College student knocked unconscious by falling mattress on Broad St.
King's College freshman Jesse Scott Owen was on his way to class when the futon mattress hit him from above.
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Somehow college student Jesse Scott Owen got clobbered by a falling futon mattress on Broad St.
A college freshman was back on his feet Wednesday — a day after a
mattress fell 30 stories from a Manhattan building and landed on his
head.
Jesse Scott Owen, 18, said his sense of humor helped him overcome the neck and back pain he suffered from the futon mattress, which knocked him out cold on Broad St. about 12:45 p.m. Tuesday.
“This was the most absurd thing that ever happened to me,” he told the Daily News.
Owen, who moved to the city three weeks ago from Florida to attend King’s College in lower Manhattan, said he was on his way to a class when he suddenly lost consciousness.
Jesse Scott Owen, 18, said his sense of humor helped him overcome the neck and back pain he suffered from the futon mattress, which knocked him out cold on Broad St. about 12:45 p.m. Tuesday.
“This was the most absurd thing that ever happened to me,” he told the Daily News.
Owen, who moved to the city three weeks ago from Florida to attend King’s College in lower Manhattan, said he was on his way to a class when he suddenly lost consciousness.
SC military honoring missing, prisoners of war
JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Service men and women and civilian Defense Department employees are honoring America's prisoners of war and those missing in action during two days of events at Joint Base Charleston.The events starting Thursday include a 24-hour run completed by teams of four individuals in 30-minute increments.
A luncheon scheduled for Friday honors 16 former POWs and their families who reside in South Carolina. The guest speaker is Ann Mills-Griffiths, chairman of the board of directors for the National League of POW-MIA Families.
Yogurt Linked to Lower BP
Yogurt may help prevent hypertension as part of a healthy diet, an observational study suggested.People who ate at least the equivalent of one serving every three days were 31% less likely to develop high blood pressure than those who ate no yogurt at all, Huifen Wang, PhD, of Tufts University in Boston, and colleagues found.
VIDEO: NYPD hunts brutes who beat and robbed Bronx laundermat employee
Crooks stormed Laundryland Laundromat on White Plains Rd. in Wakefield on Sunday night
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The NYPD is searching for the thugs responsible for beating and robbing a Bronx laundermat worker on Sunday night.
Cops are searching for four brutes who beat down and robbed a Bronx laundermat employee Sunday night.
The crooks stormed the Laundryland Laundromat on White Plains Road near E. 228th St. in Wakefield around 10:40 p.m.
Shocking surveillance video (CLICK FOR VIDEO) shows a blue-hooded bandit repeatedly pummeling the 46-year-old victim, while two women — one in a yellow hat and the other in a white tank top — take turns bashing him with a stick.
A gray-hooded thief, meanwhile, makes off with a cash register, surveillance video shows.
The crooks stormed the Laundryland Laundromat on White Plains Road near E. 228th St. in Wakefield around 10:40 p.m.
Shocking surveillance video (CLICK FOR VIDEO) shows a blue-hooded bandit repeatedly pummeling the 46-year-old victim, while two women — one in a yellow hat and the other in a white tank top — take turns bashing him with a stick.
A gray-hooded thief, meanwhile, makes off with a cash register, surveillance video shows.
FACES AND PLACES: Dionne Warwick concert pays tribute to Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Plus: Ricky Herman Memorial Symposium, meetings and cancer support groups
Courtesy Dionne Warwick
Singer Dionne Warwick will perform in concert at Queensborough Community College's Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Sept. 30, at 3 p.m.
Singer Dionne Warwick — famous for such mega hits as “Don’t Make Me Over,” and “Walk on By” — will appear in concert at Queensborough Community College’s Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Sept. 30 at 3 p.m.The singing legend said her debut performance in Queens will be a ‘tribute of sort’ to the songwriting team of Burt Bacharch and Hal David.
“Since all of my songs were written by Burt and Hal, all of them will be in a tribute of sort,” Warwick said. The Brooklyn-born David died earlier this month.
Spate of bank heists in Queens
But some would-be robbers leave empty handed — one even rebuffed by bank teller
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Police are searching for three men who robbed or tried to rob banks in Queens over the last two weeks or so. On Sept. 17, a man wearing a brown jacket and grey cap tried to rob a Capitol One Bank at 122-03 14th Ave. in College Point. On Sept. 14, a man wearing a white t-shirt and carrying a black backpack robbed a Chase Bank at 138-02 Queens Blvd. in Briarwood. On Aug. 31, a man wearing a white t-shirt, shorts and sunglasses tried to rob a Citibank at 107-01 71st Ave. in Forest Hills.
Even bank robbers appear to be struggling to close the deal lately.
Police are searching for three men responsible for a spate of bank heists in Queens in the last two weeks or so — both successful and unsuccessful — including one robber rebuffed by a teller who just said no to his demands.
The suspect, described as a clean-shaven man in his early 30s, about 5-foot-9, walked into a Capitol One Bank at 122-02 14th Ave. in College Point on Monday at about 10:30 a.m., police said.
He passed a brown bag to the teller and verbally demanded money, but the teller refused, police said. The rebuffed suspect took back the brown bag and then fled on foot on the Van Wyck Expressway Service Road.
He was last seen wearing a brown jacket, blue jeans, dark sunglasses and a grey cap, police said.
On Friday at about 9 a.m., a man described as being in his early 30s, about 5-foot-10, entered a Chase Bank at 138-02 Queens Blvd. in Briarwood and passed a note to the teller demanding money, police said.
Police are searching for three men responsible for a spate of bank heists in Queens in the last two weeks or so — both successful and unsuccessful — including one robber rebuffed by a teller who just said no to his demands.
The suspect, described as a clean-shaven man in his early 30s, about 5-foot-9, walked into a Capitol One Bank at 122-02 14th Ave. in College Point on Monday at about 10:30 a.m., police said.
He passed a brown bag to the teller and verbally demanded money, but the teller refused, police said. The rebuffed suspect took back the brown bag and then fled on foot on the Van Wyck Expressway Service Road.
He was last seen wearing a brown jacket, blue jeans, dark sunglasses and a grey cap, police said.
On Friday at about 9 a.m., a man described as being in his early 30s, about 5-foot-10, entered a Chase Bank at 138-02 Queens Blvd. in Briarwood and passed a note to the teller demanding money, police said.
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Pioneering talk show host Ellis Haizlip literally brought ‘SOUL’ to television
Haizlip's "SOUL" achieved many firsts for blacks in TV; his niece Melissa Haizlip is developing a documentary on his life and work with the PBS show
soulontv via YouTube
Ellis Haizlip interviews R&B singer Al Green on the PBS talk show SOUL!
You would think the late Ellis Haizlip’s name would be a household
word, especially in the African-American community, given the things he
did and when he did them.
And it will be, if his niece, Melissa Haizlip, has anything to say about it.
Melissa Haizlip, with co-director J. Kevin Swain and producer Sam Pollard, are the brains behind “Mr. SOUL!: Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV.” It is a documentary about Haizlip and “SOUL!”, the groundbreaking television show he hosted and produced on WNDT, (now WNET Channel 13) for 130 episodes that ran from September, 1968 to 1973.
“SOUL!” had many firsts: the first television show with an African-American host, the first talk show targeting the black community, the first television show to present a spectrum of black entertainers, politicians and sports figures — many of them Haizlip’s friends, all of them mostly banned from the segregated television of the late Civil Rights era - discussing the issues of the day.
“Ellis knew everybody,” said Christopher Lukas, then WNDT’s director of programming and the person who came up with the idea for “SOUL!” as a way to address the lack of minorities in television in the late 1960s. “He had a black book three inches thick. He wasn’t just a highbrow guy who only knew intellectuals.
He knew all the different communities. So when he called, he could talk to people personally and they would show up.”
Then songwriters Nicholas Ashford and Valerie Simpson sang on “SOUL!” Then up-and-coming poet Nikki Giovanni interviewed novelist James Baldwin on the show. Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Muhammad Ali, musicians Curtis Mayfield, Richie Havens, Joe Tex, Robert Flack, B.B. King, Jerry Butler, the soon-to-be super group Earth, Wind and Fire, and Patti Labelle, all appeared there.
And it will be, if his niece, Melissa Haizlip, has anything to say about it.
Melissa Haizlip, with co-director J. Kevin Swain and producer Sam Pollard, are the brains behind “Mr. SOUL!: Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV.” It is a documentary about Haizlip and “SOUL!”, the groundbreaking television show he hosted and produced on WNDT, (now WNET Channel 13) for 130 episodes that ran from September, 1968 to 1973.
“SOUL!” had many firsts: the first television show with an African-American host, the first talk show targeting the black community, the first television show to present a spectrum of black entertainers, politicians and sports figures — many of them Haizlip’s friends, all of them mostly banned from the segregated television of the late Civil Rights era - discussing the issues of the day.
“Ellis knew everybody,” said Christopher Lukas, then WNDT’s director of programming and the person who came up with the idea for “SOUL!” as a way to address the lack of minorities in television in the late 1960s. “He had a black book three inches thick. He wasn’t just a highbrow guy who only knew intellectuals.
He knew all the different communities. So when he called, he could talk to people personally and they would show up.”
Then songwriters Nicholas Ashford and Valerie Simpson sang on “SOUL!” Then up-and-coming poet Nikki Giovanni interviewed novelist James Baldwin on the show. Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Muhammad Ali, musicians Curtis Mayfield, Richie Havens, Joe Tex, Robert Flack, B.B. King, Jerry Butler, the soon-to-be super group Earth, Wind and Fire, and Patti Labelle, all appeared there.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/pioneering-talk-show-host-ellis-haizlip-literally-brought-soul-television-article-1.1162840#ixzz270Cepbz1
Arsenic in Rice: New Report Finds 'Worrisome Levels'
VIDEOA major consumer magazine is warning Americans to limit how much rice they eat because of concerns over arsenic.
According to a sobering report released to "Good Morning America" by
Consumer Reports magazine this morning, rice eaten just once a day can
drive arsenic levels in the human body up 44 percent. Rice eaten twice a
day can lead to a 70 percent increase in arsenic.
"We think that consumers ought to take steps to moderate their
consumption," said Urvashi Rangan, director of consumer safety and
sustainability at Consumer Reports.
Consumer Reports tested many forms of rice for arsenic, from cereal for
babies and adults, to brown and white whole grain, pasta and drinks.
More than 60 rice and rice products were tested overall, including name
brands.
Many contained what the magazine calls "worrisome levels of arsenic"—
some products had up to five times higher levels than the arsenic found
in oatmeal and one and a half times more than EPA's legal standard for
drinking water.
The researchers also found geographical distinctions in arsenic levels,
with white rice grown in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas,
containing higher levels than rice samples from other parts of the
country. Those four states account for 76 percent of domestic rice
produced.
Inorganic arsenic is considered a level one carcinogen, linked to lung
and bladder cancer. Today, the FDA will announce it has concerns about
rice and arsenic and is studying the issue, but in the meantime
recommends a varied diet. Consumer Reports calls for more.
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