This is a bizarre, and sad, turn of events.
James Eric Fuller, 63, who was shot in the knee during the shootings last Saturday in Tucson, was arrested yesterday for threatening Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries during the taping of an ABC "This Week" town hall.
The town hall, taped yesterday in Tucson, was hosted by ABC News Anchor Christiane Amanpour, who sat with Col. Bill Badger, who helped tackle Jared Lee Loughner; intern Daniel Hernandez, who ran to help Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and Patricia Maisch, who grabbed a magazine away from Loughner.
But the situation became strained when the conversation turned to gun control. When State Rep. Terri Proud explained current gun legislation, she was booed by the audience. Trent Humphries, co-founder of the Tucson Tea Party, rose from the audience to suggest that discussion about gun control laws should be delayed until those who were killed during the shooting were buried.
Fuller, who was shot in the knee on January 8, allegedly became increasingly agitated, and began booing Humphries. He took a photograph of Humphries, and yelled "You're dead."
Police told the press that Fuller was arrested on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and making a threat. He was also involuntarily committed to a hospital for a mental health evaluation.
The event ended shortly thereafter. As police officers approached Fuller to escort him out of the building, some witnesses thought they heard Fuller yelling, "What's the matter -- with you -- whores?"
Humphries gave the following statement: "This is another sad piece to add to an already tragic set of events. My hope continues to remain that we as a community be allowed the ability to heal and focus on those things that will best help our city and its citizens recover from this deadly tragedy."
Video coverage of the incident is below.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Aditya Roy Kapur, Ranbir, Shilpa walk for Shabana
Ranbir Kapoor and 20 stars, including Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Shilpa Shetty, Aditya Roy Kapur, Amrita Rao, Anushka Sharma, Celina Jaitley, Dia Mirza, Karan Johar, Kunal Kapoor, Lara Dutta, Monikangana Dutta, Neha Dhupia, Prateik Babbar, Raima Sen, Ranveer Singh, Rohit Roy, Sandhya Mridul, Shazahn Padamsee and Tusshar Kapoor, are walking the ramp for a Shabana Azmi NGO that supports Mijwan village in Azamgarh, UP, where her father was born.
The show, on January 23, is styled by Manish Malhotra, who has adopted Mijwan for a year and will provide employment to girls there. According to Shabana, "Just Rs 6,000 can pay for a child's annual education in Mijwain.
All the stars I approached have come on board, no questions asked. They are role models and when they throw their weight behind a cause it leads to immense awareness on the issue. This is going to be the most phenomenal fashion show ever."
Aditya Roy Kapur is an Indian film actor in Hindi films. Starting out as a VJ with Channel V, he made his film debut with a role in Vipul Shah's film London Dreams (2009), and later gained popularity for his roles in the 2010 films Action Replayy and Guzaarish. (action replayy, action replay, action replay movie, action reply, jason born )
Born in Mumbai, Aditya did his schooling from G. D. Somani Memorial School, in Cuffe Parade, Mumbai and subsequently graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, University of Mumbai.[1]
Career
Kapur started his career as a VJ on music channel Channel V, where his comic timing and "unique style of hosting" made him a hit, and then made his debut as a Pakistani musician in the 2009 musical London Dreams by Vipul Shah, where he co-starred Ajay Devgan and Salman Khan as one of the two brothers, part of Ajay Devgn's band in the movie, along with another VJ, Rannvijay Singh.
Then starred in the Vipul Shah's next, a 2010 time-traveling comedy Action Replayy, playing Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai's adult son who goes back in time to make their marriage a love marriage, his performance in the film caught critics eye.He acted again alongside Aishwarya Rai, in Guzaarish (2010) directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, where he played the role an apprentice magician under Hrithik Roshan
Personal life
Currently he lives in Mumbai. Aditya is not a trained actor, though he has taken diction classes to get his Hindi accent right and dance lessons. According to him he "had no a burning ambition to become an actor," and was content by being a VJ, before he was called to audition for London Dreams. In school he wanted to be a cricketer, though left cricket coaching classes after sixth standard.
His eldest brother Siddharth Roy Kapur is CEO of UTV Motion Pictures and second brother Kunal Roy Kapoor is an director-actor, who acted in TV series Just Mohabbat (1996), has directed film, The President Is Coming (2009) and is acting in Aamir Khan Productions’s Delhi Belly.
Filmography
Year Title Role Other notes
2009 London Dreams Wasim Khan
2010 Action Replayy Bunty
Guzaarish Omar Siddiqui
The show, on January 23, is styled by Manish Malhotra, who has adopted Mijwan for a year and will provide employment to girls there. According to Shabana, "Just Rs 6,000 can pay for a child's annual education in Mijwain.
All the stars I approached have come on board, no questions asked. They are role models and when they throw their weight behind a cause it leads to immense awareness on the issue. This is going to be the most phenomenal fashion show ever."
Aditya Roy Kapur is an Indian film actor in Hindi films. Starting out as a VJ with Channel V, he made his film debut with a role in Vipul Shah's film London Dreams (2009), and later gained popularity for his roles in the 2010 films Action Replayy and Guzaarish. (action replayy, action replay, action replay movie, action reply, jason born )
Born in Mumbai, Aditya did his schooling from G. D. Somani Memorial School, in Cuffe Parade, Mumbai and subsequently graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, University of Mumbai.[1]
Career
Kapur started his career as a VJ on music channel Channel V, where his comic timing and "unique style of hosting" made him a hit, and then made his debut as a Pakistani musician in the 2009 musical London Dreams by Vipul Shah, where he co-starred Ajay Devgan and Salman Khan as one of the two brothers, part of Ajay Devgn's band in the movie, along with another VJ, Rannvijay Singh.
Then starred in the Vipul Shah's next, a 2010 time-traveling comedy Action Replayy, playing Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai's adult son who goes back in time to make their marriage a love marriage, his performance in the film caught critics eye.He acted again alongside Aishwarya Rai, in Guzaarish (2010) directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, where he played the role an apprentice magician under Hrithik Roshan
Personal life
Currently he lives in Mumbai. Aditya is not a trained actor, though he has taken diction classes to get his Hindi accent right and dance lessons. According to him he "had no a burning ambition to become an actor," and was content by being a VJ, before he was called to audition for London Dreams. In school he wanted to be a cricketer, though left cricket coaching classes after sixth standard.
His eldest brother Siddharth Roy Kapur is CEO of UTV Motion Pictures and second brother Kunal Roy Kapoor is an director-actor, who acted in TV series Just Mohabbat (1996), has directed film, The President Is Coming (2009) and is acting in Aamir Khan Productions’s Delhi Belly.
Filmography
Year Title Role Other notes
2009 London Dreams Wasim Khan
2010 Action Replayy Bunty
Guzaarish Omar Siddiqui
Hizbollah leader Nasrallah expected on TV tonight
The leader of Lebanon’s Hizbollah movement is to speak on the country’s Al Manar television network tonight at 8.30pm local time, the station said today.
Hassan Nasrallah’s appearance will be the first time he has spoken in public since his party and its allies resigned from the cabinet over the UN-backed Special Tribumal for Lebanon’s investigation into the assassination of the country’s prime minister, Rafiq Hariti, in 2005.
The resignations brought down the government, led by Mr Hariri’s son, Saad, and the country’s politicians are currently trying to put together a new cabinet.
The prosecutors investigating the assassination are expected to submit a charge sheet to a pre-trial judge tomorrow. Daniel Fransen, the pre-trial judge, will then examine the findings before confirming the indictment. Arrest warrants or summonses would be then be issued, a process that could take six to 10 weeks.
However, Hizbollah has said it would not accept the indictment of any of its members for the assassination, and in November Mr Nasrallah declared that the group would "cut off the hand" of anyone who tries to arrest anybody from Hizbollah for the killing of Hariri.
After Hizbollah walked out of the government, Lebanon’s president, Michel Sleiman, asked Saad Hariri to stay on in a caretaker capacity, and will start consultations with MPs on appointing a new prime minister on Monday.
Yesterday, Mohammed Rashid Qabbani, Lebanon's leading Sunni religious leader, backed the formation of a new government by Saad Hariri, saying it was "in the interest of Lebanon", and that stability was the country’s most urgent need.
According to the London-based Al Hayat newspaper, the political bloc led by the Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt would also name Mr Hariri as their nominee to head the new government.
Hassan Nasrallah’s appearance will be the first time he has spoken in public since his party and its allies resigned from the cabinet over the UN-backed Special Tribumal for Lebanon’s investigation into the assassination of the country’s prime minister, Rafiq Hariti, in 2005.
The resignations brought down the government, led by Mr Hariri’s son, Saad, and the country’s politicians are currently trying to put together a new cabinet.
The prosecutors investigating the assassination are expected to submit a charge sheet to a pre-trial judge tomorrow. Daniel Fransen, the pre-trial judge, will then examine the findings before confirming the indictment. Arrest warrants or summonses would be then be issued, a process that could take six to 10 weeks.
However, Hizbollah has said it would not accept the indictment of any of its members for the assassination, and in November Mr Nasrallah declared that the group would "cut off the hand" of anyone who tries to arrest anybody from Hizbollah for the killing of Hariri.
After Hizbollah walked out of the government, Lebanon’s president, Michel Sleiman, asked Saad Hariri to stay on in a caretaker capacity, and will start consultations with MPs on appointing a new prime minister on Monday.
Yesterday, Mohammed Rashid Qabbani, Lebanon's leading Sunni religious leader, backed the formation of a new government by Saad Hariri, saying it was "in the interest of Lebanon", and that stability was the country’s most urgent need.
According to the London-based Al Hayat newspaper, the political bloc led by the Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt would also name Mr Hariri as their nominee to head the new government.
PF Chang's Marathon: Who Could Pull off the Marathon Win
The PF Chang's Marathon is currently underway, having started at 7:40 mountain standard time. Officially the P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon, there are a few people considered frontrunners, namely Josh Cox, who has been lighting up courses already this year; for more on that, see here.
There are, however, other marathon runners who seem like they could get the edge. The two that seem the closest to overtaking Cox so far are Kevin Castille, Roosevelt Cook and Adam Tribble. Castile is a Louisiana native who has been on the marathon scene for many years, while Tribble is an assistant coach for the Oregon State Beavers.
Cook is a graduate of Fresno State, and has since been a veteran of running events.
Radio Survivor cary grant mae west
Everybody’s waiting for the United States government to decide whether to approve the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal. The Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice have to bless the marriage, and it appears that the FCC is going to do so with some conditions. These include requirements that the new entity make its content available to competitors on reasonable terms, along with some net neutrality provisions on top of the recent Order that the FCC released in December.
But I’ve got another condition to consider—asking NBC Universal posthumously apologize to Mae West for banning her from its radio network almost 75 years ago.
Here’s what happened. In 1937 West, who was at the height of her career in motion pictures, appeared on the wildly popular Chase and Sandborn Hour in a sketch written by Arch Oboler titled The Garden of Eden. West played Eve. The show’s smooth announcer Don Ameche played Adam. Comic ventriloquist Edgar Bergen brought in his world famous dummy Charlie McCarthy in as The Snake.
You can listen to the program yourself. The Mae West blog has kindly published an excerpt from the show, which we reproduce here.
Snake: That’s the forbidden tree.
Eve (Mae West): Oh, don’t be technical. Answer me this — my palpitatin’ python — would you like to have this whole Paradise to yourself?
Snake: Certainly.
Eve: OK, then pick me a handful of fruit — Adam and I’ll eat it and the Garden of Eden is all yours. What do ya say?
Snake: Sssounds all right . . . but it’s forbidden fruit.
Eve: Listen, what are you — my friend in the grass or a snake in the grass?
Snake: But, forbidden fruit.
Eve: Are you a snake or are you a mouse?
Snake: I’ll — I’ll do it [hissing laugh].
Eve: Now you’re talking. Here — right in between those pickets.
Snake: I’m, I’m stuck.
Eve: Oh — shake your hips. There, there now, you’re through.
Snake: I shouldn’t be doing this.
Eve: Yeah, but you’re doing all right now. Get me a big one. I feel like doin’ a big apple.
Snake: Here you are, Missus Eve.
Eve: Mm — oh, I see — huh — nice goin’, swivel hips.
Snake: Wait a minute. It won’t work. Adam’ll never eat that forbidden apple.
Eve: Oh, yes, he will — when I’m through with it.
Snake: Nonsense. He won’t.
Eve: He will if I feed it to him like women are gonna feed men for the rest of time.
Snake: What’s that?
Eve: Applesauce!
This skit seems mild by today’s standards. “Compared with program content in this first decade of the twenty-first century, it wouldn’t even twitch an eyebrow,” observe broadcasting educators Robert L. Hilliard and Michael C. Keith.
But decency groups across the country howled over the program. As the radio scholar Michele Hilmes notes, the skit showed that “even a preapproved script could be read differently over the air from how it might be read in a continuity office, undermining the power of the written word.” Historian Erik Barnouw put it less delicately. “She filled out the dialogue with oohs and grunts that brought thousands of angry letters,” Barnouw wrote,” many of which found their way into the Congressional Record.”
West’s publicist sent out an apology, but it was too late. “Unschooled in the politics of radio, Mae had misjudged the speed with which an enterprise broadcasting into people’s homes, sponsored by companies made easily vulnerable by pressure on advertisers, could be reduced to quivering jelly,” explained her biographer Simon Louvish.
Although the FCC did little more than issue a stuffy statement warning broadcasters to “scrutinize more carefully” their sponsored advertising scripts, NBC responded by banning West from both its network and its owned-and-operated radio stations.
The all-powerful media company ordered that “no script utilized as a basis of broadcast programs over these stations shall contain any reference to Miss West, nor shall her name be mentioned by entertainers or others.”
This was something akin to Soviet style censorship—the literal purging of a public entertainer’s identity from the airwaves. Four years later the FCC would release its Report on Chain Broadcasting. The document ordered the “divorcement” of NBC’s “red” and “blue” networks—a combination that the agency characterized as monopolistic in effect. The Order barred any broadcaster from owning more than one such entity.
But that was too late for West. Her career didn’t flop because of this incident. She still enjoyed a huge presence in the movies. But NBC’s dominance in the late 1930s allowed the company to scour the AM airwaves of her unique humor and wit for a over a decade.
NBC Universal today is a very different company than the NBC of 1937. But the General Electric owned outfit regularly joins other broadcasters in challenging the FCC’s vague and chilling “fleeting expletive” indecency rules. Ironically, NBC was responsible for Golden Age of Radio’s worst act of broadcast suppression. The banning of West legitimized the endless clamor for censorship, laying the groundwork for the ever harsher interpretations of the FCC’s Pacifica decision that we endure today.
It’s time for the media company to make amends for that mistake by posthumously apologizing to Mae West—one of the great stage, cinema, and radio peformers of the twentieth century.
But I’ve got another condition to consider—asking NBC Universal posthumously apologize to Mae West for banning her from its radio network almost 75 years ago.
Here’s what happened. In 1937 West, who was at the height of her career in motion pictures, appeared on the wildly popular Chase and Sandborn Hour in a sketch written by Arch Oboler titled The Garden of Eden. West played Eve. The show’s smooth announcer Don Ameche played Adam. Comic ventriloquist Edgar Bergen brought in his world famous dummy Charlie McCarthy in as The Snake.
You can listen to the program yourself. The Mae West blog has kindly published an excerpt from the show, which we reproduce here.
Snake: That’s the forbidden tree.
Eve (Mae West): Oh, don’t be technical. Answer me this — my palpitatin’ python — would you like to have this whole Paradise to yourself?
Snake: Certainly.
Eve: OK, then pick me a handful of fruit — Adam and I’ll eat it and the Garden of Eden is all yours. What do ya say?
Snake: Sssounds all right . . . but it’s forbidden fruit.
Eve: Listen, what are you — my friend in the grass or a snake in the grass?
Snake: But, forbidden fruit.
Eve: Are you a snake or are you a mouse?
Snake: I’ll — I’ll do it [hissing laugh].
Eve: Now you’re talking. Here — right in between those pickets.
Snake: I’m, I’m stuck.
Eve: Oh — shake your hips. There, there now, you’re through.
Snake: I shouldn’t be doing this.
Eve: Yeah, but you’re doing all right now. Get me a big one. I feel like doin’ a big apple.
Snake: Here you are, Missus Eve.
Eve: Mm — oh, I see — huh — nice goin’, swivel hips.
Snake: Wait a minute. It won’t work. Adam’ll never eat that forbidden apple.
Eve: Oh, yes, he will — when I’m through with it.
Snake: Nonsense. He won’t.
Eve: He will if I feed it to him like women are gonna feed men for the rest of time.
Snake: What’s that?
Eve: Applesauce!
This skit seems mild by today’s standards. “Compared with program content in this first decade of the twenty-first century, it wouldn’t even twitch an eyebrow,” observe broadcasting educators Robert L. Hilliard and Michael C. Keith.
But decency groups across the country howled over the program. As the radio scholar Michele Hilmes notes, the skit showed that “even a preapproved script could be read differently over the air from how it might be read in a continuity office, undermining the power of the written word.” Historian Erik Barnouw put it less delicately. “She filled out the dialogue with oohs and grunts that brought thousands of angry letters,” Barnouw wrote,” many of which found their way into the Congressional Record.”
West’s publicist sent out an apology, but it was too late. “Unschooled in the politics of radio, Mae had misjudged the speed with which an enterprise broadcasting into people’s homes, sponsored by companies made easily vulnerable by pressure on advertisers, could be reduced to quivering jelly,” explained her biographer Simon Louvish.
Although the FCC did little more than issue a stuffy statement warning broadcasters to “scrutinize more carefully” their sponsored advertising scripts, NBC responded by banning West from both its network and its owned-and-operated radio stations.
The all-powerful media company ordered that “no script utilized as a basis of broadcast programs over these stations shall contain any reference to Miss West, nor shall her name be mentioned by entertainers or others.”
This was something akin to Soviet style censorship—the literal purging of a public entertainer’s identity from the airwaves. Four years later the FCC would release its Report on Chain Broadcasting. The document ordered the “divorcement” of NBC’s “red” and “blue” networks—a combination that the agency characterized as monopolistic in effect. The Order barred any broadcaster from owning more than one such entity.
But that was too late for West. Her career didn’t flop because of this incident. She still enjoyed a huge presence in the movies. But NBC’s dominance in the late 1930s allowed the company to scour the AM airwaves of her unique humor and wit for a over a decade.
NBC Universal today is a very different company than the NBC of 1937. But the General Electric owned outfit regularly joins other broadcasters in challenging the FCC’s vague and chilling “fleeting expletive” indecency rules. Ironically, NBC was responsible for Golden Age of Radio’s worst act of broadcast suppression. The banning of West legitimized the endless clamor for censorship, laying the groundwork for the ever harsher interpretations of the FCC’s Pacifica decision that we endure today.
It’s time for the media company to make amends for that mistake by posthumously apologizing to Mae West—one of the great stage, cinema, and radio peformers of the twentieth century.
Sallie Mae Manage Your Loans Could Save You Thousands
Let Sallie Mae manage your loansand you could be saving thousands off your student loan. The name of the game is to try to save as much as you can when you get a loan. If you are a student looking to borrow money Sallie Mae might be your best option. The Sallie Mae Smart Option Student Loan has seen some students could save an average of 20%-30% over traditional 15-year, payment-deferred private student loans, with affordable in-school payments and shorter repayment terms.
The Sallie Mae Fund, a charitable organization sponsored by Sallie Mae, achieves its mission to increase access to higher education for America’s students by supporting programs and initiatives that help open doors to higher education, prepare families for their college investment, and bridge the gap when no one else can.
In addition, The Sallie Mae Fund encourages employee volunteerism and community service in the communities where Sallie Mae employees live and work.
Then there’s the popular Sallie Mae 529 College Savings Plans which is one of the most popular ways for American families to save for their kids college education. The Upromise College Fund 529 Plan is a national plan that’s designed to help you save today for college tomorrow. It’s easy to start and flexible to use. With the Sallie Mae 529 Plan you can choose from Age-Based and Custom Portfolios. This is managed by The Vanguard Group, Inc. You can also chose a Savings Portfolio option managed by Sallie Mae Bank. You can start this for as little as $50 per month with an Automatic Investment Plan (AIP) or you can make an initial contribution of $250
This is the most important first step in your life or your child’s life and it is important that you make the right decisions when comes times to invests in a college education or when you are ready to take a student loan. Due diligence is the way to go and I hope that this article is a push in the right direction.
Pacific Coast Highway America's Most Beautiful Drive?
3 dead as 10 cars crash on PCH in Newport Beach
Authorities say three people were killed in a pileup involving 10 vehicles on Pacific Coast Highway in Orange County. Newport Beach Fire Department Deputy Chief Ralph Restadius tells the Orange County Register that three others were hospitalized in the Saturday afternoon crash, one of them in critical condition.
Several Newport Beach fire and police units were at the scene, where two cars were overturned at the corner of PCH and Riverside and some people were trapped inside their vehicles.
Authorities said the highway remained closed hours after the accident and was likely to be shut down through the night.
Pacific Coast Highway may refer to:
Pacific Coastal Highway, a 15,200km (9,444 mile) highway along the Pacific Coast extending from Canada to Chilé
California State Route 1, segments of State Route 1
Pacific Coast Highway (LACMTA station) on the Blue Line
Pacific Coast Highway (Harbor Transitway) (LACMTA station)
Coast Highway (Oregon), the part of U.S. Route 101 in Oregon
Pacific Coast Highway (New Zealand), a 420 kilometre highway in New Zealand
A song from Sonic Youth's 1987 album Sister
Pacific Coast Highway, a single by Hole
Pacific Coast Highway, album from Contemporary jazz guitarist Nils
A song on Kavinsky's 2010 EP "Nightcall"
Authorities say three people were killed in a pileup involving 10 vehicles on Pacific Coast Highway in Orange County. Newport Beach Fire Department Deputy Chief Ralph Restadius tells the Orange County Register that three others were hospitalized in the Saturday afternoon crash, one of them in critical condition.
Several Newport Beach fire and police units were at the scene, where two cars were overturned at the corner of PCH and Riverside and some people were trapped inside their vehicles.
Authorities said the highway remained closed hours after the accident and was likely to be shut down through the night.
Pacific Coast Highway may refer to:
Pacific Coastal Highway, a 15,200km (9,444 mile) highway along the Pacific Coast extending from Canada to Chilé
California State Route 1, segments of State Route 1
Pacific Coast Highway (LACMTA station) on the Blue Line
Pacific Coast Highway (Harbor Transitway) (LACMTA station)
Coast Highway (Oregon), the part of U.S. Route 101 in OregonPacific Coast Highway (New Zealand), a 420 kilometre highway in New Zealand
A song from Sonic Youth's 1987 album Sister
Pacific Coast Highway, a single by Hole
Pacific Coast Highway, album from Contemporary jazz guitarist Nils
A song on Kavinsky's 2010 EP "Nightcall"
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