- Rumor has it, Ron Ryan is Paul’s porn name:
Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with “a mild case of pneumonia,” his office announced Tuesday.
In the end, after frantic action by the dam's keepers, catastrophe was averted. But an Associated Press examination of state and federal documents, emails obtained under public records requests and numerous interviews reveal a sequence of questionable decisions and missteps, some of them made years ago, some of them in the middle of the crisis.
Among other things, the dam's federal and state overseers overestimated the durability of the two spillways. And in public statements during the emergency, they failed to acknowledge — or perhaps recognize — that while they were busy dealing with one crisis, they were creating a possible new one.
During the darkest hours of the emergency, the fear was that if the hillside collapsed, "it was not whether people would die, but how many would die," Honea recalled.
He was electric in the big leagues — Rod Carew was a seven-time American League batting champ and earned 18 All-Star selections. [...]
Carew got a second chance at life in December when he got a heart transplant from another professional athlete: Konrad Reuland, a former NFL tight end who suffered a fatal brain aneurysm two days after Thanksgiving, and who in his final days also said he had more work to do.
- A sad end to a once promising life:
Convicted murderer and former NFL star Aaron Hernandez was found hanged in his Massachusetts prison cell Wednesday morning, officials said, just days after he was acquitted in a separate murder case.
One of the most lavishly funded gadget startups in Silicon Valley last year was Juicero Inc. It makes a juice machine.
Doug Evans, the company’s founder, would compare himself with Steve Jobs in his pursuit of juicing perfection ... backers poured about $120 million into the startup. Juicero sells the machine for $400, plus the cost of individual juice packs … [...]
But after the product hit the market, some investors were surprised to discover a much cheaper alternative: You can squeeze the Juicero bags with your bare hands. [...]
Juicero declined to comment.
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