Rodney King Passes Away At 47

Rodney King was found dead Sunday (June 17) morning Rialito, California.

TMZ reports that the king's bride was found dead at the bottom of a pool. Law enforcement sources responded to a call 05:25 and King attempted CPR after removing the pool.

He is dead in 6:11.

In April 1992, jury acquitted four Los Angeles Police Department officers beat King after a high speed pursuit, despite the fact that the beating was famously videotaped.

Thousands of people riot in Los Angeles over the next six days, with 53 deaths and roughly $ 1 billion in damages.

Celebrating Father’s Day Without Dad

My father was everything a girl could hope for-haired, dark, handsome and crazy about me. He held the number one attribute of a little kid my performance: it was a smooth dancer, smiling like a little Mary Janes my scuffed his wing tips. He was a gentle man and gentleman, so kind that he would fall quarter increase in the toll booth collector cart driver in a line behind him.

My father never went to school but I knew he was smart because he never talked to my brother Jack or me in baby talk. "Do not gesture with your utensils," he would say. "Do not yawn audibly!" My dad once said "no" instead of "shall not." No other dad on the block did.

While I idolized my father, I knew my mother first dibs. Dad was so in love with my mother he used to put the rivets in the hat that spelled TGFM, thank God for Mary. Another acronym of his, used to defuse any small family scuffle, the "BD. Teach Daddy." Dad spoiled me what to expect in a man. (Thank God, I lucked out when I met Joe, though I doubt he'll put on baseball caps TGFML him anytime soon.)

When we were young, our family would flee to a tiny cabin in South Jersey Lake-no hot water or shower, and enjoy our very own outhouse. After dinner, we all sit on the beat up red couch on screened porch. Dad would put arms around us and we would all belt out "You are My Sunshine" and "I've been working on the railroad." But when my dad put in "Carolina Moon," we do not become so just let him sing the night stars in the croon-y Perry Como his style. My mother would hold his hand and smile.

Year after year, I watched my dad loves my mom with a passion as she fell ill with a rare blood disease that would eventually take his life.

With her gone, I tried to be a dad. I would visit him every month in Florida and I'm sitting in a recliner next to his mom and we would watch Seinfeld reruns of his favorite. My father had suffered two strokes, so that he does not talk as much, but his vocabulary never slacked off. During a speech therapy practice, I asked him to repeat: "I feel sad" and he can form words, "I ... feel ... Lu-gu-BRI-ouuuusss."

But the MRI revealed something that I could not fix-terminal of the brain and kidney cancer. I brought my dad back north, so Jack and I could help him feel comfortable. One night, after failing miserably trying to give him morphine, I ran out of darkness, crying, "I am his daughter, not his doctor." When I pulled myself together again, he could not hang on the red leather couch set up for the time and now, his long naps. Curled on the couch, almost 92, he looked almost childlike. "Dad, this sofa remind you of our cabin on the lake?" He grinned at the memory. I whispered, "Remember when we used to sing together?" He looked at me and be my dad started to sing, so quietly that I had to bend close to hear. "Carolina Moon, keep shining, shining on the one that awaits me. Carolina Moon, I'm pining, pining for the place I long to be."

Dad was losing my mother. Let him go to her was the hardest I've ever done. Today, the day his father did not make me sad. It brings back memories, only the starry skies, strong his arms around us, his voice clear and strong in the night. I hear it still. I know this for sure. I will always be his girl.

Lindsay Lohan Attributes "Working 85 Hours in 4 Days" to Her Exhaustion

After the fuss around false report on Friday that Lindsay Lohan was found unconscious and was rushed to hospital, the actress is to reassure the world that there is nothing to worry.

"Note to self .. After working 85 hours over 4 days, and being up all night shooting, be very aware that you could go out of fatigue & 7 paramedics MIGHT show up @ your door ... Hopefully they are cute. Otherwise it was a real let down, "the 25-year-old posted on her Twitter early Saturday morning. "On the set," she added.

Hours before Lohan herself directly to the incident, her representative Steve Honig told Us Weekly that it was just a matter of the star, who has been in Marina del Ray, Calif. shooting Lifetime biopic Elizabeth Taylor Liz and Dick, just need to catch up on some zzz's.

"Lindsay won the grueling schedule in recent days. It was last night at 7 pm and worked through the night until 8 am this morning. She took a nap before shooting the scene of her," Honig explained. "The producers were worried when she did not come out of her room and called paramedics as a precautionary measure."

Added Honig, "Lindsay was checked and is fine, but did suffer some exhaustion and dehydration Lindsay was never taken to the hospital. Reports to the contrary are false She rests now, and hope to be back on set later this afternoon .. "

Niagara Falls Daredevil 'On Cloud Nine' After Wire Walk

He took the main road of fame on Friday night when he became the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a high wire.

And despite traveling 1,800 feet above the waters roar Nik Wallenda Horseshoe Falls, the largest of the three falls, he secured some serious bragging rights, boldly death seems more interested in an estimated 112,000 people who gathered to witness the spectacle (and the millions more who tuned in the TV).

"I hope what I do and what I do is inspire people around the world to reach the sky," said Wallenda, 33, told reporters after the walk, where he wore a safety tether in accordance with the request of ABC, which helped sponsor the action, according to Associated Press.

He said he felt like he was "on cloud nine" after challenging the "wind comes from all directions" and the blinding fog on a 30-minute walk from the United States was to Canada.

"There is no way to focus on the movement of the cable," he said. "If I look down the cable, there is moving water everywhere And when I looked up, there was heavy fog blowing in my face .. So, it is uniquely strange sensation."

So how did he overcome the forces of nature to complete the historical walk, which paid homage to her family circus, Flying Wallendas, and his great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda end (who died during the action in Puerto Rico)?

"A lot of praying," he said. "That's for sure."

Chris Brown and Drake's Fight: Rihanna "Loves the Drama"

Does she feel that she is the only girl in the world!

After Chris Brown and Drake - or at least their escorts - sparked a violent brawl between his entourage to New York City club early Thursday, it was widely assumed that the fight ended in a very special lady: Rihanna, Brown's friend and former Drake colleague and speculation hook-up.

Although "We found love" singer was spotted out and about in New York earlier this week that it is not in WIP (where fellow stars like Mary J. Blige, Neyo, Maxwell and others spotted on Thursday night), when a massive fight broke out between Brown and the Drake possess.

But surely heard about it, Us Weekly says the source. Rihanna 'loves, "says the source. "Men fight over it? Are you kidding? Course. [She] loves drama."

Brown, 23, tweeted a picture a serious wound on his chin after a bystander (said to be a member of a Drake) threw a bottle at him during a skirmish. ("Chris and Drake never in each other's faces," says an observer. "It was against the escort party, never against Chris Drake.")

Rihanna "got text messages from everyone telling her what happened after it went down," says the source. "She just laughed. She spoke with both of them and just think it's crazy. She is glad that there is not though!"

As previously reported here, the chart-topping singer, 24, was secretly hooking up with a rough ex-Brown for more than a year - and was romantically linked with Drake, 25, in the past.

"He wants to be friends with both of them," says the source.

For his part, "take care" rapper Drake has denied any wrongdoing "" WIP on Thursday in a statement to us. "He was coming out of the club when an argument began. Did not engage in any activity that resulted in injury to person or property damage," said his agent.

NBA conspiracy theories resurface after LeBron-Durant no-call

The hot and Oklahoma City will have two days before Sunday's NBA Finals' Game 3rd No off days, but for sports conspiracy crowd that looks at the NBA the way the John Birch Society looks at the past 70 years.

For conspiracy buffs, the NBA Finals ranks somewhere between a midnight movie showing of Capricorn One and two week holiday at Area 51 Goodyear blimp might as well be a black helicopter. Each official group call, Zapruder film treatment and be ready if such an analysis reveals a questionable call that would fall in line with the prevailing theory of NBA commissioner David Stern as the master puppeteer.

Oh and can I get a witness disappeared about this for Thursday? Played long murmurs that the NBA wanted to make sure at least a five-game series broke into howls when Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant does not get the benefit of a fault call on LeBron James Durant short baseline jumper that could have tied the game in the last seconds. Had they been a receiver and a defensive back down in the NFL, the James drew an illegal contact flag that can say so much about modern NFL serving as NBA playoff whistled.

And what Durant and Serge Ibaka Clean double-block Heat forward Chris Bosh, who had ruled goaltending, gifts two points to the heat? Clear evidence of skullduggery at a crossroads, comes the groans from some message boards and Twitter.

Like the Heat forward Shane Battier sudden improvement from three-point field can only mean one NBA-operative in Butte help each other image using satellite systems league purchased from the former Soviet Union. Is not it obvious?
 

No foul on Durant

All of this ignores that government officials really wanted to bury Oklahoma City, they would have polluted out Durant for a fee, when he crashed into Battier on a fourth quarter drive down the track. Instead, just got the close call right (I did not think Battier had his feet before Durant's start).

Also, if the NBA has been orchestrating things over the years for the benefit of their TV partners, how did San Antonio, the best sports franchise, the U.S. refuses to embrace, ending with four NBA titles in the past 14 seasons? Galactus in the league office can not stop Spurs fantastic four of Parks, Coach Pop, Manu and Tim Duncan?

I know these conspiracy nuts. My sports-loving mother while she lived in Detroit, insisted when Detroit's Bad Boys performed Michael Jordan's Bulls in Game 7 of the 1990 Eastern Conference final on orders from the NBA. Otherwise, my mother is a semi-reasonable person.

Some of this is NBA fault. Their lax security allowed referee Tim Donaghy to do everything he should not get busted for it, then get a platform to feed the Fix is ​​in the crowd. In the NFL, makes an official his house up for sale since the league was not expecting it and he gets a phone call the next day: "Is everything okay with you"

The NBA is facing the unveiling of the draft lottery results for a half hour show, but refuses to show fans the real drama of the balls actually chose. There are people who, trembling hands clung credential holders of tickets and filled Lotto cards, Clocks Lotto numbers drawn into the tube. But the NBA will not show us the simplest event guaranteed to draw ratings.

ESPN Jim Rome asked Stern bluntly this week if the lottery was set. Stern responded by dropping into verbal eye-rolling mode, do funny sport in Rome.

Stern conveniently ignores that make the lottery out of the limelight ensures deep suspicion, no matter how many independent auditors and team representatives see it. Hey, can be in a content reps the farce in accordance with the theorists.

Ridiculous, but ... many years of hoop fans may remember the American Basketball Association used to keep his entire draft in secret because the teams had to cut deals to put the best draw on the best places for each franchise (ie, University of Kentucky star Dan Issel settlement with Kentucky Colonels).

CAVs got top pick

How different does it look from the ever-dying Cleveland suddenly becomes relevant by wrapping up the No. 1 overall pick year everyone knew it would be Akron-born LeBron James? Or former NBA-owned New Orleans gets the No. 1 overall pick months after the New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson takes the team away from the NBA hands.

Of course it is random. Probably. Like the officiating staff ... right? The mass post game reaction puts added fun to the following sports these days. But conspiracy fans beware - they are tracking your keystrokes.

Woods shows grit at U.S. Open and heads to weekend tied with Furyk and Toms

Tiger Woods wore black on Friday. It was the right color for this U.S. Open second round came the mournful mood, more than Olympic Club beat down, beat back and beat the world's best golfer.

It was no surprise that the difficult conditions left Woods (70) tied for the lead is one that David Toms (70), straight-hitting veteran, and Jim Fury (69), a lunch-bucket golfer originally in Western Pennsylvania. Only seven players broke par on Friday. Hunter Hamrick, Alabama who plays college golf, 67 shots. Steve Stricker shot 68 and shot 69 to five.

It's like the old days, right? Tiger in the lead in a major championship. The feeling was there-done-that is justified. Woods has led or tied for the lead after 36 holes in nine previous major championship. They won eight.

In the old days of the reign of Tiger, we would have handed him the trophy, but that does not lose his open just yet. He has two former champions with him there. Fury won the 2003 U.S. Open, Olympia Fields, and the famous Toms edged Phil Mickelson in the 2001 PGA Championship in Atlanta Athletic Club. And do not forget 2010 U.S. Open winner Graeme McDowell, who is just two shots back to John Peterson, Michael Thompson and Nicholas Colsaerts. Tiger top shelf competitors.

This can be a very good weekend.

"This is a wonderful place, a chance to win the National Open," Woods said. "I think a good place. I look forward to."

Kevin Durant powers Oklahoma City Thunder past James LeBron's Miami Heat

Durant scored 17 of his 36 points in another nightmarish final period for James and his team, a storm that overwhelmed the fire, and the 1105-94 Oklahoma City Game1 victory over Miami on Tuesday night.

Teaming Russell Westbrook to outscore the Heat in the second half of their own, Durant was first struck in the head-to-head matchup James, who has seven points in the fourth quarter, and was helpless to stop a three-time league scoring champion.

Westbrook turned a poor-shooting start to finish, 27 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds in the Thunder, encoding a strong finish in the third period gave the Thunder a good leader.

Durant took over from there.

Scoring in almost every way possible, Durant finished 12 of 20 from the field and added eight rebounds. He and Westbrook outscored the Heat 41-40 over the last two periods, shows that maybe this time will be a criminal offense to win championships.

James 30 points out, most all of his 11 finals games, but only one basket in the first 8:15 of the fourth, when the Thunder took control of the game that all towed, but the last few seconds of the first three quarters .

James averaged just three points in the fourth quarter, the Heat six-game loss at Dallas last year, taking all the heat in the Miami final error. He was a good, Durant was just right.

Game 2 on Thursday night in Oklahoma City.

Dwyane Wade had 19 points, but shot just 7 of 19 of the Heat, and Shane Battier provided some rare offense by scoring 17 points, and this is the high season.

Coming to the end of a small lineup in the third quarter, the Thunder improved to 9-0 at home season. Defensive ace Thabo Sefolosha helped defend during the return of James Thunder, Durant reducing the burden, so he could concentrate on scoring.

And now, nobody does it better.

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said his team, pushed seven games against Boston in a grueling conference finals the Heat finally won on Saturday, but this quick turnaround time. But he ran out of gas against the young Thunder, the main players in all 23 and younger, and it looks like if they could keep playing every night.

James and Wade both bent over, hands on his knee during a stop in about seven minutes left. Durant kept pouring it, racing down the court, to throw off a fast break dunk and added a 3-pointer that pushed to 87-81, 1-2 six minutes left.

The Heat got four points, but hit two quick baskets Durant and Westbrook is a 10-point lead in a 3:35 to go.

Even the rapid rise toward the top of the Thunder, who started 3-29 in 2008-09, in the first season after moving from Seattle. Fans are clearly included in the final 'arrival in Oklahoma City, where cars, buildings and even dyed her hair fans seemed to be in some way, or orange or blue.

Fans standing until the first basket of the Thunder did not have to wait very long baseline jumper Durant split in 70 seconds he created the first three shots, including two 3-pointer, but his teammates missed the first six attempts of an early hole.

Durant made sure that they were fine in the end.

Both superstars tried to downplay individual matchup, insisting the team had Durant and James insists that he does not care about the argument for best player in the game.

It was James' support to enhance the cast more to start, the Heat hitting five of six 3-point attempt jumped a 29 to 22 people after one quarter. Chris Bosh Spoelstra to keep a reserve, the role of going back to nine games in the absence of tense abdominal muscle. wise decision, because Battier hit his first three 3-point attempts in the opening minutes spark strong start in Miami.

Durant took only one shot in the second quarter, and it was not until nine minutes had elapsed. By then, leading the Heat built as large as 13 points, keeping in or near double digits most of the period preceding the Thunder cut to 54-47 at half time.

The blue sea looked like a scene from the court last year in Dallas, where James struggled so badly, if you care about most.

No Tony Gold at the End of the Rainbow

 After each awards season, there are tons of people who I think has been honored not have been. People who do not even get nominated. But I'm not going to greet all of them - now you have read the other "reject" column - instead I am going to write about two designated individuals who I think deserves to win Tony Awards over their competition: Tracie Bennett and Hugh Vans Tone .

Best Supporting Actress in a play was a very tough category this year. This may be the first time in my career where I thought all nominees deserve Tony awards. Cynthia Nixon was devastating in Wit. Stockard Channing is unquestionably brilliant in other cities Desert. (And, though I am not writing about it for themselves here, I will give call-out to other cities Desert, well-constructed family drama that I recommend.), Linda Lavin, a longtime favorite memory is pitch perfect as Rita Lyons, which allows viewers both love and hate it at once. Nina Arianda, who won the prize, was a revelation when I saw Venus in fur off-Broadway and its performance improved in the Broadway run of the show. But, if I vote, my vote had been cast for Tracie Bennett.

Bennett is doing something that is so incredibly hard that I almost think she deserves a special Tony. End of the Rainbow is technically a play with music, not musical, but Bennett is singing more songs than some of the most nominated actress in a musical category. While Tony broadcast did not show it in the best of her, Garland Bennett is uncanny. There are people floored reason. End of the Rainbow is unfortunately not much to play, which may have hurt Bennet in this race, but I urge everyone to go and see it. Bennett transforms herself completely to pieces. I can not imagine anyone else being as good at it. I'm glad she won the Drama Desk, and was hoping she would pick up Tony as well. She deserves it.

Many of you may have read the first paragraph of this post and when googled Hugh Vans Tone. Others may know his name or just assumed, rightly, that I would tell you who he is. Vans Tone's Tony-nominated lighting designer Spirit, who lost Tony Award this year for a national s Natasha Katz. Usually I can not find a description of the design categories. I think the last time I did was in 2001 when the lighting designer Jane Eyre in Peggy Eisenhauer and Jules Fisher lost out to Peter Kaczorowski for manufacturers. (This time I feel a little better about the when, with a mirrored set, it was really difficult to light, unlike the manufacturer.) Ghost and Jane Eyre were both shows were amazing lighting, they were both showing up level of each design is about their description, and they are both shows that I do not think all Tony voters saw. I've heard of some voters this year they gave up the Ghost tickets. It is not something that is supposed to happen, but it happens. I'm not saying that necessarily affect the outcome - I'm sure there were many, many voters who saw both shows and even voted for Katz, who did do a good job on the way - but to take part in the critically-reviled show likely hurt Vans Tone.

Stony Who? NY team heads to College World Series

The Stony Brook University baseball team to take a pit stop back at New York University before embarking on the first College World Series in Nebraska.

The unheralded Seawolves upset Louisiana State University, a six-time national champion and earn a trip to Omaha later this week.

The Seawolves in the New York State first team to reach the College World Series since 1980 and the first team in the north-eastern Maine, since 1986.

The campus, 60 miles east of Long Island, Manhattan, plans to welcome the team on Monday afternoon at a rally at the university.

The team played in Division III, the last in 1995, is set to UCLA in the first round of the World Series starting on Friday.

Elderly MDS Patients May Achieve Long-Term Survival From Stem Cell Transplantation (ASCO 2012)

Elderly patients with myelodysplastic syndromes or acute myeloid leukemia can find long-term survival after undergoing stem cell transplantation transplantation, according to a recent study of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Although the number of patients long-term disease control, many patients still relapsed or died of transplant-related causes. The study investigators recognize that new methods of treatment are necessary to solve a number of attacks and deaths related to transplantation.

The results were presented in a poster session at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Article ASCO) 2012 meeting in Chicago earlier this month.

In patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) or acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and source (Allogeneic) stem cell transplantation is currently the only curative treatment is available. Patients with MDS or AML produce stem cells that are not properly developed in the work cell. The donor stem cell transplantation transplantation, patients undergoing high-dose chemotherapy to destroy their own stem cells, which are later komi stem cells from healthy donors.

Donor stem cell collection transplantation has traditionally been used only in younger patients because of potential side effects and complications related to procedures, which can be particularly difficult in elderly patients.

In this study, researchers announced the results of the survival of 182 elderly patients with MDS or AML undergoing donor stem cell transplant graft at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston between 1996 and 2011. All patients in the study were older than 64 years, median patient age was 67 years. Of the 182 patients at diagnosis, 39 had MDS.

Median follow-up time for living patients was 12.6 months. The overall survival was 45 percent in one year after transplant, 28 percent in three years after transplantation, and 21 percent at five years after transplantation.

Three-year overall survival rate was higher in patients who received transplants at all forgiveness than for those with active disease 40 percent vs. 23 percent). Similarly, patients from age 65 to 69 with higher three-year overall survival rate than those aged 69 (30 percent versus 20 percent).

Within 100 days after transplantation, 14 percent of patients died of transplant-related causes. The combined incidence of death from transplant-related causes increased by 18 percent in one year and 21 percent in three years.

Within one year after transplant, 46 percent of patients relapsed. Within three and five years after transplantation, 53 percent of patients relapsed.

Twenty-six percent of patients in moderate to fatal acute graft-versus-host disease that develops within 100 days after transplantation. Graft-versus-host disease is a common complication of transplantation donor immune cells recognize the recipient's cells as foreign and attack them. An additional 35 percent experienced chronic graft-versus-host disease that develops after 100 days after transplantation.

Tommy Chong: 'Pot Will Cure My Prostate Cancer'

Tommy Chong, stoner part of the original duo Cheech and Chong, the answer to his newly discovered prostate cancer.

Chong diagnosed with cancer about a month ago he told CNN, and the "slow phase one." He said he first noticed the symptoms almost eight years nine months sentences Taft Correctional Institution in California, saying that he was convinced the prison caused by the disease.

Tommy was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $ 20,000 fine and pass the $ 120,000 sale of assets mail order bongs.

"The prison built on toxic waste. I also got the gout in the food there," he told CNN's Don Lemon.

"You have prostate cancer, and I am the treatment of cannabis oil, cannabis," Chong said.

The actor-comedian, 74, a supporter of marijuana legalization at the national level.

Chong explained to him to quit smoking marijuana for about a year ago, so the cancer can also draw the hemp oil, but only "at night, so I will not be drunk every day."

Cannabis does not cause cancer, he, Chong said: "Cannabis is the cure."

Pacquiao-Bradley investigation first before rematch, Bob Arum says

An investigation of Pacquiao vs. Bradley fight in Las Vegas to take place before a rematch. Boxing promoter, Bob Arum, who represents Manny, and Timothy, said that he wants to eliminate "undue influence".

After underdog, upset by Timothy Bradley (4-1) Manny Pacquiao Saturday to WBO welterweight championship, was boxing fans, experts and media outraged judge's decision.

While Arum is to stop short of saying the split decision was rigged, he said that a rematch is scheduled for november 10 will not happen unless the Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto initiate an investigation.

Bristol Palin Talks About New Reality Show ‘Life’s A Tripp’

The daughter of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will star in her own reality show, "Life is Tripp," this summer of a lifetime.

The show, which will be broadcast on the 19th June, will focus on Bristol and her three-year-old son Tripp. Bristol spent a lot of time in front of the camera, paragraph Dancing With The Stars, Sarah Palin's Alaska ...) but still said it was a bit strange that the cameras followed her around all the time. Her son, Tripp, but the camera did not mind at all.

Today on Good Morning America, Bristol said:

"I do not think you get used to everything, but Tripp was used to it all the time. It does not matter if there are cameras or not. Still be loud, still a bit scared, but it was fun. It was very entertaining . "

Pastor Creflo Dollar denies attacking daughter

Megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar has been brought to the stand to deny the beat and choked 15-year-daughter, said the congregation made ​​the allegations in police reports are nothing but "excessive and sensationalism."

"I would say this unequivocally: I should never have been arrested," Dollar said Sunday in his first public appearance two days after police charged him with charges of violation of simple battery and cruelty to children.

Pastor received enthusiastic applause from the packed church when he took the podium at World Changers Church International in College Park Atlanta suburb. He discusses criminal charges head-on for several minutes before moving to his sermon.

"I want you all to hear personally from me that all is well in the household dollar," said Dollar.

Tony Awards 2012: For 'Once' daring trumps commerce

Will wonders never cease: David slay Goliath with a rare victory at the Beacon Theatre, which forced us to rethink the old truism that the vision of an independent trade displaces Broadway.

"Once," small music spun by an Irish artist, movie films, defeating "Newsies," a Disney theatrical productions leading the Tony Award for best musical, despite the fact that "Newsies" road show greater potential for profiteering.

But if this season has taught us that this is something theatrical creativity can not be overcome by corporate forces. All the hoopla about another record year of billion plus Grosses (funny how when you consider the charge number of tickets, does not really matter, if participation is essentially flat), there was plenty of evidence to Broadway's determination to find a place on the ledger sheet risk and bold.

Wisconsin’s recall election results

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Prop 29: California cigarette tax too close to call

A Lance Armstrong-backed initiative in California to raise taxes on cigarettes to fund cancer research was deadlocked Tuesday morning, reports Associated Press.

A few months ago, a statewide survey showed that Proposition 29 - to make tax $ 1 a pack - would take two-thirds support, but the morning after the polls closed vote still too close to call.

UMass panel recommends 4.9 percent tuition hike, Patrick objects

The Committee suggested the Board umass tuition and fee increases that would cost the state $ 580 average students, but the panel also offers a price freeze for two years if the legislature will restore half of the financing of university education budget.

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'Survey says' Richard Dawson was a TV favorite

Richard Dawson, a British-born actor who died last weekend, became familiar to millions of Americans with such TV sitcoms as Hogan's Heroes and the game show Family Feud.

Dawson death was reported online Sunday his son, Gary Dawson, who said his father died of complications from esophageal cancer Saturday night.

"He was surrounded by his family. He was an amazing talent, a loving husband, great father and a doting grandfather," Gary Dawson wrote.

Dawson, 79, was most famous role as Peter Newkirk, the RAF corporal with a cockney accent, which was one of the prisoners in Hogan's Heroes. 1960 TV show produced laughs from the group of Allied soldiers who bamboozle their captors in the Nazi German prison camp during World War II. The series ran from 1965 to 1971.

With phrases like "righto" and meet Col. Hogan and leader of the prisoners money played by Bob Crane as "gov'nor," Newkirk was often colorful straight man.

Newkirk: "Those bloody Krauts. They think of everything" Hogan ". Study how to win wars."

Dawson was best known to a younger generation that joking Family Feud host the first run of the 1976 to 1985. That part of the family den guess answers in surveys. Introductory lines of his show right answer became a national catchphrase: "The survey says ..."

Dawson won the daytime Emmy Award in 1978 for best game show host. Critic Tom Shale in The Washington Post called him "the fastest, brightest and most beguilingly caustic interlocutor since the late great Groucho bantered and parried on You bet your life."

Dawson was known for kissing female participants Feud is. One of them, Gretchen Johnson, who appears with his family in 1981, became his wife in 1991.

Dawson is survived by Gretchen and her daughter Shannon, and sons Gary and Mark from his previous marriage to British actress Diana Dors and four grandchildren. He was born Colin Lionel em in 1932 in Gosport, England.

Miss USA 2012 competition swayed by question and answer portion

Miss USA 2012 winner Olivia Audrey Culp may be competing with him to thank the store because his ultimate victory in the coveted crown.
 

Websites of the buzzer of the possible reasons for the runner-up Shop from Ohio, comes in second place instead of the Miss USA title, Culp, Rhode Island, won.
 

Many people say they shop for a surprising answer to a question in a Miss USA judge on how women are portrayed in the media caused her downfall. 

Shop answered the question and suddenly said: "pretty woman" Julia Roberts in the film revolves around the career of prostitution as an inspiration for young women.
 

"I had a wonderful, beautiful woman, Julia Roberts, and he had a hard time. But you know what? Came out on top, and he did not let anyone stay in the path," Bolt said.
 

Shop in the non-traditional response caught off guard and maybe the judges gave the edge Culp to win the Miss USA crown.
 

Culp was also asked a difficult and controversial issue during the Miss USA beauty contest, but managed to answer in a satisfactory manner that pleased the judges.
 

Culp asked transgender competitors should be allowed to participate in the Miss USA look and said, agreed to participate, despite the fact that any criticism of outsiders.
 

Culp now advance to the Miss USA pageant representatives of the United States in the Miss Universe Pageant.

Justin Blackmon, Jaguars face critical questions after arrest

Either the football gods have placed the dreaded curse of the Jaguar and their first-round draft pick at wide receiver, or assignment of this franchise from rising above mediocrity just to get much harder.

Because what Justin Blackmon did Sunday - getting arrested at 3 am on charges of aggravated DUI in Stillwater, Okla. - beyond putting a serious flaw in his NFL career before it could begin. He also embarrassed the organization Jaguars' with a very stupid lapse in judgment.

Anyone scheduled to sign the contract fully guaranteed in the near future worth about $ 20 million - and who is full of remorse in October 2010 after being arrested on suspicion of DUI before - do not do something this stupid again unless he had a drinking problem.

Mets 8, Cardinals 0: Santana’s no-hitter is first in history of Mets

Johan Santana put the first no hitter in the New York Mets history, helped to call the judge and an outstanding catch in the 8-0 win over St. Louis cardinals last night.

After a string of close calls in 51-season history of the team, Santana finally finished work of 8.020 in the Mets' in th game.

"Finally, the first one," Santana said. "It is the most emotional ever."

He has two main assists to pull off a third no hitter the major funds in this period.

Carlos Beltran hit in the Cardinal line drive over third base in the sixth inning that hit the foul line and should have been called the Fair. But third base Judge Adrian Johnson ruled a foul. A replay showed clearly mark where the ball hit the line.

"It was difficult because it happened so fast. I was not able to see anything," Santana said. "The judge made his call, and it was at the end."

Mike Baxter on the Mets made the huge catch in left field to rob Yadier Molina of extra basa in the seventh. Baxter crashed into the wall, injured his shoulder and left the game.

"When I saw him running back to the warning track and he did play, it was unbelievable. Excellent game, and he saved the game," Santana said. "All these guys, I want to thank them for what we accomplished."

Making his 11th start since missing last season after shoulder surgery, Santana (3-2) threw a career-high 134 pitches in his second consecutive shutout. He struck out eight and walked five.

"Amazing," Santana said. "Coming into this season, I was just hoping to come back and be healthy and help this team, and now I am in this situation in the best city in baseball."

Phil Humber pitching a perfect game for the Chicago White Sox in Seattle on 21 April, and Jered Weaver, Los Angeles Angels pitching a no-hitter against Minnesota on May 2

Santana was cheered as he went to the mound in the ninth inning. The two-time Cy Young winner retired soon Matt Holliday and Allen Craig on shallow fly balls.

With the crowd of 27.069 feet, World Series MVP David Freese went 3-and-2 count before his foul tip caught by Josh Thole.

The Mets jumped out of the dugout and mobbed Santana.

"It was a crazy night - my fast ball moved all over," Santana said.

San Diego Padres, who began playing in 1969, is now the only team without a no hitter.

A Giddy Catcher Retraces a Special Night

Josh Thole does not get to run on the mound and embrace Johan Santana on Friday night, the first night of his return from the disabled list since May 7, when he sustained a concussion. Never mind how difficult it was for battery companies Santana and Thole to keep guessing and Louis Cardinals hitless through the night, it almost did not happen: Manager Terry Collins had almost persuaded Thole to play one more minor league rehab game.

"TC tried to talk me into it, really," Thole said Collins in his locker about an hour after he hugged Santana on the mound at Citi Field. "He asked," Are you sure you're ready? "I said," I am ready. That's it. I think I can handle it. "

The Mets had come so close to losing no-hitter in the game. Considering that Thole almost lost the game just shows how much had to go right for the first Mets' no-hitter in franchise history.

"You'll never forget this," Thole said. "It's like - I have asked to have a catcher's gear confirmed. It's like this stuff does not happen every day. I mean, again, a young boy, I'm a little giddy."

Thole grinned the whole time he retraced the steps, telling of a ninth inning that could define his career. Disposal of the meat of its cardinals "- Matt Holliday, Allen Craig and David Freese - in order, Santana needed just 12 pitches, eight changeups, three fast balls and sliders.

Holliday lifted the first pitch changeup to center field, but it proved harmless. To that point, Thole said Santana had given him plenty of options as catcher, as he located his fast ball and slider on each side of the plate, making his changeup much more dangerous.

Craig began a 2-2 changeup into left field - and just like the fans did during Holliday's at-bat, it seemed as if everyone holding their breath. And that, too, was harmless.

But if one player was impressed enough to end up like the Mets' on, it would be Freese, State World Series most valuable player, took the first three pitches he saw. Santana was 3-0 hole.

So Thole exactly for the fast ball, "he founded the Committee on the plate very well, so there was no question that what I was going. We were going - fast ball in, and if he loses, oh well, going first to will try to get out again. "

The ball stuck fast; Strike first

Then, after Freese fouled off changeup, Thole called the second, the 3-2 count, with the opportunity to end Santana's no-hitter.

"It was strange, but I mean, I was not - it was like it was right for me," Thole said. "The last full at-bat came right to me. No question about it. It was as if he throws a changeup, I want it down to earth. If we walk him, and that, and hopefully we can get in the swing through. he threw and he threw it perfect. I did not close it, I was able to grab it, and that's it. "

Freese swung in the air, and Thole complimented the judge, in what has become a polite Thole often closer, and he rushed to the mound, arms to the sky. Nine innings in his return from the concussion, it was clear that Thole's head was clear, too.

Smoking a major risk factor in heart disease

Gerard Bodwekar had a heart attack when she was only 36. The main cause for heart attacks is smoking. Gerard started smoking when she was in class X. Today, he brought four stents in his heart because most of his blocked arteries.

"I started smoking when I was in class X. What began with a rod of five friends soon graduated to five cigarettes per day the time I started my business, I was smoking 12 cigarettes per day .. It has become an addiction. If I am waiting for someone, I need a cigarette in my hand, "said Gerard.

On World No Tobacco Day, Gerard said that he left smoking in 2009 after he suffered a heart attack. "I always though that smoking causes cancer. I never associated smoking with heart disease," said Gerard who admitted that he left smoking after a shocker of a heart attack.

"It's not easy but a heart attack taught me some lessons in discipline. Now I can jog for an hour without losing my breath," said Gerard. He said that it is easy to give in to pressure and take to smoking, but we have to fight the side effects alone.

Chief of cardiology at Apollo Hospital, Dr Sameer Dani, said that smoking is one of the major risk factor for heart disease. "A study we conducted revealed that smoking is a major cause in 40% of men under 45 years who suffered a heart attack."

Cardiologist at the Psychiatric Hospital Care, Dr. Jay Shah, said that nicotine weakens the heart arteries causes inflammation that causes the rupture of plaque in arteries. "Smoking is a major risk factor for heart disease and even one cigarette is harmful to people who pre-disposed to heart disease," says Dr. Shah.

IN Teen Granted Visa to Return from Mexico for Graduation

Long border Elizabeth Olivas' journey came to an end Friday morning tired.

The honor student, a 3.9 grade-point average and is a star football player and track team member who was caught in a spider immigration, got off an airplane at Indianapolis International Airport just after midnight, visa in hand. She hugged her father and prepared for its next milestone: delivering the salutatorian graduation speech at Frankfort High School Saturday.

Neil Patrick Harris knew he was gay at six

The How I Met Your Mother comedian admits he was well aware of his attraction to other boys before he had even reached puberty.

Harris has talked openly about his sexuality in a candid new TV chat with Oprah Winfrey, and when asked when he first knew he was gay, he replied, "Probably six, seven -. Young"

The actor even tried to follow in his heterosexual male friends' footsteps and dated several women - but each time he knew something was not right.

He added, "Good times. I felt like it was not clicking as it should, and kept wondering was it me?"

Harris has since found happiness with his partner David Burtka and the couple welcomed twins Gideon and Harper via a surrogate mother in 2010.

Twin Cities radio personality Dark Star dies

An old Twin Cities radio personality and track stand, who went by the name "Dark Star" has died.

Radio KFAN program director Chad Abbott Minnetonka police told him Friday that officers found George Chapple, who has worked at the station, dead in his apartment. Police say they are not investigating suspicious death.

Chapple worked for WCCO-AM for 25 years prior to the acquisition in 2010. He then joined KFAN.

WCCO-AM program director Bob Shomper (SHAHM'-PUR) says the 66-year Chapple "can be a bit off-color, one man who got away, and even respect."

Chapple has also worked for the Canterbury Park, Shakopee (SHAHK'-uh-pee) Course opened in 1985. He hosted the night show, replays, and there was a media relations consultant in the field.

Star Wars 1313 Announced by LucasArts

Star Wars games are not really high scores indicated interactive entertainment, while some fairly decent, like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, others are not as good as the Star Wars Kinect.

Now, LucasArts has announced a new game in the long-running franchise, now developed entirely in-house, in the form of Star Wars in 1313, and hopes, according to a high point of games based on Star Wars.

"We are excited to share one of LucasArts is working hard in developing projects," said Paul Meegan, President, LucasArts.

"Star Wars 1313 dive is a part of the Star Wars myth that we have always known existed, but never had the pleasure to visit. We are committed to making the best gaming experience and visual fidelity, and the life I truly believe that the work we are presenting the E3 speaks for itself. "

According to a brief description of the game, it will be followed by a nameless bounty hunter, as he makes the journey level in 1313, the criminal underground levels deep in the planet Coruscant.

"He was level 1313, a ruthless criminal organizations are far beneath the ground surface of the planet Coruscant, the game puts players control a deadly bounty hunter as he uses an arsenal of exotic weaponry to hunt down the clues and uncover the truth surrounding the criminal conspiracy. Star Wars epic 1,313 points set pieces and fast paced combat hero who uses the human abilities and gadgets, like a supernatural power that he along this dangerous world, "according to the description of the game.

Zombie apocalypse advances: Man eats human heart and brain

It's no wonder that recent events are based on the zombie apocalypse. The biggest story was the weekly report on the naked man allegedly high on the new synthetic drug known as "bath salts" who ate the face of another person in Miami. However, it is not only confusing cannibalism story making the rounds. A 21-year-old student has confessed to eating the heart of his roommate and part of his brain.

On Tuesday, a man named Jarrod Kinyua found human remains in the basement laundry room, according to the Baltimore Sun. They still turned out to be the hands and head 37 years Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, who had been missing. Brother Jarrod Alexander Kinyua Kinyua and the deceased had been roommates in the home. Hands Agyei-Kodie and his head had been stashed in tins of metal; Alexander Kinyua moved body parts and clean the cans after his brother and father before him of the remains, which he denied the men.

Jarrod Kinyua reported that the grisly find to his father, Antony Kinyua. Earlier Kinyua informed the police who later arrested Alexander Kinyua. The suspect reportedly told police he had killed the victim with a knife before consuming his heart and part of his brain. The rest of the body of man found in the trash a local church, whereby the suspect that he had destroyed him.

K-Stew gets Grimm; Charlize is a mommy; No gifts for Clint!

According to USA Today, The Cheetos brand snacks Cee-Lo Green Products celebrated its 38th birthday this week putting the "internet artist" (What is this exactly?) Baalman to create a 3-by-4 foot portrait of the hip-hopster full of Cheetos. The artist built the three snacks Chee-Zee, crunchy Cheetos, Flaming Hot, natural and Cheetos. Check it out www.facebook.com / Cheetos.

Clint Eastwood turns 82

Clint Eastwood, who turned 82 on Thursday, was ready for his big day. "Clint does not do holidays or gifts," his wife, E! reality star Dina Eastwood, tells E! News. "So, if you do not give him a gift he gives you a big kiss and say," Thank you so much, that does not give me a gift. "? Clint's daughter Francesca chime in" fans sent him a gift, what is not. "