Well-Known televangelist Juanita Bynum has been brutally assaulted by her estranged husband, preacher bishop Thomas W. Weeks, according to police.
Juanita Bynum met with her estranged husband, the founder of Global Destiny Churches, at the Renaissance Concourse Hotel near the Atlanta Airport on Wednesday - where she planned to try and reconcile her relationship with her husband.
It was in the parking lot of the hotel that Bynum would realize Weeks wasn't capable of containing his anger. It was about 4 AM when Weeks was discovered assaulting her.
US Customs and Border Protection said the semi-submersible vessel - which was only partially visible from the surface - was spotted by a surveillance plane 482 kilometres south-west of the Mexico-Guatemala border on Monday.
The plane then guided a US Navy ship to the scene as the four suspected drug smugglers scuttled the vessel along with the bulk of its cargo, believed to be around 5,000 kilograms of cocaine.
The suspects and 11 bales of cocaine weighing around 548 kilograms were eventually recovered from the scene.
Police said Juanita Bynum, a televangelist who has won a national following with sermons about women's empowerment, was assaulted by her preacher husband in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel early Wednesday.
Bynum and her estranged husband, Thomas W. Weeks III, the founder of Global Destiny churches, met at Renaissance Concourse Hotel near Atlanta's airport to try to reconcile, police said.
About 4 a.m., they fought in the parking lot until a hotel bellman pulled Weeks off, Officer Ronald Campbell said.
"She was bruised up and battered," Campbell said. "She had purple bruising around her neck and upper torso."
No charges had been filed by Wednesday night against Weeks, who left the scene accordign to police.
Dogbook was developed by Alexandre Roche. It allows you to create a Facebook Profile for your dog. When you enter the application, you are taken to a window that looks just like Facebook profile entry window. You enter in your dog’s name, its breed and type, its favorite actitivites.
PM Investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEH) said Wednesday that it is closing its BNC Mortgage LLC subsidiary as a result of the turmoil in the U.S. subprime mortgage market.
BNC Mortgage LLC issues home loans to people who cannot document their income or have shaky credit histories. BNC Mortgage was a publicly traded company till 2000 when Lehman helped finance the buyout of BNC by its management for about $47 million. Lehman took an ownership stake and by 2004 bought out management's stake. Last year BNC Mortgage was the 40th-largest U.S. mortgage lender with $13.7 billion in volume, according to U.S. Banker.
The closure will affect about 1200 employees in 23 cities and cost the company $25 million in severance, real estate and technology costs, New York-based Lehman said. The company will also record a $27 million accounting charge for writing down goodwill.
BNC Mortgage said in its Web site that it will no longer accept new loan submissions and will be returning any loan files that have not already been approved.
Lehman, however, said that it will continue to issue home loans in the U.S. through its Aurora Loan Services LLC subsidiary.
Mike Flynt is a 59 year old strength and conditioning coach at Nebraska, Oregon and Texas A&M. One of his regrets in life was being kicked off a college football team before his senior year. Mike decided to try out for the team (amazingly enough he was still eligible) and has now made the Division III team’s roster for Sul Ross State University. While many people warn him of his age and the dangers of playing football, Mike Flynt is in excellent condition for his age.
Ohio's governor has declared a state of emergency in nine counties as part of the state pushes through its worst flooding in nearly 100 years.
Authorities are shutting down schools and streets, and at least 500 people have been evacuated.
In Findlay, rescuers have set out to reach dozens of people trapped in flooded homes. With only a few rescue boats available, neighbors are ferrying through the town's streets in their own canoes to help those who are stranded.
The town's Blanchard river is close to seven feet over flood stage. It's the highest it has been since a 1913 flood. Forecasters say it could rise by another half foot or more.
The Cayman Islands readied for a brush with Hurricane Dean, which has already killed eight people, as Texas officials on Monday opened emergency centers and passed out sandbags in preparation for a possible encounter with the powerful storm.
Dean was expected to pass to the south of the Caymans, but the government said it posed a "significant threat" to the islands. Forecasters said the islands could receive up to 12 inches of rain.
Hurricane Dean slashed through southern Jamaica and is currently moving westward at 21 miles per hour, expecting to approach the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula tonight. Dean is still a category 4 storm with its 150 mile winds, but is expected to strengthen into a category 5 over the next 24 hours, according to the National Weather Service in Brownsville.
Dean will sweep across the peninsula and make landfall again near Tuxpan, Veracruz, about 280 nautical miles south of Brownsville.
Cloris Leachman, was it who played Frau Blucher in Mel Brooks's 1974 comedy Young Frankenstein. The plot summary was as follows...
The grandson of Victor Frankenstein is a teaching surgeon who has spent his life living down the legend of his grandfather, even changing the pronunciation of his name. When the diary of his grandfather is brought to him, he takes a leave of absence to examine the family castle. Then things get a little silly. Due to a switch, he implants an abnormal brain in his creation which causes problems, but things really get out of hand when the young Frankenstein's bride to be shows up at the castle. The whole film is shot in Black and white to simulate the old monster movie feeling
The oldest rapid transit system in the world is the London Underground, which opened in 1863. The two primary ways that subway tunnels are constructed are by cut and cover and tunnel boring. The world's most extensive urban rail systems are Tokyo's rail network and Osaka, Japan.
In the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries (such as Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, and Singapore), the term subway normally refers to a specially constructed underpass for pedestrians and/or cyclists beneath a road or railway, allowing them to reach the other side in safety.
The term is also used in the United States, specifically by the California Department of Transportation, for a road undercrossing which is depressed.
Underground pedestrian passageways are less common in North American cities than in European cities of comparable size. They are constructed when it is necessary for pedestrians to cross a railroad or a limited-access highway such as an interstate highway, and of course they appear at the exits from underground rapid transit systems, but one would be rarely built just to enable people to cross an ordinary city street. When they are built, the term "pedestrian underpass" is more likely to be used, since the word "subway" is usually used there to refer to rail-based rapid transit systems such as New York Subway.
Carmen Sandiego is a fictional character featured in a long-running edutainment series of the same name. As a criminal mastermind and the elusive nemesis of the ACME Detective Agency, Sandiego is the principal villain of the series and head of ACME's rival organization V.I.L.E. Most of her crimes involve spectacular and often impossible cases of theft. Her full name, according to Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Treasures of Knowledge, is Carmen Isabela Sandiego.
Carmen Sandiego is almost always portrayed with a red trench coat, a matching fedora and long brown hair, although her hair color was given to be "auburn" or "black" in some of the earliest games. Her fedora is often shown leaving her face in shadow and obscuring her eyes. When her eyes are visible, they are usually brown, although they were blue in Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? and in Carmen Sandiego Math Detective. In many appearances she also wears gray or black gloves.
In the original Brøderbund games and in all the TV shows, she wore a yellow or orange dress under her trench coat, with a matching stripe on her fedora, and red high-heeled shoes. She also seemed to have a flair for elegance, often wearing jewelry. However, in the games created under The Learning Company, her appearance was retooled so that she wore a grayish black catsuit under her trench coat, with the stripe on her fedora changed to match, and more practical footwear. Her "new" look is seen in the image above.
Aerogel is a low-density solid-state material derived from gel in which the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with gas. The result is an extremely low density solid with several remarkable properties, most notably its effectiveness as an insulator. It is nicknamed frozen smoke, solid smoke or blue smoke due to its semi-transparent nature and the way light scatters in the material; however, it feels like expanded polystyrene (Styrofoam) to the touch.
Aerogel was first created by Steven Kistler in 1931, as a result of a bet with Charles Learned over who could replace the liquid inside a jam (jelly) jar with gas without causing shrinkage.
Aerogels are produced by extracting the liquid component of a gel through supercritical drying. This allows the liquid to be slowly drawn off without causing the solid matrix in the gel to collapse from capillary action, as would happen with conventional evaporation. The first aerogels were produced from silica gels. Kistler's later work involved aerogels based on alumina, chromia and tin oxide. Carbon aerogels were first developed in the early 1990s.
The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. The Metropolitan is America's largest classical music organization, and annually presents some 240 opera performances. The home of the company, the Metropolitan Opera House is one of the premier opera stages in the world. The Met is one of the twelve resident organizations at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Hurricane Dean is closing in on Jamaica and at last look (just at the start of Sunday 8/19/2007) the radar and satelite images , Dean’s eye appears to be headed just south of the island. The storm bands are huge though and the storm bands will more than cover all of Jamaica as it passes on Sunday.
Using Jamaica radar and the Jamaica map, experts predict that hurricane dean will hit Jamaica at 155mph (249kph) winds and bring up to 20 inches (50cms) of rain.
To protect the people of Jamaica, over 1000 shelters have been set up across Jamaica in preparing for the bad weather that hurricane dean will bring.
André the Giant was the stage name of Andre Rene Roussimoff, (May 19, 1946 – January 27, 1993) a French professional wrestler and actor. He was at least 2.09 metres (6 ft 10 in) tall and believed by many to have been over 2.13 metres (7 ft) at his tallest. His great size was a result of excessive growth hormone, a condition known as acromegaly, and led to him being dubbed "The Eighth Wonder of the World".
Claudio Arrau Leon (February 6, 1903 – June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist of world fame for his deep interpretations of a huge, vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.
Awards and recognitions
Gold Medal, The Royal Philharmonic Society. 1990
Doctor, The Juilliard School. 1989
Honorary Member, The Royal Philharmonic Society. 1988
National Prize of Art of Chile. 1983
Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur of France
First Honorary Member, The Robert Schumann Society
Beethoven Medal of New York
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France
Hans von Bülow Medal of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. 1978
Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany. 1970
Homage from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Kurt Westphal, on behalf of the orchestra, called him "heir to the throne of Gieseking and Busoni". 1968
Doctor of Music, University of Chile. 1959
Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Concepción (Spanish). 1959
Gold Medal of the City of Concepción
Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Chile. 1949
Gold Medal of the Chilean Government. 1944
Winner of the Grand Prix of the Concours International des Pianistes. The jury was composed by Arthur Rubinstein, Joseph Pembaur, Ernest Schelling, Alfred Cortot and JoséVianna da Motta. Cortot exclaimed: "Cela c'est un pianiste. C'est merveilleux". Geneva, 1927
Honour Prize of the Stern Conservatory (German), becoming Professor. 1925
Liszt Prize in 1919 (after 45 years without a first place winner), and again in 1920
Schulhoff Prize. Berlin, 1918
End of studies at the Stern Conservatory, receiving an "Exceptional Diploma". Berlin, 1917
Grant of the Stern Conservatory. Berlin, 1916
First Prize in the Rudolph Ibach Competition (he was the only participating boy). Berlin, 1915
Gustav Holländer Medal for young artists. Berlin, 1915
Grant of the Chilean Congress for musical studies in Berlin. 1911
James Bay is a large body of water on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada. Both bodies of water extend from the Arctic Ocean. James Bay borders the provinces of Quebec and Ontario; islands within the bay are currently part of Nunavut, but the islands have been ceded to Quebec and Ontario in a soon-to-be-signed agreement. The James Bay watershed is the site of several major hydroelectric projects, and is also a destination for river-based recreation. Several communities are located near or alongside James Bay, including a number of Aboriginal communities such as the Kashechewan First Nation and nine communities affiliated with the Crees of northern Quebec.
It was a long weekend for Wanda Williams of Roanoke after she discovered she had a winning Mega Millions ticket. She had to wait from Saturday morning, when she checked the winning numbers, until Virginia Lottery offices opened on Monday morning. All the while, she had a ticket worth $250,000 in her possession.
“I chewed my nails. I walked the floor,” she told Virginia Lottery officials when she claimed her prize first thing that Monday morning.
Ms. Williams won Mega Millions’ second largest prize in the August 10, 2007, drawing. Her ticket matched the first five winning numbers and only missed the Mega Ball number.
Her husband purchased the winning ticket at Sky Mart, located at 3902 Melrose Avenue in Roanoke. On the morning following the drawing, he woke her and told her the good news.
“He was picking me up and carrying me around the house,” she said. She didn’t believe him until she had a chance to look at the winning numbers herself. Then she exclaimed, “I can’t believe it. We did win!”
Ms. Williams said the winnings will help purchase a new home for retirement.
All profits from the Virginia Lottery go to K-12 public school education in the Commonwealth. In fiscal year 2006 the Lottery turned over more than $454 million for Virginia’s public schools, representing about 10 percent of state funding for public education in Virginia.
The first teaser trailer of the movie Harold and Kumar 2 has just arrived. The plot outline is that they're running from authorities who suspect them of being terrorists after they try to sneak a bong on board their flight to Amsterdam.
Elsa Pataky is a Spanish actress. She was born in Madrid, Spain, and is fluent in Spanish, French, English and Romanian. Pataky attended the Universidad de San Pablo and studied journalism. During this time, Pataky also enrolled in acting classes. She was also a member of the Madrid theatre company, Teatro Cámara de Ángel Guitiérrez. Eventually, she left school when she was cast in the television series Al Salir de Clase. With the success of Al Salir de Clase, Pataky received her first film offer, El Arte de Morir. Some of her subsequent films were co-productions with the UK and France, which introduced her to working in English and French.
Acting Carrier With the success of Al Salir de Clase, Pataky received her first film offer, El Arte de Morir. Some of her subsequent films were co-productions with the UK and France, which introduced her to working in English and French.
Pataky has appeared in over ten Spanish films and most recently crossed over into the French market with her co-starring role in the 2004 box office hit, Iznogoud. She also appeared in a supporting role in the David Ellis-directed film Snakes on a Plane (2006), alongside Samuel L. Jackson. She is currently receiving good reviews for her work in the Spanish film Ninette, helmed by Oscar winner José Luis Garci.
Clay Buchholz is slated to start Game 1 today against the LA Angels as the Red Sox Number One pitching prospect makes his first ever Major League Baseball start. This is an exciting day for Red Sox fans as we haven't had this much buzz around a Sox pitching prospect since Jonathan Papelbon came up, and lets just say he's working out just fine. Buchholz has pitched 30.1 innings thus far for our triple A Pawtucket Red Sox (after starting the season in double A) and he's sporting a 3.26 ERA. In his 30.1 innings this year he's struck out a total of 48 batters and walked only 8 which is truly impressive.
One man from Brooklyn has made it his crusade to scold New York City workers who he catches parking illegally. He goes by the name 'Jimmy Justice' and he's armed with a camera.
In this video, he observes a traffic enforcement agent make an illegal u-turn.Then she covers her badge so she cannot be identified.
The name kestrel is given to several different members of the falcon genus, Falco. Kestrels are most easily distinguished by their typical hunting behaviour which is to hover at a height of around 10–20 m over open country and swoop down on prey, usually small mammals, lizards or large insects. Other falcons are more adapted to active hunting on the wing. In addition, kestrels are notable for usually having much brown in their plumage. Kestrels require a slight headwind in order to hover, hence a local name of windhover for Common Kestrel.
Plumage often - but unusually for falcons - differs between male and female, and (as is usual with monogamous raptors) the female is slightly larger than the male. This allows a pair to fill different feeding niches over their home range. Kestrels are bold and have adapted well to human encroachment, nesting in buildings and hunting by major roads.
Kestrels do not build their own nests, but use nests built by other species.
The cover of the September issue of Allure magazine features Britney Spears posed provocatively in jeans and dark brown wig. There are two similar shots inside the mag. She very cooperatively posed for the shots in April.
The Tigers are going to recall top hitting prospect Cameron Maybin and designate LF Craig Monroe for assignment. This is quite a surprise. Not because Monroe had been doing well, he wasn't, but because Maybin has so little minor league exeperience. This is his second season, and he has just 20 AA ABs.
For the year, Maybin has hit very well for his age - 316/409/523. This followed a 304/387/457 in his first season. Those stats support the judgment that Maybin is amongst the best minor league hitting prospects.
Additionally, he has 14 HR and 25 SB this year in 323 ABs compared to last year's 9/27 in 385 ABs. Those stats say he could contribute in those counting categories right away. The area of concern is his strikouts.
Sabra Johnson has been named the first female winner of the So You Think You Can Dance crown, earning $250,000. Johnson has only four years of dance training – something that impressed Dance judge and co-creator Nigel Lythgoe.
Runner-up Tidwell, who was praised by judges Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and Dan Karaty for his technical proficiency but often chastised by guest judges for his “arrogance,” happens to be the adopted brother of last year’s second place finisher, Travis Wall.
Toxic magazine was launched in September 2002 by London-based Egmont Publishing UK.
The intention being to address the elusive boy's magazine market. By including reviews of DVDs, PC games, movies, sport features and the like, combined with irreverent toilet humour and original comic strips, the magazine proved to be extremely successful and continues to be published.
Toxic is "edited" by Team Toxic, a group of creatures under the supervision of Doc Shock. (Although in reality, Toxic is edited by Matt Yeo). Designed by the cartoonist Jon Rushby Team Toxic also appear in a regular two page comic strip in the magazine, written and drawn by Lew Stringer. Other comic strips include Grott the Mighty by Nigel Kitching and Rex written by John A. Short and drawn by Alex Paterson.
Initially launched as a monthly title, Toxic increased frequency to every three weeks with issue 14, then to fortnightly with issue 34. Despite its title, it has no connection with the comic Toxic! which appeared in the 1990's. If anything it is influenced by the popular Oink! (comic) from the 1980s.
Another magazine by the same name was launched in January 2005 with a focus on content for men. That Toxic magazine is currently being published as a major online publication since February 2006.
The wife of an Oakland County sheriff's deputy has been charged with prostitution and using the Internet to solicit her services for $250 an hour, authorities said. Christy Newlin, 45, of Waterford Township, is free on bond after being arraigned in two district courts this week on charges that included keeping a house of prostitution and using a computer to commit prostitution.
Newlin, married to sheriff's department veteran Randy Newlin, faces a preliminary examination Monday. Sheriff Michael Bouchard said Randy Newlin has not been disciplined, The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press reported Friday.
This is the story which got dugg up by 41881 Digg users. And there isn't any other story that i can see which got these much of attention. The story as all of us know, was submitted by Kevin Rose.
Uncle Kracker was arrested early this morning in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is being charged with second-degree forcible sex. His bail has been set at $5million dollars and he is being held at Wake County Jail till he faces a judge later next Friday.
Uncle Kracker is an American rock, country, and rap-rock musician. He started out his career at a young age as a fledgling rapper. He met Kid Rock in 1987, and Rock asked Kracker to become his DJ. Kracker did not know how to work the turntables, but he soon learned how to, and he became a long-term friend and colleague of Rock.
Discography
2000 - Double Wide - 2 million sold 2002 - No Stranger to Shame - 500,000 + sold 2004 - Seventy Two and Sunny - 200,000 + sold 2007 - Happy Hour (not yet released)
33-year-old race car driver from New Jersey has died in a crash involving several cars at the Thompson Motor Speedway.
John Blewett III of Howell, N.J., was killed while driving his modified tour racing car during the New England Dodge Dealers 150 Thursday night. Blewett died after a collision involving a car driven by his brother, Jimmy Blewett, 26. Blewett's No. 66 car smashed against the wall under his brother's car.
Thompson International Speedway in Thompson, Connecticut, USA, is a 5/8th mile paved oval racetrack that was once known as the Indianapolis of the East. It was the first paved race track in the United States and is now under the NASCAR Weekly Racing Series banner. Each year Thompson hosts one of the great fall variety events "The World Series of Auto Racing" highlighted by the ISMA Super Modifieds and the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. This event frequently draws over 600 race cars in 15 separate divisions over three days.
Henry Hager is in the news today as he will soon be marrying the President’s daughter, Jenna Bush. You can see photos and a biography of Henry Hager below. Henry and Jenna became engaged yesterday in Maine.
Henry Hager is the son of politician John H. Hager, He is currently a graduate student in business administration at the University of Virginia. He did his undergraduate work at Wake Forest University. He was a White House aide and worked for Karl Rove.
He graduated from St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia.
Pat Head Summitt, head coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols, has filed for divorce from her husband, R.B. Summitt II, after 26 years of marriage. The papers to start divorce proceedings were filed Wednesday in Blount County, where the couple lives.
The filings cite irreconcilable differences for the split. The couple has one son, Ross Tyler Summitt, 16. He lives with his mother. Summitt acknowledged last spring that she and husband R.B. had separated after nearly 22 years of marriage.
Summitt hasn't made any public comments about the filing. August 23 will be their 27th wedding anniversary.
Lets listen to what Great Southwest Mortgage, the retail arm of First Magnus says about themselves..
"Great Southwest Mortgage joined the mortgage community in Arizona in December, 1995. Erik Lutz, our founder and President, started with the concept of a mortgage company that dedicated itself to outstanding customer service and creativity in matching the most advantageous loan program with each individual client’s specific needs.
As Great Southwest Mortgage continued to grow, we sought to further expand the options available to our customers and to increase the market to which we could bring our particular branch of home-town service. We accomplished this in October, 1999 when we teamed with First Magnus Financial, a mortgage broker and banker headquartered in Tucson, Arizona." Read on.....
Jose Padilla was convicted of terrorism-conspiracy charges in a victory for the Bush administration, which held him in a military prison as an enemy combatant for more than three years.
Padilla, 36, a U.S. citizen, and two co-defendants were found guilty today by a federal jury in Miami of conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country, conspiring to provide support to terrorist groups and providing such support. They could be sentenced to as much as life in prison. An earlier accusation that Padilla plotted to explode a radioactive ``dirty bomb'' wasn't included in the charges.
``We can appeal,'' Padilla's mother, Estelle Lebron, told reporters. ``I don't know how they could find him guilty. There were 300,000 calls and there's no evidence he spoke in code'' in the phone calls recorded by investigators.
About Jose Padilla
Jose Padilla (born October 18, 1970), also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah, is a United States citizen accused of being a terrorist by the United States government. Padilla (whose birthname is has been anglicized) [1]) was arrested in Chicago on May 8, 2002, and was detained as a material witness until June 9, 2002, when President Bush designated him an illegal enemy combatant and transferred him to a military prison, arguing that he was thereby not entitled to the protection of United States law. On January 3, 2006, he was transferred to a Miami, Florida jail to face criminal conspiracy charges. Jose Padilla was found guilty on charges he conspired to kill people in an overseas jihad and to fund and support overseas terrorism.
Hurricane Dean, currently a Category 1 hurricane and the first Atlantic hurricane this season, continues to intensify and now has sustained winds of 90 miles per hour. Its track is expected to take the system through the Netherland Antilles, with Dominica and Martinique bearing a potential direct hit from the hurricane. Dean should continue westward into the Caribbean and has the potential to continue to increase in strength and threaten Hispaniola, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Other surrounding islands will also feel Dean's impact. Hurricane warnings and watches have been posted for parts of the Lesser Antilles, where Dean is expected to hit sometime Friday morning.
According to National Hurricane Center Coordinator Julio Ripoll, WD4R, the Amateur Radio station at the NHC in Miami, WX4NHC, plans to activate on Friday, August 17 at 6 AM EDT (1000 UTC) as Hurricane Dean approaches the Lesser Antilles. The VoIP Hurricane Net on EchoLink *WX-TALK* Node: 7203/IRLP 9219 will activate as well, starting at 2 AM EDT (0600 UTC). This could change based on the speed of Dean.
The Chicago Air and Water Show shakes up the lakefront August 18 - 19, 2007 for the largest FREE show of its kind in the United States. This year the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and U.S. Army Parachute Team Golden Knights will headline the Chicago Air and Water Show along the lakefront from Fullerton to Oak Street, with North Avenue Beach as the focal point. The water show begins at 9 a.m. and air show runs from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. both days.
Following are the videos of 2006 Air and Water show.
Max Roach, the master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations and improvisations defined bebop jazz during a wide-ranging career where he collaborated with artists from Duke Ellington to rapper Fab Five Freddy, has died after a long illness. He was 83.
Biography
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was a bebop/hard bop percussionist, drummer, and composer. He has worked with many of the greatest jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Sonny Rollins. He is widely considered to be one of the most important drummers in the history of jazz.
Monegasque (natively Munegascu) is a Romance language and a dialect of the modern Ligurian language. It is rather similar to the language spoken in Genoa, but differs from its neighbour languages Intemelian and Mentonasque. It has been strongly influenced by Occitan. Occitan is also traditionally spoken in some parts of Monaco, besides Monegasque.
It is spoken in Monaco in addition to French by the Monagasques. Because the Monegasques in Monaco compose only a minority, Monegasque was threatened with extinction in the 1970s. In the meantime, the language is being taught in schools and its continuance is regarded as secured. In the old part of Monaco, the street signs are marked with Monegasque in addition to French.
Tall, intense African American actor with New York stage experience who has scored twice in regular roles in TV medical series. In fact, it was putting on his old costume from "The Human Factor" (CBS, 1991) that played a part in La Salle snagging a regular starring role on "ER" (NBC, 1994- ) as Dr. Benton, a competent and tough emergency room doctor. Before completing acting studies first at Juilliard and then NYU's graduate theater program, La Salle was already cast in the first of several productions for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. Throughout the late 1980s, he found continuous acting work on and off-Broadway as well as in the ABC daytime soap "One Life To Live" as reporter Mike Rivers.
La Salle move to Los Angeles in 1991 to take a regular role on the TV series "The Human Factor" that lasted less than a year but piled up guest TV credits on such shows as "L.A. Law", "Quantum Leap", "A Different World", "HBO Vietnam War Stories" and several TV-movies. In feature films, he had small roles in Tony Bill's well-received "Five Corners" (1988); the Eddie Murphy vehicle "Coming to America" (1988) and Adrian Lyne's "Jacob's Ladder" (1990). He made his directorial debut with the HBO movie "Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault" in 1996 and later helmed the pilot for Showtime series "Soul Food".
2002 was a busy year for LaSalle. He was cast as Detective Van Der Zee in the thriller-suspense feature "One Hour Photo" and directed his first feature film, "Crazy as Hell," which he co-starred in and co-wrote.
The lake Titicaca which is world's highest navigable lake and second largest lake in South America, located in Bolivia, is also known for the pollution from nearby cities. Tonnes of bottles, cans, plastic bags, medical refuse and tattered clothes can be found flowing during the dry season.
Various sources reports that the First Magnus Financial Corporation halt their loans. But no one seems to be sure of what the real problem is after the announcement.
The president and founder of Great Southwest, Lutz says "Nearly all the people that I care about in this world have relied on this great company to raise their families and grow professionally"
There is nothing regarding this issue on the official website of the firm
A military report today says that the number of US soldiers who commit suicide has reached highest level in the last 26 years. The study by the Associated Press says that more than 25% of those who committed suicide had done so when they were on duty in Iraq or Afganistan.
Among serving US troops, there was a total of 99 suicides last year. In 2005, it was 88. This study tells us that there is 17.3 suicides per 100,000 soldiers. while over the last 26 years, it was just 12.3 Article source
Let's see what elvis.com says about 'elvis week' in graceland.
"Graceland/EPE presents three special events for the public each year: The Elvis Presley Birthday Celebration (January), Elvis Week (August) and Christmas at Graceland (November – January). We also provide facilities, catering, decorating and planning services for private event bookings in the Graceland visitor center and at Elvis Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel. For weddings we have Graceland’s Chapel in the Woods. Explore our site for more detailed information about our annual public events and about booking your own very special private event.
Planning your trip to Graceland is easy and quick with our online Graceland trip planner. Get all the details on different Graceland tours and packages, Heartbreak Hotel, special offers, directions, other Memphis attractions, group tour rates, and much more.
While at Graceland, you can enjoy shopping for Elvis gifts, dining in Memphis restaurants, and much more all in our Graceland Plaza area.
For the ultimate Elvis experience, you'll want to stay at Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel located across the street from Graceland. It features 24-hour-a-day Elvis movies, a deluxe continental breakfast, heart-shaped pool, and more."
The slave Dred Scott claimed that his residence in a free state transformed him into a free man. His lawsuit took many twists and turns before making its way to the Supreme Court in 1856. But when the Court ruled against him, the ruling sent shock waves through the nation and helped lead to civil war.
Writing for the 7-to-2 majority, Chief Justice Roger Taney asserted that blacks were not and never could be citizens. Taney also ruled that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional, upsetting the balance of slave and free states. Earl Maltz now offers a new look at this landmark case, presenting Dred Scott as a turning point in an already contentious national debate.
Maltz’s accessible account depicts Dred Scott as both a contributing factor to war and the result of a political climate that had grown so threatening to the South that overturning the Missouri Compromise was considered essential. As the nation continued its rapid expansion, Southerners became progressively more fearful of the free states’ growing political clout. In that light, the ruling from a Court filled with justices sympathetic to the Southern cause, though far from surprising helped light the long fuse that eventually exploded into Civil War.
Maltz offers an uncommonly balanced look at the case, taking Southern concerns seriously to cast new light on why proponents of slavery saw things as they did. He presents the arguments of all the parties impartially, tracks the sequence of increasingly strained compromises between pro- and anti-slavery forces, and demonstrates how political and sectional influences infiltrated the legal issues. He then traces the impact of the case on Northern and Southern public opinion, showing how a decision meant to resolve the question of slavery in the territories only aggravated sectional animosity.
By presenting a more nuanced picture of the pro-Southern justices on the Court, Maltz offers readers a better understanding of how they came to their opinions, even as they failed to anticipate the impact their decision would have—a miscalculation that to some degree undermined the Court’s power and authority within the American political system. Ultimately, as Maltz suggests, this is a story of judicial failure, one that remains a vital chapter in American law and one that must be mastered by anyone wishing to understand the peculiar nature of our national history.
The tropical storm Erin which was formed wednesday in the Mexico gulf, is now heading towards Texas. Under this situation, while taking all the precautions, the governor Rick Perry says "Because storms have saturated much of our state this summer, many communities in this storm's projected path are at high risk of dangerous flash flooding,".
"The area of disturbed weather in the central Gulf of Mexico has strengthened into Tropical Storm Erin. This morning, satellite images show thunderstorms increasing across the central Gulf and the cloud pattern becoming more symmetrical. Recent data from a NOAA Reconnaissance plane investigating the depression indicates the center of circulation is still fairly broad, but beginning to concentrate around a tight center. As a result, the system has been upgraded to minimal tropical storm status. Upper-level winds are favorable for additional strengthening later today and tonight. At 10:30 am, the ill-defined center was located near 25.6N/93.5W, or about 250 miles east of Brownsville. Maximum sustained winds are near 40 mph, with higher gusts. The depression is moving to the west-northwest near 12 mph and this general motion is expected to continue for the next 24 hours, as it is steered by a large upper-level ridge of high pressure, centered over the Tennessee Valley. The latest forecast track from the National Hurricane Center calls for the center of the storm to move inland around sunrise Thursday morning along the lower Texas coast, close to Port Mansfield, or just north of Brownsville. Maximum sustained winds at landfall are forecast to be around 50 mph. A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for the Texas coast, from Freeport southward."
TCUAT5 TROPICAL STORM ERIN TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL052007 1015 AM CDT WED AUG 15 2007 DATA FROM A NOAA RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT TROPICAL DEPRESSION FIVE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO HAS REACHED TROPICAL STORM STRENGTH AND IS NOW TROPICAL STORM ERIN. A SPECIAL ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED WITHIN THE HOUR.
Born to parents who were journalists. She was educated at St. Mary's Hall School for Girls, an independent boarding school in Brighton, East Sussex, England (1982-1986). She graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in London, England.
In Spring 2006, she was starring in the West End production of Honour at the Wyndham's Theatre alongside Diana Rigg and Martin Jarvis.
Her husband is the plastic surgeon Dr. Martin Hirigoyen Kelly (May 19, 1998 - present). They have two sons, Theo and Otis.
She has a brother Damon, who lives in Los Angeles, and two half brothers Alexander and Nicholas, who live in Stockholm.
Her films and shows
Bergerac (TV, aired 19 January 1991), Louise Calder A Breed of Heroes (1994, TV), Janet Cold Lazarus (1996), Angie (Third Hostess) Surviving Picasso (1996), Françoise Gilot Karaoke (1996), Angie (Third Hostess) The Devil's Own (1997), Megan Doherty Mrs. Dalloway (1997), Young Clarissa The Truman Show (1998), Lauren/Sylvia Ronin (1998), Deirdre Love's Labour's Lost (2000), Rosaline The Contaminated Man (2002), Holly Anderson Killing Me Softly (2002), Deborah Laurel Canyon (2002), Sara FeardotCom (2002), Terry Huston, Dept. of Health City of Ghosts (2002), Sophie Solaris (2002), Rheya The Other Boleyn Girl (2003 television movie), Mary Boleyn Ladies in Lavender (2004), Olga Revelations (2005 miniseries), Sister Josepha Montafiore Guy X (2005), Irene Teal Big Nothing (2006), Penelope Wood The Company (2007 miniseries), Elizabet Californication (2007
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Well-Known televangelist Juanita Bynum has been brutally assaulted by her estranged husband, preacher bishop Thomas W. Weeks, according to police. 
