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2:30pm EST: Jarrett Barrios, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), joins us this afternoon to clear the air regarding ABC and Adam Lambert and what their message is about the recent cancelations of Lambert from the network.

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“More people want to be on Top Chef than the Bocuse team,” Daniel Boulud said somewhat ruefully yesterday afternoon while announcing the dozen semifinalists for the U.S. Bocuse d'Or team. “We received seventeen applications, which was more than we thought we could get,” he added. The paltry number of applicants might have something to do with the fact that chefs must raise their own dough until they reach the final round of competition. (Gavin Kaysen represented the U.S. in 2007, but for a price: “I had to spend $250,000.”)

The semifinals are a two-day affair held at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park on February 5 and 6. “Chefs will have three hours to prep on Friday and three hours on Saturday,” explained Jerome Bocuse, son of the contest's founder and legendary chef, Paul. The semifinals will replicate the contest's setting in Lyon, France, from the proteins (salmon and lamb) to a noisy auditorium filled with screaming chefs.

Boulud, who chairs the Bocuse d'Or Foundation, desperately wants an American chef to place this year. “Last year, we were very stressed for time and Timothy [Hollingsworth, who placed sixth] had very little time. We are ahead of this game this year.” Kaysen was equally optimistic about our chances, predicting that Team USA will “touch the podium” in January 2011. “We used to be the Jamaican Bobsled team,“ he says. “Now, we’re not.”

Earlier: A Dozen Hopefuls for Bocuse d’Or 2011*

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from Grub Street Philadelphia

We know things are different in the United Kingdom - with everyone minding the gap and tucking into bangers and mash - but the burger porn? We thought that was the same the world over: find a sexy lady (Padma, Paris), have her stuff a drippy, oversized ground beef patty in her mouth, roll tape. Until we came across UK Burger King's website Singing in the Shower: The World's First Guilt Free Showercam, which involves a girl in a food-themed bikini singing a pop song while taking a shower, which is then beamed out to the internet via webcam.

Visitors to the site can vote for which song they'd like the girl, who's been dubbed "Shower Babe," to sing the following day, and which food-themed bikini they'd like her to wear. Today she's belting out "Like a Virgin" while wearing a burger bra, tomorrow she could be mournfully crooning "You're So Vain" while showering in a fried-egg bikini top. Somehow this sells burgers or breakfast butties, which seems to be the aim of this marketing campaign, but, like with all great performance art, we can't be sure. Sadly, Shower Babe's video cannot be embedded, but you can watch it here.

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While restaurants all over town embrace fried chicken and shrimp and grits in hopes of hooking customers with comfort food, a fixture of the scene, the Pink Tea Cup, will close on January 3. The soul-food spot opened in 1957 (and moved to its current location in 1982), but we’re told a rent increase is pushing it out. “We’re trying to get another location but we’re not sure,” an employee told us today (our tipster overheard a waiter saying one possible location was around the corner). We’ll let you know when we hear more.

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In 2008 Maine had the second highest concentration of gay households, with over eight in every 1,000 households said to be headed by partners of the same sex, according to research based on census data by the Williams Institute, a gay rights think-tank at UCLA. Those states where gay marriage is legal or where same-sex partnerships are recognised have a higher proportion of same-sex couples than the national average of 4.7. The District of Columbia is home to most gay households with over 14 for every 1,000.

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The Empire State Pride Agenda announced today its endorsement of Assemblymember José Peralta in the 2010 Democratic Primary Election for State Senate District 13 in Queens. Assemblymember Peralta is challenging Hiram Monserrate, the incumbent State Senator who last week reneged on a stated commitment in a 2008 Pride Agenda candidate questionnaire to support marriage equality legislation and voted “no” when the bill was brought to the Senate floor on December 2. “José Peralta has demonstrated time and time again that he is a champion of equality and justice for all New Yorkers and has consistently represented the interests of his district in the New York State Assembly,” said Empire State Pride Agenda Executive Director Alan Van Capelle. “His record on LGBT issues demonstrates that he does not duck-and-run when our bills come up for a vote. He has stood up for us in the Assembly, and we will stand with him in his race for the State Senate.”

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Rachel Maddow says "ex-gay" pillow-beater Richard Cohen will be a guest on her show tonight, and they'll discuss his ties to anti-gays in Uganda and the "kill gays" legislation.

Promises Rachel: "No tennis. No pillows. Don't even think about the prospect of cuddling."

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While trying to discover how HIV hijacks cells, researchers at the University of Rochester discovered a feline gene in the virus:

"It appears the virus took on a bit of a tiger's genetic material, scientists say, and a remnant of that cat remains in the virus to this day. That tiger, in fact, may have bitten a monkey, setting off an evolution of the virus that ultimately led to its infection of humans. The finding shouldn't lead to any immediate breakthroughs in AIDS treatment, experts say. But it does provide more insight into how the virus works. 'Unless you really understand how these viruses work, the exact step-by-step chemical process, then you can't really rationally design a new clever kind of therapy that may be effective against the virus,' explained study co-author Robert Bambara, chairman of the University of Rochester's department of biochemistry and biophysics...The research suggests that HIV may have been a cat virus before it attacked monkeys and humans. Perhaps a tiger bit a monkey and transferred the virus that way, although there could have been another mode of transmission, Bambara said. Next, researchers hope to determine whether a cousin of the human AIDS virus in monkeys, known as simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), evolved to either have or not have the tiger gene, Bambara said. If a link exists between the presence of the gene and the strength of the virus, that could be useful to scientists trying to find ways to better treat humans, he said."

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[A German photographer's "Get away from her, you bitch" didn't work on Sigourney Weaver who took over the paparazzi line while promoting her latest extra terrestrial movie, Avatar, in Berlin today. Image via Getty]

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Today, four prestigious magazine publishers, and News Corp, officially announced their new "digital storefront" for magazines and stuff. Buy it and put it on your E-reader! Are you sick of E-readers yet? You will be! And you'll be using one.

Today's initiative has been variously billed as "iTunes for Magazines" (correct philosophically, but wildly overstated) and "Hulu for Magazines" (incorrect, since Hulu is free). Basically you can now go to this digital storefront and buy all your favorite Conde Nast, Meredith, Hearst, Time Inc., and News Corp publications, to read on your "portable digital device" of choice. Your crappy mobile phone, or iPhone, or upcoming Apple tablet, or, hey, Time Inc. is making its very own tablet, & ad infinitum.

And, of course, this is not the only "digital storefront" thing—Hearst, a partner in this venture, is also going forward with its own personal digital storefront called Skiff , and there are similar services already operating, although, hey, there's not dominant iTunes-type player yet, so you never know.

This could be a successful venture. Then again, it could fade into irrelevance in months. Somebody will make the dominant digital storefront for content like this, just like someone will make the dominant digital reader. Magazine publishing companies, one would think, are likely to get smoked by someone like Apple in this particular sector. But they think it's worth the gamble, after watching what happened to the music industry.

But it'll take a few years. How much would you pay to read Sports Illustrated on your E-reader right now? You don't have an E-reader. And you can read Deadspin for free. So, you'd pay nothing. Changing that dynamic is what media companies need to worry about.

And here's Time Inc's announcement to employees, just because we have it:

December 8, 2009
To: Time Inc. Employees
From: Ann Moore
Re: New Digital Venture

Today, five leading publishers including Time Inc., Conde Nast, Meredith, Hearst and News Corporation announced the formation of a new venture to develop a digital storefront and a common reading application that will allow consumers to enjoy their favorite magazine and newspaper content on any platform they choose.

We already know that the next generation of mobile devices will be loaded with color touchscreens, flexible displays, video capabilities and other features that will make them ideal for consuming rich content and an appealing environment for advertisers. These devices will allow us to combine the best of what consumers love about magazines – quality, curated journalism, engaging content and beautiful photography – with the speed, convenience and portability of the latest technology.

While Time Inc. is pursuing a number of initiatives that will help us expand our current digital businesses and develop new products and revenue streams, our participation in this venture is an important part of our efforts. You'll be hearing more about it in the coming weeks and months.

In the meantime, for a look at some of the work Time Inc. is doing around portable devices, check out the demo Sports Illustrated developed, which will give you an idea of how our digital content might be enjoyed in the near future.

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Reporters everywhere are in love with "crowdsourcing," in which sources magically come to them, saving the reporters several backbreaking telephone calls. But some correspondents have gotten embarrassingly addicted to this journalistic crack cocaine. And it's time for a intervention.

We're seeking out the laziest journalists on Twitter. And, yes — irony alert! — we're open to your help. But in the meantime, we've compiled a shortlist of candidates.

Well, actually, no, we didn't so much compile it ourselves as receive it basically whole, over email, from a friendly, fed-up journalist. But we did helpfully copy and paste said tipster's examples, for your benefit, below. This is what it is called the process journalism. Anyway. On to the lazies!

Doug MacMillan (@dmac1), BusinessWeek. Tipster: "When not pimping out his recent BW 'OMG have you seen the iPhone?!' cover story from a few weeks ago, [MacMillan] has taken the time to master the 140-character source request." As you can see below, that's true, although in fairness MacMillan sometimes issues requests on behalf of other lazy reporters. A sampling of his "work:"

Priya Ganapti, Wired (@pgcat): Were the Palm Pre support forums and blogs too hard to navigate, or something?

Jessi Hempel, Fortune (@jessiwrites): Too lazy even to finish typing her full, lazy request.

Jessica Vascellero, Wall Street Journal (@JVascellaro): At least this is for a conference thing instead of her real job.

Julia Allison, TMI Weekly (@juliaallison): Can't even come up with her own questions. (Not a journalist, you say? Newsweek begs to disagree.)

Associated Press "Climate Pool" (@AP_ClimatePool): What's? With? All? The? Questions? We'll tell you about the climate: The climate is uncertain. If you can figure out how you feel about that, maybe you can contribute to the AP's "collaborative editorial."

Gawker (@gawker): Our tipster didn't point this one out, but you've probably noticed that we, too, try to crowdsource a lot of reporting, and even speculation. Lazy! But at least our headlines are more fun?

Being lazy, we're so done surfing painstakingly around Twitter, looking for further lazy journalists. If you've been doing that, and have come up with some other names, do let us know.

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The Communist plot to destroy Christmas here—in America—by terrifying our children with reports of deadly poison residing upon the noses of beloved Zhu Zhu Pet "Mr. Squiggles" has been foiled. Parents, recommence buying plush hamster toys at once.

"The Consumer Product Safety Commission confirmed today that the popular Zhu Zhu toy is not out of compliance with the antimony or other heavy-metal limits of the new U.S. mandatory toy standard," agency spokesman Scott Wolfson said.

Antimony? Get thee behind American commerce, Satan.

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bicycle activist describing the gulf between Hasidim and hipsters in Williamsburg, as revealed in a battle over bike lanes (Hasids say they fear "staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress"), to the New York Post.

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Not only did she leave, but she's on a YouTube crusade against them. Better than wasting her time telling the same drug-fueled joke over and over or having a messy affair. Those two celebs joined the cult of no personality.

1. "This singer with a famous name has finally left the Church of Scientology. She is so disenchanted with the organization that she posted a series of YouTube videos under an assumed name detailing her grievances with the cult. The Church's Office of Special Affairs (OSA), which polices the internet for "Suppressives," managed to shut down her YouTube channel twice, but it has recently been successively reposted." [Blind Gossip]

2. "This very attractive and popular female model and sometime reality star thought she had the funniest joke the other night. While at a Christmas event/party she kept saying, "Oh it will be a White Christmas." She then would do a bump of coke off her hand. All night she followed the same pattern until finally at one point the whole table she was at said it before she could. She then laughed and did another line." [CDaN]

3. "This Hollywood dad recently worked on a project with another C list star. (The project was for the holidays). The other star is not married but in a committed relationship and has been in the press for it with her A/B list boyfriend. Well, the two hated each other the first time they worked together, but kept it civil. Now the two can't get enough of each other and have had a few late night rendezvous! What does this mean? We're not sure, but we think a secret affair could be brewing. Not Russell Simmons." [BuzzFoto]

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To say that in order for a book to make it in the marketplace it has to blessed by a traditional publisher doesn’t make any sense in 2009.

Eliyzabeth Yanne Strong-Anderson ~ Birth Control Is Sinful In The Christian Marriages And Also Robbing God Of Priesthood Children!!
From: Author House ~ $135.00!!

Michael Szymczyk ~ Toilet The Novel
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as word idol continues into its second day (there are treats in store, to be sure) let us take stock of where we are thus far:

yesterday, andy blew out of the gates, indeed, he blew the gate off the fence with a veritable eating manifesto. joshua injected his own special blend of political satire and folk etymology (is faff, fap’s 14th century great grandfather?) in these tough times of layoffs, war, global warming, and tiger woods’ stable of stripper mistresses, both andy and joshua have found outlets in their chosen f-words. andy in the comfort of the cheap post-noon, pre-dinner proletariat snack of fourings, and joshua in his faff the man, faff the police, “i’m mad as hell, and i’m about to faff” rage against the machine.

and what of you, intrepid reader? can you see yourself scarfing a light meal of fried oyster amuse-bouches at 1600 each day? does your scrounging for maui wowie and glazed donut holes at 4:20 every afternoon count as fourings? are you interested in using faff as a ferocious new euphemism for the original f-word? do you think that the high faff (like the high five, but with a more violent hand smack) could replace the fist bump as the de facto bro greeting? did you engage in fourings or faffing yesterday?

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If I ever wanted to buy anything on eBay, I would probably use this advice.

I am continually amazed at how many people incrementally bid up an item they want six days before an auction is over. It's like watching someone walk around with a switch unknown to him flipped permanently to stupid.

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Last week, MTA CEO Jay Walder promised there would be no fare hike for 2010, in spite of a $143 million budget shortfall, thanks to Albany's crappy deficit. But now, the Daily News says, "The MTA may have to revive some of the service cuts it drafted but cancelled after the state enacted a bailout package, including the payroll tax, in May. Those cuts included elimination of dozens of local bus routes with low ridership, extending the gaps between trains during off-peak hours, shutting down some express bus routes and a handful of lower Manhattan stations overnight."

Some riders had mixed reactions: One told NY1, "The buses don't run on schedule as it is. So cutting a bus line would make it even worse," while another said, "To me, it doesn't really matter because I take rush hour trains. So if they make cuts, they'll still probably be pretty frequent."

Dellaverson also said in his e-mail, "As recently as last week, the state was continuing to advise us of their comfort with the [much rosier] forecast," and that the MTA would "roll this problem into 2010 [with] cash management actions like delaying pension payments and other timing variances." The Straphangers Campaign issued a statement, calling the budget shortfalls were not the MTA's fault and called "on Governor Paterson to investigate whether New York State Department of Taxation and Finance has adequately administered and enforced the new payroll tax."

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The suspects involved in the Sunday night murder of a woman in Brooklyn are still at large. Carrie Audrey Johnson was fatally shot in the head when she stepped outside her family's Clifton Place home to check on her niece and her niece's boyfriend. According to the Daily News, the niece's boyfriend Laquan Williams "had been jumped by two men."

Johnson's brother-in-law told NBC New York, "There were three guys that ran from behind a tree and they were pistol whipping the niece’s boyfriend and my sister-in-law [tried] to stop people from running outside — she got a few of them to go back into the house [and] when she turned her back somebody shot her in the head." Another niece told the News that Johnson and other relatives saw the men: "The suspects yelled, 'Oh, they're coming to get us,' and opened fire, Jeromeka said." The News says that "Williams played dead" while Johnson was killed and her 14-year-old nephew was shot in the leg.

The News adds, "Williams, who has 26 arrests, was not badly hurt, police said. The suspects, who may have been trying to steal his 2010 Lexus, were at large, police said." Johnson, initially identified as the wife of former NBA star World B. Free, was his ex-girlfriend (they had a son together). Free is now a community relations director for the Philadelphia 76ers; a spokesperson for the team said, "While they haven't spoken in quite a while, [Free] does want to extend his condolences to her family and friends."

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Unclear why Stephen Colbert tackled Burger King Japan's Windows 7 Whopper last night... it's old news from October, but Colbert both tipped his hat to it and wagged his finger "for offering this burger only in Japan. America would be the perfect place for the Windows 7 Whopper. This is an appetizer in many parts of Wisconsin."

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• Chopped contestant Cody Utzman was punched during the opening of his restaurant Papacitos in Greenpoint this weekend. [NYP]

• A hostess from Nino's Positano tagged along on a delivery to Derek Jeter’s apartment and tried to get the doorman to let her upstairs. [NYDN]

• Though smoking is banned in bars in 26 states, bar owners nationwide say it's simply good business to ignore the bans. [USAT]

• With oysters becoming more prevalent on restaurant menus, growers are borrowing words like "zesty" and "full-bodied" from winemakers to describe them. [WSJ]

• Starting in January, KitKat bars in the United Kingdom will be made with fair-trade chocolate. [WSJ]

• Tiger Woods loves eating at Perkins! [Epi-Log/Epicurious]

• Brooklyn fish distributor M. Slavin and Sons is facing a lawsuit from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, who alleges that black male employees at the company were subjected to harassment. [City Room/NYT]

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Anything cuter than two people living in tiny apartment? Cozy-crazy couple makes tight all right in the city's tiniest studio.

Zaarath and Christopher Prokop -- and their two cats -- live in the smallest apartment in the city, a 175-square-foot "microstudio" in Morningside Heights the couple bought three months ago for $150,000.

At 14.9 feet long and 10 feet wide, it's about as narrow as a subway car and as claustrophobic as a jail cell. But to the Prokops, it's a castle.

I wonder what people say when they first see it?

"When you first see it, the first thing you say is, 'Holy crap, this place is small,' " said Zaarath.

What about the view?

It has two small windows with views of upper Manhattan.

What percent of the floorspace is taken up by the bed?

The couple wakes up every morning in their queen-size bed, which takes up one-third of the living space.

Where do they keep their work clothes?

They then walk five feet toward the tiny kitchen, where they pull out their workout clothes, which are folded neatly in two cabinets above the sink.

What about cooking?

"We don't cook," Zaarath said.

I wonder what they keep in the kitchen cabinets?

One of the kitchen cabinets is full of champagne because Zaarath's job allows them to order cases of it.

What do they do with their trash?

They don't have a trash can. The second something needs to be thrown out, they walk to the chute in the hallway.

What's the monthly maintenance fee for this former maid's quarter?

Just over $700 a month.

Note: The wide angle photo makes the place look absolutely huge.

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In Minnesota: Man Arrested For Throwing Tomato At Sarah Palin.

Bloomington Police say a man threw a tomato at former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin during her Monday appearance at the Mall of America, but didn't hit her.

Officers say two of their own were hit by tomato fragments instead, after the tomato hit the stage about 10 feet from Palin. People on the second level balcony, where the tomato was thrown from, helped police apprehend the man accused of throwing it.

Police identified him as 33-year-old Jeremy Paul Olson from St. Paul, but they think he also goes by the name Jeremiah Wobbe. Police said he was arrested and booked on assault and disorderly conduct charges. Officers added that when they arrested him, they found two more tomatoes he'd been carrying.

The image shows a scene from a previous Sarah Palin book signing.

Note: As much as I dislike Sarah Palin, I do not advocate throwing food at her.

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Here's what's for lunch this week at Barrington Elementary:

• Monday - Cheeseburger, rice, corn, orange wedges
• Tuesday - Popcorn chicken, whipped potatoes, corn, roll, apple crisp
• Wednesday - Pizza, veggie sticks, raisins
• Thursday - Chicken burger, roll, tater tots, mixed veggies, apple
• Friday - Spaghetti with meatballs, garlic bread, Caesar salad, fruit cup.

The older kids, in the Middle School, get this:

• Monday - Beef and cheese nachos, rice, corn, orange wedges
• Tuesday - Roasted pork, whipped potatoes, peas, roll, baked cherry apple crisp
• Wednesday - Spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread, Caesar salad, fruit cup
• Thursday - Teriyaki chicken dippers, rice, stir fried veggies, pineapple chunks
• Friday - Pizza, salad, peaches and cream.

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"We're simply trying to be consistent with the will of God as we perceive it," said Paul Landskroener, clerk of the Twin Cities Friends Meeting, in an interview with MPR's All Things Considered on Monday. The congregation will continue to hold both opposite-sex and same-sex weddings at its meeting house, but will no longer sign the legal marriage certificate for opposite-sex couples. Instead, couples will need to have the certificate signed by a justice of the peace. "Everything else proceeds as it normally has, except that we will not sign the marriage certificate," Landskroener said. Unlike many churches, Quakers do not have ordained ministers. Couples are married by appearing before the congregation and speaking their vows to each other. Several witnesses then sign the marriage certificate to pronounce the couple legally married. The Twin Cities Friends Meeting reached its decision in November after three years of discussion. The group plans to revisit the decision in three years.

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The affidavit attached to the probable cause statement alleges Jetton went to the home of the victim Nov. 15, where he and the victim drank wine and watched a football game. The victim claims Jetton hit her on the face and choked her, leaving bruises that the police department photographed. The affidavit claims the assault occurred during the night and into the morning of Nov. 16. It says Jetton and the victim agreed on a "safe word" "to use as a stop word during intercourse." The safe word was allegedly "green balloons." The next day, Jetton allegedly told the victim: "You should have said green balloons."

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