Bill...

Iconic entertainer Bill Cosby was convicted on three counts of sexual assault.  He was found guilty  for assaulting Andrea Constand, the only woman to bring criminal charges against the disgraced comedian.  

A  $3.38 million settlement of 2008 with Costand was made public on day one of the retrial centered on allegations that Cosby drugged and molested Constand in his Pennsylvania home in 2004. Judge Steven O’Neill agreed last week to allow the jury to hear the details and the previously undisclosed sum of the settlement.  

Miracle...

A group of more than 120 cancer researchers and physicians took the unusual step this week of publishing a research paper taking aim at pharmaceutical prices they see as exorbitant and unjustifiable.

Drug companies are profiteering, the doctors say, by charging whatever the market will bear for medications that patients literally can't live without. 

Gleevec is the kind of miracle pill cancer researchers dream about. Introduced in 2001, the drug and others in its class dramatically increased the survival rate for CML and transformed it from a lethal disease to one that is usually chronic but manageable. It's like having hypertension or diabetes, doctors say -- so long as you take your daily drugs.


Novartis sold Gleevec in 2001 for an annual cost of $30,000, now more than $76,000 in the U.S.

Why is the price 10 times the cost of other countries?

Lies...*

What do women want?

Online dating apps have been faulted for putting too much emphasis on looks alone. But finding a partner with long-term appeal, it appears that the best way for a man to attract a woman is through the gift of gab.
Researcher found men's prowess as storytellers is a big factor in their perceived status and attractiveness to the opposite sex.

For women, a man's storytelling ability factored greatly in their assessment of whether he would be a more appealing long-term match. For men, while storytelling ability in women seemed to show signs of greater intelligence, it did not translate to them being viewed a more attractive match.

So, while a man is seen as being both more powerful and attractive if he can deliver a good yarn, a woman may not have the same luxury.  

Some may make up the story just to get ahead.https://youtu.be/pxZxidEDkws

Guru...

An Indian court has found Asaram Bapu, a spiritual leader who has founded hundreds of ashrams in India, guilty of raping a teenage girl and sentenced him to life in prison.  

The teen's parents had been followers of the guru; they brought her to one of his ashrams to receive spiritual instruction — but instead, he forced her into sex acts, a court in Jodhpur, in the western state of Rajasthan, said on Wednesday. After the girl told her parents what had happened, they contacted authorities.

Asaram is the second high-profile guru who has recently been felled by rape charges. Last summer, spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Sing — the "Guru of Bling" — was convicted of rape. That verdict brought violent protests from the guru's followers in two states, Haryana and Punjab, resulting in a military curfew.

Celecoxib...

A prescription painkiller that has been under a cloud for more than a decade is apparently safer than previously believed, a Food and Drug Administration panel concluded.

The drug celecoxib, sold by Pfizer under the brand name Celebrex, poses no greater risk for causing heart attacks and strokes than two other widely used pain relievers, the committee voted at the end of a two-day hearing.  

Based on the committee's conclusion, the FDA may change the advice about the drug's safety that it provides to doctors.

Affair...

Meredith Chapman with Husband

 An ex-political candidate was shot dead by her lover's wife in a suburban Philadelphia home before the attacker turned the gun on herself, police say.

Jennair Gerardot, 48, broke into the house of Meredith Chapman, 33, and ambushed her as she returned home in the evening.

Investigators say Mrs Gerardot may have worn a disguise. She sent her husband texts revealing her revenge plan.  Both women were dead when police arrived.

More happened to this story than just a younger woman entering into the picture.

DNA...

A 72-year-old former police officer has been arrested in the decades-old "Golden State Killer" case in California. He would break into his victims' homes by prying open a window or door while they slept, the FBI said.

He would then shine a flashlight into their faces, tie them up, ransack the house, and rape female victims, the FBI said.

An arrest warrant was issued and a complaint was filed charging DeAngelo with two counts of murder with special circumstances for the murder of a Sacramento couple in 1978, and the capital murders of a couple killed in March 1980 in Ventura County, California. The crimes span 10 counties. More charges are expected

It was discarded DNA that confirmed, "We had our man,"

Stone...

Oliver Stone says the United States has made a mess of the Middle East.

Stone reprised his criticism of the 2003 Iraq war and suggested the U.S. has acted similarly in Libya and Syria, saying: “We had no permission to invade Iraq from the U.N., we did it, and we continue to do this.”
Stone also said you can't make a film critical of US forien policiy.

What wasn't said is the outcome. We invade a country, supported one fraction over another, led  humanity deteriorates to levels not seen in the history. Gus who is ready to bare arms while the peaceful minorities were run over.

The cost to USA, Middle East and the world is un-imaginable. Sadly, some became rich as hundred of thousands were killed, and millions lived in misery.

Waffling...

After the last shooting in a Waffle House...

Pizza...

 

Memories Pizza, the shop that became embroiled in the national debate over religious and civil rights and touched off a national media firestorm in 2015, has closed.

Owners Kevin and Crystal O’Connor were the focus of intense criticism and media attention in April 2015 after they told an ABC 57 reporter that they wouldn’t cater a gay wedding because of their religious beliefs, although they added that they would not deny service to any customer in the restaurant.

 The pizza shop owners’ comments soon went viral, and media outlets using Memories Pizza as a focal point.  

The attention, protests and death threats led the store to close for eight days, but the owners subsequently received a flood of donations  more than $800,000  after Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze network backed the O’Connors and set up a GoFundMe account to support them.

Religion is not just one thing. The town has 2200 resident.