Cops: Woman, 23, Assaulted Boyfriend Because He Would Not Stop Singing That Catchy "Thrift Shop" Song

Angered that her boyfriend would not stop singing that catchy “Thrift Shop” song by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, a Colorado woman allegedly choked and pushed her beau during a confrontation late Saturday.
Samantha Malson, 23, was arrested by the Longmont Police Department for harassment and domestic violence, according to a Boulder County Sheriff’s Office booking sheet.
According to a police report, Malson and her boyfriend, Lars Hansen--who celebrated his 26th birthday Saturday--were both inebriated when officers arrived at their apartment around midnight. Malson, a certified nursing assistant, told cops that the couple had been “fighting all evening over the fact that Hansen accused Malson of consuming all the alcohol in the house.”
After Malson briefly left the residence, she returned and “began to listen to Macklemore’s song ‘Thrift Shop,’ which Hansen was singing while laying on the couch.” Malson, pictured in the above mug shot, told cops that Hansen sang the lyrics "over and over," and that she asked him to stop "25 times" before the fracas began.
“He just annoyed me,” Malson told police. She also reportedly confessed that, “I grabbed him around the throat” and “I did it for intimidation.”
Free on bond, Malson does not include Macklemore & Lewis among her musical “likes” on Facebook. Macklemore (real name: Ben Haggerty) is seen below in a still from the “Thrift Shop” video. The 3:55 hit, which includes a catchy hook sung by Michael “Wanz” Wansley, has topped the Billboard 100 chart and its video has been viewed in excess of 225 million times on YouTube.

Brake failure caused fatal church camp bus crash, driver says

Tribune wire reports

2:19 p.m. CDT, July 28, 2013

INDIANAPOLIS -- The driver of a bus that crashed at the weekend killing three people and injuring 26 others as they returned from a church camp told witnesses the brakes failed as the bus exited an interstate highway, a spokeswoman for the Indianapolis Fire Department said on Sunday.
Dennis Maurer, 68, of Indianapolis, was driving 37 passengers, mainly teenagers, from a summer camp in Michigan to the Colonial Hills Baptist Church in northern Indianapolis when the bus crashed into a lane barrier as it left Interstate 465, said spokeswoman Rita Burris.
They were only a couple of miles from their destination when the accident happened.
Youth pastor Chad Phelps and his wife, Courtney Phelps, as well as Tonya Weindorf, the mother of one of the children on the bus, were killed, a Colonial Hills Baptist Church spokeswoman told Reuters.
Twenty-six others were taken to area hospitals with various injuries, two of them by helicopter, officials said.

‘The Wolverine,’ ‘The To Do List’ and other new movies, reviewed

In this week’s new movies, Hugh Jackman dons Wolverine’s retractable claws again for “The Wolverine,” and the documentary “The Act of Killing” is a must-see. Five out of six films this week received at least three stars.

Ben Rothstein – “The Wolverine” takes Logan (Hugh Jackman) to Japan, where he crosses paths with ninjas, samurai and assorted gun-toting ne’er-do-wells.

★★★1/2 “The Wolverine” (PG-13) “Where ‘The Wolverine’ delivers isn’t in plot, but in its core dynamic, which places Logan in the familiar, if somewhat paternalistic, role of savior. That’s a welcome change from “Origins,” in which his primary motivation was ugly revenge.” – Michael O’Sullivan
★★★★ “The Act of Killing” (Unrated) “Whatever you call it, ‘The Act of Killing’ is a must-see. Using blunt stagecraft, probing psychological insight, elegant interrogation of narrative truth and characters steeped in a particularly terrifying brand of self-mythologizing, director Joshua Oppenheimer has succeeded in turning “The Act of Killing” into both a sharply confrontational vehicle for bearing witness and a craftily layered meditation on the cinematic medium itself.” –Ann Hornaday
★★★1/2 “Blackfish” (PG-13) “The core assertions made by filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite are shocking, even if there’s some dispute as to their accuracy. Number one: Captivity doesn’t seem good for orcas, which are highly intelligent, sensitive mammals. They tend to have a higher mortality rate living in parks than they do in the wild, the film notes.” – Michael O’Sullivan
★★1/2 “The To Do List”(R) “Much of the film’s comedy emerges from Brandy’s perfectionist tendencies and deadpan discussion of lewd acts, but the ’90s setting also serves as a running joke. That could limit the appeal for those that came of age before or after the decade.” – Stephanie Merry
★★★1/2 “Crystal Fairy”(Unrated) “Crystal Fairy, as she calls herself, almost immediately disrupts Jamie’s monomaniacal focus on drugs, which comes across as an obvious defense mechanism against what appears to be an otherwise paralyzing fear.” – Michael O’Sullivan
★★★“The Hunt” (R) “Because ‘The Hunt’ is predicated on such a well-known hot button issue, it sometimes feels dated, its masterful storytelling and performances serving a cautionary lesson that — one hopes — viewers won’t need to re-learn.” – Ann Hornaday

Iranian scientist claims to have invented 'time machine'

An Iranian businessman claims to have mastered time with a machine that allows users to fast forward up to eight years into the future.

The DeLorean time machine - no word if Ali Razeghi has used this as a template Photo: REX FEATURES

By Ahmed Vahdat

8:27PM BST 10 Apr 2013

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Ali Razeghi, a Tehran scientist has registered "The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine" with the state-run Centre for Strategic Inventions.

The device can predict the future in a print out after taking readings from the touch of a user, he told the Fars state newsagency.

Razaeghi, 27, said the device worked by a set of complex algorithims to "predict five to eight years of the future life of any individual, with 98 percent accuracy".

As the managing director of Iran's Centre for Strategic Inventions, Razeghi is a serial inventor with 179 other inventions listed under his own name. "I have been working on this project for the last 10 years," he said.

"My invention easily fits into the size of a personal computer case and can predict details of the next 5-8 years of the life of its users. It will not take you into the future, it will bring the future to you."

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Razeghi says Iran's government can predict the possibility of a military confrontation with a foreign country, and forecast the fluctuation in the value of foreign currencies and oil prices by using his new invention.
"Naturally a government that can see five years into the future would be able to prepare itself for challenges that might destabilise it," he said. "As such we expect to market this invention among states as well as individuals once we reach a mass production stage."
Razeghi said his latest project has been criticised by friends and relatives for "trying to play God" with ordinary lives and history. "This project is not against our religious values at all. The Americans are trying to make this invention by spending millions of dollars on it where I have already achieved it by a fraction of the cost," he said. "The reason that we are not launching our prototype at this stage is that the Chinese will steal the idea and produce it in millions overnight."