Police: suspect found with loaded gun, extra ammunition and four knives
An Ohio man was arrested Saturday night after he brought a loaded handgun, ammunition and knives into a showing of The Dark Knight Rises at a movie theater in Westlake, Fox 8 in Cleveland reports.
Scott Smith, 37, of nearby North Ridgeville, was charged with six counts of violating Ohio's concealed-carry gun laws, said Westlake police Lt. Ray Arcuri. A manager and security guard at the theater noticed Smith acting oddly and asked to see what was inside the backpack he was carrying.
MOSCOW — A Russian booster rocket carrying two telecommunications satellites malfunctioned during a launching early Tuesday, failing to deliver the satellites into their proper orbit and rendering them useless and unsalvageable.
The mishap was another blow to Russia’s space program, which has been plagued by malfunctions, crashes and failed launchings. The failure was particularly glaring because it came just hours after NASA’s successful landing of a research probe on Mars.
A small tax on each transaction will stop pointless yet risky high-frequency trading.
From Terminator to the Matrix, our fear that humanity may be supplanted by the machines we create has helped Hollywood make mega-bucks. But while Arnie’s cyborg killing machine and the Neo’s alternative reality remain firmly in the realms of science fiction, our financial sector’s love of a fast buck is leading us to cede control of markets to computers with sometimes disastrous consequences.
The extent to which financial markets are now dominated by computer-driven high frequency trading was revealed again last week, when Knight Capital, a leading New York trading firm made a mistake in its computer programming. The rogue programme swamped the stock market with errant trades, cost the firm $440 million and put the future of the firm in jeopardy.
ABC News is reporting that the psychiatrist who treated James Holmes, the suspected shooter in the Aurora movie theater shooting last month, reached out to police at the University of Colorado to voice her concerns about Holmes’ behavior several weeks before the shooting.
Sources close to Dr. Lynne Fenton could not say what university police did with the information she gave them, but according to Colorado law, a psychiatrist is only able to breach doctor-patient confidentiality if they believe there is a “serious and imminent threat that their patient might cause harm to others.”
Keith Olbermann hosted the sole political talk show airing on Current TV when David Bohrman took over as network president last August.
Now close to a year later, Olbermann is long gone, but Bohrman (pictured below) has transformed Current into a full-time news network built around Olbermann-like hosts -- brash, intelligent and liberal.
Though the network remains ratings-challenged, especially as compared to the triumvirate of cable news heavyweights (Fox News, MSNBC and CNN), Current now airs original politics-centric programming nine hours of the day. By the start of September it will be 10, and this fall it will hit 11.
Its diverse troupe of hosts includes comedian John Fugelsang, former politicians like Eliot Spitzer and Jennifer Granholm (both Democrats), new media figure Cenk Uygur and longtime TV/radio personalities Joy Behar, Bill Press and Stephanie Miller.
Yet one thing ties most of them together -- personality.
Theories about Romney's tax strategy tend to focus on offshore investment vehicles and secretive accounts, but basic investing and accounting scenarios could easily explain a low tax bill. The clue comes in Schedule D of his 2010 return, in which he claimed a $4.8 million loss carried over from prior years. That helped reduce his tax bill for 2010, in which he paid $3 million in taxes on $21.7 million of income, for an effective tax rate of 13.9 percent.
The carryover means that Romney probably claimed a much bigger loss a year or two earlier, which could easily have pushed his tax rate for 2008 or 2009 down to the low single digits. Most investors lost money in 2008, the year that Lehman Brothers collapsed and the S&P 500 stock index fell by 37 percent. Romney was probably no different.
If you’re looking to me for any sort of guidance on how this is possible, stop now. But if you want to see a kid getting his Power Wheels modded into a .66 HP borderline beast of a machine, check out this awesome dad’s Power Wheels mod.
Sarah Palin's Wikipedia page was updated at least 68 times the day before John McCain announced her selection, with another 54 changes made in the five previous days previous. Tim Pawlenty, another leading contender for McCain's favor, had 54 edits on August 28th, with just 12 in the five previous days. By contrast, the other likely picks — Romney, Kay Bailey Hutchison — saw far fewer changes. The same burst of last-minute editing appeared on Joe Biden's Wikipedia page, Terry Gudaitis of Cyveillance, told the Washington Post.
Crack journalism is coming to the land of cat and Justin Bieber videos: YouTube is helping to launch a new channel with the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR). The new “I Files” channel will curate videos from sources such as The New York Times and Al Jazeera, in a attempt to bring some much needed attention to the fledgling investigative journalism space and bolster YouTube’s multi-million dollar foray into professional content. An $800,000 grant from the Knight foundation is seeding the channel, which will share revenue with its content partners.
The shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., is the day’s worst example of hateful violence — but it is not, sadly, the only one. Early Monday morning, someone set fire to the Islamic Society of Joplin during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan. The mosque couldn’t be saved, so now there are 50 Muslim families in Joplin, Mo. — the same town devastated by a tornado last May — without a place to worship.
The destruction follows earlier fires, including one on July 4, when someone threw a flaming object onto the mosque’s roof. If it was an attempt at arson, it wasn’t a very good one. There wasn’t much damage, though the miscreant managed to be captured in a security video, and the FBI offered a reward for information on the arson.
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