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Scientist releases guide to surviving a nuclear bomb in your city

 By Agence France-Presse

 Tuesday, January 14, 2014 20:51 EDT

 A scientist published a guide Wednesday to help authorities limit deaths from fallout after a city is hit by a nuclear bomb.

 Taking cover in existing buildings is widely accepted as a critical first action after a nuclear blast in a major city.

 But how long people should stay there before moving to better shelter is a more complex question.

 Buildings that are lightweight or lack a basement are more easily penetrated by radioactive dust.

 Writing in a British scientific journal, Michael Dillon of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, has now come up with a mathematical model for the “optimal shelter exit time” to minimise radiation risk.

 Based on his calculations, if adequate shelter is 15 minutes away, individuals should remain in their initial, poor-quality shelter no longer than 30 minutes after detonation.

 If, however, the better shelter is only five minutes away, individuals should move there immediately and forego the closer but unsafe buildings altogether, he wrote.

 Reaching adequate shelter rapidly could save between 10,000 and 100,000 individuals from fatal exposure in the event of a single, low-yield detonation, said the study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A.

 “These methods are intended to assist emergency planning officials in the development of an optimal low-yield nuclear detonation response strategy,” wrote Dillon.

 A low-yield blast is described as 0.1-10 kilotons.

 One kiloton (kT) is an explosive force equivalent to that of 1,000 metric tons of TNT. The US bomb that killed more than 200,000 people in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 was about 15 kT.

 More than a fifth of American households lack basements or are considered too lightweight to offer shelter in the fallout phase of the emergency, the study said.

 [Image via Agence France-Presse] ||||| People living within about 20 miles (32 kilometers) of a small-scale nuclear attack have up to half an hour to seek out adequate shelter safely, as long as travel time to that shelter is no more than 15 minutes away, according to a recent report on the optimal escape strategies for small-scale nuclear explosions.

 The threats of catastrophic Cold War-style nuclear bombs have subsided since international agreements like the 1970 Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons have taken hold to protect society from the annihilative attacks that flattened Hiroshima and Nagaski, in Japan, during World War II.

 Still, the threat of smaller-scale nuclear attacks with explosive energy orders of magnitude less intense has increased in recent years as the technology to build such weapons has become more prevalent. These smaller-scale detonations may not be strong enough to flatten cities, but they do produce harmful radioactive fallout that residents must avoid to reduce the nauseating effects of radiation poisoning and longer-term risks of cancer. [The Top 10 Largest Explosions Ever]

 The best way to protect against the radioactive dust and ash of nuclear fallout is to seek shelter underground, but more than 20 percent of U.S. households do not have basements, according to a 2009 survey from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Those people without basements must therefore decide when and how far to travel in search of higher-quality shelter in the event of an attack.

 To help simplify this decision process, Michael Dillon of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., conducted mathematical analyses based on existing data on the threats induced by small-scale nuclear explosions to streamline rules people can abide by to protect themselves from fallout.

 "The principle is trying to figure out the least amount of information you need to make your decisions as fast as possible," Dillon told LiveScience. "In these sorts of situations, you don't have a lot of time, and you need to quickly know what you are looking for to make these decisions."

 The first order of business is to determine the quality of shelter that one has immediate access to at the time of an attack. Underground concrete shelters are best, as they put the largest amount of mass between a person and fallout, but the core of large buildings — such as large offices or schools — can also provide adequate shelter, Dillon said. Thin-walled homes, on the other hand, made of wood or other flimsy materials are considered poor-quality shelters.

 Through his analyses, Dillon determined that people within poor-quality shelters can reduce radiation poisoning by staying within those shelters for only up to 30 minutes after the detonation before seeking out adequate shelter, as long as that shelter is reachable within 15 minutes. However, if adequate shelter is reachable within five minutes, then residents should pick up and go to that shelter immediately after a detonation.

 People do not need to do much to protect themselves against radiation while in transit, since the fallout can largely be rinsed off once a person seeks refuge. The only thing a person really needs, Dillon half-joked, is a good pair of sneakers that allows them to travel quickly, if they are traveling by foot.

 If traveling by car, people must take traffic into consideration when planning their escape strategies, Dillon said, pointing out that his results provide only one piece of a larger response strategy that can become more complicated by unpredictable factors such as traffic flow.

 Dillon is working to assess the distribution of adequate shelters across the United States, and says that his preliminary results suggest that, as a whole, the country is well equipped with adequate shelters within 15 minutes of many households. These analyses are still in the works, however, and are not yet conclusive, he said.

 The complete report is detailed today (Jan. 14) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A.

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– Good news: A mathematical model has been created that could help save your life in the event that your city is hit by a nuclear bomb. Scientist Michael Dillon's model, published Tuesday, is about reducing radiation risk from the bomb's fallout, and calculates "optimal shelter exit time." The longstanding advice has been to immediately seek shelter, ideally underground, if a bomb hits. But there is better and worse shelter—the latter being "lightweight" buildings (such as ones made of wood) or ones without basements; the AFP reports more than 20% of US homes fall into the worse category. Here is Dillon's determination for people living within 20 miles of a low-yield nuclear blast, meaning one a bit smaller than Hiroshima: If it would take five minutes or less to reach better shelter (that concrete basement, or the center of a large building, like a big office, reports LiveScience), bypass the more immediate shelter and go there straight away. If better shelter is 15 minutes away, stay in the worse shelter for up to 30 minutes, then head out. As for the transit period, don't waste time worrying about protecting your body from the radiation, he says, which can mostly be rinsed off once you get to your shelter. The findings are actually intended for emergency planning officials, who can make use of the findings when designing "an optimal low-yield nuclear detonation response strategy," writes Dillon, who works at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.


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– It turns out being an ex-president pays pretty well. In the 10 years since leaving office, Bill Clinton has made $75.6 million from speaking engagements, with last year standing as his most lucrative yet, according to disclosure forms Hillary must file as secretary of state. Bill earned $10.7 million over 52 appearances last year, which, CNN observes, is a substantial increase over the 36 gigs he took on in 2009. Almost two-thirds of Clinton’s haul over that 10-year span comes from speeches delivered overseas; he’s delivered 215 addresses across 48 foreign countries. He charges an average of $181,000 per speech, though some come in much higher than that. In 2010, for example, he received a combined $1 million from a gig in Moscow for Renaissance Capital and another in the United Arab Emirates for Novo Nordisk. And that's not even counting the $30 million he's received in book sales, notes Politico.

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 Washington (CNN) - Former president Bill Clinton enjoyed his most lucrative year ever on the speaking circuit in 2010, capping a decade of paid speaking events that has earned him $75.6 million since leaving office in 2001, according to a CNN analysis of federal financial records.

 Clinton received $10.7 million for 52 paid speaking engagements last year, a sizable increase from the 36 paid speeches he delivered in 2009 for a total of $7.5 million. The most the former president had previously earned in one year was in 2006 when he earned $10.2 million for 57 events. His 2010 speaking fees were detailed in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's annual financial disclosure report released Monday.

 Almost half of the former president's speech earnings last year, $4.8 million, came from 18 speeches delivered in 13 other countries, ranging in distance from Canada and Mexico to India, the Philippines, and South Africa. The remainder was earned in 34 speeches delivered in eight states and the District of Columbia.

 In 10 years as a private citizen, Clinton has delivered a total of 417 paid speeches and earned an average of $181,000 per event. Almost two-thirds of his total speech earnings, about $44.9 million, have come from 215 overseas events in 48 countries.

 The former president's most popular destination outside of the United States has been Canada, where he has participated in 54 paid events for a total of $9.1 million, followed by the United Kingdom, where he earned $3.2 million for 16 events, and Australia and Mexico, where he delivered 13 speeches apiece for $2.3 million and $2.8 million, respectively.

 Within the U.S., Clinton has delivered 54 paid events in New York, 35 in California, 22 in Florida and 15 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

 Helping to propel the former president to his most lucrative year were two events for which he received a combined $1 million. The first was a June 2010 event in Moscow organized by Renaissance Capital. The other was a December speech delivered in the United Arab Emirates for Novo Nordisk, a global health care company. Clinton received $500,000 for each event, which tie for the second-largest payments he has received for a single event. In June 2008, he received $525,000 for a speech at a motivational speaking conference in Edmonton, Canada.

 The former president's annual earnings from speeches have varied from year to year depending on his schedule and availability. He gave only six paid speeches for $875,000 in 2004, when he spent much of the year writing his memoirs and recovering from heart bypass surgery.

 His $10.7 million haul from 2010 almost doubles the $5.7 million he earned in 2008, when he spent half the year campaigning for his wife's unsuccessful presidential bid. That year, Hillary Clinton loaned her presidential campaign a total of $13.2 million out of her and her husband's personal funds. The Clintons ended up eating the cost of that loan because the campaign was unable to repay the amount by the deadline required by federal campaign finance laws. However, since Hillary Clinton suspended her presidential campaign on June 7, 2008, her husband has earned $23.0 million in speaking fees for 108 events, more than canceling out the impact of the loan.

 Clinton was an elected official on a fixed government salary for all but two years from 1977, when he took office as the Arkansas attorney general, until leaving the White House in January 2001.

 "I never had any money until I got out of the White House, you know, but I've done reasonably well since then," said Clinton last year at a forum in Cape Town, South Africa.

 Though it is not unusual for former presidents to command millions of dollars in speaking fees after leaving office, Clinton is the only one subjected to strict disclosure requirements as a result of his wife's position as a high-ranking federal official, first as a United States Senator and now as Secretary of State.

 When President Obama first nominated then-Sen. Clinton, his former rival, to be the nation's top diplomat in December 2008, the former president agreed to a number of steps to guard against possible conflicts of interest that may arise from his various post-presidential activities. In particular, he has agreed to allow State Department and White House ethics officials to review his slate of proposed speaking engagements.

 The Center for Public Integrity, a public interest watchdog group, estimated in May that former president George W. Bush had delivered almost 140 paid speeches for at least $15 million in his two-and-a-half years since leaving the White House. A spokesman for President Bush's office declined to comment on the accuracy of that report.

 President Clinton's office did not respond to a request for comment on this article. ||||| In the 10 years since leaving the White House, former President Bill Clinton has earned more than $75 million in speaking fees alone, including nearly $11 million last year, a report Tuesday found.

 Clinton earned $10.7 million for 52 speaking engagements in 2010, bringing his total earnings on paid speeches to $75.6 million in the last decade, according to an analysis of financial disclosure reports filed by his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in her current job and during her years representing New York in the Senate.

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 But that’s not all the former president has raked in since leaving office. He also earned a $15 million advance for his 2004 memoir “My Life” and has more than doubled that in earnings from the sales of that book and a subsequent one.

 The former president’s 2010 speaking haul was his largest annual intake from such fees, edging out the $10.2 million he earned in 2006 for 57 paid speeches, CNN found. In 2009, Clinton delivered 36 paid speeches that brought in $7.5 million.

 Almost half of what Clinton earned in 2010 — $4.8 million — came from speeches he delivered in 13 countries outside the United States including India, Mexico and South Africa. His domestic speeches were in 8 states and in Washington.

 In the decade since leaving office, Clinton has in all delivered 417 paid speeches, with fees working out to an average of $181,000 per speech. International engagements pay better than domestic ones, with $44.9 million of his earnings coming from 215 overseas speeches.

 “I never had any money until I got out of the White House, you know, but I’ve done reasonably well since then,” Hillary Clinton said last year. She earned more than $10 million for her memoir, “Living History.”

 In contrast, Clinton’s successor, former President George W. Bush has earned at least $15 million on about 140 paid speaking engagements since leaving the White House in early 2009, an analysis this spring found.

 Before leaving office, Bush joked that he hoped to “replenish the ol’ coffers” by drawing “ridiculous” fees on the speaking circuit. |||||


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 Were people looking to find loo-specific treats, or was this just a simple case of bad spelling?

 The answer is pretty obvious. Clearly people wanted bathroom suites, and they just got it a bit wrong. But that got us thinking: just how do bad spelling, a love of confectionery and bathrooms come together like that?

 This site holds the answer.

 If a spelling mistake got you here and you were really after Bathroom Suites, click here!

 © Copyright 2014 Bathrooms.com ||||| Thinking of remodeling your bathroom? Maybe you're looking into a new pedestal sink or a mirrored cabinet. How would you feel about installing a bathtub made of 8 million calories worth of 100% Belgian chocolate?

 Bathrooms.com, a bathroom furniture retail site, and U.K.-based chocolatiers Choccywoccydoodah have gotten together to create a bathroom furnished with Belgian chocolate. The set is being advertised on Bathroomsweets.com, a site Bathrooms.com Chief Executive Ian Monk decided to create after seeing people frequently mispell suite as sweet.

 "We realized that over a million British people searching for new bathrooms were popping 'bathroom sweets,' rather than 'bathroom suites' into their preferred search engines," said Monk in a statement on Bathroomsweets.com. "The simple mistake caught our imagination, what if we created a bathroom suite, out of something sweet?"

 The Maderno Sweet bathroom set includes a 210,000-calorie chocolate bidet, a 210,000-calorie chocolate sink, an 8 million-calorie chocolate tub and a 980,000-calorie chocolate toilet. The entire set has 9.4 million calories and is listed for sale on the site for $133,040. Or you can purchase the pieces individually. Everything is made fresh, so you can expect a two- to three-month wait time.

 "Our Maderno Bathroom Sweet will add real flavor to your bathroom," reads the suite description on the website. "It includes the chocolate bidet, basin, bath and toilet and is the perfect place to let life's little trifles melt away."

 And in case you're wondering, no, you can't use the chocolate bathroom as a bathroom.

 "It will melt if it comes in contact with direct sunlight, radiator heat or hot liquids," said Monk. "So it's not ideal for running that relaxing bath!"

 Bathroomsweets.com claims the bathroom has a six-month shelf life, or if not eaten, can be kept at room temperature for years. And you can add a layer of varnish if you'd like to preserve your sweet suite even longer.

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– The wait is over, folks: You can finally eat your entire bathroom. British bathroom designers and chocolate makers have joined forces to build a sink, bathtub, and, yes, toilet out of chocolate, the New York Daily News reports. Altogether, the set will cost you about $133,000. But the real cost could be to your health: The Maderno Sweet, as it's called, contains about 9.4 million calories' worth of Belgian chocolate. That would theoretically keep you going for about 12 years, the Daily News notes. The makers say that "one shouldn't attempt to consume the entire suite in one session." The idea for the set came from a spelling mistake. "People are regularly searching for 'bathroom sweets,'" when they (presumably) mean suites, the makers note on the chocolate bathroom's site. "We decided to answer their search, literally," Bathrooms.com CEO Ian Monk notes. His company joined with chocolatiers Choccywoccydoodah to create the set, which should last about six months. They don't actually recommend using it; for one thing, hot liquid will melt it, so "it's not ideal for running that relaxing bath!" Monk notes, via the Los Angeles Times. Meanwhile, Hershey's is working on 3D-printed chocolate.


Mother gives birth at work, dead baby found in bag Posted: Wednesday, April 1, 2015 10:30 PM EDT Updated: Wednesday, April 1, 2015 11:33 PM EDT Posted:Updated:

 Ceva Logistics

 A woman no one knew was pregnant, gives birth at work and then tries to hide her dead baby.

 Redford police are investigating to find out if the mother is the one responsible for the baby's death.

 The newborn baby was found dead in the mother's bag under her desk in the cubicle and police are working to find out if the baby had been born alive.

 The discovery was made at about 10 a.m. Tuesday morning at Ceva Logistics on Glendale.

 It started when employees who declined to go on camera, told FOX 2 they heard moaning coming from the women's restroom.

 A few people finally checked and discovered blood all over the bathroom stall. But no one knew why.

 They rushed back to the office to find out if everyone was okay. Only one woman at first didn't answer, a 26-year-old from Wyandotte. No one knew had been pregnant.

 Redford police were called and discovered the young woman, who did have blood on her, had returned to her cubicle.

 She had attempted to resume her workday, but there was no sign of a baby until they checked the Ceva employee's bag, which was tucked under her cubicle desk.

 Inside was the deceased infant, later officially pronounced dead at the hospital.

 The mother, who is now under investigation, is recovering at the hospital.

 FOX 2 is told that Ceva Logistics - which transports products for companies worldwide including the Big Three, informed their 150-plus employees and offered grief counseling.

 But at this point, the logistics director says the company isn't ready to comment.

 "All I can say is it is under investigation," said Ken L'Heureux. "We were asked not to say anything, until the investigation is over."

 FOX 2 was told the autopsy was performed Wednesday but the results are still pending. Investigators say more information is needed to determine if the baby was born alive or if the death was a potential homicide.

 The family of the 26-year-old Wyandotte woman declined comment. ||||| Michigan State Promo (Photo: Shane Music)

 DETROIT — A baby died after a young woman gave birth in a bathroom stall at work in Michigan and then hid the baby in her desk drawer and tried to continue working, police said.

 Police and paramedics in Redford were called to Ceva Logistics at about 11 a.m. Tuesday when employees discovered blood on the wall and the floor in a bathroom stall at the company.

 Employees asked the woman, a 25-year-old from Wyandotte, if she was all right, and she said she was lightheaded but didn't mention that she had just given birth. A short time later an employee called 911. The woman at first refused treatment, but then was taken to a local hospital.

 The baby was found in a bag in the woman's desk drawer, according to reports. The baby, which appeared to be full-term, was also taken to the hospital where attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful and the baby was pronounced dead.

 The woman worked for a temp service and had previously told people at Ceva that she wasn't pregnant, logistics director Ken L'Heureux said.

 Grief counseling was offered to the about 240 employees at the company, which handles moving freight, L'Heureux said.

 He declined Wednesday to comment on specifics of what happened.

 The woman's employer, Level Professional Services, issued a news release Thursday saying that Ceva has been its client since October and it, too, is providing counseling for affected employees.

 Police also declined to release more details of the circumstances, saying that it's an open investigation.

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 It has not yet been determined if the 25-year-old Wyandotte mother will face charges, said Lt. David Holt of Redford Township Police.

 Police and rescue units were called around 11:19 a.m. Tuesday to CEVA Logistics in the 24400 block of Glendale, according to police.

 "Upon conducting a preliminary investigation, it was discovered that the child had been delivered in a restroom at the business," police said in a statement Wednesday. "The mother and newborn child were transported to a local hospital, where the child was pronounced deceased."

 Holt declined to provide further information on the incident. According to Fox 2, the woman hid the baby in a bag under her desk after giving birth.

 The woman, a temporary employee of Level Professional Services, was placed at CEVA Logistics in October 2014, said Marty Barton, spokesman for the temp agency.

 "We at Level Professional Services are saddened by the recent events at CEVA Logistics, which has been a client of ours since October 2014," the company said in a statement. "We are concerned for all employees under our care, and we're working with our client to provide counseling and support for all of the affected employees as well as cooperating fully with authorities."

 In a statement, CEVA spokeswoman Kay Hart said the company "is cooperating fully with the authorities in their ongoing investigation and is providing counseling to its employees at the facility."

 The Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office conducted an autopsy on the newborn Wednesday. Police expect to have the results in two weeks, Holt said.

 The mother was taken to a hospital, according to media reports.

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– A Michigan woman gave birth in her work bathroom on Tuesday to a baby that she then hid in her cubicle, police say; the newborn was later pronounced dead. Employees of CEVA Logistics in Redford called paramedics after they heard moaning coming from a bathroom, where blood was on the wall and floor of a stall, Fox 2 Detroit reports. A woman, aged 25 or 26, who has not been identified, was found with blood on her body as she worked at her desk. She initially refused medical treatment and said she was only lightheaded; she didn't indicate she had given birth and previously told coworkers she wasn't pregnant, USA Today reports. Police eventually found the baby, who appeared to be full-term, though reports differ on whether the child was beneath the woman's desk or in a drawer. Fox 2 reports the baby was dead when it was initially found, but was pronounced dead at a hospital after failed resuscitation attempts. The mother was also taken to the hospital. The woman was an employee of temp agency Level Professional Services, which has worked with CEVA Logistics since October. A CEVA rep tells the Detroit News that the company "is cooperating fully with the authorities in their ongoing investigation and is providing counseling to its employees at the facility." An autopsy was performed by the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office on Wednesday and the results should be available in two weeks, Redford police say. The results will inform whether any charges will be filed.


Story highlights Police on Mackinac island are investigating an incident involving aides for Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Rand Paul

 Paul aide John Yob alleges Rubio aide Rich Beeson hit him while they were at a bar Thursday night

 (CNN) Police on Mackinac Island, Michigan, said Friday they are investigating allegations of a bar fight between top aides for Republican presidential contenders Rand Paul and Marco Rubio.

 John Yob, a Paul aide, alleged in a Facebook post early Friday morning that Rubio deputy campaign manager Rich Beeson hit him at a bar on Mackinac Island, where a number of Republican candidates have gathered for the weekend. Yob alleged in his post that he had video of Beeson assaulting him. He later provided that video to CNN.

 Mackinac Island Police Chief Brett Riccinto told CNN Friday morning that he had not yet seen the video and wanted to review that, along with witness statements, before making any determinations. Police said a formal report has not yet been completed.

 "Any time you're at a bar past midnight things seem to get misconstrued as to what happened," Riccinto said. "I'd really like to see this video."

 The video is grainy and details are difficult to discern, but it does appear to show a physical confrontation. Yob said the man who hit him in the video is Beeson, but CNN could not independently confirm.

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 The first newsworthy incident of the GOP Mackinac conference was a barroom brawl.

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 MACKINAC ISLAND -- It will be up to the county prosecutor to decide whether criminal charges will be filed after a barroom incident early Friday morning in which a campaign official for a Republican presidential candidate accused a campaign official for another presidential candidate of assaulting him, the island's police chief said Friday.

 "We've forwarded a complaint of an alleged assault to the Mackinac County prosecutor," Mackinac Island Police Chief Brett Riccinto told the Free Press. Whether any criminal charges will be filed "would be up to the prosecutor."

 A huge Republican political gathering on Mackinac Island got under way early Friday morning with a barroom incident in which a top official for presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio allegedly threw a punch at a Michigan consultant working for Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.

 The alleged incident took place at Horn's Bar, a popular nightspot on Mackinac Island, which hosts the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, which is held every other year and has drawn six GOP presidential hopefuls this year.

 John Yob, a Grand Rapids political consultant who is national political director and chief Michigan strategist for the Rand Paul campaign, said on Facebook Friday morning that he was punched in the face inside the bar by Rich Beeson, who is deputy campaign manager for Rubio, a Florida senator.

 "I ran into a guy named Rich Beeson, who frankly I didn't even know who it was at first," Yob said. "He literally physically assaulted me by punching me in the face. The state police are looking for him. I have it on video, from multiple angles. This will play out in the national media in the next few hours."

 Beeson did not return a phone message seeking comment.

 Shanon Banner, a spokewoman for the Michigan State Police, said the MSP is not involved and the Mackinac Island Police Department is investigating the alleged assault.

 Riccinto said police have taken statements from witnesses and also have security camera video from inside the bar that shows the alleged assault. He said the alleged victim, Yob, had posted a grainy version of the security video on the Internet.

 An incident involving alcohol, a punch and Horn's Bar is already part of Michigan political lore.

 In 2003, at the Detroit Regional Chamber's annual policy conference on Mackinac Island, U.S. Rep. Mike Bishop, then a state senator, got punched as he attempted to board a carriage in an early morning incident near Horn's Bar. The Clarkston man who threw the punch was arrested and convicted.

 Paul is expected to be on the island to speak at the conference. Rubio is not. The conference, hosted by the Michigan Republican Party, runs until Sunday morning.

 Contact Paul Egan: 517-372-8660 or pegan@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter@paulegan4.

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– Things are getting heated on the campaign trail: An aide to Rand Paul says Marco Rubio's campaign manager hit him while both men were at a Michigan bar in today's wee hours. "He literally physically assaulted me by punching me in the face," John Yob wrote on Facebook, noting that at first he didn't even know who Rich Beeson was. CNN notes that "a number of Republican candidates have gathered [on Mackinac Island] for the weekend"; six of them are participating in the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. The incident was captured on video, and Yob says he wants to press charges. Police forwarded the assault complaint to the county prosecutor, who will decide whether to file criminal charges, the Detroit Free Press reports.


– Playing pranks on your successor is a tradition among Virginia governors. When Mark Warner moved out of the governor's mansion in 2006, for example, he left a life-size cutout of himself in the shower for the recently elected Tim Kaine, the Washington Post reports. Kaine paid that favor forward four years later when he occasionally called cell phones he'd left in the elevator shafts to irk his successor, Robert McDonnell. But outgoing Gov. Terry McAuliffe may have taken the cake Saturday night, greeting new Gov. Ralph Northam and his wife, Pam, with pillowcases on their new bed plastered with McAuliffe's image. And right above the image was one of McAuliffe's favorite lines: "Sleep when you're dead." Northam took his hazing in stride, spending his first night in office with his head rested on the portrait of his predecessor. He also showed a picture he had taken of the pillowcases to reporters at a brunch the next morning. But McAuliffe's mischief didn't stop there, CBS News reports. He also left pictures of himself throughout the governor's mansion. And, according to Northam, an alarm went off at 3am that first night, an alarm Northam has yet to find. "I texted him and thanked him," Northam said, "and he said there was more to come."

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Virginia's outgoing governor has pulled a prank on his successor.

 The Washington Post reported Sunday that Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam found images of Terry McAuliffe on his bed pillows at the Governor's Mansion.

 McAuliffe, also a Democrat, emblazoned the pillows with one of his favorite sayings: "Sleep when you're dead."

 Northam and his wife, first lady Pam Northam, spent their first night in the mansion resting their heads on the 72nd's governor's grinning mug.

 The Post reports that the newly inaugurated Governor was also treated to several photos of McAuliffe around the residence and an early morning wake up call.

 "There are pictures of the governor all over the mansion that he left for me," Northam told the Post. "Also, at 3 o'clock this morning, an alarm clock went off, which I have yet to find. I texted him and thanked him, and he said there was more to come.

 Such pranks are common in Virginia, the only state where the governorship changes hands every four years.

 During the last changeover, Republican Bob McDonnell had left a huge stuffed bear in the private bathroom for a newly sworn-in McAuliffe. It was a real bear taken from the office of McDonnell's natural resources secretary Doug Domenech.

 At a chilly ceremony in Richmond surrounded by his family and, further back, a number of former governors, Northam took the oath to become the Old Dominion's 73rd chief executive on Saturday.

 Northam, a Democrat, veteran and pediatrician who was previously the state's lieutenant governor, beat Republican Ed Gillespie for the seat in November. ||||| Newly inaugurated Gov. Ralph Northam and his wife found pillowcases emblazoned with former governor Terry McAuliffe’s face and a favorite saying on their bed in the governor’s mansion. (Photo by Gov. Ralph Northam/Photo by Gov. Ralph Northam)

 The peaceful transfer of power in Virginia would not be complete without a prank pulled by the outgoing governor on his successor.

 So it was that as newly inaugurated Gov. Ralph Northam (D) hit the sack Saturday night after his inauguration, he found something special on his pillowcase — and it was not one of those fancy hotel good-night chocolates.

 An image of former governor Terry McAuliffe (D) was plastered on his pillowcase, emblazoned with one of the go-go-go ex-governor's favorite sayings: "Sleep when you're dead."

 And yes, Virginia's 73rd governor spent his first night in the mansion with his head resting on the 72nd's governor's grinning mug. His wife, first lady Pam Northam, let him use her McAuliffe-covered pillow, too, opting for a plain pillowcase for herself.

 "Let me show you the picture," Northam said, pulling out his cellphone after a brunch hosted by the first lady Sunday at Richmond's Jefferson Hotel.

 The pillowcases are not the only reminders McAuliffe left behind.

 Gov.Ralph Northam and his wife, Pam, arrive at the south portico before Northam took the oath of office at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Saturday. (Kevin Morley/AP)

 "There are pictures of the governor all over the mansion that he left for me," Northam said. "Also, at 3 o'clock this morning, an alarm clock went off, which I have yet to find. I texted him and thanked him, and he said there was more to come."

 The alarm clock trick is not a new one, but certain pranks are bound to get recycled in the only state where the governorship changes hands every four years. Departing governor Robert F. McDonnell (R) set one to go off at 4 a.m. four years ago, giving McAuliffe a jolt on his first weekend in the Executive Mansion.

 Another surprise awaited the newly sworn-in McAuliffe when he got to his office: a huge stuffed bear in the private bathroom. It was no teddy bear. It was the real, taxidermied thing, poached from the office of McDonnell's natural resources secretary Doug Domenech.

 On his way out of the governorship, in 2010, now-Sen. Tim Kaine (D) hid cellphones in the mansion elevator shaft and periodically called them as a trick on McDonnell. It took a few days for McDonnell's team to locate them.

 And before that, now-Sen. Mark R. Warner (D) left a life-size cutout of himself in the governor's mansion shower for Kaine. |||||


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In the R-rated comedy Rough Night, five friends from college - played by Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer, and Zoë Kravitz - reunite when they rent a beach house in Miami for a wild bachelorette weekend that goes completely off the rails. Just when all hope is lost, they realize there's more to the story than they could've ever imagined. ||||| “Rough Night,” a bachelorette-party-from-hell thriller comedy that’s got some push and some laughs, despite its essentially formulaic nature, is a perfect example of why Hollywood needs (many) more women filmmakers. Do we want to see more women directors who have the scalding audacity of a Kathryn Bigelow, or who can turn a tent-pole origin story like “Wonder Woman” into a cultural event the way Patty Jenkins did? Duh and duh. That said, we also need more women to direct the MOR entertainment of the week. In the case of a goofy-nasty bad-behavior farce like “Rough Night,” directed and co-written by Lucia Aniello, what’s novel isn’t so much the plot as the spin, the female gaze, the inside-the-club sensibility. That, for all the cookie-cutter elements, is what’s fresh about the movie, and why it should find a solid audience.

 But first, a word on how derivative it is. In “Rough Night,” four college chums reunite for a weekend trip to Miami, where they’ve borrowed a splendid beach house to hold a bachelorette bash for Jess (Scarlett Johansson). A decade ago, they were frat-house-party hellions who could guzzle their way through a night of beer pong. But they’ve grown up — sort of. Jess, now with clipped conservative hair, is running for state senator, and she and her fiancée, Peter (Paul W. Downs), are so respectable and adult that they’re already like an old married couple, too bone-weary for sex. Frankie (Ilana Glazer), a lesbian and full-time activist, organizes protests faster than she can get people to show up for them, and Blair (Zoë Kravitz), who is Frankie’s former lover, is in the thick of a divorce and child-custody battle. Then there’s Alice (Jillian Bell), the exception who proves the rule — which is to say, she’s still every bit the needy, arrested drunk-girl narcissist she was in college.

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 The four go out to a club, where they do endless shots and too much cocaine, and they’re introduced to Jess’ outside BFF, an Aussie free spirit named Pippa (Kate McKinnon of “Saturday Night Live”). Then they go back to the house, where the requisite male stripper has been put on order. A dude shows up at the door (he’s sexy, but seems a little too threatening to be a stripper), and moments later, after push quite literally comes to shove, he’s lying on the floor, a pool of blood spreading beneath him. It’s a complete accident, but he is dead.

 Ninety-nine percent of the people who see “Rough Night” will have no idea that it lifts its premise, and much of its flavor, from an edgy and overlooked 1998 movie called “Very Bad Things,” which starred Christian Slater and was Peter Berg’s first film as a director. It was about a group of guys who accidentally kill a prostitute during a bachelor party in Vegas; what they do to hide the disaster is hideous but — as Berg staged it — creepily plausible, and the film, though it never caught on, had a queasy power as a foray into the dark side of the male psyche. “Rough Night” is a lighter entertainment. It’s “Very Bad Things” with the sexes reversed, but also with a harmless synthetic dollop of the “Hangover” films, a replay of the best-friend-of-the-bride jealousy drama of “Bridesmaids,” plus a touch of “Weekend at Bernie’s.” It’s all been mashed together in the comedy compactor, yet the best thing about “Rough Night” is the feisty, claws-out spontaneity of its competitive banter between “sisters” who love and hate each other.

 Lucia Aniello and her co-writer, Paul W. Downs, are two of the forces behind the web-gone-Comedy Central series “Broad City” (which was co-created by Glazer), but this movie is a lot broader. It’s farcical, situational, and over-the-top, yet it gives the actresses room to maneuver. Johansson, who got swallowed up in the “Blade-Runner”-meets-broken-glass cyber doldrums of “Ghost in the Shell,” has long avoided this sort of unabashed megaplex comedy, but it’s a pleasure to see her take on a role in which she can coast along on the no-nonsense vibrance of her personality. She makes Jess cautious but fast — a grown-up trying to let loose even as she keeps her inner desperado in check. Glazer, likewise, creates a lived-in character: a social justice warrior who is spoiled and annoying enough to cue us to the fact that her stridency is compensating for something.

 It’s Jillian Bell who’s the film’s comic spark plug. Her Alice, as scripted, may seem like a walking “loser,” but Bell has the kind of hostile crack timing that Kathryn Hahn did in “Bad Moms.” When she gets a line like “I can’t just go to jail! I couldn’t even make it through the first episode of ‘Orange Is the New Black,'” she delivers it with dramatic sincerity, digging into the character’s anxiety, and her one-way duel with Pippa says much about the possessiveness of friendship. When Alice glares at her rival, her dark-saucer eyes gleam with a hilariously paranoid desperation that’s almost touching.

 What do these five characters do with a corpse on their hands? They figure out ways to get rid of it. They debate the issue of whether they’re guilty of involuntary manslaughter (as long as the body just lies there, no; as soon as they make the mistake of moving it, maybe yes). And when they learn that the wealthy swingers next door, played with a bit too much on-the-nose hambone smarminess by Demi Moore and Ty Burrell, have surveillance cameras that may have recorded their cover-up scheme, they send Blair over to the house to sleep with the couple — a twist that would have worked better if Zoë Kravitz had more of a comic angle to play.

 There are plenty of gags in “Rough Night” that don’t work, like the overly obvious role-reversal stunt of having Jess’ fiancée stage a bachelor party that’s an absurdly effete evening of wine-tasting. McKinnon, as Pippa, has an effervescent silliness, but too much of the joke of her performance boils down to her doing an Aussie accent as if that were a bubbly novelty. Yet Peter’s all-night-long drive to Miami to rescue Jess gets funnier as it goes along, and what’s amusing about the movie is the cocky texture of its feminine bonding — the jokes about home bikini waxing or scarfing pizza over a dead body, delivered with a new style of merciless aggression. It’s hardly the first, or most original, comedy of female outrage to come along, but we’ve had 40 years of men behaving badly on screen, stretching back to “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” and watching these ladies get their turn generates a slobby low-down kick. ||||| Rough Night

 We gave it a C+

 To paraphrase Mel Brooks, “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is the second time the dead stripper in penis sunglasses falls off a Jet Ski.” Or maybe it’s just Rough Night, a raunchy, wildly off-the-rails farce from the team that more or less brought you Broad City.

 Scarlett Johansson is Jess, a 30ish Senate candidate who can barely spare a minute to sit down for Seamless with her fiancé (Paul W. Downs, also a co-writer), let alone celebrate their upcoming union. Her college roommate Alice (Jillian Bell) is the one who insists on reuniting the old crew for an elaborate bachelorette weekend in Miami — including freelance radical Frankie (Ilana Glazer) and Blair (Zoë Kravitz), now a sleek corporate type — even if their paths have diverged since their dorm-room days of midnight Doritos and beer pong. (The arrival of Jess’ Australian year-abroad friend Pippa, played with cracked New Age glee by Kate McKinnon, is a cross she’ll have to bear.)

 Somewhere between the cocaine, the Weenie Linguine, and the Craigslist gigolo, things somehow begin to go wrong. Director Lucia Aniello stacks her loose cannon of a script with a few truly great bits and some inspired casting — including Ty Burrell and Demi Moore as a pair of predatory, praline-colored swingers — but then never quite trusts their gifts, blowing out her Girls Just Wanna Have Hangovers conceit until it feels like the summer-movie equivalent of a fidget spinner: shiny, manic, and spiraling to nowhere. C+ ||||| It’s hard enough being a woman filmmaker these days, but consider the plight of the woman filmgoer. It took years to get a big-budget Wonder Woman vehicle, and if you really must have role models in your movies, she’s probably not a bad one. But comedies in which women behave really badly—like 2016’s Bad Moms or Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, or the more recent Snatched—have become the happy-hour cosmo of moviegoing. They’re plentiful, and supposedly just the ticket for women looking for a “girls’ night out” picture, just something fun to see for kicks. But if they’re supposed to be just a diversion, why—one after another—do they torture us with so many questions? Am I supposed to like this? Is this supposed to be funny? Does this really represent what Hollywood thinks most—or even just many or some—women really want from big-screen entertainment?

 Rough Night, directed and co-written by Lucia Aniello—who has also written and directed numerous episodes of Broad City—is the latest entry in the “women whooping it up” genre, and it doesn’t make any of the above questions easier to answer. The movie—co-written by Paul Downs, Aniello’s boyfriend and writing partner, who also appears in the picture—is at its best when it catches the precise crosscurrent between sleazy and breezy. Scarlett Johansson is Jess, who’s launching a bid for state senator—she’s also about to be married, an adventure that just might be scarier than running for public office. Her old college clique—hoity-toity real-estate diva Blair (Zoë Kravitz), kooky activist Frankie (Ilana Glazer, of Broad City) and randy, insecure teacher Alice (Jillian Bell)—are spiriting her off to Miami for one last bachelorette weekend. They don’t know that she has also invited Pippa (Kate MacKinnon), a college friend they don’t know—Jess met her while spending a year abroad. Pippa is Australian, a loopy good-time girl with an Earth-mother streak, and her accent is a wild ocean of exaggerated rolling vowels. She barges into the movie in an assortment of tropical-printed rompers and maxi dresses, and she gets the movie’s best lines—or maybe she only makes them the best, unreeling them like crazy-colored party streamers.

 The opening third of Rough Night is the best part of the movie and also the most predictable: The women get to Miami and commence partying, hard, immediately. Why is it funny when Frankie scores some coke and the women, at first reluctant to partake (one of them is running for public office, after all), end up descending upon it like gulls fighting for a scrap of fruit on a beach? Somehow the loose, coarse nuttiness of it works. There are props, including funny glasses with a fake penis where the nose should be. There’s a male stripper—make that two male strippers, at least in the literal sense that two brawny guys end up stripping down. But when the movie takes a sort-of dark turn into black-comedy territory, it starts to fall apart. The new, supposedly outrageous scenarios just aren’t as funny as the stock women-gone-wild gags. Ty Burrell and Demi Moore show up in tiny roles, as a kinky, predatory couple, but their oily come-ons are more limp than they are slippery.

 The idea behind Rough Night isn’t bad by itself, and it’s fun to watch Johansson cutting loose in a comedy for a change. The picture also offers a few sight gags that are pure, dumb genius: they just work. (The sight of Downs, as Jess’ fiance, gingerly and acrobatically polishing the windshield of an eighteen-wheeler—did I mention he’s wearing a diaper?—isn’t something you’re likely to forget soon.) But Rough Night tries hard to capture the pleasurably profane, uncorked spirit of Broad City and doesn’t quite succeed, maybe because the joys of the show lie in how casual and intimate it is. Its glimpses into believable neurotic behavior among women are larkish and offhand—but blown up for the big screen, they’re not quite enough to fill it. I laughed a few times at Rough Night, often at MacKinnon and at least once at Downs in his diaper. And really, as Hangover-style dumb entertainments go, it’s certainly good enough. Which isn’t to say it’s anything close to what what women want. |||||

– A mostly female cast gathers for director Lucia Aniello's Rough Night, which reveals just how bad a bachelorette weekend with college friends can get, especially when male strippers are involved. If this plot seems a bit tired to you, you're not alone. The movie has a lackluster approval rating of about 50% among critics on Rotten Tomatoes, despite big-name stars such as Scarlett Johannson and Kate McKinnon. Samples: Rough Night "offers a few sight gags that are pure, dumb genius" and "is at its best when it catches the precise crosscurrent between sleazy and breezy." But when the movie takes a dark turn, "it starts to fall apart," Stephanie Zacharek writes at Time. "As Hangover-style dumb entertainments go, it's certainly good enough," she adds, but she isn't sure this is "anything close" to what women want to see. Owen Gleiberman, on the other hand, says Rough Night is "a perfect example of why Hollywood needs (many) more women filmmakers." Though its formula is quite "derivative," its female perspective makes it fresh, he writes at Variety. The best elements: "the feisty, claws-out spontaneity of its competitive banter between 'sisters' who love and hate each other" and Jillian Bell, "the film's comic spark plug." Leah Greenblatt was less tickled. Rough Night is "a raunchy, wildly off-the-rails farce" that "feels like the summer-movie equivalent of a fidget spinner: shiny, manic, and spiraling to nowhere," she writes at Entertainment Weekly. She does commend the casting—naming Ty Burrell and Demi Moore, who play a swingers couple—but adds the actors have to deal with a "loose cannon of a script." "Well, at least they got the title right," begins Adam Graham at the Detroit News. The rest of his review is no less harsh. "Rough Night is a dismal, excruciating experience, a tired retread of raunchy comedy tropes that can't be bothered to come up with any funny or original bits," he writes. Like one of its characters on cocaine, "it's frantic, scattered and convinced of its own greatness," then "empty and rather sad."


“The Grey” continues what has become a welcome seasonal movie tradition. For the past three winters, just when the Oscar nominees you’ve missed are trying to dazzle and guilt-trip you with visions of Importance, a lean and angry Liam Neeson shows up at the multiplex, out for righteous payback or at least the paycheck that no one would dare begrudge him. Buy a ticket, punk! Having paid his quality biopic dues as Oskar Schindler, Michael Collins and Alfred Kinsey, Mr. Neeson has, at least for now, turned to the rougher and perhaps more lucrative work of action heroism. It takes nothing away from his earlier achievements to note that he’s really good at it. He conveys a ferocious and absolute seriousness even when the going gets silly, and he finds the soul in each new angry-everyman cipher he is asked to play.

 In “Taken” and “Unknown,” he explored the genre in its fast-moving, super-twisty cosmopolitan thriller mode. Those were glib entertainments improved by their star’s natural gravity. “The Grey,” directed by Joe Carnahan from a script he wrote with Ian Mackenzie Jeffers (based on Mr. Jeffers’s story “Ghost Walker”), is something else entirely: a stripped-down, elemental tale of survival in brutal circumstances, as blunt and effective — and also, at times, as lyrical — as a tale by Jack London or Ernest Hemingway. It’s a fine, tough little movie, technically assured and brutally efficient, with a simple story that ventures into some profound existential territory without making a big fuss about it.

 The geographical territory the film stakes out is a bleak, frozen and harshly beautiful corner of Alaska, where Mr. Neeson and a bunch of other excellent actors are stranded after surviving a plane crash. Mr. Neeson’s character, Ottway, is part of a tribe of brawlers, drinkers and lost souls who work in the Arctic oil fields. His job is to roam the tundra with a high-powered rifle, “a salaried killer for a petroleum company,” picking off the predatory animals that menace the other workers. Ottway doesn’t say much, and we know nothing of his background other than that he once had a wife (played in flashbacks by Anne Openshaw). His melancholy voice-over narration early on is a letter to her.

 The sentiments he expresses there hint at a core of tenderness behind his gruff, hangdog demeanor. It is clear that he is a man of violence with a keen, ruthless survival instinct, but also that he harbors deep reservoirs of sorrow and compassion. Shortly after the crash, tending to a badly injured passenger who clearly won’t make it, he eases the man’s passing with breathtaking gentleness.

 That is not a phrase you would ordinarily associate with Mr. Carnahan, whose directing résumé includes exquisite delicacies like “Smokin’ Aces” and “The A-Team.” The sadistic, macho bluster of those movies seemed, at best, a gesture of mock rebellion, something to make football fans and beer drinkers feel like warriors. Such extreme, noisy fantasies of embattled pseudo-manhood might work as parody if they showed any genuine wit.

 But “The Grey” unfolds in a mood of grim earnestness and is grounded in an idea of masculinity under duress that is no less authentic for being thoroughly sentimental. The survivors are all guys, every one possessing his own special blend of insecurity, bravado, courage and stupidity. They are bundled up in parkas, their faces obscured by stubble, snow and blood, so their personalities emerge through action and interaction.

 Some live, some die, and rather than divulge their fates, I’ll list the names of the hardy souls who trudge off into the woods with Ottway: Burke (Nonso Anozie), Henrick (Dallas Roberts), Talget (Dermot Mulroney) and Diaz (Frank Grillo). One is a cynical ex-con, another a God-fearing father, but Mr. Carnahan doesn’t overplay their differences or push the actors — all excellent — toward caricature. He respects their individuality and the specific life-or-death predicament each must face.

 Pursued by wolves, the men start to replicate the pack behavior of their predators. At one point, just out of sight, they hear howls and yelps that Ottway explains are the sounds of the alpha putting down a challenge to its authority. A few minutes later he does the same thing, dealing with someone foolish enough to question his wisdom and instincts.

 Not that Ottway is in control of the situation. It is hard, in this cozy, wired-up, GPS world, to imagine circumstances in which human beings would be so completely at the mercy of nature, but Mr. Carnahan constructs a persuasive picture of primal danger. The wolves (designed by Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger) are an unremittingly, unromantically hostile presence, in part because the world into which Ottway and the others have tumbled belongs so completely to them. Their imperative is to hunt, eat and finally destroy the intruders, and every other natural force, from gravity to the weather to blind chance, seems to be on their side.

 Which means that much of “The Grey” is devoted to the practical details of problem-solving: building fires, improvising weapons, securing food, keeping watch. Such details are the building blocks of suspense and also the scaffolding for the big themes that hover in the wintry air.

 Action movies, including Mr. Carnahan’s earlier films, often turn death into sport, numbing pain, fear and desolation with the visceral rush of violence. “The Grey,” meticulous in its choreography of fight and flight, and questionable in its depiction of wolf behavior, is notable for the thoughtfulness and sensitivity with which it addresses the thorny ethical and metaphysical matters of mortality. It takes death seriously, and partly as a consequence, every moment, every frame, feels alive.

 “The Grey” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Nature red in tooth and claw; men cursing a blue streak.

 The Grey

 Opens on Friday nationwide.

 Directed by Joe Carnahan; written by Mr. Carnahan and Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, based on Mr. Jeffers’s short story “Ghost Walker”; director of photography, Masanobu Takayanagi; edited by Roger Barton and Jason Hellman; music by Marc Streitenfeld; production design by John Willett; produced by Jules Daly, Mr. Carnahan, Ridley Scott and Mickey Liddell; released by Open Road Films. Running time: 1 hour 57 minutes.

 WITH: Liam Neeson (Ottway), Frank Grillo (Diaz), Dermot Mulroney (Talget), Dallas Roberts (Henrick), Joe Anderson (Flannery), Nonso Anozie (Burke), Ben Bray (Hernandez), James Badge Dale (Lewenden) and Anne Openshaw (Ottway’s wife). ||||| Kimberley French Liam Neeson goes from being the hunted to being the hunter in ‘The Grey.'

 Those rabid eyes, that snarling face barely concealing a glimpse of tooth as he stalks with a coiled intensity. Anything can happen if he springs.

 A wild wolf? No — Liam Neeson, a guy even wolves should be scared of in the gripping thriller “The Grey.” With a bellyful of lite Hemingway – most of the film’s do-or-die decisions are followed by serene acceptance of rugged death – and a heavy soul that never drags it down, director Joe Carnahan’s great adventure follows Neeson’s lead and stays steely to the end, even as its grizzled winners take nothing.

 Neeson’s sharpshooter, John Ottway, works for an Alaskan refinery, shooting animals that threaten the oil rig workers. En route to a job, a rickety plane carrying Ottway and what he calls a standard crew (criminals, ex-cons, “the a—holes of the world”) crashes in the wilderness. The handful of wounded men must quickly figure out how to survive.

 Each hour that gets harder. Building fires and finding food is tough enough. Fighting off packs of white wolves is the real threat, as well as snowstorms, a miles-high gorge and fights that could tear them apart before they can cross a river into the trees, and get closer, they hope, to civilization.

 Carnahan and Ian Mackenzie Jeffers’ screenplay, based on Jeffers’ novel, has some of the same man-vs.-nature elements as “Flight of the Phoenix,” “The Edge,” “Alive,” “The Way Back” and Jon Krakauer’s book “Into Thin Air.” It is, in the best sense, like a men’s adventure magazine splashed on the big screen.

 In addition to a sturdy crew of supporting actors, including good turns from Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts and Frank Grillo, there are also haunting snippets of Ottway’s lost love, memories of an emotionally distant father and shouted challenges to any almighty force. (“Fine, I’ll do it myself,” Ottway mutters when no miracles arrive to save him.) The gristle inside this movie is one of the things that save it from being simply a series of challenges.

 Neeson is perfect for this stuff. There have been high points among his “paycheck roles” over the last few years, yet it’s seemed, to an outsider, like he may have been escaping into big-budget work as a way of coping with his own personal tragedy, the death of wife Natasha Richardson in 2009.

 We’ll never know, of course, but if that is the case, here’s hoping that “The Grey,” with its dark themes and gut-level grappling of courage and loss, helps bring him back where he belongs. ||||| The title "8 Million Ways to Die" was already taken, so "The Grey" had to settle for "The Grey," named for the plus-size wolves waging war on the desperate human survivors of an Alaskan wilderness plane crash. Tough situation. Frostbite. Wolf bite. Drowning. Falling from great heights. Harsh outcomes abound for both man and beast.

 And yet the film takes some time to let its characters ruminate, by way of dialogue, on their circumstances, which gives "The Grey" a distinctly late-20th-century feel. The film stars Liam Neeson, a bona fide 59-year-old action hero, as an oil refinery sharpshooter charged with keeping predators at bay. Working from a short story by Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, who wrote the script's first draft, co-writer and director Joe Carnahan places the formidable Neeson in the middle of a scary and bracing picture with more on its mind than advertised. Some of "The Grey" is phony, and it was a mistake to make the rogue wolves large enough to be mistaken for critters out of "Twilight." But Carnahan is smart enough to keep full-view images of the antagonists in check. And there's an actual human element to go with Carnahan's Jack London-inspired depiction of humans against the elements.

 We meet Neeson's character, a heartbroken loner named John Ottway, on the verge of suicide and thinking back, obsessively, to the woman who got away. His demons temporarily quelled, Ottway boards a small plane with his fellow refinery workers and in one of the most nerve-racking flights ever put on film, the aircraft runs afoul of bad weather and crashes. (For a turbulence wimp like me, this scene was not easy.)

 Eight survive, at first. Ottway, the alpha male, knows what he's doing. So does the alpha male of the wolf pack on their trail. The rest of the humans are played by an interesting ensemble of nonstars including Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, Nonso Anozie, Frank Grillo and others. The film shrewdly does not tip its hand about who's living and who's dying.

 Carnahan indulges himself in ways most filmmakers would avoid: He gives several of the men, for example, extended soul-searching discussions about God's existence (or not), about owning up to one's fears, about the precarious nature of love. The best parts of "The Grey" connect the interior lives of these roughnecks with their newfound and lethal obstacles to safety. Carnahan made "Smokin' Aces" (which I hated) and"The A-Team"(which wasn't bad, actually); wisely, he shot and edited "The Grey" like neither of those pictures. This one's more relaxed in its rhythms, a brooding drama about a brooding man in a terrible situation. Only occasionally are there computer-generated ravines that must be leapt across; thankfully much of the action was shot in northern British Columbia, and a lot of the wind and snow and scenery is real. My favorite shot of Carnahan's is a close-up on Mulroney's face as he waits in line, behind Neeson, for a tricky ravine crossing. Most directors wouldn't care much about the supporting actor; they'd be too worried about fluffing up the lead's heroics.

 Neeson holds it together from first to last. He is the rumbly voiced king of the late-January/early February action film, per "Taken" and"Unknown,"and by now moviegoers have been subliminally conditioned to pay money to hear that warm hearth of a speaking voice, under duress but coolly so, this time of year. Call "The Grey" "Deliverance" Lite, with snow, and wolves. And call it a solid January surprise.

 mjphillips@tribune.com

 'The Grey' -- 3 stars

 MPAA rating: R (for violence/disturbing content including bloody images, and for pervasive language)

 Running time: 1:57

 Opens: Friday ||||| The computer-generated wolves have more personality than any of the dull characters in The Grey.

 What starts as a tense and moody survival thriller fairly quickly becomes tedious, forced and far-fetched as a septet of men is preyed upon by a wolf pack in the Alaska wilderness.

 Wolves are much maligned in literature and films. The Grey (* * stars out of four, R, opens Friday) takes the notion of their vicious natures to new extremes as dozens of hulking, bright-eyed beasts attack a ragtag assortment of plane-crash survivors with startling ferocity. When they're not ripping people to shreds — as seen up close and personal through an annoyingly shaky camera — they're lurking ominously nearby, howling and growling.

 Liam Neeson stars as Ottway, a melancholy loner working among oil-rig roughnecks. Apparently, it's his job to keep the work site safe from animal attacks. When he's not shooting the furry denizens, he's obsessing over a letter he wrote to a woman he loved and lost. He spends a good portion of the movie rereading that letter. He has recurring dreams about his beloved lying in gauzy sheets, and he often recites the lines of a trite poem and consistently reaffirms his lack of religious faith.

 Fresh moves are clearly not this guy's thing.

 Subtlety is not a trait preferred by writer-director Joe Carnahan (The A Team), either. Early on, Neeson's Ottway sticks a shotgun in his mouth. Why he doesn't pull the trigger is left unexplained.

 Next, he boards a small plane bound for Anchorage. Shortly after takeoff, turbulence rocks the plane and it crashes spectacularly in what looks like Arctic tundra. Bodies and plane parts are mangled and scattered across the icy landscape. Ottway takes charge, rounding up the half-dozen survivors and calming a dying man.

 This all seems out of character for a guy who a few scenes earlier had seemingly lost the will to live. But he's still no match for the menacing wolves.

 Suspense devolves into a rote tale of man vs. beast. The survivors don't fully capture our sympathies because no one is given much dimension. Verbal nastiness erupts occasionally between the humans, but most of their time is spent trudging through snowdrifts and getting into bloody tussles with wolves.

 In a climactic scene, the wolf pack inexplicably stands patiently, waiting for Ottway to get ready, arm himself and take a few moments to recite a snippet of a hackneyed poem before they attack. It's as if they were instructed on the gentlemanly art of battle.

 In every other scene, the wolves come off as more brutal than bears, sharks and anacondas combined. With its reliance on jolts, sudden movements and thunderous sounds, The Grey is more startling than frightening. |||||

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– The Grey, a survival-in-the-wilderness thriller starring Liam Neeson, is earning a wealth of literary comparisons. The film tells the story of a group of men stranded in the snow after a plane crash, and critics are mostly impressed. In the New York Times, AO Scott applauds the "fine, tough little movie, technically assured and brutally efficient, with a simple story that ventures into some profound existential territory without making a big fuss about it." The film is "as blunt and effective—and also, at times, as lyrical—as a tale by Jack London or Ernest Hemingway." The Grey is "in the best sense, like a men’s adventure magazine splashed on the big screen," notes Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News. "With a bellyful of lite Hemingway and a heavy soul that never drags it down, director Joe Carnahan’s great adventure follows Neeson’s lead and stays steely to the end." But in USA Today, Claudia Puig isn't particularly wowed. "With its reliance on jolts, sudden movements, and thunderous sounds, The Grey is more startling than frightening," she writes. "What starts as a tense and moody survival thriller fairly quickly becomes tedious, forced, and far-fetched." "Some of The Grey is phony," agrees Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune. But "there's an actual human element to go with Carnahan's Jack London-inspired depiction of humans against the elements." Click to see why Slate's Dana Stevens thinks the movie is "almost haiku-like."


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– A month after confirming Zika causes birth defects, CDC researchers say there is a "substantial" risk that a pregnant woman will have a baby with a birth defect if infected with Zika during her first trimester. More specifically, the risk for microencaphaly is 1% to 14% depending on the scenario, reports the AP. The range is wide given that research into the disease is relatively new. For the study, scientists analyzed data from 400 babies diagnosed with microcephaly—in which babies are born with abnormally small heads—in the Brazilian state of Bahia between July and February. Because the study focused exclusively on microcephaly in a single Brazilian state, "these numbers are probably only the tip of the iceberg," says a UCLA professor. One notable quirk: the bigger the outbreak, the better the odds are of having a healthy baby—because more women would be exposed before becoming pregnant and perhaps develop immunity. When the outbreak is small, the risk rises to the 14% level. An earlier study out of Brazil put the risk of Zika-related birth defects and fetal death at almost 30%, though one based on a Zika outbreak in French Polynesia put the risk of microcephaly at 1%. But even a 1% risk could be devastating in developing countries, where there are limited care options for disabled children, a health expert tells USA Today. A separate study published Wednesday notes three Brazilian infants with microcephaly showed eye problems not linked to Zika before, including retinal lesions, hemorrhaging, and abnormal blood vessel development, per a release. (The number of pregnant women with Zika in the US has nearly tripled.)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 file photo, 3-month-old Esther Kamilly has her head measured by Brazilian and U.S. health workers from the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... (Associated Press)

 FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 file photo, 3-month-old Esther Kamilly has her head measured by Brazilian and U.S. health workers from the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at her home in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, as part of a study on the Zika virus and the birth defect... (Associated Press)

 FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 file photo, 3-month-old Esther Kamilly has her head measured by Brazilian and U.S. health workers from the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at her home in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, as part of a study on the Zika virus and the birth defect... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 file photo, 3-month-old Esther Kamilly has her head measured by Brazilian and U.S. health workers from the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... (Associated Press)

 NEW YORK (AP) — As the international epidemic of Zika virus disease has unfolded and led to devastating birth defects for at least 1,300 children in eight countries, an agonizing question has persisted: What is the chance that an infected pregnant woman will have a baby with these defects?

 Researchers don't yet have a complete answer, but they are slowly homing in on one.

 The largest study to ever look at the question says the risk of one especially severe type of birth defect is "substantial" — in the range of 1 percent to 14 percent. It also reinforces the understanding that women infected in the early stages of pregnancy face the greatest risk.

 The range is so unusually wide because researchers are relying on imprecise and incomplete information as they to try to quickly estimate the level of risk in advance of what they say is likely transmission of Zika by mosquitoes in the U.S. later this year.

 The study focused on what was seen in just one place, a state in northeast Brazil. And it looks only at microcephaly, a condition in which a baby's skull is much smaller than expected because the brain hasn't developed properly. But health officials say Zika can cause other birth defects, too.

 "These numbers are probably only the tip of the iceberg," said Dr. Neil Silverman, a UCLA professor of obstetrics who has been advising the California Department of Public Health on Zika issues.

 A study done in Rio de Janiero published earlier this year suggested there is a nearly 30 percent risk for all kinds of Zika-related birth defects and fetal death. The new research doesn't necessarily contradict that, said Silverman, who was not involved in the latest research.

 The new study was done by government scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine.

 The Zika virus causes only a mild and brief illness, at worst, in most people. But in the last year, infections in pregnant women have been strongly linked to fetal deaths and to potentially severe birth defects, mostly in Brazil. Last month, the CDC said there was enough evidence to declare that Zika causes microcephaly and other brain defects.

 The virus is spread mainly through the bite of a tropical mosquito called Aedes aegypti. The bug can be found in the southern United States, but there's no evidence that they've been spreading the virus in the U.S. yet.

 The new study is based on about 400 babies with microcephaly in the Brazilian state of Bahia, who were diagnosed between July and February.

 The researchers made estimates based on what data they could get, but faced challenges. For example, they weren't certain all 400 microcephaly cases were correctly diagnosed. They didn't know for sure how many of the mothers of the affected children had a Zika infection, nor how many pregnant women in Bahia in total were infected with Zika virus during that time period.

 But based on other data from Bahia and from two earlier Zika outbreaks, they could make calculations that accounted for different scenarios — including one which assumed most people were infected and another in which Zika infections were less common.

 A large Zika epidemic would lead to more babies born with birth defects, but the chance that an individual baby would be affected shrinks as an outbreak progresses. That's because a large outbreak would expose more women to the virus and allow them to develop immunity by the time they got pregnant, Silverman said.

 The study found the risk of a fetus developing microcephaly ranged from about 1 percent, when most people were infected, to nearly 14 percent, when only a small proportion were.

 "This gave us an appreciation that the risk is substantial," said Michael Johansson, a CDC biologist who was the study's lead author.

 Previously, the best estimate of the Zika-related risk of microcephaly came from a very small study based on eight cases that occurred during a Zika outbreak in French Polynesia in 2013 and 2014. That study estimated risk of microcephaly at 1 percent for pregnancies in which the mother was infected in the first trimester.

 The range reported in the new study was also for women infected in the first trimester. For women infected later in pregnancy, the risks were well below 1 percent no matter how much Zika was spreading in the community, the authors found. The Rio study, though, found other harms in babies born to women infected during the second or third trimesters, experts noted.

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 A fetus infected with the Zika virus during the first three months of pregnancy has about a 1% to 13% risk of developing microcephaly, an abnormally small head usually caused by incomplete brain development, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 The CDC created a mathematical estimate of the microcephaly risk, based on reports from French Polynesia, which experienced a Zika outbreak from 2013 to 2013, as well as in the Brazilian state of Bahia, where Zika cases have been diagnosed since last year.

 The study is important, because it can help doctors counsel pregnant women about the risks to their babies, said Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Pediatricians and health systems across the Americas also will have to prepare to care for babies with extensive disabilities.

 Even if only 1% of Zika-infected babies develop microcephaly, that could overwhelm the health systems of developing countries that aren't equipped to care for severely disabled children, said Amesh Adalja, a senior associate at the Center for Health Security at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dengue is common in Brazil and throughout much of Latin America and the Caribbean.

 Although Zika was first identified in a monkey in 1947, doctors first linked it to microcephaly only in 2015, after a large outbreak in Brazil.

 The new report suggests that it's possible the virus could have been capable of causing microcephaly in the past, but that earlier outbreaks were too small for relatively rare events such as microcephaly to be noticed.

 During the Zika outbreak on the Micronesian island of Yap, for example, a microcephaly rate of 1% to 13% would have resulted in zero to four cases, according to the CDC report, published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

 The increase in microcephaly cases in French Polynesia, which had a Zika outbreak in 2013 to 2014, was so small that doctors didn't even notice it at the time. Researchers only detected the increase this year, after the Brazil epidemic prompted them to go back and take a closer look at women's medical records. Although 31,000 people sought medical attention for the Zika virus, doctors found just eight cases of microcephaly — three in babies and five in pregnancies that were aborted.

 It's not clear why microcephaly seems so much more common in Brazil, Hotez said. Brazil's Ministry of Health has confirmed 1,434 cases of microcephaly, according to a statement released Tuesday. Brazilian officials have said there could be up to 1.5 million cases of Zika in that country.

 Hotez said it's possible that Zika virus has mutated in a way that makes it more likely to cause microcephaly. Or, it's possible that something about the environment of Brazil or the health of women there make them more likely to deliver babies with birth defects.

 Scientists are also trying to figure out if women who have had other mosquito-borne infections, such as dengue virus, might be more likely to give birth to babies with birth defects, Adalja said.

 Authors of the CDC report note that microcephaly could be only one of a range of birth defects caused by Zika. Doctors caring for babies with microcephaly have diagnosed a variety of eye problems that could lead to blindness.

 And in a Brazilian study of 88 women published in March, ultrasounds found major abnormalities in 29% of the fetuses from women who tested positive for Zika, but none of the women without Zika infections. Women were exposed to the Zika virus between the sixth and 35th week of pregnancy, according to the study, also published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

 Although some of the babies in that study had microcephaly, others had restricted growth in the womb; poor development of brain structures; calcifications in the brain, which signal places where tissue has died; abnormal amniotic fluid levels; or abnormal blood flow in the fetal brain, umbilical cord or placenta, according to the study. Two fetuses in the March study were miscarried and two were stillborn.

 Although Zika is the first mosquito-borne virus known to cause birth defects, doctors have known for decades that viruses such as rubella, or German measles, can cause microcephaly and other serious problems. About 21% of babies infected with rubella develop microcephaly, Adalja said. Congenital rubella syndrome, which can include blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities, has been eliminated in the U.S. because of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.

 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1TERXUW ||||| Researchers studying babies with a Zika virus-related birth defect say they have found previously unreported eye problems possibly linked to the virus that could result in severe visual impairment. In three Brazilian infants with microcephaly, the researchers observed retinal lesions, hemorrhaging and abnormal blood vessel development not noted before in relation to the virus. The findings are being published online today in Ophthalmology, journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

 Zika virus is now known to cause microcephaly, a birth defect marked by smaller head and brain size. In Brazil, the site of the most serious outbreak, nearly 1.5 million people reportedly have the virus. Some 4,000 infants were recently born with microcephaly, according to reports. As a result, the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency in February, bringing added urgency to the need for more research. A prior study of 29 Brazilian babies with presumed congenital Zika infection showed that a third had eye problems. These included ocular lesions, optic nerve abnormalities and chorioretinal atrophy, a withering of the retina and choroid, the latter of which provides oxygen and nutrients to the retina.

 For this case study, ophthalmology researchers from Brazil and Stanford University examined the eyes of three infant boys from Northern Brazil born in late 2015 with microcephaly. All had mothers with suspected Zika virus infections during the first trimester of pregnancy. Among the findings, the researchers identified several types of ocular issues not previously observed in relation to Zika virus, some of which could cause visual impairment if untreated. These included:

 Hemorrhagic retinopathy , or bleeding in the retina, the light-sensitive layer of cells lining the back of the eye;

 , or bleeding in the retina, the light-sensitive layer of cells lining the back of the eye; Abnormal vasculature in the retina , including signs of missing blood vessels in the retina where the cells may have died; and

 , including signs of missing blood vessels in the retina where the cells may have died; and Torpedo maculopathy, identified by torpedo-shaped lesions in the macula, the central portion of the retina.

 In addition to these observations, the infants in this study also exhibited other ocular symptoms noted in the previous study. Specifically, all three babies in this case study showed signs of pigmentary maculopathy, lesions that appear as speckles of pigment on the macula. Four eyes had symptoms of chorioretinal atrophy marked by a darkly pigmented ring.

 The study is small with limited observational data. However, the findings add to a growing body of clinical information about how the Zika virus may affect children's eye development and vision. The authors noted that it remains unclear whether the viral infection itself causes eye abnormalities or if they are a consequence of Zika-induced microcephaly.

 "To my knowledge, the eye problems we found have not been associated with Zika virus before," said Darius Moshfeghi, M.D., senior author and a professor of ophthalmology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. "The next step is to differentiate what findings are related to the Zika virus itself versus microcephaly caused by the virus in order to better understand which infants will need screening."

 For now, the authors are calling for all babies with microcephaly in areas hit by Zika to be examined by an ophthalmologist. This is consistent with recent screening recommendations made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 "Until further notice, health professionals in regions endemic for Zika infection are advised to submit all newborns with microcephaly to retinal examinations," the authors wrote. "The procedure can contribute significantly to our understanding of the infection." |||||


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Rare photographs from Nirvana's first concert in March 1987 have been unearthed and shared by an unlikely source: Maggie Poukkula, the 19-year-old daughter of Tony Poukkula, a member of Seattle band Laytem who grew up with Kurt Cobain and hosted the fledging outfit's first show in his basement.

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 Last week, Poukkula tweeted a photo strip featuring three snapshots from the 1987 gig in Raymond, Washington, along with the caption, "Pictures of my dad and Kurt Cobain playing together back in the day." At the time, Nirvana's lineup consisted of Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Aaron Burckhard, though that night, Poukkula reportedly joined the outfit on guitar for, at least, two Led Zeppelin covers.

 "I had no idea that those were during Nirvana's first concert," Poukkula tells Rolling Stone. "My dad showed me them a while back, but he never mentioned that's what was going on in the photos. I found out because of all the articles. I didn't realize it was such a historical thing. I thought they were just cool pictures of my dad and Kurt jamming together." Poukkula said she found the photos tucked away inside her father's biographies of Cobain and Nirvana.

 Pictures of my dad and Kurt Cobain playing together back in the day pic.twitter.com/y7lXh6acVn — Maggs❂ (@mjpoukkula) July 16, 2015

 According to an incomplete set list from the show, Nirvana jammed on covers of Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" and "How Many More Times," but also performed nascent versions of "Aero Zeppelin," "Mexican Seafood," "Pen Cap Chew," "Hairspray Queen," "Spank Thru" and "If You Must." A recording of the band's "Heartbreaker" jam appeared on the 2004 box set, With the Lights Out, while a bootleg version of "If You Must" is available on YouTube.

 Poukkula's shots come on the heels of a deluge of rare Cobain and Nirvana artifacts, many of which were incorporated into Brett Morgen's acclaimed documentary, Montage of Heck. Morgen was given unprecedented access to Cobain's archives, comprising mountains of notebooks and hours of never-before-heard audio cassette tapes, which featured eerie Beatles covers and the noise collage that gave the film its title.

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– Most teens don't find music history in their dad's stuff, but Maggie Poukkula's dad is Seattle musician Tony Poukkula, who was a friend of Kurt Cobain. Her find? Photos of Nirvana's first concert, performed by then 20-year-old Cobain and his new band in March 1987 in Tony Poukkula's basement. "My dad showed me them awhile back, but he never mentioned that's what was going on in the photos," Maggie Poukkula, 19, tells Rolling Stone. "I found out because of all the articles. I didn't realize it was such a historical thing. I thought they were just cool pictures of my dad and Kurt jamming together." She tweeted the photos last week, and the post quickly went viral. That first concert featured the early Nirvana lineup of Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic, and drummer Aaron Burckhard playing original songs and Led Zeppelin covers. Similar early-days footage of Cobain and Co. featured in the recent documentary Montage of Heck has renewed interest in the grunge band. The Emmy-nominated project includes home movies, never-before-heard music, and intimate interviews with Cobain's family and friends, notes SPIN. After being critically acclaimed at festivals across the country, the film will return to theaters on Aug. 7, adds Rolling Stone. (Want a little more Cobain history? Here's the mix tape he made at 21.)


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– Carrie Underwood looked out from a Louisville stage Saturday night and saw a young audience member holding a sign: "Carrie be my first kiss." So the country star called Chase, 12, up on stage and offered to make his dream come true—as long as he didn't mind that her husband would be watching, the Oklahoman reports. "OK, how are we going to do this?" Underwood asked. The bold tween's reply: "Lip to lip." That's exactly what Underwood did, and later tweeted: "Thanks, Chase, for the kiss and thanks Louisville for rocking so hard tonight! We had fun! #liptolip"

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 Oklahoma-born and bred country music superstar Carrie Underwood helped a young fan make an incredible memory and mark a big milestone during her show Saturday night in Louisville, Ky.

 A 12-year-old fan named Chase apparently made a sign that read “Carrie be my first kiss,” and the Checotah singer-songwriter obliged by bringing him up onstage. After warning the youth that her husband, NFL player Mike Fisher, was in the arena, Underwood asked Chase “OK, how are we going to do this?” Give the boy credit for guts: He replied, “Lip to lip.”

 So Underwood gave him a kiss square on the lips. You know that’s a moment he won’t ever forget.

 After the concert, the superstar even posted a picture of the smooch and thanked the boy on Twitter @carrieunderwood: “Thanks, Chase, for the kiss and thanks Louisville for rocking so hard tonight! We had fun! #liptolip”

 What a sweet, fun, classy moment, that you can share in thanks to that ol’ YouTube magic.

 Underwood’s “Blown Away Tour” will include home state shows on Oct. 25 at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City and Nov. 21 at the BOK Center in Tulsa. For more information, go to www.chesapeakearena.com and www.bokcenter.com.

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