Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Barry Bonds: Generous?
The all-time home run king still has some pop left in his bat.Former San Francisco Giants great Barry Bonds will pay for college for Bryan Stow's kids, according to NBCBayArea.com. Stow is the Giants fan who was severely beaten and left in a coma outside of Dodgers Stadium last month.
Stow family attorney Thomas Girardi tells the website that Bonds made the pledge to Stow's son and daughter after visiting the family in the hospital April 22.
Bonds also left an autographed baseball bat for Stow's kids.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
One step closer to Knight Rider
For drivers whose pulses quicken at the thought of barreling down the Interstate, one automaker has an idea that might help them stay healthy behind the wheel.Ford Motor will announce today that its research team in Aachen, Germany, has developed a car seat with six sensors that can monitor a driver's heart by its electrical impulses. Such a seat, if brought to market, could help heart patients monitor their health and provide an early warning of a heart attack.
It's the latest twist among several Ford health and wellness initiatives that could enable cars to be an extension of medical self-monitoring for people dealing with chronic conditions, whether it's a weak heart, allergies, diabetes or other maladies.
"With the aging population and this interest in health and wellness, there could be an interest in this type of technology," says Pim van der Jagt, managing director of Ford's European research center.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Harold Camping: Bummed the World Didn't End
The man who said the world was going to end appeared at his front door in Alameda a day later, very much alive but not so well. "It has been a really tough weekend," said Harold Camping, the 89-year-old fundamentalist radio preacher who convinced hundreds of his followers that the rapture would occur on Saturday at 6 p.m.
Massive earthquakes would strike, he said. Believers would ascend to heaven and the rest would be left to wander a godforsaken planet until Oct. 21, when Camping promised a fiery end to the world.
But on Sunday, almost 18 hours after he thought he'd be in heaven, there was Camping, "flabbergasted" in Alameda, wearing tan slacks, a tucked-in polo shirt and a light jacket.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Busted by his own cell phone!
Authorities say a man "pocket-dialed" 911, and the dispatcher on the other end of the call overheard people discussing a drug transaction.The Times of Gainesville reports the 911 call was made around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, but no one was on the line when the operator answered.
Hall County sheriff's Col. Jeff Strickland said the dispatcher could overhear several people talking about a drug transaction involving prescription narcotics.
Authorities said a deputy was sent to the source of the call, a Waffle House.
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Space beer?!
NASA may still frown upon knocking back a cold one during spaceflight, but Australians can now sample the world's first beer designed for consumption by high-flying space tourists.The Australian brew, called Vostok "4 Pines Stout" Space Beer, contains both high flavor and low carbonation. Its rich chocolate and caramel flavor aims to remedy a supposed reduction in the sense of taste due to swelling of the tongue in space. Low carbonation means fewer problems with so-called "wet burps" experienced by astronauts or other space travelers.
The space beer came out of a cooperative effort between the 4 Pines Brewing Co. and space engineers at Saber Astronautics Australia. They hope to target the wealthy crowd of future space tourists flying with private suborbital spaceflight operators such as Virgin Galactic.
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LeBron's Nightclub Receipt: $170,000
It is rumored that Lebron James spent $171,973.53 at a Las Vegas nightclub.The receipt shows that Lebron spent almost $60,000 on Cristal bottles, $8,700 on six Platinum Patrons and one bottle of Dom Perignon 6L for $25,000. The whopping purchase generated up to $13,000 in taxes.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Having to borrow TEN MILLION DOLLARS: winning!
Charlie Sheen reportedly received a $10 million loan from Warner Brothers during his final season of 'Two and a Half Men'.Charlie Sheen allegedly borrowed $10 million from Warner Brothers during his final season of 'Two and a Half Men'.
The troubled star - who was fired from the show last year following a huge bust up with co-creator Chuck Lorre over his hedonistic lifestyle - received the vast loan from show bosses in May 2010 under the condition he would pay it back during the first 13 episodes.
According to gossip website TMZ, the 47-year-old actor - who was receiving over $2 million per show - had $769,230.77 deducted from his first 13 paycheques of the season with the accrued interest taken from his 14th payday.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
A horror movie star's life imitating art?
Actress and former Playboy Playmate Yvette Vickers' mummified body was found in her Beverly Hills home last week, nearly a year after her death.Vickers was best known for her bit roles in B-movies of the 1950's like 'Attack of the 50-Foot Woman' and was the Playboy Playmate in July 1959.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Vickers, 82, was not seen for a long time and one of her neighbors, actress Susan Savage, went to check on her after noticing old letters and cobwebs in her mailbox.
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More proof that nudes on your cell phone can only cause trouble!
A woman recently called police to file a report about a missing cell phone.The woman told Spartanburg County deputies she lost her phone at the Copper River restaurant in Boiling Springs.
The woman told police she later learned that someone found her phone and was sending nude pictures she had stored in the phone to people in her contact list.
The woman told police she had the phone cut off.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Finally the man can shave!
A middle school teacher vowed after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, that he would not shave his beard until Osama bin Laden was caught. Gary Weddle kept his word Sunday evening.
"I spent my first five minutes crying and then I couldn't get it off fast enough," Weddle, 50, told the Capital Press.
Weddle, who lives in East Wenatchee, WA and teaches in Ephrata, WA, had wanted to cut his beard for years. The gray stringy growth actually made him look a bit like bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks who was killed by U.S. forces.
Weddle was a substitute teacher in Wenatchee when the terrorist attacks occurred on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, killing some 3,000 people.
Weddle said he was so absorbed in the news that he neglected to shave. A week or so later, he decided not to shave until bin Laden was captured or proven dead. He figured it would just be a month or two.
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Monday, May 2, 2011
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