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Saturday, June 16, 2012
Father's Day: A Pop-Culture Gift Guide
To help you show your appreciation for dad, MTV News compiles a list of must-have items.
By James Montgomery
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Provided your dad didn't go out for cigarettes and never came back, you'll be celebrating him and all his paternal excellence on Sunday, which — in case you forgot — just so happens to be the 102nd (or so) Father's Day.
And while we here at MTV News would like to point out that you should probably honor your father every day (after all, who else can teach you about the infield fly rule, the double Windsor knot and the rhythm method?), we realize that, more often than not, dad is just the guy you roll your eyes at from the backseat of the car. So perhaps this is the year you finally do him right, with a totally sweet Father's Day gift.
Which is where we come in: Using the full force of the MTV News brain trust, we've compiled a list of gifts sure to make his Father's Day special. From movies and video games to ultra-cool accessories and totally killer rock records, these are the must-haves for any dad.
Because he's worth it. And also because he probably doesn't want another tie.
For the dad still stuck in the 1980s: How about a pair of tickets to "Rock of Ages," the film that captures the rock and roll excesses of the Reagan era in all their full-throttled, feathered-hair glory? Sure, it might be super-embarrassing to sit next to him as he plays air guitar to Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me," but imagine how he feels when you make him drop you off a block and a half away from the mall. You're even.
For the dad who's a super-nerd ... and really into beheadings: Get him a Blu-ray copy of the first season of "Game of Thrones," the bloody-great HBO show that redefines sheer nerdery as we know it. "Thrones" has truly got something for every dad. Machiavellian political dealings, gripping drama and dripping combat scenes — it's all there for the viewing. And shoot, even if he's not into swords and sorcery, there's plenty of nudity. This is what we in the business refer to as a "win/win."
For the dad who fancies himself an anti-hero: Pick up "Max Payne 3," the latest installment of Rockstar Games' truly excellent shooter series. Set eight years after the last game, it finds Max overweight and overwrought, popping pills and dealing with a serious late-life crisis. (Just like your dad!) Of course, it's not all drama; in fact, the third "Payne" game brings back the much-saluted "bullet-time" technology, which slows down the shootouts and maximizes the cinematic gore. As an added bonus, the folks at Rockstar also tout the fact that the killing is more realistic than ever this time out. Plenty of bad guys to smoke, plenty of brooding to be done: It's the kind of feel-good game you and your dad can play together. Ah, memories.
For the dad who wants the latest in shut-in couture: Get him one of the limited-edition Supreme T-shirts designed by noted oddball auteur (and illustrator) Daniel Johnston. Filled with illustrations of cross-bearing Captain Americas, boxing aliens and, uh, more Captain Americas, they're guaranteed to make dad the hit of his next office mixer — and to totally freak out all of his co-workers, too.
For the dad who's totally awesome: Download him a copy of Japandroids' Celebration Rock, the year's most kick-ass rock record. Full of fist-pumping riffs and shout-worthy sing-alongs, it'll take him back to the good old days, when rock was played fast and loud and you could get away with giving songs titles like "Fire's Highway." He'll probably take off his shirt and crack open a cold one, but deal with it. Dad's gotta cut loose somehow.
For the skater dad: Head out to Macy's and pick him out something from Lil Wayne's new Trukfit line, a collection of colorful hats and tees with just enough swag for the skate park. And as if some Weezy association isn't enough to make your pops super cool, consider this: The clothing line's name is an acronym for "The Reason U Kill for It," which automatically makes him the hardest dad on the block.
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Bikeshare Riders Shun Helmets
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A study of the DC bike sharing program found that borrowers wear helmets far less often than do riders on their own bicycles. Karen Hopkin reports.
June 15, 2012
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Bike sharing is a growing phenomenon, and lots of cities are launching programs that allow people to borrow a set of wheels. But do these fly-by-night cyclists play it safe as they tool around town? A new study shows that in Washington DC most of them don?t?at least when it comes to wearing a helmet. The results appear in the American Journal of Public Health. [John D. Kraemer, Jason S. Roffenbender and Laura Anderko, Helmet Wearing Among Users of a Public Bicycle-Sharing Program in the District of Columbia and Comparable Riders on Personal Bicycles]
Researchers at Georgetown University spent a month watching people ride bikes around the nation?s capital. DC is home to Capital Bikeshares, one of the largest programs in the U.S. The researchers noted whether cyclists were on Capital bikes or wheels of their own. They also classified riders as either casual users or likely commuters, depending on when and where the cyclists were spotted.?
What they found is: bikeshare riders tend to shun headgear. While 70 percent of the commuters who rode their own bikes wore helmets, fewer than a third of the bikeshare commuters did the same. And the casual riders were even more lax.
To encourage helmet use, New York City, whose bikeshare system is set to launch in July, is giving them away. Just show up for a fitting. It?s one way to stay a head.
?Karen Hopkin
[The above text is an exact transcript of this podcast]
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Merv Griffin's estate for sale for $9.5M
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) ? The California desert home of the late media mogul Merv Griffin has been put up for sale for $9.5 million.
The Desert Sun (http://mydesert.co/KrCrdP) reported Friday the 39-acre property in La Quinta features a 5,000-square-foot home, an equestrian compound with a racetrack and a lagoon.
The Moroccan-style estate was put up for the sale this week and is the latest celebrity home in the Palm Springs area to hit the market.
Gerald and Betty Ford's home in Rancho Mirage sold for nearly $1.7 million in March.
Griffin hosted his own talk show and helped create and produce "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune." He died from prostate cancer in 2007.
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Information from: The Desert Sun, http://www.mydesert.com/
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Court rulings tip Egypt's transition into turmoil
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's supreme court ruled on Thursday to dissolve the Islamist-led parliament, plunging a troubled transition to democracy into turmoil just two days before an election to replace ousted leader Hosni Mubarak.
Islamists who gained most from Mubarak's overthrow decried what they called a "coup" by an army-led establishment still full of Mubarak-era officials. They said the street movement that spurred last year's uprising would not let it pass.
The parliamentary vote earlier this year had swept long repressed Islamists into a commanding position in the legislature, a feat the Muslim Brotherhood had aimed to repeat with their candidate in Saturday and Sunday's presidential vote.
Those parliamentary gains will now be put back up for grabs in a new election.
In a further setback for the Islamists, the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafik, could stay in the presidential race against the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsy.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States expected Egypt's military authorities to fully transfer power to a democratically elected civilian government.
"There can be no going back on the democratic transition called for by the Egyptian people," Clinton told reporters, declining specific comment the court ruling.
Outside the constitutional court, protesters chanted "Down, down with military rule" and hurled stones at troops lined up in a security cordon. A few hundred also gathered in Tahrir Square.
Shafik, a former military man appointed premier in the last days of Mubarak's rule, hailed the rulings as "historic".
"The ruling regarding parliament includes the dissolution of the lower house of parliament in its entirety," the head of the constitutional court, Farouk Soltan, told Reuters.
A new vote will have to be called by the executive powers, said Soltan, who was appointed by Mubarak.
The court had earlier ruled to overturn a law passed by the Islamist-led parliament that would have blocked senior Mubarak-era officials from the presidential race, legislation designed to keep Shafik and others out.
Legal experts prior to the court rulings had predicted both verdicts, however, some questioned the timing of the decisions.
For 16 months since Mubarak was toppled after 30 years in office, a transition overseen by generals has been beset by political bickering, protests and often bloodshed.
'A COMPLETE COUP'
But many Egyptians had at least taken some reassurance from the calm conduct of the parliamentary election and the prospect of a presidential poll even though the process of writing a new constitution to define the president's powers is in deadlock.
Now even those gains are being plunged into doubt, although the army said the presidential poll would go ahead on time.
A senior member of the Brotherhood's political party, which swept up the biggest bloc of seats in parliament, said Egypt was entering a "dark tunnel" if parliament was dissolved.
"Keeping the military candidate and overturning the elected parliament after granting the military police the right to arrest is a complete coup," said a moderate Islamist, Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh.
He was referring to a decree issued with little fanfare on Wednesday allowing military police to detain civilians, a move critics said was a barely disguised bid to reinstate the decades-old emergency law that ended on May 31.
"Whoever thinks that millions of youths will let it pass is deluding themselves," Abol Fotouh said of the rulings.
For activists, the measures add to their suspicions that the pillars of Mubarak's establishment such as the army and police are regrouping to challenge the fragile political gains.
Protesters outside the court demanded the judges block the presidential bid by Shafik, a man they derisively call a member of the "feloul", or a remnants of Mubarak's regime.
But at a hotel a few miles (kilometers) away on the outskirts of Cairo, Shafik addressed hundreds of ecstatic supporters, who danced and chanted: "The army and the people are in one hand."
RALLYING SUPPORT
"The message of this historic verdict is that the era of political score settling has ended," Shafik told them, pledging to end chaos and restore stability.
Shafik's support comes mainly from disparate backers who include a business elite that prospered under Mubarak, Christians worried about Islamist rule, and others who would welcome a military man to restore order to turbulent streets.
Morsy, who has relied on the 84-year-old Brotherhood's grassroots network, can also count on ultra-orthodox Salafi Muslims in the second round. But he has struggled to win over the supporters of centrist candidates, who could prove vital.
For many Egyptians who picked centrist candidates in the first round, the weekend vote presents a wrenching choice. They worry as much about an Islamist imposing new strictures as they do about handing power back to an ex-military man.
The army pledged to formally hand power to a new president by July 1, although analysts and diplomats expect the generals to continue to wield hefty influence well after that.
The Supreme Constitutional Court, the only court that can interpret laws, was used for decades by opposition groups and activists to challenge Mubarak's authorities.
It ruled election laws illegal in 1987 and 1990 - forcing the dissolution of parliament, overhauls of the electoral system and early votes. It also issued a ruling in 2000 to force Mubarak's government to accept judicial monitoring of votes.
But like other courts in Egypt, the president appoints its head, an issue that has been at the heart of calls for judicial reform. Soltan, the current head, was picked by Mubarak.
(Additional reporting by Marwa Awad, Yasmine Saleh, Tamim Elyan and Tom Perry; Writing by Edmund Blair and Tom Pfeiffer; Editing by Sophie Hares)
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Higgins: Sloan out of running for Bobcats job
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ? Charlotte Bobcats president of basketball operations Rod Higgins says Hall of Fame coach Jerry Sloan notified the team he has pulled out of the running for the head coaching position.
Higgins wasn't necessarily surprised, saying Friday, "It's all part of the process and I'm sure it's happened before."
Charlotte settled this week on three finalists for the job ? Sloan, Indiana Pacers assistant coach Brian Shaw and Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Quin Snyder. Higgins says both Shaw and Snyder had second interviews this week that included team owner Michael Jordan and the meetings went well, calling them "impressive candidates."
However, Higgins says neither has been offered the position.
SI.com first reported Thursday night that Sloan had taken himself out of the running for the job.
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Another Day, Another Bloomberg Idea - Yeshiva World News
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that now is the perfect time for buildings to convert to cleaner heating fuels and the city wants to help them do it,
Bloomberg announced that the city has lined up $100 million in financing from banks to help buildings make the conversion from oil to cleaner fuels like natural gas.
His Honor pointed out that natural gas prices are at historic lows.
He said 80 percent of the air pollution in New York City comes from buildings.
He said the reason for converting is simple.
?While only 1 percent of the buildings in the city, some 10,000 in total, use these heavy grades of oil, burning them generates more soot than all the cars and trucks on our streets and roads combined,? he said. ?Smoking kills a lot of people, but so does all this crap in the air.?
The mayor said that with low natural gas prices, available financing, and the resulting cleaner air, it?s kind of hard not to find a reason to convert.
However, utilities are now swamped with conversion orders.
(Source: WCBSTV)
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