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Thursday, May 7, 2015

DUI arrests during Cinco de Mayo down from 2014

Octavio Grado, 28, is being held on suspicion of colliding with oncoming traffic on Sunday, May 3, 2015, in Phoenix, killing two and paralyzing a 4-year-old girl, according to court documents.(Photo: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)

Statistics released by the Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety showed that authorities made fewer DUI arrests in a targeted effort this past Cinco de Mayo weekend than they did last year.

More than 2,000 officers and deputies participated in the statewide driving under the influence task force that began Friday and ended early Wednesday morning.

Authorities made 460 DUI arrests during this year's effort, compared with 531 made during the same period in 2014. Of the statewide arrests, 156 were on suspicion of extreme DUI, meaning the driver was suspected of having a blood-alcohol content of 0.15 percent or greater, according to a statement.

One of those arrests involved Octavio Grado, 28, who crashed his truck Sunday night into oncoming traffic in Phoenix, killing a mother and father and paralyzing their 4-year-old girl, according to police and court documents.

Grado's DUI arrest fell into the extreme category, with a blood-alcohol content of 0.24 percent, court documents showed. The average blood-alcohol content of people arrested during the DUI enforcement was 0.16 percent, the office statement said.

The little girl whose spine was severed in the wreck remained in critical condition on Wednesday, according to Sgt. Trent Crump, a Phoenix police spokesman. A family friend also suffered serious injuries in the crash, Crump said.

Police said Grado had been traveling at an "excessive speed" prior to the collision. Officers working the DUI enforcement issued 194 tickets for excessive speeding, vs. 112 last year. A person driving 20 mph above the posted speed limit in a business or residential area, for example, can be ticketed for excessive speeding.

Grado is being held in a Maricopa County jail on suspicion of second-degree murder and aggravated assault. A judge set his bond at $750,000.

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Chris Brown's Daughter Loves Dancing Just As Much As He Does � See Videos

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OMG! Chris Browns baby girl, Royalty, is just too cute for words. In an adorable new video, the tiny tot shows off some serious dance skills, moving and grooving in her diaper. You just have to see this!

Like father, like daughter! We all know Chris Brown, 26, can kill it on the dance floor, and now it looks like his 10-month-old baby, Royalty, is following in daddys footsteps. Aww! She definitely knows how to bust a move just like the Loyal singer. Check out the precious new clip!

Royalty Dancing Chris Browns Daughter Shows Off Adorable Dance Moves

In a video posted to Chris baby mama,Nia Guzman-Ameys, Instagram page on May 6, Royalty is seen working it just like her talented dad. Check it out for yourself and try not to smile. We dare you!

Cuteness overload, right?! Royalty shows she not only has rhythm, but that she also has impeccable taste in music as she moves along to our favorite nursery rhyme, HushLittle Baby. Such a good choice, girl!

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Once Chris gets Royalty to come live with him full-time in LA, theyll be able to have father-daughterdance parties (that we secretly wish we could attend)!

Chris Brown Falls While Dancing At His Las Vegas Birthday Party

Dancing is obviously a huge part of who Chris is. As we can see, his talents even run in his daughters blood. But sometimes his passion gets the best of him. Evidence? He became so invested during a May 5 performance at his 26th birthday party, that he fell off the stage. Take a look!

Poor Chris! We hope he wasnt hurt. Maybe Royalty could lend him some dance tips next time!

HollywoodLifers let us know what YOU think about Royalty taking after her daddy in the dance department!

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Source: http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/05/06/royalty-dancing-chris-brown-daughter-dance-video-instagram/

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Karen O sings journalist Nellie Bly's praises in Google Doodle song

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Tuesday's Google doodle pays tribute to journalist Nellie Bly on her 151st birthday
Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O wrote a song to go with the animated doodle

"Oh, Nellie, take us all around the world and break those rules 'cause you're our girl," the song goes.

If you listen closely, you might recognize the voice of Karen O, lead singer of Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

The indie rocker, whose real name is Karen Lee Orzolek, penned "Oh, Nellie" to go with the doodle of Bly, who was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864.

It's the first original song to be written for the delightful illustrations that appear on Google's homepage.

The song formed the basis of Google artist Katy Wu's doodle, which is also the first to feature stop-motion animation. The musical animation pays homage to Bly's extraordinary life as a pioneering journalist and adventurer in an era when little more was expected of women than child rearing and housekeeping, Wu said.

As Wu sees it, Bly and Orzolek have plenty in common even if they were born more than a century apart. They're bold, edgy and daring, unafraid to challenge conventional ideas of what a woman should be or do.

"If you see her onstage, she's daring in her own way," Wu said of Orzolek. "She doesn't conform; she does what she wants."

Compare that with Bly, who got her first job with the Pittsburgh Dispatch by penning an impassioned condemnation of its most popular columnist. In the column titled "What Girls Are Good For," Erasmus Wilson wrote that women belonged in the home doing domestic tasks and called the working woman "a monstrosity."

The first line in the Karen O's song evokes the column: "Someone's got to stand up and tell them what a girl is good for."

Cochran's letter impressed the paper's editors, and they hired her. She started writing under the pen name "Nellie Bly."

She eventually talked her way into the offices of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and took on an assignment that would change her life. She spent 10 days posing as a mental patient in New York's notorious Blackwell's Island and returned with stories of cruel beatings, ice cold baths and forced meals.

Her reporting led to reforms of the system and set the tone for her career. She exposed corruption and the injustices of poverty by telling stories of the disenfranchised, the poor and women. When she covered the Chicago Pullman Railroad strike in 1894, she was the only reporter to share the strikers' perspective.

As the song goes, "We've got to speak up for the ones who've been told to shut up."

She reached the height of her fame when she took a whirlwind trip around the world in 1889 to beat Phileas Fogg, the fictional hero of Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days." She returned to New York in 72 days, beating Fogg's record of 80 days.

All those moments figure in the doodle, which took Wu about two months to create in a sort of labor of love. She hopes Bly inspires others to question authority and challenge expectations.

"She gave women a space in newspapers when they were generally preserved for men's perspectives," Wu said. "She gave women a voice in current events and media and dared to do a lot of things that women weren't generally allowed to do."

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/05/living/feat-google-doodle-nellie-bly-karen-o/

Nielsens: NFL Draft, 'Secrets and Lies'

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ABC's "Secrets and Lies" wrapped with a series-high 6.5 million same-day viewers Sunday.(Photo: ABC)

Draft day. ESPN's opening-round NFL Draft coverage Thursday drew 7 million viewers, tops on cable for the week. And 16 million saw American Pharoah win NBC's Kentucky Derby Saturday, up a bit from last year's 15.3 million.

Exits. ABC's Secrets and Lies wrapped with a series-high 6.5 million same-day viewers Sunday, while Fox's Backstrom ended Thursday with a series-low 2.8 million and NBC's One Big Happy wasn't, with 3.1 million Tuesday. CBS aired finales for Blue Bloods (11.3 million viewers Friday), Madam Secretary (9.7 million Sunday) and Mom (8.8 million Thursday).

Shark bait. ABC Shark Tank spin-off Beyond the Tank opened with 6.4 million viewers Friday, behind Shark's 7.1 million lead-in. Showtime's Penny Dreadful returned Sunday with 575,000.

Top 10 on Demand (April 2015)

1. The Last Man on Earth (Fox)

2. The Big Bang Theory (CBS)

3. Outlander (Starz)

4. Empire (Fox)

5. Game of Thrones (HBO)

6. Scandal (ABC)

7. Teen Mom (MTV)

8. Dancing with the Stars (ABC)

9. Fresh Off the Boat (ABC)

10. Vikings (History)

Based on cumulative views of current-season TV episodes in homes served by Comcast's Xfinity service, the country's largest cable provider. Source: Comcast.

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Blackhawks' dark ages should remind us to soak in team's success

Do you remember the bad days?

And I dont mean times when the Blackhawks might have gotten ousted, say, in the second round of the playoffs, which still could happen in this series against the Minnesota Wild.

No, I mean bad days.

Like anywhere from about 1997 to 2008, a stretch when the Hawks made the playoffs once (2002) and were promptly squashed, four games to one by the St. Louis Blues.

That was a period when you wouldnt find the Hawks home games on TV, and sometimes if you attended, you wouldnt find anybody seated next to you.

As recently as the spring of 2007, the Hawks had games with 7,000 people in the nearly 21,000-seat United Center. Some secondary-market tickets went, basically, for the fees needed to process the request. For 10 bucks, you could get in. For nothing, you stood a good chance of snagging one of the Hawks desperation giveaways. On one Sunday afternoon, the minor-league Wolves outdrew the Hawks.

I could go on.

But just to cement the point, I give you two more examples of bad years.

In 2004, Sports Illustrated ran an article with the headline BLACKHAWKS DOWN, with the sub-head, Bad Management Has Made a Once-Beloved NHL Franchise Irrelevant in Chicago. (Hello, Bill Wirtz!)

Also that year, ESPN called the Hawks the worst franchise in professional sports. The Wolves, an AHL team, were one rung above the Blackhawks, according to ESPN the Magazine.

I cant help it, heres one more this regarding how faceless the players on those horrible teams had become: In the fall of 2007, while jogging near the ice rink in Bensenville wearing Blackhawks gear, forward Tuomo Ruutu was detained by police as a potential armed robber.

OK, were past that.

The passing of owner Wirtz almost eight years ago changed everything. No need to explain what those changes entailed they have been documented many times but as president John McDonough has said when asked if he felt like he was starting from scratch when he was hired by Rocky Wirtz to rebuild this downtrodden franchise, I think in many ways we started before scratch.

The Hawks might not win the Stanley Cup this year, but they could.

And if they were to do that, it would mean three championships in six years, plus a run to the conference final.

There are four certifiable Hall of Famers on this team: Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Duncan Keith and Marian Hossa. With one more Cup, somebody such as Patrick Sharp might have to be considered a Hall contender, too, especially if he lights it up the rest of the way.

Mr. Mustache, coach Joel Quenneville, is practically guaranteed a spot.

I guess my point here is, Chicago hockey fans, enjoy what you have and cherish it.

It wasnt always here, and it wont be here forever. The salary cap makes it much harder to build a dynasty than it used to be, back when old boss Wirtz and his first lieutenant, Bob Old-time Hockey Pulford, could have done it but didnt.

Before labor unrest and lockouts and settlements, an owner could have simply outspent other teams for whatever players or management he wanted.

Now you have to be crafty and smart and relentless, as well as rich, to assemble a team like the Blackhawks.

Its not too much to say the NHL has benefitted even more than Chicago fans have from the rebirth of this team. To have an Original Six team, one of only four in the United States, be so wretched that mid-game you could fly paper airplanes from the 300 level and hear nothing but their wings in the dead air, thats a bad year. Or decade.

Sometimes we dont appreciate a good thing until its gone.

Dont do that with these Hawks. Rejoice when the league doesnt start a playoff game at the ludicrous time of 8:30 p.m. And be happy when you see a young guy like Teuvo Teravainen score a game-winning goal (see Game 1).

Remember how we thought it was a done deal that Tiger Woods (14) would get more wins in majors than Jack Nicklaus (18), long in the clubhouse?

We took it for granted. Then life intruded, and its not gonna happen.

Every now and then, its good to appreciate a good thing before its gone. No matter where its headed.

Email: rtelander@suntimes.comTwitter: @ricktelander

Source: http://chicago.suntimes.com/blackhawks-hockey/7/71/580861/blackhawks-dark-ages-remind-us-soak-teams-success

Carly Fiorina Charms In Late Night Television Debut

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Carly Fiorina appears to be pretty talented at this whole being a politician thing.

The former Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2016 presidential contender made herfirst appearanceon a network late night television show Wednesday morningand performed spectacularly, engaging in witty banter and charming host Seth Meyers.

Everything about me is different, Fiorina said on NBCs Late Night while trying to distinguish herself from the other 2016 Republican contenders. For one, Im on your show, she quipped.

My experience set isdifferent, she continued. Im not a professional politician. Ive done different things. I run charities, I run businesses, I started as a secretary.

By the way, I look a little different, too, she joked.

Fiorina also took shots at presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

I started with Hillary in that video because I think, honestly, there is a professional political class in this party, she said. There are Republicans who are in it and there are Democrats who is are in it. But Hillary Clinton is kind of the personification of a professional political class. Doesnt mean shes a bad person, its just shes been in politics all her life and a lot of people are tired of that.

Defending her lack of political experience, Fiorina said she didnt know when we got used to this idea that we needed a professional political class.

Ours was intended to be a citizen government by, for and of the people, she said, before joking: So honestly if people think Jon Stewart could run for president, I guess maybe I could to.

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Source: http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/06/carly-fiorina-charms-in-late-night-television-debut/

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

VIDEO: Forget high school, watch Stephen Curry take on his Dad as an eighth ...

High school highlights of superstar athletes have become en vogue. Whenever someone wins an award, some website (occasionally this one) will trot out their high school mixtape to showcase what they were like as a high school senior. Heres a hint: Typically they completely overwhelmed their opponents. Not a big surprise.

So, why go down this road? Were raising this as a caveat to the video you see above, which are youthful highlights of new NBA MVP Stephen Curry, with a strong emphasis on youthful.

Those arent Stephen Currys high school highlights (if you want to see those, click here). Those are Stephs middle school highlights, when he was a truly undersized point guard at the Toronto-area school Queensway Christian College. Well, the video isnt so much season-long highlights as it the better points from an exhibition game in which Currys undefeated Queensway Christian College team took on a team helmed by his father, then-NBA sharpshooter Dell Curry.

According to a profile on Currys time in the country by the Toronto Star, his skills as a middle schooler were as self-evident as they are today. Perhaps even more so.

He was this tiny little guy, but when we put him on the court he was just unbelievable. He was scoring 40 points, 50 points a game, no problem, James Lackey, the history teacher who coached the Queensway Christian College teamin 2001-02, told the Star. No one even came close to us that year.

Want more proof of his middle school dominance? Check out this story, again from Lackey:

Looking back on that season, the big moment that sticks out for Field and Lackey is the final game of a tournament at Mentor College, a private school in Mississauga. The Saints were down by eight points with about a minute left in the championship game, an undefeated season on the line against Hillcrest Jr. Public School.

Huddled on the sidelines with his players, Lackey was exasperated. I tell them: Guys, I think were going to lose. I am out of ideas. I have nothing left to give you on how to beat these guys.

Then Curry piped up. Give me the ball.

Coach goes, All right, (teammate Casey) Field recalled, just give him the ball.

Next thing you know, Curry hits a three, gets a steal, hits another three, Field hits a three, Curry hits another three. Ive never seen anything like it, Lackey said. We ended up winning the game. It was a 13-point swing-around and it was entirely because of him.

If the Warriors follow the same path on the NBA level this year, there will be little question who got them there, either.

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Source: http://usatodayhss.com/2015/video-forget-high-school-watch-stephen-curry-take-on-his-dad-as-an-eighth-grader