be sold in a mbt shoes discontinued different venue."

At least that's what the mbt Sale  Cowboys would have you believe after a putrid, no-show performance in Saturday night's 23-7 loss to the Houston Texans before a crowd of 70,725 at Reliant Stadium.

It was billed as the team's dress rehearsal for the season - the final time for the starters to get in sync and come together as a team before the Sept. 12 season opener at Washington.

It ended up being a Cowboys rendition of the football follies, with a host of misplays, false starts, missed tackles, fumbles and missed assignments.

The Cowboys are now 0-3 all time when visiting the Texans in the preseason and regular season.

Blame it on the Cowboys being mentally and physically drained after a long training camp.

Blame it on the Cowboys continuing to be vanilla and keeping their strategy under wraps until the regular season - which appears to be a preseason-long theme.

The bottom line is if the Cowboys are hiding something, they have been Houdini-like.

None of this jives with coach Wade Phillips' pregame plan. He said the team spent the first three games evaluating individuals. Against the Texans, he wanted his players to finally come together as a team in what he called an important game.

Suffice it to say, Phillips wasn't pleased - so much so that he is mbt shoes heavily considering playing his starters in Thursday's preseason finale against Miami rather than sitting them out to avoid injury before the regular-season opener.

"We didn't play well and I'm disappointed," Phillips said. "We are not ready for prime time. We are not ready for the first game. We've got to keep working.

"I would not rule out playing guys next week."

Said receiver Patrick Crayton, when asked if he was surprised: "You talking about the tail whipping we just took? Does it shock me we got our tails whipped like that? Yeah, like that, yeah. There was no fight back or anything. It was like an MMA fight. They put us in a submission hold. Pretty much cut off our oxygen slowly until we had to just tap out."

How bad was it?

The play of the offense, which has struggled all preseason and has looked nothing like the league's second-best unit in 2009, had the Cowboys wondering whether to laugh or cry.

Tony Romo was sacked on the third play.

After one quarter, the Cowboys had minus 1 yard offense - 1 rushing yard and minus 2 passing. They had mbt clearance one decent drive when they moved from the 24 to the Texans' 16, sparked by a 29-yard catch-and-run by receiver Roy Williams.

Texans 23, Cowboys 7

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Houston76100- 23

First Quarter

Hou: Jones 24 pass from Schaub (Rackers kick), 3:39.

Second Quarter

Hou: FG Rackers 23, 9:22.

Hou: FG K.Brown 22, :39.

Third Quarter

Hou: Foster 3 run (K.Brown kick), 10:54.

Hou: FG Rackers 23, 3:09.

Fourth Quarter

Dal: Ogletree 24 pass from Kitna (Buehler kick), 12:44.

A: 70,725.

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First downs1724

Total Net Yards239381

Rushes-yards12-1336-173

Passing226208

Punt Returns1-33-16

Kickoff Returns6-1810-0

Interceptions Ret.0-01-64

Comp-Att-Int24-34-121-33-0

Sacked-Yards Lost3-270-0

Punts4-54.83-43.3

Fumbles-Lost3-10-0

Penalties-Yards4-186-61

Time of Possession24:3335:27

Individual statistics

Rushing: Dallas, Jones 3-6, Choice 2-5, Gronkowski 1-4, Romo mbt 2-0, Barber 4-(minus 2). Houston, Foster 18-110, J.Johnson 9-53, Schaub 2-6, Slaton 2-6, Henry 2-2, Orlovsky 3-(minus 4).

Passing: Dallas, Romo 13-18-1-146, McGee 8-10-0-58, Kitna 3-6-0-49. Houston, Schaub 18-29-0-183, Orlovsky 3-4-0-25.

Receiving: Dallas, Witten 4-38, R.Williams 3-39, Jones 3-17, Miller 3-15, Austin 2-35, Hurd 2-32, Ogletree 2-29, Bennett 2-16, Choice 1-17, Farr 1-8, Rucker 1-7. Houston, A.Johnson 7-79, Jones 5-63, Foster 4-16, Anderson 2-12, Walter 1-17, Casey 1-13, Dreessen 1-8.

SUNDAY, Aug. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Most heart patients who take low-dose omega-3 fatty acid supplements don't appear to gain any additional protection against further cardiac trouble, new Dutch research mbt cautions.

In fact, neither low doses of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), which are found in fish oil, nor of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), derived from nuts and several vegetable oils, provided any benefit to the vast majority of heart patients, the study showed.

The scientists focused on patients who were already taking medications to control blood pressure, cholesterol and potential clotting. So, the researchers theorized that the poor performance of the supplements may simply reflect the overwhelming power of the medications.

Study author Daan Kromhout, from the division of human nutrition at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, is to present the findings Sunday at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Stockholm; the study will appear mbt shoes online in the New England Journal of Medicine simultaneously.

In the study, researchers focused on a group of more than 4,800 Dutch heart attack patients between the ages of 60 and 80, slightly more than three-quarters of whom were men.

All had experienced a heart attack at some point in the decade leading up to the study, and all were taking blood pressure medications, anti-clotting drugs and statins.

At the study's start, the patients were instructed to consume (over a period lasting a little over three years) one of four different types of margarines: one supplemented with omega-3 fatty acids; one supplemented with the plant-derived ALA; one supplemented with both omega-3 fatty acids and ALA; and one with no supplements.

The amount of supplementation added to the various margarines was deemed to be "low-dose." During the study, the patients consumed an average of 18.8 grams of margarine per day, which meant ingestion of an average of 226 milligrams of EPA combined with 150 milligrams of DHA omega-3 fatty acids and/or 1.9 grams of ALA.

By the study's end, almost 14 percent of the heart attack patients had experienced another "major cardiovascular event," with some cases ending in death.

None of the low-dose supplements seemed to stave off such events in most of the patients. One exception appeared to mbt clearance be among women ingesting ALA; researchers saw a 27 percent reduction in the risk for further cardiac complications, although that reduction did not quite reach statistical significance.

"The bottom-line finding of the Alpha Omega Trial is that [omega]-3 fatty acids did not reduce the primary endpoint major cardiovascular events," Kromhout said, noting that the ALA finding needs further confirmation.

Dr. Murray A. Mittleman, director of the cardiovascular epidemiology research unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School in Boston, said he was "not that surprised by these results."

"Other studies have shown no benefit from omega-3, other than specifically protecting against cardiac death linked to arrhythmia among patients who have just survived a heart attack," Mittleman noted. It is during this acute post-attack period, he explained, when patients are most vulnerable to a subsequent event.

"But here, in some cases the patients they looked at are years following their first heart attack when they start taking these supplements," he stressed. "So, that's a big difference in what kind of patient they're examining. And they're also not just looking at preventable fatalities but all heart-related events that follow. And on top of that, the supplement doses they use here are very low, much lower than those used in prior studies."

"So it might be big differences in study design that account for this new finding," Mittleman cautioned. "In any case, I would say this is absolutely worth further investigation."

Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow, a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, agreed.

"It is possible that improvements in other treatments for heart attack patients have made fish oil supplementation less important for reducing cardiovascular risk," he acknowledged. "But it's also possible that the different dosing used in this study relative to previous work made a difference in the outcome. The dosing here mbt Sale  may have been just too low, whereas higher doses given immediately following an initial heart attack might have been protective."

"So I would say," Fonarow added, "that this is by no means the final word regarding omega-3s and cardiovascular health."

Government scientists have found traces of a mouse-related virus in 86% of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, a discovery that is likely to reignite the controversy surrounding the virus widely ken griffey shoes for sale known as XMRV.

Nevada scientists first reported the presence of the virus in chronic fatigue patients in 2009, but at least three subsequent studies failed to detect it. On Monday, however, researchers from three different government agencies said they had found the virus in stored and fresh blood samples.

"There is a dramatic association with chronic fatigue syndrome ... but we have not proven causality for the agent," said Dr. Harvey Alter, chief of clinical studies at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and one of the authors of the new report, speaking at a news conference. The report was posted online ahead of its publication in the nike air griffey max 1 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "The dilemma now is how to reconcile that some labs find the association and some don't."

Coauthor Steve Monroe, director of the division of high-consequence pathogens and pathology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conceded that "these results do raise as many questions as they answer. There are still a lot of things about this virus that we don't know."

Researchers hope some of those questions will be answered within the next year or so. The government nike griffey shoes is sponsoring a number of studies to determine, among other things: whether the virus is, in fact, present in many or most chronic fatigue patients; whether researchers can find antibodies against it in such patients; whether a standardized test for the virus can be developed; how common the virus may be in the blood supply; and whether it can be transmitted through blood donations.

In an editorial accompanying the report, French and Canadian researchers called for clinical trials to determine whether chronic fatigue patients can be treated with anti-AIDS drugs that have been shown to block replication of the virus in a test tube. Desperate patients have already begun taking the drugs despite a lack of proof that the virus is even air griffey max 1 related to their symptoms.