German boy trapped in bus after driver forgets him (Toronto Sun)
(An eight-year-old boy was inadvertently locked inside a school bus for more than 12 hours on a steamy hot day in the eastern German town of Cottbus after the driver forgot about him, German daily Bild reported on Friday. The boy got on the bus at his home in the morning but did not show up for school. After dropping the children off, the bus driver returned to the bus company’s transport lot but did not notice that the one young passenger was still on board.)
Bus-truck collision in China kills 17, injures 17 (Sacramento Bee)
(A Chinese news agency says a collision between a bus loaded with migrant workers and a truck has killed 17 people. Xinhua News Agency says 17 other people were injured in the crash early Sunday near Zhangjiakou, a city northwest of Beijing.)
New Ads on Portland Buses Will Encourage Critical Thinking About Israel (Salem News)
(Activists in Portland, Oregon say they are optimistic that a powerful new message on public transportation vehicles supporting equal Human Rights in the Israeli occupation of Palestine, will help citizens of Portland become informed and aware of the need for change in American policy with Israel. It is not a distant problem, in fact it is closer to home than it seems, according to Friends of Sabeel – North America.)
Dana Delaney asked for autograph after bus crash (Winnipeg Free Press)
(Dana Delaney was asked for her autograph by a bus driver seconds after she crashed into her. The former 'Desperate Housewives' star's car was struck by the public transport vehicle while driving in California just days before starting her new role on 'Body of Proof', but the over-enthusiastic driver seemed to forget she had just been hit by him when he got out to attend to her.)
Bus driver changed lives while navigating poor neighborhoods (Las Vegas Review Journal)
(The city bus rolled to a stop downtown and exhaled its morning passengers. The diesel-belching beast paused before resuming its morning run to allow a teenage girl to cross the street.For two years, the bus and the young woman arrived at the corner most mornings at approximately the same time. And each morning the driver smiled and waved -- and held up traffic to ensure the pedestrian's safety as she made her way to her job at the federal building.)
Overfilled Hollywood tour buses feel the weight of the law (LA Times)
(Los Angeles police say that some of the vehicles taking paying customers to celebrity-packed neighborhoods are too heavy for residential streets.)
Police Blotter: Bus Fans Made Caller Suspicious (Hillcrest Patch)
(A suspicious person was near the tennis courts on Wilson Mills Road at 11:18 a.m. Aug. 21 in a car that looked like a police car but wasn't. Police said the driver and another man said they were walking and taking pictures of buses because they are bus enthusiasts. Police advised them to leave.)
VMA WINNERS:
Video of the Year: Katy Perry – "Firework"
Best New Artist: Tyler, The Creator, "Yonkers"
Best Male Video: Justin Bieber, "U Smile"
Best Female Video: Lady Gaga, "Born This Way"
Best Hip-Hop Video: Nicki Minaj, "Super Bass"
Best Pop Video: Britney Spears, "Till The World Ends"
Best Rock Video: Foo Fighters, "Walk"
Best Collaboration: Katy Perry feat. Kanye West, "E.T."
Best Video With a Message: Lady Gaga, "Born This Way"
Best Choreography: Beyonce, "Run The World (Girls)"
Best Editing: Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
Best Special Effects: Katy Perry feat. Kanye West, "E.T."
Best Cinematography: Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
Best Art Direction: Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
Best Direction: Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
‘The Help’ Tops Box Office for Second Weekend (Bloomberg)
(The civil rights-era drama “The Help” remained No. 1 for a second weekend in U.S. and Canadian theaters, taking in $14.3 million for Walt Disney Co. (DIS) and Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios SKG.)
George Lucas' daughter tries to star in martial-arts wars (CNET)
(Who needs a lightsaber when you can kick, punch, and twist the living daylights out of your enemy? This seems to be the charming ethos of Mixed Martial Arts. It is one that is being espoused by "Star Wars" creator George Lucas' daughter, Amanda. I am grateful to the hard-working informants at Yahoo Sports, who have mined the depths of their metier to bring me news of Amanda "Powerhouse" Lucas' latest attempt to skywalk in the world of MMA.)
Care home staff placed bets on patient's death (The Local)
(Three workers at a nursing home in Växjö in south central Sweden have been sacked after they were discovered to have placed bets on when one of the patients would die.)
Twelve-Year-Old's Green Tea Stand Shut Down in Massachusetts (Forbes)
(Well it’s not exactly lemonade but it’ll do. Christopher Carr’s twelve-year-old stepson had set up a smoothie and green-tea stand near their house when they moved back to the States after the earthquake in Japan. After they’d set up shop, Christopher took his daughter back inside to get some lunch, leaving his son to manage things at the stand.)
Vampire-themed cruise planned for Southeast Alaska (ABC News)
(A week-long vampire convention on a cruise ship that will feature a vampire ball and costume contest is planned for scenic Southeast Alaska next summer. Holland America’s cruise ship Zuiderdam will be the setting for the event scheduled for late June.)
UFO Sightings Increase 67 Percent In 3 Years (Huffington Post)
Unemployment, gas prices, and fear over global warming aren't the only things skyrocketing -- so are mysterious objects rocketing through the sky. The Mutual UFO Network -- the largest privately funded UFO research organization in the world -- tells The Huffington Post that more people than ever are reporting unidentified flying objects, mostly in the United States and Canada.)
The mystery of Mopey Dick: Why is whale lethargic? (AP)
(Is a killer whale in northwest Washington's San Juan Islands behaving lethargically because she was hit by a boat — or is she just pregnant? National Marine Fisheries Service spokesman Brian Gorman said his agency was investigating a report that the whale had been hit by a private boat Friday.)
Pair Arrested For ‘Lack Of Common Sense’(CBS Philly)
(Row, row, row your boat, just not down Main Street in Manayunk. That’s the message police are sending after arresting two men who used a raft as an alternate means of transportation down a flooded street Sunday morning. CBS 3 reporter Dray Clark caught up with Pete and Pat, best friends and roommates from Manayunk, who paddled their way down the water covered street. )
Costco can't move "I slipped on a slurpee" lawsuit (AP)
(A 74-year-old woman who said she was injured after falling in a Costco store in Florida beat back the retailer's effort to move the case to that state because it was too much trouble to defend itself in New York. Theresa Danza sued Costco in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, claiming she was hospitalized for spinal and shoulder trauma and needed months of treatment by a chiropractor after a tumble in a Costco in North Miami, Florida, on Jan. 24, 2009.)
Angler fishes out Minnesota woman's prosthetic leg (Eagle Herald)
(A woman who lost her prosthetic leg while swimming in a western Minnesota lake three years ago has been reunited with the limb thanks to an angler. Beth Krohn was fishing last month on Lake Ida in Alexandria. She says her line kept snagging on something, and that she hoped it wasn't a dead body.)
Racist Goes Berserk at South-County Mall -- Attacks Group with Pickaxe (Riverfront Times)
(Daily RFT just got off the phone with Lieutenant Karl Bulla with the St. Louis County police department. Bulla was one of the officers responding to the scene Tuesday night involving a racist man chasing teens with a pickaxe and attempting to run over them with his pickup truck.)
(I’ve followed Kevin Smith’s career since I was old enough to sneak into Dogma, and I fell out of love with him at about the same as everyone else: the one-two punch of the solipsistic Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back and the maudlin, ill-timed Jersey Girl. What’s funny is how much the rest of Hollywood caught up with Kevin Smith. Even before the raunchy-sweet dude humor of Judd Apatow’s productions took over where Smith’s films left off, Star Wars and Marvel Comics superheroes reemerged in their own ways to national attention and suddenly Smith’s fixations on such nerd culture became a lot less special.)
My Favorite Mistake: Kevin Smith (Daily Beast)
(I tried to get on a Southwest Airlines flight last year, and it didn’t go too well. I had just done a podcast for the International Bear Rendezvous, which was a big gay get-together for dudes who look like me. It was a fantastic feeling because I was in a room with people who for the first time were sexualizing me. I boarded the plane, and the stewardess showed me to the only available seat on this flight. It was between two petite women. Then a lady from the front desk told me to get off because there were "safety issues." And I said, "Ma’am, please don’t make me leave this plane because you’re saying I’m too fat." After I left, I tweeted about what happened. My mistake was thinking the story was going to be that I caught a lousy corporation that f--ks with people. But instead the story became "fat guy in a little chair.")
Kevin Smith’s ‘Hit Somebody’ Update: First Film Scripted, Both Films Titled (Slash Film)
(Kevin Smith took to Twitter Friday morning to update his fans on his next and final film, Hit Somebody. Smith recently announced that the hockey film would be released in two parts, ala Kill Bill, and as of today the first script is done and he’s moved on to part two. He’ll call part one Hit Somebody: Home and the second part Hit Somebody: Away referring to the fact that the first film will see the main character Buddy, played by Nicholas Braun, growing up and the second will see him playing pro hockey. Smith’s also aiming for the first part to be rated PG-13 and the second part R. Yes, another PG-13 Kevin Smith movie. There’s more after the jump.I’ve followed Kevin Smith’s career since I was old enough to sneak into Dogma, and I fell out of love with him at about the same as everyone else: the one-two punch of the solipsistic Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back and the maudlin, ill-timed Jersey Girl. What’s funny is how much the rest of Hollywood caught up with Kevin Smith. Even before the raunchy-sweet dude humor of Judd Apatow’s productions took over where Smith’s films left off, Star Wars and Marvel Comics superheroes reemerged in their own ways to national attention and suddenly Smith’s fixations on such nerd culture became a lot less special.)
(Christopher Nolan's take on the Batman franchise has had a good run. Batman Begins set a solid stage, The Dark Knight was probably the best comic book film ever made, and most signs point to The Dark Knight Rises being even more epic. The series has also made a pretty hefty amount of cash by riding the Batman train, so why would they hop off after only three stops? It's not like movie studios to stop printing free money. Still, I am certain that The Dark Knight Rises will feature the death of Batman, and I will stake my nonexistant reputation as a ScreenOlogist on it. )
Man comes to aid of struggling cop: 'It was like something out of Batman' (Chicago Tribune)
(Tom Lashinski was walking his mother's small dog in the North Center neighborhood early Sunday when he noticed two people scuffling in an alley. "It was like something out of Batman ... with Batman jumping into someone and people rolling around and getting up and going back at it.")
Batman returns to the Brecon Beacons (Wales Online)
(WALES has been revealed as the home of the Batcave, after moviemakers were spotted filming parts of the next blockbuster instalment here. Not content with West Walian Christian Bale playing the title role, the superhero franchise’s Welsh credentials have been further boosted by a Brecon Beacons waterfall doubling for the famous cavern.)
Review: Batman Live, The O2 (Wharf UK)
(It takes a while for Batman to hit the stage, fully clad in contoured and menacing black. Too long if you're an seven-year-old boy dressed in similar attire, waving your merchandise in the air and shouting his name.But when he arrives, spiralling out the sky to curtail an avaricious Catwoman, he delivers: blows, kicks, thumps, straight-faced messages of doom, redemption and bags of style.)
Batman Arkham City Impressions & Details (Platform Nation)
(Yesterday, I got a chance to get some hands on time and questions answered about WB’s highly anticipated title, Batman: Arkham City. This was my favorite title that WB had to show here at PAX, followed closely by Lollipop Chainsaw. It’s likely that you already know a fair amount about the game already, so I won’t waste your time with the basic run down. There isn’t a lot that has changed visually in the game since Arkham Asylum (but as the saying goes: if it ain't broke, don’t fix it), however there are some nice changes and additions to the gameplay.)
Tom Hardy Talks about Playing Bane in ‘Dark Knight Rises’ (IB Times)
(Tom Hardy speaks out on playing the role of "Bane" for "Dark Knight Rises". Total Film got a chance to interview Tom Hardy about his role in Christopher Nolan's latest film. Is he happy playing the muscle bound, mask-wearing villain?)
"Batman" Producer Ordered to Pay $3M in Sex Case (NBC LA)
(Movie producer Jon Peters was found guilty of sexually harassing a former personal assistant. The producer behind "Batman" and "The Color Purple" was ordered to pay Shelly Morita more than $3 million, Reuters reported Friday.)
Batfest celebrates Austin's famed bridge-dwellers (YNN)
(t's a scene as unique to Austin as it gets. For nearly 25 years, crowds have gathered on the Ann Richards Bridge to watch more than one million bats wake up and from beneath the bridge in search of food. Batfest: Night of the Bat celebrates this Austin tradition. "We have local vendors of Arts and Crafts food and musicians out here with the bats, it's kind of everything Austin is about all in one location," French Smith with Night of the Bat said.)
(They squeal, they scream, they burble and burp -- and according to popular culture (not to mention various episodes of "30 Rock" and "Sex and the City"), nearly every American female over the age of 30 is ga-ga to get their hands on one of them.)
Neanderthal sex boosted immunity in modern humans (CNN)
(Sexual relations between ancient humans and their evolutionary cousins are critical for our modern immune systems, researchers report in Science journal. Mating with Neanderthals and another ancient group called Denisovans introduced genes that help us cope with viruses to this day, they conclude. )
First Glimpse Into Birth of the Milky Way (Science Daily)
(For almost 20 years astrophysicists have been trying to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way realistically. Now astrophysicists from the University of Zurich present the world's first realistic simulation of the formation of our home galaxy together with astronomers from the University of California at Santa Cruz. The new results were partly calculated on the computer of the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) and show, for instance, that there has to be stars on the outer edge of the Milky Way.)
Female chickens have the weirdest birth control method ever (io9)
(Female chickens are among the most promiscuous members of the animal kingdom, with wild and domestic fowl alike tending to mate with way more males than necessary to fertilize their eggs. But just because they get around doesn't mean these hens aren't selective about who they choose to reproduce with. In fact, recent research shows that female chickens actually practice a pretty reliable method of birth control — but how they do it is as bizarre as it is graphic. )
Eyeborg: Man Films Through His Missing Eye (Sky News)
(A film-maker who lost his eye during a shooting accident as a child has turned his prosthetic one into a video camera.)
Apple working on a TV set for 2012? (CNET)
(The latest Apple TV rumor may seem like a rerun, but this one has been updated. The latest iteration of the longstanding rumor is that Apple will get in to the business of selling TVs by building a digital TV based on iOS. That's according to multiple Silicon Valley sources cited by Venture Beat. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told Venture Beat that he predicted Apple would produce a TV set by the end of 2012 or early 2013.)
Can fish oil help curb the epidemic of military suicides? (Time)
(That's the startling finding in a new study just published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. It links suicides by military personnel to low level of docosahexaenoic acid -- found in fish oil -- and finds that troops with higher levels of DHA in their blood were less likely to take their own lives.)
Is Lady Gaga More Powerful Than Oprah? (Time)
(Don't blame the Lady for her fame, Oprah. After all, she was just born this way. This week, Forbes released its annual World's Most Powerful Women list, which ranks the women of the world in terms of money, media presence and overall impact.)
Merriam-Webster Dictionary Adds 'Tweet' and 'Bromance' to Latest Edition (Time)
(The editors of the Merriam-Webster dictionary would like you to know that "cougar" doesn't just refer to an animal. It can also invoke a "middle-aged woman seeking a romantic relationship with a younger man.")
U.K. Man Arrested for Attempted Murder in Riots (Time)
(Police on Sunday arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder of two Metropolitan Police officers during the height of the London riots earlier in August. The suspect, who has not been named, is suspected of taking part in the early morning attack that left two policemen hospitalized with knee, leg and shoulder injuries.)
Super typhoon leaves at least 13 dead (The Age)
(Super-typhoon Nanmadol left at least 13 people dead after hitting the Philippines, and the toll is expected to rise as hopes of finding those missing fade, the civil defence chief said today. More than 61,000 people are still evacuated from their homes after Nanmadol, the strongest storm to hit the country this year, lashed the northern edge of the main island of Luzon on the weekend, causing landslides and floods.)
Soldier kills four, found dead in Pennsylvania (Reuters)
(Pennsylvania authorities hunting for a U.S. soldier accused of killing four people and opening fire on police officers have found the man's body after he apparently took his own life, police said on Sunday. Police and prosecutors said the body they believed to be of Army Capt. Leonard John Egland, 37, of Fort Lee, Virginia, was found behind a vacant business at a major intersection of Warwick Township.)
U.S. accuses Syrian regime of 'targeted' attack on popular cartoonist (CNN)
(The U.S. State Department got personal in its complaints against the Syrian government Thursday, accusing it of a "targeted, brutal attack" on a popular Syrian political cartoonist, Ali Farzat. Shortly after a cartoon by Farzat depicting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hitching a ride with outgoing Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi began circulating in Syria, Farzat was reportedly kidnapped by masked men, beaten and thrown unconscious from a van onto a road in Damascus.)
Tropical Storm Irene: Flood Worries And Some Relief In Irene's Wake (Huffington Post)
(Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power – but an unfazed New York and relief that it was nothing like the nightmare authorities feared. Slowly, the East Coast surveyed the damage – up to $7 billion by one private estimate. The center of Irene crossed into Canada late Sunday, but for many the danger had not passed.)
For Virginia town at epicenter of earthquake, near miss by Irene is proof they’re not cursed (Washington Post)
(Staring out at her shell-shocked congregation Sunday, the Rev. Marian Windel felt the need to reassure her flock that God was not “mad at us in any way.” “For us, this past week has been trying at the least,” the Episcopal minister said, her clear voice echoing off the high-pitched ceiling of the Church of the Incarnation, Mineral’s oldest house of worship. “There was little, if anything, that we could have done to prepare for the earthquake. And who would have thought it would be followed by a hurricane?”)
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