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Driving in to
work on Friday, I saw a John McCain 2008 Bumper Sticker
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Let’s get to
the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
Let’s get to
the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
Manhattan, NEW YORK - Authorities have charged a man with
stealing a Salvador Dali painting from a Manhattan gallery – only to return it in
the mail.
The 29-year-old suspect, Phivos Istavrioglou of Greece,
called his own attempt "stupid", according to an account of a
confession contained in court papers.
He left fingerprints that helped authorities track him
down and was arrested for the theft of the work, called Cartel de Don Juan
Tenorio.
As soon as he had stolen the painting, he "was
scared and couldn't believe what a stupid thing he did," the papers say,
according to The Associated Press.
Prosecutors say Istavrioglou stole the painting in broad
daylight while visiting the Upper East Side gallery in June.
After pulling it off the wall, he stashed it in a
shopping bag and flew with it back to Athens, authorities said.
"It was almost surreal how this theft was committed
- a thief is accused of putting a valuable Salvador Dali drawing into a
shopping bag in the middle of the afternoon, in full view of surveillance
cameras," District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said.
News reports say the work is valued at approximately
$150,000.
After security video images of the man were widely
circulated, Istavrioglou panicked, rolled up the watercolor in a cardboard tube
and mailed it back to New York without a return address, prosecutors say.
After he was identified by police, investigator posing as
an art gallery owner tricked Istavrioglou into returning to New York by
offering him a possible position as an art consultant.
Federal agents intercepted Istavrioglou at John F.
Kennedy International Airport on Saturday.
He pleaded not guilty to grand larceny during a brief
court appearance in Manhattan where a judge set bail at $100,000.
Houston, TEXAS – A woman has given birth to two sets of
identical twin boys at the same time, a one-in-70-million chance experience.
Tressa Montalvo, 36, was not on any fertility drugs and
said that she and her husband Manuel were simply trying to have a little
brother or sister for their two-year-old son Memphis.
"We planned the pregnancy - I guess we just
succeeded a little too much," she said.
Mrs Montalvo gave birth to the four brothers at The
Woman’s Hospital of Texas, Houston, via caesarean section.
When Mrs Montalvo was 10 weeks pregnant, her doctor told
her she was having twins, and on a subsequent visit, the doctor detected a
third heartbeat.
Tressa Montalvos:
"We were blessed with four"
The Montalvos were later informed they were having four
babies, not quadruplets but two sets of twins.
The odds of delivering two sets of naturally occurring
identical twins is somewhere in the range of 1 in 70 million, according to the
hospital.
Two boys shared one placenta and the other boys shared
another placenta.
Ace and Blaine were born at 8.51am on February 14 and
weighed 3lbs 10oz, and 3lbs 15oz, respectively.
Cash and Dylan followed a minute later, weighing 2lbs
15oz, and 3lbs 6oz, respectively.
"We tried to stick to the A-B-C-D theme when naming
them," Mrs Montalvo said. "We didn't expect it, we were trying for
just one and we were blessed with four."
Mr Montalvo said that they would keep on trying for more
children because he still wants a girl.
Nanjing, CHINA - A full-size working replica of the
Titanic is to be built in China following an historic agreement between an
Australian entrepreneur and a Chinese shipyard who are poised to sign a deal.
Titanic II is due to be completed by 2016. She will then
be sailed to the UK and prepared for her maiden voyage from Southampton to New
York - a repeat of the 1912 journey which ended in disaster.
The Jinling Shipyard in Nanjing has already signed an
initial agreement to build the ship with billionaire mining tycoon Clive
Palmer.
The ship will be 270 metres long and 53 metres high with
nine floors and 840 rooms. It will accommodate 2,400 passengers and 900 crew
members.
The liner will be equipped with advanced technologies,
including the latest life-saving and communications systems to meet the
requirements of modern navigation.
Representatives of Mr Palmer said on Saturday that his
company had received inquiries from potential passengers around the world, with
some offering up to one million dollars for a chance to be on the maiden voyage
in 2016.
The original and 'unsinkable' Titanic set sail from
Southampton on April 15, 1912, bound for New York City. She hit an iceberg in
the Atlantic and sank, killing 1,523 passengers and crew.
The history of the voyage is well known in China because
of the popularity of the 1997 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
It was one of the first western films to be authorized for general release in
China and it remains one of the top three most popular films in China.
The decision by Mr Palmer to choose a Chinese company has
prompted skepticism from some about how achievable the project is and how safe
the end product will be.
I’m Craig,
and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
I’m Craig,
and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
Bring on the Whale
Band name of the week:
Barkhead
Best Picture:
Argo – 1 to 2
Lincoln – 9
to 5
Les
Misérables – 30 to 1
Silver
Linings Playbook – 35 to 1
Zero Dark
Thirty – 40 to 1
Amour – 75 to
1
Life of Pi –
100 to 1
Django
Unchained – 125 to 1
Beasts of the
Southern Wild - 250 to 1
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Who enjoys
the combine???
Who wants to
watch women beat each other up in MMA???
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