| McLean's wife stays on the move, lawyer says
In affidavits filed in Knox County Fourth Circuit Court, Eric McLean and his divorce attorney, Steve Sharp, allege former West High School student teacher Erin McLean is embarked on a rootless existence with a 19-year-old paramour. "(Erin McLean) has been to California and then to Austin, Texas, staying in cheap motels and then moving when she is unable to pay the bills," Sharp wrote. Attorney Bruce Poston, who is defending Eric McLean on charges that he killed Sean Powell, his wife's teenage student and lover, in March, said Tuesday Erin McLean has since surfaced in Boulder, Colo. Sharp has been trying to serve Erin McLean with divorce papers since September to no avail in an effort to gain custody of the couple's sons, ages 11 and 8. It was then that Erin McLean fled her mother's Nashville home with the boys after news surfaced that she had lied to get a job as a teacher at a private Christian school and allegedly tried to seduce a 17-year-old student.
MEIFF Abu Dhabi announces its competition films
Gary Shaller is at a crossroads in his life. As a former pop star who now writes commercial jingles for a living, he experiences a mid-life crisis. Set in London and New York, the film follows a man's search for perfection in a world where life rarely measures up to idealized images. **Premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and screened at 2007 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the 2007 Moscow Film Festival. GRACE IS GONE (USA) directed by James Strouse. With Nathan Adloff, John Cusack, Doug Dearth, Gracie Bednarczyk. Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip. **Screened in Competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. LA ZONA (Spain/Mexico) directed by Rodrigo Pl. With Daniel Giménez Cacho, Maribel Verd, Daniel Tovar, Alan Chvez.
Sound Advice: Pentax K20D to supplant less expensive K10D camera
Q: I have been pretty happy with my Olympus E-10. The price was right and my old Pentax cameras were starting to really show their age (my favorite one is well over 40 years old.) Now it seems that my Olympus is developing problems, and the company says it can no longer repair it. I have read that Pentax digital SLRs would work with any Pentax lens, which intrigued me as I have about eight different screw mount lenses I would love to be able to use again. I'm tempted by the newer models for the speed, as my E-10 is just not up to catching action shots. Would you recommend I buy a Pentax K10D and a screw mount lens adapter? Or would I be better off just buying a kit with two new lenses and giving my old equipment to a museum?
JEFF PORT
State College A: Nikon digital SLRs as well as Pentax digital SLRs work with older manual focus lenses, so this advice applies to both Nikon and Pentax lens owners.
DVD Roundup: 9.18.07
"They tried to be friends. But their chosen paths set them on a collision course. The Clark Kent-Lex Luthor rivalry explodes into the fierce good-versus-evil battle fans have long expected in Season 6 of the spectacular series that reinterprets the characters and events of Superman mythology from its roots. Adding to the rivalry: Lana Lang becomes Mrs. Luthor. Clark/Superman would be stunned to find out why she says yes. But that's not all that's stunning. Green Arrow forms a Super Hero league. Will Clark join? Phantom Zone escapees menace Earth. Can Clark stop them? Luthor Corp expands its dark experiments. Will an awesome kryptonite-powered army be the result? The answers and thrills are here!" "Smallville" is not rated. CS Comment: DC fans should be really happy to see the appearance of Green Arrow and the Justice League in this sixth season DVD.
ViewSonic Expands Display Heritage With New Line of High Resolution ...
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Parks Associates research, more than two-thirds of the digital photos taken are never printed or displayed, keeping memories bottled up on memory cards and computer hard drives. ViewSonic(R) Corp. sets photos free from the hard drive and brings them to the coffee table with the introduction of an easy-to-use digital picture frame line. The company's first picture frames - the widescreen 7-inch DP701W4WH, widescreen 8-inch DF88W-523 and traditional 8-inch DF87G533 - are affordable, stylish and versatile, providing a high-quality display for consumers to show off digital photos that may have never seen the light of day. "From wedding days and a baby's 'first' to family vacations and birthdays, displaying personal moments through high-quality displays is a natural next step for ViewSonic," said Jeff Volpe, vice president of marketing, ViewSonic Americas.
Castro Departure Opens Economic Options for U.S.
America quietly has become the largest foreign supplier of food products to the communist nation, thanks to a loosening of the U.S. trade embargo in 2000. U.S. farmers sold an estimated $437 million worth of agricultural products to Cuba last year, according to the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council. The Cuban government puts the figure at more than $600 million. .
Church notes
Think Tank meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday. First Christian Church, 1221 Park Ave., will hear the Rev. Tom Smith's sermon, "If You Really Want to Be Like Jesus ... Live Joy," based on Galatians 5:22-25, during the 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. services Sunday. First Church of the Nazarene, 1015 S. Roosevelt Ave., will host Marcus and Donna Whitworth, former ministers of worship at the church, as they bring a revival, "Renewal of Praise," at 6 p.m. today; 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday; and 6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, all at the church. First Congregational Church, 313 N. Fourth St., will dedicate its refurbished stained-glass windows at the 10:15 a.m. service Sunday. The congregation also will recognized a gift the Rinker family gave in honor of their mother, Margaret Rinker, who died two years ago.
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