Monday, August 5, 2013

Actors with fake guns bring police with real ones

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? College filmmakers were using fake guns to shoot a robbery scene at a suburban Los Angeles coffee shop when the movie took a scary twist that wasn't in the script.

Eight police officers were descending on the masked actors. The police were real, with very real guns drawn, and had no idea this was a movie.

"Drop the gun! Drop it! Drop it!" one officer yells on an audio recording police were carrying.

One of the actors immediately let go of his fake assault rifle. But another held onto his replica handgun, forcing officers to make a life-or-death choice. An officer knocked the gun from the actor's hand and handcuffed him, drawing a peaceful climax to what could have been something far worse.

"One of the officers made the decision that had the man moved, he would have been killed," said Glendora police Capt. Tim Staab. "It was just milliseconds from a tragedy."

Police said it showed the dangers of movie-making for amateur film crews who don't get permits and follow proper steps before taking to the streets.

"I can't think of a situation more dangerous than having a gun in your hand with cops responding," Staab said. "It was much closer than we ever want to get close to."

Attempts to reach the film's director were unsuccessful. The students declined to tell police what college they were from.

The officers responded to the shop after receiving a 911 call from a woman who reported seeing an armed, masked gunman inside Classic Coffee in Glendora, a suburb east of Los Angeles that rarely sees Hollywood film crews.

Police said there was nothing to indicate a short movie was being shot. No one was outside to warn customers, there were no signs, and no permit had been pulled.

When officers arrived, there was no question in their mind that a robbery was occurring, Staab said.

It's rare "to go into a coffee shop and see someone carrying an AR-15 rifle and wearing a mask," he said.

Under normal filming protocols, weapons carried by the actors have orange markings to indicate they are replicas. But the markings on the guns used by the students had been covered by a black pen, presumably to make the weapons look more realistic.

Staab said one of the masked men, apparently startled by the real-life response, held the fake gun by his side, pointed toward the ground. When he didn't drop it, Staab said, an officer did something unusual ? he stripped it from the man's hand and sent the gun falling to the floor.

After the man was handcuffed, the officer is heard on the audiotape asking what was going on. Somebody says a film was being made.

"You are shooting a short film?" the officer asks. "In a store with a man with a gun?"

The students were allowed to keep the fake weapons and weren't facing charges. They were given a lecture by officers about the dangers they created and went on their way.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/actors-fake-guns-bring-police-real-ones-084324299.html

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Microsoft cuts prices on Surface Pro tablets by $100

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Microsoft is cutting prices on Surface Pro tablets by $100. The new discount follows just a few weeks after the huge price cut on Surface RT models. Starting August 4th and... ...

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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Ubisoft Presents French President Fran?ois Hollande With a Wii U and Games

News, Platforms, Wii U

by Giuseppe Nelva Aug 3rd 2013 3:42AM

French President?Fran?ois Hollande visited Japan last month, and during the visit fifteen french companies operating in the country staged an exhibition to show off their products and services.

Fran?ois_Hollande_(Journ?es_de_Nantes_2012)Ubisoft was between those companies, and prepared a booth showcasing Rabbids Land on the Wii U. While Mr. Hollande didn?t manage to try the game due to the strict schedule and protocol, Ubisoft presented him with a Wii U and a copy of Rabbids Land, Assassin?s Creed III and Just Dance 4.

Now, I?m quite sure I?m not the only one giggling at the idea of the elegant Hollande shaking his booty while playing?Just Dance,?even if I suspect that the brand new presidential Wii U will either gather dust or be given to one of Hollande?s four sons.

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Food & Drink Blotter: August | San Diego Downtown News

Frank Sabatini Jr. | Downtown News

A newly released book spotlights recipes from San Diego?s most popular restaurants and their chefs. (Courtesy Globe Pequot Press)

A newly released book spotlights recipes from San Diego?s most popular restaurants and their chefs. (Courtesy Globe Pequot Press)

San Diego author Maria Desiderata Montana spares us the hassle of begging local restaurants for the recipes of their signature dishes, the ones that we love of course. In her latest book, San Diego Chef?s Table (Globe Pequot Press), she snags the precise specs for making whole sea bass from Christian Graves of Jsix; quiche Basquaise by Katie Grebow of Caf? Chloe; pumpkin waffles from Terryl Gavre of Caf? 222; and Mexican chocolate cake from Dustin Beckner at Quality Social. Several other Downtown restaurants are featured, along with dozens more from kitchens across San Diego County. The 207-page book ?? due to release on Aug. 6 ? is loaded with chef-restaurant profiles and luscious photography by John Dole. The cost is $24.95.

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What do you get when you cross a Harley Davidson motorcycle with a chandelier made of Jack Daniels bottles and a former Playboy playmate? The answer is Lucky Bastard Saloon, the Gaslamp District?s newest high-profile establishment launched by model-turned-restaurateur Nicole Dahm Kelly. Amid naughty-named cocktails and casual grub that includes battered cheese curds and burgers with peanut butter are 38 big-screen televisions, billiards and shuffleboards. 840 Fifth Ave., 619-233-0023.

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Meat yakitori from the new ?omakase? menu at Gaijin Noodle + Sake House. (Courtesy Gaijin Noodle + Sake House)

Meat yakitori from the new ?omakase? menu at Gaijin Noodle + Sake House. (Courtesy Gaijin Noodle + Sake House)

An exotic culinary journey through Japan awaits at Gaijin Noodle + Sake House, where Chefs Antonio Friscia and Fern Tran have introduced a $45 ?omakase? menu, which in Japanese means, ?I?ll leave it to you.? For guests who surrender their palates to the kitchen, the chefs will oblige with six or seven courses of fresh and creative dishes that have included various sashimi, oxtail noodles made with humanely raised beef and vegetable or meat yakitori from the white charcoal grill. 627 Fourth Ave., 619-238-0567.

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Guests enter through a tunneled staircase reminiscent of a Tokyo subway at the new Bang Bang, which showcases a full slate of Asian cuisine and what the promoters are calling ?the largest disco ball on the West Coast.? The 7,000-square-foot space, which formerly housed Airr Supper Club, was launched by Mauricio Couturier of El Camino in Little Italy and Johnny Shockey of Voyeur. Video projections and oversized Japanese lanterns set the stage inside for sushi, ?bang mi? sandwiches and flaming punch bowls. 526 Market St., 619-677-2264.

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Farm-fresh salads, hormone-free meats and line-caught fish rule the day at Tender Greens, which recently opened its third San Diego location in the former Greyhound Bus station on Broadway. Chef Bradley Austin, a deep-sea fisher and graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, heads a menu that includes ?backyard? marinated steak, herb-brushed albacore and tons of big, leafy salads. In addition, a concept version of the environmentally friendly restaurant is slated to open in late August in the Commuter Terminal at San Diego International Airport. 110 W. Broadway, 619-795-2353.

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The Dallas-based Fogo de Chao makes its San Diego debut on Aug. 22 in the mondo brick structure that previously housed Border?s. The Brazilian steakhouse features gaucho chefs slicing and serving 14 different cuts of meats tableside. Customers will be supplied with the customary discs revealing a red side to stop the flow of meat, and the green side to bring more on. Options include top and bottom sirloin, lamb, rib eye, pork loin, linguica and more. 668 Sixth Ave., 619-338-0500.

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Frank Sabatini has been a food critic for over 20 years. He can be reached at fsabatini@rr.san.com.?

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Google intros Android Device Manager to help you find that missing handset

Frequently lose your phone? Yeah, join the club. Don't worry, Google's got a fix. Android Device Manager will be available later this month for phones with 2.2 or later, letting you ring your phone at maximum volume when you can't find it, even if the handset has been silenced. Should that fail, you can also locate the thing on a Google Map in real-time -- and there's also a plan C. When you're all out of other options, you can securely erase all of your data from afar, so your Angry Birds scores don't wind up in the wrong hands.

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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Russian blogosphere finds something fishy about Putin's pike

The Russian president purportedly caught a 45-pound pike on a recent outing. But some suspect that's a fish story.

By Fred Weir,?Correspondent / August 2, 2013

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a big pike he caught while fishing during a mini-break in late July in the Siberian Tyva region of Russia. The Kremlin said the pike weighed in at 45 pounds, but Russian bloggers are skeptical.

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Everybody knows that when fishermen get competitive, they are prone to start telling whoppers about the size of their catches.

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Fred Weir has been the Monitor's Moscow correspondent, covering Russia and the former Soviet Union, since 1998.?

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But when they happen to be the leaders of fraternal post-Soviet countries, those fish stories may threaten to take over news cycles, and the natural skepticism of those who hear such tales can take on unexpected political freight.

Something like this appears to have overtaken President Vladimir Putin's latest publicity stunt. When he embarked last weekend on a fishing trip to a remote region, it's likely the last thing on his mind was to fan political controversy, much less international rivalry. But he reckoned without the freewheeling Russian blogosphere, and the competitive macho instincts of his Belarussian neighbor, President Alexander Lukashenko.

Mr. Putin visited Tyva, a mountainous republic in southern Siberia, where he piloted a speedboat and, in his now familiar bare-chested style, landed a large pike with a spin-fishing rod. As usual, the Kremlin proudly posted a video of Putin holding up the massive fish and giving it a kiss, along with an entire photo album depicting that feat as well as the president's other vigorous activities.

The Kremlin announced that the fished weighed in at 21 kg, or about 45 pounds.

"I personally saw the scales and was present in the weighing. It was seriously more than 20 kg," Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, was quoted as saying by the independent Interfax news agency.

Russia's pesky blogosphere hooted with derision and also produced pretty convincing evidence that the Kremlin's claim was greatly exaggerated.

One blogger used the Kremlin's own photos of the 5'7" Putin to deduce the fish's length at just under 3 feet and then employed standard fishermen's tables to calculate the fish's actual weight a mere 15.4 pounds, or barely a third of what the Kremlin had claimed.

Another took the route of publishing photos of other fishermen with their catches ? visibly bigger pikes that Putin's, yet somehow weighing half or less of what Putin's "golden fish" was claimed to be.

"The Kremlin probably weighs its fish by the same method it counts votes" in elections, one blogger sneered.

And then Mr. Lukashenko, the flamboyant president of neighboring Belarus, got into the act.

"I personally hauled in a catfish weighing 57 kilograms [126 pounds]! I caught three catfish: 57, 24, and 7 kilograms," during a recent outing on the Pripyat River, Lukashenko said in remarks carried by Belarussian state TV Tuesday.

The Kremlin did not respond. But many in Belarus must have shuddered: The Pripyat River flows from Belarus almost directly into the radioactive exclusion zone of the Chernobyl atomic power station in Ukraine, which suffered one of history's worst nuclear accidents in 1986.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/csmonitor/globalnews/~3/AvlaDToxPdI/Russian-blogosphere-finds-something-fishy-about-Putin-s-pike

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