Robin Roberts will be taking more time off from "Good Morning America" than expected, she told viewers on Tuesday.
She announced that she will be leaving for one or two weeks before
her medical leave, noting that she was not feeling well. Roberts
was recently diagnosed with MDS, a rare blood and bone marrow disorder, as a side effect of her battle with breast cancer.
"Well, a full disclosure here, I’m not feeling too well," Roberts told viewers, according to
the Hollywood Reporter.
"In fact I’m going to leave and let you all do the rest of the program
on your own. I’m going to take a little time off, just to get some
vacay… I'll see you in a couple of weeks."
The Oscar winner is on the receiving end of an arrest warrant from
New Orleans police for allegedly pushing a bartender twice in a French
Quarter watering hole early Tuesday morning, E! News has learned.
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Per the New Orleans Police Department, the incident took
place at Old Absinthe House on Bourbon Street at about 3 a.m. and
involved a female bartender. Gooding entered the bar with a group of
friends, and after a few minutes, other patrons recognized him and asked
him to take photos with them, at which point he became aggravated,
police say.
The bartender approached him and asked him to calm
down and that's when the 44-year-old thesp allegedly shoved her. As one
of her coworkers called 911, Gooding and pals decided to leave—but not
before allegedly pushing the bartender again on his way out.
CHARLESTON, S.C., July 31 (Reuters) - A South Carolina
hospital said it has notified 11 brain surgery patients that
they could have been exposed to a rare brain disease through
surgical instruments used on a patient who was later diagnosed
with the fatal condition.
Greenville Hospital System officials said the patient was
found to suffer from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a degenerative
brain illness that affects one to two people per million
worldwide each year and is always fatal, according to the
Centers for Disease Control.
Death usually results within one year of diagnosis.
The CDC recommends that instruments that have come into
contact with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease undergo additional
sterilization procedures prescribed by the World Health
Organization.
In this case, because the Creutzfeldt-Jakob diagnosis wasn't
known at the time of the patient's surgery, the instruments were
"sterilized according to rigorous U.S. protocols" but did not
undergo any extra disinfecting, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Officials said they believe there was a low chance that the
disease was transmitted to the other patients, who underwent
neurological surgeries after the infected patient in February.
A Requiem for Pianos:
O’Mara Meehan Piano Movers has been in the business since 1874. The vice
president, Bryan O’Mara, laments the fact that he has to dispose of 5
to 10 pianos a month
SOUTHAMPTON, Pa. — The Knabe baby grand did a cartwheel and landed on
its back, legs poking into the air. A Lester upright thudded onto its
side with a final groan of strings, a death-rattling chord. After 10
pianos were dumped, a small yellow loader with a claw in front scuttled
in like a vicious beetle, crushing keyboards, soundboards and cases into
a pile.
The site, a trash-transfer station in this town 20 miles north of
Philadelphia, is just one place where pianos go to die. This kind of
scene has become increasingly common.
The value of used pianos, especially uprights, has plummeted in recent
years. So instead of selling them to a neighbor, donating them to a
church or just passing them along to a relative, owners are far more
likely to discard them, technicians, movers and dealers say. Piano
movers are making regular runs to the dump, becoming adept at
dismantling instruments, selling parts to artists, even burning them for
firewood.
“We bust them up with a sledgehammer,” said Jeffrey Harrington, the
owner of Harrington Moving & Storage in Maplewood, N.J.
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor
Michael Bloomberg has a message for new mothers: Breast-feed your baby, if possible.
Starting
in September, dozens of city hospitals will ask mothers of newborns to
listen to talks about why their breast milk is better than the sample
formulas many hospitals offer for free. Then the women can decide for
themselves, says the mayor.
Bloomberg
has been ribbed as the city's "nanny" for pushing programs aimed at
making New Yorkers healthier — from clamping down on big sugar-loaded
drinks to creating no-smoking zones in public places.
Now,
under the "Latch On NYC" initiative, 27 of 40 hospitals in the city
that deliver babies will no longer hand out promotional formula unless
it's for medical reasons, or at a mother's request.
"Most
public health officials around the country think this is a great idea,"
Bloomberg said at a City Hall briefing earlier this week. "The
immunities that a mother has built up get passed on to the child, so the
child is healthier."
He
says formulas remain an acceptable solution if a mother cannot
breastfeed, whether for health reasons or because her schedule does not
allow it.
The month of August brings us not one, but two 
Soon after they got into the house, cops found a 25-year-old man tied
up in the garage, sources said. Investigators also found two safes
containing materials to make bogus credit cards, sources said.
Ethan Bortnick, an 11-year old-child piano prodigy, has entered the Guinness Book of World Records.
