Stallone son died of heart disease: coroner
AFP NewsAFP News – Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:41 AM PH
Actor Sylvester Stallone is shown in July 2012 in San Diego, California, shortly before hearing about his son's death. Stallone's eldest son Sage died from heart failure, the Los Angeles county coroner's office said, adding that there were almost no drugs in the 36-year-old's body
Sylvester Stallone's eldest son Sage died from heart failure, the Los Angeles county coroner's office said, adding that there were almost no drugs in the 36-year-old's body.
Sage Moonblood Stallone, who was also an actor and appeared with his father in two films, was found dead at his Hollywood home on July 13, leaving the "Rocky" star "devastated."
Some prescription pill bottles were taken from the apartment, fueling speculation about the mystery death of a young actor who had shown no signs of depression or ill health.
But the Los Angeles County Coroner's Department listed the cause of death as Atherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease, adding that he suffered from no other conditions, and describing the death as natural.
"Toxicology was negative except for a sub-therapeutic level of Hydrocodone," a painkiller, a short statement from the coroner's office said, adding that a full report would be published within the next week.
Sylvester Stallone, 66, was told of his son's death while he was at the Comic-Con pop culture festival in San Diego. Reports suggested the young actor may have been dead for a few days before his body was found.
Stallone said there was "no greater pain" than losing a child, and condemned "speculation and questionable reporting" about his son, who was actively planning his own wedding in Las Vegas at the time of his death.
The young actor appeared in the 1990 film "Rocky V" as Rocky Balboa Jr, the son of his father's title character. The pair also appeared together in the 1996 movie "Daylight."
He is credited with 13 big-screen roles as an actor, while he was a producer on three films, including the 2006 short "Vic" which he also wrote and directed.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III has
officially appointed his ally, Telecommunications Secretary Manuel "Mar"
Roxas to the plum Interior and Local Government post.
At the same time, Aquino appointed Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya to replace Roxas as Telecommunications chief.
"Sa pagtatalaga natin kina Mar at Jun, kumpiyansa tayong higit pang mapapabilis ang pag-usad natin sa tuwid na daan," Aquino said in a press conference Friday.
Aquino said he appointed the two to ensure that the administration's agenda for change will push through. He also asked the Commission on Appointments to immediately confirm Roxas and Abaya.
"Mar was at the top of the very short list," added Aquino when asked if he had a hard time deciding who to appoint, amid many suggested names including Senator Panfilo Lacson, Davao Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, and Vice President Jejomar Binay.
At the same time, Aquino appointed Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya to replace Roxas as Telecommunications chief.
"Sa pagtatalaga natin kina Mar at Jun, kumpiyansa tayong higit pang mapapabilis ang pag-usad natin sa tuwid na daan," Aquino said in a press conference Friday.
Aquino said he appointed the two to ensure that the administration's agenda for change will push through. He also asked the Commission on Appointments to immediately confirm Roxas and Abaya.
"Mar was at the top of the very short list," added Aquino when asked if he had a hard time deciding who to appoint, amid many suggested names including Senator Panfilo Lacson, Davao Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, and Vice President Jejomar Binay.
Garlic: Garlic has long been known for its heart benefits, however the pungent food is also good at detoxifying the body. Garlic is not only antiviral, antibacterial and antibiotic, but it contains a chemical called allicin which promotes the production of white blood cells and helps fight against toxins. Garlic is best eaten raw, so add some crushed garlic to a salad dressing to boost its flavour and your health at the same time.
What day do you think is the best time for an intimate session with your partner? Most of us would say weekend are the best time to "get busy." But that doesn't seem to be the case...at least according to the so-called "sex experts" or "sexperts."
Lust session: Thursday
If you only have time for sex once a week, make it a Thursday as, according to sexperts, the fourth day of the working week has us at our natural peak for getting down and dirty.
Lust session: Thursday
If you only have time for sex once a week, make it a Thursday as, according to sexperts, the fourth day of the working week has us at our natural peak for getting down and dirty.
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Do our vaginas really need ‘rejuvenating’? New anti-ageing cream 18 Again seems to think so
The new cringingly named 18 Again cream is aimed at turning back the clock and tightening our lady bits. Is this putting a new unnecessary body pressure on women or a product for ‘female empowerment’?
An Indian pharmaceutical company has caused controversy by launching a first of its kind anti-ageing cream for vaginas.
Developed by Ultratech India, the product is supposed to rejuvenate and tighten the nether regions of women everywhere.
Specifically aimed at housewives with children, an advert produced by creative agency Curry-Nation claims the cream will make you ‘feel like a virgin’ again. Apparently making sex ‘feel like the very first time’.
Going one step further, the chairman of Ultratech, Rishi Bhatia, claims that 18 Again actually empowers women.
In a statement, he explained “18 Again has the power and the potential to break the shackles and redefine the meaning of [female] empowerment altogether.”
So what do you think? Is this product a step forward in female hoo-ha liberation or just another unfair body pressure for us to deal with? Watch the advert below and let us know your thoughts…
Do our vaginas really need ‘rejuvenating’? New anti-ageing cream 18 Again seems to think so
The new cringingly named 18 Again cream is aimed at turning back the clock and tightening our lady bits. Is this putting a new unnecessary body pressure on women or a product for ‘female empowerment’?
An Indian pharmaceutical company has caused controversy by launching a first of its kind anti-ageing cream for vaginas.
Developed by Ultratech India, the product is supposed to rejuvenate and tighten the nether regions of women everywhere.
Specifically aimed at housewives with children, an advert produced by creative agency Curry-Nation claims the cream will make you ‘feel like a virgin’ again. Apparently making sex ‘feel like the very first time’.
Going one step further, the chairman of Ultratech, Rishi Bhatia, claims that 18 Again actually empowers women.
In a statement, he explained “18 Again has the power and the potential to break the shackles and redefine the meaning of [female] empowerment altogether.”
So what do you think? Is this product a step forward in female hoo-ha liberation or just another unfair body pressure for us to deal with? Watch the advert below and let us know your thoughts…
REUTERS - Fancy a chocolate bar? Regularly indulging in the snack may actually help men decrease their risk of having a stroke, according to a Swedish study.
Researchers writing in the journal Neurology found that of more than 37,000 men followed for a decade, those who ate the most chocolate - typically the equivalent of one-third of a cup of chocolate chips - had a 17 percent lower risk of stroke than men who avoided chocolate.
The study is hardly the first to link chocolate to cardiovascular benefits, with several previous ones suggesting that chocolate fans have lower rates of certain risks for heart disease and stroke, like high blood pressure.
"The beneficial effect of chocolate consumption on stroke may be related to the flavonoids in chocolate," wrote Susanna Larsson, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, who led the study.
Another study she conducted last year found similar results for women.
Flavonoids are compounds that act as antioxidants and may have positive effects on blood pressure, cholesterol and blood vessel function, according to studies.
For the study, 37,000 Swedish men aged 49 to 75 reported on their usual intake of chocolate and other foods. Over the next 10 years, 1,995 men suffered a first-time stroke.
Among men in the top 25 percent for chocolate intake, the stroke rate was 73 per 100,000 men per year. That compared with a rate of 85 per 100,000 among men who ate the least chocolate, report the researchers.
Larsson's team had information on other factors, such as the men's weight and other diet habits, whether they smoked and whether they had high blood pressure. Even with those factors considered, men who ate the most chocolate had a 17 percent lower stroke risk.
Other researchers, though, noted that none of the studies to date have proved that chocolate is the reason for the lower stroke risk.
"It's very important for people to take the news on chocolate with a grain of salt," said Richard Libman, vice chair of neurology at the Cushing Neuroscience Institute in Manhasset, New York.
Libman said the theory that flavonoids may have a positive impact remains just a theory and that a wide range of much healthier foods also contain flavonoids - such as apples, kale, broccoli, soy, tea and nuts.
You can't start advising people to eat chocolate based on this. Think of the negative effects that could result, like obesity and type 2 diabetes." SOURCE: http://bit.ly/UcacJ
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Researchers writing in the journal Neurology found that of more than 37,000 men followed for a decade, those who ate the most chocolate - typically the equivalent of one-third of a cup of chocolate chips - had a 17 percent lower risk of stroke than men who avoided chocolate.
The study is hardly the first to link chocolate to cardiovascular benefits, with several previous ones suggesting that chocolate fans have lower rates of certain risks for heart disease and stroke, like high blood pressure.
"The beneficial effect of chocolate consumption on stroke may be related to the flavonoids in chocolate," wrote Susanna Larsson, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, who led the study.
Another study she conducted last year found similar results for women.
Flavonoids are compounds that act as antioxidants and may have positive effects on blood pressure, cholesterol and blood vessel function, according to studies.
For the study, 37,000 Swedish men aged 49 to 75 reported on their usual intake of chocolate and other foods. Over the next 10 years, 1,995 men suffered a first-time stroke.
Among men in the top 25 percent for chocolate intake, the stroke rate was 73 per 100,000 men per year. That compared with a rate of 85 per 100,000 among men who ate the least chocolate, report the researchers.
Larsson's team had information on other factors, such as the men's weight and other diet habits, whether they smoked and whether they had high blood pressure. Even with those factors considered, men who ate the most chocolate had a 17 percent lower stroke risk.
Other researchers, though, noted that none of the studies to date have proved that chocolate is the reason for the lower stroke risk.
"It's very important for people to take the news on chocolate with a grain of salt," said Richard Libman, vice chair of neurology at the Cushing Neuroscience Institute in Manhasset, New York.
Libman said the theory that flavonoids may have a positive impact remains just a theory and that a wide range of much healthier foods also contain flavonoids - such as apples, kale, broccoli, soy, tea and nuts.
You can't start advising people to eat chocolate based on this. Think of the negative effects that could result, like obesity and type 2 diabetes." SOURCE: http://bit.ly/UcacJ
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Navy SEAL on Bin Laden Raid Speaks Out
A member of America's elite and secretive SEAL Team Six stepped out of the shadows -- but still apparently in disguise -- to make his first public appearance to talk about the historic raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
The team member, who recently wrote a book about the mission called "No Easy Day" under the pseudonym Mark Owen, said in a CBS News' "60 Minutes" interview that his team practiced repeatedly for the mission in a mock-up replica of bin Laden's Abbottabad compound and after a practice run in front of what Owen called "VIPs," top Navy officials asked each member of the team if they were ready.
"And I'm pretty sure, to a man, we all said, 'Yes, absolutely,'" said Owen in excerpts of the interview broadcast tonight on "CBS Evening News With Scott Pelly." CBS said that in addition to the pseudonym, Owen was appearing in disguise for their interview.
Copies of Owen's book, leaked today to two news outlets, describe the gruesome scene when Osama bin Laden died and offer details that appear to contradict some of the "official" account, according to the news organizations that obtained copies of the book.
"Blood and brains spilled out of the side of his skull," a passage in the book says, according to The Huffington Post.
In the book, the author said he was right behind the "point man" who first shot bin Laden after the al Qaeda leader poked his head out of a doorway on one of the upper floors of the complex in Abbottabad, Pakistan. At the time, it wasn't immediately clear if those shots had connected.
"We were less than five steps from getting to the top when I heard suppressed shots. BOP. BOP," Owen writes of the May 2011 raid, according to the Huffington Post and The Associated Press, which also obtained a copy. "I couldn't tell from my position if the rounds hit the target or not. The man disappeared into the room."
It wasn't until several SEAL Team Six members entered the room that Owen learned some of the first shots hit their mark and that Osama bin Laden was the man bleeding and twitching on the ground with an apparent shot to the head. Still, Owen and another SEAL pointed their laser sights at his chest and "fired several rounds. The bullets tore into him, slamming his body into the floor until he was motionless."
The reported account appears to differ from earlier versions of the raid given by U.S. officials, including that of White House spokesperson Jay Carney, that the SEALs had entered the room before bin Laden was shot, that one of bin Laden's wives charged the SEALs and that bin Laden had "resisted" before he was killed, even if he was unarmed.
"No Easy Day" does say that two women were in the room when bin Laden died, but they were wailing over his body when the SEALs entered, the AP reported. White House national security spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to comment to The Associated Press on the discrepancies, but told the news organization, "As President Obama said on the night that justice was brought to Osama bin Laden, 'We give thanks for the men who carried out this operation, for they exemplify the professionalism, patriotism and unparalleled courage of those who serve our country.'"
Owen also reportedly writes that the SEALs were told in a pre-raid briefing the mission was not an assassination and that bin Laden should be detained should he pose no threat.
Reports on the leaked copies came just hours after the book's publisher, Dutton, announced it was moving up the publishing date to Sept. 4 from its original intended release on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The move came after the book became the center of widespread controversy over possible national security breaches.
Officials from the White House to the Department of Defense to the CIA have said they were unaware of the book and had not reviewed it for possible leaks at the time of the first media reports. A Department of Defense spokesperson said Monday the department had received a copy of the manuscript and had begun reviewing it for potential security issues.
Owen also said he was aware the book could be used as a political pawn near the end of a tight presidential election.
"My worry from the beginning is, you know, it's a political season. This book is not political whatsoever," Owen told CBS. "You know, if these -- crazies on either side of the aisle want to make it political, shame on them. This is a book about Sept. 11, and it needs to rest on Sept. 11. Not be brought into the political arena, because this-- this has nothing to do with politics."
Dutton said Owen plans to donate a majority of the proceeds from his book to charities that help the families of fallen Navy SEALs.
A member of America's elite and secretive SEAL Team Six stepped out of the shadows -- but still apparently in disguise -- to make his first public appearance to talk about the historic raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
The team member, who recently wrote a book about the mission called "No Easy Day" under the pseudonym Mark Owen, said in a CBS News' "60 Minutes" interview that his team practiced repeatedly for the mission in a mock-up replica of bin Laden's Abbottabad compound and after a practice run in front of what Owen called "VIPs," top Navy officials asked each member of the team if they were ready.
"And I'm pretty sure, to a man, we all said, 'Yes, absolutely,'" said Owen in excerpts of the interview broadcast tonight on "CBS Evening News With Scott Pelly." CBS said that in addition to the pseudonym, Owen was appearing in disguise for their interview.
Copies of Owen's book, leaked today to two news outlets, describe the gruesome scene when Osama bin Laden died and offer details that appear to contradict some of the "official" account, according to the news organizations that obtained copies of the book.
"Blood and brains spilled out of the side of his skull," a passage in the book says, according to The Huffington Post.
In the book, the author said he was right behind the "point man" who first shot bin Laden after the al Qaeda leader poked his head out of a doorway on one of the upper floors of the complex in Abbottabad, Pakistan. At the time, it wasn't immediately clear if those shots had connected.
"We were less than five steps from getting to the top when I heard suppressed shots. BOP. BOP," Owen writes of the May 2011 raid, according to the Huffington Post and The Associated Press, which also obtained a copy. "I couldn't tell from my position if the rounds hit the target or not. The man disappeared into the room."
It wasn't until several SEAL Team Six members entered the room that Owen learned some of the first shots hit their mark and that Osama bin Laden was the man bleeding and twitching on the ground with an apparent shot to the head. Still, Owen and another SEAL pointed their laser sights at his chest and "fired several rounds. The bullets tore into him, slamming his body into the floor until he was motionless."
The reported account appears to differ from earlier versions of the raid given by U.S. officials, including that of White House spokesperson Jay Carney, that the SEALs had entered the room before bin Laden was shot, that one of bin Laden's wives charged the SEALs and that bin Laden had "resisted" before he was killed, even if he was unarmed.
"No Easy Day" does say that two women were in the room when bin Laden died, but they were wailing over his body when the SEALs entered, the AP reported. White House national security spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to comment to The Associated Press on the discrepancies, but told the news organization, "As President Obama said on the night that justice was brought to Osama bin Laden, 'We give thanks for the men who carried out this operation, for they exemplify the professionalism, patriotism and unparalleled courage of those who serve our country.'"
Owen also reportedly writes that the SEALs were told in a pre-raid briefing the mission was not an assassination and that bin Laden should be detained should he pose no threat.
Reports on the leaked copies came just hours after the book's publisher, Dutton, announced it was moving up the publishing date to Sept. 4 from its original intended release on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The move came after the book became the center of widespread controversy over possible national security breaches.
Officials from the White House to the Department of Defense to the CIA have said they were unaware of the book and had not reviewed it for possible leaks at the time of the first media reports. A Department of Defense spokesperson said Monday the department had received a copy of the manuscript and had begun reviewing it for potential security issues.
Owen also said he was aware the book could be used as a political pawn near the end of a tight presidential election.
"My worry from the beginning is, you know, it's a political season. This book is not political whatsoever," Owen told CBS. "You know, if these -- crazies on either side of the aisle want to make it political, shame on them. This is a book about Sept. 11, and it needs to rest on Sept. 11. Not be brought into the political arena, because this-- this has nothing to do with politics."
Dutton said Owen plans to donate a majority of the proceeds from his book to charities that help the families of fallen Navy SEALs.
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