(CNS) – Nancy Reagan is recuperating at her Bel Air home from broken ribs suffered in a fall about six weeks ago, a spokeswoman said today.
Reagan is slowly adding events to her schedule, but her doctor has advised the 90-year-old former first lady to avoid “large events too far from home just yet,” spokeswoman Joanne Drake said.
As a result, she did not attend an event at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley on Tuesday night featuring House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan.
“She personally invited Congressman Ryan and really wanted to be here, but sent her apologies to him earlier today,” Drake said.
In October 2008, the breast cancer survivor took a bad fall at her Bel Air home, breaking her pelvis. Last summer during an appearance at the Reagan Library, Reagan lost her balance but was caught by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
(AP) – Bob Moog’s synthesizer helped change the sound of modern music. On what would have been his 78th birthday, Google is paying tribute to the man with a virtual version of his famous Moog on their homepage – and it’s completely playable.
The Moog doodle, a replica of the Minimoog Model D, may not be a highly complex synthesizer but it explores a lot of the realms of synthesis – the sculpting of sound mastered by a synthesizer.
“To be able to put all those capabilities in the hands of hundreds of millions of people is just astounding,” said Moog’s daughter Michelle Moog-Koussa, who serves as executive director of the Bob Moog Foundation. “I think he would be humbled and awed.”
In 45 years, the Moog synthesizer has gone from a behemoth instrument that took several techs to work and several people to carry, to one you can download on your iPhone.more
Dog treats from China cause dogs to get sick
L.A.'s Afternoon News: Maggie McKay and Michael Shappee, KFWB News
Better check your dog’s treats. Nearly 1,000 dogs reportedly have been sickened by chicken jerky pet treats from China. This is according to a new tally of complaints from worried owners and vets submitted to federal health officials. The FDA has logged 900 reports of illnesses and deaths since November, when it warned owners about continued problems with the products known variously as chicken jerky strips, treats and nuggets.
The agency sent inspectors earlier this year to Chinese plants that make the jerky treats, but no results of those reviews are yet available. No one’s been able to find any toxins responsible for the doggy illnesses and deaths. The suspect brands include Waggin’ Train and Canyon Creek Ranch brands produced by Nestle Purina PetCare Co., and Milo’s Kitchen Home-style Dog Treats, produced by the Del Monte Corp. Two of the manufacturers say their products are fine and are not behind any illnesses
Former CNN exec leaves doggie doo-doo in mailbox
L.A.'s Afternoon News: Maggie McKay and Michael Shappee, KFWB News
A former high-ranking CNN executive is accused of leaving dog feces in his neighbor’s mailbox. Covington, Georgia police say the victims of the incident, Benjamin Dameron and Ralph Miller, have video of Bob Furnad walking with his dog up to the mailbox and placing a bag filled with the feces in their mailbox.
“Mr. Furnad stated that he did place a bag containing dog feces in the victim’s mail box,” Covington Police Capt. Ken Malcom told WGCL-TV.
Furnad told the Covington News that he pulled the prank due to a long-standing feud with the two. “This was an immature act in response to years of malicious rumor mongering that I consider defamation of character,” Furnad told the paper.more
Parents are happier than people without kids
L.A.'s Afternoon News: Maggie McKay and Michael Shappee, KFWB News
Contrary to recent scholarship and popular belief, parents experience greater levels of happiness and meaning in life than people without children, according to researchers from the University of California, Riverside, the University of British Columbia and Stanford University. Parents also are happier during the day when they are caring for their children than during their other daily activities, the researchers found in a series of studies conducted in the United States and Canada.
These findings appear in a paper — “In Defense of Parenthood: Children Are Associated With More Joy Than Misery” — which will be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science, the flagship journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
“We are not saying that parenting makes people happy, but that parenthood is associated with happiness and meaning,” explained Sonja Lyubomirsky, professor of psychology at UC Riverside and a leading scholar in positive psychology. “Contrary to repeated scholarly and media pronouncements, people may find solace that parenthood and child care may actually be linked to feelings of happiness and meaning in life.”
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A fossil of a fearsome T. Rex relative has been auctioned in New York City despite the Mongolian government’s objections and a judge’s order blocking the sale.
The 24-foot-long tarbosaurus skeleton sold for more than $1 million yesterday — but the sale is contingent upon the outcome of the auction house’s court fight with Mongolia’s President.
A Texas judge Saturday ordered the sale stopped while the case plays out. Attorneys for the Mongolian President says they’ll ask a judge today to rule the auction invalid. The auction house says it obtained the skeleton legally.
(AP) – Larry King said Thursday that his talk show will resume this summer on the new digital network Ora.TV, earlier than he or the network had anticipated.
The show “Larry King Now” will mark the startup of the network financed by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. Executives had originally intended to launch in the fall. But King said he wanted to “get into the political mix.” The Democratic and Republican national conventions to name presidential nominees are this summer.
King said he expected the format of his show to be similar to “Larry King Live,” which aired on CNN in prime time for 25 years, and he’s retained much of his old production staff. The new show will generally be 30 minutes in length, instead of an hour, although there will be flexibility to go shorter or longer depending on who’s being interviewed, said Jon Housman, Ora.TV’s CEO.
(AP) – A California school bus driver who was hailed as a hero for helping 26 students escape after three kidnappers buried them underground in 1976 has died. Frank Edward “Ed” Ray was 91.
A family member says Ray died Thursday from complications of cirrhosis of the liver.
Ray was the only adult on board when his school bus was hijacked in the farm town of Chowchilla. The kidnappers then held them inside a truck buried underground in a plan to demand $5 million ransom.
Ray led the children to safety after he and two older children dug their way out as the kidnappers slept. No one was hurt.
The incident was made into a TV movie.
His granddaughter, Robyn Gomes, says Ray didn’t consider himself a hero.
New York man dies of ‘secondary drowning’
L.A.'s Afternoon News: Maggie McKay and Michael Shappee, KFWB News
A 60-year-old man fell into New York’s Long Island Sound, pulled himself out — and then died several hours later, apparently of drowning. Emergency doctors today called it a case of secondary drowning, something very unusual.
The man, Tommy Mollo fell off the back of a friend’s boat Saturday morning while helping move it between slips at a marina. Mollo returned to his apartment and told his wife he felt ill. She called 911 and emergency workers took Mollo to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
An ER doctor says that water got into Mollo’s lungs when he fell overboard, which led to subsequent breathing difficulties that could have been exacerbated by medical issues he already had. Lung damage from secondary drowning occurs when water comes into direct contact with the cells lining the lungs, interfering with their ability to supply needed oxygen to the body and to take away carbon dioxide, a gaseous waste product.
(AP) – Maybe he should be named Bob.
An Arabian horse named William got spooked during a California beachside photo shoot Tuesday and swam a mile out to sea before rescuers got to him and helped him back to shore.
Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Capt. Jay Irwin tells the Santa Barbara News-Press that the horse’s white head looked like a seagull bobbing in the water.
Owner Mindy Peters says the 6-year-old Arabian, whose official name is Heir of Temptation, was part of a photo clinic on the beach when it was spooked by waves and ran off.
Rescue swimmers assisted by the Santa Barbara Harbor Patrol and state parks employees found the horse a mile offshore as darkness fell.
By 8:30 p.m., the horse was back on shore in good shape.
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